My Chinese ancestors

Chapter 203: The Southern Expedition Begins, Iron Hoofs Are Burning

The night wind blew through the tree crowns, causing a rustling of branches and leaves.

Looking at the tall figure standing in front of him, Xu Jin crawled forward and reached out to grab the back of the Xia King's royal robe, "Your Majesty, little one..."

On the side, a shorter general stabbed an iron spear in his hand, passed through the back of the Wei businessman's hand, and nailed his palm to the ground. He screamed in pain and fell to the ground, kicking his feet. Teng, severe pain, tears flowed out.

King Xia, who was facing away from him and the woman in front, turned his face slightly, raised his index finger between his lips, and said "Shh".

One after another, the carriages passed by with the kneeling figure below. The carriages were filled with gold and silver jewelry, exquisite porcelain, and calligraphy and paintings by famous artists. They were all gifts sent by Xu Jin. Several more carriages drove by behind. , piled with white bodies, they were also the charming women he sent to the officials' homes.

At this time, they were stripped of their clothes and their limbs and limbs were severed. Then the carriage stopped and they were pulled into the carriage one by one by the Xiliang soldiers. They were piled together with the gold and silver utensils, like strips of flesh maggots. Writhing on the ground, moaning in pain.

Qin Zhen watched this scene, a chill like goosebumps climbed up the back of her neck, and her delicate body couldn't help but tremble.

Xu Jin's face turned pale and he couldn't say a word at this time.

"You two, these are the things you gave away."

Hearing the plain and indifferent voice coming from the front, Xu Jin gritted his teeth and endured the severe pain in his palm, and whispered: "Yes."

The night wind howled, Su Chen stood on the edge of the high platform, his robes flying, he looked at the piles of property and women below expressionlessly, "You are so rich. I just took so much property and food from Wei last year. I brought out so much real gold, silver, calligraphy, painting, and porcelain that everyone loved, and the eleven states of the Wei Kingdom were really rich and enviable."

He tilted his face slightly, with a smile on his lips: "I gave away so many things, a dazzling array of things, everything. No wonder I am loved by the officials under Gu's command."

"The big...if the king likes it, there are many smaller ones, and they will be given to the king!"

"I accept it with kindness." The Xia King looked down and said softly: "If I like something, I will go and get it myself. If someone else gives it to me, I will look down on it."

The moment he heard Su Chen's faint words, Xu Jin, as a businessman, was extremely sensitive to other people's words. At this moment, he faintly noticed something in his heart, which made him feel a chill in his heart.

He felt that he might not be able to go back.

When he came out, he received the emperor's decree and was in high spirits. When he left, his wife, children and children stood at the door of his house to say goodbye to him, and he took a boat all the way north. The waves were undulating, the land was magnificent, the sea was vast, and the sun rose from the sea level, making it even more magnificent... …all turned into past impressions in my mind.

After all, in the words of the King of Xia, he saw countless swords waving, and the iron hooves trampling the earth ignited the flames of war.

The night wind was still whining and roaring in the forest.

A few falling leaves passed before his eyes, and then he heard a majestic voice ringing from this high platform and in the distance.

"Isolated soldiers, after half a year of training, are your swords still sharp?"

With a crash, a sword was unsheathed and held in the soldier's hand, raised above his head.

The soldiers in the front row stepped forward one after another, carrying groups of officials by their lapels, and dragged them to the side of the mound. Facing the towering stone monument, they knocked them to their knees with the back of their swords. Xu Jin and Na Qinzhen He was also dragged to the edge of the high platform by the soldiers.

In the peripheral vision of the businessman's trembling vision, King Xia stepped forward to the high platform to watch the ceremony. His royal clothes were flapping in the night wind, and the white velvet between his collars was swaying wildly.

His tall body faced the wind, and he pulled out the King of Xia sword with a clang. The broad, long and thick sword body hit the hard ground with a clang, and his voice was carried by the inner force, like thunder in the night. open.

"Look at these officials in front of you. They used to be your bosses and the parents of the people in the city. Now! They are like pigs and dogs. They were bribed by the Wei State in the south with these gold and silver utensils and these precious calligraphy and paintings. , Women have corrupted the heart, forgetting the hatred of the country and the family, and the wronged souls of the [-] people in Fenzhou!"

