Two soldiers came in a hurry, without even looking at Li Chen and his group. They lowered their heads and skillfully lifted the body of the dead wounded soldier and placed it on the stretcher. Then one of the soldiers naturally took the body into his hands.
He stuffed the buns into his mouth, then raised his head and looked at Li Chen, "Are there any more?"
Xu Wei, who was standing next to him, said angrily: "You are blaspheming the dead!"
The soldier sneered and said: "You can't understand what you mean by desecrating the dead but not desecrating the dead. We only know that steamed buns are good things. We haven't seen any meat in the military camp for a long time."
Another soldier curled his lips and urged: "Looking at them, they should be gone. Let's leave quickly. All these corpses must be disposed of before this evening. It's our turn to guard the south city wall in the evening, so we can't delay."
With the bun in his mouth, the soldier skillfully pulled it apart with his hands and gave half of it to his urging companion. Then the two of them carried the stretcher one after another and left.
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Li Chen stopped them, took the bag of buns from Xu Wei and handed it to one of them, saying, "A dead person won't need this, so take it and share it."
There was a big bag full of steamed buns, at least seventeen or eight. When the soldier saw this, he smiled happily and said to Li Chen with a smile: "Master, you are so generous. The ordinary people in Crescent Pass have already managed to escape. How can we still meet them?"
It’s really rare for the young master to be so generous. If the young master doesn’t mind the trouble, he can go to the military camp to pledge a donation.”
"What does pledge mean?" Li Chen asked.
Although the soldier had military duties, for the sake of a bag of steamed buns, he still replied: "Our Commander-in-Chief Wu has an order. Anyone who is willing to donate to the army can go to the military camp to pledge a donation, up to gold and silver treasures."
, down to firewood, rice, oil and salt, no one will be refused. The army will record all donations one by one, and will make compensation and awards after the war subsides. "
Li Chen nodded understandingly.
This is also a good idea.
However, it is enough to show how short of supplies the Yueyang Pass defenders were.
The two soldiers carried the stretcher and left, and Li Chen did not stop him this time.
With a heavy look on his face, he walked through a large number of wounded soldiers and entered the Crescent Pass City.
The Yueyang Pass was actually established not that long ago. There are many cities in the Central Plains that are much older than the Yueyang Pass. However, when coming to the Yueyang Pass, Li Chen could feel a heavy sense of history and vicissitudes of life.
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The city wall is mottled, and the unique adobe bricks of the Loess Plateau can be seen between the cracks. There is no moss in the wall cracks that is only found in the humid areas in the south. Instead, there are black blood stains.
Those bloodstains are not known to be left over from any war conflict.
Among them there must be those from the Qin army, but there are also those from the Liao army.
The entire Crescent Pass can be described as devastated.
There are almost no decent houses to be seen, and there are broken foundations everywhere that remain after temporary demolition. The original beams and even bricks and tiles have been removed to guard this pass.
Crescent Pass is not big. Its most majestic thing is its towering city wall. Because it is mainly used to prevent Liao troops from entering, its city wall is much higher and thicker than the walls of other cities in the Central Plains.
Standing inside the pass, the main roads extend in all directions and are extremely wide, so that troops can be easily mobilized and large numbers of troops can move quickly to support various city walls under attack more efficiently at any time.
