As the banner of Qiu Liju was cut down, the Wuhuan people began to collapse, and Liu Bei ordered surrender.

"Those who descend will not be killed."

"Those who descend will not be killed."

The shout of surrender remembered that many Wuhuan people gave up resistance, threw their weapons on the ground, and waited for the Han army to come and surrender, but in this chaotic battlefield, no one paid attention to whether the enemy was empty-handed, anyway, if he saw it, it was a knife.

Even some smart Han soldiers saw that it was cheap, pretended to surrender, and waited until the Wuhuan people knelt on the ground, and stabbed their necks, and the first level was in hand.

In the end, a new slogan was sounded, "Those who surrender kneel and hold their heads, and those who surrender do not kill." ”

By dawn, the Wuhuan people had been completely pacified, and Guan Yu also ordered a thousand elite soldiers to go out of the city to assist Liu Shou in surrendering.

In this battle, Liu Bei fought extremely skillfully. first took advantage of Qiu Liju's eagerness for revenge. Draw the Wuhuan cavalry firmly under the Wu Fort. Originally, the biggest advantage of cavalry for infantry was strong mobility, and once this advantage was abandoned, most of the combat effectiveness would be given up first. Historically, the Huns used 80,000 cavalry to attack Li Ling's 5,000 foot soldiers, and Li Ling's 5,000 infantry were defeated only after they ran out of arrows. At this time, there were still more than 3,000 people left in Li Ling.

Under normal circumstances, although the combat effectiveness of the Wuhuan people is not very strong, they can fight sports warfare. If Liu Bei sends troops to wait for the battle, the Wuhuan people can't find a flaw, they will go to loot other places in the plain, forcing Liu Bei to divide his troops to resist, and when the time comes, whether to fight or go, the initiative is in the hands of the Wuhuan people. Once Liu Bei revealed his flaws, it was normal for the Wuhuan people to concentrate on defeating some of Liu Bei's soldiers and horses. Otherwise, there are not more than 100,000 Wuhuan people, if they are infantry, what district will they take in the four prefectures of Kou Luoqing, Xu, You, and Hebei.

However, Qiu Liju was eager for revenge, and the Wuhuan people coveted the wealth in Wubao, which allowed Liu Bei to win a brilliant victory at a slight price. To a certain extent, if Gongsun Zhan hadn't fought with the Wuhuan people for more than a year, the Wuhuan people might not have been in a hurry to break through Wubao and grab food. It can be said that half of the credit for this battle should be recorded on Gongsun Zhan.

"Can you catch Lord Wuhuan, Qiu Liju?" When the Han army completely controlled the battlefield and the surrender was completed, and Qiu Liju was not seen, Liu Bei asked.

No one knew where Qiu Liju was, not even if he was alive or dead.

When Liu Bei saw it, he ordered the Wuhuan people who surrendered to separate all the corpses, identify them one by one, and come to identify them, and finally found Qiu Liju inside the corpses on the ground.

"Your Excellency." Screams rang out, and many people saw Qiu Liju's corpse beating their chests and criing. Liu Beixin said, I can't see it, this Qiu Liju, I didn't expect it to be quite popular.

In fact, it is not surprising that the people who are robbed by robbers hate robbers to death, of course, there are exceptions, but most people are still like this. But those who eat meat with the robbers must have embraced the robbers. The so-called other heroes and my enemies are the truth.

Qiu Liju is dead, the death is not clear, and no one can even say clearly whose hands Qiu Liju died. His death was quite miserable, bleeding from the seven orifices, as if he was a galloping war horse, and he died after being hit head-on, and the internal bleeding from the collision died. Liu Bei shook his head, it is estimated that it is difficult to find out who killed Qiu Liju, and even if it is not good, he was killed by a running war horse, which can only be said to have died in the chaos.

None of that matters, though. For Liu Bei, as long as Qiu Liju's head is here. Even if he lived, Liu Bei would have to cut him. What Liu Bei wants is only the credit for capturing and killing Lord Wuhuan, and it doesn't matter whether Lord Wuhuan is dead or alive.

It's just that Liu Bei looked at the Wuhuan captives in front of him and had a little headache, because there were too many people. Liu Bei successively defeated Lou Ban and Qiu Liju, killed more than 10,000 Wuhuan people, captured more than 10,000 people, and ran away less than 10,000 people. These captives are all staying, I am afraid that it will be a hidden danger, and if something happens, I am afraid that it will be a small-scale five ethnic minorities going south to engage in ethnic integration.

But if they are all killed, not to mention the ominous words such as killing prisoners, there are only a total of many people in the plains, but only 700,000. Remove the old, young, women and children who can't work, and half of the people in the sky can work.

These Wuhuan captives are a good labor force, and they don't have to pay a lot of money to work, and they don't even have to think about life or death, and they can be exempted from a certain amount of forced labor by the people of the plains, and they can buy people's hearts.

If they wanted to kill now, these people would riot, and I am afraid that hundreds or even more people would have to be killed and injured before they could be suppressed.

Liu Bei has a headache, and someone has an even more headache, this person is Jian Yong, Jian Yong was appointed by Liu Bei as Cangcao Peng, and he controls the money and grain of a county, which can be regarded as a great power.

