After incorporating Yang Bingyi and his subordinates, Yang Xuan left Du Jigui and others to lead his troops to reorganize and surrender their soldiers and horses, and personally led the army to approach the Jialing River ferry. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

At the ferry, Ma Chao led the cavalry to the ferry first, intercepting the fleeing Huanglong and others, and seeing that the back road was cut off, Huanglong and others hurriedly fled back, surrounded by the officers and soldiers on the halfway, and after a bloody battle, they were finally captured by the officers and soldiers.

And those local thugs who fled the crossing were also bitter, because Huanglong's troops not only looted the township this time, but also robbed the displaced people who followed him in the past.

Everyone finally said goodbye to the life in exile, and the hard-working tuntian was robbed like this, which made everyone quite angry, and now they saw the local rioters fleeing, and they picked up farm tools one after another to stop the local rioters.

So except for a few who fled, most were killed and captured.

Jiashen year (A.D. 1644) August 24, the official army defeated Yao Huang Er's leader Huang Long led thousands of rogues, in addition to the king of heaven Ma Lang led hundreds of people to escape, more than 10,000 local tyrants were burned to death and killed nearly 1,000 people, and more than 5,000 people were captured.

Considering that the local tyrants concentrated all their efforts to attack Yilong County, the troops in other places were empty, after the great defeat of the local tyrants.

Yang Xuan decided to regain the two counties of Xiangru County and Yingshan County in one fell swoop in order to expand the strategic space.

Immediately ordered the deputy general of the 2nd Division, Chen Yingzong, Yao Zhijiao, Ma Chao, the hundred general of the Cavalry Bureau, and the 3,000 strong men recruited by Wang Rimeng, the head of the township, to attack Yingshan County, which had just been occupied by the local tyrants.

Fan Mingshan, Guo Chonglie, Chen Huaixi, and the township chief Yang Risheng attacked the county seat of Pengzhou, which had just been occupied by the local rioters.

Yang Xuan led the rest of the troops to clean up the battlefield, reorganize the soldiers and horses, and expand the troops.

After a night of hard fighting, Yang Xuan also felt quite tired, rested until the afternoon, and returned to the city wall, the sun outside was still very hot, and it was faintly painful to roast on his body.

Yang Xuan felt a heartache, such a big sun, one was worried about the people's heat stroke, and the other was worried about the stink of the dead body, thought about it, and took a group of guards to patrol around.

Seeing Yang Xuan passing by, their faces were full of reverence, and everyone knelt on the ground to say goodbye, regardless of the bloodstains on the ground and ashes everywhere.

Yang Xuan helped them up one by one, and sometimes patted the old farmer's shoulder to show his gratitude.

There are battlefields within a radius of four or five miles, there are burning surplus wages everywhere, and if you walk dozens of steps, you will encounter broken hands, broken arms, dead corpses or something, if this is not hell, Yang Xuan still has that place that can be called hell?

Long followed Wang Gao to report that due to the large area of destruction, it would take at least ten days to complete the cleanup, which was greatly beyond Yang Xuan's imagination.

Looking at the bloodstains all over the ground, Yang Xuan frowned, it is now late June, the weather is unusually hot, if you don't pay attention to any plague or something, if it is really like that, it will be too terrifying?

Three steps and two steps, Yang Xuan rushed to the big pit where people were buried, and saw that it was only more than one meter deep, he was quite annoyed, and said to Zhou Zheng, the scribe next to him: "As the saying goes, ten floods and nine plagues, after a catastrophe, the most important thing is to prevent the plague.

Now dog days, so many people died overnight, and you dug so shallowly, so not only the stench may come out, but also what plague or something may bring? ”

Pestilence? In ancient times, it was a very terrible disease, and everyone was so frightened that some of them secretly prayed to God that this kind of thing would not happen.

Thinking about the knowledge of his previous life, Yang Xuan asked people to dig the pit more than a zhang deep, and on the other hand, he asked people to collect lime, sprinkle it all over before throwing the corpses into it one by one, and then cover it with thick soil.

There is no problem in dealing with the corpses of local rioters and displaced people in this way, but it is not good for those officials, soldiers and civilians who died in battle.

