When he learned that his younger brother Zhao Hongxuan came to Gao Wolf after crossing the southern mountainous area of Taiyue Mountain, Zhao Hongrun was very moved. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

You must know that whether it is Taihang Mountain or Taiyue Mountain, the deep mountains of this era are very steep and difficult to walk. Don't look at the Duanshi to the high wolf, it seems that there are only about 100 miles across the southern mountains of Taiyue Mountain, but this is a straight-line distance between the two places, and the actual distance may have to be doubled or tripled, otherwise there will be no saying that "Wangshan runs a dead horse".

What's more, there is no so-called road in this kind of deep mountain area, all rely on finding the direction by yourself, opening mountains and building bridges when encountering water, if you encounter cliffs, you either have to find a way to go down, or you can only find other feasible roads in a roundabout.

In addition to the treacherous terrain, the poisonous snakes and beasts in the deep mountains are also a huge threat.

In addition, it is very inconvenient to find a water source, so that as long as there is a choice, ordinary generals will not be willing to act in the deep mountains, who knows what kind of danger is hidden in those inaccessible deep mountains.

But his younger brother Zhao Hongxuan walked through the southern mountains of Taiyue Mountain without hesitation, which moved Zhao Hongrun and also had an inexplicable emotion: Brothers are brothers after all.

"Good work."

After the simple celebration that night, when Zhao Hongrun and his younger brother Zhao Hongxuan sat by the bonfire, Zhao Hongrun finally said the words hidden in his heart.

Zhao Hongxuan was stunned, and then smiled.

Vaguely, it seems that the estrangement between the brothers has disappeared and the intimacy of the past has been restored.

The next day, early in the morning, the Su Wang army stationed in Weiqiu left the Weiqiu military camp and went to yesterday's battlefield to clean up the corpses of the enemy and our troops who had fallen last night.

When the soldiers of King Weiqiu Su were cleaning the battlefield, Zhao Hongxuan followed his brother Zhao Hongrun, looking at the corpses scattered throughout the battlefield.

When he saw the corpse of a soldier of King Gu Su being carried aside by his Tongze, Zhao Hongxuan couldn't help but sigh.

On the side, Zhao Hongrun was also silent.

The battle of Weiqiu, this is the most tragic battle since the Suwang army entered Shangdang County, and the most self-lost troops, according to preliminary estimates, this battle, Weiqiu 20,000 Yanling army and Shangshui army killed a total of about 6,000 or so, killing about 14,000 Han troops.

When Zhao Hongxuan learned of this death number, he gasped in shock.

Only then did he realize how strong the army under his brother Zhao Hongrun really was - the 20,000 Wei army was besieged by nearly 40,000 Korean troops and more than 20,000 Korean cavalry in Weiqiu for nearly ten days, and finally seized the opportunity to attack with the momentum of breaking the cauldron and sinking the boat, facing nearly 40,000 Korean troops, killing 14,000 enemies and losing 6,000 themselves, what a strong and tenacious army this is!

"Will the bodies of these soldiers be sent back to Shangshui?" Zhao Hongxuan asked.

Zhao Hongrun was silent for a moment, and finally said quietly: "The soldiers have decided to bury the ashes of these companions in Weiqiu......"

Hearing this, Zhao Hongxuan glanced at his brother in astonishment, and stopped talking, but in the end, he didn't say anything, just nodded silently.

Because he knew that if he could, his brother would definitely return the bodies of his soldiers who had died in battle to Shangshui, instead of leaving them buried in a foreign land.

The cleaning of the battlefield lasted for a whole day, and part of the Suwang army was responsible for collecting the corpses of the Han soldiers, and they stripped off the leather armor from the corpses of these Han soldiers, and took the long swords and Han crossbows scattered on the ground as the trophies of this battle.

It is undeniable that the long sword of the Han soldier is still very good, and it will not be much inferior to the war knife of the Wei soldiers, so the Wei army is happy to use this long sword as a secondary weapon or a substitute weapon.

As for Han's crossbow, it was properly kept by the Wei soldiers, after all, the sword and shield soldiers of the Su Wang Army were not equipped with hand crossbows, so they hung one on their waists, and turned around to get a few arrows, and the sword and shield soldiers could be regarded as having long-range weapons.

As for the light armor on the Han soldiers, I believe that the Wei soldiers collected it purely with the idea of 'something is better than nothing', after all, this kind of leather armor sewn from cowhide also has some defensive power, and it can be sold for some money after returning to China in the future. For the Suwang Army, which is forbidden by military regulations to loot civilians, clearing the battlefield is an opportunity for the soldiers to collect loot, but considering that the pension and treatment of the Suwang Army are very high, for the soldiers, collecting the spoils after the war is actually just a tradition.

How much can a set of equipment for a Korean soldier be sold? You must know that the soldiers of the Su Wang's army, after several large-scale wars, already have houses, fields, and even a few sheep, and they are proper rich peasant class.

What you get when you clean up the battlefield is at best a few drinks for nothing.

It is precisely because of this that in addition to the sword and shield soldiers who are interested in the Korean crossbow, and the crossbow soldiers are interested in the Korean long sword, the rest of the soldiers like the Korean army's soldier armor or something, are purely collected as garbage, after all, the armor of the Su Wang Army is much better than the light armor of the Korean soldiers, not to mention the heavy armor of the sword and shield soldiers, after all, the relatively light and weak armor of the crossbow soldiers is better than the light armor of the Korean soldiers.

