Chapter 416 Even Cheng Yu felt it was crazy (four thousand)

When the silent Zhang Xiu took heavy steps and opened a dark dungeon, a stench of long-term decay came over. Cao Cao, Cheng Yu and others suddenly changed color. Their stomachs, which were not full to begin with, were churning. Some of the Tiger and Leopard Cavalry simply couldn't hold it in. They bent over against the wall and vomited saliva.

Cao Cao frowned, thinking to himself, could it be that these villains have built a prison in the dungeon?
The toilet was where the common people of the Han Dynasty used to defecate and urinate. Usually people defecated and urinated on it while pigs ate underneath.

People are pulling each other, and pigs are eating pigs, so no one is bothering anyone else.

However, as Zhang Xiu asked people to light candles, under the flickering dim light, several people saw the scene in the dungeon.

“This, this, this is.”

Cao Cao was struck by lightning. He looked at the scene in front of him in disbelief. His chapped lips and hands with dirt between his fingers were shaking slightly uncontrollably, and a chill filled his heart.

What did he see?
One after another, refugees with sallow complexions and dry skin were imprisoned in the dungeon like pigs and dogs. They looked dazed and their clothes were tattered. The moment the Tiger and Leopard Cavalry lit the candles and the flames spread to their faces, they seemed to come alive.

However, this reaction was not necessarily a good one. They were like a frightened bird, and they knelt down and kowtowed to Cao Cao, Zhang Xiu and others with a "pop".

One of the women, with wrinkles all over her face, burst into tears, "Good man! Hero! Please don't take my son away. This is my last child."

There were many people begging for mercy like the woman did, and many of them were like frogs after the rain, one after another.

Neither Cao Cao nor Zhang Xiu spoke. They and their Tiger and Leopard Cavalry fell into silence, a deathly silence.

The appearance and voices of the refugees all impacted the eyes and ears of the public.

They never expected such a scene to appear in the camp on the mountain. It completely overturned what Cao Cao had seen and heard in his daily life.

"." After a moment's silence, Cao Cao finally came to his senses. He did not look down at the peasants in the dungeon, but squatted down and tried his best to force out a friendly smile. The refugees did not dare to look at Cao Cao's face, and the moment Cao Cao squatted down, they had already lowered their heads.

This made Cao Cao's smile freeze. He clenched his fists, wishing he could chop all the bandits in this camp in half. No, chopping in half was not enough, he wanted to at least cut them into pieces!

Cao Cao took a deep breath. Although the unpleasant smell made him feel sick, he still tried to calm down and said to the refugees in the dungeon: "I am a captain under the command of General Zhang Yide. All the bandits in this camp have been controlled by us. You are safe now."

This time it was the refugees' turn to remain silent. Did they hear correctly? They were safe?
The court came to rescue them?

The refugees' heads were buzzing. They wondered if there was something wrong with their ears. But today was indeed different from the past. In the past, the evil people in the camp would have snatched the children from them and used them as balls.
"Could what this person say be true?"

Someone whispered.

"No, I don't know."

"Could it be... some new trick?"

"."

Seeing that the refugees did not dare to look up, Cao Cao sighed, put the ladder down, and said, "The ladder is here, and the prison door is open."

After saying that, Cao Cao turned his head and looked at Zhang Xiu, "Sima, let's go."

"Yes." Zhang Xiu agreed. He could see that Cao Mengde was worried that they were putting too much pressure on the people here.

As the last pair of footsteps faded away, the refugees began to believe that what Cao Cao said was true.

"Zhenzhen is gone. What he said is true. Really?"

"What if it's fake?"

"No matter whether it's true or not, the ladder is here. If you guys don't want to go up, then I'll go up!"

The person who spoke was a young man. Amid the refugees' words of "be careful", the young man hesitated for a moment, then reached out and grabbed the ladder.

The boy was very agile and climbed up in no time.

Hearing the boy's footsteps gradually going away, the refugees couldn't help feeling a little worried and nervous. However, this worry and nervousness didn't last long as they were broken by the sound of footsteps running back quickly, and the boy's joyful voice came from above.

"The captain didn't lie to me! He didn't lie to me! Everyone else in the dungeon has come out!"

"Are you serious?"

"True! Trueer than gold!"

Hearing the young man's confident voice, the refugees in the dungeon looked at each other in bewilderment. They were a little dazed and subconsciously muttered to themselves, "Are we saved?"

"saved?"

