It was the seventh day of September in the second year of Zhaoxi. Under the setting sun, Mulu City, the capital of Ye State, had already bid farewell to the bustle of the past. A few months ago, a massacre occurred on this land, turning the water at the mouth of the Yanjiang River into the sea.
It has also been dyed red. Now, the blood-like sunset once again reflects the color of the water like blood. The autumn wind blows across the river, sobbing like a complaint. It is like the souls of those who died tragically under the sword are still unwilling to leave.
In the sky, there are still groups of black crows and vultures hovering. There are millions of people in Mulu City, but there are only a few survivors. Among them are old and weak women and children, who cannot run away like young adults.
They can only live like rats and ants among the ruins. They are afraid that one day they will be discovered and their lives will be lost immediately under the cold butcher's knife.
At present, everywhere inside and outside the city are piled with corpses covered with blood and flesh, covered with maggots. The stench emitted from them rises with the wind, which lasts day and night, even attracting wild dogs and wolves from dozens of miles away.
After being bitten by wild beasts, yellow-green corpse water seeped into the ground, causing even the originally fertile land to take on a poisonous color.
As the sun sets and the moon rises, there is silence all around. However, in this almost desperate death zone, there is a place where people and horses are noisy and the lights are bright. There was the Baisha Camp of Ye State. Now, it has long become Yuli
The place where the Peng Kingdom fleet was stationed.
In the shallow sea outside the camp, the Ye Kingdom warships that were burned and sunk by the blue flames stood eerily in the waves like dense skeletons. The place that originally belonged to them on the shore was now anchored by more than a dozen five-ships with the flag of the hammerhead shark.
In recent days, this fleet has plundered almost the entire Wanzhou along the coast. At present, in the Baisha camp, in addition to the barrels of blue flames neatly stacked, there are piles of food, grass and wine.
Every evening, the strong aroma of roasting raw meat could be heard in the camp. However, less than 30% of the Peng soldiers often followed Yu Li until they were drunk and gathered around the campfire to feast.
However, this scene of drinking and having fun all day long still made Ziyuan feel a little unbearable. She had not left the tent for several days, and broke into the Chinese army tent under the somewhat unpleasant eyes of the coach's post, trying hard to suppress her anger.
He asked in his throat:
"Did you forget that we have to go north and there are more important things to do?"
Yu Li was playing with a pair of wine cups and jugs that had just been brought into the tent. He had no intention of drinking, but looked at the girl opposite with doubts on her face:
"Didn't you ask me to go south and come to Mulu to vent my anger in the city?"
"But now that people have killed and their hatred has disappeared, why do they continue to stay for so many years?"
Seeing that the other party didn't understand, Zi Yuan finally couldn't help but asked angrily. Unexpectedly, Yu Li smiled instead:
"Are you scared? Don't worry. The dead are dead and will not come back. Otherwise, during the eighteen hundred years since the Great Ascension, the ghosts of the dead would have eaten the emperor alive.
Don’t worry too much—"
"Oh, that's not what I'm talking about at all! Haven't you seen the expressions on the faces of the sergeants in the camp? They really want to kill me immediately to appease the souls of those who died tragically under their own swords!"
Zi Yuan gave the other party a hard look, and it was hard to imagine that she had found such a dull person to rely on.
Unexpectedly, the young general was unmoved after hearing this and still shook his head:
"The officers and soldiers outside are regular princes' troops, not bandits. Now that they have been ordered to kill so many unarmed people, anyone will feel uncomfortable. But believe me, in a few days, in a few days they will be
It will be fine."
"It's a ghost if we get better! Now we have already gathered enough supplies for the journey north. You can give me the order now and set sail early tomorrow morning!"
Zi Yuan was still shouting, reaching out to grab the shark tooth military talisman that Yu Li tied to the Kuijiao leather armor on his chest. At this moment, a sergeant on duty suddenly broke in outside the tent. Seeing this situation, he immediately
He drew his sword and wanted to take down the girl. However, Yu Li gave a low shout, stepped in front of the opponent, and then pressed the shoulder of the girl behind him with his backhand, and then asked the person what was going on.
The sergeant had no choice but to raise his hands and report:
"There are many people coming from outside the camp. I hope the general can enjoy the food."
After hearing this, Yu Li couldn't help but turn his head and smile, and then asked:
"Approximately what percentage of those people are children?"
"They are all children. Thanks to this woman, except for half-grown children who have no experience in the world, how can there be any living people who dare to come to us to ask for food?"
After the sergeant said that, he glared at Zi Yuan who was behind the general. A few months ago, no one would have thought that this girl who looked soft and frail could be such a vicious and ruthless viper.
woman.
