Chapter 109 The Cruelty of War
When Jin Sui and Gu Changxiao arrived at the border town that was still burning, they both felt heavy and sad.
The bodies of the soldiers were arranged in several rows. The relatives of the soldiers from the Tuntian Camp were crying and wiping their bodies, while the soldiers of the Black Feather Army were wiped by their compatriots.
Jinsui, leaning on a crutch, looked at them one by one. Some of them were burned beyond recognition and had their faces covered with sackcloth, and the soldiers next to them were unwilling to uncover their clothes to show Jinsui.
She cried, "My Lord, please don't look."
Jin Sui couldn't stop crying: "No, I want to see them all. I know every one of them."
She knew the youngest soldier in the Black Feather Camp, who was younger than Hao Duojin, only fourteen years old. He pretended to be sixteen years old for fear of being kicked out of the camp.
Jinsui asked him to look after the horses full-time. He washed the mane of King Li's big black horse until its hair was shiny. Later, he asked to join the scout army.
Jin Sui promised him that after this battle, he would give him a telescope like Captain Huang's.
She still clearly remembered the child's happy smile, and now, his body was lying in front of her.
Jin Sui turned to Gu Chang Xiao and said, "His original name was Shen Er Gou. He once asked me to change his name, so I changed it to 'Ze Yang'."
"Shen Zeyang, his new soldier badge hasn't been made yet."
The next corpse was the soldier who delivered the letter between Jinsui and Hanxing. His face was still intact, but his forebody had become a bloody hole.
Jinsui recognized this weapon; it was a meteor hammer with an iron chain. There was more than one person using this weapon in the Tartar army.
When Jinsui heard a woman's heart-wrenching cry, her heart suddenly tightened. She remembered this voice.
Turning his head, he saw Huo Zian kneeling on the ground. Beside him were three children crying and a woman who was almost fainting from crying.
But the woman did not stop, she continued to wash the corpse carefully while crying.
That was Niu Da’s body.
Our crazy Dave, from now on we will never hear his unique chattering voice again, nor will we hear his planting secrets which always involve using his wife as a metaphor.
When Huo Zian saw the real and fake King Li coming together, he became nervous for a moment, but soon turned into resignation.
After this great battle, he was no longer afraid of whatever kind of judgment he would eventually face.
The feeling of having one's heart eaten by thousands of ants was certainly terrifying, but looking at Niu Da's unrecognizable corpse made him even more painful.
He whispered to the two of them, "All my military merits should be given to Niu Da. He has three children to raise."
Jinsui didn't answer him and continued to look at the next body.
She asked Gu Changxiao: "Have you ever seen a battlefield like this when you were in Hexi?"
Gu Changxiao replied in a deep voice: "Often."
Jinsui was silent. War is so cruel!
The bodies of the Tartars were piled up in piles on one side. Cheng Yu led his men to count the number of people and prepare to push them back into the city to burn them later.
The weather is still hot, the bodies cannot be left for long, they must be disposed of as soon as possible. Burning is the safest option compared to burying them.
Qing Feng's body was also there. After hearing Jin Sui's story about his identity, Gu Chang Xiao asked, "If he really survives, will you really spare his life?"
Huo Zian listened attentively at the side, because in a sense, he and Qingfeng committed the same crime.
Jin Sui shook his head: "No! If he just wanted to assassinate me, I might have spared his life. But he also killed other people, which crossed my bottom line. There is no way he can survive."
He attracted horse thieves and killed many refugees and herdsmen. How could Jinsui let him go!
The enemy's corpses were stacked up into a huge Jingguan.
The bodies of the soldiers needed to be buried with honor. Jin Sui ordered a martyrs' cemetery to be built next to the border town to hold a memorial ceremony for all the dead soldiers and bury them with honor! She asked Wei Zhubo to go to Yanzhou City and invite Li Heng and the Yanzhou nobles to attend the funeral.
She wanted everyone to see with their own eyes how heroically our soldiers died and how the border town had become a scorched earth ruin.
This move has several purposes, one of which is to commemorate the heroic spirits of the soldiers.
The second is to let Yanzhou invest in rebuilding the border town. I believe this battle has made them realize the importance of the border town.
The third is to let them see the power of the Li King! The power of the fish oil firearm!
What I said before was not a threat, but a real one. I am capable of attacking Yanzhou City! Today, I can turn the border city into a sea of fire, and kill two thousand Tartars without a burial place, and annihilate them all in the border city.
I will be able to capture Yanzhou City tomorrow and break the proud spine of the nobles! What are you so proud of? The bigger the fist, the more powerful it is.
So what if I have few soldiers? In the whole Yan land, is there any army more brave than my border troops? Fourth, she wanted to punish the Yanzhou army and completely wipe out the Zheng family. I believe that after seeing the border battlefield with their own eyes, the Yanzhou gentry will no longer be able to oppose the actions of the King of Li.
She discussed with Cheng Yu, Wei Zhubo and several team leaders, and Gu Changxiao stood beside her and listened throughout the discussion.
The rules for the funeral were quickly discussed. Cheng Yu said that not only should officials and nobles from Yanzhou be invited, but also the people from the border areas should be invited to watch the funeral on their own initiative.
Let the people living in the border areas know who will protect them when the Tartars come.
Jinsui agreed to this proposal. Not only the people living in the border areas, but also the people in Yanzhou City could come if they wanted.
Cheng Yu was in charge of the funeral, while she went to the wounded camp to treat the wounded. The pain of burns was far greater than that of sword wounds.
Fortunately, she never slacked off in collecting medicines in the space, and accumulated a large number of antibiotics and anesthetics. In addition, Chen Yunniang led the women to care for the wounded, and the mortality rate in the wounded camp was greatly reduced.
Although Gu Changxiao said that she would continue to be the King of Li, she could not be arrogant. Therefore, no matter what ideas Jinsui came up with, she would discuss them with Gu Changxiao in advance.
Fortunately, Gu Changxiao was a man of few words and never had any disagreements with Jinsui. He even supplemented Jinsui's shortcomings.
What she didn't know at this time was that the entire Yanzhou City was discussing the battle in the border town.
Zheng Yun was stunned. He had never thought that under such circumstances, the King of Li could turn defeat into victory! And he won so beautifully, annihilating all the Tartars without leaving a single one alive! The news of the earth-shattering explosion that turned the entire city into a sea of fire naturally spread.
The people of Yanzhou only then knew that the King of Li had such a powerful weapon. No wonder he was so fearless and dared to fight the Tartars alone.
At the same time, the scene of King Li besieging the city to demand money emerged in their minds again. At that time, they extremely despised King Li and the border soldiers.
The King of Li was at the foot of the city, and they threw food onto the city wall, mocking him as a beggar.
A few days ago, King Li led his troops to ask for food and the Yanzhou Army. They also mocked King Li for overestimating his own capabilities and said that he would definitely die at the hands of the Tartars.
Thinking back on it now, I can't help but break out in a cold sweat.
If the King had been angry at that time and thrown the firearm at the wall of Yanzhou, we would have become charred corpses like the Tartars!
When they heard that King Li was going to hold a memorial service for the soldiers who died in the battle, all the nobles in Yanzhou, whether they had offended King Li or not, prepared valuable gifts and sent people to the border town.
Only the Zheng family fled overnight.
However, only Zheng Yun and his direct descendants ran away, and the seriously ill Zheng Pengpeng was left behind for King Li to vent his anger.
(End of this chapter)
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