The battle ended after a huge pothole exploded in front of Fuxing Pass. Brother Yelvxiu ordered the messengers to blow the horn of retreat. Of the 80,000 Liao troops responsible for the siege and the 50,000 Liao troops responsible for the sneak attack, only less than 40,000 survived in the end. The soldiers at Fuxingguan won the battle, but there was no smile on their faces. They looked at the huge crater under the city that swallowed more than 60,000 enemy troops, and they did not want to come back to their senses for a long time.
The soldiers were cleaning the battlefield quietly, as if someone had cast a silencing curse. Yang Gui and Yang Xin left some soldiers and horses to garrison after the Liao army retreated. They took the remaining soldiers and horses to the top of the city. When they climbed to the top of the city, they gasped when they saw the huge pothole outside the city.
The explosion outside the city last night was so loud that the two of them heard it and felt it, but they didn't expect the result to be so shocking. When Yang Gui and Yang Xin entered the city gate building, they saw Yang Qi closing her eyes and relaxing inside. Yang Dezheng looked at Yang Qi and sighed.
"Did an earth dragon turn over last night?" Yang Gui asked quickly. Yang Dezheng pointed at Yang Qi and shook his head silently. Yang Gui looked at Yang Qi, but Yang Qi didn't explain anything. Yang Gui is also a smart man. From the expressions of Yang Dezheng and Yang Qi, he has already judged that what happened last night is probably related to Yang Qi. It is indeed a bit shocking that Yang Qi can make such a big noise as the earth dragon turning over.
Yang Gui wanted to ask, but was stopped by Yang Xin, "Since the eighth aunt is unwilling to talk, you and I should stop asking." Yang Xin pursed his lips, but did not speak. Yang Gui said calmly: "There was so much noise last night, and we set fire to the mountains on both sides. The Liao army suffered heavy losses, so it must be time to retreat."
The Liao army suffered heavy losses. There is no need to count them. You can tell by looking at the charred corpses surrounding such a huge hole outside the city.
"Hey..." Yang Dezheng, who was in a bad mood, sighed, threw off his sleeves, and said with a grimace: "I'm afraid it's not that simple. Ever since Brother Yelu Xiu became the Marshal of the Liao Kingdom, he has never been attacked. Such a big blow. He will definitely choose to fight with us at any cost. Besides, most of the people he brought this time were his own troops, and he lost nearly half of them in one go. When he returns to the Liao Kingdom, he will not be able to explain to other tribes."
Yang Gui frowned and said: "Yang Dezheng, what means do you think the Liao army will use to continue to attack Fuxingguan?" Yang Dezheng shook his head and whispered: "It's hard to say, and it's hard to guess. Now that things have happened, what means does Brother Yeluxiu use? , it is no longer possible to judge by common sense." Yang Qi sat up straight from the soft chair and said in a deep voice: "The soldiers will block it, and the water will cover it. From the moment I arrived at Fuxing Pass, I never thought about letting the Liao people One step beyond here.”
Yang Dezheng glanced at Yang Qi with a complicated expression, and sighed sadly: "I'm afraid that Brother Yeluxiu will use some means that we can't guess." Yang Qi solemnly said: "Then wait and see what he has up his sleeve. Means." No one can guess what means Brother Yelvxiu will use.
Yang Dezheng didn't intend to continue guessing. After repelling the Liao army, Yang Dezheng ordered Yang Gui and Yang Xin to reorganize Fuxing Pass. No matter what methods Brother Yelvxiu has, he will be ready. After waiting for three days, the Liao army outside the city was quiet, with no movement at all.
The soldiers at Fuxingguan could only look at the Liao army camp outside the city in the distance and did not move a step back. It can be seen that the Liao people will not give up.
On the fourth day. I didn't wait for the Liao people, but I waited for Peng Pai. The vibration caused by the explosion collapsed the tunnel leading outside the city. Peng Pai and his six secret guards were shocked to death on the spot, and two were crushed to death.
In the end, only Peng Pai climbed out of the tunnel. Peng Pai was seriously injured, with multiple bruises all over his body, and the nails on both hands were broken. He looked like he had crawled out of hell.
The first time he saw Yang Qi, Peng Pai said only one sentence, "Eighth sister, that tunnel can no longer be used. There are many landslides inside, and the inside of the tunnel is filled with gravel." Yang Dezheng looked at Peng Pai His whole body was in a miserable state, his hands trembled slightly, and he whispered: "I won't use it anymore, just block it. You can go down and recuperate first."
