Huo ...... Huo ......" The sound of sharpening knives sounded dullly in the dark yellow room, and Captain Peng was sharpening on the gravel with a short knife. The snow-covered outside is white, but the inside of the house is not very transparent, and the people inside have the illusion that they don't know day or night. There was a firewood crackling and burning, and the whole room was filled with golden light. There was a large iron pot on the firewood, half a pot of water, and a slight white smoke was slowly rising on the water.

This room is a barracks requisitioned by the army, and there are winddusters and other things in the corner, which looks a bit like the hall of a private house. There were six people here, five big and three thick strong lieutenants were sharpening their knives, a sergeant was using a burning stick to make firewood, the other sergeants were sitting or standing, and a little lady was tied hand and foot and her mouth was blocked and thrown next to the fire.

The soldier with the burning stick was a ten-year-old white descendant, who was usually called a dog, and he was called to find the rope in this little lady's house before. Seeing that the little lady was tied with her hands behind her back and curled up on the ground pitifully, he said sympathetically: "Captain, are we really going to cook her?" This...... This is not right. ”

"What's wrong with being in the army and obeying the orders of the upper peak?" The lieutenant asked, looking back.

The later life couldn't say why, but said: "It's just not right." ”

The lieutenant sneered: "Why don't you go to Chen Tuanlian and say to the captains, 'It's wrong to eat|People, everyone can't eat', see if it's useful?" ”

Hou Sheng said helplessly: "I'm a pawn, and I don't know me from above, I'm afraid it's useless." ”

The captain said: "Then keep your mouth shut, otherwise someone will hear that you have two hearts, cook it first!" The gang of swimmers in Chen Tuanlian's hands are all exiles, what can't they do? ”

Hou Sheng hurriedly shrank his head and remained silent. At this time, he glanced at the little lady who was thrown on the ground, and saw that her wrists had been tied too tightly and had been strangled with a few deep red marks. Because the rope was tied in this later life, he couldn't bear to see this, so he went up to loosen the rope for her.

"Why?" The lieutenant snorted, "The kid really wants to disobey the order and release him?" ”

Hou Sheng hurriedly shook his head and said, "I see that the tie is too tight, let her loose." ”

The lieutenant listened: "What is the use of the dying person?" ”

The sergeants also laughed: "Seeing that we all have to die in this Shancheng, the dog has never married a daughter-in-law, isn't it a loss in this life?" Why don't you marry this little lady and be your daughter-in-law. The later life did not argue after hearing this, but only blushed and silently loosened the rope.

At this moment, the captain stood up, grabbed the bright knife that had just been sharpened and walked towards the little lady. The little lady stared at her frightened eyes, shook her head desperately, and screamed and couldn't speak.

The lieutenant crouched down in front of her, holding a knife and gently placing it on her chin, and everyone looked at her in amazement. The little lady didn't dare to move, only staring at the sharp knife with her eyes.

"The little lady still has a bit of beauty." The lieutenant looked back and said, and several sergeants nodded in agreement. At this time, the captain moved the knife down, grabbed the jacket of her upper body with one hand, and cut it with the knife in the other, cutting off a piece of the clothes on her chest, revealing the white underwear inside. The lieutenant grabbed the white robe and tore it, and immediately tore off a large piece, and a round soft thing was exposed, trembling slightly beside the firewood with a white and yellow light.

Several sergeants stared at the white with wide eyes, and suddenly there was a sound of swallowing saliva in the silence, and the room was suddenly filled with an atmosphere of lust and sin.

The lieutenant hesitated for a moment, stretched out his hand to put it on the soft skin, turned around and said coldly: "Whoever says half a sentence will die!" Then he stretched out his hand and picked up the little lady and walked to a hut stacked with miscellaneous items by the wall, and said, "The team is watching, no one is allowed to leave, everyone has a share." ”

After a while, they heard the sound of wheezing and gurgling from inside, and everyone knew what was going on, and waited silently. It didn't take long for Captain Peng to come out in rags, and said to everyone: "Go one by one, each person can't exceed half a stick of incense, hurry up." ”

…… In the end, there was still the white queen standing next to the firewood with his head shrunk. The lieutenant asked, "Dog, aren't you going?" Hou Sheng swallowed a mouthful of water, and peeked into the dark hut, but his legs did not move.

