Because he could not engage in direct combat to obtain military merits, as a standard for rapid promotion, Bai Liyan handed over the task of sending the guard battalion to Su Ke, in view of Du Ruixun's personality and battlefield situation determined that the risk of the envoy was extremely small, and this credit naturally fell on the heads of Su Ke and others.

Don't underestimate the envoy to the enemy camp once, you can basically be promoted to the next level at the moment, if you change the situation of the battle because of the envoy, it is possible to ascend to heaven and become a small noble.

Of course, it is not completely risk-free, so Bailiyan still prepared a grenade for Su Ke and others, but the string that Su Ke pulled out in Du Ruixun's camp tent was fake, one end was tied in the breastplate, and the string of the real grenade was not pulled at hand, so as not to make a mistake in the busy and have an accident.

But this is enough for the guards to be frightened, the grenades of the Xian army made the guards suffer on the Western Front, and five shots per person for more than a dozen people were enough to send the entire Shuai tent to the West Heaven, it was really a last resort, and Bailiyan could only be sorry for Su Hong. In the future, I will make up for the second son and the third son more, after all, war is risky, even if you eat and walk, there are accidents.

But further, if it is done, the return is not small, so the risk and value are equal, and since you want to gain fame, you have to take risks.

Of course, not all the children of his descendants will be able to take on important tasks, Su Ke is only one of them, what position is suitable for him, Bai Liyan carefully investigates and uses his talents, and also solicits personal opinions. For those who are not qualified, they will be arranged to the appropriate job field according to their strengths, and those who are really not able to do so will simply be persuaded to retire and arrange to find an errand in the industrial and commercial market.

All in all, when the incumbent pays more attention to the relationship of personal dependence, it is not realistic in the short term, there is no practical room for maneuver, and it is not of great significance to fundamentally dissolve this relationship of superiority and inferiority. Focusing on the overall situation, we must continue to use the rules and regulations that can be used.

In the afternoon of the same day, 5,000 guards carefully arrived in front of the Xian army, and it was agreed in advance that 5,000 men would be disarmed, but in fact 3,000 men would be disarmed, 2,000 light infantry men would be on guard with an iron shield and 200 paces behind 3,000 men, and the other 20,000 light cavalry would meet them ten miles away.

At dusk, the first batch of about 8,000 reinforcements from Feixiaqi landed in Hukou Bay, most of them were replenished by the Seventh Town Army, of which about 500 were miners' battalion led by Tian Peng, and the wounded returned to the east coast by boat for further treatment.

During the night, the Xian army set up a cordon outside the camp, providing fire and lighting to facilitate the movement of the corpses by the guards, and the rain also hit again after nightfall, and the next day there was no sign of stopping, and the rain became heavier and heavier. In the early morning of the next day, the second batch of reinforcements of about 7,000 troops landed on the shore, and the third group of medical personnel followed the landing, which greatly eased the difficulty of disposing of the wounded.

Last night alone, 13 seriously wounded and 329 dead in the Xian army, most of them from serious organ injuries, abdominal and thoracic hemorrhage, and infection.

Bailiyan was vaguely aware that the microbial environment of this planet was very different from that of the earth, with many strange diseases that had never been heard of before, and the death rate of major traumatic infections was extremely fast, from infection to death in a short half a day, and two days long, which did not include death caused by blood loss, but simple infection death. This means that the planet is home to certain unrecognized superbugs and viruses that hasten the death process.

By dawn, the guards had taken away about 7,000 corpses, and the progress was very slow, and if it was unexpected, Du Ruixun would have sent an envoy to the Xian army in the morning to ask for an extension of time.

The deep-seated reason is that Du Ruixun knew that he was not the opponent of the Xian army, so he resolutely changed his plan, and also wanted to retaliate against the tactics of delaying the army, delaying it until the Zhi army arrived, and then forcing the Xian army to divert to Changsun, so that he could use the hilly and mountainous terrain to weaken the combat efficiency of the Xian army's hot weapons and divide and annihilate the Xian army.

So just after the end of the day, Du Ruixun sent the escort general Wang Xie to the Xianjun camp in Hukou Bay to negotiate the collection of the body again.

"The time given by the Xian army is very short, and it is difficult for our army to carry all the corpses, so I hope that the Xian army will be given a few more days."

Regarding Wang Xie's request, Bai Liyan was tough:

"Ben Shuai gave you 5,000 men and horses, but the guards only used 3,000 people to transport the corpses, is it Ben Shuai's fault? Ben Shuai said that it is only until noon today, General Wang, please go back! ”

"General Baili, today is our army defeated, the Xian army can be so arrogant, if the Xian army is defeated in the future, the Xian army is in the wilderness, what does the general think."

"Hmph, if my Xian army is defeated, most of them have been cut off by your army and set up a Jingguan!"

As soon as these words came out, Wang Xie was speechless.

"Jingguan" refers to cutting off the heads of the enemy's dead, mixing them with dirt and piling them up into a hill, and then planting their own military flags to show their achievements.

But this kind of behavior is extremely barbaric and immoral, before the establishment of the Liang Dynasty, the Jingguan incident happened from time to time is very common, to say that the level of civilization at that time was low, after all, it was still in the early stage of barbarism and slavery society, and barbarism is still understandable.

However, in the middle and late period of the Hao Dynasty, the Lijing Temple had been abolished, and after the establishment of the Liang Dynasty, it was basically not promoted, and the occasional occurrence was only a few sporadic incidents, and it did not become popular.

