Chapter 249 Killing Prisoners

A night of silence.

This made Meng Ying breathe a sigh of relief.

The most dangerous time has passed.

Just like fighting, the most dangerous time is when a punch is thrown. The new strength has gone and the old strength has not yet been regenerated. The same is true for fighting.

Yesterday's sudden battle occurred without any preparation on either side.

After a bloody battle, the cavalry led by Shi Heng was exhausted and had no strength to fight anymore. Meng Ying's cavalry may not be good enough anymore. Those who really have some fighting ability are the infantrymen left.

They still persist.

If Waqi is willing to risk everything and counterattack, it's hard to say whether he will win or lose.

But one night passed, and the situation was completely different.

Because the Ming army as a whole still had organization, but it was more out of power.

After all, in the era of cold weapons, human strength is just like bullets and gasoline in the era of hot weapons. Without strength, an army of one hundred thousand people is no match for a fresh force.

But after one night passed, although the army did not fully recover.

After all, anyone who has exercise experience knows that if you exercise too much, or even exercise to the point of exhaustion, you will not be able to recover in a day or two.

But the most basic strength has been restored.

Even if Waqi's counterattack is unlikely to succeed, after all, Xuanfu's new force is about to arrive.

At this time, Meng Ying heard good news again.

Wa Ci retreated.

Wasi's troops did not hesitate to leave the troops surrounded by the Ming army to Meng Ying.

I'm sorry, but I won't damage my capital for these people.

Meng Ying was overjoyed and immediately ordered all ministries to reduce the encirclement.

If we say that last night, the net that Meng Ying spread was still a net with very large meshes, and some small fish and shrimps could be exposed from the meshes. But at this moment, Meng Ying ordered the net to be closed, but the cavalrymen from each unit were divided into several teams, and they

The various Tatar tribes still stranded here were driven together.

Compared with the feeling of the Ming army's thorns, these people felt worse.

In any case, all the troops of Wasizai escaped from the encirclement, and they could be considered to have escaped. Although the troops of the Ming army were tired, they still had the most basic dry food.

But these Tatar tribes were the most brutally killed by the Ming army.

Apart from the battle with Shi Heng, the people of Wasi's headquarters never fought against Meng Ying. In other words, Meng Ying's brilliant record was achieved by following the tribe.

All the stubborn ones among these tribes died at the hands of the Ming army.

After being blocked by the Ming army at various mountain passes, these people spent the whole night doing one thing, which was to find a way out. They climbed over mountains and ridges, and went through mountains and valleys, just to find a way out of this mountainous area.

As mentioned above, although this is the northern foothills of Yanshan Mountain, generally speaking, the mountain is not steep, but the main road that can pass the army was blocked by the Ming army.

These tribes did not find small roads, but the traffic capacity of these small roads was much worse than that of the main roads. Therefore, they did not escape much overnight.

Facing the Ming army's encirclement and interception.

Although some of these Tatars resisted, most of them surrendered. After all, they were used to it.

By the end of the day, Meng Ying had captured nearly 70,000 Tatars.

As for the horses, there were more than 100,000 of them, many of which were left behind by the fleeing Tatars, because some paths could not accommodate horses to pass through, and had to be climbed by humans.

Although the hundreds of thousands of horses acquired were not entirely war horses, there were a lot of war horses among them, which greatly made up for the gap in the war horses of the Ming Dynasty.

But there is another tragic situation, that is, tens of thousands of people were kidnapped by the Tatars, and all of them were rescued. Of course, some of them fought to the death in yesterday's war. After all, there was a fierce battle yesterday, and no one cared about the things of the people.

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Among these people, most women have few men.

After all, most people of the Ming Dynasty in this era felt that the imperial court would definitely win, so as men, it was this confidence that allowed them to persist in fighting to the end.

It's not like after the Tatar invasion became a habit, powerful people in many places have reached a tacit understanding with the Tatars.

Women exist as property.

Regardless of whether she likes it or not, as long as she can give birth to babies by the Tatars.

Women are a strategic resource.

There are countless tragic things.

