314 Throwing
Don't these Northwest barbarians always boast that they are very capable of fighting, and they are not even afraid of the Hu people?
Why have they all become shrunken turtles this time, and they would rather shrink into the city than go out of the city to fight, damn it! After the tempered Li Zhihai finished speaking, he slammed his fist on the table and made a muffled sound.
Lu Liuxin, the camp officer, frowned and said, "It seems that these soldiers in the northwest are determined to stay here, and this is difficult to do." ”
As soon as these words came out, the atmosphere in the camp suddenly sank.
This siege battle has been fought for seven consecutive days, and the Wei army has suffered more than 20,000 casualties, and countless siege equipment such as ladders and chariots have been burned, which can be described as heavy losses.
But even so, he still failed to capture Huiyang City, and he couldn't even go up to the city.
On the other hand, the Northwest Army, although it does not know the specific number of casualties, is certainly much less than that of the Wei Army.
After all, one side is to attack the city, and the other side is to defend the city, and the side defending the city has a great advantage by relying on the high walls of the city.
In addition, the Northwest Army has been fighting with the Hu people for many years, and it has especially rich experience in defending the city, which further widens the gap between the two sides, which is indeed a headache.
What's even more hateful is that after paying the price of thousands of casualties, the Wei army finally smashed open the city gate with a log.
As a result, they never expected that the back of the city gate was blocked by bricks and stones, and no one could enter at all, and the city gate was completely a decoration.
In other words, these Huiyang defenders did not plan to go out of the city to fight at all, but were ready to defend to the end.
No wonder no matter how provocative they were before, these Northwest barbarians were indifferent, and the original passage out of the city had long been blocked.
Attacking and not being able to attack, swallowing and swallowing, this iron turtle-like Huiyang City has wasted too much strength and time of the Wei army, which makes many generals secretly anxious in their hearts.
This army of millions of people, the daily consumption of grain and grass is simply terrifying, every day of delay, the supply of grain and grass will be tighter in the future, the Wei army really can't afford to drag it.
At this moment, Liu An, the governor of the five armies who had just been called away by An Guogong, hurriedly walked in, and then took out a military order with a solemn expression and said: "The military department has an order, let us implement this plan tomorrow." With that, he handed over the military order to the people in the camp tent to circulate one by one.
"This ...... That's too much. After reading the content of the military order, General Li Zhihai shouted.
"Shut up, this is a military order, don't you want to die?" Liu An, the governor of the five armies, glared at him fiercely.
Only then did Li Zhihai know that he had lost his words, so he quickly closed his mouth and didn't dare to speak again.
Deng Zhilin, the battalion officer at the right outpost, frowned deeply and said, "Duke Liu, I'm afraid that doing so will chill the hearts of the soldiers and affect the morale of the army. ”
Hu Chunbo, the right-hand camp officer, echoed with deep sympathy: "Yes, it's really not easy to do." ”
Although Lu Liuxin, the camp officer, did not say anything, judging from his expression, he also had the same idea.
Liu An, the governor of the five armies, said with a calm face: "I know that this matter is not easy to handle, but the military order cannot be violated, and we can only do it."
Zhihai, after the army leaves, this matter will be handled by you.
You remember, after doing this, you must besiege Huiyang City without attacking it, and wait for it to happen. ”
"Yes, the last general will obey." Li Zhihai replied with an ugly face.
Early the next morning, the northwestern soldiers guarding Huiyang City were surprised to see that the Wei army did not attack the city as usual, but instead put away their camp tents, cooking utensils and other things, and began to prepare for the withdrawal, as if they were about to pull out the camp and prepare to withdraw the army.
Du Xiao, the commander of the Huiyang Mansion Guard, who commanded the whole army, was also surprised to see this scene, and he couldn't guess what the Wei army was trying to do for a while.
Could it be that the Wei army really intends to withdraw its troops?
Almost all the soldiers watched the movements of the Wei army with anticipation.
After all, no one wants to die, and if they survive, no one really wants to die here.
