Chapter 204: The Mass Grave (2)
The crowd hurriedly pulled him out, and when they saw him panicked, they couldn't help laughing, only to think that he was frightened, and found that his shoes had fallen in the snow urn.
Losing your shoes is not a trivial matter, and in such weather, it is possible to freeze your feet and become crippled. Everyone had to send a soldier with quick and short stature to pick up the shoes, but after the soldier entered the snow urn, he suddenly screamed, and everyone hurriedly pulled the rope and pulled the soldier back, and the soldier returned trembling and said, "It's not a ghost, it's not a ghost, it's all a corpse, it's all the corpse of the Han army." ”
Zhang Xiaowu and others immediately rushed over to ask what was happening, and the soldier said with palpitations: "I saw the corpse of a Han pawn, under the snow urn, there are many, many people. ”
Su Yu asked: "How much is a lot?" ”
The soldier said, "I don't know, but it's a lot." ”
Zhang Xiaowu frowned and ordered, "Dig it up and take a look." ”
Everyone hurriedly sent someone to shovel the snow, only to reveal a sharp corner, but it was already shocking, and excavated in other snow urns, it was still the corpse of the Han army, the whole snow urn was about three acres in size, no matter where it was excavated, it was the corpse of the Han army. What is unacceptable to everyone is that these corpses are tied with their hands behind their backs, or they die of cutting their throats, or they die of penetration, or they die of excessive blood loss.
Kill the prisoners!
This is a prisoner killing!
There were many prisoners in the army, but it was the first time they had seen so many Han prisoners slaughtered. Thinking that the Inuyi captives were imprisoned in the big guys, and the Han army captives were slaughtered here, everyone was furious and shouted at the sky.
Ruan Qingwen was obviously even more excited, he walked in the pit covered with corpses, stepping on the corpse that he didn't know who it was, and suddenly saw a familiar corpse, he couldn't help it, looked at the person carefully, and suddenly howled and cried: "Brother Zidong, Brother Zidong, how can it be you?" How could it be you? A year ago, you and I drank and talked happily, discussed national affairs together, and made an appointment together to go to Yangshan to walk in the snow after the war, Brother Zidong, ......"
There are about more than 10,000 corpses on three acres of land, all of which are their comrades-in-arms. The corpse was spread three or four floors, and there were still corpses under the corpses, Zhang Xiaowu had never seen a mass grave before, but now it was the first time he saw it, which was not only shocking, but also sad.
Even Li Chuncheng, the former killer, couldn't help but raise his head and sigh, and said indignantly: "I've been dead for at least three months, it should have just entered winter, when the first snow fell." ”
Zhang Xiaowu guessed that it should be the Inuyi people who deliberately imprisoned them for a while in order to facilitate the slaughter of them, and only after they were so hungry that they had no strength to resist did they pull them here and slaughter them all smoothly.
Li Yuan jumped down from the mass grave, studied the corpse, turned around and said: "Judging from the wounds, the blades should be Wuhuan's broadswords and sharp spears, and it was the Wuhuan people who slaughtered the Han army's prisoners of war." ”
"We must avenge this revenge." Ruan Qingwen gritted his teeth, his face hideous.
Zhang Xiaowu said: "But not now, not these years, but in the future." ”
Ruan Qingwen cried again: "How can they be like this, how can they be like this......"
Zhang Xiaowu sighed softly and turned to leave.
Why did Inuyi kill the captives, the answer is obvious, the Inuyi army is already short of food, how can it feed these tens of thousands of captives. The Inuyi coalition army also worked an expedition, coinciding with the decisive battle in the barren land of the northern wilderness, and the two years of hard fighting were all supplied from the rear, not to mention the various khanates of the Inuyi, even the rich Shenghan Empire also hit the treasury empty.
When Zhang Xiaowu and Ruan Qingwen returned to the camp, they saw Su Yu also looking at the bonfire with a sad face, and smiled bitterly, but the three of them didn't say anything, and they didn't know what to say. Everyone understands in their hearts that these 10,000 soldiers are all their former comrades-in-arms, all of them are soldiers of the Qinglong Army, and they were killed because of the surrender, which is really the inferiority of the Inuyi people.
Zhang Xiaowu and others are also more convinced that the negotiations will not go smoothly.
After staying overnight, everyone continued to rush the next day, but something unexpected happened, and the Beiyi interpreter brought before actually ran away. This Beiyi interpreter is not a soldier, but a family in the city, originally promised to be good, but as the distance from the Inuyi military camp got closer and closer, this person was scared, and after seeing the mass grave, he ran away when there was no one.
Zhang Xiaowu sent someone to arrest the interpreter and said, "What are you running for? I haven't run yet? Are you running a fart? ”
The interpreter cried: "The city lord doesn't know, I was originally from Beiyi, because I lost money gambling in my hometown, so I was ready to loot some, which Cheng wanted to accidentally kill someone by mistake, so he fled to live in the city of two wolves." You don't know, in fact, Beiyi has a special hatred for traitors, and I'm afraid of affecting my parents and brothers in my hometown, so I'm afraid. ”
"Why did you do our interpreter before?"
"Because Master Li said to give me money, I ...... I'm short of money. ”
Li Yuan said: "This person is a bad gambler and has been short of money. ”
Zhang Xiaowu said: "This person 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 to Bai Hao to wipe his neck, Bai Hao immediately turned around and went out, and after a while, he came back with his head.
Li Yuan was very remorseful because of his ineffective handling of things, and was about to apologize, Zhang Xiaowu waved his hand and said: "If you want to choose soldiers, how can you have three heads and six arms, people will make mistakes, but fortunately, we found out in advance and can make up for it as soon as possible." If this person is temporarily defected after being taken to the Beiyi camp by us, it will be a catastrophic mistake for us. ”
Li Yuan blushed, Ruan Qingwen snorted, and said, "It's almost time to reach Yashan Mountain, and we are about to encounter enemy scouts, so 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 first had to contact and lobby the Beiyi people, and use the Beiyi people's dissatisfaction with the Ya people to provoke a fight between them. However, the lack of translation is a big problem.
"Need a change of plans?" Su Yu said worriedly.
Zhang Xiaowu said: "No, act according to the original plan. ”
Su Yu said: "There is no translation, such words ......"
Zhang Xiaowu sneered contemptuously: "It doesn't matter if there is no translation, they just need to know our sincerity." We don't have it here, don't they have it? I guess they must have an interpreter, and I bet they do. ”
After walking for two days, they saw the seven peaks of Yashan Mountain in the distance, and the scouts found out that the Wuhuan army lived in the camp of Yashan Mountain, where the camp of the former Qinglong Army lived, and the other armies built a large camp around Jincheng.
Because the northern part of the country was still cold and the tent camp was rudimentary, there was a distance between the tribes of the Inuyi coalition army, which provided more convenience for Zhang Xiaowu's technique of connecting horizontal and vertical forces.
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