The war horses ate bloody grass, the tattered flags covered the faces of the corpses, and countless corpses lay beside the lake.
The blood gathered and slowly flowed into the lake.
The water beside the lake was dyed red.
This was simply Shura Hell. battlefield.
A large number of swords, guns, swords, halberds and arrows were randomly inserted into the corpses and the grass.
Some corpses had ferocious faces when they were dying, some had their mouths wide open when they died, some had their eyes wide open when they were dying, some had their heads separated, and some had their eyes wide open when they died.
It was disemboweled and horrific.
Groups of vultures, grassland scavengers, squawked in the sky.
They kept circling, and some tried to come down to eat the stumps and broken arms.
At the edge of the battlefield, the Han soldiers were sitting on the grass in a mess, eating dried meat and dry food.
This battle lasted from morning to dusk and ended with the Xianbei people being completely annihilated.
After all the main force of the Xianbei army of more than 10,000 people was wiped out, the remaining Xianbei women and children seemed to have a premonition that the end was coming, and they all picked up their weapons one after another.
The swords rushed towards the Han army desperately, and the Han army had to kill all the Xianbei people except women.
The Xianbei people are finished, and so are the Dingling people.
The Mobei grassland has lost its master, but it has a new master, the Han people.
When it was getting dark, the Han army camped at the lake and planned to spend the night here before setting off back south tomorrow.
As night fell, the Han soldiers who had not participated in the battle during the day took on the role of vigilance.
The Han soldiers who participated in the battle lay in the camp and slept soundly.
In the tent, Liu Cheng and the generals were eating meat and drinking wine.
The meat was roasted after slaughtering the cattle and sheep of the Xianbei people, and the wine was also the horse milk wine of the Xianbei people.
Liu Cheng took a sip of wine and said to everyone: "Now we have wiped out all the barbarian combatable soldiers in the Mobei and Monan grasslands.
The remaining ones are the old, weak, women, children, sick and disabled people of the barbarians.
We massacred those before."
The old, weak, sick and disabled are also killing to obtain supplies, not to kill.
Now that the overall situation has been decided, any further massacre will be harmful to Tianhe, and these old, weak, women and children are no longer a threat to us. , all their adult men are dead, the Xianbei people still have some women, and the Dingling people still have some children, but when they grow up and recruit them to join the army, by then, the remaining barbarians will be old and weak.
If all of them are dead, the Mobei grassland will completely become the territory of our Han Dynasty.
Therefore, I plan to leave 10,000 soldiers and horses to station on both sides of the mouth of the river on the south bank of the Beihai to guard the Mobei land."
Chen Qun stood up and cupped his hands and said: "My lord is wise.
Only by stationing troops here for a long time can we occupy Mobei forever.
If we bring all the troops back to Chang'an at this time, new tribes will definitely move here soon, or from People who migrate from the west or from the east will not leave easily if they occupy this place.
If the imperial court wants to conquer this place again, they don’t know how many years it will have to wait.”
Liu Cheng nodded and said: "The words of the long article deeply touched my heart.
Whatever we can do, we can do it ourselves.
We don't have to leave it to future generations.
Who knows whether future generations will live up to our expectations?"
Li Ru cupped his hands and said: "My lord, if we leave soldiers and horses to garrison here, we must consider whether the soldiers can endure the bitter cold and loneliness here.
It should be no problem to let them stay here for a few months.
If they stay here for a few years, , I am afraid that the soldiers will be homesick and there may be deserters.
It is impossible for the imperial court to keep one army stationed here.
It will have to recruit other soldiers and horses to replace the defense.
But will the soldiers who are recruited separately be willing to come to this bitter cold place?
The ground is garrisoned" Guo Jia put down the meat-cutting knife and stood up and said: "My lord, I believe that as long as the court is determined, none of this will be a problem.
Several of the problems that Mr.
Li is worried about can be solved."
"Oh, how to solve it?"
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Liu Cheng asked.
Guo Jia came out and said: "First of all, reorganize the troops and horses left here to have a complete organization; secondly, appoint a general to lead them, build the city here, and build the barracks.
As the saying goes, a camp made of iron and soldiers made of flowing water, according to the Soldiers will be assigned in batches in order of service years and actual age.
After retiring or being transferred south to the mainland, the older the soldiers' service age and actual age, the higher the priority will be given to transferring back to the mainland or retiring and returning to their place of origin.
One group will be transferred out, and another group will be transferred back.
The number of troops stationed here will always be maintained.
Reduce the number and replace one batch every year.
This will be an iron-clad camp and a flowing army."
"The same goes for generals, captains and junior officers.
They have to be transferred when their terms of service are up.
Or retired soldiers can be transferred after staying here for two or three years, and then be replaced by another group.
This can solve their homesickness. question" "In addition, there are more than 10,000 Xianbei women here, and there are many Dingling women in the settlement of the Dingling people on the south coast of Beihai.
Now they don't have men.
We can't let their fields lie idle.
Our soldiers have to take over and give them to them.
If they have a plowing task, if they like each other, they can work together. days, but there can be no fights over women.
