The sky is a red glow, sprinkled on the Han water pile of animal corpses folds and shine, the Sichuan army will eat the leftover food, bones, and excreted feces, all poured into the Han water, the river rushed, five miles upstream of the ancient Xiangyang, exuding an unpleasant smell.

And the most important thing is that these organic garbage attract flies and all kinds of insects, under the scorching sun, accelerate the ** of animal corpses, where the animal corpses are piled up, there is a sticky white, countless maggots are swimming, and within two miles of the river, it is almost impossible to approach people.

"General Fan, what do you mean by not necessarily animal corpses today?"

In the dark night, the moonlight outside was white, Liu Zhang summoned Fan Lixiang alone, hunting animals did not achieve the expected effect, Liu Zhang was afraid of falling short, and was a little worried.

"Have you forgotten that we have ready-made carrion?" , Although Fan Lixiang still doesn't understand Liu Zhang and Fa Zheng's intentions, but at least he knows one thing, that is, the more corpses in Hanshui, the better, Liu Zhang raised his head and looked at Fan Lixiang, Fan Lixiang pursed his lips and smiled, and explained: "Lord, after fighting with the Jingzhou army for so long, is there still a lack of corpses?" ”

"Human corpses?" Liu Zhang took a breath of cool air, it's not that Liu Zhang didn't think about it, but this was too inhumane in ancient times, the ancients paid attention to entering the soil for safety, even if it was on the battlefield, the corpse of the soldiers of the defeated side, there would be a victorious side to converge and be buried in a centralized manner, if the corpse was deliberately violent, it would not be compatible with the morality of the times.

But now, there is no other way.

If you don't make a desperate bet, the grain and grass will be cut off, the Sichuan army's efforts for several months will fall short, tens of thousands of soldiers will die in vain, and their hard work in recent years will be wasted, and the Sichuan army will also miss the best period of growth.

"My lord." Fan Lixiang said with a chill in her words: "Gu Xiangyang besieged the city for more than ten days, thousands of people were killed, and the Jingzhou army attacked our army's camp twice, all of them came and went, adding up to nearly 10,000, if you add the ...... of our deaths"

"Absolutely not." Liu Zhang interrupted Fan Lixiang's words.

"Why?" Fan Lixiang was not convinced: "They are already dead, dead is dead, does the lord also believe in the theory of ghosts and gods?" They died fighting for the Lord in life, so why not do their part when they die? ”

"It's not a matter of ghosts and gods, I just can't do it if I say no." Liu Zhang said with his hands in a resolute tone, he didn't want to explain too much, he knew that Fan Lixiang knew his thoughts, but he just didn't agree.

Fan Lixiang doesn't care about anything except the purpose, as long as the purpose is clear, all kinds of vicious thoughts can come out of her head.

Liu Zhang couldn't explain it to people like Fan Lixiang.

"Okay." Fan Lixiang breathed a sigh of relief: "There is no need for the corpses of the Sichuan army, in this case, the corpses of the Jingzhou soldiers under Xiangyang City are not enough, if the lord wants to cross the corpses of the Jiang, he must dig up the corpses of the Jingzhou soldiers from Baichuan, 50,000 corpses, it should be enough, right?" ”

Liu Zhang was awe-inspiring.

………… In the middle of the night, the moon is dark and the wind is high, and the wind blows in the open field.

Fan Lixiang led his peasant army to the burial ground of the Jingzhou army, where tens of thousands of Jingzhou soldiers' corpses were buried.

The covered soil is still new, the yellow soil skin is completely different from the surroundings, the soldiers sweat like rain on it, and those Jingzhou soldiers who have just entered the soil once again "see the light of day".

Fan Lixiang sat on the lawn, holding the sword with the unsheathed sword in her hand, gesturing in front of her eyes, her expression was calm, and she casually said to Chen Ying and Xing Daorong next to her: "I ask you a question." ”

"Yes." The two responded.

"General Ben doesn't understand military affairs, but in my opinion, there are two things to win a war, one is the way of heaven and the other is human art.

The way of heaven is the way of heaven, what kind of slogan does Sun Tzu say about the soldiers who surrender without a fight, righteousness, benevolence and righteousness, and it is messy.

The second is human art, that is, the means, the means taken in order to achieve victory. Which of the two do you think is more important? ”

"Both are important." Chen replied.

"Nonsense, then you have to choose both, obviously one means can win faster, but this method hurts the Heavenly Dao, how can you choose?"

"Then I'll choose the way of heaven." Chen replied.

"Why?"

"The way of heaven is the trend of the times, and if an army loses the way of heaven, it will inevitably suffer from the enemy's desperate resistance, or even internal rupture."

"But every war has to take care of the way of heaven, be timid, increase the risk of each war, it is also very dangerous, who can guarantee good luck for a lifetime?"

Chen Ying was speechless.

"What about you?" Fan Lixiang turned to Xing Daorong.

"I, I ......" Xing Daorong's face twisted, such a question is really not something his big head can think about, and he mentioned his pear blossom axe for a long time and said: "I still believe in my own axe more." ”

"Hahaha." Fan Lixiang chuckled, in the dark fog of the moonlit night, in the cemetery where tens of thousands of people were buried, a large number of people silently exhumed the corpses in front of them, and the faint smile on Fan Lixiang's face looked particularly palpitating.

"I really hope to lead the way, let me test the way of heaven and human arts, which is better and which is inferior."

Fan Lixiang said coldly, her face was full of eagerness, she knew Liu Zhang's intentions, she didn't need to worry about hurting the corpse of the Sichuan army, even if Fan Lixiang had a way to hide the truth from the soldiers, she would rather go to Baichuan to collect the corpse.

