Chapter 159: Throwing the dung pit and bringing it up
The fire was extinguished with the help of soldiers.
Luo Shixin led Xue Yong, Lei Yongji, Lu Junge, Su Dingfang and other generals plus a Xiaowei Zhanggu Wang Xuance into the inner city Yanwang Palace.
The air was filled with a pungent smell of coke.
Zhang Pinggao and Mo Hu'er were directing the soldiers to search the palace, and when they saw Luo Shixin and them coming, the two greeted them together.
Mo Hu'er let the smoke look like a coal burner, and said with annoyance: "General, one step too late, Gao Kaidao was buried in the fire, and he was not captured." ”
Thinking that before the war, he said that he would capture Gao and open the way in three days, Mo Hu'er's face felt a hot pain. As soon as the city gate was broken, in order to fulfill his promise to Luo Shixin, he took the brunt of breaking into the city gate, fighting a bloody road, and went straight to the palace of King Yan.
Gao Kaidao raised 300 strong men as his adopted son, responsible for the guards of the inner city, and all of them were warriors who were one of ten. Mo Hu'er spent some time and effort to annihilate all the three hundred adopted sons, and after attacking the Yanwang Palace, the palace hall had fallen into a sea of fire, and he had no choice but to order to put out the fire.
The fire was extinguished, and no one survived in the palace of King Yan, only a corpse remained.
"Are you sure it's him who died? Don't let him run away. Luo Shixin was a little uneasy and unwilling, and he had already investigated the reason. The bloody case in Gu'an County was concocted by the Xi people, and Gao Kaidao's soldiers did not participate. But Gao Kaidao fell into his hands, and he would never spare him lightly.
As a local prince, it was not his fault that he was the enemy of the Tang Dynasty. However, instead of being considerate of the people, he led the Turkic Xi people to invade the Central Plains and burn, kill and loot. His sins. Ten times stricter than the massacre of the Xi people in Gu'an County.
"You can't be wrong!" Mo Hu'er is also a shrewd person, guarding against this, when extinguishing the fire. has already confirmed from the mouth of the palace maid that Gao Kaidao killed his wife and children, and then personally ignited the atrocities of the Yan Palace. As soon as the fire was extinguished, he carefully carried out a carpet search, and indeed found a secret passage, but there was no footprint in the secret passage that seeped water, and there was no sign of others passing by. The dragon robe on his body has gold threads, and it can't be burned at once, so it's confirmed that it's him. He chose to die with an identity. There is no stealing a living. ”
Luo Shixin's eyes fell on the pile of charcoal above, black as a corpse, in the shape of a human being, and some golden silk threads on his body.
"What should he do?" Zhang Pinggao said with some embarrassment.
Gao Kaidao is not in how it is. Also a character. A prince. The ancients paid attention to "death is great, and the venerable is ashamed". According to common sense, even if this kind of character is not buried in a grand manner, he must be buried in a place to be buried and erected. What kind of burial method needs to be determined by Luo Shixin.
Luo Shixin thought for a while and said, "Find a latrine and throw it in the manure pit." ”
Zhang Pinggao was dumbfounded and stammered: "Lose ...... Throwing, throwing manure manure manure into the manure pit? ”
"What's wrong, isn't it right?" Luo Shixin glanced at Zhang Pinggao.
"This ......," Lu Junge came up and said, "It is great for people to die." Gao Kaidao is also a hero, give him a place to live. It also shows that I am broad-minded. ”
"Settle down!" Luo Shixin said without hesitation: "For this kind of bastard, I can't give him anything to return to, so I will do what he has done in this life." I don't care if there are ghosts in the world, if not, I should vent my anger, and if there is, I will not be at peace with him if he dies. It's so decided, if there is any blame, I will bear it. ”
Luo Shixin was originally an atheist, but after crossing over, the soul possession also had a certain feeling for this thing. People like Gao Kaidao should be buried in the manure tank for 10,000 years, and they will never be able to turn over.
Whoever is dying, it's, he has peace, where do those unjust souls in Gu'an County get peace?
Therefore, even if Gao Kaidao set himself on fire, died, and turned into a pile of coke, Luo Shixin still ordered the pile of coke to be thrown into the dung pit, and if he was not forgiven, he was not eligible for forgiveness at all.
The ancients were more superstitious about this, although Zhang Pinggao was very convinced of Luo Shixin's strategy, but he also refused to do this and was a little hesitant.
"I'll do it!" Mo Hu'er was young, he was not afraid of heaven and earth, why was he afraid of ghosts and gods, so he directly took the order, found a sack, put the coke-like corpse of Gao Kaidao into the bag, and went to the septic tank.
Yuyang fell, and the war was settled, but Luo Shixin knew that he still had one thing to do.
His promise has not been fulfilled, and he has not yet given a thorough explanation to the tens of thousands of wronged souls in Gu'an County.
Luo Shixin entered Gu'an County again, and Gu'an County was still silent!
