The World of Yellow Sky

Chapter 278 Cutting the oath (ask for a monthly ticket subscription!!)

The north wind whistling, wandering in the dilapidated streets and alleys of Lishi City, the devastation, the mess all over the place, the silent ruins all told the sufferings they had suffered.

The sound of the wind turned in the ruins and turned into a whimper.

Outside Lishi City, more than [-] Xihe County soldiers stood facing the wind, and the [-] Xihe County soldiers all stood silently at the bottom of a hill.

Captain Li De of Xihe County knelt beside a pothole on the hill, and slowly took off his helmet with the feathers stuck in it. The bright red feathers trembled slightly in the wind, and the bright red was like the blood in the human body. s color.

Li De put the Feather helmet on the grass next to the pit with a blank face, and his eyes were not bright, only dim.

He took out a jade pendant from his bosom, which was solemnly handed to him by his first wife when he left home, saying that it could protect him from harm on the battlefield.

only……

Now he has returned safely, but his first wife has passed away. He will never see her voice and smile again in this life, and he will no longer be able to listen to her nagging and listen to her when he goes out to fight. speech.

No one will adjust his shirt before he goes out, and no one will worry about him or pray for him in the distance.

The whistling wind echoed in Li De's ears, gradually getting lower and lower, and gradually turned into a crying sound.

Li De is also in tears, time can never go back, the deceased is dead, his children, his first wife, and his parents all died in this catastrophe, his house in Lishi City It has also been turned into a ruin.

The strong wind blew, and the sound of whimpering echoed around the hills, and the sound of crying was slowly getting louder.

The cry came from the throats of four thousand Xihe County soldiers. All their precious things, everything they cherished, were destroyed under the sword, and their wives, children, and parents also died together. , They will never see their brothers and friends again.

"Blow the horn."

Li De wiped away his tears with his robe, and said choked up.

The guard beside him stopped crying, untied the horn from his waist, and blew it vigorously.

"Ugh——"

The desolate horn echoed in the wind, and more horns sounded in the crowd one after another.

Li De stood up slowly, his plain shirt fluttering in the strong wind, and he turned around slowly, facing a group of soldiers from Xihe County.

The sound of the horn stopped, and the eyes of more than [-] soldiers from Xihe County were all focused on Li De.

Li De opened his mouth, but he didn't speak. He couldn't speak. The soldiers under his command were no longer the army with high fighting spirit and high morale.

What he saw was a group of walking dead, a group of lifeless soldiers.

Husband's sorrow is greater than heart death, and human death is second.

"Zheng!"

Li De suddenly pulled out the Han sword from his waist, and stared at the soldiers sitting around him.

"The city was lost, the soldiers and civilians were killed, and Xihe County is already a wasteland. There is no place for us to live. The blame here lies with me, Li Deye!"

Li De's voice was still choked with sobs. Holding the Han sword in his hand, he took off the hair tie that fixed his hair, and his long hair fell loose.

"Such a crime, even if you kill me a hundred times, it can't be offset, but our great revenge has not been avenged, and the Huns who broke through Lishi City are still in the north. How can such hatred be abandoned!"

Li De grabbed his loose hair, cut off a section suddenly, then raised his hair high and said in hatred.

"I, Li De, hereby make an oath that I will conquer the Xiongnu in the north and avenge the grievances and shame of my fathers and folks who died in Xihe County! If you break this oath, you will be punished by heaven and man!"

The lifeless soldiers of Xihe County all stood up and became agitated.

The Han Dynasty ruled the world with filial piety, the body and skin, the parents who received it, did not dare to harm it, this is the beginning of filial piety.

In the battle over clothing between the Huns and the Han Empire, I don’t know how many people died because they refused to wear their left lapels.

Zhang Qi closed his eyes and clenched his fists, his expression kept changing, and he finally took a step forward.

"Zheng!"

The ring head knife was unsheathed, and Zhang Qi cut off a section of his own hair, and held it high.

"My subordinate, Zhang Qi, is willing to fight against the Xiongnu with Li Duwei until the end!"

"clank!"

The sound of drawing a knife out of its sheath can be heard endlessly.

"Until death!"

More and more people responded to Li De's call, and more and more people chopped off their hair with a knife.

"Until death!"

All of a sudden, the crowd was furious, and more than [-] soldiers from Xihe County all swore an oath.

The strong wind howled, and countless red banners were rolled up and down the hills.

The flags were fluttering, and there was a hunting sound between the flags.

The severed hair was flying in the wind, and the more than [-] Xihe County soldiers were all furious.

Li De threw the severed hair in his hand into the pit, he took a last look at the jade pendant in his hand, and resolutely threw the jade pendant into the pit together.

Li De knelt in front of the pothole and bowed deeply.

More than [-] soldiers from Xihe County stepped forward one by one and threw the hair in their hands into the pit.

The strands of hair and the treasures presented by the deceased gradually filled up the potholes on the hills.

The scene returned to silence, and the sun in the sky was beginning to sink below the horizon.

Li De stood up slowly, ignoring the soil on his knees, and began to slowly fill the hole.

No matter how slow the movement was, the pothole was gradually filled with soil.

No one cried anymore, because their tears had already been completely exhausted.

Li De stepped on the horse, led the horse and glanced at the soldiers under the hill, and said loudly.

"The time for revenge is the time for us to return to Lishi City, the time for us to open the pit and retrieve the treasure!"

Li De raised the Han sword in his hand high, and shouted hoarsely: "Fight the Huns until death!"

Four thousand soldiers from Xihe County also responded in groups.

"Until death!"

And just outside the soldiers of Xihe County, several dark shadows hidden in the bushes slowly disappeared into the forest.

……

A few days later, a document from the Eagle Wolf Guard was submitted to Xu An's copy.

"Cut and swear until death..."

The originally light document is now as heavy as a thousand weights in Xu An's hands.

At the end of the day, just four words are more breathtaking than thousands of words.

Xihe County is all scorched earth...

The Huns withdrew to the north without leaving any living quarters in the city, and even left any usable buildings for the Yellow Turban Army in the rural settlements.

There used to be tens of thousands of people in Xihe County, but now there are less than a thousand people, and these thousand people in Xihe County escaped the catastrophe by hiding in the deep mountains.

Xu An closed his eyes, and his hand holding the document trembled slightly. Only when he really came to this world can he know how cruel the life of the people at the bottom is.

This is just a Hun tribe...

What will it be like in the chaos of the future generations, when countless northern captives go south and wanton slaughter.

Perhaps calling it purgatory is not enough to describe one-tenth of its cruelty.

(End of this chapter)