Chapter 385: Meat in the Belly (Asking for a Monthly Pass, Asking for Support)
Fuzhou in November, although there is no cold in the north, but the cold wind blowing from the north, still makes it a little cold here, outside the city of Fuzhou at this time, the 100,000 troops of the battalion camp dozens of miles, surrounded the city of Fuzhou, and the city wall can also be seen everywhere several bullet holes of different sizes, for a month, the Ming army besieging the city continued to attack the city with guns, but this solid city wall, but still standing, in fact, the reason why Fuzhou City can be under the strong attack, persisting so far, is precisely because this city wall is different from the brick wall in the interior, It is made of strips of stone, which is much stronger than ordinary brick walls.
In addition to the strong city wall, the tens of thousands of people on the head of the city to assist in the defense of the people, is also the reason why the Qing army can hold on for more than a month, although those people are not willing to help the Qing army defend the city, but under the threat of the Qing army's knife, they still have to help it defend the city, so that the Ming army is defeated every time it attacks the city.
After more than a month of tearing and killing, this stone wall has long been stained black and red with blood, and both the people outside and inside the city are extremely tired. Compared with the Ming army outside the city, the Qing army defending the city will have reached the field where the oil has run out.
It was getting dark, and the soldiers and people on duty went to the city after eating, and the soldiers who were originally guarding at the head of the city came down to rest and eat, and the men were much busier than before. Although he was a scholar, Cai Erxi was still forcibly pulled into the people's strength, but the soldier saw that he was weak, so he asked him to be a man, that is, looking at the fire in the stove, carrying water and bowls, as long as he buried himself in the work, it was more stable than on the city wall.
However, even so, there was no time to spare, after eating, Cai Erxi and the people who were arrested together were driven up by the soldiers, demolished the nearby houses, and transported the bricks, stones, beams and wood to the city head for tomorrow's defense. While they were working, it was already dark at night, and there were torches all over the wall, and the soldiers and people at the head of the city were either warming themselves by the campfire, or leaning against the wall with weapons in their arms.
When looking outside the city, Cai Erxi could see the torches and fires of the camps outside the city, and on Pingshan, he could clearly see the little fires, which was the camp of the Ming army, and the surname of the country was in that camp to command the army to attack the city.
"Break the city quickly......"
As a student of Huang Daozhou, Cai Erxi naturally longs for the Ming army to conquer Fuzhou and save the people from fire and water, but everyone knows that I don't know how long it will take for the city to be broken.
After all, there are still tens of thousands of Qing troops and people in this city, and if you continue to fight like this, you won't have half a year's effort, and I'm afraid you really won't be able to see a victory. It is said that the surname of the country is also the bad luck, before the surname of the country led the army into Fujian, the king of Jingnan Geng Jimao led 40,000 troops to move to Fuzhou, so that he and Fu and the Tai and Haicheng Gong Huang Wu joined forces in Fuzhou, which also made the Fuzhou defenders as many as 70,000 people, if it were not for the Ming army, I am afraid that the Qing army would have gone out of the city to meet the battle.
If you want to conquer the city, I'm afraid it's not easy.
"God bless, I hope that the imperial army will recover Fuzhou as soon as possible and save more than 100,000 people in Fuzhou from fire and ......water."
After Cai Erxi, who was exhausted, returned to the city, he soon fell asleep, and in his sleep, he dreamed of his wife and children who fled to the countryside for refuge, I hope they can escape, at least they are not in the city now, otherwise I am afraid that their father and son will be sent to the city to help the Qing army defend the city.
I don't know how long I slept like this, suddenly with several cannon shots, accompanied by the sound of broken bricks and stones, a scream sounded in my ears, Cai Erxi rubbed his eyes, only then did he see that the house was pierced by cannons, several people were killed, and several times were injured by bricks, in the night, he heard the shouting of several soldiers, those soldiers spoke northern dialect, obviously the Qing army under Geng Jimao, they shouted to carry the corpses to the car.
"I can't live this one, make up for it, and I can have more pieces of meat."
As a scholar, Cai Erxi can naturally understand the official language, and the words of the Qing soldiers are somewhat similar to the official language, which ordinary Fujian people can't understand, but Cai Erxi can understand it.
Multiple pieces of meat?
Before he could figure out what was going on, he saw the man slash to death the wounded man who was lying on the ground with less air in and more breath.
"You kid have to do it in front of someone else."
The person next to him scolded while helping him drag the corpse. After these people dragged more than a dozen corpses into the car, Cai Erxi, who was already nervous to the point of his throat, hurriedly got up, shook the straw on his body, and quietly followed these soldiers, he wanted to see what they were going to do.
Pulling the corpse cart on the street, bypassing several ruins under the city wall, he directly entered a compound, the courtyard was open, and when the night wind blew, a pungent smell of blood came to his face, and the thick smell of blood only choked Cai Erxi almost didn't vomit, but driven by curiosity, he still bypassed the main entrance and entered through the side door on the other side of the wall.
