Chapter 46: Sorrowing the World

The fifth chapter is in the west of Yi County, Hebei Province. Chen Wanrong and others rushed here to see graves everywhere. It is not accurate to say that it is a grave, just a pile of loess, without tombstones. All the 100,000 border residents have become "anonymous people". No one knows what their surname is, where their family lives, and how old they are.

People with names and surnames and families were no longer known by Mochu's killing, which was a tragedy in itself.

Looking at the graves one after another, Chen Wanrong's heart swelled, his chest was swaying sharply, and his right hand couldn't help but hold it on the hilt of the sabre, wishing to sip it. A feeling of sadness came up, and Chen Wanrong's eyes couldn't help but turn red and his eyes were wet.

Chen Wanrong rolled in the sea of ​​blood. So far, there are not a hundred heads cut by his own hands, and there are dozens of them. It can be said that his heart is as hard as iron and he will not feel sad at any time. However, this place is really miserable. Although it has been more than ten years, the tragic scene seems to be right in front of him, as if the Turks killed 100,000 unarmed people by their own eyes, and anyone will cry.

With his right hand wiping his eyes, Chen Wanrong said word by word: "You must not let Mochu die too much!"

"Yes! You can't let him die too happily!" The generals agreed in unison.

Shen Que sighed and said, "The tragic story of the five chapters that year has spread and the whole world is mourning. Now, for more than ten years, Shen has arrived here and only then can he know how miserable it was back then! All the people of the Tang Dynasty should always remember this!"

Everyone had nothing to say about this statement and nodded in agreement.

Tears surged out from Cheng Xiaotian's eyes and called in a low voice: "Grandpa! Grandpa! If Grandpa were there, there wouldn't be such a tragedy!"

Cheng Wuting followed Pei Xingjian to quell the Turkic rebellion. In the battle of Heishan, only 30,000 Tang troops defeated the Turkic people 100,000, which changed the Turkic people's color. In the subsequent war, the Turkic people were helpless and their reputation was obvious to the Turkic people. Wu Zetian ordered him to guard the northern land, but later the Turkic people were afraid of his reputation and dared not attack the border. They restrained their subordinates and hid in the depths of the desert and could not go south.

At that time, the border was stable and the people lived and worked in peace, and there was a rare peaceful scene since Emperor Taizong of Tang. However, the good times did not last long. In order to ascend to the throne, Wu Zetian killed Cheng Wuting. Cheng Wuting's death was caused by the pain of his relatives and the enemy was happy. The Turks were the happiest, slaughtering cattle and sheep, and celebrating them in large quantities, which were happier than the New Year.

Once Cheng Wuting died, the Turks had no scruples anymore and went south in large numbers. The Tang Dynasty could not deal with it, and the people on the border were in dire straits. This was the tragic incident in 698 AD, and the five chapters stained the blood red!

Everyone in the north knows this secret that, after all, the criminal who caused the five tragedies should be Wu Zetian. She ignored the lives and deaths of the people for her personal power. However, because of the power and tricks at that time, people could not point their finger at Wu Zetian.

When Cheng Xiaotian mentioned it, everyone thought he was right and couldn't help but sigh.

"Long live the Tang Dynasty! Long live the Tang Dynasty!" A cheer sounded throughout the sky. People who had heard the news had been cheering loudly when they saw the arrival of the Tang army.

The tragic incidents in the five chapters once spread to the world, and many heroes were cried. At that time, the entire Tang Dynasty was shocked, and the people all shouted "revenge, revenge", but they did not succeed because of the power and magic situation at that time.

Today, we finally defeated the Later Turks, captured Mochu, and wanted to pay tribute to the dead on the five chapters. This is the best explanation for the unjustly death of the border people. How could the people not come?

Looking at the simple and excited faces, Chen Wanrong sighed a lot: "There are many praises to Wu Zetian in later generations, but the reputation is hard to tell! The bad politics was left behind by her, and the blood flowing of the people in the north was caused by her mistakes. If I hadn't come to the Tang Dynasty, I wouldn't have known that Wu Zetian had so many mistakes!"

The tragic events on the five chapters can be said to be the most tragic page in the Tang Dynasty before. The killing of 100,000 border residents at one time has not been done before, and even the powerful Huns cannot do it!

"Kill Mochuo! Kill Mochuo!" the people shouted in unison.

For this memorial service, people had been sent to build a simple altar, which was more than ten feet in size. Zhang Shougui, Chen Wanrong and Shen Que took the generals to the altar. The people gathered around, and in just a moment, they were all in a mess.

