Chapter 24 Massacre?
Yu Jin could only go this way, letting himself be humiliated by everyone's words.
The sense of humiliation and anger in Yu Jin's heart had reached an extreme level at this time, but the peak must eventually fade.
After being extremely angry and humiliated, Yu Jin suddenly felt a trace of regret.
He was wondering if his insistence on not serving Liu Bei was a joke?
If he was willing to serve Liu Bei, how could he be so humiliated today?
How could he be tortured like this by Mi Yang?
Once a person has a trace of regret in his heart, the feeling of regret will slowly expand.
Guan Ping, who was walking in front of the team, heard the people's unscrupulous and humiliating words, and he couldn't bear it.
Fortunately, the people were not talking about him, otherwise he would have killed himself immediately to apologize.
Guan Ping said to Mi Yang,
"Zisheng, do you want the soldiers to disperse those people?
After all, scholars can be killed but not humiliated. If we continue to let people talk about it like this, I'm afraid Yu Wenze will have a death wish."
Guan Ping did not have any objections to the people, but he was influenced by the concept of benevolence and righteousness since childhood and could not bear to be humiliated too much.
But after Mi Yang heard Guan Ping's suggestion, he asked Guan Ping,
"A scholar can be killed but not humiliated? Then why didn't he rather die than surrender that day?"
"I don't think there's anything wrong with what the people said."
Mi Yang's rhetorical question made Guan Ping dumbfounded.
Seeing that Guan Ping still had a look of intolerance on his face, Mi Yang continued,
"Don't worry, I ordered people to cover the prison car with black cloth, just to save the last bit of dignity for him.
With this black cloth around, people will not have any ambition to die during the short period of confinement, it will only make them feel as if they are dead."
Seeing what Mi Yang said, Guan Ping could only sigh and say nothing.
Seeing Guan Ping's behavior, Mi Yang wanted to sigh.
Historically, the reason why Guan Yu could not really conquer Jin was not because Guan Yu was not charming enough, but because Guan Yu advocated loyalty and benevolence and would not persecute Jin too much.
And this point of Guan Yu was precisely taken advantage of by Yu Jin.
To put it simply, Guan Yu is not ruthless enough.
But Mi Yang is different. He comes from a later generation. He yearns for loyalty and benevolence, but he is not superstitious.
In Mi Yang's view, as long as he can catch the mouse in the end, it doesn't matter whether he uses a black cat or a white cat.
All Mi Yang's actions up to now are just to humiliate the ban.
From Mi Yang's point of view, Yu Jin was certainly not an unparalleled loyal person, but he was also not an extremely shameless and evil person.
Like most ordinary people, he has a sense of shame, is greedy for life and is afraid of death, but wants to retain the last bit of dignity and respectability.
And if you want to truly conquer this kind of person, the first thing you have to do is to break his fragile, self-righteous dignity.
After doing this, the next thing will be much easier to handle.
Although Mi Yang's approach is not as upright as Guan Yu's, it is fine as long as the result is good.
If it weren't for the fear that the reputation of treating a surrendered general harshly would be bad for the future, Mi Yang wouldn't have even given him a piece of black cloth.
Therefore, the street that Mi Yang took Yu Jin on was actually specially prepared by Mi Yang for Yu Jin, and it belonged to his Shura path.
As Mi Yang's team slowly advanced, Yu Jin's Shura path finally came to an end.
After arriving at the south gate of Jiangling City, because this area is under military jurisdiction, traces of the common people have disappeared.
And the sounds that caused Yu Jin to suffer all kinds of torture finally dissipated.
Mi Yang ordered Mi Zhong to lift the black cloth covering the prison cart, and then asked him to be escorted down to Yu Jin.
At this time, there was no anger on Yu Jin's face, but a look of deathly gray.
Under the towering city wall, in front of the soldiers in fine armor,
Mi Yang asked Yu Jindao again,
"General Yu, are you willing to work together with me to guard the public security?"
Mi Yang's invitation again was still not accepted by Yu Jin, but Mi Yang was not annoyed. He said to Yu Jin,
"Since the general is unwilling, how about asking the general to go up to the tower and watch a good show with me?"
After Mi Yang finished speaking, it didn't mean that Jin agreed, so he ordered people to escort Yu Jin to the top of the city tower.
However, Mi Yang and Guan Ping were one step ahead and arrived at the tall tower.
After Mi Yang climbed up the tower, he saw the vast urn city below.
The urn city is one of the main defense facilities of ancient cities and can strengthen the defense of castles or passes.
Its main feature is the semicircular or square gated town built outside the city gate.
Looking down from Mi Yang's angle, the inside of Wengcheng looks like a huge crater of meteorites, and also looks like the mouth of a giant beast.
The giant beast was quietly opening its mouth, waiting for prey to come to its mouth.
Soon after, Yu Jin also came up to the tower and stood behind Mi Yang.
After Mi Yang saw Yu Jin's arrival, he said to Yu Jin, "General, please take a look at what's going on inside the barbican city."
After finishing speaking, Mi Yang signaled Mi Zhong to push Yu Jin to the city wall. When Yu Jin saw the scene in the urn city, his expression changed drastically.
