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Perhaps sensing Han Yilin's emotions,

Cheng Murou comforted him, "My lord, there is no need to blame yourself. If we lose this battle, even more people will die after the city falls, including many innocent civilians."

"These soldiers fought to protect Zhatian County; their deaths should not be blamed on you, sir."

Han Yilin remained silent for a while.

After a while,

Slowly loosen your fist.

"you're right."

"I know all of that."

Han Yilin slowly said, "The success of one general is built on the bones of ten thousand. War always results in death; I know that."

"But these soldiers were recruited by me personally, so I, as the county magistrate, must be responsible for them."

After saying that,

Han Yilin suppressed his emotions.

He also knew that,

The person is already dead.

There's no point in continuing to stand here and blame myself.

What he can do now

That is, to properly handle the aftermath.

"Choose a place outside the city to bury the bodies of these fallen soldiers."

"Erect a monument."

"Engrave everyone's name on it."

"They died for the sake of bombing Tianxian County; they shouldn't be left without even a name."

Cheng Murou solemnly replied, "Yes."

Han Yilin continued, "Also, send all the injured to the clinic for treatment. After they are bandaged up, have them soak in the Huaqing Pool."

Cheng Murou: "Understood."

After giving the instructions,

Cheng Murou went to do her work.

Han Yilin then approached Li Zehao: "Have you tallied up the spoils of this battle?"

Li Zehao replied, "Sir, the count is almost complete."

"Excluding severely damaged and unusable weapons, a total of 2,746 weapons and 2,382 sets of leather armor were captured in this battle."

"In addition, there are 472 bows, more than 33,000 arrows, and 163 warhorses."

"126,000 units of grain, plus... 1,652 prisoners."

"These weapons and armor are all green quality. There is also a set of blue quality armor and weapons, as well as a batch of warhorses, but..."

Upon hearing this,

Han Yilin was completely oblivious to the embarrassment on the other person's face.

"They even have blue quality ones?"

"Where are the things?"

Li Zehao's expression was somewhat strange as he raised his hand and pointed to a spot not far away.

there,

Niu Hongshan's body was lying on the ground.

A huge, conspicuous crack remained on the armor on his chest, and a warhorse lay beside him, half of its neck severed.

"The weapons are well preserved."

"However, the armor was cleaved in two by General Cheng's sword, and it will probably need to be repaired before it can be used."

"As for the warhorses..."

Li Zehao did not continue speaking.

The answer is obvious.

Han Yilin couldn't help but roll his eyes, and his lips twitched.

"I should have told Cheng Murou to go easy on it. This was a blue-quality warhorse, and she just killed it like that."

Han Yilin exclaimed that he felt sorry for him.

but,

Looking into the distance,

The mountain of spoils lifted my spirits considerably.

But soon,

Seeing the swarms of prisoners instantly soothed the situation.

Damn it...

So many prisoners

How much food do we consume every day?

In a flash,

Han Yilin then understood why the killing of prisoners of war was so common in ancient times.

Aside from personal factors such as brutality,

The main reason,

The problem is a food shortage.

There wasn't even enough food for their own people, so where would they get the food to feed all these prisoners? It was so desperate that they all had to be killed...

Han Yilin felt that he wasn't that cruel.

"The prisoners will be taken to the prison first, and their food can be reduced."

"That adult..."

"What's wrong?"

Li Zehao was somewhat troubled and said awkwardly, "Our police station's cell can only hold a maximum of 200 people, and that's with the cell being crammed full."

"I freaking..."

Han Yilin was speechless.

This is the first time I've been worried about having so many prisoners.

The key is,

The police station has already been upgraded once and is now a level 2 building, but where is he going to put the remaining thousand-plus prisoners?

It's impossible to release them.

Speaking of which...

Are there no human traffickers?

For a time,

Han Yilin even considered selling these prisoners.

"Fine, let's try to persuade them to surrender first."

"Let's see how many people are left."

Thinking of this,

Han Yilin gestured towards the prisoners, and Li Zehao immediately understood and went over to begin persuading them to surrender.

This thing,

There's no need for any grand or impassioned speeches.

In short,

To lower or not to lower?

If they surrender, that's easy. They'll be sent directly to the drill ground for reformation, and once they're reformed, they can be incorporated into the army.

on site,

Soon, many people raised their hands, indicating their willingness to surrender.

But after counting,

There were only about two hundred people in total.

More than 1,300 people were still unwilling, and the prison couldn't hold them all. Helpless, Han Yilin could only order, "For the time being, you should arrange for someone to keep an eye on them."

Li Zehao understood the problem and nodded in response, "Understood."

After dealing with the prisoner issue,

then,

It's a weapon.

There's not much to say about that; aside from those used to equip the troops, everything else can be sold.

But before that...

We must first replenish the losses from this battle.

.......

Before the war,

Zhatian County has 1,600 soldiers.

It included 500 light infantry, 200 cavalry, and 900 militia.

right now,

After the battle,

After removing the fallen, it became: 427 light infantry, 153 cavalry, and 461 militia.

Looking at the numbers,

Han Yilin first transferred some of the militia to other positions, and then replenished the number of light infantry to 500.

As for cavalry...

Huh~

Don't even think about it!

at least,

Don't even think about changing jobs until the food problem is solved; it consumes way too much food.

Can't afford to raise them

I really can't afford to raise them.

In this way

There are still more than 300 militiamen left... Han Yilin thought about it and decided to convert them all into crossbowmen after the Zhuge Repeating Crossbow was built.

As for archers?

I'll go back to Zhuang Li and return the goods.

At worst,

I don't want the deposit anymore.

Anyway, with so many patents acquired in this battle, they can definitely sell them for a good price.

at least,

In the short term,

Zhatian County no longer needs to worry about money.

of course,

That's what they say.

Han Yilin still selected 47 militiamen and assigned them to the drill ground, intending to have Li Zehao train their horsemanship later.

These militiamen,

He intended to remain in reserve and be converted to cavalry in case of war.

This way, there's no need to bear the burden of daily food consumption.

Thinking of this method,

Han Yilin smugly said, "I'm a genius."

After working for half a day,

We've finally finished dealing with the battle uniforms, spoils, and battlefield cleanup.

By this time,

The sky was already bright.

Han Yilin, having already come all this way, decided to recruit refugees on the spot, wanting to see where they came from.

result......

After he read the instructions three times,

Those refugees,

However, they appeared at the opposite west gate, which made Han Yilin seriously doubt that the refugees would not appear on the side he was watching.

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...

...

What the hell.

What happened to my kidneys?

The rating jumped from 6.8 to 7.8... Are you guys really trying to make me post 10,000 words a day?

Daniel Wu and others

Again,

I've been on Tomato for almost three years now, and I've written several books with hundreds of thousands of readers, but none of them have received high praise.

Just once,

If the rating reaches 8 points or above, the daily income will definitely be 10,000. This promise is unrelated to the actual performance.

Even tomorrow,

There are only a handful of students left who are enrolled.

It remains unchanged!

I need to write at least 600,000 words, 10,000 words a day.

Why 600,000?

Because the test will cover more than 400,000 words (laughs).