More than 21,000 horses were captured in this battle, and many of them were injured, but they were able to recover after treatment and can continue to be used as war horses. In addition, there are thousands of dead horses or seriously injured that cannot be treated, and these cannot be wasted, they are all good sources of military rations.

The food supply of the army has always been relatively tight, especially now that there are so many prisoners, this problem is even more prominent, and now there are thousands of horses at once, enough for the army to eat for a while.

Cleaning the battlefield is also a very hard work, it is time-consuming and labor-intensive to peel off the armor of all the dead people, to collect valuable things from the dead, to dig holes and bury nearly 10,000 people, and to cut dead horses into jerky. In fact, it took 5 days to clean up the battlefield.

Three days later, the feast of the victors was over, and the entire battlefield was cleaned, and there was not a single corpse left on the ground. However, the potholes, bloodstains on the ground, and the mountains of various materials seem to tell the world that there was a great war here.

However, the work of cleaning up the battlefield was not done by the people of the first division and the Xianbei cavalry, before, so many Wei troops were captured, after the initial reorganization, Zhang Bao sent some people out to collect food, and there were many people who had no work arrangements for the time being, and now they were transferred to clean up the battlefield.

After the end of this battle, the First Division and the Xianbei cavalry only rested for a while, and then quickly moved to the foot of the hill where the reinforcements on the southern front of Wei were located. The funny thing is that the reinforcements on the southern front of Wei have not found out until now, and the mountain is just an empty camp.

But no longer so, with the return of the Xianbei cavalry, this camp has been enriched again. Moreover, because of the arrival of the 1st Division, the area of the camp was also greatly expanded.

The reinforcements of the southern line of Wei who were hiding in the mountains saw the expansion of the camp area under the mountain, and they also knew that it must be reinforcements from Shu State, so they were even more desperate this time. If it is purely to avoid losses, for this reinforcement army, there are two ways to go, one is to go down the mountain to surrender to the Shu army, and the other is to retreat and retreat to places such as Meridian Valley and Xiegu.

However, these two roads are not easy to take, not to mention surrender, generally not to the point of exhaustion and cornering, no one wants to be saddled with a name of treason, so although this road can save the whole army, the commander of the reinforcements on the southern front vetoed this option at the first time.

He couldn't make a choice to return to this option, because this time, they received the emperor's holy decree to go to Chang'an Qin Wang to save him, and it stands to reason that they need to go to Chang'an at all costs to fight to the death with the Shu army, even if they all die in battle, they deserve it, oh, it should be said that even if they die in battle, it will be glorious.

In other words, if they retreat before fighting with the Shu army, it is a disobedience to the order, that is, they are greedy for life and afraid of death, and they are afraid of war, which is not a trivial matter.

Advance, obviously unable to defeat the Shu army under the mountain, retreat, resist the order and do not comply with a dead end, and now the reinforcements of the southern line of Wei on the mountain have fallen into a situation where they cannot advance or retreat. Originally, it was a good situation for the two sides to continue to confront each other like this, although it was inevitable that they would still be impeached for ineffective combat afterwards, but at least it would not be a capital crime, at most it would be a downgrade, a fine or something, and it would be a slight punishment.

Moreover, it may also be exempt from punishment because he has restrained part of the strength of the Shu army and reduced the pressure on Chang'an. However, now that the Shu army under the mountain has increased its troops, it means that the other party is determined to solve his own group of people in the short term.

The situation is critical, the commander of the reinforcements on the southern front is Xiahou Chong, the son of Xiahoudun, who is now in a hurry to go around in the big tent like an ant on a hot pot, not knowing how to choose.

It's no wonder that he has a hard time to choose, whether to fight or delay time, the three roads are impassable, he is only in his 20s this year, he is young, and his life experience is not so rich, so he encountered this situation similar to the intersection of life and needs to choose, which is really difficult for him.

Some people may say, why go head-to-head? Couldn't you sneak down the mountain at night and make a sneak attack on the camp of the Shu army?

Of course, Xiahou Chong also had such thoughts, but the reality is cruel, through the observation of the past few days, he found that as soon as the Shu army camp arrived at night, it was brightly lit all night, and under the light of the fire, there were countless figures shaking in the entire camp, obviously the other party arranged a large number of people to patrol, in the case of the other party's tight defense, how could they steal the camp?

When Xiahou was very entangled, he suddenly heard a report from his subordinates: two envoys from Shu came down from the mountain, asking to see the general. Xiahou Chong knew that this must be a lobbyist sent by Shu to persuade him to surrender, but he didn't see it, but the pro-soldiers who reported said that the person who came claimed to be the general's old man.

This aroused Xiahou Chong's curiosity, in the Shu army, what kind of old people did he have? Could it be the two cousins who surrendered to Shu before?

Before, Xiahou Ba and Xiahou Shang, the two sons of the second generation of the Xiahou family, were besieged in Xuchang, and finally surrendered to the Shu State, which was cited as a great shame for the Xiahou family, and the entire Wei State criticized these two people, and the Xiahou family also expelled these two people from the clan, so to speak, the reputation of these two people has become stinky in the Wei State.

However, Xiahou Chong has a very good relationship with these two people, everyone is the leader of the younger generation of Xiahou family, they have been messing around together since they wore open crotch pants, reading and writing together, practicing martial arts together, catching fish and shrimp together, fighting with other children of the family, and peeking at the sister-in-law Zhen next door taking a bath

This kind of affection from childhood to adulthood is the deepest, and it is also the most difficult to let go, so even if everyone condemns these two traitors now, he still treats them as brothers, and misses these two brothers who have not seen him for so long.

Now he heard that his old man came to see him, and he was faintly excited, even if he was unwilling to see the envoy of Shu to surrender, but he was still very happy to see his two brothers.

However, the reality was still cruel, and he soon saw the person who came, and was very disappointed to find that the person who came was not his two brothers at all, but two other Wei ministers who surrendered to Shu - Cao Hong and Dong Wan.

The status of these two people is also very high, especially Cao Hong, who is also a member of the Wei clan, but he is not interested in them, except for his two brothers, he feels very disgusted with the other people who surrendered to Shu.

I have to say that Dong Wan is a lucky person, and his life is hard enough, although he was stunned by the sound of the explosion in the big battle that day, he did not die. So many "duck eggs" exploded in the front-line positions and did not kill him, and then thousands of troops and horses fought together, the war horses came and went without killing or trampling on him, and the scimitars of the Xianbei people did not kill him, and in the end, he became a glorious prisoner.