Pirate Song

When some Jin soldiers saw that the Song army was unwilling to accept their surrender, they picked up their swords and guns from the ground again and shouted: "The Song army is not benevolent, let's fight with them! Kill one to get enough, kill two to earn one."

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So the battle that had just subsided soon started fighting again. Only the Jin army at the supply camp felt a little calmer when they saw that the rural troops who received them did not execute the killing order, but they couldn't help but start to commotion.

Everyone is in danger and doesn't know whether to pick up weapons and resist, or just stay and obey.

"Don't move! Our commander has an order. I won't kill you. Please stay calm! Squat down! Squat down for me, all of you!" Zhou Jun stood in front of these Jin soldiers, waving the Liuyun in his hand.

Scimitar, shouting at these surrendering soldiers.

The surrounding country soldiers also nervously pointed their weapons at the surrendering soldiers, and ordered them to squat down with their heads in their hands and wait for the fall.

Gao Huaiyuan rushed to the place where Hu Zaixing was, and saw Hu Zaixing stroking his beard under his chin. He looked at the scene in front of him with some pride, rushed forward and shouted: "General Hu! I have something to say to you, humble official."

Say! General Hu, please give an immediate order to stop killing prisoners. Now that we have won, it is ominous to kill prisoners. I hope General Hu will show his noble hand!"

Hu Zaixing, who was rejoicing, saw that Gao Huaiyuan's soldiers did not start killing the prisoners. He was already a little unhappy. Now he saw Gao Huaiyuan running over to stop him from killing the prisoners, so he became even more unhappy. But thinking about Gao Huaiyuan during this period,

He served under him and made many meritorious deeds, so he said patiently: "Why didn't Huaiyuan carry out my general order? We are about to cross the river to pursue the remaining Jin army. Keeping these prisoners is troublesome, it is better to kill them all! You go back

, take care of those surrendered soldiers, and follow me across the river to pursue the Jin soldiers!"

Gao Huaiyuan saw Hu Zaixing's nonchalant look and was not moved at all, so he knelt down on one knee and clasped his fists and replied: "General Hu, please listen to what I'm about to say. No matter how many enemies are killed in front of the two armies, I will not blink an eye, but if you kill like this

Prisoners, it’s really a shame. After all, these surrender soldiers were forced to come here. The crime will not lead to death. I hope the general will show his noble hand and let them live!"

"How dare you! Now in front of the two armies, how dare you be so disrespectful of orders? I have already said that the purpose of killing prisoners is to pursue the Jin army in Hedong as soon as possible, but you are pushing back and forth. Don't you know the power of military law? Why don't you stand down?

, go and deal with your surrendered troops!" After hearing Gao Huaiyuan's words, Hu Zaixing felt very unhappy, so he immediately rebuked him.

Gao Huaiyuan also had a bad temper at this moment. He cocked his neck and lowered his head and replied: "General Hu! It is really difficult for me to obey my order! I feel that your order to kill prisoners is too cruel. Please forgive me for my difficulty in obeying my order!"

"You...!" Hu Zaixing didn't expect that Gao Huaiyuan still had such a bad temper. He ran all the way to the dark side and didn't even obey his orders. He immediately became furious and choked up. After you said the word,

Don't know what to do.

"Bold! You are just a small country soldier commander! How dare you contradict the general like this and go back and follow orders quickly?" Shen Ning, who was still injured at the side, shouted quickly, but his eyes were blinking hard at Gao Huaiyuan, giving

He winked and told him not to contradict Hu Zaixing face to face now, so as not to incur Hu Zaixing's anger and give Hu Zaixing a way to step down.

Gao Huaiyuan was not a reckless man. He knew that doing so would definitely make Hu Zaixing unable to come to power, but he really couldn't do it if he asked him to kill the prisoners, so he handed over his hand to Hu Zaixing again and said: "Young general is reckless, I hope the general will calm down. Although the general

It is to pursue the Jin army as soon as possible, but now we are killing prisoners like this, which will only arouse the Jin army's anger and vent their anger on us Song people. In the end, it is us Song people who will suffer! Moreover, the Jin soldiers have abandoned their weapons and surrendered.

If we massacre them, we will definitely force the Jin soldiers to fight until the end and fight to the end, which will cause more casualties to our soldiers! I hope the general will think twice and take back his life! I beg you, general!"

