The scene Guo Peng saw after arriving at the battlefield was no stranger to him.

There are dead people everywhere, wounded soldiers everywhere, there are their own people, and more often there are Xianbei people.

A large number of Xianbei people died in battle, and the casualties of the Wei army are definitely not small at the moment.

The Xianbei cavalry is also the top cavalry unit of this era, and its combat effectiveness is far beyond the reach of others.

If it weren't for Guo and his cavalry an era ahead of them to carry out a degrading attack, it would have been necessary to pay a greater price to completely defeat them, and the attrition of this Northern Expedition would have increased, and the results would have decreased.

Guo never despises any enemy, whether the enemy is strong or weak.

And Xianbei people must not be considered weak.

At the critical moment of life and death, the Xianbei people broke out with a strong desire to survive and combat effectiveness, and the dying counterattack brought great trouble to the Wei army.

In the end, of course, the near-death counterattack failed to turn the tide of the battle, and after a complete collapse, their casualties began to increase exponentially.

From the collapse of Suli to the defeat of Fu Luohan, the casualties of the Wei army were greatly reduced, and the situation on the battlefield was completely controlled, and the war was completely won.

"Make every effort to treat the wounded, as long as there is still a breath, don't be stingy with medicine, and then, burn the corpses of the soldiers who died in battle, put the ashes on the altar, and take them all away, and the corpses of the Xianbei people are dug and thrown into them, burned in a centralized manner, and then buried on the spot, and no corpse is allowed to be left on the grassland."

Guo Peng gave his own order, and then someone would immediately do as he asked.

Guo Peng raised his eyes and looked into the distance, and all he saw were corpses.

In the middle of summer, the green grass was dyed with the color of blood, and when I looked at it again, there was a strange feeling that I couldn't say what I couldn't say, which made people feel uncomfortable.

So Guo Peng sighed deeply.

Cheng Yu didn't understand why the emperor sighed.

"Your Majesty, the army has won, Xianbei is doomed, why should Your Majesty sigh at this time of great joy?"

Cheng Yu approached Guo Peng.

Then he saw the Emperor slowly shake his head.

I don't sigh because of victory, I sigh for the difficulty of living a life, I want my Wei Zimin to live better and safer, and there is meat to eat, so I have to kill so many Xianbei people, and Xianbei people are also in order to live a better life, so they will go south and knock on the pass.

People live for a lifetime, in order to eat, in order to live, how much do you have to do what you don't want to do, this Lang Qiankun, if you want to live, it is inevitably too difficult, this battle our army won a complete victory, but, is there no loss? ”

Cheng Yu bowed his head and was silent.

Of course, there are losses.

Leaving aside the losses of the army for the time being, more than a hundred people died due to some accidents alone.

There are those who die of exhaustion, those who are sick and fail to receive timely treatment, those who choke to death after eating fast, and those who fall to death during transportation.

Although Guo Peng also provided good security protection for the logistics staff, it still could not guarantee that everyone was alive and well, some people died, and many people were injured and sick, delaying the production at home.

Once these important family workers lose their labor force for some reason, it will be a big blow to these families.

In the agrarian era, the labor force of young and middle-aged men was indispensable for the livelihood of a farming family, and if they lost their labor, it would be a devastating blow to a family.

And this will also become a heavy burden for the local government of the Wei Empire -

After losing the labor force, the family must be helped to continue with other alternatives, such as tax exemptions or the provision of cattle, so that the mistress of the family can take on this responsibility.

If there are too many of them, the concentration of such households in one village, township, and county will certainly seriously affect the overall economic level of the county.

That's very dangerous.

Moreover, the direct losses on the battlefield can still be calculated, but it is even more difficult to calculate these indirect losses, and the impact of these indirect losses on the national economy is also very difficult to calculate.

This part of the loss is also within the scope of Guo Peng's acceptance.

To put it bluntly, to win this war, the whole of Hebei will be exhausted for more than a year, or even more than two years, and once the accumulation of several years is exhausted, Hebei's people's strength has been exhausted.

After this war, the major projects in Hebei must also slow down the process, the work of the suspension of work, the people have to go home to start production, the imperial court policy must be tilted, it is necessary to rest with the people, and at least for two years there can be no more major moves.

