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Dou Weixian stood on the dilapidated city wall, vigorously wiped away the blood from the wound on his forehead, and used the palm of his hand with only three fingers left to open the eyelids that were stuck with the blood, and glared angrily at the Yue barbarians who were surging under the city.

The map of the continent is in Anzhou, Chu State, and here comes to an end. Further south, it belongs to the sphere of influence of the Yue barbarians.

The climate here is hot and the products are abundant. It's just that the mountains are high and the forests are dense, and the roads are not smooth, so it is difficult to communicate with the mainland of Chu. In the early years, the emperor of Chu set up Anzhou county here, due to the complicated situation, surrounded by barbarians, Anzhou is equivalent to the Jiedu envoy, and set up the post of general manager, on the horse to manage the army, off the horse to manage the people.

Anju is a poor place. Although the successive emperors of the Chu court tried their best to implement the original immigration expansion plan without discount, due to many problems in materials, environment, transportation, medical care, etc., the total population of all counties in Anzhou is only hundreds of thousands. Moreover, the distance between the counties is long, and although the area is large, it is very difficult to defend.

Qingsui is a small county town in the middle of nowhere, with a population of only 8,000. Again, this is the sum of all military and civilian figures. In short, if it is treated in terms of population alone, it will definitely not be comparable with the mainland of Chu.

The Chu people have always been very industrious. In order to colonize the frontier, 800 years ago, the emperor of Chu issued an edict: any Chu people who go to the southern Xinjiang region can enjoy the preferential treatment of 20 years of tax exemption. The edict was so tempting to the common people that many of them went to Anju to set up villages and open up land under the arrangement of local officials. The climate here is hot, all things grow quickly, and grain crops can be harvested three times a year. Soon, it became an extremely important southern granary of the Chu State.

However, every year during the harvest season. The Yue barbarians will enter the country and plunder.

The year before last, the Yue people attacked Mokang County. All the officials and soldiers in the city were killed in battle, and the Yue barbarians looted all the property in the city, slaughtered more than 10,000 worthless old and weak Chu people, and kidnapped thousands of young and strong men and women.

Last year, the Yue captured Hongze County. Despite getting the news early. Anzhou also urgently transferred 2,000 men and horses, but fell into an ambush of the Yue people in the mountain road, all the officers and soldiers were killed, and the sky-high fire burned in Hongze County for three days and three nights, and the air was filled with a strong scorching smell of corpses.

Dou Weixian is the Qingsui County Commander who just arrived a few years ago. Looking at the banner of the Yue barbarian army embroidered with the lion and tiger pattern on the distant military formation under the city, he struggled to spit out a bloody broken tooth from his mouth, and whispered to himself: "This year, is it my turn?"

The Yue people are a group of crazy and savage bandits. Dou Weixian is a diligent and honest official. When I first arrived. Undaunted by hardships and dangers, he took his subordinates around the Yue villages around Qingsui, communicated with local leaders, and promised to open the bazaar to each other. However, from the very beginning, Dou Weixian got the wrong object. The Yue people are lazy by nature, and there are many wild fruits and wild food in the mountains and forests, and the land here is fertile and the river network is dense. You don't need to plow at all, just sow a handful of seeds. can be easily harvested. Born rich, he raised a group of lazy people. The Yue people can get food without labor, so naturally it is impossible to work at sunrise and rest day by day like the farmers of Chu State.

Whether the world is rich or poor, in fact, has long had its own law. It's nothing more than a few words———— the hard-working are rich, and the lazy are poor.

Watching the farmers of Chu State harvest the golden rice in the heaven and earth. There are herds of fat pigs in the pen, the cages of chickens and ducks are almost full, and they are dressed in soft and beautiful woven clothes, singing and dancing on the day of harvest...... The Yue barbarians only felt greedy, and their hearts were like cats scratching dogs. It's itching to death.

Why do Lao Tzu want to eat bran vegetables, but they are braised pork with white rice and big steamed buns every day?

It's really nice to have money. You have good clothes to wear, you have enough to eat, you can get a beautiful wife, and you can live in a spacious and bright 2-house mansion.

Why does Lao Tzu have to be poor and starving?

