The next day, the sky just turned white, and Shen Hao and his party set off eastward again.
An obvious change is that the speed of the entire cavalry has become a bit slower, and there are twice as many cavalry leaning forward than before, and the formation guarding the center has also become more compact.
"When we enter Jianchuan, we are in a war zone. We might encounter barbarians. Xu Baihu came over just now and said that we had better not leave the group and go out, but stay in the formation."
Chen Zifang was much more familiar than Shen Hao and had been in the army longer. When he saw some changes in Shen Hao's face, he took the initiative to explain it.
"We're entering Jianchuan now, right? Do we need to be so careful?"
"Of course. Be careful and you won't make a big mistake. You and I are both laymen in the military, so just follow along." Chen Zifang smiled, but his words were very direct. Compared with others, he did not think Shen Hao was difficult to get along with. It's more casual.
"That's what Master Chen said. I was nervous when I first went to the front line."
"Hahaha, Lord Shen is joking. Lord Shen is just a barbarian. What should you be nervous about? It's just that there are many rules in the military. We don't care about marching or fighting. It would be a crime if we ask questions or get involved. Taboo, when the time comes, the gains outweigh the losses, Mr. Shen, are you right?"
"Yes, Master Chen is right. You should be more cautious." Shen Hao also smiled. If people talk to him well, he will naturally listen well. Moreover, what Chen Zifang said is indeed reasonable. Just like what Jiang Cheng and others had reminded him before, there are great rules in the army. It is better to talk less and watch more.
Next, Chen Zifang was chattering again, trying to trick Shen Hao into using fatigue tactics, hoping to get some new ideas. However, Shen Hao also learned the lesson and would hum from time to time but didn't say it was useful. Not everything in the other world can be copied, and if you talk too much, what if someone collects it and asks him to explain? Do you really think you can get away with it just by relying on a "dead enlightenment teacher"?
But even if Shen Hao didn't say anything, he still couldn't stop Chen Zifang's talkative nature. Later, Shen Hao seemed to feel that the background sound of riding on horseback should be Chen Zifang's nonsense... and he became numb.
"What are those? Dead people?"
Not long after entering Jianchuan, Shen Hao saw the corpses of several barbarians on the roadside. The death state was strange. His limbs had been chopped off, and he was lying on the ground. There was a big stone on his back, and there was a pool of blood in front of him. In the blood, he could see fragments of flesh that seemed to be organs.
"He's a homeless man from the surrounding tribes. He probably fell into the hands of a patrol. Haha, these barbarians are so unlucky."
"Tramps? Barbarians also have tramps?"
"Haha, of course there are. These guys come in groups of three or five. They are all bad guys driven out from various tribes, or they are the remnants of tribes that were wiped out. They are tangled together and wander around, either committing petty crimes or attacking those who are alone. A fellow tribesman is a guy that no one wants to see in the barbarian realm.
When the war broke out before, all the barbarian tribes from Jianchuan to Huzhuyuan were swept away and cleaned up very clean. Although there are barbarians invading Jianchuan now, our current location has just entered the war zone, and all we encounter here are vagrants like this. You see, they are not from the same clan. Only tramps mix together like this. "
"Why do you want to kill like this? It seems to be a bit particular." Out of professional habits, Shen Hao was curious about the death methods of these barbarians. This was the first time he had seen this technique of cutting off a person's limbs and then crushing them to death with large rocks. I feel like it doesn’t take so much effort to simply kill people.
"Oh! This seems to be called "Stone Turtle", which is not a method used by our side. It was used by barbarians in the past and was a method they used to kill their enemies. It was the most insulting. Later, it was used by the border army on them. . These unlucky guys should have been dead for a long time, otherwise the bodies here would have been dragged away by wild beasts.
Let's go. "
Shen Hao nodded and rode on with Chen Zifang.
Just these few corpses made Shen Hao directly feel the hostility on the front line. This is completely different from when he used to handle cases or attack and kill evil spirits. It is a relationship where there is no "right or wrong", there is only direct ethnic confrontation, life or death, and it has reached the level of killing as much as possible.
Of course, Shen Hao did not believe that all soldiers would like this so-called "stone turtle", but judging from the reaction of a person of Chen Zifang's status, at least most people in the border army did not think that using "stone turtle" was a good idea. What's wrong with killing barbarians?
Shen Hao didn't do much. The cruel scenes he had seen were much more tragic than this "Stone Turtle", but he had an intuitive feeling about war for the first time in his heart.
The sense of urgency in the war was not limited to the corpses of the unlucky ones on the road, but also to the patrols that began to appear frequently along the road and the seriously injured soldiers who were dragged back by horses and carriages.
The situation at the first military station was far worse than Shen Hao and Chen Zifang had expected before arriving.
"Sir, there is nothing we can do! There is not enough water to drink here, and there is no extra to clean the wounds of the wounded every day. This, this is unjust, sir!"
Seeing that Chen Zifang was about to drag him down with twenty sticks, the doctor at the military station cried and begged, feeling extremely aggrieved.
"I have given you orders. After boiling, the water in the river can not only be drunk but also used to clean wounds. Why are you still short of water?"
"But sir, there are often floating corpses in the river. It is a dirty trick of the barbarians. Drinking it will make you sick, and if you are unlucky, you will get a plague. This, this, what is the use of boiling it?"
Chen Zifang took a deep breath, and he finally understood. The front line here sees dead bodies floating in the river every day. Who dares to drink the water from the river? Even if they were given a note later to tell them that water quality problems could be avoided by boiling water, who would dare?
In fact, Shen Hao couldn't guarantee that the water with dead bodies floating in it would be drinkable after boiling, and he had never said such a thing to anyone else. But the water here is living water and flowing. I guess even if dead bodies are floating, it won't breed too many bacteria and stay in one water area, right? After all, it's just "floating" rather than "covered".
"In the military, the documents are orders from the top down. There is no price to pay for the orders, and it is not allowed to be violated openly and secretly. Come here, give me ten more sticks!"
"Sir, please have mercy on me! My lord, please have mercy on me!"
A doctor at the third level of Qi Refining Realm should have no problem receiving thirty military sticks, right? It's really ugly to be called so fierce. This is what Shen Hao originally thought, but then he suddenly realized that maybe he was not afraid of being beaten, but was expressing the "effect of being punished." What would happen if you didn't say a word or even showed disdain when being dragged down...
Then a large pot was set up in the military station and began to boil water. The first pot that came out was still hot. Chen Zifang blew a little and then took a sip in front of the wounded and doctors in the military station. He swallowed it and drank three bowls in a row.
"The boiled water is ready to drink!"