Hiding in the dark, he looked towards the courtyard, only to see a large pile of white things in the courtyard, piled up like a hill, with a few large cases next to it, and a knife holder standing next to the case, on which were hung wide and heavy knives, and there were several large vats in the corner of the wall next to it, and there was a shelf in front of the cylinder.
At this time, those soldiers have already begun to get busy, only to see a few soldiers rolling up their sleeves, dragging an object out of a pile of white things, and then dragging that thing, pulling it outward, hanging it directly on the shelf, this will fix its eyes, Cai Erxi's whole person was so shocked that his hairs stood on end, and the seven souls were almost scared out of his body!
The white thing in the moonlight was clearly a corpse, and I saw that the corpse was hanging upside down on the shelf, and the soldier directly cut open the abdomen with a knife, and then poured out the intestines and internal organs, as if they were dealing with livestock, but now they were dealing with people.
Cai Erxi, who was so frightened that the seven souls were not there, took two steps back, and then hit the wall, he watched those soldiers cut the meat off the corpse and throw it into the vat on the side, Cai Erxi's heart was tightened, and he immediately understood what these meats were for, and they were naturally used to eat!
I watched as the corpses hanging on the large shelf were separated from the flesh and bones under the knife edges of the soldiers, and pieces of meat were thrown into the vat, and soon the corpses were left with an empty skeleton. Looking at this scene in horror, Cai Erxi thought of the appearance of the saliva when he saw the porridge and rice eaten by those soldiers with meat in the city, and when he thought of the smell of meat, he only felt a feeling of nausea that he had never felt before.
Cannibalism, they actually cannibalism!
Until he left this courtyard, Cai Erxi still looked like he was lost and depressed.
Human flesh...... Human flesh!
Another scene suddenly floated in his heart - a few days ago, he also ate rice porridge with "pork liver", could it be that the "pig liver" is also human flesh.
Thinking of this, he could no longer control the nausea in his heart, and suddenly bent and leaned on the corner of the wall and vomited "wow", snot and tears flowed out, and his stomach and six organs were indescribably uncomfortable.
Human flesh!
Again, his mind came up with the appearance of the hanging corpse under the soldier's knife and being cut off, and the words in his mind were tumbling there.
"It's just meat, it's just meat......"
To the soldiers, the corpses were no longer human, just flesh wrapped in bones, just meat for them to wrap around their stomachs.
Now they are just eating the corpses, if this continues, maybe the more than 100,000 people in this city will all become the food in the mouths of the Qing army, and become the "two-legged sheep" in the history books.
It's just a "two-legged sheep".
Recalling the history books I once read, for the record of the "two-legged sheep" killing people for meat, in the war, human life is inherently insecure, and it is extremely common for generals to kill and slaughter subordinates and civilians at will. Ordinary people, like livestock, are slaughtered at will.
Once upon a time, he only thought that the scene of large-scale killing and cannibalism was just recorded in the history books, but now after seeing the scene of killing people and taking meat, Cai Erxi can imagine that with the development of the situation, the innocent residents of this city were brutally beheaded, mutilated and cooked, how tragic and tragic the scene would be!
Cai Erxi naturally thought of the time when the Qing army in Xinhui defended the city, when the food in the city was out of food, the general ordered the slaughter of the residents, and let the soldiers eat human flesh to satisfy their hunger, about 70,000 people became the rations of the Qing army.
Could it be that by the time the country surnamed Yekecheng arrived, more than 100,000 people in Fuzhou City had already been fed by the Qing army?
Although the mound of white flowers in his mind seemed like a lingering shadow, Cai Erxi finally tried his best to calm his mind, and then looked into the distance, his eyes staring at the outside of the city, staring at the faintly visible fireworks on the screen mountain, and thinking to himself.
"The surname of the country, then Nanjing Jiancheng can go down in the old days, can't you go down in Fuzhou?"
The reason why Cai Erxi thinks like this is because in the whole of Fujian he knows how the surname of the country took Nanjing lightly and how he took Jiangnan lightly, but this Fuzhou has hit a wall, which inevitably makes Cai Erxi feel a little disappointed. After all, after witnessing the scene of cannibalism by the Qing army, he was more worried that when he ran out of food in the city, the city of Fuzhou would be like Xinhui, and the people in the city would eat up for the Qing army, and there would be no more than 10,000 people alive in the end.
"The Bodhisattva blesses the country surnamed Ye to break the city as soon as possible, and blesses the more than 100,000 people in this Fuzhou city from becoming a ...... in the belly of the Qing captive."
While praying like this in his heart, Cai Erxi unconsciously walked to the governor's yamen, and outside the yamen, you could see the soldiers who were patrolling back and forth, and by the light of the lantern, Cai Erxi couldn't help but spit and scolded.
"It's really a barbarian, and he actually eats human flesh......"