Yang Su frowned, listening to Wang Huaqiang's words, the corpse on this battlefield smelled into his nose, which made him feel a little uncomfortable, and now his position is a dirt slope, less than a hundred steps away from here is the corpse, the blood on the ground and the black corpse water flowed together, the smell was unpleasant, Yang Su asked: "Then according to the meaning of the king joining the army, what should I do now?" ”

Wang Huaqiang looked up at the sky, it was almost dusk when he went out of the city just now, this battle started at noon, and it took three hours, at this time the sky was gradually dark, torches were lit everywhere on the battlefield, and a group of Sui soldiers were holding their heads, recording military exploits in the records of their respective departments.

Wang Huaqiang's eyebrows moved, and said: "Dashuai, I'm just afraid that the soldiers will have to work hard tonight, and the matter of counting the heads can be postponed, everyone first watch the captives dig pits and bury the corpses deeply, and the corpses that are too late to bury must be gathered and burned, and the corpses cannot be left overnight, otherwise it may be within half a month, and the plague may spread in this Suzhou City." Oh, by the way, there must be no corpses in the moat, and the battlefield must be sprinkled with lime to disinfect. ”

Yang Su nodded, turned back to the herald and said: "Someone, pass on my order, I won't remember the beheading today, the nose can be cut off on the corpse as evidence, the heads and corpses of the enemy soldiers will be buried or incinerated in depth, and the medical officer will be notified that the lime will be sprinkled all over the battlefield, and there shall be no dirty blood left, tomorrow morning, no wild dogs or crows that eat human flesh will be allowed here, if it is not cleaned, military law will be engaged in early tomorrow morning." ”

How dare the herald slacken, he hurriedly saluted and retreated. Dozens of heralds carrying small flags rode horses. Run to all parts of the battlefield. While running, Yang Su's order was conveyed loudly.

Yang Su smiled: "Everyone, now I can go back to our army's commander's account to discuss the matter, just now Wang joined the army and reminded me that the enemy army still has a part of the eastward escape to Songjiang, we can't relax now, and it is not appropriate to enter the city today to celebrate, or we have agreed on the military plane first." Then it is good to chase and annihilate the fleeing enemy, once the enemy army in Songjiang is cleared, then the rebellion in the land of Sanwu will be solved, and the next thing is to enter the Minyue area, pacify Gao Zhizhi, Wang Wenjin and Shen Xiaoche, the three emperors of the soil. ”

All the generals clasped their fists and saluted: "Obey the commander's military orders." ”

Half an hour later, in the tent of the commander in the military camp temporarily set up by Yang Su's army, Yang Su's department and the Suzhou defender of Huangfu Ji participated in the joint meeting with the above generals, and more than 20 victorious generals all showed smug expressions on their faces, and they were divided into left and right. And Wang Huaqiang, who made great contributions in this battle, still stood in the last position in the right column.

Yang Su glanced at Huangfu Ji, who was standing first on the left. said with a smile: "General Huangfu, you have been trapped in Suzhou for more than three months in this battle, dragging down the main force of the rebels, and attracting all the rebels in the entire land of Sanwu here, even Lu Mengsun and Shen Xuanyu of Songjiang also ran over with red eyes, and were completely wiped out by our army in Xishan the day before yesterday.

Huangfu Ji smiled slightly: "Yang Dashuai, just now I learned that Shen Xuanyu and Lu Mengsun from Songjiang also came to Suzhou, and were sent by Gu Ziyuan to ambush Xishan in the north, in fact, I have always been curious, how can you eliminate all these rebels in the north, but not a single rebel army escaped to report the news?" ”

Yang Su didn't speak, Shi Wansui, who was standing opposite Huangfu Ji, laughed: "General Huangfu, you don't know, this time I followed Yue Guogong to fight, it was also an eye-opener, Yue Guogong probed the enemy's intelligence in many ways before each battle, and found out their camps, troops, generals and retreats clearly, and when he crossed Jingkou on the night of fifteen days ago, he sent strange soldiers in advance to cut off the retreat of the Jingkou rebel Zhu Mowen to the west and south.

When Zhu Mowen found that the outside of the city were all the barracks of our army, it was too late, our army crossed the river with siege equipment, and the strength of the army had an absolute advantage, so it took Jingkou in one day, and beheaded Zhu Mowen and the following rebels of 5,000 people, and did not let go of a single one.

