Chapter 224 Moon Black Wind High Digging Dead Night
Chapter 224 The night of exhuming corpses with dark moon and high wind
The sky was covered with red clouds, which shimmered on the piles of dead animals in the Han River. The Sichuan army poured the leftover food, bones, and excrement into the Han River, and the river rushed forward.
Five miles upstream from ancient Xiangyang, there was an unpleasant stench.
The most important thing is that these organic garbage attract flies and various insects. Under the scorching sun, they accelerate the destruction of dead animal carcasses. Where the animal carcasses are piled up, a sticky white color appears, and countless maggots are swimming.
, it is almost impossible to get close to anyone within two miles of the river.
"General Fan, what you are talking about today may not be animal carcasses. What do you mean?"
In the dark night, the moonlight outside was pure white. Liu Zhang summoned Fan Lixiang alone. The hunting of animals did not achieve the expected results. Liu Zhang was afraid that he would fail in his success and was a little worried.
"Have your lord forgotten that we have ready-made corpses?" Although Fan Lixiang still doesn't understand Liu Zhang and Fazheng's intentions, she at least knows one thing, that is, the more corpses in Hanshui, the better.
Liu Zhang raised his head and looked at Fan Lixiang. Fan Lixiang pursed her lips and smiled and explained: "My Lord, after fighting with the Jingzhou Army for so long, are there still missing bodies?"
"Human corpse?" Liu Zhang took a breath. It's not that Liu Zhang hadn't thought about it, but that doing so was too inhumane in ancient times. The ancients paid attention to the burial of peace. Even on the battlefield, there would be corpses of soldiers from the defeated side.
If one party restrains themselves and buries them together, deliberately leaving the corpses in the wild is inconsistent with the morality of the times.
But now, there is no other way.
If a desperate move is not made, food and fodder will be cut off, and the Sichuan Army's months of hard work will be in vain. Tens of thousands of soldiers will be killed in vain. All the hard work in recent years will be in vain, and the Sichuan Army will also miss the best period of growth.
"Lord." Fan Lixiang said with a chill in her words: "In ancient times, Xiangyang attacked the city for more than ten days, and thousands of people were killed. The Jingzhou Army sneak attacked our camp twice, and all of them failed to return. The total number was nearly 10,000. If another
In addition to those who died on our side..."
"Absolutely not." Liu Zhang interrupted Fan Lixiang.
"Why?" Fan Lixiang was unconvinced: "They are already dead. Dead is dead. Does the Lord also believe in the theory of ghosts and gods? They lived and died fighting for the Lord. Why not do their best after death?"
"This is not a problem of ghosts and gods. I said it won't work, it won't work." Liu Zhang said with his hands behind his back and his tone was firm. He didn't want to explain too much. He knew that Fan Lixiang knew what he thought and just didn't agree with it.
Fan Lixiang doesn't care about anything except the purpose of doing things. As long as the purpose is clear, all kinds of vicious thoughts can come out of her mind.
Liu Zhang couldn't explain to someone like Fan Lixiang.
"Okay." Fan Lixiang breathed a sigh of relief: "We don't need the corpses of the Sichuan soldiers. In this case, there are not enough corpses of Jingzhou soldiers under Xiangyang City. If the Lord wants to lay their bodies in the river, the corpses of Jingzhou soldiers must be excavated from Baichuan. Fifty thousand corpses should be enough.
Alright?"
Liu Zhang was awe-inspiring.
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Late at night, the moon is dark and the wind is high, and a gloomy wind blows over the empty wilderness.
Fan Lixiang led her peasant army to the burial ground of the Jingzhou Army. There are tens of thousands of corpses of Jingzhou soldiers buried here, including those who died in the attack on the corridor, those who died in the sneak attack on Yan Yan's camp, and those who died in the sneak attack on Yang Ren's camp.
It's all concentrated here.
