Chapter 184 Battle of Liyang - Part 14 (1/2)

Chapter 184 – Battle of Liyang - Part 14

The face of Zhu Jun turned red from anger. Desecrating the dead was a taboo that the native of this country despised. He coughed as he had a headache at the back of his head. He took a deep breath to calm down.

”I'll go and see it myself.”

”M-My Lord, you should not!” One of the lieutenants jumped in front of Zhu Jun to stop him.

”Why are you stopping me?”

”M-My Lord, the corpses … are rotting. You will get sick again! Please remain here!”

The heads that Tong had his men threw over already emitted a rotting smell. These heads had been left alone for many days outside of Liyang City after the soldiers gathered them onto wagons and carts. Maggots and flies swarmed them like they were the feast.

Moreover, the southwest wind blew the odor of the decaying corpses toward Zhu Jun's men who stationed at further south, bringing germs and bacterias with by the air.

Zhu Jun subordinates were worried about this matter as they had enough basic knowledge to realize that the rebels were using a worm tactic. They wanted the Imperial Army to get sick!

Seeing the hysterical reaction of his men, Zhu Jun did not go against it.

”I see what those rebels are trying to do. Gather and burn all the corpses. Make sure that we boil our water supplies before we distribute them to our men.”

After Zhu Jun declared that he would not go to the frontline, his subordinates were relieved. They returned to their platoons.

Even though Zhu Jun promised that he would not exert himself, he did not stop thinking about how he could cross the river. He exhaled out cold air from his lung from the desperation.

He saw the vapor of his breath. New inspiration struck him.

'If I fight using my logic, I will probably fail again since the enemies did not use logic, but sorcery.'

'Since it has come to this, we'll hit them with brute force! It's a dangerous gamble, but we have the number advantage. Let's see how you'll fare against my trained soldiers!'

'I'll force you to camp out here with us! If we suffer from the winter, you will suffer, too!'

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Tong watched the reaction of the other side with a deep frown. He used the immoral practice in this war, the bio-weapon of germs and dead bodies, to taunt Zhu Jun and make his men sick. He was expecting Zhu Jun to appear on the frontline again, so he could tempt Zhu Jun into making a rash move so that Tong could wither down the Imperial force more.

However, Zhu Jun did not show up. His men collected the rotten heads and burnt them as if nothing had happened.

'Is it bad timing? Is Zhu Jun always immune to taunts?'

He looked back at the trebuchets. Tong had ordered everyone to burn the pouches, wagons, and the carts that used in this operation as germs and bacteria gathered on these items.

The soldiers also finished constructing spike barricades along the river. They set up catapults and ballistae behind the fences to shoot down any boat or raft that got into their range.

Because of the massive scale of this battle, the defensive shoreline was over a kilometer long. All 50,000 soldiers stationed on the first frontline without exception.

”Sir, they've burned all the corpses. What should we do?”

Xu Huang, who was transferred over as Tong's coordinate messenger, asked with worry. Aside from the prolonged war tactic, he did not understand what Tong tried to do.

Tong gave him a bitter smile and answered, ”We defense the shoreline. Nothing else.”

In reality, Tong also did not know what he should do next as Zhu Jun did not make any move. That general only had his men gathered woods to build ships, rafts, and other wooden crafts.

'Is he making a bridge or something? Why is he taking his time?'

'At this rate, he will suffer from the winter soon.'

'Heck, we'll also suffer from it. We're still on the shoreline like Zhu Jun!'

'Are they aiming for this?'

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October 16th. Noon.

Zhu Jun did not make a move today as well. The Imperial army continued to craft more rafts and wooden shields.

The temperature outside dropped down to 10 degrees Celsius. Within Liyang County, the average temperature last month was 15 degrees to 20 degrees, which was warmer than the current weather condition.

Tong was expecting the temperature to decrease further in November. It should reach somewhere between 0 to 5 degrees at this location as the global warming effect had never happened here in this world. It would get worse in December to late January, as the last year, Tong and Hua Shi measured that it was minus 10 degrees around Julu during the months.

Tong spent today's quota of his [Create Food] to create more hot oils. However, he did not plan to use it on Zhu Jun's men. He saved them for his men to keep themselves warm.

He poured it onto several small stones and rocks around the camp to make them natural heaters for his men. Tong relieved the cold weather problems for his men for now as the ”Cold War” between Zhu Jun and Tong continued.

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