Dahan first prince

Chapter 259 Jingguan!

"Ah~"

"One will succeed, ten thousand bones will wither..."

Standing on the turret on the south wall of Yongcheng, looking at the quiet outside of the city, Liu Ying couldn't help but let out such a sigh.

In the front, there was Yongcheng that had to be captured, and in the back, there was Guan Ying who cut off his back across the Huai River, and reinforcements from the Han family came from all directions in order, and finally made Huainan Wang Ying, who was so powerful a few months ago and known as more than [-] people. In the end, the cloth rebels only struggled for two days before they all collapsed.

On the city wall of Yongcheng and on the wilderness outside the wall, corpses are piled up in disorder at this moment.

Although the clothes of these corpses have long been stained with blood and mud, the identities of these corpses are still clear at a glance.

——The head was still attached to the body by the neck, and the one that was carefully carried away by the soldiers of the Han army was the bones of the soldiers of the Han army.

And those corpses with no heads on their shoulders, or those who are about to lose their heads, or are losing their heads, are the corpses of the Huainan rebels.

Regarding the disposal of the corpses of the dead rebels, Liu Ying did not give any extra orders, and only let Li Shang follow the usual practice to order the soldiers to cut off the heads, pile them up and burn them.

But for the dead souls of the Han family who died heroically, they can't be so disrespectful.

"Your Highness."

After thinking about it, Li Shang appeared on the turret and bowed to Liu Ying.

"The number of casualties and beheadings of our army has been ascertained."

"In this battle, 960 people died in the Guanzhong Army under Yongcheng, more than [-] were seriously injured and disabled, and more than [-] soldiers were injured and could not be recruited..."

Speaking in a heavy tone, Li Shang did not forget to raise his head slightly to look at Liu Ying's face.

After confirming that Liu Ying had no intention of 'reminiscing about the past and hurting the present', Li Shang continued: "There are 140 people who are injured and cannot be recruited again, or who are seriously injured and disabled. Chang'an, His Majesty will decide the compensation case."

"There are seven thousand nine hundred and sixty four who died in the war, and the coffins have all been prepared, and the minister will lead his troops to set off after the order from the family..."

Hearing Li Shang's words, Liu Ying finally sighed slowly, and shook her head with a heavy expression.

"More than [-]..."

"Yingbu is just a prince, but in reverse, our Han family lost more than [-] people with a humerus..."

After sighing with a lonely expression, Liu Ying turned around and raised her head slightly towards Li Shang.

"I also ask the right minister to tell Pingyanghou: Pingyanghou's soldiers who are wounded and dead under the command of Pingyang will be compensated by the king of Qi for the time being; after everything is over, the emperor will allocate money from the Shaofu to make up for it."

"As the Marquis of Pingyang knows this, You Xiangguo can set off and return to Chang'an..."

After explaining in a low tone, Liu Ying turned her head again and sighed at the Shura field outside the city.

In fact, strictly speaking, this rebellion is not over yet.

The reason is simple: the chief culprit of the rebellion, Huainan Wang Yingbu himself, ran away.

According to the procedure of the Han court to quell a rebellion, the sign of a rebellion being quelled was when the initiator of the rebellion was conferred or captured.

But even so, Liu Ying could only allow Li Shang's request to 'depart for Chang'an immediately'.

Because in the Han Dynasty, especially when the founding emperor Liu Bang was still alive, the Chang'an Central Committee's treatment plan for the fallen soldiers was very complicated and rigorous.

First of all, there is an extremely significant difference between the handling of martyrs in the Han Dynasty and that of later generations.

——In most dynasties (feudal era) of later generations, when soldiers died in battle, they were mostly called "dead in battle" or "dead in battle";
Go up to the sky, that is, "die for the country".

In the Han Dynasty, when soldiers died in battle, it was called: the matter of the dead king.

- died at the king's errand.

The "king" here obviously does not refer to princes with different surnames like Yingbu, or clan princes like Liu Jiao and Liu Fei, but "king of the world", that is, the emperor.

Therefore, "the matter of the king of death" can also be understood as: giving his life for the cause of the emperor.

This kind of specification is already infinitely close to the martyrs of later generations.

Of course, the Han family's "dead king" is infinitely close to the "martyrs" of later generations, not just because of a description of "dead king".

In later generations, if a soldier died on the battlefield and became a martyr, the troops of the martyr would wrap the coffin with a flag and send the soul of the martyr back to his hometown.

In the Han Dynasty, there were very similar regulations on the disposal of soldiers killed in battle.

——In the summer and April of the second year of the Han Dynasty, today's Liu Bang issued an order to the world: Sergeants who died unfortunately, the officials collected food and clothing for coffins, and transferred them to their families.