After Peng Pai left, Yang Dezheng felt very complicated. He realized that he could not become a hard-hearted person after all. Peng Pai can also be considered a loyal person. As soon as he was injured, Yang Qidezheng actually felt a sense of guilt. He didn't say what Peng Pai experienced in the tunnel.
But Yang Dezheng could feel that Peng Pai must have experienced many things that ordinary people could not imagine if he could come out of a collapsed tunnel alive. "You are different from before. Now you are cold-blooded and ruthless towards the enemy, but full of compassion for your own people." Yang Dezheng didn't know when he came to Yang Qi's side and said softly.
Yang Qi grinned and asked: "Tell me, what kind of person was I before?" Yang Dezheng hesitated for a moment and said calmly: "You were just a girl before, and you didn't have such a serious murder. Heart. I can feel that no matter how many Liao people you kill, your heart will not soften."
Yang Qi smiled and said: "I will never be soft-hearted when dealing with enemies." Yang Dezheng advised: "Listen to my nephew, use what you left last night sparingly and don't spread it out. Otherwise, many people will suffer. . Once controlled by the enemy, the great passes and cities of the Song Dynasty will no longer be able to withstand the iron hoof of the Liao people.
At that time, it will be the people of the world who will suffer. "Yang Qi looked at the Liao camp outside the pass and said sarcastically: "The mighty pass will never become the most solid barrier to protect the people. The only people who can protect the people are the people themselves.
What I do is lead the people out of the city walls, let them know the real world, and teach them what is truly indestructible strength. "After leaving these words, Yang Qi returned to the city gate building without looking back. Yang Dezheng was left stunned to enjoy the cool breeze on the city wall.
Two days later, an arrow was shot from outside the city and nailed to the pillar of the city gate tower. The soldiers guarding the gate saw a letter tied to the arrow. They did not dare to open it and read it, so they quickly delivered it to Yang Dezheng. Yang Dezheng opened the letter, but it was in Brother Yelvxiu's handwriting.
There was only one sentence written on it. "I have prepared a million people to kill for you. I hope you won't hold anything back." Yang Dezheng took the letter and was a little confused. "Brother Yeluxiu, what does this mean?" When the letter was handed to Yang Qi, Yang Qi was also a little dazed.
He couldn't understand it either. Yang Qi pondered: "I can't guess what Brother Yelvxiu means, but I have a bad feeling." Yang Qi and Yang Dezheng speculated all night, but they couldn't figure out the meaning of Brother Yeluxiu's letter. Wait until the sun rises in the east the next day.
Then they understood what Brother Yeluxiu meant. Looking down from the top of the city, we could see a dark mass of ragged people being driven towards Fuxingguan by the Liao army. Yang Qi trembled and said, "I understand what brother Yelu Xiu means." Yang Dezheng said with a solemn expression, "I understand too."
Yang Dezheng was shocked and said: "Brother Yelvxiu has prepared one million Han people from Liao to kill for you. It depends on whether you dare to kill them or not." They are from the same family, but Yang Qi can really do it? There must have been a lot of Liao army spies among these Han people in Liao. In addition, a large number of people from the Liao army followed behind the Han people in Liao.
As long as Yang Dezheng cannot withstand the pressure and lets these people enter the city, these Han people in Liao will rush forward and break open the gate of Fuxingguan. The Liao army following them will take the opportunity to enter the city and break through Fuxing Pass. If they were all killed, how dare Yang Dezheng talk about regaining the six states of Yanyun in the future?
As long as Yang Dezheng dares to kill, he will be remembered as the most evil executioner and butcher in the sixteen states of Yanyun and even in Song and Liao. Yang Dezheng was suddenly in a dilemma and could only let the Liao army drive the Han people of Liao to the city.
When the Han people in Liao arrived at the city, they began to wail, roar, curse, and ask for help. In an instant, the entire Fuxing Gate was filled with endless wailing. Most of the soldiers at Fuxingguan were young men recruited from Shengzhou. They had also experienced the fear of being ruled by the Liao people, and they could not help but sympathize with the people under the city. Some people couldn't bear the plight of the people below the city, and immediately ignored the advice of others and wanted to throw down the rope to save people. However, when he threw down the rope, he was caught by Liao army spies hiding among the Han people in Liao.
