The Monkey King: Chapter 560 : The Dilemma of Roller Shutters
In the light of the morning sun, countless refugees with various weapons and hungry eyes, tremblingly walked through the streets and alleys toward the direction of the palace.
From a distance, it looks like ants everywhere.
This is really a group of ants, in the eyes of mortal kings, and in the eyes of heavenly gods and Buddhas.
The roller blinds have been tossing for so long, isn't it just for them?
Build a clean kingdom…
All the decrees, the roller blinds themselves did not benefit one bit, but in the end, they turned into what they are today.
The last of the guards loyal to the rolling shutters on the wall of the palace drew rows of bows and pointed arrows glowing with cold light at the refugees. The general who commanded the guards had raised a hand and looked sideways at the rolling curtain.
"Your Majesty, give an order. With us here, these rabble can't attack."
The roller blinds just stared at the refugees who seemed to be hungry ghosts, pursed their lips, and remained silent.
Gradually, all the soldiers looked towards the rolling curtain, and even Tianpeng and Xuanzang, who were standing beside the rolling curtain, watched him silently.
Morrowind raised the flag and brushed it from the cheek of the roller blind, the big beard on that face trembled slightly in the wind.
The rebels who rushed to the foot of the wall beat the solid wall with their weapons in vain.
Several emaciated refugees carried the broken ladder against the wall, but the ladder could not reach the height of the city wall at all, so they quickly retreated.
More ladders were brought out, and they began to assemble low ladders together, trying to create a cloud ladder out of thin air to go over the high walls of the palace.
The hands of the guards holding Gong Xuan were shaking slightly. The last bit of morale is fading.
The roller blinds still stood silently, letting the situation develop.
The look of the general looking at the rolling shutter was slightly stunned.
He really didn't understand what the roller blinds were still hesitating about. With an order, these refugees would not say siege the city, but a field battle. It must not be able to beat the elite troops of the palace.
In the end, they were just a bunch of rabble without food.
But if it goes on like this, if the morale is completely lost, no matter how strong the troops are, they will not be able to recover.
Soon, the elongated ladders were assembled and leaned against the city wall.
The refugees below began to climb hard.
However, these are nothing but inexperienced in war. Lack of organization. It's just civilians who have no food. They don't know that a ladder assembled so hastily can't bear the weight of a person. Not long after, two ladders broke in the air, and the people above screamed and fell into the crowd, smashing the refugees over.
The prime minister shouted and killed one after another under the city wall, but the city wall was terribly silent.
Everyone stood silently.
Time passed slowly, and the roller blinds were still staring blankly. The hand holding the city wall tightened and tightened.
Soon, the homeless people changed their original ways. They used a horse-drawn carriage to move a huge tree stump from somewhere, and slammed into the palace gate with a sound of simulating the appearance of a rushing carriage.
Looking from the inside of the palace gate, the whole palace gate was shaking with a roar, and countless dusts shook off.
A strange emotion quickly spread in the hearts of the soldiers of the Praetorian Guards.
"Your Majesty, as long as a few rounds of arrow rain pass, these rabble are completely vulnerable! What are you waiting for?" The guard general pulled out the sword from his waist and stared at the roller blind.
for a long time. The roller blind sighed lightly and said, "Marshal, do you think I should order it?"
Canopy did not speak.
After hesitating for a while, the curtain slowly shook his head and said, "It's just like before. It can't be killed. As long as there are people who are hungry, someone will take up arms. And... kill them. , then what am I? A tyrant? Hey, I'm not even a tyrant."
The canopy still didn't speak, just turned his face to look at the roller shutter.
After being silent for a while, the roller blind pursed his lips and said, "I... go out."
"Go out?" For a while, all the generals and soldiers around were stunned.
Tianpeng and Xuanzang stood silently, not saying a word.
The roller blind sighed softly: "I go out, I'm the initiator of everything. I go out to them... surrender."
Before waiting for the soldiers around him to react, the roller blind turned around, passed through the crowd, and walked down the stairs.
"Your Majesty... Your Majesty—! You can't go—!"
After a while, a general roared out, and all the people around seemed to have come to their senses. A large group of people swarmed towards the stairs like crazy, catching up with the roller blinds.