At this time, I saw that there were many people lying or sitting on the ground inside the urn at the south gate of Jiangling City. There were thousands of them.
These people were wearing single clothes and were skinny in this cold winter.
Their bodies were shivering constantly because of the cold.
Because of hunger, most of them were motionless, like dead bodies.
But those people who looked like dead bodies, after suddenly seeing Yu Jin's figure on the city wall, ignored their physical fatigue and tried to struggle to get up and salute Yu Jin.
Because they had no strength and because of the dense crowd, they just wanted to stand up, but they quickly fell down heavily due to weakness.
After falling down, they pressed on the other comrades, and then waves of subtle wailing sounds could be heard.
After these people made the above actions, most of the people in the urn city also looked at the city wall.
After seeing Yu Jin's face, the crowd in the barbican instantly became commotion.
They were unable to stand up and salute to Jin, so they could only use all their strength to let out mournful screams from their mouths.
They recognized Yu Jin as the commander who led them south to guard their home.
They know that they will live on the day of the ban,
Now they just want to tell Yu Jin about the suffering they have suffered these days.
They want to save them again.
Yes, the thousands of people in Wengcheng at this time were the soldiers of the Wei army who surrendered to Guan Yu with Yu Jin that day.
There were more than 20,000 Wei troops who surrendered to Guan Yu with Yu Jin, but Guan Yu considered that the 20,000 people could not be put together in one place, otherwise it might cause turmoil.
Therefore, they were scattered and resettled in the three counties of Jingzhou.
Most of Guan Yu's energy was involved in Fancheng, so Guan Yu has been unable to properly arrange these surrendered soldiers.
Guan Yu was benevolent and righteous, but there was insufficient food in Jingzhou, and Guan Yu's clever woman could not make a living without rice.
He had already divided a lot of the food that originally belonged to the Jingzhou warriors, which was not much, to give to the surrendered soldiers of the Wei army.
But there were too many monks and too little porridge. The food could only ensure that the Wei soldiers would not starve to death when they surrendered.
That's why these surrendered soldiers of the Wei army look like this.
The surrendered soldiers of the Wei army knew Yu Jin, so how could Yu Jin not know them?
When he saw Mi Yang gathering the surrendered soldiers of the Wei army in Jiangling City into Wengcheng, Yu Jin felt a strong sense of uneasiness in his heart.
Listening to the screams that reached his ears, he turned around and looked at Mi Yang,
He shouted to Mi Yang, "What exactly do you want!"
After hearing Yu Jin's question, Mi Yang slowly took out something from his arms, and then he said to Yu Jin,
"You will know what I want in a moment."
Then Mi Yang held up the prefect's seal that he took out from his arms and raised it above his head.
"Captain Chengmen, listen to my order and raise your arrow downwards!"
As soon as Mi Yang finished speaking, the city guard on the city wall saw that Mi Yang had the seal of the prefect in his hand, and immediately obeyed Mi Yang's orders.
He ordered the Jiangling soldiers hidden within the battlements to appear one after another, took out the bows and arrows on their backs, and after all equipped with sharp arrows, aimed at the thousands of surrendered soldiers in the Wengcheng.
This sudden scene made all the Wei soldiers in Wengcheng feel frightened.
Being targeted by thousands of sharp arrows, they suddenly felt a huge sense of crisis about to face death.
When Yu Jin saw this scene, he was so angry that his eyes were about to burst.
He was about to rush forward to stop Mi Yang, but his move was blocked by Mi Zhong behind him.
He was knocked down by Mi Zhong and pinned to the ground unable to move.
Guan Ping, who was next to Mi Yang, also had a look of shock on his face when he saw this. He didn't expect that Mi Yang wanted to do this!
Kill and surrender!
Guan Ping quickly advised Mi Yang, "Zisheng, it is unlucky to kill and surrender!"
"His Royal Highness Kuang has advocated putting people first since the day he started the army. How can we, our subordinates, do such a cruel act!"
Guan Ping was very emotional, and his tone even contained anger.
In fact, Mi Yang's current behavior was far beyond his inner acceptance.
He did not expect that Mi Yang, who had received moral education on benevolence and righteousness with him since childhood, would do this when he grew up.
Is this still the friend he knew?
In excitement, Guan Ping was about to step forward and order the captain of the city gate to let his men put down their bows and arrows, but one of his arms was tightly held by Mi Yang.
Mi Yang's behavior puzzled Guan Ping. Guan Ping wanted to shake off Mi Yang's hand, but Mi Yang used all his strength to grab Guan Ping.
"Be honest, trust me."
"Have you forgotten what the former general told you?"
Mi Yang's tone was full of determination, which made Guan Ping hesitate.
And Guan Ping remembered Guan Yu's words, "It's called joining the army, but it's actually handsome."
Out of his trust in Mi Yang and Guan Yu, Guan Ping temporarily suppressed his inner restlessness.
But he still stared at Mi Yang closely, his eyes full of dissuasion.
He hoped Mi Yang wouldn't do such a cruel thing.
(End of chapter)
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