But these Manichaeans are a different matter entirely, these poor people are just the unfortunate ones who have been drawn into this game, if killing them on the battlefield can be said to be the human instinct for survival, then what Zhang Dujian is doing now can only be said to be an out-and-out massacre. With Zhou Ping's inner sense of morality, it can't be explained.

"Brother Zhou!"

"Prison!"

Zhou Ping turned his head, it was Xue Liangyu and Li Bao who spoke, seeing the worried looks on their faces, Zhou Ping's heart felt a burst of warmth, no matter how huge the difference between himself and their inner world was, but after all, they still sincerely cared about themselves, compared to this, what did those differences matter?

"There are too many people inside, and I burned two charcoal stoves, the smell is too strong, I came out to breathe!" Zhou Ping smiled and covered up.

"It's a little!" At this time, a cold wind blew, and Xue Liangyu shivered: "Brother Zhou, let's go in, it's cold outside!" It's also strange, it is said that this Xiuzhou is much warmer than our hometown in Anyang, but how do I feel that a cold air is drilling into my bones! ”

"Although it is not as cold as Anyang here, the humidity in the south is heavy, and it is generally uncomfortable!" Zhou Ping was provoked by Xue Liangyu's appearance and laughed: "Seeing you like this, you still want to go to Zhengyan!" ”

"As soon as I go into battle, my whole body is hot, and I am not afraid of cold at all!" Xue Liangyu said unconvinced, as if to confirm his statement, he waved his arm: "I rushed four or five back and forth that day, if it weren't for bad luck, where would the head of the thief Chen Antian get someone else!" ”

"Okay, I'll let you take the lead next time!" Zhou Ping smiled and patted Xue Liangyu's thick shoulder. The burly body of this young man, who had just turned nineteen, seemed to be full of energy, looking for an opportunity to erupt at any time.

With a sharp sound of metal and hardwood rubbing, the inner side of the city gate slowly pushed open, a team of officers and soldiers cautiously walked in, the city was already a dead silence, more than a thousand corpses lying in the small space of the urn city, especially the city gate hole leading to the outside of the city, the corpses were piled up on top of each other, the walls and gates were full of blood-colored palm prints, which were the traces left by Manichaeans who tried to break open the city gate with their bare hands or climb the city wall to escape. Although time has passed. But it's not hard to imagine how hundreds of people struggled to survive here not so long ago.

"Tsk!" An old soldier let out an exclamation, instinctively avoiding the corpses on the ground, a southern forbidden army like them had not fought for decades. Not to mention this bleak sight.

"Don't hold back. Move the body away. So that the car can come in and move out! The leader of the team behind scolded.

"Great!" The veteran was yelled at by the officer, and then he was busy using his spear to remove the corpses on the ground and make a way. The man pushing the chicken cart in the back came in, pulled the arrows off the corpse, and then carried the corpse on the ground onto the cart.

"Oh, what's the trouble! Why don't you believe it, you must believe in Manichaeism, now you don't even have your life! The veteran looked at the corpse on the ground and sighed.

Zhong Zhe'an shoved his right hand into his mouth so that he would not roar out of excessive anger. Less than half an hour ago, the corpses on the ground were alive, breathing, and talking companions, but now they were cold corpses. And the executioners now chose to carry them to the chicken bus like a pile of firewood. At this time, Zhong Zhe'an suddenly felt a warm salty liquid flowing into his mouth, it turned out that he subconsciously bit his right hand hard, but for some reason, he didn't feel pain at all.

Zhong Zhe'an closed his eyes, tensed his muscles, and tried his best to make his body feel like a corpse, and finally the two people hooked his body with iron hooks, and then got into the chicken bus. After half a ring, Zhong Zhe'an followed the two corpses out of the city gate and fell into a ditch. Then he pushed the corpse away, climbed out of the trench as fast as he could, and pounced before the man who was stunned by the sight before him could make a sound. Knocking the other party to the ground and biting down on the throat with a hard bite.

"Help, help!"

Zhong Zhe'an felt a huge resistance force under his body, and his strength was passing rapidly, and suddenly, as a warm salty liquid poured into his mouth, the resistance force under his body weakened. After half a ring, Zhong Zhe'an got up from the corpse, searched for the dry food on the corpse, swallowed it, and turned to flee into the distance.

When the main force of the peasant army led by Fang Qifei arrived at Xiuzhou City, it was already noon on the third day. Obviously, this new enemy learned the lesson of the previous loser, and he did not rush to approach Xiuzhou City, but asked his soldiers to dig trenches and build earthen ramparts as a basis for the next attack on Xiuzhou City. When Zhou Ping got the news, he knew that this battle would not be so easy to win again.

"Prisoner, the Manichaean thief has just arrived, and his foothold is not stable, and he is willing to go to the hard detective for the white envoy!" Xue Liangyu said loudly.

