Chapter 361: 200,000 people

"Ready, 2 minutes left!" Lu Bu shouted first in the world, and then when everyone was ready to witness this historic moment, a reader suddenly said, "MD, the garbage author has been updated!" ”

Good guys, all the readers who were still scrolling through the screen disappeared in an instant.

"The garbage author must be peeping at the screen and deliberately playing with us!" Lu Bu scolded for the first time, and then opened his phone without hesitation and began to look at it.

Because it was updated at a time point, the garbage author didn't let the readers wait this time, and threw out all three chapters in one go.

And after reading it, everyone has a feeling in their hearts that they don't know how to speak, and many readers who have read these three chapters have lost their smiles on their faces.

It's not that these three chapters are abusing the master, on the contrary, the two protagonists are still very smooth and happy, and at the same time, they have not experienced any defeats and are still victorious against the enemy.

But most people just can't see a smile on their faces, and some even hold their chests in pain.

So what exactly happened in these three chapters?

It's very simple, Xiang Yu killed the prisoner.

These three chapters describe the whole process in a very bland tone, Xiang Yu and the allied army of the princes marched to the Xin'an area with 200,000 Qin prisoners, and the contradictions between the captives and the allied forces were already very serious.

First of all, because of the hatred between the coalition forces and the Qin State, how miserable the Six Kingdoms were when the Qin State fought at the beginning, how ruthless the Six Nations were to these Qin captives. There are all kinds of torture and humiliation on weekdays, and this is naturally not difficult to imagine, anyway, there is a lot of anger accumulated among the captives of the Qin State.

And as Xiang Yu led the Six-Nation Alliance to approach Qin, many captives began to have illusions.

A theory gradually circulated among the captives that Zhang Han had deceived them into surrendering to the coalition forces, and now the coalition forces were attacking the Qin state.

It is a good thing to be able to win, but if they lose, the coalition forces will definitely take these captives back to the Kanto region, and their wives and children in the Qin State will definitely die.

Therefore, everyone must be prepared, and once the coalition army encounters a defeat, then counterattack the coalition army at any time, so that they can make meritorious contributions and save their wives and children.

Soon such a statement reached Xiang Yu's ears, and Xiang Yu began to feel that these surrendered Qin captives were a big trouble.

Secondly, an even bigger problem arises, that is, the coalition forces are running out of food and grass.

At this time, the entire alliance of princes was extremely large, with a total of more than 400,000 people, and the supply of grain and grass only depended on the Kanto region, so there was soon a shortage of grain and grass.

Although in order to ensure that these prisoners have no ability to resist, the rations given to them are only about 1/4 of their daily needs, so that these prisoners have little strength to walk, and there is basically no strength to resist.

But even 1/4 is a very large number, so there are many voices within the coalition army, the most obvious is a kind of "Why should our grain and grass be distributed to these Qin people?" ”

In this case, Xiang Yu found himself in a very bad state.

On the one hand, these Qin captives are unstable in their hearts and may betray them at any time. At the same time, there is a lot of resentment among the coalition forces against these captives because of the problem of food and grass.

All kinds of problems were added together, so several henchmen around Xiang Yu collectively persuaded Xiang Yu that it was better to kill all these captives to avoid trouble in the future.

Xiang Yu finally agreed to this suggestion, but the history books do not describe how Xiang Yu killed the 200,000 Qin soldiers, and the historical records say that Xiang Yu surrendered the 200,000 Qin troops overnight, and all of them were killed in the south of Xin'an City.

Of course, there are many slots in this statement, and the first method of killing people is pit killing, that is, driving the living into the pit, and then the army outside collectively kills all the soldiers in the pit with bows and arrows and fire, and then directly covers the soil.

In this way, no matter whether or not anyone pretended to be dead, they were directly buried alive.

It's a highly efficient way to kill people, but it's not so efficient as to kill 200,000 people overnight. ŴŴŴ.0m

The simplest point is that this pit is enough for 200,000 people, and it cannot be dug in a while.

And if the pit is dug in advance, then these Qin army soldiers will definitely get the news, and if they don't do well, they will cause a rebellion in advance.

So later in the TV series "The Legend of Chu and Han", Xiang Yu borrowed the urn city of Xin'an City to kill people.

The urn city is a means of defense of the city, often located behind the city gate, and a second section of the city wall will be designed, so that once the city gate is breached, there is a second city gate to resist the enemy army.

At the same time, the area between the second gate and the first gate will also become a natural pit, and the defenders can kill a large number of enemy soldiers as long as they keep shooting arrows on both sides of the city wall, throwing some boulders and gold soup.

The city is actually a walled prison, which can trap the enemy army firmly in this prison.

According to the interpretation of "The Legend of Chu and Han", Xiang Yu first deceived the 200,000 Qin troops into Wengcheng, saying that he wanted to give them a lecture. If you wait for all the 200,000 Qin troops to enter the urn city, immediately close the city gates on both sides, and then directly throw boulders into the urn city from the city wall, shoot rockets, throw fire oil, etc., and kill all the 200,000 surrendered Qin soldiers through all the AOE means of rapid killing.

And because these soldiers don't have enough to eat on weekdays, they have no strength to resist at this time, and they can only be killed alive in the end.

This method is theoretically feasible, but there is a premise, that is, this urn city is large enough to accommodate 200,000 people.

However, the urn city that can accommodate 200,000 people throughout the ages, except for the urn city in Yanjing more than 1,000 years later, there is no other city that can do this.

So these two ways of killing are actually unrealistic, so what is the most realistic way to kill?

The answer is very simple, it is still a pit kill, but it is not a one-time pit kill, but a batch pit kill.

In the archaeological excavations of later generations, people did find dozens of mass graves around Xing'an City, so most of the corpses inside have decayed, but they can still find the corpses thousands of years ago, which basically determines the authenticity of Xiang Yukeng's killing of 200,000 Qin soldiers.

And the dozens of mass graves also show that these Qin soldiers could never be driven into a pit and killed, but entered dozens of mass graves one after another.

So under Liu Xu's pen, the whole process became that Xiang Yu first announced that he was going to repair in Xin'an, and the entire coalition army stayed in Xin'an.

Then he asked the coalition army to dig dozens of huge pits around that could accommodate tens of thousands of people, and then Xiang Yu told the captives that our coalition army did not have enough food and grass to feed you, so it was decided to let you go and let you find food by yourself.

It's just that there must be some nobles from the Qin State mixed up among you, so before releasing you, you must screen them one by one, and screen about 10,000 people each time.

After the screening is completed, I will let you go.

So each time, 10,000 Qin soldiers happily followed the Chu army out of the barracks, and then were taken to one of the mass graves, surrounded by tens of thousands of strong, armed coalition soldiers.

So even if these Qin troops found themselves driven into the pit and reacted to what had happened, they were still not the opponents of the coalition forces, and in the end they could only be killed alive in these mass graves until all the 200,000 Qin troops were killed.

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