Chapter 166: The Cruelty of War
After Mingyun and Xiaoyun left the imperial study, Mingwu rested alone in a chair. He was so tired for so many days, not only physically, but also mentally. Whenever he thought of the deceased Empress and Mingxuan, his tears couldn't stop wanting to flow out of his eyes.
They are not only his wife and son, but also a memorial to his fond memories of the past. Now they're all gone, and he's left to face it all alone.
Ning'er and Yun'er are the biggest pillars in his later life. Since those people don't take them seriously, then he doesn't have to care about their feelings anymore. He is also a person, a person with feelings, and he also has people who he needs to protect.
"Someone!" After a long time, Mingwu raised his head and shouted out the door.
"Your Majesty!" Hongfu walked quickly to Mingwu and saluted Mingwu.
"How is Concubine Lian now?" Seeing Hongfu, Ming Wu asked directly.
"Back to the emperor, Concubine Lian has committed suicide in the prison, and all the clansmen of Concubine Lian Niangniang have also been arrested. Just waiting for the emperor to deal with it personally. Hongfu said respectfully.
"If there's anything else to deal with, just cut it off." Sitting upright, Ming Wu said firmly.
"Slaves obey!" After Mingwu finished speaking, Hongfu stood up and asked respectfully, "Does the emperor have any other orders?"
"What is Concubine Shu doing now?" Glancing at Hongfu, Mingwu suddenly asked. Concubine Lian is now in the past, Leling is now in grief, this harem, the most active should be Concubine Shu.
"Concubine Shu has been very quiet lately, staying in her room all day and rarely going out." Hongfu said directly. Concubine Shu returned to the palace this time, and the whole person was a lot quieter, I don't know if Lu Dao was stimulated by something, as if she had lost interest in everything, and rarely came out to meet people.
"Zhilu Dao, step down!" Mingwu waved Hongfu away. Concubine Shu's abnormality puzzled Mingwu, but he didn't care, as long as she didn't go out to embarrass Mingyun's mother and son, he wouldn't embarrass her. It's just that she, as a mother, didn't educate her son well, and she also had it.
Mu Yunqiao stood in the city tower and looked outside, looking at the countless corpses below, and the countless wounded who were not dead but could not move, and kept wailing there. Her heart was saddened. However, she also knew that these people could not be cured in this society. She could only turn her head and stop looking at them, but their cries of pain kept reaching her ears. For the first time, she really understood what it was: a will be a success, the real scene of this poem.
"Big Brother Qiao is scared?" Princess Xinlan walked up to Mu Yunqiao and asked with a smile. She had fought in the war more than once, and she had seen countless times more corpses and wounded than that. It's just a small scene.
"You're still laughing? It's all your soldiers down there. Mu Yunqiao glared at Princess Xinlan, even if she knew that she was ruthless, she didn't expect that she didn't have the slightest sympathy.
"Why can't I laugh at it? This is only a few thousand people, if the next time Brother Qiao sees the corpses of tens of thousands of people piled together, you will no longer feel sorry for this person. Princess Xinlan said indifferently. It's not that she's really that ruthless, it's just that she's seen too many colder realities than this, and she's already become indifferent to all this. If she didn't, she wouldn't be able to sleep peacefully.
"Since you know that they have no way to treat them, why can't you make up for them and make them suffer a little less?" After speaking, Mu Yunqiao looked back at Ming Tao and her eldest brother with the same expression, ignored them, and turned around and left directly. She can't stay here for a moment, it's too cruel.
"Little Joe, where are you going?" Ming Tao grabbed Mu Yunqiao, who was about to leave, and asked uneasily. This soldier who had just ceased the war and was full of excitement everywhere was too dangerous for her to leave alone. Besides, there are still a lot of Monta's people here who haven't appeared, maybe they are hiding in the shadows waiting to hurt them, how could he let her walk around alone in such a situation.
"I'm going to see the wounded soldiers. As long as there is a glimmer of hope, I will try to get them back. Mu Yunqiao shook off Ming Tao's hand and walked directly to the nearby ambulance area. She can't be so ruthless as Ming Tao, so she can only stay away from here.
"It's going to be okay here, you go and watch Little Joe! She has been kind since she was a child, and she can't see people suffering, and she must be sad that there are so many wounded people here. Mu Yunfeng walked into Ming Tao's side, looked at Mu Yunqiao's figure walking away, and said with concern.
Ming Tao glanced at Monta and Princess Xinlan, and chased directly after Mu Yunqiao.
Looking at the figures of Mu Yunqiao and Ming Tao in the distance, Mu Yunfeng stretched out his hand to summon a soldier and said to him: "What Lord Overseer said is right, since you can't save them, let them suffer a little less." You take a couple of people and kill all the wounded. ”
Princess Xinlan and Monta looked at the pair of soldiers who had left and did not speak. Although they thought that Mu Yunfeng was doing this just a superfluous move, they would not object to it if he was willing to do so.
"His Royal Highness King Xian seems to have an unusual relationship with that overseer?" Princess Xinlan looked at Ming Tao's figure and suddenly asked puzzled.
"They are an unmarried couple, and of course the relationship is not ordinary." Mu Yunfeng said with a smile after seeing the figures of the two walking together.
"Two men as husband and wife?" Princess Xinlan looked at Mu Yunfeng even more in surprise.
