"That's a lot of people...... In the past, how long will it take for Xuchang to arrive. ”

Walking through the crowd, Yun Niang, who was wrapped in a headscarf, straddled the small baggage and pulled the corner of the man's clothes with the medicine basket in front of her, snorted, and looked around, "I don't know if your father knows that it was the sin made by the Zhang Xiu faction, many people have died, what is it for...... Look at them...... Doesn't that Zhang Xiu have a little kindness in his heart? ”

"Yun Niang, don't talk about this here." Cao Ang turned his head and said to the girl in gentle words: "....... Regardless of whether it is Zhang Xiu or not, when I see Gongsun Dudu, I will tell him what he has seen, and it is easy to cause confusion here. ”

"Oh, got it." Since recovering from her illness, the girl has reached the point of obedience to the man in front of her, and occasionally there will be some small jokes along the way, which can be regarded as diluting the heavy and sad scene a little. Yun Niang wrinkled her nose, as if she smelled something, and trotted to see a victim who was squatting on the ground and drinking gruel, and when the latter vigilantly covered the food in his palm, Cao Ang hurriedly reached out and pulled her over.

"Don't stare at others like that, they are frightened birds now, beware of sudden outbursts and hurt you."

Yun Niang nodded, approached the man, but whispered: "I saw it just now, there is meat in the porridge they eat...... Your father's Xu is so rich. ”

"It's Your Majesty's Xu Du......" Cao Ang said correctly, but the girl's words still caught his attention, "...... I'll take a look. ”

"Don't go."

The old man who was watching the faces of the victims in front of him suddenly looked back at the two of them, his face was solemn: "That's not a good thing...... his tone paused, "You wait here for me first, rest for a while, and I'll go around to see how many plague infections there are among these victims." ”

"Well, Taigong will go by himself, and Yun Niang and I will rest nearby." Cao Ang watched Hua Tuo leave, and the girl next to her naturally had no opinion, after all, she had walked a long way, and she had just recovered from a serious illness, and her body had reached the point of exhaustion.

The two of them looked at each other and smiled, and when they sat down in a nearby space, a few miles away from here, several teams of prisoners ran around the crowd with sticks, their eyes kept looking at the neck, face, and bare position of the person, and the air was filled with a strong smell of filth, and then, someone pointed to a swaddling woman in front of the victims, and several prisoners quickly approached.

At this time, Cao Ang and Yun Niang were talking in a low voice.

“.…… In fact, after arriving in Xudu, you were a little timid, you said earlier that you didn't want to go back to Cao's house, right? ”

"Well, you don't understand why."

"I'm just a wild girl in the mountains, so naturally I can't figure it out......"

"Not for that reason...... If I go back, according to my father's temperament, Zihuan will definitely be implicated, and the family will be even more restless...... If that's the case, it's better to go to the Northland grassland, where the horses gallop and ......live quickly."

Just as they were talking, in the direction behind them, the woman's hysterical shout of "Let go of my child-" suddenly sounded, and it reached this side, becoming intermittent, and then, the crowd close to that side was probably alarmed, and they all got up and looked over there, and Cao Ang and the girl also stood up, not understanding what was happening.

Over there, an argument erupted.

The ragged woman screamed and pounced on several prisoners in anklets opposite: "Give me back my child!" If you want to kill, kill me, and don't hurt my children...... I beg you to give the child back—"

Someone rushed forward to stop the woman, and kept gesturing to her companions to hurry away with the baby in their swaddling clothes, but the woman somehow got the strength to break free, and staggered and rushed forward, and hit her head with a wooden stick head-on, and still pounced, and fought for the swaddling clothes in the hands of a prisoner covered in blood.

"Wow-"

Perhaps frightened, in the swaddling clothes, the baby's cry suddenly came out, the woman's scream of "ah--", the pull of the cloak, the swaddling clothes were pulled out of the man's hands, and the young body fell to the ground, but fortunately, the soft soil was not a big problem, and when the cry still came, the faces of the surrounding people who looked numb and onlookers finally had a trace of consternation at this moment...... Then, his expression turned into horror and he looked at the baby waving his little arms on the ground, his skin that should have been immature and fair, was covered with dense blisters, and his big round eyes were squeezed by the blisters so that only one slit was exposed, and it looked like a ...... A toad in human form.

