Liu Xi had thought that perhaps retribution would befall him after all the atrocities he had done, but he had never thought that retribution would come so quickly.
He told Tualik about the tunnel. Tualik was overjoyed and decided to launch a surprise attack through the tunnel. Liu Xi quickly said that the tunnel could not hold enough soldiers. Thirty thousand people could not enter the city quickly. They had to leave some people to attack from the outside. The original plan had to be carried out.
This way, they could attract the attention of the Ming Army when they launched a surprise attack on the King Of Jin's residence through the tunnel. The Ming Army would focus on the enemies outside the city and fight with them. They would not pay attention to the attackers inside the city.
The Northern Barbarians that entered the city could burn, loot, and set fires everywhere to create chaos in the city. Then, the attackers and the Northern Barbarians outside the city could work together to take over the city gate. This way, their chances of winning would increase greatly.
As long as the Northern Barbarians all entered the city, the strong defense of Taiyuan City would collapse on its own.
This would minimize the loss of the Northern Invaders to the greatest extent. Correspondingly, the Ming Army and the common people in the city would suffer greatly. The Liu Family, whom Liu Xi was determined to kill, would also be wiped out. Although he could not kill Tulik and escape successfully, it was enough to keep his family alive. As for the rest, he would think about it later.
This was what Liu Xi thought.
Things developed as he had expected. The Northern Invaders successfully broke into the city. The Ming army defending the city was routed and the city was in chaos. Taiyuan City, which had never fallen into enemy hands since Hongwu's reign, finally fell into enemy hands again. Moreover, it fell so casually that it did not display the domineering aura of a solid city.
However, it was hard to say. After all, it was easy to dodge a spear in the open, but difficult to defend against an arrow in the dark.
If the King Of Jin had known that this day would come, if he had known that someone would bring destruction to Taiyuan City through his path of survival, would he have regretted his careless mistake?
If Liu Xi's father had known that this day would come, would he have taken this matter to his grave and never let anyone else know?
Only when Xiao Ruxun truly saw the fall of Taiyuan City did he have an extremely direct and deep feeling.
He finally understood that the Great Ming Dynasty he was in was different from the Great Ming Dynasty he was familiar with. This world was no longer the world he was familiar with. It had completely become a parallel world that was completely different from the original one.
If there really were parallel worlds.
The name of the person was still the same, the name of the country was still the same, the Emperor was still the same Emperor, the Prime Minister was still the same Prime Minister, but whether it was the person or the country, astonishing changes had taken place without him noticing. Perhaps it was only a small change at the beginning, but now …
No, it was not small at all.
Xiao Ruxun suddenly remembered that he used gunpowder to overturn the city wall of Ningxia.
That was the first tipping point for him to change the world. It was the symbol of his complete break with the world he was familiar with. That earth-shattering explosion completely tore the past and the future apart.
Could that kind of movement be called small?
Even the slightest change would lead to an unexpected and huge change. No matter how heavy the wheel of history was, it could not overcome the change of cause and effect. When the cause of something changed, the result would also change. The cause that was born from the result would change again, and the chain of change would begin, causing everything to change beyond recognition.
Only then did Xiao Ruxun truly feel that she was unable to achieve her goal step by step according to what she had envisioned in her mind. Because as she walked step by step, the world was also changing, and the final result would be worlds apart from what she had envisioned.
Even so, everything that happened in the future, no matter how strange, how strange, how unreasonable, as long as it happened, even if it was different from what he knew, it would still happen.
Even so, he still had to move forward, because no matter how the world changed, the Little Ice Age would not change. History would change, but the climate would not change. The people of this era did not have enough power to change the climate. They could not do it. What would come would come. There were no true women, but there were true men.
Therefore, Xiao Ruxun was depressed.
His change seemed to have not only changed what he could control, but also changed other things. However, he could not control them, so he was depressed.
As for Liu Xi, he was desperate.
He looked at his old house that was burning in the raging fire and couldn't say a word. He just stood there quietly and then suddenly collapsed to the ground.
Liu Xi's family was a branch family, not the main family, so they were quite far away from the main family. The location of the main family was even a little shabby. He was the one who pointed out the location of the main family. As soon as the city gate was broken, Liu Xi asked Talick to send a group of people to attack the residential area of the rich in Taiyuan City. Talick immediately sent people to attack.
Liu Xi underestimated the greed and brutality of these beasts.
The main family of the Liu family was destroyed under the raging fire and brutal slaughter. His branch family had a conflict with the main family of the Liu family because of the previous generation's King Jin. Because of his relationship with the King Jin, he had to be valued by the main family and was sent to Datong to be in charge of business. However, the conflict between the two sides became more and more intense, and finally reached an irreconcilable point.
However, before the main family could do anything to him, he decided to bring the Northern Barbarians back to flip the table.
Because he had to help Talick point out the directions and plan to plunder the wealth in Taiyuan City, Liu Xi was one step late. He did not go with the main family of the Liu family to destroy the main family of the Liu family. In this short period of time, Liu Xi felt an indescribable malice from an unknown place.
Perhaps it could be said that it was retribution.
After the greed and brutality of the Northern Barbarians caused them to destroy the area where the rich lived, they expanded the area of destruction. The cries of women, the roars of men, the screams of children, and the howls of despair of the elderly greatly stimulated the brutal genes deep in the blood of the Northern Barbarians.
Grassland wolves would become even more excited and happy when they encountered blood. They would find joy in killing. Only by killing could they find the most satisfying sense of existence.
Therefore, they would not stop killing. They would never stop killing. The crueler, more brutal, and more exciting the scene, the more they would go berserk. They would find it harder and harder to control themselves and release their natural instincts. At that moment, they were no longer humans, they were only animals. They had reverted to their ancestors.
By the time Liu Xi arrived, there was no one left alive in the area.
Liu Xi's small house had been broken into by the Northern Barbarians. After a round of looting, it was burned to the ground. Other than his wife and children, the last three people he cared about were all lying in pools of blood, without a sound. His mother's eyes were still wide open. Liu Xi could almost feel his mother's despair and fear.
If this was his retribution, then it had come a little too quickly …
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