: The crime of possessing a treasure

After getting the Dog-headed Military Advisor Yeji Diantong, the entire army had ordered before the dark to gather all its troops and set out straight towards Wuluo Mountain City, 80 miles east of Fuyu City. The remaining more than one hundred cavalrymen were shouting, just like bandits passing through the border, and they all roared with their tribe leaders.

In Fuyu City, Luo Lin and Wei Shanhu had already cleaned the battlefield, collected spoils, and added a knife to the undead cavalrymen. Even if they were only slightly injured and fell into the hands of the Sui army, no one was willing to capture them at this time, but gave them a knife directly, cut off their heads and prepared to take them to receive a reward. An enemy's head is worth ten guan, and a war horse is worth five guan. As for the property on other enemies, although they have to be seized and returned to the public, they can get half of it after registration.

But no one has ever told these cavalry how much is a prisoner worth. Besides, killing people is just a head, and they can bring seven or eight at a time. And prisoners, one cavalry, can't bring a few of them on the battlefield. It's better to kill a dozen or so people, which is easy and easy, and valuable.

It took most of the day to clean the battlefield, collect spoils, and collect some of the bodies of the fallen Sui cavalry. Those who were lucky enough to be injured but not dead were immediately bandaged by them and rushed back to the city.

"Sir, preliminary statistics show that in this battle, 1,247 cavalry of the Marine Cavalry were killed, 113 people were killed in our independent regiment, 89 people were killed in the reconnaissance camp of Lord Wei, and more than 30 injured, but none of them were seriously injured. More than 800 Marine Cavalry horses, more than 1,000 swords, guns, shields, and armor were seized. The soldiers thought the wild boars and armor of the knights were too bad and too ugly, so they did not collect them."

An officer reported the results of this battle to Luo Lin. Luo Lin nodded. The number of casualties of 1 to 6 is already a very good result. As for those injured, they are all slightly injured and not seriously injured, it is easy to understand. In this rushing battle, most seriously injured will fall off their horses. On such a battlefield, serious injuries are equivalent to death in battle, not as compared to infantry battles.

"Send a team of people to find out what happened to these wild boar skins, and return to the city to report whenever there is any movement!" Luo Lin ordered a captain cavalry company commander beside him.

"Bring our spoils and go back to the city!" After participating in the battle, Luo Lin's originally uncomfortable heart finally calmed down a little.

As soon as he returned to Fuyu City, Li Benlei immediately summoned the officers to discuss the military affairs.

"In today's battle, although we have slapped the spirit of the Marine cavalry and repelled them. But now we have only 4,000 troops, and although the enemy retreated temporarily, we have not withdrawn. If the Marine people come again, we will have a hard battle even if we can defend it. Our purpose this time is to take advantage of the emptiness of Fuyu City to get all the money and food in the city. We can fight against the strong walls and clear the fields to deal with the future northwards of the Liao people. This is a complete surprise with the Marine people. How do you think about this now?"

Luo Lin said coldly, "No matter whether he is a Marin or a Khitan, he actually wants to take advantage of the situation. Since they dare to reach out, we will cut off his hand. Who will be afraid of my Northeast Army? We have never been afraid of the hundreds of thousands of soldiers in Goguryeo before, so why should we be afraid of these wild boar skins? General, although the number of those wild boar skins is large, with more than 10,000 people, they are just hunting people. Today, we have more than 2,000 people, and we have suffered minor losses to our enemies, but we have lost 1,200 cavalry. In this way, we can see that the combat power of these wild boar skins is not high, and the siege equipment outside the city today has been destroyed by us. Facing such a strong city in Fuyu City, what will they use to attack? If they know this, they will probably have withdrawn their troops today."

"It's not that simple!" Li Benlei shook his head and said, "These barbarian tribes like to plunder the most. This time, they not only did not plunder money and food, but instead lost so many people. If they had no harvest, it would be impossible to withdraw their troops like this."

Every man is innocent and has a sin.

Originally, they had nothing to do with these mars, but now they occupied Fuyu City with 4,000 people. These mars must have been greedy. With greed, they wanted them to retreat like this, unless the Sui army could show strong deterrence. It would be fine if they had tens of thousands of people together, these mars would definitely not dare to pick up the tiger beards of the Northeast Army, but now, they only have 4,000 people.

How could those Martyrs who came more than 10,000 easily be content with it?

