"died?"
Liu Qingsheng's heart skipped a beat and he quickly looked at the people following Tuoba Tao.
It is self-evident what it means to have six to seven hundred horses and only about three hundred people to hold them.
There were thousands of people when they left, but only about 300 when they came back. Those who were missing must have died in the battle.
"You seem happy?"
Suddenly a sneer sounded in his ears. Liu Qingsheng trembled all over and quickly lowered his head and said, "I don't dare!"
Tuoba Tao smiled and said: "Let's go! Go to your place and show you some treasures!"
Liu Qingsheng immediately showed an expectant look on his face, and then led the way for everyone.
A few minutes later, they arrived at the government office of Jizhou City, which was the county government office of Ji County back then.
It is said to be a Yamen, but there is not even a plaque in front of the gate. The walls may not have been repaired for a long time, and they have collapsed one after another, like psoriasis.
The two government officials guarding the door did not look like people working in the government, either in their dress or in their personal temperament. Instead, they looked like local gangsters.
As soon as they saw the crowd approaching, the two government officials immediately licked their faces and trotted over.
But instead of running to their boss Liu Qingsheng, they ran to Tuoba Tao.
"Sir, I hope you are back!"
"Congratulations on your triumph, sir!"
The two of them surrounded Tuoba Tao like sucking dogs, squeezing Liu Qingsheng aside.
Liu Qingsheng was not angry, as if he was used to it. Instead, he made room for the two government officials.
Tuoba Tao took out two ingots of silver from his arms, rewarded each person with one ingot, and laughed and cursed: "Go away!"
The two government officials took the money and thanked him profusely, and then left here without looking back.
Tuoba Tao shook his head and asked Liu Qingsheng, who was pushed aside: "These two bitches didn't make things difficult for you, did they?"
"No! No!" Liu Qingsheng waved his hand quickly.
Tuoba Tao smiled, then arranged for people to send the horses back and led the others into the Yamen.
The Yamen has three normal courtyards. The first courtyard is the lobby, where the county magistrate hears cases, which is equivalent to a court. The second entrance to the courtyard is the Flower Hall, which is where the county magistrate works, equivalent to the current office. The third entrance to the courtyard is the back hall, which is the living area for the county magistrate and his family, equivalent to the family dormitory.
After Tuoba Tao entered the lobby, he sat on the main seat without hesitation, while Liu Qingsheng could only stand below.
On the other hand, the Black Hawks who followed in found a place to sit down one by one, but there were obviously not enough seats.
So, someone was dissatisfied and said: "I say Bald Donkey, can you get us brothers a table and some food? You can't let us stand here all the time, right?"
"Go right now! Go right now!" Liu Qingsheng quickly confessed, wiped the sweat from his face, and turned around to let others make arrangements.
After a while, a group of servants carried a long table into the lobby, and then walked in one after another carrying dishes.
After everyone was arranged, Liu Qingsheng carefully asked Tuobatao, who was sitting in the main seat: "Sir, these dishes are freshly prepared by the officials. Are you satisfied?"
Tuoba Tao nodded, waved at him with his right hand, and said, "Come! I just told you to see my baby, come up and have a look."
When Liu Qingsheng heard this, a smile immediately appeared on his face and he ran over.
Tuoba Tao took off the two gray cloth bags tied around his waist and poured out the contents.
Liu Qingsheng, who was still smiling, suddenly froze and stared blankly at the pile of things on the table.
Where is that treasure?
It’s clearly one ear after another!
And it’s the same left ear!
Liu Qingsheng looked at the ears that almost filled the table. There were old people, adults, and children. The youngest was not even one year old.
He knew very well what these ears meant. For Tuoba Tao, they were military merits, but they also represented living lives.
Old people, adults, children, there are as many as three or four hundred at least!
This group of people actually massacred civilians!
He suddenly felt so congested that he bent over and kept vomiting, but nothing could come out.
"Haha! The bald donkey is still so timid. How many ears can scare you like this?"
"I have some here too. There are more than two hundred of them. Will pouring them out scare the bald donkey to the point of peeing?"
"I have them here too, more than Li Erzi!"
…
All the Black Eagles looked at Liu Qingsheng who was crouching on the spot and vomiting, and laughed "haha".
The laughter pierced Liu Qingsheng's ears like needles. He could no longer calculate how many civilians had died at the hands of the Black Hawk Army.
Tuoba Tao, who was sitting on the main seat, was condescending, his eyes half-closed, but his gaze was firmly focused on Liu Qingsheng.
Liu Qingsheng finally couldn't help it and spat out several mouthfuls of white foam. Veins popped up on his face, as if his trachea had been blocked. After struggling for a moment, he fell to the ground.
All the laughter stopped suddenly, and Liu Qingsheng was quite speechless when he saw Liu Qingsheng lying unconscious on the ground.
"Did you... fainted now?"
"Aren't you too damn courageous?"
…
After Tuoba Tao sneered, he picked up the wine glass and drank it down in one gulp.
"alright!"
