klisemfg Chapter 535 Veterans will not die
Chapter 535 Veterans will not die
The old soldier raised his face, which had a hideous scar on it. His eyes were full of helplessness and despair. He said the three words "Shen Changgong" in a vicissitudes of life tone.
This name left too much despair in his heart.
Yan Fuyao and others all looked at Shen Changgong, and Xiao Qiao even raised her little fist and punched Shen Changgong hard on the arm.
In the distance, a man in brocade clothes and a round hat shouted,
"Old soldier, go on. I'll pay for the food and wine. Tell me how Lanling Wang attacked Xuzhou. Give me some details."
Obviously, the people here all regarded the veteran as a storyteller.
Although what the old soldier said was not that exciting, it was true. The leather armor on his body, the scar on his face, the broken arm, the broken knife at his waist, and the warhorse tied outside all revealed his identity.
It is also a rare and wonderful thing to have this veteran who participated in the entire war between Yan and Qi and told them his personal experience.
The wanderer poured wine for the old soldier and looked at him eagerly.
The old soldier laughed, bowed slightly to the crowd, and said,
"If everyone likes to listen, then I'll tell it. No one knows each other anyway, so I'm not afraid of embarrassment.
When the Yan army entered Xuzhou, I was still in Weishan City. General Tong... no, at that time, General Tong had already died..."
Someone else asked,
"Alas, old soldier, everyone says that Tong Xuan is a regicide, but the emperor wasn't killed by the Wei people at all. Is this true?"
The old soldier shook his head and said,
"I don't know. At that time, I was in Weishan, not in Xuzhou. I only know that after I retreated to Xuzhou, I heard others say that the so-called Wei army did not kill civilians or soldiers, but only the emperor and his officials. After killing them all, they left, did not steal money, and did not occupy Xuzhou.
Tell me, the Wei army had no intention of killing any people and then leaving? And these people just happened to be the obstacles that stood in the way of Tong Shuai's ascension to the throne?
As long as you know what is right and wrong, it's fine."
Everyone nodded repeatedly and urged the veteran to talk about the war.
"As for fighting, it's so easy. The ones fighting us are Yan's Tianyu Army, the strongest infantry corps, and their commander is the world-famous commander Yu Huatian. So what's the suspense?
Yu Huatian broke the city gate with two rounds of artillery fire and led his men to kill their way in. On the way, I killed a Yan soldier and managed to escape from the south.
After returning to Xuzhou, I heard a shocking story. The Qi army was truly beastly..."
Hearing this, all the guests from all over the world present became interested and asked the veteran what happened.
"In Xixiang City, there are more than 40,000 people led by General Li Mi, and the ones attacking Xixiang City are the Yuying Army led by the Empress.
The Yuying Army is all from Qi.
The Queen is kind and unwilling to kill the Qi people, but Li Mi actually had all the soldiers dispersed among the people's homes, using the people's houses and lives as shields. If the Yan army wants to kill them, they will have to kill the people. "
Hearing this, everyone was outraged and scolded the Qi army for being shameless.
The official snorted coldly,
"The damn soldiers, unable to defeat the Yan people, took their anger out on their own people. They slaughtered the villagers in front and threatened the people in the whole city. The Yan people were not as many as those damn soldiers who killed the Qi people.
If you ask me, with these stinking soldiers, the State of Qi will perish."
The old soldier ignored him and continued,
"I don't know what happened afterwards, but I heard that the Queen used some trick to trick all the Qi soldiers out, saving the people in the city, capturing all the Qi soldiers alive, and even defeating Li Mi with her own hands and killing him.
The Queen was merciful after all, and did not kill those Qi soldiers, but allowed them all to return home."
Everyone discussed,
"Yes, after all, she is the Queen of Qi, so she still cares about the people of Qi."
"Bah! If she cared about the people of Qi, why would she go to Yan? That's treason."
"You know nothing. The demise of Qi is inevitable. Why would Your Majesty go and die in vain? Why don't you go and die? On the contrary, if Your Majesty lives and becomes a general of the Yan people, you can protect more people of Qi from being harmed by the Yan people.
Your Majesty feels wronged."
"Yes, she is just a woman, working under the butcher Shen Changgong, and she must have suffered a lot of injustices."
"Old soldier, what's going on behind? How did you fight?"
The old soldier took a sip of wine and ate a few bites of food before continuing,
"After that, it was the final battle of Xuzhou between the Yan army and Tong Xuan.
A million men fought on a battlefield, and it was a horrific battle."
At this point, a look of fear appeared in the veteran's eyes, as if he didn't want to recall that scene.
"At that time, I was on the easternmost battlefield. We had 300,000 men, and the Yan people had 600,000.
We divided ourselves into three armies to fight against the Yan people, and the Yan people also divided themselves into three parts to fight against us.
That battle was truly the most brutal war I have ever witnessed in my life.
The situation on our battlefield was fine, but in the other two battlefields, the Yan army directly surrounded them.
Those people, knowing that there were artillery fire and bows and arrows from the Yan people ahead, still rushed forward without hesitation, risking their lives to consume the Yan people's weapons.
The battlefield alone was as large as several towns. There were people everywhere, shouts and screams everywhere, broken arms and legs everywhere, and so much blood that the ground had turned into mud.
Some had lost their legs, and some had intestines leaking out of their stomachs, but they weren't dead yet. They lay on the ground screaming, and then they fell silent."
Everyone was shocked by the old soldier's words. They even lost their appetite, but their interest increased.
"Why is there no sound? Is he dead?"
someone asked.
"I was trampled into a pulp."
The old soldier pointed at the meat porridge in the man's bowl and said,
"It's the one in your bowl."
"Fuck you, ugh!"
The man crawled out and vomited.
The old soldier sighed and said,
"Look, a bowl of meat porridge made him so sick. We used to be rolling around and fighting in a place covered with meat paste.
Come to think of it, our group was relatively lucky. The other two groups were surrounded, and in the end we didn't know whether they were dead or alive. I guess they were all killed.
While we were fighting, the Yan people's Zhennan Army rushed over with 100,000 cavalrymen and 100,000 horses. The entire town could not accommodate so many people and so many horses.
They came towards us in such a mighty force.
We were all terrified at the time and ran away as quickly as we could because we couldn't win.
A soldier from Yan rushed towards me on horseback, and I still remember his expression.
His eyes were red, full of blood and excitement.
It seemed like killing was a happy thing for him. His eyes were full of bloodthirstiness. I knew he wanted to kill me.
I also knew that if I wanted to survive, I had to kill him."