The Sword Dynasty - 711. Chapter 710

Zhang Wuwu grinned.

Although he couldn’t help laughing, he didn’t think it was a joke.

No matter who has been imprisoned for many years in the dark water prison, smelling the rotten smell on his body and lingering, I am afraid that if he really smells some different smell of the sea, he will feel fresh.

He knew very well that Lin Zhujiu was able to endure such a life because of his strong hatred.

People can tolerate a certain degree of betrayal, but how can they accept the betrayal of the people around them day and night?

So many people who can laugh together, live and die together, die in this betrayal.

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Tianping County, the prefecture closest to the Nanquan towns in the Da Chu Dynasty, also gathered the eyes of everyone in the world at this time.

Because most of the remnant army of the Great Chu Dynasty is strangling with the pursuit of the Qin army in this plain area.

Unlike practitioners, the retreat of the army involves more details.

Along the way, some refugees and wounded soldiers were scattered, and the armed forces restrained and assisted each other in defense. Some defended and some retreated. One link went wrong, which may have caused an alarming number of deaths and injuries.

It probably only takes one day and night for practitioners to cross a state or county, but it takes several times or even dozens of times to evacuate a large number of troops.

It is said that most of the remnants of the army, in fact, after the withdrawal from Yangshan County, hundreds of thousands of Chu army had been dispersed into hundreds of units during the retreat. The chaser broke up.

Some Chu troops have lost contact with the rest of the Chu troops, and even because they are too far apart, they cannot even see the fireworks signals of the main troops retreating to the towns of Nanquan, relying on the instincts of the soldiers to fight on this land.

The vast majority of the Chu army had lost their supplies more than ten days ago, and even the vitality of the military horses and drag beasts was not as tenacious as these sergeants. In the long-term under-supply and arduous trek, most of the military horses and The drag beasts all died and were used as food by the army.

Many of the places where the army passed, even the weeds are almost extinct.

It is not because of trampling, but because the roots and bark of the trees are used as the belly of the fruit.

Because of the heat and humidity, most of the skin of the soldiers who had resisted a round of epidemic attack has begun to fester. Many people’s toes have been glued together, and their abdomen has become high because of long-term eating indigestible food. High bulge, because of lack of medicine, many people even die from intestinal infarction that cannot defecate.

However, such a tragedy was not unique to the Chu army.

Keep going deep into the Chu realm means that you are getting farther and farther away from the familiar battlefield. In addition to fighting with the Chu army, more and more resistance forces join in along the way. Some of the troops that came to support from afar were private armies of some cliques, and even some horse thieves and rogues who were originally enemies of the court joined the battle.

However, this is not the most important thing. As the party pursuing the Qin army, it means that most of the time there is no fortress, unable to wait for work, and no terrain advantage. And because the orders from above became more and more severe, the army was forced to pursue it faster and faster, and the Qin army had already lost its advantage in terms of supply. Many of the places they passed through were barren land after the Chu army passed, and even some water sources were poisoned.

In order to help the Chu army resist their pursuit, the people in some villages even burned down the village themselves, leaving only a limited amount of food in the village, and all the rest of the food was provided to the Chu army, and these villagers were all hidden in the mountains and forests they were familiar with. .

At this time, in a village that was completely burnt to white ground, the ground was covered with pieces of cloth leather cut with camp tents. This kind of cloth leather densely filled all the open spaces in the village, with thousands of them.

On each piece of cloth lay a wounded Qin army.

Only a dozen doctors wandered among the wounded, but there was no medicine left on these doctors. The only things they could have were some clean hemostatic cotton cloths and clean water.

The uncontrollable groan of pain formed a sea of sorrow and despair.

This army is the Cangnan army, an army under the jurisdiction of Wei Wujiu.

The highest generals in the army at this time were Zhang Tu and Tian Rong.

Zhang Tu is a well-known burly man among Wei Wujiu’s men. He is unusually burly and looks like a giant when he stands upright. However, he sits silently under the thickest camphor tree in this village. The armour gives people a paper-thin feeling, and even the cheekbones on both sides are so thin and bulging.

This camphor tree was extremely thick, and most of its branches and leaves were burned out in the flames. However, because it was close to the stream, it survived tenaciously. In the midday sun in the late summer, the dark branches still gave the general a shade.

Zhang Tu held a stone bowl in his hand. In the bowl was sticky millet soup, which was already the best food the army could have.

He brought the mouth of the bowl to his mouth twice, but put it down again.

It was not that the food was difficult to swallow, but that the wailing and painful sounds made him feel uneasy.

“Is there still a military order?”

Seeing him put down the stone bowl for the second time, Tian Rong couldn’t help but speak.

He was born in Changling, with a handsome face and a handsome man in the army. However, in the previous battle, his scalp was cut off by flying swords. At this time, the cotton cloth was oozing with purple and black. The blood was dried up, covering his little face, making him now not like a handsome Qin army general, but like a fierce and dead end gang leader.

“Our daily casualties are more than double that of the Chu Army. If we go further, I am afraid that in a few days, there will be few of us who can stand.”

Tian Rong took a deep breath, his face was a little distorted, but his voice was suppressed to a very low level, “We have left two batches of wounded like this, and there is nothing to lose next. I’m not afraid of death, but you We should understand why we are chasing so eagerly…just to annihilate the Chu army as much as possible and prevent these Chu army from entering Jiaodong County!”

“In her opinion, it may be worthwhile to sacrifice so many brothers’ lives in order to preserve Jiaodong County, but I don’t accept it.”

“We have tried our best, and for these Chu troops, they have hope. They will soon be able to wait until the towns of Nanquan are accepted, but our subordinates have no hope.”

“I can accept a military order to die, but I cannot accept a military order that makes them desperate for someone’s whisper.”

Finally Tian Rong raised his head, looked at Zhang Tu, and said seriously: “If someone must bear the guilt of violating the military order, then I will bear it.”

Zhang Tu laughed suddenly.

His body was trembling with a smile, and the millet soup in his hand splashed to the ground.

Tian Rong had never seen him react like this, so he was stunned.

“How many years have we lived and died together in the frontier army?”

Zhang Tu lowered his head slightly, his face was full of shadows, but a cold arrogance appeared, “I have tried my best, can’t I dare to resist the order? I don’t believe the others nor dare to resist the order!”