"They were guarding outside our military camp... At the beginning... the soldiers and civilians who left the camp alone would be robbed... In the end, those who left the camp alone never came back..."
Yang Wenguang closed his eyes in pain and whispered.
When Kou Ji heard this, he was shocked. Just by looking at the eyes of the Shazhou people who were killed just now at the city gate, he could understand what happened to those soldiers and civilians who fell into the hands of the Shazhou people.
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Kou Ji clenched his fists in anger and said in a deep voice, "You didn't do anything?"
Yang Wenguang gritted his teeth and said: "I took people out to kill a group of people... which caused a riot among the people of Shazhou. Cao Xianshun even sent someone to tell us that if we continue to kill the people of Shazhou without any reason, we will be expelled from the city."
"The Jiedu Envoy of the Guiyi Army is so majestic!"
Kou Ji said angrily.
Yang Wenguang let out a long sigh.
Kou Ji asked: "Where is Zhu Neng?"
Yang Wenguang said with a bitter face: "General Zhu had a quarrel with Duke Xue in order to protect me. Duke Xue took away the military power and is now imprisoned in the camp."
Kou Ji raised his eyebrows but said nothing.
After pondering for a long time, when he was approaching the gate of the main camp in the city, Kou Ji spoke again, "How many of our people are left?"
When Yang Wenguang heard this, he said painfully: "There are still 60,000 soldiers left...the civilians...half of the civilians are gone..."
When Kou Ji heard this, his face turned pale, his whole body was trembling, and he almost fell off his horse.
Kou Ji stared at the camp gate with only two weak lights, and said with a trembling voice: "This camp gate... I dare not enter..."
There was silence at the gate of the camp, as dark as a ghost.
Yang Wenguang said solemnly: "The deaths of soldiers and civilians have nothing to do with each other..."
Kou Ji took a deep breath and said to Yang Wenguang: "You don't have to say anything... Tonight, I won't go in the camp gate. After the food is delivered, he will quickly have people bury the pots and make rice for the soldiers and civilians to eat."
Hot.
Remember not to let them eat too much.
The fact that they did not starve to death means that their lives should not be cut off.
We must not let them die because of our negligence.
Tomorrow morning, you take everyone to gather at the South City Gate, I have something to say."
Yang Wenguang nodded heavily.
Koji rode a horse and escaped from the camp under the escort of his guards.
He really didn't dare to enter the camp surrounded by dead souls.
Kou Ji rode his horse all the way to the south city gate and saw the old servant of Xue Mansion, supporting the lost Xue Tian and walking back.
Kou Ji jumped off the horse and stumbled to the ground.
Amidst the exclamations of the guards, he got up and ran to Xue Tian staggeringly. He kicked away the old servant of Xue Mansion who was about to stop him, reached out and grabbed Xue Tian's collar, and arbitrarily pulled him away.
Xue Tian was dragged in front of him, staring with scarlet eyes, crying and roaring.
"Xue Tian, more than 60,000 civilians and more than 10,000 soldiers are gone!"
"Xue Tian, the reputation you want and the national prestige you want cost us 70,000 to 80,000 people."
"They are dead, how come you are still alive?"
"How do you still have the nerve to live?"
"When I dream back at midnight, can't you hear their wailing?"
"Can't you hear the wails of their parents, wives and children at home?"
"Seven to eighty thousand people, how dare you, how could you?"
"..."
Kou Ji grabbed Xue Tian and roared hysterically.
Xue Tian's face was pale, his whole body was trembling, and he looked at Kou Ji blankly.
The onlookers around watched this scene silently with tears in their eyes.
Seventy or eighty thousand people were lost for the so-called national prestige and the so-called reputation.
Anyone can feel sad.
The soldiers who had just come down from the top of the city burst into tears, squatting on the ground and wailing loudly.
Their robes are gone.
Their brother is gone.
Didn't die on the battlefield.
Instead, he starved to death in Shazhou City.
The people of Shazhou who came to rescue them regarded them as enemies.
Cao Xianshun, the governor of the Guiyi Army who came to help them, hid in the inner city drinking and eating meat, completely ignoring them starving to death outside the city.
They feel wronged in their hearts.
But there was nowhere to say it.
There is anger in their hearts.
No one was there to comfort him.
If not to wait for reinforcements, if not to complete the military mission.
Why are they like this?
Are you really unable to get out?
Outside the city there are only three thousand iron kites and tens of thousands of servants.
If they abandoned Shazhou City and left it alone, they could rush out of the city and fight their way back to the Song Dynasty.
No matter how bad things are, you can still have a mouthful of food as a prisoner.
But they didn't do that.
They still stick to Shazhou City.
"Xue Tian, even if you die, it won't be enough. How can you repay those 70,000 to 80,000 lives? What can you use to repay them?"
"puff……"
Xue Tian's eyes widened under Kou Ji's questioning and he spit out a mouthful of blood.
