The city gates have been damaged, the city walls have collapsed everywhere, and screams can be heard from time to time in the city.
There were dead bodies everywhere inside, including babies, women and children, young and old, weak and old, all lying dead on the ground.
A group of Qingzhou soldiers carried long swords, cursed and looked for a house to take shelter from the rain. When they found that there were broken walls and ruins everywhere, there was not a single intact house.
They captured Feixian County and massacred the city for three days, but were interrupted by a sudden autumn rain. Not long after this group of seven or eight Qingzhou soldiers entered the city, they found that many of the people who had entered before had been killed, and the remaining people
He probably hid somewhere, and his mood became very bad.
They finally found a half-collapsed house and squeezed inside to take shelter from the rain.
One of the men cursed and said: "This damn God didn't let us have an easy time. We finally entered the city and didn't grab anything!"
Another person smiled and said: "Lao Zhu, it's only your first day, why are you so anxious?"
After hearing this, Lao Zhu said angrily: "Lao Ji, the people who went in earlier were killed so quickly that they didn't even leave any soup for us!"
Lao Ji sneered and said: "I am the first to climb to the top of the city. As usual, I will give you an extra half day. We are willing to admit defeat!"
"If you go first, you can go to Hua County in a few days."
After hearing this, Lao Zhu said angrily: "Forget it, you don't know how many people died in the first wave, so why are you so desperate?"
Lao Ji sneered: "So if you don't massacre the city to get some benefits, who would be willing to climb into the city with your head stuck in your trousers?"
This Lao Zhu Lao Ji was the captain of these two groups of Qingzhou soldiers. This time he followed them into the city, but did not get much benefit, so they were all aggrieved.
Seeing the rain outside getting heavier and heavier, these people couldn't help but feel anxious. They searched around the house and found no food, so they had to take out the wheat cakes in their waistbands and take a few bites, cursing the weather.
Lao Ji sat down on the Tukang and wondered: "It's really weird. You can kill everyone in just half a day?"
"I heard that many people like to dig cellars here in Feixian County. This house is so clean..."
He immediately woke up, jumped off the earthen kang, stepped around the house with his feet, and after pushing aside a pile of firewood in the corner of the house, he discovered that there was indeed a wooden door on the ground.
Several people worked together to open the wooden door, and saw several figures shivering inside.
Lao Zhu was overjoyed and went over and yelled: "Get out of here!"
"Otherwise, no one will survive!"
After a while, a thin man climbed out, followed by a young peasant woman with a frightened face, holding a ten-year-old child.
The man said with a smile on his face: "Master, there are still some things in the cellar. You can take them away, just to spare our lives."
Two soldiers jumped into the cellar, rummaged for a while, and came up with two small bags of corn, cursing and saying: "This family is so poor, they don't even have meat."
The man's face lit up when he heard the accent, and he said: "Master Jun is also from Qingzhou? We are all from the same hometown."
After hearing this, Lao Zhu looked the man up and down and sneered: "We Qingzhou soldiers were all Yellow Turbans before, but after all, we are indeed fellow countrymen."
"We joined the Yellow Turbans because we were so hungry that we didn't have anything to eat. It's really good for us. My wife and children are on the hot bed, and we still have food at home. Our lives are much better than ours."
He pulled out his long knife, stabbed it into the man's abdomen with a thud, and said with a cruel smile: "It's a pity that he won't live as long as us."
The man screamed in pain, Lao Zhu pulled out the knife, and blood suddenly gushed out from the man's abdomen.
The young woman and the child both screamed loudly. Lao Zhu went over with a knife and was about to stab the child in the heart. Unexpectedly, the woman stood in front of the child and the tip of the knife pierced her back. The blood instantly soaked her ragged linen clothes.
When Lao Ji saw him, he yelled: "Lao Zhu, are your hands shaking like this?"
"The only thing that's useful is this woman. Even though she's a bit uglier, she can still give birth to a child when she takes her back. Now it's better!"
Lao Zhu cursed and pulled out the bloody long knife. The woman staggered a few steps, but took the opportunity to push the child out of the door.
