The Ming Dynasty began from Sarhu

Chapter 413 Liu Zhaosun Awakens

Three hundred elite cavalrymen swept through the southwest of Fucheng. In a moment, they killed Zuo Liangyu's servants like cutting melons and vegetables, leaving cold corpses on the bare ground.

Before Emperor Wu Ding and his men could ride away, a group of refugees rushed out of the city. They squatted in front of the injured servants and began to skillfully cut the flesh from the servants' bodies amid the inhuman screams of Zuo Liangyu's servants.

Zhang Dong and the three hundred Liaoxi soldiers looked at the refugees around them who were eating voraciously, and their teeth chattered unconsciously. The scene was too horrifying, and even these murderous warriors could not bear it.

Liu Zhaosun looked at the refugees coldly, whipped his horse and galloped away. The horse passed over a hungry refugee, who was still busy eating. The saber rushed past and the head flew high.

"Kill them all!"

At the emperor's command, the Liaoxi cavalry who had already run half a mile turned their horses around, raised their swords, and hacked and killed the bandits who were still eating people on the ground.

There were screams in the wilderness and the refugees fled in all directions.

Zhang Mazi looked up at the sky. The fog of the Wanggongchang explosion had long since dissipated, but the sky was still gray. This servant who had come all the way from the Sarhu battlefield was still not used to what was happening before his eyes.

Until a drop of human blood splashed into his eyes, Zhang Mazi was stunned for a moment, his eyes returned to being cold, he picked up the goose-feather knife, and joined this sudden massacre.

More than a hundred refugees were quickly killed by them. The emperor stood on his horse and wiped the blood off his face with his dragon robe. After making sure that there were no survivors, he ordered the silver, money and food on the servants to be distributed to everyone.

Tan Er stood trembling by and witnessed the entire killing process. The cook was so scared that his face turned pale and his fingers were still trembling.

Zhang Dong dismounted, walked to the cook, and handed him a piece of dried meat.
"Here, it's from a dead body, not human flesh."

Tan Er reached out to take it, sniffed it, and swallowed it in one gulp.

They searched Fucheng but found nothing, not even a rat. Fucheng County was in a state similar to the capital under the plague. All the people died, and the remaining food had been looted by the bandits.

The plague in the capital was completely out of control, the Wanggongchang explosion and the Little Ice Age climate, rats, drought, and locusts appeared one after another in northern Zhili, coupled with refugees and looting by government troops, the natural disasters and man-made disasters in this dimension were a hundred times more tragic than the original history.

"Zhang Bazong,"

After eating the beef jerky, Tan Er's fingers finally stopped shaking. He looked up at Zhang Dong. When Tan Er first met Zhang Dong, Zhang Mazi was still the captain of the central army guard, so he always called him Captain Zhang.

"Why has the emperor become like this?"

Tan Er spoke in a low voice, looking around carefully as he spoke. Liu Zhaosun was reining in his horse and standing in front of the body of a refugee in the distance. Tan Er was not sure whether the emperor could hear them - it was said that the emperor now had very sharp ears and eyes.

"You ask me, who should I ask?"

Zhang Dong squatted beside Tan Er, looked up at the sky, shook his head and sighed.

It's funny to say that after escaping from the capital, those familiar faces in Kaiyuan died one after another, and in the end, the only familiar person left was the cook in Zu Dashou's mansion.

"It's pimple disease."

Everyone calls the plague "lump disease". Zhang Dong has been with Emperor Wuding since before Sarhu. These days, this servant has been following the emperor all the way, killing people, and he couldn't help but think about it in his spare time.

Tan Er listened carefully to Zhang Mazi's analysis and added:
"Are you saying that the emperor has contracted black pimple disease?" Zhang Dong said anxiously, "What nonsense! I mean that the plague and the bandits' attack on the capital have caused the emperor's temperament to change drastically. However, this is not the first time."

"Eight years ago in Sarhu, the emperor did the same thing, just two days before the attack on the Bordered Blue Banner..."

As Zhang Dong spoke, he recalled the distant past. He had worked in the Suoyi Guard for a long time, and his mind became more and more flexible, and he could think things more clearly.

"Sarhu?" Tan Er was full of doubts.
Zhang Dong reached out and patted Tan Er's forehead, saying impatiently:
"Why am I telling you this? You were still steaming buns at Zu Dashou's house at that time. What the hell do you know?"

After saying this, he looked up at Emperor Wuding who was standing in the distance reining in his horse, and murmured:
"I remember that before Sarhu, the Thirteenth Master was also so decisive and ruthless in killing people, killing without blinking an eye..."

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The cavalry swept across the vast plains and entered the endless hills and mountains. Dilapidated villages appeared in the sight. The deserted villages were like old tombstones, rapidly retreating and disappearing into the underworld with the sound of horse hooves.

Occasionally, a few starving bandits or fleeing soldiers appeared in the sight and were killed by Emperor Wuding with a single blow, usually splitting the skull in half right down the middle. The movement was done in one smooth motion, and the broken bones turned into wisps of dust under the rolling hooves of the galloping horses.

He held the goose-feather knife that had killed countless people, and occasionally used it to kill dogs. Along the way, there were more beasts than people.

The beasts ate human flesh, their own children, or other people's flesh. Emperor Wu Ding had more than once slashed to death wild dogs that appeared out of nowhere with his sword.

In this land, people are dying, and beasts are living comfortably. They occupy villages and towns, and sometimes appear in human form.

Emperor Wu Ding galloped along with the warhorse under his crotch, his body rising and falling like waves, just like the ups and downs he had experienced in the past eight years.

Sometimes, he would stop and try to recall the past, but he couldn't think of anything clearly. The only explanation was that the memory was so painful that the memory itself would kill itself, and the memory would kill the memory.

He remembered what Ke Zhen'e and Zhang Zhenren had said to him, saying that he was a late bloomer and had a strong destiny, and that the people around him would always be implicated by him and would not have a good end.

He looked back at Zhang Dong who was following him. Fortunately, Zhang Mazi was not dead.

Is it really just fate?
If Liu Zhaosun had not acted on his own, if the time traveler had not acted recklessly, how could those people have died?

Fortunately, he couldn't remember them clearly. If he were asked to count the names of the victims one by one, he would go crazy, just like the dogs that were hacked to death.

So, people can't help but ask, who is the beast?

Are they those dogs with red eyes after eating human flesh, or are they Emperor Wuding who wields a knife to kill all those who may threaten him, as well as the group of people who follow the emperor.

Liu Zhaosun didn't think about these questions. Now, everything he did was based on his instinct. Like a cruel lion, he killed anyone who broke into his territory and anyone who might endanger his wife and children, whether that person was a bandit, a Ming army soldier, or a dog with red eyes on the side of the road.

A city finally appeared on the horizon ahead, a big city he had never seen before.

Zuo Liangyu’s camp was very close, with wisps of smoke rising from all around.

The fireworks of the world illuminated the bloodstains on the emperor's butcher knife.

He came from hell.

(End of this chapter)