One hundred and fifty-ninth chapter snow full of bow and knife (5)
The wind and snow are getting heavier and heavier. In the morning, the snowflakes are still light. At this time, they are like goose feathers flying all over the sky. This is the legendary goose feather snow. The snowflakes gradually cover the ground, and the vigorous and sad battlefield gradually disappear in a white crystal. Blood, corpses, broken battle flags, and neighing injured horses are all covered by this infinitely extended white area.
The wind blew, rolling up pieces of flying snow. The vigorous wind hit the snow on people's face, which made people feel like cutting. The soldiers standing on the city wall swept away the falling snow on their bodies. In their sight, the extended Turkic camp tents turned into white snow buns, like white steamed buns on the earth.
Looking at the defeated battlefield in sight gradually covered by wind and snow, and looking at the battle flags that were still facing the wind and snow, Liu Shan informed the soldiers and asked the Turks to come and clean the battlefield.
This may be the first time in history where the victorious party asked the defeated to clean the battlefield. Often, the defeated people asked to take back the bodies of their compatriots, but at this time it turned upside down. The soldiers seemed to have not heard it, and Liu Shan said to him again, and the soldiers rode their horses across the desolate battlefield at this time and headed to the Turkic camp with their tribute.
At about three o'clock in the afternoon, a group of Turkic people who had their weapons removed came to the battlefield. The crossbowmen on the city were alert. Seeing that the people below were not carrying weapons, they gradually relaxed the tight string.
In the wind and snow, the Turkic soldiers dig out the accumulated snowflakes and pulled out the bodies of corpses from the snow. The Turkic riders who were hit by the stones were already unrecognizable. The remains of some people's bodies could not be found. Even if they were covered by wind and snow, the suffocating smell of blood under the snow was still clearly audible. The people who were stuck on the ground by the crossbow gun were exposed to the wind and snow at this time, and their bodies were covered with snowflakes. The injured people had already died for a long time because of excessive blood loss. At this time, the crossbow guns were all hard corpses. The Turkic soldiers took these people off the crossbow guns, which took a lot of trouble.
Liu Shan even saw a body inserted in a crossbow gun being removed. For some reason, one arm broke off the limb. Fortunately, it was very far away, otherwise Liu Shan would have seen the section of the limb that was so cold that it emitted fluorescent light.
The soldiers who were shot by crossbow arrows and bows were lifted by two people and carried them to the carriage where the bodies were pulled. At this time, the corpses were piled up in the wide carriage. However, the outer battlefield was cleaned, and more than a dozen large carriages were piled up.
These corpses are still good. Those dead bodies that were trampled by their own horses are the most miserable. Some of them have been trampled into meat pie, with bones mixed with flesh and blood stuck to the ground, frozen in the snow by the cold weather. The corpses were unable to restrain themselves. The soldiers even used the scimitar in their hands to pry off the ground, which was frozen into ice. The scene was terrible. Some Turkic soldiers could not help but vomit on the battlefield.
Inside the sight, among the scarlet ice, you can even see the fragments of the lungs frozen by ice and snow, and even the white bone slag section stained with blood.
Liu Shan on the city saw all this in his eyes. He had no expression on his face and his eyes swept across the team in front of him as if he had no focus.
"Why are you so kind to let the Turks clean up the bodies of their soldiers?" At this time, the women standing on the city wall had turned pale. I don't know whether they were looking at the scene in front of me or because the winter in Liangzhou was too cold. Bai Chou asked Liu Shan with a confused look on his face.
"If the Turks don't clean up, we must clean up, so let the enemy restrain the bodies of their soldiers themselves! The soldiers who died on the battlefield died for the ambitions of some people. Ordinary people cannot dominate their lives too much. At least they can prevent their bodies from corpses from corpsing in the wilderness after they die." Liu Shan said to Bai Chou. In fact, how could he say something to the girl in front of him?
A few days ago, the Turks and their own troops fought under the city. After the battle was over, both sides would go to the battlefield to collect the corpses. But today they are different. I don’t know what happened to the Turks today. They actually wanted to use cavalry to attack the city walls guarded by the crossbowmen. The city was covered with the corpses of the Turks, but the Turks side was slow to clean up the corpses, so Liu Shan had to let them clean up.
