Chapter 1477
The Decisive Battle, the Enemy's Mercy
Chapter 1477 The Decisive Battle, the Enemy's Mercy
Bei Qi De Kui from the north was the first to step forward, kneel down, and solemnly perform a salute towards the Eastern Desert. With tears in his eyes, he cried out, "Bei Qi De Kui from the north is willing to be loyal to the gods and help them achieve their great cause of destroying Wei! The Eastern Desert will surely prevail!"
He turned to the Eastern Desert soldiers trapped in the formation and said, "My heroes, I know you are unwilling, but things have come to this. Only if you and I go to see the gods in advance can we preserve the strength of the Eastern Desert and allow the Eastern Desert to continue its great cause of destroying Wei!"
"Don't ask if there are gods. That's not important now. What's important is that, as people of the Eastern Desert, we must protect the Eastern Desert's military strength, even if the price is the destruction of ourselves!"
"Beiqi Dekui, don't say anything disrespectful to the gods!" Xiqin Erqin was incredibly lucky; he was sent to Mianfushan for plague prevention because he was too close to the poisoning site, which saved him from this calamity.
Also escaping this calamity were Dong Mangfu and his fake father and son, who were accused of destroying Wei.
Instead, it was Xiyan and Beiqi Dekui, who took over their supervision of the capital city's situation after the poisoning, who suffered the consequences and were trapped in the "suspected contact with infected soldiers, who must be dealt with in advance".
I'm so unlucky and miserable, and there's nowhere to complain!
"Guards, hold down Xiqin Erqin and give him ten lashes in public!" The Rong royal family, fearing Bei Qide Kui and the others' counterattack before their deaths, had been keeping a close eye on the situation. Upon hearing Xiqin Erqin's words, they wished they could skin this fool alive.
Unfortunately, Dongmo has lost too many capable generals and cannot afford further losses. Even if Xiqin Erqin is an idiot, they still have to use him for the time being.
No wonder Xiduo and Xiyan both have the idea of becoming the king of the west. It's because Xiqinerqin is too useless. Everyone who sees him wants to kill him and take the throne for themselves!
With a series of clattering sounds, the divine messenger immediately spurred his horse and relayed the order to the leading messenger.
Xiqin Erqin was immediately surrounded by a group of divine messengers who held up divine messenger flags and said, "The Western King should know the consequences of betraying the gods in public!"
"Damn you bunch of charlatans' ancestors!" Xiqin Erqin cursed inwardly, but he still dismounted, took off his armor and clothes, exposing his back, and knelt down: "I have misspoke and am willing to accept divine punishment."
"Hahaha, God is indeed fair. The Molten Royal Family truly deserves to be the divinely appointed war supervisors. They will never let the heroes of the Eastern Desert feel disheartened!" Bei Qi De Kui laughed and shouted these words.
It worked very well. Most of the Eastern Desert soldiers, who were unwilling to be burned to death, lost their resentment and shouted, "Well done! God is merciful and fair! Thank you, Rong Royal Family!!"
The deafening roar showed just how deep the resentment of these Eastern Desert soldiers was. The enemy's royal family member and the old poison master's trusted disciple, the chief physician, were extremely relieved. They exchanged glances: it was fortunate that they had taken Xiqin Erqin as the scapegoat; otherwise, these Eastern Desert soldiers would have definitely caused a huge disturbance before they were burned to death, creating a lot of trouble for them.
"By order of the divine messenger, inform the entire army of Xiqin Erqin's accusation against Beiqi Dekui and the divine punishment he received. Make all the soldiers of the Eastern Desert understand that it is an honor for heroes suspected of being infected to go to see the gods in advance. Anyone who dares to object will have all the merits of the war and the land gained from the conquest of Wei given to the families of the infected heroes!"
"Yes!" The supervising soldiers immediately relayed this message throughout the enemy ranks.
Upon hearing this, the suspected infected soldiers from the Eastern Desert, trapped and waiting to die, both cried and laughed, but they had lost the will to fight back before they died.
They are doomed to die. As long as the Eastern Desert acknowledges their sacrifices and gives their deaths a high value, then let them die.
especially……
Thump thump thump!
"Something's wrong! The group of Western soldiers closest to the poisoning site has been dispatched. They have high fevers, chills, and lumps on their necks!"
This rumor spread like wildfire, from one "waiting to die" circle to another, terrifying all the soldiers of the Eastern Desert to the point of death.
