Chapter 974

"It's a long way to go back."

I don't know why, Dou a has a sense of closeness to Li Tan, and doesn't have any constraints because of the big identity gap between the two.

Li tangui is one of the five great generals of the Han Empire, and is also a top general. He didn't feel anything wrong with doua's treatment of himself. He looked even very happy.

"It's too far." Li Tan said faintly, "our troops can't be wasted on escorting prisoners."

It was already bright, the barracks became lively again from the silence of the night, and the walkways of the barracks were full of soldiers walking back and forth.

The season comes in spring. When the weather begins to warm up, the northern land far away from home is still shrouded in ice and snow.

They chewed biscuits and walked on the snow again and again.

Cake is a kind of meat foam mixed with wheat. It can't be called delicious at all. However, it's easy to find a forest in this place, but the trees are too wet to make a fire.

"This place..." Li Tan sighed: "even the frozen soil in the real sense can't be used for farming."

After solving the grassland Coalition on the north coast, the army drove north according to the original plan.

Their next combat target is the West high vehicle. According to the meaning of the center, it means to sweep to the greatest extent like entering hunnit. Don't be polite about how much damage can be done, but also destroy enough effective forces.

Dou a ghost said, "there are not many foreign races left around. Our generation may be able to wipe them out."

"Sure." Without any hesitation, Li Tan said, and his face suddenly became a little confused: "is it no use for the military to clean up the surrounding aliens?"

"The surrounding aliens are wiped out. Aren't there still distant aliens?" Doua won't have a similar worry. As he walked, he said: "there is Sasan in the west of hunnit, and there is Rome after Sasan."

Li Tan thought for a moment and said, "there is already a call for Disarmament in China, but he didn't report it to his majesty."

"Disarmament?" Dou a asked in surprise, "who are they? Those civil servants? Are they crazy?"

Inside the barracks, the walkways were compacted, and the tents looked orderly, revealing Li Tan's military management quality.

Only those who really know the army can understand that whether they can make regular arrangements when stationed in the camp will greatly test the military quality and control of the generals of the unified army.

They passed through several checkpoints and came to the largest military tent in the barracks.

It is a large quadrangular tent, the main body of which is a wood support structure, and the tent cloth is a kind of linen with high tenacity. It's about 20 square meters.

The tent door should be a foot wide. A sunshade was supported outside the door, and three halberds stood on both sides.

When Li Tan came, he naturally entered his own military account.

Doua's army tent is on the other side.

It was probably the third shot of the day, and the originally agreed meeting time came.

The generals and schools qualified to participate in the meeting came to the military account of Litan one after another.

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

The young man was naturally Liu Shen. In fact, he had just arrived at the barracks. According to the Convention, he reported to the top commander of the army.

Some of them saw Liu Shen and said hello with their eyes, that is, 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 people inside speak a little louder and can hear clearly when standing outside the tent.

"Nearly 200000 prisoners came from various tribes."

"Men and women, old and young, old and weak account for the majority."

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

"The current issue is how to deal with it, regardless of what ingredients."

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

Most of them think that there is no effort to send prisoners of war back to China, and advocate to pick out women who are suitable for the region, regardless of men, women, young and old.

Doua should be the first to express his opposition. He knows very well that if he needs to be escorted home, there is no doubt that junjishan Lieutenant department will bear the responsibility.

Everyone knows that there will be no war in the next few years. Invading xigaoche may become the only large-scale military operation in ten years. No one is willing to miss the opportunity to participate. Maybe this invasion is the only opportunity to make meritorious contributions in ten years.

Li Tan has been watching Liu Shen and wants to observe something from the change of Liu Shen's expression. When his audience had almost debated the school, he stopped and said, "OK!"

The general stopped arguing and stared at each other. All the people who had quarreled with him just now looked at Li tan.

"Son Shen." In fact, it's really difficult for Li Tan to call Liu Shen. He can only use that name: "do you have any opinion?"

Liu Shen didn't think that Li Tan would strive for his own opinions. He was stunned when asked. He hesitated and said, "Shen... Only with ears."

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

The generals and schools who supported the killing of the prisoners just now all raised their eyebrows and looked more or less proud.

"It's not appropriate to kill them all..." Li Tan touched his chin and took out his decision: "pick out the women inside and place the rest in scattered places."

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

The furnishings in the account are very simple. There are people in the tables on the left and right sides and seats at the moment.

There are documents, weapon shelves, mountain maps and other objects on the edge of the tent.

"Captain 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 childe Shen will help."

Everyone in the account looked at Liu Shen, and the expression on each face was wonderful.

"He?" Dou seemed to hear something absurd. He opened his mouth silently and said, "I'm afraid... It's not so appropriate?"

Although Dou A is only a school captain, he is a school captain with a special prefix. Others may not recognize Liu Shen. How can he not recognize him?

At that moment, Liu Shen was actually confused. He couldn't figure out how Li Tan would let himself help kill the prisoners. A cold sweat couldn't help coming out.

"General" Dou a said with the most serious attitude: "childe Shen is young and has some special identity. Why not..."

Without looking at it, Li Tan raised his hand to stop the others who wanted to say something. He clapped his hands and said, "the general's military order has been issued, and there is no possibility of change."

Dou'a showed an expression of hesitation. It was estimated that seeing that Li Tan would not change the military order, he bowed his head and answered: "promise"

Liu Shen was really completely confused. He was the eldest son of the emperor of the Empire, or the eldest son of the emperor who came out of the Empire. He never thought that he would come all the way and kill prisoners the first thing.

