Chapter 34: Eating the Dead
"It's time to eat!" Several gloomy firehead soldiers carried a few mouthfuls of steaming black pots, staggered and slowly climbed to the top of the city, from time to time a little turbid soup shook out, splashed on the ground, the leading firehead army hoarse and low voice, whispered to the many city guards who were paralyzed on the ground, "Get up, get up!" There's something to eat! ”
The army at the head of the city thought that it was a bad cloth from nowhere, thinking that it would be a pain in the abdomen if they ate it, so they simply didn't make any response, just leaned on the city wall sluggishly, looking at the front with empty eyes, and when the Huotou army saw this, he took out a wooden scoop and stirred it vigorously in the pot, the heat in the pot spread, and the soldiers closest to the cauldron wrinkled their noses and sniffed, and they actually smelled a refreshing aroma! These people immediately sniffed hard again, and their numb noses finally recognized the aroma, which turned out to be meaty!
Several people hurriedly scrambled to get up, threw themselves next to the cauldron, and then their eyes widened, only to see that the pot was full of boiled meat! On top of the thick soup, a thick layer of crystal clear grease gradually condensed together, under the grease, a large piece of boiled meat with thick fat and white meat was still tumbling in the pot, hungry for months, where had these people seen so much meat, and immediately regardless of the dirt, their hands reached into the pot and picked up the boiled meat and chewed it, there was a creaking sound between the teeth, several people chewed hard, and their hands kept going to the pot to get the meat, and stuffed a mouthful. The defenders who were a little farther away saw the shape of several people, and they came forward one after another, and when they saw the pot full of meat, they immediately exclaimed in surprise, "It's meat!" When the rest of the soldiers heard this, they immediately rushed over, and for a while, the already narrow city was even more crowded, and everyone was desperately squeezing forward in order to get a piece of meat in the pot, and at this time, there were several groups of firehead sergeants, carrying a few cauldrons that were also full of boiled meat, and swayed up to the city.
"There's meat here!" As the Huotou army drank in a low voice, the sergeants who had gathered together rushed to the rest of the cauldrons, scrambled to reach out to the pot and scoop up the pieces of meat, stuffed them into their mouths, and swallowed them vigorously after a few casual calls, and then suddenly scooped up a large piece of meat and stuffed it into their mouths. There are a few people, eating too eagerly, the meat is in the throat, choking and panting, and then push others away, lie down in the cauldron, sucking the turbid and greasy broth in the pot, people only feel that all this seems to be in a dream, after a while, the meat in the seven or eight cauldrons is divided up like a whirlwind, and the army is still unfinished sucking the grease on the hands. In the blink of an eye, several steaming cauldrons were lifted up to the city
"And !! Eat it, brothers! Seeing that there was meat again, the army at the head of the city immediately rushed forward one after another, but this time the people were obviously not as eager as at the beginning, of course, there were still a few people who only grabbed a little meat, and still pushed and squeezed forward, and vigorously stretched out their hands to get the meat pieces from the pot, and some people had begun to carefully hide the meat pieces in their armor as food.
Qin Wei, Bai Yu, Haitang Xiaoxiao, and the four of them heard the noise of the city in the inner room, and immediately walked out, and saw that the troops on both sides of the city were feasting on more than a dozen cauldrons, Bai Yu smelled that the air seemed to be fragrant with meat, and suddenly the greedy worms moved, and he felt as if he hadn't eaten meat for decades, which made him a rich son how to stand it! then pulled up the begonia and greeted the three of them; "Hey! There's something to eat! It looks like meat! Brother Qin Xiaoxiao, let's go! Otherwise, it's going to be gone! Haitang also sniffed the smell of meat in the air, but then frowned, and then clenched Bai Yu's wrists with both hands, frowned and stared at the cauldron in the distance and said, "Don't go, Childe!" ”
Qin Wei also wanted to go over immediately and get some meat for a few people, after all, in the past month, several people have only relied on wild fruits to support, even if they are all people who practice martial arts, they are already weak in meridians, weak limbs, Xiaoxiao, who can only order three-legged cat kung fu, is even more emaciated, and walks a little vain, hearing Haitang's words, Qin Wei's thoughts suddenly sank, and then said: "Could it be that Yan Feng is back?" But they couldn't have returned so quickly when they had only left the city! Where did so much meat come from! ”
When Bai Yu heard this, he also frowned, after all, although he was hungry and thirsty at this time, he also knew that he couldn't eat this thing of unknown origin. At this time, he felt that Begonia's slender hands were extremely cold, Bai Yu hurriedly came up, Begonia's thin body couldn't help but tremble, and muttered: "It's human flesh, it's human flesh!" ”
"What?" When Qin Wei and Bai Yu heard this, their eyes immediately widened, "Miss Begonia, how do you know?" ”
"This tastes, I know this taste! It must be human flesh! ”
Bai Yu saw that Begonia's face was panicked, and there was no blood, knowing that Begonia was not joking, he immediately rushed to the sergeant, snatched a large piece of boiled meat from the hands of one person, and shouted at the sergeants
"Don't eat it! It's human flesh! Don't eat it, everyone! ”
When the soldiers heard this, they were suddenly stunned, and a few of them had already begun to vomit, but most of the sergeants were still looking at the boiled meat in their hands with blank expressions, after all, even human flesh was too delicious for them who had been hungry for more than a month. However, cannibalism is unorthodox after all, and I stayed there for a while, and I don't know why.
"Shut up!" The army was sluggish, but it was Zhang Xun and Xu Yuan, who came up to the city from the other side, staring at Bai Yu tightly, and refuted loudly: "What about human flesh!" This is the meat of the rebels on the opposite side! Didn't all the soldiers say that they had to eat their flesh and sleep their skin to relieve the hatred in their hearts! Eat everyone! As he spoke, Zhang Xun immediately fished out a large piece of meat from the pot, then stuffed it into his mouth and chewed it heavily, a tooth-sore creaking sound came, Bai Yu looked at the human flesh in Zhang Xun's hand with a shocked face, it was a human hand! Eat this meat! Defend Suiyang City! Everyone is Li Tang's first hero! Eat! Zhang Xun wiped the grease from the corner of his mouth, and then raised the already boiled human hand in his hand high, and raised his arms and exhaled.
"Defend Suiyang!"
"Defend Suiyang!"
“…”
The army was agitated by Zhang Xun's words, and they also knew that this meat belonged to the rebels outside the city, and the resentment and fanaticism in their hearts made the last trace of hesitation disappear, and then they also shouted loudly, Bai Yu only felt that his hands were tight, and it was the soldier who took back the boiled meat in Bai Yu's hand, stuffed it into his mouth and chewed it again!
Bai Yu looked at the group of soldiers competing for human flesh in front of him in a daze, and suddenly felt that this was not Suiyang, this place had already turned into a hell on earth, and the people in front of him who were still fighting side by side turned into cannibals and unblinking ghosts in a blink of an eye.
Qin Wei took a few steps forward, pulled Bai Yu back, and said in a low voice, "Now the situation in the city has to be like this, I think Taishou has to do it as a last resort, Brother Bai, don't think about it." Since it's the meat of the rebels..."
"That's not right! It's not the meat of the rebels" Xiaoxiao, who had been silent on the side, finally spoke, Xiaoxiao stared at the incomplete human hand that had been gnawed in Zhang Xun's hand, and said: "It was clearly a woman's hand, but it was boiled, among the rebels, have you ever seen a woman attacking the city?" Look at these meats again, all of them are thin and tender, how can a person who fights in armor have such delicate meat! This is by no means the meat of the rebels! No, I'm going to demolish him! After Xiaoxiao finished speaking, he was about to rush forward, but was grabbed by Qin Wei on the side.
"Xiaoxiao, don't say it, don't say it!"
"Why!"
"For the sake of Suiyang's military heart..."
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At night, the army at the head of the city was already asleep, and the cauldron was also carried off the city wall, but mottled oil stains could still be seen on the ground.
Taking advantage of the night, the four of them quietly came to the southern city where the corpses were buried, and saw one hundred and ten soldiers from a distance, struggling to swing shovels to dig open the earth pit and drag a corpse that had been slightly decomposed out of the pit.
The stench of decay filled the air, causing the four of them to retch, but they couldn't spit out anything.
"It seems that they are eating the dead people in the city" Qin Wei frowned and muttered in a low voice
"Eat the dead corpse..."Seeing this, Bai Yu felt that his stomach was tumbling unbearably, and he immediately suppressed the feeling of nausea, covered his nose and said to Xiaoxiao and Haitang, who were silent on the side
"Let's go back quickly, if they find out in a while, we won't be able to tell. Although I strongly disapprove of eating human flesh, but at the moment, as Brother Qin said, the Suiyang army's heart is important, and Taishou has to do this. ”
"Why... I always feel that something is wrong" Xiaoxiao muttered, Begonia was also frowning, carefully thinking about the situation during the day, seeing a thin corpse being dragged out of the pit and dismembered on the spot, there was a chill in my heart, which made Begonia can't help but think of her past, and sighed in vain. In the end, at the request of Qin Wei and Bai Yu, Xiaoxiao, who was frowning and contemplative, was picked up, and the four of them quietly returned.
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After reading the military report for a day, Zhang Xunjian inspected the city several times, and saw that the soldiers were sleeping peacefully, his face eased, and then he sighed, returned to his room, closed the door tightly, paced to the side of the couch, and looked intently at the peaceful sleeping face on the bed.
"Concubine, you won't blame me" Zhang Xun leaned over to the couch very lovingly, carefully stroked the woman's cheeks, pulled her messy green silk behind her ears, and looked at her closed eyes with great warmth.
"Love concubine, your righteousness, Zhang Xun will never forget, may you be in the spirit of heaven, can protect Suiyang, protect the Tang Dynasty, and protect every soldier in the city..."
Speaking of this, Zhang Xun frowned, his eyes closed, but two lines of turbid tears slipped quietly from the corners of his eyes.
"The concubine knows me, the concubine understands me, but the world will not forgive me Zhang Xun, I Zhang Xun, I Zhang Xun..."
"This infamy for eternity will be borne by me Zhang Xun alone. Love concubine, you can go with peace of mind! ”
In Zhang Xun's hand, he was just holding a woman's head.
If you want to know what happens next, let's see the next time