Yuan Shao, the father of Fanghua in the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 74

Taishan County, Fei County.

The city gate has been damaged, the city walls collapsed everywhere, and there are screams in the city from time to time.

There are dead bodies everywhere, babies, women and children, young and old, old and weak, all fell to the ground.

A group of Qingzhou soldiers were carrying long knives, cursing and looking for a house to hide from the rain. When they found that there were ruins everywhere, there was not a single intact house.

Captured Fei County and massacred the city for three days, but was interrupted by the sudden autumn rain. This group of seven or eight Qingzhou soldiers had just entered the city, but found that many people had been killed by the previous people who entered the city. It is estimated that he also hid somewhere, and his mood became very bad.

They finally found a half-collapsed house and squeezed inside to hide from the rain.

One of the men cursed and said: "God, this shit, I just didn't let us have a good time. We finally went to the city and didn't grab anything!"

Another person smiled and said, "Old Zhu, it's only the first day, what's the rush?"

After hearing this, Lao Zhu said angrily: "Old Ji, the people who went in earlier killed too fast, they didn't even leave us some soup!"

Old Ji sneered and said: "He is the first to climb to the top of the city, give us half a day as usual, we are willing to bet and admit defeat!"

"If you go up first, you can go to Hua County in a few days."

After hearing this, Lao Zhu resentfully said: "Forget it, you don't know how many people died in the first wave, why bother to work so hard."

Old Ji sneered and said, "So if you don't slaughter the city to gain some benefits, who wants to go to the city with your head pinned to the waistband?"

This old Zhu and Ji are the corporal leaders of the two teams of Qingzhou soldiers. This time they followed into the city, but they didn't get much benefit, so they were all aggrieved.

Seeing the rain getting heavier and heavier outside, these people couldn't help feeling anxious. They searched around the house, but found no food, so they had to take out the wheat cakes in their waistbands and ate a few mouthfuls, cursing the weather.

Lao Ji sat down on the kang, wondering: "It's really weird, you can kill all the people in just half a day?"

"I heard that in Fei County, many people like to dig cellars. This house is so clean..."

He immediately came to his senses, jumped off the kang, stomped around in the house, and after pushing aside a pile of firewood in the corner of the house, he found a wooden door on the ground.

Several people worked together to open the wooden door, and saw a few figures shivering inside.

Old Zhu was overjoyed and shouted, "Come out!"

"Otherwise, none of them will live!"

After a while, a thin man crawled out, followed by a terrified young peasant woman, leading a teenage child by the hand.

The man smiled all over his face and said: "Master Jun, there are still some things in the cellar. You can take them away, but please spare our lives."

Two soldiers jumped into the cellar, rummaged for a while, and came up cursing with two small bags of corn, saying, "This family is so poor that they don't even have meat."

The man listened to the voice of the audience, his face beamed with joy, and 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 said with a sneer, "Our Qingzhou soldiers were all yellow scarves before, so we are indeed fellow villagers."

"We were so hungry that we joined the yellow scarves. It's good for you. My wife and children are hot on the kang, and there is still food at home. Our life is much better than ours."

He drew out his long knife, stabbed it into the man's abdomen with a thud, and said with a smirk, "It's a pity that we don't live as long as we do."

The man screamed in pain, Lao Zhu pulled out the knife, blood gushed out from the man's abdomen immediately.

Both the young woman and the child exclaimed loudly. Lao Zhu went over with the knife and was about to stab the child in the heart, but he didn't expect the woman to stand in front of the child.

Seeing Lao Ji, he scolded: "Old Zhu, are your hands shaking like this?"

"The only thing that is useful is this woman. Although she is a little ugly, she can still give birth to a child when she takes it back. Now it's all right!"

Lao Zhu cursed and drew out his blood-stained long knife. The woman staggered a few steps, but took the opportunity to push the child out of the door.

The crowd came to their senses just now, and wanted to chase out with their knives, but they saw a man and a woman blocking the door.

When the child turned his head to look, he just saw several long knives piercing his father's body, but his mother was pulled in.

