Shen Changchuan used the pretext of buying something to strike up a conversation with a street peddler named Zhang San.
From him, Shen Changchuan learned the truth behind the massacre of Yang Family Stockade all those years ago.
Four years ago, the Weishui Battle erupted.
King Cao Wu of Wei was ambushed and severely wounded by the allied forces of Chu, Song, and Wu. His army suffered devastating losses, and even his eldest son, Cao Biao, was surrounded and killed after giving his prized horse to Cao Wu.
To vent his fury, raise the morale of the shattered remnants of his defeated army, and cut off Chu's potential for war, Cao Wu brazenly ordered the slaughter of all eight commanderies along the Weishui.
The great army ran rampant. Nearly everyone throughout the Weishui River basin was massacred, until the Weishui itself ran dry.
Yang Family Stockade
was merely an insignificant little village within the eight commanderies of Weishui.
Against the backdrop of more than a million people being slaughtered, their blood flowing into rivers, it was only an inconspicuous little splash—one that no one paid any heed to.
At the time, the moment the King of Wei made that move, the whole realm was shaken with terror!
Throughout history, there had been armies that buried captives alive, and armies that massacred cities that resisted to the bitter end.
But regardless of city or countryside, regardless of men or women, old or young, to point the butcher's blade at over a million commoners and empty out eight entire commanderies—Cao Wu was the only one!
Once word of it spread, King Cao Wu of Wei's name as a butcher rang across the land.
Even now, when the peddler Zhang San spoke of that ruler who occupied the five northern provinces, terror still