Chapter Ninety-Eight: The Cannibalistic Army

Yun Hao hates pursuit battles, this kind of fighting, whether it is for the pursuer or the person being chased, it is both physical and mental torture.

Xue Rengao's last battle, the Battle of Shallow Water Plateau, ended with Xue Rengao's complete defeat. Daddy's soul in heaven did not succeed in bless his son, or Li Er's ancestors were much stronger. Even in the underworld, Xue Ju is still not the opponent of the ancestors of the Li family.

"Boy, that is, you have a carriage. Otherwise, we would have been left behind by Xue Rengao a long time ago. His grandmother's, chased from the scorching sun to the snow. It's fucking November, and I still haven't killed this kid, and I can really run. Li Shentong was in Yun Hao's car, and snowflakes began to fall outside. In the winter, only Yun Hao's carriage had a stove.

Yun Hao was bored roasting the leg of lamb on the charcoal brazier, and large drops of grease dripped onto the fire, and blue flames were lit from time to time. The mouth was rotten, and there were a few soybean-sized ulcers, which made Yun Hao want to die. But I have no choice but to eat. Every time you eat, it's a test of perseverance.

The army was in continuous pursuit, and the supply of this thing was intermittent. As we get farther and farther away from Guanzhong, the longer the supply is cut off. The living cannot be suffocated to death, and the army with a knife in its hand will naturally not starve to death. The robbery of the people of Longyou Province has become an important source of supply for the army.

Cattle and sheep can walk with the army and slaughter when needed. This kind of supply is extremely convenient, and it is the best food to carry on the march. People who eat meat for a long time will lack vitamins in their bodies, and mouth sores are the main symptoms of vitamin deficiency.

"Boy, why don't you speak." The old guy looked at Yun Hao with a god, and the silver wine jug took a small sip from time to time.

"Tongue hurts!" Yun Hao was reluctant to talk much, in fact, his lips and tongue were very painful, and he ate completely to continue to survive. Yun Hao knew that if he didn't replenish meat in the cold weather, people would become weaker and weaker until they died.

Suddenly, Yun Hao stopped the roasted leg of mutton. looked at the old guy directly, and threw away the leg of mutton and pounced on Li Shentong. After struggling to push Li Shentong away, he finally found a green robe that had been gnawed several times under the old guy's body. No wonder the old guy is fine, it turns out that there are turnips to eat. Yun Hao took a big bite of the radish viciously, ignoring Li Shentong. The old guy who eats alone is already respecting the old man if he doesn't kick him out.

Li Shentong laughed twice, took out another radish from his sleeve, and gnawed it down.

"Boy, the old man doesn't eat alone. This is from the second child today, just two, if you don't grab it, you will naturally share one. Don't throw the leg of lamb on the ground, it will spoil things. If you don't eat it, I can eat it. Li Shentong, who was robbed, was not angry, and handed his wine jug to Yun Hao.

Yun Hao's wine has long been interrupted, and the steamed wine in this old guy's pot has never been empty. Sometimes Yun Hao even suspected that Li Shentong had secretly hidden a set of wine-making household goods.

The army was encamped, and the snow was getting heavier and heavier. This kind of weather is in the march is to the death!

Yun Hao and Li Shentong didn't plan to get out of the car, in fact, the tent was far less warm than the inside of the carriage. Just open a gap in the window and put coal smoke in it. In fact, most of the soot was carried outside by the small chimney. There wasn't much carbon left in the wagon.

As soon as the march stopped, all sorts of people appeared. Liu Hongji, who was shaved and bald, was the most exaggerated, wearing a whole cowhide on his body, and he didn't even take off the horns and was put on his head. From a distance, it looks like a yak.

The soldiers don't care whether they look good or not, keeping warm in the ice and snow is the first priority. The sheepskins were not nitrated, in fact, many of the sheepskins had not dried up with blood, and they were draped over the bodies of the shivering soldiers. As long as they can pull it on their bodies, the soldiers don't mind.

On the ground is white flowers, and on the snow are people with white flowers. A bloated person is like a beast of prey, as long as he sees something with skin, it is like killing it, and then he peels it on himself. Some of the guys who couldn't grab the sheepskin were already freezing and losing their minds. It seems that even if they are allowed to peel people's skins now, there is a problem.

"It can't go on like this! Xue Rengao has been fleeing to the west, and we will chase after him. When is this a leader, do you have to chase it all the way to the edge of the sky? Boy, think of a way, know that you have a brain, hurry up. Yesterday I went to see the second child, and his feet were swollen like a pig's trotters. Li Shentong saw the situation outside through the crack in the window, and couldn't help but be very worried. If this continues, the Li family, a capable soldier, will be frozen alive in the Longyou wasteland.

"On the horizon? If you can make it all the way west and cross the sea by boat, I can guarantee that you will be able to return to Chang'an. "The earth is round, and there is no market in Datang. Almost everyone firmly believes that the sky is round and the earth is square. At the end of the earth, there is a mountain, which can stand up to the sky and not let it fall.

