At the end of the battle, the wolf smoke dissipated, and the 25,000 Han troops were completely annihilated, including the main general Wei Yan, who never escaped a single person.
"Brother Le, what should I do with this captured Han army" Through this ambush battle, Fan Li and Le Yi suddenly hated each other, and became sympathetic, and privately called Le Yi, who was a few years older, brother, and at this moment stood on a high slope with Le Yi, looking down at the spoils of war at his feet.
Nearly 5,000 Han troops were covered with soot and slanted armor, like lambs to be slaughtered, surrounded by a ball of Wei troops in full armor, and their faces were full of anxiety and confusion, not knowing what fate they would usher in But in the hearts of Cao Jun's soldiers, Le Yi, who treats people kindly and loves soldiers like children, has become cold-blooded and ruthless at this moment, and one sentence can decide their life and death: "Bury it, kill it all" "Pit killing" Lu Zhishen, who had a big beard, was taken aback, his heart was not as tough as it looked like on the outside, "Dig a pit and bury these five or six thousand living lives, they have already disarmed and surrendered, why can't they be let live?"
Le Yi's face was like frost, and he said coldly: "A general will succeed and ten thousand bones will wither, the country is to be cast with blood, Gongsun Qi has fought a hundred battles in his life, and the souls who died under his knife are more than a million, and he killed 400,000 Zhao troops in the first battle of Changping alone, and only then did he help Yingzheng sweep the six countries, and ascended the throne to become the first emperor Xiang Yu Julu The battle pit killed more than 200,000 Qin troops, which led to a great injury to the vitality of the Qin State, and one hundred and two Qin Guan eventually belonged to Xiang Chu" After a pause, Le Yi pointed south: "Let's not talk about the distance, just say that the generals under Liu Wei, Wu Qi has slaughtered prisoners many times from Jiaozhou to Guishuang, and the specific number is ominous."
However, almost none of the more than 100,000 people of Meng Tian's army defeated in Jiaozhou were spared, coupled with the several massacres of Guishan, I am afraid that there will be no less than 300,000 souls who will die at the hands of Wu Qi."
Fan Li sighed with emotion: "Brother Le is reasonable, a qualified military general should be an iron-blooded and ruthless executioner."
Le Yi continued to analyze Lu Zhishen, Da Xi Changru and other generals: "First, we are preparing to attack Xiapi urgently, this is a difficult military operation, carrying a large number of Han prisoners, which will make our target easy to expose.
Second, the strength of the Han army is strong, several times that of the Great Wei, although these Han soldiers say surrender, but their hearts are not really obedient, as long as there is a chance to fight back against us, as a main general must cut the grass and eradicate the roots, for the soldiers to eradicate hidden dangers. ” Da Xi Changru agreed with Wei Yan's words: "Kill, kill all except Wei Yan, do you only allow their Han army to slaughter others, let this Han army taste the taste of being slaughtered today" Lu Zhishen stroked his shiny scalp and said: "Alas, it seems that I am not a qualified general, don't look at the Sprinkle family is vicious enough on the battlefield, but it is your life-and-death fight, in the face of the captives who are tied up to be slaughtered, I really can't do it to General Daxi, you can execute it."
Le Yi glanced at Lu Zhishen and admonished: "General Lu, although you drink wine and eat meat, you still have the compassion of a monk in your heart, Le Yi just wants to warn Master Lu here, the kindness to the enemy is the cruelty to oneself, if we become Wu Qi's prisoner now, he will definitely slaughter us mercilessly."
Da Xi Changru took the order and left, first took 5,000 Wei soldiers to dig a batch of soil pits, and then came over to greet a handful of Han soldiers: "My Great Wei Emperor is generous and benevolent, you come with me to receive the dismissed grain, and each of you go home to farm."
In the distance, Wei Yan, who was imprisoned in the prisoner car, saw the dazed captives being taken away in groups, shuttling through the reeds one person high, moving into the distance with the shaking of the reeds, and finally disappeared, and immediately understood what kind of fate these soldiers who had followed him for many years ushered in Suddenly, his heart was like a knife, and he roared loudly: "Come back, don't follow them, try your last strength to fight with them, kill one and count one" But it was too far away, and the shouts were quickly blown away by the wind, and the captives who were more than a thousand feet away could not hear Wei Yan's voice at all, and the wolf smoke kept rising, and they couldn't even see the main general who was imprisoned in the prison car.
Wei Yan's shout was only exchanged for Wei Jun's ridicule.
"Haha, it's so stupid, with a knife and gun against their throat, how can they be allowed to choose" Wei Yan angrily rebuked: "You don't want to be complacent too early, my Han has 1.5 million armor, and the attack on Chang'an and Luoyang is imminent, and when the time comes, a million heroes will sweep Hebei, and your fate will be even worse."