That is to say, when a soldier unfortunately dies in battle, the superior officer of the hero needs to prepare mourning clothes and coffins, collect the body of the hero, send it back to his hometown in person, and offer sacrifices of the standard of the Shaolin (pigs, sheep, etc.) One head), and the full-time military officer who is directly superior needs to personally attend the funeral to make sure that the funeral goes smoothly.

Give a simple example.

The military organization of the Han Dynasty implemented the "Shiwu" system that has been passed down from the Warring States Period to the present.

That is to say, five people form a team, and the chief officer is the leader of the team, also known as Wubai;

Two Wu, that is, ten people are one Shi, and the chief officer is Shi Long;
Wushi, that is, 50 people are the village, and the chief officer is the village head;
Liangtun, that is, a hundred people form a song, and the chief official is Qu Chang, also known as Qu Hou and Bai Chang;
Wuqu, that is, a team of 500 people, led by the chief official team, is also called Sima.

Two teams, that is, a school with a thousand people, the chief officer and captain;

The five schools, that is, one unit of 5000 people, will also be privately known as the First Army, the chief officer and captain.

As for the case where a certain military officer is honored as a "general" in later generations of film and television works, in the Han Dynasty's army establishment, at least the level of a school lieutenant can barely afford it; Accept it calmly.

Even if the school lieutenant barely deserves the title of "general", he still has to say "polite" and "promotion", and respond tremblingly.

If an officer below the school lieutenant, such as the team leader Sima or Quhou, is called 'General', even if others don't laugh at him, the officer called 'General' will feel ashamed and wish he could find a crack in the ground. .

This "two by five by two by five" organization also made the system of Shiwu known as the "system of two by five" by later researchers.

In this organization method, the lowest rank of military officer who can be called "officer" is Quhou who is in charge of a hundred people.

As for being able to be called 'Changli', that is, a full-time military officer, the lowest is the Sima who is in charge of a team of 500 people.

In this way, according to the regulations on the "handling of the funeral of fallen soldiers" set by Liu Bang today, even if the soldier who died in battle was a soldier of the lowest rank, the soldier's direct subordinate Quhou, that is, Baichang, must prepare for the death. Mourning clothes, coffin, collect the soldier's body and send it home.

Afterwards, the soldier's leading team was required to lead Sima to pay out of his own pocket, use his own money to prepare a pig and a sheep for the sacrifice, and go to the funeral in person to ensure the smoothness of the funeral.

The death of a large soldier in battle requires a hundred commanders to collect the corpses and the team leader Sima to watch the burial, let alone the death of officers at the level of the hundred commanders and team leaders.

Especially in this battle, almost all those who died in Yongcheng were from good families who were born in Guanzhong, and the number reached more than 7000!
This made Li Shang, who was the actual commander of the army, have to take the funeral team that stretched for several miles, and send them home before the corpses of the heroes rotted, and then buried them in peace.

It's time to offer condolences, mourning, mourning, offering sacrifices, and when the funeral is over and the fallen heroes are buried in peace, then it's time for the court to end, when it's time to pay compensation and condolences.

According to Liu Bang's practice in dealing with similar affairs in the past, if the soldiers at the bottom were killed in battle, there is a high probability that they would receive a pension of tens of thousands of dollars, as well as a license for the whole family not to participate in hard labor for five years, that is, exempt from hard labor.

For low-level officers such as corporal chiefs, ten chiefs, and garrison chiefs who were killed in battle, the standard of pensions would not be much different. Generally speaking, the pensions were higher and the period of exemption from work was longer.

But at the level of Quhou, the pension standard will undergo a qualitative improvement.

——Quhou, in the Han army, he will also be respectfully called "Junhou" by his soldiers!
The gold content of this title of "Marquis of the Army" alone is far better than that of the generals who were handed down in the later Three Kingdoms period, or the generals of Lingling!
It is even more remarkable when you reach the first level of Sima in a team with 500 soldiers.

——Nowadays in the Han Dynasty, when the sons and nephews of Chehou and Guanneihou joined the army, their starting point was basically the team leading Sima!

Therefore, the level of "team rate" is also known as the watershed between "soldiers" and "generals" by the people.

Being able to reach the level of 'team rate' means that this person has left the ranks of low-level officers who 'obey orders' and initially possesses independent command power in wartime!

Therefore, if there is an officer of the rank of "team leader Sima" among the common people, it must be the same as the number one scholar in the later Song and Ming Dynasties, attracting "visits" from neighbors.

As for the reason, it wasn't for tax avoidance or the like, but for the purpose of filling in the family's nephews and becoming the "soldiers" led by the Sima team.

The living Quhou and the team leaders are all treated in this way, so there is no need to go into details about the compensation specifications for officers of this level who died in battle.

——In the past more than ten years, there have been no fewer than a thousand martyrs' heirs who were able to enter the palace and become Lang Guan's sons just because of the current Liu Bang's saying, "Father dies as a king, and the son is the man".

