Chapter 141: Thirty Thousand Prisoners of War
Liu Ze swept his eyes and saw several women standing next to the two trees, their arms were tied, and their faces were full of horror, obviously frightened by this thrilling battle. It is rare that they can escape with their lives in this chaotic army, it seems that it is because of these two trees, otherwise it would be strange if they were not trampled on among thousands of horses and thousands of troops.
Liu Ze couldn't help but sigh at the luck of these women, one of them was delicate, the clothes on her body were almost strands, her lower body was completely naked, and she was miserable to see, blood was dripping, more blood splashed on her thighs, which had solidified into a black and purple color, her hands were tied behind her back, her face was pale, and when she saw Liu Ze coming, she said hoarsely: "General...... Save...... Save me......" Before he finished speaking, his body fell.
Liu Ze rushed up with an arrow step and held her up, the girl didn't look very old, she was twenty-eight years old, but she also had a bit of a posture, weak like a willow in the wind, it was hard to imagine that such a delicate woman could survive the round violence of the yellow scarf.
"Missβ" Another woman next to her pounced and called out to her eagerly, but the girl was as if she had fainted, and she was breathless. "General, please save our young lady."
Liu Ze saw that the girl also fell into a coma, and urgently called a military doctor to come over to treat her. Liu Ze's logistics unit was staffed with several military doctors who were responsible for treating the wounded on the battlefield. As soon as he heard the call of the lord, he hurriedly ran over with the medicine box, and after diagnosis and treatment, the girl was raped by many men, coupled with her weak constitution and a day before she collapsed and fainted, and she was basically unharmed after taking some medicine.
From the mouth of that maid, I learned that their master and servant were originally from Songjiazhuang in Zhuo County, and that last night the Yellow Turban Army broke into the village, looted all the property in the village, killed all the men, and raped all the women. The young lady of their family was already weak, and she was violently raped by dozens of big men all night, and she was already dying, with only half a life left.
Liu Ze was filled with indignation, his face was blue, and he ordered Pan Feng to step forward and give an order to escort all the Yellow Turban captives over. Pan Feng saw that Liu Ze's face was not very good, and he didn't dare to ask more, so he hurriedly went down to convey the order.
Guan Yu, Zhang Feiguan, Hai Wu Anguo, received the order, and gathered all the more than 30,000 Yellow Turban captives here. More than 30,000 people were not a small number, huddled together, a large area of black pressure, all of them hung their heads, anxiously waiting for the moment to decide their fate.
Zhang Fei looked elated, and greeted Guan Yu from afar: "Second brother, haha, you didn't kill as much as Lao Zhang today!" It's a pleasure! β
Guan Yu smiled and didn't reply.
Zhang Fei said: "But second brother, you beheaded the thief Cheng Yuanzhi today, but you made the first contribution, and I can't compare with you, but I killed a little minion named Deng Mao." I heard that Cheng Yuanzhi was beheaded twice by the second brother with a big knife, is it really fake? β
Guan Yu raised the bloody head in his hand and said, "Is this fake?" β
Zhang Fei was puzzled: "It is said that the second brother's Qinglong Yanyue knife is extremely sharp, and it takes two knives to cut off one head, and this guy's neck is hard enough." β
A small soldier next to him muttered a few words in Zhang Fei's ear, and Zhang Fei suddenly realized, haha laughed and said: "Second brother, there are really you, these two knives actually cut off two heads, one big head and one small head-hahaha-"
Guan Yu stroked his hair and smiled: "Heaven is a tiller, you can still do it, you can do it yourself, you can't talk about it, let him die too happily, wouldn't it be cheap for him?" β
Zhang Fei said: "The second brother's first knife is wonderful, let this kid be a eunuch and then go on the road, and in the next life, he will save himself from harming the women of good families." Hey, this kid looks like a thief with rat eyes and a skull, and his nickname is actually Cheng Datou, and I don't know how to get this nickname, it's not like it at all. β
Guan Yu smiled and said: "You are a few steps late, if you see the beheaded * just now, you will know that his nickname is not in vain." β
Zhang Fei said excitedly: "Really, my old Zhang is also curious, second brother, is the thing you cut down with the first knife still there?" β
Guan Yu said: "No, I was swallowed by a wild dog a long time ago." β
Zhang Fei looked sorry and said, "It's a pity, it's a pity." β
Pan Feng rushed over and said hurriedly: "Second master and third master, the lord is urgently called." β
