Chapter 161
Xu Sheng finally realized what Liu Mang has been talking about so far. With this prison, which was made from the highest quality materials, Liu Mang can just kill those 3,000 Black Flag by starving them alone. The material for creating this prison was the same material used for the main gate, city wall and also for the mausoleum.
Once you are locked within, even a hyper-cla.s.s generals cannot open it. What Xu Sheng did not expect was that this Wancheng city prison was also made with the same material from main gate’s materials. And that meant, once this prison is locked, one can forget to escape from here as the main entrance will be completely blocked. 3,000 Black Flag troops will starve themselves to death and no one will hear their screams at all. Provided they have not yet eaten in two days.
"You did not fear heavy sin?!" Xu Sheng asked while his gaze is fixated toward Liu Mang.
"HAHAHAHA!!!! Afraid of heavy sin, huh?! I am a general. I have killed more soldiers under my orders and I have so many soldiers under my command die!! I have sinned more than any of you here!!! What is the difference between ordering my men to die and killing enemies and starving and burying you right here and now!!!" Liu Mang just sneered coldly toward Xu Sheng.
"No, this is different!!!" Xu Sheng argued with Liu Mang. On the battlefield, you are forced to be ruthless because if you don’t, your life will be lost. But now Liu Mang is going to bury them alive. This is a similar situation when General Bai Qi of the State of Qin during Warring States period. At that time, after the Battle of Changping, Bai Qi ordered 400,000 soldiers of the Zhao state who surrendered and Shangdang commoners to be buried alive under the false pretext that they are going to revolt.
Now Liu Mang will bury them alive these 3,000 Black Flag with no reason at all in order to threaten them
"THIS IS NO DIFFERENT AT ALL!!! These are the times of war, not the times of peace!!! Killing 1 person is an act of killing, killing 100 people is also an act of killing, killing 10,000 people is also an act of killing. XU SHENG, I WILL NOW TEACH YOU INTIMATELY, WHAT IS THE MEANING OF THE WORD "TO SIN" AND WHAT IS THE DIFFERENCE OF THE SIN BETWEEN KILLING ONE MAN, TEN THOUSAND MEN, ONE MILLION MEN!!!" Said Liu Mang while revealing extreme killing intent.
Xu Sheng who kept his sight at Liu Mang started to tremble. Liu Mang will really bury them without any hesitation these Zhou clan elite private soldiers whose capabilities is not lower than the Formation Breaker and Bing Province Heavy Cavalry.
If Liu Mang can win them, then good. If he leaves them behind, they will definitely be rescued by Sun Ce’s army and at that time, Lu Bu’s army will suffer innumerable casualties.
Seeing this hopeless situation, he might as well bury the enemy alive with them. Will I get an infamous reputation for doing this and be called a butcher in all the historical archives? I no longer care about reputation, f.u.c.k them. All I need now is victory and to survive for the next day. thought Liu Mang.
But then again, maybe Liu Mang will become deified by the Tao religion due to his reputation after a millennium has pa.s.sed, much like Guan Yu
"TO KILL ONE PERSON IS A SIN, TO KILL 10,000 PEOPLE IS ALSO A SIN, TO KILL 1,000,000 PEOPLE IS ALSO A SIN!!!" All people on the scene are trying to understand the words. Liu Mang is right, killing a person is a crime. There are many heroes in Three Kingdoms history who started as a criminal. Such people were Xu Shu, Dian Wei, and Guan Yu. All of them were criminals because they once killed a person and was forced into hiding and in order to avoid government troops, Xu Shu even concealed his name into Shan Fu. When Xu Shu worked for Liu Bei, he thwarted Cao Ren’s a.s.sault and killed 3,000 troops of his. When Cao Cao heard this and heard of his criminal record, he was not angry but instead he schemed with Cheng Yu to bring Xu Shu to his side and even invited Xu Shu’s mother to Xu Chang. When Xu Shu arrived at Xu Chang, he did not say a word at all, but because of Cao Cao’s respect of him, his name was written among history books of Cao Wei Kingdom. Guan Yu also historically, he beheaded 6 generals and walked through 5 pa.s.ses in order to rejoin Liu Bei who was just expelled by Yuan Shao. At that time, Cao Cao still did not put a bit if hatred toward him, in fact, he even praised him for his loyalty.
After Guan Yu was executed by Sun Quan, he buried him with the honor of a warlord, even more extravagant than Yuan Shao’s and also honored him as Guan Gong or Duke Guan. Dian Wei also got the same treatment like Guan Yu. Although he died early, killed by Hu Che’er. Before he died, he killed so many people in order to create an escape path for Cao Cao. When Cao Cao heard of his demise, he wept bitterly and screamed that he is his E’Lai.
For Huang Zhong and Huang Xu, their interpretation of Liu Mang’s words was that Liu Mang had a lofty ambition and was not afraid to kill people in order to fulfill his ambition.
For Liu Kai and Liu Neng, Liu Mang’s words meant that this Liu Mang, Liu Hanyang is a person who is in complete control of his own destiny and knows where his path will lead. They really thought that when this Liu Mang is on top, with just a breath of his anger, he will be able to kill people from thousand miles distance.
But those words made Xu Sheng afraid to the extreme!!! This person who is standing in front of him, is spouting words like "Killing 10,000 people is a sin, Killing 1,000,000 people is also a sin" with a straight face as if he did not care about death at all. Perhaps in his eyes, these Black Flag troops are only a number in his eyes.
"In the end, what do you want to do with us?!" Xu Sheng finally admitted his defeat and said those words in softly as he hung his head, his heart is screaming that he do not want to die. He is still young and still wanted to live and show his aspirations. These 3,000 Black Flag also wanted the same thing, they should be dispatched to quell this times of war not to be killed in this place like rats.
"Heh, what else, huh? I want to kill all of you and that is the final decision!!! Wancheng city will fall by tomorrow, I have not much longer to live. Heh, perhaps this Liu Mang’s head will