He bit his lip, hesitated for a moment, then turned his head and rushed into the rain.

Lao Ji kicked away the man's dead body, stopped everyone, and said with a gloomy face: "Don't chase, there are our people everywhere, and it's raining, where can he run as a half-grown child?"

Old Zhu smiled lewdly: "That's right, while this girl is still alive."

After a while, a woman's hissing sound came from the room.

After a long while, the woman's body was thrown out of the house.

The corpses of the couple curled up and overlapped each other. The blood mixed with the muddy water under their bodies flowed in all directions, and was quickly washed away by the rain.

A fire was lit in the stove, and the corn was poured into the pot. The smell of steaming rice, accompanied by the smell of blood, permeated the room.

Everyone drank the porridge with gusto.

Hunger can make people go crazy, hunger can make people turn into beasts, hunger can make people wield butcher knives easily.

Once you get used to swinging a knife, you won't be able to turn back into a human being.

In a mansion in the city, two generals were talking, but the conversation was obviously not pleasant.

The person sitting at the top is Cao Ren, the Sima of Cao Jun's other department.

He snorted coldly at the general sitting at the bottom now: "Yu Jin! How dare you question Duke Ming's decision?"

Yu Jin looked distressed, but he still clasped his fists and said, "Please ask the general to persuade Ming Gong!"

"Taishan County is the hometown of Duke Bao, Prime Minister of Jibei. It was captured by Tao Qian last year. This should belong to Duke Ming!"

"Now that the city is massacred like this, and military discipline is corrupted, how can it win the hearts of the people?"

Cao Ren was furious and shouted: "Yu Jin, don't use Bao Xin to suppress me. I know you were his general. Although he saved Duke Ming with his life, he is already dead!"

"And my lord has already said that the city will be slaughtered!"

"I know you have always followed military discipline, but what Duke Ming says is military discipline!"

"Since the city belongs to Tao Qian, it is the enemy!"

"Besides, you also know what Qingzhou soldiers look like. Even Yuan Rang (Xiahou Dun) can't restrain them. If they don't let them slaughter the city, they really dare to make trouble!"

After hearing this, Yu Jin remained silent, cupped his fists, turned and walked out of the tent.

He looked up at the rain in the sky, and thought to himself that last year Cao Cao attacked Xuzhou, massacred the city and cut off the flow of Surabaya. If this continues, how many people will die in Xuzhou before they can be defeated?
Everyone has been killed, so what's the use of an empty Xuzhou?

Yecheng.

After Zhen Rong got off the carriage, the maid came over and put on a bamboo umbrella, and helped Zhen Rong into the Yuan Mansion.

A maid from the Yuan family had come up earlier and brought Zhen Rong to the Hong family's house.

Seeing that Mrs. Hong was already waiting inside, Zhen Rong took off his wooden clogs, walked to the lower head and said: "Madam Unknown called Zhen Rong, why?"

Before Hong could answer, Yuan Shang walked in and said, "I sent Madam here."

Zhen Rong hurriedly said: "I have seen you, young master."

Yuan Shang said to Hong Shi: "You go out first, I have something to say to Mrs. Zhen privately."

Hong Shi didn't dare to speak, got up and left with the maid.

When Zhen Rong saw this, he was a little puzzled, and the man and widow were living together in the same room, which was not in harmony with the etiquette, but he felt a little relieved when he thought that this was in Yuan's house, and Yuan Shang had a good reputation.

More importantly, her husband, Gao Lan, is Yuan Shang's subordinate, and Zhen Rong can't afford to offend her.

Yuan Shang sat down, then knelt down to Zhen Rong and said, "Shang is ashamed of my wife."

Zhen Rong was shocked, and hurriedly returned the courtesy: "My lord, this is killing my concubine, what can I do to my concubine?"

Yuan Shang looked sad: "I sent Gao Lan to Beixincheng, but he was killed."

There was a bang of thunder outside, and the thunderbolt flashed by, reflecting Zhen Rong's pale face in an instant.

(End of this chapter)