Chapter 117: Pit Killing
Therefore, when Zhang Chong led the army back to Weishi, he only saw the soldiers cleaning the battlefield, and from time to time some prisoners were taken away by strings.
When Zhang Chong's troops first appeared, they also caused a commotion among Yang Mao and other generals, and when Meng was frustrated, it was Qu Kui's handsome soldiers who came back, and everyone rushed over.
After that, Zhang Chong listened to Yang Mao's report on the battle in detail. Hearing that they took the initiative to annihilate the enemy army entrenched in the city, Zhang Chong was relieved in his heart.
This is the first time that the generals of Mount Tai have taken the initiative to seize the fighter plane and annihilate the enemy without him. From this point of view, this Yang Mao can be cultivated as handsome in the future.
In addition, Guan Yu has shown his future prestige in this battle, from first climbing the Jin Wall, to the military law, and finally breaking the formation to kill the general, it is obvious that Guan Yu obviously has rich military experience.
Zhang Chongqi was surprised, and after asking Guan Yu, he learned that he had served in the army in Northern Xinjiang, and he was once a military official under the account of Tian Yan, a Zhonglang general, and he was still a cavalryman.
Zhang Chong looked at Guan Yu, who was close to two meters tall, and asked what kind of horse could carry a great man like you. Guan Yu blushed and said:
"Liangzhou Malaysia is unparalleled in the world. Tian Yan, the former army master, lifted me up and specially selected a good horse to charge with me. Unfortunately, after a big defeat, the horse carried him to break through and died of exhaustion. ”
Zhang Chong stroked Guan Yu's back and comforted:
"Don't mourn, I'll give you a horse in the future."
Guan Yu didn't dare to shout, but Zhang Chong didn't speak, and he had already decided in his heart that he must find a group of unparalleled divine horses, so that he could be worthy of Guan Erye.
Zhang Chong changed the topic, since he knew that Guan Yu had entered the northern frontier, he asked how Xianbei was and what his tactics were.
Guan Yu thought for a moment and said:
"Returning to the canal, the Xianbei method of warfare is a typical grassland cavalry and archery tactics, which is good at rushing and exciting, and is good at riding and shooting. In all battles, we will not engage the enemy, but guerrilla warfare. It is to fight with Xianbei, and if you can't strike a blow, you will be thousands of miles away. ”
Although Zhang Chong didn't ask, Guan Yu still explained the tactics of the Han family in northern Xinjiang:
"My Han family has been practicing riding with the Han system since the former general Wei Qing, and he is used to rushing into battle with a strong and stubborn one, and he is a Han as a five-hu. Good is good, well-armoured, rigorous in battle. Therefore, my Han family is fighting in the cavalry, and it must be attacked and saved, or it will lead a small number of elites to run thousands of miles and smash its nest. ”
Zhang Chong understood that it was the difference between the Xianbei and Han cavalry tactics that led to the former being tactically biased towards guerrilla attacks, while the latter was biased towards decisive battles. Therefore, Xianbei often kept retreating, taking advantage of the depth of the grassland, lengthening the Han cavalry line, and then turning to the side, which was a tactic to give full play to the mobility of the grassland cavalry.
And the Han cavalry also knew their own advantages and disadvantages, so they forced the Xianbei cavalry to fight a decisive battle.
As we understand the grasslands, there are not many permanent habitats, but in fact, there are not many abundant water and grass in the grasslands, and if they give up these high-quality pastures, the livestock will starve to death on a large scale. Therefore, the Han family often attacks these important pastures, which is to attack them and save them.
Naturally, Zhang Chong asked why you were defeated when you entered the grassland?
Guan Yu sighed, and said just one sentence:
"If you don't know the enemy's situation, you will be arrogant."
Then Guan Yu told them how they lost that battle.
Although there were three main generals out of the fortress that time, in fact, the main attack was Tian Yan and Xia Yu. These two generals are all fierce generals who fought from Xizhou, and their tactical awareness is naturally not bad, plus the soldiers they are also soldiers in northern Xinjiang, and even many of them have fought on the battlefield in Liangzhou.
