The battle did last for more than four hours. When the Huns retreated, the battlefield was full of dead bodies of people and war horses.

The dead bodies piled up in mountains also heard the wail of the wounded from time to time.

A team of Wei soldiers walked back and forth between the bodies, cleaning up the battlefield.

Although the recruitment system of the Great Wei army was adopted, once the soldiers entered the military camp, they would receive generous subsidies every month.

They do not need to accumulate wealth like soldiers from all walks of life, and they must dig up their own things on the battlefield if they want to accumulate wealth.

Many Wei troops dug out many square pits dozens of steps away from the battlefield.

Not far from the big pit, some long and small pits were dug out.

The Wei army, who had swept the battlefield, carried the bodies of the Huns and threw them into the pit at will.

The Wei army, who were carrying the death of the battle, carefully placed it next to the small pit.

When they were placed, someone would immediately come to clean the face and hands and feet of the Wei army who died in battle.

After washing, the body will be wrapped with the leather of the war horse peeled from the battlefield, and then the two people will carry the body into a small pit and lay it flat.

In each small pit, only three bodies of Wei army were placed.

Looking at the Wei Jun who was dealing with the corpse, Cao Yi asked Cao Heng: "Brother, wrap the corpse in horse skin. Is it often said that the body is wrapped in horse leather?"

"That's right." Cao Heng replied: "The horse-legged corpse is the highest honor of every soldier, but not all soldiers who fight on the battlefield can receive such treatment. If you want the horse-legged corpse, the most important thing is that we must win."

His eyes turned to a large pit filled with the bodies of the Huns. Cao Heng continued: "Once the war is defeated, although the enemy will also bury the bodies of our army, they will throw them into the pit casually like we buried these Huns. They will no longer care about how much they are placed in the pit and what posture they will do after they are thrown in. It is their fate to be buried for them."

"It's still the righteousness of the Great Wei." Cao Yi said: "The Huns are enemies of us, and we actually have to bury their bodies..."

Cao Yi was talking, a Wei army who was cleaning the battlefield grabbed a seriously injured Hun's hair and dragged it toward a big pit like a dead dog.

The Huns who were holding their hair were wailing and shouting something, as if they were begging for mercy, but the Wei army ignored it at all.

When they arrived at the big pit, the Wei army drew out the short sword and stabbed the Huns on the neck.

While blood splattered, he kicked the killed Huns into the pit.

"See, this is the kindness and righteousness of the battlefield." Cao Heng turned his head to look at Cao Yi with a surprised face: "If we release the Huns, after we go back, they will still be enemies with us when they are well wounded in the future. Perhaps our soldiers will die at the hands of the Huns who were released. Therefore, with prisoners, we never leave a living. Unless the war has come to the end and they have been completely conquered by us, kindness to the enemy is cruel to our comrades."

He patted Cao Yi on the shoulder gently, and Cao Heng said again: "We buried the Huns not to let them get buried for peace, but the bodies were exposed and the beasts could not be dragged away. Over time, the decay of the corpse can easily cause plague. What we want is not only to kill the Huns, but also to the land here and conquer it, so we must bury the enemies that we did not want to bury."

"The emperor's meaning is..." The explanation given by Cao Heng was very different from what Cao Yi imagined. He looked at Cao Heng in disbelief and wanted to ask something, but in the end he didn't ask.

Knowing what he wanted to ask, Cao Heng said, "I just want to tell you that there is no so-called benevolence and righteousness in the battlefield. Both sides are trying their best to completely destroy the other party. Weapons are in our hands, and if we don't kill the enemy, they will be killed by the enemy. The war has not reached a bright day, and keeping any prisoner may bring us unexpected disasters. There is no benevolence and righteousness in the battlefield, and there is no compassion. Don't bring mercy and kindness to the battlefield. There is only killing, only courage and life and death. Except for these, any other emotion is a luxury on the battlefield."

Before coming outside the pass, Cao Yi once made the battlefield very simple.

He believed that the war was just a battle between the two sides, and after the battle was over, they retreated.

In other words, in his past understanding, although the battlefield was bloody, it would never be as bloody as before his eyes.

Looking at the Wei army who was sweeping the battlefield, Cao Yi didn't know how to express his inner emotions.

