Silver Fox of the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 16
"General, there is no one in the next door."

The ten-member team sent to surround Shen Chen's house searched the house, but found no trace of anyone.

Cao Ren was at Shen Min's house at this time, and just found another pair of mother and child in the cellar. The soldiers killed them brutally, and dragged the bodies to the main room, where they were being authenticated by a torch.

He saw a middle-aged man and a middle-aged woman, and then a child who looked maybe ten years old, maybe eight years old.

However, there is a huge difference between individuals at the same age. Cao Ren has seen many fifteen or sixteen-year-old children who are as emaciated as ten years old due to poverty and hunger. He is as strong as fifteen or sixteen years old.

So he didn't suspect that this was Shen Chen's authenticity, and he didn't bother to stay alive for questioning, because Xiangben was very close to Shan County, if the battle could not be resolved as soon as possible, it would be difficult to escape if Tao Qian found out.

So after confirming the facts, Cao Ren threw the torch in his hand on the ground, and said indifferently: "Burn the whole village, and let the people of Xuzhou know what happens if they disobey us!"

"only!"

Shi Zhang took the order and left, and after a while, both Shen Min's house and Shen Zhen's house started to catch fire.

Then there was the whole house in the north of Zhuangyang Ju Village. After killing more than a dozen families in the east of the village, Cao Ren swung the butcher knife to the south of the village.

Shen Chen was still prostrate in the grass and did not dare to move. He knew that he could not outrun Cao Jun, so he could not act rashly when he was not sure whether the opponent had gone far.

But after waiting for a while, seeing that there was indeed no movement, he really wanted to get up from the ground with difficulty, but suddenly found that his legs could not use any strength. It was only then that he realized that his legs were cramped due to too much tension just now!

Faced with such a predicament, Shen Chen was horrified to the extreme, and had no choice but to start crawling towards the back of the mountain, twisting his body like a maggot.As a result, there was a bright light behind him, and when he looked back, his eyes were filled with fear.

Cao Jun actually set fire to the house. The most terrifying thing is that because the house is made of wood and the summer climate is dry, the burning speed is very fast, and it has spread rapidly to the backyard and rushed towards him.

The weeds and basil bushes that were life-saving just now have turned into deadly poison, and the fire spread rapidly, especially when Xuzhou is close to the seashore. The southeast wind in midsummer is howling and violent. With the help of the wind, it only takes a few minutes. The east of the village has become a sea of ​​flames.

Shen Chen knew that running into the mountains now was a dead end, because there were many trees in the back hills, and the fire would burn the whole mountain clean soon.Moreover, his legs were cramped, and he couldn't run even if he wanted to, so the current situation was extremely bad and embarrassing for him.

Fortunately, there is no such thing as a unparalleled road. At the critical moment, Shen Chen was quick-witted and quickly crawled towards the ditch. When he came to the side of the ditch, he dived into the water. The icy cold mountain spring water soaked his whole body, and almost choked him to death. In the water.

A roiling heat wave swept over, almost within half a minute after Shen Chen climbed into the ditch, the wasteland in the Shen family's backyard was ignited by flames.Then it quickly spread towards the direction of the back mountain, as if to burn the mountain clean.

Shen Chen lay down in the ditch. The ditch was actually not that big, but he was smaller, and it was more than enough to hold two more of him, and the depth of the water could reach an adult's ankle and a little bit above. Just enough for an eight year old to lie down and get full coverage.

However, what made Shen Chen even more terrified was that he had obviously underestimated the power of the high temperature of two to three hundred degrees. The flames were flying around his head, and from time to time, unburned ashes fell into the ditch from the nearby wasteland, and the fire met the water. The creaking sound is endless.

Frightened, Shen Chen had no choice but to consider climbing down the ditch slowly.Because he is too close to the back mountain, once the whole mountain is ignited, the temperature will rise further.At that time, once the source of spring water upstream of the ditch is blocked by ashes, wood fragments, and stones from the burning of wildfires, and there is no water source, he will undoubtedly die.

Step by step, he moved along the direction of the water flow with difficulty. The ditch was excavated and repaired by yellow mud, and the bottom of the ditch was also mud. With his movement and the burning ash falling from the sky, the water in the ditch was already turbid. The water is full of mud and sand, and the head is sticking out to breathe ashes, which is miserable.

However, Shen Chen was lucky. After crawling for an unknown amount of time, he finally managed to slide all the way downstream from near his house, and finally flowed from the ditch into the stream north of the post road.Then it flowed along the stream and approached a patch of weeds below the bank on the left.

The creek is deep in some places and shallow in others.Shen Chen has often swam in this stream to spend the midsummer, and he knows the depth like the palm of his hand.In the area where he was staying, there was a puddle about two meters deep, and the weeds on the side bank covered it, covering the bottom.

Budding out from under the weeds, Shen Chen didn't notice the burning pain in his back until this moment, and his whole body was also extremely sore, his clothes were torn, his dark skin was exposed, and his body was scratched by sharp stones everywhere.

He was facing the direction of Shan County, that is, the east.At this moment, Shen Chen's left is the north of Zhuangyang Ju Village, and on his right is the post road when he climbs up the creek, and the opposite is the south of the village, and now there are still screams.

