Chapter 634: Man and Bear Slaughter City
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After the Yan army captured the Chengtian army, the army drove straight in, burned and looted all the way, Shiai County and Shouyang County were looted, thousands of civilians who were unwilling to evacuate were slaughtered, Shiai County ordered to withdraw too late, killed himself, and both county towns were burned. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info
Three days later, 200,000 Yan soldiers came to the city of Taiyuan.
At this time, Guo Ziyi's 80,000 troops had been gathered in Taiyuan City, and there were 50,000 militia troops to assist in defending the city.
According to An Lushan's strategic deployment, An Qingxu's 200,000 troops were the main force to attack Hedong, while Li Guiren led 50,000 troops from his headquarters to Fukou for the south road, feinted to attack Luzhou, and contained Li Siye's Anxi army.
At the same time that An Qingxu led the main force to send troops, the 50,000 troops of Li Guiren's army in the south also passed through Fukou and entered the territory of Hedong.
Li Guiren is a leader of the Xi people, led his subordinates to the Tang Dynasty and changed his name to Li Guiren, he was obedient to the Tang Dynasty on the surface, but in his bones he was fierce and cruel, all the time thinking about plundering the wealth and women of the Central Plains, Li Guiren is eight feet tall, with a tiger's back and a bear's waist, and infinite strength, he is a fierce general under An Lushan, and is known as 'Man Bear' in the army.
The generals in the An Lushan army all had different nicknames, in addition to Li Guiren who was known as a man-bear, there was also Shi Siming, who was known as 'Falcon', with yellow and sparse hair and gloomy eyes, hence the name.
Cai Xide is called a 'wild wolf' because of his ferocity and ruthlessness, and Tian Chengji is called a 'cunning fox' because of his cunning and wisdom.
Li Guiren has an army of 50,000 under his command, mainly the Hu people of Luoluo River and Liuzhou, that is, the army composed of Khitan and Xi people, which is one of the strongest and most brutal armies in the Yan army, of which 9,000 Luoluo River Army is also one of the Youzhou Iron Cavalry, the elite of the Yan army, and the Luoluo River is the meaning of a strong man in the Xi language, An Lushan attaches great importance to this Luoluo River army, and openly calls them his false sons.
Therefore, although Li Guiren only has 50,000 troops, his strength is the most elite army among the various departments of the Yan army.
An Lushan allowed his subordinates to recruit troops, but Li Guiren was reluctant to recruit troops, he believed that the Han people were weak, and recruiting his subordinates would only lose his own name and weaken his combat effectiveness, so he still maintained the establishment of 50,000 troops.
Another characteristic of Li Guiren is that he feeds his army by war, and everywhere he goes, he will indulge his soldiers to plunder and destroy silver on a large scale, and in this way to boost the morale of the army, although it is very brutal, it is indeed very effective against his army.
Before sending troops this time, Li Guiren promised all the soldiers that they would each loot ten women and bring them back to the tribe, which was only brought back, and the women killed on the spot were not counted.
Li Guiren has two lieutenant generals under him, one is the general An Shouzhong, and the other is the Turkic Ashina Congli, both of whom are enemies of 10,000 people, and they can be called his right-hand men.
Li Guiren led the army to the west, half of his army was cavalry, the speed of the march was extremely fast, he divided the troops into three routes, Ashina Congli led 10,000 cavalry as the front army, he himself led 20,000 cavalry and 10,000 infantry as the middle army, An Shouzhong led 10,000 infantry as the rear army.
When there were still twenty miles away from Lucheng County, a messenger rushed to report: "Report to the general, Lucheng County ordered a hundred old men to go out of the city and kneel down, Ashina asked for instructions on how to deal with it?" ”
Li Guiren's eyes stared gloomily ahead, and two words burst out coldly from his rock-like lips: 'Slaughter the city!' ’
In Li Guiren's mind, there is no reason to surrender and not kill, only the difference between eating and starving, you can temporarily let go when you are full, and eat again when you are hungry, and now, his soldiers are so hungry that their eyes are green.
The county magistrate of Lucheng County never dreamed that he led a county elder to kneel in humiliation and had no effect, they knelt bare-chested on the official road outside the city, holding the seal ribbon in both hands, while the officials and elders behind him held clay pots filled with clay, and he only begged the Yan army to spare the people of the city for the sake of their sincere surrender.
But what he ushered in was the overwhelming cavalry and murderous swords, the Yan cavalry rushed like a landslide, whistling past them, the swords slashed the heads of the county commanders, more than 100 old people pleaded and screamed, but the war horses kicked them mercilessly and trampled to death, 10,000 war horses rushed over them, and their bodies were trampled into flesh by the horses' hooves.
Lucheng County suddenly became a city of hell, tens of thousands of men and women in the city became lambs to the slaughter, and when Li Guiren's Chinese army arrived, Lucheng County had become a purgatory on earth.
The 40,000-strong army began a frantic looting of silver, screams and cries everywhere, and the bodies of people who had been cut off were everywhere, and the beautiful women were forced to lie naked on the Hu bed under the threat of bloody knives, and endured the queue and gang violence of nearly 100 Hu soldiers, but in the end they still could not escape death.
For five hours, the cruelty of the Khitan and Xi people and the silver desire engulfed the entire city.