The bedding soil was still new, and the yellow soil was completely different from the surroundings. The soldiers were sweating profusely on it, and those Jingzhou soldiers who had just been buried were "seeing the light of day" again.
Fan Lixiang was sitting on the lawn, holding an unsheathed sword in her hand, gesticulating in front of her eyes, her expression calm, and casually said to Chen Ying and Xing Daorong next to her: "I want to ask you a question."
"Yes." The two of them responded.
"I don't know much about military affairs, general, but in my opinion, winning a war depends on two things, one is the way of heaven, and the other is the art of man.
The way of heaven is the way of heaven. Sun Tzu said that you can conquer the enemy without fighting. What slogans are there, such as righteousness, benevolence and righteousness? It’s all a mess.
The second is human skill, which is the method used to achieve victory. Which of the two do you think is more important?"
"Both are important," Chen replied.
"Nonsense, then you have to be able to choose both. Obviously one method can achieve victory faster, but this method harms the way of heaven, so how can you choose?"
"Then I choose the way of heaven." Chen replied.
"Why?"
"The way of heaven is the general trend. If an army loses the way of heaven, it will inevitably encounter desperate resistance from the enemy, and even internal rupture."
"But in every war, we have to be cautious about the law of heaven and be timid, which increases the risk of every war. It is also very dangerous. Who can guarantee good luck in a lifetime?"
Chen Ying was speechless in reply.
"What about you?" Fan Lixiang turned to Xing Daorong.
"I, I..." Xing Daorong's face was distorted. Such a problem was really beyond his big head. He raised his Lihua mountain ax for a long time and said: "I still believe in my ax more."
"Hahaha." Fan Lixiang chuckled. On a moonlit night filled with black mist, in a cemetery where tens of thousands of people were buried, a large number of people were silently exhuming corpses in front of them. Fan Lixiang saw a faint smile on her face.
It sounds extremely heart-wrenching.
"I really hope to lead one side, let me test the way of heaven and the art of man, which one is better."
Fan Lixiang said coldly, her face full of longing. She knew Liu Zhang's intention. She was afraid of hurting Heaven without the corpses of the Sichuan army. Even if Fan Lixiang had a way to hide the truth from the soldiers, she would rather go to Baichuan to collect the corpses.
Fan Lixiang was dissatisfied with Liu Zhang's approach. In Fan Lixiang's view, human skills had immediate results, but the way of heaven... was too vague.
"Report, report to the general, the corpses have been taken out." A tongue-tied captain came to report. His face was pale, his lips were purple, he was obviously too frightened, and his scalp was twitching.
"Now that it's out of the way, let's load the car...and wait."
Fan Lixiang stood up from the ground, patted the grass blades on her pink buttocks, and walked towards the captain. The nervous captain took a step back in fright.
"Are you scared?" Fan Lixiang asked, two feet away from the captain.
"No, I'm not afraid." Looking at Fan Lixiang's pure white face, the captain was really not afraid of those dead bodies at this time.
Soldiers tied with turbans loaded the corpses onto carts one by one. These corpses were buried for several days to dozens of days. The rain festival had just passed and the ground was very humid. The corpses had long since rotted, their heads were blurred and swollen, and their whole bodies were covered in wounds.
The corpse swelled and turned into thick pillars of bubbles, blood circulation stopped, and due to gravity, it accumulated, forming patches of white corpse spots.
Insects with unnamed evil deeds crawled everywhere on it, burrowing in and out from the nostrils, mouths, and pierced eye sockets. The wounds on the dead bodies were a paradise for maggots. Once opened, packages after packages looked like chopped cooked noodles.
Generally, it would look dirty if it squirmed and was trampled to death. It slid off the corpse and crawled on the ground, frightening the soldiers so much that they couldn't help but retreat.
There was vomit on some of the corpses, which was left by the soldiers when they were digging. In addition, the rotten bodies that had been dug up by hoes made even the butcher Xing Daorong feel sick and retched on the spot.
