Bashu is different from China in winter, because the climate is warm, the snow falls late, but the autumn rain is slow to leave, often a rain for several days, the humid air makes the Qin people who are used to facing the loess very unaccustomed, must take a large amount of Qin pepper to get rid of the moisture, so as not to suffer from sores and mustards; Especially for wounded soldiers, this weather is the most unfavorable.

In the Qin army's wounded barracks outside the diving city, the Qin Yue people brought more than a dozen personal disciples and camp physicians, who were carefully examining the wounds of the wounded, and sometimes personally changing the dressing for the wounded soldiers. Nanzheng is now returned to the Qin State, and there are public horses and ink cattle as transportation tools, the supply of the Qin army is not a problem at all, the soldiers can not only get enough medical treatment, but also change the wounded cloth every two days, the battalion has a civilian man to clean three times a day, and the wounded cloth must be sterilized at high temperature, this is the rule set by Bai Dong, and now the wounded soldiers of the Qin State are treated as the best.

As Bai Dong said, the battle of diving is not a conspiracy, nor is it a competition for military geniuses like Pang Juan and Sun Bin, but for strength. Hard power is naturally the prosperity of the bow and crossbow and the availability of morale, while soft power is whether the food is enough and whether the food is exquisite, whether the soldiers' amateur cultural life is rich, and whether the soldiers who have been wounded on the battlefield can enjoy the best treatment and the most careful care?

It will be a terrible war of attrition, consuming the forces of Shu and the will of the old Qin people at the same time. When the warriors of the Qin State who shouted 'Restore my rivers and mountains, blood will not be shed, death will not spin', and the warriors of the Qin State will keep throwing themselves into the meat grinder of the diving city like moths to a fire, how long can the will of the old Qin people last? If it was earlier than the collapse of the Shu army, it must not be the fault of the soldiers, but the fault of the generals, the mistake of him, the strategist and Sun Bin, the executor of tactics.

"Bear with me, you'll be fine soon"

This battle has been going on for more than half a month, and the Qin army has to pay thousands of casualties every day in front of this diving pass. Diving has been dyed red on the surface of the Baili River, and the color of the river is actually black when the sun sets every day; The soldiers are the most ruthless people, but even Sun Bin, a soldier who will not affect him shaking the feather fan on his chest no matter how many casualties there are, has begun to frown, his food has been decreasing every day in the past few days, and the feather fan that he refused to throw away even if he entered the winter has long been thrown by him, Qin Guan is a young man who is as gentle as jade. Even on the battlefield, he will not abandon etiquette, but he has begun to learn to scold his mother in the past few days.

Even Qin Yue people became grumpy, because there were ten times more soldiers entering the wounded barracks every day than going out, and in this way, many of the soldiers who went out every day were directly buried in a foreign land, and he had already sent more than a dozen letters to Bai Dong, almost roaring to Bai Dong that this cruel battle must be stopped, because this is not a battle, this is a life, a massacre! Bai Dong didn't reply to a single letter, because Qin Yue didn't say anything wrong. This battle is too cruel even in the Warring States period, but no matter how cruel, immoral, and even against human nature, it must continue to be fought because Qin and China need it.

In the face of this unprecedented brutal battle, the wounded soldier camp is the most prone to problems, even if Bai Dong and Sun Bin have done countless unimaginable jobs in this era, if it weren't for such a soft voice, if it weren't for such a beautiful face, I'm afraid that the wounded soldiers would have a nervous breakdown after opening their eyes. Panic and war weariness would spread from here to the entire barracks, just like those Shu defenders who were about to go crazy jumped from the city and fell to their deaths. Or beheaded by their own court-martials.

Cao'er wore a light-colored cloth, her hair was pulled up high at the back of her head, revealing her long jade neck, and she stooped down and squatted beside a wounded soldier, gently changing the sand cloth for him, and the soldier looked at Cao'er stupidly. For a while, my heart was agitated, and I just wanted to rush out and fight with the Shu people now, and the more injuries I suffered, the better, so that I could see this beautiful girl every day.

It took more than two hours before Cao'er left the wounded camp. Gently propping up an oil-paper umbrella, she glanced at the several Bai family masters who were following her, and said in a low voice, "The siege battle is not over yet?" ”

"Miss Hui, the war is in full swing."

