Liu Zhixue ordered the injured to be treated. The dead were transported out for burial, trying their best to appease the people, and searched for officials and defenders in the city. Two days later, after rough statistics, nearly 100,000 soldiers and civilians in the city died in this battle, and most of them were burned to death. Seven or eight out of ten houses in the city were damaged, and the granaries of the yamen were burned, and property losses could not be counted. The defenders in the city had less than a thousand people, and they could not have the desire to fight again, and they surrendered like walking corpses...

"The Du Shu, I will be afraid that something will happen if I report it to the court!" There was no joy in the commander's tent after the victory, and the generals also looked gloomy. Ma Ying, the Du Shu of the Second Army, looked at Liu Zhixue and said.

"There is no airtight wall in the world, let alone tens of thousands of people know about this. Can you block everyone's mouth?" Liu Zhixue shook his head and sighed, "This battle plan was formulated by me, and the order to fire the cannon was also issued by me, but the punishment will be borne by me. You are just following me!"

"DuShip, the battle was fought by all the soldiers of our Second Army. Does DuShip want to take the credit for the exclusive?" Yan Feng, the commander of the First Division, asked with great dissatisfaction.

"Haha, that's right, how can Dushang take the credit for the solemnity?" Li Ting, the commander of the Third Division, also took over the speech and agreed.

"I thought it was just as Du Shuai said, and the Sa family didn't believe that we would capture Shouzhou City without hurting one soldier. It would be fine if they didn't reward them. Could it be that they would punish us for killing more people in the enemy country!" Zhou Fu, the commander of the second division, said unconvincedly.

"Oh, you don't know the thoughts of those civil officials. What they are worried about is that we have made great achievements and stole their limelight. There is nothing wrong with it. Besides, our killing is too much!" Ma Ying looked at Zhou Fu and sighed. Although he fought with the army, he belonged to the civil servants and was under the jurisdiction of the Ministry of War. He knew the tricks best and sighed.

"There is no sight on the battlefield. You either die or I die. There is no need to care about it. Moreover, the fact that this battle caused such a large casualty was not our original intention. It was mainly because the enemy generals blocked the city gates and the people were unable to escape. How could they blame us!" Zhou Fu still said angrily.

"Mr. Master, I can report this way, just say that after we attacked the city and fired artillery, the enemy generals saw that they did not defend and set fire to the city. But before, they were worried that the soldiers and civilians in the city would flee and close the city gates, which would lead to the people being buried in the sea of ​​fire!" Ma Ying seemed to have received a reminder from his words, and his eyes lit up and suggested.

"Haha, no need!" Liu Zhixue smiled bitterly, "Mr. Yu had advised me to use artillery carefully to avoid hurting innocent people. But my generals will do their own way, which led to the current situation. I will not implicate Mr. Yu. I will state in the memorial that when Mr. Yu is like Fan, he will grow into generals and prime ministers in the future, just don't forget the feelings of our robes!"

"It's so handsome, I'm joking. Now I'm a thorn in the eyes of some people in the court. And I don't want to be with the self-proclaimed Fan Xiwen, and I don't want to be a swearing Jia Jichuan and be unsuccessful!" Ma Ying snorted coldly.

"What do you mean?" Liu Zhixue was originally a compliment, but unexpectedly it made Ma Ying dissatisfied and asked strangely.

"Does everyone think that this dynasty is just promoting civil and suppressing military affairs? In fact, they are also very careful about the leaders of civil officials..." Ma Ying sighed and said the whole story.

It is said that during the war between the Song Dynasty, two civil officials, Zhong Shiheng and Zhang Kang, were converted into military positions because they were concerned about national defense and repeatedly proposed military strategies. Zhong Zhang and Zhang were rare promising border officials in the Northern Song Dynasty, but they were eventually suppressed. The career was bumpy and they were unable to show their prominence until their death. If you do, don’t change it. Is it okay to fight as a civil servant to expand the border? In theory, it is OK.

In fact, many people thought, but it was not successful. Fan Zhongyan said to the emperor: "The observing commander is in charge. I have been guarding the border for several years. The Qiang people are quite dear and call me "Longtu Laozi". Now I retreat and join Wang Xing and Zhu Guan (both of them are both observer ranks and soldiers, and I am afraid that they will be underestimated by the thieves." Fan Zhongyan's incident opened up the atmosphere of civil officials being ashamed of changing martial arts.

Fan Zhongyan just made up some songs of "There is a Fan in the army, and the Western thieves were shocked and brave when they heard it", and made several poets praise him for "wisdom, reputation, courage and merit, and they can be beaten up by the Qiang and Hu." He said that he would defeat the soldiers without fighting, and sent people to build a few forts and villages until they were successful. If he wanted to learn from Xie Xuan of the Jin Dynasty and Wei Gao of the Tang Dynasty, he formed a strong army and stood up on the side and personally went to the battle formation to defeat the strong enemy. Then Jia She's fate is a good example.

During the Song-Jin War in the Jin Dynasty Xuanzong period, Song's counterattack was very limited. Whether it was An Bing and Zhang Wei on the West Road or Zhao Fang and Meng Zongzheng on the Middle Road, his actual authority was only a few state troops along the border, and he had more counterattacks and insufficient progress. According to the idea of ​​Prime Minister Shi Miyuan, it would be thankful to be able to fight the Jin people back. On the East Road, he relied almost entirely on the Shandong rebels recruited from the Jin Dynasty and was unwilling to expand his field army.

At that time, the highest official in the Song Dynasty in Huaidong was Jia She, the commander of Huaidong. He was not a civil servant like Fan Zhongyan, Pang and Han Qi, who could only hide behind and let his subordinates make merits in the melee. At that time, the Southern Song Dynasty handed over Chuzhou to the rebels to guard, but the rebels each had their own leaders and the imperial court was insufficient to control. Jia She recruited 10,000 refugees from the north and formed a loyal and righteous army in front of the tent, which was commanded by himself, and mobilizing them to attack the Jin Kingdom was quite effective.

But after Prime Minister Shi Miyuan received the news, he was very annoyed. Jia She, you recruited the army without permission. What does it mean? Do you want to be a general and a prime minister and establish a military merit to seize my position as prime minister? So whenever Jia She had a conflict with Li Quan, the leader of the rebel army, and Jia She wanted to limit Li Quan's power, Shi Miyuan would help Li Quan.

Shi Zhunshi Qiu Shoumai had originally thought that the Zhongyi Army in front of the tent was all northerners and difficult to manage. After asking Shi Miyuan for approval, he actually handed over the ten thousand people to Li Quan. Jia She had worked hard to establish the elite force directly belonging to the Huaidong War Zone, and eventually fell into the hands of others. So Jia She resigned angrily and was angry to death not long after.
Chapter completed!