After entering Huayin County, the smell of blood filled the air on both sides of the post road.
Looking further into the distance, there seemed to be pillars of smoke rising into the sky.
"What a sin..." Wu Qian didn't know how many times he had collected corpses.
His military career seemed to always be spent between collecting corpses and cleaning battlefields.
Dozens of corpses lay scattered in front of the manor, most of them fell to the ground with arrows in the front.
The masters silently stepped forward and loaded the corpse onto a mule cart, preparing to take it far away to dig a pit and bury it.
After entering the manor, there was a strong smell of blood.
Wu Qian sniffed and looked in one direction.
A middle-aged man who had been dead for a long time was tied to a tree. Judging from his age and attire, he seemed to be the owner of this manor.
Several naked female corpses lay at the man's feet.
The corpse was beyond recognition, and it seemed that the thief had destroyed and insulted it after he had vented his anger.
One of the corpses appeared to be that of a middle-aged woman, with her lower body in a mess. Before she died, she reached out to the man and crawled on the ground for a while before finally dying.
Wu Qian pointed out that a master found some straw mats, wrapped the bodies together, and prepared to bury them in a pit.
"Boom..." came the sound of horse hoofbeats.
After a while, several people entered. After seeing the bloody scene in the courtyard, they were stunned for a moment, then cursed "bad luck" and hurried out.
A small report sounded outside the hospital.
Soon, a scholar in brocade robes came out. After seeing the situation in the courtyard, he frowned. He glanced at Wu Qian and others again, and said sternly: "Take care of yourself. Don't talk too much. I'll live."
Resentment. The Xianbei cavalry was hired by Sikong with huge sums of money. They are capable of breaking through and making countless meritorious deeds. It’s nothing to be a little petty. I don’t want to hear any gossip, otherwise I will definitely kill you."
"No." Wu Qian and others responded one after another.
"Wear sacrificial wine." After the brocade-robed scholar went out, Shi Yangteng, the chief of the Sima Yong shogunate, immediately came forward and said with a smile: "The small place is rough and unsightly, so let's go to Huayin City to rest for a night."
"That's fine." Dai Yuan smiled and said, "Yang Changshi has made great achievements this time, and Sikong will definitely be rewarded heavily."
Yang Teng felt happy in his heart and immediately said: "It is better to rely on Sikong Huwei, otherwise it would not be so easy to win. Dai Jiejiu appeases the people on the battlefield and makes them surrender, but the credit is much greater."
Dai Yuan laughed heartily.
Yang Teng is a well-informed person and I can make many friends in the future.
After the Xianbei cavalry defeated Peng Sui and Diao Mo, they pursued all the way to Huayin.
The people guarding this place are old generals from Hebei such as Qianxiu and Shi Chao. Because they are firmly entrenched in the city, the Xianbei cavalry cannot easily break it.
At the critical moment, Shi Yangteng, the governor of Yong Mansion, arrived in person, pretended to be Yong's order, and ordered Qianxiu and others to retreat, and then sent people to capture and kill Qianxiu. The thieves then collapsed, and the Xianbei cavalry took the opportunity to rush in, killing and injuring most of the more than 10,000 troops.
Dai Yuan personally came forward to recruit more than 4,000 remaining soldiers.
The remaining soldiers were frightened and surrendered.
Dai Yuan ordered the left guard general He Lun to send a few troops to escort these surrendered troops to Guandong and hand them over to Sikong for disposal - they must not be allowed to stay in Guanzhong. Surrendering and revolting is nothing new.
While the two were talking, they came to the big post road.
The last group of Xianbei people who stayed in Huayin are breaking camp and setting off for Zheng County.
Before leaving, there were screams in the camp.
Several women stumbled out and were quickly hit by sharp arrows in their vests and fell to the ground.
Dai Yuan looked at it, Wei Wei couldn't bear it, but it was just "Wei Wei".
His talents are quite good, otherwise he would not have been sent by Sima Yue to accompany the army to supervise him.
