What a dawn beyond the Great Wall with corpses everywhere!
After seven days of massacre by the barbarians, the entire city of Liangzhou turned into a ghostland filled with scorched earth and the stench of corpses. The dirty blood dyed the moat red, wrapping around the city walls like a ferocious and coquettish snake.
The city gate opened, and Chang'an's reinforcements finally arrived belatedly, stepping on mountains of blood, flesh and bones.
The leader was dressed in black clothes and armor. His name was Shangguan Jinnian. His father was Shangguan Taishi Shangguan Zhen. Now that Shangguan Zhen is dead, he inherited his father's business and came with his father's personal soldiers "secret guards".
In this city.
"Have you searched for the moon halberd?" He lightly rode the horse's belly and asked the leader-like man in black next to him. "Young Master, I have dug three feet into the ground in Liangzhou City to find it, and there is no Five-Colored Edict."
Shadow." Yue Ji replied, cupping his fists on his horse.
Shangguan Jinnian knitted his eyebrows in deep thought. He was seventeen years old and had just grown up. He had a long and beautiful face and eyes like cold stars. His bones under the thin black armor still retained the slenderness of a young man.
Being young is one thing, but having poisoned hands is another. His late father, Shangguanzhen, was, to put it bluntly, Dong Zhuo and Cao Cao of the current dynasty. He was naturally well versed in political intrigue.
"Can't you find it? Well, then the only one left is the General's Mansion." Shangguan Jinnian said, "Humph, maybe Tang Zhong had a sudden brain attack and hid the edict in his home." He chuckled.
Tang Zhong was the chief general in the city. Half a month ago, he returned to Beijing without permission to resume his duties. On the way, he inexplicably "died of a sudden illness."
"In this way, you will be divided into three groups. One group will follow me to the general's mansion, and the remaining two groups will continue to search in the city." He said. The secret guards immediately divided into three groups, and one of the most elite groups followed.
Shangguan Jinnian's death.
Shangguan rode Juechen and rushed towards the general's mansion.
The wet nurse Zhang was so thin that she lost her human form, and there was still a yellow-haired girl sleeping in her arms. It was pitch dark and there was no light around. This was a secret room, and the two of them had been hiding in this secret room for three whole days without eating or drinking.
"Huzi is here!" Ms. Zhang heard someone shouting in the middle of the night. She quickly hugged the lady and went to the front hall to find her. Before she reached the front hall, she heard Huzi had entered the front hall, so she had to run back.
He opened the secret room in the back hall and hid in it with the young lady in his arms.
It was the fifth birthday of this young lady from the Tang family. She was wearing a splendid little cotton-padded jacket and slept soundly in Zhang's arms. Zhang gave her a folk remedy to keep the child asleep without disturbing the foreigners outside.
Mrs. Zhang hadn’t heard Huzi’s voice for two days, but she was timid and never dared to go out. Finally, today, there was a lot of noise outside. When she listened carefully, she found that all the words were in Chinese. “Yes.
Reinforcement?" Zhang said in her heart.
As soon as he entered the general's mansion, Shangguan Jinnian saw corpses strewn all over the halls and rooms. The Hu people's scimitars were always ruthless, and each corpse was covered with more than a dozen knife marks, with mutilated limbs everywhere and bloody flesh.
Shangguan Jinnian led his secret guards, stepped over the corpses, and entered the room. From the front hall to the back hall, it seemed that there were no survivors. Seeing such a tragic situation, he was also a little chilled. He sighed softly and said: "
I went to look for the edict, but when I couldn't find it, I buried the body."
Yue Ji took the order and led the secret guards to search around the general's mansion.
Zhang thought for a long time that those who could speak Chinese must be reinforcements from the imperial court, so she decided to block them.
Here, Yue Ji's search yielded no results. Shangguan Jinnian and his secret guards were already collecting the corpses and preparing to leave.
"Sir!" A woman's weak and shrill voice came from behind.
Mrs. Zhang hugged the young lady and knelt on the ground.
"Sir... you are here, General... The general and his wife have been raped..." Thinking of her master who was so kind to her, Mrs. Zhang burst into tears.
"My servant took the young lady and hid there... Sir, Master!" After three days of suffering, she finally waited for rescue. She fell to the ground and cried even more.
Shangguan Jinnian listened to her statement expressionlessly. "Is it Tang Zhong's daughter you are holding?" he asked.
"...Yes" Mrs. Zhang replied.
Yue Ji looked at Shangguan Jinnian and stepped forward with a knife.
"Wait a minute," Shangguan said. After thinking for a moment, he went to look at the yellow-haired girl.
The girl woke up with a start, crying, and when she shook, a small shiny golden sign fell out of her clothes.
Shangguan Jinnian took the sword, picked out the gold medal, and looked at the seal characters on it carefully. A strange color appeared in his sharp starry eyes like an eagle.
"Your lady, we are taking her back to Chang'an," Shangguan Jinnian said. Then he walked over, squatted down gently, and picked up the crying child.
How could he hold the child well? The girl let out an extremely miserable cry, but Shangguan Jinnian didn't care at all. He patted her back gently and put her arms around his neck.
Yue Ji was startled and said to Shangguan Jinnian: "Young master, you can't help it. The descendants of the Tang family are demons..." He swallowed back his words midway and said, "That won't leave any survivors!"
Shangguan Jinnian patted the yellow-haired girl in his arms on the head like a rubber ball, and said to Yueji: "Why not? This edict will definitely be lost in the next half hour, but I might not be able to find it in the future."
Yue Ji thought about it and immediately understood. "Young master is wise," Yue Ji said.
"Contain the corpses, let's go back." Shangguan Jinnian ordered. The secret guards sorted the corpses. The corpses of the Tang family members were laid to rest. The corpses of the remaining servants were gathered together. A fire broke out, and the general's mansion was filled with a choking atmosphere.
Wolf smoke.
Shangguan Jinnian asked the secret guard to give Zhang a piece of gold, and then walked out of the gate of the general's mansion with the crying child.