In fact, the mountain bag on the grassland will not be less at all, but the height of the mountain bag is not high, and the color on the grassland is single, giving people the illusion that they can see the flat end of the world.

The Chinese dynasties have always been afraid of going out to the grassland, one is because there are no obvious landmarks on the grassland, it is easy to get lost, and the other is that it is difficult to find water sources without understanding the terrain. In addition, of course, there are other reasons, each dynasty's fear of going out to the grassland is a little different, and the most fatal constraint is actually that there are not enough cavalry on the Chinese side.

The grassland is empty, unlike the Central Plains or the Yangtze River, where there are so many mountains, and the empty terrain is a big blow to the Chinese generals. What's with? Just look at the military books of Huaxia, as long as it is related to military affairs, then it must be one strategy or another, and then set up tactics such as ambushes according to complex terrain.

The army is fighting on the grassland, and when you see the enemy, the enemy will inevitably discover your own, and without the various pre-war warm-ups that the commanders and generals like, it means that if one side is unwilling to engage in battle, it will either be able to catch up or not be able to catch up, and it is really impossible to play any too wonderful art of war.

It's not that the generals of Huaxia are hypocritical, thinking that they don't like to fight on the grassland if they can't play the art of war, it's that Huaxia's logistical supplies are different from those of the Hu people.

The Hu people have cattle, sheep, and horses, which means that there is no shortage of logistics, and they can be in a mobile state for a long time, and they are dependent on logistics, but they are not so strong.

The Chinese army is very dependent on logistics, and under normal circumstances, the logistics line will be stretched when it goes deep into the grassland, and the longer the battle line, the more vulnerable the supply line of the Chinese army is, and many times the Chinese army is not defeated in the hands of the Hu people. It is the disconnection of logistics and supply that is unsustainable, which causes the collapse of the self.

Like now, the Hu people, who have lost one side, are chased by one after another when they scatter and flee, and then they are overturned to the ground by the Imperial soldiers like they are slashing livestock.

Riding a horse to chase a soldier who collapsed on foot, this scene usually happens when the Hu people chase and kill the Chinese soldiers. From the ancient pre-Qin period to the Ming generation, it is not uncommon.

The cavalry in the open area is the king, and then the Chinese dynasties did not have enough cavalry in many cases, which was also the primary reason why it was difficult for the Chinese army to send troops to the grassland.

"It's a shame to kill them all, right? Nanling's current slave market, a sturdy slave can be sold for about two guan, how many more than 4,000 Hu people should be? ”

"What's there to be sorry for? There are still many tribes on the grassland, and the closer they get to the Junji Mountain tribes, the more they are. ”

"Eight thousand times! Can you buy a mansion in Nanling to support the soldiers, and you can also maintain the annual expenses of the army of a school, right? ”

"It was already said in advance that if they were defeated, they would be killed. Imperial soldiers have always been talkative. ”

Liu Bang is the one who feels pity, and it is Cao Shen who quarrels with him. These two people were not close friends when they were in Peixian, they can only be said to have a slight friendship, they haven't seen each other for several years, and they already have their own belonging when they meet again.

Cao participated in the group of people who were taken away from Pei County at the same time, most of them are now serving in the Wehrmacht, Cao Shen is a better mixed one, and now he is not only a fifth-class baron of the empire. Immediately another general.

Among the original five people, except for Cao Shen. Zhou Bo is a military marquis of the forbidden army, Xiahou Ying is now a Sima of another department, Yongya is also a tun commander of the Nanling City Defense Army, and Lu Juan applied for retirement on his own and followed Liu Bang as a retainer.

Zhou Bo was actually in the envoy group, but he did not go to Liu Bang, but met with Lu Juan a few times.

Lu Juan and Fan Xu are now Liu Bang's retainers. The two naturally wanted to follow Liu Bang on the envoy. If Lu Juan still had more or less contact with the original group of people, Fan Hao and Liu Bang did not take the initiative to find those other people.

Can you escape by running on foot on the grassland? If you were lucky enough to go into the dense grass in spring or autumn, you might be able to hide, but it's winter.

In winter, there is almost no dense grass in the grasslands. Many of the Hu people who were caught up by the cavalry were nailed to the ground by a spear from behind, and they would also be cut off by the cavalry galloping with a chopping knife, and only a very small number of Hu people who prayed for life temporarily saved a small life.

