For these officials, who are strong and have a lot of wealth, the covetousness of the Liangzhou soldiers is not a day or two.

They didn't dare before, because they wanted to maintain order, but now there is no order, and the temperature of the fire and the shroud of night have fostered their ambitions.

So, of course, they won't be spared.

They frantically poured into the homes of the great families they could see, killing, robbing, and taking for themselves everything they saw.

The men are killed, and the women are killed, or they are seized and taken away for their pleasure.

The belongings of the family were plundered, all the gold and silver were robbed, and the books and atlases were burned in one fell swoop by the unscrupulous soldiers.

The more high-ranking and powerful families are targeted, the richer and more powerful they are, and they are also tacitly organized by a large group of riot soldiers armed with steel knives, and they work together, everyone gathers together, and attacks these mansions by attacking the city.

Break through the gate, break through the defenses, kill all the guards in the courtyard, rush into the inner hall, trample the people who were high in the past, laugh and hack to death, and vent the crazy desires and anger in their hearts.

They destroy everything mercilessly, and all of this gives them a strong desire to destroy.

Some of the high-ranking families are strong, and they quickly summoned a large number of guardians and servants to arm themselves to fight against them, but this can only attract more rebels, and the number of rebels is increasing, and the big families can't resist it, or they are killed and wiped out.

Although some of the official positions are high, the number of guards and servants is not large enough, so they can't fight against it, so they can only run away without their lives, and then they are caught and hacked to death.

On this night, a city of Hongnong turned into a sea of fire, and countless people howled, wept bitterly, ran away, and were killed in the sea of fire.

Officials at all levels wept and reported their names and angrily denounced these big-headed soldiers, but they were useless, they lost the maintenance of order, and when order collapsed, the more they reported their names, the faster they died.

The rebel army is full of violent, and solves everything with steel knives.

In the past, the people who were high up in the sky were ended in an unimaginably ugly manner, and their parents, wives and children were killed and injured.

The county seat of Hongnong completely collapsed under the erosion of violent flames.

What happened in Luoyang and Chang'an happened again, and it was more thorough and more brutal, because this time there were no commanders and restraints, and it was purely spontaneous.

For three whole days, the riot soldiers plundered the inside of the city, even outside the city, and the estates and villages in the suburbs were swept away, and then fled separately.

Basically, they all went to the west, except for those whose hometowns were in the east, no one dared to go east, and they all went west.

Although they are illiterate, they know that Guo Peng is much more terrible than Ma Teng Han Sui.

This group of people burned and looted all the way, destroying the only point that Duan Xuan had painstakingly managed to leave to the people in the land of Kansai.

Many manors and villages in Hongnong County have been completely destroyed, and the peasant tenants have either died or become refugees, or they have gone into hiding or have been carried away by the rebels, and their fate is miserable.

The last piece of land in Kansai that could still produce was scorched earth.

The homes of ordinary residents, central officials, Haoqiang, and scholars in Hongnong County were almost completely destroyed by the riot soldiers, and Hongnong County was completely burned down, and palaces, towers, residential houses, and various buildings were also burned down.

The once comfortable Hongnong County followed in the footsteps of Luoyang City and turned into ruins.

The people in the ruins were dead and wounded, and there were charred corpses everywhere, charred corpses, but there were not many living people in sight.

The fire was extinguished three days later by a torrential rain, which mixed with charred black matter and blood flowing on the ground.

It would take many years to build such a city, but it would take only three days to destroy it.

No one can make an accurate count of how many people died in this city, because there were so many people who died, too many who were missing, and how many were burned to the point that it was impossible to identify.

The burned-out blackened city of Hongnong seems to be the epitome of an era of intrigue and killing and despair.

There is no axiom, no order, no humanity, no feelings, only desire and killing.

All in all, there are still living people in Hongnong City, they are crying, howling, walking on the road in despair, looking at everything that is scorched, smelling the scorched smell, and their eyes are empty.

There are men, there are women, there are old people, there are young children.

The gloomy sky, the dense raindrops, the ruined Hongnong City is crying weakly, powerlessly indicting this gray and cold era.

This is the era of "magnificent" and "heroes and heroes".

Guo Peng was not the first to know about this "unexpected disaster" in Hongnong City, but Zhang Ji was the first to know about this disaster.

The soldiers who escaped from Hongnong City all wanted to go to Zhang Ji to survive, so they hurried and hurried, so that Zhang Ji knew about it earlier than Guo Peng.

Among them, there were also soldiers who saw Liu Xie's corpse with their own eyes, so Zhang Ji also knew very well that Liu Xie was killed by Li Dao and Guo Yan.

Duan Xuan also died at the hands of Li Dao and Guo Yan, and Jia Xu led them to destroy Li Dao and Guo Yan, but after seeing Liu Xie's body, Jia Xu collapsed.

The soldiers described Jia Xu as despairing and asked them to flee for their lives, but Jia Xu himself did not flee for his life.

Later, they saw that the Hongnong Palace was on fire, and it burned very violently, and Jia Xu was never seen.

Although he didn't say it explicitly, Zhang Ji understood that what the soldiers meant was that Jia Xu, because of the emperor's death, was disillusioned and buried in the Hongnong Palace.

Zhang Ji was stunned on the spot, and did not speak for a while, and the generals around him looked at Zhang Ji in horror, not knowing what reaction Zhang Ji would make and what decision he would make.

Li Dao and Guo Yan......

"I knew it earlier...... It's time to kill them......"

Zhang Ji's hands trembled slightly, and his tone was also a little trembling, trembling to say such a thing, the whole person was very bad.

The emperor died, two of the three giants of Liangzhou died, the central court of Hongnong collapsed, the county town of Hongnong was destroyed by fire, and important people were killed and injured......

Court...... Gone......

For such a fact, Zhang Ji found it difficult to accept, and his nephew Zhang Xiu, who was with Zhang Ji, was naturally difficult to accept.

There is a war going on ahead, the lair has been destroyed, the military rations and everything are finished, there is no rear.

Can this battle continue?

Originally, there were still tens of thousands of troops in the entire Chang'an City, and it was not so easy for the Ma-Han coalition army to capture Chang'an, but Zhang Ji had no rear, no supplies, and no way to retreat in an instant, and Chang'an on the front line suddenly became a dead place.

Going to die?

Zhang Ji was difficult to accept, but what was even more terrifying was that before he could react, the news leaked, and the entire army in Chang'an began to be restless, began to be restless, and even appeared to a certain extent of chaos, Zhang Xiu had to replace the dazed uncle to lead the troops to suppress the rebellion and forcibly control the situation.

But the matter has come to this point, and Zhang Ji is not allowed to continue to be dizzy and not make a decision, this decision must be made no matter what.

So that night, Zhang Ji and Zhang Xiu talked in private for a while.

"Duan Xuan is dead, Jia Wenhe is also dead, the Son of Heaven is gone, Hongnong was burned, everything is over, we only have this lonely tens of thousands of people, guarding an empty city, no supplies, no food, sooner or later it will collapse, there are strong enemies outside, Ah Xiu, what should we do?"

Zhang Ji was so distraught that he had no choice but to seek advice from his closest nephew.

Zhang Xiu is not much better, but in the end it is better than the elderly Zhang Ji, thinking about it, I feel that there is only one way.

"Either we will leave an army behind and go east, rush through the obstacles of Li Dao and Guo Yan, and go to Guo Zifeng, or we will surrender to Ma Teng and Han Sui on the spot, and there is no other way."

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