Looking at the corpses of these villagers and young men who were buried together, Gao Huaiyuan was full of emotion in his heart, he finally realized the cruelty of war now, this is just a small-scale encounter, more than 100 people from both sides of the enemy and the enemy ended their lives, if it is replaced by a large-scale war, God knows what kind of scene it will be!

Especially for the five young men who died in the war, thinking that everyone gets along with each other every day and night, and they still talk and laugh together in the morning, but now they have been separated from heaven and man, not only Gao Huaiyuan is sad in his heart, but also the teenagers under him are also sad, many people can't help but shed tears, and they have stepped forward to clean up the remains of these few dead little brothers, and a few people close to them have already fallen on them, crying bitterly.

And although the villagers who died were still cheering for this victory just now, celebrating the rest of their lives after the catastrophe, they all stopped laughing at this time, and their faces showed sad looks, after all, some of these dead people had a good relationship with some of them, and it was a little emotionally difficult to accept just watching them die.

Gao Huaiyuan instructed Jia Qi to write down the names of the fallen brothers one by one, and let the place give them a place to compensate them after they returned, and at the same time ordered them to bury the bodies of these brothers on the spot, and each of them cut off some of their hair and nails and wrapped them up and handed them over to their relatives for resettlement, and set up a wooden board in front of each person's grave, writing down their places of origin and names, so that their relatives could take their bodies out and transport them back to their hometown for burial after the war.

After finishing these things, Gao Huaiyuan gave an order, and the villagers immediately lined up in front of these tombs, looking at the expressions on everyone's faces, although Gao Huaiyuan was not comfortable, but he still suppressed the pain in his heart, and shouted to them: "Everyone listen, the ancients have clouds, and a few people have come to fight in ancient times!" Since it is inevitable to go into battle and sacrifice one's life for the country, you should not feel sad because of the death of these brothers, they will be remembered by us, and we will remember these evils done by the enemy, and we will avenge them in the future! Now that the war is coming, it's not the time for everyone to cry, and after this battle is over, it's not too late for everyone to cry and sacrifice them! Now let's all say goodbye to them! We will continue to drive towards Zaoyang! ”

I don't know who shouted in the ranks: "Avenge the brethren!" ”

Suddenly, the rest of the villagers shouted in unison, and their voices echoed in the sky above this area for a long time......

As for the Jin soldiers who were killed, no one knew their names, according to the rules of the army, someone went to cut off their ears, put them in strings and wrapped them in lime, and used them later, and also cut off the braids of some of the Jurchens, which was the most valuable thing, and handed them over to Gao Huaiyuan for safekeeping, and the remaining corpses Meng Heng ordered people to dig a big pit on the spot, threw them down, and built a small Jingguan, which was used for military exploits.

In addition to killing dozens of Jin soldiers in this battle, Gao Huaiyuan also captured more than 20 war horses, these war horses are good things, even if Meng Hui didn't want to compete with Gao Huaiyuan, but when he saw these war horses, he couldn't help but blush, the Song army lacked horses, a horse was worth at least 10,000 yuan, and for the generals, they all wanted to have a cavalry under their command, so when Gao Huaiyuan was busy burying the dead, Meng Heng also gathered his subordinates to say goodbye to these dead and show respect for them.

You must know that the status of Xiangyong in the army is very low, no one can afford them at all, they can win such respect from the regular army, they are all very proud, and they feel that they have finally won the face of Daye County, so they also have a good impression of this Meng Heng.