Fan Lixiang disagreed with Liu Zhang's approach, in Fan Lixiang's view, the human technique was immediate, and the way of heaven was ...... It's so ethereal.

"Report, report to the general, the corpse, the corpse has been revealed." A lieutenant with a knotted tongue came to report, his face pale, his lips purple, and his scalp twitching with obvious fright.

"Now that it's out, let's load it. …… Wait a minute. ”

Fan Lixiang got up from the ground, patted the blades of grass on her pink buttocks, and walked towards the captain, who was nervous and took a step back in fright.

"Are you scared?" Fan Lixiang asked from a distance of two feet from the captain.

"No, I'm not afraid." Looking at Fan Lixiang's white and dustless face, the captain was really not afraid of those dead corpses at this time.

Soldiers with face towels loaded the corpses one by one onto carts, and these corpses were buried for several days to dozens of days, just after the rainy season, the ground was very wet, the corpses had long since decomposed, the heads were blurred and swollen, and the whole body became thick pillars of bubbles because of the swelling of the corpses, and the blood circulation stopped, because of the gravity relationship deposited, forming pieces of white corpse spots.

There were crawling insects everywhere that could not be named, from the nostrils and mouths, and the pierced eye sockets, and the wounds of those dead corpses were a paradise for maggots, once opened, packets of squirming like chopped cooked noodles, and they were dirty to trample to death, and they slipped down from the corpses and crawled on the ground, so frightened that the soldiers could not help but retreat.

Some of the corpses also had vomit on them, which was left by the soldiers when they were excavating, and the rotting bodies that had been dug up by the hoes, even the pig killer Xing Daorong felt sick and retched on the spot.

Fan Lixiang looked at these corpses calmly, glanced at the carts, and sighed half-loudly: "It's too little." ”

………… Two days later, the corpses brought from Shirakawa arrived, and these corpses were even more unsightly than the corpses dug up by Fan Lixiang, these corpses were buried dozens of days ago, and after more than ten days of heavy rain in between, they were now long gone, and the degree of decay was similar to that of the two pigs found in the well, and when the shovel was struck, all turned into porridge.

The cart was wrapped in layers, and the smell of the team escorting the corpses could be smelled for five miles, and the escort soldiers were each given two pieces of money, and only their eyes were exposed, but even so, many soldiers could not stand it and fainted on the road.

60,000 corpses were dumped into the Han River, spread for five miles, the real stream was cut off across the river, down along the embankment built by the Sichuan army, looking down from top to bottom, there were all stinking rotting corpses, mixed with people and beasts, some had clear facial features, some had blurred facial features, some only left pieces of meat, and the diluted internal organs were scattered everywhere.

Liu Zhang and the Sichuan army will stand on the high mountain near the embankment, quietly watching all this.

Liu Zhang signaled to Zhang Ren, Zhang Ren waved his hand violently, and ordered the flag soldiers to hold the flag high, hundreds of soldiers on both sides of the Han River pulled dozens of fiber ropes, burst and drank hard, and the fiber ropes were tightened little by little, only to hear the sound of "boom", the earthquake trembled, the embankment burst, and the water that had been accumulated for more than ten days set off a monstrous wave and swooped down.

The flood rolled forward, rolled up the corpses in the Han River and swooped towards the ancient Xiangyang, the strong waves and the wind, the heaven and the earth changed color, and tens of thousands of stinky corpses were brought to the ancient Xiangyang city by the flood.

Liu Zhang and Fa Zheng looked at the flood in front of them, Liu Zhang slowly breathed a sigh of relief, what he should have done and what he shouldn't have done were done, and then, all that was left was waiting.

............" reported that the Sichuan army had dug the river embankment, and the water was rushing towards the city. Xu Shu was discussing the military situation with the generals, and the soldiers came to report urgently.

Xu Shu threw down a small flag in his hand, and walked out of the house quickly with the Jingzhou generals, Zhang De in the corner pouted his greasy mouth while eating barbecue, and said disdainfully: "Chickens and dogs are jumping, what's so urgent, inexplicable." ”

"Liu Zhang dug the river embankment without waiting for the heavy rain to store water, and the flood will definitely flow down the river in the city, so Mr. quickly order a block."

The river in ancient Xiangyang passed through the palace, and Li Yan looked at the river channel where the water level had risen significantly, and said to Xu Shu eagerly.

"Nope." Xu Shu shook his head and said: "This inland river is used to dredge the flood, through the flood storage tank and water storage lane in the city, if it is blocked, the moat will not be able to stop the flood at all, and we will end up like Pi Lu Bu two years ago." ”

Xu Shu has been worried about what accidents will happen before the rainstorm, at this time the Sichuan army suddenly released the flood, Xu Shu's brows furrowed into a Sichuan character, he is not worried about the flood, even if the rainstorm comes, it is not much use to Gu Xiangyang, but Xu Shu always feels that there is some conspiracy in this, especially the Sichuan army is flooding so early.

Corpse.

Xu Shu suddenly thought of this, Liu Zhang couldn't have hunted animals for no reason a few days ago, and dumped so many corpses of Jingzhou soldiers, mixed with the corpses of birds and beasts, which caused the indignation of the generals in Jingzhou, and they all asked to go out of the city to face the battle.

At that time, Xu Shu thought that it was a radical move by the Sichuan army, and strictly ordered the generals not to leave the city, and beheaded two generals for this purpose.

And now it seems that this is obviously not the case, and these dead bodies must have entered the ancient Xiangyang City with the flood.

(To be continued)