Chapter 282

"Yes," the general was waiting for Zhao Wu's words, and they all smiled and agreed.

Seeing that everyone had no objection to his decision, Zhao Wu instructed some generals: "Take those prisoners down and torture the enemy's information." ”

Just now, many officers in the Snow Army were captured by the Night Army, and according to Zhao Wu's explanation in advance, those people would be used to torture the Snow Country information.

"Yes," the generals pressed down the embarrassed Snow Army generals and some commanders.

"Marshal, the war is over, what is our army going to do next?" A person with a happy face took the initiative to ask Zhao Wu for instructions, as the winning side, the night army did have a lot to do.

"General Li, you take 3,000 men to treat the wounded soldiers. ”

"General Wang, you take 3,000 people to help those soldiers who are overused to rest in an open place. ”

"Zhao Xu, you take 30,000 people to clean up the battlefield, and be sure to separate the corpses of our army from the corpses of the enemy. ”

"General Shi, you take 20,000 people to collect the equipment on the battlefield and the materials left by the enemy. "Having defeated the enemy army several times, Zhao Wu naturally knew that the night army still had a lot to do after the war.

"Yes. ”

"Yes," ...... Those generals who were handpicked by Zhao Wu received orders one after another.

Following a company of several generals, all turned and left, returned to their base camp to draw soldiers, and then carried out Zhao Wu's orders.

The scale of the battlefield is too large, it will take a long time to clean up, and the night army cannot all rest for the time being. After explaining the matter, Zhao Wu walked to an open area with the other generals.

The structure of Xilan City is very similar to Huangyan City, and it is necessary to walk dozens of miles into the city from the city pass to reach the population gathering area in the city, which is the real prosperous area of Xilan City. On the way from here to the city, there are quite a few civilian residential areas. Many of the city's citizens were secretly following the battle between the two armies, and the escape of Zhang Yuan and the top brass of the Yiganxue army directly announced the outcome of the defeat to them.

In addition, many civilians had been secretly following the battle near Chengguan, and now that the war is over, those who know the specific information are constantly bringing back the news of the defeat and bringing it to various villages and towns.

At the beginning, the news of the successive defeats of the Snow Army was already known to many civilians. When the night army was about to attack the city, many people were preparing to evacuate. By the time those people brought back the news of the defeat of the Snow Army, many villages were in chaos, and the civilians were very afraid that the Night Army would continue to kill their villages, so the people in each village were preparing to evacuate.

The children wept in fear, the old people wept sadly, and the young people all had a look of fear on their faces, as if there was a dark cloud over their heads all the time, and soon disaster would befall them.

Not long after the end of the war, those villages were full of people and chickens, and the night army had no choice but to flee to the east, wanting to flee to the middle area of Xilan City to seek refuge, but they did not know that there was also chaos in the city of Xilan City at the moment.

Since the news spread that the 200,000-strong army of the Night Kingdom was stationed outside the city, many of the city's citizens had not slept well for several days, and their hearts were panicked. Like the civilians living in those villages, many are ready to evacuate.

The city is a prosperous area, although there are still more than 100,000 people living there, but there are almost no real troops, but those family forces in the city cannot unite at all when they are in danger, so there is no resistance to the night army in the city.

It is actually difficult to get people to leave the place where they lived, and many elderly people are reluctant to flee, but more people choose to trek through mountains and rivers to stay away from the night army than their lives.

No matter what the situation in Xilan City is at the moment, it will be an hour before the end of the war. At the city gate, the city is full of busy figures of the night army, and all the flags planted on the city tower have been replaced with the flag of the night country.

In addition, the night country army that had been staying in the camp had earlier received the news that the night army was about to win, and according to Zhao Wu's explanation before leaving, before the war was over, the night country army rushed to Chengguan with thousands of men and horses with baggage. In fact, after taking Xilan Pass in one fell swoop, in a short period of time, the night army no longer needs to worry about material problems.

The Xilan Pass has been broken, and the Night Country army understands that it is just around the corner to take the West Lan City, and the West Lan City is the main border pass of the Snow Country, and the capture of the West Lan City also means that the Snow Country has lost the defense of the west, and Kyoto is in danger.

Thinking that in less than a month, Zhao Wu had already achieved such military feats, and for the royal family's decision to appoint Zhao Wu as the commander of the three armies, the night country joined the army and felt that there was nothing more right than this.

An hour later, under the sunset, many tired night soldiers walked to the open area to rest with smiles on their faces, it was not the first time to clean up the battlefield, so in the face of so many corpses, the night army was no longer as uncomfortable as before because of the miserable scene and the smell of blood in front of them.

While some of the rested soldiers went to rest, others came to help, and until now they were so busy that the bodies of the soldiers on both sides were not completely distinguished, and they could not clean the battlefield until it was dark.

Tens of thousands of soldiers are busy on the battlefield with such low efficiency, you can imagine how troublesome it is to clean up the battlefield. Of course, as the victorious side, no matter how busy they are, those night armies will not get tired of cleaning up the battlefield and rushing to it.