Looking at the confused Li Shentong, Yun Hao didn't want to subvert his previous cognition. The fact that the earth is round is a little difficult for him to accept.

"Don't worry about us, worry about Xue Rengao! We've got supplies, and we're still going to do it. He Xue Rengao wants to be resupplied without supplies, and he can last a few days in the ice and snow. As the saying goes, snow doesn't turn cold when it snows, and now you can carry it when it snows. When the snow is over, I'm 100% sure they'll freeze into ice sculptures.

If you look at the side of the road, we've been marching with frozen corpses these days. Yesterday I counted more than 2,000 corpses. There will only be more today than yesterday, and I see no less than 200 corpses in an abandoned camp.

From the capture of the soldiers, it is clear that they ran too quickly. There was not even time to loot the nearby herders. Otherwise, where can we still have roast lamb shanks to eat? Hold on, Xue Rengao won't be able to run for long. If he doesn't want to freeze to death in the wasteland, surrender is his only way out. ”

"You mean Xue Rengao will surrender? Don't be funny, just the crime of abusing and killing Liu regret. Your Majesty will break him to pieces!

Do you know that Liu regret grew up with His Majesty. Liu Regret's wife is His Majesty's nurse! When guarding Jingzhou, Liu regretted killing his mount and giving it to the soldiers to eat. He only ate broth mixed with wood slag, and was later captured by Xue Rengao. Xue Rengao actually buried his legs in the soil and shot dozens of arrows alive in front of the two armies before he was killed. There are not many such generals in the Tang Dynasty, and your majesty must give an explanation to the generals. ”

"I know this, but Xue Rengao is dead. Others may not have died, in exchange for their own lives. The guys with knives won't mind taking Xue Rengao as a voter. ”

"Are you saying that Xue Rengao's subordinates will tie him up and surrender?"

Before Li Shentong's words fell, deafening cheers erupted in the temporary camp. A pro-soldier ran over like an arrow in his buttocks, bowed to the carriage and said to the ground: "Lord Wang, Xue Rengao has surrendered!" ”

The snow stopped, and the sun's rays were dazzling on the snow. A night of heavy snow turned the Longyou wasteland into a white expanse, and a long series of black spots appeared on the snow. The black dot is getting closer and closer, and his appearance is even more miserable than Tang Jun. Yun Hao even saw that some people were barefoot, and their blackened heels were already covered with a large cloud of ice and snow.

The military newspaper said that when he fled from Qinzhou, Xue Rengao captured 80,000 people. From September to November, less than 3,000 people surrendered with Xue Rengao. Not even the fraction he took with him was enough!

A large bonfire was lit on the ground, and there was a large forest not far from the campsite. If Li Er doesn't leave, it is estimated that it will be enough for him to burn until the first day.

Li Er stood on a makeshift high platform and watched the captives approaching. The Tang cavalry, bloated like a bear, galloped forward and backward in front of the captive ranks. Some of them walked slowly and were whipped up. However, the whip can only make a "bang" and "bang" sound when it is drawn on the body covered with fur, and it will not damage those people at all.

Xue Rengao walked at the front of the line, wearing a mink coat. He wears an otterskin hat on his head, and the hat looks very warm. Beautiful fur that glows in the sun. Looking at Xue Rengao's tiger steps, Yun Hao knew that this guy was very well nourished. The exhaustion and hunger of the flight did not show itself in him at all.

Yun Hao stood on the high platform, looking at the team that was not embarrassed and pouted. It's worldly, and all the honest people are dead. The guys who are full of evil, but they are alive and kicking one by one.

God, this bastard, it's so unfair.

Li Shentong looked at Xue Rengao, who was in the lead, turned his head and left, Yun Hao wanted to leave but stayed. He really wanted to see how Li Er treated Xue Rengao, who surrendered. But the old guy didn't let Yun Hao go, and dragged Yun Hao back to the carriage.

"What's the matter, let's see what to do with Xue Rengao!" Yun Hao wanted to break free of Li Shentong's hand, but he seemed to be clamped by iron tongs, and he couldn't break free no matter how he broke free. Now Yun Hao knew that the old guy really wanted to give up that radish to himself. Compared with strength, the eight themselves are not opponents who have been mixed up on the battlefield for a lifetime.

"Look at what? It's just a bunch of man-eating beasts, and the second child won't spare them. Li Shentong took off his boots and threw them out, and his own soldiers immediately picked them up. The old guy rolled his eyes as he rubbed his swollen feet. It seems that seeing Xue Rengao makes him very angry.

In the end, only a few thousand of the 80,000 people survived, and it was naturally clear what an army without supplies would eat. Not all of the tens of thousands of people who disappeared died of starvation, but many were eaten. It turned out that the missing meat on those corpses was not the work of wild wolves.

Yun Hao and Li Shentong sat opposite each other, relatively speechless. Even the soldiers reminded the two masters to eat, but they ignored them. When they see the tumbling beef and mutton in the iron pot, they will naturally think of the bone-baring thighs they met on the road.