Several people were taken away by their generals, and they walked far away, and they heard their mourning and sobbing.

Many of the people in Jiaozhou fled from the Central Plains.

In the turbulent times, life is like grass, and flesh is like mud. In the past, the world was in chaos, and billions of lives died of epidemics, famines and wars. Millions of refugees left their hometowns that have been rooted for generations and went to an unknown foreign land to struggle to survive.

But they walked thousands of miles, survived the hardship of eating tree bark and grass roots, and survived the dangers on the road. They did not die in the Central Plains battlefield where flesh and blood were flying, but in the end they died in a war between the people of Jiaozhou fighting each other, and at the hands of the Jiaozhou officials who should have protected them.

Ding Feng was a little annoyed and pointed at Ding Feng again: "Go, choose the strong from the people, organize them to dig a hole and bury people! You can't expose the dead body!"

"Me? I'll go?" Ding Feng pointed at his nose.

"It's you going!"

In just a while, the sky gradually became dark and the soldiers of various troops had finished cleaning the battlefield. Apart from a song that sent a warning to the east, Ding Feng specifically pointed out a group of people who buried the pot and cooked for the sake of the military and civilians. More soldiers shouted horns and moved the axe and continued to build the camp with ding ding dong dong.

After all, it is common to die in troubled times, not to mention that the barbarians and wild animals are not restricted. The soldiers were a little surprised at first, but later they returned to normal and were busy with their own affairs.

After a moment, a group of people came from the mountains to the north.

From a distance, I saw flags like a forest and a tidy queue, with about two thousand people, which was the headquarters led by Lei Yuan and Guan Ping.

Ding Feng hurriedly came forward and told Mengling about the situation.

Lei Yuan had the knowledge of later generations and immediately said: "These corpses must be buried deep in a dry place, and they must not be left untied. I immediately sent the medical officer to urge the people to dig deep pits. In addition, the people arranged special camps to resettle, and asked the people who were middle-aged and virtuous to worship the dead overnight."

The two items he mentioned, the first one is out of the requirement of epidemic prevention. Jingzhou and Jiaozhou are wet and the groundwater level is very high. If you dig a hole and bury it casually, it is likely to pollute the water source and cause a major problem.

The latter item is used to appease the people. Most Han people believe in the theory of gods and ghosts, thinking that if the dead after the war cannot be buried in the soil and cannot be sacrificed, the souls of the deceased will be dissatisfied and will spread the disease. By the time of Huan and Ling Emperors, plagues occurred repeatedly in the Central Plains, which to some extent led to the spread of Taiping Dao.

Although Lei Yuan did not believe in these things, making some small arrangements would make the people feel at ease and benefit without any expense.

As for Mengling City where the tragedy happened...

Lei Yuan looked at Guan Ping, and Guan Ping nodded slightly. So he said, "When the people all come out, burn this city! This will not only prevent the spread of the epidemic, but also give in. Shi Xie and others know that we are here!"

He originally planned to capture Mengling and set foot on this place to face the east and west sides. As a result, he had to set fire on the day he took the city. This order made Ding Feng feel a little depressed. But he also knew that this was the safest and most appropriate way at present, and he immediately received the order.

The departments continued to build camps.

Since the county town cannot be used, camps must be careful. The high ground that Ding Feng chose before was very suitable. Each department marked the main roads, auxiliary roads, and camps on this high ground, and then first established defense facilities such as fences, trenches and towers.

Halfway through the project, Huang Qing brought several sling leaders from Mengling. Seeing this situation, they introduced that the white vine mountain not far to Mengling was full of tough vines, which were just used to tie bamboo and wood. At that moment, Lei Yuan gave them a few pieces of silk, and they called their own tribes and subordinates to work for the Jingzhou army.

Until evening, Ding Feng sent someone to set fire.

The soldiers of various troops stood high, watching the city buildings being lit one by one, and finally burned into a dazzling sea of ​​fire. The black smoke rose into the sky, forming low and thick clouds on the city, which were then blown away by the wind on the water. Accompanied by the roar of flames, the people evacuated from the city were crying.

After all, time was tight, and when the soldiers ordered them to withdraw from the city, they were very rough. Seeing that they were slow to move or were trying to stay where they were not leaving, they directly used scabbards and guns to hit them, until they were bleeding.

Fortunately, there was a slightly large-scale sacrifice as compensation, otherwise the people would feel that they would have been very talented and trapped in a wolf's nest. When the people started worshiping, they watched their homes turn into seas of fire, they would inevitably be more complicated.

At the same time, outside Guangxin City, more than 30 miles away from Mengling.

The camp of the army under Shi Xie was originally very calm, but the flame that dyed the sky bright red was like a small stone rippling on the water, causing restlessness in the camps everywhere.

An old man with a robe and clothes stood outside the camp, staring at the red clouds on the west side, and said nothing for a long time. Maybe his eyes were not good, so he looked at it for a while, rested his eyes, and then raised his thick eyelids to continue looking. He didn't know if the clouds reflected the sunset or the firelight. The light leaped and shone on his face, making him look older and sparse in his hair.

This old man is Shi Xie Shi Weiyan, a powerful man who almost actually controls half of Jiaozhou.

The name Shi Xie was gradually known until the Sun and Liu families divided the rights and interests of Jingzhou and began to look further south. In fact, he was a Shangshulang in Luoyang, a county magistrate in Wu County, and served as the prefect of Jiaozhi for 26 years. After careful calculations, he entered the official career for a full forty years, and is already over seventy years old this year.

The year when Shi Xie went to Luoyang was the year when Emperor Huan joined hands with the five eunuchs and the domineering general Liang Ji. At that time, the people in the world celebrated each other and thought that the jackals in power could be eliminated and peaceful rule could be continued.

However, after that, eunuchs and scholars attacked each other, and the center sold official positions and titles, while officials were greedy and violent, which made the people's lives increasingly difficult. However, disasters continued in various places, and wars on the frontier once affected Sanfu.

Shi Xie was worried that this would cause disaster to affect him, so he had many activities and finally was appointed as the prefect of Jiaozhi in the fourth year of Zhongping, and was able to return to his familiar homeland and stay away from the increasingly dangerous Central Plains.

In the decades after that, he governed the Han people as an official in the court, and on the other hand, he used the influence of the Shi family in Jiaozhou to form thousands of barbarians and drive them to use them for his own use. Over the decades, he expanded his strength bit by bit, and finally turned the Shi family into a giant entrenched in Jiaozhou.

Unfortunately, the practice of cultivating for decades has been too slow.

The Central Plains have been turned upside down, and the original Han family has been completely crushed and destroyed. On the body of the Han government, a more fierce and unruly separatist regime stands up.

The power of the Shi family is naturally very powerful. They have four counties and can influence three counties. There are about 500,000 barbarians directly commanded by each tribe, which is even more frequent through economic means. The Shi family's name can go from the South China Sea to Funan, Linyi and other countries in the extreme south, and are noble as kings.

But such power is not enough to fight against the powers in the north.

In Lipu, Qu Zun was defeated simply and Mengling was lost immediately.
Chapter completed!