Chapter 404: Another Choice
Although the Baibo army has been defeated now, it is obvious that this is only a part of the people, and the rest of the personnel are still behind, and there are no people who are carried, so Fei Qian directly ordered Ma Yue to follow these fleeing Baibo soldiers, while driving away, and rounding up at the same time. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 info
Although the soldiers who followed Hu Cai were late compared to the general miscellaneous soldiers and ordinary people on the whole, they were relatively better, but they were also good to a limited extent, and they ate a little more porridge when they set off in the morning, and then after soaking urine during the day, there was nothing, and then they ran for a day, but they just arrived in Pingyang, but they found that not only did they not be able to take Pingyang, but they were also defeated......
When the hope of a good meal in Pingyang City was completely shattered, many of the Bai Bo troops who had run for a day were tired and hungry, and they could not raise the strength to resist at all, and under the impact of Ma Yue and the cavalry, they quickly split into several parts, some really couldn't run, so they knelt on the ground and surrendered, while those who still had some strength were scattered and fled in a panic.
Ma Yue, a new force who had just joined the battle, was in accordance with Fei Qian's previous orders, after breaking up the assembly of the Baibo army, he dispersed, dividing the entire cavalry into two parts, just like driving sheep, driving the scattered Baibo soldiers together, and then taking turns to attack the fleeing Baibo army's rear army, cutting piece by piece, so that the Baibo army had no chance to stop or rest, and could only flee desperately.
The whole battle gradually entered garbage time, Hu Cai took some personal guards, relying on Youma, and fled first before the other soldiers could react, so fast that Ma Yue, who was chasing after him, failed to catch him......
However, the other Bai Bo troops were not so lucky, most of them ran and ran without strength, and they lost the opportunity to escape, they were confiscated and squatted in a pile, and then they were tied up in a row by the foot soldiers led by Huang Cheng, gathered together, and prepared to be escorted back to Pingyang.
The sky gradually darkened, Ma Yue finally chased for a while, but still did not see any trace of Hu Cai, and was also worried that the vision was not clear, and the horses were easy to be injured under high-speed running, so they collected the troops in a hurry, joined Huang Cheng, and returned to Pingyang County together.
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At night, inside the big tent in Pingyang County.
Fei Qian is statistically checking the situation of this battle with Huang Cheng, Ma Yue, Jia Qu and others.
The soldiers of Feiqian's side were mainly lost during the period of defending the city, especially during the raid of the Baibo army with bows and arrows, the casualties were particularly heavy, and a total of 264 people died on the spot, 35 were seriously wounded, and 28 were lightly wounded.
The problem of surviving minor injuries should not be big, but those seriously injured, in this era of lack of medical treatment, can only depend on their respective fortunes.
As for the other side of the White Wave Army, this is not easy to count, after all, under the Mo Dao Formation, there is almost no whole humanoid corpse to be seen......
However, the number of prisoners was considerable, a total of 1,970 people, and all of them were now guarded outside the city of Pingyang.
"This battle is really painful!" Ma Yue picked up the wine lord on the table, saluted Fei Qian first, and said, "I never thought that the Lord Gongjing also contains the law of cavalry, and the word 'driving sheep' is full of the meaning of defeating the army!" ”
Huang Cheng on the side heard this, his head didn't move, but he glanced at Ma Yue.
Jia Qu also glanced at it, but he didn't look at Ma Yue, but looked at Fei Qian.
Fei Qian saw Jia Qu looking over, smiled lightly, and said that it was okay.
It's no wonder that Ma Yue is happy, this time it can be said that this is the first time he has personally led the troops to fight since the defeat of the Ma family in Shangjun, and he himself has just passed on to Ma Yan as his heir, it is when he urgently needs to prove himself, with such a hearty battle, although it is not enough to fully prove his ability, but at least it can be shown to Ma Yan and other people in the Ma family, which shows that Ma Yan did not choose the wrong person.
Fei Qian also raised the wine jue, responded to Ma Yue, and said: "Zidu is trying to do it today, and the next day it will bloom." After all, Ma Yue is still younger, or rather, he is still relatively straightforward, and he has not experienced much sophistication, so Fei Qian also replied and revealed the matter.
