Chapter 614 Division of merit
After winning a battle, it is natural to report victory to the Son of Heaven.
All the generals of the Longyou overcame obstacles and braved all kinds of hardships. To put it bluntly, wasn’t it just to make meritorious deeds?
"A horse is guarding Liangzhou, and you are looking for a lord. Sanlang, my old Liu likes your poem, but what you said just now is indeed wrong. We are obviously a great victory. Why do you seem to be eating it?" It's like a big defeat, according to what you said, wouldn't it be that we in Longyou swung 100,000 troops, but in the end only 40,000 were left?"
"No, no, this is our **** victory, and no one can take it away. Since the Battle of Kushan, we have sent out a total of 20,000 Longyou soldiers, including 8,000 **** Dangxiang Qiang and As for the other miscellaneous Qiang and Qingqi, after calculation, the number of soldiers sent by the Nine Frontier Army of our Longyou Third Governor's Mansion is only 120,000. Now that we have fought so far, we have beheaded 100,000 people, captured 400,000 prisoners, and captured millions of livestock. After beheading Tuyuhun Khan Fuyun, he successively recruited the eldest prince and the second prince, as well as more than a dozen famous kings, and captured more than a hundred princes, what a glorious victory this is?"
Lao Liu is an old hooligan who would use a knife to slash people when he became ruthless. He was born in the Mingjing of the imperial examination. Although it is the Mingjing of the Sui Dynasty, he was born as a scholar after all. But him.
"In my opinion, this is the way to win the victory to the Son of Heaven. In the late spring and April of the fourth year of Zhenguan, Qin Lang, Duke of Wei, Xuanshuai of Longyou, led 12,000 soldiers from the Ninth Army of the Third Governor's Mansion of Longyou to fight against Tuyuhun in the west. Tuyuhun was thousands of miles away, and fought in March. Before and after Fanku Mountain, Mantou Mountain, Niuxindui, Chihai, Wuhai, Wenquan Valley, Dadongtan, Chishuiyuan, and Yematantai, more than ten **** battles defeated the Tuyuhun army time and time again. In total, more than 100,000 people were beheaded before and after, 80,000 people were recruited and organized, and 400,000 people were captured. They also beheaded more than ten kings, including Tuyuhun Great Khan Fuyun, Prime Minister Tianzhu King, King Daning, King Zun, and King Gaoning. There are more than a hundred princes and princes below the king..."
Old Liu knocked on the table and said to Qin Lang, "Just write like this!"
Chai Shao, Xue Wanche, Lao Cheng and other generals also laughed and laughed. The same results, different statements, completely different effects.
Qin Lang just smiled slightly, took a sip from the teacup, and put it down again.
Of course he wouldn't be so stupid as to belittle himself. Just now, it was just an internal casualty statistics, so that everyone could know it well.
But according to Lao Liu and Lao Cheng, in fact, those Qiang people and Tuyuhun people who fought side by side with them were not counted in it, and they were not regarded as their own people, not the Tang army. In this case, the number of troops dispatched by the Longyou Army dropped to 12,000, and in the end there were only 8,000 left, and only 4,000 people were killed in battle.
What was exchanged for four thousand was the credit for destroying the Tuyuhun country, beheading the khan and the prime minister, taking more than 400,000 prisoners, and beheading 100,000, which is naturally a great contribution.
Even in this way, during the Battle of Kushan, many rear troops of the Chinese army were not counted.
This is undoubtedly unfair to those vassals, especially the Dangxiang and other ministries from Longyou, but when it comes time to share the cake, every military leader here will not easily divide the biggest The cake is for those miscellaneous people, everyone eats meat, at most give them some soup.
Qin Lang smiled and asked Chai Shao and Xue Wanche to express their views.
Duan Zhixuan, Zhang Shigui, and others also agreed with Lao Cheng and Lao Liu's method of displaying skills. The credit was mainly attributed to the Longyou Tang Army. They described the battle as twelve thousand Longyou troops went deep into Tuyuhun and fought for thousands of miles. A **** battle, beheaded 100,000 people before and after, recruited and recruited 80,000 people, captured more than 400,000 people, and seized millions of livestock...
"Just give Dangxiang Qiang and other miscellaneous Qiang some livestock, cattle, horses and money, and the credit should go to our Longyou Army." Xue Wanche also didn't care about the conflict with Qin Lang at this time, and for the rest of his life after the catastrophe, Qin Lang would be his best friend. There is no resentment like before. After fighting side by side on the battlefield, women's affairs are not worth mentioning.
The generals are not only fighting for merit for themselves, but also for their own soldiers.
If you keep quiet at such a time, the brothers below will have resentment, and it will be difficult to lead troops in the future.
"The credit still needs to be divided. After all, beheading 100,000 people, taking more than 400,000 prisoners, and recruiting 80,000 people, such a great contribution." Chai Shao said slowly.
Qin Lang asked with a smile, "How much is Huo Gong's intention?"
"When we eat meat, we must give them some soup. The eight thousand Qiang cavalry who came out from Longyou with us will share more and give some meat to eat. Murong Shun and other soldiers who surrendered early also fought several games with us. In fierce battles, you have to be more or less brave, as for the king and others, you can only be regarded as prisoners, so don’t worry about it.” Chai Shao’s division method is also overbearing.
Zhang Shigui reminded him that the 8,000 Qiang cavalry that came out of Longyou had basically been wiped out, and the rest were the leaders and his own soldiers.
"This is even easier. Ask the officials for rewards for those who are still alive. As for the dead, didn't we capture a lot of livestock? We just gave some to their families as compensation. They are Qiang people anyway, so they don't need to be beheaded. Waiting for military merits, the most we can do is ask the imperial court for honors for them."
