Chapter 70: Massacre of Captives
All the Xianbei captives had their hands tied behind their backs, and at the end of the count, there were 934 people in total, plus those who were shot in the small village, and the 20 corpses in their spatial rings, which happened to be a full team of 1,000 people; Gao Shun was very happy, after killing them all, he would get nearly a thousand synthesis places. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info
Ordered a tun of pikemen and cavalry to escort the captives back to the county seat of Mayi.
Due to the hot weather and the fact that the Han army did not attack, all the leather armor of the Xianbei people was taken off and thrown in the village, and weapons such as single knives, bows and arrows were thrown everywhere, and there were also some corpses of the Xianbei people, and the infantry in charge of the palace had to carefully clean the battlefield.
The body of the commander was also found, placed on a baggage cart, and transported back to Mayi with the rest of the corpses.
Gao Shun, Li Qiang and others returned with the cavalry.
Knowing that the army had won the battle and captured nearly a thousand Xianbei people, the people in Mayi County were very excited, and basically all of them came out to see the excitement, this is a big victory that the Han Dynasty has not won for many years, how can you miss it?
Gao Shun ordered the Xianbei people to be divided into ten groups, each group standing in ten columns.
These people quickly stood up as requested, and the captives had no human rights and could only act as ordered.
At this time, behind Gao Shun stood the junior infantry, pikemen, and sword and shield soldiers; the cavalry standing to the right, right and behind the captives; With all bows and arrows in hand, or spears in hand, they are ready for battle, and those who dare to resist will be killed.
Gao Shun shouted: "The centurion and the chief are out of the ranks. ”
Seeing that no one came out of the ranks, Gao Shun shouted: "Whoever identifies the centurion will be spared death." ”
In order to survive, the people who stood at the forefront rushed to report, and they could identify all the centurions.
Gao Shun pointed to one of the strongest men and said, "You, as long as you identify all the centurions, you will not die!" ”
"Yes, sir!" In order to survive, the Xianbei soldiers were grateful to Gao Shun, and identified the 10 centurions one by one, and the identified centurions were taken aside.
The other Xianbei people did not get this opportunity and hated this Xianbei person to death; The 10 centurions glared at him with angry eyes.
"Okay, you can't die, stand aside for the time being."
"Yes, sir!"
Gao Shun continued: "Whoever can identify the 10 chiefs will be spared death. ”
This time, more people applied for identification, and Gao Shun chose a stronger one from each group to be identified.
Another 93 chiefs were identified, but two of them were themselves chiefs, and several of them went back to deliver information and were killed a few days earlier.
Gao Shun shouted to the rest of the people: "Kill the Han people!" ”
No one came out of the ranks, and they knew that there would definitely be no good end after they were out of the ranks, even if they had killed the Han people, they couldn't admit it at this time.
Gao Shun asked again: "Are you willing to join my army?" Those who are willing take 3 steps forward. ”
No one wants to miss such a good chance to survive, and all of them have taken 3 steps forward.
Gao Shun smiled: "Hehe, you all want to join, but I can't ask for them all." ”
The faces of all the Xianbei people changed suddenly.
Gao Shun ordered: "Now for the first round of selection, two by two, the loser will die!" But you cannot kill your opponents, and you will be put to death if you kill them! The cavalry retreated, leaving a field for jousting events; The sword and shield soldiers stepped forward, and each group could only release 2 people at a time to play. ”
"Yes."
The Xianbei people were divided into 10 groups for hand-to-hand combat.
In order to survive, they all use each other's strength to fight, and if they don't fight now, they will die in a while.
Throat locking, dazzling, splitting mouth, ear scratching, nose beating, kicking yin, everything is done, the battle is unprecedentedly fierce, most of them have eaten meat just now, and now they are having the strength to fight, not to mention the flesh and blood flying on the scene, blood is a very normal phenomenon.
The crowd who came to welcome was stunned by Gao Shun's method, and they were bold enough to see the excitement, feeling that it was very enjoyable to make the barbarians kill each other, and the cowardly ones turned their backs directly, not daring to look at it. They exclaimed: "Sure enough, it's barbarian, it's barbaric!" ”
After more than ten minutes, the winner was gradually decided, and the loser was knocked to the ground, and there was no way to fight back.
