Chapter 96 "Don't do it" Smoke filled the air, and flames shot up into the sky in Shuzhou City...
The air was filled with smoke and flames shot up into the sky in Shuzhou City. From afar, the night sky was illuminated.
"Sir Xue, we've found your wife. She's in the Banpo camp. Let's go get her. She's missing. Only her sister is here." The attendant whispered.
The usually cold and indifferent scholar's expression changed slightly.
In times of war, it would be difficult for him to find someone among the refugees. But if Yun Yang wanted to find him, it wouldn't be difficult.
But she didn't look for him.
Xue Yu spread out the map on the table and patiently directed his subordinates on the next deployment.
The war was drawing to a close, but much still needed to be done. For example, what to do with the eldest prince after he was escorted back to the capital; how to treat the families of the officials who died in the rebellion as loyalists or rebels; and how to rebuild Shu after the war...
And the high priest Wangshu of the Wanqi God Clan, his crimes are unforgivable!
Blood gushed out of the tightly closed gate of the Governor's Mansion, mixed with rainwater and mud, and flowed onto the ground, even staining the stone steps blood red.
"Reporting to Master Xue, both the front and back doors have been blocked. The traitors inside will have no way of escaping!"
King Hui's southern border army defeated the eldest prince Li Hong and the ragtag group of remnants of the previous dynasty like a thunderbolt, leaving only a few hundred traitors and bandit leaders hiding in the governor's mansion.
"But inside, there are the wife and daughter of Li Dajun, the Tongpan of Shuzhou. Dajun Li and his four sons all died in battle yesterday..."
King Hui was about forty years old, with a tall and strong figure, and he exuded a terrifying aura. The voice of the soldier who was pleading for mercy gradually became lower, and even the whispers on the side faded away.
King Hui had been on the battlefield for many years and had a murderous aura about him. Even the horse beside him was snorting nervously.
A pair of slender hands pressed down on the horse's neck, and the elegant scholar said calmly, "Proceed as planned."
Some things have to be said by someone.
There are descendants of loyal and brave men and families of officials in the governor's mansion, but in the eyes of King Hui, these are trivial matters. Since ancient times, when two armies fought, countless souls died under the sword. If you have to see the other party's name before killing, how can you fight the war?
To put it another way, if it was King Hui or Xue Yu who was imprisoned in the governor's mansion waiting to die today, the one who held the power of life and death would also not show mercy.
At Xue Yu's command, the soldiers immediately responded, unloading bags of fat from the carriages and pouring them on the courtyard wall of the governor's mansion. The pungent smell became stronger and stronger.
Grease is a more powerful substance than kerosene. Previously, these traitors and rebels were forced here step by step. They used their officials and their families as hostages and resisted desperately. King Hui had lost his patience and simply burned them down.
"The fire is on!" the soldier reported.
The smoke grew thicker and thicker, and the black fat water instantly turned into flames. The flames were filled with creepy screams, and behind the smoke, a powerful crossbow flashed with cold light, waiting for its prey to escape from the flames.
Either way, it's death.
There's no way anyone is going to get out alive tonight.
"Ah, Master Xue! The back door, the back door is open!" At the same time, the soldiers rushing over from behind shouted, "Those, those officials and their families who were imprisoned inside have escaped!"
Xue Yu led a group of people to the back door of the governor's mansion. When they got closer, they could see that the back door was wide open in the thick smoke. The smoke was almost suffocating. The women who staggered out supported each other and coughed loudly, tears streaming from their eyes.
Behind them, in the open gate, there were three-foot-wide tongues of fire crisscrossing each other, as if stirred by an invisible force. The tongues of fire slowly moved forward, like huge wings of fire, separating the old, children, women and children in front from the rebels in the back who were eager to rush forward to arrest people.
The flames lit up half the sky red, and there was a horrible sizzling sound of burning corpses.
And amidst those enormous flaming wings, there was a slender figure. Stepping on the piled corpses on the ground, it brandished a powerful, flaming staff left and right!
The clouds parted, and the moonlight shone with a strange red light. When Xue Yu saw the person coming out of the door, his heart suddenly contracted violently.
Her long, black hair and red lips fluttered in the wind, as if on fire. Her spear, shrouded in flames, was long and sharp, wielding with the force of a tiger, creating dazzling sparks in the air. The flames seemed to come alive, swaying and tumbling with her movements, transforming into majestic wings that charged directly at the traitors eager to take action.
No one dared to approach her.
She actually created a way of life for these women, children, the elderly and the young that no one could stop her.
"Ha!" Yun Yang shouted, turned her wrist, and the musket in her hand, which was wrapped with cloth mixed with grease, drew a huge circle in the air. The flames were like a halo, tightly surrounding her. She danced with the gun and ran out wildly under the cover of the flames.
"Yun Yang!" Xue Yu shouted, and then called to his men, "Cover her!"
Sharp arrows shot behind Yun Yang, and those traitors and rebels who were like maggots finally dared not to chase him anymore, and were immediately drowned by the crackling wood.
Yun Yang rushed out from the blazing fire and fell into Xue Yu's arms. The door was closed tightly again behind her.
His fingers gripped her shoulders so hard that they almost dug into her flesh. He shouted, "Are you trying to kill yourself?! What are you doing in there?! When did you go in there?!"
