Chapter 70: The Oath

"General, are we still entering Tingzhou City?"

"Go into the city, why don't you go in, maybe there are more survivors, let's save people first, and then go to kill!" Zhao Tianyou was in a calm mood and instructed his subordinates to inspect each corpse, hoping that there would be more survivors.

After a careful examination, there were not too many accidents, even the big yellow dog just now had run out of oil and stopped breathing. However, Zhao Tianyou knew very well that this dog died very happily, for the sake of its little master, it has persevered, endured endless pain and torture, and has never given up. Finally waited for Zhao Tianyou, it fell asleep satisfied, it was too sleepy!

After finding a shovel, Zhao Tianyou personally dug a five-foot-deep hole and gently put the sleeping loyal dog into it, which was as gentle as possible when filling the soil, for fear of waking up the happy dream of the big yellow dog.

There were more than 30 corpses in the courtyard, and it was impossible to tell who it was, and Zhao Tianyou and these people didn't have the energy to dig a pit and bury them. In order not to let the dead end up being pecked by birds, Zhao Tianyou gathered the bodies and held a collective cremation.

The black hole at the gate of Tingzhou City, the domestic cats and wild dogs that survived the death may also be afraid of the scene in the city, and they all gathered at the entrance of the city gate, howling miserably and helplessly, looking for their partners who were still playing together in the past.

Outside the south gate of Tingzhou, the two dirt slopes piled up by the Yuan army are much higher than the city gate, standing behind the soil slope and throwing bows and arrows into the city, there is almost no dead end on the city gate. The Great Song sergeant who was full of arrows fell to the outer wall, and the ground was covered with a thick layer, and the city gate tower had been attacked by fire, leaving only a few burned black columns.

Walking step by step from the city gate, there was a shocking and tragic situation, only the corpses were all corpses, and the streets, under the eaves, and on the low walls were all stained with strange patterns stained with blood. Zhao Tianyou lit a string of torches and walked inside along the city gate, examining the corpses along the road as they went, hoping to find the lucky ones who still had a glimmer of hope.

Obviously, this was once the main battlefield, the most important line of defense in this siege war, after attacking the city, in the face of the cavalry impact of the Yuan soldiers, there was almost no power to fight back on the flat ground, and only in street battles did there be a desperate opportunity.

Obviously, the Yuan soldiers only took the corpses of their own soldiers who died in battle, and did not take away the corpses of the dead and wounded horses. According to the distribution of horse casualties, the initial stage of the siege of the Yuan soldiers was very smooth, with almost no damage, and most of the defending soldiers were eliminated by relying on the construction of the city and a large number of archers.

After entering the city, the battle for streets and alleys began, and the soldiers and horses of the Yuan army suffered a lot of damage. This kind of stubborn stalemate street fighting is the battle that Yuan Bing dislikes the most, and it is also the shortcoming of their combat.

After entering the inner city dwellings, there were execution grounds in the form of executions or murders everywhere, and the corpses of old and weak women and children who fell to the ground stimulated Zhao Tianyou over and over again. If he hadn't controlled himself rationally, I'm afraid he would have started to go crazy.

More than thirty people spent the night trying to search for possible live mouths, but they found nothing until dawn. The eyes of more than 30 people are all red, in addition to fatigue and resentment, Zhao Tianyou's eyes are even more red, because the capillaries under the eyes burst, and the oozing blood stains the whites of the eyes.

Zhao Tianyou has seen the sea of corpses and blood in the war, and even created it with his own hands. After many encounters with pirates, death has become commonplace, not even a number, and to die is to disappear completely, leaving no trace.

Compared with the two opposing fronts, due to the difference in positions, they should have been fighting, and if they don't fight to the death, how can they be worthy of the honor of being a warrior. In the past, the saying that the Yuan soldiers slaughtered the city was very infiltrating, all the stirrups and above were killed, as long as they shot an arrow to resist, they were all killed, and so on and so on were all hearsay, and they had never seen it with their own eyes.

And today, in the small city of Tingzhou Mansion, thousands of corpses of old and weak women and children are telling Zhao Tianyou about the crazy killer like a demon. The corpses in front of him told him a story, those who, after raping this good-looking woman, turned around and fell to death her child, and then stabbed to death in the abdomen without giving her a chance to dress.

The woman who had been dead for a long time, her eyes were fixed on the smashed flesh and bones under the tree, and the internal organs flowing from the wounds under the open placket could not stop her from crawling towards the puddle of flesh. But a sharp iron spear nailed her to the ground, and the hand that reached out to the child's corpse unwillingly left a few scratches on the ground, but it could never get any closer to him again.

When the day dawned, Zhao Tianyou's efforts came to an end, and they collapsed exhausted in the square in front of the city government, and they never found a single person who survived! After boiling a little hot water and eating some dry food, Zhao Tianyou waited for everyone to rest for a while, and then gathered his subordinates together.

"Brothers, I have been tired all night with me, and I have never found a single survivor, but it is worth doing it just as well! I believe that you will remember today for the rest of your lives, and remember this image that you will never forget until the day you die on the battlefield.

Zhao Tianyou and I swear to heaven again that none of the Yuan army troops who participated in the slaughter of the city today will be spared! I will inflict more terrible pain and more cruel revenge on each and every one of them! As long as I live for one day, I will always remember every word I said today, and if I break my oath and be thundered by the sky, I will not die well! ”

Zhao Tianyou casually picked up a steel knife and slashed at the half of the flagpole in front of the state capital. only heard a click, the thick flagpole of the bowl was cut off with a knife, and the steel knife in Zhao Tianyou's hand was also distorted and deformed because of the force being too strong.

"Kill, kill, kill, whatever the general's blade points to, all of them will be killed by our enemy!" More than 30 subordinates looked solemn, and their shouts were short and loud, shouting out the negative emotions accumulated throughout the night, otherwise it would be easy to get sick in this situation.

Du Hu did not completely obey Zhao Tianyou's orders, and after the guide went back, after telling the situation in Tingzhou, Du Hu could still bear it. After ordering 400 Gan soldiers and no mules and horses, they all came to Tingzhou on foot to support Zhao Tianyou.

By the time the hundreds of men arrived, it was already past noon, and after another day of deposition, the corpses piled up near the city gate already showed signs of decay, and the stench drifted away in the wind, so that people hardly dared to pass through the city gate.

This is a city that has been around for a thousand years, with more than 3,000 defenders and more than 8,000 people, who fought with their lives to the last moment, to defend and fight to face death!