858 I, Wei Tianzi, have always valued the lives of soldiers
Wu Yi didn't know how to answer such a question.
But he seemed to sense that what Huang Quan said might be right.
They are really so inferior to the Wei people.
Since the war, the Shu people have done their best to exhaust all their savings for the army to fight, and the materials have been scarce to a certain extent.
Wu Yi knew that in order to support the war, many places had already collected all the seeds and grains of the people, and it had reached this point.
Even if this war is won, there will be a great famine after the war, and it is not known how many people will starve to death.
On the other hand, the Wei people, walking leisurely, fighting wars are like coming to sightsee, they have been using trebuchets to carry out long-range attacks, and the army rarely comes forward to capture the city in person, which is of course the Wei army consciously unable to quickly capture the city, but this also reflects the confidence of the Wei people.
Because the food was sufficient, the logistics were sufficient, and the emperor did not force them to fight quickly, so that the front-line army could be so confident, and the army could be so calm and not rash.
And they are almost counting the days when the grain transport team will arrive.
Because there is always not enough food.
The huge gap between the two countries can be seen from the grain reserves, and the use of 80,000 troops to fight against the Wei people under such circumstances is in a sense overdrawn vitality for the Shu State.
If it weren't for the fact that Shuzhong has always been rich, and the country of Tianfu is worthy of its name, let alone two months, twenty days is enough to choke.
The 80,000 troops on the front line, more than 100,000 grain carriers, and more than 200,000 people who are not engaged in production are eating, and they can still have a mouthful of food to eat, which is already the best embodiment of the four words of the country of abundance.
Now, Chengdu is gone, the resistance of the Shu people has failed, and the resistance of all their efforts has failed, what else can be done?
Wu Yi lost without temper, not at all.
Huang Quan still had the desire to fight again, but when he saw the soldiers around him who were in disarray and demoralized, he also deeply realized that he was powerless in the face of the powerful Wei army.
At this point, if they are defeated, they will be defeated, even if they have not been defeated head-on, and the country is defeated, what can they do if they can fight again?
On April 20 of the second year of Yande, Wu Yi, the commander-in-chief of the Shu army, officially opened the Jiange Pass, led all the soldiers who could still move, laid down their weapons, took off their armor, and marched out of the city in line to ask for surrender and give up resistance in front of the Wei camp.
Guan Yu, the chief general of the Wei army, stepped forward and accepted Wu Yi's surrender on behalf of Emperor Guo Peng.
In the face of the enemy who insisted on not surrendering before Liu Zhang's surrender, Guan Yu still maintained a certain respect, because they had not been defeated and had always insisted, Guan Yu could not humiliate them, nor would he humiliate them.
"The battle between the two countries is a national war, not a personal grudge, you stick to the Sword Pavilion, and you have not let our army cross the past for two months, Guan has nothing to say about your defense, your surrender Guan accepted it, as for how to deal with you, you have to wait for the edict of the Son of Heaven of our country."
Wu Yi lowered his head.
"The general of the defeated army is at the mercy of His Majesty Wei Tianzi."
Guan Yu was very satisfied with Wu Yi's attitude, ordered the weapons and armor of the Shu army to be confiscated, and then entered the Sword Pavilion Pass City accompanied by Wu Yi.
Entering the Sword Pavilion Gate, Guan Yu saw the tragic situation in the Sword Pavilion Pass City being hit by their stones, earth-shattering thunder, and fierce fire oil canisters, as well as the wounded soldiers lying in the simple temporary barracks waiting for death.
Frowning, Guan Yu was a little strange.
"Is there no one to treat their wounds?"
Guan Yu stepped forward to take a look at the injuries of these wounded soldiers, and found that many of the wounds had festered and were difficult to treat, but there were also some wounded soldiers whose injuries were minor and had not been treated.
When Guan Yu asked this, Wu Yi almost choked to death, and Huang Quan behind him almost didn't step forward to strangle Guan Yu.
Are you embarrassed to say this?
Is this what you should say?
Fortunately, they held back, sorted out their emotions, and Wu Yi slowly spoke.
"There is a shortage of doctors and medicines in Shu, we have asked Chengdu for help for a long time, but we have not got many military doctors and medicinal materials, only a few people can be treated, most people can not be treated, those who are lucky can survive, those who are unlucky, can only wait for death, our army has died because of these injuries and diseases, in the past two months, there are more than 5,000."
After that, Wu Yi and the generals of the Shu army all lowered their heads and wept silently.
"So much?"
