Wang Ding and several thousand soldiers were enjoying a rare peace.
Three days have passed since that bloody battle.
In the past three days, Zhang Lu did not attack Yangping Pass again, but he did not withdraw his troops.
Wang Ding is not sure what the other party is planning.
In the past three days, there were more than 200 wounded soldiers who could not hold on, and all their bodies were cremated.
But the injuries of the remaining people gradually stabilized and the wounds did not continue to worsen. As long as they continued to recuperate, the wounds would become scarred after a month. Even good people were missing an arm.
There are also some people whose arms are still there, but their muscles and bones have been injured and they can no longer use force.
Wang Ding only had fifteen thousand soldiers left in his hands.
Zhang Lu did not withdraw his troops, nor did he send anyone to fight in the past few days.
Three days are just enough for the soldiers who have been fighting continuously to make a good adjustment.
Jia Xu has also been in the wounded barracks these days, living with the followers of the Five Pecks of Rice Sect.
Those believers who had woken up told Jia Xu everything about the Five Pecks of Rice Sect in a few words.
However, most of them are just ordinary believers, and what they know is limited.
Wang Ding would visit these wounded soldiers once a day.
To refresh one’s sense of existence, Jia Xu is mainly responsible for it.
In addition to asking about the Five Dou Rice Cult, Jia Xu's focus is to publicize the lives of the people in Chang'an today.
And Wang Ding went to war on behalf of the Emperor of the Han Dynasty. Zhang Lu was marked with the mark of a rebel.
For these saved believers, the effect is very obvious.
Zhang Lu gave up on them, but Wang Ding ignored the past and asked the doctor to treat them.
Just at this point, it is easy for these wounded soldiers to side with Wang Ding.
They are believers in the Five Dou Rice Sect, and they all believed in Zhang Lu before that.
But after experiencing death once, most people understand it clearly.
They were just followers of the Five Pecks of Rice Sect. They believed in Zhang Lu before because Zhang Lu did not bully the people in Hanzhong, and the Five Pecks of Rice Sect usually declared that the people should be honest and not cheat.
If you are sick, it is because you have done something wrong. As long as you admit your fault, you can recover.
It is not the kind of evil sect that specializes in brainwashing believers.
These wounded soldiers are not completely boycotting the Five Pecks of Rice Sect at this moment, they are just a little disappointed with Zhang Lu.
If they were not rescued, perhaps they would not feel that Zhang Lu was abandoning them until their death.
But in the end they were rescued by Wang Ding.
In contrast, there is no hostility towards the Han army.
Now, what they want to see more is Zhang Lu and Wang Ding shaking hands and making peace.
Stop fighting, they also want to live the lives of ordinary people in Chang'an.
There are fields for farming and water trucks to irrigate the fields, so there is no need to worry about drought or flood.
They are just ordinary people, and they just want to live an ordinary life.
Instead of being a ghost soldier of the Five Dou Rice Cult, fighting with people everywhere.
They can't move yet, and most of them can only lie in bed when they wake up.
Wang Ding continued to raise them.
In terms of food, it is the same as other soldiers.
Even so, their food is better than when they followed Zhang Lu, and they can eat at least one piece of meat every day.
And you can also have three meals.
With adequate nutrition, injuries will recover faster.
The blood color on everyone's face is becoming more and more obvious, and it is not as pale as before.
On the fourth day after the battle, Li Su and Duan Xuan arrived.
The two men only brought 5,000 troops, which just made up for the troops they had lost before. One subtraction and one addition, Wang Ding still had 20,000 fighting soldiers in his hands.
Li Su and Duan Xuan also saw the mountains of corpses and seas of blood in front of the pass. Even though they had followed Dong Zhuo before, they were moved when they saw this scene.
More than 40,000 corpses are still left outside the city wall.
The weather is hot, and there are already some corpses showing signs of decay.
Wang Ding knew he couldn't wait any longer.
These corpses must be disposed of as soon as possible.
Wang Ding only came to capture Hanzhong, but he did not want to make Hanzhong people miserable. The plague was rampant and ten houses were empty.
Then his sin will be great.
Zhang Lu may not have known that rotting corpses would cause plague, so he could just leave them alone.
Wang Ding cannot ignore it.
With the current medical level of the Han Dynasty, even if it is the most common plague, once it spreads, it will be a disaster, and hundreds of thousands, or even millions, of people will be infected.
"Li Su, please lead a group of people and guard outside Zhang Lu's military camp."
Li Su, who had just arrived at Yangpingguan, was immediately attracted by Wang Ding.
Li Su clasped his fists: "Here."
He was afraid that Wang Ding would not give him orders or assign tasks to him. When he followed Dong Zhuo, he had already had enough of sitting on the bench.
Just after arriving at Yangping Pass, he was assigned by Wang Ding to keep an eye on Zhang Lu. Doesn't this mean that Wang Ding values him?
He didn't feel tired, so he took a group of people and set off immediately, guarding outside Zhang Lu's camp.
Zhang Lu was startled by the sudden approach of the Han army, thinking that Wang was going to counterattack.
Yang Song hasn't come back yet, and Liu Yan's reinforcements haven't arrived yet. Zhang Lu doesn't want to have another war with the Han army now.
However, Li Su did not take action.
He only brought 500 people with him, and he was still one mile away from Zhang Lu's camp.
Seeing this, Zhang Lu felt relieved.
He sent Yang Bai out to confront Li Su.
Both parties had concerns and did not take action.
Outside Yangping Pass, more soldiers came out and dragged away the corpses outside one by one.
Another group of soldiers has begun digging holes.
There were more than 40,000 corpses in total. Two thousand soldiers were carrying the corpses, and another two thousand soldiers were digging holes outside Yangping Pass.
A total of more than ten large pits were dug, and the corpses were thrown into the pits.
Corpses were thrown into the pit one after another, and then engulfed in flames.
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"Lord, the Han army is disposing of the corpses of ghost soldiers." The people sent by Zhang Lu came back to report.
"All the corpses were burned and buried?" Zhang Lu frowned. He didn't understand why Wang Ding did this.
He was in a very bad mood. Those who died in the battle were all his ghost soldiers. How could the corpses be cremated?
Zhang Lu is against cremation. After death, people should be buried.
Cremation is disrespectful.
Even if Zhang Lu didn't care about the corpses, he didn't want to see them cremated.
Just bury it, why cremate it?
Zhang Lu didn’t understand the meaning of Wang Ding’s actions.
"Could it be that after these ghost soldiers are cremated, they will be controlled by Wang Ding?"
Wang Ding was in Chang'an and posted notices everywhere saying that his Five Pecks of Rice Sect was an evil religion.
At this moment, Zhang Lu heard that the corpse was cremated, and he felt that Wang Ding was the one who practiced evil.
"We can't let Wang Ding burn the corpses of the ghost soldiers." Zhang Lu looked very ugly.
He didn't understand why Wang Ding burned the body, but he felt that it was aimed at him.
Zhang Ludao: "Yanpu, pass on my order, gather the ghost soldiers, and attack Yangping Pass."