Chapter Forty-Nine: Slaughter
Not long after Zhou Yuji's order was passed down, the entire Xifengkou Pass was busy up and down, and when he wanted to defend the pass to block the Jiannu army, suddenly a soldier came to report to Zhou Yuji in a hurry, just after the Jiannu army appeared, just when everyone else was busy preparing for the battle, and the Liu garrison who was originally here, after learning the news, did not say a word, and immediately took dozens of family members and more than a dozen of his family members, as well as the soft things of his family, and abandoned his soldiers. Escaped from one of the enemy platforms he was responsible for guarding!
After Zhou Yuji heard the news, he was angry like thunder, and after explaining a little without saying a word, he ordered two hundred elite cavalry, turned over and rode out of the Xifeng Pass, and chased in the direction where Liu Shoubei fled, and did not chase ten miles away, Zhou Yuji led his troops to catch up with Liu Shoubei, who was a deserter.
This Liu Garrison originally wanted to press the Jiannu army, after he fled, Zhou Yuji must have been busy with defense, and he would not have the kung fu to chase and kill him, so he was not in a hurry, and he also brought his family and soft things and the silver he had caught here over the years, and he couldn't go fast if he wanted to, but he didn't think that Zhou Yuji would personally lead his troops to chase him at this time.
When caught up by Zhou Yuji, this Liu garrison hurriedly picked up his gun and got on the horse, and said apologetically to Zhou Yuji on horseback: "General Zhou is invited!" People have their own aspirations, and now that the Ming Kingdom is no longer a country, who can control us? Now that the construction of slaves is powerful, you and I are only a few thousand people, so we want to block the army of builders and slaves here, wouldn't it be an egg to hit a stone?
I advise General Zhou that those who know the times are Junjie, you and I can't afford to work hard for the Ming Dynasty here, it's better to leave here quickly, and the province will end up with a place where there is no place to be buried!
In the next Su knew that General Zhou was an honest official, and Liu still had a little silver here, so he gave half of it to General Zhou, and hoped that General Zhou could be placed in the next and his family to live! After Liu found a place to stay, he will be rewarded every day! ”
"Whew! Fuck your mother's head! You and I, as the generals of the Ming Dynasty, eat the king's fortune, and we should die for the king! Now that Jiannu is knocking on the pass, you are waiting for people to eat and do not do personnel, as the main general, but the first to abandon the official and flee, messing with our army's heart, how can I Zhou tolerate you? Come on! After that, Zhou Yuji was going to swing his knife and step forward to kill that Liu Shoubei.
Liu Shoubei panicked when he heard this, and hurriedly shouted: "Wait! surnamed Zhou, Liu Mou who should be said has said, what kind of food is the king and Lu, and he wants to be loyal to the Ming Dynasty? You were originally guarding Juyong Pass, why did you abandon Juyong Pass and let the thief enter the pass? You can abandon this Guancheng, can't I Liu abandon it? Hasn't it all become your truth in the world? Since everyone is all the way, why bother to force each other? It's a big deal that all this savings will be given to you, and I hope General Zhou can put it on the next horse! ”
Zhou Yuji was even more furious after hearing this, and said angrily: "You have to quibble!" The big Chinese army entered the customs, not to attack the Beijing division, but to go to Shanhaiguan to resist the Jiannu invasion, I Zhou asked himself not to do anything wrong, and the leader of the troops has been sent to Shanhaiguan, this is to Xifengkou to deploy, how can you compare? Today, your surname Liu actually defiled me, how can Zhou give up with you! Come on! ”
After scolding, Zhou Yuji didn't say anything more to this guy, and urged the war horse and dance knife to rush to this Liu Garrison, and this Liu Garrison didn't look at a big gun, but this guy was originally a garrison officer who relied on his family background to get it, and he didn't have much kung fu at hand, how could it be Zhou Yuji, a soldier from the bottom, who fought with a knife and a gun to the opponent of a fierce general of such a status now, so he hurriedly called for the help of those soldiers under him, but the soldiers brought by Zhou Yuji were watched with bows, arrows, knives and guns. didn't dare to act rashly, and many of these family members also felt deep disdain for Liu Shoubei's move, and at this time, seeing that Zhou Yuji was going to kill Liu Shoubei, he would rather not help, and saw Zhou Yuji kill this Liu Shoubei.
Poor Liu Shoubei screamed in surprise and tried to resist, but he didn't come down in two moves, and he was chopped off the war horse by Zhou Yuji with a slash on his shoulder, and he died on the road with blood splashing.
Zhou Yuji leaned over and stabbed off the head of this Liu Shoubei, turned his head and shouted at those of his family members like a fierce look: "Do you still want to escape?" ”
When these family members saw that Liu Shoubei had been killed, they hurriedly bowed down and said loudly: "The little ones don't want to escape, but they are only persecuted by this guy to protect him to escape, we are also the men of the Ming Dynasty, are we reluctant, now that he is dead, I am willing to die for General Zhou!" ”
Zhou Yuji sneered and said, "Okay! If you want me to believe Zhou's words, then you will kill his whole family! If anyone doesn't do it, then don't blame me for being ruthless! ”
That's what you want to vote for! In ancient times, the most taboo was to wipe the master for the slave, which was a big crime, and those who committed this crime were often arrested and sentenced to death, and even if they did not die, no matter where they went, they would eventually be looked down upon, so Zhou Yuji ordered them to wipe the master, in fact, they were forced to have no way to retreat in the future, but to follow him to guard the Xifeng Pass.
