Great Zhou calendar, 369, the third day of the fourth month......

More than 8,000 Hulan cavalry wantonly plundered villages and towns in Yuanzhou for nearly a month, carrying countless gold, silver, grain and grass and more than 100,000 captured people, marching in the direction of Jizhou.

The internal tradition of the Hulan people is that most of the autumn "hunting" is distributed by the Hulan nobles, and they are basically given priority to the personal guards and the leaders of the noble tribes in the Hulan tribe, and there is basically nothing left in the hands of ordinary soldiers.

This kind of eating is extremely ugly, and the leaders and nobles in the Hulan tribe also know that sooner or later, it will cause dissatisfaction among other small tribes, and even rebellion, which is something that the Hulan leaders do not want to see.

Therefore, in order to alleviate the deepening contradictions between the aristocratic tribes and the ordinary tribes, the incumbent Hulan Shan Yu Dong Li, specially planned to take advantage of the horse breeding season in February and March to open a "hunting" activity for the people of the Far East. However, unlike the autumn "hunt", all noble tribes are not allowed to participate in this hunt, and it is up to the ordinary tribes in the Hulan pastoral area to decide whether to participate or not, and all the proceeds of the seizure belong to all tribes, and they only need to symbolically send a few beautiful women or a few jars of wine to the local noble tribe leaders......

"Hahaha...... Evil map, this time you are developed, robbed so many women, it won't be long before your tribe will prosper! ”

"Don't laugh at me, Han Zhan, look at the cattle behind you, I'm afraid there are tens of thousands! Don't be so greedy, you kid! How about I trade a woman for you? How about a Zhou girl and a sheep? You pick and choose. ”

"Get out, there are a lot of women in the Zhou Kingdom in Laozi's place, are you lacking?"

"Hahahaha......"

On the way back to Jizhou, several tribes who had gone out to raid and plunder gathered together to discuss the results of this "hunting" excitedly, and behind them there was a mighty black pressure on the captured people.

These people groaned and wept in the crowd at the thought of their impending endless slave life. The cries of the captive women did not stop all the way, and the tribal leader could not help but be irritated when he heard it.

"Cry what cry!" But when he saw that he was trying to ride his horse to those women, he flicked the horsewhip in his hand, and let out a thunderclap-like scream that broke through the air, and said in a blunt Central Plains dialect: "The men of your Zhou Kingdom are all sheep, cowards, and they can't protect you!" Now, you should feel fortunate that the noble Hulan warriors will accept you, the men of my Hulan tribe are all warriors, and they are a hundred times stronger than the cowards of your Zhou Kingdom who will only shrink behind the high walls. ”

When the captured women heard this, they immediately cried even more fiercely. The grassland tribe is not as polite as the farming civilization in the Guannai, the whole is backward and ignorant primitive posture, pay attention to blood bravery, advocate violence, and the way of treating women is not as romantic as the flowers before the moon and the moon, poetry and songs, only the barbaric intercourse and intercourse, it is completely a tool for reproduction and desire, these women of the Great Zhou Dynasty fell into the hands of this group of beasts, and the future fate can be imagined.

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In the Yuanzhou Governor's Mansion, after hearing that the Hulan people had retreated to Jizhou, Jiang Xun couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief. In the past month, he has been paying close attention to the movements of the Hulan people, and after learning that he had only looted some small towns and villages, he finally let go of his suspense, picked up the documents sent from all over the town on the table, and began to check them.

"Daddy......" Just as Jiang Xun was fascinated, the call of his daughter Jiang Ruoyan came from the door.

Jiang Xun raised his eyes and saw Jiang Ruoyan's face sad, his eyes dull, as if he had been greatly stimulated.

Since that day, Jiang Ruoyan saw the bloody scene of the Hulan people slaughtering the people in Xiwen Town, and after coming back, he was silent, locked himself in the room and rarely moved around.