A sergeant said coldly: "This guy has no share, I'm afraid it won't be reliable." ”

The captain pondered for a moment and said, "He doesn't want to forget it, it's okay, the dog has been with me for so long, and he won't say it." ”

Unexpectedly, Hou Sheng suddenly said at this time: "I ...... I haven't tasted anything like a woman......" The crowd laughed.

The latter buried his head and ran in as soon as he slipped through the smoke. The captain looked at his back and said to everyone: "He just said that we are not right, isn't this the same as us?" ”

After a while, after a few words, the offspring came out, and the captain was stunned: "What? ”

Hou Sheng blushed and said, "It's over." Several sergeants laughed, and one patted the shoulder of the descendant and said, "It's like this the first time, there's nothing to be ashamed of." ”

Everyone got the little lady out, only to see that she was already tossed and disheveled, her face was full of tears, and there were tooth marks on her white skin. The sergeants went out and brought in a water tank with ice and snow floating on it, "Wash her before boiling it." ”

One person said: "I'm afraid that the little lady can't stand the ice water, so mix some hot water." ”

The lieutenant and the two sergeants held down the little lady and pulled out the only piece of cloth left on her body, untied her rope, and pressed her naked into the water tank. The little lady was struggling, although she couldn't break free, but in the chaos she pulled the cloth off her mouth, and suddenly shouted: "Help......"

The lieutenant punched her, causing her to spit out a mouthful of blood. "It's useless to call it anything! Scream again, cut out your tongue first! He said viciously with a sharp knife.

The little lady cried: "You let me go...... Please. ”

A sergeant pressed her brain into the water tank with a press of his hand, and reached out to rub and wash her indiscriminately. The captain said again: "Wash more below, I will have to eat when I go upstairs in a while, I can't help but be disgusting!" ”

By this time, the water in the cauldron on the firewood shelf was already boiling and bubbling. The little lady sobbed in despair: "What did I do wrong to be tortured like this, I don't want to get into the oil pot...... Kill me first. ”

The lieutenant said, "Let's bleed first...... It's like a pig, if it falls to death without sparing blood, the meat is dark red; And the pork that is usually slaughtered is white in color. Hold! As he spoke, he grabbed the little lady's long hair with one hand, and pulled the short knife at her throat with the other, and blood came out. I grabbed something and caught it, and after a while, a room full of blood was made, so go get a basin. ”

The little lady's teary eyes widened, her open mouth grunted a few times, and a stream of blood flowed out of her throat.

When the blood runs out, the little lady must be dead, and her body is still soft with a pair of godless eyes, but her body still occasionally twitches slightly. The lieutenant took the knife and first stabbed it from the side of the corpse's chest, and then, with a slight saw, cut off a pair of breasts and flesh along with the chest, and threw them into boiling water.

Then he put the knife in the horizontal door panel and said, "Come, cut all the meat into the pot, and bury the entrails." ”

The white and bloodless corpse slowly revealed its bones, and the flesh kept leaving the body. In the end, only a bloodstained skeleton remained, the flesh on the head was not cut, and a delicate woman's face hung on a pair of white bones looked very weird.

When it was almost cooked, the captain ordered someone to scoop up the meat and chop it, put it in several wooden basins, and cover it with a lid and send it to the upper floor.

Captain Peng also followed upstairs to see Chen Tuanlian and the generals, and when he walked into the building, he first hugged his fists and said: "Chen Tuanlian, the errand has been completed." Then he reached out and lifted the lid, only to see that there were pieces of human flesh that had been boiled white. The lieutenant said again: "It's a teenage lady who caught it, and the meat is tender." ”

Chen Tuanlian smiled coldly and said approvingly: "You did a good job, everyone come and try it." As long as you get used to eating, there are tens of thousands of people in the city, and you don't have to worry about military rations. ”

There was a dead silence, no one spoke.

At this moment, a general suddenly stood up, and more than twenty pairs of eyes looked at him in unison. The general looked around with a white face: "Since everyone is afraid to speak, then I will risk my life to be this bird!" ”

Chen Tuanlian said coldly: "Captain Li, what do you want to say?" ”

Captain Li pressed the handle of the knife with his hand, stared at Chen Tuanlian and gritted his teeth: "Killing the same kind, how is we different from barbarian birds and beasts?" Chen Tuanlian, stop it! Please lead your brothers out of the city to fight to the death to repay the country's kindness! ”

"Who are you scaring that thing for, are you going to do the opposite?" One of the generals shouted. As soon as the words fell, only a few "swish" sounds were heard, and the junior half of the generals pulled out their sabers and stood in front of Chen Tuanlian.