After Gao Huaiyuan was busy, Meng Hui quietly found Gao Huaiyuan and said: "The Gao Detention Team has great achievements, Meng is really admired, the Gao Detention Team can rest assured, for your military exploits, Meng will never snatch it, and will truthfully report to the peak, but there is a reluctant request below, I hope that the Gao Detention Team will give these war horses obtained this time to Meng, once Meng has these war horses, he can organize a ranger army, and the victory with the Jin people in the future will be greater!" I wonder what the high escort team thinks? ”

Gao Huaiyuan knew that Meng Heng had taken a fancy to these war horses he had captured, although he also wanted to keep these war horses, but when he thought about his identity, a township soldier, and wanted to organize a cavalry, it was simply a joke, as long as the lord took a fancy to this kind of thing, sooner or later he would have to be asked for by others, and it would be better to be a personal favor and simply give these war horses to Meng Heng, and he had a very good impression of Meng Heng, if someone else came over, maybe even his military exploits would be taken for himself! And the war horses can play a greater role in the hands of people like Meng Hui, and no one dares to snatch these war horses from him!

Thinking of this, Gao Huaiyuan generously agreed, but he made a request, that is, he wanted to leave a few war horses for his own use, asked Meng Heng to leave a few for him, and promised not to let people take away his war horses in the future.

Meng Heng is also the son of Meng Zongzheng, the commander of this army, and this thing has been done, so after being overjoyed, he immediately patted his chest to ensure that there was no problem, thanked Gao Huaiyuan again and again, and happily took away twenty-one war horses from Gao Huaiyuan, leaving six good horses for Gao Huaiyuan.

Both parties are very happy, Gao Huaiyuan finally has his own mount, and let Huang Yan, Zhou Hao, Zhou Jun, and Jia Qi, who have made great achievements this time, all ride on the war horse, and even Zhang Qing also shared a horse, although others are red-eyed, but no one is dissatisfied.

In addition to these trophies, Gao Huaiyuan also got dozens of pieces of Jin Army armor, and they were also distributed to the villagers to wear, increasing the protection of his own people, and dozens of more bows, greatly enriching the long-range firepower of his township soldiers, as for those dead horses, he naturally will not let go, in line with the principle of never wasting them, these dead horses are skinned and deboned, and the horse meat is salted with large salt, the staple food of the Song Army is vegetarian, but he wants to ensure the physical growth of his young soldiers, he must provide them with enough nutrition, after sending out the army, just eating vegetarian food has already made these guys fade out of their mouths! This solves the problem.

Gao Huaiyuan also arrived here, only to know that because of the influence of the farming economy, the Song people are mainly vegetarian on weekdays, and rarely eat meat on weekdays, so that the Song people's physique is not as strong as the northerners, especially the night vision, which is greatly affected, so when he sheltered these teenagers from the beginning, he promised to let them eat some meat every day, at least to ensure that they can eat animal offal, so that their nutrition can keep up with the growth of their bodies, so don't look at his young soldiers, their strength and size are not small.

This also made him understand whether a nation is strong, sometimes it is not unrelated to eating meat, and now it seems that sheep can't fight wolves, it seems that they have a lot to do with eating grass!

Seeing that it was getting late, Meng Hui also got Gao Huaiyuan's advantage, and it was inconvenient to urge them to go on the road, so he simply asked everyone to camp on the spot and rest for a night, but he just sent someone to quickly report the news of the baggage team back to the army, and he led the army to serve as Gao Huaiyuan's bodyguard for one night.

And this night, Meng Hui personally set up a banquet in his tent, and invited Gao Huaiyuan to talk for a long time, both of them put down their hearts and drank heartily, from the conversation, Gao Huaiyuan saw that Meng Hui was indeed a hot-blooded man, full of enthusiasm for serving the country, and from time to time he would talk about recovering his homeland, but how easy it was for him to talk about it! The Great Song Dynasty is now incompetent in Ningzong, and under the power of the ministers, self-protection is already reluctant, if it is not blocked by the Jianghuai moat, I am afraid that even the partial security may not be enough, how can we talk about the restoration of the homeland!

However, he also saw from the conversation with Meng Hui that it is no wonder that Meng Hui will have such great achievements in later generations, this person does not look at his young age, but he is familiar with a lot of military books and war strategies, and his thinking is not as rigid as the general generals of the Song Army today, and there are many unique introductions, and Gao Huaiyuan always has a feeling of brightness in his heart.