What Chai Shao said is that the Qiang people don’t need credit, anyway, they are not the Tang army, and they won’t be promoted if they get credit, so they just share the spoils of war with them, give some cattle and sheep as compensation for the dead, and pick some that perform well to the court for them. Ask an honorary officer to comfort me.
It feels like a careless disregard for human life, but in the eyes of these big bosses, the Qiang people are not Tang people.
"The eight thousand Qiang cavalry from Longyou should be treated differently. After all, they were the first to go out with us. We should give them more cattle and horses, and ask the imperial court for them." Qin Lang said.
"This is acceptable."
All the generals nodded in agreement. At least they didn’t defect on the battlefield, or were captured and surrendered. In addition, most of these people died, so they were generous.
"The second class should be Murong Shun's subordinates after the Battle of Kushan. They have tens of thousands of people and have made a lot of contributions."
Duan Zhixuan asked directly, "How many of Murong Shun's ten thousand people are left?"
"That's easy to say, compensate some cattle and sheep, share more spoils, write a few more nice words for Murong Shun, and show him credit to the emperor." Duan Zhixuan waved his hand.
The other generals also had no objections, so Qin Lang nodded.
"The Yifu Abao attached to Mantou Mountain should be classified as the third tier. After he was defeated, he returned and joined our army with tens of thousands of elite troops. He performed well in the battle of Yema Beach and suffered a lot of casualties."
As a result, Chai Shao waved his hand, "Although this Ah Bao gave you a pair of beautiful twin daughters to Mr. Wei, to be honest, this kid caused tens of thousands of casualties in the battle on Mantou Mountain compared to ours. Soldiers, they lost a lot. Although they performed well in the end, you can redeem the credit. There is nothing to say about the credit. Just reward some cattle and sheep. It’s not bad if you don’t settle with him. , and don't think about treating them the same as Tuoba Sitou, Xifeng Cunyi, and Murong Shun."
"That's right, this guy, it's cheaper for him."
The Zun Wang who surrendered in front of the battle ranks the fourth rank of merit. He beheaded the Tianzhu King and led 30,000 people to surrender.
As for the others captured on the battlefield, there is no credit at all.
Xue Wanche and others were very dissatisfied with the tens of thousands of Tianzhu troops in Yematai, believing that their tenacious resistance had caused them heavy casualties.
"I strongly request that the captives of the Yematan Tianzhu Department be executed by drawing ten kills to punish their recalcitrance."
Draw ten kills one, this is a very severe punishment.
"They are already captives. Isn't it too harsh to draw ten to kill one? Or, just pick some officers and heads and kill them?" Zhang Shigui said.
"Let me remind Mr. Zhang that we have hundreds of thousands of captives in our hands, not counting those from other places. If we don't severely punish these barbarians, when we withdraw, these people may cause chaos again. They have to be killed, and they must be killed fiercely, to deter and intimidate these people!" Xue Wanche said through gritted teeth.
Since there are rewards for Murong Shun Yi Fu A Bao, Zun Wang, etc., then those who resist will naturally be severely punished, otherwise it is unfair.
Old Liu and Cheng Yaojin suffered the most casualties in this battle, and they also supported Xue Wanche the most.
"If you draw ten kills, you must draw ten kills."
Qin Lang asked, "They are captives now, how should they deal with them? Shouldn't they go to the imperial court for instructions?"
"Please tell me, thousands of miles away, how long does it take to go back and forth, what a wait, we have tens of thousands of exhausted soldiers now, so many captives and surrendered soldiers, if we don't behave ruthlessly, just I'm afraid there will be troubles if there are many nights and dreams."
"Anyone who agrees to draw ten kills raises his hand." Qin Lang said directly.
As a result, Lao Cheng raised his hand first, Chai Shao, Duan Zhixuan and others hesitated, and finally raised their hands.
Qin Lang turned his head to join the army behind him and said, "Record everyone's vote. This is a collective decision. I respect everyone's opinions and draw ten out of ten."
There were 60,000 horses on Yema Beach, and there were not many left after the war. More than 10,000 died in battle, and more than 10,000 broke up and fled, disappeared, and some fell into the river and drowned. In the end, more than 30,000 people surrendered and were captured.
Finally, it was decided to kill one out of ten of the more than 30,000 captives. As for the few thousand who were seriously injured, they were euthanized directly in the name of humane care because of lack of medical treatment.
Under the wild horse stage, on the beach prisoner camp.
Thousands of seriously injured Tianzhu tribes were driven to the foot of the mountain by the hot spring river. The Xidatan Tianzhu tribe who surrendered led by King Zun performed euthanasia. The soldiers threw themselves into the river and rushed into the Yellow River.
When thousands of seriously wounded soldiers were killed.
The more than 30,000 Yematan Tianzhu soldiers surrendered, and the lottery began.
Groups of ten, touch the stones, there are ten stones in Hulu, only one is dyed white. Whoever touches the white dies!
More than 3,000 unlucky guys were driven to the river, and those who were lucky enough to not touch the white stone were executed, their heads were beheaded, and they were thrown into the river...
Hundreds of thousands of captives were all by the river. After witnessing this scene, their faces turned pale from shock, and they dared not say a word.
"Why don't you just kill all the Tianzhus?" Xue Wanche suggested excitedly seeing that the hot spring river was dyed red.
Qin Lang ignored him and stepped on him, killing one out of ten, which was already a strong deterrent.
Killed them all, that's really a human slaughtering a demon king.
(end of this chapter)