Why can these **** people in Chu State live such a happy life?

Nima, it's not fair.

It never makes sense to talk to a bastard with a demon in his head. Because they're a bunch of stubborn madmen.

The earliest border county town established by the Chu State has long been destroyed by the Yue people. All the county records and other documents were burned, and there is no exact record of when the Yue barbarians began to plunder and loot, but one thing is certain———— these barbarians were violent, cruel, and extremely greedy. As long as it is something that can be snatched, they will never let it go.

What's even more terrifying is that the centuries-long war with the Chu State has caused the Yue barbarians to continue to evolve. Now, they are no longer the barbarians who were scattered and fought separately at the beginning, but have established a hierarchical regime within the group, with the emergence of the Yue barbarian king, the appearance of the upper and lower people in imitation of the official positions of the Chu State, and the extremely powerful army.

Uncultured hooligans are very scary. Because he doesn't know what the law is, he doesn't understand that this kind of behavior must be punished by the law after killing someone, and he must also pay for his life. Therefore, when picking up a kitchen knife and cutting off the victim's head, the illiterate and hooligans will only think that this is a game, not a big deal.

This is the philosophy of the Yue people———— since I don't have anything to eat, then what's yours is mine. In addition to rushing into your house and stealing food and money, I will also take your wife and children. After that, I was fortunate to live a happy life with a woman to warm the bed, and it doesn't matter if the children are not biological. It's a big deal to stab you to death with a knife, and then ...... with your wife Oh, now become my woman, regenerate him ten or eight.

Qingsui is a small county, and there are only 500 officers and soldiers stationed there. The Yue people sent tens of thousands of barbarian troops, besieging the entire county seat.

A Yue barbarian shouted an incomprehensible "Hulo" and climbed the city wall like a monkey. The Yue people live in the mountains and forests all year round, and if it sounds good, it is an uncivilized human, and if it is not good, it is an incomplete evolutionary monkey. The brute soldier was wearing simple leather armor, his two eyes radiated a cruel gaze, brandished the strangely shaped flat-headed long knife in his hand, and pounced towards Dou Weixian, who was half-kneeling on the ground and was gasping heavily.

The officers and soldiers defending the city were almost dead. Five hundred people, plus three thousand young men who were temporarily armed in the city, there were corpses all over the city of Qingsui County. There are their own people, and there are also Yue barbarians.

Looking at the brute soldier who rushed towards him with a knife, Dou Weixian grabbed a bow and arrow placed next to him, but his weak body couldn't pull the bowstring. Although the desire to survive and kill the enemy is strong. But he could only barely raise his bow and aim the arrow at the brute, and he no longer had the strength to pull half a point.

The brutes had already rushed closer. The black body exudes a strong body odor. These wild men never bathed, and when they became adults, they also bathed in mountain springs with men and women. God knows who their parents are, anyway, after the doll is raised, they are running around with their bare butts. Even if no one feeds you, you will be nested in the pit all day ****. will also grow up, and it is far stronger and stronger than the Chu people.

The world is so magical, I can only sigh that the creator is really perverted, and actually produces such a strong human counterfeit and shoddy product.

The Yue people are not all barbaric and crazy, and there are wise men among them. They taught the people the basic methods of judging the rank of the officials of the Chu State, and although the official robe on Dou Weixian's body was torn, it was a very conspicuous identification.

"Master, be careful!"

A figure suddenly jumped next to him, holding the brute soldier who was swinging his knife at Dou Weixian with both hands. The huge impact force caused the brute to lose his balance in an instant. After stumbling a few steps, the whole person flipped on his side and fell to the ground.

Dou Weixian saw it very clearly, it was an old servant who had followed him for many years. The brute was furious at the attacker who suddenly rushed out. He pulled out the old servant's hair and stabbed the old servant through the chest with a backhand. The flat-headed machete was so sharp that it could easily cut a long cut in the surface of the old servant's body. The old servant had not yet lost his breath, and he screamed in great pain. The brute reached into the old servant's belly, pulled out his warm intestines, and picked up the machete again. Vent on the ground and chop the intestines into several pieces.