Among them, there are even a few cases where the father died in battle, and the son inherited his father's martial arts and was granted the title of nobleman!

Calculated in this way, although the standard of compensation for the fallen soldiers in the Han Dynasty is still not comparable to that of the "martyrs" of the new era in later generations, compared with most feudal dynasties, they can be regarded as "warrior".

The emperor's father treated the soldiers so favorably, so as a son, especially as a prince who aspires to revitalize the Han Dynasty and step on the grassland, Liu Ying naturally has to follow suit.

However, whether it is the follow-up compensation from the court, or the extra rewards and subsidies promised by Liu Ying before the war, it has to wait until the rebellion is completely over, and the court will be the main priority.

At present, the most important thing is to send the remains of the fallen soldiers home, so that they can be buried in peace and their souls return to their hometowns.

Thinking of this, Liu Ying couldn't help shaking her head and sighing with regret.

"It's a pity that King Jing's body still hasn't been found..."

Muttering as if talking to herself, Liu Ying seemed to think of something, her eyes suddenly lit up!
Turning around, she walked quickly to the inner edge of the city wall. Seeing that Li Shang hadn't gone far, Liu Ying quickly raised her voice and called Li Shang back.

When Li Shang heard Liu Ying's call sign, he trotted up to the city wall, but Liu Ying's eyes suddenly showed a rare solemnity!

"The Right Prime Minister!"

"One more thing, Gu, I want to let the right minister hear about it!"

"If it's not right, the Right Prime Minister can speak out; if it's feasible..."

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An hour later, twenty miles south of Yongcheng, the ruins of the No. [-] rebel camp.

Under the strange eyes of tens of thousands of Han soldiers, the heads of the rebels who had been cut off earlier and sealed with lime were moved in order and placed neatly on a high ground.

"Beijing······"

"King Guan!"

After realizing what the thing in front of them was, there was only a strange look on the faces of the soldiers present.

If you want to talk about the wars of this era, what can be called "not breaking the law but sick", it is undoubtedly that after the war, the heads of the enemy soldiers were piled up and cast into Jingguan!

Because at present, it is only the beginning of the Han Dynasty, the Qin Dynasty died only a dozen years ago, and the Warring States period has only passed a few decades.

Although the tacit understanding of the war that "a gentleman does not get seriously injured and does not capture two hairs" has long been broken by a military strategist surnamed Sun who does not pay attention to martial arts, the inertia of history still plays a pivotal role.

To put it simply, it is the present moment, if someone says something like 'a gentleman is not seriously injured, he will not be caught', then naturally no one will agree, it is approval;

However, if someone suggested insulting the enemy's corpse after the battle, or kicking the severed head as a ball, it would still cause people's strong discomfort.

Casting Jingguan is between 'respecting the enemy's corpse' and 'kicking the enemy's head as a ball'. Although it is not too much, it is also an act that has nothing to do with morality.

It was under the gazes of the soldiers with such complicated emotions that Liu Ying's figure appeared in front of the unsealed capital.

Appearing with Liu Ying, there is also a dress that does not look broken, but is slightly faded due to the years.

"This year, the lonely king uncle Jing Wang Jia was killed by the thief Yingbu!!!"

A loud call sign sounded, and the soldiers present couldn't help but look sideways, and the discomfort on their faces caused by seeing Jingguan was also dispelled by Liu Ying's loud voice.

Liu Ying slowly stepped forward two steps, turned sideways, took the old and obviously unusual clothes, and respectfully put it in the pit in front of her.

Then, Liu Ying straightened up again, looking into the eyes of the soldiers present, there was only a trace of evil spirit that seriously did not match the eyes!
"Yingbo killed Uncle Gu Wang, Gu, and sacrificed [-] heads of the Huainan bandit army!"

"Gengying's thieves' ambitions killed thousands of loyal and good Han family members in Yongcheng!"

"Gu, I swear to use the head of Yingbu to sacrifice the souls of the heroes of our Han family!!!"

The expression was extremely solemn, but the tone of voice was almost screaming, and Liu Ying straightened her back and waved to the side.

"Establish a monument!"

As soon as Liu Ying finished speaking, a stone tablet as tall as a person was slowly erected in front of the Beijing Guan.

Before all the soldiers stepped forward to check, the priest at the side recited the word Le on the back of the stele in a melodious and elegant accent.

"In the autumn of the 11th year of the Han Dynasty, Huainan thieves killed Jing Wang and Guanzhong Zhongliang 960 four, and the crown prince was angry and collected 610 five thieves' heads to build a view of Beijing~"

"It is said: the loyalty of the Han Dynasty, the wounded will die, the soul will not go to the underworld, and the slaughter for Beijing will become a ghost; reincarnated for a hundred generations, you will no longer be a human..."

(End of this chapter)