Chapter 51: Reloading
The military order was sent from Lingyin's Mansion to Chengyang and Tang County to the west of Dabie Mountain, and after the military order, another order was issued from Lingyin's Mansion. If the first command is uplifting and passionate, then the latter is dark and brutal.
"To: Yang Xia Yu Shi Chang Lu Gao; From: Yingdu Ling Yin Mansion. Quickly kill the traitors of your county officials, burn all the slips, and evacuate Yangxia afterwards. This order. Ling Yoon Sung-suke. In September, Dinghai moved to the Great Place. The flying officer read the order and handed the message to Lu Gao with a blank face. Lu Gao was also expressionless, and he did not speak again after whispering a word of respect.
Yangxia is located in the depression of the two wings of the half butterfly of the Wei State, located in the east of the chasm, a hundred miles north of Chen Ying, and only a hundred miles away from the city where the Qin army of the Wei realm was encamped. Such a border county has to send the most powerful honorable soldiers, so Lu Gao was dispatched here, and together with him, Lu Qian was also dispatched here.
After the flyer left, Lu Gao glanced at Lu Chan and said, "Kill it." ”
"The nobleman spares his life, the nobleman spares his life......" When the sun set, more than 900 county officials and traitors in the county jail all mentioned the big city behind the county government. Three days ago, the people of the county had evacuated, and the city was empty. Knowing that the last moment was coming, the prisoners either screamed or cried, but fortunately they were shackled and roped, so that they would not flee in all directions.
"What sin am I? What am I guilty of? "In addition to sparing his life, there is also a reproach full of resentment." What law have I committed? What law did I break?! ”
"Don't use the law as a shield!" The armor sergeant's voice was straightforward, and the sword in his hand was swung continuously, and the sword light was red, as red as the sunset.
"Silence!" Lu Gao, who was the chief of honor, shouted, he felt that these people should be allowed to die clearly. After drinking, the scene really quieted down, and the county officials and traitors who were about to die all looked at him, helpless and longing.
"You're not guilty!" Lu Gao's words were unexpected, but his last sentence made people desperate, "Of course, you must die!" ”
"Why? Why? Why! An elderly prisoner jumped out of the crowd and shouted while beating his chest: "Wu Wei has been a servant for twenty-three years, he is conscientious and loyal in everything, he has not done a single wrong thing, and he has not been greedy for a single ill-gotten money......
"Not why." Lu Gao is calmer than ever, and more cruel than ever. He pulled out his treasure knife, looked at the county official named Wu Wei and said calmly: "There are honorable people, but there are no county officials." There are county officials, but there are no honorable people. Did you know? ”
Lu Gao drew a knife in his hand, and the excited Wu Wei stared at him when he heard this, and finally raised his head and laughed. Laughter and chatter, the whole city is this piercing sound, listening to the heart, the hair stands on end.
As if he hadn't heard it, he bowed lightly and said in a deep voice, "If you have any last words, I will tell my wife on your behalf." ”
"Quack quack...... Wu Wei was still laughing, laughing and crying at the same time, he spent half his life to get an errand in the county government, and the remaining half of his life fulfilled his duties, but he was not guilty. The more he laughed, the more unwilling he became, the more he laughed, the more angry he became, and when he heard Lu Gao asking for his last words, he shouted loudly and shouted to the sky with all his strength: "With my life, the curse king will lose his society." ”
Wu Wei dared to curse the king, and wanted to slash him with a knife, but Lu Gao stopped him, "Let him finish." Lu Gao said.
"With my life, the cursed king will lose his society." Wu Wei shouted twice more before he choked and stopped. Lu Gao nodded at him, and whispered while waving his knife: "Let's go." The sword was as bright as practice, and Wu Wei, who wept and sighed at the injustice of God, was beheaded by him with a knife.
"Execution!" Lu Gao, who was splashed with blood on his face, drank loudly, and the crowd that had been silent for a long time began to tear and cry again when they saw the blood, but more than a hundred armor soldiers were extremely efficient, and everyone was divided into five columns for execution, and the heads of the people in front had just landed, and the people in the back had just come up. In less than half an hour, more than 900 county officials and traitors were killed, and blood flowed almost all over the city.
"The knife is blunt." Lu Chan, who was covered in blood, only cared about his treasure knife, and after slashing dozens of people in a row, he felt that the knife was dull.
"Officer, what should I do with this?" The corpse is being pulled to the big pit dug outside the city to be buried, and when the corpse is moved, some gold cakes and silver ingots often fall out, and there is also a book: "If you read it, you will become an official", the book has obviously been turned countless times, and the cover is almost broken.
"Send home." Lu Gao only smiled when he saw this book.
"Chief, he doesn't know his name, so he can't send it to his family." Unlike Lu Gao, the armorer's gaze was only on the gold and silver ant-nosed money.
"Put it back!" Lu Gao's eyes widened, scaring the armorer's greed back.
"You say," watching the carts of corpses drive away from the city, Lu Chan, who killed people, was still puzzled. "Why did the king kill them? In the future, my Chu State will no longer need officials? ”
"Honorable scholars are vassals, there should be vassals and there should be officials, and there should be officials and no vassals, so they have to be killed." Lu Gao is the most clear of the people who know the order to kill. After this period of understanding, he knew that some officials were indeed good officials, such as people like Wu Wei, who had never been at fault for twenty-three years and had not been greedy for a penny for twenty-three years, but the more such people were, the more they wanted to kill.
