When some of the Jin soldiers saw that the Song army refused to accept their surrender, they once again picked up their knives and guns from the ground and shouted: "The Song army is not benevolent, let's fight with them!" Killing one is enough, killing two earns one! ”

So the battle that had just subsided soon began to fight again, only the Jin army on the side of the baggage battalion saw that the township troops who received them did not carry out the order to kill the prisoners, so they could be considered more stable, but they couldn't help but start to commotion, everyone was in danger and didn't know whether to pick up the weapon and resist, or honestly stay and obey the fate.

"Don't move! Our commander has an order, if you don't kill you, give me a little peace! Get down! Squat down for me all! Zhou Jun stood in front of these Jin army surrenderers, brandishing the Liuyun scimitar in his hand, shouting at these surrenderers.

The surrounding villagers also nervously pointed the guys in their hands at these soldiers, and drank together to order them to squat down with their heads in their hands, and wait for the fate.

Gao Huaiyuan rushed to the place where Hu Zaixing was, and saw Hu Zaixing was rubbing his chin with his beard, looking at the scene in front of him with some triumph, and rushed forward and shouted: "General Hu!" Humble duty has something to say! Please General Hu immediately give an order to stop killing prisoners, now that we have won, killing prisoners is ominous, and I hope General Hu will raise his noble hand! ”

Hu Zaixing, who was happy, was a little unhappy when he saw that Gao Huaiyuan's township soldiers did not start killing prisoners, and then he saw Gao Huaiyuan running over to stop him from killing prisoners, so he was even more unhappy, but thinking that Gao Huaiyuan had served under him during this time and had made a lot of meritorious contributions, so he said patiently: "Why didn't Huaiyuan carry out my order?" We are about to cross the river to pursue the remnants of the Jin army, and it is a trouble to keep these captives, so it is better to kill them all!" You go back quickly, solve those surrendered troops, and follow me across the river to pursue the Jin soldiers! ”

Gao Huaiyuan saw that Hu Zaixing didn't care, and was unmoved, so he knelt down on one knee and hugged his fist and replied: "General Hu, please listen to the next word, no matter how much the two armies kill in front of the battle, they will not blink an eye, but killing prisoners like this is really hurtful and peaceful, after all, these soldiers are forced to come, and the crime is not to death, and I hope that the general will raise his noble hand!" Let them live! ”

"Presumptuous! Now in front of the two armies, how dare you disrespect the order so much? This official has already said that the purpose of killing prisoners is to pursue the Jin Army in Hedong as soon as possible, but you are pushing back, don't you know the power of military law? Don't give me a quick retreat, quickly solve your surrender! After Hu Zaixing listened to Gao Huaiyuan's words, he was very displeased in his heart, so he immediately reprimanded him.

Gao Huaiyuan also had a bullish temper at this time, and lowered his neck and replied, "General Hu!" It's really hard for a young player to follow his fate! For your prisoner killing order, the young general feels too cruel, please forgive the young general for being difficult to obey! ”

"You're ......!" Hu Zaixing didn't expect Gao Huaiyuan to have this bull temper, running all the way to the dark, and he didn't even obey his orders, so he immediately became angry, and he was choked enough, after you said the word, I didn't know what to do.

"Bold! You're just a little village commander! How dare you contradict the general like this, why don't you hurry back and act according to the order? Shen Ning, who had not recovered from his injuries on the side, hurriedly shouted, but his eyes blinked vigorously at Gao Huaiyuan, giving him a look, telling him not to face Hu Zaixing at this time, and the province would cause Hu Zaixing's anger and leave a step for Hu Zaixing.

Gao Huaiyuan is not a reckless man, he knows that this will definitely make Hu Zaixing unable to come to the stage, but let him kill the prisoner, he really can't do it, so he said to Hu Zaixing again: "The young general is reckless, and I hope that the general will calm his anger, although the general is to pursue the Jin army as soon as possible, but now we kill the prisoners like this, it will only arouse the anger of the Jin army, vent anger against our Song people, and in the end it is our Song people who suffer!" Moreover, the Jin soldiers have abandoned their weapons and surrendered, if they are slaughtered, they will definitely be trapped in the beast in the future, and they will resist to the end, but it will increase the casualties of our soldiers! I hope the general will think twice and take back his fate! The little one begs the general! ”

Gao Huaiyuan's persuasion of Hu Zaixing's bitter words with affection and reason, Hu Zaixing felt that what he said made sense after listening to it, but at this time, it was a bit difficult to let him take back his life.