But the problem also lies in the experience of Tian Yan and Xia Yuer's general in Xizhou. They thought that Qianghu and Xianbei were the same as the unprepared miscellaneous beards.
But in reality, the two are not the same thing at all.
First of all, geographically, although Qianghu walks in the vast Xizhou, the most able to live is actually the Hehuang Valley. It is that every time the Han army attacks the Hehuang Valley, it can force Qianghu to fight a decisive battle.
However, the grassland where Xianbei is located is thousands of miles, and the two generals do not know the geography, only chasing the traces of Xianbei all the way, and then going deep into the grassland, trying to catch the decisive battle of the main force of Xianbei, but often it does not work.
And then organizationally, the gap between the two is huge. The essence of Qianghu is a group of miscellaneous Hu who were oppressed and opposed by the Han family, and most of them combine revenge and life, and there is no adult to lead Zhuhu.
But Xianbei is different, Xianbei from Tanshi Huai called the king system, and the whole grassland is divided into three, each of which is divided into one adult, in fact, has formed a certain organization.
Therefore, when the second general led his troops out of the fortress, all the way deep into the grassland, did not make geography, and attacked Xianbei halfway, so that the big rout, the dead were seven or eight.
Speaking of this, Guan Yu was still silent, thinking of the comrades who died tragically in that war.
At this point, Zhang Chong had a general understanding of the situation in northern Xinjiang at this time. Then he asked a long-standing question.
"I've always heard that the Xiongnu are our mortal enemies, and then there are frequent wars in this dynasty, how did this Xianbei start?"
This Guan Yu really knows, because he also asked his captain this way back then, and he still remembers what the captain said:
Not long after the founding of this dynasty, the Xiongnu on the grassland revived, and even once occupied the Western Regions, but later the dynasty and the Xiongnu fought one after another, and the Xiongnu were first divided into two, the southern Xiongnu were served, and the northern Xiongnu stayed in the grassland. Until the former general Dou Xian broke the Northern Xiongnu, the rest of the troops went west and disappeared. So far, the Xiongnu no longer have the cost of foreign trouble.
But unlike what we thought, this steppe has no old king, but a new one. Xianbei, who was originally a vassal of the Xiongnu, took advantage of the emptiness of the grassland to enter the plateau, and successively received more than 100,000 remnants of the Xiongnu, all of whom called themselves Xianbei, and since then Xianbei has begun to rise. It can no longer be cured. ”
Since then, the captain has also sighed:
"It seems that this grassland really does not belong to our Han family, no matter which tribe we exterminate, there will be other tribes rising tomorrow. I really don't know what size is on a day like this. ”
Guan Yu also poured out this sigh to Zhang Chong.
Zhang Chong nodded, of course he knew the essence of this farming and grassland culture, he didn't say anything to Guan Yu, but said to him:
"Work hard, and one day these grassland people will be good at singing and dancing."
Guan Yu was puzzled.
Zhang Chong began to preside over the post-war reconstruction of the Kim Wall.
The first is to collect the corpses, and to be honest, everyone is actually holding their breath now. When they saw the bodies of the victims of the Kim Wall, they were furious.
These were the robes of their brethren, and they died a glorious death in order to defend their homeland, but these dog slaves abandoned the corpses of their robes in the ravines to be eaten by the wolf dogs.
Under the excitement of the crowd, everyone unanimously wanted to kill all the prisoners of Dongping Ling. Zhang Chong also hated, but he couldn't do it so brutally, these Dongpingling soldiers were almost attached to the vicinity of Dongpingling, if they were all killed, one was unjustly killed, and the other was a mortal enmity with the whole people of Dongpingling.
Therefore, Zhang Chong began to conduct a public trial of the captured 800 Dongping Ling soldiers.
He said in public that anyone who had not touched the Kim wall could stand up, and as long as no one corrected him, he would distribute corn and return it to his home.
began to compete for the lead, and they all said that they had never killed anyone.
Then Zhang Chong invited Lou Zhong, and he first pointed out the blood debts among them.