Gao Huaiyuan responded to Hu Zaixing's sincere persuasion with affection and reason. After listening to it, Hu Zaixing felt that what he said was reasonable, but at this time, it was really hard for him to take back his life.

So he glared angrily and asked Gao Huaiyuan: "Now that our troops are limited and we have so many prisoners of war left, who will take care of them? Have you ever thought about it?"

Gao Huaiyuan saw that Hu Zaixing's words were loose, so he immediately leaned over and replied: "General, don't worry too much. These young generals who are prisoners of war are willing to take responsibility. If something happens, how about questioning the generals?"

"Okay! Now that you said it, I promise you, give the order now and stop killing prisoners. Gao Huaiyuan, remember, if something goes wrong with these surrendered soldiers, I will never spare you!" Hu Zaixing

He walked away with an angry look on his sleeve, and all the generals glanced at Gao Huaiyuan, thinking that this guy is really bad-tempered, even Hu Zaixing dared to contradict him like this!

At this moment, Gao Huaiyuan couldn't care whether Hu Zaixing was happy or not. He immediately took the order and rushed to the river embankment. He shouted to the Song soldiers who were killing prisoners: "The general has an order, stop killing prisoners immediately, and surrender these troops."

Leave it to our baggage camp to take care of you! Stop it!"

After hearing Gao Huaiyuan's shouts, the Song army gradually began to retreat, no longer continuing to massacre the surrendered soldiers, and turned to look at Hu Zaixing's personal soldiers who came with Gao Huaiyuan.

The soldier shrugged helplessly, spread his hands and said, "The general has indeed ordered to stop killing prisoners!"

After receiving the confirmation, the Song army stopped attacking and retreated to the rear. The Jin soldiers who were resisting were panicking and holding the swords and guns they had just picked up, tremblingly pointing at the Song army.

Dare to put down the swords and guns in their hands easily, for fear that the Song army would not keep their word. After collecting their weapons, they began to massacre them again, looking at Gao Huaiyuan who walked in front of them with eyes full of distrust.

"Why are you still hesitating? Why don't you put down your weapons quickly? Do we have to kill you all? I, Gao, am here today. Since I said I will not continue to kill prisoners, I will never continue to massacre you.

, As long as you put down your weapons, Gao will guarantee your safety! But if you don't put down your swords and guns, then Gao will not be able to save your lives! Put down your weapons quickly!" Gao Huaiyuan shouted to these frightened Jin soldiers.

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A low-ranking officer of the Jin Army covered his wound, walked out from among the remaining soldiers, and asked angrily: "We have just laid down our weapons and begged for surrender! But aren't you still massacring us? How can you guarantee that after we lay down our weapons again,

You won’t kill us?”

Gao Huaiyuan stared into the eyes of the tenth captain of the Jin Army and answered him loudly: "I can't guarantee you, you can only take a gamble! If you put down your weapons now, you still have a chance of survival. If you don't follow, then

There is only one way to die! Since Gao Mou said that I will not kill you, believe it or not, it is up to you! Look south, those country soldiers are my subordinates, have they killed a surrender soldier? "

These frightened Jin soldiers then looked in the direction Gao Huaiyuan pointed, and they saw that there was peace there. The surrendered Jin soldiers sat on the ground with their heads in their hands, and the country soldiers surrounding them did not massacre them in any way.

signs, so they began to hesitate.

"Time is limited. If you are unwilling to put down your weapons, then just pretend that I didn't say it, and let's continue!" Gao Huaiyuan saw that these golden soldiers were still hesitating, so he turned and walked towards his rural barracks.

The archers on the Song Army's side once again raised their arms, placed their arrows on the bowstrings, and made movements to open their bows and release arrows. The spearmen and shield bearers also pressed forward again.

The tenth captain of the Jin army hurriedly stopped Gao Huaiyuan, who was about to leave, and said: "General Gao, wait a minute! We are willing to surrender, and we hope that General Gao will keep his word and don't lie to me!"

Gao Huaiyuan stopped his steps, raised his hand to stop the Song army from approaching, and shouted to the Jin army: "If you believe me, put down your weapons immediately, and I will protect you from death! But if you make trouble again after surrendering,

, even the gods can’t save you!”

