Chapter Ninety-Six: The Slaughter of the City

Seeing Wang Qin riding his horse towards the city gate, Chu Shenxia hurriedly rushed to him, wanting to catch up with him, but was restrained by the rushing Lu soldiers. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. biqUgE怂 ļ½‰ļ½Žļ½†ļ½

"Commander of the King! Come back! Chu Shenxia shouted loudly while fighting.

But Wang Qin ran away at this time, where could he still hear his voice, even if he could hear it, he had made up his mind, he would only pretend not to hear it.

More and more marching troops followed Wang Qin towards the city gate, and with the joint efforts of everyone, the city gate was finally broken through with siege cones.

However, a huge explosion followed, and the screams of countless people.

In the firelight, a group of soldiers were rushed into the air, and then fell heavily, broken hands and stumps flew in the sky for a while, and there were shouts for help one after another from the city gate, as well as the flames that rushed to the sky.

The finch apricot is to catch birds from the city, and then use the hollow apricots to fill the burning fire wormwood, and wait until dusk to use its return to the nest to bring the fire to the Xuchi granary.

Chu Shenxia learned that Xu Chi was rich in flammable things such as sulfur and saltpeter, so he disappeared and went with everyone to catch birds and pretend to be grass.

The walls of Xu Chi were full of straw and saltpeter, and they used cold arrows with fire to attack the marching army, and at this moment they also suffered the taste of being killed by themselves.

Lu Bing was obviously a little powerless at this time, and retreated to the city one after another, Chu Shenxia took advantage of this gap to rush to the gate of the city, and searched for a long time, but did not find Wang Qin's body, and his heart was extremely uncomfortable.

Chu Shenxia closed his eyes tightly, feeling hurt by the annihilation of such a good general, a charred hand suddenly grabbed his ankle, Chu Shenxia was shocked, and the conditioned reflex kicked the person away.

The pitch-black man snorted and stopped moving, Chu Shenxia fixed his eyes, hurriedly helped him up, probed his breath, couldn't help laughing, turned back to a few people not far away and said loudly: "Come here, the commander is injured, carry him over!" ā€

His hand was suddenly held down by Wang Qin, Chu Shenxia looked down at him in confusion, only to hear him say with great difficulty: "Here...... I'm sorry for you...... You're ......."

His face was also burned by the flames that burst out, and a pair of eyes stared blood-red, looking very terrifying, Chu Shenxia's eyes jumped, he held his hand instead, and said firmly: "Don't worry." ā€

After the soldiers carried him away, Chu Shenxia rushed back into the city, and the scene inside the city was far more tragic than outside the city.

Piles of corpses, blood flowed from there, not red, but black, and the corpses of those people could hardly be called corpses, and at first glance, there was hardly a complete corpse.

Those flesh and blood blurred things saw Chu Shenxia's heart twitch, and then he fell to his knees in pain, and the soldiers on the side were busy supporting him, and said nervously: "Are you okay?" ā€

Chu Shenxia borrowed the knife in his hand to prevent himself from falling down completely, because of the force, his lips had been bitten out of blood, and his mouth was full of fishy and salty taste, at that moment, he felt that he was eating human flesh, eating the corpses of these tragically dead people.

Such a tragic thing is actually from his hands, Liu Yu is right, this road is not something that anyone can bear, and sometimes you have to pay a price greater than death.

It's ridiculous to think about it, I have been determined to be a majestic general since I was a child, but I don't want to, but I can't accept the blood and cruelty of death, and I'd rather commit myself to being a strategist.

And Liu Yan, who was born as a prince, just wants to be a general, fight with the enemy on the battlefield, defend the country, be an iron-blooded man, and have no intention of competing for power in the court, and even more scornful of the position of the Son of Heaven.

He understood that the current fight was just to pave the way for him to dominate the world one day, all the people return to their hearts, and the war will never stop, Chu Shenxia gritted his teeth and stood up, sweeping the soldiers behind him, only to feel that there was not too much joy on their faces, but endless confusion.

Over the years, the war has continued, and it is time to stop, and it seems that it is urgent to assist the crown prince to ascend the throne.

"They have nowhere to go, out of Xu Chi is Taigang, and several cities after Taigang are connected, so it is very easy to attack, and they go straight to Huangling, which is where the prince is!" Chu Shenxia explained the general situation, glanced at the soldiers who were picking up corpses in the pile of dead people in the distance, and roared twice.

He also said: "All the seriously injured stay behind Xu Chi, don't force yourself, the rest will follow me to chase after the victory!" ā€

Sure enough, as Chu Shenxia expected, the city after Taigang was very easy to attack, and the Lu soldiers were defeated and retreated, but they refused to retreat when they arrived in Dongxiang, which had the meaning of swearing to shake the city to the death.

Liu Yan and his army in Huangling City sensed that reinforcements had arrived, and the marching army led by Chu Shenxia flanked the Lu soldiers left and right, even if he was stubborn and desperate, he finally died in this kind of pinching.

The two armies converged and finally occupied Huangling completely, but this tired and tiring day was not over after all, and Wang Qin said an emperor's dictation.

Before the expedition, the emperor personally summoned him and told him that if he succeeded in occupying Huangling, he must not be as soft-hearted as last time, and must slaughter the city to ensure that he has no worries about the future, so that the state of Lu will really perish.

