It was in the afternoon, and the sun was shining fiercely on people, and the heat was unbearable. The ground was steaming hot, and there was an unbearable rancid smell. There were traces of blood on the ground within a hundred paces of the city, and after drying up, it turned into a color of black, not black, red, red, purple and purple, and emitted a foul smell worse than that of the latrine.

At first, there was only this stench, but after a hundred steps, there were rotting corpses on the ground. The weather was so hot that the corpses would rot in only half a day, flies and maggots would arch wildly, and the whole place a hundred paces away from the city would be so stinking that people could not breathe. The soldier could not resist such a smell and felt dizzy. Someone started vomiting.

"Cover your mouth and nose with a damp cloth that is given out to you." Zhao Youji shouted.

Everyone suddenly realized that Zhao County's order to distribute wet wipes was to deal with the situation here. At that moment, everyone quickly took out the cloth towel and covered their faces and tied it behind their heads. The cloth towel was soaked in spice-soaked refreshing cold water, and there was a faint fragrance in the mouth and nose. And it effectively filters the foul smell in the air, effectively relieving the discomfort of the soldiers.

Guo Kun also covered his mouth and nose, and asked Zhao Youji angrily, "Why are these corpses not converged?" ”

Zhao Youji said: "Returning to the capital of Yuhou, it's not that we don't want to rein in, but we are really afraid that the bandits will suddenly attack us." Therefore, in these two days, we only collected and buried the corpses within a hundred paces of the city. It's far away from the city, so I don't dare to clean it up. The corpses that Du Yuhou saw were only a small part. The city is full of corpses. We dragged out three or four layers of corpses under the city walls alone, and there were thousands of them. There was no way to deal with it, so they could only be dragged to the mud pit outside the north city and thrown in and buried. ”

Guo Kun was surprised, corpses could already be seen everywhere on the ground in front of him, and it was hard to imagine how tragic the battle was that day. This corpse strewn all over the ground is proof of this, and it is distributed throughout the battlefield area, which is even more puzzling.

Zhao Youji's words gave an explanation: "The city is caused by offensive and defensive casualties, and the area far away from the city is the masterpiece of Lord Lin." Lord Lin not only successfully attacked the camp, but also led the cavalry to rush behind the enemy when the bandits were desperate to storm the city, attracting most of the bandits to besiege him. Lord Lin led people to kill back and forth, and then killed them out of the crowd. These corpses were all the bandits they killed that day. ”

Guo Kun tried his best to imagine, but he couldn't imagine the danger and tragedy of that day. The admiration in his heart for his brother-in-law had completely overpowered his innate superiority at this time. In terms of strategy and talent, he is far inferior. In the past, Guo Kun thought that he was at least better than him in bravery, but now it seems that Lin Juezhi's bravery far surpasses him. The only place where he is taller than him is that he is only from his background. But from a royal family, is that a capital that you can be proud of?

"That's our forbidden cavalry. Lo and behold, those boots were cavalry boots. Wei Dakui suddenly shouted from the side, stretched out his hand and pointed to a decomposing inhuman-shaped corpse in front of him.

Everyone looked over and saw that the corpse was wearing a pair of riding boots on its feet, which was the standard equipment of the cavalry of the forbidden army. But the corpse was stripped naked, and its purple carrion was rolled up and covered with countless wounds. The corpse of a war horse next to him also fell to the side, and the horse's corpse was stuck with a dozen arrows. Obviously, the cavalry of the day was encircled, and when they broke through, they were besieged and killed by many bandits. The cavalryman suffered multiple fatal wounds, which must have been caused by the siege of the bandits. The armor on the body is naturally bladed

It was all taken down and taken away.

Wei Dakui jumped off his horse, came to the corpse, and reached out to pluck from his neck a twine wooden plaque tied with twine, which was engraved with the name of the dead cavalryman and the name of the infantry division of the guard.

"I know him, he is Deng Xiaole, a person from Beijing. I just turned 18 this year. Damn, die here. Wei Dakui sighed.

Guo Kun's expression was solemn, and he said in a deep voice: "Leave the manpower to converge." It's our people, and all the corpses were sent to the city for burial. All the list of returns will be reported, and the imperial court will show mercy to the family and posthumously award official positions. The corpses of the bandits were all piled up, and the firewood on the shelves was burned. In this kind of weather, the corpses are exposed under the city, mosquitoes and flies gnaw at them, and maggots rot, which will cause plague. Be sure to dispose of it as soon as possible. ”

"Yes!" Wei Dakui and Zhao Youji hurriedly arched their hands.

"This group of bandits, even their own corpses, is simply inhumane." Wei Dakui scolded angrily and turned over on his horse.

"Speed through, don't linger." Guo Kun gave another order, and all the soldiers and horses quickened their pace, walked past these rotten corpses, and soon rushed down the slope, through a messy camp of bandits, and headed east towards the entrance of Bolang Shachi Road.

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In the thorny forest north of Bolangsha Chi Road, Lin Jue and more than a hundred cavalry of the forbidden army were cutting through thorns and thorns to the east. Walking through the black mud swamps between the sand dunes can be imagined. The thorns in the forest are easier to deal with, after all, they can cut a path. As long as you are not bitten by poisonous snakes and insects, you will be fine.