Shen Chen suppressed his grief, kept himself breathing well, and listened to the movement around him all the time. The sound of rushing water covered his voice hiding in the stream, and the night became his cover.

The screams continued. After recovering a little bit, Shen Chen crawled out of the stream. He couldn't stay any longer, because the stream was icy cold, and soaking in it for a long time would hurt his body. If the body is immersed in low temperature and cold air, leaving the root of the disease will lead to premature death.

After struggling to climb to the bank of the stream, I don't know if the pebbles really have the function of massaging the soles of the feet. His legs gradually recovered from the numbness. After he was able to move, Shen Chen climbed up from the bank of the beach, reached the side of the post road, and poked his head out. Watch the situation across the village.

The fire behind him burned, almost dyeing half of the sky red.By the light of the fire, he saw figures flickering on the opposite side of the village. Cao Jun was slaughtering the entire village, and in the direction of the post road, there were about a dozen horses tied up.

Cao Cao is very short of horses now, even at the time of the Battle of Guandu, his number of cavalry was only over 600, and his horses were no more than [-], so these dozen or so horses were all in Cao Ren's army.

Shen Chen glanced around, only to see a soldier guarding the horse. Perhaps for Cao Ren, the meaning of leaving a soldier behind was to prevent the horse from breaking free from the reins. After all, the entire village would be slaughtered, and there would be no survivors. Come and steal his steed.

But at this moment, Shen Chen's eyes turned red, and the anger brought by hatred made him tremble all over. He lowered his head and searched on the ground, and found a pebble about the size of two adult's fists. Three or four catties, which is about the same as a turning head, and it is easier to hold than a brick.

The soldier was standing by the side of the post road at this time, looking towards the south of the village, where a massacre was going on, and he didn't know that there was a figure approaching quietly behind him.The horse beside him seemed to be quite spiritual, snorting lightly, but it didn't disturb the soldier who was engrossed in watching the show.

Shen Chen lifted the stone high. Now only a few of Cao Cao's confidant generals have helmets and armor. It is impossible for ordinary soldiers to have them. They just wear black military uniforms and don't have helmets on their heads. But he found that he is too short to hit the opponent's head head.

In the midst of burning with anxiety, the soldier also had no one to blame for his own death, perhaps because he was too tired to stand, so he simply sat on the edge of the field.The eight-year-old Shen Chen saw the right moment, almost exhausted all his strength, jumped up and slammed down.

"boom!"

The hard stone collided with the back of the soldier's head, and before the soldier even had time to snort, he was knocked unconscious by the sudden impact, and his head fell to the ground.

Shen Chen took a deep breath, wiped the sweat off his body, then straddled the soldier, and continued to hit him with stones.

One, two, three.

The targets were all the most vulnerable parts of the human brain, the back of the head and the temples. After more than a dozen hits, his body was already stained red with splashed blood, and the soldiers on the ground even had their brains poured out from their heads, apparently turning into a corpse.

At this moment, the boy felt that he had no strength in his whole body. After throwing the stone away, he turned over and lay on the ground panting continuously.

This is his first time killing people, but he knows that this is by no means the last time, because Shen Chen has seen too many corpses in such troubled times, and even some refugees who came from Qingzhou to Xuzhou wanted to rob the village, but they were used by the villagers The old farm tools and kitchen knives were chopped into corpses, and it is not uncommon to see dead bodies occasionally on the side of the road.

In today's world, if you want not to be killed by others, you have to kill others.Get rid of all those who want to kill him, and unite a group of people who can help him, so that his life can be guaranteed, just like people like Cao Cao.

I don't know how long it took, the screams in the south of the village gradually subsided, and Shen Chen also regained his senses. He struggled to get up from the ground and looked around. After Cao Jun finished killing people in the distance, he started to set fire in the south of the village again. incinerate.

Regardless of the soreness in his hands, he came to the pavilion where the horses were tied. This is the pavilion on the roadside of every rural settlement, and it is used by the people in the head of Guizhou or by the local farmers to rest after farming on weekdays.

The horses were tied to the gazebo posts by the reins, and Shen Chen didn't bring a knife, so he had to untie the ropes one by one, which was very troublesome.

Moreover, the horses had been tamed, and even if they were untied from the ropes, they would not leave immediately. Shen Chen had to use the torches placed by the dead soldiers to light up the gazebo nearby to burn the tails of the horses, forcing them to flee around.

Until the sixth one was placed, Cao Jun, who was murdering and setting fire in the distance, finally noticed the clue, and rushed towards this side yelling.

Shen Chen does not know how to ride a horse, so it is difficult to get on it, but most of the horses in the Eastern Han Dynasty are Mongolian ponies, with an average height of about 1.3 meters, so it is not difficult to get on a horse.

At this time, he also drove the ducks to the shelves. Standing on the chair in the gazebo, he easily jumped onto the back of a horse, pulled the reins to adjust the direction of the horse's head, kicked the horse's belly with his legs, and slapped the horse's butt with his left hand.

I have never eaten pork, at least I have seen pigs run, and I have never ridden a horse before, but I have ridden a cow and a donkey in the village. Although the horse is not as stable as the cow and donkey, there are some things in common.

After receiving the order, the war horse galloped away, throwing off the pursuers far away, and galloped in the direction of Dongfang Zongting.

(End of this chapter)