In an instant, the stairs of the palace wall were stuffed up by them.
On the ten-foot-wide steps, a large group of soldiers will surround the roller blinds in the middle.
"Your Majesty, it is absolutely impossible! You can't go!"
"Those are refugees, where will they negotiate with you, they will kill you!"
"They've been hungry for days and won't listen to you at all!"
"Your Majesty, I will kowtow to you at the end, I beg you! Don't go out! If something happens to you, it's really over!"
"Thank you for staying with me until this time." Roller shutter muttered to himself: "If you kill it, just kill it. Anyway, I deserve to die."
Several generals stood in front of the roller blinds, and the roller blinds easily pushed them forward.
Those are generals who are on the battlefield, but in front of the rolling curtain, their strength is not as good as even a baby.
"Your Majesty, you can't go! Stop your Majesty!" One of them couldn't hold it anymore and shouted out!
The soldiers who were originally surrounded immediately understood, they swarmed up, some grabbed the hand of the roller blind, some hugged his legs, some pulled behind, some ran to the front and pushed back.
Hundreds of people tried their best to suckle, and their faces flushed red, but they were pushed by the roller blinds and walked slowly.
The school grounds under the steps, the towers on the city wall, and the guarding soldiers were all dumbfounded.
They all heard that this king of theirs was very powerful, and he could defeat thousands of people, but no one thought that in other legends, he could defeat thousands of people. It refers to the kind of "one man who is in charge of ten thousand men, and no one can open it", and the rolling shutters are really "thousands of enemies"!
"What else are you looking at! Come and help me—!"
With a shout of , the soldiers who were dumbfounded quickly woke up. One by one rushed over to join the battle group.
for a while. There are nearly a thousand people who are indirectly or directly preventing the roller shutters from moving forward. It's a pity that they don't even have the strength to bend a single finger of the roller blind, let alone stop the pace of the roller blind.
The soldiers pulled one by one, and pushed one another. In a wailing sound, the soldiers on the city wall were pulled into the stone steps, and the soldiers on the stone steps were pushed to the school grounds below.
On the city wall, Xuanzang watched silently. A sigh.
"Great Sage... How long will it take?"
Tianpeng looked down at the jade slip in his palm. After hesitating for a while, he inserted the jade slip back into his waist: "I don't know, what should come will always come, and if it's not in time, there's nothing I can do. Some things, after all, have to be faced by him. Even if I try to stop it. I can't stop it."
With a loud bang, the scarlet palace gate collapsed with a bang, stirring up smoke and dust in the sky.
The soldiers who surrounded the roller blinds were startled, and they quickly let go and retreated.
Brushed the floor, and the surrounding of the roller blind was empty. A large number of soldiers rushed forward with heavy shields, and a battle queue was launched behind the rolling curtain.
Gradually, the sand and dust faded away, and a large number of refugees swayed outside the palace gate.
The first few people suddenly found the roller blind standing in front of them, startled, and quickly shrank back.
for a while. The palace gate was open, but the guards and the refugees only held their breath and faced off across the palace gate.
After a while, one of the refugees on the opposite side came out, raised the sickle in his hand and shouted: "Hand over the food—!"
Suddenly, the refugee team was excited. They raised their weapons and shouted, facing the arrows of the guards behind the shield, but still no one took a step forward.
"Put down all the bows." The roller blind said lightly.
"Your Majesty, what are you doing? We don't have to be afraid of them at all!"
"I said put down all bows—!"
With a roar, the soldiers looked at each other, and after a while, they slowly let go of their bows.
raised his head, and the roller blind said softly: "Put down all the weapons, let's surrender. I'll talk to them, no matter what happens, don't shoot."
said, the roller blind took a step towards the outside of the palace gate.
Behind him, the general who led the Imperial Army threw his sword to the ground in resentment.
In the sound of "ding dong", swords, shields, and longbows fell to the ground.
The roller blind walked out of the palace gate step by step, spreading his hands, indicating that he did not have any weapons in his hands.
Those refugees stepped back shoulder to shoulder, elbow to elbow, keeping a distance of thirty feet from the roller blind. The gaze went back and forth between the roller blind and the forbidden army behind the roller blind.
