Facing the overwhelming cavalry, Huo Shaoyun and the others finally became frightened and began to flee towards Shanwu City one by one.
But they had been fighting for half an hour and were exhausted. However, Wang Yong and the others had just entered the battlefield. It was when their momentum was at its strongest. The fleeing horse thieves could not outrun Wang Yong and the others, and were quickly divided and outflanked by Wang Yong and the others.
The horse thieves are also very good at timing and are proficient in how to save their lives. When they see that they can't escape, they immediately surrender. Many horse thieves even surrender before Wang Yong rushes forward! These horse thieves have experienced hundreds of battles and are very aware of current affairs. They know that now
Surrender can save your life.
Wang Yong laughed loudly and said: "I don't have time to catch you little thieves. Get out of the way and don't block our way! Someone will come to pick you up later."
He is now eager to catch Huo Shaoyun, the big horse thieves like Lone Wolf, and he can no longer look down on the smaller horse thieves.
The horse thief could only do as he was told, so Wang Yong charged all the way for 30 miles until he reached the gate of Shanwu City.
Huo Shaoyun and other horse bandit leaders also fled into Shanwu City, but they only had 3,000 subordinates left. They were in panic all day long, as if they were waiting for the final judgment.
Of course, Wang Yong was surrounded by cavalry and had no way to attack the city. He could only surround Shanwu City and wait for Xu Wei to come.
Xu Wei led an army of 80,000 people to surround Shanwu City, and he asked Huo Shaoyun and other horse thieves to surrender.
But Huo Shaoyun and the others still want to struggle, because they know that Qiangqu has gathered 40,000 troops in Meiji. If they can stay in Shanwu for ten days and a half, maybe Qiangqu will steal Xu Wei's hometown.
The next day!
Xu Wei set up hundreds of trebuchets and bombarded the Shanwu City wall indiscriminately, directly destroying a section of the Shanwu City wall. After Huo Shaoyun and the others were self-aware, they raised the white flag and surrendered.
At this point, the battle in Dingxiang County came to an end. Xu Wei annihilated Huo Shaoyun and other 40,000 horse thieves at the cost of 2,000 casualties, killed 10,000 horse thieves, captured more than 30,000, and also obtained 20,000 war horses and 20,000 dead horses.
It was a great victory, and everyone returned to Mayi City happily.
After news of the battle in Dingxiang County reached Meiji, Qiangqu compared the strengths of both sides and felt that he might not be the opponent of the Thunder Lord, so he dispersed his troops and sent his own envoys to say good-neighborly and friendly words, and
Emphasize that if Lei Gong goes to buy horses, cattle and sheep, he can give the lowest price.
In fact, when Xu Wei brought people here, Qiangqu benefited the most. In the past two months alone, he bought 10,000 horses, 10,000 cattle, and raised 20,000 cattle from him. The Huns in Bingzhou benefited from Xu Wei.
Made hundreds of millions of dollars.
It's just that Qiangqu was greedy and wanted more, and with the imperial court's orders, he seemed to take this opportunity to rob the Thunder Lord, but he didn't expect that the Thunder Lord really knew how to use thunder, and wiped out 40,000 horse thieves.
With its strong strength, Qiangqu naturally shrank.
Mayi City!
All the people who stayed behind came out of the city to meet the marching army. When they saw their return, everyone cheered loudly and welcomed their return as if they were heroes.
After Xu Wei returned with his army, he said in front of everyone: "To celebrate this victory, the whole city will celebrate for three days. Everyone will eat meat and drink wine!"
After hearing this, the entire 200,000 people in Mayi cheered. Everyone sang and danced, as if it were a festival, and the joyful atmosphere filled the entire city of Mayi.
After celebrating like this for three days, everyone returned to normal days.
We should clear up wasteland when it is time to do so, build houses when it is time to build them, and burn kilns when it is time to burn kilns!
As for the arrival of the 30,000 captured horse thieves, Old Man Wang is the most satisfied. The entire city of Mayi is too short of labor, not to mention that because of this war, the construction time has been delayed for another month. It is about to snow now.
But the wooden house is only big enough for half of the people. With these 30,000 laborers, the project can be speeded up a lot.
After Xu Wei and others discussed it, they decided to give them the most dangerous and tiring work such as quarrying, coal mining, mining, logging, and building wooden rails in Mayi.
Of course, Xu Wei also made an agreement with them that as long as they work for three years, they can be released. If they work hard, they can be released early. However, these thieves can only dejectedly believe that Xu Wei means what he says.
What else could happen? In this era, if Xu Wei buried them alive, no one would say anything, but now they are just doing hard labor for three years.
After solving the prisoner problem, Xu Wei and the others discussed the issue of the missing 50 million money again.
When Old Man Wang heard this, he was furious and said: "It's outrageous. The captain provides them with food and drink. He also provides them with three meals a day and meat every few days. None of the landlords and rich men in Jizhou can eat like this."
, They are considered to be blessed by working here, but they still dare to embezzle property. This matter is left to the old man. If the old man catches them, he will definitely punish them severely."
"Everyone is sleeping in Datongpu. No one knows anyone's situation. We can't hide this money. Leave this matter to the old man. The old man promises to find everything without any penny!" Old Man Niu also has the same attitude. This era pays attention to one thing.
The kindness of rice is repaid with thousands of gold.
In Old Man Niu's view, Xu Wei could provide everyone with three meals a day and meat every few days. This kind of treatment was almost the same as the legendary four princes of the Warring States Period who had a keeper.
This is not supporting refugees at all. It is already treating people like supporting scholars.
Of course, everyone must repay with their lives, and now greedy Xu Wei's money, in the eyes of old man Niu, is simply unforgivable.
Xu Wei was startled by the attitude of Old Man Wang and others. He said cautiously: "Don't be so angry. Let the two old men calm down. After all, we have won this war. Spending 50 million to win a war is a good deal. Everyone.
Even if you are not a saint, you will all be greedy. As long as you educate them and let them hand over their money again, that will be good.
My attitude is to learn from past mistakes and treat illnesses to save lives, because we have already lost hundreds of people in this war. If we force a few more people to die because of this money, I would rather not do it. The reason why I raise this issue now is to prevent the slightest change, and we cannot let this happen.
Problems are widespread in the army. If the soldiers are corrupted, our army will have no fighting capacity.
My opinion is that everyone should work hard to persuade soldiers who have hidden property, so that they realize their mistakes and hand it over voluntarily, but they must not force people to death. This is a red line, and everyone should pay attention to the attitude of persuasion.
At the same time, we must also strengthen the construction of the military system and clarify what military discipline and military regulations tell soldiers what they can and cannot do! What penalties will be meted out for doing things that violate military discipline and military regulations!"
Xu Wei's attitude also made everyone feel relieved. After all, a benevolent leader is better than a tyrant.