As soon as Bai Rao died, the Black Mountain soldiers who still had family members in the Taihang Mountains were relieved. The generals were all dead, so their relatives in Montenegro would not be implicated, so they threw away their weapons and surrendered.
Of course, there were some die-hard Montenegrin generals and soldiers who wanted to escape, but they avoided Zhao Yun, but could not avoid Taishi Ci who was following him.
Taishi Ci and Zhao Yun teamed up to chase and shoot the Black Mountain bandits who fled in all directions. Soon after, the Black Mountain bandits completely collapsed and surrendered on their knees.
Zhao Yun asked people to count the number of people and found that there were five to six thousand Black Mountain bandits who were killed and captured in the battle. He was surprised and said to Taishi Ci: "Ziyi actually killed so many of them!"
Taishi Ci shook his head and said: "When I met them, there were only seven or eight thousand people, and I only killed more than a thousand people."
Zhao Yun was even more surprised: "Didn't you say there are twenty or thirty thousand people in this group?"
"Could it be that more than 10,000 other people were killed by Qu Yi?"
The two men pondered, and Yuan Xi rushed over with hundreds of cavalry. It was absolutely impossible to defeat the Black Mountain army. That could only be done by Qu Yi from Beixin City.
After a full attack, Qu Yi could only mobilize more than 2,000 troops. Can Bai Rao's army of 20,000 be defeated with just this?
Two thousand dead soldiers are still enough!
You know, Bai Rao is a general who has been famous among the Black Mountain bandits for many years, and he is definitely not a straw bag that will collapse at the first touch.
The two were full of suspicions, and only after escorting the Montenegrin Army prisoners back to Beixin City did they learn the ins and outs of the Montenegrin Army's collapse from Qu Yi's mouth.
The two of them and Qu Yi were staring at each other, how could they still be like this?
When encountering the Montenegrin Army in the future, as long as the young master raises his arms and roars, then why fight?
When Qu Yi met Yuan Xi, he raised his doubts. Yuan Xi explained: "The other party will be on guard next time."
"After all, we are just spreading rumors. The Black Mountain Army has been studying Taiping Road for many years, and there are many alchemists left by the Yellow Turban Army to help."
"And this method also hurts others and hurts ourselves. The other party may not be able to use this method to deal with us."
"If you want to win the support of soldiers, you must take a multi-pronged approach. Simply relying on the prophecies of Taiping Dao to scare people is not a long-term solution."
Guo Jia listened on the sidelines and praised: "It's rare for the young master to be so sober. This is what I want to say."
"After this battle, I will think carefully about how to change the prophecy of Taipingdao to minimize the backlash."
After hearing this, everyone nodded. This set of things that the Taiping Sect firmly believed in needed to be supported by the teachings of the Taiping Sutra. For Bei Xincheng, it was difficult to fully control it without the obvious righteousness as an excuse.
No matter what, Yuan Xi defeated the Montenegrin army at an unexpectedly small cost, which meant that they saved a lot of time for their next plan.
The two groups, Yuan Tan and Yuan Shang, should still be facing off against the Montenegrin army. Even if they start fighting, there will be no winner for a while.
Guo Jia spoke up: "Now we have two choices, one is to rush back to Yi Jing directly, the other is to go to the middle road to support the eldest brother."
Yuan Xi lowered his head and thought for a while, "I want to rush back to Yi Jing."
After hearing this, Guo Jia showed approval, "This is a quick decision."
"The advantage of this method is that if we rush back to Yi Jing and defeat Gongsun Zan in a short time, the Montenegrin army will naturally retreat."
"But if the attack fails for a long time, and Master Yuan Tan cannot withstand the Black Mountain Army in the middle, Yi Jing's Jizhou Army will instead be surrounded by two sides."
"The key is, can the young master be confident that he can defeat Yi Jing in just a few days?"
Yuan Xi thought of what he had said to Yuan Shao before leaving, nodded and said, "I think it's quite certain."
After hearing this, Guo Jia smiled and said: "Since the young master said so, I have nothing more to say."
"Okay!" Yuan Xi said: "In that case, let's repair it overnight and rush back early tomorrow morning!"
Guo Jia's face turned bitter. Even if he was riding in a carriage, his buttocks were bruised in the past few days. He wanted to go back to Yi Jing again?
You are a military advisor and still have the job of supervising the army. Can you find a few more advisers?
Not to mention Guo Jia's slander, Yuan Xi saw that everyone was tired and knew that the march day and night in the past few days had reached the limit, so he immediately asked all the generals to go back and rest.
After Zhao Yun came out, he saw Tian Yu doing nothing and looking helpless, so he pulled him back and said, "You think you didn't do anything this time?"
Tian Yu nodded and said depressedly: "This is the first time I encountered such a weird thing. After shouting a few times, the enemy army collapsed."
Zhao Yun smiled and said: "Don't say it's you, I am the same."
"As time goes by, you will find that the young master is a very different person from the noble family."
"I'm still short of a Cavalry Lieutenant here, would you like to come over and help me?"
Tian Yu was still hesitating, so he was pulled away by Zhao Yun and followed to count the cavalry.
Seeing that Sun Li wanted to go home, Qu Yi pulled him and said, "What's so interesting about my mother-in-law? Come and have a drink with me!"
Sun Li said with a bitter face: "Brother, don't try to trick me. There is still a war. If I drink without permission, I will be subject to military law."
"Brother, your injury needs to be suppressed with wine. This is the master's permission. How dare I do this? Even if the master doesn't punish me, I will be beaten to death by my mother."
Qu Yi laughed loudly: "You already have children, but you are still afraid of your mother's children who won't grow up!"
