Chapter 299: Laughing and talking about thirst and no water
Second brother! Now the food is there! But Qing Shui, where should we find it?
Water? Oh, yes! It's okay to talk about food, now that these war horse corpses are available, the soldiers finally don't have to go hungry! But where should Qing Shui be found?
The seventy or eighty thousand soldiers of the Qin army who were trapped at the bottom of the Shenshu Valley, if the water was cut off, not to mention that they would all be dying of thirst! Even the internal organs of these horses, put in front of their eyes, they are extremely short of water, and they can't swallow it! At that time, the big guy will not only be thirsty to death, but I am afraid that he will also starve to death by looking at this food!
"Shimizu?" Shi Buyi and Shi Buba, who were standing next to him, looked at Qin Feng and Meng Jing, and the two of them thought about it and said in unison: "General, Captain Mengdu, or let's drink urine!" ”
Drinking urine? The words of the Shi family brothers, although they sound extremely disgusting! But Qin Feng knew that when the army was marching and fighting in ancient times, once the city was besieged, it was really cut off from water and food, not to mention drinking urine, it was drinking human blood, and eating human flesh was also edible!
In ancient times, if there was not much food in the city, and the siege was protracted, the general order was to kill the horses first to satisfy the hunger. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info Once all the horses are slaughtered, they are the wives and concubines of the generals in the army, and they will be used as military food after slaughtering, just like cattle and horses!
After the wives and concubines of the generals in the army are killed, it is the turn of the women in the city, and these ordinary women in the city will be slaughtered as military food like cattle and horses! If that's not enough, it's the old, the sick, the sick and the sick in the city, and the wounded soldiers in the army!
If all of these are eaten, and the siege is not over, then there is really only one end to the end! Therefore, in ancient times, if there was a protracted siege of the city, the city would be slaughtered after the city was broken!
Because everyone knows that these people in the city can no longer be called people! And the hatred between the enemy and the enemy has reached the point where it cannot be resolved! Rather than keep the people of the city against you, it is better to slaughter them all!
It was precisely because Qin Feng knew this that the Shi family brothers came up with the idea of drinking urine. Qin Feng and Meng Jing glanced at each other, and both sides saw a glimmer of hope in each other's eyes, which was immediately extinguished again!
"Drinking pee?" Qin Feng frowned when he heard this, and then smiled bitterly: "Drink urine? You have to have pee, too! Our army is now rationed two mouthfuls of water per person per day, such a little bit of water, at the bottom of this steamer-like valley, can the soldiers still have urine? ”
Qin Feng looked at the Shi family brothers: "It's not easy, can you pee now?" If you don't pull it out, what about you? Can you pee out? Speaking of this, Qin Feng smiled and said, "If you two brothers can pee, then you must be thieves who steal water!" ”
When the Shi brothers saw this, the general was still in the mood to joke! These two brothers, whose hearts are quite similar to Sima Zhi, are both fierce generals who only know how to fight, and do not know other Qin army generals!
At this time, when they saw General Qin Feng, they were still in the mood to make their own jokes. The two of them thought that the general must have a way, but they didn't say it for the time being! With the general here, there will be food, and there will be water! You're still worried about a bird!
The Shi family brothers guessed like this, if Qin Feng knew about it, I don't know if they should be happy? Or should I smile bitterly? Although he knew that in the eyes of most Qin army soldiers, he had changed from obedience to himself to blind obedience for no reason! But he didn't know that these soldiers of the Qin army had already worshiped and deified themselves infinitely!
In the eyes of these Qin Feng soldiers, Qin Feng is their god! Qin Feng is their heaven! It's their sun! It's their air! It's their water source! As long as General Qin Feng is here, there is nothing that cannot be solved!
Seeing that everyone didn't have a good way, Meng Jing thought for a while and said, "Second brother, why don't you let the sergeants dig the well!" Maybe there will be a turnaround! ”
Digging wells? Qin Feng nodded again and again after hearing this, yes! This valley of sunken trees is low-lying, and the mountains and forests on both sides of the valley are so dense. According to the topography, the groundwater should all be gathered in this huge sunken tree valley, and the bottom of this sunken tree valley is right! I think the water level at the bottom of this valley should be quite shallow, but I am afraid that if I dig ten or so zhang, the water will bubble!
After the two agreed, they found hundreds of sergeants, and Qin Feng took these hundreds of sergeants to personally select ten places at the bottom of this Sunken Tree Valley, where he thought that groundwater was the easiest to gather. Then have them rotate with each other and start digging the well day and night!
Time flies so fast, two days have passed in a blink of an eye, and on the side of the Sunken Tree Valley, the sky-high fire that burned all over the mountain forest has gradually been extinguished! Trapped at the bottom of the Shenshu Valley, seventy or eighty thousand soldiers of the Qin army finally stopped suffering from the steamer! But in front of them, there is a more grim reality, that is, the Qin army has completely cut off the water!
The Qin army didn't have much clear water in the first place, and it was able to use such a little clear water to let these seventy or eighty thousand Qin army soldiers survive for a few days. Meng Jing is personally responsible for the distribution and management of Qingshui, which can be described as a great contribution! But even if Meng Jingshan increases the support, after all, it is difficult for a good woman to cook without rice, and the Qin army will cut off the water, it is just a matter of time!
Originally, Qin Feng and Meng Jing pinned all their hopes on those ten deep wells. However, these ten deep wells, in the past two days, have been dug by the soldiers day and night, and have penetrated more than ten feet into the ground. Except for the sand slowly becoming damp, there was no sign of water coming out!
Qin Feng and Meng Jing, the two of them stood next to this deep well, if it is said that the Qin army has not despaired since the beginning of the army! So today, the two of them really feel that a sense of despair is rushing towards them!
If it is said that the heart is persevering, Qin Feng is far inferior to his eldest brother Meng Jinglai! Imagine that when he took Bolun City, Meng Jing used seven or eight hundred Qin soldiers to fight against thousands of soldiers and horses under the command of King Bolun. Qin Feng also threw down a strict order, to let Meng Jing defend to the death, and never lose the city defense!
In such an unfavorable situation, Meng Jing did not feel hopeless, but killed the enemy army at the cost of more than sixty percent of the casualties! It is precisely because of this battle in Bolun City that Meng Jing won the title of the first good general of the Qin army!
Then Meng Jing led 100,000 iron horsemen under his command to encounter an enemy ambush in the Valley of the Sinking Tree, and fell into a desperate situation with no passage in front and no way to retreat! Hundreds of thousands of enemy troops are raining arrows and fires, and even his new wife Sima Juan died tragically in front of him!
Even in such a desperate situation, Meng Jing, the commander of the Qin army, never felt hopeless! Not only did he not despair, but he calmly commanded the battle. Not only did he take tens of thousands of soldiers to survive the skyrocketing fire and avoid the thick smoke, but he also killed the 50,000 enemy troops who went down to the valley to clean the battlefield, and wiped out the whole army, and there was no return!
But Meng Jing, who is so resolute and stoic, looks at this dry well at this time, and also feels that deep in his heart, there is a despair spreading and breeding! Meng Jing felt that he couldn't stand up, and if he didn't hold on, he was afraid that he would fall on the spot!
Seeing that Meng Jing's face was gray, as if he was about to fall, Qin Feng hurriedly reached out to hug his eldest brother Meng Jing, and asked in a very concerned tone, "Big brother, what's wrong with you?" ”