Chapter 860: Heavenly Heart

Yan Liqiang didn't expect that the Shatu people would hide so many women, children and children in their Flame Temple, here, except for these people, there was no man taller than a wheel, and the warriors who rushed into the Flame Temple clenched the weapons in their hands one by one, looking at those who were trembling, and waited for Yan Liqiang to give an order.

Yan Liqiang didn't think he was too soft-hearted, but at this moment, looking at those babies who were still in swaddling clothes, he also felt his heart tremble.

After taking a deep breath, Yan Liqiang calmly ordered, "Drive them to the terrace outside first, and then search this temple to see what the Shatu people are still hiding here!"

"Yes!"

When the surrounding sergeants received the order, they began to drive the women and children from the main hall and drive them out of the main hall.

Seeing that the surrounding sergeants were about to drive themselves out, the silent and frozen atmosphere in the hall was finally broken, and a dry Shatu women and children began to cry heartbreakingly, and when those people came to the outside of the main hall, they saw the corpses and blood stains of the Shatu people on the terrace and stone steps outside the main hall, and the people who were driven out were even more frightened, and all the children and women cried loudly, and the clouds were miserable.

Yan Liqiang also walked out of the temple, standing on the steps at the entrance of the temple, looking at the women and children on the terrace.

At this time, Shi Changfeng, Shen Teng, Gong Tieshan, Wang Naiwu, and Lei Meng of the Ganzhou Army also rushed here with fireworks. They were all sweeping in other places before, and they heard that there were still Shatu people resisting here, so they rushed over, but it was only two minutes late, and the resistance here had already been swept away by Yan Liqiang and others. When they saw the weeping women and children gathered on the terrace, they understood what was going on just by asking.

"Are there still Shatu people in other places who are resisting?" asked Shi Changfeng.

"Lord Qiyu, the Shatu people in all parts of Xingxing Lake have basically been cleaned up, and now it is estimated that only a few Shatu people took advantage of the chaos to hide in the grass or lake last night, but they can't hide for long, Xingxing Lake has been completely surrounded by us, and now that the sky is dawning, we can search it out soon!" Shi Changfeng replied while glancing at the women and children of the Shatu people, a trace of unbearable color flashed in his eyes, he hesitated a little, and lowered his voice a little, "My lord, slaughter these women and children, I'm afraid...... I'm afraid it's ominous......"

Shen Teng looked at Yan Liqiang, and stopped talking, but his eyes were indeed a little unbearable.

"What's ominous, these sand bruts should be killed, what are you doing with them?" Zhao Dachuan heard Shi Changfeng's words, his eyes immediately widened, and he said murderously beside him, "If the adults are soft-hearted and don't want to see the next scene, just leave it to me here, and deal with it in a moment!"

The other generals and officers didn't speak, they just looked at Yan Liqiang, basically, the words of Shi Changfeng and Zhao Dachuan were already very representative, some people felt a little unbearable, but there were still some people who felt that these Shatu people should be killed.

To be honest, Yan Liqiang was also very conflicted in his heart, he wanted to grit his teeth and let Zhao Dachuan deal with it, but when he looked at the women and children next to him, he felt a little cruel in his heart, and he couldn't do it......

"Adult, please, please, my child is innocent, he is still young, he doesn't understand anything, if you want to kill, kill me, leave a way for my child to live......" Among those women and children, suddenly a woman squeezed through the crowd and rushed towards Yan Liqiang, and only knelt down after being held by the spears of the guards beside Yan Liqiang, and then lifted the headscarf on his head and knelt down, kowtowing like a pound.

The woman was in her twenties, with tears streaming down her face, and she was still holding a baby about a year old in her arms, and after she lifted her headscarf, Yan Liqiang noticed that her head full of black hair and face was actually a Han person, and her appearance was still a little delicate.

Yan Liqiang's brows furrowed slightly, "Are you Han?"

"Yes, the slave maid is the Han ......"

"What's your name and why are you here?"

