Chapter 18: The Aftermath

First of all, about the movements of Lü Meng's troops, after Lü Meng retreated, Guo Youzhi sent scouts to follow them all the way from a distance and monitor their movements.

The scouts had already determined that they had really retreated, as they boarded Soochow's ships one after another at the docks outside the city, and Yang Fan set sail for the east.

Minzhuang has been disbanded, let them go back to rest first, the huge amount of firewood, grass and flammable materials piled up in the open space that originally trapped the Eastern Wu soldiers are still not cleaned up, Fei Yi plans to wait for Minzhuang to rest tomorrow, and then recruit some people to come back to clean up the work.

Due to the tight time this time, a large number of people have been recruited and a large number of civil materials have been collected in a short period of time, and it is expected that the follow-up work will be very complicated and cumbersome. The conscripted Minzhuang is easy to do, in ancient times, there was no salary to recruit the Minzhuang, the good-hearted ruler provided some food, and the black-hearted ruler even let the Minzhuang bring their own food.

Naturally, the Liu Group couldn't give people the impression of being black-hearted, so Fei Yi arranged to go down to kill pigs and sheep, wash rice and cook, and give those people who came to help have a full meal before they were disbanded. Of course, not many pigs and sheep were killed, just enough for everyone to drink a bowl of broth with a finger-sized piece of meat. But even so, these people are very happy, these days, the poor people may not be able to eat a piece of meat all year round.

But those firewood and grass, fire oil, vegetable oil, peanut oil, lard and soju are in trouble, some of these things are official, and many are from the people. Due to the rush of time, when the collection was carried out, those soldiers and people almost moved when they saw suitable things in the house, not to mention the registration and making of the register, and even the procedures for asking for the consent of the owner may not be complete, so it is not easy to return it now.

Liu Hou also felt a headache when he heard this, but it didn't matter, such a tricky problem should be thrown to Fei Yi, let him wake up tomorrow and do it, he didn't plan to take over this kind of brain-consuming thing. Fortunately, there are famous ministers like Fei Yi who are tired and tired to help him take care of internal affairs, otherwise Liu Hou would not have been annoyed to death, where would he still be as free as he is now.

The issue of city defense Guo Youzhi was also properly arranged, no, before Liu Hou came, he had just issued an order to let the third regiment, which had been resting for a day, change the guard with the second regiment, and take over the city defense, and the second regiment could go back to rest. And he also personally went to the gates of the city to inspect the city defenses. With the strength of three regiments, it is possible to defend in three shifts. Each regiment guards for 6 hours, and then can rest for 12 hours, that is, you can rest for a day and a night on a half-day shift.

And the biggest problem was the 30,000 Eastern Wu prisoners who were imprisoned in the former Jingzhou garrison barracks. The captives are currently under the care of Pan Jun and his troops. Pan Jun is not a person who can be entrusted with big things, and these 30,000 Jiangdong Tigers are a time bomb, and if they are not handled well, they can easily be eaten by them.

After Liu Hou listened to Fei Yi's report, he forcibly ordered Fei Yi to rest. Although Fei Yi was tired, he had a lot of worries, and at first he refused to rest, but under Liu Hou's strict order, he had to reluctantly go to rest.

Liu Hou took a few guards out of the mansion and prepared to go to the city to see what the current situation was. The city was still under martial law, the gates were closed, and from time to time a group of patrolling soldiers could be seen walking through the streets. There are few pedestrians on the road, but most of them are in a hurry, and under the background of twilight, this former noisy, crowded and commercial border trade city shows a bit of a depressed scene.

This is the tremendous destructive effect of war on the economy and society. Fortunately, this battle did not really start, if Lu Meng was dizzy and attacked the city madly, he would only besiege the city for a few days, and the city would be even more depressed, and even disorder.

Walking on the deserted streets, Liu Hou noticed that most of the shops on the side of the street were closed, and only a few were still open. When I passed by a restaurant, I saw that there were not a few people sitting inside.

Liu Hou passed by the restaurant and could hear the buzzing conversation coming from the restaurant. Liu Hou deliberately paused and listened quietly for a while, it turned out that most of the diners in the restaurant were talking about the battle of Jingzhou.

In various novels, restaurants and bars are well-informed places, and the same is true in Jingzhou City restaurants during the Three Kingdoms period. Many details of this battle have been circulated, and of course, the news is true and false.

Some people are scolding the Dongwu people for being despicable and shameless in attacking Jingzhou; Someone is telling how Liu Chan, the son of the world, set up a clever plan to capture the sneak attackers; Some people boasted that they saw the prince fighting against Lü Meng, the governor of Eastern Wu, and said that Lü Meng died of shame, hiding his face and fleeing; There are also people who say that the son of the world has been brilliant since he was a child, worshipping Zuo Ci Zuo Xian Weng as his teacher, and learning an unpredictable prophet and the ability to penetrate the heavens and the earth; There are even people who say that the son of the world is an immortal, knows seventy-two changes, has three heads, six arms, eight feet tall, and infinite strength......

Liu Hou heard what the people in the restaurant said, he thought it was very interesting, and he wanted to go up to the restaurant to sit down and listen to the discussions, but now the chaos in the city has just been settled, and there are still many things waiting to be dealt with by himself, so he really can't get out for a while, so he has to give up.

After listening for a while, Liu Hou continued to move forward, and the target of his trip was the military camp. 30,000 Dongwu prisoners are both a huge gain and a powder keg, no, not a powder keg, it should be a huge powder keg, a little careless, the consequences are unimaginable.

When he came to the gate of the barracks, Liu Hou found that the guards here were quite loose, Liu Hou informed his identity, and the guards let him in, and did not carefully interrogate or ask for tokens and other tokens, which made him very unhappy with Pan Jun.