At this moment, he stepped forward and said with a sad face: "Lord, this great victory, our army has captured countless war horses, although it has not been completely counted, I am afraid that there will always be tens of thousands." ”

Looking at Jian Yong's expression, Liu Bei was stunned, and said in his heart that this was a good thing. Tens of thousands of horses, how much is it worth? The so-called Han and Tang dynasties are all prosperous for animal husbandry. Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty used more than one million horses before and after fighting the Huns, and now that there are so many horses, why do you still feel so painful.

The war horse is frightened and runs in all directions, but in fact, it can't escape too far, so it will automatically stop and look for food and water. Therefore, as soon as the morning dawned, Liu Bei took control of the situation, and when the follow-up troops arrived, they sent thousands of people to collect the horses, which were all domestic, different from the wild, and could easily be collected and tens of thousands.

The Han Dynasty was not the later Song and Ming dynasties, in the north of this era, many places were even mixed with Hu and Han, and there were not too many people who could ride horses.

With so many horses, Liu Bei can even pick and choose, the best ones are used as stallions, and the inferior ones are used as war horses. The worse ones can be used as ploughing horses and pack horses.

In this way, there will be no shortage of war horses in the future, and even ploughing horses for ploughing the land. You must know that among farm work, the most labor-intensive is arable land. With manpower alone, not only is the cultivation shallow, but also the cultivation is not much in a day. Perhaps this kind of horse is not very suitable for farming, but in any case, it is better to have livestock to use than not to use it.

Even a wounded war horse, after recovering from the injury, can be used as a ploughing horse. Although there doesn't seem to be much horse farming in East Asia. However, Liu Bei is well aware that horse farming has always been the mainstream farming method in Europe. Ox farming is suitable for deep ploughing, and horse farming is rougher, but if the planting area is larger, horse farming is better.

Therefore, it doesn't matter which one is good or which one is bad between horse farming and cattle farming, there is no point in arguing about this, just to see which one is more suitable.

In the era of the Three Kingdoms, there were fewer people and more land, and the most important thing was arable land, so it was more appropriate to use horses to plow the land than to use oxen, but it was more appropriate to use oxen to plough in the south.

"It's just that there are too many horses to cause problems, our food, horse feed is not enough to eat." Looking at Liu Bei's expression, Jian Yong understood, and said with a wry smile.

I will take it, Liu Bei reacted at this time, and he didn't expect that one day he would have so many horses that he couldn't feed them.

After thinking about it, Liu Bei said: "All the horses with a shoulder height of more than seven feet are collected and kept as stallions, even if they are injured horses, they must be treated as much as possible, and then find a batch of tall mares." Let's also build a horse farm, and the war horse will also have a source of stability in the future. ”

Everyone nodded yes. Liu Bei continued: "Xianhe, this matter will be left to you." Except for those who are more than seven feet tall at the shoulders, those who can be used as stallions are all killed and made into frozen meat or jerky. Injured horses with a shoulder height of more than 6 feet 5 inches can be fed if they do not affect the ride in the future, and the same is true for thin horses. The old horse and the sick horse were killed. ”

It's just that many of these horses are gelded stallions, and the number of mares is smaller.

Fortunately, the Wuhuan people are nomadic people, although on the whole, the quality of the horses is not outstanding. But there are many of them, there is no shortage of excellent stallions, tens of thousands of horse breeds have found more than a dozen stallions with a shoulder height of more than seven feet, which is more than one thousandth, Liu Bei asked people to match hundreds of tall mares, ready to open two or three horse farms in the future, this is to prevent the emergence of the plague, all of a sudden loss.

As for the shoulder height of more than 6 feet 5 inches, there are more than 100 horses, you must know that the Han Dynasty's requirements for war horses are 5 feet 9 inches high at the shoulder, that is, 1.36 meters. Don't think this is very low, in the Qing Dynasty, the shoulder height of the war horse was less than one meter three, as for the European kind of war horse with a shoulder height of one meter eight or even two meters, that is the European riding class, in order to be able to equip stronger armor, so that generation after generation of monsters have been cultivated persistently.

There are always people who say that the Chinese castrate the war horse to degrade the war horse, but in fact, these are people who do not know how to pretend to understand are talking nonsense.

Most of the war horses in the world are castrated, and after the castration of war horses, they have a docile temperament and cavalry is easier to control. The stallion has a bad temper and is also easily attracted to mares. There have been some examples in history where free-range stallions were lured away by the enemy with a beauty trick, and there were even stallions in heat who ran directly into the enemy camp with their owners after seeing the mare in the enemy formation.

And if the war horse is castrated from a young age, there is another advantage, that is, when it becomes an adult, it will grow taller and stronger than the war horse that is not castrated, and it can generally be about one percent taller. At the same time, even if the castrated war horse is captured by the enemy, it will not let the excellent horse breed be used by the enemy, so as to improve the own war horse.

"Lord, since there is not enough food to eat, why don't we give these Wuhuan people ......"

At this time, Cui Meng stepped forward and said. After he said that he would give it all, Cui Meng stopped talking, and just made a chopping gesture with his hand.

"Shhh gasped, Liu Beixin said that the people of this era are really more ruthless than the other.