One Thousand Three Hundred and Eighty-Nine: Nansheng, the Autumn of Troubled Times (15)

"Although the Nanman is cruel, it is not worthless." Lu Zheng said displeasedly, "The lord's military strength is not dominant among the princes. If we can tame these captives and let them charge for the lord, that will be a big help. Even They are not willing to be used by the lord, and these strong and strong barbarians are also a rare labor force, quarrying stones and paving roads, reclaiming wasteland...all of these require manpower."

In troubled times, it doesn't mean that you can dominate the world if you can fight, but you also need to build and manage. It is not the right way to use military force.

Indiscriminate killing of prisoners is even worse.

Unless it is a special situation, such as our army lacks food and grass and has to kill prisoners, otherwise the prisoners are usually used as cheap labor to squeeze the surplus value. Arrange them to do whatever physical work is heavy, and exchange the cheapest investment for the richest return.

Not to mention killing all the prisoners, the result is that the future enemy will fight to the death and not surrender. Anyway, surrender is death, it is better to fight to the end.

Besides inspiring the enemy to fight to the death, is there any other meaning?

"There is no need for you to teach these principles." [Ge Lin] After hearing this, a cold smile appeared on the corner of his lips, "You are from Dongqing, and the northern army was strangled by Liu Xi before raging everywhere, of course you can't empathize... Nansheng people, who doesn't hate the Nanman bandits? The Nanman bandits are the greatest disrespect to the dead! Let alone killing 50,000 captives today, even if it is 500,000 captives, they will still not be lenient. Your father and son were not killed by the Nanman bandits. You chopped off your head and hung it on a horse to show off your power. Your mother and wife have not been abused and ridiculed by the Southern barbarians in turn. You have never experienced this, how can you know the hatred of subjugation and family destruction?"

[Green] These remarks can be regarded as humiliating, and even Lu Zheng couldn't help but get angry.

"Huayuan!" He shouted angrily.

[Green] sarcastically said, "It's just a few words, and you get angry..."

Lu Zheng didn't notice that there was a faint killing intent in the opponent's eyes.

Before he could make a move, Yang Tao yelled at Lu Zheng from afar, and [Ge Lin] gave Lu Zheng a unwilling look.

In a daze, [Green] went offline in seconds, and the main character was pushed out.

Yang Tao looked at Hua Yuan's leaving back, frowned and said, "Mr. Lu should pay more attention."

Lu Zheng didn't understand, so he asked, "What does Mr. Zhengze mean?"

Yang Tao said, "Just now, that person wanted to kill you, if I hadn't yelled, I'm afraid it would be..."

Naturally, he didn't say that to sow discord.

Yang Tao is bold and righteous, he has many things, but he has too little heart.

Lu Zheng narrowed his pupils and said hesitantly, "After all, he is a colleague, how dare he kill people blatantly?"

Yang Tao said, "It's hard to say, that Hua Yuan feels a bit weird, as if he suddenly changed into a different person."

According to his understanding, Hua Yuan is a standard literati, and he is not good at riding and shooting. Where does he have a murderous look?

That kind of murderous aura can only be possessed by warriors who have been on the battlefield for several years.

Lu Zheng didn't mention Hua Yuan's insanity, but he also became vigilant, after all, the behavior of a lunatic cannot be measured by common sense.

This great victory became a watershed in the battle between the Allied Forces against the Barbarians and the four tribes of the Southern Barbarians.

The former became stronger as they fought, while the latter gradually retreated.

Every time they failed, thousands of young and strong men from the four tribes of the Southern Man were captured, and all of them died without exception.

As the war entered a fierce stage, what Lu Zheng was most worried about happened.

Because of the attitude of the Allied forces towards the captives, it inspired the determination of the four southern barbarians to fight to the death.

As a large number of young and strong died in battle, barbarian women and young children also went to the front line, which actually stopped the Allied forces.

Even so, the allied princes still went their own way and insisted on adopting the decision to kill all the prisoners.

Yang Tao objected intentionally, but more than half of his people were from Nansheng, and as the lord, he could not ignore their opinions.

In just two months, nearly 150,000 Nanman prisoners were killed.

In the blink of an eye, summer is here.

The vicious sun made the Allied soldiers suffer a lot, but the four tribes of the Nanman, who were originally weak, became more and more courageous as they fought.

The balance that was originally tilted towards the Allied Forces gradually tilted towards the four tribes of the Nanban.

Yan Lin is not optimistic about the current situation.

"Based on this situation, if the Allied forces continue to go their own way, they will inevitably usher in a counterattack from the four tribes of the Nanban—"

Yang Tao looked solemn, "It's hard to say... the casualties of the Allied forces have increased sharply in these few battles, which is extremely detrimental to our army."

The combat style of the Nanman Four Divisions was already brutal, but now with the buff bonus of "seeing death as home", the combat power soared.

This created a very embarrassing situation - the four tribes of the Nanban, who were severely injured, were even more difficult to deal with than before.

Sometimes Yang Tao couldn't figure it out, what was the allied army trying to do?

Killing all the Nanman captives to avenge the people of Nansheng ended up filling in more innocent lives.

The bad luck of the Allies did not stop there. After a thunderstorm, some soldiers developed symptoms such as headaches, nausea, nausea, and diarrhea. At first, the military doctors thought it was a small number of soldiers who were not acclimatized. As the days passed, more and more soldiers fell ill, and some soldiers even died of diarrhea. Only then did everyone realize that something was wrong, but the disease has spread, and many people have been hit trick……

As a last resort, the sick soldiers could only be gathered in one place to take care of them. As a result, their condition did not improve at all, and soldiers died of illness every day.

No one knows where the source of the epidemic is!

No, one person might know.

Hua Yuan leaned against the tent to escape the heat, her icy eyes seemed to have been quenched with poison, and even the temperature of the surrounding air was lower than other places.

If Lu Zheng were here, he would know that this colleague had gone mad again.

That's right, the personality that is online now is the "elder brother" of the deity Hua Yuan, the guy who cheated Huang Song of millions of grains.

"Sir, the students have finished reading."

In Huayuan's tent, besides himself, there is also An Jing's heir, the justifiable young master.

The young man looked at Hua Yuan with a bit of hesitation in his eyes, "Sir, there is something unclear about the student..."

Hua Yuan looked at him from the corner of his eye and asked, "What is it?"

"In the past few days, the epidemic has been rampant in the camp. Do the students think that the epidemic is related to the drinking water of the Allied forces?" The young man hesitated, "It is not only our army that has a large-scale epidemic. Symptoms of..."

If it weren't for this, the four Nanban tribes would have taken advantage of the weakened combat power of the allied forces to counterattack.

"Why do you think so?" Hua Yuan asked.

"Previously, the students followed my husband to Dongqing Lanting Gong to discuss an alliance." The boy said, "The students found that the drinking water in the other camp was boiled before drinking, and the food was cooked in hot water before eating. The wounded barracks The water used to clean soldiers’ wounds was also repeatedly boiled... A student once asked curiously, and the other party said that this was a rule made by Lord Lanting. Because there are dark things in the water, although they are invisible to the naked eye, they are harmful to the human body. Once the dark Drugs enter the human body through the population, which can easily cause plague..."

Hua Yuan let out an oh, noncommittal.