At the end of the battle, the prisoners were taken to the open space in the camp for centralized care. The carts, which were used as temporary camp walls, were pushed outside the camp one after another. Liu Jiwu was in charge of counting the loot.

The number of prisoners held in the vacant space in the camp was close to 100 people. Although all the weapons have been confiscated by their own side, the soldiers who guard them still dare not be careless. The horsemen formed a circle with torches, swords and spears pointed at the seemingly obedient captives, but did not know what to think.

After Liu Jiwu finished counting the seized money and property, he came back and reported to Li Yanzhi. This time, hundreds of thousands of money, more than 3,000 silk cloths, and more than 5,000 stones of grain and rice were seized. It's enough to be called rich. Li Yanzhi roughly estimated that with his own people, even if he rode two horses, he would not be able to bring so many supplies back to Liangzhou. This also made Li Yanzhi difficult for a while.

The copper coins minted by Liu Zhao are said to be unpopular in Liangzhou. However, Li Yanzhi can completely bring the money back to the county government and hand it over to the government to smelt and recast. Silk and grain, as well as the rest of the small number of goods of different types, can also be used as military funds. In this era, it was still common to use silk cloth instead of currency. So those seizures don't worry about going anywhere.

After Liu Jiwu reported the harvest, he looked at the captives with a look of embarrassment, and then asked Li Yanzhi quietly: "These captives ...... What should I do? ”

Before Li Yanzhi could take out his thoughts from the problem of how to carry the goods, Liu Jiwu threw him another problem, even though he lowered his head and did not speak. For an army that goes deep behind enemy lines, if either of these two problems is not handled well, it may incur a catastrophe for itself.

Especially the disposal of prisoners. Those who have killed too heavily will lead the troops, and wherever they go, they will encounter more fierce and stubborn resistance. Because the enemy knows that even if he surrenders, he will die, and it is better to fight to the death, and there may be a glimmer of life. Although their current identity is a group of horse bandits, they have no such concerns, but the question raised by Liu Jiwu still makes Li Yanzhi feel a little embarrassed.

"Why don't you kill them all?" Liu Jiwu saw Li Yanzhi frowning, and reminded in a low voice. They have no grudges against these enemy forces, but for the safety of their own troops who have penetrated deep into enemy territory, it seems that killing them is the safest way.

Li Yanzhi shook his head and said, "I have promised them before, those who descend will not be killed." Although I am not a good man and a woman, I keep my promises, but I dare not forget them. Ji Wu, you order the generals who led the team among these captives to come out, and I want to ask him a few words. ”

When Liu Jiwu heard this, he nodded solemnly, then turned around and went to the side of the group of prisoners and shouted a few times. Not long after, two soldiers pushed an enemy general in leather armor who was a little embarrassed and came to Li Yanzhi.

The general had organized his subordinates in the battalion to resist before, and at this time, he thought that Li Yanzhi wanted to cut him, but he was already frightened. When he knelt on the ground and bowed his head and begged for mercy, he said, "The head man ...... The villain's duty is to have to be the enemy of your troops, and now that he has surrendered, the previous leader also promised not to kill those who surrendered......"

Li Yanzhi looked down at him condescendingly, and then asked, "If you are allowed to go back, you will be derelict in your duties first, and you will lose your teacher later." What is the crime? ”

When the general heard this, he trembled and said, "If you go back like this, you will be an unforgivable sin......

"In that case, if you go back, you will die, why do you still have to surrender?"

As soon as Li Yanzhi's question came out, it was very sharp, which made the military general stammer, and he didn't know how to answer. Li Yanzhi knew what he was thinking. If you don't surrender, you will definitely die on the spot. And if you surrender, you can survive for a few more days. People seek advantage and avoid disadvantage. Even in the long run, the ending makes little difference. However, the current stakes can still influence the decision of most people.

"If you are wounded and flee back, and then talk to your superiors and your subordinates have tried their best to fight to the death, but the enemy is too strong...... Will this save your life? ”

When the general heard what Li Yanzhi said, the expression on his face changed. However, after thinking about it for a while, he bowed his head and said: "In this way, the villain's life can be saved, and the head of the head will be fulfilled......"

Before the words fell, Li Yanzhi had already pulled out his knife, and then slashed at the right arm of the general who was kneeling on the ground.

