Chapter 150: Separation of Remains
The Guangwu cavalry, who had already completed some arrangement, under the leadership of the main general Li Yanzhao, galloped in the valley one after another. The Hun cavalry, which was several times larger than the Guangwu cavalry in the rear, also changed from the previous disorganized to the present, which was integrated by the general, and then pursued in the direction of the retreat of the Guangwu cavalry in the valley.
However, as soon as they entered the valley mouth, many military horses kicked and jumped without warning. No longer listen to the rider on the horse. This strange appearance suddenly made the chasing Hun cavalry unprepared, and many people were thrown off their horses directly, and then trampled into pulp by the crazy horses.
There were also many horses that fell to their knees without warning as they ran. Then the knight on horseback was thrown out by this huge momentum. Among the riders who landed, a considerable number of them rolled in pain as soon as they landed, shouting and scolding in nonsense as they rolled. After a few breaths, it will be trampled into a pulp by the horses that followed.
Some of the horses jumped and screamed when they stepped on thistles, and the riders who were sprinting behind them could not dodge and crashed straight into the horses in front of them, and the two were thrown out together. As the strange sight of Taniguchi grew, the Hun commander finally ordered the whole army to stop advancing.
After the whole army stopped, he looked at the cavalry of the Liangzhou army that was moving farther and farther in the valley, and his heart was indignant. He dismounted, walked to the left of the horses that had stumbled or were still screaming and jumping, and groped carefully for the ground around him, and then an thistle appeared in his hand.
Looking at the Guangwu cavalry that gradually disappeared in the night, and the rumbling horses' hooves in the distance, the Hun lord was extremely angry, opened his mouth and scolded the direction of the Guangwu cavalry in the valley in a nonsense language. Scolding and scolding, the Hun general beat his chest and repented.
Previously, whether it was in Hedong, the Central Plains, or Guanzhong. He had never fought such a and brainless battle. After a big defeat in the battle, he retreated for twenty miles in succession and camped at night, and was attacked by the opponent again. Moreover, the opponent only had a few hundred horsemen, and he disturbed this temporary camp of his.
Not to mention the opponent's arrow attacks for several rounds, he actually beat gongs and drums outside his camp to make a big noise. It was so frightened that the lowly Qiang and Han people abandoned the camp and fled overnight. And when he chased out with the main force of the Hun warriors, intending to kill this group of daring Liangzhou cavalry, the other party turned around and ran away!
Forget it if you run, you run and I will chase, which is also the proper righteousness. However, this group of cunning and cowardly enemies actually spread a huge amount of thistles on the valley mouth, which made the warriors under their command turn their backs. In such a situation, do you want to continue to chase it?
The Hun general only felt that he had used all his strength to punch the soft cotton on the opposite side. There is nowhere to use all the strength, and the enemy is in front of you, but you can't hit it. His mind was full of anger, and he didn't know how to vent it before he could calm down.
Just when the Hun general was so angry that he jumped to his feet, he saw the ground near the valley mouth, there were several corpses of soldiers of different colors, and when he got closer, he saw that it was the Liangzhou soldiers, and he pulled out the long knife at his waist and slashed at the corpses of the Liangzhou soldiers for a while, and finally made his anger vent a little.
Then, with the order of the angry Hun general, the corpses of more than a dozen Liangzhou cavalry soldiers collected near the valley mouth were dismembered one after another. The first stage took away the invitation, and the rest of the body was abandoned in the wilderness near the mouth of the valley.
Seeing that the temporary camp had not yet been built and the infantry had fled, the Hun general sighed for a while, but still led the remaining subordinates here, carried the remains of his own fallen soldiers and wounded, and then drove his horse south.
Li Yanzhao led his troops all the way north, and finally returned to the vicinity of Jincheng County at the time of Choushi, where he joined the main force of the Chinese army led by Han Ning.
When Li Yanzhao led his troops through the valley mouth, he saw that the battlefield was already illuminated by the torches held by the foot soldiers of the Liangzhou army. On the soft ground around the mouth of the valley, there were several huge pits, and the Liangzhou soldiers were dragging out the layers of corpses piled up at the mouth of the valley one by one, and then throwing them into the pits dug out one by one.
Li Yanzhao reined in his horse and watched carefully for a moment, but saw that the Liangzhou soldiers under Han Ning threw the corpses of the Longxi soldiers and the Zhao army's foot soldiers of different colors into the same pit. The slight difference is that the Zhao soldiers have all been cut off their heads and stacked in one place as proof of military merit. And Longxi was barely left with a whole corpse.
On the other side of the valley is the Liangzhou sergeant who has been screened. They were neatly stacked in one place at this time, very different from the treatment that Longxi pawn and Zhao Bing had received.
