Qi Jinlan Dulu hesitated for a long time and said bitterly: "I am willing to surrender!"
Cheng Yaojin showed a hint of joy and said: "Since you are willing to surrender, let them put down their weapons and send people to persuade them to surrender elsewhere to avoid unnecessary casualties."
Since Qi Jinlan Dulu had chosen to surrender, he naturally did so after careful consideration and upon hearing this, he directly ordered the soldiers to lay down their weapons.
Some of the soldiers immediately put down their weapons, while others hesitated, but when they saw others putting down their weapons, they also put down their weapons in a herd mentality.
Without Cheng Yaojin's orders, Lin Xuan sent people forward to collect the weapons and at the same time drove everyone together.
Qi Jinlan Dulu lined up a few people to go with the Tang army to persuade them to surrender elsewhere.
Half an hour later, the entire Mukun tribe no longer shouted for killing.
Only the soldiers groaned in pain.
Cheng Yaojin ordered the military doctors to treat the wounded with all their strength, including those from the Mukun tribe, and treat them all equally.
Although the people of the Mukun tribe surrendered, they looked at the Tang soldiers with hatred in their eyes.
When Cheng Yaojin ordered the treatment of their wounded soldiers, the hostility in these people's eyes dissipated somewhat.
Treating the wounded soldiers, arranging the captives, and all the work, it was already late at night.
Cheng Yaojin divided his troops into three groups and took turns keeping vigil. At the same time, he ordered people to kill cattle and sheep to reward the army.
Qi Jinlan Dulu's big tent was requisitioned by Cheng Yaojin and became a handsome tent.
Cheng Yaojin asked: "Have the casualty figures been calculated?"
"Back to the general, our army has a total of 1,342 killed and 1,781 wounded."
The Mukun tribe only had about 20,000 soldiers and horses. Datang was a sneak attack and both suffered 3,000 casualties. The Mukun tribe suffered even more casualties.
Although there is no complete statistics, more than half of the Mukun tribe soldiers were killed in battle.
If we wanted to wipe them all out, the number of casualties in the Tang Dynasty would be over 5,000.
Cheng Yaojin was silent for a while and said: "Notify me, no matter who dares to rape or rob someone, regardless of their identity, they will be shot to death!"
"Yes!" Everyone's hearts tightened and they responded quickly.
"Okay, everyone has worked hard. Let's eat something with my general and have a rest early." Cheng Yaojin ordered his soldiers to bring up the roasted mutton and beef.
Everyone was not polite, grabbed it and started eating.
Many people even had blood stains on their hands, but they didn't care at all.
Lin Xuan completely lost his appetite after seeing this scene. Although he washed his hands several times, there were a lot of blood stains on his body, and he always felt a faint smell of blood around him.
Eating meat in your mouth always makes you feel sick to your stomach.
In order not to affect others, Lin Xuan could only bear to eat some.
After everyone had eaten, they bowed to Cheng Yaojin and left, but Lin Xuan stayed.
"I see you haven't eaten much just now. Do you have no appetite or can't eat it?" Cheng Yaojin asked while grabbing the meat and chewing it.
Lin Xuan smiled bitterly. He had nothing to hide from Cheng Yaojin and said, "Uncle Cheng, my nephew really can't eat it."
There were only two of them here now, but Lin Xuan didn't call him General.
Cheng Yaojin put down the meat in his hand, wiped his mouth with the back of his hand, and said: "It's like this when you first go to the battlefield. Gradually you will get used to it. When I fought in the war, when it was over, I found that the dry food in my arms had long been eaten by the enemy.
The blood is soaked in it, so it’s not the same as eating it.”
After Lin Xuan listened, the scene of Cheng Yaojin holding a big cake stained dark red with blood and chewing it appeared in his mind, and his stomach was churning.
Seeing Lin Xuan's face turning pale, Cheng Yaojin laughed and said, "You kid can't do this."