There were about 700 Hu people who were recaptured, and when they were escorted back sporadically, they gathered in a heap again, and each Hu man had an expression of absolute horror on his face.

Cao Shen looked at the frightened Hu Ren, looked at Liu Bang when he withdrew his gaze, and finally stopped his gaze on Han Xin: "Do it again?" ”

What do you mean? Cao Shen meant that he should rearm the Hu people and then let the actual battle continue.

Han Xin had already listened to the report of the firearms soldiers, and in the actual battle just now, the firearms soldiers had killed about 1,000 Hu people, and his own side had also paid the price of three killed and 216 slightly wounded.

The three men killed in the firearms could only be said to be unlucky, they were shot in the eye by a wolf's tooth arrow, and the arrow pierced the back of the head and died on the spot. The other 216 suffered minor injuries, mostly due to the lack of armor to protect their arms, legs and feet, and as a result, they were wounded on their limbs.

Han Xin responded: "No need. ”

Cao Shen was about to speak, when Han Xin spoke again.

"Tie them all up, and let the firearms take off with their bayonets." That's what Han Shin said.

Liu Bang on the other side opened his mouth and forgot to close it, because he thought that Han Xin was going to leave those Hu people to sell for money.

Hu people, for the people of the empire, aren't the Hu people an alien race? Whether it is the descendants of Yan and Huang in the Warring States Period, or the descendants of Yan and Huang in the current Imperial Era, in their cognition, the alien race can never be regarded as a human being, but can only be regarded as a kind of intelligent animal.

It is very common for people to kill animals, and the difference between people killing people and killing animals is that when people kill people, they do not kill people for food, people kill people is a kind of struggle for living space, and killing more aliens in the competition for living space is to make a meritorious career - anyway, this is what is written in any literature of the empire.

The 700 or so Hu people who were recaptured were asked to dig pits, and they also dug pits with hard work. I thought it was going to bury those who had died, and I did it too seriously. Some Hu people who knew a little about the imperial Chinese even praised the imperial soldiers for their benevolence and righteousness with strange accents, worthy of any kind of flattery.

The helmets of the Imperial army were basically the style with visor, and some of the younger Imperial soldiers were praised more embarrassed, and the tangles on their faces were also isolated by the visor. Their response to the Hu people was either silent or dry.

Dozens of large pits were dug by about 700 people for about half an hour, and then they were tied up one by one, and the Hu people did not have any resistance during the bondage, and it can even be said that they were very cooperative.

The cooperation of the Hu people is not surprising, they take it for granted that they have escaped, and the reason why they will be tied up is to be taken to a large camp, and then continue to be a prisoner of war in peace, waiting to be sold as a slave. Many Hu people have even gritted their teeth in their hearts and decided to be a good slave. will honestly obey any orders of their master, but unfortunately their desire to live is a little difficult to achieve.

The Hu people, who were tied up and stood in line one by one, watched blankly as the firearms soldiers approached in formation, and watched in a daze as the imperial soldiers stabbed their bayonets into their hearts, engulfed in darkness with great incomprehension.

Seeing that the last Hu man was killed, Cao Shen turned his head to look at Liu Bang, and asked in relative confusion: "I really don't want to repeat it, I said that I would fail and die." In the face of the imperial soldiers who said the same, how could the Hu people naively think that they could still live? ”

Liu Bang's cheeks twitched. He had felt that Cao Shen had become unfamiliar before, and now after listening to that remark, he felt even more so.

Chen Yu's face was not very good-looking, not that he thought it was ominous to kill prisoners or anything, or that the officers of the empire were too bloodthirsty.

The soldiers present did not have any special expressions, and even Yu Fanjun agreed with Cao Shen's remarks very much, comparing them with an example. said: "Most of the area on the south bank of the Yangtze River was originally owned by Baiyue people, and it took us nearly seven years to fight it, killing as many Baiyue people as possible who were hostile to us, and killing less than one million Baiyue people who originally had about 2.8 million people, except for those Baiyue people who fled into the deep mountains and old forests to hide. The empire now has nearly 1,000,000 docile and obedient Baiyue people as laborers. ”

The point of view is very clear, and it is also the mainstream view of the empire, and everyone thinks that if there is no killing, how can those lands in the south be owned by the empire. In addition, if there are not as many Baiyue people as possible, will the Baiyue people still occupy the land after the land is laid? Of course, they are to be killed or captured as slaves, and those lands will become imperial.

