Chapter 1215: The Gates of Hell
It was cold rain before, but as soon as the rain stopped and the sun came out, the temperature rose rapidly at a speed that the human body could feel. [To see the latest chapter of the book, please go to Marshmallow].Visit:.
The war horse was startled, Ruan Dacheng hugged the horse's neck tightly, and his face turned pale. If it weren't for the sake of maintaining the prestige of the soldiers, he would prefer to shout.
The war horse under the seat accidentally stepped on the head of a horse that had been stripped to bones with a knife, and the object injured it, and it jumped up with a long neigh. It turns out that this big beast is also afraid, in this Shura field.
Yu Liang stretched out his hand violently and grabbed the bridle of Ruan Dacheng's war horse, he was so strong that he couldn't move the startled horse: "Da Sima Ke is okay?" ”
Ruan Dacheng saw that the war horse was quiet, and let out a long breath: "It doesn't matter. ”
Fang Cai's own performance is really a bit embarrassing, especially when he is seen by Shi Kefa, but it is frustrating.
He couldn't help but glance back at Shi Kefa next to him, but saw that Shi Shoufu seemed to have lost his soul, sitting on the war horse like a walking corpse, letting the guards lead the war horse numbly forward
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This made Ruan Dacheng secretly relieved, as long as he didn't see it. Hehe, Shi Xianzhi, when you were the superintendent in Yangzhou before, you only knew that you hid in the line to drink tea and read books, even if you were surrounded by Jiannu into a turtle in an urn, you didn't listen to it and waited to be killed. Today, do you know what the real war is all about?
You Donglin, you only know how to talk about 'sex' on weekdays, and when you say the words of a saint, you will say that you are a 'fermented milk' that does not eat the fireworks of the world. But I don't know what the world has become now?
I, Ruan Dacheng, is just that, Ma Yaocao can have today, but he was really killed with one knife and one shot on the battlefield. Listen to him say that the cruelty of the Battle of Yongcheng is simply hell on earth. It's about the same as the situation in front of you...... Hehe, what the country needs is a 'fine' person like Yaocao, and you Donglin are not wronged if you lose in the hands of the old man and Yaocao.
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That's right, Shi Kefa was completely stunned by the bone-covered barracks in front of him.
Since entering the Qing army camp, the troops have not encountered decent resistance, and the Qing army is full of hungry and dying soldiers. Seeing the Ningxiang army coming in, he fled quickly towards the north with a powerful roar. The rest just sat in the muddy water and looked at the soldiers of the Ningxiang Army with dull eyes, not even the 'spirit' of surrender.
The road was full of fallen Qing troops, and they didn't know whether they were dead or alive, and no one cared.
The rain was so heavy that it washed away the topsoil. As a result, a human skeleton with a white forest 'emerged' from the soil. On the side of the road. In the clearing, on the edge of the tent...... Wherever there is a place, it becomes the graveyard of the dead. The entire camp has become a large cemetery where human corpses coexist.
Because the hunger was so terrible that it was impossible for a person to be buried deep after death, he just threw it on the ground and covered it with a layer of soil at will. The rain came so hard that it easily swept away the floating soil, allowing the bones to block their way like a mountain.
In a trance, Shi Kefa suddenly remembered what he saw when he went to the house of a cattle butcher when he was a child. The butcher slaughtered three sick cows every month, and after killing the cattle and selling the 'meat', the cow hides and bones were treasures. Cowhides can be sent to a cobbler to make boots and armor. As for beef bones, in addition to knocking out the bone marrow and eating them, they can also be made into chopsticks, bone knives, prayer beads, hairpins and other utensils. So, the butcher piled the bones of the shaved 'meat' in the courtyard, and the bones of Bai Sensen were so scary to look at
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It was a lingering nightmare from Shi Kefa's childhood, what was the difference between the lucidity in front of him and that small courtyard?
It has been almost an hour and a half since the general attack of the Ming army was launched, and Shi Kefa and Ruan Dacheng also followed after the Ningxiang army opened a gap and broke into the enemy camp. Walked in a breath. It has already penetrated very deep into the enemy camp.
But there were too many old camps in Duoduo, and just now there was a torrential rain, smoke, and fire, and the group was 'confused' and 'confused' and 'lost', and stopped here. And. There's no way to leave right now. There were layers of corpses in front of him, about two or three hundred. The dead were stripped naked, soaked in the rain, and were frighteningly swollen.
Obviously, these people did not die in the battle just now, but died of starvation and disease for many days, and were put here by the Qing army. Waiting for incineration and burial. Otherwise, it would not have been possible to be stripped naked.
As for why the clothes of the corpse were taken off, the reason is also very simple, cotton and linen products are hard currency from the last year of Chongzhen to the year of Hongguang, when there was a general shortage of materials, and they can be directly circulated in the market. Moreover, the most important thing is that Jiannu should use the clothes of these dead people to set fire to cook and use them as firewood.
30,000 horses have been enclosed in this small area for so many days, and people have eaten and chewed horses, and this piece has long been ruined. I heard that a few days ago, the Qing army even ran out of firewood for cooking, and the troops had begun to eat raw food.
Because of the lack of firewood, no one bothered to ask about the corpses after they were thrown here. The big 'legs' of some corpses have been cut with knives until only the bones remain, as for where did the 'meat' go...... You don't have to ask.
