Ever since Emperor Guangwu Liu Xiu destroyed Wang Mang's new dynasty, the Han Dynasty had never experienced such a tragic battlefield.
Two hundred thousand versus two hundred thousand cavalry battles were completely intertwined, and no one could withdraw from the battle. Until late at night, the soldiers were still killing the enemy, but it was no longer a large-scale killing, but an encounter between small groups of troops. .
The great plain with a radius of fifty miles was full of corpses, and blood flowed to the Yangtze River.
Far away, three people living in seclusion in the mountains went out to look for food. Their cars were worthless and their horses were war horses. They had never seen such good horses in their lives.
They heard the sound of trumpets and drums, which was like thunder and shocked the hearts of the people.
They hid in a bush in fear, but did not dare to go any further. If they ran into someone else's battlefield, wouldn't they be waiting to die?
The three of them hid in the bushes all night. When the sky turned blue, the shouts of death stopped. They were so frightened that they lost control of their bowels and urine several times during the night. Their faces turned pale and their lips trembled. They were sure that there was no movement. They found a slope, and as soon as they climbed up, they smelled a nauseating smell of blood.
They looked away, their faces turning from pale to blue. This, this was not the human world. If they had not dreamed, this was purgatory on earth.
Corpses lay all over the fields, ditches were filled with blood, and there were corpses as far as the eye could see. Smoke billowed out of the corpses. Birds did not fly down, and beasts swarmed with collars.
Seeing such a scene, the three secluded farmers let out a long sigh, and the older one said: "Good guy, there are at least several thousand people dead here. Human life is worthless these days!"
The other person is still trembling and begging: "Brother, let's go!"
"Look at how cowardly you look. When these soldiers Qiu Ba were alive, they were asking for food and drink from us. Now that they are dead, why can't we go down and get some money?"
If you are greedy, you will be greedy, and if you are greedy, you will seek others; if you seek others, you will seek yourself.
Together, their greed sealed their fate. The three of them followed the slope to the pile of dead people. After walking a few steps, they heard something moving. It was a living person.
A dozen Jiangdong warriors wearing white linen clothes and silver-gray armor walked out from behind the boulder. The scarred long swords in their hands were stained with blood and shone with a cold light. They were exhausted when they saw a living person, a The one pricked up his ears like a wolf.
When the three common people saw them, their chests rose and fell, they were so frightened that they lost their breath, and finally shouted: "Run!"
But where could they go? There were only two kinds of people in this battlefield, the dead and their own people. They pierced their chests with bloody swords indiscriminately.
There was no life in the Jiangdong warrior's eyes, only when he was killing people, there was some light in his eyes.
Three helpless people never dreamed that they would die in a place that did not belong to them.
Don't blame the Jiangdong soldiers. At this time, Lin Ze's soldiers had to be killed, let alone a human, even a dog.
The Jiangdong soldiers were about to continue looking for survivors when suddenly a crossbow arrow shot through the air and pierced a man's helmet and his head. The man fell to the ground.
When no one reacted, a soldier flew out from the next door, holding a Xiuchun knife, and slashed a person's neck in the air. The blood drew a beautiful arc along the tip of the knife.
The man rushed out quickly, his movements as fast as lightning, and stabbed a man in the chest with his knife. The man wanted to fight back, but Lin Ze's warrior grabbed the sword with his bare hands. The man also held the Xiuchundao blade. Waiting for his companions to end this opponent's life.
When the Jiangdong warrior came to help, the man pulled out his knife fiercely and cut off the Jiangdong warrior's fingers. Then he turned around and slashed down, leaving a bloody mark on the head of the other Jiangdong warrior.
This was just an ordinary soldier under Wei Yan's Saber Army. He killed people one after another with cruel and vicious methods, fearing that the Jiangdong soldiers would not die thoroughly enough.
After killing these people, the soldier's embroidered spring knife pointed weakly at the ground. He was covered in blood, and he didn't know which ones belonged to the enemy and which ones belonged to him.
The sun rose, the sunlight dispersed, and the warmth dispelled the fog that had condensed due to the cold. Looking around, corpses were strewn in the fields. Not only thousands of people died, but also 300,000 or 400,000 people, all fell here.
The soldier shook his head up and down nervously, then collapsed on the ground, his whole figure seemed to have lost his soul.
Suddenly, he heard a whistle, and his eyes suddenly lit up. This was the whistle from the master's professor. It was an instruction to assemble, indicating that he still had comrades in arms and that he had not lost.
Holding a knife, he limped along the whistle, tripping over corpses several times on the way. Finally, he saw the hero's naked upper body under the sun, bandaged and applying medicine, and General Wei Yan and General Zhang Liao were there. Nearby, there were hundreds of people beside them. Those brothers who were not injured were riding horses on the battlefield, looking for other living comrades.
The Battle of Qu'a Plain.
Gan Ning rushed out from Lin Ze's artillery fire and defeated Huang Zhong. Huang Zhong retreated to Yangzhou City in time, forcing Gan Ning to attack the city but failed to capture it. After he finished in one go, Xu Mao led the Jiaolong Army soldiers out of the city and destroyed them directly. Gan Ning, took Gan Ning's head.
Lin Ze rushed out from the rain of fire and killed all the 100,000 people Huang Zhong left for him, all the members of the Saber Regiment, all the people of the Sharp Sword Regiment, and even the fifty girls of the Yueying Regiment. There were only ten people left.
The result of the battle was that Zhou Yu could no longer organize troops and horses north of the Yangtze River and had to flee back to the south of the Yangtze River.
