Chapter 249: Killing the Prisoner

Nothing was said all night.

This made Meng Ying breathe a sigh of relief.

The most dangerous time has passed.

It's like fighting, when it's the most dangerous, it's a punch, the new force is gone, and when the old force is not born, the same is true for fighting.

Yesterday's sudden battle, no one on either side prepared beforehand, and this happened.

After a bloody battle, the cavalry led by Shi Heng was exhausted and had no strength to fight again, and Meng Ying's cavalry may not be the same goods, but the ones who really have some combat power are the remaining foot soldiers.

And they persisted.

If the Watts are willing to reflexively attack, it is really difficult to say whether they will win or lose.

But after a night, things were very different.

Because the Ming army as a whole, the organization is still there, and it is more out of force.

After all, in the era of cold weapons, human strength is the bullets and gasoline in the era of hot weapons.

But after the night passed, although the army did not fully recover.

After all, anyone who has ever exercised knows that excessive exercise, or even a sudden exercise to the point of losing strength, is not something that can be recovered in a day or two.

But the most basic strength is recovered.

Even if the tile spur counterattack is not successful, after all, the new force of the Xuan Mansion is about to rush over.

At this time, Meng Ying heard good news again.

The Tile Thorn retreated.

The people of the Tile Spur Headquarters did not hesitate to leave the people and horses that fell in the encirclement of the Ming army to Meng Ying.

I'm sorry, but I won't hurt my own capital for these people for the sake of them.

Meng Ying was overjoyed, and immediately ordered all departments to reduce the encirclement.

If it was said that last night, the net that Meng Ying spread out was still a net with a large mesh, and some small fish and shrimp could be exposed from the mesh, but at this moment, Meng Ying ordered the net to be closed, but it was the cavalry of each department divided into several teams, and the Tartar units that were still stranded here were driven together.

Compared to the feeling of the Ming army's thorns, these people feel even worse.

No matter what, the various departments of the tile spur have escaped from the encirclement, and they can be regarded as escaping. Although the various units of the Ming army were tired, they still had the most basic dry food and food.

But these Tartar tribes were the worst killed by the Ming army.

In addition to fighting with Shi Heng, the people of the Tile Thorn Headquarters did not fight with Meng Ying at all, which means that Meng Ying's brilliant record was fought with the tribe.

Among these tribes, all those who were tough died at the hands of the Ming army.

After being blocked by the Ming army, these people did one thing all night, and that was to find a way. Over the mountains and mountains, through the mountains and into the valley, I just want to find a way out of this mountainous area.

As mentioned above, although this is the northern foot of Yanshan Mountain, in general, the mountain is not precipitous, but the avenue that can pass through the army was blocked by the Ming army.

These tribes don't find paths, but they are far worse than the big roads. So overnight, there wasn't much escape.

Faced with the encirclement and interception of the Ming army.

Some of these Tartars resisted, but most of them surrendered. After all, for them, they are used to it.

At the end of the day, Meng Ying captured nearly 70,000 Tartars.

As for the horses, there were more than 100,000 horses, and many of them were thrown by the fleeing tartars, because there were some paths that could not accommodate the passage of war horses at all, and could only be climbed by people.

The acquisition of these hundreds of thousands of horses, although not entirely war horses, but the number of war horses is quite large, which greatly makes up for the gap of Ming war horses.

But there is also a tragic situation, that is, tens of thousands of people were captured and plundered by the Tartars, all of whom were rescued, of course, some of them fought to the death yesterday's war, after all, yesterday was a fierce battle, and no one cared about the affairs of the people.

Most of these people are women and men.

After all, most of the people of the Ming Dynasty in this era felt that the imperial court would definitely win, so as men, it was this confidence that made them persist in fighting to the end.

It's not like after the Tartars became accustomed to entering the Tartars, and many local powerful people reached a tacit understanding with the Tartars.

And women exist as a kind of property.

Whether she wants it or not, as long as she can give birth to a baby from the Tartar.

Women are a strategic resource.

All kinds of tragic things are too many to count.

