Chapter 23: Changing Heavens
The Bone Mine was shrouded in a tense and terrifying atmosphere, and the massacre was on the verge of breaking out.
Suddenly, the rumbling sound of horses' hooves sounded on the path into the mountain. The sharp-eyed soldiers cheered when they saw that it was their own cavalry. The slaves stood there with a dead face, bewildered.
The coming horse gradually became clear, Gongsun Yaowu breathed a sigh of relief, the person who came was the king's cavalry guard, and the leader was the protector of the capital!
Qu Liluo's eyes kept turning, but he didn't expect that at the critical moment, Hudu brought people here, and some people were very eye-catching, and they had never seen them before, especially a knight beside Hudu, who was imposing and keen. But so what, can he still do the opposite? Bluff him first, and forgive him for not being able to drop himself. If he protects his shortcomings, he will be killed in the future on fabricated charges against him in this matter.
"Hudu, you have to be right, you have also seen the situation, these slaves want to rebel and escape, Gongsun Wenyuan privately escaped slaves first, and bewitched Tang slaves to rebel later. His sin deserves death! He also asked General Hudu to enforce the law impartially. ”
Qu Liluo admired his eloquence.
Goto laughed, as if he had heard something funny.
Qu Liluo looked at Hudu suspiciously, and began to feel uneasy in his heart, and hesitated: "You, what are you laughing at?" ”
Hudu suddenly smiled, dismounted and walked towards Qu Liluo, and the eye-catching knight also followed, staring at Qu Liluo fiercely with a murderous awe.
"You, who are you, what do you want, what do you want to do......"
A large, strong hand cut off Qu Liluo's question, clasped tightly on his Adam's apple, and lifted his feet off the ground.
In countless pairs of unbelievable eyes, Qu Liluo was thrown out and smashed the boulder, with a "boom", ** burst, and he was out of breath on the spot.
Qu Liluo, including his soldiers, had no idea that a knight beside Hudu would suddenly attack him and take his life without mercy.
The situation changed suddenly, and most of the cavalry who came with Hudu dismounted, some with bows and some with swords, all pointing at Qu Liluo's soldiers.
With a calm face, Hudu shouted to the soldiers: "If you are willing to obey my orders, stand on my left!" ”
Gongsun Yaowu excitedly picked up Wen Yuan, who had fallen to the ground, and was the first to walk to the left of the protectorate. He has a hunch that something big is going to happen today, and this aggrieved life is coming to an end!
"Whoa", dozens of soldiers separated from Qu Liluo's ranks of soldiers and stood with Gongsun Yaowu.
"You, do you want to rebel? We are going to meet the king. ”
Qu Liluo's own soldiers shouted weakly, and the knives and spears in their hands were aimed at the protector intentionally or unintentionally.
"Kill!"
The knight who had just knocked out the bent force gave the order murderously, as if he was the master here.
The sound of bows and arrows was the first to respond.
Although the speed of the long-awaited feather arrow after leaving the string is not the fastest, the huge kinetic energy is enough to make the sharp arrow pierce through the chain mail and pierce into their flesh and blood before the person on the other side can react. In the blink of an eye, more than a dozen soldiers fell on the opposite side of the archers, and the remaining soldiers hurriedly waved the weapons in their hands and started a fierce battle with the personal soldiers of the protector.
It was Li Huaitang who gave the order. Early in the morning, Li Huaitang and Hudu led the Guangming Left Cavalry to set off towards the Gulu Mine. After a night's rest, the soldiers' physical strength was fully recovered, and they were all in good spirits when they knew that they were going to do the murder and robbery again.
These 100 cavalrymen, all armed with Damascus scimitars, were extremely sharp, and all of them were bloodthirsty, like wolves and tigers. Where Quliro's soldiers were opponents, most of them were cut into several pieces after a few rounds. The remaining few were also captured alive, and if it weren't for Li Huaitang's order to leave a few prisoners, I'm afraid they would have been dismembered.