So he glared angrily and asked Gao Huaiyuan: "Now that we have limited troops, who will take care of so many prisoners of war left behind?" Have you thought about it? ”

Gao Huaiyuan saw that Hu Zaixing's words were loose, so he immediately leaned over and replied: "The general doesn't have to worry too much, these prisoners of war are willing to be responsible, if something happens, how about taking the young general?" ”

"Good! Since you said it, then I promise you that now the order will go down and stop killing prisoners, Gao Huaiyuan, you remember, if there is a mess in these soldiers, this official will never spare you! Hu Zaixing brushed his sleeves away with an angry face, and the generals glanced at Gao Huaiyuan one after another, and said in their hearts that this guy is really a bull's temper, and even Hu Zaixing dared to contradict him like this!

Gao Huaiyuan didn't care if Hu Zaixing was happy at this time, so he immediately took the order and rushed to the river embankment, shouting at the Song soldiers who were killing prisoners: "The general has an order, immediately stop killing prisoners, and hand over these surrendered troops to our baggage battalion to be responsible for guarding!" Stop it! ”

After hearing Gao Huaiyuan's shout, the Song army gradually began to retreat, no longer continuing to slaughter these soldiers, and turned to look at Hu Zaixing's personal soldiers who came with Gao Huaiyuan.

The soldier shrugged his shoulders helplessly, spread his hands and said, "The general did order, stop killing prisoners!" ”

After getting the confirmation, the Song army stopped continuing the attack and retreated to the back, and the Jin soldiers who were resisting stubbornly each panicked with the knives and guns they had just picked up, trembling at the Song army, not daring to put down the knives and guns in their hands easily, for fear that the Song army would not believe in their words, and after receiving their weapons, they began to slaughter them again, looking at Gao Huaiyuan who walked in front of them with eyes full of distrust.

"What are you waiting for? Why don't you let me put down my weapon quickly? Do we have to kill you all? I, Gao, am here today, since I said that I will not continue to kill prisoners, I will never continue to slaughter you, as long as you put down your weapons, Gao will guarantee your safety! But if you don't put down your knives and guns, then Gao won't be able to save your lives! Put down your weapons! Gao Huaiyuan shouted at these terrified golden soldiers.

A low-ranking officer of the golden soldier covered his wounds, walked out of the remnants of the soldiers, and asked angrily, "We have already put down our weapons and begged to surrender just now!" But haven't you slaughtered me and others in the same way? How do you guarantee that you won't kill us when I put down my weapons again? ”

Gao Huaiyuan stared into the eyes of this Golden Army Tenth Commander, and replied loudly: "I can't promise you, you can only gamble!" If you put down your weapons now, you still have a chance to live, if you don't obey, then there is only a dead end! Since Gao Mou said, if I don't kill you, believe it or not! Look south, and see if the countrymen are my men, have they ever killed a soldier? ”

These frightened Jin soldiers then looked in the direction pointed by Gao Huaiyuan, but they really saw that there was a calm over there, and the surrendered Jin soldiers sat on the ground with their heads in their hands, and the surrounding village soldiers did not show any signs of slaughter against them, so they began to hesitate.

"Time is limited, if you don't want to put down your weapons, then just if I don't say it, let's continue!" Gao Huaiyuan saw that these golden soldiers were still hesitating, so he turned around and walked towards his township barracks.

The archers on the Song army's side raised their arms again, put the arrows on the bowstrings, and made the gesture of opening their bows and releasing their arrows, and the pikemen and shield bearers also pressed forward again.

