It’s been a long time since I asked for collections and red tickets, so I’ll ask for them again today. I hope everyone can collect them as much as possible, and those who have red tickets can vote every day.
"Sir, you're awake!"
The sound in his ears brought He Kegang's thoughts back to reality. After opening his eyes, he saw his own soldier Guo Yue looking at him with concern, holding a bowl of steaming soup in his right hand.[
I'm hungry, I'm really hungry. If I remember correctly, I haven't eaten rice for four days.
The most painful thing for people is not lack of energy or death, but hunger.
If you don't have consciousness, you don't know how to be hungry, but now, He Kegang finally knows what being hungry is because he is conscious.
He is now a living person, not a corpse. Since he is a human being, of course he will be hungry.
Hungry is a feeling that cannot be described. If I have to describe it, it feels like the stomach has been hollowed out, and it feels like several sharp knives are scraping the stomach cavity. In short, it is a very painful taste that can make people feel hungry.
A feeling that life is worse than death.
He really couldn't stand the cramping feeling in his stomach. Looking at the bowl of steaming thick soup, He Kegang didn't think about anything. He instinctively took it in his hand, held it to his mouth and opened his mouth to drink it.
He really needed something to eat, even if it was just a bowl of soup.
Suddenly, his whole body stopped moving. He stared straight at the thick soup in the bowl. A strange look of terror appeared on his face without any color at all. He raised his head little by little, his eyes tight.
Staring at Guo Yue, he spit out three words: "What kind of meat?"
Guo Yue did not answer his question, but turned his face away slightly and said softly: "Sir, don't ask, just eat. If you don't eat, you really can't hold on anymore..."
"eat?"
He Kegang smiled sadly, slowly put the bowl down, then stretched out his right hand and pinched a thin bone in the bowl that was mostly boiled but still had a little bit of meat attached. If you look carefully, you can clearly see the thin bone.
There is a white piece at the top that looks like a human fingernail.
This is a human finger. Although it is impossible to tell whether it is the middle finger or the index finger, He Kegang can be sure that it is a human finger.
This is a bowl of human soup.
After putting down his finger, He Kegang sighed softly. He did not want to rebuke Guo Yue righteously, but gave him a bitter smile and said to him: "If I eat it, how will I be different from the beasts outside?"
Hearing this, Guo Yue turned his face and said with red eyes: "It's better than dying here."
"Death is death, what's so scary? I should have died when Lord Todo died. I have lived a long life to this day!"
He Kegang was a little excited. He was not an animal and would not survive by eating the flesh of his own kind! Even if he was about to die, he would not take a bite.
The price of excitement was a bit high. Hunger had already made his body extremely empty, and he could not bear even the slightest impulse. After saying this, He Kegang felt dizzy, as if the sky and the earth were upside down, and he fell instantly.
He fell under the bed. With a "bang" sound, the bowl of human soup also fell to the ground.
"My lord, my lord!"[
Guo Yue was so frightened that he hurriedly helped him, but he was also so hungry that his chest was pressed against his back. He had no strength to help He Kegang, who was much taller than himself.
"Huh...huh..."
He Kegang couldn't help but gasp for air, and his heart was beating violently. He was panicking, and his chest was very depressed. Slowly, he found that he couldn't breathe. Not only that, the heart on the left side of his chest was
The lower part also began to cramp, and every time I took a breath, my heart ached terribly.
But I don’t know what the starving ghost will do in his next life?
Can I still be a human being?
In a daze, He Kegang vaguely saw several figures rushing in, and then heard them shouting, but he could no longer hear them.
Finally, his eyes turned black again and he didn't know anything anymore.
It feels so good to die.
…………
He Kegang was not dead. When he opened his eyes again, there were several more people in the tent, including deputy generals Liu Yuying and Dou Mingde, and generals Hu Hongxian and Xiao Yongzuo.
"General He is awake, General He is awake!"
Seeing He Kegang wake up, everyone in the tent breathed a sigh of relief. Guo Yue hurriedly put the remaining half bowl of horse meat soup to He Kegang's mouth.
Smelling the fragrant smell, He Kegang had no appetite at all. Instead, his color suddenly changed. He shook his head firmly and refused flatly: "I said, I will not be a beast!"
Lieutenant General Liu Yuying hurriedly said: "General He, this is not human flesh, but horse meat!"
"horsemeat?"
He Kegang was startled, looked into the bowl, and still said in disbelief: "The city has been without food for several days, and all the horses have been killed. How come there is still horse meat? Don't try to deceive me, and hurry up and leave."
Dou Mingde reminded: "General He, it is indeed horse meat. Have you forgotten the green dragon colt of Commander Zu?"
General Hu Hongxian also said: "Knowing that the general has not eaten for several days, Commander Zu specially asked someone to bring it."
"Yes, sir, this bowl is really horse meat. They didn't lie to you. When you fainted just now, the little one had already fed you half a bowl." Guo Yue was very happy. After half a bowl of broth was consumed, the sir really became energetic.
many.
He Kegang had seen Zu Dashou's green dragon horse. This horse was the royal horse given to him by Chongzhen when Zu Dashou led his army back to the pass in the second year of Chongzhen. Therefore, Zu Dashou valued the horse very much and was reluctant to kill it. Now.
, Zu Dashou killed the royal horse as a reward from the emperor. It can be imagined that Dalinghe has reached the last moment.
It was originally calculated that the food and grass in the city could last for more than a month, but unexpectedly, the more than 10,000 people were not included in the calculation. The food was all eaten at the end of last month.
There was no food and the city had to be defended, so the soldiers could not starve. Zu Dashou ordered the slaughter of war horses to satisfy their hunger.[
More than 4,000 war horses can hold out for a while, but the total number of soldiers and civilians is nearly 40,000. It can last for three to five days. After ten and a half months, all the horse meat will be eaten.
There was no food, no horsemeat, not even cats and dogs. The living animals had been caught and stuffed into their stomachs. Even the fodder originally fed to the horses had been eaten up. Tens of thousands of people were trapped alive in this huge mountain with empty stomachs.
In Hecheng, the sky and the sky are really not responding to each other, and the earth and the earth are not functioning properly.
For one day and two days, everyone tried their best to stay close together, hoping that reinforcements would arrive soon. However, as the days passed, except for the sound of artillery fire from the Xiaoling River a few days ago, there was no sound anymore.
Desperate, looking at the dense trenches outside the city and the Jin army's camps, the soldiers and civilians fell into despair. They knew that no one would come to save them. The only way to save themselves was to kill people - to eat the flesh of their companions and fill them up.
Fill your belly!
The first to be killed were the people of Liaodong who thought that by relying on the army they would avoid being taken captive by the Jian slaves. The first to kill and eat meat was the general Han Daxun, who was the family general of Zu Dashou.