The reason why Nie Ze hesitated after hearing Guo Song's suggestion was that he was not worried that doing so would be too cruel to the Feng Army in Ba Pass. He would be happy when all the Feng Army died. He was considering using the corpses of the soldiers to spread the plague.
Will the media cause turmoil in military morale?
In those days, it was important to consider the dead as large as possible and to bury them in peace. Even when collecting corpses, they tried to collect all the corpses. Now, the corpses of fallen soldiers are soaked in water to breed plague, and then they are all thrown out, leaving them dead without a burial.
What would the officers and soldiers in the army think? And what would they think of themselves as the coach?
Nie Ze hesitated, thinking that although Guo Song's idea was good, it might cause dissatisfaction among the entire army.
Unable to make up his mind, he asked the generals on his left and right: "Generals, what do you think of Mr. Guo Song's plan?"
"This..." None of the generals thought Guo Song's idea was good, but if they objected, they would have to come up with a better way to break the city. If there were, people would have said it long ago, so why wait until now? The generals looked at each other,
No one said anything, either disagreeing or disagreeing.
Seeing this, Nie Ze looked annoyed and asked in a deep voice: "What? Don't you generals have any objections? When it's time for you to speak, you have become fucking mute!"
Listening to Nie Ze's reprimand, everyone lowered their heads. Finally, Gao Jun said: "The plague...is it too dangerous? What if the infection enters the military camp?"
Guo Song had already thought about this and continued: "Our army can dig a pond a little far away from the military camp and set up a fence to block it."
Gao Jun frowned and said: "Isn't it... too cruel to destroy the bodies of our fallen brothers in this way?"
This was exactly what Nie Ze was concerned about. Seeing that Gao Jun had asked it for him, he immediately looked at Guo Song.
Guo Song pretended to sigh, shrugged and said: "There is no other way. If we continue to attack like this, I don't know how many days it will take and how many soldiers will be killed. Our army is no better than the Sichuan army. Sichuan has a large population. They can
We can afford to die, but we cannot afford to die. How to minimize the casualties of our army is what all generals should give priority to. As for everything else, they are secondary." He said this to Gao Jun. In fact, he said
For Nie Ze.
After hearing this, Nie Ze clenched his fist, hit his palm hard, and said, "Forget it! Just do what Mr. Guo Song wants!" After a pause, he asked again: "Do you want to do this?
Inform the Sichuan Army?"
"Of course. It would be better if the Sichuan Army could provide some of the corpses."
"That's right!" Nie Ze nodded repeatedly.
Nie Ze listened to the advice of his counselor Guo Song and prepared to use highly decomposed corpses to breed plague and use the plague to massacre the Feng army who defended the pass.
This method is too vicious. In that extremely backward era, once the plague broke out, there was almost no cure, and nine out of ten people infected would die. If a large-scale plague broke out in Baguan, it would spread to the entire army and the city.
There may not be many people among the hundreds of thousands of soldiers who can survive.
That night, Nie Ze ran to Ren Fang's sleeping quarters and reported the matter to him. Of course, his main purpose was to ask Ren Fang for the bodies of the Sichuan soldiers who died in battle.
After listening to Nie Ze's idea, Ren Fang rarely smiled and stared at Nie Ze with a frown. Nie Ze himself also understood that this idea was not very authentic and too cruel. He smiled bitterly and said: "This is the only way to defeat Nie Ze as soon as possible.
Feng Jun, the way to win Ba Pass."
Let him remain silent.
Nie Ze got to the point and said, "Shuai Ren, this strategy requires a large number of corpses. I wonder if Shuai Ren can bring it up..."
Before he finished speaking, Ren Fang interrupted directly: "No! Don't say that the bodies of our fallen soldiers have been cremated. Even if there are some left, we will never use such a cruel method to defile them!"
Unexpectedly, Ren Fang refused so simply and completely, Nie Ze said unwillingly: "Commander Ren, we are a coalition force. It is not my duty to conquer the tyrants!"
"But your plan will not only be a great humiliation to the fallen soldiers, but also chill the living soldiers." Ren Fang said firmly: "If you want to do this, you can, I will not stop it, but I will never participate.
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Ren Fang had a tough attitude. No matter what Nie Ze said, he just didn't agree. In the end, Nie Ze had no choice but to stand up and leave.
After he left, Ren Fang sighed softly and murmured: "How much hatred we have with Feng Country..." It can make you come up with such cruel and vicious ideas. He did not say the second half of the sentence.
Since the Sichuan Army did not participate, Nie Ze decided to go it alone.
He dug a pond three miles south of the Sichuan-Zhen coalition camp. The pond was ten feet square. After digging it, he filled it with water. Then he pulled out thousands of corpses from the army, stripped them of their clothes, and
Get involved.
In order to speed up the spread of the plague, Guo Song also specially asked Sergeant Zhen to wear gloves and go to the wilderness grassland to catch mice. He didn't want any mice, but specifically mice with brown hair with a stripe on their backs. That kind of mice are the easiest to
The one with the plague. After people catch all the rats he wants, they throw them into the pool and soak them with the corpses...
The Zhen army was doing shady things secretly, and the offensive against Ba Pass had never stopped. It only sent army lieutenants into battle less frequently. Most of the time, they used trebuchets to throw stones at Ba Pass.