Zhou Ping frowned and did not answer immediately, the so-called "Tabai" is a name for scouts in the Tang and Song dynasties of China, and Tabai envoys are officers who command scouts, and their tasks are generally to search and find out the enemy's situation. In the sequence of the army in the Song Dynasty, the front is the white army, and the back is the destroyer, the vanguard, and the other departments. Xue Liangyu was the first to jump out to ask for battle, but what he was afraid of was that this time the first merit was snatched away by others.

"The last general is also willing to be a white envoy!"

"The last general is also willing to go!"

Li Cheng, Yang Zaixing and others also came out to ask for battle, and at this time, Zhou Ping made a gesture to retreat and said: "You all retreat and rest, this time I am not going to send someone to investigate!" ”

"Prisoner-" Xue Liangyu was about to continue, Zhou Ping stood up: "We can defend Xiuzhou City in the south, it is a complete achievement, I will bring you to Jiangnan, hoping to bring you back a lot!" With that, he turned and walked out of the tent.

Suzhou, Zhizhou is quiet. This was originally a famous garden, and later occupied by the government, this Ren Zhizhou also spent a lot of effort on it, and it was renovated with flowers, and the literati and ladies walked through it on weekdays, and it was also quite a bit of style. It's just that at this time, there are three steps and one post in the garden, five steps and one sentry, full of tall Shengjie soldiers wearing iron armor, full of slaughter, and the original atmosphere of rich and peaceful living in the garden is gone.

"Captain! There was a report from Xiuzhou, and Wang Tongjun led the army to break through tens of thousands of thieves' vanguards, beheading more than 4,000 people, including more than 100 large and small leaders, and a mountain of canes! It's just-" Wang Yu paused a little when he said this, and carefully looked at the look of the person above, only to see that the man was close to the age of ear shun, with a burly body, a dark face, dozens of short beards under his chin, his eyes slightly closed and reclining on the Hu bed, his face was neither happy nor angry, and he couldn't see any look.

"Just what?"

"It's just that Fang La sent the general Fang Qifei to lead an army of 100,000 to replace, the disparity between the numbers is huge, and the situation is urgent, and he also asked the captain to send an army to rescue and save the people of the city from fire and water!"

"Save the people of the city from fire and water? I think it's to save his prince from fire and water! Tong Guan opened his eyes, took the letter from Wang Yu's hand, read it, and sneered: "'Xiao soldiers are loyal and righteous, go out of the city to fight for more than a day, dozens of thieves, and the thief army' is full of absurd words, how many soldiers are there in this Xiuzhou City, and can they fight for more than a day? There is no need to fight, he is tired to death just standing there in iron armor, he is really a rotten Confucian who does not know soldiers, and he can't even lie, if this prince Wu is not a false report of his military exploits, then this time he can defeat the Manichi thief striker must have nothing to do with him! ”

Wang Yu said with a smile: "What Taiwei said is very true, but it is also common for this merit document to exaggerate!" Wang Tongjun has been in Jiangnan for a long time, and he has never seen a sword soldier, so he naturally writes a little too much. But now that the cities have fallen, only he not only defended Xiuzhou City, but also repelled the Manichaean thieves, no matter what, it is also a good thing, you can talk about the Sacred Heart! ”

Tong Guan listened to Wang Yu's words in the end, and his face showed a look of stupidity. As Wang Yu said, from ancient times to the present, the most troublesome thing for the generals who have led the troops to fight is often not how to defeat the enemy, but how to deal with the suspicious emperor and the political enemies in the rear court. Although Tong Guan is a eunuch, as long as he leads the troops, he can't escape this law, although he and Cai Jing, Liang Shicheng and others are called the "six thieves", but it does not mean that he is united with the other five. On the contrary, these six people are just Elihe, and naturally they will also be divided by Eli, Tong Guan has been rolling in the power field for more than 20 years, how can he not understand this truth? In this Fangla Rebellion, Song Huizong appointed him as the envoy of Jianghuai, Jingzhe, and Xuanfu in one breath to give him the right to temporarily dispose of it, and gave him all the 150,000 troops that were originally going to conquer Liao. The most important thing is that in order to clean up the hearts of the people in Jiangnan, as soon as he took office, he made a bureau and stopped the operation of "Huashi Gang". Although Song Huizong pinched his nose and admitted it, Tong Guan was too aware of his master's easy temperament, and now in order to calm the Fangla Rebellion, he could naturally admit anything, but if the military affairs were indecisive, the political enemies inside and outside the palace would definitely not watch from the wall, and at that time, the official family would definitely not give himself a waist like Wei Wenhou, Wang Ziwu's meritorious service clerk didn't care if he was true or false, and he could always block the mouths of those birdmen.

"Hey! State affairs are so difficult! Tong Guan sighed and said, "It's a pity that those villains in the court don't know the truth of harmony at all, and-" Speaking of this, Tong Guan's voice stopped, obviously he felt that it was not inappropriate to say that the official family was not inappropriate in front of his henchmen. (To be continued......)

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