Chapter 128 Yunzhou
This year's snow came much earlier than usual, and for the people in Yunzhou's villages, the grain has already been received. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. biquge。 infoThe heavier the snow falls, freezing to death the pests, next year will be a big bounty. Yunzhou is mountainous, the land is barren, fortunately, the land is vast and sparsely populated, as long as the family works harder, they can always grow enough food, and even the excess food can be exchanged for meat.
As for who they exchange with, it doesn't matter, whether it is the Qin State in the east, Korea in the north, the Jews or the Hu people. The people here are very real, alive, and have lived on this land for generations. For the war in the Central Plains, the people here are not interested, what can be compared to planting an acre of land in the spring and harvesting a lot of grain in the autumn? Back then, General Ran's killing order was received in all villages, but less than one in ten men really went out to serve as soldiers. Because of geography, the Hu people will not turn this place into a pasture, and they are not prepared to provoke the Hu people.
But this year, the heavy snow closed the mountain, and the Hu people still rode a high-headed horse into the territory of Yunzhou. These people were not those Hu merchants in gorgeous animal skin coats, but soldiers. "There's nothing worth it in Yunzhou, I just hope they're passing by." The people of Yunzhou prayed in their hearts.
"General, I am the village chief of Zhoujia Village, I know Murong Jin of the Xianbei Department, and I also know Helian Feng of the Xiongnu tribe. They all came to exchange food with us. As soon as the Hu people saw the village, they surrounded it on all sides, so frightened that the whole village hid in their homes and did not dare to come out. The head of the Zhou family, afraid that the Hu people would misunderstand, stepped forward to negotiate with the Hu team leader.
There are more than 300 Hu people in the surrounding village, and it is easy to say that this small village of less than 1,000 people can easily complete the task with the whole army. But this Hu Ren captain is different, the family collects a lot of trouble, and he has a better way to complete the task easily.
"Call out all your village. Remember, young and old, if someone dares not to come out, I don't mind setting fire to the house. Captain Hu Ren said in a stiff Xia language.
The people of Yunzhou were not rich in the first place, and all the property of several generations of the family was in a broken earth-broken house, if the Hu people set fire to the house, it would be really more uncomfortable than killing them. And it seems that they are not here to kill, just call it. The village chief of the Zhou family, with a gong and drum, called a family to the open space at the entrance of the village to dry grain.
One is the hard work of the village chief of the Zhou family, and the other is the fear of the people in the village. After a while, the open space at the entrance of the village was full of people from Zhoujia Village, including children in swaddling clothes and a few old people in the twilight.
"Now do as I say. Otherwise, they will all die. Captain Hu Ren said as if playing.
"Children and old people stand on the right, men stand in the middle, and women stand on the left." After the team leader finished speaking, a few fierce and vicious Hu people began to sort out the team.
"Why are you standing on the right?" Captain Hu happened to see a woman holding a baby in her arms, standing with the child and the old man with a frightened face.
"General, my three children are still young, I can't help but hold them." Out of maternal love, the woman overcame her fear and spoke a long speech in a supplicative tone.
"Give you three breaths, and if you don't go back to the left, I'll kill you." Captain Hu Ren's face showed a fierce light, and after speaking, he stretched out a finger, and there was no room for negotiation at all.
Soon the second finger stretched out, and the woman's man hurried over and delivered the baby to a little girl whose face was red from the cold. Pulling the woman to the left, he quickly returned to his middle part. With a smile on his face, "General, it's okay." ”
The men were standing in the center, with large open spaces on either side. A playful smile appeared at the corner of Captain Huren's mouth. "Kill them all."
At the sound of the order, all men, women and children in Zhoujia Village were stunned. "How can you kill someone when you were fine just now?" The Hu soldiers moved quickly, and these unarmed Xia people were effortless to kill.
Before the women and children could react, the entire center of the village collapsed. The blood covered the ice and snow, melting the ice and snow, and then quickly cooling, turning into blood-red ice crystals. Since the invaders came, there has been no peach blossom source.
The screams of the women, the cries of the children, resounded. Captain Hu Ren shouted, "All the children and old people are arrested." ”
When the women saw that their child was being caught by the fierce and vicious Hu people, they grabbed it and threw it into a cage containing wild beasts, and the infant baby did not escape, and the Hu soldiers grabbed the swaddling clothes and threw them into the cage with their hands. The mother finally couldn't take it anymore and screamed and threw herself into the cage, ready to snatch her baby back.
The woman had only run two steps before she felt a chill on her neck, and her body was still running forward, but her head rolled down into the snow. The headless corpse still ran two steps, and then a bloody arrow erupted into the sky, turning into a snowflake in the sky, and fell down.
"If anyone dares to step forward again, there will be no mercy." Captain Huren's move really deterred everyone present. Hu Ren dragged nearly 100 people old and young, and disappeared into the wind and snow in the cry.
"God, save us, save our children." Women don't know what they're doing wrong, they don't know why they just want to live their lives in peace and security, but they can't.
The same tragedy is constantly being staged in the south of Yunzhou. The Hu people took away the old men and children, killed all the men, and left the desperate women behind. As for why, Fu Jian had already given Fu Cheng an explanation.
"The old man and the child have no ability to resist, and they have to spend energy to take care of it, so it can reduce the combat power of the two-layer barren summer army. Kill all the men, so that you don't join the army because you hate them. Leaving the woman, we have arrested so many people, naturally we need someone to pass on the news. What would happen if the rest of the Xia tribes knew that our army had captured the old and the young here, and that the Xia army had the ability but did not help? Xia people everywhere in the Central Plains can't move the big tree of our army, will they move the Xia army? ”
This kind of violent migration, without any logistical support, and the Hu people did not consider logistics-related things for these captives, and on the route of hundreds of miles, without picking up the snow, you can see the old people and children who were frozen to death. They were curled up and suffered untold suffering.
Erya was brought out from Zhoujia Village, for a day and a night, there was no food to eat, no hot water, and there were constantly familiar people in the cage, who were thrown out because they froze to death. Erya persevered, if nothing else, if she also died, the baby in her arms would definitely not survive. The baby did not cry and slept soundly, with a satisfied look, he did not know that he drank not dead breast milk, but his sister's blood.
"Three dogs, you must survive. It won't be long before the eldest brother and General Ran beat the Hu people away to save us. Erya spoke very quietly, and at the same time, she could read and write under the education of her brother, and she could understand the killing order. The general who can write this must be a great character, and the eldest brother will definitely win the battle if he follows him. It's just that what Er Ya didn't know was that the vanguard army of the Xia people was no longer there.
After a day and a night of trekking, only one-third of the hundreds of people in the original cages remained, and the mortality rate of the elderly was almost one in ten, and the rest were almost dying.
The group was pulled closer to a sitting earthen city, and then Erya and her brother were thrown into a large fence with many children her size inside.
In the center of the city, many squares were drawn, and the captives were locked in the windy cowshed like cattle and sheep, and the only thing that made Erya feel fortunate was that after coming in, the Hu people gave him his first meal. Although it didn't taste good, he was finally able to fill his stomach, and his younger brother was able to eat some chewy paste.