But the defense of the country is an exception, the defense of the country but whenever there is a big war, to set up the Beijing Temple, the battle of Luye beheaded the West Sea coalition army 190,000, set up the Beijing Temple four, and broke the black scarf Tiandu slaughtered tens of thousands of the city of Lijingguan.

In the past few years, he has begun to feel that he is a civilized person, knowing that the influence is bad, and the Lijing view has been greatly reduced, but the history can be traced, and denying it can only be covered up.

This time the guards were defeated by the Xian army, if the Xian army is defeated in the hands of the guards in the future, where do you care if you are civilized and moral, and the Xian army is now the strongest in the Central Plains, cutting off people's heads and establishing a view of Beijing will help Liwei, and the guards will obviously not miss this opportunity.

Wang Xie knew very well in his heart that he was hit by Bai Liyan's words, and it would inevitably seem weak and futile to make a defense.

Seeing that his words were stopped, Bai Liyan restrained the contempt on his face and said slowly:

"Man is not a beast, who can be ruthless. It's not that the marshal is unreasonable, but the barbarism of your army is well known in the world, and now the marshal repays the grievances with virtue, and the army repays the virtue with grievances in the future, and the marshal is helpless. General Wang, please go back and tell General Du that if he is sincere, he must assure the commander that from now on the guards will not reinstate the Jingguan, and only in this way can the commander promise the guards to continue to collect the corpses, otherwise everything will not be discussed. ”

"General Baili can talk and count!"

Wang Xie asked carefully, and Bai Liyan nodded in affirmation:

"Ben Shuai speaks with all his words."

"Then, I'm leaving!"

"General Wang, please go slowly."

When Wang Xie left, Xue Sheng came over and said:

"Deputy marshal, why bother talking with the guards, wait for our reinforcements to arrive in a few days, why don't you worry about breaking Du Ruixun's army."

Bai Liyan got up and put his hands on his face, and his expression became solemn, and he said:

"In the final analysis, the Central Plains is the same language, the same species, the same root and the same origin, fighting each other is ultimately a fight between people, winning or losing will eventually return to the unification of the Central Plains, so whether it is a victory or a victory, it will be a world after all.

However, now there are armpits in the north, Jin Xuedi in the south to watch, our army and the defense of the country, the loss is after all the strength of our Central Plains, at this time if the consumption is too much, the future will be the opportunity to live, so the battle with the defense is not the main thing, the focus is to frustrate its momentum, and can not hurt its muscles and bones to waste its martial arts.

Therefore, up to now, our army has killed or wounded 1560,000 of its soldiers and horses, and the morale of the army has been greatly demoralized. ”

"But if you don't kill and wound the guards, how can you continue to march west and win."

"This marshal has his own strategy, General Xue only needs to act according to the plan, and there is no need to ask anything else. Is it possible for the armies to pull out the camps properly? ”

"Back to the deputy marshal, the work of pulling out the camps of all armies is ready, as long as an order is given, the camp can be completed within an hour and a half."

"Very good, as soon as noon arrives, the armies will begin to eat, each of them will be allocated a base number of ammunition, three canned beef will be carried with them, and when they arrive at the destination, they will decide to eat, and all the excess supplies will be shipped onto the ship."

"No!"

There are many different situations in which war can be won, but it is not necessarily necessary to distinguish between superior and inferior on the battlefield. The guards are sufficient, the number of troops is huge, the individual combat power is strong, and it takes time and effort to annihilate them all, the economic cost and time cost, and even the cost of life spent by the two armies are not cost-effective.

Bailiyan also has no intention of achieving a military victory on the battlefield, if the Wei army completely collapses, the Wei State will also be divided, and the most direct evil result will be that the two major powers of Zhi and Xu bordering it will take the opportunity to go west and benefit the most, followed by the Liang State and the West Sea States, so the disintegration of the Wei State not only cannot be exchanged for the stability of the Central Plains, on the contrary, the Zhi State will become bigger, which will make the Liang State aim at the Zhi State, and then dismember the Zhi State. As far as the present is concerned, it is not the result of Bailiyan's meeting.

The war is ultimately for the sake of politics and economy, and the Xian army has already come out on top and has an all-round overwhelming military superiority, and it is pointless to continue to expand the killings, so the best way to avoid casualties on both sides is to use force to promote talks as soon as possible and force the patriotic politics to compromise.

A million guards can be saved for later consumption in the battle with the armpit people, which is more valuable than dying at the hands of their own people now.

After Du Ruixun replied, the Xian army immediately began to move twenty miles north. Although Hukou Bay was convenient for landing, it was not convenient for large troops to set up camp.

Hukou Bay is a large circular landform with two wings high and low in the middle, recessed into the inland, if the water rises in the rainy season, the two wings of the highlands may be isolated, if the pontoon bridge is built from this, it is very problematic for the troops to camp across the river, and they must abandon the highlands and move to another position, so they need to go more than ten miles to the west, and the camp will be narrow from north to south and long from east to west, which is not conducive to garrison and defense.

In addition, the topography of Hukou Bay determines that the river water passes through here is extremely turbulent, and the width of the east and west banks is nearly 200 steps wider than that of Feixia, which is also the reason why it is not conducive to erecting pontoon bridges.

At the end of the hour, Bailiyan received a reply from Du Ruixun, and the work of collecting the corpses of the guards continued, from yesterday's 3,000 to 5,000, but the strength of the guards immediately outside the ten miles also increased to 40,000.

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