Otherwise, the people of Hebei will be forcibly squeezed, and the people will complain together, and the consequences will be difficult to say.

Guo was reluctant to suppress the peasant uprising.

So in order to win a complete victory in this war, Guo also paid a lot of price.

Cheng Yu understands all this.

"However, Your Majesty, there are certainly losses, but winning this battle and destroying Xianbei is a matter of merit in the present and in the future, and future generations will benefit from it, and everyone will praise Your Majesty's merits.

Future generations will always remember that it was His Majesty who swept away Xianbei for them, so that they could live in peace, without worrying about the invasion of the north and the south, and it was His Majesty who personally conquered the grassland and benefited them, which is also a fact. ”

Guo Peng looked at Cheng Yu's old face, and a sense of guilt and vicissitudes spontaneously arose in his heart.

"Zhongde, thank you for your hard work."

"Old minister...... It's not hard. ”

Suddenly hearing Guo Peng say such words from his mouth, Cheng Yu almost screamed out in surprise.

Fortunately, he held back and held back his emotions.

"It's hard or not, I see it in my eyes, and everyone who does what needs to be done, I see it in my eyes."

Guo Peng stretched out his hand and patted Cheng Yu's shoulder, and then said with a smile: "Let's go, take this complete victory, I want to be the first Chinese emperor to go deep into Mobei and Pingbei, and I will also be the first Chinese emperor to arrive at Wolf Juxu Mountain to worship heaven and earth." ”

"Yes."

Cheng Yu couldn't hold back his excitement.

"That's right, Zhongde."

After instigating the war horse to trot forward for a while, Guo Peng suddenly looked back at Cheng Yu: "You say, if I die in the future, how about being buried in Wolf Juxu Mountain?" ”

"Huh?"

Cheng Yu looked at the emperor with a dull expression: "What did Your Majesty say?" ”

"What, isn't it? Isn't it a good thing that the emperor is buried in the place he conquered, conquered here forever, guarded this place forever, and guarded my Wei people forever, so that they would not be invaded by the northern captives? ”

Guo Peng laughed.

"No...... Lao Chen...... Lao Chen means...... His Majesty had such an idea, and it was indeed a bit sudden. ”

Cheng Yu quickly sorted out his thoughts: "If Your Majesty's mausoleum is to be arranged in Wolf Juxu Mountain, it will be too ......."

"Too what? That's good, let's settle down like this, and when we take down the Wolf Juxu Mountain, we can start preparing to start construction, build a mausoleum for me here, and I will be here forever!

Emperor Wei Yongzhen Mobei, called Mobei no longer Xianbei, no Huns, no barbarian tribes, if the descendants of future generations lose this place, lose my mausoleum, then they are not worthy of being my descendants! ”

Guo Peng feels that this is meaningful.

He didn't dare to guarantee that future generations would be like him and that they would be able to tilt their policies towards the grassland, nor did he dare to guarantee that the Wei State would always be strong and could occupy the grassland forever, but he buried himself in Wolf Juxu Mountain, which was a symbol.

Those who lose the mausoleum of the founding emperor are not my descendants!

This is an eternal admonition to future generations of emperors.

In Cheng Yu's eyes, the emperor at this time was very heroic, and he seemed to have infinite imagination for the future.

His ideas are always so unique, always so peculiar, and they are always unguessable and unthinkable.

No one knows what the emperor is thinking at every moment.

But victory was indeed in hand.

This costly Northern Expedition was not wasted, and the Wei army did win a brilliant victory.

From July 11 to July 21, the Wei army took turns to go into battle, pursued the Xianbei people for ten days in a row, almost penetrated Mobei, and the front of the troops pointed directly at Wolf Juxu Mountain.

Ten days of pursuit, killing about 60,000 Xianbei people, capturing more than 10,000 kneeling and begging for mercy, and less than 10,000 people are still fleeing for their lives, and Cao Chun and Li Dian's pursuing troops did not stop pursuing.

Guo Peng gathered most of the main forces around him to rectify and digest the results, and continued to march north to Wolf Juxu Mountain.

Then he took Su Li, who was captured by Wei Yansheng, with him, and asked Su Li to take the shackles as his servant, roast him and lead the horse.

Although Wei Yan's interpersonal relationship was not good, he was lucky, and on the sixth day of the pursuit, he caught up with Su Li.