Cannibalism...... Shi Kefa's cold 'hair' stood up, and he squeezed the reins tightly, only to feel dizzy and dizzy, and he didn't breathe anymore.
It stinks, and even after a rainstorm, the stench lingers like maggots attached to the bones.
Everyone around him has put on masks, but even so, it still can't be alleviated in the slightest.
As soon as the rain stopped, the stagnant water on the ground receded, but the corpse water, pus and blood, as well as the vomit and excrement of the patients suffering from cholera, flowed in.
The only person who remained calm was Orchard, a former monk cook who stood silently in front of the mountain of corpses, clasping his hands together and muttering something in a low voice.
Someone shouted: "Orchard, go, there is nothing to remember, even if these wicked people die, they will fall into the hell of Abi."
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Hell, isn't that what this is?
Ruan Dacheng also frowned, and shouted: "Come back, don't be infected with the plague." ”
As soon as the words fell, suddenly, there was a muffled "bang" in the pile of corpses, and a fresh stench came to the nostrils, even if you were wearing a mask, you couldn't stop it.
It turned out that the corpses had probably been piled up here for many days, and they had completely decayed, and their stomachs were swollen like a big drum. Just now it was drenched in the rain, and it exploded instantly.
The orchard still ignored it, and just closed its eyes and read the scriptures.
There was another "bang", and the scene in front of me made everyone's hair stand on end. But he saw that the stomach of a corpse next to the orchard exploded, because it was piled high, just level with his head. Therefore, almost an explosion next to his face.
A mass of white 'flowers' and 'flowers' bounced into the air and fell on the head of the orchard.
Those white spots were still wriggling, and when I looked closely, there were countless maggots. Crawling on his head, shoulders, and chest.
"Ahh All the people let out a low voice.
"All beings are equal, all beings are suffering, Amitabha!" As soon as the Buddha's call sounded, the orchard still did not move, and he recited in a low voice: "Nam no Amitabha Night, Dortagada Night, Dori Night, Amitabha, Amirid, Amitabha, ......Amitabha, Ami
The voice is low, but clearly audible. But I saw that the orchard had a white face, kind eyebrows and kind eyes, and at a young age, it was a treasure and solemn.
Everyone's whispers stopped, and they all stood there silently waiting.
Even Ruan Dacheng, who has always been violent, sighed: "Give the orchard master a wash, let's go, and move on!" ”
This was the first time he had called the orchard a master.
This fruit has the 'nature' of Buddha!
Although this man's Buddhism ...... It's really shallow, to be honest. No matter how many Buddhist classics you read, if you don't have compassion and wisdom in your heart, how can you achieve the Great Dao?
Speaking of washing, in fact, where there are conditions
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Fortunately, disinfection and sterilization are already familiar to the Ningxiang Army, and this system has been implemented since Sun Yuan established the army. Therefore, after so many years of fighting, there has been no plague in the Ningxiang army, and even the mortality rate of wounded soldiers is much lower than that of any army of the same era.
Speaking of the formulation of this system, the reason for this is that Sun Yuan was fooled by the so-called historical masters on the Internet in later generations. I remember that there was an article on the Internet about Li Zicheng's capture of Beijing, and the author directly blamed the plague for the fall of Beijing. It is said that in the seventeenth year of Chongzhen, there was a great plague in Beijing, and most of the soldiers in Beijing died, and the living soldiers also fled one after another. Therefore, by the time the army entered the city, the whole of Beijing was already an undefended city.
After he first threw out this argument, he began to look for far-fetched arguments in the historical materials that fit this argument, which was very clear-sighted, but it was very confusing to some readers.
Sun Yuan was also frightened by this article, and after traveling to the Ming Dynasty, he 'get' a complete set of disinfection facilities and 'medicine' in the army.
Hearing Ruan Dacheng's words, two soldiers rushed forward, 'drawn' their knives to scrape off the maggots on the orchard one by one, and then took out a bottle of spirits, took it in their mouths, and sprayed it all over the orchard's body.
The Ming Dynasty already had distilled liquor, but due to the limitations of industrial and technological means, the output was not large, and the price was very expensive. The key is that the wine has a low degree of 'fineness', only about 20 degrees. In modern society, this degree of liquor 'essence' can only be used to reduce fever physically, and it is not enough to kill bacteria and viruses, but it is better than nothing, and it can be somewhat useful.
Of course, immediately after that, someone rudely poured a can of 'medicine' into the mouth of the orchard, and he couldn't stop screaming, and at this time the orchard no longer had the slightest appearance of a monk. For many years to come, Guoyuan will be the master abbot of Tanzhe Temple in Beijing and the head of the royal monastery. A month before he died, he knew he was about to die. In order to preserve his 'flesh' body and gild his offerings, the monks of the monastery poured a large amount of 'medicine' into him to wash the dirt in his stomach.
The master of the orchard took only one sip and then shook his head and said, "It's just a stinky skin, what's the point of keeping it?" Vajra is not bad, but it is not the 'flesh' body. "So no, the night before he died, the orchard and his apprentices talked about the battle of Yangzhou, talked about the Shura field, and finally sighed: Mr. Qingzhu's 'medicine' is too bitter!
He left a psychological 'yin' shadow, and the apprentices looked back and thought, yes, the host master seems to have never taken 'medicine' in his life, even if there is an occasional illness, it is just a few cups of hot tea and a few days of recuperation.
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