The fire in Hechi City burned for a whole day, until it was getting late, and the fire in the city was gradually extinguished. Wen Yuan personally led the soldiers of the middle base battalion into the city.

As soon as you enter Hechi City, the air is full of the smell of scorched earth, the surrounding is full of blackened and smoky ruins, and from time to time you can see a mess of corpses burned like charcoal on the side of the street.

This is also because the Di people are accustomed to living in wooden houses, and almost all the houses in Hechi City are made of this wooden structure, which will be burned so thoroughly by a fire! Form a place of purgatory filled with the breath of death.

Wen Yuan rode forward, but his eyes were a little dull and looked in one direction, faintly distracted.

In this fire, the living people who were burned to death were only afraid of tens of thousands, Rao is Wen Yuan is used to life and death, Rao is these people are all aliens, but now that he has really killed them, he can't help but feel a little ashamed in his heart.

This is not false compassion, this is the psychology that any person who has not lost his or her human nature has experienced this kind of normal afterthought. This sentence is lightweight, but it is not so easy for you to kill with your own hands! And not just one, but tens of thousands! If you can really kill tens of thousands of living people in one breath without a single pimple in your heart, then the apprentice can only congratulate you, you are already a god and a demon god who has lost his humanity!

Wen Yuan now has such a pimple in his heart, but after all, the top of the fire to burn the river pool is for the sake of the whole situation, although Wen Yuan is a little uncomfortable psychologically, but in general, he does not regret it. Success, sometimes there is always a price, either the enemy or yourself.

Wen Yuan walked from east to west along the straight road, and there were almost no living people along the way, until he arrived in Xicheng, the situation changed slightly, at least here, Wen Yuan saw more than five or six thousand people being confined together by Xu Huang's soldiers and horses.

These people did not escape from the city with Wang Doumao, they did not go out of the city, but picked up a life, after all, the range of the thunder car could not cover the entire river, and the mountain wind was blowing from northwest to southeast, so the northwest corner of the city was fortunate not to be affected by the fire.

Except for the most part of the city, the people who were lucky enough to survive in the entire Hechi City fled to this corner. And Xu Huang and Hao Zhao entered from the northwest during the day, and they imprisoned these people here.

Wen Yuan looked at the people who were lucky enough to escape from the fire, they were also observing themselves, these survivors had heard the rules that Wen Yuan had announced at the beginning, and all those who were higher than the wheels were killed! These five or six thousand people have just escaped from the engulfment of the fire, and after such a bad luck, how many people will be left in the end?

So when they looked at Wen Yuan, there was more despair and fear in their originally flustered expressions.

"Lord, what about these people? But to kill them? Seeing Wen Yuan coming, Xu Huang stepped forward and saluted. Xu Huang knew the rules for dealing with foreign races, but he had always attached great importance to morality, and he was always a little embarrassed in the face of these old, weak, sick and disabled, so he came back to ask Wen Yuan for this painful problem.

Xu Huang's embarrassment is in anyone's eyes, and it is never ambiguous to let him fight and kill the enemy, but it is indeed difficult for him to let him kill these old and weak people who have no ability to resist.

Wen Yuan smiled bitterly and was about to speak, but saw Wei Yan stand up from behind and said: "Lord, since General Xu is embarrassed, the last general is willing to do it for him, our middle base camp has come all the way here, and he has not moved a knife or a shot, and the brothers are about to fall out with me!" It's time for them to see some blood! ”

Wen Yuan frowned and looked at Wei Yan. Sure enough, in this troubled world where human life is as cheap as mustard, there is really no shortage of such people who kill people without blinking. However, Wei Yan's mind didn't know how he didn't know, he was tied up by himself and couldn't kill the enemy and make meritorious contributions, this kid who was so happy was very anxious! He watched himself reward Ma Chao in the afternoon, and only then did he stand up and want to make a merit. What brothers in the middle base camp are meritorious? It's just a pretext for him.

Wei Yan didn't realize that his little caution had already been seen clearly by the lord, at this time he thought that he had stepped forward to relieve the lord, and more importantly, what he valued was this easy to get a meritorious service, because in the afternoon, Ma Chao came to report that he killed Wang Dou Mao in the battle, and almost all of the nearly 20,000 Di people who broke through from the south gate were drowned in the Han River. As a result, after hearing this, the lord rewarded Ma Chao again, and Wei Yan volunteered to stand up under the itch at this time.