Those Eastern Desert soldiers who had witnessed the horrific scenes of the Firefly Plague and seen severely infected soldiers being dismembered and sent to the capital of the Grain Wei clamored, "Quickly give us poison! We'll take it and go see the gods! I don't want to get sick, I don't want to be slaughtered!"
The enemy also cares a lot about what will happen after they die; otherwise, the deception of the "Air God" wouldn't have been able to spread in the Eastern Desert.
"Quickly, quickly have the divine messenger's oversight team set fire to us and burn us to death!"
"Please, merciful Crown Prince, perform a divine burial for us!"
Tsk, mercy?
If your charlatan prince were merciful, would he have issued such an order to burn soldiers suspected of being infected? Oh well, this is the price of your superstition.
When Xiqin Erqin was beaten until his skin was torn and bleeding, the Rong royal family also learned of the Eastern Desert soldiers' request.
He solemnly performed a salute to the gods and said, "This war envoy hereby issues the order to fulfill the wishes of the heroes suspected of being infected with the virus."
The enemy commander was also afraid that the plague would spread and greatly reduce the enemy's military strength, so he quickly finished the performance and immediately gave the order.
Thump thump thump, thump thump thump!
"Divine decree: Send the suspected infected heroes of the Eastern Desert on their way!" He shouted, and they all performed a divine ritual, giving the fools who were about to be burned a grand honor.
Senior officers such as Bei Qide Kui and west Yan gritted their teeth and endured it, thus preventing a major incident before their deaths.
"Send the miraculous medicine to the officers!"
Swoosh, swoosh, swoosh, packets of poison were thrown into the circles of people waiting to die, but poison was precious, and the charlatan grandfather and grandson were reluctant to waste their best poison on a group of people who were about to die.
So the charlatan family was involved in the fraud.
After giving them a dozen or so packets of real poison as a token gesture, the rest were all sedatives, and inferior ones at that, not even enough to completely knock them unconscious. They would only leave them weak and unable to pick up a weapon to fight back.
Because of shoddy workmanship, Beiqi Dekui, Xiyan, and more than 26,800 enemy soldiers who were infected, had contact with infected soldiers, or were suspected of being infected or had contact with infected soldiers suffered greatly.
After the medicine is administered and takes effect...
"Send pine resin cupping jars to send the heroes on their way!"
Whoosh whoosh whoosh!
Boom boom boom boom boom!
Whoosh! The pine resin jar, burning at the mouth of the pot, fell to the ground, spilling pine resin. The fire ignited everything and everyone that came into contact with the pine resin.
The enemy soldiers, though weak in the limbs but still quite lucid, cried out as they were burned: "...Ahhhhh, it hurts! Stop! Put out the fire!"
The agonizing screams of nearly 30,000 enemy soldiers could be heard all the way to the east city tower... Luckily it was daytime; if it were night, we would have had to ask Old Man Xun to drive them away.
Unable to bear the screams, the Eastern Desert soldiers, trapped in a circle waiting to die, unleashed a flurry of arrows at the burning soldiers.
"Stop! No more shooting! These large arrows are military supplies; they can't be wasted. We need to save them to kill the grain-producing Wei!"
"I know you feel sorry for these heroes, but their fate is all the fault of the bastard Liang Wei. If you feel sorry for the heroes, then save your big arrows and go kill Liang Wei!"
???
No, the plague was created by you, and you were infected by your own people. What does it have to do with the Great Wei?
You're going to blame everything on everyone, huh?!
"Are we just going to listen to this?"
"In short, military resources must not be wasted; they must be used to destroy Wei!"
The enemy troops had no choice but to stop shooting arrows at the burning Eastern Desert soldiers and had to listen to their agonizing screams. Because there were many death circles and the order of burning varied, the enemy troops listened to the screams for half an hour!
Even if it wasn't a massive enemy force, some people couldn't withstand it and fainted; several hundred people fainted.
The enemy commander was rather monstrous. Not only did he not faint, but he also pinched himself from time to time to keep himself awake. Listening to the screams, he said, "Remember the screams of these heroes, and when we break through the capital of Liangwei, we will make those bastards of Liangwei pay a thousandfold!"
"Remember the heroes' screams, and make Liang Wei pay ten thousandfold!" The divine messenger's supervising soldiers and the nearby Eastern Desert soldiers shouted repeatedly.