Chapter 52: The Battlefield (3)
The Black Turban Army was panicked by the reinforcements, and the reinforcements wiped out the enemy's arrogance with their unstoppable pace.
When the last enemy collapsed in a pool of blood, the war was won, and the devastated battlefield resounded with deafening cheers, but the thrill of hanging by a thread always haunted everyone's hearts.
The wind was lined up, the yellow sand rolled up the scorched flags, and in the long sand, the smoking wood emitted a disgusting stench. Several vultures hovered over several corpses that had not yet been completely buried by the sand, and several arrows were still on the corpses, but the broken spear was still in the corpse's hand. In the distance, the shouts of tearing and killing were incessant, and the yin wind began to howl angrily, as if to awaken the dead soul.
The corpses on the battlefield are all over the field, which makes people thrilling and frightened.
"Collect the troops! Take care of the battlefield! General Huangpu ordered, and then the horn of the troops sounded on the battlefield.
On the city tower, Yang Guang saw the reinforcements outside the city begin to clean up the battlefield, waved his hand, and ordered: "Open the city gate and clean the battlefield!" ”
After several days of fighting, the battlefield was littered with corpses. It is the right of the victor to clean up the battlefield, and those who have been defeated have long since fled or have been wiped out, and there will still be a clean-up of the battlefield.
Therefore, an important purpose of cleaning up the battlefield is to check whether there are any survivors, and if there are survivors from your side, they will be treated. If you find a living enemy, you usually kill them. The soldiers who cleaned up the battlefield dug a large pit not far away and buried their dead soldiers; The corpses of the enemy soldiers were then transported by cart to a place not far from Jicheng for cremation.
"Come on! There are still living people here! A soldier cleaning up the battlefield shouted.
After a while, several men came running with stretchers and carried the wounded man onto the stretcher. There are many places on the battlefield of such rescue, constantly rummaging, rescuing the dead alive and pushing them to be buried, and when they encounter the enemy who still has a breath left, they will go down with a knife and cut their throats and make up for it.
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So over and over again, before I knew it, the sky was dark. The night sky was darkened by smoke, and through the smoke, the sickle-shaped crescent moon high above shone strangely. Now that the terrible fighting had ceased, silence seemed to dominate the city, broken only by the sound of hurried footsteps, groans, distant shouts, and the sound of fire that seemed to burn everywhere. Black swirling clouds of smoke rose from both sides, stretching out from the fire. The tents in the city were filled with blood, dirty bandages, moans, and encouragement as stretchers lifted them. The smell of sweat, blood, rotten meat, and drowning in feces rushed along the wind...... But no one showed a look of disgust.
After several days of continuous cleaning, the battlefield was finally cleaned, only the brown and uneven ground was still there, showing the tragedy of the war.
The soldiers who cleaned up the battlefield put the money of the dead in their own pockets, and handed over weapons, tents, horses, armor, etc. Of course, the above is also turning a blind eye to this situation, after all, no one knows when they will die on the battlefield on the march, and letting those soldiers send the money of the dead people home can also make the family live better.
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After that, there were several battles that were not small, although it was said that each one was damaged, but the damage was not large, and they all ended in victory, and after these several wars and deployments, the plain outside Jicheng was finally recaptured. And the old general of Huangpu also left with his army after Jicheng settled down, leaving the Huangpu wing to sit there on the frontier.
It's stable here, but Jiang Jiujiu on the other side is not calm......
The north wind blows, the sunset falls from the other side of the mountain, the smoke curls, silently telling the joy and sorrow of the villagers, and the people left behind after the meal sit together and chat.
It wasn't until it was completely dark that everyone went home one after another......
Clusters of trees, elegant and pure; The shadows of the swarthy trees dragged the old elders; Patches of crops, still in neat formations in the night, stand proudly. Beams of light came out of the farmhouse, and gradually went out.
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In the early morning, it is always natural to wake up, to see the light outside the wooden window getting brighter and brighter, and the sound of birds chirping from the warm noise of chirping to gradually decreasing, thinking that I have gone to catch insects after the party.
Not far from the house, there is a small river with a few ducks on the clear water, playing happily. From time to time, they stick their heads into the water to feed, or frolic with their companions, and the cries of "quack-quack-quack" echo in the water, even if someone is doing laundry and washing vegetables, but it can't stop their joy. There are a few dragonflies that also like to join in the fun, flying on the water. The reeds beside the river fluttered and seemed to envelop the creek together. The small river in the sun is exceptionally clear, and a breeze blows, and the water surface is rippling and sparkling.
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