Chapter 2: Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms (4)
At the gate of the east gate of Yanzhou, Li* saw one of the most shocking scenes he had ever seen in his life. This scene kept flashing before his eyes in the decades that followed, and it made him, a time-traveler from the 21st century, have a thrilling midnight dream. This scene constantly tortured his conscience and inspired his sense of responsibility, before seeing this scene, most of what Li * thought about and did was for his own survival and gain a foothold in this era, and he never thought about what he could do for the suffering people of this era, but from this moment on, Li *'s heart began to change, he began to hate his incompetence and powerlessness, and he began to prepare for a higher goal.
More than a dozen officers and men of the Zhangwu Army, with bright weapons in their hands—the pungent smell of oil on them indicated that they had just been taken out of the storeroom—were ordering the homeless people, who were composed of more than 100 men, women, and children, to undress their bodies. Under the threat of those cold blades, these homeless people hesitated and numbly moved mechanically, they quickly stripped off all their clothes, shivering in the low temperature of less than zero ten degrees, and many old people and children were soon frozen to blue, if this situation continued, there is no doubt that these people would soon freeze to death......
Five or six officers of the Zhangwu Army shook off the burdens of the homeless people one by one with expressionless faces, threw gold, silver, money, jewelry, utensils and other items into a large basket, and piled up the baggage and the clothes in the baggage together with the clothes taken off by the homeless people. A Zhangwu soldier whipped the naked homeless people with a spear, causing them to turn around. Immediately afterwards, the soldier began to use the spear in his hand to continuously whip everyone's **** buttocks, and when the fourth person was whipped, with the crisp sound of the spear hitting the flesh, a silver nugget weighing about three or four taels fell from the crack between the man's buttocks. The soldier quickly picked up the silver nugget, and the soldiers around him laughed, and the man was quickly taken aside, and two soldiers struck him on the hip and both legs with clubs in their hands, the man's wail was terrifying, but there was no pity or uneasy look on the soldiers' faces, as if all this was taken for granted.
Soon, the soldiers checked each person's body, and the sorting and screening began. The women, who were also naked, were dragged to the side of the road, crying, to be examined by an officer of the Showu Army, who kept groping and pinching the unarmed women, and the screams and cries of horror and humiliation did not stop his indecent behavior. After some humiliating examinations, some of the women who were thin and obviously in poor health or who were sick were driven back into the middle of the road.
At the same time as the women's physical examination was carried out, the young men were also singled out and driven to the other side of the road, and two officers with swords also carefully examined their bodies, and the men who were also found to be weak or sick were also driven back to the middle of the road, and it hardly took long for the young men and women in good constitution to be singled out, and in the middle of the road except for the weak and sick men and women, only the old men and children shivering in the cold wind remained.
With the shout of an officer on the tower, the soldiers began to drive the remaining picks to the side of the road with their weapons, and drove them north along the city walls, when the screams of the people, the cries of the children, the screams and pleadings of the women, and the angry cursing of the men rang out at the same time. The soldiers under the city gate looked vigilant one by one, and they all clenched their spears or swords and shields in their hands and began to approach these homeless people who were about to move.
With a heart-rending shout, a naked woman ran out of the women's team on the side of the road, waving and shouting as she ran and reached out to the queue that had been pushed away, which included her children.
However, this little commotion was soon quelled, and an arrow was fired from the tower, and without any effort it pierced and nailed the woman to the ground, which was shot from the back of the shoulder and peeked out from the chest, and the large, sharp arrow had completely destroyed the woman's internal organs, and life was rapidly leaving her body. The mother, however, seemed unconscious, foaming blood from her mouth, her eyes still fixed in the direction of the queue that had been escorted, and she intermittently called out her child's name.
The passers-by saw this scene, and they trembled and touched the treasured official guide on their bodies, for fear that they would accidentally lose this life-saving certificate. The soldiers impatiently drove the people in and out of the city. The officer's eyes lit up, and another group of homeless people slowly approached in the distance......
Li * clearly saw the scene just now, saw the mother being shot by the sharp arrows at the head of the city, and clearly saw some old people and children who were being escorted to the north of the city. At that moment, he only felt that the blood in his body had congealed, as if a large, invisible hand had grabbed his throat, making him gasp and almost suffocate.
He is not a young child who has never seen blood, he has killed people in the street, and he has also stabbed the sharp weapon in his hand into the body of one stranger after another in cold blood, depriving them of their lives and making their blood gush like a spring. Yet at this moment, he was still stunned, stunned by this kind of cruel scene that he had only seen in nightmares.
Putting an enemy to death in battle is not the same as slaughtering unarmed captives and civilians.
The words of the war history instructor suddenly came to Li *'s mind at this moment.
The tragic scene in front of you, why does it look so familiar? Where have you ever seen such a scene? Where and when? Was it a month ago, on the day of the rebellion? No, it wasn't that day, it was chaotic, dangerous, but nowhere near as visually striking as the current one.
When was that, before I came into this age? Yes, it seems to be?
In my own time, how could there be such a scene?