Dou Weixian only felt cold all over, and he fought with his last strength. Throwing away his bow, he grabbed the arrow, and slammed it into the bloodied brute, the arrow in his hand plunging into the brute's eye. Listening to the ghostly howl from under his arm, Dou Weixian only felt that his brain was blank and he had no thoughts. Open your mouth and bite hard into the brute's nose with your mutilated teeth.

Lots of meat.

Lots of bones.

A lot of blood, and a lot of sticky snot in the dirt.

More and more Yue barbarians rushed to the city wall, and these madmen burned and looted with impunity. They found a woman cowering in the corner of the city wall, and several people immediately rushed up. There was a terrible scream from the crowd, and the frenzied and hysterical shouts were intertwined. The cracking of clothes was so piercing, and his feet kicked back and forth on the ground, and red blood slowly flowed out of the crowd.

Brutes with cruelty and exuberance on their faces roamed back and forth between the houses. They carried in their hands freshly chopped heads, dripping with blood. The Yue people like to collect enemy skulls, and every household has several human skulls to display in the living room as decoration. They carried bags full of food on their shoulders, and their bodies were full of all kinds of looted items. There are iron pots, women's jewelry, and hoes and shovels commonly used by farmers in the Chu Kingdom......

A particularly strong brute swung a hammer in his hand and smashed a man's head to the ground. Dou Weixian saw it clearly from the city wall: the man's head exploded on the spot like a ripe watermelon, the brute threw the body that lost his head into the fire, and several barbarians came over, grabbed the legs and feet of the deceased, and barbecued back and forth in the place where the flames were most intense. When the corpse turned black, the Yue people picked up their knives and cut off pieces of meat from the steaming corpse and put them on wooden sticks prepared in advance, like the bacon salted by killing pigs during the Chinese New Year.

For the Yue people, there is not much difference between human flesh and pork. Of course, they prefer to eat Chu people. Because the Chu people are very particular about bathing, they often take baths, and their bodies are clean and have no body odor. Unlike the Yue barbarians, many people don't have the habit of wiping their buttocks after pooping, and after doing that kind of thing with women, they will eat the sticky matter as a snack, and their dirty and dark skin looks like they have no appetite.

Dou Weixian didn't know how many barbarians he had killed?

Fifteen?

Or sixteen?

In short, there are too few, these barbarian beasts, even if they kill thousands, it is still not enough.

There are no weapons at hand. As for the sword issued by the imperial court to civil officials, it had already been cut to the point of missing the blade and broken into several pieces.

He shuddered and picked up a stone from under his feet.

At the age of forty, in the prime of life, Dou Weixian did not have much strength left. was able to kill more than a dozen Yue barbarians before, because he practiced swordsmanship for a few years when he was young. People are like this, once they are lazy, they don't want to move. If you can maintain the habit of smelling chickens and dancing when you were young. There must be more Yue barbarians.

A group of barbarians shouted trumpets from their mouths, drowning Dou Weixian like a tide.

The stone was smashed accurately, knocking out a few teeth of a brute. He didn't die, but he was provoked into a rage, picked up a long knife on the spot, and cut off Dou Weixian's left leg.

One was wearing armor. The tall Yue people walked up to Dou Weixian and looked at him coldly.

"The official of the Chu people can be regarded as a warrior. ”

Dou Weixian held back the pain, raised his head with difficulty, and saw an extremely vicious face, full of indifference and murderous intent.

Very dark skin, as if it had never been washed since birth, and the surface was also coated with a thick layer of oil, which shimmered in the fire and sunlight. The cheekbones and brow bones are high. The sunken eye sockets make the whole face look like a skeleton, but it is full of power. His teeth were yellow, with a few strands of blood hanging between them. The Yue barbarians had the terrible custom of eating the hearts of the living, believing that by doing so, they would absorb the power of the dead and turn it into their own.

Dou Weixian knows this guy. His name is Ruan Chen Xiongyi, and he is the general of the expedition to the north under the account of the barbarian king of the Yue people. Of course, the official positions and names were all modeled after the state of Chu.

Dou Weixian stared at Ruan Chen Xiong with bloodshot eyes. Keep that face firmly engraved in your mind.