Guan Yu and Zhang Fei didn't dare to slack off, and hurried over. Guan Hai and Wu Guoan arrived one step earlier, and were reporting the results to Liu Ze over there. Zhang Fei shouted loudly before Liu Ze could come along: "Big brother, Deng Mao was killed by me, Cheng Yuanzhi was beheaded by the second brother, these two heads are here!" β
Liu Ze reciprocated with a smile and said: "The second brother and the third brother have made the first contribution this time, congratulations!" β
Zhang Fei grinned and said, "It doesn't matter if you don't work or not, you can't be stingy when you go back." β
During the march, Liu Ze strictly ordered him to quit drinking, which can be regarded as suffocating Zhang Fei. Liu Ze smiled: "Don't worry, your wine is indispensable." β
Guan Hai asked: "Lord, what to do with these more than 30,000 soldiers?" β
Liu Ze's face became solemn, and he said in a deep voice: "These Yellow Turban soldiers are raping and plundering, killing people like hemp, who is not stained with blood on their hands, I summoned you here today to discuss how to deal with these surrendered soldiers." β
Zhang Fei took the lead and said: "Since they are all habitual criminals who have been involved in bloody crimes, I think I will kill them all." Zhang Fei was also straightforward, Wu Anguo's mouth moved, there was no squeak, he remembered that a few years ago when he fought the Huns in the Western Regions, the lord's attitude towards the Hun prisoners, and with a cold wave of his hand, hundreds of Hun prisoners of war all lost their heads, but there were 30,000 people in front of him?
Historically, the most ruthless and effective way to deal with prisoners of war was to kill them, Bai Qi killed 400,000 Zhao soldiers in Changping Pit, and Xiang Yu killed 200,000 Qin soldiers in Julu Pit. Prisoners of war are the most unstable factor, the huge group of prisoners of war needs a large amount of food to feed, and they also allocate enough troops to guard them, and once the battle is lost, these prisoners are powder kegs that can explode at any time, so in the case of no surrender, the solution is to kill them all once and for all.
Everyone was silent for a moment, killing 30,000 people was not a trivial matter.
Guan Hai said: "Lord, in my opinion, this cannot be the case, when the battle was just now, these Yellow Turban soldiers put down their arms and surrendered when our army shouted the slogan that those who surrender will not die when there is no hope of escaping." If we massacre now, firstly, the credibility of our army will be lost, and secondly, these Yellow Turban soldiers will inevitably resist desperately, although they have no weapons in their hands, but they will definitely fight to the death at the moment of life and death, our army has only more than 500 people, if the Yellow Turban prisoners of war rebel, it will be extremely difficult to suppress, I hope the lord will think twice. β
Liu Ze nodded and said to Guan Yu, "What is Yun Chang's opinion?" β
Guan Yu frowned slightly, and said: "The younger brother is also very puzzled, most of these people are farmers who keep to themselves in the peaceful years, rest at sunrise and sunset, have no quarrel with the world, and live an ordinary and simple life, why in this troubled world, they have become bloodthirsty madmen, adulterous and plundering, and do all kinds of evil, whose fault is this?" β
Guan Yu was born in poverty, so he naturally thought more about the suffering of the lower-class people, he himself was also bullied by Haoqiang when he was in his hometown, and he killed Haoqiang in a fit of rage, and fortunately met Liu Ze, otherwise he didn't know where to go with the title of Tongji criminal, maybe he also joined the Yellow Turban camp, and even had a face-to-face battle with Liu Ze.
Liu Ze sighed and said: "Some people say that human nature is inherently good, and some people say that human nature is inherently evil, in fact, human nature is good and evil, but it cannot be simply distinguished, in a good social order, with the constraints of morality and law, human nature will develop in the direction of good." In the troubled times, morality is decayed, the law collapses, and once evil has a soil that can breed and spread, it will spread unscrupulously, burning, killing, looting, raping women, and all the bad things imaginable can be done, which is the weakness of human nature and the inevitable result of the collapse of order. It's easy to kill 30,000 people, but it's not easy to kill the demons in people's hearts, if you kill these 30,000 people today, but tomorrow there will be 300,000 people and 3 million people to do evil, can you kill them all? The only way to change the status quo is to re-establish order and bind and regulate the world with strong laws and spiritual morality. β
Guan Yu seemed to understand these remarks, and nodded silently. Zhang Fei didn't understand at all, and shouted: "Big brother, I didn't understand a word of what you said, since you can't kill it, then leave it to the government to deal with." β