Everyone quickly pulled him out and couldn't help laughing when they saw his panicked look. They felt that he was frightened and found that his shoes had fallen into the snow jar.
Losing shoes is not a trivial matter. In this kind of weather, your feet may freeze off and become disabled. Everyone had to send an agile and short soldier to retrieve the shoes. However, after the soldier entered the snow urn, he suddenly
With a loud shout, everyone quickly pulled the rope and pulled the soldier back. After the soldier returned, he tremblingly said: "It's not a ghost, it's not a ghost. They are all corpses. They are all corpses of the Han army."
Zhang Xiaowu and others rushed over immediately and asked what happened. The soldier said with lingering fear: "I saw the corpses of Han soldiers, many, many, under the snow urn."
Su Yu asked: "How much is a lot?"
The soldier said: "I don't know, there are a lot of them anyway."
Zhang Xiaowu frowned and ordered: "dig it open and take a look."
Everyone quickly sent people to shovel the snow, only to reveal a sharp corner, but it was already shocking. They excavated other snow urns, and they still found the corpses of Han soldiers. The entire snow urn was about three acres in size. No matter where they were excavated, they were all Han soldiers.
Army corpses. But what is difficult for everyone to accept is that these corpses had their hands tied behind their backs, or died from having their throats cut, or from being penetrated, or from excessive blood loss.
Kill prisoners!
This is killing prisoners!
There were many prisoners-killers in the army, but it was the first time for them to see so many Han prisoners being slaughtered. Thinking that the Dog barbarian prisoners were imprisoned in Dabo, but the Han prisoners were slaughtered here, everyone was furious and looked up to the sky.
Long roar.
Ruan Qingwen was obviously even more excited. He was walking in the pit filled with corpses, stepping on the corpse of an unknown person, and suddenly saw a familiar corpse. He couldn't help but looked at the person carefully, and suddenly burst into tears:
"Brother Zidong, Brother Zidong, how could it be you? How could it be you? A year ago, you and I had a good time over wine, discussed national affairs, and made an appointment to go to Yangshan for a snow walk after the war. Brother Zidong...
…”
There are probably more than 10,000 corpses in the three acres of land, all of which are their comrades in arms. The corpses are spread three or four floors, and there are still corpses under the corpses. Zhang Xiaowu has never seen a mass grave before, but now this is the first time he sees it.
It is shocking and saddening.
Even Li Chuncheng, the former killer, couldn't help but raise his head and sigh, and said angrily: "I have been dead for at least three months. It should have been the beginning of winter and the first snowfall."
These surrendered soldiers must have been hungry for a long time. Almost all of them were emaciated and malnourished. Zhang Xiaowu guessed that the Canuyi people deliberately imprisoned and starved them for a while in order to facilitate the slaughter of them. After they were so hungry that they had no strength to resist, they were released.
Got here and successfully slaughtered them all.
Li Yuan jumped down into the mass grave, studied the corpses, and turned around and said: "Judging from the wounds, the weapons should be Wuhuan's broad swords and pointed spears. It was Wuhuan people who massacred the Han prisoners of war."
"We must avenge this." Ruan Qingwen gritted his teeth and looked ferocious.
Zhang Xiaowu said: "But not now, not in these years, but in the future."
Ruan Qingwen cried again: "How could they be like this, how could they be like this..."
Zhang Xiaowu sighed softly, turned and left.
Why did the Inuyi kill the prisoners? The answer is obvious. The Inuyi army was already short of food, so how could they feed the tens of thousands of prisoners. The Inuyi coalition also had to go on an expedition, which coincided with the decisive battle in the barren wilderness of northern Saibei. They fought hard for two years and relied entirely on supplies from the rear.
, not to mention the various khanates of the Inuyi tribes, even the wealthy Shenghan Empire had its treasury empty.
When Zhang Xiaowu and Ruan Qingwen returned to the camp, they saw Su Yu looking at the bonfire with a sad face, and gave a wry smile. The three of them didn't say anything, and they didn't know what to say. Everyone knew in their hearts that these 10,000 surrendered soldiers were all from their past.
The comrades in arms of Paoze were all soldiers of the Qinglong Army. They were killed because they accepted the surrender. It is really the bad nature of the Quanyi people.
Zhang Xiaowu and others are also more convinced that this negotiation will not go smoothly.
After being stationed for a night, everyone continued on their way the next day, but something unexpected happened. The Beiyi interpreter they brought earlier actually ran away. This Beiyi interpreter was not a soldier, but a commoner in the city. He had promised well.
Yes, but as he got closer and closer to the Inuyi military camp, the man became afraid. After seeing the mass grave, he even ran away when no one was around.
Zhang Xiaowu sent someone to capture the interpreter and said, "Why are you running away? I haven't run away yet? Are you running away?"
The interpreter cried: "The city lord doesn't know something. I'm originally from Beiyi. I lost money in gambling in my hometown, so I planned to rob some. How could I have thought of accidentally killing someone by mistake, so I fled to Liangzhou?"
Life in Wolf City. You don’t know, but the Beiyi Kingdom actually hates traitors very much. I’m afraid that my parents and brothers in my hometown will be harmed, so I’m afraid.”
"Why did you want to be our interpreter before?"
"Because Mr. Li said to give me money, I...I am short of money."
Li Yuan said: "This man is a bad gambler and is always short of money."
Zhang Xiaowu said: "This man can't be an interpreter. You go down, I don't need you to die." After the man went down, Zhang Xiaowu made a gesture of wiping his neck to Bai Hao. Bai Hao immediately turned around and went out. After a while, he carried the
The heads are back.
Li Yuan was very regretful because of his incompetence and made mistakes. Just as he was about to apologize, Zhang Xiaowu waved his hand and said: "You have to choose soldiers. There is no way to choose soldiers. People will make mistakes. Fortunately, we found out in advance and can make up for it as soon as possible. If this person
It would be a catastrophic mistake for us to temporarily switch sides after being brought to the Beiyi camp."
Li Yuan blushed, and Ruan Qingwen laughed and said: "We are almost reaching Yashan, and we will encounter enemy scouts soon. We need to be more careful."
Zhang Xiaowu didn't mean to blame Li Yuan, but this small mistake made them very anxious. According to the plan, they would first contact and lobby the Beiyi people, and use the Beiyi people's dissatisfaction with the Mohe people to provoke a fight between them. However, there was no
Translation is indeed a big problem.
"Do we need to change our plans?" Su Yu asked worriedly.
Zhang Xiaowu said: "No, follow the original plan."
Su Yudao: "There is no interpreter, so..."
Zhang Xiaowu sneered: "It doesn't matter if we don't have an interpreter, they just need to know our sincerity. We don't have one here, don't they? I guess they must have an interpreter, I bet they have one."
After walking for two days, they saw the seven peaks of Yashan from a distance. The scouts found out that the Wuhuan army was living in the Yashan camp, where the Qinglong army once lived, and other armies built camps around Jincheng.
Because the northern part of the Great Wall was still cold, the tent camps were simple, and the tribes of the Dog-Barbarian Alliance were far away from each other, which further facilitated Zhang Xiaowu's ability to combine horizontal and vertical forces.