Section 28 Beacon Smoke (24)
Along the way, the Immortal issued the same order as the Divine Soul Army in the Wei State, the martyr army passed through, the corpses of the Yan [***] people were everywhere, those who could be robbed were robbed, and those who could not be robbed were burned and destroyed, and the walls of the city along the way were destroyed by the Immortal with the power of the world. After the baptism of killing during this journey, the martyr army of the Yan Kingdom has become a brutal army with high fighting spirit.
At this moment, the State of Zhou has captured the capital of Korea and captured the king of Han alive.
The Zhou army swept through the Korean land like a tidal wave, and most of the Korean territory fell into the hands of the Zhou state not long after. However, near the junction of Chen and Qi, many Korean military generals surrendered to the two countries when they saw that they were defeated by the Zhou army. Only a few held on to the city, and would not surrender.
Although the persistence of these people has nothing to do with the overall situation, it has prompted many Korean martial arts masters to gather one after another, and even the largest martial faction in South Korea, Wei Wuzong, launched an alliance against Zhou Xinghan, which actually attracted more than 300 large and small Korean martial arts sects to join, and many Jianghu martial arts cultivators also joined them, all of whom harbored the hatred of the country and only hoped to kill a few more people from the Zhou Kingdom.
Not long ago, there was a sensational figure in South Korea, because he had cultivated the secrets of ancient magic skills, and many of Korea's famous masters were challenged and defeated by him, so he won the honor of Korea's No. 1 master. Subsequently, the Divine Sword Sect was established, and several elders were his siblings and siblings. Although the number is small, it is prestigious.
The alliance initiated by the Mighty Martial Sect also invited the Sect Master of the Divine Sword Sect to serve as the deputy alliance leader.
The anti-Zhou Xinghan Martial Cultivator Alliance helped the Han generals who had fallen to resist several attacks by the Divine Soul Army, but they were outnumbered and watched as the Divine Soul Army continued to capture more lands that belonged to Korea.
Realizing that it would be impossible to resist the more than 100,000 Zhou army with their strength, the Divine Sword Sect Master volunteered and proposed the idea of assassinating the Zhou princess, the Bai sisters.
The Anti-Zhou Xinghan Alliance carefully prepared for this, and invited more than 100 of Korea's most famous martial arts masters, led by the Divine Sword Sect Master, to the original Han Capital to carry out an assassination plan!
Handu, the old Korean royal palace prison.
The king of Han and the important civil and military ministers of Korea who were unwilling to surrender were all imprisoned here.
Among them is the former South Korean Prime Minister Zheng Pi.
Today's Zheng Pi, with a disheveled head, is wearing prison clothes, and his face is dirty and has never been cleaned. He was kept in a hay-covered cell, and next to him was King Han.
When he was first sent to the cell, Zheng Pi looked insane because he couldn't accept it.
Every time he grabbed the iron bars of the cell with blood-red eyes, he roared and shouted, "I want to see Zhao Tian! I want to see Zhao Tian! He is a liar, he is a liar......
At night, Zheng Pi squatted alone in a corner of the cell, allowing his former Korean ministers to scold, curse and spurn him.
"Zheng Pi, you rice bucket, South Korea died at your hands......"
"Zheng Pi, you sinner through the ages!"
"Zheng Pi, you can't die well, in order to ignore the interests of South Korea for your own selfishness, how hard I tried to dissuade you, all of them were ignored by you, and now that South Korea is dead, you still have the face to live and make people scold, if I were you, I would have apologized for death a long time ago!"
“......”
The shouting and scolding of the kind barely stopped.
However, King Han, who should have spit on Zheng Pi the most, never said a bad word.
Since King Han was imprisoned in the prison, he has been silent.
It wasn't until the morning of the second day that he said his first words.
"Someone's coming...... Someone's coming...... This king is thirsty, and someone is coming......"
In the dim prison, the moaning of King Han for help was particularly clear, which caused many civil and military officials who had fallen asleep to wake up, knowing that it was the moaning of King Han, many people couldn't help crying, kneeling down and crying "Your Majesty, Your Majesty's ......", but they were helpless about the status quo, and they only wished to send him some water.
Some people took the lead and slammed the iron fence and shouted for the people, and others followed suit.
However, the jailer was a native of the Northland, and knew that the prisoners were full of food and drink and had the strength to shout and scream, and deliberately made them thirsty for a few days. Hearing the shouting, the surname Suo closed the door, drank and ate food by himself, and chatted to pass the boredom of the night.
The South Korean civil and military officials were really tired after shouting for a while, and gradually they couldn't scream.
King Han was also weak, and knew that shouting in vain would have no effect, so he also closed his mouth. Thinking back to the past time in the palace, I could not help but burst into tears, thinking of many times in the past when I was only interested in pleasure and not enterprising, so that I ended up in such a field today, and I felt more and more sad in my regret, and I could not stop crying for a while.
After two days, the jailer finally brought food and drink, but some leftovers and a bowl of water.
King Han didn't care about his demeanor, drank dry water in one go, grabbed the rice and fed it directly to his mouth. The embarrassment of the prison Chinese military officials one by one was not under King Han.
On the contrary, Zheng Pi, although he was no longer crazy, he became very quiet, and he was not hungry for the water and rice sent, he only took two sips of water and put it down, ignoring the leftovers, and sitting in the corner of the wall.
After eating and drinking, some civil and military officials have the strength, miss the past, pity the present, cry and sigh.