Wei Jun laughed wildly: "Haha, then how can at least it be your Han army who died at this moment, we live longer than them, this is enough In this troubled world, human life is as cheap as grass mustard, killing a person is no different from killing a dog, everyone should be ready to die at any time" "Now, when you see your soldiers being killed, you are angry, you hate, you are desperate, but when your Han army slaughtered the captives defeated under your own hands, did you ever feel mercy War is so cruel" Wei Yan's face was as pale as earth, the guilt in his heart surged like a tide, he almost collapsed under this humiliation, and suddenly bit his tongue fiercely, and suddenly the blood flowed like an infusion, and at this moment, only death can be relieved Cao Jun was startled, and hurriedly hugged Wei Yan's head, opened his mouth, and summoned the healer to treat: "Hurry up and save people, this person is still of great use, and he can't die yet."
Wei Yan, who wanted to die, failed to die, and all the soldiers of the Han army who did not want to die were killed, more than 5,000 people were dug a large pit, and all that was left was buried, and some of the soldiers who struggled to resist were only exchanged for ruthless knives and guns.
"The whole army gave up unnecessary armor and baggage, carried only five days' dry rations, and attacked Xiapi in a hurry" After the massacre, Le Yi waved his hand and led the Wei army on the road south to Xuzhou.
The sky was cloudy, the wind was whining, and most of the Wei army, which had only more than 17,000 people left, changed into Han army armor and marched south in formation.
Behind it, there is only a black mess that has been burned for more than ten miles, and the charred corpses can be seen everywhere inside, but this scene has not been exchanged for a tear from God, it is still dry and only thunder does not rain, not even a drop of rain More than 17,000 Wei troops marched south along the Yingu road when the Han army came, marching with all their might.
This road, which has been silent for a hundred years, has welcomed armies from the south to the north twice in a row, but the fate is different.
Before this sudden attack on Xuzhou, Le Yi had always been gentle and elegant in the hearts of the Wei soldiers and soldiers, but after these three days of rapid marching, the Wei army's cognition of Le Yi had several more, the first was to treat the enemy coldly and ruthlessly, and the second was to be strict with others and demanding of himself The total length from the place where Wei Yan was ambushed to Xiapi in Xuzhou was more than 500 miles, but the soldiers led by Le Yi insisted on using the speed of 150 miles a day to march at a speed of 150 miles a day, and it took three days and three nights to approach the county seat of Fuyang County, which was 60 miles north of Xuzhou.
This time in a rapid march, Le Yi almost exerted the infantry blitzkrieg to the extreme, and ordered the whole army to give up unnecessary baggage from the very beginning, and each person only carried five days' dry food.
There was only five days of dry food, which meant that if Xiapi could not be taken within five days, the Wei army would run out of food "Hurry, faster, speed up the march" Carrying a burden, Le Yi did not ride a horse, but marched on foot like the soldiers.
In addition to Fan Li and the 500 cavalry who were driven behind, Le Yi ordered all the other generals to dismount and walk on foot, and share weal and woe with the soldiers, including Le Yi himself.
In addition to lightening the burden on everyone, Le Yi also used the method of changing the intensity of the march to increase the speed of the team's march, the first hour of the rapid march of thirty miles, the next hour of the slow march of fifteen miles, and then rest for half an hour, and another rapid march, after this transformation, the daily forced march reached an astonishing one hundred and forty miles.
Many Wei soldiers had blisters under their feet, including Le Yi himself, but Le Yi personally picked up the blisters for hundreds of soldiers, applied sores and medicine to bandage them, and earnestly admonished: "Soldiers, this rapid march is indeed very difficult, but compared to the Han army that was killed by the pit, isn't it a hundred times better If we can't win, it will not be a problem of blisters on the feet, but a pile of white bones in the pit."
"Report to the general, we are not tired, we can be faster" Under the encouragement of Le Yi, the Wei army once again accelerated the speed of the march, and it took three and a half days to finally approach the county seat of Fuyang, and Xiapi was already within reach.
In ancient times, it was not as prosperous as before Liu Wei crossed, and that kind of desolation was far from being something that modern people could experience.
Coupled with the chaos of war, many villages have been abandoned, Le Yi led a team to go to the deserted villages, even a team of nearly 20,000 people is difficult to detect.
"Well, the soldiers rested for two hours, and after evening began to march down to Pi, and in the early hours of the morning, they opened the city gate and entered the city in one fell swoop."
After passing Fuyang County, listening to the scout's report that everything was normal ahead, Le Yi and Fan Li showed a knowing smile and ordered the whole army to stop and rest.
Fifty miles away, Xuzhou Zhizhi Xiapi, the four doors are closed, as if facing a great enemy, the guard general Mi Fang pretended to be worried about the country and the people all day long.
Of course, the great enemy of Xiapi is not Le Yi, but Chen Ziyun from the west has already arrived in Pengcheng and is confronting Xu Da.
And Qin Qiong in the south even swapped positions with Guo Ziyi, and was hilariously blocked in the south of Suiling, if it weren't for Guo Ziyi's fear of being attacked from front to back, he planned to completely defeat Qin Qiong first and then attack the city, and now he could have troops outside the city.
The people in Xiapi City were panicked, and Chen Qun, who succeeded Zhang Juzheng as the assassin of Xuzhou last year, was even more worried, and successively convened Chen Jiao, Lou Gui, Chen Qi and other local scholars and staff to discuss countermeasures, Mi Fang patted his chest and said: "Chen Yuanjun can rest assured, with my Mi Fang, Xia Pi is foolproof" t1706231537: