The 220 Mughal cavalry with pigtails (yes, the Mughurs also wore braids, but their hairstyles were not very fixed, and they were not completely money-rat-tailed like the Jurchens) dejectedly carried hoes and other farm tools, and under the supervision of the young soldiers and village soldiers, they demolished the breastwork and refilled the trenches.

The mountain roads here are very important for the daily traffic of the nearby villagers, and they can't manage so much when they are fighting, and they will be scolded if they dig pits and do not fill them after the war.

There are also the corpses of those Tartar soldiers, which must be cremated or buried in a god pit, otherwise the weather in June may cause an epidemic.

All the armor, weapons, and belongings seized from the Tartars had to be classified into categories to ascend the throne, and then in addition to gold, silver, armor, weapons, etc., which had to be handed over, other copper coins, knives, clothes, and other materials could belong to each person—this was a rule left over from the original Fifteen Tun period, but now the young soldiers are not very interested in these things.

They divided a small amount of copper coins, and then each of them kept a souvenir, and the rest was all distributed to the villagers who came with them.

Of course, for the villagers, the biggest gain was not those few sheepskin jackets, but a large number of dead horses.

The young soldiers and the village soldiers worked together, the horses were peeled off for later use, and the horse meat was boiled in more than a dozen large pots, and everyone could eat it openly.

Due to the large number of dead horses, the officers of the Qi army discussed and planned to make some horse jerky and distribute it to the villagers who came with them, as well as the nearby villagers, who were willing to come to help clean up the battlefield could take some horse meat as a reward, and even the Mughal prisoners could get a bowl of broth.

Of course, not all captives can get a bowl of broth, because before eating, Xu Shizhen has to follow the tradition of the Qi army for a long time, and carry out the procedure of selecting five kills and one for foreign captives.

The villagers looked at these young soldiers who especially liked to sing with complicated eyes, and the young soldiers who were lively and agile on weekdays made a large handful of wooden sticks, a total of 220, of which 44 were short, and the others were slightly longer.

Any captive who received a short lot was executed, regardless of whether he was a valiant warrior or a Mughal nobleman, and no matter how much he begged for mercy or cried that there were parents and children waiting for him to return.

Forty-four unfortunate ghosts, stripped of their fines, wept and knelt beside the pit where the bodies were buried, and at the bottom of the pit hundreds of Mugultures had been thrown, and in a few minutes they would have to roll down for company.

The young soldiers were slightly excited to stab the prisoners in the back one by one with bayonets, and most of the prisoners were stabbed with a miserable howl and then kicked into the pit.

However, there were also young soldiers who could not find the key position, and failed to stab the vital point with a single sword, and the seriously injured prisoners rolled on the ground in pain, and the young soldiers were not in a hurry to make up for the stabs, and the bayonets slowly and methodically compared to the Tartar to find a suitable position again.

The prisoners on the side who had not yet been stabbed looked in horror at the convulsive corpses in the pit and the howling and rolling companions around them, this was probably the most terrifying experience in the world, some people couldn't bear the pressure and incontinence, and a foul smell suddenly floated from the scene.

Xu Shizhen covered his nose and waved his hand in disgust.

The non-commissioned officers immediately stepped forward and drew a pass for each of the firing squads, telling these bear children who were playing murder as a game to solve the problem as soon as possible, and then forced the other prisoners to refill the big pit.

"Kill them to deter the Tartars! It's not because killing captives is fun! ”

An officer who had become a military academy instructor shouted at the young soldiers of the firing squad:

"You're soldiers! It is your duty to obey orders and kill enemies on the battlefield! Don't fucking degenerate into beasts! Each of the firing squad should write a review, no less than five hundred words, and hand it over to me after this battle! ”

No matter how favored the young soldiers were, they still didn't dare to disobey the words of the instructors.

A group of young soldiers could only nod their heads in agreement.

But even so, when I heard them sing joyful and light songs at dinner, whether they were village soldiers or prisoners, their eyes still became a little different.

"It's a real headache."

As a veteran, Xu Shizhen can understand why his third brother chooses to kill foreign prisoners after every battle, which is nothing more than to improve the morale of the people and eliminate the psychological shadow brought by the contempt of the Jurchen, Mugul, and even the Dangxiang, Tubo and other Tartars for the Han people for decades.

All Xu Shiyang wanted was the result that "we killed them all easily, and we Han people were really good in comparison", not to get any excitement from the slaughter of prisoners.

Therefore, Xu Shiyang engaged in massacres but hated torture and killing, and today's behavior of these children is a bit excessive.

When I go back, I have to suggest that the third brother find a way to strengthen education in this area. ’

Xu Shizhen thought:

'Our Great Qi Army is a king army, not a beast army! ’

……

Maybe Batu is a great hole card for the princes, but for the Qi army, this is just a small episode on the way to the army.

At the end of June, the Qi army swept through Datong Prefecture, and the Northern Route Army and the cavalry troops that came from the grassland met under the city of Datong Mansion on the first day of the seventh month to complete the encirclement of Datong Mansion City.

During this period, the cavalry units of the Qi army easily defeated the core armed forces composed of Shihou Jiading and Zhuang Ke, killed one of Fan Yongdou's own sons, and shattered Shihou's last hope of fighting against Qi by force.

The battle groups of the Central Route Army and the Southern Route Army entered Taiyuan Prefecture, and some troops, including Xu Shizhen's battle group, went straight to Hequ and Baodezhou, while the main force passed through Daizhou and Xinzhou all the way and drove directly to Taiyuan.

Finally, the Shaanxi Provincial Shihou Army, commanded by Zuo Helin and Zhe Keshi, occupied the entire territory of Pingyang Prefecture by the end of June, and had already begun to advance to Qinzhou, Lu'an, and Zezhou.

In just a month's time, most of Jin Province had fallen into the hands of the Qi-Shaanxi coalition army, and the eight great dynasties had completely no drama to sing in military affairs, but they still held on to Datong with an army composed of their most trusted nephews, family members, and guests.

Naturally, they had no hope of victory, but they did not despair.

Because they can also count on foreign aid from the North and the South.

The Qi army seemed to be waiting for something, they besieged Datong for more than 20 days, and never launched a general attack on this very easy target.

The Qi army did not even completely besiege Datong, and Xu Shiyang allowed the people in the city to go out of the city to trade with the Qi army and the merchants from the Qi state.

Except for the fact that armaments were not allowed to enter the city, everyone in Datong City could safely purchase daily necessities such as grain, vegetables, salt, cloth, and even cheaper luxuries such as alcohol and meat.

During the siege, the prices of various prices in Datong City did not rise significantly, and even the prices of cloth and alcohol fell a little.

What's even more strange is that after more than ten days of siege, the residents of Datong City found that the Qi army had a good attitude towards them, so some people went out of the city every day to set up a small shed outside the city and open a tea shop to provide tea and all kinds of snacks for the warring sides.

This peculiar siege was absolutely the first in the history of world warfare.