Chapter 245: Attack the Enemy in the Heart

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The troops of the Qin army out of the camp have retreated to three hundred steps away from their own military camp, and the soldiers of the rear team are building a wooden plank with the auxiliary soldiers to cross the trench, and at this time the horn was blown in the Qin army camp, and a single bow bed crossbow on the high platform about two zhang in front of the front issued a slender crossbow arrow, which was shot out and landed on the ground about fifty steps in front of Cao Shen, and planted it headlong, and the slender bed crossbow arrow that was submerged in the soil shook violently for a while before it came to a standstill.

"That's it!" Lu Zhe naturally also saw the bed crossbow that was shot just now, he knew that it was a kind of deterrent and deterrence, they had just arrived today, and it was far from the time to attack the fortified position before the camp was established, so he ordered: "The rear team becomes the front team, the front team becomes the rear team, retreat!" ”

From the time the Qin army left the camp to the time Lu Zhe ordered the retreat, neither army found an opportunity to disturb the other, and it took about an hour, one side retreated to the camp, and the other side slowly retreated for five miles and stopped.

"Send men to pick up the arrows from the battlefield." Mei Kai is ordering.

Su Lie also gave orders to collect the bodies of the dead on both sides and carry back the wounded, but he strictly ordered that his mouth and nose must be covered, and the wounded on both sides should also be placed separately.

In just one hour, the two sides sent crossbow arrows back and forth, so that the ground of the battlefield was full of arrows, and when the Qin army retreated, they did not pack up the remains of the robe, and some of the wounded were also discarded on the battlefield.

Collecting arrows is the right that only the winner's side will have, and seeing this side go up to pick up the arrows, the soldiers on the Nanjun side can be regarded as knowing that their side has won for a while, first a few people cheered, and then the atmosphere was mobilized to form tens of thousands of loud cheers.

Cao Shen was one of the groups sent by Su Lie to carry back the wounded, and they were given stretchers made of coarse cloth and long poles, and one by one they carried the wounded back without distinguishing between friend and foe.

"Why do you even have to carry back the injuries of the Qin army?" Cao Shen heard a Zhao accented Wu Chang asking. In fact, he didn't understand why he did this, and the winning side always made up for the fatal blow to the wounded left by the enemy on the battlefield when cleaning up the battlefield. However, the Supreme Commander gave the order to carry back the wounded of the enemy army.

The 2,000 people lost by the Qin army were not many killed on the spot, in fact, if it was not for the vital parts, the arrows would not have died at the first time, and most of the soldiers who were hit by the arrows died of untimely treatment or excessive blood loss.

Although it is said that the injured have to be carried back, but not only Cao Shen, but every tun who has been ordered to give priority to carrying their own comrades back, and they really can't find their own robes before they will take care of those Qin soldiers.

It is an extremely desperate thing to be injured and left on the battlefield, and the Qin pawn, who was unable to return from the arrow, had already desperately accepted the fate of being made up by the enemy, but did not think that the enemy army first ignored him, and then did not kill any of them but all carried them and lay on strange tools, and sent them to the military camp where the Nanjun side was pressing the village in pairs.

"Pretty young, huh?" Cao Shen saw a Qin pawn who was lifted up with a grateful expression on his face. I said it casually.

Chu Yin, the Qin pawn didn't understand, but he didn't stop showing a relieved smile after learning that he wouldn't be killed. Also, if they can live, who wants to die?

Sima Xin, who was still on the nest car, had already prepared to watch the enemy soldiers mend the Qin soldiers on the battlefield with an unbearable expression, but what he didn't expect to see was the enemy's actions of carrying the injured Qin soldiers back in pairs. He looked at Changshi next to him strangely: "What does Lu Zhejun mean by this?" ”

Changshi has never encountered such a situation, so he can only shake his head and say that he doesn't know.

Ji Bu, who was riding his horse behind Lu Zhe, also looked confused, and he asked, "Lord, the two armies are fighting. It is already merciful to find that the enemy soldiers are wounded and not killed, why carry them back, is it to help them heal? ”

Lu Zhe did not answer, this was not a temporary idea. It's not that he was born in the Qin army and has compassion, he has his own plans. It is already a common practice for the two armies to kill each other on the battlefield and deal with the enemy's wounded. What he was thinking about now was to get some information about the Qin camp from the injured Qin pawn. No information was received and the wounded were intended to be returned.

It is unknown how many corpses or wounded the Qin army brought back, but after cleaning up the battlefield, Su Lie reported to the rear that he had collected 326 corpses of Qin soldiers and 1,746 wounded. One hundred and forty-seven were killed and four hundred and thirty-one wounded. In other words, in a short period of time, the Qin army lost 2,072 combat strength, and his subordinates also suffered 578 casualties.

The medical craftsmen of Nanjun are naturally the first to treat their own comrades, and the treatment of arrow wounds is nothing more than to see if there is penetration, and if they penetrate, they will cut off the arrows to take the arrows to stop the bleeding, and if they do not penetrate, it will be much more troublesome. The main thing to survive the arrow is to have the means to stop bleeding and the corresponding medicinal materials and bandaging techniques, and the doctors and craftsmen of Nanjun have undergone special training, and the abundance of medicinal materials and cloth can naturally reduce the mortality rate.