And after some conversation, Gao Huaiyuan also learned about Meng Hui's family background, it turned out that Meng Hui's great-grandfather turned out to be Yue Fei's general, and even his grandfather was also Yue Fei's general, no wonder their Meng family's father and son are so powerful, and their feelings are inseparable from Yue Fei! So I have a much better impression of Meng Hui, you must know that the person Gao Huaiyuan admires the most in his life is Yue Fei, because he came a little late, he couldn't follow Yue Fei to meet him, and he can join hands with his descendants in the future, and it is not in vain that he came here for a lifetime!

And Meng Hui was also impressed by Gao Huaiyuan's conversation, thinking that Gao Huaiyuan was just relying on the courage of a passionate heart to achieve today's victory, what insights can he have at a young age, but after the two talked, they found that in terms of marching formation, Gao Huaiyuan really did not give in vain, and he also had his unique understanding of the war, and he actually resonated with himself in many things, especially in terms of major events in the world, he was not confused at all, and he couldn't help but be surprised, and he couldn't help but start to treat Gao Huaiyuan as an adult, and made friends sincerely.

Especially after listening to Gao Huaiyuan's comments on today's overall situation, Meng Hui no longer dared to underestimate Gao Huaiyuan, and said in his heart that he saw the general trend of the world so thoroughly at a young age, I am afraid that the future is really limitless! Speaking of the middle of the night, after the two drank too much, they hooked shoulders and began to be brothers, and they became friends overnight.

Meng Hengzhi saw that Gao Huaiyuan was so good, and he felt a little sorry for the food, and he wanted to take this opportunity to envelop Gao Huaiyuan into his father Meng Zongzheng's army and serve in the army, but Gao Huaiyuan finally dragged it down temporarily on the grounds that he was still young and his father didn't know, and did not agree to Meng Heng to serve as a general in the army, which made Meng Heng a little pity, but when he thought about it, the ghost knows when this battle will be fought, even if Gao Huaiyuan doesn't want to join the army, I'm afraid he can't leave the army for a while, so he temporarily dispelled this idea, and I want to talk about it later!

As the day just dawned, when Meng Hui got up and packed up, he saw that Gao Huaiyuan's township barracks had already gotten up and prepared at this time, ready to go, and those township soldiers were in a neat formation, quite a bit of a regular army, so he admired Gao Huaiyuan's ability to control troops even more.

With Meng Heng's order, the two battalions of men and horses slowly moved towards Zaoyang, and Gao Huaiyuan is most pleased now that he finally won the absolute convincing of these hundreds of township soldiers, and his biggest gain in this battle is to let these township soldiers change from a rabble to a group of bloody heroes in one day.

There is a saying in the world that is really good, a soldier who has never seen blood is definitely not a qualified soldier, and Gao Huaiyuan, a township soldier, after this battle, is no longer the same group of rookies as before, no need for Gao Huaiyuan to think about it, if they encounter the enemy army in the future, these people will never panic easily!

And Gao Huaiyuan also tested the results of his efforts for more than a year, under his efforts, these fifty teenagers, has become the absolute main force in the township barracks, this battle fully demonstrated their combat effectiveness, don't look at their age, they are very calm when they go into battle, they are not panicked at all because of the face of the Jin army, whether it is personal combat strength or mutual cooperation is quite good, especially in terms of obeying orders, it is by no means comparable to ordinary people, under the command of Gao Huaiyuan, it is like an arm, it is very easy to use, which also shows that his efforts over the past year or so have not been in vain, and there is nothing wrong with the direction of such training.

Riding on the horse, Gao Huaiyuan's body fluctuated with the ups and downs of the horse's back, and from time to time he experienced the essentials of horse control, speaking of which he had been in this era for such a long time, it was really the first time to ride a horse, and he was quite excited, if he hadn't ridden a mule and a donkey before, he really didn't dare to get on the horse rashly, otherwise it was really possible to make a fool of himself.

