Chapter 276: The Anomaly of the Vulture Bone
Under the cover of Keqiu's killing, the vine armor soldiers finally "successfully" escaped from the urn city. The reason why the word success is put in double quotation marks is that for any army in the past, it is in the same situation as the vine armor soldiers, and suddenly encountering such a trap in a small terrain will almost certainly end up with heavy casualties, and the vine armor soldiers only died more than 200 people.
In addition to the dead, there were also thousands of injured vine armor soldiers, and the number of people who entered the urn city this time was only 3,000. Liu Hou was very glad that he didn't send all the vine armor soldiers to rush in one swarm, otherwise the consequences would be unimaginable. This casualty rate is placed in any army in the world, and under the same circumstances, it will only be more, not less, and it is not impossible that even the entire army will be wiped out.
From this point of view, this victorious escape was a success. But from another point of view, since the debut of the Hong Army, it has rarely suffered such a big loss, and it is rare that there will be so many casualties in a battle. Even if you face off against 100,000 enemy troops head-on, you often only sacrifice 100 people, and this time there were so many casualties at once, and in the history of the Hong army, it can be said that it was a fiasco.
The vulture who had finally escaped back knelt on his knees in front of Liu Hou, crying loudly, crying like a baby. His rattan armor had been removed, his clothes had been burned in many places, and there were scorched black holes, and a lot of his hair, eyebrows, and mustache had been burned off, and the rest had been burned and curled, emitting a scorching smell.
The skin of his face, hands and feet was all blackened, just like an African, although he was already very dark, but he was still in the category of the yellow race, but he was exposed to the sun a lot, and his skin was dark. But now it's different, and the soot just smokes him like a black man.
The loss is so big, Liu Hou is also very sad, but for now, we must comfort this big black man first, and don't let him leave a psychological shadow, this big black man is very useful, and there are still many places where he needs to charge in the future.
"Your Majesty, the minister has your trust, the minister's sin deserves death, please treat the minister's sin, woo woo woo woo, those brothers of mine ah woo woo woo" The vulture bone is estimated to have been stimulated by so many subordinates who were killed and injured, or it may have escaped death, because he was wandering between life and death, so there was a short-term psychological imbalance, and such a big person actually cried.
"Alright, alright, get up, General Wu, it's not your fault, it's that the enemy is too cunning. And the intelligence services did not do their job well, and even the hot air balloon did not detect this trap. So don't blame yourself. In order to avoid the psychological shadow of the vulture bone, Liu Hou had to comfort him first.
"Woo woo woo, Your Majesty, you really don't blame your subordinates?" The vulture sobbed.
"Don't blame, of course don't blame, you're not guilty, how can I blame you." Liu Houdao.
"Thank you for your grace, woo woo woo ......" The vulture sobbed as he kowtowed to Liu Hou and thanked him.
"Okay, don't think about it too much, let's retreat and rest first, and when I and a few ministers think about how to break this city, I will definitely give you a chance to avenge it in the future." Liu Hou thought that he had already explained everything that the vulture Gu cared about, so he waved his hand to let the vulture go back to rest.
Who knew that the vulture still had something to say: "Your Majesty, the minister's subordinates have really suffered heavy casualties this time, and this time they have sacrificed two hundred and fifty-one brothers." More than 1,000 people were injured, and some of them may be disabled, and countless others have been broken. The last general is really worried about their future lives. Woowoo woo ......"
The vulture that had just reined in began to cry again as he spoke. Liu Hou felt very strange in his heart, how did this coarse and barbarian become so weak and emotional today? This is not like his personality at all, is he really stupid by the trap of Wei Jun? It can't be, this guy has always been nervous.
"General Wu, please rest assured, our army has always treated the soldiers killed and wounded in battle, and will not treat them and their relatives badly." Liu Hou continued to comfort him.
The pension of the Hong army can be said to be the highest among the three countries, and the family of each soldier who died will receive 50 acres of land, and this land can be exempted from paying taxes for 50 years, and after the disabled soldier is discharged from the army, he can get 25 acres of land, which will be exempt from taxes for 30 years. Not only that, when disabled soldiers return to their hometowns, if they wish, the county officials will give them priority to work in the county office.
For the soldiers who died in battle, the county officials visited their homes every year to pay their respects. And the families of these soldiers do not need to bow down when they see the county officials.
This kind of treatment is not ungenerous, which is also one of the reasons why the Shu army is very brave to kill the enemy, after all, everyone has no worries, even if they are dead or disabled, their families can also have no worries about food and clothing for a lifetime. Such a generous treatment, not to mention this era, even a civilized country two thousand years later will not be able to have it.
Of course, Liu Hou's ability to come up with such a generous treatment is also related to being in this troubled world with ten rooms and nine emptiness. In this era, a large amount of land was abandoned in the three countries, and Liu Hou captured a large amount of land, and the occupied land belonged to him. Therefore, he could easily take out a large amount of land to support the soldiers. In addition, the mortality rate of the Hong army is very small, so there is no pressure on the Shu court to take out these lands.
In fact, these regulations were known to the Shu army, and he just reminded the vulture bones as usual. Who knew that the vulture bone was not satisfied with this, and he continued: "Your Majesty, the last general usually eats and lives with these soldiers, exercises together, and kills the enemy together, like brothers and sisters, but now these brothers are dead and crippled, and the last general's heart is really like a knife."
Since these brothers are no longer there, it is the responsibility of the last general to take care of their families so that they can live a better life, so the last general pleads with His Majesty to redouble his mercy on them. ”
Liu Hou now understood that the vulture bone felt that the pension he gave was not enough, and wanted to ask for more compensation for the sacrificed soldiers. It's a strange thing, and it's easy to understand if this kind of thing happened in other troops, and many warlords don't take the lives of their soldiers seriously, and drive hundreds of thousands of soldiers to their deaths at every turn.
Obviously, in the troops of these warlords, there will not be a lot of pensions, and there may not even be a penny pension, people will die when they die, just dig a pit and bury it, and it will be over, as for whether they need to give an explanation to the soldiers' families, whether they need to care for their families, they don't think about it at all, anyway, many soldiers join the army in the form of catching strong men, and there is no such thing as gaining fame, and letting the people take the initiative to sign up for the army.
Even if the people hate them no matter how much they don't want their relatives to join the army, it's useless, they don't need to tell the people any reason, not only soldiers, even if it's other materials, what they need, just grab it. Therefore, some small warlords may not have pensions at all, but big warlords like Cao Cao and Sun Quan still have pensions, but they can't have more, otherwise hundreds of thousands of people will die at every turn, how can they be able to get pensions?
So even if it's like tongguò