Siege battles have been the bloodiest meat-mincing battle since ancient times, especially the locals finally swear to fight to the death, and just want to drag a few people to the back before they die. Even if disasters hit their morale, the lethality of the trapped beast fight is still amazing.

Liu Bei and Li Su were fully prepared for this battle to "completely solve the problem of Qiang thieves in Xiliang", but when they finally saw the tragic situation and the preliminary estimated casualties, they were still shocking.

During the feint preparation stage for many days before, the total casualties of the Han army reached more than 6,000 - including the two thousand casualties in the failed attack when Gao Shun arrived on April 21st, and the four thousand casualties lost in the next ten days.

On the third day of May, the 30,000 main troops led by Zhang Fei alone, led by Zhang Fei, the main troops of the North Gate and Weiyang Palace, were killed and seriously injured, and more than 4,000 people were killed and seriously injured! Although they had to snatch the most deadly and hard-working troops of Li Jue Army, which had almost no surrender or captives, were all fighting to the death.

After the chaos in the city, Guan Yu coordinated the overall situation and took the opportunity to break through the goal to participate in the encirclement and suppression. After the battle, the casualties reached as many as 3,000.

These troops were said to have come up to grab the results when the enemy's fighting will was about to collapse, and they should not have been as miserable as death and injury.

So in fact, nearly two thousand people here were all the losses of the cavalry of the Southern Xiongnu Shanyu Huchuquan. Zhao Yun and the other two infantrymen who picked up the heads of the other two gates died in total.

This is very different from Huchuquan's previous state of work but not working, and even Liu Bei was surprised in the end. However, when he saw the results of Huchuquan's troops - nearly 5,000 heads of the Southern Xiongnu rebel cavalry and Xianbei cavalry, Liu Bei was not surprised.

This time, Hu Chuquan made a desperate effort to avenge his father's death and fought over Li Jue's Xianbei and Southern Xiongnu mercenary cavalry. Because his own side also suffered heavy losses, he finally killed the prisoners without leaving any prisoners. Especially when the Xianbei people saw that they killed one, they even surrendered, and they offered their merits to Liu Bei for rewards and equipment.

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"The battle of siege in Chang'an was fought in more than ten days, and our army died in total for more than 13,000 people. It was really tragic, and they were all elite soldiers who had been refined for several years. Before, there were not so many deaths in the decisive battle in Jingyuan. That time, there were only 8,000 people, and Duan Wei's was not counted.

In addition, Jieting and Chen Cang lost 5,000 people, including Jixian, Huaili, Xiliu, and other large and small battles, with a total of about 4,000 people. Since the Northern Expedition, a total of 40,000 troops have been lost. At that time, the 130,000 troops were divided into three northern expeditions, and only 90,000 were left after the battle. The white bones were exposed in the wild, which was considered to have destroyed the thief leader Li Jue."

Liu Bei looked at the number and sighed several times. Of course, the "loss" he mentioned included direct death in battle, serious injuries, and permanent disability left behind, and no longer able to join the army. It included.

Among these 40,000, carefully distinguished, the Han army accounted for about half, with the infantry losing about 15,000 people and the cavalry losing 5,000.

The Hu soldiers and soldiers accounted for the other half, and there were 20,000 people. Among them, the Southern Xiongnu cavalry in Huchuquan had the highest proportion of casualties, with a total loss of 5,000, and more than half were killed and injured in the final siege of Chang'an. The second was Wang Ping's Banyan Man, who lost about 4,000 people, and was also the main attack force in the siege of Chang'an.

The other Kunming Yi and Ailao Yi each lost more than 3,000 people, the Lao soldiers and Qing Qiang soldiers each suffered one or two thousand casualties, which were the cumulative number of battles since the Northern Expedition.

Ailaoyi lost an additional 100 war elephants, and in the end they were all killed and consumed. The bodies were picked and eaten without erosion. Now in the year of disaster, there are really not many plants that have raised these elephants for a long time. If they die in battle, they are considered subsidies for military purposes, and fewer people are starved to death.

