Although he had not yet figured out how to deal with it, Chen Cheng still accepted the surrender of more than a thousand people from the Jin Sanhuan Department. Of course, he did not do it solely because of the more than 5,000 cattle and sheep. He asked Jin Sanhuan to lead
The tribe members also moved into the largest camp in the area. Anyway, there were still many empty spaces, so they just needed a place to pitch their tents.
Before that, he also asked Tian Yu what he meant. Tian Yu had rested for a while and was sitting on the ground. Hearing the words, he said: "Of course, I am a big man regardless of my origin, as long as I am the king of heart."
You can be a subject of my dynasty."
Since Tian Yu said so, Chen Cheng didn't have any other opinions.
The drizzle stopped after nightfall. The next morning, the dark clouds dispersed and the bright sun appeared in the sky again. Chen Cheng got up early. When he came out, he saw the commotion on the other side of the river. A large number of Hu people were driving cattle.
The sheep are migrating north, and soldiers are moving in and out of the rebel camp like ants.
Many things were loaded onto the cart and the tents were put away. Even people who didn’t understand military knowledge knew that the rebels were planning to withdraw. They just didn’t know whether it was a real retreat or a false shot.
I want to seduce the people in the city.
Chen Cheng looked at it for a while, but he didn't think it was a fake retreat. Compared with attacking, retreating is more difficult. When attacking, you can count on the reinforcements behind you to help, but when retreating, who knows whether the people in front will stop.
What about coming down? People's hearts are very delicate. Once they start to retreat, it will be difficult to control the army, and the retreat may turn into a rout.
There was a lot of movement on the other side of the river. Many people came out and pointed at the retreating rebels. Chen Cheng frowned and felt that this mess didn't look like a military camp at all. Instead, it looked like the refugees he saw on TV.
The camp was about the same. But he immediately became indifferent. This was not his business, so why bother with so much?
After watching it for a while, he felt it was boring, and returned to the camp to deal with post-war matters. Winning the battle was only the first step, and how to turn victory into benefits was equally important. Chen Cheng didn't need to think so far yet.
There are many things he has to do now, but there are two main ones: one is to deal with the corpses. The weather is still relatively hot now, so we need to prevent the plague from happening. The other is to treat the wounded. In the era without antibiotics, wound infection can never be circumvented.
The problem.
Fortunately, he had experience in treating the wounded and had one or two thousand people on hand, so it was easy to deal with it.
First, hundreds of people were divided and asked to dig several large pits far away from the river, and then they buried the dead from both sides in them. They were enemies of each other during their lives, and they were buried in adjacent places after their deaths.
After going to the underworld, will there be another fight?
More than a hundred people were divided and asked to set up a large pot, boil the water, and throw in the cloth torn into strips. Then they heated the iron pieces until they were red, and prepared to burn them on the soldiers' wounds.
Then, the barracks was filled with sounds like slaughtering pigs.
Wei Ran's face turned pale as he held down a soldier and said tremblingly: "Sir, you don't need to do this, do you?"
Chen Cheng glared at him and said, "Do you want to die if you don't disinfect? Come with another person and hold him down!"
He picked up a branch and said to the wounded soldier: "Here, bite this to avoid biting your tongue."
The wounded soldier looked at the red iron block, his face turned pale with fright, and he whispered softly: "I think I'm healed and don't need treatment anymore."
"Nonsense!" Chen Cheng couldn't help but stuff the branch in, and said, "It's unethical to hide a disease and avoid treatment, you know?"
He picked up the soldering iron and pressed it on the wound. In the "sizzling" sound, green smoke and the smell of meat came out together. The wounded soldier who was being pressed screamed and shook desperately, but was pressed firmly by eight big hands.
He struggled and twitched for a while, then suddenly stiffened and then softened.
Wei Ran was dumbfounded, "Isn't he dead?"
Chen Cheng didn't even raise his head and said, "He's fainted. Wrap him with the dry cloth over there. Next one!"
Another wounded soldier was pushed in, and he danced and said: "No, I'm not injured, really, really, I'm fine, not injured at all..."
Chen Cheng said impatiently: "Hold it!"
The sound of meat frying on a sizzling iron plate and the screams sounded at the same time, making all the wounded soldiers waiting for treatment outside feel frightened. In fact, as long as you join his team, you will not get sick or die due to inflammation.
However, the number of places in his team is limited, and the number of people who can be treated is also limited.
Even if he can get the upper limit of 55 reputation points in each battle, for every 25 more reputation points, he can only bring one more person to the team. He can only bring 42 people now.
Hearing the constant screams in the camp, Tian Yu turned around, thought for a while, then shook his head and left. He also had a lot of things to deal with. The war dead needed to be registered.
Food, grass, weapons need to be counted... None of his men are literate. If Chen Cheng hadn't been there, he would have been even busier.
If he is the kind of general who only requires the army to be able to fight, there is no need to do these things, but Tian Yu is not that kind of person, and he doubts that if he only requires the army to be able to fight, and does not care about anything else, then the soldiers under his command will
Can he really fight? Rather than becoming a general like Li Guang, he would rather learn without knowing.
The rebels on the other side of the river spent most of the day retreating, with cattle, sheep, horses, and baggage going first. At around four or five o'clock in the afternoon, the main force of the rebels came out of the camp. First, they showed off their power under the city, and then
Go quickly towards the north.
