The next day.
The wind coming down from the Nanli Mountains blew wildly, blowing the falling raindrops in all directions.
The rain has been falling since early morning, and it is still raining now at ten o'clock.
There is a piece of wasteland a few miles south of the city. The entire land bulges out like a huge tomb. The locals have always called it "Big Tomb Slope".
At some point, a pile of things appeared on the top of the graveyard. The extra things were not just objects, but human heads.
Neatly stacked together, there are hundreds of them, piled into a pyramid-like shape.
There is very little hair on each head, and the top of the head is basically bare, with only two dirty braids on the sideburns, and their eyes are as wide as cow eggs, and they never close their eyes.
These heads belonged to the group of Jin Dao Guards who were cut off and were built into Jingguan.
At this moment, there were densely packed figures standing around the graveyard, including soldiers in armor, rich businessmen in rich clothes, and civilians in ragged clothes...
There were at least five to six thousand people, all surrounding this "Beijing Temple" and pointing.
"It turns out that the rumors are true, these are indeed the heads of summer dogs!"
"That's right! Old man, my arm was cut off by a summer dog more than ten years ago, and I almost died. Those summer dogs look like this, and I will never forget it until I die!"
"Damn summer dogs! Today is the day for you too! Lao Chan's three sons were all killed by these summer dogs!"
…
Ninety percent of the people were very angry because they had a blood feud with Xia Guo.
If there wasn't a group of soldiers blocking them in front of them, they would have rushed forward and chopped off the heads of these Xia people.
There were still people coming from the east, and their exclamations could be heard from a long distance away.
Among the crowd, a young man in his twenties or fives looked solemn. He was handsome, dressed in a white robe, and elegant, as if he stood out from the crowd.
"Master Qin!"
A middle-aged man came to him from the crowd, followed by two teams of warriors holding guns and sticks, who automatically separated a path for him.
"Guanshi Wu!"
The young man in white robe nodded slightly towards the middle-aged man, who also saluted him.
If Wang Cheng were here, he would be able to recognize the two people at a glance. They were Qin Feiyu and Wu Sanbao.
"Master Qin came so early?"
"It only takes a stick of incense."
Wu Sanbao smiled, then looked at the heads on the slope of the big grave and said, "This new General Wang is quite ruthless. He dared to build Xia people's heads into Jingguan."
"Those who kill will always be killed. The Xia people massacred the people of Nanli, and they deserve this retribution!" Qin Feiyu said coldly.
"What Mr. Qin said is true."
Wu Sanbao nodded, then put his big head close to Qin Feiyu, and whispered: "Sanbao heard that General Wang intends to return our property that was stolen by the Xia people. I wonder if Mr. Qin has heard about it. ?”
"I've heard a little bit about it," Qin Feiyu said.
Wu Sanbao said: "Since you want to return the property, why did you mobilize all the troops to come here? Wouldn't it be easier to just return it to us?"
Qin Feiyu muttered: "I'm afraid only General Wang knows this matter."
"How much does Mr. Qin know about General Wang? It seems that he suddenly appeared. News came from the east that he was a disciple of a small sect." Wu Sanbao asked.
Qin Feiyu said: "Disciples from small sects are not that bad. They must have amazing sect inheritance, otherwise they would not be so powerful at such an age."
"Hey! This world is getting more and more incomprehensible. Now even people in the world are coming to compete with us for food." Wu Sanbao shook his head and smiled.
Qin Feiyu said: "Whether you are a member of the Jianghu or a descendant of an aristocratic family, you are all my people in the Great Zhou Dynasty after all."
"Hey! Sanbao doesn't have that much thought. As long as he returns the stolen property from our family, everything will be fine. If he doesn't return it, he will be here in Nanli in the future... Humph!"
Wu Sanbao looked fierce, and the flesh on his face was shaking at a high frequency.
At this moment, an extremely loud shout came from outside the crowd.
"The general is here!"
With this sound, all discussions and noises came to an abrupt end.
I saw Wang Cheng dressed in a black robe with a red Rukai underneath. His long black hair was tied up with a leather crown, and he walked into the crowd with a dragon's stride.
There was no need for anyone to specifically drive them away, the crowd automatically made way for them.
Wang Cheng walked through the crowd and came to the top of the big tomb slope and stood in front of the Jingguan.
He faced the crowd and said loudly: "Dear fellow citizens, just the day before yesterday, the Xia soldiers raided our Nanli city. More than 3,000 households in the city were destroyed and tens of thousands of people were killed. General Liu led his army to resist desperately and fought on the spot. He died, and only about 3,000 of the more than 9,000 defenders under his command escaped..."
The sound was loud at the beginning, and then became lower and lower, as if telling a story.
As everyone followed his story, their thoughts were immersed in the bloody massacre the day before yesterday.
"Today, I am calling all the fellow villagers here. One of the reasons is to pay homage to the dead people of Nanli County and the soldiers who died in the battle. I will use the heads of these Xia people!"
