Chapter 320: Evil intentions
Three days passed, and the million-strong army was isolated outside the city of Twin Peaks, and it was difficult to cross the thunder pool by half a step, which made Chu Chen anxious like an ant on a hot pot, restless, and unable to sleep at night.
Seeing the appearance of his coach, the generals below are also very helpless.
Someone suggested to Chu Chen that he simply return the command of the siege to Ren Tianxing, after all, Ren Tianxing is the commander of the coalition army, and it is Ren Tianxing's responsibility and task to capture Shuangfeng City, why should he take this problem on himself?
Chu Chen is arrogant, he is afraid that he will be compared to others, he is afraid that others are better than himself, after listening to the words of his subordinates, he was furious, gritted his teeth and asked: "Do you think that this handsome is not as good as him?"
Na You Jiang shrank his neck in fright, how could he mean this? But seeing Chu Chen's grinning teeth and looking like he was going to eat people, You Jiang lowered his head and didn't dare to explain more.
At this time, a strategist named Zhou Song in the You army sneered, shook his head and said, "General, why is it difficult to break through Shuangfeng City?"
Heh, what a big breath! The generals of the You Army looked at Zhou Song like monsters, including Chu Chen.
The latter said, "Mr. Zhou Song, what do you say?"
Zhou Song said with a smile: "I have a plan, if the general acts according to my plan, at most one month, our army can easily take Shuangfeng City and capture the Jin army in the city alive!"
At this moment, Chu Chen suddenly came to his senses, his eyes widened, and he shot out of essence, and hurriedly asked, "What kind of plan?"
Zhou Song asked rhetorically: "General, isn't there a lot of corpses of fallen soldiers in our army?"
"That's right!"
"Soak these corpses in stagnant water, and after a few days, they will rot and breed plagues, and then use a catapult to throw all the corpses in the city of Twin Peaks in a few days. The plague will spread in Twin Peaks, and the general thinks about it, how can those sick Jin troops withstand the attack of my million-strong army?"
Zhou Song said it lightly, but the generals around him listened in a cold sweat.
You Guo, like Jin Guo, has a military style among the people, and the status of military attaches is significantly higher than that of civilian officials.
At this time, people looked at Zhou Song. is secretly scolding in their hearts, such a vicious plan to cut off their children and grandchildren, and only civil officials like this can think of it.
After hearing this, Chu Chen also gasped, stared at Zhou Song with wide eyes for a long time, and then slowly closed his eyes and lowered his head silently.
The reason why Chu Chen hesitated after listening to Zhou Song's suggestion was that he was not worried that the Jin army in the city of Twin Peaks would be too cruel to do so, and he would be happy when all the Jin army died. He was considering whether using the corpses of the soldiers as a vector for the spread of the plague would cause turmoil in the morale of the army.
At that time, it was important to pay attention to the deceased and put them in the ground, and even when collecting the corpses, they tried to collect all the corpses as much as possible, but now they had to soak the corpses of the fallen soldiers in water to breed the plague, and then throw them all out. If you end up with no place to be buried, what will the officers and men in the army think? What will they think of themselves as the commander?
Chu Chen hesitated. It is believed that although Zhou Song's idea is good, it may cause dissatisfaction among the officers and men of the whole army.
He couldn't make up his mind, so he asked the generals on the left and right: "Generals, what do you think of Mr. Zhou Song's strategy?"
"This ......" None of the generals thought that Zhou Song's idea was good, but if they were against it, they had to propose a better way to break the city. If anything, people have said it a long time ago, so why wait until now?
The generals looked at each other, and no one spoke, that is, they did not approve or oppose.
Looked at. Chu Chen's face was annoyed, and he asked in a deep voice, "What's the matter? Don't the ranking generals have any opinions? It's time for you to become dumb when you speak!"
Listening to Chu Chen's reprimand, people's heads hung lower, and finally Li Feng spoke: "Plague...... Isn't that too dangerous? What if I get infected into the barracks?"
Zhou Song had already thought about this, and continued: "Our army can dig a pond a little far away from the barracks and set up a fence to block it. ”
Li Feng frowned and said, "Is it ...... to spoil the corpses of our army's fallen brothers like this It's too cruel, isn't it?"
This was exactly what Chu Chen was worried about, and seeing that Li Feng had asked for him, he immediately looked at Zhou Song as well.