"The slave's name is Liu Cui'e, a native of Ganzhou, the family has been poor since childhood, there is no mother, the father loves to gamble, the slave maid was sixteen years old, my father was in debt, so he sold me into a brothel, two years ago I was bought from the brothel by a Shatu man, brought to the Gulang grassland, and saved a child last year......" The woman raised her face and looked at Yan Liqiang with tears in her eyes," My lord, the slave and maid are committed to the Shatu people, there is a crime of intemperance, I know that I am guilty, I dare not ask the adult for mercy, but the slave's child, it is really innocent, today is the child's first birthday, he has just been born, he can't even speak, and he doesn't know who his father is, what the Shatu Seven did before, it has nothing to do with him, ask the adults to be merciful, give the slave's child a way to live, the slave and the maid will be a cow and a horse in the next life, and repay the kindness of the adult......"

The woman saw the child crying, so she knelt on the ground and untied her clothes, and regardless of the many sergeants next to her, she began to breastfeed the child, and as soon as the child who was crying received milk, she immediately stopped crying, but ate it in a big gulp.

"Oh...... Oh...... Oh...... Babies don't cry...... Babies don't cry...... Mom doesn't cry either...... Mom doesn't cry either...... They say mothers can't cry when they're breastfeeding...... Otherwise, the milk is bitter...... The baby will get sick if she eats it......" The woman lowered her head, looked at her child with loving eyes, wiped her tears, and actually showed a smile on her face, "This is the last time my mother feeds you, eat more, otherwise you won't be able to eat in the future......"

At this moment, the entire terrace was silent, in the midst of the blood and corpses all over the ground, under countless knives, guns and arrows, the picture of a mother kneeling on the ground, bare chest and feeding her child, seemed to have an indescribable impact, even Zhao Dachuan, who had just been grinning, was quiet at this moment.

Yan Liqiang sighed, turned around, looked at the sky in the distance, and said nothing, a woman behind him nursed the child, he turned around, looked at the woman and the women and children of the Shatu people, and said to a guard who could speak Shatu beside him, "What do I say next, you translate it to these Shatu people......

"Yes, sir!" the guard nodded.

"I am the Great Han Empire Qi Yun Governor Yan Liqiang......" Yan Liqiang's expression was solemn, and he glanced at the women and children of the Shatu people with a majestic gaze.

The guard then loudly translated Yan Liqiang's words into Shatu for all the Shatu people on the terrace to hear.

"I led the troops into the Gulang Grassland this time, not an invasion, but a crusade, the Gulang Grassland was originally the territory of our Han Empire, when your Shatu Seven Department was in trouble, we sheltered you, let you thrive here, but your Shatu Seven Division, but the grace will take revenge, wolf ambition, first destroyed the Qiyun Governor's Protectorate, and later took refuge in the Black Tigers, these decades, to my Han Empire and the people of the Northwest, committed a lot of crimes, and created countless evils, this is the reward of today, you Shatu Seven have today, you are guilty of deserved, not worthy of pity and sympathy, all the dead Shatu people, in my eyes, are not sorry to die, I am very proudToday, I can lead my brave soldiers to completely wipe out the seven divisions of your Shatu from the Gulang grassland, and restore the glory and majesty of our Han Empire in the Gulang grassland!"

"Wansheng", "Wansheng", "Wansheng"......

As soon as Yan Liqiang finished speaking, all the sergeants on the terrace raised their weapons in their hands and roared, and only after the translator finished translating this paragraph did Yan Liqiang continue.

"I once swore to heaven that I would wipe out all the people of your seven divisions of the Shatu, and leave no one behind, and let every person from the seven tribes of the Shatu use their blood and lives to wash away the sins created by your men and elders, but when I see you today, I also think of a sentence, that God has the virtue of a good life, and today I will give you a chance to see if God wants to destroy you with my hand, or if he wants to leave a chance for you women and children to live!" Speaking of this, Yan Liqiang looked at Liu Cui'e who was kneeling in front of him, " Isn't your son just turning a year old today, according to the habit of our Han people, let him catch a lot today, I will put four things in front of him, if he catches a weapon, don't blame me for being ruthless, if he catches something else, I will let all of you live today!"

Translated into the past, those Shatu people also understood, and all of a sudden, all the eyes of the Shatu people were focused on the body of the child who had just turned one year old that Liu Cui'e was holding, Yan Liqiang asked people to place four things on the ground, a knife, an arrow, a piece of silver, and a step of woolen cloth on the ground, and then touched the child's head and let the child crawl to choose by himself.

