Chapter 1344: The First Man to Eat Meat
Almost every monster that leaped onto the shore was longer than two or three people.
Those who had been shot lay on the ground, no longer fluttering, and those who had not been shot had flopped on their four short legs when they had come ashore, but they had not been able to rush forward much.
Seeing this scene, Zhuge Jun, who was about to lead the army to retreat, raised his arm.
The soldiers of the Han army armed with crossbow arrows aimed at the water trolls that were only fluttering, but did not rush forward.
On the shore, there are piles of monsters that are dead or alive but can only flutter and struggle.
They have thick scales on their bodies, which glow with a silvery sheen when the sun shines on them.
With a strong crossbow in hand, a Han soldier cautiously took two steps forward, leaning towards a monster that was still alive but apparently had little strength.
Seeing that he was about to lean on the monster, the monster suddenly flipped its body and threw its long tail towards the soldier.
Seeing that the tail flicked over, the soldier hurriedly retreated to the back.
He had barely taken a step back when the monster that flicked its tail completely lost its strength and fell to the ground weakly to protect it.
Seeing this scene, including Zhuge Jun, all the Han troops were stunned.
The soldiers looked at each other one by one, and for a while, no one dared to come up immediately.
In the face of a powerful enemy, the soldiers of the Han army have never been afraid, and even before every battle, they will have a faint excitement in their hearts.
They are made to fight, and their home is on the battlefield.
But now they are not facing a heavily armed enemy, but a completely unknown monster.
If it weren't for the soldiers of the Han army facing the unknown monster and changing to any army, I am afraid that it would have been a mess at this time.
The soldiers stood a little farther away, their eyes all fixed on the monsters fluttering on the shore.
These monsters are long and narrow, and their appearance is very similar to that of crocodiles, but the surface of their skin is covered with thick scales, not bulges like crocodiles.
They don't have fins, but they have four short, thick legs under their abdomen, but judging from the fact that they lost strength immediately after coming ashore, it is clear that these monsters' legs are not used to walk on the ground.
The monsters on the shore were beating their tails weaker and weaker, and finally they were completely silent.
Seeing that the monsters were still moving, Zhuge Jun raised his hand and waved at the Han soldiers behind him, shouting loudly: "Carry them away from the river bank, and taste whether the meat is edible!" ”
After several days of walking through the jungle, the soldiers of the Han army were not only short of water, but also ran out of food and grass.
It's just that hunger in the stomach is easier to endure than lack of water.
Thirst was solved, and the monster in the waterhole was startled, and the soldiers forgot the hunger in their stomachs for the time being, and heard Zhuge Jun talk about whether they wanted to taste the monster's meat and whether it was edible, and many Han soldiers shouted, and ran to the monster corpse on the shore together.
The corpses of hundreds of monsters were carried by the Han soldiers and moved farther away from the waterhole.
A Han soldier pulled out a short blade, held the corpse of a monster, and stabbed it in the abdomen.
The sharp short blade stabbed the monster in the abdomen, and it slipped and almost cut into the hand of the Han soldier.
Taken aback, the Han soldier who stabbed the monster with a sword looked up at the officer on the side.
"I'm coming!" The officer watched as it stabbed the monster in the abdomen, but failed to stab the monster to death, stepped forward, pulled the soldier up, took out a short blade from his waist, and stabbed the monster in the abdomen.
Like the soldier, his sword slid against the monster's snow-white belly, failing to cut its belly.
Stunned for a moment, the officer raised the shortblade and looked at it carefully.
The edge of the blade was sharp, and there was no trace of wear, obviously not because the short blade was blunt, so that the guide could not cut through the monster's snow-white abdomen.
Swallowing a mouthful of saliva, the officer blinked twice and glanced at the feathered arrows stuck in the monster's back.
Raising the blade again, he stabbed the monster in the back.
Unlike stabbing to the abdomen, although the effort this time was not small, the monster's back was lightly cut.
With a sharp blow, the officer made a long cut in the monster's back with a short blade, and in an instant, a stream of dark red blood gushed out of its body.
Seeing the soldiers of the Han army cutting the monsters one by one from their backs, Zhuge Jun shouted loudly: "Why don't you cut the abdomen? ”
Hearing his question, an officer nearby stood up, clenched his fists and bowed far away, and responded: "General Hui, this thing has a soft and slippery abdomen, and the blade can't cut in!" ”
Turning his head to look at the guide, seeing that the guide was also at a loss, Zhuge Jun frowned slightly, and rode his horse towards the nearest monster corpse.
Behind him, in addition to the guide, there were also Xu Chu and Dian Wei, who were deputy generals.
When he arrived at the monster's corpse, Zhuge Jun said to Dian Wei: "General Dian, take the trouble to cut this thing's abdomen!" ”
"No!" Dian Wei answered, took out the double halberds from behind him, strode over to the monster corpse, and stabbed the halberds fiercely into the abdomen of the white flower.
