Chapter 623 Situation

The food in the army village is not only dry cakes but also soup cakes. Dry cakes are easy to understand, but soup cakes are somewhat abstract. They are not noodle cakes soaked in soup, but bone soup, vegetables, and minced meat mixed with rice. One person, one pot of soup.

Wooden bowls, wooden spoons, Shen Hao and Wu Kai sat on a small bench in the tent with a large bowl and ate it. Because of the soup, the soup cakes will not choke like dry cakes. They can be eaten quickly and full of satiety. Of course, it is also more time-saving for the cook to do it.

Neither of the two opened their mouths to speak. After eating the soup cakes in their respective bowls, they put down the bowls and wiped their mouths, smiling very comfortably.

"Huh! It would be great if there was wine. It's really comfortable to eat, but it's almost tasteless." The food that Wu Kai didn't bother to look at in the past is now a rare delicacy for Wu Kai, at least it's hot. of. But it's just that the alcohol addiction is a little bit up, and it's uncomfortable.

"Hehe, I have wine, do you dare to drink it?" Shen Hao took out a jar of Wuliangye from the storage bag, and showed it off in front of Wu Kai.

"Gulu!" Swallowing, Wu Kai quickly moved his eyes away, waved his hands and said, "Put it up and put it away! Drinking is not allowed in the army during the war, and it is not a joke to be found fifty sticks."

Wu Kai refused, Shen Hao naturally wouldn't persuade people to make mistakes, and he didn't dare to drink, after all, if you really violate the military regulations in the army, the general will cut you off, it's better to be honest.

Putting away the wine in his hand, Shen Hao said with a smile: "Then save it and drink it on the day of triumph."

"Hehe." Wu Kai smiled and nodded, but he didn't know whether he could drink the jar of wine.

Shen Hao also saw something on Wu Kai's expression, and said seriously: "Wu Pianjiang looks so tired, and it seems that his subordinates have suffered a lot of injuries, can you tell me?"

"Is there anything you can't say? But why did you come to Jianchuan? Isn't Yinshou staying in the Chinese army in Wuhu?"

"Well, Commander Zuo appointed me as the general manager of the camp. This time, I followed Chen Zifang and Alchemist Chen to inspect the camps around the camps, so I came to Jianchuan. But I was going to the central military camp to meet General Shen, but I didn't know that I hadn't arrived at the central military camp yet. I met a wolf rider in the village, and after struggling to get rid of it, I was dispatched here by the general manager of the Daoist Yamen."

"You? Manager of chores?"

"Don't believe me?" Shen Hao tore off the rough waistband and handed it to Wu Kai, and then said, "Didn't you see the large magic circle outside when you returned to the military camp? from."

Wu Kai was very surprised. He thought that Shen Hao came here as the chief inspector, but who would have thought that he was actually the "General Manager of Miscellaneous Affairs". Although it was the first time he had heard of this position, he could already guess the position from the name. Most of my errands are in the back office.

"You did the burning of the corpses? Hehe, this is not bad. There are too many dead people, attracting rats and mosquitoes, and if one is unlucky, it will cause plague. Burn them clean. But what about our own people? Burn them too. ?”

"Burn it. The pit dug separately, when the time comes to erect a monument together, it will be regarded as the righteousness of the whole life and death." Shen Hao sighed, knowing that these rhetoric are just whitewashing, but the reality is like this. Whether it is the corpses of the barbarians or the corpses of the human race themselves, there are too many. The Shen Haos outside the military camp alone are more than five thousand by visual estimation, and counting the ones in the military camp, there may be more than seven thousand. It is useless to bury such a large number alone.

"That's a good way of saying it. If I die, I will burn and bury a pit with my brothers, so as not to be alone."

As soon as these words came out, Shen Hao subconsciously turned his head to look at Wu Kai one more time, and said curiously: "I didn't expect you to change a lot last time."

Wu Kai's most direct feeling to Shen Hao now is that the cunning in his eyes is no longer found, and the whole person has become like a stone with almost no emotional waves. Even when he mentioned the topic of "burying himself" just now, he still looked calm.

"If you were killing the enemy every day, watching the brothers around you fall down every day, patrolling one after another cruising point every day, and dare not let go of the handle of your knife even when eating and sleeping, you will change. No Don't worry about it, just think about how to kill more enemies, how to lead this group of brothers to survive more."

In fact, Wu Kai doesn't even know how long he can live, maybe he won't be able to come back the next time he goes out.

But Wu Kai didn't have any fear or fear in his heart, just like what he told Shen Hao just now, he didn't have much time to think about other things in his heart, all he thought about was how to survive and kill the enemy. die? There are tens of thousands of dead people outside, and I haven't seen anyone who can't die if he doesn't want to die.

"The barbarian army is coming?"

Wu Kai shook his head when he heard the words: "Not yet. But there are indeed a lot of soldiers on the opposite side of Jianchuan. There are people from all ethnic groups. Our mixed army sent sentries to touch it before, and came back to talk about swords. There were more than 80,000 barbarians gathered in front of Sichuan. There were quite a few of them, but it was almost impossible to break through Jianchuan's current defense.

The main thing is consumption. In terms of equipment, the barbarians are much worse than us. They didn't even have bows and crossbows, and they all fought close to each other. Moreover, the leather armor on the body is not only thin, but there is no iron mirror protection on the vital parts, and there will be very few battle formations. If their natural strength and size are not higher than ours, we would replace one of them with more than three of them.

Not to mention supplies. Although it is difficult for us, it is even more difficult for the barbarians. Now it's up to who can afford it. "

There was no smile on Shen Hao's face either, and from Wu Kai's plain words, he could hear the cruelty of the battle situation, even reaching the point of "who can afford to die".

"Then when will you take turns to repair?"

"Hurry up. When we came, there were 20,000 people, and the fighting has been fierce these few days. According to the calculation of the deaths of the brothers under my command, it can last up to five days at most, and then we have to repair."

Wu Kai didn't say the specific number of casualties, because the military order "50% can be repaired" really made him a little speechless. Every time he thought of him, he felt like a thorn in his throat, but Cheng Jinhou's formation in the upper military camp was also so disciplined and cruel. Wu Kai lost his temper.

After being silent for a while, Shen Hao asked again: "How long do you think Jianchuan can withstand? Can you rely on the surrounding fortifications to consume the barbarians on the opposite side?" This was said in a low voice, and Shen Hao didn't shy away from it. Now he is real I want to hear Wu Kai, an old general's opinion on the war.

Wu Kai took a deep breath, looked around, looked around, looked at Shen Hao for a long time before replying: "It seems that you, the general manager of chores, care about a lot of things. I can't say whether you can stand it or not. It doesn’t count even if General Cheng said it. It depends on the support from Wuhu Lake and whether the temple can withstand the long-term casualties.”

"What if?"

"If it is possible, the barbarians are likely to be dragged down due to the potential for war, and finally the entire army will be crushed and completely wiped out."

"What if the support from above is not enough or the loss cannot be tolerated?"

"Then the army will be defeated. Not only will the line from Jianchuan to Huzhuyuan collapse, but Wuhu Lake will also be unable to hold it. We can only retreat to the Kumble Fire Pass and give back the ancestral land of the barbarians."