The wind blew, and the high-pitched voice resounded throughout the world.

……

south.

In Ping Shang City, the flickering candlelight illuminated a figure wearing a golden heart-protecting bright light armor and a half-length straight blue robe. He held a book in one hand, stroking his beard and reading at night. After a long time, he put down the book, raised his maroon face, and stood up. Walking to the weapon rack, he grasped the long handle of the knife, raised it suddenly and took it into his hand.

hum!
The thick blade cut through the air, and the candlelight reflected a dragon pattern snaking along the blade.

In the adjacent room, a burly black man was holding a snake spear in one hand and a wine jar in the other. He raised his head and drank the wine, looked at the brand new snake spear in his hand, and raised his hand to stroke the wine stains hanging between the tiger's whiskers.

In the military camp outside the city, huge painted halberds stirred up wind and thunder, sharp and bright crescent branches made arc-shaped deep marks across the ground, and sand, gravel and soil splashed away in a fan shape.

Wearing a golden animal-faced armor with a swallowing head, there was a metallic sound of armor leaves rubbing against each other. At a certain moment, Lu Bu lowered his hand on his halberd, his two long feathers swaying slightly. There was majesty and heroism in the eyes of the surrounding cavalry.

On the bank of the fast Hun River, Zhang Liao was wearing a robe and holding a yellow dragon hook sickle. He was sitting on the guardrail of the ship, looking at the south bank in the distance, his eyes filled with fighting spirit.

……

"You actually want these rare things, right?"

On the high platform, Su Chen raised the Xia Wang Sword with one hand and pointed at the piles of gold, silver, crystal clear jade and porcelain bottles, "Don't say who doesn't want it, it's all fake. You want it." , Gu Ye wants it, who would dislike a few more valuable things at home, but if you hold them in your hands and put them at home, as if they were obtained by begging, do you feel at ease?!"

In the countless intertwined sights, the King of Xia stood on the high platform with a majestic voice.

"I am 20 years old this year. Since I started my army, I have swept across the Yan Kingdom in one year. I have been granted the title of king and lived in the royal palace. I have been obsessed with wine and sex. I can enjoy fine clothes and food, but I have been greedy for gold, silver, jewelry, and rare playthings. ?! Because Gu knows that before it’s time to enjoy it, Gu has to set foot on the vast land with my soldiers, to the warm south and to the desert in the west. There are countless rare and rare things there, one hundred more than here. Times, a thousand times, why bother like a dog to pick up things from others——"

……

Central Plains, Luyang.

Blood slowly flowed along the cracks in the floor tiles on the street. When the sword fell, it brought up a bloody flower. In the light of the lantern, the headless figure on the wall twitched and fell.Pei Min held up a human head and looked at it: "No. 18..."

Then he jumped up to the eaves of the restaurant, tied a knot with human hair under the eaves, hung it on the beam of the eaves, jumped up, stepped on the nearby wall and disappeared into the darkness.

Xiao Moyu, who sneaked into Qianlong Mansion, got the favor of his boss and was ordered to arrest the people of the Embroidery Department who were assassinated all over the city.

He turned around, dragging his cloak with him, opened the door, and strode out.

In the Yuan Mansion, Yuan Feng, the Minister of War, looked at the two small wooden boxes in front of him. Inside was a solitary ancient book. In the other wooden box, there was a night pearl full of energy, which was simply expensive.

He raised his face and looked at the ridiculously naive old fat man in front of him with appreciative eyes.

……

"Your Majesty... Your Majesty... We were wrong, bypass us once!"

Among the officials facing the monument, some struggled to run out, knelt on the ground, and kowtowed to the distant viewing platform.

"late!"

Su Chen closed his eyes, and heard the sound of whimpering in his ears. The official who was kowtowing over there was pulled back by the soldiers, and the handle of the knife hit the opponent's forehead, and his face was covered with blood.

"The men under Gu's command are all bloody warriors who fought with swords and swords. They are all Northland men who stand upright. They are not like you who eat what others hand you."

