Chapter 80 Suduan
On this day, both Zhang Chong and his subordinates had only one feeling:
So tired!
They went from Dan to Wangqin Peak today, first defeated the Wangqin Peak bandits at the foot of the mountain, and then invaded Dazhai at noon. After just a full meal, he hurried down the mountain and blocked Feng Gao's powerful soldiers in this valley and riverbank.
The fighting on the river beach lasted from noon to dusk. In the end, except for some of the Wang family, they broke up and crossed the river. The 500 powerful soldiers who invaded were all gone.
At this time, Zhang Chong was sitting on a dead horse. The soldiers wanted to move a bed, but Zhang Chong waved his hand and refused. Everyone is so tired, why are you still bothering with this matter?
The battlefield after the war was no longer as noisy as before, but it was no less brutal.
Everywhere you can see corpses that have been hacked beyond recognition, and they are all naked.
Their clothes had already been snatched away by Zhang Chong's subordinates. These were all confiscated and had to be handed over to the Holy Treasury.
There are still some remaining soldiers who are still alive and wailing on the battlefield. There were a few alert men who, seeing Zhang Chong's subordinates finishing their wounds on the remaining soldiers who could not be saved, endured the pain and tried to escape by feigning death.
But it was useless. The soldiers under Zhang Chong were checking each corpse under their feet.
If he sees that he is his own brother, he will carry him aside and bury him; if he sees that he is an enemy soldier, he will cut him with a knife and drag him to the side. Those few clever ones who pretended to be dead were all broken by this knife and lost their lives in the end.
In a corner of the battlefield, there were a few people who were in a trance, foolish and foolish, wandering around the battlefield aimlessly. When Zhang Chong's subordinates saw him, they pulled out a rope and tied him up, and moved him to the prison camp behind.
More than two hundred powerful soldiers had been surrendered there, and now they were all stripped of their armor and tied up naked in the camp.
In short, the entire battlefield was shocking, and the smell of blood permeating the riverbank was even more nauseating. The corpses of enemy soldiers were scattered all over the place.
On the side, Zhang Chong's men were digging pits to bury the enemy corpses. There were several buried mounds beside them, and strands of hair could be seen from them.
Zhang Chong's men dug out Jinquan from the pile of dead men. Halfway through the battle, the ugly man tripped over a human head and fainted.
But he was lucky enough that he was not trampled to death by the troops on the battlefield. When Ding Sheng heard that Jin Quan had been found, he ran over regardless of the injury on his arm.
During the previous post-war inventory, Ding Sheng did not see Jin Quan, thinking that he had died in the battle, and was in great mourning.
Now, when Ding Sheng arrived, he saw Jin Quan snoring! He was so angry that he kicked Jin Quan in the leg.
This kick directly woke Jin Quan up. He looked at the battlefield blankly and saw the robes laughing at him with confused expressions on their faces.
If you faint, just faint, as long as you can survive.
It was getting dark, but before the battlefield was cleared, Zhang Chong's men set up more than a dozen bonfires on the river beach.
At the edge of the Jiangkou camp, the people from the baggage team had already set up large pots and started cooking millet. There were also several large pots stewing horse meat. These were all horses from Wang's cavalry on the battlefield during the day. Two horses died, which was just right for them. Extra meals for the whole army.
In fact, the people in the transport camp also took a fancy to the dead horse that Zhang Chong was sitting on. But when they saw Zhang Chong sitting in a daze, no one dared to step forward.
It was Hu Er, an old man from the baggage camp, who came up and told Zhang Chong that the brothers were waiting for the horse to have a meal, so Zhang Chong realized it and got out of the way.
In fact, the brothers had already discovered that something was wrong with him since the battle, and he was in a trance. But they were stupid and didn't know what Zhang Chong was thinking, and they didn't know how to persuade him.
In fact, Zhang Chong himself didn't know what he was thinking, he just thought what was going on! For example, there was a naked corpse lying at his feet. The fatal injury was disemboweled by a giant axe. It seemed that he was killed by his subordinates.
This man is actually not that old, he may be about the same age as Zhang Chong, and he has no grudge against Zhang Chong. When his parents gave birth to him, they definitely didn't want him to die on this river beach.
Several subordinates who were collecting enemy corpses came over, and Zhang Chong could name them. After signaling to Zhang Chong, they carried the young body to the pit in front.
On the way, the intestines of the corpse slipped out, but no one took care of it, so they just left it there. Maybe it would be eaten by the birds and beasts in the forest at night.
But this is war. Even if Zhang Chong doesn't want to, and if it conflicts with his three views, he will still do it. It's not that he wants to kill them, but that they want to kill him!
But what Zhang Chong was worried about was that the powerful man who launched the war and wanted Zhang Chong to die was not dead! As for the tribe that had no enmity against him, they were even poor people themselves, but instead they were killed by him and their blood flowed like rivers.
No one can enlighten Zhang Chong about this, because this is the transformation of an ordinary person into a plowman!
Just when Zhang Chong was thinking about it, Hu Er came over with a piece of stewed horse meat:
"Qu, eat some horse meat!"
Zhang Chong came to his senses, took the horse meat, and took a bite in a daze.
“It smells so good!”
In fact, horse meat is not that delicious, everything is just a change of mood.
Zhang Chong doesn't think about it anymore. Why do you think so much? What can you think about just thinking about it! Things get done!
Zhang Chong held up the horse meat and greeted the brothers. The brothers who had been paying attention to him saw Zhang Chong's appearance. Everyone felt relieved that their leader was back.
While Zhang Chong and his brothers were eating horse meat and drinking hot soup by the campfire, in a mountain forest five miles away, Wang Kuang and his five tribes were huddled.
They lay on the wet and cold forest floor, without shelter, campfire, or food. The five of them were desperate and silent.
Wang Kuang's horse was targeted by a pack of wolves in the mountains at night. He did not have the courage to fight these beasts, so he had to get out of the way of the horse and secretly retreated with his troops.
Hearing the neighing of the horses behind him, Wang Kuang was worried about the animals being injured, wondering if he and others could get out of Mount Tai alive.
There was a song on the side called Xiao Wang. He touched the millet ball on his chest, thought about it and took it out. He dedicated the millet ball to Wang Kuang:
"My lord, eat these millet balls!"
Seeing this millet ball, the eyes of the three tribes next to them were all wide-eyed. They were swallowing hard and wanted to grab it immediately. But their long-term obedience made them afraid to reach out.
Wang Kuang saw all this, his eyes changed, and then he smiled:
"How can I say that I have no clothes, and I share the same robe with you? How can I say that I have no millet, and I eat with you. Come to this rice ball and let the five of us share it. Today we are in adversity together, but we can still eat a millet ball together. In the future, we will be rich and noble together. How can it be this little millet ball?”
After saying that, Wang Kuang directly divided the millet dough into five parts and gave them to the other four people. Only Xiao Wang who offered the millet dough solemnly took it, while the other three people wolfed down the food like vicious dogs.
Seeing this situation, Wang Kuang sighed and was about to eat what he had, when suddenly there was a burst of laughter outside the bush.
I saw a group of Shanliao men in rags and ragged collars rushing in. The two leaders among them smiled at Wang Kuang and said:
"Wang Kuang, I wonder if my Sun Kang and my younger brother Sun Guan can eat your millet balls?"
(End of chapter)