Their voices gradually became firm, and someone laughed out loud. Then the refugees followed suit, and as they laughed they couldn't help but have tears in their eyes.

"Haha! We're saved!"

The refugees climbed up one after another and walked out of the cell.

Some people are still a little trembling with fear about the divine soldiers who descended from the sky. After all, soldiers pass by like combs, and bandits pass by like combs.

Some generals acted like loving the people on the surface, but the subordinates under their command suddenly began to plunder their property. Even if the rice jar at home was empty and a rat could run inside, the generals and soldiers would smash the jar to pieces.

No one knows whether the previous captain would be the same.

Even if this is true, the fact that they were pulled out of the dungeon is enough to show that these people are better than the bad guys in the camp.

With curiosity and trepidation in their hearts, the refugees walked out of the prison gate.

Guarding both sides of the prison door were soldiers holding spears. When the refugees saw the spears, they shuddered uncontrollably and the idea of ​​turning around and running away came to their minds.

Fortunately, this thought came and went quickly. When they saw that the soldiers' armor and faces were no longer like the villains in the previous camp, they breathed a sigh of relief.

"Please stop."

The soldier suddenly spoke up.

Everyone was startled and heard the sound of swallowing saliva. Their instinct told them not to pay attention to it, but they couldn't suppress their fear and curiosity. They looked in the direction of the soldier's voice.

Finally, it fell on an old man with white hair and trembling steps.

They didn't understand what this old man had that could make the soldiers speak.

Everyone cast worried glances at the old man, but no one spoke up for him. After all, the imperial soldiers were stronger than the evil men in the camp.
The father-in-law was trembling all over, and tears welled up in his eyes. He had just escaped from the wolf's den, and now he was in the tiger's den again? !

Just when the father-in-law was about to kneel down and beg for mercy.

A pair of strong hands supported the old man regardless of the dirt on his body.

"Old man, I see that you are unsteady on your feet. I have a stick that can serve as a crutch." "Good man, I..." The old man finally reacted. He widened his eyes and looked at the soldier in disbelief, "Ah?"

The soldier smiled and put the cane into the old man's hand. Then he looked at the refugees in front of him. He pointed to the long queue not far away and said, "Everyone, there are my comrades there cooking porridge and making naan. Please line up one by one and don't fight for it."

"Naan?"

"Porridge?"

The refugees looked at each other, and saw a look of disbelief on each other's faces. They were stunned.

Cook porridge? Make naan?
give them?
real or fake?

The refugees felt like their brains were not enough and they lined up foolishly to get porridge and naan.

When they received the porridge, they found it was very watery and the naan was just a small piece, barely enough to fill their stomachs. However, compared to the pig food they had eaten before, it was much better.

When the refugees had finished fighting, they found that these strange soldiers also began to line up, receiving porridge and naan one by one, and the portions were not much more than theirs.

"Is this still the soldier I know?"

The refugees only felt their emotions go up and down today. First they were rescued, and then they suspected that these strange soldiers would take their things.

After finishing the porridge and naan, they discovered that the soldiers were eating the same food as them.
Guilt
Deep guilt.
Even the most shameless person in the world would bow his head in shame when faced with such a situation.

Suddenly someone in the crowd cried out, "Nannan, I remember now! I heard that nan was made by Liu Xuande!"

"Liu Xuande? Sounds familiar. Who is this person?" someone asked.

Someone immediately explained to him, "It's Liu Xuande who saved Yangcheng!"

"!" The man's pupils dilated, and a look of admiration and astonishment appeared on his face, as if it was a matter of course. "So it was him, so it was him, no wonder, no wonder!"

The man suddenly asked, "What is the relationship between Liu Xuande and these warriors? Who is their leader?"

This man asked casually, and someone in the crowd actually stood up, bravely walked up to the soldier and asked: "Warrior, is your general Liu Xuande?"

The soldier who was asked was not angry. As the saying goes, ignorance is not a crime. He explained, "Of course not."

The man's expression darkened.

However, the soldier's next words made his eyes light up.

"The Cavalry General is Zhang Yide, the third brother of the Guard General Liu Xuande."

The man turned his head and looked at the refugees who had gathered together. "Did you hear that? It was General Liu and General Zhang who saved us! It was General Liu and General Zhang who saved us!"

"Thank you, General Liu! Thank you, General Zhang!"

First one person said this, then two, three, and so on. Until everyone said this, the pain that the camp had brought them before melted away like ice and snow under the sun.

On the high platform, Cheng Yu, who took all of this in, frowned slightly.

