Chapter 752: Dealing with the Captives (Part II)
After listening to Yun Yao's words, Gao Yuan said, "Have you discussed it with Elder Feng Hao?" ”
Yun Yao shook his head and said, "It's not yet, although I won't be arbitrary when it comes to how to deal with them, I will always have to discuss with everyone, but before I gather everyone to discuss, I must have an idea first, no matter what, I am also the Great Blessing Master of the White Spirit Clan now, and I can't expect them to give me ideas." If they asked me, I would have had an answer, but I never thought about what to do with them, so I had to consult with my husband first. ”
Gao Yuan smiled, Yun Yao was able to think about it like this, which showed that she had fully adapted to the role of the Great Zhushi of the Bai Ling Clan, which was of course a good thing, after all, the Bai Ling Clan was an important force in the hands of Gao Yuan, so the stronger Yun Yao's ability to control the Bai Ling Clan, the more beneficial it would be to herself.
Therefore, Gao Yuan thought for a while and said, "Is it so difficult that you don't have any thoughts in your heart?" ”
Yun Yao said: "Feng Yi and Yun Qi killed my parents back then, and this time they were the masterminds of the rebellion, of course they can't be forgiven, they must be executed, otherwise it is not enough to obey, but the others are a little difficult, they all rebelled with Feng Yi and Yun Qi, of course they are guilty, but they are not condemned to death, and the Bai Ling clan has no imprisonment, hard labor and other punishments, or when we return to Daijun, we will be punished according to the laws of Daijun?" ”
Gao Yuan said with a smile: "After returning to Daijun, even if they are residents of Daijun, if there is any more illegal rebellion, they can naturally be punished according to the decree of Daijun, but when they launched a rebellion, they were not residents of Daijun, and it would be a bit unjustifiable to punish them with Daijun's decree, and besides, you are the great master of the Bailing clan, if you use Daijun's decree to punish them, it will also damage your prestige." ”
Yun Yao said: "What the husband said also makes sense, so what should I do?" ”
Gao Yuan said: "My construction is that I can't generalize about other people, because even if they are accomplices, there are master-slaves and slaves, and master-slaves refer to those who take the initiative to help Feng Yi and Yunqi launch a rebellion, they can be said to be Feng Yi and Yunqi's cronies, and they are also the main accomplices, without their help, Feng Yi and Yunqi would not have been able to launch this rebellion at all, so they cannot be forgiven, and they should be punished in the same way as Feng Yi and Yunqi; And being subordinate refers to those who don't want to rebel, but are coerced and tempted, so they follow Feng Yi and Yunqi to launch a rebellion, although they are not active rebellion, but the same crime is not forgivable, otherwise every rebel can use being forced as an excuse and not punished, but the punishment they receive can be lighter, I think there can be two ways to send down, one is to be demoted to slaves, but there are no slaves in the Bailing clan, so this method is a little inappropriate; And the other way is to exile them on the prairie, not give them any tools and food, let them fend for themselves, and resign themselves to fate, but with the ability of the Bai Ling people, even if they start from scratch, it is not too difficult to survive on the grassland, and the probability is much greater than that of others. ”
After Yun Yao heard this, she also thought about it seriously, nodded, and said, "I think my husband's method is very good, at least I can come up with a plan for them to discuss, and see which punishment is better, I will immediately recruit Feng Hao to congratulate them and discuss." ”
Gao Yuan smiled and said, "I have decided to rest here for five days, so you also have enough time to discuss and discuss, and there is no need to rush it, I have decided to hold a banquet tonight to celebrate our victory over the Hun army, and after the soldiers have been treated, they will immediately turn back to the camp and prepare." ”
Yun Yao nodded and said with a smile: "Okay, I'll leave the matter here to Yun Jing and Yun Na, and I'll go back to prepare the arrangement immediately." ”
In the evening, Gao Yuan held a grand banquet in the camp, and slaughtered a total of 10,000 sheep and 500 cattle, so that everyone could have a full meal of beef and mutton, but the wine brought with them was not much, and it could only be served to the soldiers who had participated in the battle, and each person could only get a small bowl. But at this time, it's good to have such conditions.
And Ling Feng brought five hundred sheep and ten cows to Mojia Village, which also made the residents of Mojia Village really excited, because the conditions in Mojia Village are very poor, although some land is planted, it is only enough to survive, and the animal husbandry industry is not developed, and there are so many cattle and sheep at once, enough for each family to eat for several days, which has never happened before. Therefore, every household is in high spirits and makes a fire to cook meat.
At the same time, Ling Feng also invited the other two village chiefs of Mojia Village to the camp to participate in the celebration banquet. During the banquet, Gao Yuan also told the three of them that after five days, the group of people and horses would leave the camp and return to Daijun, so the people in Mojia Village were also asked to prepare in these few days and set off together. All three of them agreed.
In the following days, while continuing to clean up the battlefield and cleaning up the loot, he also began to prepare to get back on the road.
