The horror of the war had left the two armies, but what was left behind was endless pain, and the soldiers on both sides began to collect the bodies of the dead in battle, and the smell of grief permeated the entire city, and from time to time there would be low sobs.

It is very strange that the soldiers on both sides who collect the remains will meet each other from time to time on the river beach and on the embankment, but between each other, there is no such life-and-death atmosphere as a few days ago, and the two sides look at each other, and they can only see the sadness in the depths of each other's eyes from each other's eyes.

In this battle, the Chu army suffered more than 50,000 casualties, the Han army suffered more than 15,000 people, and more than 2,000 people remained. Each other is broken, especially the Chu army, there are many fathers, sons, brothers in the army, compared to the Han army, when the conscription formation, special attention is paid not to organize such soldiers into an army, so as to avoid such a big battle, the male in the family will die.

The corpse of a Chu soldier was lying face down on the ground, and when his comrades struggled to lift his body, they found that under him, there was also a corpse of a Han soldier, his knife was stabbed under the lower abdomen of the Han soldier, and the knife of the Han soldier was deeply embedded between his sternum, and the two of them until they were dying, and their hands were still tightly gripping the hilt, which connected the two of them together, and when they moved the Chu soldiers, they also brought the Han soldiers below.

The two Han soldiers on the other side walked over silently, and with the help of both sides, they drew their knives, and then lifted the bodies of their respective partners and walked to their side wordlessly.

Such scenes are happening all over Yingshui City.

The small square outside the general's mansion was already neatly filled with corpses, and white cloths wrapped them from head to toe. Wu Ya commanded the soldiers of the Fourth Division to clean up the bombed-up around the square. The burned houses cleared up one vacant lot after another for the remains of these martyrs.

Mei Hua stood expressionlessly on the steps in front of the general's mansion, his face was snow-white, and he was actually extremely injured when he lost his left arm. Two days ago, because of the tragedy of the war and the tension of the situation, he could only support himself, and once the situation stabilized and his body and mind relaxed, the whole person immediately could not support it.

Because he would not leave, he was here to watch his soldiers.

Each corpse was carried. An officer stepped forward, looked through the wrist bracelet on the soldier's wrist, and wrote down his unit number and his name. Some of the soldiers' corpses were mutilated, and their wrist bracelets could not be found, so they had to be placed on the other side first, so that the surviving soldiers could identify them, and some others. It was impossible to identify them, and the remains had to be recorded in another book.

Ultimately. What was reported would only be a set of numbers, but at this time, what Mei Hua saw was endless sorrow, a soldier. It is the sorrow of a family, several or even dozens of people.

"Let's rest!" Wu Ya walked to Mei Hua's side, "They are all gone, you look at them, they can't feel it." The deceased. ”

"But peace of mind!" Mei Hua said lightly: "This battle." My third division was completely gone, and there were veterans who had followed me for seven or eight years, and I knew a person I had brought before, called Wang Bao, who was almost forty years old, and was from Jicheng, and invited me to his house to drink, and had a virtuous wife, although not beautiful, but docile, three sons, two daughters, and a big family. Originally, he was supposed to be discharged from the army, but when the age came, but in this big war, he asked to stay and bring a belt of recruits, and our First Army has replenished a lot of recruits in the past two years, but this battle is gone. I can't imagine what would have happened to his family when they knew he had died in battle. ”

"Put on the battle robe, you have to be ready to die at all times, I believe that this big brother Wang is also mentally prepared." Wu Ya empathizes. "When we fight, we don't feel death, we don't feel fear, we don't feel sadness, and only then do I feel like I'm still a human being, and I still have human feelings."

Mei Hua took a step and walked to the steps, the two soldiers hurriedly followed, one left and one right to support him, Mei Hua staggered a little, "I really understand what King Han said now, only when the world is unified, there will be no more fighting between each other, and the people can live and work in peace and contentment." Our world has been spent in a battle with each other for thousands of years, and there has never been a year of peace, but now, we have reason to look forward to this day. The state of Chu is destroyed, there is only one state of Qin left, it is difficult to support alone, our army is advancing westward, the world will be unified, and it will be peaceful in the end. ”

"yes, I'm looking forward to this day sooner!" Wu Ya nodded.

"Wu Ya, send this kind of white cloth to Qu Wan over there as much as possible, they are afraid that there is not." Mei Hua said suddenly.

