On the evening of May 17, the army broke through the gate of Wuping County.

Lu Ming, the vanguard officer in charge of the siege, finally breathed a sigh of relief. A small Wuping County could actually hold out against them for nearly three days.

The soldiers who went to the villages and towns below came back and reported that many people had escaped from the villages and towns below.

It seems that someone leaked the news, otherwise how could Qian Yongda be able to make such thorough arrangements and delay them for several days.

While Lu Ming was thinking about how to explain to Shangguan, he swung his sword at the people in the city...

On May 18, 30,000 soldiers who were temporarily assembled from the capital of Shangyang Prefecture finally arrived in Wuping County to provide assistance after traveling day and night.

But when they arrived, Wuping County was already a river of blood.

The heads of Wuping County Magistrate Qian Yongda, Wuping County's newly appointed County Lieutenant Wang Ping, and Wuping County Magistrate Chen Tao were hung high on the city wall.

The leading general, Lin Pingyuan, with tears in his eyes, gestured to the soldiers to retreat...

On May 20th, Prince Lin Li Zhaoying hurried from Jiyang with his eldest son Li Jiren and his personal guards.

Prince Lin's son, Li Jiren, asked loudly in disbelief, "What on earth is going on?"

The Jiyang soldiers on the city wall looked at each other, wondering why the prince asked this.

Looking at the head that was beginning to rot on the city wall, Prince Lin was silent for a long time. Finally, he walked into the Wuping County Government Office, stepping on the blood all over the city.

The bodies in the county town had been piled up and burned, but the blood had not yet been cleaned up.

The county government office had been cleaned up. Prince Lin walked into the meeting room and asked everyone to leave.

He closed the door of the meeting room and sat in his chair, motionless.

Li Jiren was worried about his father and called out from outside the door, "Father."

There was no sound in the room for a long time. Just when Li Jiren was about to break in, he heard his father's suppressed crying.

Li Jiren felt a pang of sadness in his heart and stood at the door guarding his father.

Inside the room, Prince Lin seemed to see Emperor Huiren again through his tears.

He said to his father, the Emperor, "Father, I'm sorry. I can no longer be a benevolent ruler."

Since ancient times, wars have always been fought between soldiers. Even if a city was massacred, it was limited to the civilians in the city. However, his people killed everyone in Wuping County.

He couldn't remember what had happened at all. Ever since his mother passed away, his headaches had become more severe.

Prince Lin's heart began to ache again. He knew that even if he ascended to the supreme position in the future, he would be regarded as a tyrant in history books.

But he didn't care about anything now, he just wanted to kill someone, kill that person.

When he was five years old, his father held him in his arms and said, "Ying'er, your royal grandfather became emperor after killing the previous crown prince. No matter how hard he tried to govern the country, he was always labeled a traitor in history books. You and I must be wise and benevolent rulers, and let those people know that your grandfather's choice was not wrong."

When he was thirteen years old, he went to the battlefield for the first time. His father, the Emperor, gave him his grandfather's sword and said: "May God bless my son and may he always be victorious."

When he was sixteen, his father, the emperor, said to him, "The people of Jiyang are fierce and reverent, and only a man like Ying'er can tame them. Jiyang is suffering from a severe drought, and I grant you the name 'Lin'. I hope my son will bring rain to Jiyang and end its drought."

When he was nineteen years old, his eldest son was born, and his father, the emperor, personally named him Li Jiren.

When he was thirty, his father said to him, "My son has been in Jiyang for many years. It is time for you to return to Luocheng to help me."

But at that time, he said to the edict that his father had just written to appoint the crown prince: "The northern Rong, Qiang and Yan are making trouble again recently. I cannot leave now."

It is the ancestral system that the crown prince must return to the capital immediately after being appointed. My father could not go against the ancestral system, nor could he pick a general who could take over the Jiyang border. So he had no choice but to ask the eunuch in charge of ceremonies to temporarily keep the imperial edict and let him train the successor as soon as possible.

Three years ago, the Qiang people were beaten by him and had no strength to fight again for twenty years. The Northern Rong and Yan State did not dare to provoke war easily again.

Besides, Ren'er is already capable of standing on his own, Xin'er and Siyuan have made considerable military achievements, and the young generals he has trained over the years are all outstanding.

He originally thought that he would be able to return to Beijing soon to be with his parents and fulfill his filial duty.