He interrupted everyone's discussion and said, "Don't worry about him. If he talks any more, the food will get cold!"
"Yes! You are just a dog. Who cares whether he lives or lives? We should eat and drink!"
"Drink! Drink!"
…
Everyone started pushing cups and changing cups, but no one noticed that blood was flowing out of Liu Qingsheng's hands, which was lying on the ground.
It was already dark when Liu Qingsheng woke up, and he found that he was still in the lobby of the Yamen.
His whole body was wet, and he smelled of alcohol, food, and even urine.
Without thinking, he knew it was those people who did it. This was not the first time, and it would not be the last time.
He endured the discomfort in his body and mind and struggled to get up from the ground.
The hall was in a mess, with leftovers and broken wine jars everywhere.
The Black Eagle Army who drank here during the day has disappeared and left at some point.
Thinking of the ears he saw during the day, he finally couldn't bear it any longer and shouted in the sky: "Beast! Bastard! Even the elderly and children will not be spared. You are not worthy of being human!"
After shouting this, he suddenly remembered something and hurriedly ran out of the lobby to take a look. He was relieved to see no one around.
Immediately, he laughed at himself again, laughing and tears flowed out, falling like peas.
He slowly squatted on the ground, and after a long time he got up and dragged his tired body to the back hall.
Before he even stepped into the back hall, the sound in his ears stopped him abruptly.
There were women's cries, men's cries, and the creaking sound of the bed.
He recognized the woman, heard who the man was, and knew what they were doing.
Everyone knows what they are doing!
No man can tolerate this!
He clenched his fists and made a sound, and he still didn't notice that his nails pierced the palms of his hands.
He raised his fist in the air, but finally put it down, and walked back to the flower hall in despair.
This is his territory, there are not so many insults, and there are not so many dirty words.
He sat alone at his desk, his thoughts flying around, and he picked up a pen and wrote a few lines on the paper.
After looking at it for a few times, he became upset and wrote the word "kill" seven times on the paper. Finally, he tore it into pieces and ate it into his mouth bit by bit.
…
The night is sultry.
There is an open space in the southwest corner of Jizhou City. Two rows of houses were built in the north and south. The west side is against the city wall, and a gate is left on the east side.
A row of stables was built against the west city wall, containing a large number of horses.
Even the horses were asleep at this time, and the Black Eagle Army in the house was also sleeping soundly.
"Swish swish!"
Suddenly, the night shook, and a large number of men in black suddenly appeared in the camp.
With a wave of a man in black, a group of men in black immediately rushed towards the house where the Black Hawk Army was located.
This group of men in black moved in an orderly manner. In groups of five, they rushed into every room.
"Bang bang bang!"
With a kick on the door, the man in black rushed into the room, and the sleeping Black Eagle Army opened his sleepy eyes.
As soon as he saw other people appearing in the room, Black Eagle Army got up from the bed in panic.
What was waiting for them was a crossbow arrow that shot into their bodies with "puff puff".
Even if someone was wearing inner armor, they could not completely block these crossbow arrows.
"Iron-armed copper crossbow!"
With a roar, the entire camp knew the identities of these men in black.
In addition to fear, they were more shocked. They never expected that Zhou Jun was coming to kill them.
"kill!"
Someone roared angrily, and after being shot by an iron-armed copper crossbow, he broke through the blockade and rushed out of the room.
And there’s more than one person!
After all, they are the most elite soldiers of the Xia Kingdom. Those with the worst cultivation are all in the Qi and Blood realm, and some of them are ancient warriors and Zhoutian realm martial artists.
Although the iron-armed copper crossbow is powerful, it cannot kill them at once as long as it does not hit the vital point.
Many people rushed outside the house, only to be met with dense crossbow arrows fired at them.
I saw a group of men in black standing outside the room holding iron-armed copper crossbows. The iron-armed copper crossbows were facing the door, as if waiting for them.
"Boohoo!"
As soon as the men in black saw the Black Hawks rushing out, they immediately fired arrows, and the Black Hawks were killed in large numbers.
"boom!"
Seeing that all escape routes outside the house were blocked, several powerful Black Hawks crashed through the roof and rushed into the air.
However, what awaits them is still the iron-armed copper crossbow!
At some point, a row of men in black appeared on the roof, each holding an iron-armed copper crossbow and aiming it in the air.
All the entrances and exits inside the house, on the roof, and outside the house were sealed tightly. This group of Black Hawks really had "no way to the sky and no way to the earth."
Screams came one after another, and many Black Hawk soldiers were shot dead in the room without even having a chance to scream.
In less than a minute, corpses were lying all over the camp, and the air was filled with a strong smell of blood.
After dealing with this group of Black Hawks, all the men in black quickly gathered inside the courtyard.
At this time, a slender man in black fell from the sky and appeared in front of everyone.
"Has everything been dealt with?"
"Not a single one left alive!"
After receiving a positive reply, the slender man in black nodded.
His side has been cleaned up, but he doesn't know what's going on on the other side.
"Enter the city!"
