Three Kingdoms: Ten Times Speed, Diao Chan Says I'm Too Fast

Under the cover of night, a temporary shed was erected at a corner of the city wall near the east and west sides of Yunwu City.

A strong, pungent smell of blood emanated from it.

You can smell it even before you get close.

Torches were placed around the wooden shed, and several huge bonfires were burning inside.

One by one, diviners holding withered grass were waving their hands and feet around the seriously wounded soldier lying on the wooden plank.

Inside and outside the shed, several doctors and apprentices were busy at work.

The ground, washed with basins of blood, was stained a dark reddish-black.

A low-lying area next to the shed formed a pool of water that looked like a blood pool.

The agonizing cries could be heard clearly from a great distance.

When the patrolling soldiers reached this spot, they couldn't bear to stop or even look at it.

Because maybe tomorrow they will be lying here, wailing in pain just like these people.

The five patrolmen, led by their squad leader, had just passed by the wooden shed when they saw a group of people walking in their direction.

"Who is it, stop!"

The sergeant shouted loudly in alarm.

In the lead-up to war, a curfew was imposed in the city, and after nightfall, no civilian was allowed to leave their homes or walk on the streets.

The firelight illuminated a powerful red warhorse that came into the corporal's view.

Upon seeing the Crimson Dragon Cloud-Treading Beast, the sergeant immediately straightened his body and looked at Duan Yu, who was riding the horse, with reverence.

"General, this humble servant did not know you were the General..."

Duan Yu waved his hand from horseback, then dismounted.

Tie Shitou and his personal guards followed behind Duan Yu as he dismounted.

"It's alright." Duan Yu smiled slightly at the squad leader and said, "Being loyal to your duty is what you should do."

Encouraged by Duan Yu's words, the sergeant's whole body trembled slightly with excitement.

Upon hearing that Duan Yu had arrived, several doctors who were busy in the shed came out and bowed to him.

"I didn't know the general had come here so late at night..."

One of the older doctors bowed and asked.

Duan Yu landed in the wooden shed behind the old man: "I've come to check on the wounded."

"How badly are these people injured?" Duan Yu asked.

The elderly doctor took a deep breath, then shook his head with a heavy expression and said, "The injuries are too severe. My medical skills are insufficient to save them. I beg the general to punish me."

"I don't blame you." Duan Yu lifted his foot and walked towards the wooden shed.

The closer you get, the stronger the smell of blood becomes.

With the soldiers lying on the wooden planks, suffering all sorts of injuries, the shed looked like a hellish hell.

Several diviners continued to wave the withered grass and copper bells in their hands, chanting some unknown rhythm.

Hearing the wails coming from inside the shed and seeing the miserable scene before him, Duan Yu frowned.

Just as Duan Yu had taken two steps into the shed...

Suddenly I felt my feet stop.

Looking down, he saw that a seriously wounded soldier had reached out and grabbed Duan Yu's combat boots.

The soldiers' armor was soaked in blood.

The flesh on one thigh was rolled up as if it had been sliced ​​open by a sharp blade, revealing the pale bone underneath.

"General...General, please give me a quick death, General."

The soldier tugged at Duan Yu's boots and pleaded, "General, it hurts too much, I can't take it anymore. I'm not going to live anyway, so please just give me a quick death."

Behind Duan Yu, Tie Shitou and the others who had followed him in suddenly stopped.

Duan Yu looked down at the soldiers.

He then bent down and knelt beside the soldier, taking the bloodstained hand in his own.

The soldier gritted his teeth, his face trembling slightly from the pain, and his eyes were misty with tears.

Like this soldier's situation.

Basically, all we can do is wait to die.

It's a little better now because it's autumn. If it were summer... the wound would only be more terrible.

It might already be smelly and attracting mosquitoes and flies.

"What's your name? Do you have anyone else at home?" Duan Yu asked after squatting down.

The soldier nodded and said, "General, my name is Hu Liu, I... I have a newlywed wife at home..."

When he spoke of his wife, a longing for life appeared in Hu Liu's eyes.

However, in just a moment, this longing was suppressed by cruel reality and reason.

This wasn't Hu Liu's first time joining the army.