However, the injuries he suffered in the battle with the Qiang tribe kept him bedridden for three months.

Before he recovered, he received a letter from his mother asking him to return home quickly.

But before he could return to Luocheng, he received the news that his father had died of illness and passed the throne to Prince An.

After returning from mourning in Luo City, he was still immersed in the grief of his father's death. His mother, the favored Concubine Qi, was gone.

Someone from the palace said that Concubine Qi had been ill since the death of the late emperor, and finally committed suicide to follow the late emperor.

Suicide? How serious a charge is it that a concubine committed suicide? His mother was a woman of strong character, there was no way she would commit suicide!

Later, his last few spies in the palace reported back that his mother had died in a tragic manner...

On a hot summer day, the sun is scorching in the sky.

The group of people from Fengye Village continued on their escape journey in the scorching heat.

They originally wanted to try to enter several county towns they encountered along the way, but all the city gates along the way were closed and no one was allowed to enter or leave.

The crowd could only continue along the path. In the past few days, they saw many people who had escaped from Wuping County.

However, those who could catch up with them were mostly people with some assets, who had horse-drawn carriages or mule-drawn carts. Seeing that there were so many of them, these people dared not stop to talk to them, but would bypass them and speed up.

In addition to fellow townspeople from Wuping County, they also met people from other places in Shangyang Prefecture.

However, Lin'an Prefecture was quiet. It was said that the prefect of Lin'an Prefecture had submitted a letter of surrender to Prince Lin, promising that everything in Lin'an Prefecture would be at Prince Lin's disposal.

When Yan Dahu heard the news, he cursed the man as a spineless person.

Lu Liang's eyes were slightly red. Could the temptation of the throne and power really turn a prince who once loved his people like his own children into an executioner?

Since the heavy rain that day, the weather has been getting hotter and hotter, and the younger children simply cannot withstand the scorching sun.

The Han and Lu families then vacated their two mule carts with carriages for the children to use.

Except for the two children, Han Huaian and Han Huaixi, who were still sitting in "Huahua's" car, all the members of the Han and Lu families, including Han Huaiyu, got out of the car.

The villagers were naturally very grateful. Lu Youtian and Lu Fugui saw it clearly. Although they had masters like Qin Gang and Dalin around them, there were so many refugees on the road. If they really fought with them, there would inevitably be casualties in their own families.

Many people looked at the supplies on their mule carts with shining eyes, but in the end they did not dare to go forward. Instead, they walked around them. It was simply because they saw that there were so many people and they did not dare to go forward.

They and the villagers also have a mutually beneficial relationship.

Wang Daxin and Han Sanqian didn't take anything with them. In order to escape, they even left the things on Wang Daxin's cart in Fengxi Town.

The villagers gave each family some food and found two sets of clothes for them to change into.

The two were deeply moved and tried their best to help the villagers push and pull the carts.

Lu Yanyan was wearing a "Lei Feng hat" with a mask with the word "Yan" on it hanging under her nose. She felt her face was itchy, but she didn't dare to scratch it.

In her previous life, she bought a lot of sunscreen, but she didn't like to apply it. No matter how famous the brand was, it would become sticky after a long time.

But now she missed her sunscreen so much, but unfortunately Han Huaixi’s space was not good enough and she couldn’t get anything out.

Han Huaiyu also felt that he was too hot to breathe, and his legs felt as heavy as if they were tied with huge stones.

Just when she was about to fall, Han Qingyun picked her up and put her on the car seat, and Han Huaijin was also pulled into the car.

The weather was too hot, and the people didn't bring much fodder, and the grass on the roadside was getting less and less.

Several animals in the village began to go on strike, and even young and strong mules like "Huahua" and "Duoduo" began to become anxious.

Yan Erhu held the mule's rope tightly, fearing that the mule would get angry and throw Han Huaijin and Han Huaiyu.

It was almost noon and they were about to reach the gate of Rong County, so Han Hongzhi asked everyone to stop.

We must go to the city today to buy some fodder for the livestock, otherwise they won’t last for a few days.

We need to go into town to buy some more medicine. Several frail women and children have already suffered from heatstroke today.

There is also my fifth uncle, he is old and not in good health.

He is now the most senior elder in the village and the cornerstone of Fengye Village. He cannot fall again...

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