But precisely because of his good talent, he knows what is the most important thing now.
Defeating Sima Yong and wiping out the last enemy is more important than anything else. Before that, avoid unnecessary complications.
It's a small price to pay and totally bearable.
Yes, it's a small price to pay.
Although the Xianbei people were greedy and violent, civilians accounted for the majority of the people in Guanzhong who caused harm. There were occasionally a few manor owners, but they were also powerful and their family names were not obvious.
If you don't take care of these things, you won't damage your reputation, let alone go into the history books.
A hundred years later, he will still have a good reputation and will even be respected as a famous minister.
The only thing that needs to be considered is that the Xianbei people cannot go too far in Chang'an and do whatever they want elsewhere.
But he was also a little worried. After entering Chang'an, would the Xianbei people really be obedient?
He was not sure, and even wanted to deliberately slow down his trip and not go to Chang'an.
Anyway, after the invasion of Chang'an, Sima Yong was probably defeated. Whether he went to Chang'an or not was not a big problem.
Afterwards, just go over and clean up the mess, pay your respects, and appease people. Maybe you can even get praise from others.
Thinking of this, he changed his smile and said: "I heard that Huayin has quite good scenery. I want to stay here for a few days. I wonder if Yang Changshi..."
"If you are so happy to offer wine, your servant will definitely accompany you." Yang Teng said immediately.
The two looked at each other, laughed, and walked arm in arm.
****
The Imperial Guard's left guard arrived in Zheng County three days later.
I met several Wubao manors along the way. Some were willing to offer money and food, while others looked at them angrily.
Shao Xun understood their behavior very well. In fact, he was also very angry.
Xianbei thieves, just grab food, why bother killing people?
Shao Xun never thought that he was a good person, and he was sometimes very perverted, but for many years he had always adhered to one thing: don't harm the people.
The more power you have, the more damage you can cause.
Whatever negative emotions you have accumulated, you can just vent them on your own wives and concubines, and you can have more children. Why should the people whose lives are already difficult be deprived of the right to live?
"Did you see them all?" Shao Xun looked at the burning village and the well filled with corpses, and said: "If you are not strong, you will be ravaged by others. If the Xianbei people attack Yunzhongwu and Yushanwu, you
What will happen to my wife and children? Not to mention the Xianbei people, what will be the consequences if any refugee commander breaks our Wubao?"
"On the other hand, if you are not strong yourself, you have to ask outsiders to help you fight. But have you seen the virtues of outsiders? They are no different from Zhang Fang."
"What if we win such a battle? People's hearts have been lost and there will be repeated battles in the future."
"Everyone, whether soldiers or wives, helped to clean up the ruins and bury the corpses. When a person dies, he must be buried. Be more alert in the next life. You are going to die anyway, so it is better to fight with the Xianbei people."
"No!" the generals responded one after another.
Soon, not only the Silver Spear Army, the Long Sword Army, but also various buildings of the Forbidden Army took action.
Everyone looked solemn and silent.
It is true that the so-called rabbit dies and the fox is sad.
Although there is no national consciousness in this meeting, there is still a distinction between Chinese and Yi. A place like Guanzhong has always been the orthodox core area of ​​the Central Plains dynasty. What does it mean that the Xianbei people came over and burned, killed and looted wantonly?
It is true that if their commander-in-chief didn't care, although these Forbidden Army soldiers couldn't bear it in their hearts, they wouldn't say anything more. In troubled times, where can there not be such tragedies?
But didn't Shao Xun clearly point it out? Under his influence, the emotions of the silver spears, long swords, and soldiers in the Forbidden Army camps were slowly guided, and their anger began to accumulate.
Even the soldiers from other Zuo Wei battalions who were passing by were a little commotion after seeing him.
Miao Yuan, who was also the general in the palace, even came over specially. After some inquiries, he was a little bit surprised that Shao Xun was making a fuss, and at the same time he was a little annoyed.
What did the Xianbei people do in Yuzhou? Shao Xun withdrew first and didn't see it. But he followed Zuowei General He Lun to meet Sikong and saw more or less.