The casualties of the Liangzhou soldiers in this battle were not large, so the remains of the Liangzhou soldiers stacked on the side of the valley mouth did not look many. It's just that Li Yanzhao is still dissatisfied with Han Ning's handling of the battlefield like this.
Those Longxi pawns, even if they were newly surrendered, but they also shed blood and made great sacrifices for the battle to defend Liangzhou. At this time, they were buried with Zhao Jun's soldiers, and Li Yanzhao really felt that it was extremely inappropriate.
He raised his eyes and looked around, and saw that there were only four or five hundred left. At this time, they had also collected their weapons, and sat in a pile with a blank expression, gnawing on the dry food distributed to them by the Liangzhou army, while watching the dead former Tongze, dragged out of the pile of corpses at the mouth of the valley by the Liangzhou soldiers, and then thrown into the dug burial pit.
Li Yanzhao lowered his head and sighed, and then rode towards the place where Han Ning was.
Han Ning had just won a big victory, and he was in high spirits at this time. However, the night is late, and sleepiness is inevitable. It's just that the battlefield has not yet been cleaned up at this time, and he doesn't know if he will encounter the rest of the emergencies, so he can only hold on to his sleepiness and sit quietly with several generals on the ox cart pulled by eight oxen.
Seeing the return of the Guangwu cavalry led by Li Yanzhao, Han Ning smiled heartily as he stood up and said, "Li Bairen will go here to attack the enemy camp at night, and the enemy will be taken by surprise, so he must have won a big victory and returned?" ”
Li Yanzhao clenched his fists and knocked on the ground, and replied respectfully: "The last general is fortunate not to be dishonored, the temporary camp of the Zhao army twenty miles away was attacked and harassed by our troops, and his foot soldiers have already scattered and fled south. The Hun cavalry also suffered a lot of losses and was already unbearable. ”
When Han Ning heard this, his face was happy, and he praised him again and again. Then he turned back to Li Yanzhao and said: "This battle kills the puppet Zhao Xianxian, presumably within a few days, Hu Er will not dare to fight again." Li Bairen will make outstanding contributions in this time. However, after running around for a long time, the soldiers are tired, so please lead your troops back to the camp to rest. ”
When Li Yanzhao heard this, he respectfully clenched his fists and knocked on the ground, Han Ning bowed slightly, and wanted to turn around and return to the ox cart, but he suddenly heard Li Yanzhao's slightly dull voice behind him: "Han Duhu, bury the Longxi pawn with the generals of the Zhao army, and the last general thinks it is inappropriate." ”
Han Ning originally turned around halfway, but when he heard this, he turned to look back at Li Yanzhao with a slight surprise, and said, "Li Bairen will think, what's wrong with this?" ”
Li Yanzhao clenched his fists, but his head drooped down a little, he thought about it carefully, organized some wording, and then said slowly: "These Longxi generals have recently been attached, and the hearts of the people are undecided. This time, we forced it not to repair, and it was really a last resort to engage the Zhao army immediately. However, if the Longxi pawn and Zhao Jun are buried together, it will definitely make the surviving Longxi pawn dissatisfied, and then have a sense of alienation from our state, which is not conducive to our incorporation and use. ”
"And if the Longxi generals are buried thickly, we don't need to spend much effort to make the Longxi generals have a sense of belonging and invite people to buy people's hearts, so as to use them for me. In the future, if we enter Longxi, these soldiers can be the forerunner. Think twice! ”
When Han Ning heard this, his brows became tighter and tighter. He turned around and pointed to the Liangzhou soldiers who were still busy, and said with a smile: "General Li Bairen is really interested, and proposed to bury these dead people separately. The athletes of our Chinese army have been fighting hard for a long time, and they are trying their best to clean up the battlefield, but they are already beyond their strength. ”
Li Yanzhao knew that Han Ninggui was a son of a high-ranking scholar clan, and it was impossible to consider these things so comprehensively, in fact, in their position, it was often easiest to ignore the hearts and demands of these people at the bottom. However, Li Yanzhao has almost a unique advantage in this regard, compared with the children of these soldiers who are now commanding the army, he understands better what these people and soldiers at the bottom think and wish. Therefore, after careful consideration, he reminded Han Ning that this kind of practice was inappropriate.
However, Han Ning didn't buy it. Li Yanzhao glanced back at the Longxi pawns who were sitting on the ground with numb faces, and suddenly felt a heartache. He turned around and bowed to Han Ningwei, and then said quietly: "Since Du Hu said this, the last general will lead his robes to do this." ”
After saying that, Li Yanzhao stood up with a salute, and then calmly walked towards the robes of his subordinates behind him.