The news of Liu Yue's escape to Bingzhou soon reached Cao Liang. In this battle of West Liulin, the Wei army won a complete victory. The only flaw was that Liu Yue escaped, which also caused many Wei army soldiers to escape.

Sadly, if they had fought more resolutely, Liu Yue might not have escaped.

For the Wei army, which was determined to annihilate the Huns, this could not but be said to be a pity.

However, for Cao Liang, he soon felt relieved. This time, he wiped out the main force of the Huns in the south in one fell swoop, and the results were brilliant. As for escaping Liu Yue, it didn't matter. Liu Yue's troops had already been completely destroyed.

Now that he is the only commander left, how much trouble can he cause?

Even if he escapes to Bingzhou, so what? Cao Liang is definitely going to march to Bingzhou anyway, and it won't be too late to deal with him then.

The most urgent task now is how to deal with those Huns prisoners of war and the bunch of women, children, old and weak people left behind.

The number of Hun soldiers captured this time was indeed too many. The final count turned out to be more than half of the Hun army, reaching more than 5,500 people.

It seems that the Huns are not all fierce and brave people. There are still a lot of weaklings. They usually look domineering, but when it comes to the critical moment of life and death, these Huns all lose their fighting spirit and bend their knees.

Surrendering is simply without integrity.

They are not even as good as ordinary Wei soldiers. In times of crisis, many Wei soldiers can still regard death as if they are home, fight bravely, and will never surrender easily.

Obviously these Huns soldiers were far behind in terms of willpower. All they cared about was their own life and death. When times were good, they could move forward indomitably, but in times of adversity, they easily collapsed.

But so many prisoners of war also brought a lot of trouble to Cao Liang. First of all, eating was the biggest problem. There were five to six thousand people with five to six thousand mouths, and the amount of food they had to eat every day was an extremely huge amount. Cao Liang's men

If there is an establishment of 10,000 people, then the court's food and salary will be paid based on 10,000 people. Any extra people will no longer be within the scope of the court's burden.

Cao Liang himself has recruited a lot of auxiliary soldiers this time. The auxiliary soldiers are not included in the establishment, so Cao Liang needs to pay for them out of his own pocket. But the auxiliary soldiers are indispensable to Cao Liang, so Cao Liang is willing to pay no matter how much food and salary he has.

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But these prisoners of war have become a burden, and the food they consume every day is almost half of the imperial ration. No matter how rich Cao Liang is, he will not be able to afford it for a long time.

More importantly, these prisoners of war have no value and will not increase the combat effectiveness of the army. On the contrary, Cao Liang needs to send someone to guard him, and there must be no fewer guards, otherwise it will be even worse if these Huns escape.

Trouble.

But no matter how troublesome Cao Liang is, he must keep these prisoners of war. If they are released, these people may soon take up arms and continue to fight against the Wei army, causing trouble.

What makes Cao Liang even more embarrassed is that without these prisoners of war, Cao Liang could have marched lightly, marched northward, pursued Liu Yue and marched towards Bingzhou, but now because of the drag of so many Xiongnu prisoners of war, the Pingbei Army could only

Stalled.

Therefore, these Huns prisoners of war have become a hot potato. Whether they can be imprisoned or released, whether they can be released, and whether they can be killed or killed seems to have become a difficult problem to solve.

If the problem of Xiongnu prisoners of war cannot be solved quickly, the Pingbei Army will have to allocate part of its troops to guard these prisoners of war, which will make the Pingbei Army, which is already somewhat stretched in terms of strength, even worse.

In addition to the matter of Xiongnu prisoners of war, there is also the matter of the Xiongnu tribe that needs Cao Liang to deal with.

When the Huns fought, they adopted the method of all-people fighting. That is to say, all young and strong men from fifteen to fifty were recruited by Liu Yue. However, despite this, the women, children, old and weak people left behind by the Xiongnu tribe

Still more than the young men recruited.

Although Liu Yue fled to Bingzhou, the remaining Xiongnu tribes were waiting for Cao Liang to deal with.

These Xiongnu civilians are completely different from the prisoners of war captured on the battlefield. Although the Huns have a tradition of burning, killing and looting, and have committed heinous crimes against Han civilians, Cao Liang is after all a person from a civilized modern society.

, it was definitely not his idea to kill innocent people indiscriminately, not to mention that what he faced was just a group of helpless women and children, and such a sinful thing would never be done.

But if these remaining Xiongnu children are not dealt with, then the Xiongnu children who are babbling and stumbling now will grow into strong men in ten years. If the weeds are not eradicated, it is likely to trigger another epidemic.

rebellion.

Therefore, solving the problems of these Xiongnu civilians has become another thorny problem for Cao Liang.

This Xiongnu rebellion and the future Wuhu Rebellion actually reflect a strategic mistake made by a Central Plains dynasty against the inward migration of the Hu people.

After the Huns and other Hu peoples continued to migrate southward and entered the Central Plains, although the Central Plains Dynasty also sent officials to manage them and used differentiation methods to divide and rule their tribes, this divide and rule method still had certain flaws.

, that is, the Central Plains Dynasty adopted the method of isolating the Huns and other Hu people. It only designated the residence of the Hu people and did not allow the local Han people and the Hu people to communicate with each other. It did not completely disrupt the tribal structure of the Hu people.

The Hu people were not integrated into the Han people.

If Cao Liang continues to use the previous methods of managing the Huns and other barbarians, it will be tantamount to treating the symptoms but not the root cause. Although the rebellion of the Huns in the south has been quelled and the ethnic conflicts have been temporarily resolved, in the long run, these problems still cannot be eradicated.

The disastrous consequences of Wu Huan's chaos in China still cannot be solved.

Therefore, Cao Liang was very cautious about how to deal with the Xiongnu civilians. If he wanted to truly solve the problem of the Wuhu Rebellion, he had to find a solution from the root cause.

Cao Liang was definitely not willing to bear the reputation of a butcher, even if he could bring a high-sounding reason, so the plan to massacre Xiongnu civilians on a large scale was not in Cao Liang's consideration at all.

So what can we do to truly prevent the Wuhu Rebellion from happening?

In fact, Cao Liang had a plan for a long time, which was to completely disrupt the social structure of the Huns, integrate these Xiongnu civilians into the Han social system, change the living structure with the Xiongnu tribe as the main body, and integrate these Xiongnu civilians into
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