The biggest headache is the muddy land that is everywhere in the woods. If it is a large swamp pond, you can use the old way to explore the way with war horses. But a small patch of wet grass and a quagmire of wet grass makes it impossible to cope. It looks the same from the outside, but when you step on it, you will suddenly sink down, and it will be so deep that it has no top. There is no way to defend against it, and there is no way to rescue it.

After the two soldiers were killed because of this, everyone looked nervous, thinking that it was a question of whether they could get out alive, let alone stop the enemy. There was also some resentment in the hearts of the people. But Lin Jue quickly solved the problem of dealing with this situation, and Lin Jue used a rope to string everyone together one by one, like a string of grasshoppers strung on a rope. When one person falls into the mud, both sides are pulled and fallen. But the pulling force of a long list of people is enough for the person who has lost his footing to be pulled out in a short time, and 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 woven of miscellaneous trees and rattan under their feet, which was beautifully called: snowshoes. Because the soft sand is like snow, this method effectively avoids getting stuck in it. It's just that a dozen more horses were lost when passing through such terrain. They couldn't break free from it, and could only sink into the sand and scream weakly. Lin Jue ordered them to be killed here to relieve their suffering. It's just that when Lin Jue asked the cavalry to cut off the legs of their horses and take them away, so that they could be roasted and hungry for a while, all the cavalry made it clear that they refused. In their eyes, these war horses are like comrades-in-arms and brothers, and they say that they will not eat the meat of war horses when they starve to death.

Lin Jue respected their decision and thought so. The fact that the cavalry can do this shows that they are precisely people with a bottom line, not because of pedantic. People need a bottom line, and people without a bottom line are not trustworthy.

Even with Lin Jue's various whimsical ideas and small tricks, he came out of where he was

According to Lin Jue's prediction, it took nearly two hours to arrive at the entrance of the Chi Road on the east side. This is thanks to the topography of Bolangsa.

Bolangsha is a north-south banded dune swamp area, spanning nearly 20 miles from north to south, and only five or six miles wide from east to west. The place where Lin Jue and the others set off was located in the middle of the east-west direction, and when they arrived at the left side of the Chi Road exit on the east side, they actually walked less than three miles. If it were on flat land, two hours would be enough for ordinary people to walk dozens of miles. But here, it's less than three miles away. That's not much faster than a turtle crawling.

Even at such a slow pace, there are frequent accidents and dangers on the road. Originally, I was trying to carry the horse forward, hoping that it would come in handy at that time. Eventually, the horses had to be abandoned and left to fend for themselves in a wood. Otherwise, with these horses, you will not be able to go out at all.

But in any case, as the sun set, the group reached the east entrance of the gallop and climbed to the top of a small sand dune. Looking back, the entire Bolangsha is bathed in golden light under the setting sun. The sand dunes are undulating and dotted with golden lakes and lush forests. If people who don't know the inside story come here and see such a scene, they are afraid that they will sigh for the great rivers and mountains, and even write one or two popular poems to praise them. However, only those who trudge out of it know that it is hell. No one wants to go into this hellish place where people kill people invisibly.

The dunes are not very high, but they are in a great location. Looking to the east, you can see a winding road leading to the flat land in the east. The north side is a galloping road that has been used from the Qin Dynasty to today, and it is also the only feasible passage for carriages and horses to go west within a radius of more than ten miles. The gallop road crosses the verdant sand dunes and trees like a thin ribbon to the west, and the exit five or six miles away is where the county seat of Yangwu is located.

Lin Jue stretched his neck to observe the gallop below, and there was no one within hundreds of steps as far as his eye could see. This is the exit of the gallop road, and it is obvious that the other party has not placed troops and horses here. But in line with the principle of prudence, Lin Jue still did not immediately order everyone to go down to the gallop road.

"Lord Lin, the terrain here ...... I'm afraid it's hard to set up an ambush. Are we just standing on the gallop to stop the retreat of the bandits? There's no basis for it. A cavalry member frowned as he stared at the terrain below.

The rest of the people were also worried, originally thinking that they would find a narrow area as Lord Lin said, 'one husband should be closed to ten thousand people'. But now, it seems, there is no such terrain. The gallop here does seem to be a little narrower, but it can also accommodate a dozen riders in parallel, but it is by no means a good place for a 'one-man pass'. Even if there is a fortification, you can get some rocks to roll down to block the gallop, or you can use some sandbags to build a fortification wall. Or you can use the few remaining arrows to contain it. But none of this seems possible at the moment.

There are no stones on these dunes, they are all muddy and sandy, originally formed by the alluvial sediment of the Yellow River. The largest stone is no more than a fist-sized pebble. Is it impossible to block the way with such a small pebble? Isn't that a joke? Now it's too late to weave sand packaging and transport sediment to block the road. No one knows how to make sandbags, and even if they do, they don't have time to toss. Moreover, if you don't work for three days and three nights, you won't be able to stop the bandits. Everyone was worried for a while, not knowing what to do.

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