Chapter 238: The Two Armies Meet

There are still many things to deal with after the war, cleaning up the battlefield is a very troublesome matter, close to 300,000 corpses, which is really a shocking number, if they are not dealt with, this area will have to cause a plague.

In line with the principle of not wasting it, all the armor, weapons, money, and ornaments on the corpses were removed. Although this is a bit disgusting and disrespectful to the deceased, after years of war, low social productivity, and poor social wealth, it is better to recycle the materials that can be recycled as much as possible.

Although Shu relied on the "Ministry of Industry" to produce a large number of commodities, vigorously develop commerce, and the economic situation was greatly improved, after all, the time for economic take-off was still very short, and the foundation was still very thin.

Now there are nearly 300,000 people of weapons and equipment to pick up, Liu Hou will certainly not let go, although most of these Wei army's armor may have been damaged, but the damage can be repaired, and the cost of repair is less than making a new one.

This is like fighting monsters and dropping treasures, working hard to kill monsters, and dropping a treasure, of course, you can't be polite, otherwise this monster will be in vain.

Although these soldiers are generally very poor and drop cheap items, they can't afford to have enough of them. Even if the things on each person's body are only worth the same money, 300,000 people is 300,000 yuan, which is not a small number. However, it was really time-consuming to collect these bits and pieces, and the army was busy for a day, until Zhang Fei and Pang Tong led the army to catch up, and they had not completely completed the work of cleaning up the battlefield.

Zhang Fei had no choice but to send some men to help the Hong army clean up the battlefield. After another day, all the dead Wei corpses were stripped clean and buried in pits. In this land where more than 200,000 people are buried, it is believed that beautiful flowers will grow next year.

This cleaning of the battlefield not only harvested a lot of materials, but also harvested more than 30,000 wounded soldiers, many Wei soldiers were injured and fell to the ground, not dead, but mixed with the corpses, and were found out when the Shu army cleaned the battlefield.

Of course, Liu Hou could not have killed the wounded of these enemies, so these people became a heavy burden on the Shu army. Not only did they have to supply them with food, but it also overloaded the medical system of the Shu army all of a sudden, and even almost collapsed.

Liu Hou transferred the medical battalion of the Shu army and set up a temporary hospital on the spot to treat the wounded. Although the medical battalion of the Shu army was very large and capable, more than 30,000 wounded suddenly appeared, and many of them were seriously wounded, and they were also tired of coping. Many of the seriously injured have died because they have not received timely medical attention.

But this is also something that can't be helped, after all, the manpower is limited, they are lucky to meet Liu Hou, and they are replaced by someone else as the coach, not to mention that these people have been treated, most of them have been relieved of their pain by a knife.

Thousands of these Wei wounded were seriously injured and died, and thousands more who were saved were disabled. In the end, there were about 20,000 able-bodied people left. Liu Hou gave a little money to each of the disabled people and repatriated them to their hometowns, and the 20,000 able-bodied people were organized into local troops and distributed in the counties of Xincheng County to guard the peace of the place.

Zhang Fei, Pang Tong and Liu Hou were very happy after they met, and they came to Liu Hou to meet and catch up with him as soon as possible. Liu Hou hadn't seen Zhang Fei and Pang Tong for many years, and now he was very happy to reunite with them.

Liu Hou was very affectionate with these two when he was a child, but in recent years, they have been leading troops to fight against the Wei army outside, and there are very few opportunities to meet, even if Liu Hou ascended the throne as emperor in Jingzhou, and later recaptured Chengdu, held a wedding and Liu Bei's funeral in Chengdu, they could not come back to meet Liu Hou.

At that time, Sima Yi used tricks, made Wu Yi and Xu Jing make trouble, and supported Liu Li to be the little emperor, and the Wei court expected that there would inevitably be civil strife in Shu, so it stepped up the use of troops to coerce Shu to deal with Xu Jing and Wu Yi in Chengdu.

Under such circumstances, Zhang Fei and Pang Tong had to stay to deal with the Wei army that was about to move, and did not dare to rush back to Chengdu to participate in these important ceremonies.

They haven't seen each other for so long, and the two are important ministers of Shu Han, especially Zhang Fei, who is not just a courtier, but also Liu Hou's uncle and father-in-law, Liu Hou naturally wants to catch up with the two of them, so Liu Hou beckoned the two of them to drink and feast for two days before stopping.

What Liu Hou didn't expect was that something unpleasant happened at the banquet, Zhang Fei didn't have a good face for Sima Yi, and he almost beat him up with his beard and glare, who let him use tricks to make Shu suffer such a big loss.

He doesn't have Liu Hou's idea of taking care of the overall situation, and all the words he hates a person are on his face. In the end, Liu Houhao persuaded him by saying bad things, otherwise Sima Yi would definitely be unlucky.

After cleaning up the battlefield, the two armies continued to march eastward, with the Hong army retreating to Xiangyang, while Zhang Fei and Pang Tong's troops were temporarily stationed in Fancheng.

Sima Yi took advantage of the victory to pursue, went north as far as possible, and smashed Xuchang. However, Liu Hou still did not take his opinion, because in this round of battle, although the Hong army achieved great results, the consumption was also very large. Fire # gun ammunition and thunderbolts have basically run out.

Other cold weapons and equipment: rattan armor, rattan cards, spears, broadswords, etc., have been worn out a lot and urgently need to be replenished. The operations of the Hong army are very dependent on logistics, and they often suppress and destroy the enemy with absolute superior firepower, which is also an important reason why the battle loss rate of the Hong army soldiers is very low.

Now, if we rush north, this semi-modern firearms unit will be reduced to a cold-weapon unit, and it can only fight hand-to-hand with others with broadswords and spears.

The Central Plains region is a flat river, there is no steep pass is true, but because of this, the cities here are relatively tall and strong, thinking that there are still many high walls and thick cities on the road ahead, the big city of Wei Guo is going to attack, Liu Hou is not willing to let his troops be consumed under the city wall in vain.

If you just rely on a few ladders to drive the soldiers to climb up like ants, be stoned to death by the defenders on the city wall with stubble after stubble, and finally use human lives to consume the defensive resources on the city wall to attack the city, then when you kill Xuchang, you don't know how many lives you have to sacrifice.

His own Hong army can withstand that kind of attrition. Just killed 300,000 Wei troops, he was so heartbroken that he wanted to die, let alone the dead Shu army. In vain, he often said that he would kill as few people as possible and save a little more vitality for the Han people, and in the blink of an eye, he ordered people to kill 300,000 people, and now I feel very ironic when I think about it.

According to Liu Hou's idea, it is best to use a large number of firearms to collapse the city wall, or suppress the enemy on the city wall, and then enter the city calmly, so that the casualties will be reduced to a minimum. Therefore, he planned to rest for a period of time and wait for the logistics to be fully replenished before continuing to march into the army.