However, even if the war elephant survives, it is useless, because the Xiliang army has fought against the war elephant several times a year, and gradually figured out the way to deal with it. Today, when Zhang Fei used an elephant to hit the city wall system at dawn, Li Jue's army had already learned to set fire to block the elephant in the pit. This kind of combat experience cannot be blocked. Other warlords will definitely have information channels to learn from Li Jue's failure. Next time they see the war elephant, they will know how to be frightened.

Therefore, the elephant soldiers were originally a one-time transaction and would no longer be used for military purposes in fighting northern warlords in the future.

In addition to the losses of the troops, there were also captives. Nearly 10,000 people were captured in the battle of Chencang. Later, there were thousands of people in Ji County and Jingyuan who fought a decisive battle of 20,000 prisoners. Judging from the number of people, the captured prisoners of war can offset most of the damage to the war, but the military discipline, morale and skills of these soldiers are completely incomparable.

Either a strong peasant who has no intention to fight and skills, or a veteran who has poor military discipline and is not good at learning skills. If you want to use it, you must train and rectify it. It will not be used in just two years.

Finally, in today's Battle of Chang'an, nine thousand prisoners were captured - after all the generals of the Li family were killed and the barbarian chiefs such as the Marquis of Beiligudu were also killed, they were scattered in other urban areas of Chang'an, and they were unable to organize effective resistance.

However, except for a small number of coerced men, these prisoners in Chang'an City will definitely not be forgiven. Even if they do not kill and surrender, they will have to be severely punished for life.

The troops counted until at night. Liu Bei patroled the city and restored the people several times before counting the results of the battle: In this battle, Li Jue's last main force was wiped out more than 30,000 people and captured 9,000. Considering that there was no enemy to escape in an established manner, there should be 22,000 to 24,000 people killed.

But many corpses were incomplete, and some were burned in the fires of Gouyi Palace and Huo Guangdi, or fell into the water, and the Kunming Pond and Taiye Pond in the palace, and the corpses were gone.

Anyway, the head level reported in the final plan was only more than 17,000. Liu Bei asked all the bodies to be buried to avoid contagious plague. As for the more than 7,000 enemy heads, they were piled outside the southern gate of Chang'an, and found a dry place far away from the water source, piled into Jingguan, sprinkled with lime, and displayed for a while, and finally sealed the soil and buried it.

After all, less than one-third of the Han people are here, and even if there are some, there are those Han people in Xiliang who are already a bit Qiang and mixed-race. The rest are either Qiang or Xianbei or Southern Xiongnu, and there is nothing to be sympathetic to them. They should be punished and severely punished for public invasion. Otherwise, they would be sorry for the innocent victims who were killed by them in Chang'an City before.

After all, the innocent people who died at the hands of these beastly Hu soldiers in the Sanfu area in the past two years have long been several times more than these rebels.

Therefore, Liu Bei's decision was also supported by the people. Although it was a year of great disaster, no one had enough food to eat and could not have a banquet. However, many skinny and officials' families still went to Jingguan outside the South Gate to watch and celebrate.

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After dealing with our own war losses and combat captures, captives, and seizures, the next key is to punish war criminals.

If you have worked as a heavy laborer for two years and have not died of locusts, it is probably God's will to pardon those people. If your life is so strong, you can give it a way out, which is very consistent with the "Spring and Autumn Prison Decision".

Liu Bei felt that this difficult problem was finally the best of all. It solved both the coolie and the food, and the punishment. In the year of a major disaster, it could only be in a hurry to follow the power.

So this order was Li Su's first political order after taking office as Jingzhao Yin.

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PS: Today is 9,000 words, I’m counting one update, I still owe two updates for the time being (adding a “temporary” because it seems that there is a tendency to owe it again)
Chapter completed!