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Li Quy Ren did not enter the city, his large camp was stationed outside the city, as night fell, groups of soldiers who returned one after another returned to the camp, horses carrying large bags of belongings, women were tied to horses, most of their dresses were tattered, many women were still naked, night fell, bonfires were lit, groups of soldiers gathered around the fire, barbecued meat and drank wine, very noisy, they forced hundreds of snatched women to apply grease and powder, dance for them to cheer up, and when they saw the rise, they directly pulled the women into the crowd......
According to the rules of the Khitan and Xi people, the best booty should be offered to the chief, and Li Guiren's big tent was filled with gold, silver, jewelry, and more than two dozen young and beautiful women.
Li Guiren picked five of the most beautiful women, and the rest of the women were rewarded to his own soldiers, and in the side tent, more than 300 majestic soldiers were naked, and surrounded more than 20 women with a silver smile, and more than 20 women were like lambs to be slaughtered, unable to survive or die, and were tied to benches by the soldiers and ravaged in turn.
"Master Jun, I've been serving more than thirty of you, I really can't stand it, please let me rest for a while!"
A woman cried and pleaded, but was met with even more frantic ravage.......
In the corner of the tent, there was a small boy hidden, with clear eyes and beautiful eyebrows, curled up in the corner like a cat, no soldier had ever asked him, everyone knew that it was reserved for the enjoyment of their own soldiers, the boy's father was the county magistrate of Lucheng County, he was taken captive with his mother, and the woman who cried and begged just now was his father's concubine, and now she had fainted.
The boy was twelve years old, though he was of short stature, and at this time he seemed to hear his mother's cry, and it seemed that he was next door, and he strongly restrained his grief and indignation, and quietly hid the dagger dropped by a soldier under him, and moved his body little by little, and the tent full of soldiers were staring at more than two dozen naked women, and no one noticed him.
Then a soldier came up to him, turned his back to him, and happened to cover him, and took advantage of the opportunity to roll his body, and rolled out of the gap under the tent, and rolled into the next tent, and struck himself against a wooden box.
He slowly cut the rope that bound his hands with his dagger, and then he heard his mother's cry, and he quietly looked up, and was immediately stunned, his mother was naked and hung upside down in the middle of the big tent.
In the middle of the tent, there was a man like a black bear, huge in height, covered in hair, hair scattered, bare, wearing an iron armor, like a demon, extremely vicious, the boy was so frightened that he almost fainted, at this time, the man had finished abusing a woman, strode towards the boy's mother, the woman was trembling with fright, the man grabbed the woman's legs, smiled and pinched two buttocks, "This woman is fat and delicate, I like it the most!" ”
He suddenly parted his legs heavily from behind, only to hear the sound of bones breaking, and the woman screamed and passed out.
When the man saw his mother being abused, his lips were bitten, and blood flowed down the corners of his mouth, at this time Li Guiren scolded fiercely, "Damn, are Han girls so fragile?" ”
He lost his appetite a little, and sat on the wooden box, panting heavily, he never expected that there was a boy hidden behind him, and his thick legs almost touched the boy's face.
The boy was at first so frightened that he almost cried out, when a swarthy calf appeared in front of his eyes, as thick as a stake for a horse tied outside the tent.
When the boy saw that his mother was covered with blood, a monstrous anger welled up in his chest, he wanted revenge, he wanted to avenge his mother!
He lay on his side on the ground, his eyes fixed on the hairy leg in front of him, and he remembered what the doctor had said when he treated him: 'No matter how tall a man grows, the roots are on the feet, and the two meridians run through the body, and when the meridians are broken, the body collapses.' ’
He slowly raised the dagger, suddenly shouted, stabbed at his Achilles tendon, Li Guiren had just stood up, and suddenly felt a sharp pain in the back of his right foot, he screamed in pain, and when he turned around, he saw a thin boy, his hateful and miserable white face, the boy screamed again, raised the dagger and stabbed him down.
Li Guiren saw that his right heel was full of blood, and he was in hot pain, and he was so soft that he couldn't stand anymore, Li Guiren couldn't help but be furious, grabbed the boy, and twisted his neck like a chicken, and the boy died tragically on the spot.
Li Guiren took two steps, he only felt that his whole body was weak, he fell to the ground with a 'plop', and his right leg had no strength, he was horrified in his heart, and shouted loudly: "Come on!" ”
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Li Guiren was injured by a boy in Lu County, and the tendon of his right foot was severed, so that he could no longer fight on horseback and became a cripple who could only walk with a cane.
Li Guiren was furious and threw An Lushan's order that he was not allowed to go deep into Hedong, and he ordered the army to go south and march towards Shangdang County, Luzhou Prefecture, and razed all the places he passed.
At this time, Li Siye's Anxi Army was still in Jinju, and Shangdang County had a Northern Tang garrison of 6,000 men, led by Tian Qianzhen, a general of An Lushan, who surrendered to Li Qing'an that year.
Li Guiren swore to catch Tian Qianzhen with his own hands and hand it over to An Lushan, just when he was still forty miles away from Shangdang County, news suddenly came that Wei Boyu, the general of the Anxi Army, led 10,000 Anxi troops to conquer Fuxi City at the east entrance of the Fukou Yanhe River, cutting off Li Guiren's retreat, while another general of the Anxi Army, Xi Yuanqing, led 10,000 troops to march into Zezhou, and joined the 8,000 defenders of Zezhou, blocking another Baicheng that had withdrawn to Hebei.
At this time, the 40,000 main forces of the Anxi Army, under the command of Li Siye, the deputy marshal of Anxi, entered Luzhou from Jinzhou and stationed troops in Liangmazhai, forming a state of encirclement of Li Guiren's army.
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(To be continued)