The Tang army's offensive stopped for a while, and the fast horses of the herald were shuttling through the streets and alleys, but everyone was nervous. [This site has a new domain name. initials, previously registered accounts can still be used]

The rebels in the city have transformed into cannibals, and no one wants to become cannibals.

The Tang army that had entered the city shrank back, only guarding the key road crossing, and maintaining the surrounding tents with fence fortifications, at this time it was close to the afternoon, if it was fought, it was not impossible to advance to the original Min Wangfu before sunset, but the intricate ruins must devour the flesh and blood of the Tang army in large numbers, Li Jie did not want to consume the army in this victorious battle, and now the news from the Middle East, the clouds of civil war hanging over the Arab Empire are getting thicker and thicker, and the new successor caliph Ali and the original Umayyad family are in power, The smell of gunpowder among the Syrian governor Muawiya also grew stronger.

Li Jie needed his army to open the Deccan Plateau to the south and Khorasan to the north in order to be ready to deal with changes in the Arab Empire, not to mention that he already had a general knowledge of the enemy's situation.

It turned out that the courtyard not far behind the statue of Lord Shiva was a big circle, and dozens of people were imprisoned in it, just busy cleaning up the corpses, the Tang army ignored that place, and when they heard the voice of the Tang people, dozens of captives dared to run out.

These people are all die-hard followers of the Brahmin Shiva sect who fled into the city through the gap after the city was surrounded by rebels, and many of them are still from the higher castes, but now, they do not have the momentum of the terrorists who went to the Middle East to participate in the holy war in the future, and they are frightened and frightened, far away from the bloody idol of Shiva who was once deeply believed.

Gradually, the sky darkened, and it was mentioned very early, and the food army of the rear army carried a pot of fragrant food along the road to the military camp in the occupied area of the Tang Army, but unfortunately, there were not many people who could eat this night.

In the afternoon, when the rest of the armies were truce, Li Jie's headquarters still maintained the posture of continuing to advance, clearing out the vast ruins area from the original temple to the third street, and the remaining more than 10,000 surviving rebels were driven out, and only more than 2,000 prisoners were left in the prisoner of war camp.

In the middle of the night, relying on the artillery to continuously advance to another main block, King Tielin of Min also set up camp, urban warfare is really fresh in this era, even if these veterans of a hundred battles have died hundreds in the intricate ruins of buildings, and there are more wounded by sneak attacks, the angry Tielin general Hei Yan Changzhi can't eat in the middle of the night and is busy going out of the city to check the artillery dispatch, on the other hand, in the king's tent, more than a dozen Brahmin diehards who entered the city were brought in.

"They, they're not Brahmins at all, they're devils!"

Kneeling on the precious Persian carpet, a group of hungry and lean Brahmin believers who had entered the city pointed their fingers and recounted in horror what they had been going through for so many days.

"As soon as we entered the city, a dozen or so of the little ones were sacrificed to the Brahmin of Vala, no, the devil greeted us, and he first told us that Lord Shiva was satisfied with our enthusiasm for the holy war, took over the dry food we brought, and then took us to the camp, and the little ones were blinded by lard, and they didn't think so much, so they followed, but they were circled up unexpectedly."

There was fear in his eyes, a dozen or so Shiva devotees exaggerated their hands, and the strange shadows like ghosts in the tent swayed in the swaying lights, and in Li Jie's disappointed gaze, Li Rang still retreated far behind the table, but Li Jin had been sitting in his place steadily.

"The next day, and Vala called the little ones to a dozen or so, and asked the little ones if they would like to sacrifice themselves for Lord Shiva, at that time the little ones thought it was with the Min dog, no, no, no, no, and the heavenly army, and agreed without hesitation, but I didn't expect it, I didn't expect it......"

In the deep eye sockets, the fear was so strong that the believer even sat down on his kneeling lap and described frantically with his hands: "I didn't expect that Hevara directly let people grab the strongest Arua, cut his neck, bleed like a pig, and then chopped it into pieces and put it in the pot, we wanted to resist, but we were beaten back, and some people shouted that I had sacrificed my life for Lord Shiva, and if I dared to resist, I would go to hell after death." ”

"Every day they have to slaughter one of our companions, one after another people are tricked in from the outside, the villain is thin, he has not been slaughtered for two months in the city, sometimes these beasts will take some water to feed us, the villain did not hold back, ate once, now think about it, really, really ......"

More than a dozen captives howled and cried, Li Jie, who was crying, was bored, waved his hand and let the guards take him down, the people walked a long way, and there was a faint cry, hearing that Changsun Zhi couldn't help but shake his head with emotion: "Eating people in the name of God, this group of people is shameless enough." ”

Li Jie is silent, even in the 21st century, there are still cannibalistic tribes on the banks of the Ganges, but the disciples fish out the corpses of dead people from the Ganges River and devour them, these people are also Shiva, it seems that cannibalism has always been a recessive gene in this sect.

Now the enemy situation is also clear among these prisoners, Li Jie once thought that the rebels were monolithic have actually been torn apart, and it is worth feeling that the tragedy of cannibalism in the city is actually the product of their infighting.

The exchange of prisoners of war in exchange for more than 10,000 loads of grain, plus various grain stores, official warehouses, and Qunucheng also had 50,000 loads of grain, but soon after receiving the prisoners and food, a strong conflict broke out among the rebels.