Zhou Song pretended to sigh, shrugged his shoulders and said: "This is also a way that there is no way! If you continue to attack like this, I don't know how many days it will take, and how many soldiers will have to die." Our army is not comparable to the Yan army, the Yan country has a large population, they can afford to die, but we can't afford to die, how to minimize the casualties of our army, this is what the generals should prioritize, as for the rest, they are secondary. He said this to Li Feng, and actually said it to Chu Chen.
After hearing this, Chu Chen clenched his fists, slammed his palm, turned his heart sideways, and said, "Okay! Just do what Mr. Zhou Song wants!" After a pause, he asked again: "Do you want to inform Yan Jun of this matter?"
"Of course you do! It would be better if Yan Jun could provide some of the corpses. ”
"That's right!" Chu Chen nodded repeatedly.
Chu Chen listened to the advice of the strategist Zhou Song, and prepared to use the highly decomposed corpses to breed a plague, and use the plague to slaughter the Jin army guarding Shuangfeng City.
This method is too vicious, in that extremely backward era at that time, once the plague broke out, there was almost no cure, and nine out of ten infected people would die, if there was a large-scale outbreak of plague in Shuangfeng City, spreading to the whole army, not many of the hundreds of thousands of Jin troops in the city might not survive.
That night, Chu Chen went to Ren Tianxing's sleeping tent and reported the matter to him.
Of course, his main purpose was to ask Ren Tianxing for the corpses of the dead members of the Yan Army.
After listening to Chu Chen's idea, Ren Tianxing retracted his smile and stared at Chu Chen with a frown.
Chu Chen himself also understood that this idea was not very authentic and too ferocious, and he said with a wry smile: "This is the only way to defeat the Jin Army as soon as possible and take Twin Peaks City at present." ”
Ren Tianxing was silent.
Chu Chen cut to the chase and said: "Ren Shuai, this strategy requires a large number of corpses, I don't know if Ren Shuai can mention ......"
Before he finished speaking, Ren Tianxing directly interrupted: "No! Not to mention that the bodies of the fallen soldiers of our army have been cremated, even if they remain, they will never be defiled in such a cruel way!"
Unexpectedly, Ren Tianxing's refusal was so straightforward and thorough, Chu Chen said unwillingly: "Ren Shuai, we are a coalition army, and it is not my army's responsibility to break through the hegemony pass!"
"But your plan is not only a great humiliation to the fallen soldiers, but also a chill to the living soldiers. Ren Tianxing said in a resolute tone: "If you want to do this, you can, I won't stop it, but I will never participate." ”
Ren Tianxing's attitude was tough, no matter what Chu Chen said, he just didn't agree, and in the end, Chu Chen had no choice but to get up and leave.
After he left, Ren Tianxing sighed softly and muttered, "How much hatred we have with the Jin Kingdom...... can you come up with such a cruel and vicious idea!
Since Yan Jun was not involved, Chu Chen decided to go it alone.
He dug a pond three miles south of the camp of the Youyan coalition army, which was ten zhang square, and after digging it, filled it with water, and then pulled out thousands of corpses from the army, stripped them naked, and threw them into it.
In order to speed up the breeding of the plague, Zhou Song also deliberately asked Sergeant You to wear gloves and go to the wilderness and grassland to catch mice.
He doesn't want any rats, but rats with brown fur and a stripe on their backs, which are the most susceptible to plague. After the people had caught all the rats he wanted, they threw them into the pool and soaked them in the corpses......
You Jun is secretly doing shady deeds, and the offensive against Baguan on the surface has not stopped, but the number of times he sent the generals and soldiers to the battle to attack has decreased, and most of the time he uses a stone thrower to throw stone bombs into Shuangfeng City.
The siege war gradually turned from a war of attrition between the two sides to a harassment war of the Youyan coalition army.
Time flies, three days have passed, the siege of the You Yan coalition army should have no progress, it seems that there is no way to do anything about Twin Peaks City, gradually, the nervous nerves of the Jin army in Twin Peaks City gradually relaxed, and people began to be full of hope for this battle, thinking that it is not impossible for their side to rely on the natural danger of Twin Peaks City to resist the attack of the enemy's million-strong army.
However, if Jin Jun sensed You Jun's secret scheme, I am afraid it would not be so easy. (To be continued......)