Kou Ji had no intention of letting him go.
I wish I could strangle him to death on the spot.
The soldiers who came down from the city pulled Kou Ji away in tears.
They felt that high-ranking officials like Kou Ji who cared about them should not get into trouble for their humble lives.
Even though Xue Tian made huge mistakes, he was still one of the three chief ministers in the imperial court.
Kou Jiruo strangled Xue Tian to death in a rage.
Kou Ji's official career was over.
Kou Ji was pulled away by the soldiers who came down from the city. Xue Tian was left in despair, letting the blood in his mouth flow down his chest, and stumbled away to his residence.
The servants of Xue Mansion cried and trotted to catch up with Xue Tian.
Kou Ji broke free from the control of the soldiers and lay on the ground crying.
Seventy or eighty thousand people are dead.
It was like cutting 70,000 to 80,000 pieces of flesh from Kou Ji's body.
Kou Ji felt heartbroken and couldn't control himself.
The soldiers at the South City Gate were infected and all shed tears.
The soldiers who were walking down the city wall lay on the wall and howled loudly.
The remaining soldiers in the camp were crying while grabbing uncooked rice and stuffing it into their mouths.
The screams spread throughout Shazhou City and beyond.
On the inner city wall.
When the Shazhou Uighur soldiers heard the cries, they were trembling with panic.
The Shazhou Uighur nobles in the inner city heard the cries and became uneasy.
Only Cao Xianshun, the governor of the Guiyi Army who was located in the luxurious palace, shed tears and enjoyed himself after hearing the cry.
Outside Shazhou City.
After Yeli Yuqi heard the cry, he stared at Shazhou City and was speechless for a long time.
When others hear the cry, they feel sadness.
When he heard the cry, he felt a mountain of corpses and a sea of blood.
If the soldiers and horses of the Song Dynasty in the past cried like this after being trapped, Ye Li would definitely laugh out loud when he met a beggar.
But now the soldiers and horses of the Song Dynasty were crying, and he was frightened to hear it.
In the past, the Song Dynasty was a toothless tiger.
The Song Dynasty now has all its teeth and claws.
"Why……"
Yeli Yuqi sighed deeply.
…
The wailing cries continued all night.
It didn't slowly dissipate until dawn.
After dawn.
Sitting on the wall of Shazhou City, Kou Ji, with red eyes, received two pieces of news.
"Last night, more than a thousand soldiers starved to death in their sleep... Hundreds of soldiers...were exhausted..."
"Xue Tian hanged himself in the camp, and the old servant of Xue Mansion also hanged himself. Before his death, Xue Tian left a memorial, which was for the officials..."
Liu Heng stood next to Kou Ji with a sad face and whispered.
Kou Ji gritted his teeth and said: "Xue Tian deserves to die...hang himself to death...it was an advantage to him...he should be cut into pieces..."
Kou Ji's voice was very hoarse, and Liu Heng felt very uncomfortable when he heard it.
Xue Tian hanged himself, and Kou Ji and Liu Heng didn't find it strange at all.
But anyone who has a little bit of shame would not be able to live in shame after hearing what Kou Ji said last night.
If Xue Tian did not hang himself, then they would have to get to know Xue Tian again.
Liu Heng said in a deep voice: "Do you want to take a look at the memorial left by Xue Tian?"
Kou Ji glanced at Liu Heng and said coldly: "In my eyes, Xue Tian's memorial is worse than toilet paper. I don't care at all about what he wrote in the memorial.
Tell the truth about what Xue Tian did in the Western Regions and the fact that he killed tens of thousands of soldiers.
I want him to die without peace of mind.
I want him to be infamy for eternity.
I want him to be reviled for thousands of years."
Liu Heng's pupils shrank and he said in horror: "Fourth brother... think twice... if you do this, you will offend all the civil servants in the court."
Kou Ji stared at Liu Heng with red eyes and said coldly: "Who are they? They are just bullshit. If they are unhappy, they can come and kill me. If they can't kill me, I will kill them when I go back."
Liu Heng was shocked when he heard this.
Kou Ji's words can be said to be very arrogant and even a little rebellious.
But he didn't think there was anything wrong with what Kou Ji said.
Liu Heng said in a deep voice: "I understand what fourth brother is thinking..."
Kou Ji nodded stiffly and told Liu Heng: "Tell people to collect the bones of the dead soldiers, but not a single one of the bones of our own people who died in the city should be left behind."
"Here..."
"Zhang the king's flag, hang the emperor's sword, beat the military drum, and point the general!"
"Here...here..."
Liu Heng seemed to realize what Kou Ji was going to do, and his voice in response was slightly trembling.
The king's command flag, symbolizing the identity of the imperial envoy, was propped up at Liu Heng's instructions and hung high behind Kou Ji.
Liu Heng personally held the Emperor's Sword and stood beside Kou Ji.
Forty-eight men on patrol, with their arms bare in the middle of winter, raised their drumsticks high and beat the forty-eight bronze drums.
