Chapter 090: Can't Forget
Ten days later, when Lü Bu left from Jinyang with his troops, Gao Shun returned to Lishi City with his troops. Behind him www.biquge.info there was a long caravan of horses, carrying many goods and the remains of more than 200 of the war dead.
Just a few days ago, Gao Shun, who had crossed the Yellow River, led his troops to carry out a brutal raid on the city of Fushi, or it would be more accurate to use robbery.
The Qianghu people in the city of Fushi were still waiting for their tribesmen to bring back a large number of goods, livestock and slaves from the Han territory on the east bank of the Yellow River, but what they were waiting for was a Han army that swore revenge.
Because the Han army came too suddenly, and some of the Qianghu men in the city of Fushi had already been solved on the east bank of the Yellow River, and Gao Shun adopted the tactics of stealing the city at night, so the Qianghu people were completely unprepared and were killed by surprise.
If Gao Shun attacked the two places of Yuanyin and Yuanyang, it might not have been so smooth. There is a saying called "being a thief with a weak heart", the place where the Tiance army traded with the Southern Huns was chosen to the north of Yuanyin, and the place where the accident occurred was also in that area, and the Qianghu people who secretly attacked it would inevitably maintain a certain vigilance against the possible retaliation of the Han army. Gao Shun did not retaliate against Yuanyin and Yuanyang, but he chose Fushi very boldly, which was definitely beyond the expectations of the Qianghu people.
The adult Qianghu people in the city were all killed by Gao Shun's men, the goods and livestock of the Qianghu people were also robbed by Gao Shun, and the houses in the city were also burned down by Gao Shun's order.
Gao Shun did not attack the old and weak women and children of Qianghu in the city, and he was already relatively restrained. Because these Qianghu people were originally doves occupying magpies' nests, and took the city that originally belonged to the Han people as their own. Since the Great Qin Empire, Shangjun has been the area cultivated by the Qin people, and later the world returned to the Han and became the place of the Han people.
The Qianghu people slowly infiltrated Guanzhong from the northwest borderlands, and over the years they have slowly occupied Shangjun as their own, and if they do not curb their momentum, I am afraid that even the prefectures east of the Yellow River will also suffer from it.
Lü Bu finally led his troops back to Lishi City, and on the way he had already received the news that Gao Shun led his army to defeat the Qianghu people, and in addition to being pleasantly surprised, he also had a new understanding of Gao Shun and Lu Zhi's abilities.
Others may be worried about the loss of military power, but Lu Bu has no such concerns. The more Gao Shun can fight, the happier Lu Bu is. He let Gao Shun and Lu Zhi stay in Lishi, but he didn't let them defend passively, and they didn't dare to fight back when they were bullied.
In the future, there will definitely be a lot of cases where Lu Bu personally leads the army to go out, and sometimes it is possible to go out for two or three years at a time, and only left-behind generals like Gao Shun and Lu Zhi who know how to deal with it flexibly can truly ensure the security and stability of the rear.
After Lu Bu saw Lu Zhi and Gao Shun, he did not mention his achievements in Mayi and Jinyang, but listened very carefully to the process of the two of them designing revenge on the Qianghu people of Shangjun, and praised some of the details and appreciated them very much.
For example, Lu Bu felt that Gao Shun's practice of artificially causing the water to rise sharply to annihilate the main force of the Qianghu people was very worthy of advocating. Although the Tiance Army, whether cavalry or foot soldiers, is not afraid of hand-to-hand combat with the enemy, when it can solve the enemy by other methods, it must try to avoid hand-to-hand combat methods that are stabbing with swords.
Killing a thousand enemies, even if the self-damage is only a hundred, but after all, it still caused the death of a hundred soldiers, and after many accumulations, such losses will also weaken the strength of the Tiance Army. In the border area, there are as many Hu people as weeds, and in the future, the Tiance army will have battles to fight.
