Chapter 270: One Million Captives
Chapter 270 – One Million Captives
Several consecutive military orders were given, the handsome tent was no longer half loud, and the kicking sound of the cold-blooded Iron Floating Guards’ warhorses was faintly heard from outside.
Xin Zhuo once again looked at the Moonwatch Well, and there was still no change.
Simply sit down and close your eyes.
At noon on the second day, news came in-
Yuchi Shuozhen had already led his men to occupy the supply warehouse of the Western Region allied forces in Jiwei Town, with unimaginable amounts of armored equipment, food, and provisions, enough for the half a million troops to hold out for three months according to the quartermaster’s statistics.
Half a million troops for three months?
The Western Qin army itself has more than 100,000 troops, plus 800,000 prisoners from the Western Regions, and more than 200,000 undead remnants of the plague in Qinghuwan, which is more than 1.1 million.
This was by no means something that a million plus troops could hold out for a month and a half.
In the afternoon, news came again that Bai Xuanqi and the five women of the Bear Paw had arrived in Turtle Wei Prefecture, where the news of the defeat of the Western Region army had already reached, and one prefecture and six provinces had surrendered to the wind.
Immediately after that, one state, eight prefectures, and seventy-two Western Clan barbarians’ strongholds in Qiu Ling Prefecture rose up in smoke and revolts everywhere, with an extremely large number of people turning toward Western Qin.
The situation in the four directions is very good, only the western region routed prisoners still have no news.
Xin Zhuo continue to wait patiently, this wait, wait until the third day late at night.
Jiang XIII arrived in a flurry of wind and fire, bowed and reported: “Great Governor Bing, we encountered seventeen places of resistance, which lasted for two days and one night, and has been suppressed in all, most of the allied forces of the western region were infected with plague, and were unable to run away, totaling one million and two hundred thousand captives, with only the remaining Ghost Fang country’s marshal Si Guiqi, King Ghost Fang’s Prince Amazing Ruqi, Princess Si Si An of Gumo country, and King Anzhi’s Prince An Lu Feiying, etc. leading two thousand personal guards fled to the direction of the Folding Family and Yuchi Family in Mawara, one thousand miles away!”
“Folding Family, Yuchi Family ……”
Xin Zhuo still had some knowledge of these centuries-old border military town gate valves, besides the Folding Family and Yuchi Family there was also the Lin Family, the Gusu Family, and the Mathay Family!
These military gate valves, extremely many children, martial arts experts, hidden private soldiers are extremely fierce, is in addition to the Jiang family, the land of Western Qin and even the western region of the largest power of the family, that is, the Western Qin army Lin Haotian, Yuchi Jun, folding Kun, is also the children of these gate valves.
A few months ago, the West Qin army failed miserably, lost three thousand miles of horse original, West River nine water corridor, absolutely have these families out of work, or perfunctory credit!
It is rumored that they have surrendered to the Western Region Army!
Xin Zhuo eyes flickered for a moment, smiled, did not mention anything, just asked: “Where are all the prisoners?”
Jiang XIII replied: “All in the generation from White Sand Beach to Green Lake Bay.”
……
Vertical day early morning.
West Qin County King marquee started, in eight hundred iron floating guards, seven thousand West Qin iron cavalry flanked, straight to the white sand beach.
It arrived at noon.
Before they even got close, they could already see the continuous tattered tents and the black pressurized patches of disheveled Western soldiers, being driven like pigs and dogs to close in on one place.
“Da da da da ……”
A large group of generals, including Jiang Gu’en, Lin Haotian, Tuoba K’ei, Jiang Yuxi, and Jiang Barbaric, had already greeted them amidst the roiling dust.
“Great Capital Governor!”
The complexion of the crowd was more tense, fervent and worshipful than before, that day when millions of armies dueled, there were too many battles, too many dangers, countless repeated attacks, no one could remember the details anymore, but the Great Capital Governor’s center charge and that hideous unicorn silhouette was something that no one could ignore.
They even thought that at least one person, the Grand Metropolitan Governor, accounted for most of the credit for this battle.
Xin Zhuo nodded slightly and smiled, “All generals have worked hard!”