With a terrible howl, the general had already rolled to the ground, and his right hand had been cut in two from the middle of his lower arm. Li Yanzhi turned to Liu Jiwu expressionlessly, pointed to the enemy soldiers who were still being held in the camp, and said coldly: "The rest, go to the right hand!" ”

Those soldiers saw that the generals under their command had come to a miserable end, and they also felt an incomparable fear rising in their hearts. However, there was no time to think about it, and many of them had been dragged out by the nearby bandits, and then their knives fell. Howls rang out in the camp one after another.

The casually dressed bandits around were more vigilant. The knives and guns in their hands reflected a chilling light. Some of the captives tried to resist, but they were immediately killed on the spot by the soldiers around them without hesitation. Seeing that Tong Ze was killed in the past, the vitality on his face gradually faded, and the remaining soldiers began to gradually give up the stupid idea of wanting to resist.

In less than half an hour, the captives had accepted their fate. However, the sharp pain in their right wrist caused them to roll while howling. Although the bandits quickly applied gold sore medicine to the wound on their right wrist and took out strips of cloth to bandage them, the blood could not stop flowing out, and soon the white strips of cloth that wrapped the wounds were also dyed bright red.

Li Yanzhi looked at the scene in the camp and listened to the wails of the captives one after another, but he stood aside and said expressionlessly: "I will go to your right hand, not to treat you harshly. But in this way, you will no longer have to serve others and do such things as sword-soldiers. It is a blessing for you to be able to save a life in these troubled times! ”

Ignoring the enemy prisoners who were still lying on the ground rolling and wailing, Li Yanzhi took Liu Jiwu to the outside of the camp and watched the soldiers under his command carrying goods and materials from a cart and placing them on the backs of those spare horses. After thinking about it, Li Yanzhi approached Liu Jiwu and said, "After moving things later, we will walk along the Chi Road to the southeast together." Let those captives see. When they return, they will say, "We're going southeast." In this way, Liu Zhao will inevitably search for us in the area close to Longxi and Nan'an. ”

"I waited for the south to go into the mountains, went around the scenery for a day, and then turned back to the north. If the materials cannot be taken away, priority will be given to bringing property and cloth. If you can bring some food, you can bring some food, and if you can't take it, you can give it to the people in need nearby. ”

"Yes!" Liu Jiwu replied. Then he raised his head, as if he remembered something, and asked, "Su Bairen will be over there, should we send someone to inform you?" ”

Li Yanzhi smiled and said: "Su Fu is not willing to be lonely, he must work for several votes in a row before he is willing to give up." We don't have a spy like him. In a place like Longxi, my eyes are black. If you do it yourself, you will fall into the trap of others at any time. The first few sentinels were sent to explore the road while heading north to find Su Fu. When you see him, let him know. ”

After a pause, Li Yanzhi said again: "Although the goods we loot and capture are not huge, they are enough for the county to support for a while. ”

After saying that, Li Yanzhi waved his hand, and Liu Jiwu went to gather the soldiers who had finished shipping the goods. There was still a lot of grain left to be carried, so some of the cavalry gathered it into more than a dozen carts, and then used their military horses to pull these carts loaded with grain to advance first. According to Li Yanzhi's instructions, he went southeast along the gallop road.

By the time the grain wagons had been out for an hour, it was already dark. Li Yanzhi led the rest of his subordinates and looked back at the prisoners lying down in the camp. Then with a wave of his hand, these remaining subordinates also stepped on the official road to the southwest and slowly left.

Beginning in the spring of the seventh year of Liu Zhaoguangchu, the convoys of transporting grain, grass and goods between the counties and counties in Longxi began to be attacked by horse bandits incessantly. In just two months, there have been six similar incidents. Countless goods and food were lost. Between the counties and counties in Longxi, they either sent troops to search alone, or jointly sent troops to suppress them, but they found nothing.

After these situations were reported to Chang'an, Liu Yao was furious. Liu Yue, the king of Zhongshan, was immediately sent to lead 5,000 cavalry to the Longxi area to cooperate with the counties to help suppress this horse thief.

The well-informed Su Fu learned that Liu Zhao had sent cavalry to help suppress it, so he hid some of the grain and goods that could not be taken away in the past in several caves that his subordinates had found, and sealed the entrance to the cave, and marked the approximate location on the map before leaving.