This made people furious. So many generals of the border army came to Meng Ying to request that the Tatars be severely punished. Meng Ying actually followed the good example this time and said: "The Tatars invaded this year, which is what they have done in previous years. If we don't punish them severely, how will we deal with the dead?"

The people of the Ming Dynasty will explain how to make these Tatars know that the power of the Ming Dynasty cannot be violated."

Meng Ying said: "Give me the order to take away all the prisoners and behead them all. I will build a temple here."

As soon as this statement came out, everyone was shocked.

"General, you must not do this. We will kill and capture the prisoners for unknown reasons. There are clear lessons from ancient times. How can we explain to His Majesty at this time?" Wu Xing immediately came out and said.

After all, Wu Xing has high qualifications. There are things that others dare not say, but he dares to say them.

Meng Ying narrowed her eyes slightly, put a sword on the desk, and said, "General Wu, do you have anything to say?"

This sword is none other than the Yitian Sword used by Duke Cheng Zhu Yong to commit suicide. After the death of Duke Cheng, this sword was temporarily kept by Yang Hong. When Meng Ying took over the post of General of the Zhenglu, it was given to Meng Ying.

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What else does Wuxing have to say?

I can only retreat.

Meng Ying said: "Since it is so quick to execute it."

"Yes." After the generals left, one of them came over, and it was none other than Meng Yuan.

Meng Yuan was about to speak, but was stopped by Meng Ying. Meng Ying said: "I know you want to ask why? I am a murderous person, but there is no other way. You also know that the national treasury is not rich today, and there is a big project on the Yellow River in the south.

, there are two dilapidated towns of Xuanda in the north."

"But the army is out there, and people are eating horses' chews. It can be said that thousands of gold are spent every day, and the treasury has long been empty. After all, there is no intention to promote war, but the chief assistant sent me the accounts of the Ministry of Revenue."

"Although we have won today, the matter of spending money is not over yet. There are tens of thousands of women outside, and they must be appeased one by one. The soldiers from all over the country must have rewards from the army. As for the many dilapidated cities in Xuanda and Dazhou,

, it needs to be repaired, people in various places need to be relieved, and there are also some new checkpoints that need to be built."

"Among other things, Zijingguan needs to be repaired."

"This is all money. Not to mention these hundreds of thousands of horses. You have to know that if there is no pasture for grazing, the appetite of horses is greater than that of humans."

"With all these things, the national treasury has long been unable to support them. I have made it clear that in this battle, the imperial court generals Cheng Guogong and Zhenyuan Hou were robbed and sold off, so that they could raise enough money.

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"Sometimes, the ministers have to relieve His Majesty's worries. If there are tens of thousands of Tatar prisoners, so with a little reorganization, there will be a three thousand battalion. Not to mention how much blood of the Xuanda people are stained on these people's hands.

Can the border troops from all over the country agree? Money alone may not be enough."

Meng Yuan said: "It's just that my uncle's reputation will be -------"

Meng Ying smiled slightly and said, "You have to know that something other than a good reputation is good."

Meng Ying's words are somewhat meaningful.

Because military power is not other rights.

It can be said that the power of the Ming army was firmly in the hands of the emperor in the system of Emperor Taizu.

Since Taizu and Taizong had always had military power, the two emperors would kill whoever they wanted.

But when you get to Xuanzong, things are a little different.

Xuanzong was also able to fight with troops, and he could be regarded as an emperor on horseback. But even an emperor on horseback may not be able to completely control all the soldiers and horses.

Looking at Xuanzong's treatment of Zhang Fu, we can see that although Xuanzong controlled the situation in the army, his control was far from that of Taizu Taizong.

Zhu Qizhen's control over the army was even worse than Emperor Xuanzong's control.

There is an essential difference between the two, that is, Zhu Qizhen controlled the military in the name of emperor rather than general, and from Taizu Taizong to Xuanzong, the emperors of the Ming Dynasty all had the dual attributes of emperor and general.

The army is the largest violent group. It naturally worships the strong and can lead them to victory. When this general becomes their emperor, the loyalty of the soldiers to the emperor at that time is almost absolute.

Untouchable by anyone.
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