"Alas~"

"Once it will be successful, ten thousand bones will wither······"

Standing on the corner tower of the southern city wall of Yongcheng, looking at the outside of the city that had quieted down, Liu Ying couldn't help but sigh like this.

In front of Yongcheng must be taken, after there is a baby across the Huaishui to cut off the back road, all directions are the Han reinforcements who came in order, and finally made a month ago was still huge, known as more than 300,000 Huainan Wang Yingbu rebels, but in the end only struggled for two days, and then all of them collapsed.

On the walls of Yongcheng and in the wilderness outside the walls, corpses were piled up everywhere at this moment.

Although the clothes of these corpses have long been stained with blood and mud and dust, the identities of these corpses are still clear at a glance.

——The head is still attached to the body around the neck, and the bones of the Han soldiers are carefully carried away by the Han soldiers.

And the corpses that don't have their heads on their shoulders, or who are about to lose their heads, and who are losing their heads, are the corpses of the Huainan rebels.

Regarding the disposal of the corpses of the fallen rebels, Liu Ying did not give any extra orders, and only let Li Shang drive the soldiers to cut off their heads according to the usual practice, and then pile them together and burn them to finish.

But for the souls of the Han family who died heroically, they can't be so disrespectful.

"Your Highness."

After thinking about it, Li Shang appeared on the corner tower and bowed his hand to Liu Ying.

"The number of casualties and beheadings of our army has been ascertained."

"In this battle, the Guanzhong Army under Yongcheng was killed by 7,964 people, more than 10,000 were seriously injured and disabled, and more than 5,000 were injured and could not be re-enlisted······

Speaking in a heavy tone, Li Shang did not forget to raise his head slightly and look at Liu Ying's face.

After confirming that Liu Ying had no intention of 'nostalgic for the past and hurting the present', Li Shang continued: "A total of 16,142 people who are injured and can no longer be recruited, or who are seriously injured and disabled, have all been prepared to be registered, and will be transferred to Chang'an, and His Majesty will approve the bereavement case. ”

"There are seven thousand nine hundred and sixty-four war dead, and all of them have prepared coffins, and when they are ordered by the family, the ministers will lead their troops to open the ······."

Hearing Li Shang's words, Liu Ying finally sighed slowly and shook her head with a heavy expression.

"More than 20,000 ······"

"The princes of Yingbu District, on the contrary, caused the Han family to lose more than 20,000 people with humerus······"

With a lonely expression, Liu Ying turned around and raised her head slightly to Li Shang.

"Please also ask the Right Xiangguo to tell the Marquis of Pingyang: The compensation for the wounded and dead soldiers under the command of the Marquis of Pingyang will be temporarily controlled by the King of Qi; After everything is done, the father will allocate a little money to make up for it. ”

"With this as the Marquis of Pingyang knows, the right Xiangguo can set off and return to Chang'an······"

After explaining in a low tone, Liu Ying turned around again and sighed at the Shura Field outside the city.

In fact, strictly speaking, this rebellion is not over.

The reason is simple: the culprit of this rebellion, Huainan Wang Yingbu himself, ran away.

According to the procedures of the Han court to quell a rebellion, the sign that a rebellion was put down was that the initiator of the rebellion was beheaded or arrested.

But even so, Liu Ying could only allow Li Shang's request to 'leave for Chang'an immediately'.

Because in the Han Dynasty, especially when the founding emperor Liu Bang was still alive, the Chang'an Central Committee's plan for dealing with the dead soldiers was very complex and rigorous.

First of all, there is a very significant difference in the Han family's treatment of fallen martyrs compared to later generations.

- In most later dynasties (feudal era), soldiers died on the battlefield, and most of them were called 'killed in battle' and 'killed in battle';

went up to the sky, that is, a 'sacrifice for the country'.

In the Han Dynasty, soldiers who died on the battlefield were called: Death King.

- Died at the king's stake.

The 'king' here obviously does not refer to princes with different surnames like Yingbu, or clan princes like Liu Jiao and Liu Fei, but 'the king of the world', that is, the Son of Heaven.

Therefore, the 'matter of the king of death' can also be understood as: giving his life for the cause of the Son of Heaven.

This kind of specification is already infinitely close to the martyrs of later generations.

Of course, the Han family's 'dead kings' are infinitely close to the 'martyrs' of later generations, and it is not just because of a description of the 'dead kings'.

In later generations, if a soldier dies on the battlefield and becomes a martyr, then the martyr's troops will wrap the coffin with a flag to send the soul of the martyr back to his hometown.

In the Han Dynasty, there were also very similar regulations for the disposal of the dead.

——In the summer and April of the second year of the Han Dynasty, Liu Bangming issued an edict to the world: the unfortunate death of the sergeant, the official coffin for food and clothing, transferred to his home, enshrined in a young prison, and the chief official saw the funeral!