Even so, a few of them got the war horse and some people made a fool of themselves, Zhang Qing said that he was not young, but he had never ridden a war horse, and under the excitement, the horse was going to slip last night, but he didn't want to be lifted off the back by the war horse on the spot, and ran out with a smoke, so that Zhang Qing almost didn't have his back to breath, which caused everyone who was in a bad mood to suddenly laugh, which made Zhang Qing lose face, and almost went to cut off the war horse that threw him.

As for Huang Yan and others, the situation is a little better than Zhang Qing, after having Zhang Qing's previous experience, they were a little more careful when they got on the horse, so they didn't make a fool of themselves on the spot like Zhang Qing, but looking at their cautious appearance on the horse, it still makes people feel very twisted, and they can't compare with the Jin soldiers who galloped on horses yesterday, at best, they can say that they can ride horses, but they can never be called able to ride horses.

After half a day, these people each on the back of the horse to hold the back pain, from time to time to get off the horse to move the legs and feet, walking posture are a little out of shape, forked legs, each has a little loop, it turns out that several of them are not used to riding horses, the skin on the inner thighs are worn out by the saddle, the buttocks * also hurt to death, this has put away the pride, know that it is not easy to ride a horse.

And Meng Heng is the son of Jiangmen, even if the Great Song Dynasty lacks horses, his father is under the jurisdiction of Jingxi Road, and he has never been in contact with war horses since he was a child, plus he has been determined to serve the country in the army since he was a child, and he has been deliberately immersed in riding for a lot of time, and his riding skills are quite good, when he saw the embarrassment of Gao Huaiyuan and a group of people riding horses, he knew that these people could not ride horses, so he did not laugh at them, and personally came to Gao Huaiyuan to point out a lot of knowledge about how to control horses, and also taught him a lot of knowledge about raising horses, so that Gao Huaiyuan finally understood the habits of war horses, when you get on the horse again, you can control it a lot.

After Gao Huaiyuan's transfer of these methods of controlling horses, Huang Yan's gang of boys soon gradually mastered some of the methods of how to control horses, and when they got on the horse again, they began to look a little bit like that, at least it will not be as ridiculous as in the morning, only Zhang Qing is alone, it seems that he is not born to ride horses, no matter what, he can't communicate with the war horse, along the way, he feels that riding a horse is like a crime, and in the last anger, he simply returned his war horse to Gao Huaiyuan, saying that he would not ride anything, and was willing to be his infantryman, but he left Gao Huaiyuan with a good horse, and cheapened Fei Wenlong under Gao Huaiyuan for nothing, but he made this kid crazy.

After a day of chasing, Gao Huaiyuan and his party finally caught up with Meng Zongzheng's army, and Meng Zongzheng had already learned the details of Gao Huaiyuan's battle with their team of township soldiers from the scout sent back by Meng Hui, and immediately looked at Gao Huaiyuan a little more impressed, and immediately sent someone to summon Gao Huaiyuan after learning that Meng Heng had escorted Gao Huaiyuan and his party to catch up with the army.

In front of the generals in the army, Meng Zongzheng praised Gao Huaiyuan without hesitation, and immediately decided to write down the first merit to Gao Huaiyuan's township soldiers, and Gao Huaiyuan's military merits were also recorded in the book, and they would be rewarded separately after the war, and everyone understood that if Gao Huaiyuan was a person in the army, this battle exploit alone would be enough to make him among the officers, at least there would be no problem in awarding a nine-grade official position like Chengjielang!

And Gao Huaiyuan still kept a low profile, and thanked him again and again, saying that the merit of this battle was not in him, but the result of his men going to the countryside to be brave in their lives, which made Meng Zongzheng feel more fond, no matter how he looked at it, he felt that Gao Huaiyuan was pleasing to the eye, and he was proud of the general's achievements, this quality was very rare in his opinion, and he remembered that Hu Zaixing wanted to recruit Gao Huaiyuan to work under him, and he couldn't help but feel a little emotional.

And Gao Huaiyuan also began to enter the sight of high-ranking officials like Meng Zongzheng because of this battle, and began his official military career.