At sunrise, several Linyi soldiers emerged from the grass and touched Dian Chong City in the distance. They lurked outside the city all night, all covered in mosquitoes staring, looking a little haggard, but their eyes kept looking around.

As soon as they find something wrong, they will turn around and run away without any carelessness, because as long as they hesitate for that moment, they will die here.

They were not the first scouts to approach Dian Chong. Most of the people who set out before failed to come back alive, all because they accidentally fell into the ambush of the enemy.

If they have a choice, they don’t want to come here to die, but if they don’t come, they will definitely die, so they can only bite the bullet and spy on Dian Chong’s situation for the high officials.

A few days ago, the enemy broke through Dian Chong. Except for the people who escaped at the beginning, no living person escaped later. The enemy set up many ambushes near Dian Chong, and many Linyi troops who came to serve the king encountered a series of hiding and then their entire army was wiped out.

No one could get close to Dian Chong, so no one knew what happened in the city these days. However, Linyi scout who observed the city from afar noticed that black smoke rose from time to time in the city during the day, and fires flashed at night.

But those scouts who had the courage to approach Dian Chong almost went but did not return. On several occasions, there was no movement in the city. Everyone thought the enemy had retreated, so they sent scouts to investigate. As a result, many corpses were added to the wild area, so no one knew the specific situation in the city.

Yesterday, Dian Chong ignited a fire. The fire was so strong that it could be seen clearly even during the day. Everyone was wondering whether the enemy was burning the city and retreating troops, so they chose a few unlucky people, that is, the current ones, and went to Dian Chong to see how the situation was.

With the previous lesson of blood and tears, several scouts did not dare to be careless and walked around and stopped. In the evening, they only found five or six miles outside Dianchong City. Seeing nightfall, they did not dare to move forward, so they could only make do with the night in the wilderness and waited until dawn before moving forward.

A foul stinking came towards me. I looked down and found that it was a black thing. When I looked closely, there were many flies on the surface of the thing. I saw a "buzzing" sound soaring into the sky, revealing a rotten corpse.

The corpse bulged like an inflatable pig urine bubble, black, yellow and with pus. One of the eyes was shrunk, and the other hung on the edge of the eye socket, like a rotten fish bladder.

To endured the feeling of vomiting, the few people continued to walk forward with their waists. The closer they got to the city, the more rotten corpses there were in the grass, and the stench became stronger and stronger. Even if they blocked their noses with something, the stench still penetrated their noses.

A man accidentally stepped on his half-cut arm and threw himself to the ground with unsteady figure. Less than three inches in front of him, a headless rotten corpse was lying. A large rotten intestine was exposed on his bursting abdomen, mixed with feces and urine, which happened to accumulate in front of him.

"Um..."

After a twitch in his stomach, something surged up. He covered his mouth with his hands and swallowed the surging things again. He didn't care that his stomach would twitch again, so he quickly got up and stepped over the rotten corpse and continued to move forward.

Walking in the grass, I encountered rotten corpses from time to time. After finally walking through this terrifying area, they found that the following scene was even more trembling.

The rice fields that were still green a few days ago were still green at this time, but the crops had been uprooted and fell into the fields in a row. There were several rotten corpses in each field, which became a habitat for flies.

It would be nothing if it was just one or two fields like this, but a large area of ​​paddy fields looked like this, which made them trance on the banks of Hell River Styx, watching corpses floating around them.

They resisted their timidity and did not turn around and escape, because they would definitely be beheaded when they escaped. And there were really ambushes here, and they could not escape in the open paddy fields.

Seeing that there was no one on the city wall not far away, the scouts trembled and finally arrived outside the moat, they were already wet. Listening to the sound of gurgling water, seeing that there was no movement at the top of the city, they gritted their teeth and wade across the river.

Bypassing the suspension bridge that had not been put down, he came to the closed city gate, bent down and looked through the crack at the bottom, but did not find someone standing behind the city gate, leaning his ears against the city gate, holding his breath and listening to the movement behind the door, and not hearing anything wrong.

The city was very quiet, so quiet that it was creepy. They finally plucked up the courage to tentatively push the city gate, but found that there was no tamper. So they pushed through the crack of the door that could barely allow one person to pass through, and then they flashed in first.

It was confirmed that there was no ambush, leaving two people watching the wind. The others entered the city one after another to check the situation. It was just the scene in front of them that made the scouts who entered the city take a breath.

