Chapter 220: The Suffering of the People
On the official road leading from Luoyang to Chang'an, tens of thousands of people were tied together with ropes in teams of 100 people, and they were driven by nearly 1,000 wolf-like Xiliang cavalry.
Overnight, the house they lived in and even the entire city of Luoyang were scorched in a sea of fire, and they had no choice but to carry some food and rice that was only enough for their stomachs and the most important belongings to help the old and the young rush to distant Chang'an to settle down again.
As the saying goes, it is hard to leave the homeland, and everyone is willing to accept such an arrangement. But up to now, no one dared to show the unwillingness in their hearts - those who had the slightest objection to everything had been slaughtered on the spot by those Xiliang soldiers who killed people without blinking.
Now the only hope for these people is to exchange their honest performance for the most basic survival guarantee, so that they can survive and struggle to Chang'an, no matter how difficult it is to settle down in that foreign land, as long as they pay a little more hardship, they can always survive.
It's a pity that many of them are doomed to fail with their pitiful and pathetic hopes, because in the eyes of those murderous Xiliang soldiers, these defenseless people are tantamount to lambs to be slaughtered, and the wealth and grain on their bodies and the young women among them are always stirring up the greed and desire in the hearts of these Xiliang soldiers.
Walking in a wild land, the military marquis and tun commanders in this Xiliang army found the captain who led the army, and one of the military marquis said in a low voice: "Captain Meng, brothers heard that those guys in front of me have already started to move, and now everyone's bags are full of Jinbao, not to mention, everyone has slept at least five little girls!"
The lieutenant surnamed Meng had a slight hesitation on his face. He was also quite moved by his subordinates' suggestions, but he was worried that he would go too far and cause a backlash from tens of thousands of people, and he might not be able to suppress his less than 1,000 people at that time. But when he saw the blazing flames burning in the eyes of his subordinates, he knew that if he objected, these subordinates, who had been carried away by wealth, would first rebel, and immediately said: "Things to do, but obey my orders, do things properly, and never cause chaos." ”
The officers became excited, and patted their chests one by one to ensure that they would obey the orders of the captain.
Captain Meng pondered for a while, made some arrangements for everyone, and then ordered everyone to rest on the spot.
Those people were already very hungry and thirsty, and when they heard this order, they all sat down on the spot, took out their dry food and water to eat, but no one noticed that the Xiliang cavalry had dispersed into a loose encirclement and surrounded them, and the bow and sword were unsheathed and murderous.
Seeing that the time had come, Captain Meng immediately ordered another 100 people to be sent to search for the people's belongings.
These belongings were brought out by the people to settle down in a foreign land, and there were people who protested at that time when they were willing to hand them over easily.
Captain Meng's face was full of murder, and the spear in his hand pointed forward, and a group of 100 cavalry approached at the time, first with a volley of bows and arrows, and then with spears and bayonets and trampling horses' hooves, and in an instant, hundreds of people fell in a pool of blood.
The screams and blood silenced everyone and they honestly shrank in place, allowing the hundred Xiliang soldiers to rush in and search their bags and parcels one by one, sweeping away all their belongings.
After the Xiliang soldiers looted the people's belongings, they had no intention of stopping, and began to drag some young and beautiful women out.
The families of those women had already guessed the fate of their wives and daughters, and some of them scolded and resisted, and some of them cried and begged, but those Xiliang soldiers were unmoved, and the rebels were all killed with a knife, and the crying supplicants kicked away, still dragging those women out.
In the midst of a cry and scream, the earth suddenly shook slightly, and the sound of rumbling horses' hooves quickly came from far and near.
"Enemy attack, prepare for battle!" Captain Meng shouted wildly.
But as soon as the cry was spoken, a long arrow forged in fine iron crossed a distance of more than a thousand paces and pierced his throat with incomparable precision.
On the side of the road, a group of cavalry came at a gallop, and the general who was the first to ride a yellow horse withdrew the short bow in his hand and hung it up, and put an ancient moon elephant trunk knife in his palm, and shouted with the front finger of the blade: "Kill the enemy!"
The general was naturally Huang Zhong, and the five hundred cavalry behind him raised the spears in their hands together and shouted: "Kill the enemy!"
After the shouting, the war horse had rushed to the front, Huang Zhong's big knife was like a river surging endlessly, and every time the knife was swung, there must be a Xiliang soldier's head in a different place, and where the Huang Hused horse passed, he left a headless corpse still on the horse's back and a human head rolling all over the ground.
The five hundred cavalry who followed him were one of the three thousand Yellow Turban wharves, and each of them practiced the body refining techniques passed down by Yu Tianlai, and even an ordinary soldier could be ten. In front of Huang Zhong and other top masters to open the way, facing the Xiliang soldiers who had lost their main generals and were in chaos, the charge of the five hundred cavalry did not encounter any resistance, and the weighted fine iron spears easily penetrated a body, and a single impact would defeat the enemy who was nearly twice the number of troops.
In the face of these sudden killing gods, those Xiliang soldiers were frightened, and they threw away their weapons and knelt down to surrender, hoping to save their lives, but they all forgot that there were tens of thousands of people around them who had just been poisoned by them.
"Kill these Xiliang dog thieves!"
I don't know who let out a shout, and suddenly provoked the long-suppressed hatred and anger of all the people, and immediately saw that both young and strong, old and weak, women and children rushed up, like a raging flood to annihilate the hundreds of remnants of Xiliang who had abandoned their weapons and begged to surrender.
After a few moments, the people retreated, leaving the corpses of Xiliang soldiers on the ground in the shape of inhumans.
When Huang Zhong saw this scene, he sighed in his heart for a while, and his luck shouted: "We are the men and horses of His Royal Highness King Hongnong, and we have come to rescue you and others by the order of the king. You and the others quickly packed up their things and returned to Luoyang the same way. The king has made some arrangements over there for the placement of you. ”
When these people who survived the catastrophe heard that they could return to their homes, although their homes had been destroyed by a previous fire, their hearts were still overjoyed and excited, and they all looked at Luoyang from afar and cried to the ground, and shouted in unison: "The king is benevolent, we will never forget!"
Huang Zhong said loudly: "We still have to go to rescue the people in front, you can go by yourself!" After saying that, the leader led the army and galloped forward.
At the same time as Huang Zhong made a move, Dian Wei also led five hundred cavalry to annihilate another Xiliang army and save the people they were escorting. After telling the people to return to Luoyang the same way, he also hurried forward.
On the Luoyang side, Yu Tianlai protected Liu Wei and led the remaining 2,000 Yellow Turban Warriors as infantry, and after exterminating the arson and plundering Xiliang soldiers with Sun Jian, he extinguished the fire that spread to most of Luoyang. And Cao Cao, because of his earnestness, did not listen to Yu Tianlai's persuasion, and had already led more than 10,000 of his troops to pursue Dong Zhuo.
Liu Wei was talking to Yu Tianlai and Sun Jian, when suddenly a soldier under Sun Jian came to say goodbye: "When I was cleaning up the burned temple, I saw that there were five colors of light in a well in the south of the temple. ”
Sun Jian was slightly stunned when he heard this, but Yu Tianlai on the side bowed to Liu Wei and laughed loudly: "Poor Dao congratulates the king." If the poor Dao expected to be good, this should be a treasure that God has lost in the Han Dynasty to return to thank the king for his benevolent act of saving the people from fire and water. ”