Chapter 731: Lamb to the Slaughter

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Li Mi's Wang Qi Daxu had disappeared from the battlefield, the Wang Qi had disappeared, the King of Wei had fled, and they had been abandoned.

Feeling abandoned by Li Mi, the Wei soldiers let out a desperate and angry roar. The biggest motivation to support them in fighting until this time is loyalty to Li Mi. They didn't feel sorry for Li Mi, they fought until the last moment, but Li Mi turned his back on them at the last moment. He abandoned them on the battlefield and fled for his life alone.

They no longer had the fighting spirit, looking at the coalition soldiers who were surrounding them, a Wei soldier dropped his weapon in a daze, crouched down and hugged his head and cried, ignoring the bloody horizontal knife that was about to fall above his head. As if it was contagious, the sounds of "dangchang" and "dangchang" sounded continuously, and the weapons of the Wei soldiers fell into the dust one by one. They gave up their resistance and watched the cheers of the victors soar into the sky, their wounds bleeding from their open wounds.

Some of the troops were prisoners of war, while others were desperately fleeing. The defeated soldiers shouted, discarding their weapons and armor, and scrambled back with the bodies of their companions. The Wei army has lost its rationality, and there are fugitive soldiers of the Wei army everywhere on the main roads, trails, hills, fields, valleys, and forests. The last baggage team of the Wei army was thrown on the side of the road, and the baggage soldiers untied the carts, mounted their horses and fled for their lives, and countless carriages loaded with tents and other materials stopped on the road on four wheels, blocking the way of the defeated soldiers, leaving only a very narrow passage. In order to gain a chance to escape, the Wei soldiers did not hesitate to use their knives to slash and kill their comrades who were blocking in front of them, and stepped on their corpses to pass.

Behind the rout army, the cavalry of the coalition army was pursuing at the tail of the Ourus. The cavalry flew after them, killing, slashing, and slashing with all their might. When you see Wei soldiers, you will kill them. Whether it was Li Mi's descendants' internal army or the old subordinates of the other rebel leaders, most of them were now lying on the open plain of the black rock beach soaked with snow and blood.

The Hebei army did not kill prisoners, but the Jianghuai army and the Eastern Capital army were not so polite. Because of this battle that lasted for more than half a month, the Jianghuai army was full of the blood of the Jianghuai army's brothers, so it was very hateful to the Wei army, as long as the Wei army was defeated. Regardless of whether they were captives or not, they cut off their heads without saying a word and hung them on their horses. And the same is true of the Eastern Capital Army, cutting off the heads one by one and hanging them on horses, and these heads are all their battle exploits, each and every one. It's all a silver coin with white flowers.

Until midnight. Zhang Zhongjian, who was in charge of staying behind in Luokou Cangcheng, that is, the top general on the battlefield of Heishitan, only to find that the number of prisoners captured was surprisingly small when he received the following prisoner statistics.

Li Mi's Wei army originally had 150,000 people, plus the people they captured, adding up to 300,000 people. Although there were six days of continuous fighting, the casualties were only 10,000 or 20,000. Except for the people who were left by Li Mi on the battlefield as an inner wall. Li Mi's Wei army had at least 1230,000 people, and if you exclude the casualties of the Wei army on today's battlefield. Li Mi's Wei army also had at least about 100,000.

However, the number of prisoners reported now is less than 10,000.

According to the information that Zhang Zhongjian had, although Li Mi fled with a lot of soldiers and horses, he only had 30,000 or 40,000 people around him at most. If he got rid of some of the defeated soldiers scattered all over the wilderness, he roughly estimated that the coalition army would hunt down at least about 30,000 prisoners. He immediately ordered all the armies to forbid the killing of any more prisoners.

Wait until dawn. The post-war statistics are finally out.

In this battle, all the remaining 150,000 soldiers and horses of Wei participated in the battle. Plus 150,000 people. Among them, 28,000 Wei soldiers were killed and more than 13,000 were taken prisoner. The Jianghuai army and the Eastern Capital army killed about 30,000 prisoners, the dispersed Wei army was about 30,000, and the Wei army, which was still on the run with Li Mi, was about 50,000. …,

Li Mi, the king of Wei, fled, and many of Li Mi's confidants, including Wang Bodang, Wang Dangren, Shan Xiongxin, Xu Shiji, Xie Yingdeng, Xu Yuanlang, Meng Haigong, Li Junxian, Liu Heimin, and many other Li Mi's confidants, civil and military generals, were also on the run. After the war, the battlefield was investigated, and the Wei army was killed in battle by Sima Yang Defang on the left, Zheng Cheng on the left, Zheng Qianxiang on the right, Li Wenxiang, the governor of Liyang, Zhang Sheng, the governor of Huanshui, Zhao He, the Taishou of Huaiyang, and Hao Xiaode, the general of Huben.

After this battle, although Li Mi still had an army of about 50,000, in fact, the Wei state had been completely defeated. This battle not only spelled out Li Mi's last bit of capital, but also completely destroyed the morale of the Wei army. Since then, in the Central Plains, there is no place for Li Mi to stand on. Next, in the face of the pursuit of the Hebei Army, the Jiangdu Army, and the Jianghuai Army, it was difficult for Li Mi to leave a single life.

In the wilderness of the Black Rock Beach Plain, the battlefield was covered with terrible mountains of corpses and a sea of blood, corpses piled up, and a strong smell of blood emanated from the air. On the bloody battlefield, the Hebei army stood quietly in formation, the steel-like queue, silent, and only the hunting cries of the evening wind blowing the banner were heard.