"Hmph......" Jiang Xun couldn't help but feel distressed when he saw that his daughter was a lot haggard, but he still pretended to be tough, "What kind of system does my daughter's family have to show up without permission?" You must tell me before you go out in the future, do you know? The people of the province looked at me and laughed at me and lost the face of my Jiang family. ”

Hearing this, Jiang Ruoyan said lightly: "Shame? The daughter only lost your father's face, but those people lost their lives. ”

"Presumptuous!" Jiang Xun said angrily: "You dare to talk to your father like this? What does it matter to you whether those people live or die?"

"What does it have to do with me?" Jiang Ruoyan said in frustration: "I am the granddaughter of Jiang Yanyan, the prime minister of the Great Zhou Dynasty, and the biological daughter of Jiang Xun, the governor of Yuanzhou, do you say that these have anything to do with me?" Now that the people are humiliated and tortured and killed by Hu Nu, the guards from all over the country are closed, cowering and not daring to fight, I want to ask, Dad! Does this have anything to do with me?"

"You ......" Jiang Xun was speechless for a while when he was choked by his daughter, and could only point at her and tremble.

Jiang Ruoyan continued: "As the governor of a province, my father should protect the people under his rule from the enemy, but why is it like this now? My daughter really can't understand why my millions of soldiers in the Far East are afraid of the Hulan people who are less than a few hundred thousand to such a situation, but your father ignores them, and even secretly acquiesces, my daughter really doesn't understand what your intentions are. ”

"Is this something you should worry about?" was asked by his daughter like this, Jiang Xun's whole person became angry, and scolded loudly, "Jiang Ruoyan, you listen to me, don't ask about things that shouldn't be asked, how does my father deal with it, my daughter's family is thinking about some messy trivial things all day long!" ”

was stunned, saw that her daughter bowed her head and was silent, and sighed heavily: "Okay, you will be eighteen in a few months, and my father has selected a few children from famous families for you, and you ...... mind."

"Daddy, don't talk about it." Jiang Ruoyan interrupted Jiang Xun's words, "My daughter swore in Heyang Tower in the past, what you should know is who can protect the people of the Far East from being abducted and bullied, and her daughter will be committed to him, otherwise her daughter will never marry." ”

"You ......" Jiang Xun's anger that he had finally suppressed was once again provoked by Jiang Ruoyan's words, and he scolded angrily: "Don't think I don't know, what are you thinking in your heart, it's not that Li Suwen who is still obsessed, but I tell you, it's impossible between you!" The emperor has issued a decree to give marriage to the world, do you want to be a concubine for others! ”

Jiang Ruoyan said lightly: "So what? If you can, but your daughter's long-cherished wish is to save the people of the Far East and the fire and water, don't say that you are a concubine, why not be a slave or a maid! ”

When Jiang Xun heard this, he angrily grabbed the copywriting book on the table and made a gesture to smash it at Jiang Ruoyan, but in the end he was reluctant to do it, so he could only slam the book in front of Jiang Ruoyan, and said angrily: "My Jiang family's daughter actually wants to be a concubine?" What did I Jiang Xun do in my last life to give birth to such an unfilial daughter as you! It seems that I spoil you too much on weekdays, okay, you want to be a concubine, right? Slave to slave, right? Whatever you want! I don't care! ”

"Report!" Just when Jiang Xun was furious in the mansion, the sound of the guards came from the door.

"What's the matter! Say! Jiang Xun said angrily to the guard, the frightened guard trembled, and then looked at the back of Jiang Ruoyan who was kneeling on the ground, and knew a little in his heart.

The guard bowed timidly and said: "Your Excellency Governor Qiqi, the Jingwei battalion has arrived ten miles outside the city, and the commander of the flag regiment, Captain Liu, has sent someone to send a report booklet, dare to ask if you want to go out to greet you?"

Jiang Xun said angrily: "Didn't I send you the transfer paperwork over!" Let him go directly to the territory of Hanling City to take office, and greet him? You see I'm free right now! Is a Shu army still worth the effort? Go down. ”

The guard took the order to leave, Jiang Xun looked at Jiang Ruoyan and said, "You give me a good reflection!" Don't go out again these days! After speaking, he left the Governor's Mansion with his sleeves brushed up, leaving Jiang Ruoyan alone still kneeling in the empty hall.