Fan Lixiang looked at these corpses calmly, glanced at each cart, and sighed after a while: "Too few."
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Two days later, the corpses transported from Baichuan arrived. These corpses were even more unsightly than the corpses exhumed by Fan Lixiang. These corpses were buried dozens of days ago, and experienced heavy rain for more than ten days in the middle. They are already gone now.
The human form was almost as rotten as the two pigs found in the well. When struck with a shovel, they all turned into porridge.
The cart was wrapped in layers, and the stench of the team escorting the corpse could be smelled for miles around. Each of the escorting soldiers was given two taels of money, and only their eyes were exposed after being wrapped up. But even so, many soldiers couldn't bear it and fainted on the road.
Sixty thousand corpses were dumped into the Han River and spread out for five miles. The river was truly cut off. Along the dam built by the Sichuan Army, looking down from above, they were filled with smelly rotting corpses, mixed with humans and animals.
Some facial features are clear, some are blurred, some only have pieces of meat left, and the diluted internal organs are scattered everywhere.
Liu Zhang and the Sichuan army generals stood on the high mountain near the embankment, watching all this quietly.
Liu Zhang signaled to Zhang Ren, and Zhang Ren waved his hand violently, ordering the flag soldiers to hold the flag high. Hundreds of soldiers on both sides of the Han River pulled dozens of fiber ropes, shouting and exerting force, and the fiber ropes tightened little by little.
With a "boom", the earth trembled, the dam burst, and the water that had accumulated for more than ten days set off a huge stream of water and swooped down.
The flood rolled forward, rolling up the corpses in the Han River and swooping towards ancient Xiangyang. The waves were strong and the wind changed the color of the sky and the earth. Tens of thousands of stinking corpses were carried by the flood towards the ancient city of Xiangyang.
Liu Zhang and Fazheng looked at the flood in front of them. Liu Zhang breathed a sigh of relief. He had done everything he should and should not do. All that was left was to wait.
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"Report, the Sichuan army has dug up the river embankment, and the flood is rushing towards the city." Xu Shu was discussing the military situation with the generals, and the soldiers came to report urgently.
Xu Shu threw down a small flag in his hand and hurried out of the house with the Jingzhou army generals. Zhang De in the corner was eating barbecue, curling his greasy mouth and saying disdainfully: "It's so easy to do that. What's the point?"
Urgent and inexplicable."
"Liu Zhang dug the embankment without waiting for the heavy rain to store water. The flood will definitely flow into the river in the city. Sir, please order it to be blocked."
In ancient Xiangyang, the inner river flowed through the government office. Li Yan looked at the river where the water level had risen significantly and said to Xu Shu eagerly.
"No." Xu Shu shook his head and said: "This inland river is used to dredge floods and connect the flood storage tanks and water storage lanes in the city. If it is blocked, the moat will not be able to stop the floods at all. We will be like Xiapi two years ago.
The same fate as Lu Bu."
Xu Shu had been worried that something would happen before the heavy rain came. At this time, the Sichuan army suddenly released the flood. Xu Shu frowned. He was not worried about the flood. Even if the heavy rain came, it would not be of much use to Gu Xiangyang, but Xu Shu always felt that there was something in it.
Conspiracy, especially since the Sichuan army released the flood so early.
dead body.
Xu Shu suddenly thought of this. It was impossible for Liu Zhang to hunt animals for no reason in the past few days and lay their corpses in the river. He also dumped so many corpses of Jingzhou soldiers and mixed them with the corpses of animals. This aroused the indignation of the generals in Jingzhou and asked them to go out of the city to fight.
At that time, Xu Shu thought it was an act of provocation by the Sichuan army and strictly ordered the generals not to leave the city. For this reason, he even beheaded two generals.
But now it seems that this is obviously not the case. These dead bodies must have entered the ancient Xiangyang City with the flood. (To be continued.