Cao Heng said to him: "For the first time on the battlefield, most people will be like you and cannot adapt to the scene in front of you. Don't watch here, you will have a tent to rest first. I will go to you later."

Without waiting for Cao Yi to respond, Cao Heng ordered Zhang Bao on the side: "General Zhang, send the second prince back to the account."

Zhang Bao took the order and said to Cao Yi: "Second Prince, please!"

Cao Yi did not dare to go against Cao Heng's wishes, so he sued and left with Zhang Bao.

When Cao Yi left, Zhou Yu asked Cao Heng: "Crown Prince, if there is any war in the future, should the second prince avoid it? I think he seems..."

"It seems like something?" Cao Heng interrupted him: "He is the Cao family's son and the prince of the Great Wei. He was clamoring to come with me to attack the aliens outside the pass. I brought him here, not only to protect him from being thorough, but also to let him understand what the battlefield is and what killing is. He also wants to let him know that the country of the Great Wei was obtained by the soldiers in these killings."

Jiang Wei's meaning was to keep Cao Yi away from the battlefield, but Cao Heng did not allow it, so he was inconvenient to say more.

Looking at the soldiers who were cleaning the bodies, Cao Heng asked Jiang Wei: "How many soldiers have been damaged by our army in this battle?"

Jiang Wei replied: "The battlefield is still being cleaned up, and it is not clear how many soldiers have lost. When they are all cleaned up, they will know."

"If you get specific numbers, you must report them to me." Cao Heng said: "Also, don't forget to register and book the soldiers with their names. You must also engrave their names clearly on their tombstones. Don't let them die without even a name."

"I understand what the prince means." Jiang Wei agreed and ordered the guards beside him: "Come on to convey the prince's orders."

The guard ran to convey Cao Heng's orders.

In fact, when soldiers of the Great Wei Dynasty died in battle on the battlefield, their names and addresses will always be left behind.

Any soldiers who kill enemies in the formation can receive monthly subsidies when they are alive until they withdraw from the military camp at the age of 35.

Those who died in battle will be counted from the time he died in battle, and the day he left the military camp, and all the subsidies will be distributed to his family at one time.

In addition, the government will also allocate more land to the families of the soldiers who died in battle and send some livestock.

When he was a soldier in the Great Wei Dynasty, he lived a leisurely life, and at least he would not lack money.

If you die in battle, the subsidies your family will receive are extremely generous.

These regulations were announced to the army after Cao Shu was about to win the world and after the Great Wei Dynasty was filled with money and grain.

Before that, many soldiers who followed him to fight died in battle. Cao Shu did not forget those people, and also asked the governments in various places to send the same subsidies to the families of those people.

Just by killing soldiers in battle, Cao Shu consumed countless money.

It was also after the announcement of this policy that more and more young and middle-aged people from the Wei Dynasty were willing to join the army.

Only when there are more people joining the army can the Great Wei army have the capital to choose.

Many young and middle-aged people who want to join the army will often be beaten back because certain conditions are not met. To be able to join the army has become an honor that many people have become.

Zhang Bao sent Cao Yi away and returned to Cao Heng later.

He bowed and said, "Crown Prince, I have sent the second prince back to the tent."

Cao Heng looked back at him and saw that Zhang Bao was covered in blood and his face was stained with a lot of blood. His robe had been soaked in blood and turned purple and black.

"Are you injured?" Cao Heng asked.

"By the prince, I was not injured, my blood was all from the Huns." Zhang Bao replied.

"Not bad." Cao Heng nodded: "I'm not afraid that you will dirty your robe, nor that you will cut down your weapons. If the weapons are broken, we can rebuild it. If the robe is dirty, we can clean it. Even if it is not clean, we can change it to a new one. I just ask you not to be injured, let alone die. Don't tell me what to do to fight forward and die on the battlefield. The former can be there, but I don't allow the latter. All I want is the warriors who are fighting in front, rather than wasting a horse-skinned corpse after death."

Turning around and looking around the blood-filled generals in front of him, Cao Heng asked, "Do you all understand?"

"I understand!" the generals responded in unison.

Cao Heng waved his hand: "The Huns have retreated, and you have worked hard for a fight. Let's go back and replace the battle robe first, take a shower and take a good rest. In a few days, the Daozi Camp has arrived, and we will continue to move forward."