Lu Chan's eyes are very big, his big eyes are still staring at Lu Gao in a daze, he doesn't understand politics, he is only proficient in fighting and killing, and he has fearless courage. Lu Gao had no choice but to say in words he could understand: "The meaning of Ling Yin's Mansion is because Chu Qin is about to fight again, and the Qin Master of Wei Realm will attack me tomorrow." As far as the county officials and traitors are concerned, the important thing is that there are officials to do, and it doesn't matter which king they are loyal to, so the Qin army must be killed before they come, and the county government's slips will also be burned down, so that the Qin people will not know their land and their people when they occupy Yangxia......"
"Got it." As long as everything is related to the war, Lu Qian understands very quickly, and before Lu Gao finished speaking, he understood, and the treasure knife he put in the sheath was pulled out again, and said: "Since Qin Kou is coming, why don't I fight and then retreat?" ”
"False!" Lu Gao couldn't wait to give him a kick, "The enemy of Yucheng should be 300,000 or 400,000 people, and the forward force should be as few as 10,000 or as many as tens of thousands, how can I and other more than 300 people be the enemy?" Ling Yin Mansion ordered us to withdraw from Yangxia, do you want to disobey the order? ”
One party and one honorable man, there are twenty-five parties in ordinary counties, and the number of parties under its jurisdiction is more than that of China (Central Plains), but the sum of the soldiers is only four hundred; Most of the people in Yangxia have left, and there are no pawns to be levied in the county (this is also the reason why the county officials and traitors were executed at this time, killing more than 900 people at a time, and avoiding the people if they can). With less than 400 armor soldiers blocking the Qin army in a dangerous place in the plain, only a fool like Lu Chan who can only fight can think of it.
When Lu Gao explained to Lu Chan why he wanted to kill all the county officials and traitors, the houses of the county government burst into flames, except for the land deeds and atlases, and the simple slips about Fu nationality, taxes, and laws accumulated in Yangxia for hundreds of years will be burned down.
In Yangxia, Songdi, Wudi, and even every county in the country were killing county officials and traitors and burning slips. The fire burned out, and the formatted state of Chu would reinstall another operating system, controlling the broken hardware with a new, if not so, outdated, interface, in order to plunge all forces into this unprecedented total war.
The outcome is not yet known, and each other's positions are already clearly distinguished, and water and fire are incompatible. Lu Xuan, who didn't dare to disobey the order, put his knife back into the sheath in frustration, not noticing that Chu Guo was completing the final transformation in front of his eyes, while Lu Gao looked at the fire in a daze, and the mountains of slips in the Yangxia County Mansion made him inadvertently peek into another world, which was the world of the Qin people.
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"If you go to King Jing, there will be no forgiveness for killing! If you go to King Jing, there will be no forgiveness for killing! Under the mountains, Xin Sheng, whose eyes were full of bloodshots, stood with a sword. The mountains could not be fought on horseback, and the martial knights under his command rushed to the top of the mountain guarded by the Chu army on foot one after another, but they were repulsed again and again. Xin Sheng, who knew that the martial knights were tired, did not want to stop attacking, he had to occupy the top of the mountain before dark, otherwise he would not know how far he would have to chase tomorrow to catch up with King Jing.
"Generals, generals, soldiers are tired." Under the setting sun, the Qin army warrior who was the first to climb to the top of the mountain was slashed by the Chu army, and when the rest wanted to rush up, the arrows suddenly appeared, and a tall Chu army armor soldier with uncrowned hair stood on the top of the mountain with the sunset on his back, he must be a nobleman with outstanding archery skills, and the rain of arrows shot out of his mulberry bow that was more than seven feet long one after another.
The emergence of such a young and excellent archer in the era of strong crossbows is estimated to happen only in the state of Chu. Xiong Jing was attracted by his shooting posture at a glance, and in his experience, it seemed that only the elven prince had such archery skills. The Qin soldiers seemed to have been shot by a sniper rifle, and one by one they fell down with arrows, and some of the Qin people below panicked and rolled down the hill timidly.
"Who is this?" Xiong Jing was shocked by this person's archery. The seven-foot longbow must have five stones, but he has not yet been crowned.
"King Yu, this person is the grandson of Duke Xi." Xiang Chao told him that he was the nephew of the county Yin, and most of his playmates were naturally Yin Gongzi's disciples. The cavalry is the last unit to be formed, as long as it is the son of a nobleman and can ride a horse, it is rarely picky to join the army. "His departure from home is a farewell, and he is still looking for someone." Xiang Chao added.
"Cheng?" Xiong Jing remembered the three arrows that Dou Yuejiao shot at King Chuzhuang back then, and a picture suddenly flashed in his mind: Cheng Kui's arrow shot at Qin Jun was shooting at him. His heart tightened, and then he smiled. The dice have been rolled, he is the king, Cheng Kui is a nobleman, as long as the pattern of monarch and minister co-rule is maintained, Cheng Kui will only defend him and will not shoot him.
"General, the Jing people's bows and arrows are too strong, and they are in a high place...... several Qin army cavalry generals told Xin Sheng with bitter faces, the enemy used a five-stone bow, and the arrows pierced the abdomen, and several martial knights were too close and were even shot by arrows.
"It doesn't matter." Xin Sheng also calmed down, he was taken aback when he saw Cheng Kui's bow seven feet long, and it was even more hopeless to look at archery. "This mountain is over the horse valley, but it's a pity that the Yiqu people are cheaper."