The reason he's still alive with injuries like these is because he's still inside the city.

If this had happened during a march, he would probably have been abandoned by the roadside, left to be eaten by wild animals and left to fend for himself.

This is not cruel.

Rather, everyone would do it.

Inside the shed, at this moment, all the wounded soldiers, all those who could still open their eyes and hear, turned their gaze to Duan Yu.

Those eyes were filled with hope for life.

It also contains a sense of despair towards the mundane world.

Tie Shitou, Wang Hunu, the doctor outside the shed, and even the patrolling squad leader were all watching Duan Yu.

Duan Yu gently shook his head in response to the soldier's request.

"General...kill me, please, General, I don't want to just wait to die like this..."

Duan Yu continued to shake his head, but his hand remained firmly gripping Hu Liu's pleading hand.

"I'm sorry, I can't promise you."

Duan Yu shook his head and said.

A look of despair immediately appeared in Hu Liu's eyes.

Then, the next second, Duan Yu continued, "Because that's not fair to your newlywed wife!"

"As I said during the day, as long as there is still an inch of Han soil under my feet, I will retreat step by step."

"As long as there is even one civilian behind me, I will not retreat an inch!"

"Now."

"I have something else to tell you."

Duan Yu looked at Hu Liu, whose eyes were filled with tears, and said, "As long as you have a breath left, I will not abandon you!"

Even if you become crippled and unable to move in the future, I will still not abandon you!

"Because you have made sacrifices for Liangzhou."

"You are all soldiers under my command!"

"As long as they are my soldiers, Duan Yu's men, there is no reason for them to wait to die!"

"If we're going to die, we can only die on the battlefield!"

Duan Yu released Hu Liu's hand and then stretched out his arms.

"Stone, disarm!"

Tie Shitou immediately stepped forward and, together with Wang Hunu, helped Duan Yu remove the heavy armor from his body.

Hu Liu, along with the wounded soldiers lying on the wooden planks inside the shed, all stared at Duan Yu, wondering what he was going to do.

After removing his armor, Duan Yu was only wearing a black robe with a jade belt around his waist.

"Find needles and thread. Also, inform Guo Xian and all the prominent families in the city to bring all the clean, unused plain silk fabrics and cloths they own here."

"Be fast!"

The doctor didn't know what Duan Yu was going to do, but he could only do as Duan Yu instructed.

Before long, the needle and thread were found.

"Heat the needle red-hot over a fire, boil the thread in hot water, and then thread the needle and give it to me."

Duan Yu squatted down next to Hu Liu's injured thigh and casually took the needle and thread.

"Xiao Liu, I think that's how your family should address you."

Duan Yu said this as he bent down and used scissors to cut off the tattered pants from Hu Liu's legs.

Hu Liu pursed his lips and nodded.

"You are the pillar of our family."

"They are their parents' pride."

"He is your wife's support."

"He will also be a role model for your future children."

"Dying is easy, because once you're dead, you don't have to take on any problems."

"But have you ever thought about how heartbroken your parents would be if they lost their son, or your wife would be if she lost her husband?"

As Duan Yu spoke, he held a wooden stick about the thickness of a finger to Hu Liu's mouth and said, "Bite down. It might hurt a little, but you have to bear it."

"Because you are your parents' pride, your wife's support, and a role model for your future children."

"They are still warriors under my command, Duan Yu!"

"Don't worry, I've said it before, I will not abandon any of my soldiers."

"I am now commanding you, as a general, that you must live!"

Holding a needle and thread, Duan Yu began to stitch up Hu Liu's wound, one stitch at a time.

The excruciating pain caused Hu Liu to bite down hard on the wooden stick in his mouth, his teeth sinking deep into it.

His clenched fists were trembling slightly.

The shed was unusually quiet.

Everyone was watching Duan Yu, who was squatting beside Hu Liu under the torchlight, stitching up Hu Liu's wounds one stitch at a time.

"Don't worry, as long as you live, even if you are crippled, you still have me behind you, and Liangzhou is still here. No one can break the hearts of the soldiers under my command who fought for Liangzhou."

"No one!"

Hearing Duan Yu's resolute tone, the heavily wounded soldiers in the shed had a renewed hope for life in their eyes.