Chapter Eighty-Nine: Hua Xiong's Wish to Surrender (Ask for Collection)
didn't go far, Gao Shun and Huaxiong's faces were hard to see, the two of them had been in Luoyang for some time, although they were usually in the barracks, but occasionally traveled, they had seen the prosperity of Luoyang, but now they looked into the distance, but they didn't see a single person. Along the way, if you see most of the village burned, you can see black blood stains everywhere in the burned houses, and white bones can also be seen everywhere in the ashes of plants and trees; In the fields and beside the road, there were innocent people who had been cut and killed, including old people, young and strong, children, and most pitiful of all, women, who had obviously suffered so much that the people who had vented their desires raised their butcher knives to them......
With the experience of collecting the bodies of the dead people when they returned to Luoyang yesterday, Dian Wei and Xu Chu ordered the guards to bury the dead without Liu Zhang's instructions. Later, there were too many dead and there was a serious shortage of manpower, so Liu Zhang had to order someone to go back and transfer 3,000 people to help.
Liu Zhang looked at Hua Xiong and Gao Shun, and said, "Two, this is the capital of my Han Dynasty, but such a tragic and inferior thing has happened, whose fault is this?" The two may not know, the Luoyang city here is more than the suburbs, nearly half of the city was burned, even the palace did not escape a catastrophe, after the treasure was looted, Dong thief in order to hide people's eyes, actually ordered the palace to be burned, the most miserable is my Han people, at this moment Luoyang City with hell on earth to describe the half is not too much, Dong thief forced to move on the way, all the rich households in the city were killed, and killed countless innocent people who did not want to move west, rough estimates, at least 100,000 people died tragically under the butcher's knife of Dong thief! ”
Hua Xiong suddenly knelt on the ground, fell to the ground and wept bitterly, and the depth of his grief moved everyone who heard it.
After a long time, Hua Xiong knelt down in front of Liu Zhang, and bowed: "My lord, Hua Xiong knows what is wrong, please take it in, Hua Xiong is willing to serve his son in this life to atone for the sins of the past!" ”
Liu Zhang immediately helped Hua Xiong up and said: "General Hua, please get up, the former general didn't know the true face of Dong Thief, behaved inappropriately, and the fault was not the general, this is the crime of Dong Thief, and the general is willing to pull out the chaos and set things right, which is really the blessing of the Han Dynasty!" I hope that the general will think of the people of the world and the great Han in the future, and do not repeat the mistakes of the past! ”
"Hua Xiong knows that he has committed a serious crime, and he will save himself in the future, and he will never commit such a crime, please supervise it, and if there is a recurrence, let the adult deal with it!"
"Good, good!" Liu Zhang was overjoyed, and finally got it done, he turned around and said, "General Gao, what do you think?" ”
Gao Shun said toughly: "I am the general of Wen Hou's family, not Dong Zhuo's minister, the sin here is Dong Zhuo's doing, what does it have to do with Wen Hou?" How could I betray Wen Hou because of this? ”
Liu Zhang obviously heard the uncertainty in his words, and it seemed that he was just lustful!
Xun Yu said: "General Gao's words are wrong, who is the title of Marquis Lu Buwen?" Dong Zhuo! Luoyang has experienced this tragedy, who is to blame? As Dong Zhuo's general, wouldn't Lu Bu have heard of such a tragedy? Why didn't he intervene? Lu Bu knows that the suffering of the people is not seen, he is really a disloyal and unrighteous person, and the general is loyal and righteous, how can he die for such villains? ”
Guo Jia also said: "If today is the world of the Han Dynasty, the so-called whole world, it is not the king's land, the shore of the land, it is not the king's minister." Lu Bu is a Hanchen and does not know how to be loyal to the monarch and serve the country, but he recognizes the thief as his father and aids in abuse, these characters are the image of the master? The general is also my Han people, why do you sacrifice your roots and fall willingly, does the general want to bear the infamy of eternity? ”
Liu Zhang said the same thing when Gao Shun was captured, but Gao Shun only thought about Lu Bu at that time, and Liu Zhang's words were not based on facts, so he was quite disdainful, but what he saw on this trip confirmed these words, and finally shook his heart, and began to shake his determination to die for Lu Bu. However, Gao Shun is Gao Shun, and in the face of such a situation, he still gritted his teeth and did not let go.