Jiang Ruoyan's eyes were blank, and he looked at the documents scattered on the ground with a blank look, picked up a transfer book casually, opened it, and saw a string of small characters printed on it......

Liu Ce...... Jingwei Camp ...... Han Ling ...... "Jiang Ruoyan couldn't help muttering to herself after reading this transfer document, then closed the booklet, held the book on the ground in his hand, got up and put it back on the table......

On the fifth day of April, early in the morning......

Outside the city of Hanling, dozens of ordinary people were pushing carts to carry dead bodies to the carts, and countless wives and children were leaning over the corpses of their husbands and sons, and they couldn't stop crying out in a fierce way.

"Mother...... "......A four-year-old girl clings to a woman who is covered in ** and can't stop swaying and crying, the woman's eyes are wide open, and she can't bat at death.

"Son...... You're gone...... What should I do if I am left alone......" An old woman threw herself into a corpse on a cart, and her heart-rending cry was moving.

"His father...... His father...... Yes...... Leaving us orphans and widows, how can we live this life! ......"Another woman kept slapping her husband's body in the car, crying silently, and the two children behind her also chased after the rolling wheels, and the sound of immature sobbing was extremely heavy.

Dozens of men in shabby military uniforms around looked at all this and sighed helplessly, their eyes were very unbearable, but what could they do? The white-haired man sends the black-haired man, the wife is separated, the family is broken, and the bloody scenes are staged in a cycle every year, as if there is no end......

Suddenly, the soldiers and the people outside the city who were collecting the corpses felt the ground shake, as if the sky was falling apart.

A soldier keenly heard the loud sound of a horse's hooves hitting the ground, he was shocked, and suddenly raised his eyes to look around, only to see a faintly visible black line appear on the horizon in the distance, slowly getting thicker and thicker, and finally formed several huge waves and slowly advanced towards Hanling City.

"Hu ...... Hu Ren is here again! The soldier shouted in horror, causing panic among the rest of the soldiers and civilians around him, didn't the Hulan people leave the border of Yuanzhou? How to come back again!

For a time, the bells and drums rang out on the ruined city tower, and the people who were burying the corpses outside the city threw down the carts loaded with the corpses, pulling the families and children who were still crying on the corpses of their relatives, and fled into the city......

Liu Ce looked at the city under his jurisdiction in the distance, and did not speak for a long time, after entering the Far Eastern realm, Liu Ce did not smile, and his face was cold as if he was hanging a layer of frost. Along the way, he suffered from the white eyes of the Shi clan gate lords, Jiang Xun gave himself a dangerous place at the junction of Yuanzhou and Jizhou provinces to appoint as Taishou, but these did not have any impact on Liu Ce, what really touched him was that the people were not able to live under the bullying of Hu Nu, and the officials and soldiers in various places were really as afraid of the enemy as Qin Mo and Ye Bin said, which was the real reason for Liu Ce's coldness.

"General, there is Hanling City in front of you......" Qin Mo stepped up to Liu Ce's side and said softly.

Liu Ce nodded, and there was no emotion on his cold face: "Let's go." ”

Liu Ce clamped the horse's belly, and the soldiers and horses of the Jingwei battalion behind him slowly followed behind.

When Liu Ce's army arrived at the city, the soldiers of the Jingwei battalion looked at the corpses everywhere and were speechless for a long time. Qin Mo's eyes were full of tears, seeing the tragic situation of the people in the Far East, he was overwhelmed with grief and indignation, and his hand holding the reins of the horse tightened, trying to restrain his emotions.

"Youhuai, take my certificate of appointment and inform the generals guarding the city to open the city gate." Liu Ce said to Yang Youhuai beside him.

Yang Youhuai took the order and put Liu Ce's appointment document into the basket hanging from the city tower. After a while, one of the defenders slowly pulled the basket up the tower......

