Chapter 176: Suicide
The core village of the "Guoluojia Branch" is in the mountains, and there is no experience of the core village being attacked by the Han people in the legends of ancient times.
This time, the order of the head man Hei Jiji to retreat made many small heads and the elders of the clan dissatisfied.
Heijijitou, are you old? We have the bravest samurai in the iceberg region, do we need to retreat to the depths of the mountains?
This time it was enough to toss, so the members of the "Road Construction Pioneers", who were regarded as the culprits who caused this disaster, were subjected to the most inhuman torture.
In just a few days, only about 30 of the strongest Han Chinese remained, and the rest were all killed by the barbarians with various kinds of torture.
The barbarians did not know that their actions would bring about the destruction of their tribe.
"Heijijitou, no, we seem to be surrounded."
"What? Surrounded, do you know what you're talking about? Looking at his men with panicked faces, Heijiji put down the short knife that emitted a cold light.
"Touren, that's right, we have three mountains and eighteen villages, and hundreds of roads, all of which are blocked by people!"
Heijigi stood up suddenly.
Fifty-year-old Hei Jiji, with a burly figure, has many scars on his face left by decades of fighting: "Let's take a look, there are hundreds of roads, how many Han people can block them?" ”
Hei Jiji came to the highest place of the mountain and looked around, no matter how good his eyesight was, it was impossible to see something thousands of meters away, but the sporadic gunshots everywhere made Hei Jiji feel a little uneasy in his heart.
When it was almost evening, the people sent out from the stockade to inquire about the news came back one after another.
The men trembled and fell to their knees. Don't dare to look up.
"Leader, a few of them went down the mountain to inquire about the news and were caught by the Han people, saying that the Han generals asked them to bring the message back."
Hei Jiji said: "Tell me a few of you. What happened today? ”
The men looked at each other, and finally a distant relative of Heijiji plucked up the courage to say:
"Touren, we didn't walk after going down the mountain today, we all advanced from the weeds, but we were still caught by the Han people below the mountain. We don't know how many Han people there are under the mountain, but we can see that there are barbarians in the ranks of the Han Chinese. The Han asked us to bring the words back. Said that if we let go of all the Han people we caught, and then lay down our arms and surrender, they would give us a way to live. Otherwise. At one's own risk. ”
The place where these people replied was in the open space of the stockade, and at this time, in addition to the Heijiji head, there were more than a dozen other leaders and elders of the entire tribe.
Listened to the words of these people who were put back. Everyone's faces are very ugly.
"Heijigi. What now? ”
The Han people under the mountain made it very clear that if this matter wants to be good, then it must be put back to the previous Han people. However, most of the captured Han people have lost their lives, so what will they pay back?
These leaders and elders also sent people down the mountain to inquire about the news, and the people they sent out either fled back by themselves when the situation was not good, or they were caught by the people under the mountain and released. Brought back the same words.
Heijigi knew in his heart that the situation would not be too good, but if he panicked at this time. It's only going to make it worse.
The blood of the barbarians in his body made Hei Jiji wild: "Send an order to go down and kill all the Han babies and female slaves in each village and village, and after killing, hang the corpses at various intersections, and send the heads to the Han military camps." Tonight let the men of every village and village be armed. ”
"We have a geographical advantage, if the Han people under the mountain dare to attack the mountain, let us kill him without leaving a piece of armor."
Hei Jiji pulled out the short knife at his waist and prayed to the heavens: "O ancestor of the barbarians, no matter what, bless us to be able to kill the Han people who came to attack this time and keep our homeland." ”
The chiefs and elders, who had already drunk a lot of wine, also followed Heijiji and raised his sword and swore to the sky, singing the barbarian war song that has been passed down for thousands of years.
Some leaders thought to themselves, our "Guoluo Family Branch" and the barbarians who retreated to this mountain with us were more than 5,000 warriors who could pick up swords and guns to kill the enemy. There are so many warriors here, even if there are tens of thousands of Han people under the mountain, what can they do with us? Perhaps, tomorrow morning, those cowardly Han people will be frightened and their feet will be weak when they see the head we sent down the mountain!
There are also some leaders who are a pity, those Han female slaves have soft faces, fair and delicate skin, and they are much stronger than barbarian women, so they killed them like this, what a pity. However, this time, as long as you can kill all the Han people under the mountain and rob them of their weapons, you can ask the Han women to go to the Han villages and towns outside the mountain to grab them.
What the barbarians never expected was that instead of scaring the feet of the Han people under the mountain, the heads they sent down the mountain sounded the death knell for their own fate.
On the morning of 5 October, the troops received dozens of sacks from the mountains, and the barbarians who sent them were all proud, and after the soldiers of the revolutionary army carried the sacks into the barracks, they collectively shouted in the stiff Chinese they had learned on the fly: "If you don't get out, this will be the end!" ”
Without waiting for the soldiers of the revolutionary army to react, the barbarians proudly sang the barbarian tune and returned to the mountain.