The rest of the people sat silently and did not move, leaving only the lieutenant surnamed Li standing there alone. Captain Li looked back around and said, "Everyone, what are you waiting for? Do you want to be in the company of these beasts and eat the flesh of your fathers and villagers? ”

The first general said: "Those who know the times are Junjie." ”

At this time, one of the generals sitting there persuaded with a relatively gentle attitude: "When General Zhang wakes up, how can Chen Tuanlian explain to him?" In case we don't die, go back to the assassin history and ask where the tens of thousands of people in Shancheng have gone, how do you explain to the assassin history? ”

Chen Tuanlian said categorically: "We are isolated and helpless to hold the city, not dead in the hands of enemy soldiers, but we want to starve to death, how can we explain?" All the qiē I did was to defend against foreign invasions, why don't you understand my painstaking efforts? ”

"Huh!" Suddenly, there was a metallic sound, and Captain Li pulled out his horizontal knife. The generals were nervous for a while, staring at him tightly, and just waiting for Chen Tuanlian to give an order to hack him to death.

Unexpectedly, Captain Li didn't make any excitement, and only stroked the blade with his hand and said: "Datang saber, only fight for two words: loyalty, benevolence!" ”

Everyone was silent, only to see Captain Li turn the knife upside down, press the tip of the knife to his heart, inch by inch. His teeth clenched so loudly that everyone shook in place.

Captain Li spat out a mouthful of blood, gritted his teeth and said, "Death is not terrible...... Brothers, don't stain your sword! With a pop, the bloody tip of the knife came out of his back, and he collapsed in a pool of blood.

After another silence, Chen Tuanlian reassured everyone: "Maybe the reinforcements will arrive tomorrow and the day after tomorrow, let's eat some people, but we can hold the city and let more people live, what's wrong...... Come, taste, as long as you think it's mutton and pork, there's nothing you can't eat. Captain Peng, you cut it well, it's no different from the meat we usually eat. ”

The two generals walked down with wooden basins and let them eat in front of everyone. A general just put it in his mouth, and suddenly he threw up with a "wow".

Right here, a sergeant trotted up, knelt down on one knee and said, "Lang Zhong called the little one to report that General Zhang is awake!" Although he was weak, he was able to speak a few words slowly. ”

The generals immediately looked at each other, and one said: "It's better to ...... him"

Chen Tuanlian hurriedly said: "First take care of the general." The man said coldly: "The group practice, when it is interrupted, it will be chaotic!" ”

Chen Tuanlian looked around, and many generals lowered their heads to avoid his gaze. Chen Tuanlian pondered for a long time before saying: "Take care of the general, he needs to recuperate, don't let people disturb him." ”

The general said: "I understand my humble duties. ”

Chen Tuanlian continued to reassure the generals and said: "At the moment of the great enemy, you should focus on the overall situation, perform your duties and do a good job in defense. ”

Everyone clasped their fists and said, "The last general will obey the order." ”

After everyone dispersed, the general who had previously persuaded Chen Tuanlian said again: "I am afraid of a mutiny, so we must prepare for the regimental training in advance." ”

Chen Tuanlian frowned and said, "What should be the plan for the future?" ”

The general said: "Using living people as military food will be resisted by many soldiers and cannot be implemented...... Instead of waiting for the mutiny and infighting, the regimental training should be decisive and lead the whole army to open the city gate and fight to the death! Now that they have been executed, everyone is willing to obey the orders of the regimental training and happily go to their deaths. ”

Chen Tuanlian's brows never opened, and said: "Going out of the city is to die in vain, it's really not interesting." ”

The general said: "There is no other way. ”

"In the Jin Dynasty, there were Han generals who fed the enemy on the population in the city, and it was known as loyalty, and I didn't think there was anything wrong with it!" Chen Tuan practiced.