The siege war gradually turned from a war of attrition between the two sides into a harassment war by the Sichuan and Zhen coalition forces.
Time flies, and three days have passed. The Sichuan-Zhen coalition's siege seems to have made no progress, and it seems that there is nothing they can do against Baguan. Gradually, the tense nerves of the Feng army in Baguan gradually relaxed, and people began to be full of hope for this battle.
It is not impossible to think that our side can rely on Baguan's natural barrier to withstand the enemy's attack of millions of troops.
However, if Feng Jun was aware of Zhen Jun's secret activities, he might not be so relaxed.
On this day, Ren Fang was playing chess with his deputy Jin Zhuo in the camp. A Sichuan general came over in a hurry. When he came to Ren Fang, he stepped in and saluted: "General!"
Ren Fang asked without raising his head: "What's the matter?"
General Sichuan said: "The Zhenjun sent many soldiers to the nearby Moguo village to capture hundreds of people, and brought them all to the Poison Pond. It seemed...it seemed that they wanted to throw them all into the pond!" The Sichuan Army dug up the Zhenjun.
The large pond is called Poison Pond.
When Ren Fang and Jin Zhuo heard this, they both stopped playing chess, with expressions of disbelief on their faces.
Jin Zhuo asked: "Are the people of Mo State being captured?"
"That's right!"
"Nonsense!" Jin Zhuo was furious and slammed down the table, shaking the chess pieces on the chessboard so high. He gritted his teeth and said, "Isn't this an extra step? We are fighting Feng State on the territory of Mo State, and we are acting so recklessly.
, angered Mo Country and made Mo Country our enemy, our army became a lone army deep in danger!"
Ren Fang also couldn't sit still anymore. He stood up straight, his face was gloomy and ugly, and he didn't say anything for a long time.
Jin Zhuo said: "General, we must stop those stupid pigs in Zhenguo!"
Ren Fang didn't say anything, walked to the military frame, grabbed the sword on it, hung it on his waist, and then strode out.
Jin Zhuo and Chuan Jiang glanced at each other and hurriedly followed out.
When they arrived outside the tent, Ren Fang got on his horse and asked, "Is the Poison Pond in the south of the camp?" Zhenjun had been digging the pond for three days, but Ren Fang had never been there once. He felt sick just thinking about it.
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General Chuan replied: "Yes, general!"
Without asking any more questions, he urged his horse to head towards the south camp.
General Jin Zhuo and Chuan hurriedly summoned the guards, mounted their horses one after another, and chased after them at full speed.
Ren Fang galloped all the way out of the Nanying Gate and headed straight for the Poison Pond. He hoped that the people of Mo State had not been poisoned by the Zhen Army before he arrived at the Poison Pond, otherwise things would be in big trouble.
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Whatever you are afraid of, come what may. Although Ren Fang came in a hurry, he was still a step too slow.
When he was far away from the Poison Pond, he saw a group of soldiers in front of him, wearing white scarves and covering their faces, slashing at a group of naked men and women with their swords.
Ren Da was in a hurry and shouted loudly: "Stop——"
I don't know if the Zhenjun in front heard his shouting, but the people's movements stopped at all and continued to kill the people crazily.
Renfang was more than a hundred meters away from the poisonous pond, and he was in the limelight, but even so, he could still vaguely smell a foul smell. It was floating hundreds of meters in the wind, and one could see how strong the smell was.
At this time, Jin Zhuo quickly caught up with Ren Fang and shouted: "General, General——"
Ren Fang turned around and asked, "What's the matter?"
"General, bring this quickly!" Jin Zhuo held a white scarf in his hand and handed it to Ren Fang.
While Ren Fang took it, he also took a look at Jin Zhuo and the soldiers who followed him. They all covered their mouths and noses with white scarves, leaving only their eyes exposed.
Jin Zhuo said cautiously: "To prevent accidents, the general should also take it with him first!"
Ren Fang sighed and could only rein in the horse, tie the white scarf, and then continue to move forward.
When they rushed closer, the hundreds of men, women, and children gathered beside the poisonous pool had become victims of the Zhenjun's swords.
Corpses were piled up and down, some of them had their heads missing, and some of them were chopped into two pieces. They were bleeding like rivers, and it was too cruel to look at.
Ren Fang clenched his fists and grasped the reins so loudly that he asked loudly: "Who is in charge here now?"
A chaplain walked out of the crowd, looked up at Ren Fang, and asked, "Your Excellency is..."
Ren Fang covered his face with a white scarf, but General Zhen did not immediately endure it. Perhaps General Zhen never thought that the commander-in-chief of the entire army, Ren Fang, would come here in person. Ren Fang said in a deep voice: "I am Ren Fang!"
Ah? The general took a deep breath, was stunned for a moment, then hurriedly knelt down on one knee, stepped in and saluted, and said: "I will be with Hong at the end, and I will see you as Commander-in-Chief!"
"Tell me, who are these?" Ren Fang pointed at the numerous corpses on the ground and asked coldly.
"Oh..." Zhenjiang hesitated for a moment, then said: "They... are all Mo people captured by our army from nearby."
Sure enough! Ren Fang closed his eyes and took a few breaths to suppress the anger, disgust, and resentment in his heart.
He bent down on the horse, grabbed the collar of the general, then pulled him up and lifted him up, asking: "Who is it? Who asked you to do it? Who gave it to you?