Chapter 451: Zhuxia Intimacy
"That's fine!"
Fusu was still thinking about it, but Meng Yi spoke first.
The three generations of the Mengshi were Qin generals, Meng Fu and Meng Wu, all of whom had done similar things, although the number of people killed was only a fraction of the number of people killed in the Qin army, but the Mengshi clan had long been accustomed to the practice of killing prisoners in the Qin army.
Although this matter will be criticized by some civilian officials in the DPRK and China, it is a matter that is really beneficial to the soldiers. The Qin army judged merit by the first rank, and a general who regarded his pawn as a son would not hesitate to cut off the heads of enemy prisoners and earn them an extra rank and a hundred acres of land.
This thing has been done, the benefits are so great, and the possible punishment is so small, so since Shang Ying's reform, it has always existed in the Qin army like maggots attached to the bones.
Although, before Bai Qi committed suicide, he said, "In the Battle of Changping, hundreds of thousands of people surrendered by Zhao, and I deceived them to the fullest, which is enough to die." After this sentence, the phenomenon of killing prisoners has subsided a lot, but small-scale ones are still everywhere.
Therefore, killing 7,000 Huns is really not a big deal.
Meng Yi expressed his attitude, and Heifu looked at Fusu and said with a smile:
"Childe, what do you think?"
Fusu was still hesitating, and after Heifu asked twice, he said: "Before I came to Saiwai, I had read the ancient art of war, and the "Sima Law" said that there is no way to cut down the state, enter the land of sinners, no violent saints, no field hunting, no soil destruction, no burning walls, no felling of trees, no taking of six animals, corn, and instruments. Although the strong are encountered, they will not be defeated if they are not schooled, and if the enemy is injured, the medicine will be returned. β
"In the past, my father raised volunteers, punished the thieves, and destroyed the six countries, so it is really impossible to kill the people of the six countries."
In his words, he deeply criticized the bad habit of Qin's generals to kill prisoners after each battle, and believed that this was an important reason why although the Six Kingdoms were merged with Qin, their people still separated from Qin!
"Therefore, the battle of Zhuxia should be based on this law, otherwise they will kill in vain and enmity against each other, then the so-called great harmony of the world and the unity of the seven kingdoms will become an empty word, but ......"
Childe Fusu raised his head and made up his mind:
"However, this method is only suitable for the civil war in Zhuxia, and the battle of Yurong is different!"
"Oh?" "What's the difference?" β
Fusu said: "In ancient times, Yu Zheng had Miao, Shang Zheng Di Qiang, Zhou Zheng ηη (xiΗnyΗn), and Mu Gong Varong State, all had the gift of offering prisoners and beheading Yu (guΓ³), which was unruly and difficult to influence, such as birds and beasts!" Jin Wei and General Li Er are the main commanders, and they are alone and suspended, and they can't escort prisoners and listen to His Majesty Hou's fate, so they can only follow power. β
"If the general agrees that it is appropriate to kill, there is nothing wrong with this!"
Although Fusu was a little reluctant to kill the prisoner itself, he still agreed.
"Sacrifice the Prisoner and Behead ......"
Heifu is still useful, and Fusu is a good excuse to kill prisoners.
That is the practice since ancient times, captives are often sacrificed to ancestors, the gods of the sacrifice, I heard that Yin Shang is the best mouth, sacrifice the pit in the Qiang people, Zhou people captives layer upon layer.
Even the king of Zhou Wu, who was packaged as a "teacher of benevolence and righteousness" by the later generations of Confucianism, was not merciless when he killed the Yin Shang captives, hundreds of thousands of people, all of them were slaughtered like livestock, in front of the Zhou Temple, the rest of the merchants' heads were piled up into a mountain, and the heads of the kings and Daji were hung high, and hundreds of Yin Shang nobles, such as the ancestors of the Qin State, were thrown into the fire to make charcoal-roasted human heads, and were used as sacrifices.
It was not until the Spring and Autumn Period that the concept of "Zhuxia" was born, and it was agreed between countries that they would no longer kill each other's prisoners, and the nobles could be exchanged with each other if they were caught, and the war had a more civilized color.
However, after entering the Warring States Period, Sun Wukai took the lead, and the war became cruel and deceitful again.
Heifu is a first-hand witness, and countless battles have made him understand that this is a cruel era. The battle for land, killing people; Fight for the city, kill the city.
Mencius said that those who do not love to kill can live in one day. But in fact, it was the Qin State, which killed the most people, that completed the unification......
At this time, Fusu said again: "General Wei, I have another suggestion!" β
"Childe, please speak."
Fusu said: "The soldiers were killed and injured in battle, and some people were restrained and treated by doctors, but I went to the people's place last night to inspect and found that many people were injured, but no one cared about their lives or deaths. β
"I already know about this, but there are not enough doctors to take care of everyone. β
As early as the War of Unification, he put forward the proposal of setting up a medical corps and implemented it in the army. But a tun can only be assigned to a medical soldier who is familiar with medical skills and can bandage, after the war, thousands of wounded, they are too busy to close their eyes, and the minor injuries of the people have no time to manage.
Fusu said movingly: "In addition to injuries, I thought that those people who pushed the Wugang cart, advanced and retreated with the army, and endured the rain of arrows from the Huns, they had no merit, and they also had hard work. There are also those people who died of exhaustion and illness along the way, and they also died for Qin. I don't want these people, after this war, to get nothing! β
"Therefore, I hope that the general, after killing the Hun prisoners and using his head as a military merit, can also write the exploits of the Kwantung people into the good news! The living will be rewarded, the dead will be compensated, and even the cemetery of the faithful will be included! β
After that, Fusu got up and bowed his hand to Heifu:
"The ancients, Rong Di jackal, can't be tired, Zhuxia is intimate, can't be abandoned. The general of this captain beheaded the jackal, and he should not forget the people of Shandong. Regardless of whether they were Chu Yan, Han, Zhao and Wei Qi in the past, since they joined the Qin army, they shed blood and sweat outside the fortress, they should be treated equally! β
As soon as these words came out, Meng Tian was a little shocked, and Heifu was also very surprised.
