The soldiers who enjoyed the two meals of food really improved their mental state a lot, and Yang Huairen heard the soldiers say with his own ears that if they could have such food every day in the future, they would be willing to fight every day. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

Of course, we can't fight every day, we are peace-loving. There is another reason, the enemy is also fleshy, there are blood and tears, there are wounds and pain, they also have to eat and sleep, especially after yesterday's fierce battle, they also need time to repair.

Therefore, the Xia army did not seem to move much today, until the third pole of the day, when I looked over from a distance, and a horse slowly walked out of the Xia army camp.

The man on the horse was an old and thin man, with a striped body and only a white linen cloth like a sheet, and walked to the foot of Qingping Pass, jumped off his horse, stood still in a daze, and looked calmly at the city gate and tower.

Yang Huairen and Tong Guan and other generals were discussing in the inner que on the city gate, and after the soldiers reported, Yang Shihu invited them out to stand by the female wall.

Yang Huairen didn't know why, seeing a veteran who looked like Xia Jun dressed strangely, he said in his heart, is this an envoy sent by Ye Lituli or some kind of madman?

The men of the Xia army, dressed in white linen, saw that the people who looked like the main generals of the Song army stood at the head of the city, and began to spread their arms and make a dance that they didn't know what they were.

Yang Huairen was stunned first, what the hell is this person doing, the gestures of the comparison are a bit like playing Tai Chi, is there Tai Chi this year?

Yang Shihu immediately ordered a huge long blue flag to be hung on the head of the city.

Seeing that the Song army hung up the blue flag, the Xia army veteran bowed, got on his horse and immediately turned around and left.

Seeing Yang Huairen looking at him with a puzzled expression, Yang Shihu explained to him, "Master Hou, truce today. ”

I'll take it, Yang Huairen was surprised in his heart, it turns out that it is not necessary to accumulate knowledge to be a soldier in ancient times, if you don't know how to be dumb or something, it is easy to create some contradictions or something.

But he still understood that the Western Xia veterans danced outside the gate of the Song army in strange costumes, and Yang Shihu ordered someone to hang out a long blue banner to express his agreement to the truce, what did it matter here.

"Can you trust this?"

Yang Huairen is still skeptical, he has heard a lot of such stories, ancient and modern, both Chinese and foreign, that is, one side feigned a truce or surrender, but actually brewed a sneak attack or other actions.

Yang Shihu nodded that he could believe it, and explained to him in detail, Yang Huairen listened to it with relish, and seemed to have learned very profound knowledge.

It turns out that in ancient times, the ethnic minorities and nomadic tribes in northern China had their own totems, which were part of their belief culture, and many things were related to these totems.

For example, in the scene that happened just now, the Western Xia veterans danced hand and hand, which was a kind of national dance of theirs, imitating their national totem, the ape.

In ancient times, when human beings did not have language and writing, or when language and writing were not interconnected, tribes used gestures or dances to express their meanings and communicate with each other.

The meaning of the dance is that our two tribes have been at war for a day, and today we ask for a truce, so that the women can collect the bodies of their husbands, the elders of their children, and the children of their fathers or brothers.

And Song Jun hung out the blue flag, which was to agree to this request. In fact, Yang Shihu, as the chief general of the Song army, has no reason not to agree to this humane request.

In yesterday's battle of Qingping Pass, the Song army suffered nearly 1,000 casualties, and the Xia army, as the attacking party, suffered almost three or four times the casualties of the Song army.

Under the city wall, the corpses of the fallen Xia Jun were lying down, and if they were not allowed to send someone to collect the burial, if they were left for a few days, they would be prone to outbreaks under the gnawing of snakes, insects, rats and ants.

According to the old unwritten rule, after the two sides fight, the winning side collects the bodies of the fallen soldiers first, and then the losing side collects the corpses.

It was already night when the battle ended last night, and the warring sides of the big night were probably worried about the sincerity of the other side, so they did not immediately take this step.

And after dawn today, Xia Jun also set aside a morning of time, and they didn't send someone to send such a request to Song Jun until the afternoon.

Between Yang Shihu and Ye Lituli, although they are enemies who hate each other and want to eat their flesh raw, they are also soldiers with integrity, and in this regard, Yang Huairen feels that such soldiers are worthy of admiration.

Most of the soldiers killed in the Song army were concentrated on the city wall, and the burial had been completed after the battle last night, and now the Xia army came to collect the corpses of the fallen soldiers, and Yang Shihu had no reason not to agree.

When Yang Huairen heard the sentence "let the old people collect the corpses of their children, and let the children collect the corpses of their fathers and brothers", he inexplicably felt a kind of respect for this primitive culture.

He began to re-examine the war, trying to figure out where the line between ruthlessness and affection was.

Soon, several groups of Xia soldiers who did not carry weapons or armor and only wore simple linen clothes drove ox carts or carriages to the bottom of the Qingping Pass city wall and began to collect the corpses of the dead soldiers.

Yang Huairen and the soldiers of the Song army at the head of the city looked at them silently and did not say a word.

The Xia soldiers who collected the corpses of their comrades-in-arms under the city may have found the corpses of their friends or brothers, knelt down and hugged them and howled loudly.

When the crying was over, they laid the corpses flat on the place, arranged their clothes, gently wiped the blood from their faces with a soft cloth, and gently stacked the corpses on the ox cart as if they were a lover, covered them with a sackcloth, and then went on to collect the other corpses.

Occasionally, there were a few corpses of Song soldiers who fell off the city wall, and they did not destroy them, they also helped to tidy up their clothes, put them neatly under the city wall, raised their heads and nodded to the Song soldiers on the city, and then turned to leave.

Yang Huairen seemed to have the illusion, was this the indifferent and vicious Xia army soldiers who fought against the Song army yesterday? The cruelty of war and the peace of peace are just one day apart, and why is that?

Is this huge difference because of a primitive dance and that blue flag? Apparently not.

Perhaps this explains another question he once puzzled, at the beginning of man, whether nature is inherently good or inherently evil.

Human beings, regardless of color or ethnicity, should be peace-loving by nature, so why are there wars? Why kill each other?

To survive!

Survival is the most basic, even if it eats and reproduces.

Yang Huairen suddenly became more determined in his ideal, so that all peace-loving human beings have food, and let delicious food end all wars.