Chapter 152: An Awkward Situation
"The slave and maid do exactly what His Majesty wants, and there is absolutely no selfishness." Qin Huaiqing was taken aback, and hurriedly swore to the sky.
She is now respectful and afraid of the Emperor.
Respect is affectionate and righteous, such an obvious waste has to be supported by the last, I am afraid that the emperor's scheming is too deep.
I couldn't guess what he was thinking.
It felt like her mind was completely exposed under Li Yuan's nose, and she couldn't hide from it.
"I will keep you by my side, and I will naturally protect you, don't play any tricks on me." Li Yuan warned.
"Hmm." Qin Huaiqing nodded aggrievedly.
Li Yuan shook his head and didn't care, beckoned, and behind the screen, Lu Zhou walked out, hugged his fists and said, "The last general has seen Your Majesty." ”
"The abolished prince Li Chengqian is not pure-minded, send a team of men and horses to protect him, strictly prohibit him from entering and leaving without authorization, and ......" He groaned slightly, thinking of the changeable things in the city, "If it is a last resort, swear to protect Li Chengqian." ”
No matter how you say that Li Chengqian is also his grandson, you can't ignore it.
"The last will obey." Lu Zhou bowed, hid in the dark, and walked out.
Qin Huaiqing, who was on the side, trembled, he didn't expect that the Emperor Taishang would also guard against it, the three holes of the cunning rabbit, if he had said the wrong thing just now, I am afraid that there would be his own corpse on the city tomorrow.
She didn't think that the Emperor Taishang was so embarrassed to raise Gu, and when she encountered untouchable danger, the most decisive thing was to kill her with a knife.
"That unlucky prince, he still thinks how smart he is, but he doesn't know that he is clever and mistaken, he has been a demon too much and succeeded in killing himself, in front of his father and emperor, and in front of the emperor, don't you know that each of their two generations of emperors is easy to mess with?" She stuck out her tongue secretly.
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The next day, it was just getting clear.
Li Yuan dragged the sick body to the gate of Nancheng, last night the battle was stalemate, and there were three layers of corpses scattered on the ground, the blood stain had already stained the floor dark red, and flies buzzed and hung on it.
The Indochina Peninsula is hot and humid, so the food is easy to mold, and the same is true for corpses, although they have only been dead for one night, they all have a fishy smell, and you can even see a few maggots about the size of fine needles.
"These corpses and the walls are to be burned as soon as possible to prevent the plague, and the nearest water is to be boiled three times, and the soldiers are forbidden to drink raw water." Li Yuan commanded.
He had just ascended to the city gate to take a look, and the enemy had not chosen to take back the corpses of the barbarians he had scattered last night, but had piled them up there.
It's a bit out of fashion.
That is, there is no humane spirit.
Generally speaking, when the war is besieging a city, when the night is almost over, after the withdrawal of the army, it is necessary to come at night to collect the corpses and comfort the souls of the dead.
But the barbarians were barbarians in the end, and they were not educated, and they did not even bring back the corpses of their comrades.
Since they didn't take it back, it didn't matter if they were piled up there, and they had to be buried or burned to prevent a massive plague.
In times of war, the killing is often not fatal, but the plague that comes with the killing.
Especially in the Indochina Peninsula, if the plague breaks out, then these Tang troops and the people who occupy the city will not want to live.
Mosquito bites are the next most feared to be airborne.
In the Tang Army, there are people who are specifically responsible for collecting corpses, and for the Tang Army, they have to align with the roster, and then determine the name and place of origin, and then send the ashes back to their hometowns, and those whose corpses are not complete, they will try their best to find the broken corpses, and put them together, if there is really none, those people will be burned collectively, and then the ashes will be divided.......
Of course, for high-ranking soldiers, the missing body parts need to be imitated with wood or ceramics, and they cannot be burned at will, buried locally, or bought coffins to send back to their hometowns.
It's just that this kind of treatment is only available to very few people.
When everyone was silent, Li Yuan naturally would not waste the opportunity to restrain the morale of the army, although it was a little unkind. "The whole army collectively mourned! Believe it, happy days will come eventually, your wives and children, the government will raise you, and I will raise you! “
He said pale words to the Tang soldiers, but the effect was significant, and a few hot-blooded soldiers were eager to fight the barbarians for three hundred rounds, and then bury them in the cemetery, so that the Emperor Taishang would also give him a moment of silence.
From ancient times to the present, the method of restraining the morale of the army is very simple, such as eating with comrades, etc., but few people do this.
Sometimes history is more absurd than reality.
During the Tanyuan Alliance, Kou Zhun just took Song Zhenzong to walk in the ranks of the Song army, beat the drums, and did nothing, so that the Song army fought chicken blood, successfully defeated the Liao State, and kept the peace of the Great Song Dynasty for a hundred years.
If it weren't for Song Zhenzong's encouragement, would those Song armies fail?
A successful emperor can bring a weakened court back to life, just like Li Shimin, who made an alliance with Jieli Khan.
Shame on you after three years!
As a father, Li Yuan is still very proud of his son's achievements, after all, Taizu said that Li Shimin's strategy is second to none among the emperors.
If it weren't for the fact that there were too many capable people in this dynasty, Li Jing and Li Ji, then Li Shimin might end up in person.
It is very strange in history that often excellent emperors gather a group of capable ministers around them.
Maxima often has, but Bole does not often have.
Li Yuan doesn't think that he is a Bole, so he is not ready to look for a thousand miles, just have a hundred miles in his hand.
For example, although Li Xiaogong is not as powerful as Li Jing, he can be regarded as a first-class commander in the world, and with strong armor, it is easy to destroy the city.
After a day of silence in Champong, it was attacked again by the enemy on the third day, this time the barbarians learned to be obedient, and it is estimated that Prince Abe gathered a group of craftsmen near the country of Linyi and built a simple catapult to attack.
The elephant soldiers are also the first attack force of the brute soldiers, and the corpses of war elephants piled up under the city walls every day can circle the moat three times.
The barbarians besieged the city on the fifth day, and the siege gradually weakened, but in the same way, the Tang soldiers in the city were also exhausted, and the materials in the city were gradually scarce......
And the most scarce is the gunpowder and food in the city, the former is not enough, and now there is no artillery support, so there are substitutes for wooden handle grenades, rolling wooden stones, but the problem of food is difficult.
Although Li Yuanxin ruthlessly confiscated all the grain stocks of the people who occupied the city, the grain in their hands was already not much, so they had little effect.
For this reason, some Tang soldiers had a whim, and every day after the barbarians retreated, they would pick up the dead elephant carcasses below.
These elephants are huge, and although the meat quality is not good, they can be more than enough to support with food.
So it creates a very embarrassing situation.
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In order to besiege and occupy the city, the barbarians cut off food for them, and then the food did not run out.......