"Although we are not afraid of these Martialis, we will inevitably suffer from damage in the fight. Today, although we have wiped out more than 1,200 Martialis, we have also died 200. I often remember the general's words: military is to serve politics, and the purpose of politics is interests. At the end of the day, the purpose of war is interests. Our goal in Liaodong is to defeat Goguryeo."

"Even if we are in Fuyu City now, we are trying to get the money and grain population of Fuyu City, weaken the strength of the Liao people, and work hard for our purpose of defeating the Goguryeo people. And where did the Marine people come out? We have no feud with them, nor have land disputes, and fight with them to death, and finally lose their troops and generals. What did we get?"

Li Benlei and Chen Kefu have been together for so long, and gradually influenced by him, they gradually transformed from a simple general in the past to a general who can consider the entire strategic level. At this time, in his opinion, fighting with these martyrs was a complete accident.

Winning will not help them at all in Liaodong, and losing will not be worth it. And if you lose, it will not be good. At that time, not only will you have to bear the losses of the war, but you may also be likely to attack an enemy that did not exist.

"But those wild boar skins all took the initiative to hit us. Do we have to surrender? I don't understand what the general often talks about the strategy and interests. I only know that now the Marines are the ones who hit us first. Then we can't be rude. If the soldiers come to block the general, the water will cover the soil. If he dares to come, I dare to fight." Luo Lin did not buy Li Benlei's account at all, and because of the news of his father's death, he was even a little nameless and fired at this time.

Li Benlei also understood Luo Lin's emotions today, and did not care about it. He smiled and said, "I'm not saying we want them to bully him, but saying that we should consider the essence of this matter clearly. In this way, we can find better solutions, rather than fighting in a confused manner and fighting a battle that is not beneficial to us at all."

"Essence? What else can it be? It's obvious that Yuan Taizuo of Fuyu City went south to fight us, but he never returned. His neighbor, the Marines, wanted to come and pick up this opportunity to attack Fuyu City, and wanted to steal the money and grain population in the city. After coming, he found that we were there, so of course he came for us." Luo Lin sat on the side and said.

"That's right," said Li Benlei, "The purpose of the Marines is to Fuyu City, not to attack us. Now we are fighting with us, but we just want the property in the city. So I think there is no need for us to fight with the Marines to death. The general will come north soon. Now, we just need to defend the city tightly. Then the general leads the soldiers to advance north. Do you think those Marines are willing to fight with us for a Fuyu City that will never be able to get? They are just here to get cheap. As long as we don't give them a chance, they will naturally withdraw their troops."

"And if we fight these martyrs here, even if they wipe them out, what do you think is the meaning? Not only will we not get any benefits, we will definitely suffer great damage. At that time, will it weaken our own strength? If a bad thing is, then the martyrs will become hostile to us. If they join forces with Goguryeo to deal with us, wouldn't it be a big deal for the general?"

Luo Lin was said nothing by Li Benlei, so he had to say, "You are the lieutenant general and deputy commander, you will make the decision on these things. I am just a colonel leader, and I am only responsible for the war. Now, what do you think of?"

Li Benlei smiled, "This is very simple. The people of the Marines are not going to worry about whether they withdraw their troops or not. Anyway, after this defeat, they have lost the siege equipment. It is impossible for them to capture Fuyu City in a short time. Even when they re-made the siege equipment, the general has already brought his troops. Therefore, I decided that before the general arrives, we only need to stick to the city and do not need to fight again, that is just a meaningless war."

"In addition, I will send a few messengers to Gaimu City to send a message, believing that the general has arrived in Gaimu. When the general receives the letter and leads the army, the cavalry of the miraculous will naturally be able to get through. Such a defeated army without fighting will prevent the casualties of our soldiers and will not add an enemy to us for no reason. Wouldn't it be better?"

Luo Lin nodded, "What you said makes sense, but you don't know if the Martialis will be as you said. I don't care about the rest. Anyway, if the Martialis come to attack the city first, I must lead the troops to fight back. This Fuyu City is the spoil we deserve after defeating Yuan Taizuo. Why give it to the dirty Martialis wearing wild boars?" After saying that, he stood up and left.

Wei Shanhu said with some displeasure, "General, why did Luo Lin take a gun today? He didn't understand the superiors and inferiors at all. It's so unreasonable after following the general for so long."
Chapter completed!