He felt that Cao Cao was somewhat unreasonable and simply could not distinguish the benefits and disadvantages of the current situation.

The Tiger and Leopard Cavalry traveled through mountains and rivers and were in urgent need of food and fodder.

Even the capture of this camp did not provide much relief.

Just now he was following Cao Cao, and he saw everything clearly and heard everything distinctly.

This camp was occupied by Dong Zhuo's old subordinates, who were unwilling to lose Bingzhou.

So some of them hid in the Taihang Mountains. At that time, the battle in Bingzhou was fierce. Although Yan Liang was not as brutal as Dong Zhuo and his old subordinates, his attitude towards the people was not good either. Even if some of his subordinates looted, it was not a big deal worthy of attention in Yan Liang's eyes. Let them loot, it was no big deal.

The common people were afraid of Dong Zhuo and Yan Liang, so they fled into the Taihang Mountains, waiting to come down the mountain when the war was over and everything was peaceful.

Unexpectedly, their luck was really bad and they happened to run into Dong Zhuo's old subordinates.

The composition of Dong Zhuo's former subordinates was complex, including people from Liangzhou, Bingzhou, Xiongnu, and Qiang.
In addition, Dong Zhuo's old subordinates were short of food and fodder, so they carried forward the tradition of Dong Zhuo's subordinates: if the people have food, I have swords; the people are my food and fodder.

Even if the people of Guizhou could barely get by with enough food for a while, they could not resist the extravagant and wasteful lifestyle of Dong Zhuo's former subordinates.

When food and grass were running low, Dong Zhuo's former subordinates turned their attention to the people who worked for them.

Cheng Yu despised this behavior very much.

Extraordinary times call for extraordinary measures. What's wrong with eating this kind of white meat?
The problem is that these thieves are quite wasteful. They kick babies and teenagers like balls, and give two old men spears to let them fight each other.
Cheng Yu thought that he had no morals. If he really fell to this point, why not do it to survive? But the problem is that he has no morals, which does not mean he is crazy.

Now, even Cheng Yu feels that this is such a cruel act.

As for Cao Cao
Not to mention providing porridge and naan to the refugees, and not even seeking fame, these Tiger and Leopard Riders are all fools!
Humph, a woman's kindness will never accomplish anything great!
What Cao Cao didn't know was that Cheng Yu, who was standing beside him calmly, had already sentenced him to death.

Of course, even if Cao Cao knew about it, he would not be interested in it, because at this moment he was already overwhelmed by anger. Just listening to Zhang Xiu's report made him furious.

Killing people for fun is something that these thieves are used to. They even started to study how to cook them to make them more delicious. It's just... just...
You are unworthy of being a son!

Cao Cao, who was angry, suddenly remembered his previous conversation with Liu Bei. He remembered that Liu Bei said that once the bottom line is crossed, people will no longer be human.

Today he finally understood this sentence and realized how ugly it would be to break the bottom line. At the same time, he secretly felt lucky that he had met Liu Bei and did not doubt his uncle Lü Bushe.
If the whole world became like this.
For some reason, Cao Cao inexplicably came up with such an idea. Just thinking about it, he felt a chill down his spine and shivered.

However, the villains in front of him were still too hateful. This thought did not last long before Cao Cao's consciousness was replaced by anger. He did not hesitate and immediately ordered, "Cut them in half! Cut them all in half!"

There were seven or eight hundred bandits in the camp. Zhang Xiu, who was injured in the arm, and his four hundred cavalrymen killed two or three hundred of them when they captured the camp. Then the bandits raised their hands and surrendered.

When it was time for the execution, each Tiger and Leopard Rider was not even given a single thief to carry out the execution, which was truly heartbreaking for those Tiger and Leopard Riders who were not assigned to carry out the execution.

Fortunately, Cao Cao did not have this concern. As a captain, he just rushed forward with his sword in hand.

Even though the thief kept begging, Cao Cao didn't frown. He deliberately took a blunt knife and slowly chopped him again and again, making the thief scream in pain and even his voice became hoarse.

"Bah, it's useless. You're dead before I've even finished chopping!" Cao Cao spat fiercely at the thief who had been chopped halfway.

The refugees also saw the thief being beheaded very clearly, and they all applauded.

However, at this moment, Cao Cao, who had just come down from the execution platform, received bad news from the scout.

"Captain! There seems to be some unusual movement around us! It seems that other thieves are coming to attack!"

(End of this chapter)