More than 50 officers and soldiers and more than 20 people were killed in this battle, and if they were to be dealt with in this way, it would not be in line with the customs of the time.

When attacking Yanshanzhai last year, the same was true for the officers and soldiers who died in battle, but now that Yang Xuan is in charge alone, it feels strange to see that everyone is ready to deal with it like this.

Everyone felt that the ancient hierarchy was very strict, and the people paid attention to the soldiers, farmers, industrialists, and soldiers, and the status of the sergeants was only a little better than that of prostitutes and slaves.

The people pay attention to good iron and do not shoot nails, good men are not soldiers, soldiers not only train hard, but also die and are wounded in battle, those benevolent generals may also pay a little money and food, and some more greedy generals do not care about anything.

In front of the rows of small pits dug up, many soldiers who died in the past were buried directly in the ground, and the generals wrapped their bodies in horse leather or mats, and then covered their faces.

This time, everyone reined in a little, and both the officials and civilians who died in the war were wrapped in straw mats and now ready to be buried in the soil.

Yang Xuan was slightly stunned, the Chinese pay attention to entering the soil for safety, pay attention to serving death like serving, if the soldiers who died in battle are buried like this, so the soldiers will inevitably be cold, who will die for themselves in the future?

Seeing Yang Xuan's anger, everyone didn't dare to fight back, and Li Shikai, a long-term jinshi, sighed and said: "My lord, this, these dead are all officials and soldiers, since ancient times, the horse leather shroud, and now there are so many deaths, it is understandable that everyone is buried like this." ”

Yang Xuan crossed his hands on his hips and replied angrily: "Yes, these are sergeants, and they have the heavy responsibility of defending our homeland.

Think about it with your conscience, if the robbers come to invade your home, and the young people in the village are killed by the robbers, tell me, what will you do? ”

Li Shikai thought for a while and replied: "My lord, this, this, if it were in our village, of course we wouldn't let them be violent in the wilderness, and everyone would prepare a thin coffin for each other anyway."

But my lord, more than 70 people died this time, where did you make so many coffins in a moment and a half? A good coffin needs at least ten taels of silver, and no matter how bad it is, it needs five taels of silver, isn't this a waste? ”

Yang Xuan turned around and glared at everyone viciously, shook his head and said, "Waste, is it really wasteful?"

Our people are brave in private weapons and cowardly in public fighting? Why this is so, look at this group of dead soldiers, everyone understands.

If there is a private fight, there will be a thin coffin after death, and if there is a private fight, the elders of the clan will take care of his parents, wife and children after death.

But what happens when these warriors who protect the land and the people die? Let's see, there are many violent corpses in the wilderness, the corpses are eaten by wild dogs, eaten by vultures, and the better ones are wrapped in rotten mats. ”

Everyone was shocked, and when they saw Yang Xuan in anger, they were silent one by one, and they didn't dare to come out.

After a long time, Li Shikai arched his hand and said: "My lord, the horse leather shroud has been the same since ancient times, and everyone doesn't know your rules this time."

You say, you say what to do, we will do it? You think everyone is psychologically comfortable, so many young men in the afterlife die like this, do you think everyone is psychologically comfortable? ”

Yang Xuan stabbed the ground with a knife, thought for a while, and said after scanning everyone: "Li Juren, I'm not angry with you, I'm seeking justice for the brothers who died."

Because we discriminated against the warriors who sacrificed their lives for the country in the past, we were brave in private weapons and cowardly in public fighting, which caused us to be bullied by the Liao State and the Jin State during the Northern Song Dynasty, and caused our Southern Song Dynasty to be destroyed by the Mongols.

The reason why Qi Jiguang was able to train into the Yiwu Army was mainly to transfer the ruthlessness of the people's private weapons to battlefield operations.

We Han people pay attention to the fallen leaves to return to the roots, and pay attention to the soil for safety.

For one day when I, Yang Xuan, were in power, if I still let my soldiers be brutal corpses in the wilderness, or let the corpses of some brothers be gone, what is the difference between this and those bastard officials who stained their black hats with the blood of their brothers. ”

Immediately sent officials to purchase coffins, arranged for personnel to cut down trees to make coffins, so it took five or six days to make more than 70 simple coffins, in a mourning voice, these dead brothers into the ground.