Wu Ya was stunned. "You don't hate him? More than 10,000 of your soldiers died at his hands. ”

"To each his own master, there is no such thing as hate." Mei Hua shook her head and said, "They, we, are all poor people!" His warriors are also warriors, and even if the warriors die, they must die with dignity, send them over! ”

Wu Ya frowned and said, "I can send things over, but don't say these words anymore just now, it won't sound good when they reach the top." What do you mean that you are also a poor person! ”

Mei Hua smiled, "Go ahead, go ahead, I know what I say." Who dares to embarrass me, I am a big hero, my son is a high-ranking official, my eldest brother is the king's butler, my second brother is a famous businessman in the world, and a member of the big council, who will have nothing to trouble me! ”

Hearing this, Wu Ya's face suddenly turned stinky, "What are you showing, I don't know that you Meihua is everyone's son, it's amazing!" ”

Seeing Wu Ya turn around and leave with a stinky face, Mei Hua laughed happily, this guy has always been a stone in a pit, a tendon, this is the case when he was a small soldier, and when he was the commander of a division, a dignified general, the same is true.

Reaching out and taking out the treasured bag from his arms, opening it, staring at the beautiful woman and the lovely child above, Mei Hua smiled and said: "Daughter-in-law, son, wait for me, soon I can go home, I will never leave you again, I will accompany you for the rest of my life." ”

Outside Yingchuan County, the Chu army camp. Qu Wan looked at the truckloads of white cloth sent by the Han army, his face muscles twitched, and he didn't know what to say.

"General Qu, this is what our division commander Mei and division commander Wu sent over, the two division commanders said that the soldiers who died in your army are all warriors, and warriors should have the dignity of warriors, and these white cloths can make warriors leave with dignity." An officer saluted Qu Wan and said loudly.

Looking at the low-level officer of the Han army in front of him, Qu Wan clasped his hands into fists and slammed them to the ground: "Qu Mou thank you to the two commanders of your army, if there is a chance in the future, Qu Mou will definitely go to visit the two of them to feel the virtue of today." ”

The officer smiled: "There is naturally an opportunity." General Qu Da took his leave. ”

"Wait a minute." Qu Wan asked: "In this battle, on both sides of Yingshui, blood is flowing like a river, won't your army hate us?" ”

"What is there to hate!" The officer shook his head, "We want to dominate the world, you want to defend the country, that's all, fight to the death for your own purposes, you think you are right, and we, think we are right, in this case, we can only be the winner is king, and the loser is the villain." Now, we've just won. Oh, speaking of which, in Yingshui, it should be considered that you Chu people won, but you won the small handicap, but you lost the overall situation. General Qu Wan, if you really want to talk about it, or we should thank you, I am from the Third Division, in fact, in the end, we have no intention of surviving, and it is precisely because of your strike that we survived. ”

"That's what you think?" Qu Wan said with some confusion.

"Yes, General Qu, I used to be a Qi person, when we were destroyed by the Han Dynasty, we were also very angry and sad, but then we found out that life can be better, now Qidi, there is no war, no harsh taxes, no official oppression, we don't have to worry about this one will call today, tomorrow that one will call, our people there, now they are thinking about one thing, that is, how to live a better life. Make your fanny pack a little fuller. The officer smiled and said: "Now you Chu people must also hate us Han people very much, but it won't be long before they forget about your Chu Dynasty, because what the Han can give them, your Chu court will never be able to give." ”

Watching the officer depart with his soldiers held high, Qu Wan had mixed feelings.

Bai Xizhong's voice came from behind him: "Is this the bearing of a great country, the thinking of a great country?" ”

"Yes, this is the spirit of the Han people." Qu Wan turned his head, "Xizhong, do you think we will be like this officer said in the future?" ”

"I don't know." Bai Xizhong shook his head and said: "But if it is really as this officer said, I am afraid that the people of our Great Chu will soon forget about the Chu Dynasty for eight hundred years." As long as the big man can make them live better. ”

Qu Wan nodded silently, after he surrendered to Meihua, the Han people did not ask them to lay down their arms, but just let them set up another camp outside Yingchuan County, and they were not allowed to leave the barracks without authorization.

In short, none of the things Qu Wan feared happened. Outwardly, they did not look at all like a surrendered army. (To be continued.) )