Yan Liqiang did not expect that the Shatu people would hide so many women, children and children in their flame temple. Apart from these people, there was no man taller than a wheel. Not a single warrior who rushed into the flame temple. The man held the weapon in his hand tightly, looked at the trembling people, and waited for Yan Liqiang's order.
Yan Liqiang thought that he was not too soft-hearted, but at this moment, looking at the children and the infants, he felt his heart tremble.
After taking a deep breath, Yan Liqiang calmly gave the order, "First drive them to the terrace outside, and then search the temple to see what else the Shatu people are hiding here!"
"yes!"
After receiving the order, the surrounding sergeants began to drive away the women and children in the main hall and drive them out of the main hall.
Seeing that the sergeants around were trying to drive him out, the silent atmosphere in the hall was finally broken. A group of Shatu women and children began to cry heartbreakingly. When those people came outside the hall, they saw the terrace outside the hall. The corpses and blood stains of the Shatu people were scattered all over the stairs and stone steps. The people who were driven out were even more frightened. Children and women all cried loudly and were miserable.
Yan Liqiang also walked out of the temple and stood on the steps at the entrance of the temple, looking at the women and children on the terrace.
At this time, Shi Changfeng, Shen Teng, Gong Tieshan, Wang Naiwu, and other captains such as Lei Meng of the Ganzhou Army also rushed here with fireworks. They had been mopping up in other places before. They heard that there were still Shatu people resisting here, so they rushed over. Only two minutes later, the resistance here had been wiped out by Yan Liqiang and his men. Seeing the crying women and children gathered on the terrace, they just asked and understood what was going on.
"Are there any Shatu people resisting in other places?" Yan Liqiang asked Shi Changfeng.
"Sir, the Shatu people in various places in Xingxing Lake have basically been cleared away. It is estimated that only a few Shatu people took advantage of the chaos to hide in the grass or in the lake last night, but they could not hide for long. Xingxing Lake has been completely surrounded by us. As soon as the day breaks, we can search them out soon!" Shi Changfeng glanced at the women and children of the Shatu people for a few times, with a hint of unbearable color in his eyes. He hesitated a little and lowered his head a little. The voice said, "Sir, killing these women and children, I'm afraid... I'm afraid it's ominous..."
Shen Teng looked at Yan Liqiang and hesitated to speak, but his eyes were indeed unbearable.
"What's so ominous? These Shatu bastards should be killed. What are we going to do with them?" When Zhao Dachuan heard Shi Changfeng's words, he immediately glared and said murderously next to him, "If you are soft-hearted and don't want to When you see the next scene, just leave it to me and I’ll take care of it in a moment!”
The other generals and officers didn't say anything, they just looked at Yan Liqiang. Basically, the words of Shi Changfeng and Zhao Dachuan were very representative. Some people felt that they couldn't bear it, but there were still some people who felt that these sandstorms should be put aside. Kill all the sudden ones.
To be honest, Yan Liqiang was also very conflicted. He wanted to bite the bullet and let Zhao Dachuan handle it, but when he saw the looks of the women and children next to him, he felt a little cruel and couldn't do it...
"Sir, please, please, my child is innocent. He is still young and doesn't understand anything. If you want to kill me, just kill me and leave a way for my child to live..." Among the women and children, suddenly A woman squeezed through the crowd and rushed towards Yan Liqiang. After being held up by the spears of the guards around Yan Liqiang, she knelt down. Then she lifted the scarf on her head and knelt down, kowtowing.
The woman, who was in her twenties, had tears streaming down her face and was holding a one-year-old baby in her arms. After she lifted her headscarf, Yan Liqiang noticed that her head of black hair and face were actually Han. There is still a bit of comeliness in appearance.
Yan Liqiang's brows wrinkled slightly, "Are you Han?"
"Yes, this slave is a Han..."
"What's your name and why are you here?"