The strong man, who had just thought he was going to die, looked at everything that was happening in front of him in disbelief, as if the dream did not know the reality. The strong man exclaimed, the god of fate is really mysterious, and in the blink of an eye, the people who want to kill him will all be finished, but he will be saved. The Kunlun slave who used to be a fox and a fake tiger, as well as a group of accomplices, were arrested, squatting under the knife and gun, trembling.
The corpses hanging from the long logs had been lowered and covered with cloth.
The frightened slaves found a young knight standing on the boulder, with his eyes full of murderous expression. It was this person who suddenly shot out to kill Qu Liluo, and then gave an order to exterminate the caregiver of Lite who they hated in their hearts. Moreover, the word "kill" is obviously exactly the same as his own language, and if you look closely, this person's appearance and characteristics are actually similar to your own. Then a familiar and affectionate language came out of the man's mouth.
"Fellow citizens! From this day forward, you are free! ”
The crowd did not let out the expected cheers, and most of them looked at each other with a suspicious look, as if asking each other: Is what Lang Jun said true?
Li Huaitang continued to shout: "My name is Li Huaitang, and the king has been arrested by me. I'm here today to bring you home. ”
At this moment, everyone realized that happiness came too suddenly, and everything seemed to be a dream. Someone let out a cry, and gradually the cry became louder and louder, and the cry infected all the people who were suffering.
Li Huaitang was surprised to find that all the compatriots he was facing who had just been slaves were all crying, and some of them were actually howling heartbreakingly.
Li Huaitang silently watched these newly freed Tang people, allowing them to vent the bitterness that had accumulated in their hearts for a long time. Hu Du rubbed his eyes sadly, as a Han Chinese, he actually helped to abuse his compatriots in the past few years, and did not bring any help to his compatriots, and a sense of guilt jumped on his face.
After a long time, the excited people gradually quieted down. With a look of gratitude and expectation, they all looked at the person named Li Huaitang, who just said that he wanted to take them home, the one in the east, the distant homeland, Datang.
Li Huaitang stood on the boulder and looked to the east, where there was a strange but familiar country, which was said to be rich, prosperous, broad, martial and civilized and wonderful. For a while, Li Huaitang forgot to continue speaking, so he stood there silently, his face full of yearning.
In the crowd, a strong man walked out, with obvious doubts: "Excuse me, is Lang Jun sent by the Tang Emperor to rescue us?" Is the conquest over? ”
Li Huaitang came back to his senses, smiled, shook his head, and said, "My name is Li Huaitang, and I am the leader of the Ministry of Light. If I have the chance, I also want to go and see ** and the Tang Emperor. However, for now, it is important for you to fill your stomach first, and leave the emperor alone. ”
Although everyone was disappointed, the leader of the Ministry of Light was telling the truth, and it was really important to fill his stomach right now. So, everyone was busy opening the meal.
According to Li Huaitang's instructions, the food that was distributed was only allowed to be eaten by each person, and many people had not yet eaten it, but finally they all tasted the meat they had not seen for a long time, and they were embarrassed to ramble for a while, after all, with so many mouths, it was very satisfying to be full.
Hundreds of captives crouched on the ground, all tightly bound, and they watched as the people, who had been slaves not so long ago, gobbled up, and their stomachs began to protest. They couldn't understand a word of what those Tang people were saying just now, but it didn't matter, the damn ones were all dead, such as Qu Liluo, and they were just errands. They're free, and they don't have to stay in this hellish place anymore, but they don't know when they'll be put back. Hey? Do? Where are they taking us? Are you going to let us go? Yes, when they're done, it's time for us to come. The captives speculated optimistically.
After the meal was full, Li Huaitang gathered everyone.
"Want to go home?"
"Yes!" Everyone spoke in unison, and the mountains and rivers were magnificent.
"What if someone prevents you from coming home, and treats you like sheep, and continues to enslave you, and you say, What should I do?"
