Yuan Shao, the father of Fanghua in the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 178
As soon as Bai Rao died, the Heishan soldiers who still had family members in Taihang Mountain felt relieved. The main general died, so their relatives in Heishan would not be implicated, so they threw away their weapons and surrendered.

Of course, there were also some die-hard Black Mountain generals and soldiers who wanted to escape, but they avoided Zhao Yun, but they couldn't avoid Tai Shici who followed.

Tai Shici and Zhao Yun teamed up to chase and shoot the Heishan bandits who were fleeing in all directions. Soon after, the Heishan bandits collapsed and surrendered on their knees.

Zhao Yun asked people to count the number of people, and found that there were 6000 to [-] Black Mountain bandits who were killed and captured. He was surprised and said to Taishi kindly: "Ziyi actually killed so many of them!"

Tai Shici shook his head and said: "When I met them, there were only seven to eight thousand people, and I only killed more than a thousand people."

Zhao Yun was even more surprised: "Didn't you say that this branch has 3 or [-] people?"

"Could it be that the other 1 people were all killed by Qu Yi?"

The two pondered, and Yuan Xi rushed there with hundreds of cavalry. It was absolutely impossible to defeat the Black Mountain army, and it could only be done by Qu Yi of Beixincheng.

Qu Yi can only mobilize more than 2000 soldiers. Can this defeat Bai Rao's [-] troops?

Two thousand Xiandeng dead soldiers are about the same!

You know, Bai Rao is a general who has been famous for many years among the black bandits, and he is definitely not an idiot who will collapse at the first touch.

The two were full of suspicion, and after escorting the Black Mountain Army prisoners back to Beixincheng, they learned the ins and outs of the Black Mountain Army's collapse from Qu Yi's mouth.

The two of them stared at Qu Yi with wide eyes, how could it be like this?
In the future, if you meet the Black Mountain Army, as long as you raise your arms and roar, what kind of battle will you fight?

When Qu Yi saw Yuan Xi, he raised the question in his heart, and Yuan Xi explained: "The other party will be more prepared next time."

"After all, we are just spreading rumors. The Black Mountain Army has studied Taiping Dao for many years, and there are many alchemists left by the Yellow Turban Army to help."

"And this method is also hurting others and ourselves. The other party may not be able to use this method to deal with us."

"If you want to win the support of soldiers, you must use a multi-pronged approach. It is not a long-term solution to rely solely on the prophecy of the Taiping Dao."

Guo Jia listened from the side, and praised: "It's rare that you are so sober, and that's what I want to say."

"After this battle, I will think carefully about how to change the prophecy of Taiping Dao to minimize the backlash."

Everyone nodded after hearing this. The Taiping Sect believes in the teachings of the Taiping Sutra. For Beixincheng, it is difficult to fully control it without an excuse of righteousness on the surface.

No matter what, Yuan Xi defeated this Black Mountain army at an unexpectedly small price, which meant that they saved a lot of time to plan for the next step.

Yuan Tan and Yuan Shang's two groups should still be confronting the Black Mountain Army. Even if they start a war, it will not be possible to tell the winner for a while.

Guo Jia said: "Now we have two choices, one is to rush back to Yijing directly, and the other is to go to the middle road to support the eldest brother."

Yuan Xi lowered his head and thought for a while, "I want to hurry back to Yijing."

After hearing this, Guo Jia showed approval, "This is a quick decision."

"The advantage of this method is that if you rush back to Yijing and defeat Gongsun Zan in a short period of time, the Black Mountain Army will naturally retreat."

"But if you can't attack for a long time, and Mr. Yuan Tan can't resist the Black Mountain Army in the middle, Yi Jing's Jizhou soldiers will be surrounded by both sides instead."

"The key is, can you be sure that you can defeat Yi Jing in just a few days?"

Yuan Xi thought of what he said to Yuan Shao before leaving, nodded and said, "I think I'm quite sure."

Guo Jia listened and said with a smile: "Since the young master said so, then I have nothing more to say."

"Okay!" Yuan Xi said: "In that case, let's rest overnight and head back early tomorrow morning!"

Guo Jia's face turned bitter, even if he was sitting in a carriage, his buttocks have been rotten in the past few days, and he wants to go back to Yijing again?

I'm a military adviser, and I'm still doing the work of supervising the army. Can you find some more counselors?
Not mentioning Guo Jia's slander, Yuan Xi saw that everyone was tired, and knew that the day and night marches had reached their limits, so he asked all the generals to go back to rest.

After Zhao Yun came out, he saw Tian Yu who was doing nothing and looking like he had nothing to love, so he pulled him back and said, "You think you didn't do anything this time?"

Tian Yu nodded, and said depressedly: "This is the first time I have encountered such a strange thing. After shouting a few times, the enemy army collapsed."

Zhao Yun smiled and said, "Don't say it's you, I am the same."

"After a long time, you will find that the son is very different from the son of the family."

"I still need a cavalry captain here, do you want to come over and help me?"

Tian Yu was still hesitating, so he was dragged away by Zhao Yun, and followed him to count the cavalry.

Seeing that Sun Li wanted to go home, Qu Yi pulled him and said, "What's there to see, mother-in-law, come and have a drink with me!"

Sun Li said with a bitter face: "Brother, don't lie to me. It's still a war. If I drink alcohol without authorization, I will be subject to military law."

"Brother, your injury needs to be suppressed with wine. This is authorized by the young master. How dare I do this. Even if the young master doesn't punish me, I will be beaten to death by my mother."

