Chapter 222: Inhumane

This winter in the mountains is not cold at all. Reading М is even more comfortable than any other time in previous years.

The house is not cold, and there is a lot of food stored, so the elderly and children are not cold. Everyone in the village carries a bag of nuts and chestnuts and goes to chat with each other. It is really comfortable.

But for the people outside, this winter is particularly difficult, with dire straits and cruelty.

Soldiers are conscripted from time to time, and taxes are also heavy. The crops grown in the fields are not enough to pay taxes, and the people have abandoned their fields and fled. There are few people in the villages.

There is a fight for territory everywhere. Wherever the army goes, soldiers are recruited along the way. In order to have a bite of food, many men have joined the army, and some have fled to the mountains.

In Chenzhou in the north, Wang Hu personally led hundreds of thousands of troops to besiege Chenzhou, vowing not to return until Chenzhou is broken.

The most capable subordinate Meng Kai died in such a humiliating way, his head was chopped off, and even his body was not intact.

This great revenge was avenged.

Although Wang Hu had lost the capital and Chang'an, many people would rather the dilapidated and corrupt Shuo Dynasty fall. So Wang Hu got support from all sides, and he was pushed to the throne and proclaimed emperor in Dongdu.

Originally, Emperor Shuo was not a man of great achievements, and he did not take any effective measures after retaking Chang'an.

After retaking Chang'an, the various military towns of the Shuo Dynasty were busy dividing the spoils and returning to their camps. Once the troops were dispersed, it would be difficult for them to achieve anything. If Wang Hu could take this opportunity to capture people's hearts at this time, he could also become bigger and stronger.

Who would have thought that Meng Kai would die before he had even sat firmly in Dongdu!

Who is Meng Kai? He is the most capable general under Wang Hu! With Wang Hu's temper, how could he tolerate his death? How could this great revenge not be avenged?

So he personally led hundreds of thousands of troops to attack Chenzhou.

Wang Hu's withdrawal from Dongdu gave Emperor Shuo an advantage.

Originally, the Shuo Dynasty had been attacking Dongdu for a long time but Wang Hu abandoned Dongdu. Emperor Shuo was very happy to get this advantage.

Wang Hu claimed to be an ambitious and broad-minded person.

Look, he can take Chang'an if he wants it and can take it if he doesn't want it. Chang'an is gone, Dongdu is gone? Dongdu is gone, so why can't Nandu and Xidu be emperors?

It's not like Emperor Shuo. Chang'an is gone, so he wants to die.

It's still important to avenge Meng Kai.

As for Zhao Zhao, the governor of Chenzhou, he naturally took a series of precautions against Meng Kai's attack.

He ordered people to build moats, store food and grass, and repair weapons.

Before Wang Hu arrived, he adopted the strategy of clearing the countryside and moving all residents within a radius of 60 miles into the city. At the same time, he summoned a large number of soldiers and conscripted soldiers from all over the country, and gave them to his younger brother and second son to lead respectively to strengthen the city defense.

The small Chenzhou was held by the governor Zhao Zhao, so Wang Hu could not capture it for a long time.

Seeing that his hundreds of thousands of troops could not even take down a small Chenzhou, Wang Hu was extremely angry!

So hundreds of thousands of troops were directly stationed under the city of Chenzhou, set up camp and decided to take it slowly. I don’t believe that a small Chenzhou can’t be taken? I will starve him to death.

Wang Hu vowed not to return until Chenzhou was conquered!

They were all emperors, so they still had some courage and charisma.

Wang Hu and the soldiers of Chenzhou and the soldiers from various roads who came to support the Shuo Dynasty fought many battles, big and small, but they could not capture it.

It’s not that the soldiers of the Shuo Dynasty were stronger than his soldiers. Originally, Wang Hu wanted to surround Chenzhou and starve Zhao Zhao to death.

But Zhao Zhao didn’t starve to death, and Wang Hu had no food.

Wang Hu ran out of food again!

