Chapter 310: Burning Silla Camp V

The wild laughter in the Silla camp lasted only a quarter of an hour before it stopped, and the officers and men of the Tang Army who gathered outside were amazed, talking to each other, who in the Silla army could survive the fire for more than three hours without dying?

Although it was a maniacal laugh before death, in Li Yu's opinion, it was just a helpless laughter. Pen fun and pavilion www.biquge.info

Think of the desperate cry of despair that this man's desperate laughter before dying could penetrate the thunderbolt of the firewood burning and spread clearly and clearly within a radius of half a mile.

Zhang Shiyuan thought that two hours would be enough to roast all the Silla troops to death, but he didn't think that there would be people alive after more than three hours, and he was really startled by the sudden laughter, and touched his oily chest to calm his heaving heart.

As the laughter from inside the Silla camp stopped, Li Yu felt that the fire was coming and ordered to stop throwing firewood. Li Yeji led the three guards and horses to stay behind, and after the fire was extinguished, they checked the situation of the Silla camp, and the rest of the troops withdrew and returned to Seoul to rest.

After the order was issued, 42,000 of the 51,000 soldiers and horses gathered outside the Silla camp immediately returned with Li Yuxi, ending the day of unbearable heat but great victory.

In this battle, how many people went back and how many people went back, and no one was killed or wounded and annihilated more than 30,000 Silla troops, which can be described as an unprecedented miracle in the history of human warfare.

Jin Yuan Shunuo took the initiative to go out of the camp to fight with the Tang army, instead of sitting on the fortifications of the big camp, and the whole army would not end up like a boiled frog in warm water.

More than 30,000 people hid in the trenches and talked and laughed at themselves, looking at the Tang army's attack with their previous combat experience with the Tang army, and passively waiting for the Tang army's fire attack to end. In the end, while waiting, they were completely trapped in the trenches by the fierce fire projected into the camp by the Tang army and could not get out, and one after another was roasted and smoked to death by the high temperature and thick smoke.

It took an hour for the fire in the Silla camp to be completely extinguished, and at this time, the sun was setting in the west, and the colorful sunset hung in the sky against the unextinguished carbon fire in the Silla camp.

Although the fire was extinguished, because a large amount of wood was burned, there was too much charcoal left behind by the fire, and the scorching heat in the Silla camp made it difficult for the Tang army to approach.

Li Yesi had to send a group of soldiers and horses to keep an eye on this place to prevent a mutation, and led the rest of the soldiers and horses back to the big camp on the opposite hill, and then boarded it to check after the carbon fire was completely extinguished at dawn tomorrow.

More than 30,000 Silla troops were roasted to death in the camp, although the fire was extinguished, but the smell of barbecue meat could not stop spreading to the circumference through the light wind, the closer to the Silla camp, the stronger the taste, but in the meat aroma was mixed with the smell of burnt paste.

The thousand-strong Tang army who remained a hundred zhang away from the Silla camp camped on the spot, and the strong smell of meat filled the mouth and nose. Many soldiers remembered that this was the fragrance of human flesh after it had been cooked, and they couldn't help but run to the side and vomit wildly, causing other soldiers who didn't care about it to laugh loudly.

As night approached, the smell of meat from the Silla camp attracted many scavenging jackals and wild dogs to wander around. When the fire was completely extinguished and the temperature in the Silla camp dropped and it was time to enter, many jackals and wild dogs ran into the camp and slipped through the exit of the trenches to drag out one after another the corpses of Silla soldiers to the middle of nowhere.

There are enough corpses that the jackals and wild dogs, which are usually in a competitive relationship of predation and prey, coexist peacefully at this moment, each looking for and enjoying an unprecedented delicacy, and only after eating a bulging stomach can they reluctantly drag a corpse away.

With the passage of time, the strong smell of dead corpses attracted the black bears, tigers and leopards in the mountains and forests dozens of miles away, and the roars of wild beasts such as tigers and wolves were heard endlessly at night. Until now, the officers and men of the Tang Army stationed a hundred zhang away from the Silla camp could not sleep peacefully, and each held his weapons and stared at suspicious moving objects out of sight. In addition, more than 30,000 Silla troops were burned to death on the hill during the day, and some superstitious soldiers were afraid in their hearts, and they all prayed to God and Buddha to keep themselves safe. What Zhenwu Emperor, Guanyin, Rulai, Three Emperors and Five Emperors, whether they believe it or not, whether they worship the gods and Buddhas or pray to their ancestors, just worship in their hearts that they will bless themselves.

At dawn, Li Yeji led the army to arrive and personally led people to the Silla camp to investigate.

At this time, the jackals, wild dogs, tigers, bears and leopards who were eating saw someone coming, thinking that they were robbing for food with themselves, and showed a fierce face to Tang Jun, but when more and more people appeared in the field of vision, these beasts instantly understood their status, and they threw down their food and fled to the distant mountains and forests.

The beasts that fled slowly pierced their bodies one after another with arrows from the Tang army, fell to the ground and wailed, and then were stabbed and dragged back by the chasing people to skin and eat meat.

Li Yeji looked at the devastated Silla camp destroyed by wild beasts, the torn and broken corpses were everywhere, and coupled with the smell of burnt flesh in the camp, the miserable images were disgusting.

Lee Ye-hee assigned his subordinates to carefully search every trench in the Silla camp, count the number of dead bodies of the Silla army, and search for the body of Kim Won-shu, the commander of the Silla army.

"General Li, Jin Yuanshu's body seems to have been found."

Because everyone has never seen Jin Yuanshu, and the corpse is basically roasted, it is difficult to identify the appearance. The soldiers had to judge according to the clothes of the Silla generals, so it is estimated that Kim Wonshu should be one of the more than ten unusually dressed corpses found in the towers at the highest point in the center of the camp.

Under the guidance of the soldiers who came to report to him, Li Yesi came to the watchtower overlooking the surroundings, covered his mouth and nose and carefully stepped over a charred corpse to the stone house covered with many generals wearing armor.

Judging from the clothes of these dead bodies, they are indeed a number of high-ranking generals of the Silla Army, but it is difficult to identify which one is Kim Wonshu.

"Go to the prisoner camp and bring up a young Silla future who has seen Kim Wonshu."

"Whoa!"

The soldiers who had been ordered to flee from the eerie stone house, Li Yesi saw a corpse next to him with his armor peeled off and his eyes open, and his right hand was still clutching a clay pot.

Li Yesi approached and wondered what he was doing with the clay pot before he died? Scanning the stone house, I found that there were several large water tanks in the stone house, but there was not a drop of water in it.

"Could it be that this person is the one who laughed before he died yesterday?" Li Yesi was stunned by his own speculation.

Several large water tanks in the stone house must have been filled with water before, and this person should have poured water on his body to cope with the scorching fire in the camp, and held on until three hours later, as the water ran out, and in despair let out the laughter of the last moments of his life.

"General, could this person be Jin Yuanshu?" The general pointed to the dead corpse and guessed.

Li Yesi stepped forward with some uncertainty to take a closer look, he had only seen Jin Yuanshu from a distance before, and he didn't have a deep impression of his appearance, and his face was so familiar that he couldn't see it at all.