Chapter 35: Cannibalism
Li Xiaoer took advantage of the dim candlelight, Zheng Zai carefully looked at the bamboo slips in his hand, at this time, someone outside the tent reported in a low voice: "General, the spies have sent back the news, Suiyang City has been boiling minced meat for food in recent days, and the soldiers are full of physical strength and high fighting spirit."
"Huh? Boiled minced meat for food? Where did they get their meat? ”
"It is said that it is the meat of the soldiers of our army who went to siege the city!"
When Li Xiaoer heard this, he chuckled in his heart and replied hastily; "Got it! Let's go down" frowned and secretly thought to himself, since this month, he has acted in accordance with the jade slip left by the red-clothed man everywhere, besieging but not attacking, and the iron bucket of Suiyang hoop is like this, and even a bird has not been put into the city, but the first few **** had a whim, and quietly sent a team of people to Suiyang City to inquire about the news, but unexpectedly, all of them were killed under the city, which was much beyond his expectations, and what was even more unexpected was that the Tang army in Suiyang actually ate human flesh! After thinking about it, I really felt afraid, and I didn't know how to explain it to the man in red, but after thinking about it, although it was my own negligence for a while, it shouldn't matter, after all, there were only one hundred and ten people, and even if the thousands of Tang troops in the city ate them even if they ate the bones and dregs, they wouldn't be able to eat a few meals, and then, as long as they followed the strategy left on the bamboo slips, it would be right. Thinking of this, Li Xiaoer decided not to think carefully by himself again.
After thinking about it for a long time, Li Xiaoer finally sighed, and then showed the bamboo slips, finished reading the follow-up content, and immediately threw the bamboo slips, picked up the wine bottle and poured it into his throat, then leaned back on the chair and closed his eyes for a long breath of relief, and touched his stomach, "Ah, good wine!" ~ Suiyang, when the time comes, Emperor Dayan will definitely give me the first credit, hehe, I didn't expect that I, Li Xiaoer, could have today, and the Suiyang Worship General will be just around the corner, hahaha~"
"I didn't expect you little guy to be so stupid, probably enough to live."
When Li Xiaoer heard this, he raised his eyes and looked at it, and then rolled down from his seat in fright, it turned out that it was the man in red who appeared in the big tent at some point.
The man in red didn't seem to see Li Xiaoer's embarrassment, and leisurely paced to the back of the handsome case and sat down.
"In the days that Mr. has been away, the little one has been implementing the strategy left by Mr., and he has not dared to violate it in the slightest!"
"Huh? Never violated? The man in red's calm words had a hint of anger in his words, grabbed the bamboo slips on the case, and with a slight movement, the bamboo slips suddenly turned into crumbs and spilled from the fingertips of the man in red.
Li Xiaoer couldn't hear the tone of his words, and immediately shouted: "Mr. spare his life, the little one just wants to explore the enemy situation in the city, Mr. spare his life!" You might as well wait for three more days, let them starve for another three days, and the little pro-led iron cavalry will rush up and kill them, and they will definitely capture Suiyang! ”
"Next time, be smart, be careful with your own life, talk less nonsense, and go get water!"
Li Xiaoer saw that the man in red didn't blame himself too much, so he secretly took a long breath, and looked up to see that the candle flame on the handsome case gradually became slender, and slowly flew into the hand of the man in red, slowly condensing a round red light cluster, which was beating in the hand of the man in red.
The next moment, a little bit of white powder also seemed to be pulled by some kind of force, flying out of the sleeve of the man in red, merging into the red light cluster, but seeing the beating red, after encountering the white powder, it became more and more intense, and finally turned into a dark red ball, the red man gently grabbed his hand, and the dark red light cluster quietly dispersed and faded, leaving only a small handful of black powder gathered in his palm.
"Let's go and find water" The man in red saw that Li Xiaoer was stunned in place, obviously stunned, so he snorted.
