Early the next morning, Tang Youyou and her companions were ready to set off and continue their journey to Fengdu City. But before they left, she noticed some people coming one after another.
Seeing her look puzzled, Rong Xun explained, "These are all my men. Among them are doctors, carpenters and so on. Food will be delivered later. It should be arriving soon."
She didn't expect Rong Xun to act so quickly and efficiently. She was really quite impressed.
"Thank you."
"What for? This is also my way of compensating them. Let's go."
On the way to Fengdu City, she had a strong premonition that something was wrong. Although Rong Xun said that he had sent people there in advance, she still couldn't put her mind at ease.
They were getting close to Fengdu. When they passed by a village outside the city, they heard people talking.
"Fengdu City is really tragic. More than half of the people are dead. When will this war end?"
"They resisted stubbornly and ended up like this. What's the use? It would be better to surrender earlier and avoid the disaster like us."
"How tragic!"
Hearing their conversation, Tang Youyou's heart skipped a beat. Fengdu City wasn't small. The total population of the whole city was about thirty or forty thousand. If half of them were dead, the whole city must be a river of blood.
"Can we go faster?"
She asked the driver to speed up. She wanted to see this town, which could be called a loyal one, as soon as possible.
When they got close to the city gate but hadn't entered yet, they could already feel the bloody red light covering the city.
The ground was littered with corpses. Although some had been cleared away, there were still many left. They were covered with white cloths and neatly placed by the roadside.
Some of the survivors were coming with carts to transport the corpses. Their expressionless faces seemed to have lost all hope for life.
She walked closer and saw a severed arm lying on the ground not far away. She couldn't hold it back and vomited immediately.
Rong Xun quickly blocked her sight and gently hugged her.
"Don't look. Don't go in for now. Stay outside the city for one night. It should be cleaned up by tomorrow."
Tang Youyou took a deep breath to ease her shock at the situation in front of her.
This was not just a bit more tragic than the previous towns. It was several times more tragic.
"Have all the doctors arrived?" Tang Youyou asked.
"Yes, they are treating the wounded."
"What about the children? Separate the children from the wounded. Try to keep them off the streets until it's all sorted out."
"Okay."
Rong Xun gave the order. When he received the intelligence from the front line, he already knew about the tragic battle that had taken place here.
Although he knew that You'er would be sad, he couldn't interfere in these matters for the time being. The principle of the Wuya Pavilion since its establishment was not to interfere in the wars of any country, but it could sell troops to them.
Once they interfered, the Wuya Pavilion would become a thorn in the side of the six countries and couldn't exist for long.
They had no right to interfere in such matters. They could only influence them in a very indirect way.
Despite Rong Xun's dissuasion, Tang Youyou insisted on entering the city. She wanted to see how great a crime Rong Jiangyu had committed against the people of Daming.
One day, he would surely pay the price!
"I want my mother, I want my father, I want my grandma, I want my sister!"
Suddenly, a half - grown child ran out on the blood - smeared street. She broke free from the people who were trying to stop her and knelt beside the corpses by the roadside. Trembling, she lifted the white cloth.
"Mother!"
She threw herself on the cold corpse and wailed. Her voice was as shrill as a ghost's, and she cried heart - rendingly.
"Her family of six is left with only her."
Wen Xue already knew all the details here. He watched the scene coldly without any change in his expression.
More and more children ran out. When they saw their relatives' corpses being carried away, they immediately stepped forward to stop them.
"Don't take my father away!"
"I'm looking for my mother and younger brother!"
...
For a moment, the scene became very chaotic. These people who had lost their family members protected the corpses and didn't allow anyone to approach.
"They're dead! They won't come back!"
One of the older boys stood out and shouted with a sob in his voice. "We can't let them die in vain. We must make those who killed them pay the price!"
The other children's eyes were red from crying. Looking at the leading boy, they all shouted, "I want revenge! I want revenge!"
Even the youngest children, although they didn't know what revenge meant, also cried out.
When the other adults saw this, although they had the same idea, how could they let these children do such a thing?
So they also stood out. At this time, words of comfort were useless.
"Children, we want revenge just like you, but they outnumber us. Let's go back first and think of a way, okay?"
The adults' eyes were also red as they held back their emotions. They were the same as these children, but they couldn't be as impulsive as them.
Tang Youyou sniffed and turned to Rong Xun. "Most of these children are homeless. I'll go over first. Rong Xun, your men are numerous. Get some food for them first."
Rong Xun didn't say much. He had already sent people to do these things.
At this time, Zhuifeng came back. As soon as he dismounted, he immediately reported the situation in the Xia Kingdom to Rong Xun.
"Master, the King of Xia has temporarily agreed to our request. He has also bought twenty thousand soldiers from the Wuya Pavilion and said that if Rong Jiangyu successfully becomes the Lord of Daming, they won't just sit back and do nothing."
"I see. Keep the deal of buying and selling soldiers a secret from anyone except the two parties."
"Yes."
Rong Xun already had a plan in mind.
Rong Jiangyu's ambition was not just to swallow Daming. The Xia Kingdom would be his next target.
Since the Xia Kingdom had bought twenty thousand of his elite soldiers, it should be no problem to deal with Rong Jiangyu. The current problem was how to divert Rong Jiangyu's attention to the Xia Kingdom.
The Xia Kingdom was very close to Daming. The capitals of the two countries were both next to the Yellow River, just separated by a river.
Although he had the idea, it wasn't the right time to implement it yet.
He had to wait until Rong Jiangyu thought he had Daming in the bag, and then he would carry out his plan.
He wanted to make Rong Jiangyu fall from the clouds to the bottom of the valley.
"Master, isn't that Prime Minister Song?"
Yeyue saw a somewhat familiar figure in the distance. He used to go in and out of the Daming Palace often and knew most of the people in the court at that time, especially this key person he had observed.
Rong Xun looked over. "It really is."
He had long predicted that Prime Minister Song, who cared about the people's livelihood, wouldn't remain indifferent after hearing that Rong Jiangyu had attacked Daming. There was no one in the whole of Daming who cared more about these things than him.