There are ruins everywhere, charred walls and dark wood, all of which indicate that an unprecedented fire occurred here, and the smell of burnt came with a much stronger odor than outside the city.

They seemed to be in a warehouse full of salted fish, with rotten smell everywhere, which was so smelly that it was almost suffocating. They had to block their noses again and began to check the situation in the ruins.

As soon as I turned into a street, everyone was frightened by the scene in front of me, and some even fell to the ground and kept moving backwards.

The dilapidated streets were full of dead people, as if they were lined up to welcome them into the city, but they were all lost their heads. Instead, they were clay pots with white dye on them and black charcoal painted on them.

The "human faces" on the clay pot are smiling and "looking" at them in unison, looking at them, looking at them as cunning as they are.

"ah!!!!"

The screams pierced the sky above Dian Chong, alarming the countless birds that had originally landed on the top of the city.

......

In the afternoon, Linyi King Fanzhi stood in front of a ruin, staring blankly. This was the location of his royal palace. The majestic palace building that was a few days ago had turned into ruins at this time.

In the morning, the scout came to report that the enemy had evacuated Dian Chong. Fan Fanzhi, who was in the camp of the royal army, was anxious to enter the city. He was persuaded by civil and military officials. After the vanguard army had been around Dian Chong for a while, he decided that the enemy had indeed left, the army drove into the city.

Fan Fanzhi entered the city immediately regardless of dissuasion, but found that Dian Chong had eliminated the city walls and the buildings in the city had turned into ruins. Not to mention palaces, temples, government offices, and even the residential areas of the untouchables had been burned.

But compared to this, what is even more miserable is that there is not a single living person in the city. As for how miserable it is, Fan Fanzhi did not see it with his own eyes, and civil and military officials also tried their best to avoid "defiling" his eyes.

"What kind of evil did this? Gods want to punish our country like this..."

Fan Fanzhi wanted to cry without tears. Although he had a sachet hanging around his neck, he could not hide the rotten odor in the air. He was not a fool, and knew what the odor meant.

Dianchong City is over, and I don’t know when it will be able to restore its former appearance. The national treasury was looted and the rice fields outside the city were destroyed and there is no possibility of harvest. The most important thing is that Dianchong has so many people, all of them are gone.

Was he killed or captured? Fan Fanzhi had no idea that more than a hundred years ago, Dian Chongcheng was captured by the Song army, and he did not look as miserable as he is now. He had thought that King Linyi was very unlucky at the time, but now it seems that he was the most unlucky King Linyi.

After accidentally seeing a large number of birds circling over the east of the city, Fan Fanzhi felt suspicious and rushed there to find out despite the dissuasion. When the carriage drove out of the city gate, he felt a foul stinking his nose, causing his stomach to twitch.

The strong smell made Fan Fanzhi think that he seemed to have come to the warehouse with countless salted fish. He couldn't help but think of a sentence from Professor Central Plains: I heard it for a long time but didn't know its smell.

The meaning of this sentence is to enter a warehouse full of stinky salted fish. Over time, you will no longer smell the stinky smell of salted fish. It means that if a king is always with people with bad character, his character will become bad over time without knowing it.

The Central Plains called salted fish marinated with salt "abalone". At this moment, Fan Fanzhi felt that he was in the "abalone shop". The stench was lingering. He was about to get off the car, but the car door was tightly blocked by his followers.

"Bold! What do you want to do!"

"Master! Can't come down, can't watch..."

"Open the door! Otherwise, you will demote your whole family to untouchables!"

Fan Fanzhi kicked open the car door, and a strong stench rushed towards him. He was about to poke his feet to get off the car by stepping on the stairs, but he caught a glimpse of the situation outside the car. Then he was so scared that his legs became weak and he rolled off the stairs and fell off the carriage.

On the side of the official road outside the east gate, opposite the stone tablet where Linyi King Fan Hudada's martial arts are recorded, there is a foul smelly hill. The reason why people tremble when they see the two strands are trembling is because this hill is piled up with human heads.

A long sword is inserted at the top of Rentou Mountain. It seems that the style is the sword of a certain noble person. At the foot of Rentou Mountain, a stone tablet is erected, opposite to the Fan Huda stone tablet.

The stele is engraved with Chinese and Sanskrit words, and the contents are the same: "The Marshal of the Lingnan Road of the Great Zhou Dynasty and the King of Xiyang, Yuwen Wen, set up this Jingguan outside Dianchong City to comfort the spirit of the people in the sky."
Chapter completed!