In the afternoon, the grassland coalition troops were ordered to dig a pit in the East.

There is a sunken basin over there. The operation of digging the pit is only to complete the original inclined ground into a cliff shape. The operation is not so heavy. It is basically finished in the evening.

The prisoners of war ordered to dig the earth wondered why they did it.

Of course, the Han army could not say that digging a pit was to kill people. It told the prisoners that they needed to bury the bodies of some long dead people or livestock.

Some people must have guessed what would happen during the capture of the grassland coalition army. It's strange that there was a slight commotion and then calmed down. Even though it was very quiet and strange, the atmosphere also had an indescribable and unidentified depression.

"We're going to kill more than 200000 people?" Liu Shen confirmed it more than once. He couldn't believe it. At the same time, he felt extremely excluded from being his deputy: "that's more than 200000 people..."

"Childe Shen is wrong." Doua already knew that Liu Shen was assigned to the military department of junjishan and would play his role as a bodyguard for a long time in the future. He felt honored and pressured to make such an arrangement for the emperor, but he had to fulfill his responsibility: "they were the enemies of big men before they were captured and then the defeated enemies."

"The enemy..." Liu Shen said, "the enemy who has surrendered."

"In addition to the enemy, they are also grassland people." Dou a said in a sincere tone: "childe Shen has never experienced the years when grassland people were rampant, but he wants to understand that the biggest enemy of Zhuxia has always come from the north."

Liu Shen understood something, but he still felt excluded.

Tonight is a moonless night. The wind is from northwest to Southeast.

The wind was so strong that the banners on the flagpole kept ringing, and even the tent kept making noises.

Small snow particles are blown by the strong wind and fly in the air. When people look at things, they have to squint. They talk too much, and their mouth is full of the smell of snow.

The grassland coalition troops who were placed in the pits were very quiet. Because they were temporarily placed, even if they had tents or shacks, they could not be brought to the new location.

It was very cold. Campfires were lit everywhere. They sat around the campfire with a few or a dozen people.

"Listen up." Liu Rui held a torch and pressed one hand on the hilt of the sword at his waist. As he walked, he shouted, "all women over the age of 10 and under the age of 35 stand up!"

Liu Rui didn't make his own decisions. He just got such a job to pick out women of the right age from the demobilized army.

Hearing the cry, the women who thought they were suitable stood up from the ground in twos and threes.

"What does the general want to do when he only picks out women?" The speaker looked very old. He asked suspiciously, "Why are you over 10 and under 35?"

"Can you speak Chinese?" Liu Rui couldn't see the interviewer's facial features clearly and didn't think of approaching. He replied loudly, "you care what we want to do? Just do it!"

The present hour should be quarter past eight (7:30), and the deadline given by Li Tan is quarter past eight.

The order to kill and surrender at quarter past midnight tonight has been issued, and all the departments of the Han Army have verified the order. There is no room for maneuver.

After a position yelled and asked, there were very few responses. Some people stood up and sat down again. There were very few people out of the campfire circle.

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

Doua told Liu Rui that more than 200000 people died in the pits in the East. After tonight, there are at least 200000 bodies buried under the soil.

Liu Rui can still guess why women over the age of 10 and under the age of 35 should be singled out, all because they are useful to big men.

"Did the general pick out those women to have fun?" A tall looking soldier suddenly asked when Liu Rui approached, but Liu Rui didn't admit it and said, "otherwise, how can you only pick women?"

Liu Rui was a little nervous for a moment.

"It's not a big thing!" The prairie man laughed and shouted, "they are useful. Should they give some food and clothes?"

It was just a small episode. Liu Rui didn't go too deep. He just made a circular notice around the periphery and soon approached the quarter of eight o'clock.

Someone came to inform Liu Rui to leave, or he didn't have a watch. How much time passed is purely guesswork.

Liu Shen was taken to a low hillside. After climbing the top, he saw Li Tan riding on a horse with dark and shiny fur.

"How many people were singled out?"

"Go back, general! About seventeen thousand."

Li Tan "Oh", holding the reins in one hand and touching the horse's mane in the other hand, looked at the gathering place of fallen soldiers in the distance.

"Son Shen." Li Tan didn't turn his eyes to Liu Shen. The voice asked coldly, "do you know why you were asked to preside over the killing and surrender as your deputy?"

"Go back, general." In fact, Liu Shen was a little cold by the wind. Some angrily stared at Li Tan and replied, "Shen doesn't know!"

Li Tan "ha ha" smiled for a while and said, "you'll know later."

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

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

The color of the sudden light is different from that of the stars in the sky. The stars will not move if they are silver white or light purple. The new light is bright yellow and marks a track in the air.

Liu Shen realized what had happened and stared at the Rockets falling. In his ears, there was a noise made by an unknown number of people.

Here we go. The operation to kill and surrender has begun.

The Han Army First greeted the soldiers with arrow rain. The soldiers in the periphery fell down under the sudden attack of dense arrow rain. The soldiers who were not covered by arrow rain knew what had happened when they were close. I'm afraid the soldiers who were far away could guess what had happened.

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

The sound of killing in Chinese resounded through the night, and the earth was trampled by too many people, just like the sound of beating drums.

"They are alien!" Li Tan's voice sounded very cold. He said: "childe Shen must remember that only a dead alien is a good alien!"