sweeping the world

Chapter 974
"It's a long journey, and it's hard to send it back."

I don't know why, but Dou Ah has a sense of intimacy with Li Tan, and he doesn't feel restrained because of the big difference in their identities.

Li Tangui was one of the five great generals of the Han Empire, and a fairly high-ranking general.He didn't feel anything wrong with Dou Ah treating him like this, and he even looked very happy.

"It's too far away." Li Tan said quietly: "Our military strength cannot be wasted on escorting prisoners."

The sky had already brightened, and the barracks became lively again from the silence at night, and the aisles of the barracks were full of soldiers walking back and forth.

The season is coming to spring, and when the weather starts to warm up, the northern land far away from the mainland is still surrounded by ice and snow.

The two of them gnawed on the biscuits and walked on the snow again.

The cake is a mixture of minced meat and wheat, which is not delicious at all, but it is easy to find a forest in this place, but the trees are too wet to make a fire.

"This place..." Li Tan sighed, "It's the permafrost in the true sense, and it can't be used for farming even if it is dug down."

After finishing off the prairie coalition forces on the North Sea, the army marched northward according to the original plan.

Their next combat target is Xigaoche. According to the central point, it is like entering the Hunnit, to carry out a sweep to the greatest extent. It is completely unceremonious how much damage can be done, and at the same time, enough living forces must be wiped out.

Dou Agui said in a strange way: "There are not many alien races around, and our generation may be able to wipe them all out."

"For sure." Li Tan finished without any hesitation, and his face suddenly became a little confused: "If the surrounding alien races are wiped out, is the military useless?"

"The alien races in the surrounding area have been completely wiped out, so there are still alien races in the distance?" Dou Acai would not have similar worries, and said as he walked, "There is Sassanid to the west of Hunnit, and there is Rome after Sasanian."

Li Tan thought for a while and said: "There are already calls for disarmament in the country, but they have not been reported to His Majesty."

"Disarmament?" Doua asked in surprise, "Who are they? Those civil servants? Are they crazy!"

Inside the barracks, the aisles were compacted and the tents looked orderly, all of which showed Li Tan's quality of managing the army.

Only those who really know the soldiers can understand that whether they can be arranged in a regular manner when stationed in the camp will test the military quality of the generals in charge and their control over the army.

The two passed through several checkpoints and came to the largest military tent in the military camp.

It was a large quadrangular tent, the main body was a wooden support structure, and the tent cloth was a kind of linen cloth with high toughness.Calculate about twenty square meters.

The tent door should have a width of one foot, and a sunshade shed was supported outside the door, and three halberd bearers stood on each side.

When Li Tan came, he naturally entered his military tent.

Dou Ah's military tent is on the other side.

It was about three shots in the morning, and the originally agreed time to gather for discussion arrived.

The generals and schools who were qualified to participate in the meeting came to Li Tan's military tent one after another.

After they entered the military tent, they saw a man who looked extremely young, and everyone who knew who it was showed a surprised expression.

The young man was naturally Liu Shen. He had just arrived at the barracks not long ago, and according to the usual practice, he reported to the supreme commander of the army.

Some of them saw Liu Shen stunned and greeted with their eyes, but no matter whether they recognized Liu Shen or not, they were full of confusion and didn't understand what the situation was.

Since it is a tent, there is naturally no sound insulation effect. The voice of the people inside is slightly louder, and they can be heard clearly when standing outside the curtain.

"Close to 20 captives, from various tribes."

"There are men and women, old and young, and the old and the weak account for the majority."

"Rouran has the most people, and the rest are basically miscellaneous."

"The issue now is how to deal with it, regardless of the ingredients."

There was still a good communication inside, but soon there was a dispute.

Most of them think that there is no time to escort the prisoners of war back to the country, and insist on picking out the women who are suitable for them, and killing them all regardless of men, women, or children.

Dou A should be the first to express his objection. He knows very well that if he needs to be escorted back to the country, there is no doubt that the Junjishan Captain's Department will bear this responsibility.

Everyone knows that there will be no big wars in the next few years. The invasion of Xigaoche may become the only large-scale military operation in ten years. No one is willing to let go of the opportunity to participate. There is an opportunity for meritorious service.

Li Tan has been watching Liu Shen, wanting to observe something from Liu Shen's expression changes.He listened to the generals and the school were almost arguing, so he stopped and said: "Okay!"

