Chapter Eighty-Three: Cremation
The screams and wails in Jiujiang City sounded like tearing silk and cracked brocade for a whole night.
When the rising sun rose over the horizon as before, Liu Ji, who was standing on the wall of the palace of the royal city, almost fainted. Jiujiang, the prosperous Dayi in the south of the Yangtze River, has almost become a ruin.
Plummeting smoke billows from collapsed houses, and there are still a few remnants of fire in some of them. The streets were littered with corpses, so many that there was no way for anyone to get their feet off. Those mobs were wandering around Jiujiang City, and they were staggering like drunks. Their pockets were so stuffed that some of them couldn't walk because of the weight of their money.
The palace of the king of Jiujiang was built by Yingbu, the first king of Jiujiang, and it was built extremely tall. But it is precisely because of this tallness that Liu Ji saw the cruelty in human nature. has lived for decades, and such a tragic scene has never been seen even in the rebellion at the end of Qin.
Fortunately, no one attacked the palace, and Canglan and Zheng Bin had lost control of these mobs. There are robberies everywhere in the city, except for the Yun family who guard the city gates. These people almost kill people on sight, and in their eyes gold and silver have become the only thing. Human life is only afraid that it is cheaper than dog life, and Chiguoguo's greed has completely annihilated their humanity.
Cang Lan and Zheng Bin stood on the city wall, and they could see the tall palace city through the telescope. Liu Ji stood on the siege wall, and with the naked eye, he could see the cloud banner with black characters on a red background.
One of them wants to go in, the other wants to get out. But they didn't dare to step into Jiujiang City for half a step, it had become a carnival for wild beasts. Canglan believed that his team rushed in. I'm afraid that it will also become the target of attack. I'm afraid these people are crazy. And Liu Ji believes that if his team goes out. It will be torn to shreds in an instant.
The two teams looked at each other, but no one dared to cross the thunder pool by half a step. There was a comical scene on the battlefield, and both sides became spectators. They all stood on the city wall and watched the madmen fight hard.
Each of the mobs was wielding their blades wildly, killing and being killed was a matter of moments. At the beginning, the two teams grabbed each other, and the group with more people grabbed the group with fewer people. But when the group with fewer people was killed, the group with more people immediately split.
More than 100,000 people are like soap bubbles bursting, and human lives are passing in seconds. Several city gates were particularly tragic, and the people in Jiujiang City who could escape had already fled. I didn't escape. Definitely has been killed. The people of the Yun family retreated to the city wall.
I want to get out of the city when I grab enough. The hand is slow, and if you don't grab much, you have to share the spoils. Their contradictions are irreconcilable, when the ratio to the size of the voice has become ineffective. Sharp swords replaced invective, and the corpses at the four gates were layered on top of each other.
Blood can not reach the surface of a person's feet, and there is countless gold and silver in the pile of stumps and severed arms. These people will not be able to let go of this outside of their bodies until they die. But the people who came later still stepped on the still soft corpse. Climb up and then kill or be killed by them. Finally corpses clogged the streets. The city gates were blocked.
Jiujiang City became a dead city.
Someone rummaged through the silver coins in the pile of corpses like jackals, and those who turned it over smiled. But before he could satisfy his greed, a slash or a sword would come from behind him. The bloody silver and gold will change owners again.
"Master Cang. If they don't go any further, sooner or later, these people will kill themselves all. Zheng Bin looked at the killing under his feet and said in horror.
"What then? This person is crazy, and for the sake of this money, they may even do it to their own Lao Tzu. I can't afford to let the brothers take that risk. ”
"I'm not talking about this, I'm saying that if someone discovers that the biggest treasure in Jiujiang City is actually that palace......"
Canglan's face turned white with a brush, and he had already received Yun Xiao's flying pigeon message. In any case, it can't hurt Liu Ji's life. He can ignore killing him in Jiujiang City for two days, but if he hurts Liu Ji...... Canglan's head began to sweat.
"Then what do you say, Master Hou's general order is not allowed to kill Liu Ji." Cang Lan said angrily, you must know that two months ago, he still wanted to kill Liu Ji, the old horseman, very much.
"Burn, burn these corpses. Let go of these mobs out of the city and kill them for two days. These people should be tired, and they all want to get out of the city. Otherwise, why are there so many corpses here at the city gate? ”
"It's all burned?" Cang Lan looked at these dense corpses and felt a little palpitating. Although the corpses were almost as high as the city walls, there were still thousands of flies that were not afraid of death. Looking for wealth in the pile of corpses.
"What if you don't burn, this is Jiangnan, and this person stinks for two more days. The plague will run rampant in Jiujiang, and Yueyang will also be affected at that time. ”
"Okay, then burn, come on. Get the oil and burn it for Lao Tzu. ”
The guards of the Yun family searched for a long time, and finally found more than a dozen jars of fire oil. They poured oil on the pile of corpses and threw torches.
