Chapter 88: Wordless Stele
Shangguan Yu couldn't imagine how sad Su Muwan and Shangguan Chen would be if they were the ones who died here today.
The separation of life and death is the most hurtful thing. He put his heart in his heart and felt that he could empathize with the relatives of these soldiers who died on the battlefield.
Shangguan Yu looked at the Yumen Pass, which was covered with yellow sand all around and was almost uninhabited, and the corpse lying behind him, and felt a sense of sadness in his heart.
Under this yellow sand, the bones of many soldiers of my Dazhou were buried, and the blood of my Dazhou soldiers was flowing through it.
How many people have returned from war since ancient times? Is war really necessary?
The first time Shangguan Yu began to face this problem. Although it was the wish of Dazhou people, what is the meaning of the war itself?
He didn't understand, but he couldn't find the answer, so he could only temporarily stand the question. Even though he was a little confused now, his face returned to his former peace.
As the head coach of the first army, his every move will affect his soldiers, so no matter when, he always needs to keep his calm so that the soldiers can always feel that he is worthy of dependence.
He sent people to continue cleaning the battlefield here, and the rest went back to the barracks with him.
As dusk approached, the wind began to blow again in Yumen Pass. The yellow sand in the distance was blown by the wind and rolled, covering the blood stains on the ground again, without any trace.
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Hun camp.
Bahu sat on a stool covered with animal skins, allowing the military doctor beside him to bandage the wound on his arm, and his face was very gloomy.
The wound on his arm was cut by Shangguan Yu, and he could vaguely see the thick bones. When the military doctor saw that it would be difficult to heal if he only applied medicine, he asked timidly.
"Second Prince, this injury is a bit serious, I'm afraid I have to seal it with needle and thread."
Bahu didn't care. The anger in his heart at this moment had already made him ignore the pain coming from his arms, as if it was not a part of his body.
"Then stop talking nonsense and sew it up quickly!"
The military doctor took out a medicine bag from his medicine box and respectfully presented it to Bahu with both hands.
"The Second Prince, this is a secret medicine of Dazhou. If you take it with wine, you will not feel the pain for the time being."
The medicine bag contains a secret medicine called Mafei San from Dazhou. It is said that this medicine is made of mandala flower and several other herbs, but even if the medicine is passed down, the prescription has been firmly controlled by Dazhou people.
So this bag was bought by military doctors from underground merchants who had traveled between the two countries before. It was very precious. If it weren't for healing Bahu, he wouldn't want to take it out at all.
Bahu glanced at the medicine bag, pulled up the corner of his mouth and showed a very sarcastic smile.
"Why, you can't stand this little pain, and you even look down on me?"
Bahu's words made the military doctor so scared that he knelt down. "I dare not, I dare not be humble!"
"Haha, if you don't dare, just sew it quickly. Don't let me say it again!" Bahu said coldly, his tone full of unquestionable.
Seeing this, the military doctor had to take out the needle and thread from the medicine box tremblingly. After finishing it, he began to thread the needle and thread onto the flesh and blood of Bahu.
He had also sewed wounds to others without Ma Fei San. They were all sweating in pain, biting their teeth tightly, and even worse, they would faint directly. After all, their fingers were still connected to their hearts, let alone the sewing of flesh and blood.
However, Bahu's expression still did not change, and the military doctor let the stitch through his flesh and blood, completely trapped in his thoughts.
The military doctor was very distressed at this moment. He felt as if he was pulling his teeth at the tiger's mouth. After trying to suppress the panic in his heart and sewed Bahu, his head was already full of sweat, as if he was the one who was sewn with a needle.
"Report to the second prince, the wounds are all sewn."
Bahu glanced casually, "Go down!"
He touched the sewn wound on his arm with his hands, and the black lines were densely packed like a centipede hovering on it.
This is the shame that Shangguan Yu left to him. If there is a future, he will return it one by one!
No, it is not a return one by one, but a return of ten or a hundred times!
Didn’t you, Shangguan Yu, ask me not to think about it in the next life? Then I will show you this life. I will marry Su Muwan!
At this time, Hab heard the military doctor report that he had sewed the wound on Bahu. He was worried about him and hurried to the tent.
"Prince, how about it? Is the wound still okay?"
Habu asked with a worried look on his face. He had watched Bahu grow up since he was a child and regarded him as his own flesh and blood. Now he felt more heartbroken than he was when he was injured.
"It's okay, Uncle Hab, I can still withstand this little injury, but we still despise Shangguan Yu. He is indeed not an ordinary person."
Bahu talked about his wounds being very calm, as if his wounds were just cut by a knife, rather than just about to hurt the bones as it is now.
