No matter how fierce the siege battle was during the day, once the battle ended at dusk in the evening, both sides abided by the battlefield rules and allowed both sides to collect the corpses without any precautions.
According to the rules of cannibalism, after death, a person must be carried to the mosque for cleansing, wrapped in white cloth with scriptures written on it, and put into a coffin.
The coffins for men and women are different.
The head of the male coffin must protrude upward, while the head of the female coffin must protrude upward.
No, after death, the body cannot be kept at home for a long time.
It must be carried to the cemetery for burial on the same day, and the head of the body must face the direction of Mecca.
The funeral concept of Egypt's cannibals is very different from that of cannibals in other places.
Egypt's cannibals are influenced by ancient Egyptian culture.
Rich religious people have a family tomb and build a tomb for the deceased that is similar to theirs.
A cemetery with the same living environment as before death, so a city of the dead gradually formed on the outskirts of Cairo.
There is a war going on all four walls of Cairo now.
There are not even 10,000 but several thousand people dying every day.
With the death rate so high, it is naturally impossible to carry out funerals as usual.
The city is such a big place and it is impossible to put all the people there.
All corpses are buried, and the corpses can only be gathered together for cremation.
Regardless of any nation or country in the world, funerals during wars are simple.
The same is true for the Western Qin army outside the city.
They fight during the day, collect corpses in the evening, and cremate them at night.
It only takes less than a day for each living person to turn into a handful of ashes.
It is a pity that life is so fragile under the destruction of violence.
On the tenth day of June, the siege battle quickly progressed to the tenth day.
These ten days were so long and difficult for both the big cannibals defending the city and the Western Qin army attacking the city.
Every minute Every second is like a year, and countless previous and next seconds can lead to the feeling of going from birth to death, and this experience is not once or twice, but countless times, so after such a war is over, even if you are ignorant An ignorant young man will also change his temperament.
In the afternoon, Zhao Ziliang, who was riding on horseback, turned to look at the sun that would set on the horizon in an hour or so, and asked: "Master Dugu, how many men and horses have we lost in total in the past few days?"
Dugu Wensu cupped his hands and replied: "Your Majesty, the prisoner army has lost 6,500 people, the assassin army has lost 9,700 people, the black slaves have lost 32,000 people, and our army has lost a total of 48,000 people.
"Multiple people" There was no expression on Zhao Ziliang's face, but he was more majestic than usual.
"How can we estimate the casualties of the cannibals guarding the city?"
"I organized officials to conduct observations and estimate that if their total military strength includes the 50,000 men over the age of 15 who were forcibly recruited, their casualties should have exceeded half."
Dugujun stood up at this time and cupped his hands and said: "Your Majesty, the other armies have sent a total of more than 60,000 black slaves.
Now more than half of them have been lost.
Not only the morale of the black slaves has dropped rapidly, but also the slaves and prisoners The morale of the army has also declined, and I suggest that we should not continue to attack like this."
Zhao Ziliang looked in the direction of the city wall, the light in his eyes flashing, "Chen Qing, how many troops are there who have not participated in the siege?"
Chen Qing cupped his fists and said: "Back to Your Majesty, according to the siege plan that has been formulated, the armies will be attacked in a mixed rotation.
Currently, there are still 6,000 prisoners in the prison army, 5,000 in the assassin army, and 12,000 in black slaves.
No one has ever taken part in a siege.”
Zhao Ziliang immediately ordered: "In the next three days, all these people must be arranged to take turns to attack the city.
If we want to eliminate the bad and keep the elite, we must eliminate the weak and the unlucky.
After three days, those who can survive The people have completed their first tempering, and they can be considered worthy of being used today.
Let the war end here.
As usual, the bodies of those who bravely killed more than 30 enemies will be specially collected and handed over to the Taoist Master Wu Lingzi to save the dead souls.
The kingdom cannot treat such brave people badly.
They should enjoy special treatment and honor after their death."
Wu Lingzi, who was also riding behind Zhao Ziliang, smiled and bowed his hand to Chen Qing: "I'm sorry to bother you, General Chen."
Chen Qing disliked this very weird Taoist priest Wu Lingzi, so he didn't give him a good look and just nodded: "Yeah."
"It's getting late.
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Let's end today's battle here.
Send the order to withdraw the troops and return to the camp.
We will fight again tomorrow."
After Zhao Ziliang said this, he pulled the reins, turned around, and trotted away towards the camp.
Chen Qing ordered the messenger: "Your Majesty decrees that the entire army withdraws and returns to camp."
In the name of the herald, the messenger banged the big gong with a thick wooden mallet, "Dang, Dang, Dang" Hearing the sound of gold ringing, the soldiers of the Western Qin Dynasty began to retreat like a tide.
Those who were still fighting on the city wall immediately jumped on the ladder and slid down the ladder.
Some of the soldiers under the city wall had already begun to turn around and retreat, and the rest were waiting for the city wall.
After everyone on board came down, they carried the siege equipment and ran away.
When some soldiers retreated, every two soldiers carried away a corpse.
If the weather were not too hot and the temperature was too high, Zhao Ziliang would have wanted to let the corpses pile up under the city wall and rely on the corpses to rush up the city wall to break through the city wall defense.
