Text Chapter 414 [The Tragedy of Cannibalism]

Chapter 414 [The Tragedy of Man-Cannibalism]

Zhao Kuo had already paid attention to this Qin army, and also saw the injured Zhao State officer who was placed on the car board, and saw that this officer escaped quite alertly, so he came to inquire about the situation, but was called out of his identity and asked, "Who are you?" ”

Xu Zhe saw Zhao Kuo, as if he had seen a long-lost relative, and choked up: "Qi Yu Jun, the last general is Xu Zhe, the youngest son of the national captain Xu Li, when he increased the army for the second time, he came from Handan and has been serving in the Louchang army. ”

Zhao Kuo sighed, he didn't expect that the fifteen or sixteen-year-old young officer in front of him would be Xu Li's son, his father Zhao Hao was able to win the battle of Yan and He, Xu Zhe's father made great contributions, and suddenly felt that Xu Zhe in front of him looked much kinder, and said: "Since you are in the Louchang army, how did you be captured by the Qin army?" ”

As soon as Zhao Kuo asked this, tears rolled down in Xu Zhe's eyes, and he said, "Don't you know?" The Qin army broke through the barrier on the west side of our army, before the Louchang army had been out of food for twenty days, the soldiers were so hungry that they couldn't even hold their weapons, how could they resist the attack of the Qin army, 100,000 soldiers and the Qin army fought for a day, they were all annihilated by the Qin army, only a few hundred people escaped, and I was injured and unconscious but didn't want to be captured by the Qin army......"

Zhao Kuo listened to Xu Zhe's words, and couldn't help but secretly hate himself for being incompetent, and he would actually be lost in the mountains,.. Road, now it's okay, Louchang's 100,000 horses and horses are all wiped out, then the pressure on Zhao Bao will be even heavier, and the Zhao army of Changpingyi is afraid that he will also run out of food for more than 20 days!

Xu Zhe saw that Zhao Kuo's face was changing, and asked, "Your Majesty, where are we going now?" I heard that this Qin army was returning to Hanoi to urge the delivery of weapons. ”

Zhao Kuo really wanted to follow this Qin army to Hanoi, as long as he arrived in Hanoi, he would have the opportunity to assassinate Qin Wang Yingji, but Lou Chang's army was wiped out, and Zhao Bao's army was also out of food for more than 20 days, this situation was too dangerous, and reason told him that he must solve Zhao Bao's problem first.

Zhao Bao's Changping Station has been out of food for almost 30 days, hundreds of thousands of people are facing a severe survival test, the climate of the Warring States period is warmer than later generations on the whole, although it is autumn at this time, the wildflowers on the mountain are still blooming, the leaves of the trees have not yet fallen, and the fruits on the fruit-bearing plants such as sour dates are still green, but they have long been picked up by the hungry Zhao soldiers.

The Zhao army, which was besieged by the Qin army and cut off from grain and rice, carefully cleaned the grain hoards where the grain and rice were stored dozens of times, hoping to find a hidden grain of grain, the mountains and forests near the camp had long been looted, and the grass roots and bark had also become food for the Zhao soldiers.

From a distance, the tree trunks within the Zhao Jun's fortress were all bare, like girls who had been stripped naked, swaying in the autumn wind, looking so desolate.

In order to dig up grass roots and other materials, the land inside the camp was dug into potholes, and weapons such as knives, guns, swords, and halberds were also turned into digging tools and discarded on the ground at will.

Occasionally, a rat that was driven out of the rat hole would suddenly make the emotions of the whole battalion of soldiers high-pitched, and the little mouse wondered why human eyes were green? But it knew what the green-eyed men were up to, and a brutal struggle for survival ensued between humans and rats.

The soldiers of Zhao chased and blocked, stepped on with military boots, and beat with clods of soil, and in the end, the rat still fell into the hands of the soldier Zhao, only to see that the soldier who caught the mouse did not care that the mouse was not biting him, but quickly took out the knife, disemboweled, peeled the skin of the mouse that was still struggling, and swallowed the red flesh that was still alive and trembling in his mouth.

The surrounding soldiers looked enviously at the guy who was lucky enough to devour the mouse, and some people subconsciously swallowed their saliva, but they felt even more hungry, but there were also smart people, they found the cave where the mouse ran out, chased all the way down, and finally found a handful of grain and grass seeds in the rat's nest, and several people rushed to devour these things.

In the barracks, in addition to the general-level officers and war horses, other horses were slaughtered, Zhao Bao once strictly ordered that the sergeants were not allowed to slaughter horses, and several soldiers who slaughtered horses were also killed by Zhao Bao, but with the hopelessness of foreign aid, the role of war horses was gradually forgotten by Zhao Jun.

Due to the lack of food, the Zhao army has no morale at all, only those sentries are still sticking to their posts in order to survive, the whole camp is lifeless, there is no trace of vitality, as the days of being besieged are getting longer and longer, there is also a zombie-like atmosphere in the Zhao army's barriers.