The golden soldier ten captains hurriedly stopped Gao Huaiyuan, who was about to leave, and said, "General Gao, slow down!" We are willing to surrender, and I hope that General Gao will be true to his word, and he will not lie to me! ”

Gao Huaiyuan stopped his steps, raised his hand to stop the Song army from continuing to approach, and shouted to those Jin troops: "If you believe me, put down your weapons immediately, and I will ensure that you will not die!" But if you make trouble again after surrendering, the gods will not be able to save you! ”

Jin Bing saw that Gao Huaiyuan said solemnly, and then began to hesitate and carefully threw the knife and gun in his hand to the ground again, but he still looked at the surrounding Song soldiers with vigilant eyes, and Gao Huaiyuan shouted loudly: "Huang Yan, Zhou Hao!" Come over and bring these troops over and take them over! No one is allowed to hurt them! ”

Huang Yan Zhou Hao immediately agreed, and brought the Liangdu township soldiers to run over, guiding these soldiers to move towards the ground of the baggage camp, so far the killing of prisoners is temporarily over, the Song army saw that the Jin soldiers had laid down their weapons, and the township soldiers of the baggage battalion left, and were surrounded together, then they formed a whole team, and began to build a new pontoon bridge nearby in accordance with Hu Zaixing's instructions, preparing to cross the river to chase the enemy.

Gao Huaiyuan breathed a long sigh of relief, people can't become beasts, although he asked himself that during this period of time, the Jin soldiers who died in his hands were not two hundred, at least more than a hundred, but they were all killed on the battlefield, he did not kill a soldier with his own hands, and although the soldier was a Jin army, but a hundred years ago, most of their ancestors were also Song people, but because of the incompetence of the Great Song Dynasty, they abandoned them, so they became subjects of the Jin Kingdom, so Gao Huaiyuan did not blame them, In his heart, he still regarded them as the same descendants of China, and did not despise them because they were once enemies.

Hu Zaixing was very dissatisfied with Gao Huaiyuan's performance today, after all, he is now the deputy commander of the Shenjin Army, and his majesty in the army is not to be challenged, and his orders absolutely need to be obeyed by his subordinates, but Gao Huaiyuan refutes his face because of these surrenders, so he looks a little unpleasant when he looks at Gao Huaiyuan again, and with a cold snort, the army begins to prepare to cross the river, as for cleaning up the battlefield, he will leave it to Gao Huaiyuan's baggage battalion to do, and he no longer wants to take Gao Huaiyuan to pursue Jin Bing.

It was precisely because of this incident that a rift began to arise between Gao Huaiyuan and Hu Zaixing, and the honeymoon period between them came to an end.

Gao Huaiyuan naturally knew that he had offended Hu Zaixing, but he didn't feel anything wrong with what he had done, and after receiving Hu Zaixing's order, he knew that he might not have the opportunity to follow Hu Zaixing's Shenjin Army to continue to fight with the Jin Army, so he nodded and agreed.

After returning to the baggage camp, Jia Qi shook his head slightly and said, "It's really unwise for the young master to do this!" Why are these Jin Renren and General Hu so unhappy? ”

Gao Huaiyuan smiled indifferently and said: "The eldest husband has something to do and something not to do, I ask myself if I haven't done anything wrong, so I don't have to worry about it!" We are human beings, and these golden soldiers are also human beings, and it is right to kill them to the death when the two armies fight on the battlefield, but once they put down their weapons, they are undoubtedly already civilians, how can they kill them wantonly? What's more, they are all Han people, just like you and me! Why is it too anxious to fry each other! ”

Judge sighed slightly and said, "The little one is taught!" What do we do next? ”

Gao Huaiyuan looked at the more than 1,000 golden soldiers who were still in shock around them, and ordered: "Put away all the weapons on the battlefield first, these people can just help us collect the corpses, otherwise, the next few days will be enough for us to be busy!" ”

After Gao Huaiyuan's order was conveyed, the villagers divided their men and began to gradually clean up the battlefield, and put away all kinds of weapons abandoned by the golden soldiers, including the arrows on the ground.

Then the golden soldiers were ordered to take off their armor, inspect and confiscate all their weapons, including knives, before escorting them to the battlefield and began to collect the corpses.

When they began to collect the corpses scattered all over the riverbank, Hu Zaixing had ordered his men to build a rudimentary pontoon bridge again, and then led the army to cross the small river, mounted their horses and hurried away in the direction of the retreat of the Jin army in the east of the river.

When they saw the Song army withdraw in large numbers, these Jin army soldiers finally breathed a long sigh of relief, and they were no longer as frightened as they were just now.

