please make me king

Chapter 1077 Disaster
Zhang Shun led the people all the way to the north, passing through Yijun County, Zhongbu County, Fuzhou, and Ganquan to Yan'an Fucheng.

Along the way, the further north we went, the worse the situation became, almost like hell on earth.

Not to mention other situations, the most conspicuous thing on this road is the heads hanging on both sides of the road.

It was the head of the hungry people who tried to snatch the food and grass transported by the rebels to Yulin Town but failed, but were beheaded by the rebel soldiers guarding the food.

In order to deter the desperate hungry people, Wei Zhiyou deliberately ordered the soldiers to hang the heads of the hungry people who were hacked to death on both sides of the road as a warning to others.

It is [-] miles from Jinsuo Pass in Tongguan County to Yan'an Fucheng, and I don't know how many heads were hung along the way.

When the hot summer wind blows, those heads move together, which makes people feel creepy even in the dog days.

However, even if such a punishment is so cruel, it still cannot scare the hungry crowd.

Not only did it fail to frighten them, but those abandoned corpses became a delicacy that some people depended on for a living.

Originally, Zhang Shun thought that hanging his head on the road and leaving bones on the side of the road was already a hell on earth.

As a result, the further north he went, the more Zhang Shun found that he had broken through the bottom line of his imagination.

At the beginning, there were still many white bones on the roadside, but as we walked, all the abandoned bones on the roadside were black.

"What's going on here?" Zhang Shun couldn't help asking.

"It's burning!" Shi Moxi suppressed his nausea and said, "Have you never read a book?"

"Changing children to eat, dissecting bones to cook, that's what we're talking about!"

I've heard of "eating without changing sons". What does it mean to break bones and cook?
Aren't bones all calcium structures, can they be burned?

You didn't bully me for not knowing science, did you?
Soon Zhang Shun found that he really did not understand scientific knowledge.

About [-] miles past Fuzhou, Zhang Shun and others encountered a group of hungry people "cooking" by the roadside.

"He and the others are... eating people!" Far away, Shi Moxi couldn't help but tremble.

"How do you know?" Zhang Shun asked her with a strange look.

So far away, what else can I see besides seeing them cooking?
"They are all grown men, and they openly cook on the side of the road, they must be cannibals!" Shi Moxi couldn't help shouting.

Zhang Shun was taken aback for a moment before he realized it.

Due to the severe drought in northern Shaanxi for eight or nine consecutive years, food has become the most precious commodity.

If normal hungry people are cooking in the wild, they must hide in a remote place to prevent others from discovering and looting.

These people dare to cook blatantly, and they must be cooking food that others dare not loot.

"Zuo Guang first, take some people over there to see what kind of food is being cooked? If it's human flesh, kill them all!" Zhang Shun hesitated at first, and was going to let Zuo Guang drive them away first. .

I just thought about it, since these people dared to cook corpses, they would definitely attack living people for food, so they couldn't be kept.

That Zuo Guang first heard the words and nodded, and then led more than twenty riders to rush forward.

After talking for only a few sentences, I only heard Zuo Guang give an order first, and then he swung his knife to cut across.

Those people were also ferocious, seeing that they couldn't get away, they actually picked up the simple weapons around them and started fighting with Zuo Guangxian and others.

How capable Zuo Guangxian was, how could he capsize in the gutter?
He hastily gave an order, and the cavalry distanced themselves from these people before charging forward.

The cavalry charged, not to mention that there were more than a dozen unarmored thugs, and ordinary elite infantry had nothing to do, how could they resist?

After rushing and killing several times in a row, Zuo Guang first dealt with the dozen or so people neatly, and then returned to report: "His Royal Highness, these people are indeed cannibals, and the general has been ordered to kill them all!"

"I'll go and have a look!" Zhang Shun didn't give up. Is there really such a cruel person in the world?