The generals agreed and retreated.

Only Jiang Wei, Lu Xun and Zhang Shao were left beside Cao Heng, three generals who had no formation to kill the enemy.

"You three, after cleaning up the battlefield, report all their own responsibilities to me." Cao Heng ordered the three of them: "Although the Huns retreated, their movements cannot be careless at all. They must send scouts to investigate. I really didn't expect that the Huns were so powerful that they fought to this level, but they still did not disintegrate like the Jie people."

"The Huns are many different from the Jie people." Jiang Wei replied: "Although the Huns also grew up on horseback, they fought everywhere all year round. As long as there are places in the Huns, there will definitely be constant wars. The Jie people were just slaves captured by the Huns, and later they surrendered to the Huns and thought they were part of them, so they could survive. If His Majesty had not attacked the Huns in his early years and defeated the Huns to the point of being weak and unable to control the Jie people, they would not have had the chance to escape from the Huns. The Jie people's days of independence were too short and they did not know how to survive on the battlefield. The Huns were the biggest enemy of our original people in many years. Fighting with the Huns was indeed not as simple as dealing with the Jie people."

Cao Heng nodded silently.

When Cao Heng first mentioned fighting against the Huns and destroying the Xiongnu royal court, he was still full of confidence and believed that the time spent on attacking the Huns would not take too long to defeat the Jie people.

After fighting with Liu Meng's troops once, he realized that his confidence was too inflated.

Perhaps it was because of defeating the Jie people that made him a little drifty, so he thought that the Huns would be as easy to deal with as the Jie people.

The facts in front of him alerted Cao Heng. Although the Wei army won a great victory in the first battle with the Huns, the battle was tragic.

The Jie people were attacked many times, but the Wei army had never suffered such heavy casualties.

As for Xiongnu Angry Man, he tasted what it was like to crack a hard bone.

"It will take a long time to clean the battlefield." Jiang Wei said to Cao Heng: "Please ask the prince to return the account first. Later, we will report the casualties of both sides of the battle and the number of horses seized to the prince's account."

"Then you guys are here." Cao Heng nodded and turned around and walked towards Cao Yi's tent.

Watching Cao Heng leave, Lu Xun said to Jiang Wei: "This battle is obviously beyond the prince's expectations, and it can be seen from the expression of his face."

"No need to say, I know it's beyond his expectations." Jiang Wei said: "In fact, it also exceeds the expectations of each of us, isn't it?"

"Your Majesty's attack on the Huns, but we have not yet taken effect." Lu Xun said: "I didn't follow Your Majesty to fight against the Huns. I don't know how powerful the Huns are. In today's battle, I thought the cannons would blow the Huns to the point of being stunned, but I didn't expect that they could still move forward and fight with our army."

"More importantly, we failed to capture Liu Meng, and even the King of Guli, the left and right of the Huns, escaped successfully after this battle." Jiang Wei said: "I made so many arrangements before the war. I thought that even if I didn't completely defeat the Huns, I could at least capture and kill a king of the Hun tribe. In the end, we would have nothing except killing some Huns minions. The prince was not in a high mood, which should have something to do with these."

"Where did Boyue think the Huns would go?" Lu Xun suddenly asked Jiang Wei.

Jiang Wei replied: "I think the Huns should retreat to Yun. After all, there are some cities there, and defending the city is the basis for victory."

"Two generals." Zhang Shao asked from the side: "Don't the Huns find an open place to block our army? They are all cavalry, and so far, there are still many more people. Choosing a flat place to fight should be more beneficial to them."

"The Huns did do this before," Lu Xun said to Zhang Shao: "But after experiencing this fight, they would never be like that."

Lu Xun made a quick splash, and Zhang Shao actually understood it, but he still said: "Both sides are cavalry, and the Huns have the advantage of numericality. Moreover, in open places, our army's cannons cannot be set up in places where the enemy is not easy to attack. In terms of terrain, it should be more beneficial to the Huns."

"The Huns had never considered our cannons." Jiang Wei smiled and shook his head, saying to Zhang Shao: "What they really considered was that our army was actually all cavalry."
Chapter completed!