"This siege has been fought for three days and three nights, right? Let's go, take me to the battlefield to see, anyway, I am also a war correspondent of the "Daqin Times", and I must use notes to write down this bloody battle, so that readers can see how cruel the war is, and let everyone in the world know how important peace should be. ”

"But the young lady once promised the head of the family that this 'interview' in the barracks will only be in the barracks, and only in the barracks for wounded soldiers, but the battlefield is impossible to go, it is too dangerous, if our brothers don't stop it, I am afraid that we will be punished by the head of the family." These masters of the Bai family are all members of the Bai family from Yishi Village, and they are also masters trained by Sang Wazi and Fleas themselves, Cao'er has been obsessed with being a war correspondent, they have followed and protected all the way, both up and down, but also the righteousness of father and brother, I heard that Cao'er was going to the battlefield, and immediately refused decisively. There are even some complaints about Bai Dong, how can he let the eldest lady come so freely? shouldn't have let her come to Shuchuan!

"If you don't go, I'll go alone! My brother once promised me that he would support me in doing whatever I liked, to be a 'free and independent' woman, and I became a war correspondent for the "Daqin Times", and even my brother didn't stop me, you dare to stop me? ”

Cao'er was furious, turned around and was about to get on the horse, but was held by a Bai family master: "Miss, now that the head of the family is not here, a few of us from Yishi Village are like your brothers, if you must go, please wait a while, wait for me to ask General Sun for a hundred shields to protect Miss, before I can go to the battlefield to 'interview', and Miss also promised us that we must be five miles away from the diving city, only from a distance, not close to the edge of the battlefield, otherwise even if the head of the family scolds and Miss blames, we will resolutely refuse." ”

"I promised, you can go."

***

Cao'er saw it, the big brother Sun who smiled and called her 'Xiaocao' was actually in a bad mood recently, he loved to drink Baijia tea when he was happy, loved to hold the goose feather fan and shake it on his chest, and when he was in a bad mood, he would eat desperately, it was unimaginable that such a thin person could eat a whole leg of mutton, and he said that he was eighty percent full.

The leg of lamb was cut into slices and smeared with fragrant and sweet starch sugar, which was sent to the grass through layers of armor; But Cao'er really can't eat it, and the bloody smell wafting from the direction of the diving city is disgusting, where is there still a little appetite?

This is already the third siege, and it has lasted for three days and three nights, except for the reserve force deliberately left by Sun Bin, every basic company has participated in this brutal siege; In front of the diving city near the water cliff, even a military genius like Sun Bin can only rely on the flesh and blood of the soldiers to pile up, fighting morale, equipment, fighting for the loser and the siege equipment designed by the Mo family, but there is no calmness of 'strategizing and winning thousands of miles away'.

Sun Bin finally did not agree to Cao'er's risk, and the final result of the 'negotiation' between the two sides was that he took Cao'er with him at all times, this high ground was five miles away from the battlefield, even the most powerful crossbow arrows could not be shot, and in addition, it had to be protected by five hundred fully armored shields, but even from this distance, the cruelty of the war was still unobstructed.

From the moment the battle began, the diving city could no longer see the sun, the bows and crossbows of the two countries that covered the sky and the sun were like clouds, in the terrifying rain of arrows, the soldiers of the Qin army had to pay huge sacrifices for every step forward, but even so, the battle song of the old Qin was resounding on the battlefield all the time, and the battle had been simplified to rushing up, climbing to the head of the city, and then cutting off the opponent's head while the enemy pierced his chest, and the head of the city became a mountain of corpses and a sea of blood, and the corpses under the city were seven feet, and the moat had long become a river of nether blood, Even if it is connected to the living water of the Qianjiang River, the blood color does not fade at all, this is not war at all, but pure consumption, and the consumption is a fresh human life, behind every human life, there may be a beautiful spring girl, a wife with a baby in her arms and a white-haired mother

Cao'er didn't have the courage to look at it anymore, she clenched her fist lightly, and suddenly had an unprecedented doubt about her brother, remembering that when she was in Yishi Village, almost every night her brother would take her in his arms and tell her countless beautiful fairy tales, which were always full of sunshine and warmth. Now that Cao'er has grown up, she has even become the famous 'Sister Shanlu', but why do those beautiful fairy tales leave her as she grows older? Because she will always suspect that these fairy tales are all lies (to be continued......