In late April, the prisoners from northern Shaanxi returned to Luo. In order to welcome the representatives of these expeditionary soldiers back to China, Xingtai deliberately stopped for a day, and since General Shen surrendered, they all went out of Luo to greet each other.

After all, this should be regarded as the first time since the establishment of Xingtai that he was far away and returned to the division in victory. Before, whether it was Longyou or Liaodi, it was the homeland of Zhuxia, which was recovered rather than created.

On this day, there are also many people inside and outside Luoyang City who support each other to watch the ceremony, eager to appreciate how heroic these warriors who step on Yin Mountain.

But at this point, the people will be disappointed, because what appears in their field of vision is not a strong and proud army.

On the contrary, at first glance, this team, which numbered about 2,000 people, looked a little depressed, they were not even equipped with basic armor, just ordinary linen robes, and there were many people lying or lying on the car, even in the walking queue, there were many rickets, which made the queue even more untidy.

Moreover, there are many scars on the bare hands and faces of these soldiers, which looks terrifying. If the aura revealed by the whole team is more similar to a team of homeless people, it is far from the majestic and heroic posture that people expect a king master to have. There were hundreds of carts in front of and behind the special team, some carrying wounded soldiers, others stacked with huge cages, which made the crowd of people walking in it even more inconspicuous.

"What's going on? Didn't it mean that Wang Shi Saibian won a big victory and revived Shuofang's old county? ”

"Many of these troops are wounded ......"

The onlookers were talking, and General Shen, who had been waiting in the square outside the old Luojun City, and the civil and military officers of the parallel Taiwan, got up and left their seats when they saw this team approaching, and walked to meet them in person.

Walking at the front of the procession was a young soldier commander of eighteen or nineteen years old, who was dressed in plain clothes, and his hands and face were also covered with large scars left by chilblains.

"General, this one is General Xue Tao's family."

When General Shen approached, a messenger who was in charge of receiving the prisoners walked out of the line to give an introduction.

Shen Zhezi traveled to Hedong in the old years, but he had seen Xue Tao's son Xue Qiang, but the image in his memory was no longer the same as the silent young soldier with a scarred face in front of him.

He took another step forward, and Xue Qiang realized it later, and hurriedly withdrew his palm on the coffin, and hurriedly bowed: "The end, the end will see the general......

Seeing this, Shen Zhezi sighed in his heart, he raised his hand to stroke the top of Xue Qiang's hair, and said in a condensed voice: "If you are born, you will be a great husband, and if you die, you will be a heroic soul, and you will be grateful in sight. ”

Hearing the general's words, Xue Qiang, who had already precipitated the grief on the way home, broke the embankment with grief again, howled and cried again, and kowtowed: "There is no way to repay the kindness, and there is no regret in the battle to the death!" The martyrs have been passed on, and the succession is endless, Hedong Zhuang'er, bravely serve the general! ”

"The martyrs are gone, and the succession is endless!"

The soldiers in the team bowed to the ground, although the tone was not high-pitched, but the resoluteness made the listeners change their countenance, and they felt that the brave battle of the king of Xingtai was already a spirit deep in the bones, and it was not discounted in the slightest because of how it looked.

Shen Zhezi took a few steps back, then stretched out his arms, bowed deeply to these triumphant but scarred soldiers, and opened his mouth and said loudly: "Affectionate and strong, engraved in the heart!" In the coming year, the Northern Expedition will be successful, the prosperous era will be reshaped, and if there is a person who is disabled in the battle formation, then Shen Wei and Zhou will be disgusted! ”

After the official presentation of the capture and beheading, the cages of those cars were opened one by one, and a large number of processed heads were placed in piles on the square outside the military city, which brought a huge impact to the onlookers, and formed a sharp contrast with the slightly declining figures of those disabled soldiers.

"Wang Shi is strong!"

Around the square, there were cheers from the people one after another, and there were also slightly immature roars, and the students of the museum were like Shen Xun and others, who had always flaunted heroes and were beautiful, and on such an occasion, how could they miss the ceremony.

What's more, for the sake of this prisoner sacrifice ceremony, the museum also has a day off, just to let these ignorant schoolchildren see clearly, so they can study and play in peace and worry, it is precisely because there are thousands of kings and soldiers who use their lives to prevent disasters for them and hold up a world of wealth and comfort!

The officials and subordinates of Xingtai, such as Du He and others, did not have much feeling about the beheadings piled up on the hill because they knew more about the inside story, but when the stele antiquities taken from Shuofang, Jiuyuan and other places in the cage were lifted out one by one and displayed in front, it was difficult for them to remain calm anymore, and they stepped forward to carefully rub the steles with rough surfaces and blurred handwriting, and their eyes were already full of color.

"The revival of Zhuxia, the prestige of the universe, the four sides of the martial arts, the beginning of my own generation! The dead are heroic, the living are encouraged, the six are ugly, and there is no rampant! ”

Because there is still a real big battle to start later, the soldiers who returned to Luo to sacrifice prisoners this time are mainly the disabled who have lost their ability to fight. And this time, the wounded and disabled soldiers were not only the more than 2,000 in front of them, but the others were either injured or incurable, or they were placed in the nearby counties such as the Northland.

