Chapter 15 The Danger of the Change 6

The weather this year is a little abnormal. Before the weather is completely turned into the rainy season, it suddenly entered the rainy season. Every sunny day, it will rain for two or three days. The cottage is humid, and it is very cold day or night. Very uncomfortable.

In order to prevent thieves from raiding Xiaoxi Village like a raid on Juzhang City, the gate has never been opened. After the wall in the south was built, even detectives and messengers used ropes to enter and from the city. The bodies piled up in the city have been soaked and exposed for days, which is shocking. Even the veterans were scared when they saw it, not to mention the recruits recruited at that time. The thieves who attacked the village were even more palpitated.

Whenever the thieves rushed under the wall, they had to carefully bypass the bodies. They have no awe of the newly dead bodies, but they are frightened by these long-dead bodies. Many people are afraid to touch and invade the bodies of the underground souls that remain in the world. They did not dare to face the rotten corpse with open mouth and staring on the ground, nor did they dare not face it, so as not to fall down and fall with the carrion corpse.

The rotten corpse smells bad, and it is also common that some thief soldiers bend down to vomit before rushing to the city. Fortunately, whether it is the northwest wind or the southeast wind, it will not blow the unpleasant smell into the village with high walls. Otherwise, the guards would have made trouble long ago.

Cleaning up the battlefield was originally a soldier's job. But since those are not the bodies of our army, we have gradually become lazy. The thieves also don't have the habit of cleaning up the battlefield. For a long time, we thought that those carrion bodies displayed outside the wall had become a barrier to hinder the enemy's attack, and we were simply unwilling to clean them up. So every time the enemy and I finished a battle, they just sent people to search for some clothes and money on the dead body, and finished it.

Although I may be morally condemned for this in the future, I can't take care so much at this time and let the soldiers go.

He Wuji is quite deprecated about this. He Wuji, like many people in the army, was born in a scholarly family and received a strict education since childhood. It is completely unacceptable for stream soldiers to make a fortune from the dead like thieves.

He Wuji bent down and looked at several soldiers covering their mouths and noses and picking up dead people under the wall. He turned around and said to me, "Isn't such an act punished by God?"

I said, "Don't worry about Wuji. If you don't see it, let it go."

"But they are invading the souls of the dead. Buried bodies on the battlefield have not been cleaned up, which is no longer respectful to the deceased, let alone take away the things from his body. What's the difference with tomb robbery?

If it is really like tomb robbery as He Wuji said, it will indeed be a great deal. Regardless of the criticism of those guardians, the public opinion of ordinary people will drown people.

I said, "Don't tell me this. Let's not mention that they are just searching for some property at this time. If the stream runs out of food and grass one day, I'm afraid even the body will be eaten.

He Wuji heard my words, but I don't know how to refute it.

Although what I said sounds very cruel and moral, it happened in the army of the State of Jin decades ago.

Although the cannibalism was rendered both horrible and sad, the talkers and guardians invariably expressed their understanding and sympathy for the person concerned.

Seeing that the two bosses had a dispute over this matter, Liu Zhong said, "Sima joined the army and don't have to fight about this matter anymore. Sima often tells us that extraordinary things are done in extraordinary times. At present, it is an extraordinary time. A few days ago, there was an uproar in the Western Camp for the military pay. If it is still restricted by the military regulations and ordinary etiquette of the North government, I'm afraid the army will be greatly moved.

He Wuji didn't say anything.

Liu Zhong continued: "The cannibal thing mentioned by Sima just now. I have experienced a relative. If it is not a last resort, no one wants to eat people. Relatives said that more than a dozen soldiers gathered together and cried while eating. At that time, morality, humiliation and etiquette were no longer important. Surviving, defending the city and killing the enemy are the pillars and hope for them to persevere.

I patted He Wuji on the shoulder and shook my head.

Before going back to the wall, I specially took care of Liu Zhong and said, "Don't mention the mutiny in the future."

"I know. I will never mention it again."

Although people tend to become anxious in this rainy weather, I know that it is not us who are more anxious, but the thieves outside the city. Despite their large number, they have not yet besieged the small stream village. When our army harassed the enemy battalion, the thief soldiers usually only guarded the camp and did not fight.

If they are really wary of my sneak attack, then it is understandable that they are not surrounded. Because even if you are in the battalion and are worried about being attacked, wouldn't you be more worried that it will be difficult to take care of the beginning and the end?

Maybe the thief soldiers have known the number of soldiers, but they should not know the number of soldiers in Xiaoxizhai. In order to prevent the thief from continuing to attack the city to fight a war of attrition, we made many military flags after we stationed in the stream. Every few days, a few more sides are inserted on the wall to confuse the enemy.

Wars are all like this, and it is an important responsibility not to make people know the truth. Strong soldiers show weakness to achieve the effect of arrogant enemies; weak soldiers show strength to achieve the effect of fear of soldiers. Proud soldiers are easy to fall into a desperate situation, and fear of soldiers is easy to delay fighters. Therefore, a general is not so much to kill the enemy bravely on the battlefield as to kill with intelligence in the military tent. This is the truth of the so-called "planning strategy, winning thousands of miles away".

Although it rains frequently, the soldiers and civilians in the village are at peace. We moved the arsenal to a highland and dug a ditch for drainage. After I sent someone to repair the roof of the arsenal, I vacated a room and moved some civilian supplies that needed to be dried.

Sitting in the temporary county government in the village, looking at the rain curtain hanging from the eaves. I can't help thinking about my family.

When it is cloudy and rainy, it is often the happiest time for a family. Because at that time, as long as there was nothing in the army, I would not go out. I will sit with my mother, wife and daughter and talk about family and enjoy family.

The chef is also very interested at this time and often makes some food that is not easy to eat. An ordinary meal is made like a family banquet.

My wife and I occasionally watched our daughter standing quietly by the door, looking at the raindrops falling from the eaves with her hands, smiling happily. As a soldier, I am indeed very lucky to stay at my doorstep and go home with my family every day. However, it was such a warm pleasure that seemed to wear away my fighting spirit, so that I couldn't stand the loneliness of my relatives when I was in Wu County.

Every time I feel heavy, I will take out the horse-like and tiger-like needlework done by my daughter Liu Xingdi from my chest and look at it carefully and keep touching it.

When I woke up from my memories and thoughts, I found several soldiers standing by the door and staring at me. I was a little surprised, but I quickly reacted and stroked my face with my sleeves. Unconsciously, there seemed to be two rain curtains on my face.