More than a dozen Liao army spies grabbed the rope and directly dragged down the soldiers who were preparing to rescue people from the top of the city. This soldier not only killed himself, but also killed his brother who accompanied him to save people. In just a quarter of an hour, dozens of soldiers who wanted to save people were killed by spies under the city who mingled among the Han people in Liao.
Yang Qi immediately ordered the soldiers on top of the city not to pay attention to the Liao Han people below the city. In order to prevent fools from appearing again, Yang Dezheng, Yang Gui, Yang Xin and others patrolled the city day and night.
Three days. Three days.
The soldiers and horses on the top of the city seemed to have gone through a cycle of reincarnation. The Han people in the Liao area outside the city knew that there was no hope of survival, and various tragedies began to happen one after another. Some people cannot bear the fear of approaching death and become violent and hurt others. Someone was directly hit and killed under the city.
There are more tragedies happening one after another. All kinds of horrific tragedies happen all the time. It was as if the Liao army, which was five miles away behind them, had not seen it. They are just guarding by law, preventing these people from leaving the Fuxing Pass. The Fuxing infantry and Jin army soldiers on top of the city felt like they had been walking through hell for the past three days.
The morning of the fourth day. As soon as Yang Dezheng stepped out of the city gate tower, he saw a group of revival infantry soldiers headed by Wang Xing kneeling in front of the city gate tower. Wang Xing burst into tears and cried: "General, please find a way to save them! It's so miserable! It's so miserable!" The Fuxing infantry kneeling behind Wang Xing were also trembling and crying.
Yang Dezheng glared at Wang Xing with a cold face and growled: "Wang Xing, although I don't know your past, I can guess something from your actions. Do you know what you mean?" Wang Xing choked with tears and said: "I know that saving them may cause great harm to Fuxing Pass, but if I don't save them, my conscience will not go away. They are really pitiful and miserable."
Yang Dezheng said coldly: "If they can be saved, why did I let them die? Since I am unwilling to save them, it means that they cannot be saved. Once the Fuxing Pass is lost, they will not be the ones who die." People. But Fengzhou and Shengzhou, more than a million people. Which is more important, you Wang Xing should know." Yang Dezheng dropped these words and strode to the city wall to inspect.
Wang Xing howled loudly. "General, they are starting to eat people! They are eating people!" Yang Dezheng shuddered and his feet subconsciously paused. However, after a short stay, Yang Dezheng continued to inspect the city wall as if he had not heard Wang Xing's words. While inspecting the city wall, Yang Dezheng just glanced down at the city and quickly looked away.
Wang Xing is right. The cannibalism begins below. And he still eats it openly. Some of them have been driven crazy and don't care at all that hundreds of thousands of people are watching them eat people. Among the soldiers on the top of the city, some were choking, some were vomiting, and some were pale and trembling. Yang Dezheng patrolled the top of the city. When he returned to the city gate building, he saw Wang Xing leading the group. The person was still kneeling there. Yang Dezheng approached Yang Qi thoughtfully and whispered: "Ba Gu, the situation is not good. The morale of the soldiers is very low, and some are even plotting secretly to open the city gate at night to save people."
Yang Qi frowned and said, "Let me, Yang Xin, lead people to guard the city gate later. We must not allow anyone to open the city gate."
"Hey!" Yang Dezheng agreed and went down to inform Yang Xin to guard the door. Yang Dezheng stood in the most conspicuous place of the city gate building and shouted loudly: "I know you have conscience, and I also know you are kind-hearted. You want to save the people below the city.
I'm telling you now, I want it too. But if we want to go back and think about it, we can't save it. Why? Because there were Liao spies mixed inside, and behind them, there were a large number of Liao troops following. Once they are rescued, the Liao people will march straight into Fuxing Pass.
When the time comes, it won’t be them who eat people, but you. There are also relatives, tribesmen, and children behind you who are protected by you. If you can bear to watch your relatives, tribesmen, and children eating each other behind you. Then go and save people.
If not, throw away those stupid thoughts in your mind. They all cheered me up and watched with wide eyes. I will keep this blood feud between the people outside the city in my heart. This debt falls on the Liao people. One day, I will lead you to conquer the Liao Kingdom and recover this blood debt. "
"Poof! Ah~" Many people on the city heard Yang Dezheng's words. They didn't want to let their relatives suffer, and they felt sorry for the people under the city, so they immediately roared and cried loudly.