After hearing this, these Liu Shoubei's family members looked at each other, hesitating whether they should listen to Zhou Yuji's orders, Zhou Yuji laughed fiercely, and shouted: "Since you don't do it, then come and slaughter them for me......"
"Don't! We did it! That's it! Anyway, it's a death horizontally and vertically, so it's better to die under the Tartar knife than to be more glorious! Brethren, we have no choice! The surname Liu is not much better for us! Now their lives are not good, and they can't complain about us! Do it! ”
This surnamed Liu married several concubines alone, and gave birth to a lot of sons and daughters, these family members saw that Liu Shoubei was killed by Zhou Yuji, and they were so frightened that they cried and cried for their mother, begging for mercy again and again, begging Zhou Yuji to let them live, and they were willing to make cattle and horses for Zhou Yuji.
But Zhou Yuji is not the kind of person with a good heart, at this time he knows that it is the time when the troubled times are used to re-enact, if he is not ruthless, I am afraid that there will be deserters, in order to keep the Xifeng Pass, there is only the family of Liu Shoubei.
So he turned his head and didn't look at it, and ordered the dozens of Liu Shoubei's family members to do it, although these family members couldn't bear it one by one, but there was no way, so under the leadership of a family leader, he said to those Liu Shoubei's family members: "I'm sorry!" So they drew their knives one after another, swords together, and killed all of these Liu Shoubei's family of eighteen on the spot, Zhou Yuji nodded his satisfaction, and ordered them to cut off the heads of Liu Shoubei's whole family, and after taking them, they also pulled up the soft things he carried, and immediately rushed back to Xifengkou Pass.
Originally, the soldiers up and down the city were still a little worried, for fear that Zhou Yuji would not look back, and like Liu Shoubei, he also became a deserter, and some people were thinking about whether to follow the crowd and scatter and pull down, and when they were hesitating, they saw Zhou Yuji riding a horse back to Guancheng, and under the horse's neck, there were a few bloody human heads.
"Someone! Hang the head of this Liu garrison on the highest part of the city, and hang all the heads of his family members! Let everyone see what happens to them!
I, Zhou, will say it again today, we are all the people of the Ming Dynasty, and we must be loyal to the country! If anyone dares to escape, then the fate of this surnamed Liu and his whole family will be the fate of you! Don't blame me for being ruthless! Cheer me up! Jiannu will kill one by one, and they will never be allowed to break through the barrier and enter the ......" Zhou Yuji completely showed his ruthless side.
When I saw that Zhou Yuji not only killed the garrison surnamed Liu, but also killed his entire family, even the three-year-old child did not let go, who was not frightened by the soldiers on the city, some guys who had made up their minds to escape from the battle, were scared to pee their pants, where do they dare to think about escaping!
And Zhou Yuji on the spot seized from Liu Garrison those silver two soft piles on the top of the city, on the spot, the silver stored in the city was lifted out, placed on the top of the city, ordered: "Today's guard, I hope that all the soldiers and brothers will fight bravely to kill the enemy, anyone who kills a slave, a reward of thirty taels of silver, a wounded slave, a reward of ten taels of silver!" The money is all here, and if you have the ability, you can get it! ”
Under the high pressure, there are heavy rewards, for these Ming generals and those who help the people, there is no doubt that the carrots are sticky, very effective, since they can't escape, they can only defend this place, and there is silver to take, so these defenders and generals are all in good spirits and ready to guard.
Shi Tingzhu didn't know what was going on inside the Xifengkou Pass, and after receiving the orders of Abatai and Haoge outside the pass, he immediately led the Wuzhen Chaoha soldiers under his banner to take a step forward and attack the Xifengkou.
In Shi Tingzhu's point of view, the city here is broken, and there are not many defenders, breaking through the pass is an easy thing for him, as long as he leads the troops to break through the Xifeng Pass, then it is equivalent to the first person to break through the South Pass this time, in the Qing Dynasty, it must be a great achievement, so he led the troops to the Xifeng Pass, and after dispatching, he launched an attack on the Xifeng Pass everywhere.
Under Zhou Yuji's order, no one was allowed to fire or fire arrows without permission before the Jiannu army approached, and they had to wait for him to give the order before they could do it.
So at the beginning, Shi Tingzhu supervised the army forward, and never found that the defenders of Xifengkou opened fire to resist, so they were much lighter than the enemy, one by one they shouted and attacked forward, and set up artillery outside the pass, and fired at the gate repeatedly, wanting to first psychologically deter these Ming soldiers who were guarding the pass, and then after a round of artillery fire, they did not see the defenders counterattack, so they forced towards the pass one by one, until they entered the pass of about a hundred steps below the pass, Suddenly, a roar of killing slaves sounded above the wall.
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