Zhang Wufu grinned. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

He couldn't help but laugh, but he didn't think it was a joke.

Whoever has been imprisoned for many years in that dark water prison, sniffing the smell of rot on his body and lingering for breath, I am afraid that it will feel fresh when he really smells something different from the smell of the sea.

He knew very well that the reason why Lin Zhujiu was able to endure such days was because of strong hatred.

People can tolerate a certain degree of betrayal, but how can they accept the betrayal of the people around them?

So many people who can laugh and laugh together, share life and death, die in such a betrayal.

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Tianping County is the state and county closest to the towns of Nanquan in the Great Chu Dynasty, and at this time, it also gathered the attention of everyone in the world.

Because most of the remnants of the Great Chu Dynasty are strangling the pursuers of the Qin army in this plain.

Unlike cultivators, the retreat of the army involves more details.

Along the way, some refugees and wounded soldiers were scattered and resettled, and the armies contained and defended each other, some defended and some withdrew, and there was a problem in one link, which may lead to an astonishing number of casualties.

It would probably only take a day or night for a cultivator to travel through a state or county, but it would take several times or even dozens of times longer for a large number of troops to evacuate.

It is said that most of the remnants of the army, in fact, after the evacuation from Yangshan County, hundreds of thousands of Chu troops have been dispersed into hundreds of units on the way to retreat, some of them have to undertake different missions along the way, and some have been scattered by the pursuers of the Qin army.

Some Chu troops have lost contact with the rest of the Chu army, and even because they are too far apart, they can't even see the fireworks signal of the main army's withdrawal to Nanquan Towns, relying on the instinct of the soldiers to fight on this land.

The vast majority of the Chu army had lost their supplies more than ten days ago, and even the vitality of those military horses and towed beasts was not as tenacious as these sergeants.

Where many armies passed, even the barren grass was almost extinct.

Not because of the trampling, but because the roots and bark of the grass are used as food for the stomach.

Because of the dampness and heat, most of the skin on the bodies of the sergeants who had recently resisted a round of epidemic has begun to fester, many of them have their toes glued together, and their abdomen has become high and bulging from eating indigestible food for a long time, and many have even died of intestinal infarction that cannot defecate because of the lack of medicine.

However, such a tragic situation is not unique to the Chu army.

Constantly going deeper into the Chu realm meant that the familiar battlefield was getting farther and farther away, and in addition to fighting the Chu army, more and more resistance forces joined along the way, some from the spontaneous forces of the villages, some from the armies that came from afar to support, some from the private armies of some gate lords, and even some horse thieves and rogues who were originally enemies of the court also joined such battles.

However, the most important thing is not these, the Qin army as the pursuing party, which means that most of the time there is no fortress, there is no way to wait for work, and there is no advantage of terrain. Moreover, because the orders from above are becoming more and more stringent, forcing the pace of the army to pursue faster and faster, the Qin army has lost its advantage in terms of provisions. Many of the places they passed through were barren places after the Chu army passed by, and even some water sources were poisoned.

In order to help the Chu army resist their pursuit, the people of some villages along the way even burned the villages themselves, leaving only a limited ration for the villages, and the rest of the food was provided to the Chu army, while these villagers all hid in the mountains and forests they were familiar with.

At this time, in a village that was completely burned to the ground, there were patches of cloth cut from camp tents on the ground, and this cloth was densely packed with all the open spaces in the village, and there were thousands.

On each piece of cloth lay a wounded soldier of the Qin army.

Only a dozen or so doctors wandered among the wounded, but there was no medicine left on them, and all they could have was some clean cotton cloth and clean water.

The uncontrollable moans of pain formed a sea of sadness and despair.

This army was the Cangnan Army, which was under the jurisdiction of Wei Wuji.

At this time, the top generals in the army were Zhang Di and Tian Rong.

Zhang Di was a well-known strong man among Wei Wuyi's subordinates, with an unusually burly figure, standing like a giant, but at this time he sat silently under the thickest camphor tree in the village, his body was thin, although he was wearing armor, he gave people a feeling as thin as paper, and even the cheekbones on both sides were high and bulging because they were too thin.

The camphor tree was extremely thick, and most of its branches and leaves were burned in the flames, but because it was close to the stream, it was tenaciously alive, and in the late summer midday sun, the dark branches still gave the general a shade.

Zhang Di held a stone bowl in his hand, and in the bowl was a sticky millet soup, which was already the best food that the army could have.

He brought the bowl to his lips twice, but put it down again.

It wasn't that the food was hard to swallow, but that the sounds of wailing and pain kept him at ease.

"Do you still have to carry out military orders?"

Tian Rong saw him put down the stone bowl for the second time, and finally couldn't help but speak.

He was born in Changling, he has a handsome face, and he can be regarded as a beautiful man in the army, but in the battle a few days ago, his scalp was shaved off by the flying sword, and at this time, the bandaged cotton cloth was oozing purple and black dried blood, covering his small half of his face, making him not like a handsome Qin army general now, but like a fierce and desperate bandit leader.

"Our daily casualties are more than double that of the Chu army. If we go any further, I'm afraid that in a few days, there will be few of us who will be able to stand. ”

Tian Rong took a deep breath, his face was a little distorted, but he lowered his voice to an extremely low level, "We have already dropped two batches of such wounded, and there is nothing to lose in the future." I'm not afraid of death, but you should understand why we are chasing so quickly ... It's just that we want to annihilate the Chu army as much as possible and prevent these Chu troops from entering Jiaodong County!"

"Sacrificing the lives of so many brothers in order to save Jiaodong County may seem worth it in her opinion, but I don't accept it. ”

"We have done our best, and for these Chu troops, they have hope. They will soon be able to wait for the Nanquan towns to respond, but there is no hope for us men. ”

"I can accept a military order to die, but I can't accept a military order that makes someone desperate for the sake of their whispers. ”

In the end, Tian Rong raised his head, looked at Zhang Di, and said seriously: "If someone must bear the responsibility for disobeying the military order, then I will bear it." ”

Zhang Di suddenly laughed.

His body trembled with laughter, and the millet soup in his hand splashed to the ground.

Tian Rong had never seen him react like this, and couldn't help but be stunned.

"How many years have we lived and died together in the border army?"

Zhang Di lowered his head slightly, his face was full of shadows, but a cold arrogance appeared, "Since I have tried my best, don't I dare to resist the order? I don't believe that the rest of the people dare not resist the order!"