Wang Hu originally thought that hundreds of thousands of troops besieged a small Chenzhou and would be able to return soon, but he didn't know that Chenzhou could not be captured after such a long siege.

Wang Hu's hundreds of thousands of troops didn't bring much food. Hundreds of thousands of troops, can't they capture a small Chenzhou? Maybe he was a little arrogant.

In addition, Wang Hu's usual style is to fight and rob the granary of a place.

But Zhao Zhao adopted a policy of fortifying the walls and clearing the fields before he arrived, sweeping away the area of ​​60 miles, leaving him no rice or beans.

This is embarrassing.

Wang Hu has hundreds of thousands of troops on his hands. These hundreds of thousands of people need food, and horses need to chew, and the daily consumption is an astronomical figure.

There is no food!

Go to 60 miles away and collect taxes. But there is no one outside 60 miles, and there is no food in the village, town, or town.

You can't starve to death. What to eat then.

It was impossible for hundreds of thousands of soldiers to wait for starvation to die, so Wang Hu began to think of a solution, which was to eat human flesh.

The book later recorded: "The bandits besieged Chen County for three days. Guandong still had no crops for a year. People leaned against the walls. The bandits captured people and ate them, killing thousands every day. The bandits had a mortar fort with hundreds of huge pestles. They put people in it and crushed them alive, and ate their bones. The spread of their poison was like this."

"People were starving and leaned against the dead moat. The bandits captured people and ate them alive. Thousands of people a day, so they set up hundreds of huge pestles, grind bones and skins in mortars, and eat them together."

"At that time, there was no accumulation among the people. The bandits captured people for food, threw them into the pestles alive, and ate them together with bones. They called the place where they gave food 'Chongmozhai'. They let their soldiers plunder everywhere, and dozens of states from Henan, Xu, Ru, Tang, Deng, Meng, Zheng, Bian, Cao, Pu, Xu, and Gun were all poisoned by them."

"Ya Ya, run, run!"

Su Qingliu stumbled and didn't dare to look back, running forward all the way.

The mother and daughter had been locked up for several days and were already hungry and weak. They finally managed to escape, but before they could get out of the thief's sight, they were discovered and chased.

"Run? Where are you going?"

A soldier chased after her, threw Su Qingliu to the ground, and kicked her in the waist. Su Qingliu felt that her waist might be broken.

That was not enough, the man slammed Su Qingliu's head to the ground several times with his hand.

"Run, run! Bitch, you still have the energy to run. I should have thrown you into the mortar last night and crushed you with the stone mortar!"

Su Qingliu was shaking all over, and her teeth were chattering.

I don't know if it was because of the cold or fear.

She had pounded rice countless times, but the big mortar here was not used to pound rice, but to pound human flesh.

Throw people into the big stone trough, dozens of people stepped on the big horizontal bar, and the big round stones pounded the people in the stone trough into pieces, and then put them into the pot to cook...

Su Qingliu was crying, and raised her head with difficulty, looking at the place where Yaya ran away, Yaya, run, run! Run faster!

The man saw her raise her head, and stepped on her head with his foot, pressing her head to the ground.

He rolled her head with his foot: "You are dying, and you are still worried about your child. Don't worry, I will not let her go. I will catch her later and let her accompany you. I will put you and your daughter in the stone trough together and pound them together, so that you can accompany each other in the underworld."

Su Qingliu clenched her fists and struggled for a while, but she couldn't get away at all.

Her face was pressed to the ground, tears streaming in her eyes. It didn't matter if she died, but Yaya was still so young.

Imagine Yaya being thrown into a big stone trough, being pounded into pieces bit by bit, and then put into a big pot to cook...

Su Qingliu's whole body felt like someone was cutting her inch by inch with a knife, and it hurt so much.

The daughter she gave birth to after ten months of pregnancy...

This time, the mother and daughter are afraid that they will die here.

I don’t know where my parents, brothers and sisters are, and whether they will ever be reunited in the underworld.

She was so tired that she couldn’t run anymore. Su Qingliu slowly closed her eyes.