"They used these things to make your knees weak and kneel on the ground; to make you forget the souls of the [-] people in Fenzhou; to create a gap between you and the court, and to isolate yourself; to make you yearn for peace. No more backbone; let you live in peace and quiet in a corner!"

"Just when you were accepting their bribes, the army was offering wine, and Gu's counselors were being assassinated by them. But the more they did this, the more I looked down on them, because only the weak would use such inferior methods. The means were to attack the enemy first, then to attack the enemy, then to attack the army, and then to attack the city. However, they did not occupy any of them. That is because they were afraid. In the first battle of Chendu County, they wiped out their elites alone, which made them feel scared. , orphans, so what should we do?”

"Kill——" Countless voices gathered together and resounded throughout the sky.

Everything on the ground was picked up by the soldiers who came over and thrown into the huge burning stone cauldron. The women who were struggling and shouting were carried by the soldiers, raised above their heads, and then thrown in one by one.

Miserable screams came from the cauldron.

……

In Ding'an County, a gentle woman with her hair down sitting in front of a bronze mirror looked at her husband who was teasing the child over there, with a smile on her face.

In the ancestral hall of the main house of the Su family, the old woman ate her fast and worshiped Buddha. She clasped her hands in front of the Su family's ancestral tablets.

"Bless the Su family's heirs, Yanmian, and bless my son Su Chen who is out there, safe and sound."

In the brightly lit study, Xun Yu was flipping through ancient books, occasionally sitting at the desk, continuing to process official documents, and thinking about the future direction of Ding'an County.

On a dark night covered with stars and moon, two horses were lying prone on the hillside with their tails swung. Li Bai and Guo Jia were holding wine gourds. You took a sip and I took a sip. They lay on the grass, looking at the stars in the sky, and occasionally laughed at a poem.

The night is like a mother's embrace, holding thousands of lives, silent in this peaceful night.

After a hard day's work, farmers put down their farm tools and sat with their families in the small kitchens, enjoying the comfort of being reunited with their children and old wives.

The flags and flags of the quiet long street are floating, the diligent waiters are recruiting passers-by, the shopkeeper is fiddling with his abacus, remembering the day's income, and in the kitchen, the waiter is sweating, facing the hot oil pan, wiping his neck from time to time. Hot sweat in between.

In the court, the scholars held candlelight talks at night, thinking about whom to give gifts to next, and planning clever plots to drive away political opponents.

A fisherman returning home at night with a full load smiles and waves to his relatives waiting on the shore. The oil lamp placed on the bow of the boat illuminates his dark face.

The ignorant emperor ran around his mother while being chased by the palace maids; the diligent emperor reviewed the memorials all night long, his beard and hair turned a few gray, and then he got angry and summoned the eunuchs.

In the quiet night, many things were about to be torn down, and then, the tranquility was broken.

……

Miserable screams broke the quiet night, and the figures of women climbed crazily inside the stone cauldron, and were then forked back inside by the soldiers standing on the benches on both sides.

"Gu said that I will take you to the Wei State in the south in a dignified manner. We have been there once and took away a lot of property. Do you want to go a second time? This time, we will directly eat the entire Wei State. Their Everything will be ours!"

Su Chen raised his sword and pointed: "And these people -"

"——Sacrifice flag!"

Under the monument, the Xiliang soldiers stepped forward one by one, raised the steel swords in their hands, and chopped them off in unison with the swaying light. Dozens or hundreds of heads fell to the ground, and the bodies fell to the ground. Blood spurted out and dyed a dazzling scarlet red.

On the viewing platform, the two people kneeling next to King Xia were begging and their heads were beheaded by the soldiers behind them. The beautiful heads and the frightened heads rolled together.

"The time for the expedition has arrived. Let's enter the Wei region, attack Luyang, cut off the emperor's head, and smash his throne to pieces!"

King Xia's sword was raised high, and countless steel knives echoed in the distance. They were raised high. Under the light of the surrounding torches, Su Chen's voice roared: "We raise our troops -"

"——Go south!"

The mountain wind howled, and murderous intent spread.

(End of this chapter)