mesbooks Chapter 798: Whip Own Su Zhong
Chapter 798: Whip Own Su Zhong
Nearly half of the army they led had casualties. If it was just a feint attack, even if the opponent had the advantage of firearms, they would have suffered at most one or two casualties before they could react.
Nearly half of the casualties, the prairie army can no longer maintain the initiative to fight against Zhou State. Taking a step back, even if their prairie army is still intact, but the opponent has already mastered the firearms that Chu State has, how can their prairie army still be Zhou? China's opponent?
These troops are not only from their Wanyan tribe, but also from the most elite troops of the other two tribes. Now they have lost nearly half of them, which is a great sin.
If the leaders of the other two tribes knew that it was the reckless actions of the two of them that lost so much troops, I am afraid that Father Khan would face considerable pressure.
Now the third prince has no choice but to exaggerate the power of Zhou Guo's firearms and report it with embellishments, hoping that his father Khan can believe it, otherwise, he and the fourth child will probably go down to accompany Dage.
After obtaining the results of the battle, Su Zhong ordered to leave the customs, and the pursuit will be delayed for a while. The first thing they did was to clean up these prisoners.
To say that the power of Zhou Guo's firearms is really not very good, it looks like a huge momentum, but in fact, there are very few enemies that can be directly killed, and most of them are wounded.
So Zhou Guo was forced to harvest a bunch of wounded but still alive prisoners.
Now that the grassland has been evacuated, who wants to take these disabled prisoners?
They can't even set up their own tents now, and they are completely useless. Zhou Guo has to be responsible for finding a good place for these prisoners to settle.
Look at the news from Chu State, what are their captives doing?
Setting up tents, washing clothes, moving supplies, repairing pastures, and even prisoner-of-war camps were built by the prisoners themselves.
The state of Chu harvested a lot of labor with only a little grain.
But what about Zhou Guo?
Look at the captives one by one, not to mention setting up tents, it takes a lot of effort to walk, and most of them can only lie on the ground and howl.
The deputy general stood beside Su Zhong and looked at the wailing captives and sighed, "There are too many captives. If we take them in, then our country of Zhou will really be taken advantage of."
Su Zhong asked, "Do you have any ideas?"
Song Ning said, "Why don't you kill me, it'll save trouble."
Su Zhong said: "But I will not be reconciled. The Chu State manages the captives well, but we still need someone to help them dig holes?"
Song Ning said, "There's no way, we can't expect these people who just lie on the ground and howl to stand up and help dig the hole."
Su Zhong sighed and said, "No! The general is still unbalanced, I have to find a way to squeeze some oil from these prisoners, and I can't kill them so hastily."
Regarding Su Zhong's thoughts, Song Ning was pessimistic. If these prisoners were not murdered, they would be a bunch of money-losers. They couldn't give them limited medicine when they couldn't cure themselves.
Moreover, food is also a problem.
Chu State is the most cost-effective, as long as they are given food, they will work without wages, and most of them basically retain the ability to work.
What about these people?
They will only consume Zhou's food!
What kind of oil and water can General Su squeeze out of these captives who have already lost half their lives and are still alive?
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And Su Zhong was also out of anger. Zhou Guo was suppressed by Chu State for too long, which led to one thing.
Zhou Guo wanted to compare everything with Chu State.
If you can't beat it, you can compare it with financial resources. Anyway, a large amount of Chu's financial resources are used in military affairs, and the amount of money that can be dispatched in the treasury every year is very limited.
Now that Chu has the National Chamber of Commerce, Zhou Guo finds that Zhou Guo will be overtaken by Zhou Guo in terms of financial resources, and if Chu is given another year or two, even Zhao Guo may not be an opponent in terms of financial resources.
The military is also incomparable, and the financial resources are also incomparable. Zhou Guo is not generally aggrieved now.
There must be something better than Chu State, right?
If the big ones can't compare, then compare the small ones, for example, we can compare who is better at squeezing prisoners.
But obviously, this year's captives are also very difficult to take, and they have to rely on Zhou Guo to take care of them to survive.
Su Chong's heart seemed to have been stabbed several times by the state of Chu.
It's just useless!
It's fine if they can't win, and let Zhou Guo lose so badly...
Song Ning also sighed when he saw Su Zhong's leaving figure, it's all like this, why don't we just give up, we can't compare to Chu, can't we?
The military strength of our Zhou State can also be compared with that of Zhao State. Isn't it much more comfortable to think about it this way.
Why do you have to compare with yourself and pick those who can't be compared at all?
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Although they Zhou Guo won a big victory this time, this battle also succeeded in depressing Su Zhong, the main general, mainly because this class of prisoners was the worst class they had ever brought, without any exaggeration, indeed is the worst.
Because of a big victory during the day, at night, in addition to leaving enough people on duty, a celebration banquet was held in the barracks.
The meat was plentiful, and each soldier was even given a small glass of wine.
It's still wartime, and it's a mistake to drink too much, but a small cup can cheer up people's hearts.
Because as long as they win another battle, they can get another small cup.
A school lieutenant who originally planned to invite General Su Zhong to host the celebration banquet was kicked out by Su Zhong, and Su Zhong's face was full of resentment.
Just when the captain was puzzled, Song Ning came over and sighed, "Let the commander-in-chief be quiet for a while."
The captain wondered: "Didn't we win a big victory? Why is the commander unhappy? It's like losing a battle, ah! Why did he smash the table with a fist full of resentment?"
Song Ning said, "What do you know? The commander-in-chief is urging himself, reminding himself not to be dazzled by the petty gains in front of him. When the war goes smoothly, the commander-in-chief will urge himself even more, otherwise Why can you become a commander in chief? You people are too impetuous, learn more from the commander in chief, remember to spur yourself at all times, understand?"
The school lieutenant immediately admired: "Yes!"
Song Ning nodded: "Go down."
Song Ning stood at the door and looked at Su Zhong who was almost so depressed that he slapped himself on the face, and couldn't help but sigh, still thinking about squeezing oil?
If it doesn't work, let's just bury it. It will be done once, and it will save you and me. Why bother?
In order to feed these captives tonight, they lost a lot of food.
If it continues like this, Zhou Guo will really suffer a lot.