However, in the past, Yu Rei, who would have been furious when he saw his subordinates acting like this, now instead of being angry, he laughed even more cheerfully. He then took out a few gold coins from his arms and rewarded the sergeant on the opposite side before sending him away.
Got out:
"Bring all those children into the camp, the general wants to see them!"
When the sergeant walked further away, Zi Yuan took a breath and asked again, her tone full of censure for the other party's unwillingness to obey her arrangements:
"Are you crazy? You didn't see that the man just now was about to attack me. At this time, why don't you take me on the boat and leave quickly, but instead go to meet some wild child of unknown origin?!"
Yuli was walking towards the outside of the tent when he suddenly stopped when he heard this, then turned around and looked at the girl behind him solemnly:
"The massacre of the city has only happened twice in the history of the Dasheng Dynasty. The last time was when the Di people went south to cause trouble. Now we have done such a brutal thing, it is absolutely impossible not to cause dissatisfaction in the army. If you want to continue to find
With the power of our ancestors, we must first control the Pengguo soldiers around us. If you believe me, I will never harm you! If you don’t believe it, just come with me and see."
After the young general said that, he turned around and walked out of the tent, never looking back. Zi Yuan was extremely upset that she had caused such a big trouble just to vent her anger. However, it was not an option to sit alone in the tent and feel sorry for herself.
He had no choice but to bite the bullet and quickly followed the opponent out.
The originally empty school ground outside the tent was now crowded with people. Looking up, there were no less than a thousand people gathered, and indeed they were all short, half-grown children. The children were ragged and skinny, and they should be
They were orphans whose families were destroyed and displaced during the war. The youngest among them was only six or seven years old, and the oldest was only about ten years old. Their eyes were full of fear when they saw the Pengguo army, but they could not resist the waves in the camp.
The aroma of meat came out, and I swallowed saliva with eagerness on my face.
"What do you want when you come to the camp?"
Yuli stepped forward and waved to the sergeant blocking the child to move out of the way.
"We...we just want to beg for food. Now even the roots of bark and grass have been eaten in the city. Many of us have not been able to find a grain of food for several days. Please be kind to the general!"
A bold child came forward tremblingly. At first he did not dare to raise his head to look at Yu Li's ferocious face, but then he raised his head and spoke more and more urgently, his words full of desperate desire to survive.
"Come here, bring some white flour steamed buns and water first!"
Without any hesitation, Yu Li immediately ordered several loads of food to be brought in. When the children who were originally weak saw the steamed buns, they gathered strength from nowhere and immediately rushed to the side of the Pengguo sergeant and raised their hands high.
They were jumping with dirty hands, shouting, and fighting for the food and water that was only enough for them to share, hoping to get a bite first.
"Is it tasty?"
Looking at the person squatting on the ground in front of him and devouring his food, Yu Li leaned down and asked again, but there was a strange smile on his face.
The children did not notice anything unusual. While eating, they turned around and nodded vigorously:
“Delicious, delicious! I have never eaten such delicious steamed buns!”
"Then what are you going to do after you're full?"
"Of course I should repay the general's kindness!"
The children said this and immediately bowed their hands to the young general, forgetting that the man in front of them was the culprit who caused the ruin of their country and their lack of food.
Yu Li narrowed his eyes and stared at the children across from him for a long time. He then ordered someone to take out more food, but he kicked the burdens stacked with steamed buns and water to the ground.
All the white pasta rolled down on the school ground, stained with dust and sand. The children's eyes immediately showed a trace of doubt, but Yu Li burst out laughing, then raised his feet and violently soaked the noodles in the dirty water.
The steamed buns inside were crushed and crushed, turning into a pile of mud that was difficult to swallow.
"That's right, that's right! You should repay me well. My general will sail northward in the near future and accomplish great things. If you can eat these steamed buns today, you can go on the expedition with me, eat military rations, and use military pay!
"
At first, no one among the children dared to move. They looked at each other, still worried about the strange general in front of them. However, the little bit of white flour they had eaten before was quickly replaced by the food in their stomachs.
The gluttons came out. At first, three or five people came out, grabbed the dough full of sand from the ground and stuffed it into their mouths.
Some people had their throats scratched by gravel on the spot and vomited profusely. Mucus mixed with blood, dough and sand surged out of their stomachs and hung on the corners of their lips. However, this did not stop the children from continuing to vomit those almost
He stuffed his stomach with food that he couldn't swallow.
In the meantime, some people got into fights because of this. With the combination of fists and kicks, there was always a winner. Some children who were too weak were knocked to the ground by those who originally called each other "companions". Their mouths and faces were full of blood, but they could no longer fight.