The priest was Chen Que, who held his fists and said, "Five years ago, Mochu committed heinous crimes here! He directed the Turkic army to cut and kill nearly 100,000 innocent people, and the mountains were covered with corpses and blood dyed the ground red! Later, the court sent people to collect the corpses, and the scene was terrible! Although it was fifteen years ago, today, when we arrived here, we still felt empathy, as if we had witnessed Mochu's crime with our own eyes!"

This is what people say. Everyone who arrived here today feels this way. They nodded and shouted in unison: "Kill Mochuo, take revenge!"

"The net of heaven is vast and sparse but not leaks!" Chen Que and others calmed down and continued: "Now, the heavens have sent punishment, Mochuo captured the Tang Dynasty! The emperor's wise wisdom killed Mochuo on the five chapters to avenge the souls of the death!"

"Long live the emperor! Long live the emperor!" The people shouted in unison. Li Longji's decision was very popular with the people, and the people were so excited that their eyes shone and they couldn't help but wave their fists.

"On Mochu!" Chen Qi waved his hand and the soldier urged Mochu up, who was dejected.

"Abduct the Turkic ministers!" Chen Que ordered again.

Ministers such as Du Sifu and Moju were brought up, and they were all dejected and had long lost their former prestige.

"Kill them! Kill them!" The people hated the Turks to the core. When they saw these ministers, they couldn't help but feel angry and shouted loudly.

Chen Qi kept pressing down with his hands. When the people calmed down, he said: "God has the virtue of being alive. The emperor adhered to the will of heaven and opened his arms. He spared the Turkic ministers not to die, and only killed Mochu..."

"No! Kill them all!" A roar like a tsunami sounded.

After decades of killing, the hatred is too deep, and the people are eager for the Turks to die.

Chen Que heard it in his ears and was shocked in his heart. If the people were angry, it would be possible that the Later Turkic ministers would be beaten to death. If this was the case, it would have planted the root of disaster and endless troubles. To be honest, Chen Que really wanted to kill the Later Turkic ministers, but just told him rationally that he could not repeat the mistake of Fu Nian being killed.

Fortunately, the people were just shouting and did not act violently. Chen Que couldn't help but secretly breathe a sigh of relief: "Friends, it is better to resolve enemies than to make them. If we kill them all, there will be endless troubles. Killing Mochuo alone is enough!"

The people of the border knew that Fu Nian was killed back then, and that was a mistake. Not to mention how the Turks thought that, even the people of the Tang Dynasty thought that Wu Zetian had made a mistake. After hearing this, they couldn't help but calm down and didn't shout anymore.

"The people are still reasonable!" Chen Que's most worried about is to lose his mind in anger, resulting in unnecessary consequences. He couldn't help but secretly breathe a sigh of relief: "Kill Mochu and sacrifice to the wronged souls who died!"

The executioner stood behind Mochu with a big knife. Mochu was so scared that his face was pale, his eyes were dull, and he knelt straight on the ground without even reacting at all.

"Sir, I want to kill him with my own hands to avenge my parents!" A young man in his twenties rushed up like a flying man, kneeling on the ground with a loud bang, tears streaming down: "Sir, the youngest is the survivor of that year. Back then, the youngest was only six years old, and it was my mother who threw the young in the grass and did not find the hateful Turkic dog! The young man watched the Turkic dog kill my father and mother in the grass!"

"The young ones also need to take revenge!" A group of people rushed up and knelt on the ground to appeal: "We are all survivors of the past. We have witnessed the tragic events of that year with our own eyes and watched the Turkic dogs kill our relatives! We want to take revenge, please help me!"

Chen Que was puzzled for a moment and looked at Zhang Shougui and Chen Wanrong.

"Please help me!" The onlookers shouted in unison.

Chen Wanrong didn't think about it: "If you have a grudge, you will not avenge your husband, I think it's OK!"

Zhang Shougui just nodded heavily. His mood was too heavy and he didn't want to talk.

"Since that's the case, I'll do you!" Chen Qi waved his hand, and the group of people squeezed up and surrounded Mochu, and fisted and kicked, almost like hitting a pig.

When they stopped, Mochu was beaten to the point of being blue and swollen, and he was dying. The young man grabbed the knife from the executioner, slashed it down, and cut off Mochu's left arm, and blood poured out like water.

Under the severe pain, Mochu woke up and screamed in pain. A survivor pinched his cheek and waved his knife on his face, and a piece of flesh fell down.