"My name is Liu Cui'e, a native of Ganzhou. She grew up in poverty, without a mother, and her father loved gambling. When I was sixteen, my father was in debt and sold me into a brothel. I was bought from a brothel by a Shatu man two years ago. Brought to Gulang Grassland, I saved a child last year..." The woman raised her face and looked at Yan Liqiang with tears in her eyes, "Sir, this slave committed a crime of disobedience to the Shatu people. I know that my sin is serious and I dare not ask for mercy. , it’s just a slave’s child, really innocent. Today happens to be the child’s first birthday. He has just been born. He can’t even speak, and he doesn’t know who his father is. What Shatu Qibu did before, It has nothing to do with him. I beg you to show mercy and give this slave’s child a way to live. I will work as a cow or horse in my next life to repay your kindness..."
The woman said with a pleading look on her face. The child in her arms might be hungry and burst into tears. When the woman saw the child crying, she knelt on the ground and untied her clothes, regardless of the person next to her. Many soldiers immediately began to breastfeed their children. As soon as the crying child received the milk, he immediately stopped crying and began to eat in big mouthfuls.
"Oh... oh... oh... the baby doesn't cry... the baby doesn't cry... the mother doesn't cry either... the mother doesn't cry either... they say the mother shouldn't cry when breastfeeding... otherwise the milk will be bitter... and the baby will get sick..." the woman said lowly He nodded, looked at his child with loving eyes, wiped his tears, and actually showed a smile on his face, "This is the last time mom will feed you. Eat more, or you won't be able to eat in the future." …”
At this moment, the entire terrace was silent. Amidst the blood and corpses on the ground, and under countless swords, guns and arrows, the scene of a mother kneeling on the ground, bare chest and nursing her child, seemed to have an unspeakable impact. Even Zhao Dachuan, who had been so careless just now, became quiet at this moment.
Yan Liqiang sighed, turned around, and looked at the sky in the distance without saying a word. After the woman behind him had nursed her child, he turned around and looked at that woman and the women and children of the Shatu people. He said to a guard beside him who could speak Saudi Arabian, "Whatever I say next, you can translate it to these Saudi Arabians..."
"Yes, sir!" The guard nodded.
"I am Yan Liqiang, the governor of Qiyun of the Han Empire..." Yan Liqiang looked solemn and glanced at the women and children of the Shatu people with majestic eyes.
The guard then loudly translated Yan Liqiang's words into Saudi Arabian and said it loudly so that all the Arabs on the terrace could hear it.
"This time I led troops into the Gulang Grassland, not to invade, but to conquer. The Gulang Grassland was originally the territory of our Han Empire. When the Seven Shatu Tribes were in trouble, we sheltered you and allowed you to multiply here. To live and breathe, you are just the seven tribes of Shatu, but you have repaid kindness with vengeance. You are so ambitious that you first destroyed Qiyun Governor's Mansion, and then took refuge with the Black Jie people. In the past few decades, you have committed numerous crimes and committed countless crimes against our Han Empire and the people of the northwest. , this is the retribution of today. You, the seven tribes of Saudi Arabia, deserve what you have today. You are not worthy of any pity or sympathy at all. In my eyes, all the Saudi people who died are not worthy of pity. I am very proud that today , can lead his heroic soldiers to completely wipe out the seven Shatu tribes from the Gulang Grassland, and restore the glory and majesty of our Han Empire in the Gulang Grassland!"
"Wan Sheng" "Wan Sheng" "Wan Sheng"...
As soon as Yan Liqiang finished speaking, all the sergeants on the terrace raised their weapons and roared angrily. After the translator finished translating this paragraph, Yan Liqiang continued to speak.
"I once swore to God that I would wipe out all the people from the Seven Tribes of Saudi Arabia and leave no one alive. I would make every member of the Seven Tribes of Saudi Arabia use their blood and life to wash away the ruins created by your men and elders. Damn it, but when I saw you today, I also remembered a saying, God has the virtue of good life. Today I will give you a chance to see whether God wants to use my hands to destroy you, or to leave you women and children. A chance of survival!" At this point, Yan Liqiang looked at Liu Cui'e who was kneeling in front of him, "Isn't your son just one year old today? According to our Han custom, let him draw lots today, and I will place it in front of him. "Take four things. If he catches a weapon, don't blame me for being ruthless. If he catches something else, I will let all of you live today!"
After the words were translated, the people from Saudi Arabia also understood. All of a sudden, the eyes of all the people from Saudi Arabia were focused on the child who had just turned one year old in Liu Cui'e's arms. Yan Li forced people to place four children on the ground. He put something, a knife, an arrow, a piece of silver, and a piece of woolen cloth on the ground. Then he touched the child's head and asked the child to crawl and choose.
