Chapter 41: The Massacre of the City
Walking south from Guangyang County, you will arrive at Liangxiang County in Zhuo County.
When Zhang Hao led the army to the county seat, the situation in the city made everyone shocked and angry.
The gates of the city were opened, and there were no defenders in the city, no civilians, only corpses in one place, and the stench was so bad that they had begun to rot.
Zhang Hao and the others had to cover their mouths and noses with cloths, forcibly endure the discomfort in their hearts, and walked into the city to check around.
As soon as they get close to the corpse, they will be startled by flies flying in the sky, buzzing and making people's scalps tingle. There are people and Yellow Turbans.
The people present can be considered to have experienced a few battles, but many of them still vomited. If the battlefield is terrifying, then the scene here is disgusting.
Qin Wen almost couldn't help vomiting several times, but he still endured it with a firm will.
He looked at the corpses on the ground and said angrily: "These Yellow Turban thieves are so hateful, I didn't expect them to really do such an angry thing as slaughtering the city!" ”
Zhang Hao has already vomited once, and his stomach is still very uncomfortable at the moment.
He heard Qin Wen's words, but he shook his head: "Although what these Yellow Turban Army did was scolded by the world, and I don't want to defend them, but this thing is really not what they did. ”
Qin Wen turned his head and looked at Zhang Hao in surprise: "How did the general know?" If it weren't for the Yellow Turban thieves, who would it be? ”
Zhang Hao didn't answer immediately, but stretched out his right hand, pointed to several corpses piled up a few steps away, and said to him: "Look there, there seems to be something under the corpse." ”
Originally, Qin Wen didn't find anything wrong, but after Zhang Hao pointed it out, he felt that the corpse pressed at the bottom was wearing clothes that were a little different from those of Hermes.
He ran over and used the long knife in his hand to pick open all the corpses above, revealing the truth below.
"Wuhuan people? How could there be a corpse of a Wuhuan here? He looked at Zhang Hao, his face was shocked, "Could it be that this is done by the Wuhuan people?" ”
Zhang Hao nodded, he had just seen the difference in that person's clothes, so he asked Qin Wen to go over and confirm.
"It's the Wuhuan people who did the right thing. Do you still remember what the three generals said before, there is an abnormal movement of the Wuhuan people on the border, I guess because they knew that there was a rebellion in the country, so they took advantage of the fire to loot.
The corpse should have been something they hadn't noticed and forgot to take with them. ”
Qin Wen was even more annoyed after hearing this: "This group of unfamiliar white-eyed wolves, the imperial court gives them so many rewards every year, but they are ungrateful and repeatedly violate the border!" As he spoke, he raised his knife and tried to vent on the corpse.
Zhang Hao stopped him: "What's the use of you taking out anger on the dead, this is just a weak move of the weak." The best way to vent hatred is to let the enemy experience the same pain.
You can rest assured, one day they will pay for it, and this day will not be too far away. ”
Zhang Hao looked at the decomposing condition of the corpses, the people in this city should have been dead for several days. If left unattended like this, sooner or later a plague will occur, and these people will not only suffer at that time.
He ordered the soldiers to pile up the corpses outside the city and set them on fire.
Looking at the raging fire in front of him, Zhang Hao thought of a sentence in his heart: Xing, the people are bitter; Death, the people suffer.
The old dynasty declines, and the new dynasty rises. In the process, the people are the biggest victims. Originally, they were already overwhelmed by life, wars together, and living in the shadow of death all the time.
But before he finished sighing, there was a new way of the situation.
"Report!" A scout captain suddenly ran behind Zhang Hao and reported a message to him, "Report to the general, my subordinates have just led people ten miles southeast of Liangxiang City and encountered an army of Wuhuan people, about 3,000 cavalry.
When their men were discovered, they sent a pair of cavalry to chase them until they reached the outside of the city, and when they saw that there were many people in the city, they turned back. ”
Oh, is the road narrow?
Zhang Hao smiled and said to Qin Wen: "Look, the opportunity for revenge has come. Although he had a smile on his face, he had already sentenced that group of Wuhuan people to death in his heart.
The anger in Qin Wen's heart erupted again: "General, give the order." Even if the subordinates die, they must kill all these dogs. ”
Zhang Hao has not lost his mind yet, this revenge must be avenged, but it can't be hard.
That's 3,000 cavalry, and he only has 1,000 cavalry, plus 3,000 infantry, and he will definitely suffer a loss just in the front. Even if you win, if the other party wants to run, you can't stop it.
We must find a way to leave all these Wuhuan people behind and annihilate them all.
Zhang Hao thought about it for a long time and decided to introduce the Wuhuan people into the city and annihilate them again.
"General Qin immediately took all the cavalry and ambushed outside the city, once most of the Wuhuan people entered the city, you will attack them directly from the end, those cavalry who have not yet entered the city."
