The news of Liu Yue's escape to Bingzhou soon spread to Cao Liang, the battle of Xiliulin, the Wei army won a complete victory, the only reason for some fly in the ointment is to let Liu Yue escape, which is also to make many Wei soldiers sigh, if they fight more resolutely, maybe Liu Yue will not escape.

For the Wei army, which was determined to completely annihilate the Huns, this could not but be said to be a pity.

However, for Cao Liang, he was quickly relieved, this time he completely annihilated the main force of the southern Xiongnu in one fell swoop, and the results were brilliant, as for escaping a Liu Yue, it was irrelevant, Liu Yue's troops had already been wiped out, and he was left with only a bare-pole commander, how much storm could he set off?

Even if he escapes to Bingzhou, what can he do, anyway, Cao Liang will definitely march to Bingzhou, and it will not be too late to clean him up when the time comes.

The top priority now is how to deal with those Hun prisoners of war and the bunch of women, children, old and weak left behind.

The number of Xiongnu soldiers captured this time was indeed too much, and the final count of the number of people was more than half of the Xiongnu army, reaching more than 5,500 people.

It seems that the Huns are not all fierce and brave, soft bones still occupy a lot of proportion, usually look high-flying, but really to the point of life and death, these Huns soldiers have all lost their fighting spirit, kneeling and surrendering, it is simply no integrity at all.

They are not even as good as ordinary Wei soldiers, and in times of crisis, many Wei soldiers can still treat death as home, fight bravely, and will never surrender lightly.

Obviously, these Hun soldiers are too far behind in terms of willpower, they only care about their own life and death, in good times, they can move forward, but in adversity, they can easily collapse.

But so many prisoners of war also brought a lot of trouble to Cao Liang, first of all, eating is the biggest problem, five or six thousand people have five or six thousand mouths, the food to be eaten every day is an extremely large number, Cao Liang has a staff of 10,000 people, then the food and salary of the court is paid according to 10,000 people, and no more people are within the scope of the burden of the imperial court.

Cao Liang himself recruited a lot of auxiliaries this time, and the auxiliaries were not in the establishment, so Cao Liang needed to pay out of his own pocket. But auxiliaries are indispensable for Cao Liang, so Cao Liang is willing to pay as much as he wants.

But these prisoners of war have become a burden, and the daily consumption of food has to reach almost half of the imperial court ration, so even if Cao Liang is rich and rivals the country, he can't afford it when the time is long.

What's more, these prisoners of war have no value and will not improve any combat effectiveness of the army, but Cao Liang needs to send people to guard them, and there can be no fewer guards, otherwise it will be even more troublesome if these Huns escape.

But no matter how troublesome Cao Liang is, he must keep these prisoners of war, if they are released, maybe these people will soon take up arms and continue to fight against the Wei army.

What made Cao Liang even more embarrassed was that if there were no these prisoners of war, Cao Liang could have marched lightly, waved his army north, pursued Liu Yue and marched towards Bingzhou at the same time, but now because of the drag of so many Xiongnu prisoners of war, the Pingbei army could only stagnate.

Therefore, these Hun prisoners of war have become a hot potato, and they can't be closed, they can't be released, and they can't be killed, which seems to have become a difficult problem to solve.

If the problem of Xiongnu prisoners of war cannot be quickly solved, the Pingbei Army must allocate a part of its forces to take care of these prisoners of war, which will make the Pingbei Army, which was already a little overstretched in strength, even worse.

In addition to the matter of the Xiongnu prisoners of war, there is also a matter of the Xiongnu tribe that Cao Liang needs to deal with.

When the Huns fought, they used the method of all-people warfare, that is to say, all the young and strong men from fifteen to fifty were all conscripted into the army by Liu Yue, but despite this, the women, children, old and weak left by the Hun tribe still exceeded the young and strong recruited.

Although Liu Yue fled to Bingzhou, the remaining Xiongnu tribes were to be dealt with by Cao Liang.

These Hun civilians are completely different from the prisoners of war captured on the battlefield, although the Huns have a tradition of burning, killing and looting, and have committed heinous crimes against the Han people, but Cao Liang is after all a person who came from a civilized modern society, and indiscriminately killing innocents is never his idea, not to mention that what he is facing is just a group of women and children who are unrestrained, and this kind of hurtful thing is absolutely impossible to do.

But if these remaining Xiongnu are not disposed of, then the Hun children who are now staggering and walking will grow into strong men in ten years, and if they do not eradicate the roots, it is likely to lead to another rebellion.

Therefore, solving the affairs of these Xiongnu civilians has become another thorny problem for Cao Liang.

The Xiongnu rebellion and the future Wuhu rebellion actually reflect a strategic mistake made by the Central Plains Dynasty against the Hu people who moved inward.

After the Xiongnu and other Hu people continued to migrate southward into the Central Plains, although the Central Plains Dynasty also sent officials to manage them, and also used the means of division and rule for their tribes, this kind of divide and rule still has certain defects, that is, the Central Plains Dynasty adopted the means of isolation for the Xiongnu and other Hu people, only demarcated the residence of the Hu people, did not allow the local Han people and the Hu people to communicate with each other, did not completely disrupt the tribal structure of the Hu people, and did not integrate the Hu people into the Han people.

If Cao Liang continued to adopt the previous imperial court's method of managing the Xiongnu and other Hu people, it would be tantamount to treating the symptoms but not the root cause, although the rebellion of the Xiongnu in the south was quelled and the national contradictions were temporarily resolved, but from a long-term point of view, it was still impossible to eradicate these scourges, and still could not solve the disastrous consequences of the Wuhu rebellion.

Therefore, Cao Liang was very cautious about how to deal with the Xiongnu civilians, and if he wanted to truly solve the problem of the Wuhu Rebellion, he had to find a way to find a way from the root.

Cao Liang was definitely unwilling to bear the infamy of a butcher, even if he could bring a high-sounding reason, so the plan of large-scale slaughter of Xiongnu civilians was not in Cao Liang's consideration at all.

So what can be done to really prevent the occurrence of the Wuhu Rebellion?

In fact, Cao Liang had already planned to completely disrupt the social structure of the Xiongnu people, integrate these Xiongnu civilians into the social system of the Han people, change the living structure with the Xiongnu tribe as the main body, and further migrate these Xiongnu civilians from Puzi County to the south and disperse them to other parts of Hedong County.