Chapter 41: The Fire and the Black Smoke
The soldiers retreated fifty meters, leaving enough time for the defeated fighters to regain their composure.
Finally there was silence on the field, and the warriors picked up their weapons on the ground again, guarding against the soldiers in the distance, who did not understand why the person on the other side would let them go.
Li Chengzhou watched the soldiers in the middle of the field have calmed down, if they are given more time, maybe they will find a way to impact the formation again, so they hurriedly urged the tomahawk to come forward and persuade them to surrender.
Dressed in armor and holding a shield, the Tomahawk walked into the rout of the Fire Bull Tribe.
"You have been surrounded, your master has been caught, I hope you can calm down."
"I used to be from the Oak Tribe, and we met many times a year during the raids."
"To be honest, I don't have any affection for you, but now that we are short of people, we don't plan to kill you like this, and as you can see, it doesn't take much effort to kill you with our weapons."
"Descend or die, you can do it yourself. I promise that those who surrender will not die. ”
"Those who want to surrender, drop their weapons, tie their hands, and walk slowly, and those who do not want to surrender stay where they are."
After saying this, the tomahawk walked back behind the soldiers, took out a few rolls of rope and threw them in front of the soldiers.
These more than 600 people have no backbone, opinions are not in agreement, a group of people chatter non-stop, most of the people in the headquarters of the Fire Bull tribe are unwilling to surrender, while the rest of the affiliated tribes only want to live.
Nearly half of the hulala threw down their weapons, ran out, tied their hands with ropes, and walked over to surrender, and the soldiers strung the surrendered fighters together with ropes.
The chaotic scene made Li Chengzhou frown, if this kind of rabble was absorbed into the army without training, it would be a huge blow to the army's combat power.
After a long time, the noon sun reached its most poisonous time, and the canyon was under the direct rays of the sun, and there were more than 200 warriors left on the field who swore to live and die with the fire ox, and resolutely not to be prisoners.
The tomahawk dragged the crows, who were still unconscious, and told them that their master was still alive, and more than fifty more people surrendered.
Li Chengzhou looked at the remaining 150 or so people on the field, beckoned the soldiers on both sides to light a fire and cook, and took turns to be on guard.
The soldiers were well fed and drunk to replenish their strength, and during this period, some soldiers could not stand the sun and surrendered partly.
Li Chengzhou looked at the sun: "The speed of bringing so many prisoners will definitely not be too fast, if we set off now, we can go back after dark, and we can catch the last dinner." ”
Tomahawk and Li Xiaojiang nodded, not knowing what kind of medicine was sold in Li Chengzhou's gourd.
"There are so many people left, it doesn't matter, or can you kill them?"
The two men were not benevolent either, and they agreed completely.
Most of the remaining 100 or so people are small leaders, and it's not that they don't want to surrender, they just want to stay for a while longer to show their backbone and raise their worth by the way.
But what they didn't expect was that what they were waiting for was not good words and persuasion, but crossbows and arrows all over the sky.
The soldiers piled the corpses of the barbarian warriors who had died in battle, not caring whether they were pretending to be dead or really dead, and then poured oil on them, put firewood and other flammable materials, and then lit a fire.
Finally, some of the warriors who pretended to be dead could not stand it anymore and jumped up and ran away, waiting for them only to be overtaken, slashed with a knife, dragged back, and thrown into the fire again.
The huge fire made the temperature of the entire canyon rise by a few degrees, and the thick black smoke could be seen in the city more than 20 kilometers away.
Fang Changge looked at the black smoke and calmed down his mood, if he could make the fire so strong, his side would at least not lose too badly.
Li Chengzhou looked at the barbarian warriors tied in a string and ordered to return to the city. There were more than 500 captives, and there was basically a soldier next to each captive.
The long procession walked towards the city, and when they returned to the city, the black smoke in the canyon had not been extinguished.
When the soldiers returned to the city, someone took their place to take care of the captives, and they immediately removed their armor, and after several days of ambush, the armor on their bodies never left their bodies. They took a few bites of food and went to rest.
Li Chengzhou told Fang Changge and Meng Biao what had happened in the past few days, and when they heard that Li Chengzhou decided to shoot the soldiers who did not surrender and agreed to burn the corpses with fire, they couldn't help but be a little surprised.
Li Chengzhou scratched his head: "That time was too brutal, the brain flower and the tofu brain are indeed too similar." Besides, I was pressed there before I could react. ”
"And I'm not a good man and a woman, so I'm not in charge of the army. But if I had to do it myself, it might not work. ”
Meng Biao looked very happy: "Childe, I'm very pleased, I thought you didn't dare to face this, it turns out that you are also a murderous person, not bad, yes, so that you have to continue to work hard, so that the enemies will be scared when they hear your name." ”
Fang Changge looked at Li Chengzhou: "In such a troubled world, it really can't be too benevolent, but it can't be too extreme, as General Meng said, it's a little too extreme." ”
Li Chengzhou nodded: "I understand, be soft on the inside and tough on the outside." ”
Fang Changge took over the conversation and continued: "That's the case. ”
"In the few days you've been out of the city, we've taken the rest of the people to build the city almost, and now it's ready to be fully put into use with a little more repair."
"Now that you have returned with a great victory, you should go directly to the throne with this victory, and this matter cannot be postponed any longer, otherwise the prestige that you have accumulated so hard will decline with the passage of time."
This is the first time that Fang Changge has been talking about the founding of the country, and Li Chengzhou feels that he is not ready.
"There's nothing you need to prepare, you can do it directly, it's like a war, you haven't fought before, but this doesn't affect your victory this time?"
"But it's late today, and you're tired from traveling and driving, you go back to rest first, and come to me with your trio early tomorrow morning, and we'll talk about the rest in detail."
Li Chengzhou returned to his residence and hurriedly asked someone to invite Tomahawk and Fan Qingyan over, and prepared in advance.
The two of them struggled and struggled, and it took a long time for them to come over. Li Chengzhou looked at the two who were late.
"I'm almost asleep, you just came over, tomorrow the three of us will go to Fang Lao to talk about the founding of the country, what do you think?"
"Let it be, Fang Lao should be prepared, he must have a plan when you have nothing to do, not to mention that now you have even won."
"Besides, it's you who ascended the throne, and it's not the two of me, what do I have to worry about?"
The two of them were slow and leisurely, not wanting to stay longer at all, they came very late, but they left very actively.
Li Chengzhou was so angry that his teeth itched, but he had no choice but to take one step at a time tomorrow.