It's better than the tragedy in Guanzhong, but not much better.
After Miao Yuan left with a long sigh, when he was setting up camp in the evening, Mi Huang and He Lun came again.
Mi Huang hadn't spoken yet, but He Lun knew Shao Xun's temperament very well and said hurriedly: "Little Langjun, please don't act recklessly."
Shao Xun glanced at him and calibrated his bow.
"I'm serious." He Lun said anxiously: "The Xianbei cavalry comes and goes like the wind. If you can't catch them, don't be impulsive."
"General He's words are incredible." Shao Xun said: "Even Wang Jun, the governor of Youzhou, would try to stop the Xianbei people when they learned that they were robbing women and returning home. Just watch.
Do nothing?"
"Our army is mostly infantry, what should we do?" He Lun said helplessly: "Furthermore, if you attack Xianbei, Qi Hong, Liu Kun will not give up, Wang Jun will be annoyed with you, and Sikong will be even more furious. He is an old man.
If you break your trust with Wang Jun and Xianbei, how can you recruit people to fight in the future?"
"That's Sikong, what Wang Jun should be worried about has nothing to do with me." Shao Xun said nonchalantly: "A big shot, don't you have any responsibility at all?"
As soon as these words came out, He Lun was speechless, but Mi Huang's brows knitted together tightly.
Shao Xun's words were unpleasant and even a bit unruly, similar to Zhang Fang's domineering spirit.
But what he said before was right. The Xianbei cavalry invaded Yecheng, burned, killed and looted. Many people died. Before leaving, they even took away a large number of women from Yecheng. As the commander-in-chief of the army, Wang Jun dared to say: "Anyone who dares to
"Behead those who kidnap him", although in the end the Xianbei people did not give him face, and would rather sink eight thousand women into the river and drown them than let them go home.
Now that the old habits of the Xianbei people have happened again, don't you even dare to stop it? Do you dare to say the word "behead" like Wang Jun did?
There was a fierce debate in Mi Huang's mind.
On one side is the suffering of the common people, on the other side is the great cause of Sikong. The two seem to be in opposition.
If Sikong succeeds, the people will die.
"In the past, when the Luoyang Central Army was still alive, during the Battle of Jianchun Gate, thousands of light and heavy cavalry charged directly at the bandits. Xianbei, Wuhuan, and the Xiongnu were all overwhelmed. What should we fear?" Shao Xun calibrated his bow and fired it again.
One sentence.
"You also know that the Chinese army was still there at that time." He Lun glanced at Shao Xun helplessly and said: "Now those people in the Xiaoqi Army may not be willing to listen to my command. They may also want to grab a piece of it."
"Then don't rely on them, let's fight on our own." Shao Xun said.
"How do you fight? Isn't this going to kill you?"
"What if I can do something?"
"You have some tricks up your sleeve!" Even though He Lun was afraid of Shao Xun, he couldn't help but curse.
"That's enough!" Mi Huang looked at Shao Xun and said, "Don't act rashly. I will send people to Qi Hong's camp first to enforce strict military discipline."
"Captain, it's better to let Hua Jijiu or King Runan handle this matter. They are sent by Sikong to supervise the armies. This is their duty. Why should they come forward personally?" Shao Xun gave a suggestion.
Mi Huang glared at him.
This young man is becoming more and more sharp. Although he was brave in the past, he still obeyed the rules. Since the Xuchang Arsenal case last year, he has become more and more unruly. I wonder where he got the confidence?
Mi Huang felt that he should save him to avoid further conflicts with Sikong, which would eventually get out of hand.
With his best friend on one side and his lord on the other, Mi Huang didn't want to see anything happen to either of them.
It is best to be in harmony, and the king and his ministers get along well with each other.
"I will send people to invite Hua Ji and King Runan right now." Mi Huang said, "You will reorganize your troops and continue marching tomorrow."
"No." Shao Xun and He Lun responded.
Chapter completed!