"Kid...... Our lives are in your hands......" Liu Cui'e trembled and put her child on the ground, letting her child choose things.

At first, when I saw the newly-fed child crawling towards the knife, all the women and children of the Shatu were sweating profusely, but the child only climbed a few steps, then turned around, sat on the ground for a few seconds, and then crawled straight in front of the piece of silver and woollen cloth, and then grabbed a piece of silver with one hand and a woollen cloth with the other, and giggled......

In just two minutes, Liu Cui'e's back was already soaked, and the moment she saw her child pick up the silver and wool cloth, Liu Cui'e couldn't help it all of a sudden, covered her mouth and cried, and then hugged her child in her arms.

Shi Changfeng, Shen Teng and the others glanced at each other, and they all breathed a sigh of relief.

"From today on, there are no more Shatu Seven Divisions in this world, if I hear any news about the Shatu Seven Divisions, even if it is thousands of miles away, I can send someone to destroy you, and you are not allowed to stay in the Gulang Grassland again, and you will never be allowed to step into the territory of the Han Empire in the future!" Yan Liqiang said to the women and children of the Shatu people, and then looked at Shi Dafeng, "Dafeng, you look at them, give them one person and one horse, let them take everything they can take, and then send five hundred people to escort them out of the Gulang Grassland...... ”

"Where are you sending them?" Shi Dafeng scratched his head.

"From here to the west, over the Moon Mountain, is the Western Desert, where they come from, send them to wherever they come from......"

"Yes!"

"Thank you, thank you, thank you, ......" Liu Cui'e hugged her child and knelt down again and kowtowed to Yan Liqiang.

"You can do it yourself in the future!" Yan Liqiang waved his hand, and Shi Dafeng led someone to escort these women and children away from the terrace.

Watching these women and children walk down this small mountain bag, Yan Liqiang also breathed a long sigh of relief in his heart, and felt a sense of relaxation.

"My lord's benevolence and benevolence are admirable!" Seeing that Zhao Dachuan and a few people also walked away, Shi Changfeng smiled at Yan Liqiang.

"What does Master Shi mean by this, this is all the will of heaven!" Yan Liqiang said seriously.

"Ahem...... Cough...... It's indeed providence, it's indeed providence, it's God who wants to leave a way for these women and children to live, it's me who lost my word......" Shi Changfeng blinked his eyes and sighed, " These women and children left the Gulang Grassland, entered the Western Regions Desert, and wanted to return to the Shatu Alliance, it was impossible, if they did not die on the road, the best result would probably be to be subdued by those tribal tyrants of the Western Regions to become slaves and servants by the way, just this point women and children, in a foreign land, surrounded by foreign races, it is impossible to make any waves, it would be good to survive, two generations later, these people and those foreign races intermarried, once they were assimilated, they themselves did not know where they came from......"

"I hope so!" Yan Liqiang smiled lightly.

At this moment, an officer who had searched the temple before rushed in front of Yan Liqiang, "Lord Qiqi, we found a lot of gold and silver in that temple, and we also found a prisoner in the dungeon under the temple......

Yan Liqiang was not surprised to find gold and silver, but when he said that he found a prisoner, Yan Liqiang really felt strange, "Prisoner, what kind of prisoner, bring me to see!"

"Yes!"

After a while, the prisoner who was dressed in tatters and full of long hair and beard was brought in, and when he saw the prisoner, Yan Li was happy, the prisoner was not a Shatu man, nor a Han Chinese, but a "foreigner", yes, a foreigner, a foreigner with a high nose, red hair, and blue eyes, at first glance, this foreigner actually looked a bit like the fellow Bethune that Yan Liqiang had seen on TV in his previous life - the Canadian named Dashan......

"Brunette...... Black-eyed ...... You guys...... You are big men...... The army of the Han Empire?" the foreigner who was brought to Yan Liqiang's side saw Yan Liqiang and stammered in half-baked Chinese.

"Well, yes, I'm Yan Liqiang, the Qi Yun Governor of the Great Han Empire, who are you?" Yan Liqiang asked.

Listening to Yan Liqiang's tears, the foreigner left tears all of a sudden, and then knelt on the ground and cried, the whole person was extremely excited, and kept beating the ground......