32. After the war

The Huns who were originally pursuing the counterattack in the valley were pursued to the mouth of the valley, and when the offensive suddenly stopped, the horn was constantly blown, and all of them retreated. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

This couldn't help but make the remaining Han soldiers who escaped alive shout that they were lucky, and they were glad that they had saved their lives.

And Xu Kun and Yan Xing's soldiers and horses at the mouth of the valley did not rashly pursue the retreating Huns, but seized the opportunity, and after collecting the remaining routs and wounded soldiers, they hastily cleaned up the battlefield, and then turned around and retreated to catch up with the other soldiers and horses who had withdrawn.

And Yan Xing also learned from Ma Lin that they met Niu Fu's personal guards who fled on the road, and had a brief conflict with him, after knowing that Gan Ling first asked Ma Lin to come back to report the news, and he led people to stabilize Niu Fu and others, and deal with them, he also knew that this matter could not be delayed, and immediately took Ma Lin to Xu Kun to discuss this matter.

He has no foundation in the Dong camp, and his subordinate soldiers and the personal guards of the Zhonglang general clashed, this matter, whether big or small, after all, it is necessary to find a person who can speak first, although Xu Kun is a junior in the army, but with his uncle Xu Rong behind his back, at a critical time, Niu Fu still has to sell face.

Xu Kun thought about this matter for a while, and readily agreed, and promised that after he returned to the camp, he would immediately send his cronies to Zhonglang Jiang Niu Fu to find out what he meant, and then prescribe the right medicine to rescue Gan Ling and others from the Niu Fu camp.

At present, the Dong army and horses won first and then lost, and were ambushed by the Huns, coupled with Niu Fu's previous defeat, the total loss of men and horses has exceeded 10,000 people, which can be described as a great loss of vitality, and it is urgent to rest the soldiers, calm the army's heart, and heal the disabled soldiers.

Although Yan Xing was concerned about the safety of Ganling, he also knew that at this time, Niu Fulian's mood must be irritable under the defeat, and under the defeat in the army, there were even more complicated and many affairs.

If he rashly went to plead in person, it would be counterproductive, and he still needed Xu Kun's help after all, so after entrusting Xu Kun to help, he turned back and returned to his own people, and hurried to catch up with the other horses who had already retreated, and retreated to Yong'an City.

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Three days later

With the news that all the troops and horses of the Baibo Army and the Huns withdrew from Hedong County was confirmed one after another, the war in Hedong finally came to an end.

Although Niu Fu commanded the Liangzhou soldiers and horses, which are known as the elite of the world, but in the actual battlefield, the results obtained were few, although the Baibo army was withdrawn from Hedong County, but the thief leader Guo Tai and others were still not dead, although the main force of Baibo was damaged, it did not completely collapse, they fled to Taiyuan and other places, accumulated strength, recuperated, and had the potential to make a comeback.

But the hastily concluded battle in front of him was not Niu Fu's concern or focus, and the battle report of repelling the Baibo Army had exhausted the few scribes under Niu Fu's command, so he barely handed over a battle report that Niu Fu himself could still see, and sent it to the Taishi's Mansion in Luoyang in an urgent way in the army.

Although it can be written in the battle report that Niu Fu led the army to fight several hard battles, he drove out the Baibo army that was ravaging Hedong and guarded the safety of Luoyang Kyoto. But the battle losses of this man and horse, such as the Hedong county soldiers and the soldiers and horses transferred from abroad, are not a few, the county soldiers are not their own descendants, most of them are Ding Zhuang, who was temporarily transferred from various counties in the southeast of Hedong, and it is not a pity that he died in battle, and the number of dead and wounded is easy to fool.

But it is not easy to hide the battle losses of the soldiers and horses transferred abroad, these are all foreign soldiers who really died in battle, and some of them are Dong Zhuo's Liangzhou soldiers and horses.

Niu Fu knew that what his wife wanted was a big victory that could show his might, let the people of the world know the strength of the soldiers and horses in Liangzhou, and let the ministers and ministers in the court who had ghosts in their hearts and disobeyed the yang and yin know that the Han Empire in charge by him would only be more powerful and brilliant and stable.

However, Niu Fu lost the battle twice and three times, and the soldiers and horses damaged in the battle have exceeded 10,000 people, although he killed and captured more than 20,000 Baibo thieves, but the soldiers and horses he brought were Xiliang soldiers and horses and the fifth school of the Northern Army, and he fought the grass of the Baibo Army, but this kind of record was not able to be taken after all, although it was covered up by the rhetoric of the scribes in the war report, but Niu Fu was still uneasy in his heart after the war report was issued, lest his wife would be furious when he saw the war report, and he would cut himself off and punish him.

Niu Fu, who has no master of the six gods, can only hope for the power of the witches and ghosts in his camp, and the old witch swore in advance that the hexagram showed that Niu Fu would win in pursuit of the White Wave thief, and Niu Fu did catch up with and break the White Wave Army in the Bird Mouse Valley, but then was frightened back and defeated by the ambush of the Huns.

Niu Fu was also entangled in this, if it was said that things that showed the will of the gods, such as witches and hexagrams, were nonsense, but it really expected that he would defeat the White Wave Army. But if it is really supernatural, how can it not help yourself calculate that there is still a Hun ambush ambush at the end, if you have a precaution in advance, you will not be caught off guard, and the defeat is so embarrassing, even your own general flag is torn most of it.

