Chapter 733: Prisoner of War Wounded Barracks
Yanyun Sixteen Prefectures have just been recovered, and the defenses in many places have to be rearranged, Hu Yanqing, as an important general in the Hebei Army, should have stayed in Yanyun Sixteen Prefectures, but he came to Hangzhou with Hu Yanqing, Yang Anxing felt very strange when he first saw him, but it was inconvenient to ask on the battlefield at that time, and he had no chance to ask until this time.
Hearing Yang Anxing ask this question, Hu Yanqing laughed and said: "Anxing, you also know that one of the ancestral teachings of our Huyan family is to recover Yanyun, and now I have finally completed it in place of my ancestors, but we also paid a lot of price for the recovery of Yanyun Sixteen Prefectures this time, the Hebei Army has lost a lot of people, and it will take a few years to recover its strength, in addition, our Great Song Dynasty has suffered serious internal friction in recent years, and it is estimated that we will not be able to move troops in a few years after this battle, and the school governor once said to me when he left Yanyun, The next most important task of our Great Song Dynasty is to recuperate, and it is estimated that it will be impossible to expand outward in ten years......"
"Wait a minute, why do I get more and more confused the more I listen, does this have anything to do with your departure from Yanyun Sixteen Prefectures?" At this time, Yang Anxing interrupted with a frowning and puzzled expression.
"Why are you still so anxious, you'll understand when I'm done!" Hu Yanqing glanced at Yang Anxing, and then continued, "Compared with our Great Song Dynasty, the Liao State is even more uncomfortable, Yelu Renxian's 100,000 army was destroyed by them, and many places near Zhongjing were also destroyed by the war, so the Liao State can be said to be a big injury, and in the next few years, the Liao State will definitely recuperate like our Great Song Dynasty, so that in the next ten years, there will be no more big battles on the Hebei Army's side." ”
When Yang Anxing heard this, he thought of Hu Yanqing's temperament again, and seemed to understand something at the moment, and couldn't help but speak again: "Brother Qing, don't you want to ......"
"That's right!" didn't wait for Yang Anxing to finish speaking. Hu Yanqing nodded and said, "You also know that I am an idle person, the Hebei Army needs a long time to recuperate, and it just so happened that I heard my cousin talk about things in the south, according to him, the school governor has a great layout overseas, especially in the next few years." My Great Song Dynasty will continue to expand outward, and then the land and water armies in the south will need to expand again, and the wars will be one after another, so I asked the school governor for instructions, and persuaded Chief Instructor Yang to let me out, join my cousin's army, and prepare to go overseas to do a big job! ”
"Sure enough!" Yang Anxing couldn't help but feel a little admired when he heard this, he originally took the credit that Hu Yanqing had made. It is not impossible to be a marquis in the future, but he knows that Hu Yanqing is not a peaceful person in his bones, and now he actually gave up the status that he had fought hard to fight before and went to fight overseas, which is not something that anyone can do.
"Brother Qing'er, I know your temper, since you have decided to go to the south, being a brother will not stop you. It's just that I've heard that the climate overseas is hot, and there are miasma plagues everywhere. If you're not careful, you might lose your life there, so be careful when you get there! Yang Anxing sighed at this time and said, as the so-called people have their own ambitions, although he doesn't agree with Hu Yanqing's choice, he can't interfere too much.
"Haha, you can rest assured of this Anxing. Although I like to fight, I don't want to die, and although the climate abroad is a bit harsh, I heard from my cousin that there are treasures everywhere overseas, gold, silver, jewelry, and so on. I remember when you were in the military academy, you used to boast to us that you had a three-foot-tall coral tree hidden in your house, and that when I went overseas, I had to find a bigger coral tree! Hu Yanqing was arrogant at this time.
When Hu Yanqing wanted to leave the Hebei Army, Hu Yanping, Yang Huaiyu and others did not agree, especially Hu Yanping regretted telling him about overseas affairs, but Zhao Yan could understand him, for people like Hu Yanqing, he wanted to live a stimulating life every day, so that he could stay in one place honestly and peacefully for a long time, that would simply drive Hu Yanqing crazy, in order to attack the sixteen states of Yanyun, Hu Yanqing honestly stayed in Hebei for a few years, but it was also the life experience of these years, made Hu Yanqing finally understand what kind of life he wanted.
"Your kid's tone is not small, the three-foot-tall coral tree is already a rare treasure, if you find a bigger one to come back, I will give you the one at home!" Yang Anxing saw that Hu Yanqing was so free and easy, and he also laughed and said at the moment.
At the time when Hu Yanqing and Yang Anxing brothers reunited to drink, the prisoner of war camp outside the city was bleak, Shi Fozi led nearly 40,000 rebels except for the dead and a few lucky escapes, the remaining more than 20,000 people were almost all held in this prisoner of war camp, among which the wounded were placed in the middle of the prisoner of war camp, because of the lack of medical treatment, resulting in these wounded people crying for their fathers and mothers, and the whole prisoner of war camp could not sleep.
