Chapter 185: Atrocities

At night, a bonfire was lit in the barracks in the wilderness, and there was a sea of people around the bonfire, surrounded by many soldiers, and in this small open space in a circle of many people, stood a man dressed in cloth.

The man looked to be about forty years old, with a thin figure, a slumped back, sparse hair, an old complexion, a beard under the chin, and a large and small eye, and was talking with tears in his eyes at this moment.

"That night, I was on the shift, it was raining, and there was a 'rustle' sound everywhere..."

Wu Lao Liu, a forty-three-year-old widower who is known to many people in the city, is a survivor of the 'Two Days of Hanging Gourd', and he happened to be in the city on the night the enemy stole the city, and as a result, he witnessed a series of heinous atrocities.

Luckily escaped the massacre, Wu Laoliu looked for an opportunity to escape, went all the way north, and finally met the officers and soldiers who returned to the division.

At this moment, he was telling the officers and soldiers of the Yuzhou army what he had seen and heard in the city, and told the soldiers who were anxious to fight back to take revenge about the tragic situation in the hanging city that had turned into a hell on earth.

He said that the enemy took advantage of the rain to steal the city that night, but he was caught by the other party, and in order to hide people's eyes, he sent two soldiers to follow him and let him continue to fight.

As soon as the enemy army entered the city, they slaughtered several senior officials and their entire families, and sent troops to control the barracks.

He also said that as long as the state soldiers were 'anyway', they would never be embarrassed.

Because of the suddenness of the incident, the state soldiers who stayed in the barracks rushed out, and when they saw the other party's gambling curse, they swore that they would never be embarrassed, so they could only lay down their arms and surrender, and the enemy asked them to assemble at the school ground, saying that they wanted to count the number of people, but a massacre followed.

The archers had already been ambushed on the school ground, and the soldiers were shocked and tried to resist but were unarmed, all of them were killed by random arrows, and the enemy finally showed their brutal true colors after slaughtering the defenders of the city.

They sent people to block the city gate, and then plundered the army, at this time there was no need for Wu Laoqi and other husbands to hide people's eyes, but seeing that he was weak, he didn't take it seriously, and because of this, Wu Laoliu witnessed one atrocity after another.

The enemy soldiers first burned and looted large families, smashed open the gate and rushed in, cut down the men when they saw them, pounced on the women they saw, and snatched all the valuable things, and then lit the mansion with a fire.

Enemy soldiers robbed, killed, and set fire from house to house, and many families were so frightened that they took out all the valuable things in their homes, saying that they were willing to be 'King Qin' and only wanted their families to be safe, but after those beast soldiers took their things, they still killed people and set fires.

In the several neighborhoods where the eunuchs and big families lived, some people united to gather the courtyard and the child servants to resist, but they were all defeated by the enemy soldiers, and all of them could not escape.

The burning and looting lasted all night, and the civilians in the city thought that the enemy soldiers were just eating big households, so they thought that the other party had killed and robbed enough, and would not attack the poor who were destitute.

The next morning, the enemy forces had ceased considerably, and just when the people thought they had escaped, the atrocities began again.

Wu Lao Liu couldn't cry anymore when he said this, and a soldier suddenly rushed forward to grab him, constantly shaking: "Wu Lao Liu! I'm Liang Er, who is three miles away from West Street in the south of the city! How's my family doing?! ”

"Your home... Alas..."

Seeing that Wu Lao Liu wanted to speak and stopped, the soldier named Liang Er was anxious and shook the other party desperately: "Say! You say! ”

"Alas, your home... That's really miserable..."Wu Lao Liu slowed down and told what happened to the Liang family.

Wu Lao Liu and Liang Er's family are familiar with each other, Liang Er's family has a total of five people, Liang Er and his parents, daughter-in-law and a little baby less than three years old live, that day the enemy soldiers robbed from house to house, Liang's father saw that it was difficult to escape, so he hid his daughter-in-law and grandson behind the firewood stack in the firewood room.

The enemy soldiers rushed into Liang's house, rummaging through the boxes and cabinets to search for valuable things, and the two elders knew the importance of it, so they honestly handed over all the valuable things, in exchange for the other party not to kill.

The family's grain stock and a few chickens were robbed, and the enemy soldiers searched the yard for a round and found nothing of value, and when they were about to leave, a cry came from the firewood room.