The sharp halberd pierced the monster's abdomen, and to Zhuge Jun and everyone present, to the surprise of Dian Wei's strength, he couldn't insert the halberd into the seemingly thin skin.
Looking at the monster corpse on the ground with a stunned face, Dian Wei licked his lips, and he didn't dare to smell it.
"Let's try it!" Dian Wei failed to cut the monster's belly, Xu Chu carried the big knife, shouted, and swept the knife towards the snow-white monster's abdomen.
The broadsword made a silver arc and sliced through the monster's abdomen.
Although Xu Chu's strength is not greater than that of Dian Wei, he is better than riding a war horse, and the distance from the big sword is very long, so his strength is also a lot more.
A knife slashed into the monster's abdomen, and the huge body was actually split and flew out.
Tumbling twice in midair, the monster's corpse slammed to the ground with a dull thud.
The two Han soldiers hurriedly ran over, inspected the snow-white belly, stood up and shook their heads at Zhuge Jun and the others.
Seeing the two soldiers shaking their heads, Zhuge Jun was suddenly stunned.
With such a strong force, he couldn't cut through the snow-white skin.
The power of Xu Chu's knife is so strong that even the huge body of the monster can be chopped away, even if it is slashed on the bronze armor, I am afraid that it will be split in half instantly.
However, if it was cut into the abdomen of the monster, there was not even the slightest wound, such a tough thing, if it was made into armor, I am afraid that no sharp blade could pierce it.
Furrowing his brows and thinking for a while, Zhuge Jun shouted to the soldiers of the Han army surrounded by the monster's corpse: "Cut off the skin of their abdomen, dispose of them slightly, and then send them back to Luoyang!" ”
"General!" As soon as his words fell, an officer who followed behind him reminded in a low voice: "Our army has been traveling through the forest for several days before arriving here, and returning to Luoyang with people, if all the people who go there are all damaged in the forest, this thing ......."
"Three hundred selected soldiers, turn back the same way!" In the middle of the jungle, Zhuge knew that what the officer said was not unreasonable, muttered for a while, and instructed the soldiers behind him: "Let's try whether the meat of this thing is edible, if it is edible, let the person who returns the same way bring enough food and drinking water, do not delay for a moment, do not need to return to Chengdu, go directly to Luoyang!" ”
"No!" In response, the soldiers shouted behind them: "Select three hundred people, bring enough food and water, and go directly to Luoyang!" ”
Zhuge Jun gave the order for people to go to Luoyang, and some Han soldiers who cut monsters set up bonfires on the ground, found branches from the side, skewered a piece of meat that was about to be cut on the branches, and baked them on fire.
It didn't take long for the piece of meat to be almost snow-white, and it exuded a rich aroma.
On the march, the soldiers of the Han army used to bake food, but whether it was beef or mutton or fish, they had never exuded such a strong aroma.
Smelling the fragrance, each Han soldier swallowed two mouthfuls of saliva and stared straight at the roasted meat skewered on the branches.
Following Liu Wei to conquer the world, the soldiers of the Han army not only fought bravely on the battlefield, but also practiced a good barbecue skill.
For the soldiers of the Han Army who are proficient in barbecue, the monster's meat is not very difficult to grill, but after a while, the original white meat will be roasted and the skin is tender, and it looks crispy and delicious.
The meat was cooked, but the Han army who dared to eat it with his mouth was not.
A Han soldier in charge of the barbecue held a branch in his hand that skewered the barbecue, looked around, and did not dare to stuff the skewer of meat into his mouth.
Tightly frowning, Zhuge Jun did not force a certain Han army to taste the meat of the monster, but just silently looked at the soldiers who had already cooked the meat.
Looking up at Zhuge Jun, a Han soldier in charge of the barbecue stood up, looked at the meat skewer in his hand hesitantly, was ruthless, opened his mouth and bit down on the skewer.
"What is his position?" Seeing that the soldier opened his mouth to bite the cooked meat, Zhuge Jun asked the soldiers on the side.
"General Hui, just an ordinary soldier!" Clenched his fists and bowed, and the soldiers responded.
"If the secondary meat is not poisonous, this person will immediately be promoted to the captain!" Looking at the soldier who was eating barbecue meat in a big gulp, Zhuge Jun commanded expressionlessly.
Nearly 20,000 Han soldiers listened to his words, but not a single one was jealous of the soldier who was eating barbecue.
War horses can't eat meat, war elephants don't eat meat in big mouths, if no one tries to barbecue meat is poisonous or non-toxic, even if there are hundreds of huge prey corpses in front of them, the soldiers can only watch these corpses rot and weather.
After eating the whole skewer of barbecue, the soldier wiped his mouth and licked his lips with a satisfied look.
Looking at the soldier, Zhuge Jun still did not order the soldiers to divide all the corpses immediately, he was waiting, waiting to see if the soldier would have symptoms of poisoning.