Finally, when the bombardment ended.

What appears before people's eyes is no longer a position, but a place full of blood and purgatory. The field covered with tender sorghum seedlings has completely changed its appearance - there are charred craters and earth blown away by artillery shells everywhere. , collapsed trenches, still burning wooden beams, black and still smoking planks, everything is more like a hell than the human world.

Looking around, there are dilapidated deer villages outside, scattered branches and wooden sticks, all of which make this wilderness more dilapidated, and what is left are corpses and blood. Bombed corpses and broken limbs are scattered everywhere. Throughout the entire position, it was difficult to find a complete corpse among the broken limbs. Even those who had only one leg blown off were considered lucky. Many people only left a charred body full of body parts. It was a bloody body or a bloody arm or thigh, and more people were even directly blown into pieces. No one knew where those pieces of flesh were blown, but looking around, they were everywhere. They are large and small pieces of flesh and blood...

I don't know how many people have completely disappeared from this world under the intensive artillery fire. Only a piece of clothing or a piece of burnt minced meat proves that they once existed.

After more than an hour of shelling, the Shun Army's first line of defense had been completely wiped out, and even a complete trench could no longer be found. Most of the bunkers, in fact, their firepower points, had been destroyed. Many artillery shelters were turned into smoking scorched earth. The artillerymen pushed nine-pound cannons into the area and destroyed many of them. Of course, the gunners also paid a corresponding price. Hundreds of gunners were killed or injured in the line of fire. , but they successfully destroyed many of the bandits' firepower points.

When the firepower point was destroyed, the infantrymen who had been lying under the line of fire to shoot at the intruders jumped up with the whistle and charged again, just like they did in training, quickly crossing the half When they were about to rush out of the ditch, which was more than ten feet wide, they threw another grenade into the trench. Then they launched a charge. Contrary to their initial expectations, the soldiers in the trench did not put up much tenacious resistance at all.

The hour-long shelling left many people stunned. Even when the Ming army rushed over, they just looked at the officers and soldiers who came over blankly. The few who resisted were quickly stabbed to death with bayonets. In the trenches, more loyal troops chose to surrender.

In fact, there are not many people.

When he discovered that the Ming army was approaching for artillery bombardment, Gao Yigong ordered the artillery to bombard the Ming army's artillery, and at the same time withdrew the front-line troops. There was no anti-artillery shed, but he was just looking for death. Fortunately, he saw the opportunity early and wanted to Otherwise, I don’t know how many lives would have been left on the first line of defense.

Finally, when he stepped into the intruder's position, Zhu Cunlin didn't feel the slightest joy in his heart. He stared at the corpses on the ground without saying a word for a long time. There were stumps and broken arms everywhere in the trenches, and they were all alive. People were blown to pieces, and the resistance of the intruders was extremely tenacious. If it weren't for the fact that their anti-gun shelters were destroyed one by one, I'm afraid everyone would still be shooting at them.

It was not just the intruders who died. The bodies of hundreds of soldiers were scattered in the open space in front of their position. The breastplates on their bodies proved the identities of these people. Officers and soldiers also shed blood on this position. Blood. In the distance, the remains of more than a dozen gun mounts are still emitting green smoke. The gun mounts made of hardwood have been blown up. The once roaring artillery pieces are roasting on the burning gun mounts.

This is war, and it is fair to both sides of the war.

The same death, the same sacrifice, the same blood...

Looking at the sunset in the distance, Zhu Cunlin said nothing. He just looked at the fiery clouds in the sky silently. The clouds were very red, as red as blood.

Although when he first entered the battlefield, he only had one thought in his mind - to kill all the intruders, but now, he no longer has such a thought in his mind.

They were once common people in the Ming Dynasty, but they had no choice but to become bandits. Many of them were even kidnapped as soldiers. Many brothers in the sentry were like this.

"Captain, what should we do with these thieves?"

Zhang Xiaoding pointed at the trembling prisoners and asked, "The sentry commander was killed in battle, and now the governor is in command. As long as he gives the order, the big guys will send them to the west with bayonets without hesitation. Of course, the cement over there is also

If they need to be filled up, it's not impossible to bury them alive. This may even save trouble.

When they were in Xiying, they often did this kind of work.

Looking at the prisoners with dusty faces and frightened expressions, Zhu Cunlin waved his hand.

"Look at them and ask them to clean up the battlefield and bury the corpses of these bandits. The corpses of the brothers are put on the carriage and sent to the back. They will be buried in the Martyrs' Shrine later, and..."

Later, he emphasized it again.

"Don't kill them. They are from good families just like you. After all, this life was born to your parents..."

After that, Zhu Cunlin stopped talking and just looked into the distance silently. His mood seemed a little heavy, not only because there were not many people alive in Prince Qin's palace, but more importantly, the death in front of him was clearly visible.

Tell him the reality - in troubled times, people are worse than dogs!

In this troubled world, it makes no difference whether you are a high-ranking official or a commoner. Life and death are just a matter of a moment. We are all just duckweeds in the troubled times, just drifting with the tide and struggling to survive.

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The relatives of the Prince of Qin's Mansion were pitiful, but these common people were also pitiful. Looking at those people and looking at their thin bodies, Zhu Cunlin sighed in his heart. At least the relatives of the Prince of Qin's Mansion could still have enough to eat and would not starve, but

where are they?

Sitting on the edge of the trench, Zhu Cunlin recalled the scenes he saw after escaping from Xi'an. He was mixed among the hungry refugees. He had also suffered from hunger. On the way to escape, he had eaten something from a dog's mouth for a mouthful of food.

He robbed food, and in order to survive, he also... ate human flesh.

In fact, everything we do is to survive!

It was just to survive. In this troubled world, no matter whether it was the common people or the so-called dragons and phoenixes, all they wanted was to survive. Everything he did was just to survive.

Stay alive!

It’s really not easy!

Just like now, isn't the reason why these dead thieves turned from good citizens into thieves just to stay alive?

But in the end, how many people will survive?
Chapter completed!