Yuan Shu’s military camp was a solemn landscape.

"Why did so many people freeze to death?!"

Yuan Shu was very annoyed when he looked at the preliminary statistics on the number of people who died of freezing: "Why did it suddenly turn cold last night? Why did it snow heavily today!"

"Your Majesty, the people who have frozen to death are not enough to affect the overall situation, but there are too many people who have frozen disease. Last night to this morning, it suddenly turned cold and it was snowing heavily. Many soldiers were wearing single clothes and had no items to keep the cold, so it was difficult to curb the freezing disease."

Sima Suijun reported the matter with a worried face: "Your Majesty, the number of people with freezing disease is far higher than the number of people who have frozen to death. If the person who has frozen to death is dug a hole and buried it, what should he do if the person who has frozen to death...?"

Yuan Shu frowned and looked at the generals.

"Tell me what to do."

Yuan Shu was very skillful in turning the blame on his subordinates.

My subordinates looked at me and I looked at you, and then looked at the new general Lu Mian together.

Lu Mian didn't know how many alpacas were flying past in his heart, so he had to endure this complicated feeling and speak slowly.

"Your Majesty, as I see, the most important thing I need to do now is to immediately send someone to maintain order and not let the military camp be in chaos because there are too many people who have frozen to death and freezing sick. Second, send someone to immediately send someone to take elite troops to war on Guo Zhe's army. If Guo Zhe wants to start a war at this time, something big will be wrong."

Yuan Shu glared at her eyes and suddenly felt that Lu Mian was right.

"What you said makes sense. Send the order and do it!"

"yes!"

There are soldiers who are sent to convey Yuan Shu's orders.

Then Qiao Rui stood up and made a comment to Yuan Shu.

"Your Majesty, the person who has frozen to death is irreversible. The freezing disease... Shu Mo will say frankly, it is irreversible at all. There is a shortage of doctors and medicine in the army. Once you get sick, you will still be freezing. If you have a high fever, you will almost die. If you cannot treat it, it is better..."

"What's worse?"

Looking at Qiao Rui's embarrassed expression, Yuan Shu immediately asked a question.

"It's better to... for those who are helpless, it's better to peel off all the clothes on them and let the soldiers who have not yet developed the disease put them on to keep the cold."

Qiao Rui pursed her lips and decided to make such an opinion for the sake of the situation.

The civil servants and generals around looked at Qiao Rui, and their faces were surprised. Shaoqing was also in deep thought.

In just one night, the number of people who have frozen to death will not cause the army to collapse. If all the clothes on their bodies can be taken down, it can at least ensure that the core elites will not be frozen to death and that they can protect more people from being frozen to death.

At this cost, we will give up all the people who are frozen to death and freezing.

Yuan Shu was stunned for a long time.

Even if he didn't take these humble big-headed soldiers seriously, he would inevitably hesitate if he had to make such a great sacrifice in one breath and affect his own battle situation.

None of the subordinates dared to say anything more, and could only wait for Yuan Shu's final decision.

There is no doubt that Yuan Shu’s choice is without doubt.

He first scolded Guo Peng.

"If Guo Thief Betrayed, how could my army have today!!"

Yuan Shu looked inexplicably sad and angry: "I pretended to surrender to me and obey me, but now I betray me! This is all the harm of Guo thief! The people who harmed Guo thief were living in poverty and starved everywhere! The soldiers who harmed Guo thief were short of food and clothing, and died of starvation! They were all the harmed Guo thief!"

The subordinates were immediately shocked by Yuan Shu.

This ability to turn the blame is really awesome!

After scolding Guo Peng, Yuan Shu began to blame God again.

"God brings good fortune to me and gives me a jade seal, why not give me victory?! Heavy snow falls from the sky to block our army. Is this God's will? Is God's treatment of the emperor like this?"

The subordinates were even more surprised.

Yuan Shu is really worthy of being Yuan Shu. Not only do he criticize Guo Peng, but he also dares to confront God. He is the only one in heaven and earth. This ability is really unusual.

After striking the sky and the earth, Yuan Shu shed tears and waved his hand and ordered his subordinates: "The person who is frozen to death and freezing and freezing records his name and origin. When I win, his family can be exempted from a year's tax to comfort their spirits in heaven."

The subordinates knew that Yuan Shu would use the lives of these frozen soldiers to fight for the final victory.

Reduce the number of troops and increase the average ownership rate of cold-proof clothes to increase the combat effectiveness of the army.

Very perfect idea.

Although it is not so satisfactory to implement.

It's okay if you die, no one cares.

But when the soldiers were shocked to see their seriously ill and weak comrades snatched their clothes and bedding and thrown outside with bare feet.

Someone wanted to stop him, but was kicked to the ground, and then threatened by elite soldiers wearing thick clothes.

"Do you want to die?"