Li Huaitang began to sensationalize.
When everyone heard this, they didn't know what kind of medicine Li Huaitang's gourd was going to sell, and they hesitated. Only the strong man who tried to escape at noon shouted: "Kill! But it was an imitation of Li Huaitang's tone just now.
"Kill!" Everyone also followed the ambition.
Li Huaitang looked at the people whose emotions had been mobilized with satisfaction, and motioned to the guards to escort the prisoners up, divide them into two rows, and kneel in front of everyone.
Li Huaitang glanced at the crowd of people who were talking and signaled silence with his hand.
A fat man was tied behind his back and pushed forward.
"This is a big cannibal, called Abdullah, the bastard who sold you into slavery, you say, what should I do?"
"Kill!"
The shouts of thousands of people were earth-shattering, and Abdullah's appearance ignited the anger in the hearts of the slaves.
"Good boy! You, yes, just you, the six monkeys, give him a knife. ”
Li Huaitang encouraged him: "Kill them!" ”
The strong man's face was not afraid, he took the scimitar handed by the six monkeys, strode forward, walked behind Abdullah, and without saying a word, slashed at his neck with a swing of the knife. Because he didn't grasp the angle, the scimitar slashed diagonally into his shoulder, slicing his collarbone, but the scimitar was just stuck, and it took a lot of effort to pull it out.
Abdullah's face was bloodless with fright, and it was only when the scimitar slashed into the collarbone that he let out an inhuman howl, falling to the ground and rolling on the ground, with a terrible sound.
The strong man did not hesitate, drew his scimitar, and continued with a second slash, this time, the blade accurately sliced Abdullah's fat and thick neck, and after penetrating, the aftermath slammed into the ground. The terrible shouts stopped abruptly, blood sprayed everywhere, and a pair of frightened eyes stared blankly at the deep sky, and I don't know when they were exhausted.
The scimitar made a gap, and the strong man looked at Li Huaitang embarrassedly.
"Well, yes, fierce enough!"
Li Huaitang nodded approvingly, and then motioned to the six monkeys to give him another scimitar. OK
These are freshly captured, and if it were a Damascus knife, it would be a big loss.
The strong man who was inspired made persistent efforts and cut off the next Kunlun slave's head.
"Very well, who else?"
Li Huaitang asked the rest of the people in an expectant tone.
With the encouragement of the strong man, hundreds of excited slaves walked out, ruthlessly with trembling knives
Feng divided the bodies of the two rows of kneeling Bailai captives several times. The brutal bloody scene made most of the people overturned, and also released the evil spirit in their hearts and strengthened their courage.
"What's the name of the strong man?"
"A certain Wei Anguo, a native of Anxi, the Tang Dynasty."
"Okay, Wei Anguo, come to me! Can you break this? ”
After the execution of the captives, Li Huaitang invited the strong man to the boulder, handed him a short branch, and told him to break it.
Wei Anguo easily broke the branch and looked at Li Huaitang in confusion.
"You try this again!"
Li Huaitang picked up a bundle of branches of the same length on the ground and motioned for Wei Anguo to continue folding. This time, Wei Anguo used his strength to eat milk and fought with the branches for several rounds, but he couldn't do anything with the bundle of branches.
Li Huaitang picked up the broken branch, and his face was solemn: "Have you seen it?" This branch represents each of us, scattered so small and easy to break",
Then he took the bundle of branches in Wei Anguo's hand and raised his voice: "And, this bundle of branches represents all of us!" Solidarity is so solid as a rock. We go home, we don't need God, we just need unity! ”
The sun is setting, and the remnant sun is like blood.
The more than 3,000 Tang people who had just been freed under the afterglow of the bloody remnant sun all voluntarily joined the Ministry of Light, because, the leader said, go back, go back, fight, fight. The bones of their fellow citizens in the Wasteland were lifted out and, along with the skull, cremated to ashes, ready to be taken home......