Travel through troubled times and escape famine with the system

Chapter 372: Immortal Demon Girl

At the beginning of the war, the Yanzhou army entered the Qingzhou city.

The people of Qingzhou Prefecture placed all the food they had prepared in advance on both sides of the main road for the Yanzhou army to take.

Before noon, the Yanzhou army finished its rest and went out of the west gate of Qingzhou City, dividing into four groups to start encirclement and suppression of the Jin soldiers.

According to Wen Chengjie's suggestion, it is best to adopt the method of fighting without killing.

Although the Jin army had caused endless killings along the way, encircling and killing them all could vent the people's anger.

But keeping the Jin soldiers as slaves is the way to maximize benefits.

Dealing with the corpses and rebuilding the city requires a lot of labor.

However, prisoners of war and slaves only needed porridge and rice cakes, so it would not be a pity even if they died of exhaustion.

On the city wall, Wu Quanwen stood with his hands behind his back, looking towards the west.

"I have just written down what happened here in a secret report and sent it back to Wudu."

"Your name will be known throughout the world, and I promise you will have a seat at the imperial court."

"Thank you, Your Highness." Wen Chengjie nodded.

"It's not a matter of thanking you. This is what you deserve." Wu Quanwen said, "But I will have to wait until this war is over before I can bring you into the court to serve as an official."

"Qingzhou City has now become the last bastion for the direct counterattack against the Jin soldiers. As reinforcements arrive, you are still needed to command them."

"Of course." Wen Chengjie nodded and said, "As long as the imperial court has sufficient food and grass supplies, I guarantee that Qingzhou City will become the most reliable resting place for all reinforcements."

Hearing Wen Chengjie's calm words, Wu Quanwen nodded slightly.

If an ordinary person took refuge under the name of this prince and received such a promise, he would probably be so excited that he would kneel on the ground.

But Wen Chengjie remained as calm as before, showing almost no emotion.

Such a character is something that even those old guys in the officialdom can hardly match.

Wu Quanwen felt more and more that Wen Chengjie was a great talent.

"Report!"

Xu Heng strode over and bowed to both of them.

"Sergeant, there are many people in the city who want to leave the city to look for the remains of their relatives. They are blocking the city gates and crying for mercy."

Upon hearing this, Wen Chengjie turned around and ran to the other side of the city wall, leaning over to look inside the city.

Hundreds of people had gathered in the open space inside the west gate and were standing there in a black mass.

The defenders of Qingzhou City are almost all young and strong men selected from various families in the city. Therefore, when defending the city, they are so brave and willing to sacrifice their lives.

Because they are protecting their own homes and their loved ones.

The Wu State emphasizes burying the dead to rest in peace. It is natural for the people to want to retrieve the bodies of their children and bury them.

But too many people died in this battle.

"Defense, what should we do?" Xu Heng asked Wen Chengjie in a low voice.

"Disperse all these people, and never open the gate."

As Wen Chengjie was speaking, he heard a loud shout from the crowd.

"It's Guard Wen!"

Someone saw Wen Chengjie on the city wall, and then everyone looked up.

"Captain Wen! Give the order to open the gate!"

"Wen Chengjie, we handed all the children over to you, and they are all dead!"

"You have to let us take one last look at the children and bury them in peace!"

The people below all knelt down.

There were requests, accusations, complaints, and curses...

Wen Chengjie looked at the people below with an expressionless face, and then suddenly shouted.

"Defenders, listen to my orders, use your scabbards and drive them all away."

"If anyone dares to let a civilian go without my order, I will take his head!!"

At this time, only one in ten of the defenders of Qingzhou City remained, and the defenders in charge of guarding the city had all been replaced by the Yanzhou Army.

They had no feelings for the people of Qingzhou City. When the leading officer heard Wen Chengjie's order, he started to drive them away.

All of a sudden, there were screams from the people below.

Xu Heng stood aside with a look of pity on his face.

"Sergeant, this is too inhumane and will easily arouse public anger."

"Or let them go out and take a look..."

"What are you looking at?" Wen Chengjie reached out and grabbed Xu Heng's collar, gritting his teeth and scolding.

"Let them see their child's face being split open?"

"Look at those bodies burned by kerosene?"

"See the intestines flowing out of the cut open waist and abdomen?"

"Or should I look at the torso with missing arms and legs?"

"Tell me, what should we let them see?"

Wen Chengjie pushed Xu Heng against the wall, and every word seemed to be squeezed out of his throat.

"They don't understand, don't you understand either?"

"The city defenders and those forced-to-be-convoyed men lost thousands of lives!"

"I can open the city gates now and ask them to dig out the bodies of their children from the pile of corpses, but who has time to dig thousands of new graves now?"

"If the body is not buried deep enough, once it rots and spreads a plague, the entire Qingzhou city will be doomed!"

Xu Heng stopped talking, and Wen Chengjie let go of Xu Heng's collar with trembling hands.

"Xu Heng, take your men and carry my father's body around the city so that the people at the South Gate and the North Gate can see it."

"Finally, follow the main road and exit from the west gate."

"Throw it...throw it onto the pile of corpses outside and burn them together..."

"Defend!" Xu Heng's eyes were red.

"Go!" Wen Chengjie said tremblingly, "Others can die to protect Qingzhou City, and so can my Wen family."

"They can't see their dead relatives, and neither can I."

"In this way... the people's anger can be appeased..."

After Wen Xiuyuan's body was paraded through the streets, no one in the city wanted to leave the city to claim the body.

After a day and a night, He Hong led a large army back to the city, bringing back 13,000 surrendered Jin soldiers.

These Jin soldiers were almost all ordinary people. As for the warriors, they were already on their way to escape and were reorganized and taken away by Aliban and Abuhan.

As for those who did not have time to escape with the two, after seeing the pursuing Yanzhou army, they chose to abandon the group and fled into the mountains with their trusted followers.

It was precisely because their military commanders had abandoned them that the Jin soldiers became disheartened in the chaos and chose to lay down their arms and surrender.

With the addition of these Jin soldiers, the fire burning corpses outside the city burned even more vigorously.

For two whole days, the city of Qingzhou was submerged in that strange smell.

And during these two days, another thing happened.

That means Lu You’s identity is exposed.

To be precise, it is not about Lu You’s identity, but the legend about the witch.

In a normal battle, Lu You almost drove the Black Panther to kill through the Jin soldiers' positions, and later resurrected from the dead to hunt down the Jin soldiers' commander-in-chief.

Many Jin soldiers witnessed these events with their own eyes, and in the past two days, in order to please the Yanzhou defenders who were in charge of their work, they began to exaggerate these events and tell them the truth.

At first, the Yanzhou army just regarded these as crazy talk. After all, who would believe that someone could survive being cut in half?

As for summoning a black panther with bare hands, that is nonsense.

But as more and more Jin soldiers talked about this matter, the Yanzhou soldiers had no choice but to believe it.

The most ridiculous thing is that when those Yanzhou soldiers accidentally told the story of the Black Panther Witch in the city, it was immediately confirmed.

Many people in this city have seen the black panther.

There are even some people who remember Lu You's face clearly!