Chapter 496 Internal suspicion

When Salman finally stabilizes the morale of his soldiers and then finds the Zhou cavalry who attacked his camp, where there is no trace of others?

Thousands of cavalry have all run back to Huaian City, with the gates closed and the suspension bridge hanging high.

What made Salman even more annoyed was that even the Zhou army that sneaked into the original camp escaped in the chaos and disappeared.

Surrounded by many followers, Salman came to the bombed platform.

The platform, which was originally a hundred meters long, four meters wide and three meters high, has now become a ruin.

Stones, soil chips, and strong smoke from gunpowder were scattered everywhere, filled with the pungent smell of gunpowder.

Salman frowned, and looked around the ruins. What kind of power can have such a powerful destructive power?

What secret weapons did the Zhou people master?

Why didn't I get any information?

Salman couldn't figure it out.

The generals of the Xifan Army who followed him looked ugly one by the other.

Someone said carefully: "Commander, is this... really Aliman coming to the world?"

Salman glared at the general with a gloomy face and said, "There is no Aliman here, only the Zhou people have mastered weapons that we don't know yet!"

As they were talking, a soldier ran over quickly and stroked Salman's chest and said, "Mr. Commander, all the fires in the camp have been put out!"

Salman nodded and asked, "How is the loss?"

"Thousands of camp tents were burned down, and four of the granaries in the camp were burned down!"

When Salman heard this, he frowned.

The destruction of the camp will have little impact.

The key is damage to the granary, which is a major event that concerns the life and death of the entire army.

He said in a deep voice: "Let's go back to the camp and have a look!"

Because of the timely fire extinguishing, although several granaries of the Xifan Army were ignited by the Zhou army, most of the granaries that caught fire had been extinguished.

There are only four granaries, because the fire is too big and cannot be rescued.

But even so, the food and grass of the Xifan Army were burned down by about 30%.

Looking at the granary burned to the charred and smoke-burning granary, Salman's face was as dark as the bottom of a pot and his fists were clenched tightly.

Tonight was a heavy loss for the Xifan Army.

The corpse pit that was built with great effort was burned.

The key is to hoard the corpses that have already grown up in it, and together with the hundreds of thousands of mice caught, they are destroyed.

This directly led to the failure of the Xifan Army's plan to use the plague to break up Huaian City.

In addition, 30% of the food and grass were destroyed, which was also a heavy blow to the Xifan Army.

In the next period of time, the Xifan Army will face the problem of insufficient food and grass.

There is more than a month left before the next food and grass supply replenishment.

During this month, the soldiers of the Xifan Army could only tighten their clothes and eat, and they had to go from three meals a day to two meals a day.

Salman could have imagined that once such a command is conveyed, it will inevitably arouse the soldiers' dissatisfaction with them.

What’s bad is that the Zhou people also implemented the strategy of strengthening the walls and clearing the fields in Qinzhou.

Although the Xifan Army has successively captured nine counties including Tanggu, Zechuan, Gudao, Xinkou, and Daonan, totaling dozens of cities, without exception, all cities are empty cities.

There is no food inside, no food, no people, and no one, which is worthless to the Xifan Army.

In the villages around the city, the Xifan Army also could not find people or food.

Even the crops that had not yet grown ripe in the fields were all damaged by the Zhou people when they evacuated.

Although the Xifan Army had captured nine counties in a row, it seemed that the battle results were quite good, but the actual spoils seized were extremely limited.

Salman returned to the central army tent with a serious heart, frowned and could not help.

All the generals also know the difficulties they are facing now.

When fighting in deep into the enemy country, the best situation is to fight quickly and advance to the imperial capital with thunder and capture it in one fell swoop.

Now, not only are they dragged in Huaian City, but their food and grass are also seriously damaged. What should I do?

The Imam bowed to Salman and said, "Sir, the plan to break the city with a plague will no longer be implemented in a short period of time."

The plan of the Xifan Army to use the plague to break through Huaian City was from this Imam.

Salman remained silent.

The other generals threw dissatisfied eyes at the Imam.

In order to create a plague, hundreds of soldiers on their side were infected and died of unlawful deaths.

In the end, nothing happened. Wouldn't the soldiers all sacrificed in vain?

A general said coldly: "At the beginning, the commander shouldn't have believed Imam's words!"

While speaking, he glared at Imam fiercely.

Imam said seriously: "It's not that my idea cannot break through Huaian City, but that he was destroyed by the Zhou people when he was about to succeed!"

Speaking of this, he looked around everyone present and said meaningfully: "The Zhou people didn't come early or late. But when they were about to complete their achievements, they suddenly arrived and destroyed the corpse pit. This... isn't that a coincidence?"

The general who was speaking just now narrowed his eyes and asked sternly: "Imam, what do you mean?

Are you suspicious that someone among us has reported to the Zhou people?”

"Isn't there?"

He didn't believe that the Zhou people happened to attack Yuandaying.

The Zhou people brought so much tincture oil, so they obviously came prepared, and their goals were clear, just for the corpse pit in the Yuandaying.

But how did Zhou Ren know about this?

Our side has already blocked the news.

If everything is a coincidence, he will not believe it if he beats him to death.

The general was about to speak, and Imam turned his eyes and looked at another general, saying with some meaning: "General Hamid, what do you think?"

Following his voice, everyone present looked at the general with a gaze.

This general is nearly forty years old. Compared with the generals of the Xifan Army around him, he has dark skin, his facial features are not as deep as others, and his appearance is obviously different from those around him.

He frowned, clenched his fists, suppressed his anger, and asked, "Imam, are you suspicious of me?"

"No! General Hamid, don't get me wrong. I just want General Hamid to think about whether there are any suspicious people!"

Hamid took a few deep breaths, snorted heavily, and said, "I don't know!"

He is different from the Ethan people present.

To be precise, he was not a Xuefan at all, but a Saro native who was conquered by the Xuefan people.

In order to conquer the Zhou Kingdom, the people of the Xifan requisitioned as many as 200,000 people in the Saro Kingdom.

And Hamid is the leader of these 200,000 Saro people.

Logically speaking, they are all their own people standing on the same boat.

But the people of Xifan did not treat the Saro people equally.

In the Xifan army, the Saro people were not much higher than those of slaves.

Take the construction of a corpse pit in Yuandaying for example. The people who worked hard to dig the pit were the Saro people, the people who caught mice everywhere, and the people who finally took the risk of guarding Yuandaying were mostly the Saro people.

Hamid was already dissatisfied with the discrimination of the Espanyol people, and now, the Imam pointed his finger at him, believing that he had betrayed the intelligence to the Zhou people. The anger and resentment that had been buried in Hamid's heart was on the verge of an outbreak.
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