Everyone just woke up and wanted to chase them out with their knives, but they saw the man and the woman blocking the door.
When the child turned to look, he saw several long knives piercing his father's body, while his mother was pulled in.
He bit his lip, hesitated for a moment, then turned around and rushed into the rain.
Lao Ji kicked away the man's dead body. He stopped everyone and said with a gloomy face: "Stop chasing us. There are our people everywhere. It's raining. Where can he run as a half-year-old child?"
Lao Zhu smiled lewdly and said, "Yes, while this woman is still alive."
After a while, a woman's scream came from the room.
After a long while, the woman's body was thrown out of the house.
The corpses of the couple were curled up and overlapped. Blood and water mixed with the muddy water underneath them, flowing in all directions, and were quickly washed away by the rain.
A fire was lit in the stove, and the corn was put into the pot. The aroma of steaming rice, accompanied by the smell of blood, filled the room.
Everyone drank the porridge with great interest.
Hunger can make people go crazy, hunger can turn people into beasts, hunger can make people easily wield a butcher knife.
If you get used to wielding a knife, you won't be able to change back.
In a mansion in the city, two generals were talking, but it was obvious that the conversation was not pleasant.
The person sitting at the top is Cao Ren, the commander of Cao's army.
He snorted coldly at the general sitting below him: "Yu Jin! Do you dare to question Duke Ming's decision?"
Yu Jin had a troubled look on his face, but he still cupped his fists and said, "General, please advise me!"
"Taishan County is the hometown of Bao Gong, Prime Minister of Jibei Province. It was captured by Tao Qian last year. This is the place that should belong to Ming Gong!"
"How can we win the hearts and minds of the people if we are massacring the city like this and destroying military discipline?"
Cao Ren was furious and shouted: "Yu Jin, don't use Bao Xin to pressure me. I know you were his general. Although he saved Duke Ming with his life, he is already dead!"
"And my lord has long said that he will be massacred when he goes to the city!"
"I know you always abide by military discipline, but Ming Gong's words are military discipline!"
"Since this city belongs to Tao Qian, it is the enemy!"
"Besides, you also know what the Qingzhou soldiers are like. Even Yuan Rang (Xiahou Dun) can't restrain them from slaughtering the city. They really dare to cause chaos!"
After hearing this, Yu Jin remained silent, clasped his fists, turned around and walked out of the tent.
He looked up at the rain in the sky and thought that last year Cao Cao attacked Xuzhou and massacred the city so that the Si River stopped flowing. If this continues, how many people will die before Xuzhou can be conquered?
If everyone has been killed, what’s the use of an empty Xuzhou?
Yecheng.
Zhen Rong got off the carriage, and the maid came over to put on a bamboo umbrella and helped Zhen Rong into the Yuan Mansion.
A maid from the Yuan family came up early and took Zhen Rong to the Hong family's house.
Seeing that Mrs. Hong was already waiting inside, Zhen Rong took off her wooden clogs, walked down and bowed: "Unknown Madam, why did you call Zhen Rong here?"
Before Hong could answer, Yuan Shang walked in and said, "I asked my wife to come."
Zhen Rong quickly bowed and said, "I have met the young master."
Yuan Shang said to Mr. Hong: "You go out first. I have something to talk to Mrs. Zhen in private."
Hong didn't dare to speak, so she got up and left with her maid.
When Zhen Rong saw this, he was a little confused. Moreover, there was a man and a woman living together in the same room, which was not suitable for etiquette. However, he felt relieved when he thought that this was the Yuan family and Yuan Shang had always had a good reputation.
More importantly, her husband Gao Lan was a subordinate of Yuan Shang, and Zhen Rong could not afford to offend him.
Yuan Shang sat down, then knelt down to Zhen Rong and said, "Shang is ashamed of your wife."
Zhen Rong was shocked and quickly returned the courtesy: "Young Master has killed me, what can you do to apologize to me?"
Yuan Shang looked sad: "I sent Gao Lan to Beixin City, but he was killed."
There was a rumble of thunder outside, and a thunderbolt flashed past, reflecting Zhen Rong's face that turned pale in an instant.