When dealing with Qin Pawn's injuries, the doctors will continue to ask the object of treatment, and they will not sprinkle the hemostatic scatter after asking what and not asking what arrows, but only carrying out the initial bandaging is done.

Qin soldiers, who were injured and carried to the enemy's side and were not killed, were almost stunned when they saw the enemy medic bandaging themselves with white cloth strips, a little confused and a little apprehensive, and they didn't know what the enemy's intentions were.

"My lord said that he won't want your life, and he will send someone to send you back to the Qin camp later." The young healer spoke in a Qin dialect with a strange accent.

One of the Qin Juntun who was treated had an unbelievable face, and he actually asked, "Why?" ”

The doctor didn't know why, he just had to say that when he was told to treat Qin Zu.

In fact, even careful removal of arrows does not mean that the injured can save their lives, after all, some people are injured after the arrow, and the internal organs are still alive, but the function of the organs has not completely stopped working.

It took nearly an hour, more than 1,700 Qin pawns were dealt with by hundreds of doctors, and more than 300 Qin pawns died in the process of treatment, and the surviving Qin pawns were basically bandaged and carried onto the cart, waiting for Lu Zhe to send someone to reach a consensus with Sima Xin before they were sent back.

Xiao He was also very puzzled by Lu Zhe's actions, and he only understood what this meant when he chatted with Zhang Liang. According to Zhang Liang's original words, Lu Zhe's behavior was not only not out of any benevolence, but on the contrary, from a combat point of view, sending a Qin pawn back was adding trouble to the commander of the Qin army.

Troublesome? Yes, just the trouble! A wounded soldier who has no combat effectiveness is a burden in the army, and a careless handling of the wounded soldier can also damage the morale of the army. Lu Zhe can naturally reduce the enemy by killing the injured Qin pawns on the battlefield, but taking information and sending it back hastily during treatment is what Sima Xin is most distressed about.

The enemy treated the wounded soldiers and sent them back, the commander of the Qin army should think carefully about whether there were soldiers who were plotted against or spies who were mixed in, and how should Sima Xin arrange these wounded soldiers who were sent back at that time? Quarantine monitoring will inevitably cause the already low morale of the military to suffer a stricter blow, what if the non-isolation monitoring is really rebelled or there are conspirators?

Seeing that night was about to fall in a while, Lu Zhe turned his head and nodded at the wing flail.

The winged flail, who had already been instructed, waved his hand to lead out the hundred cavalry Qin army, they turned a few corners in the military formation, and when they just left the military formation, Ji Bu on the other side was also shouting soldiers and pulling a carriage full of Qin soldiers' wounded soldiers to set off.

When the gallop approached the Qin army at five hundred paces, the wing flail raised an apricot-yellow flag, and the hundred horsemen also stopped at the horse.

In these years, there is no saying about raising a white flag, the apricot yellow flag is the real color used in the "truce" and "peace" before the Song Dynasty.

As early as Lu Zhe's army came out of the battle and the hundred horsemen approached the Qin military camp, someone had already told Sima Xin that Sima Xin got back on the nest car and saw the first horse of the enemy's hundred horsemen holding the apricot yellow flag to slow down the horse and continue to approach, according to the rules in front of the two armies, the enemy army came with the apricot yellow flag and obviously had something to say, so he also sent Shao Ai to lead the same hundred horsemen to come forward to talk.

Sima Xin, who was a little haggard and annoyed by everything going wrong, had just sent Shao Ai, but he saw another group of people coming behind the enemy's hundred horsemen, and he couldn't see what it was from too far, so he immediately ordered: "Crossbowman, bed crossbow get ready!" ”

Shao Ai Baicai, who had already left the camp, naturally also found that there was a team behind the enemy's hundred horsemen, but he did not hesitate, after all, the two armies raised apricot yellow flags in front of the formation and asked to speak, unless they wanted to damage their morale, otherwise who would break this kind of Chinese common rules for thousands of years to corrupt morality.

The wing flail led the hundred horsemen to the trench about three hundred steps in front of the Qin army camp and stopped, he looked back at the convoy behind him, and when he turned his head, the hundred horsemen of the Qin army had already stepped through the first trench and were coming. Waiting for the other party to station his horse on the other side of the trench, he said in a very orthodox Qin tone: "I have come by the order of the lord and the army, and I hereby inform the commander of your army that more than 1,000 wounded in your army have been preliminarily treated by our army doctors, and they are now on the way to the rear. Would you please arrange for someone to pick it up? ”

Shao Ai was a little stunned, he was about to speak but saw that the wing flail had already pulled the reins and turned the horse's head, and there was a burst of "Drive!" "Drink!" In the midst of the drive, the war horse stepped on the horse's hooves and walked without giving a chance to reply...... Let's go?

Back in the camp, Shao Ai truthfully relayed what he heard to Sima Xin, but saw that Sima Xin's face had become cloudy, and the enemy had indeed transported the wounded Qin soldiers to the Qin camp's trench in a carriage, and in a moment they had all been supported or carried on the ground.

Sima Xin sent someone to confirm that it was indeed his own soldiers who were placed in front of the trench, and he saw a large number of soldiers pointing and discussing the wounded soldiers who were sent back against the wooden fence, and finally could only sigh: "Order Zhou Xing to lead the army to guard, you and Li Heng will lead people to carry the wounded back to the camp." (To be continued......)