When Liu Yue went to Longxi with 5,000 troops, he never thought that he would carry out this encirclement and suppression operation with such a large momentum, and it would also be a failure. With the active cooperation of various counties, although many horse bandits' cottage camps and so on were swept away, the looted goods in various counties were nowhere to be found.

Since it was Liu Yao who personally ordered the attack, Liu Yue did not dare to be careless, and spent nearly half a year combing the entire land of Longxi again. Except for the vicinity of Jincheng County, which made him like a fish in his throat, all the large groups of horse bandits and bandits with names and surnames elsewhere were wiped out under the blow of his soldiers.

The chain reaction caused by this incident is that with Liu Yuejin's actions to suppress horse bandits and bandits, the law and order in Longxi has become unprecedentedly clear. If you don't count the looting and slaughter of the Han people in the passing areas by Liu Yue's subordinates, and the more brutal oppression and exploitation of the people carried out by the counties and counties of Longxi in order to make up for the large deficit caused by the looting of horse bandits before. Longxi's current security is unprecedentedly excellent.

However, these military actions that could not contain sand in their eyes also brought a series of chain reactions to the Longxi region and the two counties of Guangwu and Jincheng, which are neighbors of Longxi.

First of all, the horse thieves in the Longxi area who were deeply affected by the attack and suppression action - many of them were still Chen An's defeat before, and could not survive under the increasingly severe situation in Longxi, so they took advantage of their familiarity with the road conditions in the Longxi area, crossed the mountains and mountains, and escaped the pursuit of Liu Zhao's army in the open air, and came straight to Liangzhou.

During the previous battle of Jincheng, Zhang Lang treated Feng Ding, who wanted to cool down, so badly, these people who originally belonged to Chen An's subordinates had also heard of it. Therefore, Jincheng, located on the south bank of the Great River, is almost unattended. These horse thieves would rather starve and starve across the river for another day or two than go to the nearest golden city.

Secondly, under the increasingly serious oppression and the slaughter and plundering of the cavalry directly under the Xiongnu Liu Zhao, the remaining Han people in Longxi also began to move with their families. dragged his family towards Liangzhou.

Li Yanzhi, who had already led his troops back to the county, signed one pension receipt after another with a heavy heart. In this two-month operation, he and Su Fubu fought separately at first. However, with fewer targets to choose from, and increasingly powerful convoys to protect them, the two divisions eventually joined forces and carried out several successful raids on these targets that had heard the rumors.

However, with the improvement of the enemy's awareness of prevention, the most intuitive consequence is that the casualties of his own soldiers have also increased proportionally. This made Li Yanzhi feel extremely heartbroken. After a few times, nearly half of the casualties on his side were on his side, and the situation on Su Fu's side was even worse, he had already summoned a team of reinforcements, and in the end there were only seventy or eighty people left.

In this series of operations, the Lingju County cavalry killed 28 people and wounded 33 people, 17 of whom were disabled for life and may never be able to stay in the army again.

Among the dead, there is even Han Wencan, who fled from Guanzhong and has been with Li Yanjiong. Last time he lost Niu Erzhuang in Jincheng, Li Yanzhi was already heartbroken. This time, there was no Han Wencan in Longxi, thinking of Niu Erzhuang, who died earlier to protect himself, Li Yanzhi's heart became more and more painful.

The goods that had been looted back in batches were now piled up in the county treasury. Xin Yan, who didn't know what was going on, didn't know how much blood the soldiers under Li Yanjiong had paid for these goods that could make the county develop and grow. It was only after seeing these piles of goods that he was full of praise for Li Yanzhi's ability on the one hand, and on the other hand, he began to secretly regret his original opposition.

How did he know that Li Yanzhi, who was sad in his heart, didn't care about these details. Give the list of fallen soldiers to the workshop and ask the carpenters in the workshop to make tablets for them. He wanted to send the spiritual seats of these heroic spirits to the Martyrs' Shrine on a certain day, so that they could enjoy the incense offerings of the county government and the people.

Rao is like this, Li Yanzhi still feels extremely sad, not to mention how much money and energy the county government has spent on training and cultivating these soldiers, the families behind these soldiers have either lost their pillars or are disabled. The old have nothing to support, and the young are helpless. It was the thing that made him feel extremely heartbroken.