During the day, the Jingzhou army drove the captives to dig trenches, lay fences, and besiege Xiangyang with antlers.

Some of the captives dug large pits to bury the dead of the Cao army, and most of the fallen soldiers of the Jingzhou army burned their bodies in an effort to send the ashes back to their hometown for burial.

For the soldiers of the expedition, there is no difference between burial and cremation, the difference is only in the wilderness of violent corpses, or can be buried in the ground, and it is best to bury the village.

Tian Xin was inspecting the wounded barracks, and there were not many seriously wounded left in the enemy, and now most of them were lightly wounded.

With more than 30 years of experience in melee warfare, the army also has a relatively mature establishment for the reception and treatment of wounded soldiers.

Although there are units for the treatment of wounded soldiers and accumulated experience, there are many improvements in Tian Xin's eyes.

Typical examples include a mix of wounded and sick people, as well as poor sanitation.

He saw it in his eyes, and when he had a plan in his heart, he led Lin Luozhu to Guan Yu's Chinese army tent, not wanting to be caught up by Luo Qiong halfway.

Luo Qiong's face was embarrassed: "Du Wei, Dong Hujun was made difficult by the Yi soldiers, and he urgently needed Du Wei to relieve the siege." ”

"How can Yi Bing make things difficult for Dong Hujun?"

"It's because of the military officer's affiliation." Luo Qiong said as he walked: "General Xiahou's headquarters has gone through hard battles, and although the military officers of the department have been damaged, the rest can be promoted by one more level or promoted by two levels. Therefore, General Xiahou's headquarters only lacked soldiers, not military officials. Our Southern Army has also made special contributions to the following lieutenants, and many officers and men at the top and bottom can be promoted by one level. ”

"Dong Hujun wants to screen more than 1,200 soldiers, but he doesn't want the military officials in the southern army, the military officials are dissatisfied, and the sergeants are not willing to merge with Dong Hujun under General Xiahou in a hurry."

Luo Qiong smiled bitterly: "More than half of the casualties under General Xiahou in the First Battle yesterday are not followed. ”

The casualty rate of Xiahoulan's troops was too high, which frightened the Yi soldiers.

When Tian Xin returned to the camp, the selected Yi soldiers were still neatly lined up with bags and living utensils, but more than 100 military officials surrounded Dong Hui with angry expressions to ask for an explanation. Their military merits have been settled, and although they are the original leaders, their official ranks have been improved accordingly.

It is the norm to lead soldiers in the original position, but now they are transferring their soldiers, which is not a normal situation.

Not to mention the Yi soldiers who like to hold groups, even the Han soldiers also have the sentiment of the township party, and basically the township party selects prestige and talent to serve as the commander of the Shiwu or the team officer.

Seeing Tian Xin come back, the military officials got out of the way, and several leaders expressed their attitudes one after another, some were unwilling to be separated from the township party department, and some did not want to be separated from Tian Xin, each with their own opinions.

"Protector, Sima, it's not right to do this."

Tian Xin didn't have any expression on his face, and it was not something to be happy about: "Now that the duel with the Cao army is not divided between life and death, the prince and the marquis analyze our southern army to make up for General Xiahou, the original intention is to enhance the combat power and gather five fingers into a fist." Therefore, our southern army should choose the two strongest battalions to serve under General Xiahou. Therefore, when dispatching officials, it is necessary to know each other. ”

As he spoke, he picked up the roster of newly compiled military books on the table, flipped through the list of formations, and saw that the 1,200 people selected would be supplemented under Xiahou Lan in units of 12 100-person cantonment teams, and there were only 12 military officers in the climate, and there were no three types of middle-level military officials, such as military marqu commanders, battalion supervisors, and military leaders.

"The southern army has two fully formed battalions, with Chen Feng and Mo Chong as the battalion commanders, and Wen Bu and Deng Kai as the military leaders."

Tian Xin picked up the pen and wrote, and turned his head to look at several middle and senior military officials who had been watching the excitement, Wen Bu and Deng Kai were the former military officials of the Yidu County Yi Barracks.

In addition to Chen Feng's slight hesitation, Wen Bu, Deng Kai, and Mo Chong immediately agreed, and then Tian Xin ordered six brave Qu chiefs and fourteen Han Yi half tun chiefs, and the people who were ordered agreed one after another. As long as they promise, yesterday's combat attrition will be replenished on the spot.

Seeing that Dong Hui's mood was not high, Tian Xin reluctantly persuaded in harmony: "If the protector feels that it is inappropriate, you might as well ask General Xiahou what his intentions are." If they agree, they will bother the guards to copy another military document. ”

Dong Hui was sullen, and Xi Hong was smiling.