“The Grand Capital Governor has also worked hard!” Veteran general Jiang Gu’en looked serious as he made a military salute: “This battle is a credit to the Grand Capital Governor!”
Xin Zhuo shook his head: “I’m not a god, what credit does one person get? Old general overpraised me, my face is red.”
The crowd laughed, and Yuchi Jun said:Â “It has been meticulously counted, and one million two hundred and thirty three thousand eight hundred and ninety three people were captured, just ……”
After deliberating for a while, he smiled bitterly and said: “It’s just that the plague is rampant, and I’m afraid that if so many people gather together, there’s going to be a mess, and the West Qin sons and daughters are all blocking their noses with diapers!”
“Can’t come out, the plague only has five days efficacy, it’s almost time to disperse!” Xin Zhuo leaped his horse and ran towards the wide and boundless captive camp.
Behind the generals were stunned, the heart can not help but rise a chill, they are aware of the “plague” thing, also heard of Zhang Guangpu three people and nineteen army lieutenants, the great governor …… not only created the plague, but also calculated the time of dissipation?
What kind of calculation is this? When the old marshal Jiang Wen was alive, he was already a dragon among men, but he was no match for his son’s calculations.
He was only seventeen years old!
The people exchanged glances and hurriedly caught up with the Grand Capital’s pace.
Captive camp has arrived, into the eyes is full of disheveled, fear, anxiety and weakness of the “plague” symptoms, stretches for dozens of miles of more than a million Western allied prisoners, has changed from the iron blood, murderous, like a group of lambs to be slaughtered, the eyes are with a few points of numbness.
Many of these Western soldiers were seriously injured, and were assisted by their robes, no matter whether they were assisted or injured, they all looked a bit mute.
Among them there is also a group of female generals, female pawns, armor tattered, revealing white chest, surprisingly also undisguised, it seems that will die, propriety and righteousness are not important.
Farther away from the boundless surrendered soldiers, sitting cross-legged, a dead silence.
Xin Zhuo once imagined, why the captives are several times more than the escort, still willing to be slaughtered, no one to resist, you even with teeth gnawing, maybe you can also crush the enemy, right?
In fact, the Western Qin army of eighty to ninety thousand people captured more than a million, the matter itself is a bit funny.
At this moment it was understood.
These people had lost their confidence, lost their hope, all of them were shrouded in pessimism, and their hearts were filled with palpitations and fear after a great defeat, the frontal engagement had already been lost, what could be done to resist?
Or, they want someone to lead, but the person who is wanted to lead also wants someone else to lead…….
This self-contradiction, self-denial and post-war disillusionment syndrome is enough to completely destroy their self-confidence.
Continuing to walk forward, you can occasionally see a group of Western Region soldiers clustered around some people, although downcast, but still some popularity.
Xin Zhuo carefully surveyed these people, his gaze from calm to complex, and finally turned cold.
Ahead was the marquee tent guarding the camp, Xin Zhuo dismounted and walked in, sitting cross-legged on the marquee.
A few moments later, dozens of Western Qin Army’s main generals came in in a line, saluting and sitting in two rows.
Yuchi Jun cupped his fists and said, “How should these prisoners be disposed of, please ask the Grand Capital Governor to decide!”
All the generals have to agree, this is the right intention, after all, will be allied forces in the western region captured is the Great Governor’s military orders, even at this moment all the generals can not understand the Great Governor’s true intentions!
To be so many western descendants, and what is the use, can not afford to feed!
Xin Zhuo scanned the faces of a group of people, smiled softly and said: “If I want to organize these soldiers, what do you think?”
The generals looked at each other, Jiang Gu’en first stood up and refused: “This matter is not acceptable, if you are not a member of my race, your heart will be different, so many descended pawns, once they have armor and weapons, it is inevitable that they will have dissenting thoughts in the future, which is difficult to control!”
Yuchi Jun also got up and said, “If Da Dudu wants to expand his army and restore the old Western Qin army, he can recruit from the three states, eighteen provinces, three hundred and eighty strongholds, and even the three thousand miles of Horse Plains and the nine water corridors of the Western River after the recapture! These descended soldiers cannot be used!”
(End of chapter)