So when Zhang Chong led his army back to Wei City, he only saw soldiers cleaning the battlefield, and prisoners were led away with ropes from time to time.
When Zhang Chong and his troops first appeared, they caused a commotion among Yang Mao and other generals. When Meng Ju reported back, it was Qu Kuai's troops who returned, and everyone came over.
After that, Zhang Chong listened to Yang Mao's military report on the battle in detail. Hearing that they took the initiative to annihilate the enemy troops entrenched in Wei City, Zhang Chong was relieved.
This was the first time that Taishan generals took the initiative to seize the opportunity to annihilate the enemy without him in the formation. From this point of view, this Yang Mao can be trained as a commander in the future.
In addition, in this battle, Guan Yu has already demonstrated his ability to be a powerful general in China in the future. From first ascending to the Jinshi Wall, to commanding the military method Chang Xi, and finally breaking the formation to kill the general, it is obvious that Guan Yu has rich military experience.
Zhang Chong was surprised, and after asking Guan Yu, he found out that he had served in the army in northern Xinjiang. He was once a military official under the general Tian Yan, and he was also a cavalry official.
Zhang Chong looked at Guan Yu's height of nearly two meters and asked what kind of horse could carry a great man like you. Guan Yu blushed rarely and said:
"Liangzhou's great horse is unparalleled in the world. The former army leader Tian Yan promoted me and specially selected a good horse to charge with me. Unfortunately, he was defeated later and the horse carried him through the encirclement and died of exhaustion."
Zhang Chong stroked Guan Yu's back and comforted him:
"Don't be sad, I will also give you a divine horse in the future."
Guan Yu shouted that he didn't dare, but Zhang Chong didn't say anything. He had already decided in his heart that he must find a group of unparalleled horses so that he could be worthy of the Second Master Guan.
Zhang Chong changed the subject. Since he knew that Guan Yu had entered northern Xinjiang, he asked how Xianbei was doing and what his tactics were.
Guan Yu thought for a while and said:
"Huiqu, Xianbei's fighting method is a typical prairie riding and shooting method. He is good at rushing and exciting, and he is good at riding and shooting. In any battle, he will not engage the enemy, but fight with roaming and shooting. Therefore, in Xianbei's battle, he can escape thousands of miles away if he fails to hit a single blow.
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Although Zhang Chong didn't ask, Guan Yu still explained the Han family's tactics in northern Xinjiang:
"Since Wei Qing, the general of the former dynasty, our Han family has been practicing cavalry with the Han system, and we are accustomed to charging into battle with strong armor and strong armor. Therefore, we use one Han as the five barbarians. We are good at it, with excellent armor and weapons, and we are rigorous in charging into battle. Therefore, my Han family is here
When cavalry fights, they must attack them and save them, or lead a few elite troops to attack thousands of miles and attack their nests."
Zhang Chong understood that the difference in the tactics of Xianbei and Han cavalry caused the former to favor guerrilla tactics, while the latter favored decisive battles. Therefore, the Xianbei would often retreat continuously, taking advantage of the depth of the grasslands to lengthen the Han cavalry front.
Then they turned to flank attack, which was a tactic that took advantage of the mobility of the prairie cavalry.
The Han cavalry also knew their own advantages and disadvantages, so they forced the Xianbei cavalry to fight decisively.
Unlike our understanding of grassland, it seems that there are not many places to live in. In fact, there are not many abundant water and grass in the grassland. If they abandon these high-quality pastures, the livestock will starve to death on a large scale. Therefore, the Han family often attacks these important pastures.
This is to attack it and save it.
Naturally, Zhang Chong asked you why you were so defeated that time you entered the grassland.
Guan Yu sighed and said just one sentence:
"If you don't know the enemy's situation, you will overwhelm the arrogant ones."
Then Guan Yu told them how the battle was lost.
Although there were three generals who went out that time, the main attack was actually the two generals Tian Yan and Xia Yu. These two generals were both powerful generals who came from Xizhou, so their tactical awareness was naturally good. In addition, the soldiers they commanded were also powerful soldiers from Northern Xinjiang.
Many of the soldiers were killed on the Liangzhou battlefield.
