I could feel the temperature rising sharply on my forehead, and it became difficult to breathe. The fire was coming with thick smoke, and life and death were only a matter of thoughts. If I hesitated for a moment, it would be too late to kill the horse to survive.
Whether to live or to die, the Wolf Cavalry knows how to choose. Even in a place where they must die, if there is a glimmer of hope for survival, they will fight for it and work hard without hesitation.
Killing your good partner and buddy just to survive is a matter of friendship, but it is not a choice.
People are selfish. At the critical moment of life and death, even Shi Dayong, a later generation, chose to kill a horse for his own survival, let alone these ancients.[
"Man, I'm sorry!"
The hesitation was short-lived, and soon, a Songshan veteran gritted his teeth, hugged the horse's neck and said something sobbing, then his right hand holding the blade slowly wiped across the horse's neck, and a stream of blood immediately flowed from the horse's neck.
Spewing out from time to time.
The war horse jumped and raised its hooves like crazy, dragging the veteran almost unsteady. After several jumps, the war horse collapsed to the ground with a long hiss, its body twitching, and its painful eyes looked at its master in confusion.
I still don’t know why the owner killed it!
The master's eyes were filled with tears, and pain occupied every inch of his nerves.
One horse, two horses, three horses...
One after another, war horses were slaughtered by their owners. The air was filled with the smell of horse blood; the ground was littered with corpses of war horses; and in the sky, the cries of horses were heard.
Compared with the Songshan veterans, the Changping soldiers did not have a deep affection for the war horses. Therefore, while the veterans were still hesitating, their survival instinct made them swing their butcher knives at the war horses without hesitation.
Following the example of the General, the wolf cavalry all got into the horse's belly, covering their mouths and noses and waiting for the fire to come.
The temperature is getting higher and higher, and you can clearly hear the "crackling" sound of withered grass being ignited. The ground also begins to heat up. The ground that was originally bloody is dried instantly, leaving behind bloody black soil.
Whether it was the yellowing bitter grass or the still green grass, it eventually turned into ashes in front of the fire that spread across the plains.
The wind was blowing "whooshing", and the wolf cavalry under the horse's belly waited in agony. Not only did they have to endure the thick smoke coming from the gaps between their fingers, but they also had to endure the unbearable high temperature.
Everyone, including Shi Dayong, clenched their teeth and struggled to hold on, not daring to move their bodies. No matter how smelly or unpleasant the semen in the horse's belly was, they would still shrink in.
Without any deflection, the fire burned straight towards the Wolf Cavalry, swallowing everything in an instant. The hot flames burned through the horse's body, making the iron armor scalding hot, and the belt and leather ropes tied to it were instantly burned into pieces.
lumps, giving off a burnt smell.
Without stopping, the raging fire continued to rush forward.
After the fire, light black smoke was emitted from all the horses, and light yellow smoke was floating on the ground around them, like cooking smoke, rising out in wisps.
All the manes on the war horses had been burned away, leaving behind bare corpses with cooked skin.
Hundreds of corpses of Jin soldiers fell around. The fire destroyed their appearance. Everything that could be burned on their bodies was burned and turned black.
The air was filled with disgusting smells, horse meat and human flesh, one could not tell the difference.
All around, the Ming army's shouts of killing could be heard, but here it was quiet, with no sign of life. Only the scattered small fires were still making the sound of burning dead branches.[
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After the fire raged, thousands of Changping soldiers searched along the river bank. They kept calling "General! General!..."
The fire not only forced the Jin army back, but also changed everything. Apart from ashes and corpses, everything was the same everywhere. It was impossible to tell which was which. The soldiers could only search slowly based on their previous memories.
In the river and on the banks there were corpses everywhere, human and horse, burned and unburned, here and there.
"General, you can't die, you can't die..."
Jiang Wanli's voice trembled. The tragedy he saw in front of him made his heart freeze to the bottom of the ice. No one would survive the fire, no one would! But he couldn't really believe that the general would die by his own hands.
in this fire.
If the general is really dead, wouldn't he be the murderer of the general?
Pain, self-blame, and regret intertwined in Jiang Wanli's heart, making him tremble uncontrollably. Although it had only been a few months since he and Shi Dayong met, one bloody battle after another had made Jiang Wanli accept this new man.
Boss, it’s really hard for him to accept Shi Dayong’s death. It’s hard to accept it.
Huang An managed to maintain some composure. He didn't believe that the general was really dead until he saw the bodies of Shi Dayong and the Wolf Cavalry Army!
"Look everywhere, search everywhere, we must find the general and the Wolf Cavalry brothers!" Huang An kept repeating the order.
"The general is there!"
Finally, a soldier discovered the horse corpses lying all over the place in front of him, and also saw the half-burnt banner with the word "Shi" lying on the ground.
Following the soldier's voice, Huang An and Jiang Wanli looked over at the same time. What they saw in front of them felt like they were being shocked by electricity - hundreds of horse corpses and human corpses were mixed together.
"General!"
The screams resounded in the sky. Jiang Wanli ran over nervously. He ran too fast and was knocked to the ground by a spear. After getting up, he stumbled towards the horse corpses regardless of the severe pain in his knees.
.
"No, no... the general will not die..."
One corpse after another was turned over, but the corpses burned by the fire were all the same, making it impossible to tell who was who.
After turning over dozens of corpses, Jiang Wanli sat down on the ground haggard and exhausted. There was no sign of life around him. It seemed that General Shi had really died in the fire!
After closing his eyes and resisting the urge to cry loudly, Huang An gave an order to the soldiers who were still searching: "Take all the corpses back, we have to take care of the funeral affairs of the general and the Wolf Cavalry brothers.
"
"Yes, sir."
After listening to the command of the garrison master, the nearest soldiers went to lift the corpse at their feet with tears in their eyes. Unexpectedly, they gently pulled it, but they all fell backwards. It turned out that the corpse may have been burned by the fire for too long.
, the hands and legs have been roasted, and the bloody flesh falls off the bones when pulled.
Looking at the human flesh still in their hands, the soldiers hurriedly threw it aside, their faces turned red with fear, and one of the younger ones even vomited wildly.[
Seeing this, Huang An sighed slightly. After all, these Changping soldiers had never been on the battlefield. They had never seen the tragic scenes of bloody flesh and intestines, so they would naturally be frightened when they saw this roasted human flesh.
"Everyone, please be careful. There may be generals and Wolf Cavalry brothers among these corpses. Try not to damage the corpses."
After Huang An finished speaking, he signaled the soldiers to continue carrying the body. Seeing Jiang Wanli sitting there blankly, he hesitated for a moment, then walked over to help him up, and discussed whether to follow the army to counterattack or withdraw the army.
Unexpectedly, as soon as Jiang Wanli arrived, the horse corpse ten feet to the left suddenly moved!
Huang An was startled, and instinctively put his hand on the handle of the knife, looking at the horse corpse in surprise. A few seconds later, he saw the horse's belly move twice more, and then he saw a bloody hand coming from the horse.
The belly stretched out, and then he jerked upwards and pushed the horse body aside. Then a big man covered in blood came out of it, with a piece of blood sausage wrapped around his neck. Maybe it was too much in the horse's belly.
After suffocating, the big man immediately took a big breath of air after getting out, ignoring the disgusting smell in the air and the faint smell of smoke.
After taking a few breaths, the big man slowly turned around, glanced at the soldiers who were looking straight, and said forcefully: "There are our brothers in the horse's belly. Everyone, hurry up and get them."