It's not that Zhang Shun didn't stay in the rebel army before. Those people burned, killed, looted and committed all kinds of crimes, which he considered to be the lower limit of human beings. He didn't expect that there is a lower limit below the upper and lower limits in this world.

"Ouch!" Zhang Shun asked himself. He had always had a big heart and strong self-control, but seeing the scene in front of him, he still couldn't help the soreness in his throat and vomited out all the food he ate in the morning.

Next to the crude stove was a corpse that had been killed not long ago.

And under the earthen pot, besides some firewood, there were also a few shin bones burning inside, emitting blue flames.

And outside the stove, seven or eight human bones were placed, presumably preparing to continue "adding firewood" to the fire for a while.

"Eat by changing the bones, cook by dissecting the bones! Eat by dissecting the bones, cook by dissecting the bones!" The eight words Shi Moxi told him just now kept circling in his mind.

Zhang Shun came back in a bit of a daze, Hong Niangzi hurriedly supported him, and blamed him: "I know I can't bear it, but I still want to see it, why bother?"

"How did this happen? How did this happen?" Zhang Shun couldn't help muttering to himself.

"I only know that the famine in Yan'an and other places is serious. It's just that I passed by in a hurry last time and didn't take a closer look. I didn't expect it to be so unbearable!"

"Okay, okay, it's okay, haven't you come here, you can definitely save them!" Seeing Zhang Shun's appearance, the red lady couldn't help but her nose sore, and she couldn't help comforting him.

"How can I save it?" Zhang Shun couldn't help pointing at the bones on the side of the road and the head on the tree, and tremblingly said, "Which one can I save?"

"Don't say that I'm just a rebel leader, even if Hades is resurrected, I'm afraid there's nothing I can do!"

"Where did he come from from a rich family, how could he be so benevolent?" Seeing this, Shi Moxi couldn't help but turned to Ma Yingniang when he saw the "talkative" red lady comforting Zhang Shun.

"What is it worth if a few people don't die in that year?"

Ma Yingniang didn't want to talk to her at first, but she couldn't help showing off: "Maybe he really came from the sky!"

"Everyone calls him King Shun, thinking that he is a sage resurrected, and Emperor Shun is alive!"

"Cut" Shi Moxi followed his father Shi Changsheng to read sage books, and he most admired the three generations of Yao, Shun and Yu.

Originally, she wanted to mock Ma Yingniang for "Such a big tone, she dared to call herself Emperor Shun", but when she thought of what he had done along the way, maybe the real Emperor Shun would come back to life, that's all, so she was speechless.

After finally clearing up his mood, Zhang Shun led the crowd to continue up.

It's just that Zhang Shun, who used to like to laugh, fell silent this time, with a cold face, as if he should not approach strangers.

Along the way, under Shi Moxi's guidance, Zhang Shun experienced unimaginable human tragedy.

Some people sell their sons and daughters in the city. Boys, as long as you can support them, you can take them away;

There is a woman hiding in the corner, who can give you her body if you give her a piece of grass.

What is hawked in the downtown is not firewood, rice, oil and salt, but the bark of weeds and bark, which costs a thousand dollars a catty.

There are countless people with bulging stomachs and slender limbs.

These are not scary enough, what is even more terrifying is that in the cesspit outside the city, there are abandoned young children every day.

Those children kept crying and calling for their parents, but to no avail.

Some children were so hungry that they grabbed dung for food.

Then on the second day, they will all be silent, and then there will be a new young son abandoned here.

These children are only one or two years old, and they are about the same age as Zhang Huaji and Zhang Ping'an.

Zhang Shun couldn't stand it anymore, so he personally fished one out of the cesspit.

As a result, he was not in a hurry to get it. The hungry people saw that he was kind-hearted, and immediately gave him more than a dozen children of different sizes.

Just stop and go all the way, and finally arrived at Yan'an City.

Thirty-four children followed Zhang Shun, and the women around him also carried four or five babies.

(End of this chapter)