Seeing Gao Huaiyuan's solemn words, Jin Bing began to hesitate and carefully dropped the sword and gun in his hand to the ground again, but still looked at the surrounding Song troops with vigilant eyes, while Gao Huaiyuan shouted loudly: "Huang Yan,

Zhou Hao! Come over immediately and take these surrendered soldiers over and take them over! No one is allowed to harm them!"

Huang Yan and Zhouhao immediately agreed and brought two soldiers from the capital city to run over and guide the surrendered soldiers towards the ground movement of the supply camp. At this point, the killing of prisoners was temporarily over. The Song troops saw that the Jin soldiers had put down their weapons and followed the soldiers from the supply camp.

The rural soldiers left and were surrounded. Then they formed their own teams and began to follow Hu Zaixing's instructions to build a new pontoon bridge nearby and prepare to cross the river to pursue the enemy.

Gao Huaiyuan breathed a long sigh of relief. People cannot turn into beasts. Although he asked himself that during this period of time, the number of golden soldiers who died in his hands was not only 200 but at least 100, but those were all on the battlefield.

He had never killed a single surrendered soldier with his own hands. Although the surrendered soldiers were from the Jin Army, most of them were descended from the Song Dynasty a hundred years ago. However, it was because of the incompetence of the Song Dynasty that they abandoned them.

They just became subjects of the Jin Kingdom, so Gao Huaiyuan did not blame them. He still regarded them as the same descendants of China in his heart, and did not despise them because they were enemies.

Hu Zaixing was very dissatisfied with Gao Huaiyuan's performance today. After all, he is now the deputy commander of the Shenjin Army, and his majesty in the army cannot be challenged. His orders absolutely require subordinates to obey, but Gao Huaiyuan was killed because of these surrenders.

He refuted his face, so he felt a little displeased when he looked at Gao Huaiyuan. He gave the order with a cold snort, and the army began to prepare to cross the river. As for cleaning the battlefield, it was left to Gao Huaiyuan's supply camp. He then

I also don’t want to take Gao Huaiyuan to chase the Jin soldiers.

It was precisely because of this incident that a rift began to appear between Gao Huaiyuan and Hu Zaixing, and the honeymoon period between them came to an end.

Gao Huaiyuan naturally knew that he had offended Hu Zaixing, but he did not feel that there was anything wrong with what he had done. After receiving Hu Zaixing's order, he knew that from now on he would have no chance to follow Hu Zaixing's Shenjin Army to continue fighting with Jin.

The army was about to fight, so he nodded and agreed.

After returning to the supply camp, Jia Qi shook his head slightly and said, "It is unwise for the young master to do this! Why are these Jin people and General Hu so unhappy?"

Gao Huaiyuan smiled calmly and said: "A man does something and doesn't do anything. I ask myself that I have done nothing wrong, so I don't have to worry about it! We are human beings, and these golden soldiers are also human beings. On the battlefield, when the two armies are fighting, you will kill them alive."

That's right, but once they put down their weapons, they are undoubtedly civilians. How can you kill them arbitrarily? What's more, they are Han people just like you and me! Why are you in such a hurry?"

Jia Qi sighed slightly and said, "The little one has been taught a lesson! What should we do next?"

Gao Huaiyuan looked at the more than a thousand golden soldiers who were gathered together and were still in shock, and ordered: "First collect all the weapons on the battlefield. These people can just help us collect the corpses. Otherwise, we will be dead in the next few days."

We have enough work to do!"

As Gao Huaiyuan's order was conveyed, the village warriors divided their hands and began to gradually clean up the battlefield. They first collected all the weapons abandoned by the Jin soldiers, including the arrows on the ground.

Then he ordered these golden soldiers to take off their armor, inspected and confiscated all weapons on them including knives, and then escorted them to the battlefield and began to collect the corpses.

When they began to collect the corpses scattered on the river embankment, Hu Zaixing had already ordered his men to build a simple pontoon bridge again, then led his army across the small river, mounted his horse and hurried away in the direction of the retreat of the Jin army in the east of Hedong.

After seeing the Song army withdrawing in large numbers, the Jin army surrenderers finally breathed a long sigh of relief and were no longer as frightened as before.