Gao Shun ordered the first winner to be given a knife and told to cut off the loser's head.
The sword and shield soldier threw a thirty-steel knife at him.
The winner picked up the steel knife and without hesitation stepped forward, slashing at the neck of the loser, who looked at him with a pleading look and no mercy for the winner.
Gao Shun immediately checked the system, and the number of synthetic places increased by 1, it seems that this method will also work; So immediately ordered all the winners to cut off the heads of the losers.
The cowards and the women, screaming in fright at this scene.
Gao Shun ordered the victor to drag the dead aside, and then let the sword and shield men continue to tie the winner.
Those losers pleaded helplessly, but the victors were unmoved in order to survive.
Defeat means death, and the next fight is more intense and brutal.
Zhao Xiong walked forward and said to Gao Shun: "General, it's not good to kill prisoners. ”
"Hehe, you think too much, they are not captives, they are brutes, and captives and brutes cannot be treated the same."
Li Qiang suggested: "General, what a pity to kill like this, I think it is better to leave it to the recruits to kill, let them exercise their courage, and it can be regarded as waste utilization." ”
Gao Shun said: "Don't worry, I will leave some for the recruits to train their courage." ”
After the first round of fighting, it took more than 4 hours in total, and a total of 410 Xianbei people were killed by their people, and at this time, the playing field was blood-red, and the low-lying places were full of blood, bloody and pungent.
Gao Shun asked a team of sword and shield soldiers to move forward, check the 410 people who had survived the fight one by one, and select the seriously wounded; A total of 31 people were seriously injured.
Gao Shun ordered 31 seriously wounded and 93 chiefs and 10 centurions to be lined up in two rows, so that those who hated the Xianbei people among the county citizens could move forward to take revenge.
But most of the county residents were stupid by the bloody scene just now, how dare they move forward to take revenge?
Gao Shun had no choice but to order the new infantry recruits to move forward, each of whom had to kill a Xianbei prisoner and cut off his head, or else he would be fired.
The infantrymen immediately showed their differences, some were excited, some were nervous, and some were even more timid.
The methods of killing people are also different, some people use knives to take the captive by the neck, and when the knife goes down, the head rolls to the side, and the blood spurts far away; Some people closed their eyes and slashed one by one, and the captive was chopped and screamed, he just couldn't die; Someone stabbed the captives with a spear, and then easily cut off the captives' heads with knives.
They were all recruits, and Gao Shun didn't bother with them.
And a few of the soldiers began to vomit before they could start killing, until they couldn't straighten up to the waist, let alone kill people. Gao Shun was very dissatisfied with these men, and ordered the junior infantry to move forward immediately, pull off their leather armor, collect the weapons in their hands, and expel them from the ranks of soldiers, and they were fired.
Gao Shun couldn't help but scolded: "You waste, you are rice buckets, you deserve to be slaughtered by barbarians, I shouldn't save you, and I am also a waste if I save you; When these barbarians slaughtered your brothers and sisters, killed your fathers and villagers, plundered your belongings, and burned your homes, you obediently offered them with your hands, and it seems that the damage done to you by the barbarians is too light, and you just don't have a long memory. ”
After scolding, Gao Shun's mood was much smoother.
Then he ordered the sword and shield soldiers to put away the heads of all the Xianbei people, and go back to the city to pickle them with quicklime, so that they could ask the court for merit. ordered the pikemen to fetch firewood and oil, and burn the corpses of these humble people; It was the hottest time of the year, and he didn't want to leave a bad aftermath because the corpses were not handled well.
The fire burned the corpses of the Xianbei people, emitting bursts of meat fragrance; A southeast wind blew, and the whole county town of Mayi was filled with the smell of barbecue; It caused a lot of people to vomit wildly.
Subsequently, Gao Shun ordered the 390 Xianbei people who were still alive to be escorted back to the county seat for care; He also ordered that tomorrow morning, except for the officers and soldiers on duty, all the people of the county should assemble at the West City Gate, otherwise they would be driven away from the county seat of Mayi after being discovered.
Since then, the iron-blooded military division has become the name of Gao Shun by the people of Mayi, and it quickly spread throughout the Han Dynasty.