"Coaxing" thousands of flies were melted in an instant, and the "buzz" became coke.
The corpse at the top was the freshest, and the muscles and skin of the corpse contracted sharply. The corpses began to wriggle and squirm, and one by one they raised their hands, like boxers raising their fists. I don't know if they're really dead, or if they're alive in the first place.
Large drops of corpse oil dripped from the corpse, fueling the fire. Yin Hong's flames crawled among the corpses like snakes, and the terrible howls from time to time under the city made people listen to the creepiness. In the gray smoke, the smell of burnt flesh was so strong that it was choking.
Such a tragic scene even kills people, and Canglan, who has seen the big scene, can't help but feel weak. Distorted air rose with a thick scorching stench and billowing smoke. The crow, who originally wanted to peck at some carrion, "croaked" and "croaked" and fled in terror.
The crackling sound of human oil wrapped around human bones made even the red-eyed mobs who had killed red-eyed people stunned for a moment when they saw such a tragic scene. Inside the pile of corpses were their relatives, even their fathers and brothers. One by one, they carried gold and silver in their loins, but they never had the opportunity to spend it again.
The fire burned all morning, and by midday the heat was steaming. The ground was already white and ash, and occasionally there were skulls that had not been burned through. The bald skull was hairless, and the eyes were turned into two black holes. Looking blankly at the sky, the ashes below were a foot thick.
From time to time, the sun shines on the ashes, and the recondensed gold and silver shine brightly. A pair of big feet stepped over the ashes, and from time to time they would break the crispy thigh bones. The sounds of "click" and "click" were endless, but no one leaned down to pick up the gold and silver on the ground.
The gold and silver had been mixed with corpse oil, and no one had the guts to take them home.
More and more people fled from Jiujiang through Guò Nancheng, and some began to run madly after leaving the city. As he ran, he fell to the ground and did not move. For two days he didn't sleep, and he barely ate or drank. Their bodies have been strictly overdrawn.
Each of them has a ghost in their hearts, and their heads keep turning. I was afraid that someone would suddenly slash at the back, and as a result, I took my own life and took the gold and silver that I had brought out with great difficulty.
On the side of the road outside Jiujiang City, I don't know how many people died on both sides of the road. The corpses of the previous two days already had maggots on them, and the new corpses were crawling with flies.
More than 100,000 people besieged Jiujiang City, and finally returned to their hometown alive. Many people will be afraid of light and water for the rest of their lives when they go home. I only dare to live in a dark room, and I will scream in horror when I see the sun. If they see the fire, they will immediately go mad. He speaks a language that no one understands, and jumps and jumps until he is exhausted.
Some people say that the money is bloody, and this is the unjust soul who came out to ask for his life. Some people also say that they are sick, but no Lang Zhong can cure this disease.
Canglan looked at the ruins in front of him and rode his horse past the ashes. He really didn't have the courage to step on it with his own feet, and some of the Yun family's guards would rather climb down the wall along the rope than walk through the pile of ashes that were more than twenty zhang long.
The road was littered with fallen corpses, and the bodies of the first Jiujiang residents to die had begun to swell. All of them looked like pregnant women with big bellies, and of course some of them were really women.
The scorching sun seemed to pour all the heat into Jiujiang City. "Bang" A corpse on the side of the road, the stomach suddenly burst, and the stinky corpse water and the putrid internal organs splashed everywhere.
A piece of intestines flew out of the distance, and it hung on Canglan's ears impartially.
Rao was in Lingwu, and Canglan, who had seen a big scene, couldn't hold on, and spit out with a "wow". He hadn't eaten for a day, and who could eat with such a strong smell of blood. Streams of sour water kept gushing out of his mouth, and finally he almost vomited out the bitter gall.
Cang Lan lay on his horse and was dying, in fact, he didn't even dare to breathe. Because the smell of corpses is like maggots on tarsal bones, wrapping around everyone.
Zheng Bin next to him was no better, and it seemed to be a bladder that hit him just now. A piece of stinky meat hung on his helmet, and the thing was no longer alive, and even the jaundice water was vomited completely.
The guards unscrewed the kettle and poured water into the two masters. Water resources are precious and need to be used sparingly, and there are many wells in Jiujiang City. However, most of these wells had the body of a woman with a bare ass floating in them, and one of the guards found a well without a body.
A bucket of water was fished up, and after just two sips, I saw two slender fingers at the bottom of the bucket. The guard almost vomited his intestines.
The gate of Liu Ji's palace opened suddenly, and a team of samurai in helmets and armor escorted a fat old man out of the palace gate. (To be continued......)