Wang Cheng pointed to the Jingguan behind him and said loudly: "They are the Golden Sword Guards led by the Sixth Prince of Xia Kingdom. Today, I will build their heads here into the Jingguan and pay tribute to them day and night." Our dead folks and soldiers kowtow to apologize!"
"Excuse me!"
"Excuse me!"
…
Everyone's emotions were suddenly ignited, and they raised their hands and waved them in the air.
"It turns out they encountered Xia Kingdom's Imperial Guards. No wonder Liu Xingze's people couldn't stop them."
Wu Sanbao squinted his eyes and said: "It seems that General Wang is not that simple! He even destroyed the imperial guards of Xia Kingdom. This man's strength is absolutely extraordinary!"
Qin Feiyu said softly: "A peerless warrior!"
"A peerless general?" Wu Sanbao was surprised.
Seeing Qin Feiyu nodding, he opened his mouth and said after a long time: "How is that possible?"
Yes!
How can it be?
Wu Sanbao himself was a martial arts practitioner, and his ancestor was the Marquis Anyuan who was knighted for his military achievements, so he knew very well what the words "peerless warrior" represented.
I think back then Anyuan Hou made great military exploits, but he still failed to reach the level of "peerless warrior". Looking at their generation, only the supreme martial arts master reached this level.
"Could this person be able to reach the level of Senior Zhou Huang in the future?" Wu Sanbao asked in shock.
Qin Feiyu said: "Even if you can't reach it, you will definitely have a place in the world in the future!"
Wu Sanbao nodded. A grown up peerless warrior is not easy to kill. Even the great master may not be 100% sure of killing him.
He thought for a while and felt that some things should be put on hold for the time being. This person had probably caught the eye of King Zhou and would definitely be trained in the future.
At this time, Wang Cheng had ordered someone to carry a huge stone tablet and set it up in front of the Beijing temple.
He pulled out the black sword he always carried with him and wrote an inscription on the stone tablet.
"In the tenth year of Zhaowu, it was the summer season. Xia barbarians invaded the country and massacred Nanli..."
After writing more than two hundred large characters eloquently, he finally wrote the date and signed his name at the bottom of the stone tablet. Wang Cheng stood up with his sword put away, feeling an indescribable feeling in his heart.
There was heaviness, joy, and heavy responsibility. The mixture of several emotions was something he had never experienced before.
Wang Cheng turned around and looked at the faces below, as if he had some realization: "Maybe this is a sense of belonging!"
Although he always regarded himself as a Zhou person in his heart, something was always missing. After all, he was not from here and had no sense of belonging to this land.
But after experiencing this, he finally had this sense of belonging, and the people who gave him a sense of belonging were the living people standing below.
He spoke slowly: "Folks, I know that everyone is afraid of the Xia people, and they are ready to run away when they hear about the Xia people. Many people are afraid of the Xia people from the bottom of their hearts. Are the Xia people really so scary?"
The people below unconsciously lowered their heads because Wang Cheng was talking about them.
"Two fucking shoulders and one head. Is it that scary?"
Wang Cheng suddenly raised his voice, pointed his sword at the heads behind him, and shouted: "See? These Xia people will die too, and their heads will fall off if cut off with a knife. They are not that scary!"
"Everyone, raise your heads! Look at these heads. Are they made of flesh and blood just like you?"
After hearing this, everyone slowly raised their heads.
Seeing that the fire was almost done, Wang Cheng shouted to the crowd: "Bring it up!"
At this time, two groups of soldiers came toward the crowd, pressing down on several Xia people.
At first, when everyone saw the Xia people again, they all shrank back subconsciously. When they saw the scarred and dejected Xia people, they finally became bolder.
"Bah! Summer dog!"
An elderly man spat in the face of a Xia man.
This vomit made the others' anger suddenly boil up, and they rushed forward, catching several Xia people and beating them violently.
"Summer dog! I'll beat you to death!"
"You bunch of beasts! If you kill the old man's three sons, you won't stop. You won't even spare the old man's grandson. Let them all die for the old man!"
"Kill them!"
…
A large number of people from Nanli County rushed forward, and the scene suddenly got out of control.
The people responsible for escorting could not control themselves at all and could only ask Wang Cheng for help on the slope.
"Let them be!"
Wang Cheng immediately sent a message to several people, asking them not to stop the people.
These Xia people were not killed on the spot the day before yesterday, but they were all seriously injured. The reason why they were left until now to pull them out was just for this moment.
The people of Nanli County have suffered from the Xia people for a long time. To them, the Xia people are no different from wild beasts. If we don't get rid of this mentality, everyone is afraid of the Xia people, how can we defeat the Xia country?
Wang Cheng now has too few soldiers. The men brought by Zhang Han plus Cheng Yi's men are less than 5,000. Even the defense of the city is stretched thin, so he will inevitably recruit new soldiers.
Where do the recruits come from?
It can only come from them!
If they were still like before and everyone was afraid of the Xia people, how could anyone be willing to be a soldier?
Therefore, Wang Cheng had already thought about it from the beginning. He must make the people straighten their backs and no longer be afraid of the Xia people. That's why today's scene happened.