Sun Li blushed and muttered: "Don't think that because you saved my mother, I'm afraid of you. You wouldn't even dare to let out a fart in front of my mother."
After hearing this, Qu Yi's face became unnatural, but Sun Li didn't notice it at all. He thought that Qu Yi had been caught in a shortcoming, and said proudly: "Although I am young, I have children!"
"Brother Qu, you're not married yet, so you don't know where you can find the confidence to teach me a lesson."
Seeing Sun Li's triumphant look, Qu Yi viciously kicked Sun Li on his butt, sending Sun Li flying away.
"Go, go, go, little brat, what do you know? I have enemies all over the world every day. What should I do if my wife and children are caught by the enemy after we get married?"
"It's better to be at ease now!"
Sun Li had a playful look on his face, "Even if you don't want to get married, you can still have a concubine."
"Brother Qu is already an official and can take concubines. There are more than a dozen concubines in this mansion. All you have to do is ask, sir."
Before he could finish speaking, Sun Li's ear was grabbed. He groaned and cursed: "Who is so brave! Me."
He reluctantly turned his head, and when he saw it, he was immediately shaken to his core. His mother, Ma, pressed her hands hard and looked at him angrily.
While Sun Li begged for mercy, Ma said to Qu Yi with an unnatural look on his face: "The child doesn't understand the importance of what he says. General, don't blame him."
Qu Yi's face was also a little stiff, "Madam, you're welcome, I'll leave first."
He took a long step, turned around and left. Ma looked at Qu Yi's disappearing back and sighed quietly.
Qu Yi was also a traitor but not courageous. Ma wanted to ask Yuan Xi for help several times, but gave up at the last moment.
Forget it, it's okay this way, Sun Li already has a son, and he can be considered worthy of the Sun family.
Sun Li looked at his mother secretly. He didn't understand Ma's thoughts at all. If he had a little understanding of Qu Yi and Ma's thoughts, he might have fainted.
Qu Yi felt depressed and wanted to go to Taishi Ci to practice two moves, but he heard from the servant woman that Taishi Ci had gone back to rest.
Only then did he realize that he was different from the others. The other generals would follow Yuan Xi to fight tomorrow, but he stayed to take charge of Beixin City.
He remembered that Wu Zhao had mentioned it a few days ago and asked him to help revise and improve the method of military training. Now he had an idea and could dictate it to Wu Zhao and Cao Xian.
He patted his head again. The young master would definitely meet Wu Zhao and the two girls today. Why would he get involved by himself?
Qu Yi felt that he had become a redundant person and he couldn't take any time off, so he left the house all the way to the edge of Beixin City.
He climbed onto the city wall, and the soldiers saluted him one after another. Qu Yi nodded slightly and looked down the city.
Below is a dense crowd of soldiers and civilians, cleaning the battlefield.
The first step in cleaning the battlefield is to check whether there are still alive people. If any of our own soldiers faints, it means they are dying, and we will try our best to rescue and treat them.
After all, when soldiers go to the battlefield to fight, this kind of thing may happen to anyone. If they do nothing to save them, their morale and morale will be lost.
Then there is the collection of supplies. The food, grass and baggage must be transported back. The weapons, armor, clothing and grain bags on the dead are also objects of collection.
Qu Yi raised his eyes and saw that the dead soldiers were stripped naked and thrown on the cart. They were piled high. From a distance, they looked like white-flour steamed cakes freshly baked from the pan.
The last step is to dispose of the body.
Yuan Xi issued a decree that in battles within his own territory, if conditions permit, the corpses must be disposed of as soon as possible to avoid exposing the corpses to the wilderness or sinking into rivers, so as to avoid contaminating water sources and causing epidemics.
There are several types of disposal methods. If your soldiers have family members to claim them, let them be taken back for burial. If not, they will be dug into a large pit far away from the water source and buried together, so that they can be buried.
For enemy soldiers, firewood is often piled up and burned.
The method of cremation has been around since the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period. "Mozi" records: "There is a country called Yiqu in the west of Qin. When a relative dies, he gathers firewood and burns it, and smokes it, which is called Dengya."
This method is less troublesome than burial, and it is also a deterrent to enemies. After all, in people's minds at this time, burial can bring peace to the deceased.
Qu Yi saw fires being lit one by one, corpses burning and deformed in the crackling firewood, curled limbs pointing to the sky, black smoke rising into the sky, and the unpleasant burnt smell was sent into his chest with the blowing wind.
nasal cavity.
He was unaware of it and looked towards the western sky. On the far side, beyond Bingzhou, was his hometown of Liangzhou.
His ancestors actually have a long history.
"Hanshu Wang Jia Zhuan" and "Yuanhe Surname Compilation" record that the surname Qu was changed by the Ju family. Ju Tan, the minister of Emperor Ai of the Western Han Dynasty, was implicated in the "Hushan Standing Stone Rebellion Incident" by King Liu Yun of Dongping and was demoted from his post to the public.
Fearing further persecution, he led his son Ju Zhen to "refuge in Huangzhong, and because he lived in Xiping, he changed his surname from Ju to Qu".
Xiping is a remote area, far away from the capital, with Qiang and Hu as its neighbors. Its location is exactly opposite Pingyuan County to the east of Chang'an. It is a good place to avoid disaster. From then on, Ju Chen changed his name to Qu Lin incognito, and he was the first ancestor of the Qu family in Xiping.
Therefore, it seems that many of the Bingliang generals who are despised by the gentry were once great gentry. Otherwise, they would not be able to pass on their children to read and read, be proficient in bows and horses, and gather tribes to train dead soldiers. This is something that ordinary gentry cannot do.