For Liu Shan, he needed a clean battlefield to facilitate the cavalry's charge. Liu Shan intuition told himself that the decisive battle was right in front of him. Today, the Turks used so many cavalry to provoke in front of the formation to investigate their true strength. His own strength knew that he really sent cavalry to fight these Turks today. Liu Shan really didn't have so many troops. Although he had a small fight these days, he still suffered heavy losses. The city's defenders were only more than 40,000, and there were nearly a thousand wounded soldiers in the city. Compared with the Turks, he was ten times worse than the Turks.
Liu Shan had already noticed the intention of the Turks today. There were many wounded soldiers on the battlefield today, and they were shot by crossbows, and many of them were not killed. The wounded wounds caused by crossbows were generally more injured than those who died. The Turks left the wounded and retreated, but they did not want the injured. In the war, the burden of the dead was absolutely not as serious as the wounded. The wounded wanted medicine, bandage, and eat and sleep. The dead were piled together, and it would be done with a fire. Regarding the Turks' behavior today, Liu Shan already knew that the Turks did not want the wounded, so they did not ask to enter the battlefield to rescue the wounded, but let the injured run away the blood in the wind and snow and die on the battlefield. Liu Shan wanted the other party to rescue the wounded, but Liu Shan had no choice.
On the other hand, the decisive battle is coming, and cleaning the battlefield is time-consuming and labor-intensive. Liu Shan is unwilling to let his people go down to the city to deal with the battlefield. The bodies of the Turkic soldiers were still handled by the Turkic soldiers. After the handling is completed, it is hard to say that tomorrow will be a decisive battle. His own people have more important things to do.
At this time, Liu Shan looked at the corpses that were pulled back by the Turks, turned around and walked down the city wall. There was too much work to do in the city, and there was not much time to watch the opponent pull the corpse back.
At 4:00 p.m., the troops in Liangzhou City were mobilized. The defenders on the south gate, west gate, east gate and the above-mentioned city walls only retained the minimum force, and the rest of the troops gathered towards the north wall and the north gate. The troops in Liangzhou were mobilized, and the defense ability of the three walls was greatly reduced. However, at this time, Liu Shan was not worried about the defense of the above-mentioned three walls. The Turks stationed troops outside the north gate, and there was no military force on other city walls and city gates these days. It seemed that the Turks were confident that their troops could break through the north gate. Moreover, the Turks were all outside the north city. If the Turks showed signs of mobilizing to other city gates, the North City would soon be discovered. However, this was almost unwilling. Although the Turks suffered heavy losses today, the Turks should also see that the troops in Liangzhou were not as large as they originally thought.
On the other hand, after the sky dimmed at night, the torches on the city reflected the gray walls. From the arsenal in the city, teams of soldiers were pulling war horses, and the horses carried heavy goods on the horses' backs. These were fuel and gunpowder for hot air balloons. The soldiers holding the torches were away from the gunpowder. In the dim light, gunpowder packs were fixed on the horse's back. Then the riders pulled the war horses. On the road, the torches were extinguished one by one. The horse team came out of the Xicheng Gate in the snow against the wind and snow. Outside the Xicheng Gate, the horse team gradually disappeared in the wind and snow.
On the evening of the 14th, Liangzhou City spent almost the whole night busy. Teams of soldiers came to the North City, and baskets of gunpowder were carried to the position. The sounds of horse hooves kept coming from the bluestone pavement when soldiers were mobilized all night. In the middle, the soldiers shouted and the urging of the large group of people, the soldiers responsible for escorting gunpowder were told over and over again to be careful.
Liu Shan did not sleep all night. From the top of the city, he looked at the Turkic camp. There were also signs of a large group of soldiers mobilizing in the Turkic camp. The troops continued to press forward, and a strong murderous aura evaporated above the Turkic camp. The flying snow that was hit by the murderous aura was drifting in disorder.
On the other hand, Liu Shan also supervised the soldiers to transport gunpowder and asked all the soldiers close to extinguish the torches. At this time, there could be no trouble here. If there was a trouble, it would be a big trouble. At this time, a large amount of gunpowder was piled up in the northern city of Liangzhou. Liu Shan felt that he was sitting on the gunpowder barrel, and the battle was about to happen. Be careful at this time.
Chapter completed!