Chapter Fifty-Six: The Abalone
At sunrise, several Linyi soldiers came out of the grass and touched the city of Dianchong in the distance, they lurked outside the city all night, all covered in mosquito eyes, looking a little haggard, but a pair of eyes kept looking around. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ļ½ļ½ļ½Uļ½Eć ļ½ļ½ļ½ļ½
As soon as they realize that something is wrong, they will turn around and run away, and they will not tolerate the slightest carelessness, because the slightest hesitation will lead to their own death.
They weren't the first scouts to approach Dianchong, and most of the people who had set out before didn't make it back alive, all because they had accidentally fallen into an enemy ambush.
If they have a choice, they don't want to come here to die, but if they don't come, they will definitely die, so they can only bite the bullet and spy on the situation of Dian Chong for the big officials.
A few days ago, the enemy broke through Dianchong, except for the people who escaped at the beginning, no one escaped alive in the follow-up, the enemy laid many ambushes near Dianchong, and many Linyi troops who rushed to King Qin were ambushed one after another, and then the whole army was annihilated.
No one was able to get close to Dianchong, so no one knew what had happened in the city these days, but the Lin Yi scouts who had observed the city from a distance noticed that black smoke rose from time to time in the city during the day, and there were still fires flickering at night.
But those scouts who had the courage to approach Dian Chong almost never returned, and there were several times when there was no movement in the city, and everyone thought that the enemy had retreated, and sent scouts to investigate, and as a result, many corpses were added to the field in vain, so the specific situation in the city was still unknown.
Yesterday, there was a fire in Dianchong, and the fire could be seen clearly even during the day, and everyone wondered if it was the enemy who burned the city and retreated, so they chose a few unlucky ghosts, which are now these few, and went to Dianchong to see how the situation was.
With the previous lesson of blood and tears, several scouts did not dare to be careless, walked and stopped, and only in the evening did they touch the distance of five or six miles outside the city of Dianchong, and did not dare to move forward when they saw the night falling, so they could only make do with it all night in the field, and then continue to walk forward until dawn.
A foul smell rushed to the face, looked down, and found that it was a black thing, and when I looked closely, there were many flies on the surface of the thing, and I saw that people were coming and "buzzing" and rose to the sky, revealing a decomposing corpse.
The corpse bulged like an inflated pig's urine bubble, black, yellow and pus-grunted, with one deflated eyeball, the other hanging on the edge of the eye socket like a rotting fish bladder.
Holding back the feeling of vomiting, the men continued to walk forward, and the closer they got to the city, the more rotting corpses there were in the grass, and the stench became stronger and stronger, even if they blocked their noses with something, the stench still penetrated their noses.
One person accidentally stepped on the half-amputated arm, and his body was unstable and fell to the ground, and less than three inches in front of him, there was a headless rotting corpse, and the bursting abdomen exposed a large rotting large intestine, mixed with feces and urine, which happened to accumulate in front of him.
"Hmm..."
There was a convulsion in his stomach and then something swelled up, he covered his mouth with his hand, and swallowed the surging thing again, not caring about the stomach twitching again, he quickly got up and stepped over the carrion and continued to move forward.
Walking in the grass, encountering carrion corpses from time to time, and finally walking through this terrifying area, they found that the next scene was even more terrifying.
The paddy fields, which were green a few days ago, were still green, but the crops had been uprooted and fallen in the middle of the fields, and there were several carrion corpses in each field, which became a habitat for flies.
It would be nothing if it were just one or two fields, but a large paddy field was like this, and they were in a trance on the banks of the Hell Styx, watching corpses float around them.
Resisting their cowardice, they did not turn around and run away, because if they fled back, they would definitely be beheaded, and there were really ambushes here, and they would not be able to escape from the open paddy fields.
Seeing that there was no figure on the city wall not far away, the scouts trembled forward, and finally came to the outside of the moat and were already soaked, listening to the sound of gurgling water, and seeing that the city head was completely silent, they gritted their teeth and waded across the river.
Bypassing the drawbridge that had not been lowered, he came to the closed gate, leaned down and looked through the crack in the door at the bottom, but did not find that there was a person standing behind the gate, and leaned his ear against the gate, and listened to the movement behind the door with bated breath, and did not hear anything wrong.
The city was very quiet, so creepy that they finally mustered up the courage to push the gate tentatively, but found that there was no bolt, and simply pushed the crack in the door that barely allowed one person to pass, and then the first one flashed in.