Liu Yan and Chu Shenxia naturally refused, but after all, this was the emperor's will, and if they didn't obey, they would disobey the will and obey, wouldn't the people in this city die unjustly?

After hesitating for a long time, I still couldn't bear to make such a decision.

The news of Huangling's victory had reached Jiankang, and at the same time, the emperor had received a letter written by Liu Yan himself, to the effect that the emperor was asked to spare these innocent people.

The emperor scolded "stupid" and assigned King Qing to lead troops to Lu to slaughter the city, King Qing knew that Liu Yan disobeyed the emperor's intentions, so he wanted to seize this opportunity and behave well in front of his father.

Walking along the Hu River to Qingzhou, after arriving at Xuchi, he couldn't help but say that he killed all the people of a city, and some of the soldiers who stayed behind raised questions and were all killed.

Taigang, Chuzhou, Nanxun...... Everywhere King Qing went, the slaughter was no exception, and the cities became dead cities in just a few days.

It wasn't until King Qing arrived in Dongxiang that Liu Yan heard the wind and was horrified, and wanted to stop it but was one step too late, and the people of Dongxiang had been slaughtered.

Huangling is the only remaining city in Lu that still has the people, when they heard about King Qing's horrific behavior, they were in chaos, only for half a day, and they all calmed down.

As soon as King Qing arrived at Huangling, he did not dismount and rest for a moment, but he commanded the soldiers behind him to slaughter from house to house, and did not allow a living creature to be spared.

Liu Yan led the army to force King Qing and everyone out of Huangling City, and seeing the smug smile on King Qing's face, Liu Yan couldn't wait to pounce on him and break him into pieces.

At this time, someone suddenly stumbled out, knelt on the ground suddenly, and said in shock and horror: "Your Highness! All of them are dead! ā€

Liu Yan was puzzled and asked, "What person?" You make it clear. ā€

"All the people of Huangling died at home, and they took people to see them from house to house, without exception, all of them died, and the walls were written in blood, and the Southern Song Dynasty would die."

"What?!" Liu Yan jumped off the horse at once, ran into a tavern nearby, and saw the people inside lying on the ground, with daggers or knives stuck in their chests.

The blood on the top of his head seemed to have coagulated, Liu Yan couldn't believe what he was seeing in front of him at all, and passed by Chu Shenxia who ran in, pulled out the sword on his side, and ran straight out.

Chu Shenxia reacted and wanted to stop him, but he didn't stop him, his eyes hurriedly swept on the ground, and he hurriedly followed.

King Qing saw Liu Yan rushing towards him violently, and the sword in his hand was even more dangerous, and while struggling to deal with it, he asked in a mournful voice: "Brother Huang, what are you doing here?" I just obeyed my father's will, and besides, I didn't kill the people of Huangling, they hanged themselves, no wonder I. ā€

The more he spoke, the more intense Liu Yan's anger rushed upward, and the sword in his hand became more uncontrollable, knocking him off the horse in a few moves.

King Qing rolled on the ground twice, got up with a bone, and before he could stand up straight, he had already received a sword from Liu Yan in his back, if it was Fang is uneasy and nervous, it is really opposite to death at this moment.

None of the soldiers came up to save him, the people in front of King Qing were surprised, the stars were threatening, Liu Yan's temper was very clear to him, he knew that he did mean to kill himself, dodged to avoid a sword, and hurriedly begged for mercy: "Brother Huang, Brother Huang, spare me, I was wrong, Brother Huang, Brother Huang......"

Liu Yan didn't listen to him at all, he only had those piles of corpses in his mind, he couldn't imagine that he could slaughter a country, the sword slashed towards him quickly, and his arms, thighs, and chest had already suffered a lot of sword wounds.

A knife suddenly flew into the air, Liu Yan subconsciously took two steps back to block, only then did he see Chu Shenxia's face, and before he could speak, he heard Chu Shenxia suppress his voice and say, "Your Highness, calm down!" ā€

"How do I calm down? Did he kill one or two people? How many people in Kyushu can do this kind of thing?! Aren't the people of Lu people? They have been torn by war, their families are separated, they live in poverty, and they will end up in such a fate, but how can anyone who has a heart do this?! Liu Yan glared angrily, forcing none of those soldiers to dare to raise their heads to look at him.

Chu Shenxia pressed his arm, suppressed the sadness and pain in his eyes, and tried his best to calm down: "Your Highness, please also focus on the overall situation, how to deal with King Qing, the emperor will fall, and please don't be impulsive, it will only harm yourself." ā€

"Please also ask Your Highness to focus on the overall situation!" The marching troops in the city suddenly shouted in unison, and this shouting finally made the anger in Liu Yan's heart drop a little.

"Ahh Liu Yan roared angrily, broke the sword in his hand, and the broken sword flew towards King Qing, and in his horrified gaze, it was deeply inserted into the wall beside him, and the sword body trembled and roared.

After pausing for a moment, King Qing's heart jumped up sharply again, his eyes tightened, and he still had palpitations when he remembered Fang Cai's scene.

Looking at Liu Yan's back, he was stunned in place, unable to react, until Liu Yan suddenly stopped and turned his head viciously to look at him, his eyes jumped violently and came back to his senses.

"You go back to Jiankang for me! Don't get in my way here! ā€

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