"Woooooo~" The soldiers on the top of the city burst into tears all of a sudden, and their wailing could be heard several miles away. They are using their cries to vent their depression, powerlessness, fear and sadness.
Rejuvenation outside the pass. In the main tent of the Liao Army, Brother Yelvxiu also heard the crying coming from Fuxing Pass. But his heart was as hard as stone. "Killing kills the heart... Yang Dezheng, if you kill my people, I will kill your heart."
Brother Yelvxiu sneered and ordered Xiao She, who was half healed from his injuries and was obeying orders in the tent, "Prepare another 100,000 people. When the people in front of Fuxing Pass are almost dead, put them in."
Brother Yelvxiu is also ruthless, he is a man of his word. He has successively recruited nearly one million Han people from the Liao region from the eight states of Yanyun. His crazy behavior can be said to be unprecedented. After Xiao She received the order from Brother Yelvxiu, he immediately went to prepare the Han people in Liao. To be honest, he actually disagreed with what Brother Yeluxiu did. Today, on the southwestern coast of the Liao Kingdom, there are merchant ships from the South that specialize in collecting this type of Han people from the Liao Kingdom.
This deal has been around for over a year. Prices for Han people in Liao are also gradually rising. Xiao She felt that by selling these Han people in Liao to the merchants in Tianjing New City, he would definitely get a lot of wealth. However, he was just thinking about it in his mind. Yelvxiu Gegui was the king of Nanyuan of the Liao Kingdom and a member of the royal family of the Liao Kingdom. His orders were sometimes more effective than the emperor's orders in the Liao Kingdom. …
Fuxing Guanxia. Ten days have passed. Of the 100,000 Han people in Liao, more than 10,000 are still alive. How these people survived was clear to the soldiers on top of the city. Yang Dezheng stood on the top of the city, staring at the pairs of green eyes under the city head, and said solemnly: "Archers, prepare, kill them." Killing these people, the soldiers on the top of the city did not have any psychological burden. .
Because in their eyes, these people under the city are no longer human. Under the cover of the majestic rain of arrows. Those people under the city were killed one by one. It only took two sticks of incense to kill all the people under the city. The Liao people didn't seem to see it. After seeing that these people were dead, they quietly left the battlefield.
After three hours. Another hundred thousand people were driven to Fuxing Pass. After this group of people saw the tragic situation at Fuxing Pass, they were all terrified and wanted to escape. But they were driven back by the Liao army. The people seemed panicked. They were afraid of the Liao army behind them, and they were also afraid of the soldiers on the city top.
However, they are obviously different from the previous group of people. The leader was an old man. He led the clansmen behind him and walked to the side of the people who were massacred by the soldiers on the city with a pale face. The old man carefully inspected the dead people, and then said loudly to other tribesmen: "Don't be afraid, everyone, the people on top of the city are our Han army, they will never kill innocent people indiscriminately.
These dead people are all deserving of death. Someone asked in horror: "Elder, how can you be sure that they are worthy of death?" The old man's face darkened and he whispered: "Because they eat people." "The old man dropped these words and didn't care about other people's reactions. He took a step forward and walked to the foot of the city wall. He raised his hands and shouted: "Which general is guarding the city? Do you dare to come out and see him? "
Yang Dezheng has been paying attention to this group of Han people in Liao from the beginning to the end. He could feel the difference among this group of Han people in Liao. After hearing the old man's shouting, Yang Dezheng took a step forward and said loudly: "I am Yang Dezheng, the guard general of the Fuxing Gate." The old man was obviously stunned when he heard Yang Dezheng's name, and then he held his hands and said: "But Taiping Xingguo Five-year-old Hua Lang, Yang Dezheng?"
Yang Dezheng nodded and said, "Exactly." The old man held up his hand again and said, "I have met Tanhua Lang. I have a question. Can Tanhua Lang help me solve it?"
"Tell me!" the old man asked in a deep voice: "How did these people outside the city die?" Yang Dezheng said in a slightly lower voice: "The Liao thieves drove them and wanted to break through the Fuxing Pass, but I refused to open it. This Eighty percent of the people under the city died of starvation, and 10% were eaten. The remaining 10%...were killed on the order of this general."
