Three Kingdoms

  Chapter 423 Man or Beast

  Every section of the road seems to be a new journey. No matter where you go, there are people going there. The world is very big, but only a few people are willing to leave their hometown and wander around.

  Because human is a kind of creature with innate sense of territory.

   Those who know each other, okay, you can stand closer, and those who don’t, please stay away from me. In my hometown, there are familiar trees, familiar fields, familiar doors that creak when opened and closed, and the crooked neck tree at the head of the village that has left a piss.

  Those are all familiar, even after drinking two or three taels of old wine, I can touch the door of my own house even in a daze.

   But these are all unfamiliar, even the grass on the side of the road looks so weird...

The old, young, and weak people in Yong'an County who were brought out were sitting on the side of the road in twos and threes weakly, with dull, godless, and blank eyes, as if they were looking at you, or at the back of you. A stream of fine sweat broke out from the back of the neck involuntarily.

Most of the stronger men were dragged to become civilian husbands, or they were coerced into joining the Baibo army, while the more beautiful women were in bad luck. The big and small commanders came to search again. In the end, even the big and small soldiers in the Baibo army, although they couldn't bring people into their own tents like the commander, they could still take advantage of the opportunity...

  Thus, the ones left are either lunatics or ugly women, but those who can live a little bit can't escape the fate of being humiliated.

At the beginning, some people wanted to run, escape, and resist, but those people were all dead. They were either dragged to death by horses, tied to tree trunks and hanged to death, or their legs were cut off in public, and they were given alive very painful…

The men were taken away, and most of the women were also taken away. There were often only the young and old left in the family. Even if they wanted to escape, these days, if there was no strong labor force, the family would collapse, so there was nowhere to go. You can go, and some missionaries of the Baibo Army will occasionally come to distribute gruel, and explain some specious teachings along the way. Gradually, many old and weak began to become Taiping without any support. Believers of the Word...

What Zhang Lie saw was such a scene. He was originally engaged in farming and mulberry. Although he was poor, he could still see some smiling people. Now they are like puppets carved in clay, holding hungry children in their arms. Alive, but as dead.

  Zhang Lie watched, although he didn't speak, but there was an inexplicable anger in his heart that was constantly accumulating...

   This group of Baibo captured Yong'an City, killing officials and so on, but what hatred do these people have with Baibo or the Yellow Turbans? They only know how to plunder, but don't do production. After eating Yong'an, they will attack Xiangling, and then what?

   After eating Xiangling, go to attack other cities?

and then?

  Even if all the cities in the world are captured, so what?

  The cities in the world are all eaten up, where else can we go to eat?

  Why are these yellow turbans and Baibos exactly like Hu people?

   No, even more hateful than barbarians!

  Zhang Lie lowered his head silently, trying to hide the resentment in his eyes with this movement.

On the dry road, the yellow mud has been trampled by pedestrians and has formed into hard plates. Every time you step on it, some yellow dust will rise from the gaps in these plates and disperse in all directions. open.

Zhang Lie and his party of more than 500 people wore the clothes of the Baibo Army, with disheveled hair, but tied a blackened yellow cloth strip on their foreheads, pretending to be the Baibo Army escorting food and grass, and began to walk among the scattered and helpless people behind. , slowly escorting the baggage cart to the Baibo army camp ahead.

  Twenty trucks lined up in a long line, and the vehicles seemed to be full of grain and grass, and the grain bags were **** with ropes and bulging. The shaft of the car was deeply crushed on the loess, making a creaking sound.

  The sound seemed so beautiful that it attracted the eyes of some hungry people lying on the side of the road. They propped up their bodies with their hands, their heads involuntarily following the rotation of the truck transporting grain and grass.

I don't know who was the first to stand up subconsciously, and started to follow Zhang Lie and the others' grain and grass trucks, and then gradually more and more people seemed to have strength at any moment, and their eyes were tightly closed. staring at him, as if he could pierce through the bag of grain and grab some food out of the middle...

  Zhang Lie felt a little nervous. Faced with such a situation, he didn't know how to deal with it for a while. Zhang Lie has never experienced such a thing, and has never pretended to be someone else.

This time, after the interrogation from the remaining survivors, it was found that he came to Yong'an to collect food and grass, Fei Qian had such an idea. It turned out that Huang Cheng was going to come, but Zhang Lie stood up and wanted to pass. this one task.

   After all, Zhang Lie is from Bingzhou, and his accent is local, while Huang Cheng is from Jingxiang, so no matter how he pretends to speak, his accent is easy to give away.

  However, Zhang Lie considered a lot when he was leaving, he even considered what to do when he entered the camp, but he didn’t consider the current situation...

   These are the people of the original Yongan City!

   Drive away?

  Zhang Lie really couldn't bear it.

   But don’t drive them away, seeing more and more people gathering together, sooner or later something will happen...

   And once any flaws are revealed, the life and death of my group of people is small, but the arrangement of Mr. Fei is big if it is broken!

  The soldiers who followed Zhang Lie also looked over, waiting for Zhang Lie to make a decision...

Just when Zhang Lie was hesitating, more and more people gathered, and some people even trotted closely following the baggage truck, their eyes began to swim, swallowing the almost dry saliva, some of them were bold, even He started to slowly put his hand on the grain and grass bag, and secretly tore and scratched with his pitch-black claws...

   Seeing more and more people swarming in, it is about to cause chaos!

Zhang Lie didn't care too much, he shouted and stopped by his neck, and the accompanying soldiers also tried to push these hungry people away as much as possible, but the hungry people who were attracted by the food in front of them turned a deaf ear at all, One after another, they began to grab the grain and grass bags left behind on the baggage wagon with their bare hands...

Zhang Lie was sweating anxiously. These are the common people. If you want him to ignore the ruthless hand, this is really hard to do. There was a drought in Bingzhou before, and there was also a barbarian invasion that caused many people to be displaced. , but they didn't expect to behave like today, they are completely a group of people who have lost their minds and completely lost all order...

   Or in other words, turned into a beast that only knows hunger?

   Just when Zhang Lie was at a loss, the gate of Baibo camp opened suddenly, and a group of soldiers rushed out!

...

Bai Bo, who looked like a small commander, commanded the Bai Bo soldiers who rushed out of the camp to viciously kill the hungry people clustered around the truck, ran past Zhang Lie, drew out his saber, and cut the food in the bag of grain and grass He cut off the hand that was trying to grab a little food, and then kicked him over.

The little commander shouted loudly, not caring about the screaming civilians clutching their broken arms under their feet, seeing that the situation was generally manageable, he strode angrily up to Zhang Lie, and gave Zhang Lie a slap when he rimmed his arm. With a big mouth, he spit and shouted: "You melon skin! What is your knife for? Fuck your mother! Haha! Hurry up and bring in the food and grass!"

   "Ching! Zhong!" Zhang Lie covered his face that was bleeding from the slap, while nodding his head, while using his eyes to stop the guard who was planning to make a move behind him, he bowed his head and smiled apologetically...

  Perhaps because of such an incident, Zhang Lie led his men into the Baibo army camp with the supply truck, and there was not even a single question...

   One day...

   Zhou Yu secretly asked Huang Gai, "Do you have that tendency?"

   Huang Gai was shocked, his eyes widened, and he whispered after a long time, "How does the governor know?"

   Zhou Yu dismissed it: "You have written it on your name..."

  (end of this chapter)