But the problem also lies in the experiences of Generals Tian Yan and Xia Yu in Xizhou. They thought that the Qiang and Hu were the same as the Xianbei, and they were all miscellaneous Hus with ill-prepared troops.
But in fact the two are not the same thing at all.
Let’s talk about geography first. Although the Qiang and Hu roamed the vast Western Province, the place where they could live best was actually the Hehuang Valley. Therefore, every time the Han army attacked the Hehuang Valley, they could force the Qiang and Hu to fight decisively.
However, the grassland where Xianbei is located is thousands of miles away. The two generals did not know the geography. They only followed Xianbei's traces all the way and went deep into the grassland. They tried to capture the main force of Xianbei for a decisive battle, but they often failed to work.
Then in terms of organization, the gap between the two is also huge. The Qiang and Hu are essentially a group of miscellaneous Hus who were oppressed by the Han family and rebelled. They mostly combine revenge and survival, and there is no one adult to lead the Hus.
But Xianbei is different. Xianbei has established a royal system since Tanshihuai and divided the entire grassland into three parts. Each part is ruled by a leader. In fact, a certain degree of organization has been formed.
Therefore, when the second general led his troops out of the fortress and went all the way deep into the grassland, without paying attention to the geography, they were attacked halfway by Xianbei, resulting in a huge rout, with seventy-eight of his troops dead.
Having said this, Guan Yu remained silent, thinking of his comrades who died tragically in this war.
At this point, Zhang Chong had a general understanding of the situation in Northern Xinjiang at this time. Then he asked a long-standing question.
"I have always heard that the Xiongnu are our mortal enemies, and then there are frequent wars in this dynasty. How did Xianbei get started?"
Guan Yu really knows this, because he asked his captain that way back then, and he still remembers what the captain said:
"Not long after the founding of this dynasty, the Xiongnu on the grassland resurrected and even invaded the Western Region for a time. However, later this dynasty and the Xiongnu fought one after another. The Xiongnu was first divided into two, with the southern Xiongnu surrendering internally and the northern Xiongnu remaining in the grassland. Until the former general
Dou Xian defeated the Northern Xiongnu, and the remaining troops fled west without a trace. At this point, the Xiongnu no longer had the cost to invade foreign countries.
But unlike what we thought, the grassland has lost its old king, but has a new king. Xianbei, who was originally a vassal of the Xiongnu, took advantage of the emptiness of the grassland to take over the plateau, and successively took over more than 100,000 remaining Xiongnu tribes, and they all called themselves Xianbei.
, and since then Xianbei has begun to rise. It can no longer be cured."
Since then, the captain still lamented:
"It seems that this grassland really does not belong to our Han family. No matter which tribe we eliminate, another tribe will rise tomorrow. I really don't know what it is like to live in a day like this."
Guan Yu also expressed this sigh to Zhang Chong.
Zhang Chong nodded. Of course he knew the essence of farming and grassland culture. He did not say anything more to Guan Yu, but said to him:
"Work hard, and one day these grassland peoples will be good at singing and dancing."
Guan Yu didn't understand what he meant.
Over there, Zhang Chong began to preside over the post-war reconstruction of Jin's Wall.
The first step was to collect the corpses. To be honest, everyone was holding their breath now. When they saw the corpses of the victims of Jinshibi, they were furious.
These were the robes of their brothers, who died with honor in order to defend their hometown, but these dog slaves abandoned their corpses in the ravine for wolf dogs to eat.
With the crowd excited, everyone unanimously wanted to capture all the Dongping Ling soldiers and kill them. Zhang Chong also hated it, but he couldn't be so reckless. These Dongping Ling soldiers were almost followers near Dongping Ling. If they were to kill them all, one would be guilty of injustice.
To kill, and secondly to form a deadly feud with all the people of Dongpingling.
So Zhang Chong began to conduct a public trial on the 800 captured Dongpingling soldiers.
He said in public that anyone who had not touched the Jin family's wall could come forward. As long as no one corrected him, he would be given corn instead of returning home.
Everyone started vying for the lead, and they all said that they had never killed anyone.