For another example, Lu Bu felt that Gao Shun's practice of leading the army to raid Fushi City before the Qianghu people did not react was also very worthy of recognition. With the situation between the two sides at that time, Gao Shun didn't have time to ask Lu Bu who was far away in Jinyang for instructions, if he was just worried about missing the fighter plane by the boss's suspicion, such a military general would not be responsible.
In the war of the cold weapon era, there is often a saying that "the general is outside, and the king's order is not affected", which has a lot to do with the transportation and communication at this time. Lu Bu hoped that he would have more generals under his command who could stand alone, so that they could bring back victory and glory for themselves when they traveled thousands of miles in the future.
If the main general is suspicious of the superior because he is good at fighting, and he does not dare to show his true skills, it is actually the biggest failure of the superior.
In order to commemorate the soldiers who died in battle, Lu Bu decided to choose a slightly higher, dry and sunny land with a thick soil layer at the foot of Luliang Mountain in the east of Shicheng to build a cemetery for the soldiers of the Tiance Army who died in battle.
Lu Zhi, Chen Gong, Gao Shun and Xu Huang and other civil and military subordinates all agreed, believing that Lu Bu's move was very beneficial to boosting the morale of the army and boosting morale.
Lu Bu took his subordinates to the foot of Luliang Mountain to inspect the site, and according to the popular requirements of Kanyu at this time, he chose a slope with the mountains and rivers at the back, high on the left and low on the right, as the site of the cemetery of the first martyr of the Tiance Army.
Subsequently, Lü Bu ordered to summon the carpenters around Lishi to make coffins for the more than 500 soldiers who died in battle, and at the same time summoned the stonemasons and masons around Lishi to build a cemetery at the foot of Luliang Mountain.
Different from the previous conscription and conscription, all the craftsmen and men who were recruited this time had money and food to be paid, and they were recorded and paid on a daily basis, and there was no forced conscription or arrears.
Because the construction of the cemetery requires the collection of a large number of stones, the need to transplant evergreen trees such as green pines and cypresses, the construction of fences, and the excavation of hundreds of graves, so the amount of work is relatively large. The number of craftsmen around Lishi was limited, so Lü Bu mobilized 2,000 soldiers from each battalion to assist the craftsmen in building the cemetery.
According to Lu Bu's requirements, this cemetery should not only be built solemnly, but also need to be magnificent, in addition to the inscription of each war dead, but also in the cemetery to build a smooth stone steps and long road, but also to enter the cemetery on both sides of the stone steps on both sides of the sculptures such as characters and war horses, but also in the building of the Ming Hall to place the spirit tablet, for future generations to come to mourn and pay tribute.
In a word, the martyr's cemetery must be able to survive with the green mountains and green waters, and become a place that can be recorded in history.
Because the cemetery could not be built in a short period of time, Lü Bu ordered that the bodies of the fallen soldiers be put into the coffin first, and a righteous village was set up near the cemetery for the rest of the spirits.
In addition to the grand funeral of the war dead, Lu Bu also attached great importance to the care of the wounded soldiers and the care of the families of the soldiers who died in the war. He personally drafted a provisional regulation on the bereavement pension of the Tiance Army, which stipulated in detail the 12 preferential treatment that should be enjoyed from minor injuries to serious injuries to those who died on the battlefield.
For example, once a slave soldier dies in battle, he will be reverted to civilian status, and although he himself cannot enjoy it, his relatives can be freed from slave status.
For example, because soldiers who can no longer fight in the army after being healed from their injuries, the Tiance Army will allocate land and place errands so that they can rely on in the future and will not be lonely.
Lu Zhi and Chen Gong were worried that the pension regulations would put too much pressure on the logistics of Tiance Mansion, but Lu Bu was not worried, saying that the payment was worth it, even cheap.
In Lu Bu's view, every soldier killed or injured will inevitably be exchanged for ten times or even a hundred times the benefits, and he just takes out some of them and returns them to them.