Section 11: Killing and Punishment (I)
"Take me to see it!" Lao Luo shouted in a sullen voice.
Cheng Shouru hurriedly led the way as a guide, leaving Wei Mu Yihei, who stopped in place and was a little dazed.
In fact, Luo Kaixian doesn't need someone to lead him to know the general situation around him, but spiritual power is not a panacea, just like infrared scanning can find the existence of an organism that emits heat, but it can't generate the exact appearance of that organism, because of habit, the real world always needs to be seen with your eyes.
Although the sky is much clearer than that of later generations, and even the rivers are clearer than later generations, it does not mean that this era is a pure and perfect ideal country.
On the contrary, because of the lack of rules, the desert of law, people are far more cruel than later generations, this cruelty is not only because of poverty, nor because of the harsh natural environment, but from the despicability of human nature, Luo Kaixian happened to be fortunate to witness all this.
The buildings inside Lingzhou Tuweizi are as old as his outer walls, but the space inside is not narrow, but the houses built by the predecessors here many years ago are also dilapidated.
Of course, this is not the focus of Luo's inspection, what Luo wants to see is people.
All sorts of people, people confined to houses, people chained to wooden fences, people with whip marks, people with shoddy and unkempt hands...... Basically, they are women, their ages are a little indistinguishable, and without exception, they are all ragged, many of them are even naked without clothes, of course, they are not beautiful women, but women who are malnourished like skeletons all year round, and it is not uncommon to have weak hands and feet, and it is not uncommon to lack hands and feet......
There are also ignorant children, running around with bare buttocks, staring blankly......
This is only what the eye can see.
Luo has the mental power to cheat, and he can even detect the corpse that has not completely decomposed in a remote corner of the house, and the bones that are bound all over the body buried in the underground of a certain miscellaneous courtyard, and carefully observe the characteristics of the bones, which are clearly very slender women's bones.
Suppressing the fluctuations in his heart and continuing to move forward, Cheng Shouru took Lao Luo to the residence of the leader of the Uta Tribe, several corpses that were obviously killed by resistance were twisted and scattered on the ground, next to them was a group of sturdy men who had been disarmed and suppressed by the wall, the only one who could move freely was stared at by many pairs of eyes at all times, and several warriors with bows and arrows were ready to shoot at the moment.
More than a dozen ragged women who could walk around were brought out of the house, except that they were slightly cleaner than the women in other places, all of them were like walking corpses, just like Cheng Shouru's words, and anyone could tell from the characteristics of their eyebrows and eyes that they were Han characteristics.
Walking into the main hall of the house, a smell of erosion mixed with blood came to his nose, and Lao Luo raised his eyes and saw the strangeness on the wall facing the door, there were many square pits dug out of the wall, and the pits were clearly human skulls!
These skulls are not the miserable white specimens of later generations, but the emblem of a brutal creature showing off his strength, most of them are yellowed bones with a rancid smell, some with dried blood, and in the dim light, they look even more eerie......
There was a very terrifying environment, but it didn't make Luo Kaixian have any fearful thoughts, but the irrepressible anger churned in his chest......
"Lord, this seems to be something made of human skulls...... Cheng Shouru took out a huge cup out of nowhere and handed it to Lao Luo's hand.
Lao Luo took the cup a little helplessly, retreated outside the house, and then had the energy to look at the thing in his hand. The cup was very heavy, at least three or five pounds, and the shape was very similar to the pot-bellied brandy wine glass of later generations, except that this thing was obviously much more valuable, the bottom bracket and handle were obviously made of gold, and the body of the cup was half a coconut shell-sized bone, and the parietal bone of an adult man!
casually threw this thing to Olki behind him, and Lao Luo said hatefully: "Lao Cheng, order your subordinates to drive out all the men here, including Goridon!" Assemble, detain on the spot, and those who resist, kill! ”
"Obey, Lord!" Cheng Shouru's voice was excited, obviously he had wanted to do this for a long time.
"Antioch, Antioch! Go to Li Xuan and ask him to gather two thousand women with a stable personality to come over here and appease the women and children here! "This kind of thing is not what Lao Luo is good at, he can only find others, and it must be the kind of woman who is older and patient, fortunately, there is no shortage of such manpower in the team.
"Yes, Lord!"
"Alki, ask someone to take Wei Mu Yihei out, he is not needed here!"
"Obey, Lord, but ...... his own soldiers?"
"Rush out too, no, send him to Li Deming's tent! Tell Wei Mu Yihei, I will have the final say in the matter here in the future, Wei Mu had better not mix up, and his own soldiers, if there are those who dare to resist, there is no need to keep his hand! ”
"Yes, Lord!"