Zhao Bao's eyes were empty now, he thought of Zhao Kuo, Zhao Kuo hadn't sent food for a long time, did he run away and return to Handan alone, or what's wrong? I thought of King Zhao again, why didn't King Zhao send reinforcements?

"Your Majesty...... Jun Shang ...... Oh no......" One of Zhao Bao's guards ran in in a panic, and said with a face like dirt: "Ma...... The horses are gone......"

Zhao Bao didn't know about the soldiers stealing and killing the war horses, but the eyes of the soldiers were green, so he turned a blind eye, but he didn't expect his mount to be stolen and killed, which made him thunderous.

Zhao Bao's war horse was slaughtered and cooked by the hungry soldiers in a particularly rapid action last night, and Zhao Bao's own soldiers in charge of the search only found the horse bones and horse skins, Zhao Bao strictly ordered to continue the investigation, and gave the war horse a burial ceremony, and buried the horse bones and horses.

What Zhao Bao didn't expect was that that night, the buried horse bones and horse skins were dug up again, the horse bones were smashed by stones, the bone marrow inside was sucked clean, and the horse skin was gone.

All the foreign edible things can no longer be found, the soldiers began to look for food from themselves, the belt hook is said to be the clothing ornament that King Zhao Wuling learned from the Hu people, it is a kind of leather belt used to tie the waist, the soldiers will abandon the belt hook, untie the leather belt, cut it into sections and throw it in the pot to cook, everyone shares the hot soup, and then the firewood and grass are not very easy to find, so the leather belt is cut into shreds with a knife, put it in the mouth and slowly soak, chew.

Zhao Bao was desperate, he saw the soldiers one by one without belts, like hungry wolves wandering in the camp, hoping to touch a little something to eat, but everything that could be eaten was eaten, even he, the chief general of the Zhao army, could only eat a little grass root bark and leather belt cooked food every meal, whenever Zhao Bao picked up such food, he couldn't help but ask: "Zhao Jun, is it really over?" ”

The reality is even more cruel than Zhao Bao imagined, he got a report from the lieutenant today, there are soldiers missing in each battalion, Zhao Bao didn't care at first, in the face of such a difficult situation, it is reasonable for the soldiers to flee, and it takes courage to flee to the Qin army. "Let's look at the first release together, please support genuine reading, support the author's creation, your one light click, warm my whole code word life."

Zhao Bao knew that the Qin army had a tradition of abusing and killing soldiers, because the Qin people hated the behavior of surrendering to the enemy very much, so it took a lot of courage to flee to the Qin army's position.

However, Zhao Bao finally learned that behind the disappearance of this kind of soldier, there was a terrifying tragedy. In order to prevent the Qin people from digging tunnels and entering the barrier, the Zhao army dug a trench under the barrier, and when digging the trench, the soldiers found several human bones, the bones were unloaded in a mess, and the skin and flesh were scraped clean by knives.

In an extremely difficult environment, under the premise that hunger is greater than everything, Zhao Jun actually began to stage a tragedy of cannibalism.

The cause of the incident was a fight, when Zhao Jun could no longer find anything to eat on the ground, and began to aim his eyes at the sky, and the birds that passed by from time to time became Zhao Jun's new source of food.

During a bird hunt, the soldiers of the two battalions had a fierce argument over who shot the bird down first, and the scolding could not solve the problem, so they began to move, first with fists, and finally with swords, and finally someone lost his life for a bird.

The corpse of the dead soldier disappeared the next day, and he was eaten by the hungry and insane and violent soldiers, and soon, Zhao learned that there was another neglected source of food in the absence of any food, and that was the same kind.

As the situation in the Zhao military camp became worse and worse, no one wanted the wounded soldiers to recover, but waited for them to die, as more and more soldiers were missing, the soldiers' awareness of self-defense became heavier and heavier, and the swords and weapons did not leave their hands, and those officers who were usually majestic became more and more modest in the face of the lowest soldiers, because several officers had already killed and eaten the soldiers.

Those frail and sick soldiers did not dare to leave the camp, and even if they had to leave, they were accompanied by the same frail and sick soldiers, so that they would have some sense of security, but the good days that belonged to them were short, and these frail and sick soldiers were quickly exchanged to other camps, staging the human tragedy of "changing children and eating", which should have been under natural and man-made disasters.

Zhao Bao was already numb to these situations, and he felt that even if the tide of the battle took a turn for the better, this army would not be able to deal with it quickly, and sooner or later it would be defeated.

Zhao Bao regretted his original decision, if Changping was handed over to Zhao Kuo and Lian Po, things would definitely not have changed so badly, but there is no regret medicine to buy in the world, and now it is a shame to think about anything!

"I can't wait like this, I have to break through." Zhao Bao stood up suddenly, it was useless to think about anything now, while the Zhao army still had some combat strength, trying to break through was a top priority.

The next day, Zhao Bao personally commanded the Zhao soldiers to break through the siege, he divided the army into ten groups and began to attack the Qin army's position, and Zhao Bao also personally beat drums and cheered to encourage the soldiers to move forward bravely.