The old man solemnly said: "The general killed those cannibal demons?" Yang Dezheng nodded and said: "That's right." The old man cupped his hands, smiled miserably, and said: "I understand, little old man. The Liao thieves want to break through, He came up with such a heart-wrenching plot to force the general to switch the switch. The general cared about the people behind him and refused to switch the switch.
Come to think of it, the previous group of people was the first group, our group of people was the second group, and there may be a third and fourth group in the future... This is where the general's responsibilities lie, and I don't dare to make any judgments. The little old man just wants to ask the general, in the eyes of the general, who are we people? "
Yang Dezheng said solemnly: "They are all sons of my Han family."
"Okay! What a Han man." The old man laughed loudly. "If you can be called a Han man in your lifetime, I will die in peace." The old man bowed to Yang Dezheng and said, "We will regain Yan someday. After Yunbazhou, the general was also asked to carve the words "Han man" on the little old man's tombstone."
Yang Dezheng returned the courtesy and said: "I will not disgrace my father-in-law." The old man said loudly: "My name is Liu Hong, after Liu Bang, the great ancestor of the Han Dynasty. In the past, I lived under the knees of the Liao thieves, and now I am trapped in death. Naturally, I cannot be humiliated." He took the name of a Han family man.
The young man has a son named Liu Kaipin, who returned to the Central Plains with the Song Dynasty caravan. If the general is lucky enough to see him someday, I would like to ask the general to inform him. I, the son of the Liu family, was born as a Han spirit and died as a Han ghost. "The old man Liu Hong cupped his hands again, turned around, and shouted to his people: "Do it! "
Almost at the same time. The clansmen of the old man Liu Hong suddenly rose up and captured the Liao soldiers hiding among their clansmen.
In the life and death fight. The old man Liu Hong's tribe killed and wounded more than a dozen people before they eliminated the six Liao soldiers lurking among them. In an instant, the clan members of the old man Liu Hong gathered together.
Those Liao soldiers lurking among other people were blocked from the encirclement. The old man Liu Hong was surrounded by people and shouted loudly: "My sons, now we are trapped in death, no matter what, we will die. We cannot be cowards, nor can we be that man-eating beast."
If you fight against the Liao bandits, even if you die, you will still be worthy of your ancestors when you go to the ground. "The Han people in Liao were obviously agitated. Yang Dezheng immediately ordered his people to prepare a large bundle of swords and threw them down on the city wall. He could naturally see that the old man Liu Hong and his people were determined to die.
The only thing Yang Dezheng could do was to give them swords and let them hold one or two people on their backs before they died, so that they would not die unjustly. The soldiers on the top of the city had already burst into tears. The old man Yang Hong picked a horizontal sword, waved it, looked at the soldiers on the city with a grin and said with a smile: "Babys, don't cry. We Han men will save some and not shed tears. Guard the city well. When you go to the capital in the future, remember to use the Liao Emperor's hat to hold wine in honor of the little old man.
At that time, even if the little old man was lying on the ground, he would wake up laughing. "After the old man Liu Hong said this, he picked up the Hengdao, led his tribe, and those Han people in Liao who were willing to follow him, and bravely rushed towards the Liao army. There were only a few thousand of them in total.
More people were watching like zombies. Thousands of people, facing the tyrannical Liao army, were basically trying to hit an egg with an egg. Hitting a stone with an egg always seems cruel and tragic. The old man Liu Hong led these thousands of people to charge against nearly 60,000 elite soldiers of the Liao army. There was no way anyone could survive.
Only part of the 60,000 Liao army was dispatched, and together they strangled thousands of people led by the old man Yang Hong. The whole battle lasted for a stick of incense, and after one stick of incense, corpses were left on the ground. It seems that the people led by the old man Liu Hong angered the Liao army.
The Liao army pushed forward one mile directly, leaving only four miles away from Fuxing Pass. The remaining more than 90,000 Han people in Liao were compressed to survive within four miles. The 90,000 Liao Han people outside the city are just like the previous batch of Liao Han people. Ten days later, nearly 20,000 people survived.
There was no other reason than that there were enough corpses for them to eat. The soldiers of Fuxingguan once again walked around the endless hell. When Yang Dezheng gave the order to kill, the soldiers carried out the order like zombies.
What happened after all, let’s see what happens next.
