Chapter 180 This is your service to the country and the people?
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"Can't survive!"
"I can't wait any longer!"
In Hezhou City at dusk, screams could be heard from time to time. Tens of thousands of civilians, all with dejected faces, rushed madly toward the rice warehouse in the south of the city, holding sticks and bricks.
Captain Zhang Lu, while fastening his robe and armor, re-sheathed his blood-stained sword before hurriedly walking out of the tent.
The wind blew and lifted the tent curtain. Inside the tent, there was the body of a girl, lying face down on a sheepskin mattress.
"Du Tou, those refugees are rebelling!"
Zhang Lu cursed a few words angrily and led his men, preparing to scare the monkeys. However, before he could take a few steps, he was surrounded by a crowd of refugees.
"What! Who wants to rebel?" Zhang Lu touched the knife with anger on his face.
During these two days, since all the generals in the city went to Wangzhou, he was very happy. He snatched many girls in succession and dragged them into the camp.
If you are obedient, you will be rewarded with a bowl of coarse rice.
If you don't listen, you can only resort to surgery afterwards.
He didn't count them in detail, but he seemed to have killed four or five.
Yesterday, when he was trying to steal a girl, some refugees stopped him twice. He was so angry that he not only killed the people who blocked him, but also dumped seven or eight buckets of cooked rotten food outside the city.
The refugees around them are all lowly creatures, so humble and servile in their hearts that they dare not bark even if they put a knife to their necks.
But now, something seems wrong.
"Bold! You are so bold!" Zhang Lu suppressed his blush before bursting out.
Tens of thousands of refugees roared and rushed forward, trying to knock Zhang Lu down. If dozens of soldiers from the camp had not stopped him, they would have died on the spot.
Not caring about other people, Zhang Lu hurriedly pulled out his leg, wounded several refugees, and then ran towards the city gate.
The city gate was blocked, so I had to turn around in a panic and look around for a place.
"The rice barn was smashed!"
"Beat these cannibal officers and soldiers to death! Neither the left nor the right will survive!"
In the huge city of Hezhou, fires were everywhere, and the black smoke that could not be dispersed seemed to fill the entire sky.
Xi Niang held the firewood stick and carefully poked her head out of the hayloft. When she saw the officers and soldiers running towards the hayloft, she hesitated for a while, then grabbed the firewood stick and knocked down the officer at the head.
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Behind her, the cries of the two children and the hoarse struggling of the patient suddenly sounded.
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Xu Mu raised his head and frowned more and more. Although he had not been to Hezhou before entering the border this time, he had already heard that the refugees who took refuge in Hezhou were living in extremely miserable conditions.
At least hundreds of people died of starvation every day.
"My boss, the refugees in Hezhou have rebelled!" Zhou Zun galloped back with a deep voice.
Xu Mu was even more unhappy.
In a feudal society like Daji, even the people at the lowest level believe that imperial power is granted by heaven. The emperor is the greatest, the most respected in the world, and cannot disobey him.
In addition, there are those in power who have tried their best to inculcate the stereotype of "monarch, minister, father and son".
Unless there is a person like Chuang Wang who has the courage and insight to dare to raise his arms, only in this way can the people respond.
The world we live in is different, and our perceptions are also different.
In the previous life, even if I worked overtime for half an hour late, I would probably have to ask for my rights.
"Anyone who dares to cause trouble will be killed without mercy!"
Zhao Qingyun dismounted and drew his sword while roaring.
In this round, if word spreads about the military merits that were finally earned this time and people in Hezhou rebel, the newly obtained military merits will not be enough.
A refugee rushed out of the city gate with a rice bag and met Zhao Qingyun head-on. Zhao Qingyun hardly hesitated at all, and slashed him with two swords——
The rice bag became a blood bag, and the coarse rice became blood rice.
The refugee who was stabbed did not die. He held the rice bag with his hands, bit it open, and chewed a large handful of bloody rice. His mouth was filled with blood, as if it were smeared with rouge.
"On the road to hell, don't be a starving ghost."
Click.
Zhao Qingyun turned his knife back angrily and chopped off the refugee's head. Then he took a breath, raised his head slightly, and found Xu Mu riding behind him. Suddenly, his face became silent again.
"Brother Xu, these are rebels."
Xu Mu looked cold and didn't answer a word.
In front, people from the Third Battalion of Xifu, led by the fat general Liu Zhu, have completely rushed into the city, killing everyone on sight.