After a few pro-soldiers poured out, within a few minutes, Cheng Shouru and his men moved, almost instantly, the entire Tucheng and outside the city were in chaos, crying, shouting, scolding, fighting, fighting, and wailing...... Occasionally, the tapping of horses running through the cavalry battalion was filled in with the sound of horses running.
It's like a hammer smashing a walnut, there's no suspense about this kind of thing. Even if this so-called "Uta Ministry" man is savage and fierce, in Lao Luo's eyes, he is just a walnut that can be easily broken, and their crude brute bravery can only deal with ignorant people, and the soldiers who have returned from a journey of thousands of miles have already sharpened into killing machines, and they are professional killing machines.
In the face of soldiers who fight in a group, what can the so-called steppe warriors, who are conceited and brave and like to fight alone, do? is like Goridon who yelled at someone Luo, although he may be a fierce general with big shoulders and a round waist, but what can he do?
Spears, thick knives, strong shields, and bows and arrows are combined to attack at the same time, and to deal with these "barbarians" who are not even worthy of leather armor, really don't say bullying.
Soon, all kinds of chaotic sounds began to subside, and after a moment of silence, a large group of women on horses galloped into the earthen city, and then, the cries, curses, and screams of the women made the interior of the small city churn as if it were boiling.
Li Xuan and Dou Mill, who led the team, only went in for a while, and were driven out by the woman who was about to go crazy in the team, and the two of them rode to Lao Luo's side a little speechlessly.
Dou Mo glanced at the suppressed Uta people who were suppressed like dead dogs not far away, the resentment in his eyes flashed, and he asked Luo Kaixian in a low voice: "General Luo, what should I do?" Kill all these wolf cubs? ”
Without waiting for Lao Luo to speak, Li Xuan next to him couldn't help but say: "That's right, these guys shouldn't be alive, they are just beasts on the grassland!" ”
"Xuan boy, shut up!" The irritable old man Dou Mo scolded, and then said: "General Luo is in charge of these women in this matter, and if you want to kill or chop, naturally the general has the final say!" ”
"No, I don't have to say anything about it......" Luo Kaixian shook his head, although he also wanted to kill everyone in the Uta Tribe, "Whether those people in the Uta Department deserve to die or not should be decided by the women in Tucheng." ”
"Those women have the final say?!" Dou Mo asked with some confusion, and Li Xuan next to him also had a confused expression.
"That's right, you see, those brutes in the Uta tribe use women as meat slaves, and they don't have a human heart at all, if we kill those brutes, what will happen to the women in Tucheng?" Lao Luo had to explain a few words, he had a hunch that this kind of thing was likely to continue to occur in the future, what should he do then? This incident can be used as a precedent.
"San Lang, you mean ......" Li Xuan seemed to think of something, but he couldn't explain it.
Lao Luo continued his words and said: "Well, Brother Xuan may have guessed that the women in the city don't live like people, and they don't know how much resentment they have accumulated in their hearts, if they don't let it out...... When the beasts of the Uta tribe are dead, how will they live? ”
Dou Mo and Li Xuan were both in a heavy mood, nodded in agreement with Luo Kaixian's statement, but were speechless. Especially the former, he has experienced too many things, and similar things have also happened in the Tang Dynasty camp in the past.
The accident found in this earthen city largely disrupted Luo Kaixian's original idea of recruiting subsidiary forces as auxiliaries, because these steppe people could become elite cavalry if they were well trained. However, what he didn't expect was that the people of the Uta tribe who first came into contact with him were even more barbaric than he imagined!
Luo Kaixian does not have the mentality of the Virgin, and he believes in the cycle of grievances more than the universal values of later generations. It is the law of cause and effect of what causes and what effects, but he dislikes the Buddhist kind of forgiveness and forbearance very much, and he believes in an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth than the concept of taking a step back.
As an outsider, Luo didn't understand the grudge between the Uta people and those women, in his opinion, the so-called weak people were oppressed by others and didn't know how to resist, otherwise there could be thousands of ways to kill the enemy, so he didn't intend to be an arbiter, but these Uta people didn't say anything about bullying the weak, but also treated women as meat slaves and food (some remnants of human bones have bite marks), which fundamentally touched Luo Kaixian's moral bottom line.
So, Luo was simply willful, anyway, he didn't have to recruit people from the Uta Department to be soldiers, and it was not impossible to be an arbitrator, as for whether he would offend the party members, he never cared.
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