Chapter Seventy-Six: After the Great War
Xu Huang led 2,000 cavalry to chase Sun Jian, but Sun Jian escaped. Seeing that Sun Jian had not been chased, Xu Huang commanded his soldiers and horses to continue to pursue the other chaotic soldiers who fled in all directions, and captured a lot along the way.
Now it has been chasing for a long time, Xu Huang is also worried that he will encounter reinforcements from Luyang, plus so many prisoners and captures in his hands, he can't always be with him, if he divides the troops, he is also worried about encountering Luyang's brigade, so he gave up the pursuit and collected the soldiers, prisoners and various materials captured.
Fortunately, some cattle and horses were seized, so the captives were asked to load the seized materials into the carts, and the prisoners who could not be loaded directly carried out were to resist on their shoulders, and there would be no humanitarian policy towards the captives at this time, and it was common for them to do coolies, and no one would object.
This time, Dong Shouye rode more than 50,000 foot cavalry, and Sun Jian rode more than 80,000 people, and Dong Shouye led the Xiliang army to a great victory.
After the great victory in this battle, Dong Shouye's army was overjoyed and happy. The generals were assigned to participate in various tasks and conduct post-war statistics.
After the results came out, Dong Shouye saw his own achievements.
In this battle, more than 80,000 people of Sun Jian's army participated in the battle, more than 20,000 were killed, nearly 40,000 were captured, and nearly 20,000 still broke through the siege, or disappeared after the collapse.
The Xiliang army led by Dong Shouye itself lost more than 6,000 people.
In this battle, many generals under Dong Shouye's command were eye-catching, Dong Shouye's eldest brother Xu Huang led 2,000 Huang Zhongyi Cong to pursue Sun Jian in this battle, and captured Yingchuan Taishou Li Min in the battle, and almost succeeded in capturing the enemy's main general Sun Jian, killing more than 1,000 people and capturing more than 3,000 people.
Dong Shouye's second brother Zhang Liao was in charge of the left flank with Li Dao in this battle, and successfully defeated the enemy's left flank in the battle, and later led 5,000 cavalry to pursue the enemy, broke through Sun Jian's army camp, captured countless grains and grass in Sun Jian's army, and captured many people.
Dong Shouye's general Li Dao, as the chief general of the left wing cavalry, successfully broke through the enemy's left flank with the help of Zhang Liao.
Dong Shouye's personal guard general Dian Wei led a school of hook guards to help the right wing cavalry achieve a turning point on the battlefield, and finally helped the left wing cavalry defeat 10,000 spearmen, which played a key role in turning the tide of the battle.
Zhonglang's general Hu Zhen and Zhonglang's general Li Meng, the general under Xu Rong, led the cavalry on the right flank, with the help of Dian Wei, to successfully defeat the enemy's 10,000 spearmen, and finally caused the enemy's battle formation to collapse.
Other generals also have their own wonderful performances.
Now Dong Shouye is in a good mood, he always has a smile on his face, and he is polite and very friendly to everyone.
The soldiers under his command looked at Dong Shouye, and their eyes began to carry a kind of admiration and admiration.
Although Dong Shouye had made some achievements before, he still couldn't ask for his image of protecting his father's Yu Yin, and now Dong Shouye led his men and horses to win such a large-scale battle alone, and finally proved himself to everyone.
After the war, although everyone was happy, there were still many trivial things that Dong Shouye needed to deal with.
First of all, there is the issue of the disposal of the prisoner of war Yingchuan Taishou Li Min, and there are many different opinions in the army on how to deal with this person, some people advocate directly killing him by torture, some people advocate handing it over to the imperial court for processing, and some even advocate letting this person go.
In Dong Shouye's opinion, it is definitely not possible to let this person go, if he doesn't kill a hundred people to set an example, then in the future, when others see Li Min raise troops to resist, and his father and son are politely released back after being defeated and captured, others will definitely think that their father and son are cowards, so in the long run, there will be more and more people who oppose their father and son!
Dong Shouye is not very willing to hand it over to the imperial court, although his father Dong Zhuo is in power, but the Manchu ministers in the court have always prided themselves on being upright men and gentlemen, and their minds are full of bullshit benevolence, righteousness, etiquette, wisdom and trust.
Although it is indeed a good thing, it will always be used by people with good intentions.
Moreover, most of the ministers of the Manchu Dynasty moved west from Luoyang with Emperor Han Xian, and they had an inexplicable connection with the Kwantung princes, and their hearts were all towards the Kwantung princes, and they couldn't wait for the Kwantung princes to immediately enter Chang'an and kill Dong Zhuo, which would also be for the sake of Dong Zhuo's father and son.
After Dong Shouye handed over the people to the imperial court, the ministers of the Manchu Dynasty must have found a way to rescue them, but when the time comes, it is easy to cause contradictions between Dong Zhuo and the ministers of the Manchu Dynasty.
So Dong Shouye simply prepared to deal with it himself, anyway, as a general, there was no reason for anyone to say anything about his prisoners of war, even if someone picked on them, they could just find a reason to prevaricate.
In fact, according to the practice of the Xiliang Army, Li Min, a big prisoner, must be sentenced to death, such as torture such as car splitting and five horses splitting the corpse, of course, in history, Xu Rong chose to cook and kill after capturing Li Min.
In the eyes of people like Dong Shouye, this kind of practice is a bit brutal.
However, many of the generals under Dong Shouye's command were more in favor of this cruel method, saying that there should be no kindness for women.
Seeing this situation, Dong Shouye's original little humanitarian spirit left in his heart has also disappeared, as the so-called local customs, his subordinates all ask Dong Shouye to kill Li Min, if Dong Shouye insists on not killing, it will definitely make the generals under his command have a little affection. Although the current Dong Shouye is extremely powerful with the power of a great victory, he is not willing to make the generals under his command disagree because of a prisoner of war.
In the end, Dong Shouye still decided to kill Li Min and beheaded him for public display.
According to Dong Shouye's statement, Yingchuan Taishou Li Min received the emperor's favor but did not want to repay it, but instead teamed up with the traitor Sun Jian to rebel against the imperial court, causing chaos in the world, compatriots were killed, and countless people died tragically by his atrocities. Such criminals must be killed to set an example.
Everyone is happy to go down with a knife, but according to the convention, Li Min's head is still hung on the camp gate to show the public, but he won't tell you anything about the dead, the earth is safe, etc., this Dong Shouye is also relatively speechless, and the head hanging on the camp gate looks a little disgusting in Dong Shouye, but since he is already in this era, he can only integrate into this era.
After disposing of Li Min, the leader of the prisoners of war, the next step was to discuss how to deal with the nearly 40,000 prisoners of war captured in this war. For this reason, Dong Shouye specially convened a group of senior generals in the Qi army to discuss.
Dong Shouye saw that everyone had arrived, so he began to speak, saying: "The main purpose of calling everyone here today is to discuss the disposal of these 40,000 prisoners of war. ”