It makes people angry. So many border generals came to Meng Ying to ask for severe punishment of the Tartars. Meng Ying actually followed the good this time, and said: "This year's Tartars have entered the Kou, which is what they have seen over the years, and if they are not severely punished, how to explain to the dead Ming people, how to let these Tartars know that the Great Tomorrow is inviolable." ”

Meng Ying said: "Pass the order, don't let any of the prisoners go, behead them all, I want to build a Beijing temple here." ”

As soon as these words came out, the crowd was shocked.

"The general must not, the killing of prisoners is unknown. There are ancient wisdom, and how to explain to Your Majesty at this time? Wu Xing immediately stepped out and said.

After all, Wu Xing's qualifications are high, and there are some things that others dare not say, but he dares to say them.

Meng Ying's eyes narrowed slightly, put a sword on the desk, and said, "General Wu has something to say?" ”

This sword is nothing else, it is the Yitian sword used by Zhu Yong, the Duke of Chengguo, after the death of the Duke of Chengguo, temporarily kept by Yang Hong, and when Meng Ying took over as the general of the conquest, it was handed over to Meng Ying.

Wu Xing has something else to say.

You can only retreat.

Meng Ying said: "Since it is so fast, it will be executed. ”

"Yes." After the generals left, one of them came, and it was none other than Meng Yuan.

Meng Yuan was just about to speak, but was stopped by Meng Ying, Meng Ying said, "I know you want to ask why?" I'm a murderer, but I can't help it. You also know that the treasury is not rich today, there are the Yellow River in the south, and the two towns of Xuanda in the north are ruined. ”

"But the army is outside, and the men eat what the horses chew. It can be said that the treasury has long been empty. After all, there was no intention of promoting war, but Shousuke sent me the account of the household. ”

"Although we have won today, but the matter of spending money is not over, there are tens of thousands of women outside, we must appease them one by one, and the soldiers from all over the country must be rewarded in the army. As for the dilapidated cities of Xuanda and Xuanda, they need to be repaired, the people from all over the country need relief, and there are some new checkpoints to be built. ”

"Don't say anything else, the Bauhinia Pass is to be repaired."

"It's all silver. Not to mention the hundreds of thousands of horses, you must know that if there is no pasture grazing, the appetite of horses is larger than that of people. ”

"There are all kinds of things, the treasury has long been unable to support it, and it is clear that this battle is that the imperial court will become the prince of the country, and the two families of Zhenyuan Marquis have copied the bottom of the sky, so they sent people to sell them, and they raised enough money."

"Sometimes, as a courtier, you have to relieve your majesty's worries, if there are tens of thousands of Tartar prisoners, so a slight rectification, a battalion of 3,000 will be available, not to mention, how much blood of the people of Xuanda people are on the hands of these people, can the border troops from all over the country agree, money alone may not be enough."

Meng Yuan said: "It's just that in this way, my uncle's reputation will -------."

Meng Ying smiled slightly and said, "You have to know that what is not a good reputation is good. ”

Meng Ying's words are somewhat meaningful.

Because the right to war is not a right of any other.

It can be said that the power of the Ming army, in the system of Emperor Taizu, is firmly in the hands of the emperor.

Since Taizu Taizong has always been in the hands of the military, so the two emperors will kill whoever they want.

But when it comes to Xuanzong, it's a little different.

Xuanzong is also able to fight with his soldiers, and he can be regarded as an emperor immediately. But even the emperor may not be able to fully control all the soldiers and horses.

Looking at Xuanzong's approach to Zhang Fu, we can see that although Xuanzong controls the situation in the army, this control is far from the control of Taizu Taizong.

And Zhu Qizhen's control of the army is one layer worse than that of Emperor Xuanzong.

There is an essential difference between the two, that is, Zhu Qizhen controls the military in the name of the emperor rather than a general, while from Taizu Taizong to Xuanzong, the emperors of the Ming Dynasty have the dual attributes of emperor and general.

The army is the largest violent group, and when the general is their emperor again, the loyalty of the soldiers to the emperor is almost absolute and unshakable to anyone.

Zhu Qizhen lacked a key link, so his control over the military was even weaker than that of Emperor Xuanzong.