The general persuaded: "I'm afraid that some generals can't be reasonable, don't understand the thoughts of the regiment, and give birth to two hearts." At that time, if our army is in civil strife, will it not be reduced to fish and meat on the board of the Tuyuhun people? ”

……

As Xue Chongxun expected, his trip to Langzhou was fruitless, and it was basically impossible for Cheng Qianli to divide his troops to rescue Zhang Wulang. The southern front is at a critical juncture, winter is coming, the logistics of the Tubo army can not keep up with the defeat is just around the corner, Cheng Qianli is very patient waiting for the victory to come.

But Zhang Wulang is afraid that it will be difficult for him to live to see the victory of the war...... In fact, in Xue Chongxun's heart, he regarded Zhang Wulang's life as more important than the victory or defeat of the entire battle, and he really did not reach the realm of selflessness.

The snow is falling, and the winter in Longyou seems to be very long. After Xue Chongxun returned to Shanzhou, he thought about it and thought of a new army of more than 2,000 people that he had recruited not long ago. In times of war, conscription was legal...... But these people were farmers and craftsmen not long ago, and the training time was too short, Xue Chongxun really didn't have any hope for their combat effectiveness, and the number was small.

Even with only such a small number of people, equipment and supplies are a big problem, and the state capital can only barely maintain its operation, and it is really difficult to suddenly equip a team of 2,000 people, as well as food and grass.

Fortunately, Xue Chongxun had connections in the central government, so he could have no fear, so in the name of the imperial court, he added commercial taxes in the name of "tariffs" at the trade route checkpoints, and increased military spending to the local governments in the name of preparing for war to protect the prefectures and counties, so that he could raise some money and food in a short time.

The weather was cold, and the first batch of military clothes had just been issued, but the armor was scarce, and only some generals had it. At the same time, there is a shortage of long weapons and horses, and most people are only equipped with a horizontal knife, and there are not many people who can shoot arrows.

Can such a force of men fight? Xue Chongxun sighed in the carriage, he was taking the Flying Tiger Regiment to inspect the schoolyard in the north of the city.

The soldiers of the Flying Tiger Regiment who followed him were elite, all cavalry troops, all ironclad armed, well-equipped, and the personnel were also strong and brave men who had been carefully selected before, and the most important thing was that more than ninety percent of the people from Hedong could not be regarded as a trump card in Xue Chongxun's hands, but unfortunately there were too few people.

When approaching the school grounds, more than a dozen horsemen came in the snow, all of them were generals of the new army. The generals above the brigade commander are all transferred from the Flying Tiger Regiment: one is experienced, and the other is to ensure that this group of men and horses will become Xue Chongxun's descendants, otherwise will it be difficult to make a group of men and horses to make wedding clothes for others?

There were a few brigade commanders in the Flying Tiger Regiment who were originally just ordinary soldiers, but in the new army, they became brigade commanders and centurions who commanded 100 people. But there is nothing wrong with it, because the new army is a group of farmers and craftsmen, and what is wrong with veterans being generals in the past? What's more, the Flying Tiger Regiment was originally a special army that came out of the Central Coup...... Just like when Zhang Wulang was in charge of the Flying Tiger Regiment before, he was a general Jin Wuwei, but he was only a captain.

The generals of the new army who came were all old members of the Flying Tiger Regiment, and they were very familiar with Xue Chongxun, and they met and saluted very casually. Someone said in front of Xue Chongxun: "The officials who procure military uniforms are really careless!" I got a bunch of cyan materials, we were dressed in black, and we were jokingly called the shrouds, saying that they were the 'shroud army', which was unlucky. ”

Xue Chongxun noticed that the clothes on these generals were indeed cyan, and some were wearing armor, so he didn't notice it at first. He said: "The officer has a blue face and a white background, and he is very particular, isn't it very good?" Sergeants wear an indigo bottom, which is not so easy to get dirty and practical. And in ancient times, the Han family was originally honored for black, what is unlucky? ”

The general said embarrassedly: "It turned out that Xue Lang personally chose ......"

Bao Cheng, the captain of the Flying Tiger Regiment, took the opportunity to say: "The name of our Flying Tiger Regiment was taken by Xue Lang, and the new army also took a name, so as not to be jokingly called the Shroud Army." ”

"Well, you have to make a name for yourself, right?" Xue Chongxun was really very useful, and muttered, "What's your name...... Invincible? ”

The generals were stunned, and someone said, "What if I lose the battle the first time?" ”

Xue Chongxun nodded: "It makes sense, it's better to keep a low profile." ”G