The old witch's explanation for this is that although the gods have always responded to the needs of those who sincerely believe, they will not do anything other than the request, and Niu Fu asked before that this pursuit can defeat the white wave thief, and the old witch told him that he could defeat according to the hexagram, which is a sign that the power of the gods has been fulfilled.

In addition, Niu Fu can always turn evil into good fortune in times of crisis, and he also met a "Fei Lian" cavalry to escort him back to the camp, which is exactly the fulfillment of the six hexagrams of Xunfeng Chu in the last hexagram "advance and retreat, the chastity of the martial arts".

The old witch told Niu Fu in person that as long as Niu Fu believes in the gods and worships endlessly, he will naturally be able to turn evil into good fortune like on the battlefield.

Although Niu Fu still had doubts about this, he had no other choice but to hold on to this last straw for peace of mind. So Niu Fu stayed in the tents of many witches for several days in a row, doing things for himself, refusing to meet any outsiders.

At the same time, Yan Xing himself was busy with many things after the war.

During these three days, Yan Xing commanded the soldiers to repair the armor soldiers, repair the camps, summarize the lessons and lessons after the war, improve the map of the mountains and rivers of a county in Hedong, and heal the wounded soldiers and appease the uneasy soldiers.

Although he was assisted by Xu Huang, Zhou Liang and others, Yan Xing was still busy with affairs and could hardly take a break.

At this time, Yan Xing was patrolling the camp of his own Houtun, and now in the camp of Houtun, compared with a few days ago, there were only a few military tents for wounded soldiers, the situation has changed greatly, and almost half of the camp in Houtun are medical tents set up for wounded soldiers.

Yan Xing's headquarters actually suffered very small losses, so many wounded soldiers, in fact, were the scattered soldiers and horses collected from the Bird Mouse Valley that day, some of them came from Niu Fu's descendant soldiers and horses, some were from Liangzhou under the command of the third captain, some were Northern soldiers and horses, and some were Hedong County soldiers, the members were complex, under the defeat, many soldiers were all killed in the entire Shiwu, the original establishment has been completely disrupted, and Niu Fu returned to Yong'an City after the battle of Bird Mouse Valley, hiding in the camp all day long, and ignoring military affairs, So these hot potatoes finally fell into the hands of Xu Kun and Yan Xing's people.

Xu Kun lacked interest in treating these defeated soldiers and wounded soldiers, so he divided more than half of the wounded soldiers into Yan Xing's camp, these days, Yan Xing had to devote a lot of energy to the treatment and care of these wounded soldiers, Ma Lin, Yan Xing and others also had a lot of complaints, thinking that Yan Xing should not take these hard and tiring work, since the soldiers of the original tribe where these wounded soldiers were originally located did not come to pick them up, why should they be so tired and treat these abandoned soldiers.

Yan Xing squatted beside the bucket at this time to wash his hands, there were more than a thousand wounded soldiers in his camp, but the ulcer doctors invited were limited, so the resources of the ulcer doctors were biased towards those lightly injured soldiers who could be saved, as for the small number of seriously injured soldiers who could no longer be treated with medicinal stones, Yan Xing could only try to make them suffer less pain and spend the last period of time peacefully.

Not only is there a limited number of ulcer doctors, but the auxiliary soldiers who take care of the wounded are only barely enough, and the surge in the number of wounded soldiers has also brought a lot of inconvenience to the soldiers in the battalion, Yan Xing also knows that this kind of high-intensity work will not only cause a lot of mistakes and omissions in taking care of the wounded and soldiers, but also for the auxiliary soldiers who take care of the wounded, it is also easy to fall into anxiety emotionally, which is difficult to avoid even in the more well-resourced hospitals in later generations.

Therefore, Yan Xing would take a period of time every day to inspect the wounded barracks, not only to prevent some wounded soldiers from being forgotten or even abandoned, but also to appease these auxiliaries who acted as temporary ambulances.

And no matter how many exciting words you say, it is not as real as doing some practical things. Therefore, Yan Xing would personally help the wounded soldiers to change the wrapping cloth every time he patrolled the camp, and it was inevitable that he would be stained with blood for this reason, so at this time, Yan Xing, whose hands were stained with blood, would wash his hands by the bucket.

Ma Lin, Yan Xing and the others who accompanied the camp couldn't help but be a little worried after seeing Yan Xing's rather tired face, but they knew Yan Xing's temper, and if they didn't let him do it himself, it would backfire and make him angry.

Ma Lin stiffened his face, and after Yan Xing finished washing his hands and stood up again, he said with both worry and complaint:

"Shaojun, why do you have to work so hard, these things can be done by the soldiers in the battalion, in addition to the military affairs in the camp, you have to take time out every day to take care of these wounded soldiers, in the long run, even if it is an iron body, you can't stand it!"

Yan Xing smiled lightly when he heard this, and after waving his hand to dry the water stains in his hand, he said to Ma Lin with a smile:

"Don't worry about me, I know my own situation, the medical staff system in the battalion is also a grass creation, and there will definitely be many omissions if I don't personally inspect it, how can I know the omissions of this system, and how can I check and fill in the gaps?"

Hearing Yan Xing talk about these wounded soldiers in the camp, Ma Lin couldn't help but sigh and said:

"Shaojun, don't blame me for talking too much, it's just that there are so many generals up and down in this army, and they can compete for merit, so why should we always take on all this hard work?"

Ma Lin looked at Yan Xing, and as soon as the complaining box was opened, he couldn't help but spit out the words that had been held in his heart for a long time.