That is to say, when a soldier unfortunately dies on the battlefield, the martyr's superior officer needs to prepare mourning clothes and coffins, collect the corpse of the martyr, personally send it back to his hometown, and offer sacrifices of the specifications of the young prison (one pig and one sheep), and the main officer in the direct line of the boss needs to personally participate in the funeral to ensure that the funeral is smooth.

Here's a simple example.

The military establishment of the Han dynasty was based on the 'Shiwu' system that had been passed down from the Warring States period to the present.

That is, five people are a team, and the chief officer is the captain, also known as Wu Bai;

Two troops, that is, ten people for one tithe, and the chief officer for the chief;

Five tithes, that is, fifty people are tun, and the chief officer is the tun chief;

Liangtun, that is, 100 people are a song, and the chief official is the chief of the song, also known as the Hou of Qu and the hundred chiefs;

Wuqu, that is, five hundred people for a team, the main officer team rate, also known as Sima.

Two teams, that is, a thousand people for one school, the chief officer and captain;

The five schools, that is, the first of the five thousand people, will also be privately called the first army, and the chief officers are all lieutenants.

As for the situation in later film and television works, a certain officer was respectfully called a 'general', in this set of military establishments of the Han Dynasty, at least to the rank of captain can barely afford it, and to the level of lieutenant, to accept it calmly.

Even if the lieutenant can barely afford to be called a 'general', it is still necessary to say 'politeness' and 'lift', and tremble to come down.

If an officer below the rank of lieutenant, such as Sima or Qu Hou, is called 'general', then even if others don't laugh at it, the officer who is called 'general' will be ashamed and can't find a crack to get into.

This kind of 'two-by-five by two-by-five' compilation also made the Shiwu system known as the 'two-five system' by later researchers.

And in this way of establishment, the lowest-ranking officer who can be called a 'official' is Qu Hou, who is in charge of a hundred people.

As for the officer who can be called 'chief', that is, the officer who is in the main position, the lowest, is also in charge of the team of five hundred people.

In this way, according to the provisions of the 'Handling of the Funeral of the Fallen Soldiers' set by Liu Bang today, even if it is a lowest-ranking soldier who dies in battle, it is necessary for the soldier's direct subordinate Quhou, that is, Baichang, to prepare mourning clothes and coffins, collect the soldier's body and send it home.

Then, it was also necessary for the head team of this soldier to lead Sima to pay out of his own pocket, use his own money to prepare a pig and a sheep for the sacrifice, and personally go to the funeral to ensure the smooth progress of the funeral.

When a soldier dies in battle, he needs to collect the corpse of a hundred chiefs and lead the team to see the burial, not to mention the death of an officer at the level of a hundred commanders and a team leader.

Especially in this battle, almost all of the people who died in Yongcheng were children of good families from Guanzhong, and the number reached more than 7,000!

This made it necessary for the Li Shang, who was the actual commander of the army, to take the funeral procession that stretched for miles to send him home before the corpses of the martyrs decomposed, and then put them in the ground.

It should be mourned, mourned, mourned, sacrificed, and waited for the funeral to be over, and the martyrs were buried in the ground, and then it was the end of the court, and it was time for the mourning and condolence.

According to Liu Bang's practice in dealing with similar affairs in the past, if a low-level soldier dies in battle, there is a high probability that he will receive a pension of tens of thousands of dollars, as well as a privilege for the whole family not to participate in labor for five years, that is, exempted from labor service.

When low-level officers such as Wu Chang, Shi Chang, and Tun Chang are killed, the pension specifications will not be too bad, roughly that the pension is higher and the number of years of exemption is longer.

But at the level of Quhou, the specifications of the pension will be qualitatively improved.

- Qu Hou, in the Han army, he will also be honored as 'Jun Hou' by his subordinates!

The title of 'military marquis' alone has a much higher gold content than the generals from all walks of life who were casually sealed during the Three Kingdoms period in later generations, or the generals of Lingling!

When it reached the level of Sima who was in charge of a team of 500 people, it was even more remarkable.

——Now in the Han Dynasty, when the sons and nephews of the Marquis of Che and the Marquis of Guan Nei joined the army, their starting point was basically to lead the team!

Therefore, the level of 'team rate' is also known as the watershed of 'soldiers' and 'generals'.

Being able to reach the level of 'team rate' means that this person has broken away from the ranks of low-level officers who 'obey orders' and initially has the right to command independently in wartime!

Therefore, if the common people have a 'team leader' level officer, it must be the same as the champion of the Song and Ming dynasties in later generations, attracting the 'home visits' of the neighbors.

As for the reason, it is not to invest in tax avoidance, but to stuff the sons and nephews of the family and become the 'personal soldiers' led by the Sima team.

The living Quhou and the team leader are treated like this, so there is no need to repeat the pension specifications of an officer of this level who died in battle.

——In the past ten years, there have been more than 1,000 people who have been able to enter the palace and become the heirs of martyrs who have been able to enter the palace and become Lang officials by Liu Bang's sentence of 'the father dies to the king's affairs, and the shadow son is the lang'!