It's a movie, yes, it's a movie, it's a video.
It's Auschwitz, it's Nanjing......
At that time, the common people were also abused in this way, screened like animals in this way, and slaughtered in such a crazy way......
Where were the old men and children, the young men as thin as skeletons, and the sick with faces as pale as corpses? Gas chambers?
How could there be gas chambers in this era? So, where are they being taken?
Unconsciously, Lee* stopped.
Unconsciously, all the displaced people who had followed Li * all the way stopped.
At this moment, there was an expression on Lee*'s face called anger......
At this moment, there is a look of fear on the faces of the displaced people......
"You can't go any further...... They all retreated to the foot of the mountain just now...... Hurry—"
Seeing that the homeless people were all stunned and did not move, Li * cried out anxiously by the neck.
The men, women, and children who had fled finally came to their senses, turned around in a hurry, and ran as hard as they could. The people who were originally weak seemed to have squeezed out the last bit of energy in their bodies at this moment, and they were running desperately, they didn't know why they were running away, they didn't understand everything they had just seen, they were just instinctively fleeing, fleeing from the terrible scene, fleeing from the hellish situation, fleeing from death, fleeing from danger.
At the gate of the city, the officer saw this scene from a distance, gave a loud order, and chased after him with seven or eight soldiers......
Li * slowly put down his baggage, opened it, and spread it out, and inside was the set of armor that Li Bin had given him.
Put on the cuirass, dorsal armor, tie the silk tape, then the shoulder and arm armor and bracers......
Wear a helmet......
When Li * raised his head again, he had already clearly seen that the person who came from afar was Chen Ye, who had a relationship with Liao Jianzhong that day.
Why did he suddenly come to the gate of the city?
Chen Ye ran to him out of breath and scolded Li *: "...... Are you dead? When you see them fleeing, you won't stop them? You're still wearing armor...... Hey? ”
After scolding a few words, Chen Ye saw Li *'s face clearly, and said in surprise: "It's you?" ”
Li * looked at the soldiers who were following him from a distance, then looked at the old people and children who had been escorted away, raised his chin, and asked, "...... Those people...... Where are they all taken? ”
Chen Ye turned around and looked at it, and replied nonchalantly: "Those are useless wastes, staying will only consume food in vain, and pull them to the north of the city to fill the trenches, this is Gao Yanei's order......"
"Gao Ya's order?" Li * had a sudden shock in his heart, this kind of blatant massacre order was actually given by Gao Shaoji.
"Isn't Officer Li claiming to be training troops in the mountains? Why did you come down today? Chen Ye looked at Li * with sarcastic eyes, teasing in his mouth.
Several soldiers caught up at the moment, stopping to catch their breath and watching in amazement as the commander spoke to the officer in armor.
However, after a few steps, he has become this virtue, Li * snorted coldly in his heart, it seems that these soldiers in the middle camp who are better treated are also useless......
He nervously wondered in his heart, was there any instruction from Gao Yunquan behind this order? With his current status and the strength in his hands, he is not having the capital to do it against Gao Yunquan, even if he adds a Li Bin, it is still not enough.
Do you want to save these people, and after saving these people, will it intensify the contradiction between Li Bin and Gao Shaoji, and even cause Gao Yunquan to be dissatisfied with Li Bin?
Seeing those people going farther and farther, Li Bin's heart became more and more anxious.
"What? Didn't Team Officer Li see those girls, and his eyes were so straight that he couldn't even speak, right? Chen Ye looked at Li *'s stunned appearance and laughed.
Seeing that Chen Ye had no respect for this officer, the soldiers also laughed insolently......
Lee* closed his eyes and his heart calmed, he knew he couldn't hesitate any longer. No matter what kind of inside story is behind this matter, he must act immediately, otherwise once those people are taken away and slaughtered in front of his eyes, he will not want to sleep well in his life. You may be able to exonerate yourself as hard as you can, but you will never be able to get rid of the torture of conscience.
He opened his eyes suddenly, and showed a gentle smile at Chen Ye: "Does Team Officer Chen know how I became this lieutenant of the escort?" ”
Chen Ye was stunned for a moment, and before he could think of how to answer, Li * had already spoken leisurely: "It's because on the day of the rebellion, I killed nine people on Dongcheng Street in front of Li observing his old man......"
Before the words fell, his left hand had already grabbed Chen Ye's arm, his right foot flew up, and he kicked the ankle bone of Chen Ye's left foot, and his right hand had already pressed the handle of the short knife-
In the blink of an eye, Chen Ye only felt a sharp pain in his left foot, and his body was unstable, and at this moment, there was a small but just right traction force on the right side, and his body shook, and he suddenly lost his balance, and went straight towards Li *......
He was suddenly furious, and his body had just stabilized under the support of Li *, and he shouted: "How fucking dare you-"
His roar stopped abruptly as Li*'s short knife was already across his neck, the cold blade pressing against the carotid arteries, and a slight stinging pain made him wake up suddenly......