This battle is mighty, but it also exposes many shortcomings of the Wang Division, and the main reason for these many shortcomings is that the rise of the Xingtai Wang Division is still short, and the accumulation of heritage is not deep, because after fighting in Zhuxia for a long time, it has not been able to adapt to more combat environments. In the future, if you want to truly attack the Six Empires and deter the world, you still need to continue to accumulate, not a short success.

Although this group of wounded and disabled soldiers can no longer continue to fight and kill the enemy, they are still a huge treasure for Xingtai. What they have seen and heard along the way of the expedition can greatly enrich the blank blind spots in Xingtai's grasp of the situation in the border area, and even the bitter cold torture they have suffered will become a problem that needs to be tackled in the next step, providing a more comprehensive guarantee for their successors.

These disabled soldiers had a hard journey, and they were also injured and sick, and it was no longer suitable to be harassed with cumbersome etiquette, so they were first placed in the old Luojun City, and handed over to the team of doctors of the engineering institute led by Ge Hong for diagnosis and treatment, not only to cure these wounded and sick, but more importantly, to extract simple and effective measures to resist the cold.

Among the prisoners, there were no real captives at all, not that Wang Shi was so fierce that he would kill all the prisoners and never leave prisoners, but that those prisoners were directly incorporated in northern Shaanxi and used as labor consumption in the subsequent wars.

Those first-level officials who have their own lines of office will collect inspections as reward vouchers. As for the stele antiquities, they are temporarily stored in the Xinshi Museum, which is included in the examination documents of the erudite and ancient scholars of the pavilion to fill the collection.

In addition to these harvests, there were more than a dozen carts loaded with the geographical information of the mountains and rivers collected by many kings during the journey, as well as a variety of products on the plugs, including soil and stones, plants and trees, and birds and beasts.

All these things will be collected by the Engineering Institute. Today's Academy of Engineering has formed a very meticulous physical, in-depth understanding of physics, and versatility. Through the study of these plugged products, we try our best to dig out the use and hidden value of these products, so that the future use of the plugged edge can not only stop at the attack on the Hulu, but also have a definite and predictable return.

Powerful and far-reaching, it is the demeanor of a powerful empire, and without the drive of interests, it is difficult for such an expedition to obtain a long-term stable and lasting fulcrum. The superior agricultural foundation of Zhuxia's homeland is not only a unique guarantee, but also a natural limitation, which is enough for cultivation and weaving, and is lazy to seek outside.

The excavation of the unfinished value of the goods and the collection of the four sides to supplement China began as early as after the establishment of stable trade with Liaodong, and the Academy of Engineering spent large sums of money every year to acquire many seemingly useless properties in the frontier wasteland. As long as there is a little gain, it is not only a little technical progression, but also a firm reason for Wang Shibingfeng.

After that, all kinds of affairs will be followed up by relevant personnel. After burying Xue Tao and a group of soldiers who died in battle in Beipi Garden, Shen Zhezi summoned Xue Qiang into the platform and explained to him the reason why Xue Tao was not officially posthumously posthumously honored.

"At present, under the stage, we are still making every effort to prepare for the first battle in Hebei, and the personnel and material resources are not calm, because there are many new achievements, and they are also recorded. After the Northern Expedition, all kinds of gifts will be made clear to the world. ”

Not only on the northern Shaanxi side, but even last year's southern Hebei, including the Fenwu Army's breakthrough of Xiangguo, and other achievements, Xingtai has not made a conferral for the time being. On the one hand, it is naturally because of what Shen Zhezi said, because manpower is powerless and uneasy. On the other hand, it is too profound to be discussed.

Xue Qiang didn't have any impatience or loss in this regard, but just pleaded in the hope of winning the favor: "In the battle of the fortress, Hedong Erlang really has no special merit to repay the general's favor." For fear of hurting morale, he did not dare to fight for his reputation. Villagers and fathers, blood feuds are deep, only by taking blood can you hate! Cry and ask the general not to abandon the eagle claws, and allow this lonely body to kill the thief with the army! ”

Hearing Xue Qiang's request, Shen Zhezi was a little hesitant, from the bottom of his heart, he did have the intention of slightly suppressing the situation in Hedong Township, and Xue Tao's death was indeed unexpected. Now that Xue Tao is newly mourned, it is too unkind to let his sister-in-law take the risk of the arrow again.

But Xue Qiang's desire to fight was hot, and Shen Zhezi really couldn't bear to refuse, and after a moment of silence, he said: "Now go down to the new secret pavilion of Taiwan, and take the young and strong people in the country to sharpen with the army." Your father entrusted me with his life, I can't send his heir blood to the risk of life and death, you enter the secret pavilion first, follow me in and out, first strengthen your talents, and then try to boost your family's voice. The trouble of rebellion, not to mention for the time being, the jackals will rely on you rising young men to punish me! ”

Xue Qiang also knew that he was still immature at the moment, and he was deeply grateful for the general's arrangement.

When he was busy with the matter of offering prisoners in northern Shaanxi, Hebei had already preliminarily completed the raising of troops, Wang Shi crossed the river with several people, and Shen Zhezi was also busy arranging for the Taiwan to stay behind, and then he had to go to Fangtou to supervise the battle.

And at this critical moment, Liaodi changed again: the Murong Department of Liaodong returned to the Kingdom of Yan, and the leader Murong Hao officially accepted the canonization of the King of Yan by Shihu!

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