According to Dong Hui's supplementary method of not offending people, Dong Hui curryed favor with the military officials under Xiahou Lan, but Xi Hong became an empty shelf.

Now that he has brought the two full battalions composed of the essence of the Southern Army over, his confidence in speaking is naturally different.

Tian Xin also understands Dong Hui, the military officials under Xiahou Lan are old men who have followed Liu Bei and Guan Yu to fight for more than ten years, and it is best not to offend them. It's hard to say that a certain military official who looks rough has a nephew who is a soldier for Liu Bei and Guan Yu.

Dong Hui didn't want to offend himself, and he never touched the Han and Yi military officials in the southern army who actively gathered around him to listen to the lecture.

There was no need to embarrass Dong Hui, Tian Xin quickly dealt with this matter, and returned to his camp to write a proposal for the management of wounded soldiers, not wanting to be disturbed by a neighing of horses.

Turning his head to look, he saw Guan Ping Jiaojian turned over and dismounted, today he only wore a set of shoulderless sleeveless brown close-fitting patent leather half-body armor, wrapped in a green scarf, looking capable and sassy.

"Xiaoxian, come on, I will bring a good thing to Xiaoxian!"

Guan Ping strode in with a page of silk books, and his voice was raised: "Filial piety first met the immortals and presented the Four Dragons, and General Zuo has sent a messenger to offer the Son of Heaven in Xudu!" ”

He stuffed the silk book directly to Tian Xin, looked at the content of Tian Xin's writing, and said that he was still saying: "Nanyang Chen Xiaoqi has passed through Nanxiang County to the north, and will not be between Xiangfan in the future. Chen Xiaoqi may not know that our army broke the battle of Cao's army in Xiangyang, and there will be some twists and turns in this trip. ”

Tian Xin opened the silk book, it was General Zuo, Yizhou Mu Liu Bei appointed him, because he met Xiangrui and offered the Four Dragons, so he was awarded the official Fengyi Captain.

Looking at the payment, the envoy of Xuanda is Chen Zhen, who is engaged in General Zuo's Mansion.

Perhaps when Liu Beijin presented the picture of the four dragons of Xudu, he would describe it as Tian Xin, the captain of the school, meeting the immortals, and seeing the true works of the four dragons.

Guan Ping picked up Tian Xin's proposal for most of the wounded soldiers' camp and shook it: "How is the progress of Xiaoxian's recruitment of troops today?" ”

"I was about to start from the wounded soldiers, and the troops would be dispatched by General Xiahou, so it was inconvenient for me to come forward to interfere. If you don't take care of the wounded wholeheartedly, you can get twice the result with half the effort if you lose benevolence and righteousness. ”

Seeing that there was not even a matching seal letter and green ribbon, Tian Xin also folded the silk book at will: "The southern army originally had four battalions of nearly 3,000 people, and the number of people lost by 500 in successive battles, and today another 1,500 people were transferred to the command of the old general Xiahou, and there are only 1,000 people who can use them." And the soldiers are stubborn, if I recruit the surrendered troops, I can only set up another battalion, otherwise the soldiers will bully the surrendered army, which will stimulate the resentment of the surrendered army. ”

"This battalion can't all be delegated to surrender troops, so I also want to borrow more than 300 Jingzhou veterans from the prince, so that two battalions can be formed to surrender the army."

Guan Ping touched his chin when he heard this: "The meaning of filial piety, yesterday I received 8,000 troops, and there are only more than 1,000 people who can be used by me?" ”

"Yes, many families of the soldiers are subject to the Cao thief, even if they have the Han family in their hearts, they don't dare to act rashly."

Tian Xin was slightly distressed: "Now it is overstretched to take care of and restrain nearly 10,000 surrendered troops, if there are another 10,000 surrendered troops, how can our army still fight?" ”

"Ten thousand troops?"

Guan Ping shook his head and smiled: "No, after attacking Pinglu City in the next two days, our army will be able to force the first army of Xiangyang Lu Chang." After fighting Xiangyang, across the Han River to resist the enemy, you can calmly absorb the surrendered troops. ”

He immediately changed his tone and asked: "Pang De's troops marched in an orderly manner, and they were not affected by Cao Ren's defeat. Therefore, about the day after tomorrow, they will fight with Pang De and Manchu between Pinglu City and Fancheng on the north bank. Filial piety is willing to lead more than 1,000 people in the department as my deputy general, I lead the knights, and filial piety leads the infantry army to press for me? ”