Because in Qin, serving in Qianshou was an obligation, and there was no return. Unless it is a special case, for example, King Qin Zhao sent all the men of Hanoi County to help Changping, covering Zhao Rescue and food, and the whole county over the age of fifteen was collectively given a knighthood. Otherwise, the people will rarely be rewarded, and it is even more impossible to be promoted.
But after a moment of silence, Heifu nodded.
"Childe has great benevolence! Regarding this matter, I will write a letter with my son and ask for His Majesty's consent!" β
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Three days later, on the edge of the green space, in the dry desert, the sand dunes were full of corpses, and all the corpses of the Huns were everywhere as far as the eye could see......
Seven thousand people were divided into seventy teams, brought into the desert respectively, surrounded by the Qin army, rushed to the bottom of the sand dunes and shot to kill, and from time to time someone went up to mend the knife! The killing lasted all day, and the next day, thousands of Kwantung men were driven here again and told to put all the heads of the Huns on their carts and push them out.
"Gross!"
The smell of blood filled the desert, and a resident of Waihuang County couldn't help but vomit heavily.
Guan Ying went over to help this person pat him on the back, but he was fine, and laughed at the man and said: "You still boasted that you were a ranger back then, and you didn't blink an eye when you killed people, how could you vomit like this, these days, there are still fewer corpses you see?" β
The Waihuang man wiped his mouth and said: "If these Hulu die, they will die, but when I see this situation, I can't help but think of when the Qin army attacked Waihuang, the Qin general named Yang Xiong also cut off the head of the ranger who surrendered, and my brother was among them. In the end, I had to find him in a pile of headless corpses......"
"By the way, that lieutenant general of Northland County seems to be in Waihuang back then, maybe, he is the one who killed my brother!"
The scene in front of him made the stomach of the Waihuang people sour, remembering the grudge of the year, and gritted his teeth and said: "If you want me to say, the Qin people are the same as the Huns, they are all tigers and wolves!" β
"Stop talking, silence!"
Guan Ying hurriedly signaled, not far away, the little tun chief who was in charge of them was triumphantly inspecting, standing on the sand dune, and said to the people who collected the heads: "Count your good luck, General Wei and Gongzi will show credit for you!" Although it is not possible for everyone to get a knighthood, there are some rewards and even land! As for those who died of illness and exhaustion, the general said that they would also be properly buried on the edge of the cemetery. β
The people looked at each other, and the Qin Dynasty never violated the law, and they had to be severely punished, and it was no good to go, and they would even end up injured. The beheading of the soldiers can exchange them for the land, but they have never heard of which general will give the people merit and collect the corpses.
"It must be Gongzi Fusu who knows our hard work!"
People with simple brains have begun to be grateful to Dade, Fusu has taken great care of the people all the way, and after the war, he paid for the Qin soldiers and came to visit them, such benefits must have been won by Gongzi for them.
Waihuang Minfu, whose brother died in the hands of the Qin army, said in a low voice: "Bah, Xiao En Xiaohui, besides, who is rarely buried in the grave of the Qin people, in that case, I can't close my eyes when I die......"
Guan Ying thought so, staring at the arrogant back of Xiaotun Chang: "Except for Gongzi Fusu, who is really benevolent, the rest of the Qin officials are all charitable!" β
And, he had one thing to worry about.
"My family has been selling silk, not because I want to be a businessman, but because there is no free land in Suiyang, if I can really get the land, it is indeed a good thing, I am just worried about ......"
"Worried about what?" The outer yellow man asked.
Guan Ying looked at the oasis behind him, and even the Helan Mountain grassland they had seen two hundred miles to the south, and said worriedly:
"I'm afraid, the land that Qin officials want to grant us is just outside this plug!"
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A month later, in the middle of July of the 29th year of Qin Shi Huang, Qin Shi Huang, who was located in Zhangtai Palace in Xianyang, finally received a military report from the front line of Helan Mountain!
"Open, read!"
Qin Shi Huang asked the imperial historian Feng to read it out, this is the news that Qin Shi Huang has been waiting for for a long time after receiving a report from Shangjun, saying that Shan Yu's royal court is empty, and the main force of the Xiongnu does not know where to go!
The Xiongnu were strong and clear, and even did not hesitate to give up the royal court, of course Qin Shi Huang would not be naΓ―ve to think that he fled in a hurry because he was afraid of himself, and these Hulu must have some idea.
Although he was very calm, he was inevitably a little irritable inside.
From the beginning of this war to the present, there has been a lot of opposition, and Qin Shi Huang needs a hearty victory to slap the opponents in the face, so he must not afford to lose!
What's more, if his son, who is still outside the fortress, and the son of a daughter, dies in danger, then the black man, if he does not die in battle, he can come to see him......
After Feng Qujian opened it, he found that it was not his son Feng Zheng's report, and he secretly said something bad in his heart, but he still read it aloud:
"Northland County Lieutenant Heifu said again: Rely on Your Majesty's wisdom, the soldiers use their lives, and the prince supervises the army and supervises the battle......
"The minister and General Li have driven a long car and stepped through the lack of Helan Mountain!"