Usurping the Mongols: My Father-in-Law is Genghis Khan

"Hmm? Useful?" Zhao Shuo instructed, "Bring him over here."

"Yes."

Before long, two attendants supported a wounded soldier, about thirty years old and of medium build, to Zhao Shuo.

This person seemed to have suffered a knife or sword wound to the abdomen, and had used strips of cloth torn from his clothes to tightly bind the wound, the blood having already completely soaked the cloth.

"Greetings, Consort! Greetings, Tongtian Witch! Please, Consort and Tongtian Witch, have mercy and heal my wounds. I don't want to die, I really don't want to die!"

As soon as the two attendants let go, the wounded soldier knelt to the ground and kowtowed repeatedly.

Zhao Shuo said, "Alright, stop kowtowing. What's your name?"

"My name is Zhang Yong, and I am a squad leader in the Western Xia army."

"Zhang Yong? Tangut or Han?"

Although many Tanguts had changed to Han surnames, he had never heard of anyone named Zhang. Moreover, this person spoke not Tangut but Chinese, so he was most likely Han.

Zhang Yong said, "I am Han, my ancestral home is Lanzhou. About one hundred and twenty years ago, the Western Xia attacked Lanzhou unsuccessfully and abducted many civilians, including my ancestors."

"Then what did you mean by saying you were useful to my Mongolians?"

However, the breed is not stable.

If Xima are bred again, only a small portion can inherit the advantages of their parents, most are either weak and sickly, or have violent temperaments, not even as good as the original warhorses.

If you want to get Xima, you have to start crossbreeding from the beginning."

The unstable traits of hybrid livestock were indeed a big problem. This problem did not have any particularly good solutions even in later generations, and only inhumane backcrossing could be performed. However, in addition to ethical problems, backcrossing also produces a large number of genetic diseases.

Zhao Shuo said, "So, you are skilled at breeding qualified Xima through crossbreeding?"

"After my ancestors were abducted to Western Xia, they were settled on the most barren land. It was really difficult to make a living by farming alone. So, they began to study horse breeding and animal husbandry skills. After becoming richer, they began to breed Xima, and now they have some unique skills."

"Well, that is indeed useful."

Xima were nothing special, Zhao Shuo didn't feel that the Western Xia warhorses were particularly awesome when fighting against the Western Xia army. However, wouldn't the Mongols be able to obtain the famous Arabian horses if they went further west?

Many excellent horse breeds in later generations were crossbred from Arabian horses. Zhao Shuo wanted Zhang Yong to try whether he could crossbreed some excellent horse breeds with Arabian horses.

Zhao Shuo instructed the doctor beside him, "Set up a medical tent here and treat his wounds first."

The doctor bowed slightly and said, "Yes."

"I am also useful to the Mongols!"

"I am willing to surrender!"

"Please, Consort, have mercy and save me!"

Seeing that Zhang Yong was about to be treated, the seriously wounded soldiers clamored, asking Zhao Shuo for mercy.

However, Zhao Shuo no longer had the time to entangle with them, and hurried with Old Man Wusun towards Temujin's golden tent. Because the time for the post-war summary meeting had arrived.

This post-war summary can be described as a burst of laughter.

There was no way, the results of this battle were too brilliant.

The main force of the Western Xia's field infantry was annihilated, the Poxi army was annihilated, and even the Iron Hawks were crippled. Li Chengzhen fled with less than ten thousand cavalry.

The spoils were even richer. Li Chengzhen's grain and supplies, and the armor and weapons of the captured generals and soldiers, became the spoils of the Mongolian army, and more than 10,000 sets of iron armor were obtained. The Mongolian army originally mainly used leather armor, but this time it was considered a change of equipment.

Moreover, this victory came so easily.

Hasar only led three thousand troops and shook the Western Xia infantry formation.

Zhao Shuo used a thousand Flying Eagle troops to play with the Western Xia's Iron Hawks at will.

With the victory of this war against Western Xia in sight, how could the Mongolian nobles not be very happy?

"One last thing." Temujin said, "This time we captured more than 30,000 prisoners. How should we deal with these prisoners?"

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Hulan added, "The main thing is that guarding them requires too much of our troops. If we kill them, the Western Xia soldiers will definitely be in danger, and I am afraid that they will fight us to the death in the future."

"Then kill them." Bo'erhu said, "What if they fight to the death? Can the small Western Xia still turn the world upside down?"

Zhebie said, "These people are indeed not easy to keep. Even if we don't kill them now, and abduct them to the grasslands as slaves. These are all soldiers who are used to using knives and guns, and I am afraid they will still not be easy to control."

"Yes, kill them! Once and for all!"

"They are just soldiers, not craftsmen, we have no use for keeping them."

"Kill them! Save wasting food!"

"Kill them!"

The generals were almost unanimous in wanting to kill these prisoners to eliminate future troubles.

This is also the reason why the Mongols often massacred cities in the future, leaving only craftsmen and beautiful women. Ordinary soldiers were really of little use to them.

At the same time, two gazes looked towards Zhao Shuo.

The first gaze came from Old Man Wusun, he wanted to treat the wounded soldiers just now. Now it's good, all the wounded soldiers are going to be killed, so what's the point of treating them!

The other gaze came from Mu Huali.

He shook his head slightly, seemingly disagreeing with the opinions of the generals.

Zhao Shuo nodded slightly to Mu Huali, signaling him to speak first.

When the voices of the generals gradually subsided, Mu Huali coughed lightly and said, "We already know how much strength Xia has. Even if we kill these prisoners of war, we don't have to worry about what the Xia people think.

However, what we are going to attack is not only Xia, but also Jin. Most of these prisoners surrendered voluntarily. Now, if we seek temporary pleasure and kill them all, I don't know how much difficulty it will add to our attack on Jin in the future, and how many lives of grassland warriors will be lost in vain."

Temujin nodded slightly and said, "What you said makes some sense. But, if we don't kill them, how should we deal with them? We can't just let them go, can we?"

Mu Huali smiled slightly and said, "A'shuo has a hundred clever plans, and he must already have a good plan in mind at this time."

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In the new year, I wish everyone good health and all the best.