It was determined that there was no ambush, leaving two lookouts, and the others entered the city one after another to check the situation, but the scene in front of them made the scouts who entered the city gasp.
Everywhere there were ruins, charred walls and black wood, all of which indicated that there had been a fire of unprecedented proportions, and with the smell of burnt came a stench much stronger than outside the city.
They seemed to be in a warehouse full of salted fish, and the smell of rancid fish was so suffocating that they had to plug their noses again and begin to inspect the ruins.
As soon as they turned into a street, everyone was frightened by the scene in front of them, and some even fell to the ground and kept moving backwards.
The dilapidated streets were lined with dead people, as if they were marching to welcome them into the city, but they all had no heads, and in their place were clay pots, with white dye on them, and black charcoal painted with human features.
The "human faces" on the clay pots are smiling, and they are "looking" at them, looking more infiltrating and seeping.
"Ah!!!h
The screams pierced the sky above Dianchong, startling countless birds that had originally landed on the city.
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In the afternoon, Fan Fanzhi, the king of Linyi, stood in a daze in front of a ruin, where his palace was located, and the palace buildings that had been majestic a few days ago had become ruins at this time.
In the morning, the scouts came to report that the enemy army had withdrawn from Dianchong, and Fan Fanzhi, who was in the camp of the Qinwang army, was anxious to enter the city, but was desperately persuaded by the civil and military officials.
Fan Fanzhi entered the city as soon as possible despite the dissuasion, and found that the city walls had been removed, and the buildings in the city had been turned into ruins, not to mention the palaces, temples, official offices, and even the residential areas of the untouchables.
But compared to this, what is even more miserable is that there is not a single living person in the city, as for how miserable it is, Fan Fanzhi did not see it with his own eyes, and the civil and military officials also tried their best to avoid his eyes being "tarnished".
"What kind of sin has been done, the gods are going to punish our country like this..."
Fan Fanzhi wanted to cry without tears, although he had a sachet around his neck, he couldn't hide the rotten stench in the air, he was not a fool, he knew what this stench meant.
Dianchong City is finished, I don't know when it will be restored to its former appearance, the treasury has been looted, the rice fields outside the city have been destroyed and there is no possibility of harvesting, the most important thing is that Dianchong has so many people, all of them are gone.
Was it killed, or was it captured? Fan Fanzhi had no way of knowing that more than 100 years ago, Dianchong City was broken by the Song army, and it was not so miserable as it is now.
Inadvertently glimpsed a large number of flying birds hovering in the sky above the east of the city, Fan Fanzhi was suspicious, regardless of the dissuasion, he took a carriage to find out, and when the carriage drove out of the city gate, he only felt a foul smell coming to his nose, making people's stomachs twitch.
The smell was so strong that Fan Fanzhi thought that he seemed to have come to a warehouse full of countless salted fish, and he couldn't help but think of a sentence from Professor Zhongyuan: If you enter the abalone, you will not know its smell after smelling it for a long time.
The meaning of this sentence is that if you enter a warehouse full of stinky salted fish, you will not smell the smell of salted fish over time, which means that if the king is always with people of bad character, his own behavior will become bad over time without knowing it.
The Central Plains called salted fish "abalone", and at this moment, Fan Fanzhi felt that he was in the "abalone rage", the stench lingered, and he was about to get out of the car, but the door was blocked by the entourage.
"Bold! What do you want to do! ā
"King! Can't come down, can't see..."
"Open the door! Otherwise, your whole family will be reduced to pariahs!" ā
Fan Fanzhi kicked the car door, the strong stench rushed to his face, he was about to poke his foot to step on the steps to get out of the car, but he caught a glimpse of the situation outside the car, and then his legs were so frightened that he rolled off the steps and rolled off the carriage.
On the side of the official road outside the east gate, opposite the stone tablet that records the martial arts of the king of Linyi, there is a small hill that exudes a foul smell, and the reason why people tremble is because this hill is piled up by human heads.
There is a long knife inserted on the top of Rentou Mountain, which seems to be the saber of a noble person, and at the foot of Rentou Mountain, there is a stone tablet erected, which is opposed to the Van Huda stone tablet.
The stele is engraved with words, both Chinese and Sanskrit, and its content is the same: "Marshal of the Great Zhou Lingnan Road, Xiyang Wang Yuwen Wen, set up this Beijing view outside the city of Dianchong, in order to comfort the spirit of the people of the south of the country in the sky." ā