Speaking of the war from Congxia, under the guidance of Zhao Yan, the Great Song Army has established a relatively complete medical system, and the number of military doctors is not small, such as Hu Yanping and Guo Kui's army, there are some military doctors accompanying them, but after today's battle, the Song army also has many soldiers injured, so the military doctors naturally give priority to treating the soldiers of the Great Song Dynasty, as for the wounded in these prisoners of war, then they can only wait until a few days before they have time to heal, as for whether they can survive to that day, only God knows.
In the outskirts of the wounded barracks, piles of bonfires are burning here, and circles of lightly injured prisoners of war sit here, although there is no explicit rule in the wounded barracks, but generally the more seriously injured, they will be carried closer to the core area, so that when those seriously wounded can't help but scream because of the pain, the impact on the people outside is less.
Next to an inconspicuous fire, there is a circle of wounded soldiers covered with blood, although these wounded soldiers look scary, but in fact, most of them are other people's blood, and the injuries on their bodies are not serious, just because after becoming prisoners of war, their lives are all handed over to the Song Dynasty, and rebellion is the crime of raiding the family and exterminating the clan, so after these people were captured, they all looked a little lost and depressed, revealing numb faces under the light of the fire.
Compared with others, a thin soldier sitting in the northeast corner looks different from others, in fact, it is not quite accurate to say this, on the surface, this thin soldier is not too abnormal, I saw that he is also covered with blood and mud, and the clothes on his body are also tattered, looking more embarrassed than other prisoners of war, and his face is also covered by black ash and mud, so that people can't see his original appearance, only occasionally showing a trace of gray hair from his helmet, But it shows that this person is not young.
Although this thin soldier looked no different from other soldiers on the surface, his eyes were not as numb and confused as the other prisoners of war, but from time to time he looked at his surroundings, and then lowered his head with a contemplative expression, as if he was thinking about something.
This thin young man was Mr. Cui, the first strategist beside Shi Fozi, and he didn't expect that when he first came to Hangzhou, he encountered an ambush of the Song army, and surrounded them at once, and he couldn't escape if he wanted to.
Speaking of which, the reason why Shi Fozi's army rushed to Hangzhou was because of Mr. Cui's strong persuasion, but now he encountered an ambush by the Song army, so Mr. Cui was worried that he would be cut down by Shi Fozi in a rage, and he also knew that in this situation of ambush on all sides, the chance of them wanting to break out was very small, and Shi Fozi would definitely attract most of the attention of the Song army, so it was the most dangerous to stay by his side, so in this case, he took advantage of the chaos to leave Shi Fozi's side, He took a set of clothes from a Manichaean soldier who died in battle, and wanted to find a chance to escape, but unfortunately the army of the Great Song Dynasty was very well defended, and he was not given a chance to escape at all, and finally had to surrender with the surrounding soldiers, and was imprisoned in a prisoner of war camp.
Mr. Cui usually only comes up with ideas behind Shi Fozi, so even among the rebels, there are not many people who know him, not to mention that he has made himself so embarrassed, but he is a very cautious person, worried that the people in the prisoner of war camp are too talkative, and it will be bad if someone recognizes him, so he simply gave himself a knife and mixed into the wounded barracks, where the number of people is small, and most of them are ordinary soldiers, as long as he is careful, he should not be recognized.
Although he became a prisoner, Mr. Cui was not as pessimistic as other prisoners of war, because he knew that although the rebellion was a crime of raiding the family and exterminating the clan, it was only aimed at the main figures in the rebel army, such as Shi Fozi, and his henchmen, etc., almost all of them could not escape the fate of raiding the family and exterminating the clan, of course, he also belonged to Shi Fozi's henchmen, but he had a trump card to save his life, but he didn't want to use that trump card unless he had to.
It is precisely because of this that Mr. Cui has been very calm in his heart after entering the prisoner of war camp, and after sitting down to rest, he has been analyzing the current situation, Shi Fozi has died, and the remaining Manichaean rebels are also dead or surrendered, even if a small number of people escape, it will not become any climate, so Manichaeism is over.
At the beginning, Mr. Cui was only dissatisfied with the Song Dynasty because of the dismissal, and saw that Manichaeism was powerful, so he decided to take refuge in Shi Fozi, and planned to take a risk, but unfortunately now it seems that this bet is wrong, but Mr. Cui also knows that it is too late to regret it now, for him, the most important thing now is to find a way to escape, although he knows that the Song Dynasty cannot execute all tens of thousands of prisoners of war at once, but it must be a living crime, and this fate is really uncomfortable in the hands of others. (To be continued......)