Chapter 243 The practice of being extremely aggrieved!
The fact that the Beiting people would surrender was somewhat beyond Lu Xu's expectations.
In fact, the Beiting people had already lost the possibility of winning the battle. If it were an ordinary army, they would have surrendered long ago when there was no chance of winning.
But the Beiting people fought until there were only more than a hundred people left. Even with the dozens of people taken away by Prince Wulu and the two hundred people who died in the mountains and forests before, the Beiting cavalry suffered casualties this time.
More than 70%.
It is beyond the Iron Army to describe a force that can withstand such casualties. Will such a force surrender?
Lu Xu looked at the direction in which Prince Wulu was escaping and thought to himself: "If he hadn't run away, this army might still be resisting."
Although he was a little surprised, since his opponent surrendered, Lu Xu would naturally accept the surrender. These people may be able to bring him a lot of useful information, and more importantly, these living Beiting prisoners can tell the people of Xinanzhai
Proving that Xinanzhai is capable of defeating the Beiting people.
After receiving the prisoners, Lu Xu arranged for Xie Zhen to take people to clean the battlefield and count the results of the battle. He took people into the city to prepare for the resettlement of the refugees.
Naturally, it is impossible for these refugees to stay in Wei'an Fort. Wei'an Fort has basically become a place of death.
Because Wei'an Fort was prepared from the very beginning to deal with the bandits in the Qinling Mountains, not the Beiting people. It was almost impossible for this battle fort to withstand the attack of the Beiting army.
In fact, in the last war, Wei'an Fort was indeed easily captured by the Beiting people.
However, there is still a lot of room for construction in Xinan Village, which is when manpower is needed. Lu Xu is ready to gather all the refugees gathered in Wei'anbao to Xinan Village.
Not only that, Lu Xu is also planning to stay in Wei'an Fort for a while.
In order to avoid being encircled and suppressed by the Beiting army, he actively maintained contact with Chang Yao and others, and at the same time asked the soldiers who could ride horses to ride out on their newly captured horses to inquire about the situation.
If the Beiting people's army is discovered, Lu Xu will immediately withdraw from Wei'an Fort.
There is only a short distance around Fort Wei'an that is suitable for cavalry combat. As long as Lu Xu has walked this stretch of road, facing the rugged mountain road, even the Beiting people's cavalry can only dismount and fight obediently.
Facing a group of dismounted cavalry on his own territory, Lu Xu was not worried at all that he would be caught by them.
In the evening, Xie Zhen came back with his men and horses. According to preliminary statistics, their Xin'an army died in this battle, 136 were seriously injured, and 247 were lightly injured. The lightly injured can quickly return to the battle after being simply bandaged.
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In this battle, they were at least wiped out and captured 932 Beiting cavalry. In this battle, Prince Wulu's thousand-man team was almost completely wiped out.
Although the price paid by the Xin'an Army in this battle was the highest since Lu Xu founded the army, the enemy Lu Xu faced this time was also the strongest enemy Lu Xu had ever faced.
Lu Xu was very satisfied with such a result. Not to mention, after defeating this enemy, the soldiers of the Xin'an Army were very excited and their morale was very high.
They have also established a psychological advantage over the Beiting people. Coupled with these results, the price is simply negligible.
As for the captured Suler, he is thinking about a serious question, that is, should he confess his identity to Lu Xu?
Although he is a Beiting noble, because he is only a centurion leader under Prince Wulu, his clothes are not luxurious.
On the contrary, in order to resolutely implement his father's instructions, he asked himself to behave as much as possible like a real centurion, wearing ordinary clothes and fighting on the battlefield.
Therefore, even Lu Xu did not realize that he was actually a noble. And because only Li Changqing among Lu Xu's men knew some Beiting dialect, the interrogation of these Beiting prisoners of war had to wait until these prisoners of war were sent to
Let’s talk about it after we get to Xinanzhai.
However, as a member of the Beiting nobles who wanted to destroy Daliang, Suler also understood Daliang dialect. The reason why he wanted to confess his identity to Lu Xu was not because he really planned to surrender to Lu Xu.
The Beiting people have always had the practice of redeeming prisoners of war from the Daliang people. Of course, the people who the Beiting people will pay to buy are basically elite officers, nobles and vulture shooters.
Logically speaking, such people are the elites of Beiting and are the main force in the invasion of Daliang. Moreover, with the national power of Beiting, it is indeed not easy to train these talents, so they want to redeem prisoners from Daliang.
From Daliang's point of view, of course they cannot agree to ransom prisoners of war. It is in Daliang's interest to eliminate these talents as much as possible.
However, what has to be said is that Daliang was really an extremely aggrieved dynasty. They actually made it a practice for the two countries to redeem prisoners of war from each other!
The reason is nothing more than three points.
First, as a dynasty that values civility over military affairs, Daliang is essentially afraid of war, and they are unwilling to fight even with opponents that are much weaker than themselves.
Because war will rapidly expand the power of generals, this is not in line with the "foundation of the country" of Daliang. Therefore, even in the war, the Daliang court will try its best to avoid completely irritating the opponent, making the war really become
A life-or-death situation.
In the view of the Liang court, whenever there is a war, it is wise to teach the other party a lesson and let the other party know that it is not easy to mess with and then terminate the war promptly. And the mutual redemption of prisoners of war is obviously a way to eliminate war hatred as much as possible.
, and then a good way to stop the war as soon as possible.
Secondly, it was also because Daliang was a dynasty that valued culture over military affairs. Therefore, military generals had very little status in this dynasty, but military generals had to work hard in their work.
How can a dynasty make a person of low status work hard for itself? In addition to providing enough money, it must also try its best to let the person have both money and life to spend.
Making it a common practice to redeem prisoners of war from each other can allow generals to go to the battlefield with as little psychological burden as possible. After all, you can still surrender if you can't defeat them!
Surrender will not only not be punished by the court, but will be redeemed by the court. What else do the generals have to fear?
Third, the mutual redemption of prisoners of war requires a large amount of money and interest exchange!
How much did the imperial court pay to redeem its own prisoners of war? What was the actual transaction price? How much of a price difference could be earned?
When the other party redeems prisoners of war, how much are those prisoners actually worth? What is the lowest price acceptable to our side? In order to pay less money to redeem more prisoners of war, how much benefit are the Beiting people willing to give to the negotiators?
These issues are all important and can bring huge benefits to the civil service community!