Lou Zhong named more than twenty at that time, and he knew the murderers who participated in the massacre of Jin's wall. When these more than 20 people were pulled out, the feces and urine came out, knowing that they would definitely not survive, but they were not willing to die alone, and they also began to report to the crowd.
In this way, one string after another, in the end, there were only two hundred and thirty people left on the field.
Zhang Chong was in front of everyone and told them that we are all poor people, and the poor should not kill the poor. Think for yourselves, who is it that forced you to stay away from your relatives and come to this place to kill a group of miserable people like you, and for whom is this going for you?
After saying this, Zhang Chong really began to give them millet and allowed them to return home, and these people all cried with joy. They kowtowed to Zhang Chong all the way, and then ran all the way home with the millet bag on their backs.
The rest of the captives who were counted had blood debts, or insulted women, or beheaded the field guards, all of whom had reasons for their crimes.
Some of them may not be guilty of death, but in this case, Zhang Chong has no reason to let them continue to live.
In the end, these soldiers with blood feuds were pushed into large pits by the surviving vassals and partial disciples of the Jin family, and then the dirt flew, and the people under the pit cried and begged for mercy, but in the end they gradually fell silent.
Yes, Zhang Chong finally decided to choose pit killing.
Zhang Chong looked at these prisoners who were killed in the pit, and his heart twisted. This is the first time that Zhang Chong has killed prisoners, although these people are stained with the blood of the Jin family, but with his moral outlook, these people have given up the knife and become prisoners, so they must uphold humanitarianism and be punished by law.
But Zhang Chong knows that the kind of morality he brings from modern times is really out of place.
In this Han Dynasty, which emphasized blood revenge, he Zhang Chong was not only the leader of the victims of the Jin family, but also the parent of these people. These people are his children, who believe in his ideals and are willing to follow him. Then he Zhang Chong has the obligation to avenge these children, this is the ethics of this era.
Zhang Chong knows that some of the morals he brought from modern times need him to adhere to, while others need to be given up and compromise with this era.
I just don't know if Zhang Chong can really be sure, what to insist on, and what to change and compromise.
After dealing with these blood feuds, Zhang Chong began to burn the bones of the Jin family disciples who died. This is also Zhang Chongjun's old tradition.
Since Sun Xun, the soldiers who died in the Shijia army were cremated into bones, and then sent to the righteous shrine of Wangzhou Feng to receive incense offerings.
At first, this method was still resistant in the army, because the concept of life and death in this life still stayed at the level of being in the ground, and they believed that the boundary between life and death was not clear, and their life after death would be the same as when they were alive. So if there are no dead bodies, then they will not be able to live after death.
Later, Zhang Chong told them that they paid attention to the soul ascension to immortals. The souls of all people in the Yellow Sky will ascend to the Yellow Heaven after death, but because the soul is imprisoned by the body, only by cremation into bones and sent to the Righteous Shrine for sacrifice, they can be too peaceful and happy in the Yellow Sky. They didn't know what Huang Tian was, but when they heard that they could ascend to immortals, everyone was happy.
Then cremation was successfully promoted.
Here, Taishan soldiers cremated their comrades and sealed the bones into clay pots, and Zhang Chong was also talking to Lou Zhong over there, he admired this person, so he said directly to Lou Zhong:
"Don't go back, I'll look at Zhou Feng later. You drilled tigers, let me tell him, he will let him go. ”
In this way, Lou Zhong was unprepared, so he became a member of the Shijia army, and I don't know if the drill mountain tiger in Shigu Mountain would scold Zhang Chong when he heard that he kindly sent a letter to Zhang Chong and folded himself as a cadre.
After all the things were done, Zhang Chong left a garrison here, preparing to move the disciples of several nearby tuns to cultivate and begin to rebuild the Jin's wall. This place is the key point of Mount Tai's eastward exit, and Zhang Chong will not give up.
In this way, Zhang Chong finished these and led the army back to look at Zhou Feng. At this time, a guest also visited Wangzhou Peak.