His laughter woke up the others sleeping in the cage.
These people then stood up and looked toward the shore. When they saw the Huo Jiajun's military flag, they were stunned for a moment, and then they all laughed.
"The king's army is coming! We are saved!"
"The governor really called for backup!"
"The king's army has arrived, and the Japanese bandits must die! We are saved!"
"We can go home!"
"..." "..."
They hugged each other and cried with joy. The despair they had experienced these past few days disappeared one after another as the dawn fell on them.
The hope Xie Yuan gave them came to them.
They naturally have the courage to live.
In the cabin, Kudo Shin was very impatient when he heard people outside chirping.
He walked out of the hatch and noticed that the group of Han people had been looking at the shore. He suddenly realized something and hurriedly walked over to take a closer look.
I don't know when an army was stationed on the shore, and the flags flying in the dense crowd were particularly eye-catching.
Kudo Shinya's scalp felt numb for a while.
He suddenly turned back to look at Xie Yuan.
What a coincidence, the young man was also looking at him.
"Is he yours?" Kudo Shinya's voice was trembling.
Xie Yuan smiled slightly: "Whether you have no food at all and return home in despair, or go ashore to buy food, it's your choice."
Kudo Nobuya was silent for a moment, frowned and ordered to dock, opened the wooden cage and released the shackles of these people.
"Where's that little girl?" Xie Yuan asked.
Kudo Shinya paused as he retracted into the hatch, and then quickly disappeared inside.
Xie Yuan had a vague premonition and walked towards the military prostitutes who were imprisoned together.
The military prostitutes, naked and trembling, hugged each other. When they saw Xie Yuan approaching, they all had their mouths open, as if they were hesitant to speak.
In the end, everyone turned their heads away with red eyes.
The girls moved out of the way, and the catkin with bruises and purple marks hung slightly in the air, bursting into the young man's field of vision.
Xie Yuan's heart sank slightly.
He walked over slowly, and the sticky blood on the floor stained his feet, making him almost unable to walk.
The smell of blood spread in the air, and the naked little girl had her legs twisted and her wrists broken.
She was tied to a chair, and she was so tortured that she no longer looked human.
The little girl seemed to be asleep. Her black hair was tightly attached to the skin along with the blood stains. The blood on the rope had solidified - and the blood that had not drained out of her body was flowing out from the fifteen holes on her chest.
It flows evenly along the rope and along the blood stains.
"Ada, I want to read and write with you from now on!"
"Ada, after you get married, can I learn to be a female worker with my sister-in-law? My mother said that girls who know how to be a female worker are very good."
"Ada, I want to be like you and save so many people who cannot afford to eat!"
"Ada, will we go out?"
"..."
I don't know if the sea breeze has been blowing for a long time, but Xie Yuan feels a little dizzy.
He reached out and pulled off the rope, picked up the bloody robe on the ground and put it on the little girl.
Seeing something tightly clutched in her hand, Xie Yuan knelt down and carefully opened it.
It was the wooden comb he gave her.
The young man was silent for a moment, then lifted the little girl's bloody hair away from her temple——
"Don't be afraid, girl, I will take you home."
The women cried uncontrollably.
Over there, the strong men saw the young man walking towards the little girl who was already cold and covered in blood. They realized something and started to curse at the Japanese.
Animals, such a young girl can be killed.
On the shore, Huo Qubing stared intently at several ships docked.
The group led by the young man slowly walked down after him.
Noticing that the boy was holding a little girl with bleeding blood and a pale complexion in his arms, Huo Qubing realized something and moved his lips.
He got off his horse and ran towards Xie Yuan.
"Has my lord been injured?" Huo Qubing looked up and down and saw a wound on Xie Yuan's shoulder, and couldn't help but breathe heavily.
Xie Yuan's legs were a little weak, but he still held the little man in his arms firmly.
He looked back at the Japanese on the boat, then at Kudo Shinya, his eyes extremely indifferent.
The young man turned around and walked towards the path made by the soldiers without saying a word.
The strong men and military prostitutes followed.
The feeling of surviving the disaster made them cry all the way. When they ate fresh white flour steamed buns and drank hot broth, this unexplainable feeling reached its peak.
"Survived, we finally survived!"
"We're out of that damn place!"
"We can go back and see the old man!"
"..." "..."
Xie Yuan wiped the girl clean with his own hands, put her into a clean set of clothes, and bought a coffin as quickly as possible.
When the little girl was put in, many of the people who escaped cried.
The world is so beautiful, but she meets all the bad people, and ends up dying in such a humiliating way.
After organizing a simple funeral for his daughter, Xie Yuan turned his attention to the Japanese who were waiting impatiently.
By then they had all landed.
"Thank you, Governor, you promised to sell me food. Where is your food?" Kudo Nobu also frowned deeply.
Xie Yuan looked at him, thinking of the injuries all over the little girl's body, and clenched his fists slightly.
"Huo Buyi obeys the order."
"Subordinates obey orders!"
"The Japanese have been invading our Han territory all year round, burning, killing, looting, and committing crimes that cannot be forgiven. Now I order them to... kill the Japanese bandits——" The young man stared at Kudo Shinya's face with stern eyebrows and rat eyes, and a look slowly formed in his eyes.
To obliterate,
"Leave no one behind!"
"Here!"
Huo Qubing bowed, then looked at Kudo Shinya with a smile on his face.
If the lord hadn't given the order, he would have wanted to kill these beasts.
Damn, a girl as young as that can do something to her. Is she still a human being?
"All generals, listen to my order and follow me to kill the Japanese pirates. No one will be left alive!"
As a trumpet suddenly blew, fifty thousand soldiers mobilized in unison.
Not far away, Kudo Shin also felt a murderous aura. When he saw the young man in bright clothes and angry horse approaching with a gun, his expression suddenly changed and he hurriedly ordered his men to get on the boat and leave.
But it's too late.
These people hate thieves who enter the country at will. Whether it is Donghu barbarians or this group of Japanese pirates, they are disgusted to the extreme.
Now that they have Xie Yuan's order, they will naturally not be lenient.
These warriors had no defense and were quickly killed.
Kudo Nobuya was still angrily scolding Xie Yuan for not practicing martial ethics until his death.
Xie Yuan smiled.
The martial ethics of talking nonsense to a group of animals.
After killing all the Japanese pirates, Cui Heng also rushed over that day.
All the corpses of these Japanese were thrown into the sea to feed the fish.
For the remaining people who escaped, because Cui Heng brought the official seal, Xie Yuan wrote documents and orders to them on the spot, pardoning their capital crimes and slave status, and allowing them to return home.
Some people ask if this is not the power of the emperor.
Xie Yuan said, I can carry out any orders issued by Dazai within the territory of Yangzhou.
The implication is that the emperor and the imperial court have no control over matters within Yangzhou. This chapter has been completed!