Li Xiaoer woke up suddenly, and then ran out of the tent in a panic.
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Li Xiaoer stared at a small bowl of mysterious juice as black as ink in front of him, carefully recalling what the man in red said just now.
"Pick two thousand brave and good soldiers, mix this bowl of black water with wine for two thousand people, give them a drink tomorrow, and let them attack the city!"
"Two thousand... Isn't this going to give human flesh to Suiyang again?" Li Xiaoer said to himself, although he didn't know what the man in red meant, but seeing the appearance of this black water, it should not be a good thing, "Forget it, it should be right to listen to Mr., it's just these two thousand strong soldiers..."
"Xi clan, since the last month, they have frequently asked for war, and they still don't obey my orders, just let them drink!" Li Xiaoer made up his mind, his eyes narrowed, and then he shouted outside
"Someone! Go and prepare 500 jars of wine! In addition, the leader of the Chuan Xi clan has come to see me! ”
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"Yes, I have checked the cooked meat in the past few days, and it is definitely not the meat of a corpse! Look! Xiaoxiao said to Bai Yu, Qin Wei and Haitang in the room with a serious face, and then threw a piece of boiled meat between the four of them.
"Miss Xiaoxiao, don't say it yet" Bai Yu covered his mouth with one hand and held his stomach with the other, then rushed out of the room, lay on the city wall and vomited.
Qin Wei and Haitang held back their nausea, stepped forward with a candle flame, and carefully stared at the boxy piece of human flesh in front of them, although it was boiled white, the texture layer by layer was still clearly visible.
Qin Wei took a closer look, but didn't find anything abnormal, so he raised his head and asked
"Xiaoxiao, this... Is there anything out of the ordeal? ”
Begonia saw some clues, leaned over to the side of the meat and sniffed lightly. Then he said with a frown; "This is indeed not the meat of the corpse, didn't Brother Qin notice it, the corpses they dug up were all rotten and stinky, but this piece of meat did not have the slightest smell, but it was a fishy smell that only living people would have."
"I really didn't pay attention to that!" Hearing what Haitang said, Qin Wei also closed his eyes, leaned in front of the meat, and sniffed it, although he knew that it was human flesh, and he was disgusted, but after the smell of meat, the hunger in his stomach made him want to open his mouth and take a bite of this meat. Only then did Qin Wei realize that as Begonia said, there was not a trace of rancid smell in this meat.
Xiaoxiao continued; "Qin Wei, haven't you noticed that in the past few days, this cooked meat has not been broken? Just ask, where are there so many dead bodies enough for so many people to eat? ”
Hearing this, Qin Wei's brows tightened, and a thought that sent chills down his back slowly floated in his mind, "Could it be that these flesh are living people?" Not rebels, not soldiers, mostly old and weak, women and children, these are... of the people! When Qin Wei thought of this, he suddenly felt like five thunderbolts on the top, as if the sky was spinning, and then he got up suddenly, picked up the crescent halberd on the side, and was about to look for the patrol Xu Yuan. And Bai Yu was almost vomiting, he heard the sound in the room, and then turned around, just in time to see Qin Wei who was carrying a halberd. Bai Yu didn't know why, and hurriedly asked; "Brother Qin? What are you doing? Qin Wei didn't answer, and at this time, he felt that his chest was filled with this nameless anger, and he rushed forward and knocked Bai Yu to a stumble.
"Brother Bai Hugh is going to follow!" Qin Wei coldly dropped a sentence, and rushed to Zhang Xun's tent in the city without looking back.
Bai Yu looked at Qin Wei's disappearing figure blankly, looking dazed, thinking that it must be Xiaoxiao and Haitang who said something to Qin Wei, and then forcibly endured the feeling of nausea and walked into the inner room of the city.
"Is this the flesh of a living man? How could he, Zhang Xun, kill the people in the city! Bai Yu, who heard the cause and effect, suddenly jumped like thunder, he would never have thought that this hero who tried his best to defend Suiyang would actually kill the people in the city!