It was not until the third day that the results of this battle were fully counted, and a total of 38,353 Hun soldiers were killed in this battle, and after the identification of the captured Hun soldiers, the new Xiongnu Shan Yu Maodun and nine other tribal patriarchs were found from the corpses. In fact, nearly half of the people died in the internal fighting of the Xiongnu, and they were Mao Dun and the tribal patriarch, all of whom died in the internal fighting, and of course, all of them were counted as the results of the army.
At the same time, this battle also captured 6,737 Xiongnu soldiers, even if the fleeing Xiongnu soldiers are not counted, more than 45,000 Xiongnu soldiers were eliminated, plus the Hun soldiers eliminated in the first two wars, so the losses of the Xiongnu army are definitely more than half, and the losses of the Dai army and the Bailing tribe themselves are that the Dai army has a total of 266 killed and 27 seriously wounded; Four hundred and thirty-five of the Bailing warriors were killed and forty-five were seriously wounded, for a total of no more than eight hundred. In addition, the herd suffered a total of more than 400 wolves, leopards, tigers and bears, which is a perfect victory in terms of casualty ratio alone.
The spoils of this battle were also very rich, only the war horses obtained reached 37,267 horses, and all kinds of tent fur reached more than 7,000 pieces, in addition to more than 15,000 bows, hundreds of thousands of feather arrows, and after defeating the Hun army's transport team, it also captured more than 150,000 sheep, more than 6,000 cattle, about 50,000 stones of other grain, and more than 800 vehicles of various kinds. As a result, all kinds of supplies piled up in the camp.
This is not only to ensure the food for the return journey, but also to enrich the accumulation of materials in the government treasury of Daijun after returning to Daijun, because war horses, tents, bows and arrows, and vehicles are all military supplies.
Other things are easy to handle, although the harvest of materials is very large, but also a large number of cattle and horses have been obtained, plus with the help of the Bailing people, there is no shortage of transportation capacity. But what to do with the more than 6,700 Hun soldiers who were captured. Of course, Gao Yuan will not kill all these Hun soldiers, but they are all released, and the generals are also a little unwilling, which is too easy for them.
In fact, both the plateau and the generals hope to bring these captives back to Daijun, because outside the Yanmen Pass, there are nomadic settlements, and now there are more than 100,000 herdsmen who have settled down, and they are also the source of soldiers for the Fan Yong Army, and it is certainly not difficult to accommodate these Xiongnu prisoners. And this group of Xiongnu captives of course have excellent soldier potential, as long as a little training, you can train an army with outstanding battles, which greatly expands the source of the Fan Yong army, so if you can bring this group of captives back to Daijun, of course, it is the best.
But it is not an easy task to bring the captives back so far. Now the food of the brigade is completely sufficient, but there are still nearly 2,000 miles away from Daijun, and the number of prisoners is close to 7,000, which is more than double the number of Dai army, so how to manage this group of prisoners on the way, in case of encountering other Hun troops again, will this group of prisoners launch a rebellion, and don't make it a problem to raise tigers at that time.
However, after Gao Yuan and the generals discussed, everyone still thought that these captives should be brought back to Daijun, although the number of Dai soldiers was not large, as long as the Xiongnu captives were not allowed to have horses and weapons, there was no need to worry, and there were also warriors and beasts of the Bailing tribe, so it was completely able to control the Xiongnu captives.
In addition, if you encounter the problem of other Xiongnu troops on the way back, Ah Ran Shi Qimo thinks that this possibility does not come, one is in the grassland, the Spring Festival is not the season of conquest, the herdsmen are busy taking care of the livestock, generally at this time, there will be few wars between the tribes, like this time in the spring to recruit 100,000 troops to go out, extremely rare, it is estimated that there is unlikely to appear a second time; The second is that now the 100,000 Xiongnu army has been defeated by the Dai army, no matter what the reason, for the other tribes, it cannot but be a stern warning, so that when other tribes want to send troops to attack the Bailing Clan, they must also seriously consider whether they have the strength to provoke the Bailing Clan. Third, now the Xiongnu have no single Yu, and in this battle and killed more than ten tribal leaders, in the Xiongnu tribe, there will be a huge power vacuum, will inevitably cause a fight, the leaders of the tribes in order to compete for the position of Shan Yu, but also in order to take advantage of the annexation of other tribes, maybe there will be a comprehensive Xiongnu infighting, not a few years, I am afraid there will be no result, even drag on for decades, the decline of the Xiongnu tribe is not impossible. Of course, the Xiongnu tribe did not have the energy to attack the brigade of the Bailing tribe.
Therefore, based on these reasons, in the process of returning, as long as the army itself strengthens its vigilance, it is not very likely that the Xiongnu troops will attack the Bailing brigade, and there is no need to worry about any changes in the Xiongnu captives.
After listening to Ah Ranshi's words, Gao Yuan and the other generals also thought so, so they decided to bring these Xiongnu captives back to Daijun.