It's a pity that Wei Yan not only got Wen Yuan's praise, but instead got a reproach for splitting his head and covering his face!

I only heard Wen Yuandao: "Xuan Yingwei is the pride of my millions of Jin army soldiers, representing the supreme honor of a soldier!" He exists to defeat powerful opponents, and you want to let the glory of these armies kill some defenseless civilians? You are going to defile the sword in their hands, and you are going to defile their proud hearts! Wen Chang, as the commander of the Xuanying Guard, is that what you think in your heart? ”

"Uh, the last will be damned! The sin of the last general! Wei Yan's face changed, and he hurriedly rolled into the saddle and dismounted from the horse.

Wen Yuan waved his hand and said, "Go down!" I know you're thinking about me too, and I don't blame you this time. But remember not to be so reckless next time, fight, in the future, there will be a tough battle waiting for you in Hanzhong! ”

After the stick, Wen Yuan threw a sweet jujube again, controlling a military general like Wei Yan, Wen Yuan can be said to be proficient, Wei Yan is very happy, brave and arrogant, this is very similar to Lu Bu, and it is most appropriate to use this method.

Sure enough, after Wen Yuan's words, Wei Yan suddenly resigned himself and retreated with joy.

But the problem has to be solved after all, Xu Huang said with a wry smile: "Lord, what should these people do?" ”

He saw that the Qiang envoy was by Wen Yuan's side, and he also understood Wen Yuan's intentions to be ruthless to the Di people. can become the commander of the legion who is in charge outside, and his vision is much better than Wei Yan's.

Originally, Xu Huang thought that this problem would make the lord very difficult, but who expected Wen Yuan to shake his head and smile, and wrote lightly: "Forget it, anyway, they are all old, weak, sick and disabled, and there is no threat to us, so ...... Let them go. ”

"Let it go...... Let them go? Xu Huang thought that he had heard it wrong, didn't the lord still want to use the Hechi Di people to deter other Di tribes before? Why did you suddenly change your mind and let them go?

"Yes, just let them go." Wen Yuan said lightly, in fact, when he was teaching Wei Yan just now, he suddenly figured it out. Sometimes you don't need to kill everything to deter the restless forces around you, and the rules for dealing with aliens set for the Western Expeditionary Army in the past are a bit too absolute.

It is true that killing all the barbarians who dare to resist will bring great fear to the surrounding tribes who have not surrendered, but it is not without benefit to think that a small part of the population will be left alive.

After all, too drastic means will provoke strong resistance, and those tribes who have already resisted know that surrender is also a dead end, and they will definitely send a desperate blow to death! And leaving a small part alive can leave a glimmer of hope for the resisting tribes, so that they will have some worries about the final counterattack.

This point Wen Yuan had actually thought of a long time ago, and another point was what Wen Yuan had just thought of, and it was with this idea that Wen Yuan decided to make some slight improvements in his strategy towards foreign races.

People, in the face of death will naturally be afraid, and fear this emotion is undoubtedly contagious, the five or six thousand Di people in front of them are undoubtedly the carrier of fear, now kill them, the nearby Di people tribe only know that the Hechi Di people were destroyed, what is the tragic end, and can not spread out very vividly.

And if they leave a few thousand Di people, as long as they live, they will spread the fear in their hearts to other Di people, let them know the fate of opposing the Han army, so that they will no longer dare to resist.

So leaving these thousands of seeds of fear behind is obviously more meaningful than killing them! Moreover, Wen Yuan already planned to tell Lu Bu and Lu Yi about this idea, with more such means, the Western Expeditionary Army would definitely be able to go further and easier on the next road!

Therefore, Wen Yuan said proudly: "Let these Di people go, but let them get out of Hechi City!" This is the city of the Han people, let them go back to their mountains! Also, let them tell their people that the Han people are not to be humiliated! The sins of the past can be written off, but submitting to the court is their only chance to live! In the future, there will be tribes that dare to be hostile to the imperial court, and this White Horse Clan is his example! "This is almost a declaration to the Wudu Di tribe. Hearing this, the crowd's blood will boil, and their chests will surge.

Xu Huang no longer had any doubts, and bowed down to promise, because he had already vaguely heard the deep meaning contained in it.

Several strategists also cast admiring glances at Wen Yuan, isn't this kind of foresight of the lord exactly the personality charm that attracts them to be loyal and dedicated? It is conceivable that once the impact of this initiative is spread, at least the next road from Wudu to Hanzhong will be smooth sailing!