Chapter 76 76
The massacre lasted all night and ended at 8 a.m. the next day.
In Xuancheng Mansion, after Wu Yuan learned the news, his eyes were blank and he collapsed on the ground, and he didn't know how long it took before he said: "I'm sorry for these soldiers......"
Wu Yuan didn't expect this Chu State to be so brutal, killing 400,000 Vietnamese soldiers, if Wu Yuan had known about it, he would not have surrendered to the Chu army anyway.
Zhou Gui looked at Wu Yuan: "This Chu State is really an uncivilized race, barbaric ......"
Wu Yuan looked ahead, he calculated thousands, thousands of calculations, did not calculate that the Chu State was so cruel and inhumane, that he could risk the world to slaughter the 400,000 troops of the Yue Kingdom.
Although there have been cases of killing and surrendering soldiers since the founding of the Zhou Empire, it has never happened to kill so many prisoners at once.
Although the vassal states despised the royal family of the Zhou Empire and did not observe the Zhou rites very much, they still jointly abided by the Zhou rites when it came to the surrender of troops, and did not seek preferential treatment of the surrendered troops, but at least they would not massacre.
Although the Zhou Empire was founded in the first hundred years, there were also things to kill and surrender, but after the surrender, this would be rejected by the princes of the world, so the countries that killed and surrendered did not end up well.
Wu Li may have forgotten, maybe other countries will consider a lot to kill, but Chu may not think so much, after all, Chu is the only kingdom in the Zhou Empire, and King Chu Huai is also the only king with a different surname in the empire, Chu is the only country that dares to argue with the central government on the surface, and ignores the emperor's authority on the surface, and the Chu State has always been rejected by the princes, and in the eyes of the princes, this Chu State is a barbarian......
Although the vassal states all ignored the emperor's orders and disobeyed the emperor, except for the Chu state, none of them dared to directly confront the emperor.
Although everyone didn't respect the emperor, it was all behind the scenes, and on the surface, the form was not bad.
After all, they are all afraid of being taken out by the princes to make a fuss, and then carry out group beatings, but the Chu State is not afraid, the three Central Plains can only fight with the Chu State together, and now the Chu State has brought the Qi State as an ally, it can be said that the current King of Chu Huai has the capital to compete with the emperor for the throne.
Of course, it is only that there is capital on the surface, and it is still not possible for the Chu State to really compete for the throne, after all, the Chu State wants to compete for the throne, and the helper of the Qi State may not help him, and the Qi State will help him compete for the throne, and there is no benefit, and he will be involved in the crusade of the princes, which is a fool to do......
Chu State also dared to fight against the emperor on the surface, but if he wanted to plunder the throne, he actually didn't have the courage, after all, the princes of the world were nominally attached to the Central Zhou, if you dared to compete for the throne, at that time, all the princes would crusade against him, and his ally Qi State would also have to consider betraying him.
"My plan is gone...... Wu Yuan sighed, originally Wu Yuan wanted to wait for the war to pass, recuperate in Yuedi, and then win over the Yue people, and then revolt to complete the restoration of the country, but now he has become a sinner in the Yue country, and 400,000 Yue soldiers have also been killed, he has no ability to win over the Yue people, and it is basically certain that this Wu Li is already the biggest sinner in the Yue country......
Zhou Gui didn't speak, just nodded, he knew what this Wuli plan was: "Thousands of calculations, I didn't count this......"
"Yes, when digging the pit at that time, if I found anything, it wouldn't be ......like this," Wu Yuan said helplessly, when he asked the Vietnamese army to dig the pit, Wu Yuan asked, but what King Chu Huai gave him was a military deployment, and he didn't think about it so much.
After all, in Wuyuan's mind at that time, he would never have thought that King Chu Huai would kill these Vietnamese soldiers!
If he had found out, he would have had a chance to prevent these Vietnamese soldiers from being killed.
400,000 Vietnamese troops were slaughtered and spread throughout Kyushu......
Camp Hill.
Qi Xiaobai didn't show too much shock after learning about this, because this kind of thing had also happened in his world, so Qi Xiaobai behaved very plainly.
And in the court of Qi State, one of the great Confucians was shocked: "This Chu State is simply a barbarian country, and I am ashamed of our Qi State for forming an alliance with this kind of barbarian country!" ”
The core idea of the great Confucians of Qi was benevolence, and when they heard this kind of massacre, they were very indignant.
"400,000 soldiers, 400,000 innocent lives ......," a great Confucian lamented.
And Zhang Tianshang also echoed and said: "This time the Chu State dares to risk the world, I don't know what the princes and the princes will think of my Qi country......" Zhang Tianshang was worried about this, they were afraid that the slaughter of the Yue army by the Chu State would make the princes and countries also record the Qi State, after all, now the Qi State and the Chu State are blood alliances.
Qi Xiaobai stood up: "This kind of thing is indeed very shocking to you, and it is very acceptable to you, but in a sense, Chu Guo has done a good job!" ”
"Why did the public say that?" A great Confucian civil official stood up and looked at Qi Xiaobai and said.
In fact, in the entire Qi court, the Chu State was very barbaric, but only Qi Xiaobai, who was the Duke of Qi Huan, did not think so.
"The massacre of 400,000 Vietnamese troops can weaken the Yue country, deter the people of the Yue country, and reduce the possibility of recovering the country after the destruction of the Yue country!" Qi Xiaobai said to the ministers, this is also Qi Xiaobai's personal opinion.
He felt that the Chu State had slaughtered the 400,000 troops of the Yue State, and the effective combat power of the Yue State was basically gone, and when the Yue State was destroyed, it would be difficult to have a decent restoration movement in the ability, and the slaughter of the 400,000 Vietnamese troops could also better deter the people of the Yue Kingdom.
Of course, Qi Xiaobaijue's doing this has advantages and disadvantages, that is, it will be difficult for the Chu State to accept surrender in the future, after all, who dares to guarantee that after surrendering to the Chu army, the Chu army will not kill them?
Moreover, the Yue State has not been destroyed, and the Chu army will definitely encounter more stubborn resistance from the Yue army......
Of course, the real effective combat power of the current Yue State is only Fu Jiao's, and this combat power is not enough in the eyes of the Qichu coalition army.
"Even so, it's too cruel and against Zhou etiquette!" Da Ru looked at Qi Xiaobai and said.
"Etiquette is sometimes very important, but etiquette can't enrich the country and strengthen the army!" Qi Xiaobai said to this big Confucian.
Of course, there are also some great Confucians who propose to break the alliance with the Chu State, but let Qi Xiaobai directly deny it, what are you kidding, you finally have a thigh, how can you say that it will be broken? And his son is still in the hands of others, broken, what kind of face do you have to see your wife Liu Ruoqing?
As I said, although the State of Chu is barbaric, it is powerful and can help the State of Qi......
So no matter how you think about it, the Qi State could not break the alliance with the Chu State, and of course the Qi State was implicated by the Chu State and was attacked by the princes, of course, only by the mouth.
After all, one Chu State made the three Central Plains countries very uncomfortable, and with the addition of a Qi State, they didn't dare to take action.
Of course, if this massacre was done by the Qi State, and the Chu State did not conclude a blood alliance with the Qi State, then the alliance of the princes may have arrived at the gate of the Qi State......