Behind them, flames shot up into the sky. Some people who had escaped were pierced by arrows and screamed miserably as they were burned by the fire. Inside the governor's mansion, the sound of beams and pillars crashing to the ground could be heard.
Yun Yang wiped away the tears caused by the smoke with the back of his hand. The surroundings were too noisy to hear what he was saying, so he could only shout at the top of his lungs, "I'm fine! I'm not afraid of death! Many people are locked up in there! They are innocent!"
He held her in his arms, trembling and unable to say anything.
Yun Yang coughed for a while and calmed down. She glanced at the corpses that were burning silently beside her. Their hands and feet were strangely twisted, and they would suddenly move a few times as they burned, looking as if they were alive. She snuggled into Xue Yu's arms in fear.
But why is he shaking too?
Yun Yang looked up at him, only to see that Xue Yu's face was as pale as paper, with panic hidden in his narrow and deep eyes. When she shook his sleeve, he woke up from a dream and hugged her tighter.
Yun Yang had never seen Xue Yu like this before.
He had always been like a towering mountain in front of her, like the snow on its summit, calm and composed, a man who remained unfazed even when faced with a sudden collapse. How could he have been so panicked...
The captain beside them noticed something was amiss and politely led them to a carriage a little further away. "Please rest here for a while. I'll take care of the rest."
Yun Yang got on the carriage and pulled at her clothes that were burned by the fire. Her arms were also charred black and had some scratches on them, but fortunately the skin and flesh were not burned. She pulled at her braid and found that the end of her hair was burned much shorter.
Yun Yang smiled faintly, propped himself up and looked out the car window. All the houses on this street had been destroyed. Some of the tall buildings could still be seen as glorious in the past, but now only ruins remained, like huge mouths, silently shouting in despair.
There was a constant noise in my ears, and the smell of blood and the unpleasant smell of burning filled my nose. It was like hell on earth.
Before entering Shuzhou City, she had prepared herself mentally, but was still shocked by everything in the city.
She thought Xue Yu was in the governor's mansion, so she jumped over the courtyard wall, but what she saw were pairs of desperate and dim eyes. She also wanted to turn a blind eye to the officials' families who were abandoned in the governor's mansion, but she couldn't do it after all.
She still remembered what her young master said when he taught her kung fu: to learn kung fu is to protect oneself in prosperous times, and to save others in troubled times.
So, she used local materials, soaked some cloth in fat and wrapped it around the spear. The spear became a waving fire blade, which she waved in the air and spun rapidly in circles. No one dared to approach her.
"Do you know, do you know... that I was the one who ordered the fire attack?" Xue Yu came back to his senses, twisted her shoulders, stared at her, and spoke incoherently, "If you don't come out, then I gave the order to kill you, with my own hands..."
He almost killed her!
Yun Yang was stunned for a moment. She didn't expect him to show such a frantic and painful expression. She swallowed the question in her mouth, put her arms around his neck, kissed him on the face as if to comfort him, and whispered: "I'm fine, I'm fine... Don't be like this, I won't do it again next time, I really won't do it again."
"I came here just because I was worried about you..." She said in a low voice with her head down.
Xue Yu felt his heart was in turmoil, and his body seemed to be numb, without any feeling. He looked at her little face that was blackened by smoke, and his blood boiled, and he couldn't stop the heartache.
A huge fear came over him, he almost lost her!
Xue Yu held her in his arms again, his eyes red, and lowered his head to find her lips, not a kiss, but a bite, biting her small nose tip, her lips and tongue, her ears, her wanton indulgence, and her heart that led him away.
Yun Yang groaned in pain and looked at him with innocent eyes.
His heart started pounding at her gaze, so he slowed down his pressure and gently stroked the back of her neck.
Yun Yang was so soft-hearted during their kiss that she seemed to have forgotten she was still angry with him. She called him softly in a daze, "Xue Yu..."
"Yeah." He responded.
The commotion outside the carriage window continued, and his kisses were rapid and unrestrained. Yun Yang tilted her head back, enduring his passionate longing and cherishment of his life after the catastrophe.
When Xue Yu touched her sensitive spot, a blushing moan escaped from Yun Yang's mouth. Her hair almost stood on end, and waves of heat surged in her lower abdomen. Perhaps it was because of the narrow carriage, but there was a special kind of stimulation. Xue Yu's voice was low and pleasant, "Yang Yang, bad girl, I will never let you leave my side again..."
Unexpectedly, Yun Yang suddenly pushed him away, vigilantly tightened her collar, and gave him a cold and seductive look, "Don't touch me."
Xue Yu's breathing was disordered and his face looked a little tired, but his handsomeness could not be concealed, and there was also a heartbreaking feeling of brokenness.
He looked at her in confusion.
Yun Yang glanced at him, then turned away, took a deep breath, and snorted coldly, "I don't want to, and I won't do it. Things outside haven't been completed yet, what's the point of you and me being here?"
Xue Yu closed his eyes and raised the corners of his lips.
He lifted his robe and followed her out of the carriage, then saw Yun Yang looking at the women, children, and the elderly who had been rescued by her not far away.
"What's wrong? What's that expression?" Xue Yu held her hand and said, "You saved them, why are you still so unhappy?"
Yun Yang suddenly turned around, his face gradually paler, "Why are they...seeking death?"
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