Chapter 57: After the War

After a night of fierce fighting and turmoil, Yangqiuli finally ushered in the morning again.

The burning house burned down overnight, and the thatch on the roof, the thin beams, and the few household belongings in the house were all burned down, leaving only a black plume of smoke slowly drifting into the sky.

Zhao Yun ordered to drag the dead horses on the battlefield and give all the soldiers a full meal without limit.

Except for the guards, all the other soldiers gathered in the open space in front of the village, and were led by their respective commanders, divided into different areas, and each of them started their own fire.

Originally, the chief was supposed to be in charge of the clay pot and other utensils, arranging the stove, lighting the fire, and then being responsible for the distribution of meals, which was also the most basic eating process of the traditional army.

However, under the intervention of Gongsun Yan, after each soldier was generously allotted a marching kettle that could be used to open a fire and cook, the functions of the chief changed relatively.

He no longer had to be responsible for the utensils and meals, etc., but only had to deliver the share of the meals distributed by his superiors directly to the soldiers, who cooked them themselves.

In the morning food after this fierce battle, you can eat the meat of horses killed in battle without restriction without harming your body.

This is really gratifying news.

The soldiers, tired all night, ran around, gathered firewood, and went to draw water.

Everyone's marching kettle was filled with chunks of meat.

Zhao Yun, Zhang Ze and several other officers also gathered together and lit a fire.

It seems that because of the bottle of energy drink that Zhao Yun gave him, or the success of the night raid camp, and the survival of his clan brother Zhang Zhu, Zhang Ze was as excited as a spinning top.

Holding the Yanling knife at his waist in one hand, he kept running and busy.

At this time, he was also collecting firewood and fetching water, and was responsible for cooking horse meat for Zhao Yun and his colleagues.

In this case, even if they are officers, they don't have much special treatment, and they are all boiled meat without salt.

The only thing boiling in the special kettle was some mush of compressed biscuits, which was meant for Zhang.

Gongsun Yan was worried that Zhao Yun would run back and forth and lose energy, so he prepared a supply bag of energy drinks and compressed biscuits and put them in his horse bag.

Her hard work also came in handy, and she fell into a deep sleep after drinking the healing potion, and some sweet biscuits were good to drink.

Just when many white horses lit fires from the officers and soldiers, the water in the marching kettle began to steam, and the fragrance of meat rolled out.

Tian Kai and the two generals of the Xiangguan reinforcements also ended the work of rounding up the fleeing Wuhuan people in the forest, and came to the valley of Yangqiuli hand in hand.

As soon as you enter the valley, the long, flesh-and-blood slope of the stump comes into view.

Wang Yan, the deputy general appointed by Gongsun Da to lead the troops, looked at the scene of a bloody slaughterhouse in front of him, took a breath of cool air like a toothache, and instantly choked on the smell of blood and other stenches that filled the air.

This skirmish was nothing in the big battles of the past, but when the battlefield was concentrated in a narrow valley, it became terrifying.

The flesh and blood of thousands of people and horses spread like a red fungus blanket on the long dirt slope, which made people instinctively fear and discomfort.

Leading Zuo Ping's 100 rides was Zuo Ping's grandson Zuo Yuan, who had trained under his grandfather Zuo Yuan's tent and had also experienced small-scale wars with foreign races.

It can be seen that this scene is also in awe, with a little fluff on his lips, he looked at the black shadow of the pot under the hillside from afar, and his face showed a bit of awe.

He was younger, and when he was a little older as governor, Gongsun Zhan had already played a dog brain with Yuan Shao in Jizhou, and the battle of Jieqiao was almost completely wiped out by Baima Yicong, and he never returned to Liaoxi after rebuilding, even if he had heard of such a cavalry galloping outside the Saiwai, he had never seen it with his own eyes.

At this time, Zuo Yuan felt a little regretful in his heart, maybe he should have participated in the battle with that Zhao Duwei yesterday, instead of hiding in the woods and shooting cold arrows, being a suspicious soldier, and picking up some cheap ones.

Even if you don't consider military merits, as a fighting man on the battlefield, it will be a little regrettable to miss such a war in which there are fewer enemies and more enemies, and almost all enemy troops are annihilated.

Zuo Yuan thought about it and sighed at the same time as Wang Yan, and the two glanced at each other invariably, and both saw the regret in each other's eyes.

Tian Kai, who was walking with them, rode on a horse, and his heart was happy and complicated.

He is now riding a horse with a bit of effort, and such a bloody battlefield has no chance for him.

But he was also happy, he knew that after this battle, the white horse righteous general, who had been broken his backbone, regained his military spirit and appeared in everyone's eyes again.

There is also Zhao Yun, as an old boss, Tian Kai was surprised that Zhao Yun could make such amazing progress.

Last night, whether it was a suspicious soldier or a night attack, to the final valley mouth ambush, taking advantage of the mountain to annihilate the front, every step is eye-catching.

The fierce and steady style of Zhao Yun began to take shape.

Although he is still a little immature as the head coach, considering Zhao Yun's own combat effectiveness, Tian Kai believes that Zhao Yun also takes himself into account as an important chess piece when considering the battle plan.

Tian Kai knew that after this battle, Zhao Yun, who had withstood the pressure and test of all parties and won the victory, would be reborn.

Looking at this battlefield, Tian Kai was also a little frightened in his heart, but unlike the slightly immature Wang Yan and Zuo Yuan, he was a veteran of the battlefield and an old fritter in the officialdom, he didn't see the expressions on the faces of the two, and he rode his horse over the tired bones on the ground calmly.

"According to the previous agreement, please also arrange for the two of you to clean up the battlefield," Tian Kai said with a smile, and the horse's hooves occasionally stepped on a certain corpse and made a dull sound.

"This ......" Zuo Yuan was young, with a little astringency on his face, he was the one who reacted the most to Zhao Yun's decision to return to Yangqiu yesterday.

In his opinion, there was no benefit in returning to Yangqiuli.

Even if he felt that he had a chance of winning after hearing Zhao Yun's plan, he only agreed to suspect soldiers on the periphery.

The promise to Zhao Yun and Tian Kai to clean up the battlefield and share the profits was just a joke, but he didn't expect this promise to really come true, he was embarrassed, but he didn't want to give up the benefits of his mouth.

"Zuo Sima doesn't have to think about it, if you didn't have the suspicious soldiers outside, scaring these dogs into a mess, Zilong's plan would not have been implemented so smoothly." Tian Kai said with a smile, "It's all your own family, you don't have to be polite, although you take the two armor and blades, you and I will do three or seven points for the captured war horses." ”

Hearing Tian Kai say that it was his own family, Zuo Yuan's heart was close at the same time, he went a little shy, but Wang Yan, after all, was older and thick-skinned, and immediately borrowed the donkey from the slope and arched his hand: "Tian Duwei is right, they are all our own family, so we will beg for meat with a thick face!" ”

"I, so am I, thank you Captain Tian." Zuo Yuan hurriedly followed suit.

"Where, where." Tian Kai laughed, and the three of them stood in the sea of corpses and blood for a while, and talked happily.