It was in the afternoon, and the sun was shining fiercely on people, making it unbearably hot. The heat was steaming from the ground, exuding an unbearable rancid smell. There were stains of blood on the ground within a hundred steps of the city, which dried into
The color is black, red, purple or purple, and it emits a smell worse than the toilet.
At first, there was only this stench, but after walking a hundred steps, rotting corpses appeared scattered on the ground. The weather was too hot, and the corpses would rot in just half a day. Flies were flying around, and maggots were crawling around. The whole place was hundreds of miles away from the city.
The stench outside the area was so stench that it was impossible to breathe. The soldiers could not resist the smell and felt dizzy. Some began to vomit.
"Cover your mouth and nose with the wet cloth just distributed." Zhao Youji shouted loudly.
Everyone suddenly realized that it turned out that Magistrate Zhao distributed wet cloth towels to deal with the situation here. At that moment, everyone quickly took out the cloth towels, covered their faces and tied them behind their heads. The cloth towels were soaked in refreshing cold water soaked in spices, and the wet cloths were soaked in refreshing cold water.
There is a faint fragrance in the mouth and nose. It effectively filters the stench in the air and effectively relieves the discomfort of the soldiers.
Guo Kun also covered his mouth and nose, and asked Zhao Youji angrily: "Why are these corpses not restrained?"
Zhao Youji said: "Reporting to Du Yuhou, it's not that we don't want to restrain ourselves, but we are really afraid that the religious bandits will suddenly attack us. Therefore, in the past two days, we only restrained and buried the corpses within a hundred steps of the city. If we were far away from the city, we would not dare to
We went to clean it up. The corpses Du Yuhou saw were only a small part. The corpses were everywhere under the city. We dragged out three or four layers of corpses under the city wall alone, and there were thousands of them. There was nothing we could do.
To dispose of them, we can only drag them all to the swamp pit outside Beicheng and throw them in for burial."
Guo Kun was extremely surprised. There were corpses everywhere on the ground in front of him. It was hard to imagine how tragic the battle that day was. The corpses all over the ground were clear evidence, and they were distributed throughout the battlefield area, which was even more puzzling.
Zhao Youji's words gave an explanation: "The casualties under the city were caused by offensive and defensive casualties. The area far away from the city was Master Lin's masterpiece. Master Lin not only succeeded in attacking the camp, but also led his cavalry to rush in when the bandits made a desperate attempt to attack the city.
Behind the enemy lines, most of the religious bandits were attracted to besiege. Mr. Lin led his men to kill them back and forth, and then killed them out from the crowd. These corpses are all the religious bandits that Mr. Lin and the others killed that day."
Guo Kun tried his best to imagine, but he could not imagine the danger and tragedy of that day. The admiration in his heart for his brother-in-law had completely overwhelmed his inherent sense of superiority at this time. In terms of strategy, talent and learning,
He is far inferior to him. In the past, Guo Kun thought that he was at least better than him in terms of bravery, but now it seems that Lin Jue's bravery far surpasses him. The only thing he is higher than him is probably his birth. But he was born into a royal family.
Is that capital that I can be proud of?
"Those are our Forbidden Army cavalry. Look, those boots are cavalry riding boots." Wei Dakui suddenly shouted from the side, pointing to a rotting corpse in front of him and shouting.
Everyone looked over and saw that the corpse was wearing a pair of riding boots, which were the standard equipment of the Forbidden Army cavalry. However, the corpse had been stripped naked, and the purple carrion on its body was rolled up and covered with countless wounds. A man next to him
The corpse of a war horse also fell dead next to it. There were more than a dozen arrows stuck in the horse corpse. It was obvious that the cavalry was caught in a tight siege that day. When they broke out, many of them were killed by the bandits. This cavalry suffered multiple fatal injuries.
The injury must have been caused by the siege by the cult bandits. Naturally, all the armor and weapons on his body were stripped off and taken away.
Wei Dakui jumped off his horse, came to the corpse, reached out and took off a wooden plaque tied with twine from his neck. On the wooden plaque were engraved the names of the dead cavalry and the infantry division of the bodyguard.
"I know him. He is Deng Xiaole, from Beijing. He just turned eighteen this year. Damn it, he died here." Wei Dakui sighed.
Guo Kun looked solemn and said in a deep voice: "The people left behind are restrained. They are our people. All the bodies will be sent to the city for a good burial. If all the names are reported, the imperial court will be generous to the family and posthumously grant official positions. Those who teach the bandits."
All the corpses were piled up and burned with firewood. In this kind of weather, if the corpses are exposed under the city, where mosquitoes and flies will eat them, and maggots will rot, it will cause a plague. We must deal with them as soon as possible."
"Yes!" Wei Dakui and Zhao Youji said hurriedly, cupping his hands.
"This group of religious bandits won't even restrain themselves from the corpses of their own people. They are simply inhumane." Wei Dakui cursed angrily and got on his horse.
"Speed through, don't stay." Guo Kun ordered again. All the soldiers and horses quickened their pace, walked past these putrid corpses, quickly rushed down the slope, passed through a messy camp of bandits, and headed eastward.
Go to the entrance of Bolangshachi Road.
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In the thorny wild forest north of the Bolangshachi Road, Lin Jue and more than a hundred Forbidden Army cavalry were heading east through thorns and thorns. Walking through the black mud marshes between the sand dunes, one can imagine the difficulty. The people in the forest
The thorns are easier to deal with. After all, you can cut a path. As long as you are not bitten by poisonous snakes and insects, you will be fine.