This group of survivors will be slashed with me, and he will torture Mochu with one wave. They have a common idea, and they must not let Mochu die happily. They are determined to torture him, just not to act according to the key points. When they have all taken action, Mochu is no longer human. A head is no longer flesh, but only the bones are seen.

The most shocking thing is that you can still see the squirming brain and the pulsating heart. Mo Chu fell to the ground and kept twitching, but you couldn't die.

When things got to this point, Mochu couldn't survive, and it was only a matter of time before he died.

The survivors were still unhappy and swept over the Turkic ministers with their angry eyes, hoping to go up and do it in the same way.

The Turkic ministers were so scared that they didn't dare to show off, as if they were staring at them not just their eyes, but their sharp swords. The timid ones couldn't stop urinating.

Kill them all was the wish of those present, but reason told them not to do so. Chen Que waved his hand and said, "You have revenge. Go down quickly, we are going to pay tribute."

The group of survivors were kneeling on the ground with tears in their eyes, kowtowed to Chen Wanrong and the others, and their foreheads hit the wooden board, making a thud. After kowtowing, they stood up, wiped their tears, and cried, and went down.

Looking at their backs, Chen Wanrong and the others sighed!

The soldiers brought the wine bowl, and Chen Wanrong and the others held it in their hands and drank the wine on the ground. After the wine was finished, the sound of the bouncing sounds continued, and everyone knelt down in one go.

Chen Wanrong felt his nose sore, his eyes were wet, and tears flowed out involuntarily. His knees softened, and he knelt on the ground, covered his face with his hands, and started crying.

A man doesn’t cry easily, but it’s not time to mourn!

Everyone, the ministers who were holding the Turks, knelt on the ground and sobbed. For a moment, the whole five times cried and shrouded in sorrow.

The tribute of the five chapters spread throughout the country as quickly as possible, and the whole country cried and every family worshiped the sacrifice!

In history, although the tragic incidents in the Five Episodes made the Tang people angry, they did not take revenge. Because the destruction of the Later Turks was thirty years later, Mochu, the culprit, had long died. History has come back to Mochu, and he actually comforted the unjust souls who had been killed.

Chen Wanrong was the initiator of all this. It was he who built artillery and defeated Tubo, which greatly improved the strategic situation of the Tang Dynasty, and could concentrate soldiers to attack the Later Turks.

Historically, after Li Longji's destruction of the Turks went to the Tianbao period. The reason was that the Tang Dynasty was restrained by Tubo and could not "jointly work together."

Everyone knelt silently, no one spoke. Time passed silently, and it was not until half an hour passed that people stood up.

Chen Wanrong stood up, feeling his legs numb. He didn't feel that when he was kneeling just now, there was still no one talking, whether it was the army or the people, they left silently.

Zhang Shougui, Shen Que and Chen Wanrong did not ride horses, but led the reins slowly. The three of them clearly wanted to discuss things, but because they were in a heavy mood, no one spoke. It was not until the fifth time that Shen Que took the lead in breaking the silence: "What are you planning?"

"It is urgent to go to Mobei. I plan to lead the team to set off immediately." Zhang Shougui then turned over, and Chen Wanrong and Shen Que also got on the horse.

Chen Wanrong took over the conversation: "The sooner the battle in the Western Regions, the better. I am also ready to mobilize the army and head to Longxi immediately."

"The two of you are thinking about the king's order, and Shen's heart is feeling." Shen Qie thought for a while and said, "What army do you plan to send to Mobei, which army stays in Monan, and which army go to Longxi?"

This is the key. Zhang Shougui looked at Chen Wanrong and said, "The Turkic tribes were newly broken. The grassland tribes were frightened and had already sent people to surrender. The army to the north may not necessarily have to be elite. If I expected it, this time, the tribes would definitely surrender. There is no war to fight, any one can do. This matter should be chosen by the supervisor. When you have finished choosing, the rest will be mine."

He is such a wise man. Chen Wanrong said gratefully: "After that being said, we have to be careful. The grassland is conducive to cavalry galloping, and cavalry is indispensable. I will take 100,000 cavalry to Longxi, and the rest will be left to the general. Cheng Xiaotian and Fei Jun are good at using cavalry, and I will want these two people. Zhang Suo is good at attacking and defending, so I will want them too."

"What else do you want?" Zhang Shougui said generously: "You have a crush on it, just choose."