The Jin army lost nearly 3,000 soldiers and horses in this battle, including their main general Wanyan A also died in this nameless river, nearly 2,000 Jin soldiers were killed, the river embankment was full of mutilated and bloodstained corpses of Jin soldiers, and even the corpses of many Jin soldiers floated in the river, if they were allowed to be in this violent corpse wilderness, the weather was getting hotter day by day, and the decay of a large number of corpses not only polluted the water of the river, but also was likely to cause a large-scale plague in the Zaoyang area, according to the custom, after the two armies fought, The winning side will clean up the battlefield and bury the corpses!

But when Gao Huaiyuan looked at these corpses all over the battlefield, he also began to get a little bigger, if so many corpses were collected, how many days would it take! Anyway, at the moment, it seems that a day and a half can't be done.

So everything can only be simplified, it would be good if Gao Huaiyuan could keep these living people from dying, where could he bury the corpses of these golden soldiers one by one! So he commanded the soldiers to find a vacant lot under the river embankment, dug a huge pit, collected some quicklime from nearby and spread it at the bottom of the pit, threw these corpses into the pit and buried them, sprinkled a layer of quicklime on top of it to disinfect, and it was piled up into a mass grave.

Looking at these corpses covered with soil, Gao Huaiyuan sighed in his heart, in such a troubled world, human life is as worthless as mustard, after dying in a foreign land, it was just thrown into a big pit and buried, and it was impossible for the family to pay tribute to them.

This is not bad, in ancient times, the two armies fought, and the victorious side often slaughtered the defeated army in order to make great achievements, and then used the head to build a Jingguan, he had done this before, and today he was able to save more than 1,000 Jin troops to surrender troops, Gao Huaiyuan was somewhat glad for these surrenderers.

And the soldiers were somewhat grateful when they saw that Gao Huaiyuan was true and believed in his words and did not slaughter them, so they were relatively peaceful and did not give Gao Huaiyuan too much trouble.

After cleaning up these corpses, two more days have passed, and news came from the direction of Zaoyang in the east, saying that Hu Zaixing had led the army to defeat the Jin army that pursued them, and successfully arrived in Zaoyang, and joined forces with Meng Zongzheng, which once again greatly strengthened the strength of the Zaoyang army, so that Wanyan Sai did not look at the city and sighed, but there was no way to take Zaoyang County, so he could only send troops to attack the city every day, and neither side had any way to take it.

And Gao Huaiyuan guarded this pile of soldiers, and he also had a headache, Hu Zaixing seemed to have forgotten him, and he didn't even give him the order, so he left them in the area of Taiping Town, and no one cared about them!

How to deal with this group of soldiers has become Gao Huaiyuan's top priority, a thousand people just eat every day is a big problem, it has been consumed, I am afraid that it will not be long before the original Hu Zaixing army left in Taiping Town to eat a fine food, after there is no food, it is difficult to ensure that this group of Jin soldiers will not howl the camp, not to mention that the gang of township soldiers under their command also have to eat, always have to solve this problem!

Sent to Zaoyang? No, there are many Jin troops outside the city, I am afraid that once you arrive outside Zaoyang City, as long as someone in this group of Jin soldiers raises their arms, they can scatter and run back to the Jin camp in a hurry, and become the enemy of the Song army again, and if you don't know it, you will also put his baggage camp in, and the daily consumption of the army in Zaoyang County is also very large, more than 1,000 soldiers who do nothing, eat and drink in vain, it is estimated that sooner or later they will be slaughtered by Hu Zaixing or Meng Zongzheng, so Zaoyang must not go.

Then the only way out was to escort them to Xiangyang City, and after making up his mind, Gao Huaiyuan immediately began to register these surrendered troops, and then sent them to the Xiangyang camp to be disposed of by Zhao Fang.

When he was about to leave, Jia Qi suddenly found Gao Huaiyuan, blinked his eyes and asked Gao Huaiyuan, "Did the young master send these soldiers to Xiangyang for nothing?" ”

Gao Huaiyuan was confused by Jia Qi's cold question, and asked rhetorically: "What if you don't send them to Xiangyang?" Can't you just let them go? You don't want Hu Zaixing to punish me again for the crime of privately parachuting soldiers, let me move my head! ”

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