Zhang Shiwu grinned.

Although he couldn't help laughing, he felt that this was not a joke.

No matter who has been imprisoned in the dark and unseen water prison for many years, sniffing the rotten smell on his body and breathing, I am afraid that he will feel fresh when he smells some different fishy smells of the sea.

He knew very well that the reason why Lin Zhuojiu could tolerate such days was because of strong hatred.

People can tolerate betrayal to a certain extent, but how can they accept betrayal from those around them day and night?

So many people who can laugh and share life and death together die in such betrayal.

...

Tianping County is the prefecture and county closest to the Nanquan towns in the Great Chu Dynasty. At this time, it also gathered the eyes of everyone in the world.

Because most of the remnants of the Great Chu Dynasty were strangling the pursuits of the Qin army in this plain.

Unlike practitioners, the retreat of the army involves more details.

The dispersed resettlement of some refugees and wounded soldiers along the way, and the army restrained and coordinated defense. Some people defended and some people retreated. There was a problem with one link, which probably led to an astonishing number of casualties and injuries.

It may only take a day or night for a practitioner to travel through a prefecture and county, but it takes several times or even dozens of times to evacuate a large number of troops.

It is said that most of the remnants of the army were in fact, after evacuating from Yangshan County, hundreds of thousands of Chu troops had already been dispersed into hundreds of straits during the retreat. Some had to undertake different missions along the way, while others had been dispersed by the Qin army's pursuers.

Some Chu troops have lost contact with the rest of the Chu troops, and even because they are too far apart, they cannot even see the fireworks signal of the main army withdrawing to Nanquan Town. They rely on the instinct of soldiers to fight on this land.

Most of the Chu army had lost supplies more than ten days ago, and even the vitality of the military horses and drag beasts was not as strong as these soldiers. During the long-term insufficient supplies and arduous journey, most of the military horses and drag beasts died and were used as food by the army.

Many armies pass by, even the weeds are almost extinct.

It is not because of trampling, but because grassroots and bark are used as fillings.

Because of damp heat, most of the skin of the sergeants who had resisted a round of epidemic attacks not long ago had begun to ulcerate. Many people's toes were already bonded together, and their abdomen became high due to long-term eating of indigestion. Due to the lack of drugs, many people even died of intestinal intestinal infestations that could not defecate.

However, such a tragic situation was not unique to the Chu army.

Continuously entering the Chu realm means that it is getting farther and farther away from the familiar battlefield. In addition to fighting with the Chu army, more and more resistance forces are joining along the way. Some come from the self-powered organizations of the village, some come from the army that comes to support from afar, some come from private armies of some aristocratic families, and even some horse thieves and bandits who were originally enemies of the court have joined such battles.

However, these are not the most critical ones. As the pursuit side, the Qin army means that most of the time there is no fortress, cannot wait for it, and there is no advantage of terrain. Moreover, because the orders above are becoming more and more stringent, the army's pursuit is faster and faster, and the Qin army has lost its advantage in terms of supply. Many of the things they pass through are barren lands after the Chu army passed, and even some water sources are poisoned.

In order to help the Chu army resist their pursuit, the people from some villages even burned the village themselves. The village only left a limited ration, and all the food was provided to the Chu army. These villagers all hid in the mountains and forests they were familiar with.

At this time, in a village that was completely burned into white, the ground was covered with pieces of cloth cut from the tent. The cloth was densely filled with all the open spaces in the village, with as many as thousands.

On each piece of cloth lies a wounded Qin army.

There were only more than a dozen doctors wandering among the wounded, but there was no medicine left on these doctors. The only things they could have were some clean hemostatic cotton cloth and clean water.

The uncontrollable groans of pain formed a sea of ​​sadness and despair.

This army is the Cangnan Army and an army under Wei Wujiu.

At this time, the highest generals in the army were Zhang Tu and Tian Rong.

Zhang Tu is a famous strong man among Wei Wujiu's subordinates. He is extremely burly and looks like a giant when he stands upright. However, at this time, he is sitting silently under the thickest camphor tree in this village. His body is thin. Although he is wearing armor, he gives people a feeling of thinness as paper. Even the cheekbones on both sides are raised high because they are too thin.

This camphor tree is extremely thick, and most of its branches and leaves are burned in the flames. However, because it is close to the stream, it is still alive tenaciously. In the midday sun in late summer, the dark branches still cover the general with a shade.

Zhang Tu held a stone bowl in his hand, and there was sticky millet soup, which was the best food this army could have.

He brought the bowl to his mouth twice, but put it down again.

It was not that the food was difficult to swallow, but that the wailing and painful sounds made him unable to feel at ease.

"Do you still need to execute military orders?"

When Tian Rong saw him put down the stone bowl for the second time, she finally couldn't help but speak.

He was born in Changling and had a handsome face. He was considered a handsome man in the army. However, in the battle a few days ago, his scalp was cut off by flying swords. At this time, the bandaged cotton cloth was seeped with purple-black dry blood, covering his small face, making him not like a handsome Qin general, but rather like a fierce and desperate bandit leader.

"We have more than twice the casualties every day than the Chu army. If we move forward, I'm afraid that in just a few days, there will be few of us who can stand."

Tian Rong took a deep breath, his face was a little distorted, but he pressed his voice to a very low point, "We have left two batches of such wounded people, and there is nothing to lose next. I am not afraid of death, but you should understand why we are so anxious to chase us... we just need to annihilate the Chu army as much as possible and prevent these Chu soldiers from entering Jiaodong County!"

"It may be worth it to her to sacrifice so many brothers' lives to save Jiaodong County, but I don't accept it."

"We have tried our best, and for these Chu troops, they have hope. They will soon be able to wait for the support of Nanquan Town, but our subordinates have no hope."

"I can accept military orders to die, but I cannot accept military orders that despair them for the sake of someone's whispers."

Finally, Tian Rong raised her head, looked at Zhang Tu, and said seriously: "If someone must take responsibility for the crime of disobeying the military order, then I will bear it."

Zhang Tu suddenly laughed.

His body trembled with laughter, and the millet soup in his hand splashed onto the ground.

Tian Rong had never seen him react like this before, so she was stunned.

"How many years have we lived and died together in the border army?"
Chapter completed!