A prisoner in charge of the work came from a distance, saw the scene on the ground, and hurriedly scolded the people around him to disperse, then picked up the swaddling clothes on the ground and wrapped the crying baby, and ran away with small steps frantically behind him with a clattering chain, and the woman wiped the blood from her face, still crying, "Give me back the child." "I chased after him.

This short conflict did not cause much turmoil in the already numb crowd, Cao Ang led the girl to watch half of the process in the crowd, thinking that there were wicked people among the victims who snatched other people's children to eat, after all, he had never seen such a scene all the way north, and the moment he clenched his teeth, he pulled Yun Niang to chase after him.

Soon after, outside the crowd away from the city walls, the view was a different story...... On the dirt, the tracks of countless wheels became clear, and in front of them, where the coarse cloth was pulled, there were mountains of things, layered on top of each other. The moment she approached, Yun Niang covered her mouth and widened her eyes, the hill was made up of countless corpses, and from time to time there were moans. A faint groan sounded inside.

She saw a woman's hand stretched out and writhing outside, her face exposed outside the corpse was full of horror, the girl wanted to rescue the other party, but was pulled by Cao Ang and hid in the bushes next to her, and the next second, black smoke rose from that side, and then a huge flame reflected the eyes of the two.

"Give me back the child, please......"

"Wow....... wow......"

On the other side of their eyes, voices and running figures ran towards them, and they watched as the prisoner with the swaddling baby raised his hand to cover the scorching fire, and threw the swaddling waddle in his hand into the fire, and the woman screamed violently, and went madly past the murderer and threw herself directly into the fire......

The crowd in the distance was a little stunned when they saw the huge flames and black smoke. Not only here, but also around the four gates, there are five or six fires burning, and after half a month, with the attraction of meat porridge, a large number of people quietly searched for infected people in the crowd, coaxed, forcibly abducted, or directly dragged away the corpses, taken away from the remote place and isolated, and at noon on this day, finally everything burned.

There was a strange smell of burnt and death in the air, even a little sour.

The sick and severe victims were dragged into the flames by ropes, and even the infected prisoners were knocked unconscious by their companions and thrown into the fire, and under the severe pain of the fire, some of them broke free from the ropes and tried to run out of the fire, but they were pushed forward by the wooden sticks that came from the top, and the flames that burned all over their bodies made most of the seriously ill infected people who were not dead roll in the flames, slap and scream heartbreakingly.

The people under the city walls could probably guess some of the faint noises and movements that caused quite a commotion, and it was a time when people's bodies were burned to ashes, which was a bit unacceptable, and the prisoners who maintained order kept shouting loudly in the crowd trying to calm them down.

In the bright skylight, surrounded by chaotic figures, the little girl stood helplessly in place with a cold clay pot, "Mother...... Mother......"

She wiped her tears and cried, "....... Where are you? ”

At the head of the city, Gongsun stopped looking at the black smoke rolling up, and the faint firelight, but he was not moved by the crowd surging and rioting below, and after a while, someone from below came up to report: "Dudu, will this continue to disperse the victims, do you want to ......?"

"No, keep burning."

Gongsun Zhi half-lowered his eyes and pressed the hilt of the knife, and his cloak stroked gently in the breeze.

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At the other end of the sky, where the black smoke was rolling, to the south, it was cloudy, as if it was going to rain. Someone looked at the rain clouds overhead, and below the rain clouds was a winding mountain road, and when the wind rose, the forest made a loud noise.

Two voices on the hillside whispered.

"The baggage escorted by Liu Jingsheng yesterday has already passed here, and seeing that it is about to rain, it will definitely slow down the pace, the military advisor, it is better to rob them and give the grain and grass to Cao Cao as our gift."

“.…… There's no need, right now Cao Cao's side in Yuzhou should be in a hurry, and it doesn't make much sense to send more or less, not to mention that we are even sending people over with the city, we have been preparing for so long, it's time to wrap up, everything is settled, we should spend a few years in Cao Ying with our tails between them, and then talk about ......"

"Hahaha...... The road paved by the military advisor has never been wrong, embroidery will naturally obey, I will gather my subordinates to prepare to leave here, Xu Du is prosperous, and it is at the foot of the Son of Heaven, when it is a blessing...... Haha-"

Carrying an iron spear and laughing arrogantly, he rode away. The figure standing on the high slope was stained with a drop of rain on his face, the corners of his mouth were slightly curled, his thin lips moved, and his voice was as subtle as a whisper.

"Huh...... I'm the only one. ”