More than twenty miles east of Pingyuan City, there is a circle of small villages built of rammed earth and wood. At this time, they have completely fallen into the sadness of the rest of their lives.
Many injured people were groaning in pain, and many houses in the village had been burned down and destroyed.
Those people whose relatives had died at home were holding the cold corpses and wailing bitterly.
"How could the living people deserve this?"
After Zu Ti entered the village and saw the miserable scene in front of him, he couldn't help but sigh in a low voice.
In fact, these people are lucky to see this tragic scene before them.
If Zu Ti's former army detectives had arrived at the village later, it would have been almost impossible for so many people to survive.
Because when the Hulu attacked.
This village did not open the door and surrender obediently. Instead, it put up a strong resistance and was breached.
In this case, the Hulu usually slaughtered all the men, including children, then took away all the property and women, and then burned everything else.
"General, the people in the village have all settled down, but many of them have been injured by the barbarians. The injuries are too serious and I'm afraid they won't last long."
A brigade commander of the Qingzhou Army said to Zu Ti.
"Well, that's all it can do. Life or death depends on God's will."
Zu Ti said calmly.
In recent years, Zu Ti has seen scenes even more miserable than this village. In this situation, any sympathy and pity are of no use.
"How did the interrogation of the three captured prisoners go?" Zu Ti asked.
"General, those three thieves all know that they will not survive if they fall into our hands. They are all very tough-talking and don't seem to be afraid of death."
After the front army led by Zu Ti blocked the gate of the village, the Hulu in the village pushed against a village wall and ran away quickly because everyone had horses. Only three unlucky ones were caught by the Qingzhou army.
Zu Ti scoffed at this.
"It's not easy to die, but we must let them die miserably!"
He looked around at the sad and crying people in the village and ordered.
"Bring those prisoners here, I want to interrogate them myself."
"As you command, General!"
After a while, three Hu Han prisoners with bruises and swollen faces were dragged over.
Zu Ti's guards pushed them to the ground, and they all fell to their knees.
As soon as they saw these three Hu Han soldiers, the surviving people around Zu Ti were all excited and yelled and cursed. If it weren't for the Qingzhou soldiers next to Zu Ti, they would have all rushed forward to kill these three soldiers. Hu Lu was torn into pieces.
These three Hulu soldiers knew that they would die if they fell into the hands of the Qingzhou soldiers, so they turned a deaf ear to the people's curses, and even showed a look of lewdness in their eyes, which further angered the people around them.
"Who do you belong to? How many troops are there? Where are you stationed now?"
Zu Ti's eyes were like daggers, staring at the three prisoners.
"If you want to kill, just kill, what nonsense!"
A hulu with green eyes and tendrils, with a fearless expression on his face, met Zu Ti's gaze and said provocatively.
"I have killed you Jin slaves, not one thousand, but five hundred. The ladies have had enough sleep. They have already earned their money back in this life, hahahaha!"
This Hulu's outrageous words made the surrounding soldiers and people even more angry. Even Zu Ti narrowed his eyes.
Zu Ti gave an order and asked the two guards around him to step forward and strip the Hulu naked.
The Hulu, who had been stripped naked and looked like a fat sheep waiting to be slaughtered, still cursed arrogantly.
At this time, Zu Ti looked back, thinking about the surviving people in the village and said.
"My fellow villagers, the thief of blood feud is here, you can take revenge even if you have a grudge!"
When the people in these villages heard this, they immediately howled and rushed forward.
Regardless of whether they were men, women, old or weak, almost everyone had a relative who had just died at the hands of these barbarians, and now they all had red eyes, like beasts about to eat people.
"Kill this Huru!"
"Dad! I will avenge you!"
"Sanlang, I will avenge you!"
In an instant, dozens of men and women submerged the Hulu.
At first, the Hulu could still scream and curse, but he was soon drowned out by the howls of many people.
Since they had no weapons in their hands, these vengeful people rushed to bite and tear them apart with their teeth to vent the endless hatred and sadness in their hearts.
The surrounding Qingzhou soldiers were extremely surprised when they saw that these people were almost crazy.
As for the other two captured Hulu, their faces were even more pale, and they sat slumped on the ground like mud, unable to move.
By the time Zu Ti ordered people to pull these people away, the original Hulu who was shouting arrogantly had completely lost his human form.
The skin and flesh on the body were completely gone, and the two arms were torn off, and the flesh on them was completely missing. As for the torso, it was an even mess. Not only the heart and liver were dug out and eaten with teeth and nails, but also the body was even eaten. The head was also torn off abruptly, and the ears and nose were all missing.
The common people who had just used their teeth and nails to decompose a living person were all covered in bright red blood. Even their cheeks were covered in blood, and their features were all blurred, as if they were man-eating ghosts.
No, it’s not like that, these people are now cannibalistic evil spirits!
These "evil man-eating ghosts" were all staring at the two remaining Hulu.
The two prisoners, who didn't have any strength left at this time, were all so frightened that they screamed and struggled desperately to crawl towards Zu Ti's feet.
"General, have mercy on me, general, have mercy on me!"
"General, this villain is not a barbarian. I am a soldier in Bingzhou. General, spare my life!"
The three of them were kowtowing like a mortar and pleading desperately.
Zu Ti was unmoved upon seeing this and said coldly.
"Who do you belong to? How many soldiers and horses do you have?"
The two prisoners cried bitterly and fought to shout.
"Shi Hu, the leader is Shi Hu."
"There are more than 20,000 people, all in the Pingyuan City area!"
Zu Ti glanced contemptuously at the mutilated and broken corpse on the ground, and continued to ask.
"Tell me everything you know!"
"If anyone speaks well, I can spare his life!"
When the two prisoners heard this, they glanced at each other and immediately rushed to pour out everything they knew, like opening a floodgate to release water.
Zu Ti soon learned the general situation of the Hulu ahead through these two prisoners.
"Shi Le's nephew Shi Hu has about 30,000 soldiers, nearly half of whom are from Wubao Dingzhuang who surrendered nearby. There is not enough food and cold clothing in the army. If Pingyuan City cannot be conquered quickly, it must be under snowfall. Return to Zhao Wei’s home before the great cold.”
Zu Ti murmured to himself and repeated the information he had heard about Hulu.
This was the first real enemy Zu Ti encountered after becoming a general, so Zu Ti had to be cautious.
He not only had to win, he had to win perfectly.
The two prisoners had already told everything they knew at this time, and they both looked up at Zu Ti pitifully.
Both of them were thinking about Zu Ti's words, "If anyone speaks well, I can spare his life."
"General, didn't you say that whoever speaks well should spare his life?! If the villain speaks more, it must be better. General, spare his life!"
"No, no, no, General, it was the villain who said the most, and the place where Shihu hid his wealth was also said by me!"
If it weren't for the Qingzhou soldiers nearby who held down the two prisoners, the two men would have started fighting, fighting for the only "survival quota."
Zu Ti retracted his thoughts, looked at the two prisoners, and shook his head.
"No no no."
Zu Ti smiled as brightly as the breeze.
"I think what you said is not good."
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In the whistling north wind, two cold lights flashed.
"puff!"
"puff!"
After two soft sounds, two more headless corpses appeared on the ground.
