Chapter Seventy-Two: The Massacre of the Prisoners
Nan Fengguo responded to Li Xiao's voice, ordered a group of soldiers to walk down the city, Li Xiao took out a myopia tube, watched on the city wall, although he said to Nan Fengguo that he wanted to fight against the fire, but he really didn't know the bottom of his heart.
Li Xiao pondered in his heart, thinking that "there are only 8,000 soldiers and horses in Tianyang City, but the spirit army has at least 50,000 horses, which is just the opposite of when they besieged Tianyang at the beginning, and now the guest has become the master, how can this be good, even if these 8,000 men and horses are brave and good at fighting, they can't break through these three spirit army, if Mr. Ye is here, he must have a way." ”
Li Xiao searched for the weakness of the spirit army with a myopia tube, and thought: "At that time, the spirit army left Tianyang silently, and the underground passage that the spirit army walked through, and the spirit army entered the city to attack the granary, which means that the blocked passage has been dug up again, if I lead people to break through the passage." ”
Thinking of this, he took a myopia tube and looked out at the entrance of the passage outside the city, only to see that the entrance of the passage was also in the encirclement of the spirit army, Li Xiao patted his head, and said in his heart: "Confused, confused, if I take people into the passage, it will really be self-defeating, the inside is not as fierce as the divine beast, the spirit army also knows where this passage is, and it will inevitably be heavily guarded, how to break through." ”
Li Xiao turned his head to look at Rui Xin beside him, and said to Rui Xin: "Xin'er, do you have any good way to break out?"
Rui Xin shook her head and said, "Childe, haven't you already figured out a way? ”
Li Xiao looked at Rui Xin and smiled bitterly, nodded and said: "This is no way, this will inevitably be a vicious battle, the casualties are too great, and we still have to find a foolproof solution." ”
Ruixin nodded and said, "It's all up to Childe's arrangement." ”
Li Xiao sat on the battlements of the city wall, dragging his cheeks with both hands, the little thumbs of his two hands kept flicking his cheekbones, sighing from time to time, thinking of countless breakthrough scenes in his heart, but he was rejected by himself.
Li Xiao understood that during this period, as long as he opened the city gate, he would be surrounded by the spirit army in an instant, and these thousands of men and horses would be led to death by themselves.
Li Xiao turned around to look, only to see Nan Fengguo with some soldiers, pushing a few carts, walking on the road of the city wall, there were large barrels without lids on the carts, through the light of the fire, you could see the heat wave floating out of the barrels, and the aroma came out with the heat wave.
The defenders of the city had not eaten the grain of rice for three days, and when they smelled the smell of meat in the barrels, they were already salivating, and everyone wanted to feast on it for a while, and the soldiers laid down their arms and surrounded the country to the south.
Li Xiao asked Nan Fengguo: "Have they all been divided?"
Nan Fengguo's face was sad, nodded, and said, "It's all divided, just right, every team of soldiers has been divided." ”
Li Xiao nodded and smiled, "Did the soldiers notice anything unusual?"
Nan Fengguo shook his head and said: "It's just that there are some captains who ask where this meat comes from, I scolded a few captains, and no one asks again, the soldiers are all embarrassed now, where can I manage this, I have already appeased the soldiers who cooked meat, don't worry, second uncle." ”
Li Xiao nodded and said, "Those captains who asked questions, click on their names a few times, and have the opportunity to reuse these people in the future."
Nan Fengguo was puzzled, and Li Xiao said again: "These people have their own ideas, they know that the army is out of food, so they have to ask clearly, what's wrong, these people are not much better than those who only know how to eat, sleep, and fight, these people should be reused." ”
Nan Fengguo nodded and said, "Second Uncle Gaoming, shall we break through tonight?"
Li Xiao pondered for a moment and said, "Don't worry, let the soldiers eat first, and then we will decide, don't you want to eat some?"
Nan Fengguo smiled bitterly and said: "Meat is also eaten, but we are a big state of etiquette, and the education we received as a child does not allow us to do this, and we still can't let go of it in my heart, I'm not too hungry" said and swallowed his saliva.
Li Xiao smiled and said, "Bring me a bowl of meat, and after you have eaten and drunk enough, you will find a way to break through." ”
Nan Fengguo nodded, turned around to give Li Xiao meat, only to hear a soldier say, "What is this?"
Li Xiao, Rui Xin, and Nan Fengguo looked at the soldier together, only to see that the soldier was holding half a boiled palm, watching in front of him, and the rest of the soldiers also came over.
One soldier exclaimed in surprise and began to retch, spitting out all the meat he had eaten, and the other soldiers were puzzled and asked the soldier who vomited, and the soldier said while spitting: "Yes, it's people, people's hands"
When all the soldiers heard this, they all looked at each other, and some of them began to retch, and one soldier said, "Is it our brother who died in battle that the general gave us food?"
Nan Fengguo was stunned for a moment, looked at Li Xiao, all the soldiers also looked at Li Xiao, Li Xiao did not answer, but walked to the wooden barrel, picked up a big bowl, scooped a bowl in the bucket, and ate it by himself.