Among them, there are even a few examples of fathers who died in battle, and sons who inherited their father's martial arts and were awarded high knights!

In this way, although the Han family's pension specifications for the dead soldiers are still not as good as the 'martyrs' of the new era in later generations, compared with the vast majority of feudal dynasties, they can be regarded as 'martial'.

The emperor's father treats the soldiers so favorably, so as a son, especially as a prince who is interested in revitalizing the Han family and stepping on the grassland, Liu Ying naturally has to follow suit.

But whether it is the court's follow-up pension, or the extra rewards and compassion promised by Liu Ying before the war, they have to wait until the rebellion is over, and the court will be the main order.

At present, the most important thing is to send the remains of the fallen soldiers home, so that they can be buried in peace and their souls can return to their hometowns.

Thinking of this, Liu Ying couldn't help but shake her head and sigh with regret.

"It's a pity that King Jing's body still hasn't been found······"

As if she was muttering to herself, Liu Ying's eyes suddenly lit up as if she remembered something!

Turning around, he walked quickly to the inner edge of the city wall, and saw that Li Shang did not go far, Liu Ying quickly opened his throat and called Li Shang back.

When Li Shang heard Liu Ying's call, he trotted to the city wall, but saw that Liu Ying's eyes suddenly took on a rare solemnity!

"Right Xiangguo!"

"There is one more thing, Lonely, I want to make the right Xiangguo smell it!"

"If it's not appropriate, the right minister can be outspoken; If possible······"

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An hour later, twenty miles south of Yongcheng, the site of the rebel No. 2 camp.

Under the strange gaze of tens of thousands of Han soldiers, the rebel heads that had been cut off earlier and sealed with lime were moved in order and placed neatly on a high ground.

"Beijing ······"

"Jingguan!"

After realizing what the thing in front of him was, the faces of the soldiers present suddenly swelled with a strange look.

If there is anything that can be called 'not breaking the law but sick' in the war of this era, it is undoubtedly that after the war, the heads of the enemy army that were cut off were piled together and cast into a Jingguan!

Because at present, it is only the beginning of the Han Dynasty, the Qin Dynasty has only been dead for more than ten years, and the Warring States period has only passed for decades.

Although the tacit understanding of the war of 'a gentleman is not seriously injured, and he does not capture Ermao' has long been broken by a soldier surnamed Sun who does not speak of martial virtues, the inertia of history still plays a pivotal role.

To put it simply, at the moment, if someone says something 'the gentleman is not seriously injured, he will not catch the second hair', then naturally no one will open his mouth to agree, it is recognition;

However, if someone proposes to insult the corpse of the enemy after the battle, or to kick the severed head as a ball, it will still cause strong discomfort.

And the casting of Jingguan is between "respecting the corpse of the enemy" and "kicking the head of the enemy as a ball", although it is not very excessive, but it is also completely unrelated to morality.

It was under the gaze of the soldiers with such complex emotions that Liu Ying's figure appeared in front of the Jingguan that had not yet been sealed.

appeared with Liu Ying, and there was also a shirt that didn't look worn, but had faded slightly due to time.

"At this age, the lonely king's uncle Jing Wang Jia was killed by the thief Yingbu!!"

A loud call sounded, and the soldiers present couldn't help but look sideways, and the discomfort on their faces that Xu had caused from seeing Jingguan was also dispelled by Liu Ying's loud voice.

I saw Liu Ying slowly take two steps forward, turned sideways, took the old, obviously unusual clothes, and respectfully placed it in the dirt pit in front of him.

Then, Liu Ying straightened up again and looked at the eyes of the soldiers present, only a trace of evil aura that seriously did not match his gaze!

"Yingbu killed Uncle Lone, Lonely, and he took the head of the Huainan Thief Army as a sacrifice of 20,000!"

"More Yingbu thief ambition, Yu Yongcheng killed thousands of my Han family's loyalty!"

"Lonely, swear to the head of Yingbu, to worship the soul of the martyrs of the Han family!!"

His expression was extremely solemn, but his tone almost roared out like a hiss, Liu Ying's back straightened up, and he waved to the side.

"Erect a monument!"

As soon as Liu Ying's voice fell, in front of the Jingguan on the side, a stone tablet with a height of people was slowly erected.

Without waiting for the soldiers to come forward to check, the ceremonial officer on the side recited the words behind the stele in a melodious and elegant tone.

"In the autumn of the eleventh year of the Han Dynasty, Huainan thieves killed King Jing and Guanzhong Zhongliang 7,964, and the prince was angry and collected the thief's head 27,615 to cast the Jingguan~"

"Nai said: Han Zhizhi is loyal and good, the wounded will die, the soul will not enter the underworld, and the Jingguan will kill for the hungry charm; Reincarnation for a hundred lifetimes, no longer a human ······"