Ma Yunlu is still shaking and her eyes are dull. She is good at martial arts and has killed many people, but the cruelty of the war is something she still can't accept.
Until noon, Xu Mao came with the soldiers of the Jiaolong Group Army. Their main task was to find survivors.
Three days later, two million people came to Yueyang Village and Shouchun. Zhang Zhao personally led the team. They began to clean up the battlefield in full swing. The people found the bodies of their own people from the battlefield, and everyone shed tears. They dragged them out, took off their blood-stained armor, cleaned their bodies, wrapped them in uniform shrouds, and then built a "Qu'a Plain War" martyrs cemetery in Qu'a.
They also built a cemetery for the children of Jiangdong. In fact, in the final analysis, they are all Han people and their own people. From the beginning to the end of this war, not one of the children of Jiangdong escaped. They all fought hard and were worthy opponents.
Seven days later, Xu Mao led his troops to occupy Lujiang, Jichun, and north of the Yangtze River. There was no longer a foothold for Sun Ce and Zhou Yu.
This is the importance of a strong national power. I suffered casualties of 300,000 horses because this battlefield only requires 300,000 horses. You suffered casualties of 300,000 horses because you only had 300,000 horses.
Guo Jialai presided over the memorial ceremony. From the beginning, he and Zhou Yu were dueling, with each winning or losing. In fact, he also thought about fighting like this, putting aside the lives of 300,000 soldiers and completing the battle in one battle, but the lives of 300,000 soldiers , the matter was serious, and he did not dare to make this decision. The Lord still had the courage to quickly stabilize the situation in Jiangdong, and this was the way to go.
The entire land of Qu'a turned white. The soldiers' hair buns were tied with white ribbons, and their long weapons were hung with white silk. The soldiers beat drums and sang war songs to pay homage to these brave warriors.
There were many parents, wives and children holding the tombstones of their loved ones and crying bitterly. Looking at such a scene, Lin Ze kept swallowing his saliva to prevent his tears from flowing out.
When Guo Jia invited Lin Ze to the stage to deliver his eulogy, the entire audience fell silent. Lin Ze didn't speak too loudly, but he was so energetic that everyone could hear his voice. He said: "Swear to sweep Jiangdong regardless of your own safety. Wan Diaojin mourned the city of Qu. The poor bones by the Wuding River are like those in a spring boudoir dream! Folks, I'm sorry that I didn't bring your children and your lovers back."
As soon as Lin Ze finished speaking, there were sounds of sobbing below.
Lin Ze's eyes fell on the tombs and said: "Soldiers, you live to be heroes who protect the Han Dynasty. You die to protect the heroic souls of the Han Dynasty. You died in exchange for the lives of the common people. I Lin Ze, I promise you, I will destroy Jiangdong and return a peaceful, stable and happy country to the people of the world!"
After the memorial ceremony, Lin Ze quickly led Zhang Liao, Huang Zhong, and Wei Yan, the three generals of the group army, to Lujiang. He would stay in Lujiang for a while. The warships he designed and manufactured were all on the Huaihe River. He wanted to transport these warships to Lujiang. For the Yangtze River, a canal must be dug. Between the Huaihe River and the Yangtze River, the most suitable one is to dig from Huainan to Chaohu Lake and widen the river channel from Chaohu Lake to the Yangtze River.
This is another big project that needs to be completed after Yueyang Village College is completed.
It takes at least two years to accumulate capital.
Now we need to find many outstanding hydraulic scientists to design this canal.
There are already many wizards gathered around him. In Shouchun, there are astronomer Wang Fan, who is now remaking the armillary sphere, mathematicians Zhao Shuang and Lu Ji, inventor Han Ji, physicist Yang Quan and others. These people are all Who are my future teachers at that university, but who are the hydraulic scientists? Li Yan can do it, but he is not professional.
Lin Ze suddenly remembered that a man named Ma Jun had invented a keel waterwheel that diverted water from low places to high places. This man had studied water.
Ma Jun, whose courtesy name was Deheng, was from Fufeng. This was all the information Lin Ze could recall.
Lujiang has not been affected by the war. Both the cultural environment and the natural environment are very good. There is a bamboo forest and an abandoned bamboo house. Du Xiao brought a dozen female soldiers to help him clean up, and Lin Ze lived here. .
Du Xiao saw Lin Ze writing Ma Jun's name on the paper and said softly: "Master, let me go find this person for you."
There are only a dozen female soldiers left in the Yueying Regiment. Du Xiao's whole temperament has changed. He is no longer as ostentatious as before. He is very reserved and gentle. He doesn't talk much anymore and has many scars on his body.
Lin Zedao: "There is no need to make a trip for this matter. Just ask Fengxiao to write an announcement recruiting talented people."
"Wei!" Du Xiao agreed and went out.
Ma Yunlu looked at Du Xiao's back and said, "Sister Du Xiao seems to have changed."
Lin Ze's eyes were originally on Du Xiao, but when Ma Yunlu spoke, he looked at her.
Lin Ze didn't say anything, but he was thinking in his heart that it's easy to change people's hearts, but he said that people's hearts can change easily. Lu'er, you are different from before, haven't you noticed?
That night, Lin Ze fell asleep in the bamboo forest and had a dream. He dreamed that the sacrificed soldiers said goodbye to him as a company and platoon. They said that they would protect the lord and China.
When he woke up, Ma Yunlu looked at him directly, with red eyes. The girl leaned against Lin Ze's body with her fair and cool skin, wanting to use her body to give her husband some comfort, and said softly: "Sir, brother They don’t blame you. Without you, they would have died without dignity. Because of you, they could die well..."