On the other side of them, there was a temporary camp of the JAC army. In front of the camp gate, the generals of the Jianghuai Army stood solemnly, looking at the soldiers and horses with awe.

At dawn, the various armies pursuing the Wei army returned to the battlefield one after another.

Unexpectedly, the Hebei Army did not return to Luokou Cangcheng, but returned to the battlefield again, and camped next to the Jianghuai Army with the Dongdu Army on the left and right.

The generals of the Jianghuai Army whispered: "What should I do?" Who will go up and negotiate with them? "Everyone pushes and drags each other, in case the Hebei army suddenly turns its face and slaughters itself, then it will be too unjustly killed.

In fact, there are not a few people who think this way. Basically, all the generals of the Jianghuai Army have such worries, and even Wang Xuanying, who rarely showed a little smile yesterday, saw this army next to them today, and his face became extremely ugly again.

Chen Pojun has the idea of swallowing the Jianghuai Army, which is something that everyone knows in their hearts. Originally, in yesterday's battle, the Eastern Capital Army shot at the end of the Jianghuai Army, and Wang Xuanying thought that Chen Pojun had the intention of letting him go. But now, the Eastern Capital Army and the Hebei Army are sandwiching them on the left and right, and the intention of destroying him is too obvious.

And what made him even more helpless was that although he knew that he had been put on the chopping block, he still had no choice. Yesterday's battle, although in the end it was a coalition victory. However, the casualties of the Jianghuai army were also huge, and they alone withstood the fierce attack of the Wei army for a long time before the Hebei army and the Dongdu army attacked.

Of the 60,000 Jianghuai troops who went to war, excluding the casualties and the dead at this time, there were more than 30,000 people left who could still fight. is just such a wounded soldier and a disabled general, but he is surrounded by more than 100,000 people of the Eastern Capital Army and the Hebei Army, and the sadness in his heart can be imagined.

It's like a sharp sword hanging over your head, it's always on your head, but you never know when that sword will fall and go straight into your skull. The more it hangs like this, the more it makes the Jianghuai army panic.

At dusk, the eerie April snow finally stopped. The coalition forces finally finished cleaning the huge slaughterhouse, and the sound of horses neighing sounded from time to time on the plain, and all sides went out to hunt for the defeated soldiers and horses, and returned to the camp one after another. Large groups of people had been captured by the disarmed Wei army and were being guarded by the Eastern Capital Army.

"Marshal, what should we do with these captives?" A Hebei lieutenant entered the account and asked Zhang Zhongjian for instructions.

Zhang Zhongjian was silent, there were too many prisoners, and among them were not only Wei prisoners of war, but also more than 100,000 civilians. More than 100,000 people, that's a huge number. If they were to be imprisoned, the number of guards alone would have to be a huge number, not to mention the food that the captives would have to consume. …,

But it is not a matter to let them go like this, especially since there are many Wei army officers among them, once these people are released, they will either go to Li Mi or cause trouble.

After thinking for a long time, Zhang Zhongjian said, "Those people who were forcibly arrested by Li Mi, you send someone to screen them a little, and if they are good people, let them go home." If there is no home, send them to Shandong, where they are in need right now. If it is a person from a bandit or other background, and a person who has committed a serious crime, he will be sent to Weizhou to reclaim the wasteland and hoard the land. ”

"What about those Wei soldiers? That's tens of thousands? ”

Zhang Zhongjian stroked his beard and thought for a while, "Briefly review all these people, and all the officers above the rank of the team will be sent to Liaodong for exile and hoarding." As for the other non-commissioned officers, as long as their character is not too bad, select those who are brave and brave, and organize another battalion for reorganization, and when they pass the training, they will be incorporated into various units of the Hebei Army to supplement the soldiers. As for the others, those with bad character were sent to Ryukyu Island to hoard fields, and the rest of the ordinary soldiers were all sent to Hebei. ”

"Won't it be too much trouble, it will take a lot of time." The lieutenant said with some confusion.

Zhang Zhongjian smiled and shook his head, "No, these soldiers come from complex sources, there are soldiers, farmers, thieves and bandits, they have been fighting in the Central Plains for many years, and it is already difficult to discipline." If these people are released back to the localities, given the current situation in Henan, it is estimated that it will not be long before they will have to return to their old jobs, either defecting to other forces to serve as soldiers and eat food, or they will have to go to the mountains to become bandits. These people are the source of turmoil, and now that we have entered the Central Plains, this Central Plains is our world, and we can't let these people mess up anymore. Now it's troublesome, get them to Liaodong, Weizhou, Ryukyu and other places, firstly, it can be regarded as getting them a stable job, and secondly, it will also clear the place, killing two birds with one stone, why not. ”

"Great Vision!" The lieutenant slapped his head and slapped Zhang Zhongjian's ass.

After laughing for a while, he wondered again, "Marshal, these Wei soldiers are easy to solve, but what about those Jianghuai troops?" Now that we have surrounded them, Duan Da and Huangfu Wuyi of the Eastern Capital Army have made it clear to their humble posts that as long as the commander gives an order, they are willing to follow the saddle horse and personally destroy the Jianghuai Army, guaranteeing that no one will be left. ”

Zhang Zhongjian gathered the fur on his body, carried it through the camp tent, looked at the Jianghuai military camp in the distance, and muttered for a while, "No, those things have to be decided by His Highness, this marshal has already sent someone to send a letter to His Highness, how to deal with it is His Highness's business." You and I don't have to worry about it, just watch them, go ahead. ”

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