However, this was unrealistic in this weather.
The corpses would stink if left there for two days. , maybe they will be infected with the plague, and it will be impossible to escape unscathed with these people, let alone the battle.
After dinner, Zhao Ziliang led a group of guards out of the camp and brought them to the Pyramid of Khufu on the west bank of the Nile River.
At this time, there were already many Western Qin soldiers standing guard outside the pyramid holding torches.
Zhao Ziliang was led by Wu Lingzi to the entrance.
Wu Lingzi turned sideways and pointed to the entrance and said: "Your Majesty, the corpses are stored under this minaret.
Your Majesty, please follow me."
This was Zhao Ziliang's first time to come to the Pyramid of Khufu.
He had never been there in his previous life.
He didn't know what the original internal space of the pyramid was like, but now he walked in and walked through a long passage to a huge internal space, which was in the shape of a spiral.
A shaped passage leads all the way to the top of the pyramid.
Taking a torch, Zhao Ziliang discovered that this space should have been dug out.
In order to prevent the pyramid from collapsing, the dug out parts were measured and the excavated stones had already been dug out.
Transport away.
In the space under the pyramid, the corpses of many Western Qin soldiers who died in battle have been stored in rows.
Moreover, these Western Qin soldiers who died in battle were all extremely brave warriors who killed more than 30 enemies.
The bodies will be transported here only later.
At this time, these bodies have died.
The corpses all still wore helmets and armors, with sabers hanging on their waists, and some even carried bows and arrows on their backs.
After being treated in a special way, their entire bodies were coated with a thin layer of cement ash and gravel.
Now the cement ash on these corpses has dried.
They look like terracotta warriors and horses.
Wu Lingzi introduced: "Your Majesty, there are a total of seven hundred and twenty-eight corpse soldiers here.
Of course, they cannot be called corpse soldiers.
They have not absorbed the Yin Qi to form corpse Qi.
Pindao has already filled each of them.
He carved a formation, cast a spell, and poured special corpse-raising water all over his body, then wrapped himself in linen and put on battle armor. and war knives, and finally smear them with cement ash and seal them in a cement ash shell, which can not only prevent the corpses from decaying, but also allow them to slowly absorb the underground Yin Qi, but they will eventually be transported to His Majesty's mausoleum Yes, it is only a temporary settlement here.
It will be transported there when His Majesty’s mausoleum is almost completed.”
"In two days, Pindao will personally go to the desert in the west to find a place where a mausoleum can be built.
Pindao has arranged for his apprentices to be here.
As long as qualified corpses are brought over, they will be processed immediately.
Your Majesty, please rest assured."
Zhao Ziliang asked: "Is there anything special about this pyramid?"
"The special thing" Wu Lingzi was stunned, then shook his head and said: "No, this king named Khufu is just a mortal after all.
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He has the power to drive the people to build such a magnificent building, but he cannot drive the Taoist monks.
But other I don’t know if there is something special in the pyramid or other kings’ tombs.”
"Have you visited the mausoleum to see if the remains are still there?"
Wu Lingzi shook his head and said: "No, there are no remains in the sarcophagus in the king's tomb.
You must know that after the death of the king, the dynasty has not yet been destroyed.
Even if someone is angry with him, they cannot enter the heavily guarded tower.
In the dynasty, After his demise, those who hated him would have died long ago.
Who else would be bored enough to steal his remains?
As far as Pindao knows, thieves Tomb thieves will not do this.
Finally, other unrelated people or rulers of the past dynasties will not do this.
Instead, they will protect the tombs of the kings of previous dynasties, because they will die too, and no one wants their own tombs.
Being disturbed and damaged, rulers of all dynasties hated tomb robbing and damaging tombs.
Once caught, they would be severely punished."
Zhao Ziliang nodded, suddenly remembered something, and asked: "Where are those people being held?"
"Your Majesty, please follow me," Wu Lingzi said and walked along the diagonally upward passage.
Zhao Ziliang and some personal guards followed, and after passing through two slope passages, they came to the entrance of a wide slope corridor.
Instead of entering the entrance of the wide slope corridor, they followed Wu Lingzi into the horizontal passage to a tomb chamber.
"Pindao estimates that this should be the queen's tomb, and those people are imprisoned here," Wu Lingzi introduced to Zhao Ziliang at the entrance to the tomb.
There were two rows of guards standing at the door, a total of eight people, all of them were fully armed and full of murderous intent.
When they saw Zhao Ziliang approaching, they immediately bowed down on one knee with their spears in hand.
Zhao Ziliang followed Wu Lingzi as he approached the tomb, and saw dozens of people of different ages, appearances, and costumes imprisoned here.
Each of their bones had been penetrated by special iron chains with inscriptions.
Locked, with no way to escape, except for one of them In addition, there are seven or eight Taoist monks sitting cross-legged opposite them, meditating and practicing.
The duty of these monks and Taoists with cultivation skills is to guard these Egyptian priests and food imams who preside over affairs and ceremonies in the mosque, and follow the monks.
Taoist priests have similar identities.
Zhao Ziliang looked at it and asked: "Are they all here?
How are the guards?
Is it possible for them to escape?"
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