"Tell you secretly, I can't say it's what I said." Looking at Ming Tao and Mu Yunqiao, who had already walked away, and after making sure that they would not hear them, Mu Yunfeng whispered to Princess Xinlan and Monta: "That Qiao Ying is my sister, but she won't let me say it, and few people here know her true identity."
"Your sister? Mu Yunqiao? Princess Xinlan looked at Mu Yunfeng even more in surprise. The Mu family has a maverick eldest lady, but it is not only the people of their Great Holy Dynasty who know Lu Dao, but their Great Plains Kingdom also knows Mu Yunqiao, but they never thought that they would actually see her in person under such circumstances.
However, this Mu Yunqiao is much more beautiful than those people's legends, and at the same time, she is much smarter, and she doesn't feel wronged at all if she can be defeated in the hands of such a person. The only thing that made her unwilling was that she almost fell in love with Mu Yunqiao, a fake man. Fortunately, she didn't rush to confess, otherwise she was afraid that she would be laughed to death by the world.
But Mu Yunqiao? She wouldn't just give up, sooner or later, she would have to fight her again.
"Don't you have to go back and look at those two guys? Why have you been with me? Mu Yunqiao glared, followed by Ming Tao, and said unhappily.
"There are so many soldiers there, Yun Feng will be fine." Ming Tao said indifferently. Just now, they had already used their own methods to send the results of the peace talks back to their respective Kyoto, and there was no matter for them here, otherwise he would not dare to accompany Mu Yunqiao here.
"It hurts! Hurt! As soon as he walked to the camp where the wounded gathered, Mu Yunqiao heard a lot of painful shouts.
This is a combat zone, the medical conditions are very poor, and there are many wounded who have no stretchers or bedding and can only lie on the ground. Even the best treated wounded are just a stretcher on which they can lie down. The area here is limited, and it is impossible to install tents at all, and the inside of the enemy camp and squatting fort is too dark, and the lack of air circulation will cause more damage to the wounded.
The ground was very dirty, and many wounds of the wounded were placed on the ground. Overhead, the poisonous sun roasted the wounded. Seeing such a scene, Mu Yunqiao couldn't help frowning.
"It's so hot here, the wound is easily inflamed, the ground is too dirty, it can also cause wound infection, and if the wound is inflamed, it is easy to die." Mu Yunqiao looked at Ming Tao and said worriedly. These were all heroic soldiers of her Great Holy Dynasty, and they couldn't let them survive on the battlefield with great difficulty, but they died because of some injuries.
"There's no way around it. Now that the weather is so hot, the night is fine, but the day is too hot, and they can only be wronged. Ming Tao also said sadly.
Mu Yunqiao looked around, "We can cover it, as long as the height of our shield is high enough, it should allow vehicles to pass through." This will at least cool down the soldiers. And also......? Mu Yunqiao thought for a while and said: "The city wall is so wide, one piece of cloth will definitely not work, they can sew many pieces of cloth together, so that they can not only block the sun during the day, but also cover the dew at night." It can also be fenced around, but this is a mountain, and the mountain wind is very strong, and the wounds of these people are easily infected with tetanus, which is also a very life-threatening problem. They also needed a lot of mats on which the wounded could lie and be isolated from the ground. It can stop bacteria from infecting the wound. Also, we need to build a toilet nearby, so soldiers can't defecate anywhere, which is not only bad for the air, but also harmful to the wounds. ”
Speaking of this, Mu Yunqiao stretched out his hand in front of Ming Tao and said, "Give me some of your silver, and I'll ask someone to buy some fabric and needlework." There are still ...... mats There is still a lot that is needed. ”
"Here you go." Although he didn't quite understand Mu Yunqiao's intentions, Ming Tao still put his money bag in Mu Yunqiao's hands.
Mu Yunqiao took out a five hundred taels of silver ticket from his money bag, looked around, and said to a soldier: "You take a few soldiers, take this silver to buy some fabrics and needlework, mats and medicinal materials, if there are doctors in the city, it is better to invite a few doctors." Although there are military doctors here, they are too few to take care of so many wounded. Remember to treat the doctor with courtesy, and if people don't want to, they can't force it. It is best not to use the fabric, but it must be the strongest and thickest. The mat should also be the best one. Also, buy as much meat as you can. ”
"Yes! Lord Overseer. The soldier glanced at Ming Tao, and after seeing Ming Tao nodding, he took the silver ticket and left.
After explaining everything, Mu Yunqiao walked up to a wounded soldier and looked at his injured arm, feeling sad. She didn't speak, just patted the soldier on the shoulder and said, "Well done!" Then he turned to look at another soldier.
Ming Tao was behind Mu Yunqiao, and after watching Mu Yunqiao leave, every wounded person showed tears of emotion. I felt a lot of emotion in my heart. He and Marshal Mu had lived together at the border for more than ten years, and for the first time he felt that these soldiers were also living people. They can arrange their troops as they wish, but after the war, they are also ordinary people. Maybe Mu Yunqiao didn't give them much, maybe it was just a sentence, but it was the greatest affirmation of them.
Ming Tao followed Mu Yunqiao, learning from her to talk to every wounded soldier, he didn't know what the use of Lu Dao doing this, he just felt that he should do it.
Soon, there was no longer a wail from the wounded barracks, but countless cries. All the wounded soldiers looked at Ming Tao and Mu Yunqiao with emotion. They were so noble, they actually came here to see them, and they didn't think they were dirty, and they patted them on the shoulder and talked to them. They felt it was all worth it. They serve as soldiers under such men, and they are content even if they die.