Not long after, the Night Kingdom joined the army and arrived at Chengguan with logistics personnel, and according to Zhao Wu's instructions, those thousands of people stopped a few hundred meters away from Chengguan outside the city, and then immediately lit a fire to cook.

Today, Zhao Wu wants to treat the three armies, and everything will exceed the usual standard in terms of food, there is no wine, but the meat must be enough. Hundreds of horses killed on the battlefield were sent outside the city by the night army, and then cleaned directly in the moat* by specialized men.

Because of the stone bridge, there is no corpse of the Night Army in the deep moat of Xilan Pass, so it is best to use it to clean horse meat.

The busy soldiers in the city found their dinner so lavish that even in the midst of the corpses, they were all excited about their upcoming dinner.

Time passed little by little, and when it was dark, the battlefield was really not cleaned up, but fortunately, Zhao Wu asked the soldiers to be mainly responsible for distinguishing the corpses, and then counting the casualties, and when it was dark, the corpses of the two sides had been distinguished.

At the same time, the generals who were responsible for distinguishing the corpses of soldiers on both sides counted the casualties, and the night army had more than 40,000 wounded, of which 10,000 were seriously wounded, 30,000 were lightly wounded, and 33,000 were killed. Nearly one-fifth of the 200,000 troops were killed, and most of the night soldiers who died in battle were killed when they first climbed the city.

The casualties of the night army cannot be said to be small, which shows that the siege battle is indeed not as simple as imagined.

The number of deaths on the Snow Army's side has not yet been counted, if according to the number of people they guessed at the beginning, the Snow Army has more than hundreds of thousands of casualties, and the specific number will be counted later. Now Zhao Wu only needs to know the number of casualties on his side.

After separating the corpses of the two sides, Zhao Wu asked the soldiers to pile up the corpses of the Snow Army outside the city, and wait until the battlefield was cleaned up to be directly incinerated, while the corpses of their night soldiers were to be sent to a certain distance away from the city for collective burial.

Carrying corpses is another tiring job, and the night army, which has long been exhausted, is getting busier and more tired, but fortunately, Zhao Wu is not in a hurry to clean up the battlefield, so after dark, those who are overworked are arranged to eat first, and only those soldiers who have not had much physical consumption to participate in the battle later are still busy on the battlefield.

On this night, the lights at Xilan Pass were bright, and the figures flickered.

Early the next morning, the corpses of the Snow Army were already piled up outside the city, and the corpses were piled up one by one, like a mountain, and the height was not much lower than the city wall, but hundreds of meters long. There were too many corpses of the 100,000 Snow Army, and when the victorious Night Army saw the scene outside the city, they couldn't help but feel numb in their scalps, and they only hoped to burn the corpses of the Snow Army as soon as possible.

As usual, the first thing in the morning after eating is to line up. After a night's rest, everyone became energetic. In addition, they ate in the morning in an extremely rich manner, and all the soldiers had enough meat to eat.

Standing in the queue, Lin Xuanzhong and Da Niu waited for the general above to give orders. Now, except for those seriously injured night soldiers who are still being treated, the other soldiers are all lined up, and the fifteenth army is standing outside the city in a grand formation, and many people are waiting for Zhao Wu to speak while watching their exploits last night.

On the chariot, Zhao Wu and the night country joined the army standing proudly, with a majestic posture, the existence of hundreds of thousands of troops set off the image of Zhao Wu extremely tall, as a commander of the three armies, Zhao Wu has its due might.

On both sides of the chariot, dozens of generals were all in an abnormal spirit, waiting for Zhao Wu to speak. Yesterday it was their night army that won the battle, but they still had something to do, so many generals were waiting for Zhao Wu to give new instructions.

"Yesterday, our army won a complete victory, although there were 30,000 dead and wounded, but more than 100,000 enemies were annihilated, and the generals and soldiers were indispensable.

"The royal family has an order, in the future, half of the spoils obtained by my night country army will be used as materials to reward the three armies, and all the sergeants will be rewarded," After Zhao Wu finished speaking, the night country joined the army and showed the three armies with a solemn expression, proving that what Zhao Wu said was correct.

"Today, the commander will reward the three armies, but the commander hopes that all the soldiers will be ready for battle and not slack off, because the day after tomorrow, the army will still fight. While all the sergeants were listening seriously, Zhao Wu announced the news of the upcoming battle.

Zhao Wu did not say why he wanted to fight, but he informed the three armies about the war by issuing a military order.

However, many night soldiers were puzzled by this, they only had a good night's rest last night, but there were still many night soldiers who were busy cleaning up the battlefield overnight, and those people did not rest well at all. Now that Zhao Wu said that he was going to fight, some soldiers had dissatisfaction in their hearts, and they didn't understand why Zhao Wu didn't let the army rest well, but was in a hurry to fight.

For a while, the soldiers below, you look at me, I look at you, no one knows what Zhao Wu means. Many of the generals standing in front of the queue also looked puzzled, and like many soldiers, they were puzzled by Zhao Wu's statement.