The main force of the Third Army, the Volunteer Army, and the barbarian alliance of the "Luohongjia Branch" came to surround the three mountains and eighteen villages of the "Guoluojia Branch", with a total of 17,000 people, and Xie Niancheng's headquarters had almost 5,000 people.
When the soldiers opened the sacks in the middle of the barracks, they were stunned.
Many of the new fighters, who had never seen blood, couldn't stop vomiting.
Hundreds of people were still covered in blood and scattered on the ground.
These heads are men and women, old and young, but everyone can see that these are the heads of Han people.
Haruko endured her discomfort and went to the barracks to report to Xie Niancheng.
Xie Niancheng arrived in the open space and saw these heads, and a strong sense of anger that he hadn't seen for a long time surged into his heart.
"Send down the order, let the troops in the camp take turns to look here in the company, and after reading it, notify all officers above the company level and the responsible persons of the volunteer army to come to the headquarters for a meeting."
Back at the headquarters, Xie Niancheng began to review his thoughts on ethnic policy.
Ayi saw Xie Niancheng's face and asked, "Commander-in-chief, what are you unhappy about?" ”
Xie Niancheng said: "Miss Ayi, it's too barbaric for the 'Guoluo Family Branch' to do this, I want them to know that the consequences of their doing this are something they can't afford themselves." ”
The beautiful Ayi blinked: "Commander-in-chief, is there anything wrong with the 'Guoluo Family Branch' doing this?" We barbarians have been like this for thousands of years, is there anything wrong with fighting and killing the captives? ”
Ayi's unintentional words woke up Xie Niancheng.
Xie Niancheng turned his head to Ayi and said, "Ayi girl, I haven't figured it out for a long time, but I didn't expect you to explain it to me in one sentence." ”
Ayi didn't understand: "Commander-in-chief, did I say anything?" ”
Xie Niancheng nodded: "I was wrong before, and I always looked at the problem of you barbarians with my eyes...... Today's events and your words have made me understand that, in fact, I should solve these problems from the perspective of your barbarians. I ask you, who will you barbarians listen to? ”
Ayi thought for a moment: "Are we barbarians?" We barbarians only listen to the strong. ”
"That's it, that's it."
Ayi's words made Xie Niancheng strengthen his determination to deal with the "Guoluo Family Branch".
Since so many ethnic groups have chosen "massacre" as a way to solve some problems, this method naturally has its effects. I have always held the idea of "equality, mutual benefit, and common development", which seems to be a bit pedantic.
In the headquarters, dozens of officers came in one after another, each with a blue face and angry eyes.
These hundreds of heads, as well as the headless naked corpses found by the sentries hanging on the mountain road, have exceeded the psychological limit of these young officers.
The meeting did not start, the officers lost their former liveliness, and the entire headquarters was silent.
Seeing that everyone had arrived, Xie Niancheng said: "Everyone has seen it today, I don't want to say anything else, we will start attacking the mountain early tomorrow morning, we are not in a hurry." I have only one mission for you, and when I go up the mountain, I don't want to see a living barbarian on the mountain, go out. ”
"Yes!"
The officers and the robed brothers of the volunteers all raised their voices and roared.
All the troops surrounding the "Guoluojia Branch" soon got the news.
There was no sight of the head of the soldier of the unit and whispered to the signal corpsman: "Really?" Did the order above really say that all the barbarians should be killed? Don't even let the baby go? ”
Most of the soldiers who asked such questions were soldiers who had never been on the battlefield with real swords and guns.
Before the order came, the officers of the staff had been prepared for the soldiers to ask such questions, and naturally they had made preparations so that these soldiers would "understand".
The signal corps told the soldiers of this battalion to gather, "You pour out these sacks of content, and then put them in after you have read them." ”
As soon as the soldiers opened the sacks, the human skulls rolled to the ground.
Seeing the anxiety and fear of these heads before they died, the recruits here also experienced a psychological growth.
After letting the recruits put the heads back into the sacks one by one, the signal corps got on their horses and shouted: "Now, do you have any questions about the orders of the command?" ”
"No, no!"
The soldiers of the revolutionary army and the robes of the volunteers shouted together.
The barbarians on the mountain could hear the commotion in the Han camp below the mountain, especially the cries of some soldiers, and they could hear it more clearly.
"Haha, the Han people under the mountain have been scared to cry...... I guess I'm going to get out in two days. ”
A lot of barbarians optimistically began to estimate. "When they retreat, how interesting would it be for us to chase them all the way with knives and guns and cut off their heads?"
These simple-minded barbarians don't know that sometimes, the cry represents not fear, but anger and determination. (To be continued......)