After about a few hours, the corpses of the Han soldiers were first gathered in a pile, and some wood, branches, and dead leaves were collected from the nearby woods, and the corpses of the Han soldiers were burned with these firewoods.

While burning the corpses, the Wei soldiers dug a deep pit next to them, and when the corpses were burned, they moved the ashes to the pit, which could prevent the corpses from decomposing to contaminate the soil and water sources to the greatest extent, and prevent the occurrence of plague.

As for the corpses of the soldiers of King Su, they were all moved to Weiqiu by the Wei soldiers, there was no carriage, and the soldiers simply used to carry and carry them, after all, they were all compatriots who lived and died together, and no one would think about blood stains, let alone worry about other gods and ghosts.

Around dusk, the corpses of about 6,000 soldiers of King Su who died in battle were moved to Weiqiu by Wei soldiers.

The Wei soldiers cut down a lot of trees on Weiqiu Mountain, built a huge bonfire with wood, and placed the corpses of the soldiers and soldiers of King Su who had been stripped of their weapons and equipment on the bonfire.

At that time, the 14,000 surviving soldiers of the Suwang Army's surprise attack force all sat around the campfires and silently bid farewell to these comrades who died in battle.

A moment later, Zhai Huang, the deputy general of the Shang Water Army, and Sun Shuke, the general of the third battalion of the Yanling Army, each held a torch and lit the huge bonfire.

Then the two of them retreated to the soldiers, and sat on the ground with the rest of the soldiers of the Suwang army, and watched quietly as the bonfires crackled and burned.

At this time, Zhao Hongxuan was suddenly surprised to find that there was a burst of grass flutes around him.

"Shhh

Zhao Hongxuan glanced around a few times suspiciously, only to find that when all the soldiers and soldiers of King Su around him were sitting down, about hundreds of soldiers were still standing, and the blades of grass with solemn expressions played a soft and melodious tune.

He wondered in his heart, and wanted to ask, but when he saw that his brother Zhao Hongrun and the nearby Su Wang soldiers all looked solemn, he could only bury this question deep in his heart.

In fact, this is a tradition unique to the Su Wangjun.

I remember that two years ago, during the Battle of Sanchuan, the Shang Shui Army was heavily damaged and suffered heavy losses when the city resisted the siege of the Qianjiao tribe.

At that time, the soldiers of the merchant navy who had just joined the Wei state felt very confused, confused about what they were fighting for, so that the atmosphere of the merchant navy army was very bad that night, and the morale of the army was shaken.

At that time, Zhao Hongrun played a tune with a grass flute, and the ghost made a miracle to appease the emotionally agitated Shangshui soldiers.

Since then, this incident has become a tradition of the Shang Shui Army and the Yanling Army, whenever there are soldiers killed in battle, the rest of the soldiers will play this song with a grass flute to pay tribute to the Tongze who died in battle.

Because that's the only thing they can do.

It is precisely because this is a tradition that no one will make a noise at such a time, and the 14,000 soldiers and soldiers of King Su listened to the song quietly, watching their fallen comrades turn to ashes in the fire.

Looking at the solemn expressions of the generals of the Su Wang army present, Zhao Hongxuan suddenly realized, and he finally understood why his brother's two armies were so strong.

Is it because this army has traditions? Or do these soldiers have a sense of honor? Or is it the existence of the so-called military spirit?

Zhao Hongxuan couldn't say clearly, he only felt as if a voice was trying to make him understand: This is the posture of a strong army, a tiger and wolf army.

There were no tears, no superfluous words to boost morale, and there was no confusion in the hearts of the generals in the army, they all knew what they were fighting for, what they were dying, and they knew that all sacrifices were meaningful.

For the first time, Zhao Hongxuan was almost out of breath by the potential momentum of the friendly army.

Once upon a time, he was very confused about which army the Northern First Army should use as an example, but now, he is no longer confused, because he has witnessed and experienced the posture of a tiger and wolf army.

After about an hour and a half, the bonfire burned to ashes, and the soldiers of the Su Wangjun dug a deep pit next to it, and placed all the weapons and armor of those Tongze who died in the battle in the pit, and then they dumped the ashes of the soldiers who died in the battle into the pit and buried them with earth.

The latest weapons and armor of the Wei State were buried deep in the pit at the foot of Weiqiu Mountain, but Zhao Hongrun was not distressed - it may take a lot of money to build those 6,000 sets of weapons and armor, but so what?

On the side, Zhou Yu, the general of the Northern First Army, watched this scene, and secretly thought to himself: The reason why the army under the command of His Royal Highness King Su has such a strong cohesion is inseparable from the commander.

He couldn't help but sigh in his heart, a certain His Royal Highness King Su gave all the soldiers under his command what they wanted, in this case, how could the soldiers under his command be unwilling to die willingly for him?

"Heh, compared to the object of longing, it seems that His Royal Highness of my family still has a long way to go......

Glancing at Zhao Hongxuan beside him, he saw that he was looking intently at the soldiers of the Su Wang Army, and from time to time showed an expression of surprise, Zhou Yu, who had guessed what he was thinking in his heart, said secretly in his heart.