Chapter 56 Giving Up
The appearance of the Yulin guards quickly controlled the situation. They either held crossbow arrows or bows and arrows, shooting wildly at the Dongou soldiers.
After suffering several losses in a row, Wei Qing also learned well. This time he sent a team of Yulin to follow the scouts. As long as someone attacked the scouts, Yulin would come out to support him. Yulin, who has received Yun's training, is naturally much better than those scouts.
Wei Qing was very satisfied with the results of the battle. Only one person was killed on his side. And all six-man teams of the opponent were wiped out. It seems that such tactics are worth promoting. The secret battle in the jungle is very important, which will make the opponent's general feel enough pressure.
Ou Zhenming couldn't sleep anymore, and the scouts disappeared. They disappeared like morning mist, and there were no corpses or injured people. Some of the people who came to rescue did not come back, which made him feel a little worried.
No one expected the war to be like this. The army on both sides was more than twenty miles apart, but every day there were killings in this dark green forest. Behind the dark green, no one knew how much unknown blood was hidden.
"General, another team has not come back today. The people who were sent to look for it only found some traces of fighting and blood, but the body was still not found." The captain reported to Ou Zhenming with some anxiety. For five days, there have been such reports almost every day. What did the Han army do if they don't see anyone alive and die without seeing the corpse? Could it be that if they kill people, they will take away the corpse? What did the Han army do to do if they want the corpse? It's dead and dead.
The lieutenant didn't understand the big bulls, and why did he take the body back to the camp to bury every time he killed the Dong'ou people. The general was so kind that he even let them get buried in peace. However, the Dong'ou people were never kind to the Han army. After killing the scouts, they always cut off their heads. Then they abandoned the corpse and let the beasts in the jungle bite. As long as the Han army found the headless corpse abandoned in the jungle, they would definitely be the Han army.
"If we want panic to spread among the Dongou army, when they dare not send scouts to attack again, it is the day when our army takes the initiative in the battlefield."
Wei Qing held the letter written by Yan Zhu in his hand and urged Wei Qing to fight as soon as possible. The court could not always be deaf and dumb, and the Dou family could not always be kept in the dark. Only when fighting here can we shun all the blame. Such a glorious excuse to defend the territory of the Han Dynasty was enough to cover up everything they had done.
To a certain extent, Yan Zhu is right, only one battle is fought. Regardless of winning or losing, you can use the right to act cheaply as long as you fight. This will maximize the benefits to the court, Liu Che and even Wei Qing himself.
Who has considered these soldiers, these Han soldiers. They were recruited by a recruiting order. Do they use them as cannon fodder? Fight a battle regardless of victory or defeat?
Wei Qing had completely figured out the terrain of this valley. He was so envious of Yun Xiao. He had the most detailed map there, but he had no one to use people to explore it bit by bit.
In the vast Taimu Mountain, there is only this long canyon that people may be able to pass through. In other places, people may be able to pass through. But it is difficult to ride a horse, let alone a carriage. Without a carriage, there will be no supplies, and horses have no food to eat grass. What should people eat without food?
The abominable Dong'ou Army is waiting for the effort to defend the valley entrance. Not to mention that it is difficult to reach the sky, even if you find Yunhou over, it is even more difficult.
"General, what did Doctor Yan say? Doctor Yan want to urge the general to fight again?" The Central Army Captain looked at Wei Qing's bad expression and asked tentatively.
Wei Qing lowered his head and did not speak, and the Central Army Captain immediately understood.
"How can the imperial court do this? Is the lives of soldiers not life? Is there a wife, a child, a mother, who will support me if I die? Is the lives of Qiu Ba and others worthless?"
"Silence!" Wei Qing glanced outside the military tent. Fortunately, the guards were all Yulin guards. If such remarks were spread, I was afraid that they would cause mutiny immediately.
"These people are waiting to pave their career path with human blood. They can't care about human life or not. Even if this road is covered with bones, they won't care. A general becomes famous and has thousands of bones. The general's honor is piled up with his life. The future of a politician, hehe..."
Wei Qing sneered. He really didn't want to make too much comments on these politicians.
"What do the general want to do?"
"The war cannot be fought like this. What do you think I want these corpses to do? It's not just to deal with Yan Zhu, how many corpses we have collected in total."
"There are always sixty or seventy pieces."
"It's still too little, Wei Qing sucked her teeth helplessly."
The Central Army Captain didn't know what he meant if he was too few. He seemed helpless. How many people could the scouts send? It was just two teams of more than a dozen people a day. It took a lot of effort to kill these people, so how many more?
Is there a village or villager in Dong'ou nearby? Wei Qing thought of a cruel idea in his mind, but when he thought of what Yun Xiao did on the grassland, he still made up his mind to ask.