The reason why Qingsui County was easily breached was because the Yue army was followed by shamans. Although the main city of Anzhou was garrisoned by monks from the Chu State. However, it is located far away, and communication is not easy. Although Dou Weixian had sent letters before, and he himself had led the officers and soldiers to defend the city desperately, he had not been able to wait for reinforcements.

The pronunciation of the Yue people is a little hoarse, and the syllables don't sound very standard. Ruan Chen Xiong squatted down and looked at Dou Weixian with a cold and fierce gaze: "A small Qingsui County." actually let the general lose 3,000 soldiers and horses. You, unforgivable. ”

Dou Weixian glanced at him contemptuously and took a mouthful of bloody phlegm.

Ruan Chen Xiong was not angry, his self-cultivation was obviously deeper than his appearance. He slowly stood up, with a cruel sneer. Instructed his subordinates on the left and right: "Hang this Chu official on the flagpole and hang it higher." Tell Erlang to use him as a target in the past few days and practice archery. Whoever shoots, rewards silver! Reward food! Whichever woman likes, give it whatever she likes!"

Several barbarians dragged Dou Weixian, who was dying, and had no ability to resist.

Ruan Chen Xiong turned around and glanced at Qingsui County, which was covered with thick smoke, with an extremely hideous sneer on his face.

"Give the order to kill all the men in the city and take all the women away. Slaughter the city for three days, not a single grass will be left!"

......

A high-level document from southern Xinjiang flew like snowflakes towards the capital of Chu State.

"Bastards! a bunch of shit! all a bunch of rubbish!"

On the solemn and luxurious hall, Emperor Shunming Xiang Zhong slammed a high-level document with red feathers on the ground, and the incomparably violent roar was deafening, echoing over the tall and empty hall for a long time.

"Anzhou has always been the core of southern Xinjiang, what did Cao Hui do to eat? He actually allowed the Yue barbarians to enter the country, wantonly burning, killing and looting. When Qingsui County was broken, where were the 20,000 troops under his command?"

"The Yue people are barbarians, and they have repeatedly violated my Great Chu Territory, do you really think that I am a cowardly and incompetent person?"

Under the jade steps, the civil and military officials lined up in two rows, looking down at the tooth wat in their hands one by one, silently, and let Emperor Shunming stand on the dragon chair and scold angrily.

Scolding and scolding, Emperor Shunming actually knew very well that the problem in southern Xinjiang was far more complicated than it seemed on the surface. Cao Hui, the assassin of Anzhou, had reported half a year ago that the Yue barbarian army had signs of mobilization, and the existing troops in Anzhou were not enough to defend all the surrounding areas, so he asked the capital to send reinforcements as soon as possible.

This kind of thing is easy to talk about, but it is really difficult to sit up.

The territory of Chu is extremely wide, from south to north, and it is a long and narrow area. Although the western region bordered other states such as Wei and Zhao, and had made alliances with each other, what was written was always guaranteed to be maintained only on the premise that each other had considerable strength. Heavy troops were stationed at several important border passes, forming a stable replenishment and supply system with the local area. This part of the military force must not be transferred, and once there is a slight change in the number of troops guarding the pass, the omnipresent spies will immediately transmit the news back. When the time comes, the allies who were originally smiling may become enemies who sharpen their knives.

In the eastern area, there are pirates harassing from time to time. The shipping industry of Chu was not developed, and the ships built were at most fishing vessels used for fishing in the offshore area. It is said that the koko originated from several islands in the eastern sea. They claimed to be the descendants of the great god Taizhao, and their language, customs, etc. were also very different from those of the Chu State. The cruelty and cold-bloodedness of these Haikou are even worse than those of the Yue people in southern Xinjiang. They were good at boating and boating, fierce and savage, and because the coastline was too long, Emperor Shunming could only concentrate his army on a few important coastal cities for passive defense. Rao is like this, and this part of the army also has more than 200,000 troops.

The troops guarding the pass in the west and the coastal defense armament in the east all belong to the second-line combat units of the Chu State, and their combat effectiveness can only be regarded as average, and can even be described as "poor and weak". After all, the basic strategy of the two directions of the Chu State was only defense, and although these troops were relatively weak, they were enough for defense. (To be continued.) )