Chapter XVIII

According to the statistics of some people who don't know what purpose they have, what kind of people can survive in the famine years? Probably 20~40 years old young adults.

Although the imperial culture is the idea of "governing the country with Confucianism", the concept of respecting the old and loving the young is the national concept advocated by the empire.

Like "the old and the old, the young and the young".

"Holding Mount Tai to surpass the North Sea, this can't be, it's not for nothing; Breaking branches for the elderly is not for it, and it is not for it. ”

The truth of benevolence is also the matter of relatives, and the truth of righteousness is also the brother is also.

If you don't have a kin, you can't be a human being, and if you don't obey your family, you can't be a son.

These are all dogmas that will be remembered during the Mongolian school period, and the empire has also made provisions in disaster relief, trying to give the elderly, women, and children the greatest help possible.

But in reality, on the contrary, in a year of famine, it is these "weak" who bear the brunt of the disaster, and the largest part of the number of people who die in the famine is these objects that should be protected.

Because those young and middle-aged people will rely on their own strength to gather in the mountains and forests, first in the disaster area to grab the limited stock of grain, and after the food under their control is eaten up, they will begin to circulate around, forming a strong force of displaced people and mobs, and this kind of army of displaced people composed of young and middle-aged people, its strength should not be underestimated, like ordinary county seats, villages are really difficult to resist.

And the elderly, women and children starved to death first because they could not get food!

"An Idler's Miscellaneous"

Staring at the increasingly scarce rice porridge in their bowls, the victims outside the city roared and complained that the residents of the city had shared the food that was supposed to help them.

The residents of the city were even more angry, these should have been in the city, but they had so much food, and they hoarded it and sold it at a high price, and now they went to the relief of the victims outside the city, which made countless people in the city feel dissatisfied.

With all this food, everyone can live! Why do you need to use it to help those strangers outside the city?

If it weren't for the fact that there is a wall, I am afraid that the conflict would have occurred long ago.

What to do?

What to do?

Li Xiangfeng felt that he had become an ant on a hot pot, and he didn't expect that such a serious thing would be sent out to help the victims, and the complexity of the matter was far beyond his imagination.

Now that I think about the relief of the victims outside Nanyang City, it really seems like two completely different things compared to here.

Finally, when Li Xiangfeng was on top, the first wave of conflict broke out.

The rioters took advantage of the wide open gates to charge into the city, intending to rob the city of the food that had been stored.

Instead of attacking the city gates with regulations in the regular army, they swarmed up like a flood, pushed the back to the front, and then crowded by the back, and pounced on the city gates.

It was expected that the soldiers were well prepared, and countless victims rushed into the city, but in an instant, blood splashed in the crowd of victims.

"Charge, take the city gate back!" the guards under the city gate shouted loudly!

The gates of the city were completely surrounded by the crowd of victims, and the soldiers were cramped in one place, unable to move.

Hearing the general's order, the soldiers drew out their swords from their waists, and the cold swords turned into life-harvesting scythes in an instant.

The crowded, dressed in thick cotton clothes, seemed to be able to resist the slashing with knives a little, but they were also slashed somewhat, and they suffered from pain

Some of the irascible victims began to attack the soldiers.

Four or five victims surrounded the soldiers, some holding their heads, some clenching their arms, and others grabbing their knives.

The physical fitness of the defenders is much stronger than that of the victims, but four or five victims attack at the same time, and the strong fists are difficult to reach 10 hands, just a face, and the matching knives in the hands of the guards are robbed.

The cold and piercing feeling came from the abdomen, and the kind of cold matching knife did not enter the abdomen of the guard, and the defender looked down in disbelief to see his matching knife piercing into his abdomen, and saw a pair of dirty hands along the handle of the matching knife, and the owner of the arms was looking at him with excitement.

The expression of excitement had become distorted, frenzied, and bloodthirsty, and the eyes of the guards were shivering, and when the knife was drawn, the defenders felt their life force flow down their abdomen like a flowing stream.

"Captain...."The pale guard turned his head to look at the guard not far from him, and in the noisy crowd, he uttered the last two words of his life, and then his head leaned to one side weakly, still shaking around by the crowd of the victims.

Perhaps because they had been together for too long, the guard's faint voice was actually heard clearly by the guard, and when the guard found the guard, he only saw a paralyzed body crowded among the victims, drifting with the tide, and then a gap disappeared into the flow of people.

At this moment, the guard noticed that one of the violent victims was slowly walking towards another guard with a knife held high.

"Kill! kill all these mobs!"

Suddenly, the anger burned to the sky, and the angry guards had fallen into a state of boundless madness, and the knife in his hand fell, and half of the neck of the victim who was crowding towards the city in front of him was cut off, and blood was pouring out. Splashing around the crowd of victims, some with a look of fear and some with an angry look.