Li Xiao quickly finished eating a large bowl of meat and said, "It tastes very good, like mutton or dog meat, why do you have to spit out such good meat?"
The soldier who vomited the most replied with a crying voice: "General Hui, is this the meat of our brother who died in battle?
Li Xiao shook his head and said: "This is not our kind, the meat of our kind is not this taste, I have eaten it, the meat on our own body is a little bitter and difficult to swallow, but these meats are very fragrant and tender, right." ”
The soldiers were very puzzled when they heard Li Xiao say that they had eaten the same kind of meat, Li Xiao saw the thoughts of the soldiers, and said: "A year ago, I sent troops in Chenyou, preparing to attack Chen Shui, but I was ambushed, the whole army was annihilated, I fell in the headless valley, there was an old man guarding the valley at the mouth of the valley, and he gave me some meat, I was like you, I was hungry, and I didn't eat what kind of meat it was, and the old man who ate it told me that it was his wife's meat. ”
All the soldiers held the bowls in their hands and listened carefully to what Li Xiao said, Li Xiao saw that these soldiers calmed down, and then talked about the matter in the Headless Valley, and then went to fill a bowl of meat.
Li Xiao said while eating: "Brothers, the spirit army is coming to invade us, are we afraid of them?"
When the soldiers heard Li Xiao ask this, some lowered their heads, some blushed, and some looked into the distance, Li Xiao knew that it was impossible for the current morale to break through.
Li Xiao said: "We are not afraid of whether they are wrong, the evil deeds committed by the Three Spirit Clan in our land, I will repay them twice, what are we, we are human beings who pay attention to etiquette, righteousness and shame, we are Shangbang, you are the warriors who protect us, what is the Three Spirit Clan, they are beasts, they are barbarians, if we are afraid of them, they will run rampant in my land, rape and murder and plunder, we have to beat them back, right." ”
Li Xiao said in a frustrated voice, but these soldiers did not respond, Li Xiao smiled bitterly, and then said: "When the Three Spirit Clan was rampant in our homeland, we hated them to the core, and we wanted to eat their flesh and drink their blood, right?"
As soon as these words came out, these soldiers still didn't react much, and Li Xiao asked again, "We can't wait to eat their flesh and drink their blood, right?"
This time some of the soldiers began to pander, saying in unison: "Yes, we want to eat its flesh and drink its blood"
Li Xiao nodded and shouted: "Okay, I'll tell you the truth, what you eat now is the meat of the Three Spirit Clan, and what you drink is the blood of the Three Spirit Clan, we are not afraid of whether they are right or wrong."
After hearing what Li Xiao said, the soldiers looked at each other even more, and some didn't believe it, Li Xiao said to Nan Fengguo: "Gather all the sergeants and bring the heads of the two thousand spirit soldiers"
Nan Fengguo nodded, thinking: "This little second uncle is really a little courageous. So he went and passed the word.
Li Xiao then said to the soldiers: "I ordered the two thousand spirit soldiers to be cut down, I wanted the soldiers to eat their flesh raw, but these three spirit tribes are extremely dirty, they can only disembowel and dig out their hearts, peel the skin and wash it, and give us good meat to eat, now we eat their meat, they will be afraid of us, we just treat them as livestock, what their head grows into, we treat them as what kind of livestock, we will be a butcher, we will kill cattle, dogs, and sheep during the New Year, what meat we like to eat, we will go and cut down the three spirit tribes with what head they have." ”
The soldiers heard Li Xiao say this, and let go of the same kind of thing in their hearts, although the Sanling clan is not the same race, but after all, they are also people, but they are different people, they speak the same language, write the words of agreement, before this war was fought, there are still a lot of intersections between various races, so every soldier can't help but have some pimples in their hearts, after listening to Li Xiao, their hearts will be a little better.
Li Xiao saw that his words were working, and then continued: "The Three Spirit Clan has never regarded us as friends, their animal nature has always been there, they themselves will eat each other, let alone us, if we are captured by them, their methods will be much more cruel than ours, brothers, put down your hearts, when you are full of food and drink, I will take you out of the siege, show your courage, and kill all the livestock besieging us, eat their flesh and drink their blood"
The soldiers were in a much better mood after Li Xiao's excuse, and at this time, the soldiers in Tianyang City had gathered together, and several carts were shuttling around the soldiers, and the carts were filled with two thousand bloody spirit army heads, and the smell of blood was very pungent.
These soldiers were sure that they were eating these captives of the Three Spirit Clan, and each of them did not feel disgusted, but extremely proud.
Li Xiao nodded at Nan Fengguo, and said again: "Soldiers, we have all eaten the flesh of these beasts and drank the blood of these beasts, we rushed out, cut down the beasts besieging us, brought their heads and flesh back to Chen You, distributed them to our soldiers, and told them." We came back from eating the meat of the Three Spirit Clan all the way, eating their flesh and drinking their blood. ”
This time, Li Xiao replaced the brothers with soldiers, and at this time, the morale of the people and soldiers had been awakened by Li Xiao by mistake, he looked at the head of the spirit army on the cart, and smiled coldly.
Thousands of men and horses gathered together and shouted: "Eat their flesh, drink their blood, eat their flesh, drink their blood"