"How could he do this to the people! Aren't they pitiful enough! Bai Yu only felt that his anger was rushing, his head was buzzing, his fists were clenched, his joints were white, and he was rattling, and the begonia also changed his usual gentleness, his face was calm, the green tendons in his right hand burst out, his nails quietly became longer, the color was purple and blue, and his eyes became cold.
"I'm going to kill this demon!"
"Childe, I'll go with you!" The two of them rushed to the big tent of Taishou Zhang Xun one after the other.
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"Boom!" With a bang, a silver swaying halberd pierced the wooden case straight, and the sharp crescent moon split the wooden slip in Zhang Xun's hand in half. Zhang Xun was very calm, staring at Qin Wei in front of him with calm eyes.
"Taishou-sama! Why kill the people of the city! ”
"General Qin, why do you need to ask knowingly." Zhang Xun's face was still calm, he lowered his head and picked up another bamboo slip, and looked at it casually.
"I know what! Well, even if it's for the defense of the city! But what is the sin of the people? As soon as Qin Wei finished speaking, seeing that Zhang Xun was calm, his heart was even more angry, and then he stepped forward and grabbed the halberd, and twisted it hard, the old table case was suddenly broken into several petals, and the bamboo slips on the case were scattered by the sharp crescent, and the tent was suddenly in a mess. Zhang Xun was also injured by the halberd wind, and his cheeks oozed a little blood. A candle flame tumbled to the ground, igniting a few debris in the tent.
"General, please look at this." Zhang Xun slowly got up and picked up a wooden box from the messy debris. Zhang Xun gently opened the lid, and inside was a good-looking but pale human head!
"What do you mean?" Qin Wei suppressed his anger, but his hand was tightly clutching the halberd, if this patrol couldn't say why tonight, blood would inevitably be splattered on the spot.
"This woman is my beloved concubine, and before she went, she also asked me, what is the crime of the concubine? It's really the same as what General Qin said, yes, what are they guilty of?"
Zhang Xun caressed the face of the woman in the box lovingly, and then turned his head, and yelled at Qin Wei with cold eyes
"What is the sin of the people? What is the sin of the soldiers at the head of the city? What is the crime of the soldiers outside the city? What is the crime of you, General Qin? Could it be that this battle is what I, Zhang Xun, am willing to fight?! Does the general think I'm willing to eat these people? These few roars actually made Qin Wei stunned, and his thoughts in his heart were like a mess
"I don't eat her! I won't be able to live, I won't be able to defend Suiyang, and the people in the city will all die! Huainan! Gangnam! The rivers and mountains of the Tang Dynasty will be destroyed in one fell swoop! ”
Qin Wei didn't say a word, why things had developed to this point, he had always been prepared in his heart, but this price was unacceptable to him for a while.
"I naturally know, but the price of defending the city like this may not be too much..."Qin Wei frowned and said with a desolate face.
Unexpectedly, when Zhang Xun heard this, he actually raised his head and laughed a few times, "Is this price still great, the general knows that after the battle of Luoyang, the people in the city have been slaughtered today, and the eastern capital of a hundred years has been reduced to ruins!" Hundreds of thousands of people! He Li Yi is heroic and ruthless! It's tragic! Obviously he could hold out, but he ordered the defenders to go out of the city and fight the rebels! The Thousand Cavalry you are proud of are truly heroic! Famous all over the world! Through the ages! I, Zhang Xun, will be infamous as a man-eating beast on my back, and I will be stinking for 10,000 years! In the end, Zhang Xun's eyes were already full of resentment, and his eyes were red.
Zhang Xun's roar made Qin Wei stunned, his mentor, General Zhenguo, led thousands of comrades to fight in Luoyang, and when he arrived at Zhang Xun, he seemed to have another taste, and he was at a loss for a while.
If you want to know what happens next, let's see the next time.