"Enter the city." Xu Mu had a stern look on his face, and with more than four hundred riders behind him, he passed by Zhao Qingyun.
He was a little unexpected. Seeing that the Di people were about to destroy the army, they came to do this.
"I'll chop you to death, you bastard!" Liu Zhu, the fat general, raised his sword, but before he could put it down, he was instantly knocked away by Si Hu on horseback. After the force was removed, his bloated body actually bounced strangely.
Liu Zhu wailed a few times, stood up tremblingly, and was about to scold his mother. When he saw Xu Mu leading more than 400 cavalry, stopping in the city with a look of disdain, he suddenly lost his temper.
These heroes, who blocked hundreds of thousands of Beidi troops, are said to be people with the surname Hou.
Xu Mu coldly got off his horse and helped several refugees who had fallen to the ground.
Looking up again, I found that the huge city of Hezhou was already in a mess.
Some officers and soldiers killed the refugees, and some refugees killed the officers and soldiers. The scattered coarse rice bags stuck to the piles of blood, which looked a bit scary.
"Brother Xu, please don't interfere." Zhao Qingyun held a knife and led people from behind.
"General Zhao, don't you want to find out first?"
"Check it out, rebellion is rebellion."
Xu Mu clenched his fists and looked at Zhao Qingyun in front of him. For the first time, he had the idea of stabbing him with a knife. The dragon slayer turned into an evil dragon and became even more malicious.
"General! The general is back!" Captain Zhang Lu rolled over from a distance and came with more than a dozen officers and soldiers.
"These damn refugees dare to take advantage of the small number of defenders to rebel!"
Xu Mu glanced at the side and recognized the captain. He was the one he met in Monan Town and took the opportunity to burn, kill and loot.
There is a beginning and an end.
"General, I've caught the leader of the thieves! These dog people rebelled earlier, so I immediately went to arrest them!"
"He's got you! This bitch is trying to sneak attack the army! I'll bring him here right away!"
Xu Mu frowned, and when he raised his head again, his expression suddenly became stern.
He could clearly see that the person whose hair was being pulled by Zhang Lu was Xi Niang. Her face was stained with blood, several strands of her hair were torn out, and her calves below the knees had been chopped several times, and the flesh was rolled outwards.
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She did not shout, her head was lowered, and a pair of dull eyes could be seen, and she could only stare blankly at the ground.
It’s not that mountains and rivers are thousands of miles away, but old friends are close at hand.
"Xiniang." Xu Mu condensed his voice and shouted bitterly.
Xi Niang, whose face was originally numb, suddenly raised her head and saw Xu Mu in front of her. She couldn't hold on any longer and started wailing with red eyes.
Xu Mu gritted his teeth, took off his sword, held it in his hand, and walked forward.
Si Hu and others behind him, after seeing Xi Niang clearly, they were so angry that they dismounted, drew their weapons and followed.
"Who is this!" At first Xu Mu was covering his pockmarked face, but Zhang Lu didn't recognize him. Now seeing Xu Mu's appearance, he couldn't help but be a little shocked.
"You haven't said yet, who are you -"
Xu Mu quickly drew his sword and used the "Move Thousand Mountains" move. Half of Zhang Lu's arm immediately disappeared, leaving only the other half of the arm, which was spattered with blood drops, stretched out in the air.
After two breaths, Zhang Lu's screams of pain echoed through the entire Hezhou City.
"Dong, boss, I'm not rebelling. It's these officials who kidnapped innocent girls and cut off the daily food supply. Everyone is so hungry that they can't survive."
Many refugees nearby couldn't help but stop their movements when they saw the scene in front of them and stood silently. The hoarse cry of a child sounded at the right time, adding to the desolation.
Xu Mu turned his head, his expression bleak.
"Zhao Qingyun, when you were in Xujiazhuang, you fell off your horse and were about to die. It was this Xi Niang who saved you with a mouthful of rice and a mouthful of rice soup."
"Three Thousand Tongzi Camp died for the country. Outside Wangzhou, hundreds of thousands of people chanted loyalty and erected more than ten loyalty monuments!"
"Seize the grain, commit adultery and plunder, and fill the city with hundreds of thousands of people."
"Tell me, this is what you call serving the country and the people!"
As Zhao Qingyun listened, his face instantly turned red. He raised his knife and stepped forward. With a fierce look in his eyes, he raised the knife and chopped off Zhang Lu's head with one blow.