One morning, whether it was a battle or a later killing, when the corpses were thrown into a pit and buried, and weeds would grow on the land the following year, only a few experienced people would conclude that there were many corpses buried under the ground from the grass that grew too strongly.

Han Xin held three half-folded bronze medals in his hand, and the three plates were nameplates of firearms soldiers who died in battle, recording their nationality, age, and name.

Five years ago, the Imperial Army began to install nameplates, which were oval-shaped, foldable pieces of copper that were worn around the neck with a rope as a necklace, and when they died in battle, one half would be broken off and the other half would be left.

Of course, the appearance of the nameplate is from Lu Zhe's handwriting, this plan can be said to be deeply popular with the military, at least no matter who died in battle, even if it becomes unrecognizable, you can still know who the body is, so it is very popular.

The three firearms soldiers who died in battle were cremated, their ashes were packed, and then transported back to China along with more of the ashes of Paozawa who had died on the grassland.

In previous battles, as long as the corpses of those killed on the Empire's side could be recovered, their nameplates would be collected and cremated. Half of the nameplates are proof of death in battle, if there is neither half of the nameplate nor the person is found, it will basically be regarded as missing, and the missing person will not be able to receive the full pension, and only if the person concerned reappears or is confirmed to be dead, it will be dealt with according to the situation.

"Actually, we're quite merciful, and we didn't do such a cruel thing as a pit kill, right?"

"Hmm."

"We didn't humiliate them, giving them a good time is also the best ending, if there is an afterlife, I hope they can be reincarnated as an empire."

"Hmm."

"Forget it, it's really boring to talk to you!"

"Then don't say it."

After doing what had to be done, the team was of course back on the road, and they first caught up with the brigade of the envoys, and then continued on their way west together.

The envoy brigade is not without curiosity about what the backward team has just done, many people have asked but have not received an answer, and if anyone answers, it will only say that they have killed a group of Hu people.

It seems that it is not too new to kill the Hu people after leaving the fortress, but many people know that when the imperial army first came out of the fortress, it was almost every day in a state of war, at that time, whether it was the Hetao or other grasslands, it was full of Hu tribes, and the Wehrmacht out of the fortress spent day and night in the pursuit and encirclement, so that there would be a record of killing more than 200,000 Hu people and capturing more than 400,000 people.

"There are not many Hu people on the grassland now, at least there are not many wild Hu people in our control area. You haven't caught up with the good times, and the first batch of sergeants to go out of the fortress will at least receive at least consistent dividends on average, and some of the more fierce ones will even receive hundreds of dividends. ”

Cao Shen liked to chat with Han Xin very much, and he also liked to brag about the achievements of the Wehrmacht to his comrades in the forbidden army.

"General Cao Yu, our family Ashin also participated in the operation of the Fortress, and he served in the Fifth Cavalry Regiment at that time." Yu Fanjun smiled evilly and asked, "What is the dividend that Cao Yu will get?" ”

Cao Shen smiled: "Three hundred and twenty consistent." ”

Yu Fanjun immediately said: "Ashin's dividend is 400 consistent. ”

Cao Shen didn't say anything, he knew very well that the Fifth Cavalry Regiment was also the first to go out of the fortress, and in the end, it fought a beautiful siege and annihilation battle in the northwest, capturing more than 200,000 Hu people, including Touman, and capturing countless horses, cattle and sheep.

Dividends? Yes, it's dividends. According to the laws of the Empire, the distribution of the capture of the army outside the country was that the soldiers received 40 percent, and 60 percent were paid taxes to the authorities. At the same time, the booty captured by the army and the slaves that could not be caught will also be distributed according to the accumulated war exploits after being sold, and the better the performance during the war, the more dividends will be obtained.

"Fighting for His Majesty, fighting for the Empire, there is a military salary in peacetime, a combat allowance in wartime, you can be knighted for meritorious service on the field, and you can get additional rewards for hard work...... Yu Fanjun raised his head: "Everyone has sharpened their heads to become soldiers, and every regiment can't wait to be on the front line of the war at all times." For what? Serve Your Majesty and reimburse the empire, as long as everyone works hard to get what they deserve, and can expand the living space for our race, this is the case when a man is alive! (To be continued.) )