Chapter 615 Horse leather shroud returned
After the war, more than 10,000 prisoners were killed in one day. Not only the Tianzhu troops on Yema Beach were drawn out to kill one out of ten, but also all the seriously wounded soldiers in the Tianzhu department were killed. All killed.
The aboveboard reason is that these people are too seriously injured, and there is no medical treatment to save them. In fact, they don’t want to keep so many prisoners, and the wounded are not easy to take, so they simply took the opportunity to kill them.
On the contrary, the Tang army and its vassal soldiers wounded, regardless of severity, immediately set up a medical camp to bandage and treat them in time. However, there is no medicine and no medicine, and we try our best to ensure that every wounded person can receive care and treatment.
Qin Lang and others went to the medical camp to condolence and visit the wounded in person. The medical conditions in the military are limited, there is a lack of medicine and medicine, and the severe altitude sickness here makes the situation even more unoptimistic.
A large number of wounded soldiers had to have their limbs amputated, and many wounded soldiers died in the medical camp before they survived a day.
There were only a dozen doctors accompanying the army. Fortunately, Qin Lang already had a logistics battalion in the rear army, including a field hospital and a stretcher team of the medical team. Save the lives of wounded soldiers.
Timely debridement, hemostasis, and bandaging, seemingly inconspicuous actions, saved the lives of many wounded soldiers and avoided wound infection and other problems that most easily lead to the death of wounded soldiers. And many gold-chuang medicines and bandages prepared before the expedition have also become life-saving things.
However, in the field battle in the barren land far away from the city, the wounded soldiers still lacked medical treatment and medicine. In the three days after the war, many wounded soldiers could not pass the **** gate.
The death rate of the seriously wounded was so high that Qin Lang could only sigh silently. Even if the amputation was done in time, the death rate after the amputation was still frighteningly high. Out of a hundred seriously wounded, three or five survived. It is already extremely rare, and this made Chai Shao and others amazed.
Under normal circumstances, if you are seriously injured in such a ghostly place, you can almost only wait for death, and you will die soon.
Even if they are lightly wounded, as many as 70% to 80% of soldiers will eventually die from wound infection and so on.
After the vast majority of wars, more casualties occurred after the battle, rather than being killed directly during the battle. The seriously wounded were withdrawn from the battlefield, and it was difficult to survive, and a large number of lightly wounded would die from wound infection.
Now, although the seriously wounded are limited by the conditions, many still died, but through timely treatment, amputation, etc., some survived, and the lightly wounded did not die a large number of people because of timely debridement, hemostasis, bandaging, etc. In most cases, only some of the unlucky ones got worse and died, and most of them are getting better.
"This medical officer wants to take credit for him." After Chai Shao saw it, he was amazed at the cleanliness of the medical camp, and he was even more amazed at the groups of numbers.
Out of the medical camp, all the generals were a little silent.
It is a fact that one will succeed and ten will die.
After a great battle, Chai Shao and others will naturally become famous, not to mention the more than 60,000 vassals who died, only the Tang army in Longyou also died more than 4,000, and almost all the 8,000 Qiang cavalry from Longyou died in battle. .
Victorious, many soldiers were unable to wait for this moment.
"How do you deal with the brothers who died in battle?" Chai Shao asked.
"Minister Xuan specifically confessed that he wants to take these brothers back and let their souls return to their hometowns, so they are going to be cremated on the spot, and then bring back the ashes and transport them back with their belongings."
The battlefield is far away from the Central Plains, so it is almost impossible to transport these corpses back, it is too far away, and this season, even though it has entered autumn, is still very hot, the corpses will rot quickly, if not handled properly, it is easy to cause plague .
Burning it and turning it into ashes and taking it back is undoubtedly the best disposal result.
Afternoon.
The generals will meet again.
Everyone began to discuss what to do next.
Immediately after the battle ended, Qin Lang sent Xi Jun to buy Gao Zhensheng and two generals, each with 5,000 men, to reinforce Wuhai and pursue the Tuyuhun defeated army.
In the Battle of Yema Beach, about 50,000 defeated soldiers fled the battlefield, of which 30,000 were from Fu Yun's troops. At that time, Qin Lang couldn't stop them all, so he could only let some escape. In the other two battlefields, there were also quite a few people who ran quickly when they saw the opportunity was not going well, and they escaped during the battle, and they didn't care about it at the time.
They basically fled along the hot spring valley when Qin Lang came to Wuhai, where Qin Lang had Gao Kan with 3,000 people staying behind, blocking the only road that must be passed.
But for the sake of safety, he still sent two generals under his command, and brought 10,000 Han and Qiang horses to reinforce, intending to block the 50,000 defeated soldiers and prevent them from escaping.
Now the message is passed back.
Just three days after the battle, the 50,000 defeated troops numbered less than 40,000, and they were indeed blocked by Gao Kan. Tuoba Si'an brought back nearly ten thousand Tuoba Qiang from the southern river mouth, men, women, old and young. The mouth rushed, although it felt a bit sloppy, but it was indeed powerful.
However, when Gao Kan sent a messenger to report to Qin Lang, he secretly revealed his dissatisfaction with Tuoba Si'an, thinking that this guy obviously took the opportunity to bring his own tribe over to seize the good autumn and winter pastures of Wuhai and Huashi Gorge , this was originally the winter grassland of the Wuhai tribe, one of the three tribes of the Tianzhu King. In the past, Wuhai and the Tuoba tribe were bounded by the Huashi Gorge.
Wuhai Department is in the area of Wuhai in the north, and Tuoba Department is in the area of the estuary in the south.