The Youzhou Assassin has mobilized the masses to move the corpses of more than 10,000 county residents of Gu'an County who died tragically at the hands of the Xi people to mass graves outside the city, washing away the blood stains in the houses on the ground. A few people who had temporarily left their hometowns returned to their homes, and they couldn't help but cry when they looked at the silent towns.
Looking at the people on the street with expressions of almost numbness and despair, Luo Shixin said loudly: "Fellow villagers, tomorrow afternoon, in front of the mass grave, I, Luo Shixin, will seek justice for you, for the entire Gu'an County, for all the souls of the Xi people who died tragically, and for all the compatriots who suffered." ”
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Just after noon, there was a sea of people around the mass graves, and the people in the surrounding towns and villages rushed to gather when they heard the news that Luo Shixin wanted to seek justice for the people of Gu'an County for the souls who died at the hands of the Xi people, and for all the compatriots who were suffering.
Some were hurt by the Xi clan and wanted to see how this justice was obtained, and some simply wanted to witness the demeanor of Luo Shixin, the youngest but incomparably outstanding general in the Tang Dynasty, all kinds of people. Only one day after the news came out, more than 10,000 people gathered around.
Yi Nan and Yang Gongdao were mixed among more than 10,000 people, watching quietly, and no one spoke.
Luo Shixin's soldiers did not arrive, but there were already more than 10,000 soldiers in front of the mass grave, and they stood in a circle, vacating a large open space in front of the mass grave, and the people around them stood outside the circle, whispering to each other.
"It's coming!"
"The Great General is here!"
……
The crowd around suddenly became noisy, and there were bursts of shouts, and with the deafening cheers full of support, the youngest general of the Tang Dynasty still had a certain charm and appeal.
Under the banner of the "General Manager of the Youzhou March", Luo Shixin rode the red horse like fire and slowly walked towards the mass grave.
Yi Nan took a deep look at the horse, and smiled with relief, this horse that originally belonged to him, now with a good master, his eyes immediately fell on the owner of the horse, he didn't see him for more than half a year, he still hasn't changed at all: slender figure, thin face, deep eye sockets, high and straight nose, and a trace of childishness on his face. Under the thick eyebrows, there is a pair of eagle-like sharp eyes, with an unruly aura.
Today he does not wear armor or ornate clothes, but a heavy black tunic that is black in this era for mourning.
The cheers gradually subsided, and the people around saw Luo Shixin like this, and saw that he had no festive smile, one by one, like a fish in his throat, shouting silently.
When Luo Shixin came to the mass grave, he first bowed to all the newly erected tombstones, and then turned around.
"I, I have been an orphan since I was a child, my parents are dead, and I grew up eating hundreds of family meals...... At that time, I had a wish to kill all the rebels and avenge my father's mother, so I joined the army at the age of eleven or twelve, and followed General Zhang Xutuo to crusade against the rebels. ”
Whether it was the soldiers or the surrounding people, they all looked at each other, and no one would have thought that Luo Shixin would say such a thing.
"It turned out later...... The so-called rebels are also poor people forced by tyranny, and they have a new wish, hoping that there will be a peaceful and prosperous era, so that there will be no rebels, and there will be no more children who have lost their fathers and mothers since childhood, like me...... After fighting for a few years, he finally ushered in peace. Under the control of the official family, the Tang Dynasty unified the world, and the people were spared from war and were able to live a peaceful life. But ......"
"The Turkic and Xi people's pigs and dogs are not as good as those things, but they don't let us have a good life, and they invade, burn, kill and loot. Destroy our homes, plunder the fruits of our labor, slaughter our relatives and friends, and take our relatives and friends to the Turkic steppes to be slaves. ”
The clear and loud words were sent directly to the ears of everyone present, and the thirty or forty thousand soldiers and people around the mass grave listened attentively, and no one made any loud noises.
"Just half a month ago...... The 40,000 cavalry of the Xi nationality washed Gu'an County in blood, and 12,281 people were slaughtered in Gu'an County, including 3,165 old men over 65 years old, 4,821 women, and 10 pregnant women who were waiting to give birth...... Unarmed, they were slaughtered, and none of them were spared. As for the soldiers and strong men, I won't say it, they are all good, they are all defending their homeland with their own flesh and blood, they are great in life and more glorious in death. ”
The surrounding people have long been crying, they are all nearby villagers, and there are many people who are related to Gu'an County, even if there is not, all these years of foreign invasions, and which family can completely survive?
No!
At this time, thinking of the tragic death of his relatives, he all broke his liver and intestines.
Luo Shixin's voice suddenly rose and said: "I saw with my own eyes the tragic situation in Gu'an County, the pregnant woman who was raped and had her belly broken open and her baby taken out; The scene where the family paid with their lives, and the eight or nine-year-old baby hacked to death a Xi beast and was then chopped into pulp...... That scene...... I'll never forget it for the rest of my life. ”
Speaking of this, he shouted with tears in his eyes: "At that time, I Luo Shixin made a heavy oath to pay the blood debt and blood, and to use the heads of the Xi tribe to worship the souls of the dead in Gu'an County, and use their blood to irrigate the land where they live. ”
"Bring it up!" (To be continued......)