"No, the last general will definitely make them pay."
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It didn't take long for the Wuhuan cavalry who saw the officers and soldiers to lead the others back to Liangxiang City.
"I seem to have a little impression of this place, I should have been here before." The leader of the Wuhuan cavalry said with a smile.
His name was Nogihe, with a bare head and two brass rings on his ears, and he was less than six feet tall, shorter than most Han Chinese, but his limbs were extremely thick, and he was a well-known warrior among the Wuhuan tribe in Shanggu County.
The cronies next to him sneered and reminded: "General, this is the first Han city we have broken since we went south. The villains still remember the wine in the city and the smell of women. ”
Nogi laughed loudly: "Ahahaha, I remember, at that time, two groups of Han people were fighting. The Han people outside the city had just broken through the city gate, and before they had time to rejoice, they were attacked by us from behind. They fought for so long, and in the end they still cheapened me. ”
"The villain is still a little confused, why did you kill them all, general, and take them back as slaves and graze them for us, isn't it good?" The cronies touched their heads, which were only braided.
Ye Muhe said disdainfully: "Hmph, the population of a county in the Han Dynasty is more than the people of our tribe, and they have slaves here for us to capture, and it is nothing to kill a few. Even if all the people here are killed, new people will soon move in. ”
"Yes, yes, the most important thing in this Han Dynasty is people."
At this time, someone reminded: "General, look, it seems that something is burning in front of the city." The Han people seemed to have spotted us too, and they threw something into the fire and ran into the city, and the people at the head of the city also ran away! ”
He had already seen the fire outside the city, but after his subordinates said this, he suddenly felt that it should be that this Han army brought something, and after discovering it, he burned it in order not to let himself get it.
As soon as he thought of this, Nogi became more and more convinced that something important was something, maybe it was grain and grass. Yes, this army must be a food convoy.
He was anxious, this was food, and he went south this time to grab food.
Natural disasters occurred not only in the territory of the Han Dynasty, but also in the grasslands. Although the Han Dynasty gave them a lot of things, it was still not enough for the entire tribe to survive. So I had to grab it again.
After confirming it in his heart, Nogi immediately ordered the whole army: "Rush over and kill all the Han Dynasty people in the city!" ”
Soon, they rushed to the gates, and the smell of burnt meat was in the air, and it was no longer clear what was burning in the fire. But by the smell, this is certainly not food.
Maybe it's meat, Nogi thought to himself.
"Quick, rush into the city with me!"
The city gate had been destroyed in the battle before Zhang Hao's arrival, and they didn't have time to repair it. Of course, there's no need to fix it now.
The wild wood and horse entered the city, and the cavalry behind him followed one by one. But when he went in, he found that the city was very quiet, and the silence was a little terrible.
However, the corpses in the city are gone, indicating that the Han Dynasty army has indeed come, and the city has been sorted out.
But apart from the fact that I had just seen a few people killed, I couldn't find even one of them now.
"Didn't you just say that there are thousands of Han Dynasty troops here?" Nogi glared angrily at the ranger who had reported the news.
"General, there were a lot of people when I came. Now, maybe they're all running away now. The Ranger panicked and explained that he didn't want to be accused of lying about the military, which was a capital offense.
"I don't believe it's just a few people, everyone else has run away, give me a careful search in the city!"
There is no need for Wuhuan people to look for it, Zhang Hao has already led people to appear on the roofs on both sides.
"General, the Han Dynasty is on the house!"
Nogi also saw it, and he was furious. In this posture, he was ambushed.
Zhang Hao didn't have any nonsense, and waved down with his right hand: "Release the arrow!" ”
"Turn around, turn around, get out!" Nogi shouted. At this time, the cavalry outside the city kept rushing into the city.
Qin Wen, who was ambushed outside the city, took advantage of the Wuhuan people to enter the city, led the cavalry to attack their last troops, and drove them into the city continuously.
Nogi shouted angrily, "You bastards, what are you running into!"
"There are cavalry from the Han Dynasty outside!"
"Damn, let's go out through another gate!"
He led the men to the other gates. But everywhere they passed, soldiers stood on the rooftops, shooting arrows at them, and some threw stones and bricks at them.
Although the Wuhuan people also fought back, the arrows shot at the roof were not very effective. At most, it could only hinder the frequency of Han archery, but it did not kill or injure a single soldier.
Nogi soon led people to the other three city gates. However, except for the gate where they entered, everything else was blocked by wood and stones.
By this time, his men had suffered more than 500 casualties. The 3,000 cavalry were recorded in the narrow streets, and the soldiers could easily shoot men or horses, so that so many people could be killed and wounded in a short time.
"The despicable Han Dynasty people will only make such a shameless little trick, dare to confront my Wuhuan warriors head-on!" Nogiai shouted angrily.