"However, there are. This place is originally in Dongou. Naturally, there are many villages and villages in Dongou. What does the general ask about this?"
"Tomorrow you will take people to search for strong men in each village, and all of them will need male men over fifteen or forty years old. You will bring back as many as you want, and if you resist, you will be killed on the spot."
"No" The captain of the Central Military Academy was a little nervous when he saw Wei Qing's face full of ruthlessness. He stepped back with a bow. He didn't understand what Wei Qing was going to do. But since Wei Qing said that, he would just order him to execute it.
A large group of people began to rage in the countryside and carried out the general's order to recruit. Although this place is no longer a Han area, the general said he would recruit him.
"June, my child is just fourteen this year and cannot do heavy work. You can do it. How about it? Let me give him a digit. "A little old man..." A gray-bearded old man was about to kneel down.
"The general ordered that those under forty years and over fifteen years must be military servants. Your child is born tall and big, but you still say he is fourteen years old. Who should I coax you every day? Take someone away, and those who dare to stop him will be killed." The captain, a big horse, rode on the horse with a golden sword, and said, staring at the old man on the ground with his nostrils.
"Mr. Jun. All neighbors can testify. You can't...oh!" A whip like a poisonous snake whipped straight on the old man's face. Blood flowed out through his fingers.
"Old man, I'll even capture you if you don't care about your age. There are still five or six people here, all from Dong'ou. If he is so damn, the people in the village will either be seventy or eighty years old or have a stinky breast."
The captain kept beating with a whip, and suddenly a calf-like boy rushed up. "Beat my grandfather, fight with you!" Shang Xianxian grabbed a hatchet in his young hand and rushed towards the captain viciously.
"Puff" Before he could get closer, a spear pierced his chest. Then a big knife passed through his neck, and a bright blood fountain was blown away in the cold winter wind. It was still steaming when it fell to the ground.
"Dog, dog..." The old man bent down and picked up his grandson's head, which was still gnawing mud all over the ground. The wrinkled old face was already covered with tears.
"Kill them clean and be a baby for the stubborn resisters." The captain gave the order, and a blood fountain surged on the ground again. The old man still held his grandson's head until his death, but his head had already flew far away.
Scenes of miserable scenes were repeated in nearby villages, and every family had captured men. It was strange to say that as long as you start raising the butcher's knife, you often couldn't stop, and the lieutenants found that the military discipline was getting worse and worse.
At first, it was just a murder, but later it developed into robbery. Every time Ding Zhuang was arrested, the Han soldiers would take the opportunity to loot. It was not until the rape of women began that Wei Qing felt it was necessary to stop it. Otherwise, these people would become bandits, which would be even more difficult to control in the future.
There were more and more strong men in the military camp, and in the end there were as many as 2,000. These arrested people were surprised to find that they had no work every day. Apart from being escorted out by the soldiers to chop firewood, they were digging holes beside the military camp.
The pit was very deep, two or three feet deep. With the digging of soil, the old masters had to yell when talking to people below. They had to use ladders to go up and down. There were twenty or thirty such pits. They didn't understand, what did the Han people do when they dig so many big pits?
They soon understood, in a cruel way.
"What? General, you really want..." The Central Army Captain widened his eyes. Although he had captured the strong men and killed some people a while ago. However, he had not killed a hundred people in total, but Wei Qing's order made him really scared. Two thousand people were killed. The bodies were thrown into the pit and buried, leaving only the head.
"The doctor of the Central Government sent another letter to urge him, so he can't delay any more. Otherwise, there would be trouble with His Majesty. Instead of using the blood of the Han people, it would be better to use their blood. Anyway, if you don't kill them, you will die. Choose the same one!"
Wei Qing threw the problem lightly to the Central Army Captain.
"This...oh..." The Central Army Captain's face turned red. Killing a few people in the chaos was nothing. But these were not a few people, there were more than two thousand people. The fresh life that was still in front of him just now was about to turn into a corpse with its head separated.
The Central Army Captain surrendered and between his own people and the Dongou people. He had no choice but to choose the Dongou people. The general was right. These blood must flow, either from the Dongou people or from the own people.
The people of Dong'ou were taken away from the camp in batches. In a few days, these people had been tamed like sheep. They were like following the flock of sheep toward the big pits they dug.
A hundred men knelt on the ground, and the cold light suddenly rose. The heads flew down, and blood immediately poured out. The crackling sound of the blade cutting the bones made the scalp numb. The body was thrown into a big pit, and the heads were neatly placed aside.
Seeing the Han army killing people, the men of Dongou who were tied up seemed to be frightened lambs. They squeezed together desperately, as if they would be safe if they squeezed together.
Everyone pulled out by the Han army desperately shrank their bodies back, and with the sound of clicks, their nerves gradually became numb, and they were no longer afraid. Instead, they were a little relieved.
Chapter completed!