The most troublesome thing is the ubiquitous swamps in the forest. If it is a large swamp, that's fine. You can use the old method of using war horses to explore the way. But for small patches of wet grass quagmire, there is no way to deal with it.
.It looks normal on the outside, but when you step on it, it will suddenly collapse to the point of breaking your head. There is no way for people to prepare for it, and there is no way to rescue it.
After the two soldiers died, everyone became nervous. What they were thinking was that, let alone stopping the enemy, it was a question of whether they could walk out alive. There was also some resentment in everyone's hearts. But Lin Jue
The problem of dealing with this situation was quickly solved. Lin Jue used ropes to string everyone together one by one, like a string of grasshoppers on a rope. When someone fell into the mire, the people on both sides were
Everyone will be pulled and fall. But the pulling force of a long series of people is enough to pull the person who has lost his footing out in a short time. Although he is covered in black mud and dirt, he will not die inside.
When dealing with the soft ground, Lin Jue asked everyone to tie a frame of woven canes under their feet, euphemistically called it: snow shoes. Because the soft sand is like snow, this method is effective.
They avoided falling into it. However, they lost more than a dozen horses while passing through such terrain. They could not break free and could only sink helplessly in the sand and neigh. Lin Jue ordered them to be killed in the sand.
Here, their pain was relieved. However, when Lin Jue asked the cavalry to cut off the horse's legs and take them away so that they could be roasted to satisfy their hunger, all the cavalry clearly expressed their refusal. In their view, these horses were like comrades and brothers.
They said they would not eat the meat of the war horses even if they starved to death.
Lin Jue respects their decision and deeply believes in it. The fact that the cavalry can do this shows that they are people with a bottom line, not because they are pedantic. People need a bottom line, and people without a bottom line are not worthy of trust.
Even with all Lin Jue's whims and tricks, it still took him nearly two hours to walk out from where he was and arrive at the entrance of Chidao on the east side as Lin Jue expected. This still took him
Benefiting from the topography of Bolangsha.
Bolangsha is a strip of sand dunes and swamps running from north to south. It spans nearly twenty miles from north to south and is only five or six miles wide from east to west. The place where Lin Jue and others started is located in the middle of the east-west direction, and they arrived near the exit of Chidao on the east side.
, in fact, they only walked less than three miles. If it were on flat ground, two hours would be enough for ordinary people to walk dozens of miles. But here, they only walked less than three miles. This is simply faster than a turtle can crawl.
Not much.
Even at such a slow speed, there were frequent accidents and dangers on the road. At first, they tried hard to carry the horses forward, hoping that they would come in handy. In the end, everyone had to abandon the horses and let them fend for themselves in a forest.
Self-destruction. Otherwise, there is no way to go out with these horses.
But no matter what, when the sun set, everyone rushed to the east entrance of Chidao and climbed to the top of a small sand dune. Looking back, the entire Bolangsha was bathed in golden light under the setting sun. The dunes were green and undulating.
, dotted with large gleaming golden lakes and large tracts of lush woods. If someone who doesn’t know the inside story comes here and sees such a scenery, he will probably sigh about the great rivers and mountains, and even write one or two popular poems.
Come to praise. However, only those who have trudged out of it know that it is simply like hell. No one wants to enter this ghost place where people are killed invisibly.
The sand dune where we live is not high, but its location is excellent. Looking east, we can see the winding road leading directly to the Pingchou land in the east. The lower convenience on the north side is a crossing that has been used since the Qin Dynasty to this day.
The galloping road in Bolangsha is also the only channel that allows carriages and horses to go westward within a radius of more than ten miles. The galloping road passes through green sand dunes and trees, heading west like a thin ribbon, and the exit is five or six miles away.
It is where Yangwu County is located.
Lin Jue stretched his neck to look at the Chi Road below. There was no one within a few hundred steps. This was the exit of the Chi Road. Obviously, the other party did not deploy troops and horses here. However, based on the principle of caution,
Lin Jue still didn't immediately order everyone to go down to Chidao.
"Master Lin, the terrain here... I'm afraid it's difficult to set up an ambush. Are we just going to stand on the road to block the retreat of the religious bandits? There is no basis for it." A cavalryman frowned as he stared at the terrain below.
The rest of the people were also frowning. They originally thought they would find a narrow area where, as Master Lin said, 'one man can pass the barrier and ten thousand men cannot open it'. But now it seems that there is no such terrain. The gallop here seems to be indeed
It is a bit narrow, but it can still accommodate more than a dozen horses riding side by side, but it is by no means a good place for "one man to be in charge". Even if there is a fortification, it is okay, for example, some rocks can be rolled down onto the road to block the road.
Road, or you can use some sandbags to build a fortification wall. Or you can use the few remaining arrows to block it. But these seem impossible at the moment.
There are no stones on these sand dunes. They are all mud and sand. They were originally formed by the alluvial sediment of the Yellow River. The largest stones are only fist-sized pebbles. Is it possible to use such small pebbles to block the road? Isn't that a joke?
Now it is too late to weave sandbags to transport sediment and block the road. No one knows how to weave sandbags, and even if they do, they don’t have the time to bother with it. Moreover, if we use sandbags to build fortifications, we will not be able to stop them at all unless we work for three days and three nights.
There was a gangster living in the church. Everyone was frowning for a moment, not knowing what to do.