Walking to the center and standing still, the roller blind shouted loudly: "The palace is yours, and everything in it is yours. However, there is no food in the palace, really not. You can believe it, no Believe it or not, there is really no food in the treasury... My king is incompetent, so I announce my abdication, you can do whatever you want with me, I just ask you to spare the people in the palace."
A thick voice echoed in the empty world.
At this time, the morning sun has risen high. Those refugees clenched their weapons one by one, and looked at the king they had always hated with a bit of astonishment.
On the high wall, Xuanzang and Tianpeng watched quietly.
The roller blind turned sideways, pointed at the palace gate and said, "All I have is inside, you can go get it. But... there is not much gold and silver, and the treasury is empty."
"What's the use of treasure? I want food!" In the crowd, a tall, thin middle-aged man took out a string of pearls from his pocket and threw it in front of the roller blinds, holding a fork and shouting, "Where is the food? Tell me. Where is our food!"
"Yes! Where is the food? Where did you hide it! Hurry up and hand it over!" The surrounding refugees echoed.
"There is no food." The roller blind shouted in a long voice.
"You lied—! If there is no food, then you asked that monk to bring us to the capital to get food? You must be hiding it, hurry up and hand it over—!"
"Hand over! Hand over! Hand over!" Everyone shouted in unison.
A refugee rushed out of the crowd and was dragged back again. He waved the **** in his hand and yelled at the roller blind: "If you don't hand over the food, we will kill you!"
"Kill it." Roller shutter closed his eyes, spread his hands and said, "Death is also a relief."
Everyone was stunned, staring at the roller blinds.
After a short silence, a stone flew towards the roller blind from the crowd and hit the roller blind's forehead heavily.
Suddenly, countless people rushed towards the roller blinds like crazy.
"Kill him—! Fulfill him!" Someone roared.
"Can't kill! He must have hidden the food! Find the food before killing!" Someone was struggling to stop him.
However, after all, there are only a few people who are blocking them. In the blink of an eye, countless people have rushed to the rolling curtain, waving various weapons to greet the rolling curtain.
Amidst the chaos of sticks and hammers, the roller blinds seemed to be in a state of stagnation, they slowly reached out to hug their heads, squatted down, and let them beat them.
There was chaos outside the palace gate, and inside the palace gate, the soldiers of the imperial guard watched silently, with a kind of daze in their eyes.
They never dreamed that the king who "loved his people like a son" would end up like this in the end.
In the sand and dust, the roller blind covered his head and closed his eyes tightly. A strand of fresh blood slowly flowed down from his forehead, and was quickly stained with sand and dust, turning it into a dead gray color.
A mouthful of blood spilled from the corner of his mouth, but he laughed humbly.
On the city wall, Xuanzang asked softly: "General Roller Shutter is Taiyi Jinxian, but these people don't even have the slightest cultivation base, will they die?"
"Yes." Tian Peng sighed softly: "Without the spiritual protection, only pure flesh and blood remain... It's just a matter of time."
Hearing this, Xuanzang could not help but be silent.
Countless refugees poured into the palace gate like a tide, and the guards inside made way for them.
They ran all the way, and soon found the so-called grain depot in the not very big palace.
However, pushing the door open, they only saw a few sparse bags of grain.
The refugees who were already starving and dizzy rushed in, scrambled and grabbed the uncooked rice grains and stuffed them into their mouths. For a time, the scene was more cruel than the battlefield.
The only food was quickly robbed, and countless refugees rushed back to the gate of the palace.
There, the drama of beating the king was still going on, and no one could stop it.
Initially, the refugees hit the roller blinds to vent their anger, no matter how hard they fought, they would not be relieved. But slowly, someone started to notice the difference. So many people beat him, and he didn't die? And the knife can't go in, the sword can't pierce.
Gradually, those people started to retreat, leaving only the roller blinds covered in scars lying down, looking at the sky and laughing.
"Tell me! Where did you hide the grain! Why is there only so much grain in the granary!"
Roller blinds laughed.
At this moment, someone screamed: "Food! Grain is coming!"
Suddenly, there was a commotion.
Before the roller blind could react, something had already fallen from the sky and hit him in the face.
The canopy looked up and couldn't help but be stunned: "This is... grain rain?" (To be continued~^~)