"He is not dead! He just needs medicinal materials!"

"The medicinal materials are all from the above people. Do you still want medicinal materials? He can't survive! Get out of the way! Otherwise, he will die together!"

Such a brief conversation ends.

They were frightened by the sword of elite soldiers and did not dare to move, for fear of being killed.

So they could only look at their familiar fellow villagers with a very sad look and then thrown them out after being taken away from their clothes in the cold wind, and then freeze to death.

Although he is sick and still has a coma, he is still alive after all, right?

He was abandoned outside the military camp and frozen to death.

It was cold outside and it was snowing heavily. The wind blew on the body and it hurt like a knife cutting meat on the body.

So those people died.

Those who survived were organized, digging holes together, and buried all the frozen people, just as if this was not the case.

Later, the surviving people learned that their emperor had sent orders to use the clothes of these voluntary warriors to keep the cold of those who were not sick in exchange for the final victory.

The families of dead people can be exempted from one year's tax, that's it.

If they still have family members.

This is the last tenderness that Yuan Shu gave them.

Then, they got clothes from those who had been frozen to death, but they didn't feel warm at all when they draped on them. They just felt that the chill was even more terrible than the cold wind outside, and they were raging in their hearts.

They are not soldiers, but just people who have lost their freedom by being swept in by war.

I am hungry and thin, and I can't even eat a full meal.

Born in the midst of hunger and cold, survive in the midst of hunger and cold, die in the midst of hunger and cold.

They either die of hunger, or severe cold, or accidents, or died of battlefields.

Life is simple, death is easy.

In the eyes of people like Yuan Shu, they are just a string of numbers, a string of numbers that they don’t know themselves, and a string of numbers that make up their heads.

They themselves did not want to join the army, they did not know what war they were going to participate in, they did not know what purpose they were participating in the war, and they did not know why the big men who led them forced them to enlist in the army.

Receive a weapon and go to the battlefield, and then die at no time.

Sometimes they envy the elite guards around the big guys, envy them for their warm clothes, full food, and rewards from time to time.

They will also envy those elite troops. Although they are not as good as the elite guards, they are also elites. They can eat enough and wear warm clothes, and have a higher status than them.

Even those war horses were envious, because war horses would never starve and would eat food without forage. They ate more food than people and were better than people.

So occasionally, someone dreams.

"I will be a horse in the next life."

A young young man who had just lost his fellow countryman said to the old man beside him, looking at a horse led by an elite knight in front of him.

"Is it not good to be a human being? Why do you need to be a horse?"

The old man trembling with coldness showed a wrinkled smile on his wrinkled face.

"What's the best thing about being a human being? It's not enough to eat, don't wear warm clothes, and can't pay the rent. Look how good these horses are? Some people take care of them, some wash their bodies, and some prepare food and drinks. We don't have to eat, but some of them eat, and a horse eats more than five or six of us."

The young man's face was full of envy and yearning: "I'm so old and I don't know what it feels like to eat too much. My father told me that he had eaten too much once. I asked him what it felt like, and he said he forgot."

The old man laughed a few times.

Then the young man approached the old man and whispered: "I also heard that when the stallion arrives, someone will lead him to find a mare to match that. I don't remember it anymore. Anyway, I don't have to bother with the gods at all, nor do I need money. It's not like us, we have to eat or wear or not, and we have no money to ask a wife to warm up the bed."

"Didn't your parents ask you for a wife?"

The old man leaned against the young man and asked softly.

"When my father married my mother, I spent all the money at home. When it was my turn to ask for my wife, my father turned white. When my father went up the mountain to chop wood, he fell to death. Then he fell ill and died of illness not long after. I just dug the pit and buried my mother, so I caught him."

The young man wiped his eyes: "If you don't be a human being in your next life, just be a horse. It's great to be a horse. As long as you carry people and run, you can eat enough. I also want to be like them, just carry people and eat enough. That's great."

The old man leaned on the young man's shoulder and sighed, not knowing whether he was sighing at the young man or himself.

"How great would it be if I could eat my stomach when I ran with someone on my back?"

"Unlike us, we dig it out every day, and we are so tired that we can't straighten our waists and can't eat enough."

"Being a horse is better than being a human being, what do you think?"

The young man turned his head and looked at the old man leaning against him, his eyes closed and his words were silent. He asked a few times, but the old man didn't say anything.

The old man didn't speak any more.

Two soldiers in armor came over, tried the old man's breath, and then took off the old man's clothes and threw them to the young man.

A soldier looked at the young man with pity.

"Put it on, I can live longer. I am lucky and I may survive until the war is over. Then there will be no taxes for three years, which is a good day."

Seeing the old man being carried away naked, the young man didn't move.

After the old man was transported away, the young man wrapped his clothes on his body, and then continued to shrink here, trembling while watching the snow numbly.

It's so cold.
Chapter completed!