If the soldier reaches the age of being transferred back to the mainland or retiring, the soldier can take his women and children back.
If someone voluntarily stays, of course that is okay, and they can be divided among them.
Their horses and pastures make them official residents of Mobei.”
"The imperial court can also recruit people or refugees who voluntarily come to Mobei to herd horses and sheep, and allocate them pastures and cattle and sheep.
They will wait until the cattle, sheep and horses have given birth in a year or two before returning them.
This will be beneficial to the imperial court, the local garrison, and the imperial court.
It’s all beneficial” After hearing this, Liu Cheng laughed and said: "Hahaha, Fengxiao is a very good policy.
Fengxiao, please write down a specific statement.
The more detailed the better, and then show it to me."
Guo Jia handed over his hand and agreed: "I will obey my orders."
The next day, the army escorted the Xianbei women south, and after two days they arrived at the residence of the Ding Ling people.
The old and weak women and children of Ding Ling who stayed here have learned from the people who came back to report that King Ding Ling and all his subordinates were killed by the Xianbei people.
Everyone is very sad, as if the end is coming.
After setting up camp, Chen Qun approached Liu Cheng and reported to Liu Cheng: "My lord, if you want to leave 10,000 troops to station here and build a city, you must prepare cold clothing for them from now on.
According to the local Ding Ling The old man said that according to the past rules, in half a month at most, the cold wave from the north will move south."
Liu Cheng stood up and thought about it, and asked: "How much fur is left over there for military supplies?"
Chen Qun said: "There are a lot of furs.
The quartermaster also complained that there were too many furs and the transportation capacity was not enough.
He wanted to borrow some carriages with tall wheels from the Ding Ling people to transport the supplies back."
Liu Chengdao: "Using Ding Ling people's carriages to transport supplies is indeed a good way.
Let's go and organize all the Xianbei women and Ding Ling women and ask them to use their furs to sew fur clothes and shoes for the soldiers and give them to the soldiers stationed behind."
Each soldier general here sews three sets each."
Chen Qun said happily: "This method is very good.
There are more than 20,000 Xianbei women plus Dingling women.
Even if each person only sews one set per day, 30,000 sets can be completed in two days."
Liu Cheng added: "Since the cold wave is coming soon, it is necessary to reinforce the tents and houses as soon as possible, as well as the stables, sheepfolds, and cowsheds to prevent the heavy snow from being crushed by the army here."
After resting for three days, all the soldiers were dispatched in the first two days and assigned tasks.
Some of them strengthened buildings and camps, built stables, sheepfolds and cowsheds, some of them harvested fodder and animal dung, and some of them were sent to dig mountains and cut rocks. , logging" Chen Qun agreed: "Yes, my subordinates will make arrangements right away."
The Dingling people have always lived in tents, which were sewn with cowhide and sheepskin lamps and fixed with wood.
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They had never lived in a house and did not know how to build a house.
They saw that building a house was very difficult, but This became very easy in the hands of these Han soldiers.
The soldiers nailed several large logs into the soil as a support for the house, and then used branches and grass to weave the walls.
Finally, they used mud to cover the branches and thatch walls.
Finally, when they capped the roof, they used wooden strips as supports and laid a layer of them first.
The animal skins are then covered with thatch and tied tightly with straw ropes to prevent them from being blown away by the wind.
The newly built house was blown by the north wind.
After just one night, the mud on the walls was dried.
Living in the newly built thatched house, there was no wind at all.
In just two days, a large number of thatched houses were built on both sides of the rivers on the south bank of the Beihai, such as Haikou.
The rows of houses are neat and large-scale.
The houses in the middle are made of stone and look like military.
The place where lieutenant generals live and conduct official business.
The 10,000 soldiers and horses left to garrison have been selected from the entire army.
They are all veterans with rich combat experience.
One-third of them have experience in grassland life.
These 10,000 soldiers and horses were reorganized in one day.
The establishment was determined.
The generals who stayed behind also decided on the candidates.
Liu Cheng appointed Wang Shuang as the general to command 10,000 cavalry and stationed here.
The city built here in the future was named Mobei City, and Wang Shuang was named the General of Suppressing Barbarians.
Tomorrow the army will set off south to return to Chang'an.
The soldiers are nervously packing their things and preparing to set off.
Ma Chao quickly walked into the tooth tent and reported to Liu Cheng: "My lord, the knights thirty miles away found a group of people coming from the west.
There were about a hundred people in number, but they had a scepter."
"Oh" Liu Cheng stood up and asked, "Do you know who those people are?"
Ma Chao said: "The general has sent two hundred cavalry to guard them, but we cannot speak the language with them.
We still need to find someone to negotiate with them and find out their identity and purpose of coming."
Liu Cheng called Chen Qun and asked, "What other tribes are there to the west of the Ding Ling people?"
Chen Qun said: "Back to my lord, there is a powerful tribe called Jiankun to the west of the Dingling people's territory.
According to this, it is about seven or eight days' journey.
As far as I know, after Li Ling surrendered to the Huns, he was canonized by the Xiongnu Chanyu.
As the King of Youxiao, in charge of Jiankun, he should leave descendants in Jiankun":