"Dong dong dong..."
The heavy and dull sound of drums resounded inside and outside Shazhou City.
Everyone who hears the sound of drums is surprised.
"Da da da..."
The rapid sound of horse hoofbeats sounded in Shazhou City.
Yang Wenguang rode the only skinny horse in the city and led the soldiers of the Divine Guard under his command to appear at the south gate.
"The last general, Yang Wenguang, is willing to obey the imperial envoy's order..."
"The last general, Cao Xiong, is willing to obey the imperial envoy's order..."
"The last general..."
"..."
"The last general, Zhu Neng, is willing to obey the imperial envoy's order..."
Zhu Neng was carried and appeared at the south city gate, followed by all the Dragon Guard soldiers.
After Zhu Neng was deprived of military power by Xue Tian, he stayed in the military camp. Because he was worried about the military and the military situation, he was restless day and night. He contracted an illness and had been lying on the bed for half a month.
At midnight last night, Zhu Neng rushed to the south city gate and met Kou Ji.
Kou Ji asked him to recuperate in the military camp and did not let him participate in today's affairs.
Unexpectedly, he still arrived.
Sixty thousand soldiers stood at the south gate of the city, waiting for Kou Ji's order.
Kou Ji stood on the top of the city and shouted coldly: "Order Zhu Neng to lead 20,000 Long Guard soldiers, accompanied by Japanese soldiers and Yuanshan soldiers, to defend Shazhou City. If there is an enemy invasion, give me a severe blow."
fight back.
In wartime, take no prisoners."
Zhu Neng cupped his fists and said, "Here!"
Kou Ji continued: "Order Yang Wenguang to lead the remaining 20,000 Dragon Guard soldiers and 20,000 Divine Guard soldiers to wipe out the outer city of Shazhou City before dark, leaving no men behind and no women over thirty years old.
, leave no one behind.
After nightfall, I will see you at the gate of the inner city of Shazhou City.
Anyone who delays military aircraft will be killed."
Yang Wenguang and the Dragon God Guards officers all responded.
Kou Ji drew out the Emperor's Sword, pointed it at Shazhou City, and roared, "Kill!"
Yang Wenguang led 40,000 troops and killed them.
Wherever you go, you can almost say that nothing is left behind.
Cries of death, flames, and wails filled the entire Shazhou City in an instant.
All the people of Shazhou who were hiding in Shazhou City were all brought out.
Became a dead soul under the sword.
Kou Ji's ruthlessness and cruelty shocked everyone.
Zhu Neng led the soldiers to the top of the city, looked at the smoke-filled Shazhou City, and said to Kou Ji: "Isn't it... too cruel..."
Kou Ji glanced at Zhu Neng, looking at a tall and skinny man, he forced the words on his lips into his stomach, and said coldly: "You haven't massacred the city?"
Zhu Neng was stunned for a moment, and said quietly: "I have slaughtered...but never killed like this..."
Kou Ji snorted coldly and said nothing.
Zhu Neng stared at Kou Ji and said, "You seem to have complaints against me?"
Kou Ji looked at Zhu Neng and said coldly: "Not bad..."
"Why?"
"If you could be tougher, so many of our people wouldn't have to die."
Zhu Neng said with a bitter look on his face: "Everyone has nothing to eat, so what's the use of me being tougher?"
Kou Ji glanced at the inner city of Shazhou City and said coldly: "There is food in the inner city."
Zhu Neng gritted his teeth and said with an even more depressed expression: "I'm not you. I can hold the Emperor's Sword and run amok. I thought I had controlled the Dragon God's two guards. But Xue Tian took out a copy of the seal in the inner court.
After receiving the seal of the Privy Council, all supervisors, counselors, and clerks in the army turned to him.
Xue Tian immediately took away my military power.
Even if I want to be tough, it’s difficult.”
Kou Ji gritted his teeth and did not continue discussing this issue with Zhu Neng.
He stared coldly at the one-sided massacre of the Dragon God's two guards in Shazhou City, and said calmly: "Where is Fan Zhongyan?"
Zhu Neng pondered for a moment, then sighed and said: "That is a ruthless man, but also a good man. If he hadn't coordinated, distributed the remaining grain in the army, led the soldiers, and the civilians dug tree roots and grass roots, and boiled leather boots,
If you pound the sawdust into pieces and eat them, I’m afraid the soldiers in the army will not survive until now.”
"So...where are the others?"
"Recuperating from injuries..."
"Um?!"
Kou Ji looked suspicious.
Zhu Neng shook his fist slightly and said with emotion: "Since the day when food was cut off, he has never eaten anything from the army. He has been leading the soldiers and civilians to run for their lives.
We only found out after he couldn't stand it anymore and collapsed from exhaustion.
In order to survive, he ate a pound and two ounces of his own flesh."
Kou Ji felt for a moment that his whole heart was twitching.