Liu Zhang knew that Gao Shun's heart was very messy, and if he persuaded again, it might backfire, so he stopped persuading and led everyone to continue north.
Walking until noon, Liu Zhang still had no intention of returning, Xun Yu couldn't help but persuade: "Son, this time is far from Luoyang, if we don't return, I'm afraid we won't be able to return to Luoyang today!" ”
Liu Zhang said: "It's okay, we won't go back to Luoyang today!" ”
Xun Yu said again: "Now Luoyang is an eventful season, it can be described as turbulent, if the son stays away, our army may be in danger?" ”
"It doesn't matter if Boning, Wenchang, Gongming and others are all safe people, with them staying in Luoyang, no one will dare to hit the attention of our army, even if there is, they can easily solve it!"
Xun Yu saw that Liu Zhang was so sure, and at the same time, after this period of getting along, he also knew that Man Chong and the others were the sages of the world, and with them, there was really no need to worry too much and stop persuading.
The crowd found a place, buried the pot to make rice, and continued to the north after a full meal. In the evening, Liu Zhang's destination was still a hundred miles away, and seeing that he could not reach it today anyway, Liu Zhang ordered to go to the previous town to camp for a night's rest, and continue to move forward tomorrow.
This small town called Xinping is a hundred miles from Luoyang, but it still has not escaped the catastrophe, the houses in the town have been burned down, and the streets are littered with corpses, all of which are unarmed innocent people. When the three were found by the sergeant, they thought that the group of beasts had come again a few days ago, one fainted in fright on the spot, and the other two were holding two burned black wooden beams to fight with the sergeant.
The sergeant did not dare to hurt the three people, so he did not dare to use his weapons, and as a result, under the attack of two firewoods like a rainstorm, four or five sergeants were wounded one after another, and only then did they restrain the two civilians who had lost their strength.
The sergeant brought the three of them to Liu Zhang, and the person who had fainted at this time also woke up, looking at the soldiers of the black crow, he was so frightened that he almost fainted again.
Liu Zhang persuaded with good words: "Don't be afraid, we are Han officers and soldiers, not bandits, and we will not harm you, please rest assured ......"
One of the two people who beat people said: "Bastard, uncle doesn't eat your set, official army?" Bullshit officials and soldiers, even bandits are not as good as bandits, bandits will not rob birds and beasts are better than slaughtering villages, but what about officials and soldiers? Hum...... Come on, the lord has injured several people today, and it can be regarded as a bad breath for everyone, if you want to cut off your head or bury it alive, you will continue to ......"
"Phew......" Dian Wei scolded: "What a thing I don't know, my son-in-law is a Han clan, leading the troops to beg for thieves, and he has never committed any crime against the people, you will compare them to bandits, look at me ......"
"Shut up," Liu Zhang shouted, .......
Dian Wei listened to Liu Zhang's words and had to retreat stupidly.
Liu Zhang said again: "I am the captain of the Han Dynasty, and I was ordered by my father to lead the army into the king of Beijing and Qin, and to rescue the people of the Han Dynasty, not a villain!" If I have ill will towards you, why should I say so much to you, wouldn't it be convenient to order you to be killed? As you have just seen, my soldiers would rather be beaten than hurt you, is there such a villain? ”
The three of them looked at each other, and after a while, the person who had just scolded Liu Zhang said uncertainly: "Are you really not an accomplice with them?" ”
Liu Zhang said with great certainty: "Of course, we entered Luoyang to destroy them, but unfortunately the enemy saw that the situation was not good, and withdrew to Chang'an......"
The man suddenly cried: "That herd of animals, what did they say about retreating to Guanzhong, the people in the town were nostalgic for their homeland and did not want to leave, so they killed people everywhere and set fires...... Not...... They killed all those who would not leave, and the women were ruined......"