Unable to stand up, only about 800 people were left standing on the field.
However, this was just the beginning. After a fight, the children, who already thought they had won the opportunity to go to sea on the ship, saw General Yu Rei wave his hand. As soon as the military order was issued, more than ten soldiers under his command rushed to
Several large cars were driving out from the depths of Baishaying. More than half of the cars were filled with steaming white-faced steamed buns that had just come out of the pan, while the other half were filled with thousands of dark-skinned steamed buns that the children had never seen before.
Elongated tubular weapon.
"From today on, you are officially under my command. The firebolts in front of you have already been loaded. Now, I order you to pick them up, pull the machine, and end the defeat of those losers who fell on the ground.
life!"
Seeing that Yuli had fulfilled his promise, the victorious children no longer hesitated at all about any cold-blooded orders. On the contrary, most of them took up fire plugs without hesitation.
The gun was fired at the other children who fell to the ground.
Unexpectedly, all these years ago, before Qi Shouyu secretly planned the rebellion, he specially ordered Yu Li to hide the fire bolt blunderbuss in Baisha Camp to prepare for the mutiny, but now he could still fire it smoothly.
Accompanied by a loud noise, a dazzling firelight and thick smoke rose into the sky. The losers who were still lying on the ground and moaning were immediately shot through their stomachs and limbs, twisting their bodies in a pool of blood like a nest of eels.
.But soon, their weak bodies could no longer feel the severe pain from the injuries, and gradually became quiet.
Seeing this, Yu Li smiled evilly. He waved his hand again, and the Pengguo soldiers who had been drinking and eating meat in front of the bonfire in the camp also took out more than a hundred five-flowered bandits from many secret water prisons, but the same thing happened.
The prisoners wearing Kuijiao leather armor were forced to line up side by side on the wooden pier on the shore.
Judging from the armor patterns of those prisoners, most of them were mid-level and upper-level officers ranked as captains and captains. As soon as they appeared, they immediately caused an uproar among many ordinary Pengguo soldiers.
In the midst of the commotion, Yu Li once again loudly ordered to the children in front of him:
"Every time you shoot a captain here, one of you will be replaced. And every time you shoot a captain here, one of you will be promoted to captain!"
By now, even if someone in the Pengguo army felt that Yu Li had gone too far and wanted to take action, it was already too late. There was another burst of fire and smoke, and the more than a hundred Pengguo officers were killed on the spot.
He was shot into a sieve. The Kui Jiao armor he wore on his body was like a piece of thin paper exposed to the sharp sword in front of the power of the fire bolt. The punctured wounds and the scattered blood and flesh scattered all over the camp.
The school grounds were dyed crimson.
Having seen the children killing without hesitation before, and facing the powerful power of firebolts, the other Pengguo soldiers who could remain calm even in the military formation suddenly became timid, and no one dared to do it again.
Resist rashly.
"From today on, this fleet and all the sergeants on board must obey the orders of these children. And you will directly obey my orders! Anyone who disobeys will be killed without mercy!"
Yu Li ordered loudly, looking at the more than 800 children holding firebolts and guns in front of him, he knew that his plan had finally succeeded. He raised his hands high and let those children with childish faces but because of their eyes look confused.
The children who showed terrifying cruelty in killing people cheered and jumped around him, and defended him.
Deep in the heart of the young general, he knew the feeling of longing to escape from the quagmire of despair, to be guided and appreciated - because he himself had had the same experience. What Qi Shouyu had done to him
Not only did he master those tricks skillfully, but he also used them without hesitation on the children in front of him who were not yet adults and could not even distinguish right from wrong.
But because of this, what stands on the school grounds now are no longer more than 800 children who were displaced in the war, but more than 800 personal guards armed with firebolts and cannons who only obey the orders of Yu Rei! They
Everyone among them will regard him as their reborn parent, and will regard his orders as irrefutable imperial edicts. They will also be more cold-blooded and cruel than any regular army composed of adults!
Until then, Zi Yuan walked to the young general's side in shock, gently pressed her hand on the still pounding chest and asked:
"Have you planned all of this?"
"That's natural. What, I didn't lie to you? From today on, this 'orphan army' of 180 people will be your and my personal bodyguards. In this way, even if there are still dissatisfied soldiers among the Pengguo soldiers,
We will never dare to act rashly again. We can finally move north!"
Yu Li nodded and smiled at the girl next to him, his noseless face becoming more ferocious.
However, Ziyuan didn't care about this. Instead, she took the other person's arm and kissed him hard on the cheek.
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