The general stopped arguing, and glared at the people who had been arguing fiercely with him just now, and then all looked at Li Tan.

"Mr. Shen." Li Tan really didn't feel comfortable addressing Liu Shen, so he had to use that address: "Do you have any opinions?"

Liu Shen never thought that Li Tan would fight for his own opinion, so he was taken aback by the question, then hesitantly said: "Shen... only has ears."

Li Tan took a deep look at Liu Shen, then moved his eyes to the generals, and said in a deep voice: "The army is out, thousands of miles away from the mainland, and there are too many soldiers."

The generals who supported the killing of the prisoners just now raised their brows, somewhat smug.

"It's not appropriate to kill them all..." Li Tan stroked his chin, and made a decision: "Pick out the women inside, and distribute the rest."

The smell of grease in the military tent is very strong, which is the smell produced by the burning oil lamps that provide lighting.

The furnishings in the tent are very simple, there are desks and poufs on the left and right sides, and there are people on the seats at the moment.

On the side of the tent are documents or weapon racks, maps of mountains and rivers, etc.

"Lieutenant Dou." Li Tan hid his hands in his long sleeves, glanced at Liu Shen again, and said to Dou A: "You will preside over the killing of prisoners, and Mr. Shen will assist you."

Everyone in the tent looked at Liu Shen, and the expressions on everyone's faces were wonderful.

"Him?" Dou'a seemed to have heard something absurd, opened his mouth to speak silently, and said, "I'm afraid...it's not that appropriate, is it?"

Although Dou'a is just a captain, but he is a captain with a special prefix, others may not recognize Liu Shen, how could he not recognize him?

At that moment Liu Shen was actually stunned, unable to figure out how Li Tan would let him assist in the killing of prisoners, cold sweat broke out uncontrollably.

"General" Dou'a said with the most serious attitude: "Mr. Shen is young, and his status is somewhat special, why not..."

Li Tan didn't even look at Dou Yan, raised his hand to stop the others who wanted to say something, and said: "The general's military order has been issued, and there is no possibility of changing it."

Dou'a showed a hesitant expression, probably because he saw that Li Tan would not change the military order, so he lowered his head and answered, "No."

Liu Shen was completely dumbfounded.He is the eldest son of the emperor, or the eldest son of the emperor. He never thought that he would travel thousands of miles here, and the first thing he would do would be to kill prisoners.

In the afternoon of the same day, the captives of the Allied Forces on the Prairie were ordered to dig a hole in the east.

There was already a sunken basin over there, and the work of digging the pit was only to complete the original sloping ground into a cliff shape. The work was not so heavy, and it was basically done by evening.

The prisoners who were ordered to dig the soil wondered why they did it.

Of course, the Han army could not say that the purpose of digging pits was to kill people, but to tell the prisoners that they needed to bury the bodies of some people or animals who had died long ago.

Among the captives of the Prairie Allied Forces, some people must have guessed what would happen. It was strange that there was a little commotion and then calmed down. Even though it was extremely quiet, the atmosphere also had an inexplicable oppression.

"Are we going to kill those 20 people?" Liu Shen confirmed it more than once, and couldn't believe it. At the same time, he felt extremely repulsed by himself as a deputy: "That's more than 20 people..."

"Young Master Shen is wrong." Dou'a already knew that Liu Shen was assigned to the Junji Mountain School Lieutenant Department and would be his bodyguard for a long time to come.He felt honored and pressured by the emperor to make such an arrangement, but he had to fulfill his responsibility: "They were the enemies of the great man before, and they were the defeated enemies after they were captured."

"The enemy..." Liu Shen said nastily, "The enemy who has already surrendered."

"Besides the enemies, they are also grassland people." Dou'a said in a earnest tone, "Mr. Shen has not experienced the years when the grassland people ravaged, but he wants to know that Zhu Xia's greatest enemy has always come from the north."

Liu Shen somewhat understood, but still felt repulsed.

Tonight is a moonless night, and the wind is from northwest to southeast.

The wind was a bit strong, and the flags on the flagpoles kept fluttering, and even the tents kept making noises.

The tiny snow particles are blown by the strong wind and dance in the air. When people look at things, they inevitably squint their eyes, and their mouths are full of the smell of snow if they talk too much.

