1389: Nansheng, the autumn of troubled times (15)
"Although the Nanban is cruel, it is not without value. Lu Zheng said unhappily, "The lord's strength is not dominant among the princes, if you can domesticate these captives and let them charge into battle for the lord, it will also be a great help." Even if they were unwilling to use it for the Lord, these able-bodied barbarians were invaluable laborers, quarrying and paving roads and clearing wasteland...... All of this requires manpower. β
In the troubled times, it does not mean that you can dominate the world if you can fight, but you also need to build and operate.
The indiscriminate killing of prisoners is even more advisable.
Unless it is a special circumstance, such as the lack of food and grass in our army, we have to kill prisoners, otherwise under normal circumstances, prisoners are used as cheap labor to squeeze surplus value. Whatever physical work is heavy, they will be assigned to do whatever they want, and they will exchange the cheapest investment for the most generous returns.
Not to mention killing all the prisoners, the result is that the future enemy will fight to the death, and surrender is death anyway, it is better to fight to the end.
In addition to inspiring the emotions of the enemy to fight to the death, what other meaning is there?
"You don't need to preach these truths. After hearing this, a cold smile appeared on the corner of his lips, "You are from Dongqing, and the army of Northern Xinjiang was strangled by Liu Xi before it ravaged all places, of course you can't empathize...... The people of Nansheng, who does not hate the Nanban thieves? The living of the Nanban thieves is the greatest disrespect for those who died in vain! Don't say that if you kill 50,000 prisoners today, even if it is 500,000 prisoners, you will not be merciful. Your father and son were not cut off by the Southern Barbarian thieves and hung on horseback to show off their might, and your mother and wife were not humiliated and ridiculed by the Southern Barbarian thieves in turn. If you haven't experienced this, how can you know the hatred of destroying the country and destroying the family?"
[Ge Lin]'s remarks can be regarded as humiliating, and Rao is Lu Zheng can't help but be angry.
"Hua Yuan!" he shouted angrily.
[Green] sneered, "Just a few words, and you will be angry......"
Lu Zheng didn't notice it, and there was a faint killing intent in the other party's eyes.
Without waiting for him to make a move, Yang Tao shouted at Lu Zheng from afar, and [Ge Lin] glared at Lu Zheng unwillingly.
In a trance, [Green] went offline in seconds, and the main personality was pushed out.
Yang Tao looked at Hua Yuan's departing back, frowned and said, "Mr. Lu should pay attention." β
Lu Zheng didn't know why, "What does Zheng Zegong mean by this?"
Yang Tao said, "Just now, that person had murderous intentions towards you, if I hadn't shouted, I'm afraid it would have been ......."
Naturally, he didn't say this to sow discord.
Yang Tao is bold and righteous, and he has a lot of everything, but he has too few eyes.
Lu Zheng's pupils shrank, and he hesitated, "After all, he is a colleague, how dare he blatantly kill someone?"
Yang Tao said, "It's hard to say, that Hua Yuan feels a little weird, as if he has suddenly changed a person." β
According to his understanding, Hua Yuan is a standard literati, and his riding and archery kung fu is not good, where does he get a murderous aura?
That kind of murderous aura can only be possessed by a martial artist who has been on the battlefield for several years.
Lu Zheng didn't say that Hua Yuan was crazy, but he was also vigilant, after all, the behavior of a madman cannot be measured by common sense.
This great victory became a watershed in the battle between the Barbarian Allies and the Southern Barbarian Four Divisions.
The former grew stronger and stronger, while the latter gradually retreated.
Every time it failed, thousands of young men from the four southern barbarians were captured, and they all died without exception.
As the war entered the white-hot stage, what Lu Zheng feared most still happened.
Because of the attitude of the allies towards the captives, on the contrary, it inspired the determination of the four southern barbarians to fight to the death.
As a large number of young men died in battle, barbarian women and young children also went to the front, which actually stopped the Allied forces.
As a result, the Allied princes continued to insist on the decision to kill all the prisoners.
Yang Tao intended to oppose it, but more than half of his subordinates were Nansheng people, and as the lord, he couldn't ignore their opinions.
In just two months, nearly 150,000 Nanban prisoners were killed.
In the blink of an eye, summer has arrived.
The scorching sun made the Allied soldiers suffer enough, but the originally weak Nanban Fourth Division became more and more courageous.
The scales, which had been tilted toward the allies, slowly tilted toward the four southern barbarians.
Yan Lin is not optimistic about the current situation.
"If this situation continues, the allies will continue to insist on going their own way, and they will inevitably usher in a counterattack by the four southern barbarian divisionsββ"
Yang Tao's expression was solemn, "It's hard to say...... In these battles, the casualties of the Allied forces increased dramatically, which was extremely unfavorable to our army. β
The combat style of the four Nanban Divisions is already ferocious, and now there is also a buff bonus of "Seeing Death as Home", and the combat power has soared.
This has created a very embarrassing situation - the four Nanban Divisions, which have suffered a lot of vitality, are even more difficult to deal with than before.
Sometimes Yang Tao can't figure it out, what are the allies trying to do this?
Kill all the Nanban captives to avenge the people of Nansheng, but it turns out to fill in more innocent lives.
The Allied bad luck did not stop there, and after a thunderstorm, some soldiers experienced headaches, nausea, nausea, diarrhea and other symptoms. At first, the military doctor thought that a small number of soldiers were not adapted, but as the days passed, the number of sick soldiers increased, and some soldiers even died of diarrhea......
As a last resort, the sick soldiers could only be gathered in one place to take care of them, but the condition did not improve at all, and soldiers died of illness every day.
No one knows where the source of the epidemic is!
No, one of them may know.
Hua Yuan leaned in the tent to escape the heat, his cold eyes seemed to be quenched with venom, and even the temperature of the air around him was lower than elsewhere.
If Lu Zheng was here, he would know that this colleague had lost his mind and had another seizure.
Yes, the personality that is now online is the "elder brother" of the deity Hua Yuan, the guy who pit Huang Song for millions of stone grains.
"Sir, the student has finished reading. β
In addition to himself, there is also An Xian's heir, the justifiable young master.
The young man looked at Hua Yuan with a little hesitation in his eyes, "Sir, the student has something unclear ......"
Hua Yuan looked at him and asked, "What's the matter?"
"In recent days, the epidemic has been rampant in the camp, and the students think that this epidemic will be related to the drinking water of the allied forces?" the young man said hesitantly, "Not only has there been a large-scale epidemic in our army, according to the spies, similar symptoms have also appeared on the side of the Nanban tribe......
If it weren't for this, the four southern barbarian divisions would have taken advantage of the gap in the damage to the allied forces and counterattacked.
"Why do you think that?" Hua Yuan asked.
"Previously, the student had followed Mr. to Dongqing Lanting Gong to discuss the alliance. The boy said, "The students found that the drinking water in the camp was boiled before drinking, and the food was boiled in hot water before eating. On the side of the wounded barracks, the water used to clean the wounds of the soldiers was also boiled repeatedly...... The student asked curiously, and the other party said that this was a rule set by Lan Ting Gong. Because there are obscure things in the water, although they are invisible to the naked eye, they are harmful to the human body. Once obscure things enter the human body through the population, it is very easy to cause plague......"
Hua Yuan sighed, noncommittal.