Zhang Shiwu grinned.
Although he couldn't help laughing, he felt that it was not a joke.
No matter who has been imprisoned in that kind of dark water prison for many years, smelling the rotten smell on his body and lingering on his last breath, I am afraid that if he really smells some different fishy smells, he will feel fresh.
He knew very well that the reason why Lin Zhujiu could endure those days was because of his strong hatred.
People can tolerate a certain degree of betrayal, but how can they accept the betrayal of those who live with them day and night
So many people who could laugh together, live and die together, died in such a betrayal.
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Tianping County is the county closest to the Nanquan towns in the Great Chu Dynasty, and at this time it also gathers the attention of everyone in the world.
Because most of the remnants of the Great Chu Dynasty are strangling and killing the pursuers of the Qin Army in this plain area.
Unlike practitioners, the retreat of the army involves more details.
Some refugees and wounded soldiers were scattered and resettled along the way, and the armies were restrained and defended against each other. Some people defended and some retreated. Something went wrong in one link, which may lead to an astonishing number of casualties.
It may only take a day and night for a practitioner to cross a state, but it takes several times or even dozens of times to evacuate a large number of troops.
It is said that most of the remnants of the army, in fact, after evacuating from Yangshan County, hundreds of thousands of Chu troops have been dispersed into hundreds of units on the way to retreat, some of them have to undertake different missions along the way, and some have been killed by the Qin army. The pursuers broke up.
Some Chu troops have lost contact with the rest of the Chu troops, and even because they are too far apart, they cannot even see the firework signal of the main army withdrawing to the towns of Nanquan, relying on the instinct of the soldiers to fight on this land.
The vast majority of the Chu army had lost their supplies more than ten days ago, and even the vitality of the military horses and dragging animals was not as strong as these sergeants. The drag beasts all died and were used as food by the army.
Even the weeds are almost extinct in the places where many troops pass by.
Not because of trampling, but because grass roots and bark are used as something to eat.
Because of the heat and humidity, the skin of most of the sergeants who had resisted a round of disease attacks not long ago had begun to fester, many of them had their toes glued together, and their stomachs became high due to eating indigestible food for a long time High bulge, because of the lack of medicine, many people even died of intestinal obstruction that could not defecate.
However, this tragic situation is not unique to the Chu army.
Constantly going deep into the Chu territory means that the familiar battlefield is getting farther and farther away, and in addition to fighting the Chu army, more and more resistance forces are joining along the way, some from the village's spontaneous force organization, some from the Some of the troops who came to support from afar came from the private army of some powerful people, and even some horse thieves and bandits who were originally enemies of the court also joined the battle.
However, the most important thing is not these. As the pursuit party, the Qin army means that most of the time there is no fortress, no way to wait for work, and no terrain advantage. And because the orders from above became more and more stringent, forcing the army to pursue faster and faster, the Qin army had lost its advantage in terms of supplies. Many of the land they passed through was barren land after the Chu army passed by, and even some water sources were poisoned.
In order to help the Chu army resist their pursuit, the people in some villages along the way even burned down the villages themselves, leaving only limited rations in the village, and providing the rest of the food to the Chu army, while these villagers all hid in the mountains and forests they were familiar with. .
At this time, in a village that was completely burnt to ashes, the ground was covered with pieces of cloth leather cut from camp tents. This kind of cloth leather densely filled all the open spaces in the village, thousands of them.
On each piece of cloth lies a wounded soldier of the Qin army.
Only a dozen or so doctors wandered among the wounded, but these doctors didn't have any medicine left on their bodies. The only things they could have were some clean hemostatic cotton cloths and clean water.
Uncontrollable moans of pain formed a sea of sadness and despair.
This army is the Cangnan Army, the army under Wei Wujiu's command.
At this time, the top generals in the army were Zhang Tu and Tian Rong.
Zhang Tu is a well-known burly man among Wei Wujiu's subordinates, he is extremely tall and tall, like a giant when standing upright, but at this moment he is sitting silently under the thickest camphor tree in this village, his figure is thin, although he wears Wearing nails gives people a feeling of being as thin as paper, and even the cheekbones on both sides are raised because they are too thin.
This camphor tree was extremely thick, and most of its branches and leaves were burnt in the flames. However, because it was close to the stream, it survived tenaciously. Under the noon sun at the end of summer, those dark branches still provided a shade for the general.
Zhang Tu held a stone bowl in his hand, which contained sticky millet soup, which was already the best food this army could have.
He brought the mouth of the bowl to his mouth twice, but put it down again.
It wasn't that the food was hard to swallow, but that the wailing and painful voices made him feel uneasy.
"Do you still want to execute the military order?"
Seeing him put down the stone bowl for the second time, Tian Rong finally couldn't help but speak.
He was born in Changling, he has a handsome face, and he can be regarded as a handsome man in the army. However, in the battle a few days ago, some of his scalp was cut off by flying swords. The dried blood covered half of his face, making him look like a fierce and hopeless gang leader instead of a handsome general of the Qin army.
"Our daily casualties are more than double that of the Chu army. If we go any further, I'm afraid it will only take a few days, and few of us can stand still."
Tian Rong took a deep breath, his face was distorted, but he lowered his voice extremely low, "We have already left two batches of such wounded, and there is nothing left to lose. I am not afraid of death, but you You should understand why we chased so urgently... just to annihilate the Chu army as much as possible, and prevent these Chu troops from entering Jiaodong County!"
"Sacrificing the lives of so many brothers in order to preserve Jiaodong County may be worthwhile in her opinion, but I don't accept it."
"We have tried our best, and for these Chu troops, they have hope. They will soon be able to wait for the response from the towns of Nanquan, but our subordinates have no hope."
"I can accept an order to die, but not an order to drive someone to despair because of their whispers."
Finally, Tian Rong raised his head, looked at Zhang Tu, and said seriously: "If someone must bear the responsibility for disobeying the military order, then I will bear it."
Zhang Tu suddenly laughed.
Laughing so much that his body trembled, and the millet soup in his hand splashed to the ground.
Tian Rong had never seen such a reaction from him before, so she couldn't help but froze.
"How many years have we lived and died together in the frontier army?"
Zhang Tu lowered his head slightly, his face was full of shadows, but there was a cold arrogance, "Since I have tried my best, don't I dare to resist? I don't believe that the rest of the people dare not resist!"