Hab knew his temper. He was particularly stubborn since he was a child and was unwilling to give in. When he was a child, he always failed to fall with others. Later, he hid and practiced alone, insisting on defeating those who surpassed him.
Now that this stubbornness is coming up again, I am afraid that I must defeat Shangguan Yu.
So Hab didn't persuade him, but sat down and analyzed the war with him.
"Prince, this person is an uncontrollable factor. How could he suddenly go crazy for no reason? I just went to see it. Three or four percent of our damage this time were caused by him alone."
Hab still doesn't understand why Jiali suddenly attacked his own people.
Bahu sneered: "Of course it's not for no reason. I'm afraid Shangguan Yu had tampered with it. At that time, a soldier hid behind me. I felt strange. He didn't look like us Huns. Now when I think about it, I'm afraid that he was dressed by the soldiers of the Great Armor."
"Dassal of Dazhou?" Hab couldn't believe it.
Bahu nodded, "I'm afraid they pretended to be the Huns and deliberately angered Jiali, which made him crazy and killed so many of us."
Hab then suddenly realized, "That man from the big helmet is so cunning!"
"Uncle Hab, their Dazhou said that it is said that soldiers never get tired of deceitfulness, which makes us educated."
Bahu saw it very calmly. For him, no matter what he lost in this battle, if he lost, he would lose. Don’t find reasons for yourself, just win next time.
This battlefield is like an animal on the grassland, speaking with strength. The winner is the king, and the loser is the enemy, which is that simple.
Hab thought for a while, but still said what he said.
"Second Prince, we also lost this time. I'm afraid the eldest prince will say a lot of bad things about you in front of Shanyu."
"I'm afraid he will do anything! From childhood to adulthood, he has successfully complained to his father, and what's his position to say that he has lost two consecutive games."
Bahu and Shinqing have not been very close since childhood, but Maodun naturally doesn't listen to Shinqing's words because of his preference for Bahu.
Bahu thought that when Xianqing returned, he would just say a few nonsense to Maodun as before. What he didn't know was that when Xianqing returned, he had already had the intention of killing the monarch and his father.
In the Yumen Pass military camp.
Shangguan Yu was sitting in the military tent, staring at the list of casualties reported this time. From the first name to the last name, he looked at it three times over and over again.
All the people on this were buried collectively in an open space outside Yumen Pass. Although there were several sheets of paper just writing the list, only a stone tablet would be erected on it. There was nothing on the stone tablet, and there was no blank space, and no one's name would be left.
This stele is the stele of the characters, and there are countless such stele without words on the open space.
They all have names and surnames, but after their death they all became anonymous people. The military camp only kept their military uniforms and tokens on their bodies, and sent them to their relatives with the pension.
But even this pension has been deducted a lot.
Shangguan Yu felt that if he watched someone make tricks on the pension and remained indifferent, then he would be sorry for the soldiers who followed him to fight to kill the enemy, and his conscience would not allow it.
But this pension accounts for the majority of military pay. It would be strange if those of them didn't take the opportunity to make a fortune. How to organize them, you have to think of a way.
Shangguan Yu thought about it and asked someone to prepare a carriage and go to the Protectorate's Mansion.
Guo Feng was not surprised when he saw him suddenly coming. After all, he thought Shangguan Yu was still trying to win over him.
"Congratulations to General, you won the battle again, which is a joyous congratulation!"
Guo Feng held his fist and congratulated Shangguan Yu, with a happy expression on his face.
Shangguan Yu smiled bitterly, "Why are you happy?"
Seeing this, Guo Feng thought there was something hidden in it, so he asked: "Why did the general win the battle and become so decadent? Tell me what troubles you have? Please see if you can solve the general's problems?"
"I want to ask if the Protector was a civil servant or a military officer in Beijing before?"
Shangguan Yu did not answer first, but asked Guo Feng a very irrelevant question.
Guo Feng didn't understand what this problem had to do with his worries, so he could only answer honestly: "Report to the general, I was a civil servant before. After my palace examination, I was assigned to the army by the emperor. Since then, I have been in the army for so many years, so I can barely be considered a military officer."
"If the Protector is a military officer, he might understand my mood. Do you know that on the battlefield today, a small soldier I was familiar with was breathing in front of me, and his head was cut off by the Hun soldiers."
After a pause, Shangguan Yu continued, "I have inquired that there is only one blind old mother in the soldier's family. She is still waiting for him to finish the battle and go home. But now the only thing she has returned is his clothes and a few taels of pension."
After hearing this, Guo Feng felt a little sweaty. He didn't know how to answer the words. Could it be that he had already told Shangguan Yu that a few taels were already a lot?
Chapter completed!