"Miserable, ......" along the way, even the always violent Feng Chou Nian couldn't help but sigh at this time, and plunged the big axe in his hand into the ground.

"I thought that Heyuan was already a hell on earth, but I didn't think that this place where the Far Eastern lords gathered would be the same, even ......worse than Heyuan," Yang Kaishan shook his head and sighed.

The generals of the Jingwei Battalion were in a very heavy mood all the way, especially Xu Hui, Chu Zijun and others, who were even more touched by the scene, and couldn't help crying secretly.

Liu Ce stood on the horse, still didn't say a word, and the horse under his crotch seemed to feel the master's mood at this time.

"Squeak~"

The gate of Hanling City was slowly opened, and more than a dozen ragged soldiers timidly came to Liu Ce, one of whom was a general with yellow muscles and thin muscles and wearing shabby leather armor, stepped forward and knelt down under Liu Ce's horse: "Humble Hong Yingwen, meet Liu Qi's envoy!" ”

"Get up." Liu Ce, who was on the horse, said calmly, "Lead the way." ”

After Hong Yingwen got up, he glanced at Liu Ce fixedly, and saw that the newly appointed Taishou Lord was unusually young, and the soldiers behind him were all well-armored, majestic, and he knew that he was an elite veteran who had been on the battlefield for a long time at first sight. Sent such a strong army to protect Hanling City?

Under the leadership of Hong Yingwen, the army slowly marched into the city. As far as the eye can see, the city is in shambles, full of garbage and filth! When the people waiting on both sides saw the people in the Jingwei camp, they all showed frightened expressions, and kept shrinking behind them, their eyes full of insensitivity and insensitivity in their eyes......

"Mother...... I want my mother's ......" A childish cry came into Liu Ce's ears, and he looked for the crying sound, only to see a four-year-old girl crying in the crowd, it was the child who had lost his mother before.

"I've disturbed the Flag Envoy, I'll drive her away." Hong Yingwen saw that Liu Ce's eyes were getting colder and colder, and he was afraid that he would have a seizure, so he planned to send the girl away.

"Stop!" Liu Ce stopped Hong Yingwen's action of wanting to step forward and drive away, turned over and dismounted, and all the generals of the Jingwei Battalion behind him, such as Qin Mo and Ye Bin, also rolled off their horses together.

When Qin Mo saw this situation, he couldn't bear it anymore, and looked up to the sky and cried: "The Hulu outside the Saiwai invades the south every year, and the millions of troops in the Far East are shrinking within the high walls, witnessing the people being robbed and slaughtered but indifferent, what is the purpose of the imperial court allocating hundreds of millions of silver and the Far East armies every year?" What is it for? ”

Qin Mo's shout struck everyone's heartstrings, Hong Yingwen and the others also lowered their heads in embarrassment, and the horror of the Hulan people was already deeply imprinted in their minds.

Liu Ce walked slowly towards the crying girl, and when the people around saw Liu Ce approaching, they timidly avoided it and made way for him.

"Mother...... I want my mother to ......" The girl was still crying, and every sound made Liu Ce feel tormented in his heart.

Finally, Liu Ce came to the girl's side, leaned over, slowly stretched out his palm and gently stroked her face, letting his tears wet his wrists, and then gently took the girl into his arms and patted the back of her head......

The girl leaned into Liu Ce's arms and still kept crying, Liu Ce, who had come to the other world for a long time, even if he had not shed tears in the face of life and death countless times, at this time, tears slipped quietly on his resolute and cold face, and he stroked the girl's back and said softly: "Don't cry, I'm here...... I'm coming......"

"I'm coming......" Liu Ce hugged the girl in his arms and kept whispering, tears had wet his entire cheeks......

In the Great Zhou calendar, in 369, on the fifth day of the fourth month, Liu Ce's Jingwei battalion arrived at the Hanling Tomb, a border territory in Yuanzhou. The history of blood and tears in the Far East, which has been composed of more than ten years of bloody destruction, is about to usher in a glimmer of hope at a time when there is no boundless darkness in sight......