The prisoners of the Prairie Allied Forces who were placed in various pits were very quiet. Since they were temporarily placed, even if they had tents or shacks, they could not be taken to the new location.

The weather was very cold, and bonfires were lit everywhere, and a few or a dozen of them sat around the bonfire.

"Listen up." Liu Rui held a torch in one hand, pressed the other hand on the hilt of his waist, and yelled as he walked: "Women over the age of ten and under the age of 35, all stand up!"

It's not that Liu Rui made it up on his own, he just got such an errand, which is to pick out women of the right age in the Jiangjun.

The grassland descendants who heard the yelling, and the women who felt that they were suitable stood up from the ground in twos and threes.

"What is the general trying to do by picking out women?" The speaker looked quite old, and he asked suspiciously, "Why are they over ten years old and under 35 years old?"

"Can you speak Chinese?" Liu Rui couldn't see the interrogator's facial features clearly, and had no intention of approaching, so he responded loudly: "What do you care about us? Just do it!"

The current time should be two quarters of Xu time (07:30), and the deadline given by Li Tan is four quarters of Xu time.

The order to start killing and surrendering at midnight tonight has been issued, and all the departments of the Han army have also verified the order, and there is no room for maneuver.

After a while of yelling and asking, very few people responded aloud. Some people sat down again after standing up, and very few people walked out of the campfire circle.

"Don't make mistakes!" Liu Rui almost shouted with all his strength: "Don't hesitate, stand up and go south!"

Dou'a told Liu Rui that there were more than 20 soldiers concentrated in the various pits to the east, and after tonight there were at least 20 corpses buried under the soil.

Liu Rui can still guess why women over the age of ten and under the age of 35 are singled out, all because these women are useful to the big man.

"Is the general picking out those women to have sex?" A tall-looking soldier suddenly asked when Liu Rui approached, but he didn't get Liu Rui's acknowledgment and said, "Otherwise, why would you only pick women?" woman?"

Liu Rui was a little nervous for a moment.

"It's not a big deal!" The prairie man laughed out loud, and shouted later: "They are useful, shouldn't they be given some food and clothes?"

It was just a small episode, Liu Rui didn't go too deep, he just circled around the outside to inform, and it soon approached the four quarters of Xu.

Someone came to tell Liu Rui to leave, or if he didn't have a watch, how much time had passed was purely guesswork.

Liu Shen was led up a low hillside, and after reaching the top, he saw Li Tan riding on a steed with jet-black fur.

"How many people were singled out?"

"Return to the general! About [-]."

Li Tan said "Oh", holding the rein with one hand, stroking the horse's mane with the other, looking in the direction where he was looking at the gathering place of soldiers in the distance.

"Mr. Shen." Li Tan did not shift his gaze to Liu Shen, and asked indifferently, "Do you know why you were appointed as the deputy to preside over the surrender?"

"Back to the general." Liu Shen was actually a little cold from the wind, and stared at Li Tan angrily, and replied, "Shen doesn't know!"

Li Tan laughed "hehe" for a while, and said, "You will know later."

After a few questions and answers, only the whistling of the northwest wind remained on the slope.

Time passed bit by bit, I don't know how long it took, Liu Shen felt that he was going to be frozen, and his spirit was getting worse and worse, and the distant sky suddenly appeared bit by bit of light.

The colors of those sudden bright lights are different from the colors of the stars in the sky. The stars will not move even if they are silvery white or lavender. The new bright lights are bright yellow and draw tracks in mid-air.

Realizing what happened, Liu Shen stared blankly at the rockets falling, and heard the noise made by an unknown number of voices in his ears.

It's started, the action of killing and surrendering has begun.

The Han army greeted with arrow rain first, and the soldiers on the periphery fell down in groups under the raid of the dense arrow rain. The soldiers who were not covered by the arrow rain, they knew what happened when they got close, and the soldiers who were far away were afraid Can also guess what happened.

From a distance, Liu Shen, who was on a slope, saw that the pawns were just shrinking back, and then were shot down by the arrow rain again and again.

The sound of shouting and killing in Chinese resounded through the night, and there was also the sound of beating drums produced by too many people trampling on the ground.

"They are aliens!" Li Tan's voice sounded extremely indifferent.He said: "Mr. Shen must remember one thing, only dead aliens are good aliens!"

(End of this chapter)