Chapter 61 The Scaled People Are So Great? Guards, drag them out and execute them!

"Report!"

"Your Majesty, something terrible has happened! The barbarians have boiled and eaten one of our centurions!"

Ouyang Fang was in excruciating pain when she heard the news and almost fell to the ground.

Just what I feared most has come to pass!

The situation in the rebel camp had become extremely complicated.

Several mutineers smashed their bowls of porridge to pieces, shouting:

"What is this food? It's just watery soup, how the hell can this fill you up?"

"I risked my life for you guys, and this is what I get in return for? This stuff that's as bland as water?"

At this moment, each of the rebels had a small bowl filled with wild vegetable soup.

You might not be full even if you ate five bowls of this, let alone the layer of clear water with a few vegetable leaves floating on top and a few pieces of chopped tree roots.

More and more mutineers smashed bowls and stood up to demand an explanation.

Meanwhile, in another corner of the camp.

The tall, burly barbarians were drinking meat broth, while a human skeleton was simmering in the pot...

The rebel soldiers looked down on the barbarians, and when the barbarians ran out of food, they rioted. So a centurion whipped the rioting barbarians a few times.

Unexpectedly, the barbarians rebelled! They seized the centurion and threw him into a large pot to be boiled into soup.

A large number of rebel soldiers arrived to execute several barbarians. The barbarians banded together to resist, and the two sides immediately clashed, leaving dozens of corpses on the ground...

That night, chaos turned into conflict, until finally it became utter turmoil.

The rebel army split into three factions during the internal strife. One faction consisted mainly of barbarians who were rampant and tyrannical, and even resorted to cannibalism. Another faction chose to remain loyal to Ouyang Fang, while the third faction was already considering surrendering and felt terrified at the sight of the barbarians.

After learning all this, Liu Fu summoned back all the rats who were scouting information in the rebel camp, leaving only the treasure-hunting rat to continue gathering information.

After all, rats are considered meat by the rebels now, and they don't want to end up eating them all!

Five days passed quickly.

For Liu Fu's Han army, each day consisted of training, basking in the sun, and having a hearty meal before the day was over.

But these rebels are suffering every moment!

The deputy leaders were unable to control the morale of the troops. The Dongshan barbarians were the most numerous and had now firmly surpassed the other two factions, eating thousands of people every day.

They killed a large number of rebel soldiers to feed themselves, and after five days, the number of rebel soldiers in the Central Plains had been reduced by more than half.

After discussing it, the deputy leaders decided to use Ouyang Fang, who was already seriously injured, as a scapegoat.

"Brothers of Dongshan, it's all our commander's fault for his poor command, which has led to such heavy losses. If we want to survive, we must unite against our common enemy!"

"I propose that we kill Commander Ouyang Fang as a sacrifice. It was this bastard who caused the army's rations to run out, leaving us without food. If we kill him, we can make one last breakout."

"As long as we can break through the Han army's encirclement and escape, we'll have women and gold and silver to our heart's content. We'll eat delicacies every day! Brothers, let's charge!"

broken!

"Am I the culprit?"

Ouyang Fang never expected to die such a humiliating death, not on the battlefield, but killed by her own people.

After death, they will be made into meat soup in the barbarian's pot, and finally turn into excrement and be excreted from the barbarian's intestines...

"Alas, our army is doomed!"

Before his death, Ouyang Fang closed his eyes tightly, tears streaming down his face. It is unknown whether he regretted his rebellion at that moment, or what he was thinking in his final moments.

After a hearty meal and the execution of Ouyang Fang to appease the troops, the barbarian soldiers led the breakout!

This is the rebels' last chance to survive; if they escape, they will be saved!

But Liu Fu had prepared a large number of barricades in advance, just in preparation for this day.

Over the past few days, the Han army has been steadily shrinking the encirclement, and now it has become a continuous encirclement.

The four armies occupied the high ground on all sides, and used a large number of barricades as a buffer zone. The barbarians were tall and strong, with heights ranging from 1.8 to 2.12 meters.

But when they rushed forward, they were blocked by the barricades fifty paces away and could not get through at all.

On the contrary, their tall and strong physique made them easy targets. The Han army unleashed a barrage of arrows, quickly turning them into pincushions, leaving behind a large number of corpses...

"Retreat! Retreat!"

The rebels made four attempts to break out from the east, south, west, and north, resulting in over 10,000 deaths from gunfire.

After a major defeat, morale plummeted, and Liu Fu ordered the encirclement to be pushed forward another ten miles.

The grass and roots were all gone, and the tree bark and roots were about to be consumed as well. In addition, the barbarians were feeding on the rebels from the Central Plains. Under this heavy pressure, a large number of rebels finally began to desert and secretly come to surrender.

"Your Highness, another five hundred rebel soldiers have come to surrender."

Zhou Zhenguo came running excitedly to deliver the good news, and Liu Fu instructed him:

“Tattoo these traitors’ faces, put them in shackles, and give them some food.”

In just two days, more than 9,000 rebel soldiers from the Central Plains surrendered, along with more than 7,000 soldiers from the Linren Kingdom.

Like the Japanese, the Linren Kingdom constantly harassed, burned, killed, and looted along the borders of the Later Han Dynasty, treating them like enemies.

Without saying a word, Liu Fu tattooed words on the faces of all the armored soldiers and put shackles on them.

Zhao Kang, the garrison commander of Beijun, stepped forward and advised:

"Your Highness, although our Han Dynasty is currently experiencing some minor friction with the Scaled People's Kingdom, it hasn't reached the point of open hostility. Should we take care of these surrendered soldiers from the Scaled People's Kingdom for now, negotiate with them, and then deal with them?"

"If we send them to build the Great Wall, and the Scaled People Kingdom comes to the Han Dynasty to ask His Majesty for their return, there will be a lot of trouble."

Liu Fu glanced at Zhao Kang; the man was too smooth and lacked backbone.

This is why he preferred to use Zhou Zhenguo rather than Zhao Kang.

Liu Fu's words were direct, and Zhao Kang blushed as he was reprimanded:

"The Scaled People have sent troops to help the rebels overthrow our Han Dynasty. They insult and disgust you on your own land, and you don't even dare to fight back and beat them up? Don't you have any backbone as a general?"

At Liu Fu's insistence, Zhou Zhenguo personally tattooed words on the faces of the armored soldiers.

"By the way, bring a few scaled people over to take a look. Everyone says that these guys are impervious to swords and spears, fire and water, all thanks to the scale armor they wear."

"Strip me of a few pieces of scale armor and let me see them."

Soon, several scaly people were brought before Liu Fu.

Upon closer inspection, Liu Fu discovered that these scaly people were not as strong as the Han people, and were even a bit thinner.

But he was wearing a dazzling silver armor.

After someone tested it, sure enough, these scales were impervious to blades, spears, and fire.

"Judging from the material, it seems to be made from the scales of some kind of large fish using a secret method."

Liu Fu was very pleased and gave the order:

"Men, strip these fish-scale armors off these scaly people and leave them for our Han army's elite to wear."

Upon hearing that Liu Fu wanted to strip the scales of the scaled people, one of the generals objected:

"The Scaled People's Kingdom and the Later Han Dynasty have never interfered with each other. You have for no reason stripped us of our scales and captured our people. If His Majesty the Emperor finds out, he will raise an army to punish the Later Han Dynasty. Eighth Prince, can you bear the consequences?"

This tiny country dares to threaten me?

Liu Fu gave a cold laugh:

"How can I not afford to offend someone? Today, I, the prince, will show you what I'm capable of.

"Guards, drag this scaly general out and execute him!"