Chen Wanrong thought for a while and said, "Since ancient times, soldiers will follow the generals, but let's take the generals with the soldiers. Except for these three, the other generals will follow the army."

"It's OK!" Zhang Shougui agreed: "Then we will arrange this and pass on the general order to set off."

Being decisive and decisive is a virtue, so Chen Wanrong naturally had no objection and immediately sent an order.

There was a fork in front of him. Chen Wanrong clasped his fists and said, "Master, let's break up here. I don't have to return to the base. I have to rush to Longxi first to arrange the base of the army and the food and supplies."

Chen Que took over the conversation with a smile and said, "You don't have to worry about food and grass. The emperor has sent someone to handle it long ago. I guess, the emperor wants you to rush to Longxi to repair it for a while, and then go to the Western Regions."

Although the battle with the Later Turks was not so tired, it was a large-scale decisive battle after all, and the army was still exhausted and it really needed to be repaired. Chen Wanrong and Zhang Shougui deeply agreed with this statement.

Li Longji was a wise monarch of military affairs. Since he was transferred to Longxi, the food and grass should be prepared. Chen Wanrong firmly believed in this and smiled and said, "I'd better go there early. A few days ago, someone from the military weapon supervisor went to Longxi construction workshop to produce cement. Although the letter said that the progress was going smoothly, I still wanted to see it with my own eyes. This is a big deal!"

The cement in Longxi is used to build the road to the Western Regions. This is related to the survival of the Western Regions army and is at the top of the list. Chen Que and Zhang Shougui both nodded and said, "Since that's the case, the military supervisor will go first. As for the military affairs, I will order them to come later."

It was really pleasant to work with Zhang Shougui. Chen Wanrong didn't say much. After thanking him, he led a team of personal soldiers to Longxi with Yang Sixu and Wang Zhongsi. This trip to Longxi was to travel southwest. Chen Wanrong stayed overnight at night, and finally arrived in Longxi on the fifth day.

When I arrived in Longxi, I realized that Longxi had already made preparations and just waited for the arrival of the army. Needless to say, the food and grass were piled up like mountains and were still transported here.

The reason why Chen Wanrong brought Yang Sixu and Wang Zhongsi here was that they were good at coordinating the two of them, so that they could arrange the military's garrison and food, so that Chen Wanrong had time to go to the military weapon supervisor to take a look.

After raising the big tent, Chen Wanrong immediately asked Yang Sixu and Wang Zhongsi to handle military affairs. Yang Sixu naturally had nothing to say, but Wang Zhongsi took the opportunity to threaten: "It's not impossible for me to do things in the military supervisor, but I have the conditions."

"Military orders are like a mountain, no conditions are met!" Chen Wanrong refused.

Wang Zhongsi did not give up and said with a smile: "Military Supervisor, if you take me to the Western Regions, I will do more than possible."

There will be a great battle when going to the Western Regions. Wang Zhongsi is resourceful. It is natural for him to go with him. Chen Wanrong wanted him to go, but Chen Wanrong pretended to be embarrassed: "It's good, it's good, but you are too young."

"You bully people! You bully people! You bully me young!" Wang Zhongsi was very dissatisfied and almost started to cry.

The Turks were defeated, and the battle with the Dashi was the biggest battle in the Tang Dynasty in a foreseeable period. If you missed it, you would regret it for the rest of your life. It would be impossible to ask Wang Zhongsi not to hurry.

The more anxious Wang Zhongsi was, the happier Chen Wanrong was. He blinked his eyes and looked at Wang Zhongsi: "Let's talk about it when you get older."

The tone was firm, without any room for negotiation. Wang Zhongsi was a fan of the authorities. He didn't expect that Chen Wanrong was teasing him. He couldn't help but feel anxious. He cried and sat on the ground with his butt, kicking his legs: "You are biased! You are biased! Woo woo!"

Chen Wanrong was teasing him, but he didn't expect that he would actually cry. He was very surprised and said with a smile: "Haha, Wang Zhongsi, you also have times of crying! Will the emperor agree?"

Wang Zhongsi wiped his tears and jumped up from the ground. He was so happy that he said with a smile: "Military Supervisor, have you agreed?" A pair of bright eyes looked at Chen Wanrong, looking forward to it.

"You have to listen to me!" Chen Wanrong's face tense.

"I must listen to you! If I don't listen to you, I'm a puppy!" Wang Zhongsi was busy confessing his love.

"Go to do things!" Chen Wanrong ordered, and Wang Zhongsi responded lightly and went to work hard.
Chapter completed!