Liu Bei led 50,000 soldiers and horses and headed straight for Lu Bu. Xu Yin, Wang Yue and Zuo Ci followed quietly.
At this time, Lu Bu led his army to plunder Yangping County, which had become a ghost town.
The soldiers plundered mostly for money, but the monsters would kill and eat all the local people wherever they went.
Zhang Liao was riding alone in the wilderness, and beside him there were several green-faced and fanged monsters cooking women in large pots.
He held the long knife tightly in his hand, forced himself not to look at this scene, and galloped away.
One of the monsters raised his head and glanced at the direction Zhang Liao left, and said: "Eat... this person, why not..."
Another demon who spoke clearly patted the opponent's head and said, "He is a subordinate of the king. He cannot eat it for the time being. When the king's true form comes, he can eat as much as he wants."
The beaten monster touched the place where it was beaten, with a confused look on his face. He simply didn't think about anything. He reached into the pot and fished out the thigh, then opened his mouth and ate it painfully.
At this time, Zhang Liao felt extremely depressed. When he saw a dilapidated Zhuangzi not far away, he immediately rode in.
Suddenly there was a sound of breaking through the air behind him. Zhang Liao, who had already reached the Martial Saint realm, could not be injured by such a superficial sneak attack, so he slashed away with his sword without looking back!
Bang!
The opponent was bounced away by this huge force and a room collapsed.
Zhang Liao turned around with a cold face, only to see the other party jumping up from the ruins and looking at Zhang Liao with a ferocious expression. He was actually a monster!
After the monster saw clearly that it was Zhang Liao, it was stunned at first, then confused, then mumbled a few words, put down its hostility, and started rummaging around in the ruins.
Zhang Liao stared at the other party closely and asked: "What are you looking for?"
It glanced at Zhang Liao and replied: "Food! Food...human flesh...if you don't give it to me, I...them!"
Zhang Liao sneered, "You can't defeat them, so you can't steal human flesh, so you have to go out and find it yourself?"
Seeing that Zhang Liao could understand his words, the other party laughed strangely, "I'll find some food and I'll share it with you."
Zhang Liao thought to himself: In the place where my lord conquered, the population has been completely devoured by you. Only if you can find it will there be ghosts!
He didn't think much of it, so he tied up his horse and started walking around the village. Zhang Liao couldn't explain why he was walking around here.
Originally, he just wanted to see if there was well water and take a rest, but after seeing this monster, he subconsciously looked for anyone there.
Zhuangzi is very big, and it must have been very wealthy before there were wars.
He looked at the patio in front of the lobby, where there was a straw mat futon on the ground.
Presumably in normal times, the owner would sit on the futon like this, watching the dealers in the shop working busy everywhere, accumulating wealth bit by bit, and then at the end of the year, according to the closeness and daily contributions, they would be distributed.
Food, bacon and other rewards.
Across time and space, Zhang Liao seemed to see his hometown in Yanmen.
Yanmen is close to the border area, and barbarians from outside the fortress enter and plunder all year round.
Although Zhang Liao practiced martial arts since he was a child and grew up with the army, his family was once a wealthy Yanmen family, and there was also such a Zhuangzi.
It was not so big or so rich, but during the busy farming period, my father would sit behind the patio like this, watching the dealers busy in various ways, and supervising his martial arts practice and study.
When did everything change?
Did it start when the first protagonist Ding Yuan entered Luoyang on the order of He Jin? Or did it start after the current protagonist killed Ding Yuan and followed Dong Zhuo?
Zhang Liao remembered that he was just a very ordinary general. After so many years of fighting in the north and south, he seemed to be wandering, unable to see the road ahead, nor his own future, and even his hometown was gradually drifting away.
He stood there for an unknown amount of time when a faint sound suddenly came from the ruins in the courtyard.
Ordinary people might not notice it at all, but how could they hide it from Zhang Liao who was in the realm of Martial Saint.
He opened his eyes and saw a mouse crawling out of the ruins.
Or even the most vigilant people would not care too much at this time.
But Zhang Liao walked to the ruins and kicked away the debris covering it. There was a small passage below, and a cry of surprise came from inside, and there were three people hiding inside.
Zhang Liao was extremely surprised. He looked at the three people in the darkness with desperate and pleading eyes, and then he covered the things again.
Prepare to leave after finishing your work.
At this time, the monster came running on all fours and stopped in front of Zhang Liao.
"The smell of human flesh, smell it!"
Zhang Liao said coldly: "Do you want to eat me?"
Knowing Zhang Liao's strength, the monster quickly took two steps back and shook its head desperately.
Zhang Liao said: "There is nothing here, let's go!"
The monster looked at Zhang Liao suspiciously and said, "My nose, my spirit!"
As he spoke, he sniffed around. When he saw the ruins just now, a look of surprise flashed in his eyes, and Zhang Liao uncovered the ruins covered by them.
There were exclamations and cries in the passage, and a child was calling his mother.
Zhang Liao turned around, and the monster said in surprise: "Human flesh, here!"
It stretched out its claws to fish it out into the cave, but Zhang Liao's long knife was already raised high.
The sun rose from the open space in front of the hall, and the sunlight shone from Zhang Liao's back.
His face couldn't be seen clearly, it was buried in the darkness, and his shadow was reflected on the soles of the monster's feet.
The monster noticed the shadow under its feet and turned back suddenly.
Zhang Liao's sword fell at the same time!
When it was chopped down, Zhang Liao felt a different kind of touch from the monster's tough flesh and bones.
But no matter what, it's just flesh and blood, and it can still be cut in two!
The monster fell down, and the three people in the cave crawled out, one older and two younger, a woman and two boys.
"Let's go." Zhang Liao shook off the blood on the knife and said.
The woman cried: "General, where can we go?"
Zhang Liao thought about monsters eating people outside, and he was afraid that if the mother and son stepped out of this village, they would become the monster's meal within a short time.
He sighed, "If you can't leave, just hide here and wait for the war to end."
The woman hugged her two children and said, "We, mother and son, have not had any water or rice for many days. The rat passed by just now. My son couldn't help but reach out to catch it. Only then did the general discover it. Now he can only hide for a few taels."
I'm afraid I'll starve to death in a day's time."
Zhang Liao recalled that when he was a boy in Mayi, Yanmen, the barbarian bandits harassed and plundered the population, but they did not kill and starve to death indiscriminately. They came to capture slaves, and at least they could keep people alive.
But the group of monsters summoned by the Lord will attack a place and turn it into wasteland. If this kind of war continues, are we exterminating ourselves from human beings?
He took out all the dry food in his arms and handed it to the mother and son in front of him.
"That's all I have with me. Hide some and hold on for a few days until the war is over..."
In troubled times, human life is as cheap as a dog, what can someone Zhang change?"
The woman took the dry food and fed it to the two children first, and then said: "This General Zhang still has a kind heart. Why not join Uncle Liu? At least under his governance, our people's lives will have a bright future."
Zhang Liao held the knife in his hand and said coldly: "Don't say anything more about this matter. The knife in Zhang's hand has also killed many people!"