The Jin army lost nearly 3,000 soldiers and horses in this battle, including their leader Wanyan Aye. In this unknown river, nearly 2,000 Jin soldiers were killed. The river embankment was covered with gold.

The mutilated and bloody corpses of soldiers, and even the corpses of many Jin soldiers were floating in the river. If they were allowed to remain in the wilderness, the weather was getting hotter day by day, and the rotting of a large number of corpses would not only pollute the water of this river.

, and it is also likely to cause a large-scale plague in the Zaoyang area. According to custom, after the two armies fight, the winning side will clean up the battlefield and bury the corpses!

But when Gao Huaiyuan looked at the corpses scattered all over the battlefield, he began to wonder. How many days would it take to collect so many corpses? Anyway, it seems that it can't be done in a day and a half.

So everything had to be kept simple. It would be great if Gao Huaiyuan could keep these living people alive. How could he bury the corpses of these golden soldiers one by one? So he directed the surrendering soldiers to find an open space under the river embankment.

, dug a huge pit, collected some quicklime from nearby and spread it on the bottom of the pit, threw all the corpses into the pit and buried them, and sprinkled a layer of quicklime on top for disinfection, forming a mass grave.

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Looking at the corpses covered with soil, Gao Huaiyuan felt quite emotional. In such troubled times, human life is as worthless as grass. After dying in a foreign land, they were just thrown into a big pit and buried. The family thought

It is impossible to pay homage to them.

This is quite good. In ancient times, when two armies fought, the victor would often massacre the defeated army for glory in battle, and then build the capital with their heads. He had done this before, and today he was able to save more than a thousand gold coins.

The army surrendered, and Gao Huaiyuan felt somewhat fortunate for these surrendered soldiers.

When the surrendering soldiers saw that Gao Huaiyuan was true to his word and did not massacre them, they were somewhat grateful, so they were relatively calm and did not cause Gao Huaiyuan and the others too much trouble.

After collecting these corpses, two more days passed. News came from the direction of Zaoyang in the east, saying that Hu Zaixing had led his army to defeat the Jin army that pursued them, and successfully arrived in Zaoyang, where he joined forces with Meng Zongzheng.

This once again greatly strengthened the strength of the Zaoyang Army, which made Wanyan Sai lament that he could not look forward to the city, but he had no way to defeat Zaoyang County. He could only send troops to attack the city in turns every day, and neither side could do anything to defeat the other.

Gao Huaiyuan was also having a headache guarding these surrendered troops. Hu Zaixing seemed to have forgotten him. He didn't even give him an order, and just abandoned them in Taiping Town, where no one cared about them!

How to deal with this group of surrendered troops has become Gao Huaiyuan's top priority. Just eating for a thousand people every day is a big problem. If it continues to be consumed, I'm afraid it won't be long before the food reserves left in Taiping Town when Hu Zaixing's army was raised

After eating everything and running out of food, there is no guarantee that this group of golden soldiers will not roar at the camp. What's more, the group of country soldiers under my command also need to eat, so they always have to solve this problem!

Send it to Zaoyang? No, there are many Jin soldiers outside the city. I am afraid that as soon as they arrive outside Zaoyang City, as long as one of these Jin soldiers raises his arms and shouts, they will disperse and run back to the Jin camp to fight with the Song army again.

If he is an enemy, he might also build his supply camp. Moreover, the army in Zaoyang County consumes a lot of money every day. If there are more than a thousand surrendered troops who do nothing, eating and drinking for free, it is estimated that

Sooner or later, Hu Zaixing or Meng Zongzheng will be slaughtered, so Zaoyang must not go.

Then the only way out was to escort them to Xiangyang City. After making up his mind, Gao Huaiyuan immediately started registering these surrendered troops, and then sent them to the Xiangyang Camp to be dealt with by Zhao Fang.

When he was preparing to leave, Jia Qi suddenly found Gao Huaiyuan, blinked and asked Gao Huaiyuan: "Is it possible that the young master just sent these surrendered soldiers to Xiangyang for nothing?"

Gao Huaiyuan was confused by Jia Qi's abrupt question and asked: "What if we don't send them to Xiangyang? Can't we just let them go on the spot? Don't you want Hu Zaixing to treat me like a private surrender?"

The crime of being a soldier makes my head move!"

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