Seeing that the main force of the rebels had left, Gongsun Zan opened the city gate and pursued him. The Han army and the rebels fought again fifteen miles north of the city. While many barbarians and rebels were killed and injured, Gongsun Zan's troops also
There were many casualties. The battle lasted for half an hour and ended due to the weather.
Gongsun Zan led his troops back to the city, while Zhang Chun continued northward with his men. Neither side had the means to make a final decision, and the battle was just a meaningless increase in each other's casualties. However, Gongsun Zan was not without gains. At least, they grabbed
A lot of baggage and cattle and sheep were bought, which temporarily solved the food problem.
Another night later, after dawn, the water level in the river dropped a lot. Tian Yu sent people across the river and contacted Gongsun Zan's army who was repairing in the city. After confirming the news that the rebels had escaped, Chen Cheng asked Jin San
Huan led dozens of Wuhuan people to build a floating bridge on the river using sheepskin rafts.
After the last piece of wood was ordered, Tian Yu, who had been waiting by the side for a long time, was no longer in a hurry. He turned to Chen Cheng and said, "You really don't want to come with me to meet with General Zhonglang?"
Chen Cheng smiled and said: "There must be someone in charge in the military camp."
Tian Yu frowned, looked at him, and wanted to say something, but in the end he just said: "Then Lao Wenzheng will stay at the camp."
Chen Cheng smiled and saluted him with clasped fists. Tian Yu returned the salute on horseback. Then he pulled the reins and the horse rushed onto the pontoon bridge and ran towards the other side of the river. When dozens of riders crossed the river, Chen Cheng looked towards Guanzi City. After a while, many people were cleaning up the battlefield outside the city. Gongsun Zan was a veteran, so he naturally knew what must be done.
After watching for a while, Chen Cheng returned to the camp. Although the wounded had been bandaged, as long as you have the will, things will never be done. He now has two troops under his command, namely the rebels headed by Ding Yuan and the and the Wuhuan people headed by Jin Sanhuan. In addition, there were more than 5,000 cattle and sheep and more than 2,000 horses.
In the Central Plains, two or three thousand people are nothing. In history, when Liu Bei married Mrs. Mi, she gave him thousands of servants and countless money. But on the grassland, this was already a very powerful force. Since others had come to seek refuge, he had to find a place for them to eat.
In the evening, Tian Yu brought people back. When he went there, he was in high spirits and high spirits. When he came back, his face was gloomy, as if he was full of unhappiness. Chen Cheng felt funny and stepped forward to ask Said: "The captain defeated tens of thousands of enemy troops with a thousand men, which is a great achievement. I wonder what the reward will be for General Zhonglang?"
He could probably guess what happened to Tian Yu in the city, but he deliberately asked the question, just to let the other party express his unhappiness. As expected, Tian Yu had a sullen face, shook his head, and laughed at himself: "Where is the reward? It would be considered good if you didn’t reprimand me."
After he entered the city, the generals showed vague hostility to him. He came full of enthusiasm, but was given a cold reception, which made his heart feel cold. Someone who had a good relationship with him told him the reason in private. .It turned out that with a small number of soldiers and horses, he defeated the main force of the Hu people by himself. He had the credit, but it seemed that Gongsun Zan and his generals were too incompetent.
The friend advised in private: "When it comes to the meeting, you must not be proud of your own merits, lest the Lord's face be looked down upon."
Sure enough, during the discussion, Gongsun Zan was lukewarm to him, and did not mention his credit for traveling all the way to the rescue. Tian Yu later found out that Gongsun Zan originally planned to retreat eastward, and his troops had already marched out five miles away. In Liuli, it was because the main force of the Hu army was defeated, and seeing an opportunity to take advantage, they returned to fight the rebels.
After hearing the news, his half-cold heart almost became completely cold.
Chen Cheng said: "Right and wrong can be judged by themselves. We just want to have a clear conscience, and we can't care about much else."
Tian Yu perked up and said: "Yes, General Zhonglang must have deliberately failed to reveal his true intention in order to paralyze the enemy. If the king does not keep secrets, he will lose his country, and if the ministers do not keep secrets, they will lose themselves. How can you use the military? Can you generalize?"
After that, he asked Chen Cheng as if asking for help: "Wen Zheng, do you think this is the case?"
Chen Cheng has long passed the age of guessing other people's thoughts. When he was young, he would often wonder, "What did she mean by that?", "Did she mean what she said to me?" etc. At that time, he would always Try to think the best of others. But after experiencing many things in many worlds, he has long learned to prepare for the best and plan for the worst.
He originally wanted to complain and say something like "one's deeds are not reflected on one's heart", but when he thought that Tian Yu was not even eighteen years old, his heart softened. Besides, who can say that this is not Gongsun Baima's unique characteristic?
What about the use of military force?
Sometimes, don’t guess what other people are thinking. If you think too much, you are just asking for trouble. It’s like Jin Sanhuan came over. Is it because he took the opportunity to blackmail many other tribes’ cattle, sheep and horses? Is he also annexing them?
Many other tribes? Does he want to be the one to bear the thunder?
In life, you have to be confused when you should be confused.
Therefore, he smiled and said: "It must be so. What kind of person is General Zhonglang, how can he do those stupid things?"
"Haha," Tian Yu said with a smile on his face, "I knew that was the case."