Guan Yu was a little surprised, and looked at Xun You, and he understood the reason.
They can't ask Liu Zhang, like Guo Peng, to spend a lot of money to train military doctors and extensively plant medicinal herbs, just to treat wounded soldiers.
They also know in their hearts that a leader like Guo Peng, who loves soldiers like a son, can be met but not sought, and if he encounters it, it is considered luck, and no one can be blamed if he does not meet it.
After all, for thousands of years, how many people can really care about the lives of these low-level soldiers who are as cheap as grass?
When the dynasty was strong, it was better to be gentle, engage in recruitment, pay attention to initiative, recruit a group of outlaws, and when it was in decline and chaos, it didn't matter who you were, all of them were forcibly conscripted.
When he is not fighting, he is the most despicable Li Shu, who may not even be able to eat, and he is miserable and does not know when he will die.
When you are in a war, you will be temporarily recruited, and when you have money, you will throw it in the barracks and give it a weapon, and when you don't have money, you will be given a wooden stick to be considered a weapon, and as for the armor, you can't even think about it, how expensive that thing is.
In the army, they will not let you starve to death, but if the supplies can't keep up, it is not impossible to starve to death.
Anyway, in the end, it was the general's private soldiers, who wore fine armor with sophisticated weapons, these people were cannon fodder, full of numbers, luck in life, and bad luck in death.
If you are injured, no one can only deal with it yourself, and if you are lucky, you will survive, and if you are unlucky, you will die, and when the time comes, it will be considered the emperor's kindness to give a small amount of bereavement.
Only those who survive until the end break through the city and enter the city to loot can be regarded as earning back the capital.
So isn't this war just a matter of selling your life?
Guan Yu thought for a moment, looked at the full battalion of wounded soldiers, looked at the sad expressions of the generals of the Shu army, thought for a moment, and ordered his subordinates to move the entire field hospital to the Sword Pavilion Guancheng.
He had to ask the military doctors to treat the soldiers who could still be saved.
Xun You suddenly looked at Guan Yu with some surprise, looked up and down, and raised his evaluation of Guan Yu to a higher level.
Hearing this, all the generals of the Shu army were very surprised, and they didn't know what Guan Yu was doing this for, and they were stunned.
However, when they saw a large number of Wei army doctors with medicinal herbs and came to treat the wounded soldiers of the Shu army, the feeling of surprise could not be described at all.
Even Huang Quan, who was still gritting his teeth, didn't know what expression to use to face the scene in front of him.
There were a large number of Wei military doctors, with white cloths wrapped around their arms and white scarves on their heads, and they drove in one by one to check the wounds of these wounded soldiers.
Basically, they first sprinkled something like water on the wounds, and the wounded soldiers let out terrible screams, and the military doctors were surrounded by assistant-like people who held the bodies of these wounded soldiers to prevent them from moving, and then the military doctors operated as fiercely as tigers.
Either directly apply medicine to bandage, or use a sharp small knife to cut the soldier's wound bloody, and then apply various herbs, and then bandage, the technique is skillful and fast.
The soldiers of the Shu army howled for a while, and then the sound gradually stopped until they no longer cried.
Under the watchful eye of the generals of the Shu army and a group of soldiers, the military doctors dealt with the wounds of these wounded soldiers one by one.
And the water-like thing at the beginning, Wu Yi smelled it, and the smeller was a bit like wine, but it didn't feel like wine, and the taste was very strong, which was completely different from the wine they usually drank.
However, this is not the point, the point is the number of military doctors in the Wei army, the abundance of medicinal materials, the speed of treatment, and ...... Why did Guan Yu help the Shu army treat wounded soldiers?
"I, Wei Tianzi, have always valued the lives of soldiers."
Guan Yu looked at Wu Yi and the generals of the Shu army with a stunned look, and said with some pride: "Since you have surrendered, Guan Mou can't be regarded as not seeing, after many years of fighting, Your Majesty has more military doctors in the army, and every time we march, there are at least 100 military doctors with the army, and a temporary medical hall will be set up in every place to be responsible for diagnosing and treating wounded soldiers."
His Majesty said that a veteran who has returned from injury is better than ten recruited recruits, medicinal materials are valuable, human life is priceless, medicinal materials can be planted without them, and they will grow into them in a few years, and people are gone, don't want to grow up without ten or twenty years, so there has always been a tradition in our army that we will never abandon any wounded soldier. ”
Guan Yu stroked his beautiful hair, with a smug face, and preached to these Shu generals the benevolence of the Great Wei Emperor and the preferential treatment of the army.