Qu Yi laughed loudly: "I already have children, but I'm still afraid of your mother, the children who won't grow up!"

Sun Li blushed, and muttered: "Don't think that you saved my mother, I'm afraid of you, you don't even dare to fart in front of my mother."

When Qu Yi heard this, his expression became uneasy, but Sun Li didn't notice it, thinking that Qu Yi had been caught by him, and said triumphantly, "Although I am young, I already have children!"

"Brother Qu, you are not married yet, so you don't know where you got the confidence to teach me a lesson."

Seeing Sun Li's triumphant look, Qu Yi viciously kicked his ass, sending Sun Li flying.

"Go, go, what do little brats know, I have enemies like this all over the world every day, what should I do if my wife and children are caught by the enemies after marriage?"

"It's better to be at ease now!"

Sun Li had a playful look on his face, "Even if you don't get married, you can still have a concubine."

"Brother Qu is already an official, and he can take concubines. There are more than a dozen concubines in this mansion. You just need to open your mouth, my lord."

Before he finished speaking, Sun Li's ears were caught, he yelled, and cursed: "Who is so courageous! I..."

He turned his head in pain, and when he saw it, his soul flew away. His mother, Ma Shi, looked at him angrily with her hands hard.

Amid Sun Li's repeated begging for mercy, Mrs. Ma said to Qu Yi with an unnatural expression: "Children don't know the severity of what they say, so don't blame the general."

Qu Yi's face was also a little stiff, "Madam, you are welcome, I will go first."

He took a big step, turned around and left, Ma Shi looked at Qu Yi's disappearing back and sighed.

Qu Yi is also a ruthless person, so Ma tried to ask Yuan Xi for help several times, but he gave up at the last moment.

Forget it, that's fine, since Sun Li already has a queen, he can be considered worthy of the Sun family.

Sun Li secretly looked at his mother, he didn't understand Ma Shi's thoughts at all, if he had a little understanding of Qu Yi and Ma Shi's thoughts, he might have fainted.

Qu Yi felt depressed, and wanted to go to Tai Shici to practice two moves, but he heard from the maid that Tai Shici had gone back to rest.

It was only then that he realized that he was different from the others. The other generals would go out to fight with Yuan Xi tomorrow, but he stayed to sit in Beixin City.

He remembered what Wu Zhao had mentioned a few days ago, asking him to help revise and improve the method of military training, and now he had an idea, which he could dictate to Wu Zhao and Cao Xian.

He slapped his head again, the young master will definitely meet Wu Zhao and his two daughters today, so what's the point of meddling with him!

Qu Yi felt that he had become a superfluous person, and he couldn't relax, so he left the mansion all the way to the edge of Beixin City.

He boarded the city wall, and the soldiers saluted him one after another. Qu Yi nodded slightly, and cast his gaze down the city.

Below are densely packed soldiers and civilians, cleaning the battlefield.

The first step in cleaning up the battlefield is to check whether there are still living people. If there are soldiers of one's own side who have passed out, they will die soon, and they will try their best to rescue and treat them.

After all, when soldiers go to the battlefield to fight, anyone may encounter this kind of thing. If they refuse to save them, the morale of the army will be lost.

Then there is the collection of supplies. Food, grass and luggage must be transported back. Weapons and armor, clothing and grain bags on the dead are also the objects of collection.

Qu Yi looked up and saw that the dead soldiers were stripped naked and thrown on the cart, piled up high, looking from a distance, they looked like freshly baked white flour steamed cakes.

The last thing is to dispose of the body.

Yuan Xi had issued a decree that when fighting in his own territory, if conditions permit, the corpses should be disposed of as soon as possible, so as not to expose the corpses to the wilderness or sink into the river, so as not to pollute the water source and cause epidemic diseases.

There are also several types of treatment. If your soldiers have family members to claim them, let them take them back for burial. If not, dig a big pit far away from the water source and bury them.

For enemy soldiers, it is often to pile up firewood and burn it.

The method of cremation existed in the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period. "Mozi" records: "In the west of Qin Dynasty, there is a country of Yiqu. If his relatives die, they will gather firewood and burn them. Smoke them, which is called Dengxia."

This method is less troublesome than burial, and it is also a deterrent to the enemy. After all, in people's minds at this time, burial can still make the dead peaceful.

Qu Yi saw that one by one the fires were lit, the corpses were burned and deformed in the crackling firewood, the curled limbs pointed to the sky, black smoke shot up into the sky, and the unpleasant burnt smell was sent into his body along with the wind. nasal cavity.

But he didn't realize it, looking at the sky to the west, in the far side, beyond Bingzhou, is his hometown Liangzhou.

His ancestors actually had a lot of background.

"Han Shu Wang Jia Chuan" and "Yuan He Surname Compilation" record that the Qu surname was changed by the Ju family. It was the Shang Shu of Emperor Ai of the Western Han Dynasty who ordered Ju Tan to be demoted to the people because of the involvement of Dongping Wang Liu Yun in the "Hushan Lishi Rebellion Incident". Fearing further persecution, he led his son Ju Xi to "refuge in Huangzhong, and because he lived in Xiping, he changed Ju to Qu" and changed his surname.

Xiping is a remote area, far away from the capital city, with Qianghu as its neighbor, and its location is exactly the opposite of Pingyuan County to the east of Chang'an.

So it seems that many of the military generals of Bingliang who are despised by the gentry were once members of the gentry, otherwise they would not pass on their children to read and write, master bow and horse, and gather trilogy to train the dead. This is something that ordinary gentry cannot do .

Whose ancestor has not been rich?
(End of this chapter)