"Child... our lives are in your hands..." Liu Cui'e tremblingly put her child on the ground and asked her child to choose something.
At the beginning, when I saw the child who had just fed milk crawling towards the knife, all the women and children of the Shatu people had earth-colored faces and sweat on their backs, but the child only crawled a few steps and then turned around. He sat on the ground for a few seconds, then climbed directly in front of the piece of silver and woolen cloth, then grabbed a piece of silver with one hand and a piece of woolen cloth with the other, and then chuckled...
In just two minutes, Liu Cui'e's back was completely soaked. The moment she saw her child picking up the silver and woolen cloth, Liu Cui'e couldn't help it, covered her mouth and started crying, and then Hold your child in your arms.
Shi Changfeng, Shen Teng and others looked at each other and heaved a sigh of relief.
"From today on, there will be no more Shatu Seven Tribes in this world. If I hear any news about the Shatu Seven Tribes again, even if you are thousands of miles away, I will send people to destroy you, and you will not be allowed to stay here anymore. Gulang Grassland, and you are never allowed to step into the territory of the Han Empire in the future!" Yan Liqiang said to the women and children of the Shatu people, and then looked at Shi Dafeng, "Dafeng, look at them, give them a horse, let them go! They took away everything they could, and then sent five hundred people to escort them out of Gulang Grassland... "
"Where to send them?" Shi Dafeng scratched his head.
"Going west from here, over the Moon Mountain, you will reach the Western Desert. Send them wherever they come from..."
"yes!"
"Thank you, sir, thank you, sir..." Liu Cui'e hugged her child and knelt down to kowtow to Yan Li again.
"You can take care of yourself in the future!" Yan Liqiang waved his hand, and Shi Dafeng led the people to escort the women and children away from the terrace.
Seeing these women and children walking down the hill, Yan Liqiang breathed a long sigh of relief and felt relaxed all over his body.
"Your kindness and kindness are admirable!" Seeing Zhao Dachuan and others walking away, Shi Changfeng smiled at Yan Liqiang.
"What do you mean by Mr. Shi's words? It's all God's will!" Yan Liqiang said seriously.
"Cough... cough... It is indeed God's will, it is indeed God's will. It is God who wants to leave a way for these women and children to live. I made a mistake..." Shi Changfeng blinked and then sighed, "These women and children left Gulang Grassland. Entering the desert of the Western Region, it is impossible to return to the Sand Tun Alliance. If they do not die on the way, the best outcome is probably that they will be taken over by the tribal tycoons of the Western Region countries and become slaves. That's it. Women and children are in a foreign land, surrounded by foreign races. It is impossible to cause any more troubles. It is good to survive. Two generations later, these people will marry those foreign races and be assimilated, and they will not know it. Where did I come from..."
"I hope so!" Yan Liqiang smiled softly.
At this moment, an officer who had been searching the temple rushed to Yan Liqiang and said, "Master Qi, we found a lot of gold and silver in the temple, and also found a prisoner in the dungeon below the temple..."
Yan Liqiang was not surprised to find gold and silver, but he was really surprised to find a prisoner, "Prisoner, what kind of prisoner, bring me and see!"
"yes!"
After a while, the prisoner in tattered clothes with long hair and tangled beard was brought. Seeing the prisoner, Yan Liqiang was happy. The prisoner was not a Saudi or a Han, but a "foreigner" "Yes, a foreigner, a foreigner with a high nose, red hair, and blue eyes. At first glance, this foreigner looks a bit like Bethune's fellow countryman Yan Liqiang had seen on TV in his previous life - the Canadian named Dashan. …
"Black hair... black eyes... you... are you Han... the army of the Han Empire?" The foreigner who was brought to Yan Liqiang saw Yan Liqiang and asked stammering in half-baked Chinese.
"Well, yes, I am Yan Liqiang, the governor of Qiyun of the Han Empire. Who are you?" Yan Liqiang asked.
After hearing Yan Liqiang's tears, the foreigner shed tears all of a sudden, then knelt on the ground and cried loudly. He was so excited that he kept beating the ground...
(End of chapter)