Then Zhang Chong invited Lou Zhong, who first ordered those with blood debts.
Lou Zhong named more than 20 people at that time. He knew the murderers who participated in the massacre of Jin's Bi. When these 20 people were pulled out, they all had feces and urine. They knew that they would definitely not survive, but they were not willing to be alone.
He died and began to report to the crowd.
In this way, one string after another, in the end only 230 people were left on the field.
Zhang Chong told them in front of everyone that we are all poor people, and poor people should not kill poor people. Think about it for yourself, who is forcing you to stay away from your relatives and come to this place to kill a group of people like you?
Poor man, who are you working for?
After saying this, Zhang Chong really started to give them millet and allowed them to return home. These people all cried with joy. They kowtowed to Zhang Chong all the way, then carried the grain bags on their backs and ran all the way back home.
For the remaining prisoners who were named, they all had blood debts, or they had insulted women, or they had killed the soldiers who were guarding the fields, and they all had reasons for their crimes.
Some of them may not be worthy of death, but in this case, Zhang Chong has no reason to let them continue to live.
In the end, these soldiers with blood feud were driven out by the surviving vassals and branch disciples of the Jin clan and pushed into large pits. After that, the soil flew up and the people in the pits cried and begged for mercy, but in the end they gradually became silent.
Yes, Zhang Chong finally decided to trap and kill.
Zhang Chong looked at the prisoners who had been trapped and killed, and his heart was twisted. This was Zhang Chong's first time to kill prisoners in a trap. Although these people's hands were stained with the blood of Jin's wall, according to his moral values, these people
If a person has given up the sword and become a prisoner, he must uphold humanitarianism and impose legal sanctions.
But Zhang Chong knew better that the morality he brought from modern times was truly out of date.
In this Han Dynasty that pays attention to blood revenge, he, Zhang Chong, is not only the leader of those who died in the Jin family wall, but also the parents of these people. These people are his children, who believe in his ideals and are willing to follow him. Then he
Zhang Chong has the obligation to avenge these children. This is the ethics of this era.
Zhang Chong knows that some of the morals he brought from modern times need to be adhered to, while others need to be given up and compromised with this era.
I just don’t know if Zhang Chong can really determine what should be insisted on and what should be compromised.
After settling these blood feuds, Zhang Chong began to burn the bones of those Jin family members who died. This was also Zhang Chongjun's old tradition.
Since Sun Xun's death, all the soldiers who died in the Shi's Army have been cremated into bones and then sent to the ancestral hall at Wangzhou Peak to receive incense and offerings.
In the beginning, there was still resistance to this approach in the military, because the view of life and death in this world still remains at the level of being buried in the grave. They believe that the boundary between life and death is not clear-cut, and their life after death will be like that in life.
It's the same as time. So if they die without a complete body, they won't be able to live after death.
Later, Zhang Chong told them that what they focused on was the soul's ascension to immortality. The souls of all Huangtian people would ascend to Huangtian after death, but because the soul was imprisoned by the body, they could only be cremated into bones and sent to the righteousness temple for sacrifice.
Peace and happiness. They didn't know what Huang Tian was, but when they heard that he could become an immortal, everyone was happy.
Then cremation was successfully promoted.
Here, Taishan soldiers cremated his comrades and sealed their bones into clay pots. Over there, Zhang Chong was also talking to Lou Zhong. He admired this man, so he said directly to Lou Zhong:
"Don't go back. I'll watch Zhou Feng later. I'll talk to your mountain tiger and he will let him go."
In this way, Lou Zhong became a member of the Shi Jiajun without any preparation. He didn't know if the mountain tiger in Shigu Mountain would scold Zhang Chong when he heard that he had sent a letter to Zhang Chong out of kindness and lost one of his generals.
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After everything was done, Zhang Chong left a garrison here, preparing to move his disciples from several nearby villages to cultivate the land and start rebuilding Jin's Wall. As this place was the key to Fangdong's exit from Mount Tai, Zhang Chong would not give up.
In this way, Zhang Chong finished his business and led his army back to Wangzhoufeng's headquarters. At this time, a guest also visited Wangzhoufeng.