"The people rebelled!

Drums beat above the city walls! The adjutant of the city shouted loudly, and the archers on the battlements were ready to attack!

With the adjutant's order, the arrows were like flying locusts, and they pounced on the victims under the city with the breath of death.

Whoosh~Whoosh~Whoosh~Whoosh~!

In just a few breaths, there was no one standing under the city gate, and the people who were surging behind were forced to take a few steps backwards, forming a dividing line of death in front of them, but when one person entered, he was killed by an arrow through his body.

The battle in the corridor of the city gate gradually calmed down, and the flood of victims outside the city was gone, and the victims here gradually calmed down under the blowing and killing of the soldiers guarding the gate.

Countless victims of the disaster knelt on the ground and begged for mercy, but they could not escape the knives in the hands of the soldiers guarding the door, and their heads were rolling down, knowing that these guards did not intend to let them go, and the victims who must have lost their lives here showed polarized behavior.

A stream of people surging with anger and blood roared and pounced on the ten guards of the gate! Even if they die, they will come and the net will be broken! But after all, this is only a small part.

The rest of the victims trembled and fell to the ground, praying for the soldiers to come into their way. Others began to pray, praying that the calamity would not come again. And more of it seems to be waiting for death to come.

In less than a quarter of an hour, the guards had cleared the mob from the counterattack, and the battle here was drawing to a close. Stepping on the blood-stained pavement, every step will make a creepy-sounding "zi, zi, zi".

The victims who rushed into the city were all lying here, letting the blood trickle.

5 soldiers were killed and 8 wounded, while nearly 2 were left behind here

More than 00 corpses, some of the victims still have a breath, lying in a pool of blood and convulsing, and the terrible cut in their necks is slowly adding fresh blood to the road.

Like a demon, the guard dripping with blood slowly walked in front of the victim who was lying in a pool of blood.

Black shadows obscured the sight of the victims, and bloody breath filled their mouths and noses.

In the eyes of the victims, they saw the demon-like guards raise and fall with their swords.

The whole world began to turn upside down.

The sky was blue.

The earth is dark.

After the world in his eyes rolled back and forth a few times, he only saw the headless corpse, which was spurting out blood-red blood.

The rag padded jacket was so familiar to me, and I vaguely remembered that I had taken it from a civilian who was about to starve to death.

This guy still doesn't know how to lift, he can't live long, but he didn't expect to have the strength to resist, so he wasted some more strength to knock him to the ground.

Gradually, the whole world began to turn blood red, and then it went black.

I can finally sleep peacefully, and now I don't have the slightest feeling of hunger, which is really comfortable.

"Let's see if there are any gasps! Kill them on the spot! Not one will be left!" The guard looked around with a fierce look and gave the order that made the hearts of the onlookers in the city palpitate.

After another fluttering sound, the whole scene was calm.

When he was young, the civilians who couldn't stand it had a burst of fear and fled with their heads in all directions.

This place is like a purgatory, a purgatory on earth, how can civilians who have never seen such a bloody scene endure this kind of scene?

Some of the onlookers fainted in a trance, unconscious.

When this matter reached the ears of Li Xiangfeng, who was worried in the inn in the city, he was shocked, and even more shocked, at this time, Li Xiangfeng didn't care about what to think, and rushed to the city gate with Yu Yan non-stop.

Everywhere along the way were civilians walking around, and these civilians were bustling with each other talking about something, and it was obvious that what they were talking about was related to this matter.

By the time Li Xiangfeng and Yu Yan arrived, the bodies of the victims had been piled up as a whole, and the two adults, Taishou and Garrison, were already standing on the top of the city tower and looking out.

The bodies of five knife-wielding victims were dragged by soldiers to the tower.

When Li Xiangfeng and Yu Yanfeng climbed the city tower, the heads of the five victims were dragged to the battlement by the soldiers and cut off with a knife.

Five blood-spilled heads tumbled down from the castle tower, and the headless neck was like five valves for draining water, and five streams of bright red blood shot out to the castle below, splashing on the city wall, showing an irregular pattern.

"There is an order from the garrison, these five thieves will snatch their knives and kill people, and order them to be bled and displayed to the public for three days! If this happens again, you will all be treated as a mob rebellion! There is no mercy!" the adjutant of the city guard shouted from above the tower.

The angry sound shot straight into the ears of the victims outside the city, so that the excitement of the victims was frightened, looking at the corpses of the hedgehogs in front of them, most of the victims were silently ready to go to other places.

Anyway, I have eaten a lot of food in the past few days, and I can resist for a few days.

"Lord Li, what kind of wind blew you here?" On the city tower, the Taishou who was patrolling around saw Li Xiangfeng rushing over, and asked in a yin cavity.

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