After some inventory, the palace and the ministers' property were looted.

Finally, it's time to deal with the issue of captives.

Arguably, this is one of the most difficult problems to solve.

In a sense, the officials and nobles in the cave city can be counted as captives.

However, a huge city, there are hundreds of thousands of people's lives and deaths, these can not be ignored, the soldiers of the Blue Dragon Legion and the Qilin Legion are real generals, although under the vigorous promotion of the Ministry of War, most of the soldiers can read and write, but to govern the country, there is no experience.

Therefore, at this time, a group of officials are needed to manage.

The selection of officials from the cave country to manage it is also more acceptable to the ordinary people, and there will not be much resistance.

Therefore, Wei Zhongquan singled out a few relatively weak families from the group of people who had surrendered earlier, appointed them as temporary officials, and set up a part of the soldiers who surrendered to Cheng as the defenders, promising that as long as they managed the place well and suppressed the reactionary forces, they would ask for credit for them in the imperial court in the future.

This time made those nobles and soldiers who surrendered to sincerity ecstatic.

You don't have to be a prisoner, you can continue to be an official, what could be better than that?

It is already a blessing in misfortune to be able to maintain the continuation of the family and the safety of his wife and children when he dies.

In this regard, Wei Zhongquan only made arrangements and did not express any opinions.

He kept in mind Yang Mu's teachings before the expedition, at any time in any country, there is no shortage of people who sell the country for glory, not to mention that this is not a traitor to the country, under the general trend of being unable to return to the sky, trying to protect their family is the unanimous choice of these dignitaries.

On August 23, Wei Zhongquan left 10,000 soldiers to guard Dongcheng City, and personally led the Blue Dragon Army and the rest of the Qilin Army to escort the royal family and princes and nobles of Dongguo back to China.

The captives were divided into three groups, including the queen and prince of Dongguo, the imperial grandson, the concubine, the princess, the princess, the main male and the wife and concubine of the family......

Among them, there are more than 4,200 men and nobles of the clan, more than 6,400 women, more than 8,300 nobles and relatives of the family, plus some generals in the army, a total of more than 20,000 people.

In order to speed up and make it easier to manage, all the men were separated from the women, tied their hands and necks with ropes, strung one by one, and led by hanging one end of the rope behind the chariot.

Such a spectacular scene can be said to have never been seen in the cave country for hundreds of years.

The purpose of the Cang army is only to destroy the country, not simply plunder, so in order to reduce the impact, a lot of cavalry and scouts were sent along the way, scattering the people along the way, and the people of the cave country were not allowed to wait and see.

Escorting prisoners is no better than marching to fight, and it is not the first time that the Blue Dragon Legion has done it, but this time it is really a little different.

First, this time the scale is huge, several times larger than in the past.

Second, the road is very long, from Dongcheng to Leyuan County, there are thousands of miles in between, ordinary marches take more than ten days, and it is even more difficult to escort prisoners, even if it is fifty miles a day, it will take twenty days, if you want to reach Cangcheng, it is estimated that it will take a month.

Third, and the hardest.

These captives were generally pampered, accustomed to fine clothes and food, did not touch the spring water on weekdays, were extremely lacking in labor, and generally sat arrogantly when they went out, and never suffered such a crime, not to mention that most of them were women.

This is a very embarrassing point, if an ordinary man is an ordinary man, he will be whipped up, he really can't bear to get sick, and he will throw his body into the wilderness when he dies, which is not strange at all for the Cangjun soldiers who have been fighting all year round and seeing blood, as long as it is not the main person who dies, even Wei Zhongquan has turned a blind eye and acquiesced in this behavior.

However, women are different.

First of all, there are many pregnant women among these women, and there are many small children, who simply do not have the ability to travel long distances, and many times need special attention.

Secondly, these women are all the top women in the cave country, all of them are rare beauties, they have both identity and temperament, no matter how strict the military discipline is, they can't restrain human nature.

The soldiers are on an expedition, and they haven't touched a woman for a few months, so many delicate women, all of them are frighteningly high, and they don't even have the qualifications to look at them on weekdays, but now they are escorted by themselves, and they are beaten and scolded, and the restless hearts of the soldiers naturally can't be suppressed, and they have teased, and sometimes they move their hands and feet, which makes those women who are already frightened and frightened, and cry loudly from time to time.

This situation made Wei Zhongquan very distressed.

After the breakthrough of the cave city this time, the military discipline of the soldiers was very good, neither casually burning, killing and looting, nor abusing the prisoners, everything was in order.

Therefore, he is already very satisfied with the soldiers under his command.

Let's ask, when other countries launch a war to destroy the country, which is not a bloody massacre? Which of those concubines, princesses, and aristocratic concubines was not ravaged and finally sold as goods, slaves and prostitutes?

For this alone, the Cangjun army can be regarded as very benevolent, and it can be regarded as a model in the battle to destroy the country.

However, this does not mean that nothing special will happen.

For example, the soldiers molested women, and this is an example.

If left unchecked, the soldiers will only become more and more daring, become more and more violent, and finally do things that completely corrupt military discipline.

As everyone knows, it is easy to go from thrift to luxury, and it is difficult to go from luxury to thrift.

But I don't know that in the army, this is the same thing.

The military discipline of an army is not cultivated overnight, and if we indulge everyone this time, against the background of not holding the people accountable for the law, everyone will be even more unscrupulous next time, and there will be no way to talk about military discipline at all.

Wei Zhongquan has always admired "The Art of War", and of course he deeply understands this, and it is this one that he is worried about, knowing that this symptom must be stopped immediately.

The problem is, he doesn't dare to stop it.

It's not that his prestige is not enough, but because he knows that the soldiers under his command have fought bloodily and haven't touched a woman for a few months, and it is reasonable that he can't hold on, and once he intervenes, a bad one will cause a disastrous consequence - bombing the camp!

The bombing of the camp, also known as the camp startling or camp roar, refers to the blind and abnormal behavior of all the officers and men when the troops stay in the camp at night without receiving any orders.

Soldiers have been fighting for a long time, they are all worried about life, and they will be very depressed over the years, coupled with strict military regulations, before the war, everyone's life and death are uncertain, I don't know if they can come back alive tomorrow, everyone is on the verge of mental breakdown, as long as there is a little wind and grass, it may be just a soldier's nightmare scream, which can detonate the crazy atmosphere in the camp, and the soldiers can completely get rid of the shackles of military discipline and carry out crazy actions.

The consequences of this move may be violations of law and discipline, or it may lead to killing each other.