Now, Tuoba Si'an is making a big banner out of tiger skin, and under the banner of following the order of Duke Wei to lead his troops to reinforce Wuhai, he has moved all his tribes to Wuhai, obviously wanting to take the opportunity to seize this pasture.
After seeing this, Qin Lang only suppressed it temporarily, as long as he knew what was going on.
Anyway, after this battle, Tuyuhun has not yet destroyed the country, but it has actually survived in name only. Dangxiang, who was once a vassal of Tuyuhun, is now a vassal of the Tang Dynasty.
At least tens of thousands of people came from the Tuoba tribe, and they really helped Gao Kan block those tens of thousands of defeated soldiers.
Gao Zhensheng and the others were not in a hurry to launch an attack, they just surrounded them like that, but they followed Qin Lang's prior instructions, they didn't want to cause any more casualties, and planned to forcefully land the defeated army.
Tens of thousands of defeated soldiers have not surrendered yet, but since they are surrounded, there is no need to be afraid that they will still be able to fly.
Today's discussion is not only about the tens of thousands of defeated soldiers, but also the aftermath of Yema Beach.
There are still more than 30,000 Tang troops and vassals here, and hundreds of thousands of prisoners. How to deal with the aftermath? After dealing with it, what should we do next, whether to go to work immediately, or continue to sweep up Tuyuhun and completely destroy Tuyuhun?
Duan Zhixuan and Zhang Shigui, the second generals, are relatively stable, thinking that after this battle, Datang has already won and Tuyuhun is dead, so they can directly lead the army to triumph.
They have a layer of worry. The Tang army is now suffering a lot of casualties, and the veterans are exhausted. The real Longyou Tang army has less than 8,000 left, and 30,000 vassals, mostly Tuyuhun soldiers.
Besides, it is already the beginning of autumn. As the saying goes, Hu Tian has snow in August, and the climate here will cool down and snow in August, which will be very troublesome for Tang Jun.
Of course, the most important thing is that everyone is already very satisfied with this victory. Which soldier's merit book does not have a thick page now? There were so many spoils seized, everyone was eager to share the spoils and get the rewards, and hurried home.
After all, the summer harvest has been delayed for a few months, so we can’t delay the autumn harvest anymore, right?
Eating stone-roasted mutton, everyone regained their composure and energy.
Qin Lang mainly listens, and doesn't express opinions easily. As the coach, he prefers to listen first and make a final decision.
Now the generals are mainly divided into two factions.
Chai Shao, Zhang Shigui, and Duan Zhixuan, the former generals of the North Route Army, all wanted to return victorious, and hurried home with their military achievements and trophies, ready to harvest the wheat and enjoy the fruits of victory with their wives and children. No one wanted to continue fighting. up.
The generals of the Southern Army headed by Cheng Yaojin, Liu Lancheng, Xue Wanche, and Xue Wanjun brothers from the former Southern Route Army all opposed it. Because they suffered too much this time, they still can’t calm down. They all wanted to take advantage of the victory to pursue and sweep Tuyuhun. Lao Cheng even slapped the table and said that he must fight all the way to Qiemo City, smash the entire Tuyuhun three thousand miles away, and beat every tribe to kneel down and surrender. Datang, this is the full merit, and then the troops can be withdrawn.
Liu Rengui, Wang Xiaojie, and Liu Shenli, the outstanding young generals of the southern army, are still passionate and support the continued use of troops.
While listening, Qin Lang was roasting tender mutton on the stone.
Although it is in the barren land behind the enemy, there is no need to graze grass. The Tuyuhun cattle and sheep captured are sufficient in quantity and can be eaten at will.
The Tuyuhun captives could only drink some soup every day, and hung their lives.
Tang Jun was able to eat and drink, and Qin Lang would never treat his own people badly.
The stone is roasted hot, and the fresh mutton is spread on it and roasted, and it is sizzling and oily, and then sprinkled with cumin, green salt, and pepper, it is delicious.
"How to deal with the captives?" Qin Lang suddenly interrupted the generals' argument.
Hundreds of thousands of captives.
Even if more than ten thousand people have just been killed, there are still nearly one hundred and fifty thousand people left.
"Killed." Xue Wanche said.
Everyone ignored him, it is impossible to really kill them all, killing one out of ten, killing more than 3,000 Tianzhu soldiers, and then killing 10,000 people under the pretext of serious injuries and no cure, this is already the limit.
Everyone is not a murderer, who likes to kill for fun.
In fact, Qin Lang's words about how to deal with the captives represent how Tang will deal with the aftermath.
Three thousand miles of Tuyuhun, now the main force is basically dead, and the sweat is also dead.
But Tuyuhun is also in an area that is not suitable for farming after all. It is impossible for Datang to occupy and rule this place for a long time. This is the same as Mobei. Not to occupy here.
"How about imitating the rule of Jili in the place of the party?" Although Lao Liu is a faction that continues to attack, he is still relatively rational on the issue of how to deal with the aftermath.
After defeating Dangxiang last time, the final solution of the imperial court was the rule of Jimi, setting up forty-five Jimi prefectures, and still using those affiliated party leaders to serve as governors, governors, etc., to rule those places on behalf of the court, or even let them Inherited from generation to generation.
Xue Wanche objected, he was a little unwilling, and fought for a long time, but in the end he let them continue as they were, playing with a hammer.
Jimi rule means to put all these captives back, let them return to their own tribe, still ruled by their own leaders, and restore the old way.
At most, it was just a change of khan, which was unacceptable to Lao Xue who was almost limping.
"Since you are not willing to kill, then I say that you should all be reduced to slaves and rewarded to the soldiers. You must not let the tiger go back to the mountain!"
(end of this chapter)