Chapter 15 Afterword
In the first year of Zhongping, September and autumn, although it was already autumn, the grassland in front of Kyushu was still fragrant grass, and the turquoise waves, under the blowing of the breeze, kept surging towards the tall, solid city wall of Kyushu!
Along with the waves, there are patches of barely clothed, skinny Yi herdsmen!
These herdsmen are only in their thirties, but they are as old as eighty years old, and the hardships of life have carved wrinkles on their faces. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info
Driven by the elite steppe cavalry behind them, their faces were full of numbness, and they rushed towards the tall walls of Kyushu.
With no siege tools, no protective shields, or even any assault weapons, the only role of these herdsmen is to fall under the Kyushu fortress and use their bodies to form a gentle slope leading to the fortress wall!
Although many of them fell on the road before reaching the fortress walls, a pile of corpses gradually piled up under the city walls!
On the fortress, the guard general Bai Zhu frowned and looked at all this, he was not shocked by this scene or anything, in fact, in the past few years of guarding the Kyushu fortress, he has seen this kind of scene almost every year, every autumn, in order to survive the winter, the grassland Yi tribe will use this method to clean up some of the old, weak, sick and disabled of their tribe, so as to ensure the survival of young adults!
This kind of behavior, which seems very cruel in the Central Plains, is commonplace in the grassland, and has even become a tradition!
Therefore, Bai Zhu has long learned to treat this kind of thing as nothing, and he will not be moved by it at all, what he really cares about is the number of these Yi tribes, there are too many!
In the past, at this time of year, there were thousands of herdsmen who were driven to die, but now, the number of figures scattered all over the mountains and fields is not more than tens of thousands.
Obviously, the other party is not here to consume the population at all, but really wants to attack Kyushu!
This is where his worries lie, don't look at the Kyushu city wall is more than 70 meters high, but tens of thousands of people have piled up, it may really make them pile up a pile of corpses, and at that time, I am afraid it will be a battle to the death!
After all, if tens of thousands of herdsmen can be driven, then the cavalry is obviously at least 100,000, and the entire Kyushu Fortress, all the soldiers combined, is only 20,000! The disparity in strength is extreme!
Thinking of this, Xu Zhu couldn't help but be a little irritable, originally, there are definitely more than so many people in Kyushu, not to mention anything else, there are at least 60,000 people stationed in peacetime, and in the rear, there are tens of thousands of border troops to support at any time, like the current situation, it is not worth mentioning at all!
It's just a pity that the Central Plains is in turmoil, most of the troops in Kyushu have been transferred back, and the defense has been extremely empty for a while, and the grassland is attacking at this time, which is definitely worse!
Now I only hope that the scouts sent to the rear to ask for help can arrive as soon as possible with reinforcements!
In Xu Zhu's heart, there is only one such thought!
However, it backfired, after nearly 70,000 herdsmen fell under the Kyushu Fortress, the tall city wall of the Kyushu Fortress was finally no longer a moat, although it had been attacked for a day and a night, but the grassland Yi tribe was not tired, seeing that the gentle slope was almost over, they suddenly excitedly stepped on the corpse to form a gentle slope towards the Kyushu Fortress and attacked!
Although Xu Zhu led the Kyushu soldiers to resist desperately and repelled several attacks by the Yi tribe, the Yi tribe seemed to be endless, constantly pouring up, and gradually, the Kyushu soldiers were knocked down the city wall, relying on the houses in the fortress to carry out street battles!
With the influx of more and more grassland Yi tribes, the activity space of the defenders was greatly compressed, and the casualties began to increase.
After capturing Kyushu, with the acquiescence of the shaman, the major tribes began to carnival, and the tribal khans were also smiling, proud of the spring breeze, they seemed to see the beautiful days of plundering the rich Central Plains!
If nothing else, at the moment when the Central Plains is in turmoil and the imperial court is too busy to take care of itself, it is indeed very possible for them to return with a full load, but an accident happened!
Ussurid cursed secretly, and kicked the corpses under his feet into the big pit, at this time, in this huge pit, there were already many corpses, there were Kyushu defenders, and there were also grassland Yi tribes, but no matter what kind of people they were, their armor was stripped off, and the naked ones were thrown into the pit, ready to be buried together!
After all, although they don't have much knowledge, the Grassland Yi also know that if they don't care about the corpses, then there may be a plague!
It's just that on such a night when singing and drinking, and being able to drink and eat meat wantonly, no one will be happy to be assigned to do such a thing.
Ussurid was naturally no exception, but although he was unwilling, he did not dare to disobey the orders of his team leader, so he could only put a belly of fire on the herdsmen who carried the corpses!
After looking for an opportunity to whip a certain herdsman with a dozen whips and whipped him half to death, Ussurid finally felt a little more comfortable, and he was about to secretly get some fine wine to drink, but found that those damned herdsmen actually stopped and looked behind him!
He was about to scold, when he felt someone behind him sneak attack, hurriedly dodged, drew his knife and faced each other, but this look, he was so shocked that he almost dropped the weapon in his hand!
It was not the herdsman he imagined or some defender who was lucky enough to not die, but a corpse that had been disemboweled, but stood up with a hideous face!
This kind of scene made Ussuried's heart sink, the steppe Yi tribe was originally superstitious, and he almost thought that this was an evil ghost out of the cage!
However, he is not a timid person, after a little panic, he found that it may be the reason why a big hole was opened in the stomach, this corpse, swaying, walking speed, but extremely slow, his heart moved, suddenly exerted, cut off the head of the corpse with a knife, the corpse shook a few times, fell to the ground softly, and no longer moved!
Ussurid immediately decided that the so-called evil ghosts were nothing more than that! He put the knife in its sheath and was about to go up to inspect it, but he found that the faces of the herdsmen were even more frightened, and he could not help but look back, and immediately felt his scalp tingle.
In the huge pit, all the corpses that had been stacked on top of each other opened their eyes, they staggered to their feet, roared silently, and crawled out of the pit.
In their eyes, there is nothing but pure desire, the desire to eat people!
In September and autumn of the first year of Zhongping, the 300,000 troops of the grassland were detained, and the Kyushu garrison general Xu Zhu sent twelve letters for help in a row to no avail, and he was martyred, and Kyushu fell to the end.
The whole world was shocked, the court and the king of Huai truce, the king of Huai transferred troops to intercept the plundering of the grassland Yi tribe, but there was nothing!
When Huai Wangjun arrived at Kyushu, he found that it was already empty, only some corpses that had been gnawed and waited, silently showing something!
In October of the same year, all over the Central Plains, there were terrifying rumors of the resurrection of the dead and devouring the living.