Next, our army sent another 20,000 people to firmly besiege the rebel Gu Shixing Department in Jinling City, cutting off their connection with Gu Ziyuan. Just as our army was about to continue to march towards Suzhou, a messenger from the Lu Mengsun Department of the Xishan rebel army was captured by our army and explained that there had just been an ambush of 30,000 enemy troops in Xishan.

In the night three days ago, our army attacked the rebels in Xishan at night, the enemy did not know how much our army came at night, could not organize effective resistance, and soon collapsed, our army completely cut off the retreat to the south, leaving only a valley to the north, more than 20,000 rebels fled for their lives, and were killed by the ambushes on both sides of the valley by our army, and a few fish that slipped through the net were also chased and killed by our army's iron cavalry in the north of the mountain, more than 31,000 enemy troops, more than 23,000 beheaded, and nearly 8,000 prisoners, Shen Xuanyu and Lu Mengsun were both beheaded.

By the way, General Huangfu, when our army put the more than 20,000 heads under the Jinling City, that Gu Shixing surrendered directly without saying a word, he knew that he was guilty, and he could not escape death, and committed suicide before opening the city, and Marshal Yang did not kill those prisoners of war, but took care of them, and today Suzhou was victorious, and nearly 30,000 people were captured, and even a total of 50,000 or 60,000 prisoners in front of him had to ask Marshal Yang to send them unified. ”

A trace of cruel killing intent appeared on Yang Su's face, and he sneered twice: "They are all ungrateful thieves, what's the use?" General Huangfu, please trouble you with this matter, early tomorrow morning, these 50,000 captives will be taken to the valley north of Xishan, and all of them will be killed!"

Huang Fuji's face changed, and he arched his hand and said: "Marshal Yang, this is not in line with the benevolent government implemented by the emperor in Jiangnan." ”

Yang Su said coldly: "The wildfire can't be burned, the wind blows and grows, the emperor's benevolence is to sincerely serve the people of our dynasty, to them, naturally they must love the people like children, but these thieves, bathed in such a heavenly grace and unconsciously, when my army leaves, there will still be trouble, this time I checked, the rebels are often family, nephews, brothers as a unit, in groups, many villages are men, women and children join the rebels in the whole village.

It is these more than 50,000 prisoners, almost every one of whom has relatives and friends who died at the hands of our army in this battle, and now although they are forced by the might of our army, they kneel on the ground and beg for mercy for a while, but with such a blood feud, as long as there is a chance, they will still rebel, we will kill these people today, and we will do it once and for all in the future, and no one will dare to rebel in this land of Sanwu. ”

Huangfu Ji shook his head, hugged his fists and said: "Yue Guogong, many of these people are the people under the rule of Suzhou, they are guilty of rebellion, and it is also my parental official who has no way to govern, please the emperor first issued a decree to punish me, the assassin of Suzhou, spare these people, they have lost a lot of relatives in this battle, and they have also seen the Tianwei of our army with their own eyes, and they should never dare to rebel in the future."

Besides, there are a lot of relatives and friends of these captives in the city of Suzhou, not that if you kill these people, you will completely break the hatred, many of them have also seen our army capture a large number of enemy soldiers in the city today, the marshal, these people of Suzhou are loyal to the people of our Great Sui, besieged the city for three months, if these people have two hearts, and the anti-thieves outside the city should be together, I am afraid that Suzhou is difficult to hold, now we can't do this kind of painful and hateful thing. ”

Yang Su lowered his head and groaned for a while, and said, "If you spare these people's lives, General Huangfu, can you guarantee that they will not rebel again?" Early tomorrow morning, our army will march to Songjiang to pursue the remnants of the enemy, and then it will go to Zhejiang, when there will only be you and tens of thousands of defenders in Jiankang in the south of the Yangtze River, can you control the situation here? ”

Huangfu Ji thought for a while, and said: "The people of Suzhou, relying on my 5,000 soldiers, should be able to suppress it, God has the virtue of a good life, and the emperor has always done good governance. ”

Yang Su nodded and said: "Okay, I won't kill the people here in Suzhou, but it is impossible for the captives to be released like this, they are now the sinners of the country, first by General Huangfu to build a prisoner camp to take care of them, and after Jiangnan is pacified, they will be moved to the north as slaves." As for the rebels in Jinling, General Su led 10,000 men to take them into custody, which was the same policy as the Suzhou rebels took prisoners, during which they needed to work every day to repair the bridges and cities destroyed in the battle. ”

Huangfu Ji showed joy on his face and saluted yes. (To be continued......)

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