Lin Xuan did not want to discuss this topic with Cheng Yaojin and said: "Uncle Cheng, someone from the Mukun tribe must have escaped. Soon Tong'eshe will know that the Tang Dynasty has launched troops on it, and reinforcements will definitely be sent. Our horse infantry
Together they are less than 50,000. With so many prisoners now, wouldn’t it be very dangerous once reinforcements from the Western Turks arrive and the general manager hasn’t arrived yet?”
"Do you want me to follow Mr. Wu An's example and kill all these people?" Cheng Yaojin asked in return.
Wu'anjun is Bai Qi's title. Although Bai Qi is very controversial, the generals respect him very much.
Lin Xuan nodded.
Cheng Yaojin said with a smile: "If trapping and killing them is the best way, I naturally don't mind the infamy."
Killing prisoners is unlucky.
If Cheng Yaojin ordered all those people to be killed, the verbal and written criticism from those civil servants and great scholars would be enough for him.
But as he said, if it is the best way, he will naturally do it.
"General, you mean there is a way to deal with it?" Lin Xuan asked in surprise.
Cheng Yaojin did not answer this question, but said: "Since you know that Lord Wu An killed more than 400,000 Zhao soldiers after the Battle of Changping, do you understand why he did that?"
It was not easy for Qin to win the Battle of Changping. Before Bai Qi became the commander-in-chief of the Battle of Changping, the Qin army and the Zhao army had been at odds for three years. The long-term attrition had caused Qin to suffer huge losses at home, and the front line was also at a loss.
There was a shortage of food and grass and soldiers were injured and injured, which seriously affected the Qin army's combat effectiveness.
Later, the State of Qin used counterintuitive tactics to drive a wedge between King Zhao and Lian Po, and the commander of the Zhao army was replaced by Zhao Kuo, and the situation changed. After learning that the commander of the Zhao army had changed, the State of Qin also secretly replaced the commander-in-chief with Bai Qi.
Under Bai Qi's command and "paper talks" with Zhao Kuo, the Qin army quickly achieved a breakthrough. In the end, after being besieged for 46 days, Zhao Kuo personally led his troops to break through and failed, and was shot to death by random arrows from the Qin army.
Since the Zhao army had no general to command, more than 400,000 soldiers surrendered to the Qin army. Bai Qi agreed to their surrender.
After the Battle of Changping, a difficult problem posed in front of Bai Qi: How to deal with the more than 400,000 surrendered troops of the Zhao State?
Escorted back to Qin?
It must be an extremely difficult and resource-consuming task to bring all these more than 400,000 people back to Qin. Moreover, there is a very high possibility that these surrendered troops will riot during the journey back to Qin. Qin's front line
The number of troops is almost the same as that of the surrendered troops, and suppression by force will inevitably pay a heavy price.
And even after they were successfully escorted back to the Qin State, the Qin State also put in a lot of effort and time to make them use themselves. The Changping War had already severely damaged the Qin State's vitality. As Bai Qi himself said: "Today
Although Qin defeated Changping's army, more than half of Qin's soldiers died, and the country was empty."
Release on site?
In that era when all the people were soldiers, after these prisoners were released, they would soon reappear in Zhao's army and become one of the forces resisting Qin. So, what is the significance of the victory in the Battle of Changping?
Woolen cloth?
Therefore, there is only one best solution before Bai Qi: kill them all.
Doing so not only frees the Qin army from worries, but also greatly affects the strength of Zhao State, leaving Zhao State with no troops to use in the future. At the same time, it can also frighten other countries and boost the power of Qin's military.
It can be said that killing and surrendering is the greatest benefit that Bai Qi, as a general, strives for for the future of Qin on the battlefield.
In his previous life, Lin Xuan was curious about why Bai Qi wanted to kill more than 400,000 surrendered soldiers. He had done some research on the information, so he was very clear about it. When Cheng Yaojin asked about it, he told him.
Cheng Yaojin glanced at Lin Xuan in surprise. He didn't expect Lin Xuan to have such a deep understanding of Bai Qi's trap to kill Zhao Guojiang's soldiers.