In addition to dry biscuits, the meals in the military camp are soup cakes. The dry biscuits are easy to understand, but the soup cakes are a bit abstract. They are not noodles soaked in soup, but bone soup, vegetables, and minced meat mixed with rice and cooked together. The soup One basin of soup and water for each person.
With wooden basins and wooden spoons, Shen Hao and Wu Kai held a large basin and sat on the small bench in the tent to eat hard. Because the soup cakes have soup, they won't choke like dry cakes. You can eat them quickly and feel full. Of course, it also takes less time for the cook to do it.
Neither of them spoke. After finishing the soup cakes in their respective basins, they put down the basins and wiped their mouths, smiling happily.
"Huh! It would be great if there was wine. It's really comfortable to eat, but it's just a little tasteless." In the past, the food that he probably didn't even bother to take a look at is now considered a rare delicacy for Wu Kai. At least this thing is hot. of. But my addiction to alcohol has set in, and I feel uncomfortable.
"Haha, I have wine, do you dare to drink it?" Shen Hao took out a jar of Wuliangye from his storage bag and showed it off in front of Wu Kai.
"Gulu!" After swallowing, Wu Kai quickly moved his eyes away and waved his hand: "Put it away, put it away! Drinking is not allowed in the army during the war. If you are caught with fifty sticks, it is no joke."
Wu Kai refused, and Shen Hao naturally would not advise others to make mistakes, and he did not dare to drink. After all, if you really break the military rules in the army, the general will kill you. It is better to be more honest.
Putting away the wine in his hand, Shen Hao smiled and said, "Then keep it for the day of triumph."
"Haha." Wu Kai smiled and nodded, but he didn't know whether he could drink the wine.
Shen Hao also saw something in Wu Kai's expression, and said seriously: "General Wu looks very tired, and it seems that many of his subordinates have been injured. Can you tell me?"
"Is there anything you can't say? But why did you come to Jianchuan? Isn't it because you should stay with the Chinese Army in Wuhu?"
"Well, Commander Zuo appointed me as the general manager of miscellaneous affairs in the camp. This time I followed Master Chen Zifang and Chen Dan to inspect various camps, so I came to Jianchuan. However, I was originally going to go to the Central Army camp to meet General Shen first, but who knew that I hadn't arrived at the Central Army camp yet? We encountered Wolf Cavalry in the village, and after struggling to get rid of him, he was dispatched here by the Daoxing General Manager Yamen."
"You? Head chore manager?"
"Don't believe it?" Shen Hao pulled off the rough waistband from his waist and handed it to Wu Kai, and then said: "When you returned to the military camp, didn't you see the large magic circle outside? I'll find someone to do it for the one who burned the corpse. from."
Wu Kai was very surprised. He originally thought that Shen Hao came here as the supervisory officer, but who would have thought that he was actually the "General Manager of Miscellaneous Affairs". Although this was the first time he heard of this position, he could guess it from the name. Most of his errands are in the back office.
"Were you responsible for burning the corpses? Haha, this is not bad. There are too many dead people, which attracts rats and mosquitoes. If you are unlucky, you will get plague. Burn them all. But what about our own people? We also burned them. ?”
"Burn it. The pits dug separately will be erected together with a monument. It can be regarded as the meaning of sharing the same robe and dying in the same hole." Shen Hao sighed, knowing that these rhetorics were whitewash, but the reality was like this. There were too many corpses from both the barbarians and the human race themselves. Shen Hao's visual inspection of those outside the military stronghold alone exceeded 5,000. Counting those in the military stronghold, there were probably more than 7,000. Just burying such a large amount is useless.
"That's a good idea. If I die, I will burn it and bury it in a pit with my brothers so that I won't be alone."
As soon as these words came out, Shen Hao subconsciously turned his head and took another look at Wu Kai, and said curiously: "I didn't expect that you have changed a lot when we said goodbye last time."
The most direct feeling Wu Kai gave Shen Hao now was that the cunning look in his eyes could no longer be found, and his whole person had become as stone-like with almost no emotion. Even when the topic of "burying oneself" was mentioned just now, he looked calm.
"If you were killing enemies every day, watching the brothers around you fall every day, patrolling one cruising point after another every day, and not even daring to let go of the handle of the knife when eating or sleeping, you would have changed. Not now. When I was restless, I just thought about how to kill more enemies and how to lead my group of brothers to survive longer."
In fact, Wu Kai doesn't even know how long he can live. Maybe he won't be able to come back next time he goes out.
However, Wu Kai had no fear or fear in his heart. Just like what he told Shen Hao just now, he didn't have much time to think about anything else. He only thought about how to survive and kill the enemy. die? Thousands of people died outside, but no one could avoid dying if they didn't want to.
"Is the barbarian army pressing over?"
Wu Kai shook his head when he heard this: "Not yet. But there are indeed a lot of soldiers stationed opposite Jianchuan. There are people from all ethnic groups. Our mixed army has sent sentries to touch it before, and they came back and said that the sword There are almost more than 80,000 barbarians gathered in front of Jianchuan. There are many people, but they are still close to breaking through Jianchuan's current defense.
The main thing is consumption. When it comes to equipment, the Barbarians are far behind us. They almost didn't even have bows and crossbows, so they all fought close to hand. Moreover, the leather armor on their bodies is not only thin, but there are no iron mirrors to protect key positions, and there will be very few battle formations. If their natural strength and size were not higher than that of our human race, we would have to replace three of them.
Not to mention supplies. Although we are also in difficulty, the barbarians are even more difficult. Now it depends on who can afford it. "
The smile disappeared from Shen Hao's face. From Wu Kai's plain words, he could hear the cruelty of the battle situation, and it had even reached the point of fighting over "who can afford to die."
"Then when will you take turns to repair?"
"It's almost here. There were 20,000 people when we arrived. We have been fighting fiercely these days. According to the calculations based on the deaths of my brothers, we can last up to five days, and then we have to repair it."
Wu Kai did not say the specific number of casualties in repairs, because the military order of "50% can be repaired" really left him speechless. Every time he thought of him, it felt like a stick in his throat. However, Cheng Jinhou's formation in the upper military camp was also so disciplined and cruel. Wu Kai no longer had any intention of losing his temper.
After a moment of silence, Shen Hao asked again: "How long do you think Jianchuan side can withstand it? Can we rely on the surrounding fortifications to kill the barbarians on the opposite side?" He said this in a low voice, and Shen Hao did not shy away from it. Now he is serious I want to hear Wu Kai, a veteran general in the army, think about the war.
Wu Kai took a deep breath, looked around, and looked at Shen Hao for a while before replying: "It seems that you, the chore manager, are concerned about a lot of things. Whether you can withstand it or not, I can't say. Even if General Cheng says so, it doesn’t count. It depends on the strength of support from Wuhu and whether the temple can withstand the long-term casualties."
"What if I could?"
"If it could, the barbarians would probably be dragged down because of their war potential, and finally the whole army would be used to suppress them and completely wipe out the tribe."
"What if the support from above is not enough or the company cannot bear the losses?"
"Then we will be defeated. Not only will the line from Jianchuan to Huzhuyuan collapse, but Wuhu will not be able to hold it either. We can only retreat to Zhuohuo Pass and give back the ancestral land of the barbarians."