"Dare to ask the envoy, what should the prisoners outside the city do?" Jia Qu asked. Fighting is a matter on the side of generals like Huang Cheng and Ma Yue, and now that the war is over, naturally these problems of dealing with the aftermath will fall on Jia Qu's head, and he naturally wants to ask Fei Qian's attitude.
"What does Liang Daoru mean?"
After experiencing the incident of the Zhang family in Anyi, Jia Qu was obviously much more decisive, seeing that Fei Qian did not speak, he thought that Fei Qian was embarrassed to say it, after all, this kind of thing is usually proposed by subordinates, so he did not hesitate, and directly opened his mouth and said: "Just kill it." ”
Fei Qian couldn't help but be stunned for a moment.
Fei Qian suddenly felt that there was something wrong with this style of painting, according to the scenes that often appear in the normal Romance of the Three Kingdoms, shouldn't he say something like "killing prisoners unknown", why is it so neat and neat to say "just kill in a pit"?
Jia Qu noticed Fei Qian's silence, thinking that he wanted to give more detailed reasons, so he said very plainly: "He, so all things are transformed; Preface, so the group of things are different. If you are too controlled, you will be chaotic, and if you are too excessive, you will be violent. If you don't do anything, you will lose your harmony; Lack of compassion for the countryside, out of order; Those who use swords and soldiers without permission, have no king's law, and riot are innocent of death. ”
Fei Qian suddenly understood, why Huangfu Song didn't have a brutal comment after killing so many people who followed the Yellow Turban, so that's the case!
Fei Qian's long hesitation made Jia Qu feel a little surprised.
Fei Qian sighed in his heart, and then said: "There is no one to do in this place. ”
Jia Qu said suddenly: "What the envoy is extremely worried about. However, if the first evil has not been removed, it may be difficult to instruct it, and I am afraid that it will be ...... to stay."
Jia Qu thinks that Fei Qian's consideration is also reasonable, but since he is in charge of this part, of course, he must also explain the difficulties clearly, of course, the final decision is still in Fei Qian's hands, so everyone, including Jia Qu, is quietly waiting for Fei Qian's final decision.
A word can decide a life, but a person can die, a word does not agree with the head of tens of millions of people to the ground, it seems to be a crazy drag to blow up the sky, but really when this decision is in his own hands, Fei Qian finds that it is so difficult to choose.
Most of these Bai Bo soldiers were peasant hunters in the Hanoi area of the east of the river, either because they could not pay the taxes, or because they were wrapped in yellow scarves, they became the Bai Bo army, and became the "innocent of death" in Jia Qu's eyes.
The problem is that Fei Qian realized that this was not just Jia Qu's opinion, but the opinion of people of the same scholar clan as Jia Qu. These original peasants, because they rebelled, violated the basic rules for the survival of the entire scholar clan, and became the destroyers of the order of the Han Dynasty, so they must die.
If the two armies are fighting, there is no doubt that there is no choice between you and me, but now that these people have disarmed and surrendered, logically speaking, they should be considered prisoners, or should they be killed?
But if you really don't kill, it's also troublesome, Jia Qu also said, "The first evil has not been eliminated", not to mention that several of the commanders of the Baibo Army are not dead, even the general who led the troops to attack Pingyang this time has fled, what if he arranges to go to Tuntian here, and then there are several commanders of the Baibo Army who come to incite them? Who can guarantee that these people who have seen blood, killed people, and robbed their property can return to their duties as farmers?
Then again, after all, it is the lives of nearly 2,000 people, people are not like crops in any field, they can grow within a year, according to such poor living conditions in the Han Dynasty, it is not an easy thing to grow from early childhood to strong labor, although their own order is simple, but at least it is equivalent to destroying the pillars of thousands of families......
Fei Qian closed his eyes, his heart was churning, how to choose?
After a long time, Fei Qian let out a long sigh and said, "It's late today, and I ......will serve it with thin porridge."
Jia Qu's eyes flashed, and he respectfully arched his hand and said, "Obey the order." ”