At night, the jailer did not deliver food, and when the hungry could not stand it, they shouted again, but the jailer still ignored him.
King Han was so hungry that he saw that Zheng Pi's lunch hadn't eaten yet, he swallowed saliva and approached the iron fence, and said to Zheng Pi, "Aiqing, this king is hungry......"
When Zheng Pi heard it, he didn't speak, took the rice and handed it to King Han, and sat down on his own.
King Han ate regardless of anything else, and the nearby civil and military officials saw it, and their faces were greedy. Zheng Pi raised his eyes and looked around, sneered secretly and lowered his head again. I only felt that these colleagues were shouting loudly, but none of them had any backbone.
'How can I, Zheng Pi, use this dog food, and would rather starve to death than live like a wild dog.' ’
King Han ate something and was able to fall asleep again.
That night, the jailer sent in another person, and Zheng Pi saw that it was General Cheng.
It happened that the prison was already full, Zheng Pi was the first to come in, and the jailer was too lazy to move around, so Suo surnamed Cheng locked General Cheng in the cell closest to the door, Zheng Pi.
When the two met, they were not only emotional, but also happy.
"Young Master!"
"Brother!" Zheng Pi couldn't help but burst into tears, he couldn't imagine that General Cheng was still willing to call himself that way so far, and he couldn't help but press on General Cheng's shoulder when he was moved.
I heard General Cheng talk about how he was defeated and captured.
At the end, General Cheng asked him in a low voice, "Many people have surrendered, what are the plans of the young master?"
Zheng Pi shook his head. "Brother, leave me alone, you better surrender. ”
When General Cheng heard this, he said urgently, "Isn't the young master going down?"
Zheng Pi raised his eyes to look at him, and said lightly, "You know my spleen surname, if you lose today, you will lose, let me surrender to destroy the enemy, it is impossible!"
"Young master, the matter has come to this, why do you need to be loyal to the dead Han?" General Cheng didn't want to see him stubborn, and hurriedly persuaded him.
Zheng Pi chuckled and said, "I'm not loyal to Han for the sake of death. It's just that if I surrender to the enemy, I feel humiliated, and life is better than death!"
When General Cheng heard him say this, he couldn't help but remember Zheng Pi's overly strong self-esteem, and for a while he both sighed and secretly admired his fearlessness. Thinking of the friendship between the two over the years, Zheng Pi has treated him as always over the years, and has never despised him as a rough man because he became the prime minister, and he can't help but be enthusiastic.
"Okay! Since the young master doesn't descend, I won't descend either! People live and die sooner or later, and I often hear others say that they are friends and friends, isn't this kind of friendship between me and the young master?"
Zheng Pi was quite surprised and very moved.
"You don't have to be like this, I'm a surname, I really can't stand this humiliation......"
"Young master, don't say it, I've made up my mind!"
Zheng Pi didn't say more, otherwise he would look down on him. I only feel that he has a brother who is willing to live and die together in this life, and it is not in vain.
Every day, people are brought in.
At first, no one went out, but on the fifth day some people were taken out and beheaded.
Zheng Pi had some admiration when several Wen Chenwu generals who were eating and drinking in the prison were dragged out and beheaded, although those people couldn't stand the pain of hunger and thirst, but they were still not afraid of death, and they kept scolding when they were dragged out. It shows the spirit of loyal ministers.
Sixth, some people disappeared inexplicably during the night.
On the seventh night, Zheng Pi knew why. It turned out that many people were afraid of death and wanted to surrender, and they were afraid of being scolded by other people in captivity, so they took things and threw them at night, making a noise to lure the jailers in, and secretly surrendered and were released.
On the ninth day, some people had already openly surrendered and were taken away. When he was scolded by others before leaving, he shouted with the same face, "I am not the only one who surrendered! At least I am above board, but the others secretly surrendered in the middle of the night......
In this way, there were more surrenders on the tenth day.
Originally, there were many people who refused to bow their heads and surrender, but they couldn't help their families to buy the jailers one after another to cry and persuade when they came in to visit, and gradually they all turned their backs on King Han and left the prison because of family affection.
Dead and dead, walking and walking, in the end, there were only eight or nine people left in the huge prison, including King Han, Zheng Pi, and General Cheng.
Seeing that there were only a few loyal and brave ministers around him in the past, King Han felt that the past in his memory had all become ridiculous with irony. At first, King Han did not have a grudge against Zheng Pi in his heart, but he did not discuss with his ministers when he made the decision, and when he heard others scolding Zheng Pi, he naturally did not complain, and he became a prisoner, and he did not have the heart to complain about others.
Later, when I saw that Zheng Pi gave up water to him every time, I was only moved by his loyalty, and I only felt that I didn't mislook at him in the past, so why would I be willing to care about things that are meaningless now?
Now that everyone is gone, only Zheng Pi, General Cheng and a few others are left, King Han couldn't help but sigh with emotion, "The truly loyal Qing family around this king turns out to be only you!"
Zheng Pi's mood had improved a lot at this time, but he still refused to eat.
General Cheng persuaded him a lot, but it had no effect. Zheng Pi always said that "I, Zheng Pi, can starve to death, but I will never eat these things." ”
General Cheng knew that Zheng Pi's surname was stubborn, but he was a martial artist, and he still had the courage to face the killing, but it was only for a moment. But long-term hunger is like a bone-eating torture, which lasts forever. He didn't care about the ugliness, and ate and drank by himself.
That night, as they had slept as usual, they suddenly heard the sharp thud of the prison door being slammed open.
(To be continued)