"There is a big tendon in the neck of the person, and the blood on the human body flows through this big tendon to the limbs and hundreds of remains, as long as this big tendon is cut, the blood will gush out, and it only takes a few breaths of breath, and the blood of the whole body will flow out, this way of death is very happy, do you want to give it a try?" Li * still had an extremely gentle smile on his face, his tone was flat and soothing, and he didn't mean to be in a hurry at all, ignoring the exclamations of the soldiers around him and the spears that were forced up around him with six poles.
"What are you going to do with the surname Li?" Chen Ye's tone finally brought out the meaning of panic, no matter how gentle Li *'s words were, the knife on his neck was genuine, this was not a joke.
"Tut-tut......" Li * slowly shook his head and pouted, and said in a very leisurely tone: "...... Officer Chen...... These soldiers under your command don't care about your safety at all...... I obviously saw a knife around your neck, and I dared to take these broken copper and iron and swing it around...... They're really not afraid to send this precious life of yours here......"
"You, surnamed Li, I...... Let me tell you, don't come nonsense, occupying your barracks is an order from Gao Yanei, who let you offend his old man, it has nothing to do with our brothers, you ...... Don't be angry with us......" Chen Ye said with a trembling voice.
Li*'s face sank: "You don't talk about nonsense, and you don't use Gao Yanei to suppress Lao Tzu, and let your soldiers throw everyone down, otherwise Lao Tzu will kill one and kill ten, and Lao Tzu will slaughter nine of them that day, counting you just make up a whole number......"
Chen Ye hurriedly said, "It's easy to say...... Say...... Y-fucking guys are thrown to the ground, don't you want to kill Lao Tzu? ”
The soldiers looked at each other twice, and very obediently threw their spears on the ground.
Seeing Chen Ye so cooperative, Li * nodded: "Very good, not bad, this is a smart person...... Captain Chen, listen well, what I said next, you have to tell your brother to do it word for word, otherwise this time next year, no matter what your old man wants to eat and drink, you can only let your brother burn it for you......"
Listening to Li *'s naked threat, Chen Ye's legs were weak, and he was embarrassed for a while, the team officer actually urinated in the crotch of his pants, and Li * laughed loudly: "No, Team Officer Chen?" ”
Chen Ye cried and said with a sad face: "Team Officer Li, I have no grudge against you in the past and no enmity in the near future, if you have anything to say, I ...... brother."
"Stop talking nonsense, tell your brothers, go over and bring me back those who filled the trenches, and let them get dressed, and the men and women you picked out, all dressed and brought to me, do you understand?"
“…… Brother Li, it's not that I don't agree to you, this matter is explained by Gao Yanei, if you lack a woman, it is nothing for me to send you one or two, you have to take it all, little brother, I can't reply to Gao Yanei...... Besides, those who fill in the trenches, the sick and the old, and some dolls who don't understand, what's the use of you leaving? ”
Li * used a little force on the knife and said: "Officer Chen, I think you are really brave, the knife is up to your neck, and you still understand things so well." If you see if this is good, I will fulfill you, and I don't want any of these people. Let your brothers report back to Gao Yanei, and say that you Chen Team Officer has been loyal to him, you think this can be regarded as an explanation for Gao Yanei, right? ”
Chen Ye was suddenly frightened, and shouted: "You bastards, don't you do what Team Officer Li wants, do you really want to watch Lao Tzu die here?" ”
Those soldiers had no one in charge at this time, and they had no backbone, and they could hear Chen Ye's tone quite unkindly, but they were afraid that if they went a little slower, they would inevitably find themselves to settle accounts in the future, and no one wanted to touch this mold, and at that moment, they all ran in the direction of the group of people who were escorted away, and there was not even a person who stayed to watch Li *.
At this time, even Li * was stunned, he didn't expect these soldiers to be so brainless, wouldn't it be easy for him to kidnap Chen Ye like this at this moment?
There were only two people left, himself and Chen Ye, Li *'s heart relaxed slightly, but he still didn't dare to relax his vigilance, Chen Can was strong and strong, and he really wanted to fight hard to make himself really not his opponent, he thought about it and asked: "Didn't you always Commander Liao send people to guard the city gate?" Why did you come here today? ”
Talking to him constantly, he didn't have time to think about ghost ideas in his head......
Chen Ye sighed: "If that bastard surnamed Liao is willing to offend people, why would he use us to run to Dongcheng to suffer?" ”
This sentence unexpectedly attracted the attention of Li *, and he grabbed the knife in his hand while asking, "Who is Commander Liao afraid of offending?" ”
Chen Ye hated it and said: "It's not those civil officials in the city, the county commander surnamed Qin, and the old horse ...... Li Bin."
He suddenly realized the origin of the person who was holding him hostage now, and his heart suddenly cooled, and he hurriedly said, "I said something wrong...... Bah...... Look at my foul mouth...... It was Lee who observed his old man......"
Li * was very happy in his heart at the moment, he stretched out his left hand and pinched Chen Ye's rough face: "I want to thank you Team Officer Chen, you are really a real person......