It was the cry of Liang's second son, the enemy soldiers saw this and opened the firewood, and saw Liang's second daughter-in-law holding a baby crying, and then red-eyed to arrest someone, Liang's father and Liang's mother picked up a wooden stick to fight hard, and was hacked to death with a knife.

The enemy soldiers pressed Liang's second daughter-in-law to the ground and took turns to violence, seeing the little guy crying and feeling noisy, he used a spear to pierce and provoke it like a fish, where could the little guy stand it, and he died after a while, Liang's second daughter-in-law was tossed to the point that she was not human, and she saw that her family was dead, and it didn't take long for her to die.

Hearing that his family was slaughtered, Liang Er only felt that his limbs were cold, and he was stunned for a moment and then squatted on the ground and hugged his head and cried.

"Dead, all dead! They have all been plagued by enemy soldiers! Wu Lao Liu shouted with tears in his eyes, and the soldiers only felt that the world was spinning when they heard it, and the last trace of luck was gone.

At first, when they heard the news of the accident in the camp outside Fangcheng, they also felt that their family was surrounded by walls, and the enemy soldiers wanted to harm the big families and rich people, so their families should be able to make a living.

The army retreated to Fangcheng, and news came one after another, saying that the enemy had slaughtered the Hanging Gourd, and many people were still praying that their families had escaped the catastrophe.

Wu Laoliu said that he was a survivor of the 'two days of hanging gourds', after the enemy soldiers slaughtered the hanging gourds, they needed people to carry the corpses, dig pits and bury them, he carried the corpses for a few days, and escaped while the guards were not strict when digging the pits.

Many of the officers and soldiers of the Yuzhou Army who lived in the city were familiar with Wu Laoliu, so they asked him about the situation at home, because there were too many people, the generals simply called a meeting of the soldiers, and asked Wu Laoliu to talk about the situation in the city in front of everyone.

In fact, it was to add fuel to the fire and arouse the revenge of the soldiers, and the atrocities of the enemy soldiers that Wu Laoliu cried about made many of the victim soldiers grief-stricken, and the other soldiers also had red eyes when they saw this, and they were panting one by one.

Seeing the excitement of the soldiers, the generals knew that the time had come, and now they were getting closer and closer to the hanging gourd, and the moment of the decisive battle between the two armies was just around the corner, so the iron should be struck while it was hot.

"In a few days, our army will have a decisive battle with the beast soldiers who slaughtered the hanging gourd, who is it! Willing to be a pioneer? Raise your hand if you're willing! ”

"Me! I! ”

The soldiers gathered around the campfire scrambled to raise their hands, and the atrocities that Wu Lao Liufang had just said made them indignant, and some of them were also enraged by the enemy's brutal behavior even though their homes were not in the coffin.

Coach Hobavoorn, looking at the excited scene in front of him, nodded with satisfaction, and then looked down at a piece of paper with words written in his hand.

It was a letter of persuasion from the enemy rangers, and the person who wrote the letter claimed to be the son of heaven who was in distress, and he read it in public, and all the generals disagreed, but he recognized the handwriting on the letter of persuasion, which was indeed the handwriting of Yuwen Qiankeng, the son of heaven.

In other words, the Son of Heaven in the Hanging Gourd City who called on the king of the world's soldiers and horses is really Yuwen Qiankeng.

But so what?

Hebavoun crumpled the letter of surrender into a ball and threw it into the campfire, and the leaping light of the fire came into view, reminding him of a past event.

In that year, the Zhou army invaded Jinyang, and Emperor Yuwen Yong of Zhou led his troops into the city as soon as possible, just when the monarchs and ministers of Zhou thought that the overall situation had been decided, the remnants of the Qi army in the city suddenly counterattacked, and the Zhou army suffered heavy casualties and was driven out of the city.

Yuwen Yong fell into the chaos of the army, the guards around him were killed and wounded, and the figures of Qi soldiers were all in the firelight all around, and he was about to be captured alive, and it was He Ba Fuen, who had just surrendered, who sacrificed his life to save Yuwen Yong from the sea of blood in the corpse mountain.

He Ba Fuen, who should have been a loyal minister of the Yuwen clan, did not plan to serve the Yuwen clan anymore, because of the misdeeds of Yuwen Yun, the son of Yuwen Yong, many people looked at him, and now the puppet-like Yuwen Qiankeng is not qualified to let him be loyal.

The era of your Yuwen clan is over!