As if in response to the expectations of the soldiers, the Wei army actually began to withdraw its troops.
After packing up, the mighty men began to leave in an orderly manner, leaving only about 40,000 people still stationed under the city.
Compared with the millions of troops that were pressed by the black before, this mere 40,000 soldiers is simply pitiful.
Seeing that the Wei army had really withdrawn, many soldiers couldn't help but cheer loudly, or cry with joy.
In the face of the enemy's continuous attack on the city for several days, they were already physically and mentally exhausted, and their spirits were also highly stressed, and many of them were even mentally prepared to die here.
Now that the enemy had suddenly withdrawn most of his troops, almost everyone felt a sense of ecstasy that they had escaped death.
Compared with the smiles of the soldiers, Du Xiao faintly felt that something was wrong.
Could it be that the Xie family is really willing to withdraw their troops so easily?
At this moment, Du Xiao suddenly saw the Wei army under the city pushing several catapults up.
Along with these catapults, there were dozens of horse-drawn carts.
I don't know what these carriages are loaded with, and they look very heavy.
But Dushaw soon knew what was in the car.
I saw the men carrying down one corpse after another from the wagon, almost all of which were covered with dirt, apparently just dug out of the soil.
And it is impossible for there to be so many fresh corpses of people in this vicinity, there is only one possibility, these are all the corpses of Wei soldiers who died in the siege.
I saw that these people put the freshly dug up corpses of their comrades one by one in the catapult's shots, and then stood aside with unbearable expressions waiting for orders.
At this moment, even a fool can guess what these people want to do.
Many Northwest soldiers, especially recruits, could hardly believe what they were seeing.
"Put!" With the command of General Li Zhihai, all the catapults that had been loaded with corpses started almost simultaneously, and the corpses in the shot were thrown over like ordinary stones.
"Bang, bang, bang......" With a muffled sound, several corpses of the Wei army flew across the city wall like garbage.
When many corpses hit the building, the internal organs inside were almost completely exploded, and the heart, liver, spleen, lungs, kidneys, and Bai Huahua's intestines were sprayed everywhere.
Seeing this scene, everyone felt extremely disgusted, and almost everyone wanted to vomit, even the veterans who were used to seeing life and death.
But their nightmare is just the beginning.
Countless corpses of the Wei army were thrown up continuously, almost without a moment's interruption.
As more and more corpses were dug up and thrown in like trash by catapults, the entire city of Huiyang soon became almost a hell on earth made up of countless human internal organs and stumps.
Under this kind of hell on earth, even the veterans of the Northwest who are not afraid of the Hu people can't help but feel at a loss.
This is true even for veterans, let alone those who have only been in the army for a long time. Where had they ever seen such a horrific scene, and many of them were already screaming uncontrollably in fright.
At this time, Du Xiao regretted for the first time that he had blocked the city gate and could not lead the whole army to kill these humanoid animals.
The so-called dead are great, these people are really crazy, and they even do this kind of unconscionable thing.
Du Xiao trembled with anger, and had a strong urge to fight to the death with these animals.
Although this practice of throwing the corpses of their comrades succeeded in causing chaos in the ranks of the Northwest Army defending the city, the Wei soldiers below were silent, and almost no one made a sound, all of them watched with a grim face as the corpses of their comrades were thrown into the city like garbage.
Almost everyone is thinking about the same question: If they died, would the corpse be treated like this?
This scene caused the morale of the whole army to almost drop to freezing point. At this time, not to mention the siege, the Wei soldiers almost didn't want to move.
In just two days, the Wei army threw nearly 20,000 corpses into Huiyang City, and almost all the corpses of the Wei army who died in the siege battle.
Although Dushaw had done his best to send people to bury the corpses that had been thrown in, there were too many corpses to deal with them.
Not only was the city littered with blood and human limbs, but the stench of corpses was getting worse and worse.
A few days later, his worst fears finally came to pass: some soldiers in the army showed symptoms of the plague.
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