Entering the barracks, Liu Hou heard the sound of whipping and swearing. It turned out that Pan Jun was drunk and tied up a few Dongwu soldiers who were whipping them. Liu Hou seemed to see Zhang Fei in a trance. Why is this guy's hobby the same as Zhang Fei, he likes to drink and whip soldiers, although he is a prisoner, but he can't be whipped at will.

Hey, hey, do you understand the "three disciplines, eight attentions", do you know the Geneva Conventions, and it is wrong to mistreat prisoners. Liu Hou slandered in his heart, the key is that he is very afraid that these captives will be mistreated miserably, arouse their blood, and fight back, and then it will be miserable. With just a thousand soldiers under Pan Jun, how could he suppress a riot of 30,000 people?

Liu Hou hurriedly stepped forward to stop Pan Jun's behavior and asked the cause of the incident. The matter is very simple, these captives scolded the Jingzhou soldiers who escorted them with unclean mouths, and when the drunken Pan Jun heard it, he was very unhappy, so he found a few people who scolded fiercely, tied them to the pillar and whipped them out.

Liu Hou asked these captives to be sent back to prison and asked the doctor to treat them, these people did not say anything, but they were grateful to Liu Hou in their hearts. I thought in my heart: I had heard that Uncle Liu Huang was benevolent, but I didn't expect his son to be a kind-hearted person.

Liu Hou asked about the situation of these captives again, and learned that they had not eaten a meal since they were captured, and he immediately felt incredible. These people started to send troops last night, and it has been the middle of the night now, and there is no grain of rice dripping into the stomach, this Pan Jun simply doesn't treat them as human beings.

So Liu Hou instructed Pan Jun to quickly arrange for them to drink water and eat. Although Pan Jun was reluctant, but in front of the prince, he didn't dare to disobey, after all, Liu Hou's status was much higher than him, Liu Hou could only be the object of his admiration and stammering, and it was impossible for him to be the person he could afford.

So, Pan Jun asked the soldiers to recruit some people to come over and boil water and cook for those Eastern Wu soldiers to eat and drink. Of course, he was reluctant to waste rice grain, so he picked some old rice and moldy rice, and cooked it into thin porridge that could illuminate the shadow of a person for the people of Dongwu to eat, and these details were not something that Liu Hou could know.

He just made a general tour of the prisoner camp, put forward some opinions, and asked Pan Jun to do it, so he wanted to leave. Before leaving, the more I thought about it, the more inappropriate it became, this Pan Jun was very unreliable, these 30,000 captives were a matter of importance, if he really got something out of his own plan, wouldn't his previous efforts be wasted? We still have to find a way to solve this problem.

After thinking about it, he said to Pan Jun: "General Pan, you have made great contributions to the great victory in the battle of Jingzhou this time." ”

"Don't dare, don't dare, thank you for your praise." When Pan Jun heard Liu Hou say this, his face was flushed with excitement, but he pretended to be humble, arched his hands, and bent his waist almost 90 degrees to make a big salute to Liu Hou.

"General Pan doesn't have to be modest, you see that this Jingzhou battle, it all depends on General Pan to collect people's strong, collect materials, and set traps from house to house, so that we can achieve such brilliant results. Without these efforts from you, I am afraid that we would not have been able to achieve this victory, and we would not have been able to capture the sneak attack of the Eastern Wu soldiers. I will definitely tell my father and ask him to commend General Pan. Liu Hou plans to write him a blank check first, make him happy, and then let him work.

"This, this...... Jun didn't dare to be, he didn't dare to be, this victory was all the credit of the son, and the last general was just following the son of the world to do a little bit of meager help, and the last general really didn't dare to take credit. As he spoke, Pan Jun bent his waist lower.

Liu Hou saw that he said the modest words of "don't dare to be" in his mouth, but his face was red with excitement, his eyes radiated with greed, and he had an expectant expression, and he couldn't help but secretly despise him. obviously wanted it very much, but pretended to excuse himself, and he was really a hypocrite.

"Deserve it, deserve it, this son of the world says you deserve it, you deserve it. Who this son wants to give credit to is not a matter of words. General Pan doesn't have to be presumptuous, do his job with peace of mind, and wait to receive the credit, hehe. ”

"The son of the world is wise, and from now on, Jun will definitely look forward to the head of the son. But there is something for the son, please do not be polite, Jun will do his best to do it for the son. When Pan Jun heard Liu Hou's words, he immediately expressed his determination, which made Liu Hou a little surprised.

This kid is too eye-catching, so he can drill into the camp, and he inadvertently said something, why did he beat him with a snake and a stick, and immediately wanted to throw himself into his arms? I thought that my father Liu Bei was very angry, his personality was amazing, and his subordinates were all dead set on him, but today it seems that it is just like this, it seems that his king eight spirit is not even comparable to himself. Look at yourself, as soon as he came out of the horse, and before he could say two words, his father's men were busy swearing allegiance.

How did Liu Hou know that although Pan Jun was a villain who loved drilling, he had no chance to contact a high-level like Liu Bei, and of course he had no chance to befriend Liu Bei. The top-level character he can contact is Guan Gong, but Guan Gong is a proud person, a loyal and upright person, not only will he not have a good face for others, but he will hate this person, so Pan Jun usually doesn't dare to show a servile look to Guan Yu, because it is purely an act of death.

Now that I'm a son of the world, I'm still a twelve-year-old kid, it's the best age to fool, why don't I hurry up and seize the opportunity to stutter? In case it is valued by the successor of the Liu Group, even if he can't soar, at least he won't have to worry for the rest of his life.