Prosperous Tang Blood Blade

Chapter 585 Datang’s Population Problem (Part [-])
Chapter [-] Datang’s population problem (one more)
The war was finally over, and the surviving soldiers of the Xia Army finally breathed a sigh of relief.There are so many heroes in Yanzhao, they haven't seen fierce and ruthless people, Turks are fierce enough, right?Since the end of the Sui Dynasty, they have invaded Hexi, Xihe, Hedong, Hetao, Youzhou, Yingzhou, and Pingzhou. The border line of seven or eight thousand miles from west to east is full of back gardens where Turkic cavalry raged everywhere.

Looking at the history of wars in the past few years, you will be surprised to find that the area from Wuzhou to Yunzhou and Shunzhou, which is [-] miles long, has rarely encountered Turkic invasion. The reason is actually very simple. It is not that Hebei is too poor. The Turks have no oil and water, but the Hebei people are too tough.

From the gray-haired old man to the child who was just taller than the wheel, they swung their knives and dared to attack the Turkic people. Of course, the fighting power of the Hebei people is not that high. The loss ratio of the two sides is about three times One or so, but relatively speaking, Hebei has become a tasteless place for the Turks.

The number of people coming is small, and there is no advantage at all.There are too many people, and the things they rob are not enough for people to chew. As for the women in Hebei, they are also very tough. They are not sheep to be ravaged by others. Is the root of life hard enough?

However, the surviving Hebei Xia army officers and soldiers at this moment, without exception, all looked at the young general who was riding on horseback with an unbelievably handsome face.Especially the indifference on the young general's face made them shudder from the bottom of their hearts.

Have they ever seen such a terrifying tiger and wolf master?The headless corpses all over the place, and the murderous aura of the blood-stained soldiers all made their eyelids twitch wildly!Compared with them, the Turkic people are simply scumbags.Hebei people are also very smart. They clearly know that they are far inferior to Turkic people in terms of riding and archery, but they can't stand it. , The strength of not fearing death made the Turkic people stay away.

These Hebei captives are very honest at the moment.I'm afraid that Chen Ying will kill them all in order to establish his prestige.Killing prisoners is not a good reputation. It is undeniable that this is the best way to deter the enemy.In later generations, Xue Rengui's reputation was very great. Some generals set three arrows on the Tianshan Mountain and looked down at the horse. However, behind this great reputation, there were hundreds of thousands of Xue Yantuo's lives as the price.

Unexpectedly, Chen Ying had no intention of executing these prisoners of the Xia army.Not only did they not kill prisoners, but even the wounded soldiers in Hebei tried their best to treat them.

"You idiots, what are you doing in a daze, why don't you come over and help?" A dark-faced general of the Tang Army shouted impatiently: "You motherfuckers, so many corpses are piled up here , the weather is so hot, it is prone to plague..."

Hearing the words of the plague, these captives seemed to be possessed by spirits, and hurried forward, looking for tools, or broken knives and axes, and digging pits to bury the corpses.

However, at this moment, Chen Ying said angrily, "Don't bury the corpse, burn it first, and then bury it!"

The weather was so hot that after only two hours, some of the corpses on the battlefield had spots.Although Chen Ying understands that medical knowledge is not even superficial, he knows that once the corpse rots, a large number of bacteria or viruses will breed, which will easily cause plague. A deadly catastrophe.

The captives followed the Tang army's medical soldiers to treat the wounded and began to treat the wounded, search for firewood, and make the cremation pile, and the whole battlefield calmed down.However, these Tang soldiers were not idle. They walked up to the corpse with their knives and axes, raised their knives in their hands, and chopped off the corpse's head.

Tang Jun counts meritorious service by the head, and every head on these corpses is a military merit.This is an indisputable achievement. More than [-] generals have completely defeated more than [-] soldiers of the Xia army, and each soldier can earn three ranks of military merit.Although the meanings of rank-three military generals and soldiers are absolutely different, they can both be exchanged for money and land.

In the eyes of the generals of the Tang army, all the smelly heads were like white silver and golden copper coins.

"These bastards are really fucking prodigals, and they don't know how to attack lightly!" A general of the Tang army complained, "Another waste of military merit!"

There is no way, the way Tang Jun calculates military merit is the whole head, hacked to death or shot to death by a crossbow. The position of the head is split in half, so that the head is incomplete, so the merit cannot be counted.

In fact, it is not just one thing that causes this situation, but a common phenomenon.Especially when the Xiao cavalry army charged with hooks and sickles, the corpses of countless soldiers of the Xia army were trampled over by more than 4 horseshoes.

Li Shentong and Feng Deyi went to Mingzhou City. At this moment, Liu Tong and Xunxiang had basically controlled Mingzhou City. At this moment, Li Shentong and Feng Deyi led the troops to go there. I'm afraid they just accepted it smoothly, but Chen Ying didn't join in the fun.

However, Chen Ying's brows did not open all the time, his brows were wrinkled into the word "Chuan", and his face was so gloomy that water could be wrung out.

"General Chen seems to have something on his mind?" Just when Chen Ying was thinking about something, a voice suddenly sounded.

Chen Ying turned around and followed the prestige.But Wei Wenzhong, led by the right guard, came behind Chen Ying at some point.

"Hey..." Chen Ying sighed, revealing a deep sense of helplessness and fatigue: "It's nothing, it's just that I feel a little bored in my heart!"

Wei Wenzhong said: "General, you are now the leader of the three armies. At this moment, countless generals are watching you. Regardless of the number of casualties in the left guard, we finally won a big victory..."

Before Wei Wenzhong finished speaking, Chen Ying interrupted him directly: "Do you think we won a big victory?"

"Isn't it victory?" Wei Wenzhong asked very strangely: "Only more than 5 people were captured as prisoners, and more than [-] people were beheaded."

In fact, the number of people killed in the Xia army was far more than [-], or even [-]. Although Wei Wenzhong did not get the exact record, he also knew that at least one-third of the Xia army's soldiers had their heads dead. Damaged, incomparably recognizable.

"This is a war with no winners!" Chen Ying said with a sigh: "We didn't win, the Xia army didn't win, we fought in Hebei upside down, blood was flowing, but in this war, we won't win." The two sides of the battle are our Chinese people, and the dead are also my Chinese people, so we can't talk about victory, but if we say victory, the biggest winner is the Turks."

Wei Wenzhong couldn't understand what Chen Ying said, in fact he couldn't understand it.

This is not Chen Ying's alarmist talk, in fact it is exactly that.If it weren't for the chaos at the end of the Sui Dynasty, the population of the Sui Dynasty was more than [-] million, and only a quarter of it remained at the beginning of the Tang Dynasty. I am afraid that the Tang Dynasty would not have restricted its expansion because of the population problem.

Some people in later generations said that Datang was a governance issue, but in fact it was a population issue.During the heyday of the Tang Dynasty, even parts of Iran and Afghanistan belonged to the territory of the Tang Dynasty. However, the population of the Tang Dynasty at that time was about 2000 million. If calculated, the average population of the entire territory during the Tang Dynasty was only [-] per square kilometer. Six or eight or seven people.The real Baili is uninhabited.

But the battle of Hebei, this battle was won.However, more than 5 people died, which means that more than [-] families lost their pillars.

Just looking at the numbers on paper makes no sense.However, once he saw with his own eyes that the places he passed were full of limbs and arms, and corpses everywhere, Chen Ying felt very uncomfortable.

Of course, Chen Ying just felt a little uncomfortable, but Dou Jiande, who had just been kicked out from Jinzhou by Li Jiancheng and retreated to Zezhou, felt the pain in his heart.

(End of this chapter)