The captured Kshatriya nobles have been completely frightened by the Tang army, and advocate surrendering out of the city, but the upper echelons of the rebellion, including Pallava and other Brahmins, refuse to surrender no matter what, they know how hard they have dealt to the Min State, even the princess of Min has been forced to die, and Li Jie cannot spare them anyway.

In the second month of the siege of the city of Qunu, a civil war broke out between the Kshatriyas, who advocated surrender, and the Brahmins, who advocated stubborn resistance to the end, broke out.

Tens of thousands of defeated Kshatriya nobles were besieged in the center of the city, and nearly 200,000 Brahmin rebels and their families were besieged by religious encouragement.

At first, it was the war dead, the starving people, and then the hungry rebels attacked the elderly, children, women and other family members, competing with each other for the old and weak as food, and also caused the internal collapse of the Brahmins, killing and devouring each other, the remaining rebel army was less than 80,000, and it was divided into more than a dozen parts, and today's Ximen Tang army eliminated is the largest force among them.

"Father, this group of people cannibalize like beasts, and they should all be killed." With the fear and hatred of the rebellious army, Li Jin still couldn't let go, and stood up patting the table, but before his words fell, Li Rang, who had been trembling just now, stood up unconvinced.

"Father, the ancients were surrounded by three and missing one, that is, we are too dead in the siege of Qunu City, if we give these rebels a way to live, they will not do the tragic thing of this person eating people, are we too benevolent?"

"If you don't trap them to death, do you continue to let them burn and plunder, you fool, have you forgotten how Aunt Luzhu died? And how did so many people in the house die? It's light to kill them all! Full of rage, Li Jin slapped the table and shouted, seeing that Li Rang was so frightened that he retracted the case, Yang Xinyi hurriedly patted Li Jin on the shoulder and blamed: "Why did you talk to your brother, don't you apologize quickly?" ”

"Hmph, he doesn't deserve to be my brother at all."

Screaming angrily, Li Jin ran out of the tent as soon as he could, watching him disappear in astonishment, Yang Xinyi nodded helplessly to the eldest grandson for a while: "Eldest sister, the younger sister has no way to teach her son, please forgive the eldest sister." ”

"Okay, Jean'er is indeed too pedantic." Swinging his sleeves, Li Jie sighed in distress, listening to Li Jie's evaluation, standing in the tent, Xue Zhiguan's heart tightened again.

The night passed in unrest, in the middle of the night, there were actually rebels who rushed into the camp like crazy to kill people and drag them away, the extended sentries fought fiercely with these crazy people with steel crossbows for half the night, shooting hundreds of people, fortunately, the vast majority of the Tang army still rested peacefully for the night, and the Tang army, which had recovered for a night, finally regained its initial sharpness the next day, and the next morning, lined up for a sweet breakfast, and once again attacked with great fanfare.

Compared with yesterday, on this day, the Tang Army's offensive wisdom was much greater, and it was not busy rushing into the ruins where the rebel army had been hiding for more than half a year, but the first thing to make a big splash was those cooking classes, who set up a cauldron in front of the ruins in the city, and the whole piece of pigs and sheep was stewed in the pot, plus the high-quality soy sauce, spices, and the aroma of the red sauce in thick oil suddenly spread far and wide.

The crossbowmen and lancemen stood guard on the edge of the cauldron with their weapons, and from time to time they swallowed a mouthful of saliva, and it was not long before the ruins of the seemingly peaceful Qunu city area were in a commotion, and thousands of rebels, already hungry, rushed out of their hiding places, brandishing their swords and screaming and rushing towards the cauldron.

It is not a reciprocal war at all, in the face of the swarming chaotic army, the Tang army crossbowmen only need to rely on the fence to pull the crossbow machine, and some positions are too fiercely contested The Tang army can also take the lead in retreating, because the already crazy chaotic army will not chase at all, a nest of crazy people surrounded the cauldron, and they grabbed their hands into it without taboo and hot, and some people even had hot faces and still chewed non-stop, that scene was like a zombie in a life crisis.

The strategy of booby trapping was very successful, surrounded by the four-way army, and the ruins were killed on the same day, and in the afternoon, the Tang army joined forces in front of the former Min Wangfu.

However, at this time, the Min Wangfu had been changed into the Han Wangfu.

Looking at the collapsed courtyard, the dilapidated courtyard, the dead locust tree, the blackened corner tower building, especially the people waiting inside, Li Jie trembled with excitement, jumped off the horse and walked straight to the front position, seeing that the King of Min himself was nervous and about to go to the dangerous compound, and the forbidden army guard Dugu was almost frightened.

Hurriedly grabbed a shield and blocked it in front of Li Jie, but Li Jie stretched out his hand and pushed it away, stunned for a moment, Dugu and waved his hand in a panic, and hundreds of guards picked up the shield and hugged Li Jie, smashed open the gate of the Han Palace, and quickly occupied the important road section.

The former Punjab mercenaries guarding the Han Palace, it was better than the periphery coaxing the madman rebels, and the remaining hundreds of people saw the Tang army killing, and immediately put down their weapons and knelt down to surrender in a well-behaved and interesting way, along the way Li Jie's stride forward The pace of the meteor did not stop at all, and both sides of the road were guarded by the Tang army's round shields, until the main hall of the Han Wangfu that was still standing, in front of the former palace of the Min Wangfu, Li Jie stopped, looked up at the deep hall, and shouted loudly.

"Scar Liu, get out and see Lao Tzu!".