Chapter 378: How to Deal with 500,000 Prisoners of War?

"Submit to the Tang Dynasty, Paul's body will be intact!"

"Submit to the Tang Dynasty, Paul's body will be intact!"

"Submit to the Tang Dynasty, Paul's body will be intact!"

Outside the huge Black Tiger City of the Uihe Khanate, the roar of half a million Tang troops was overwhelming and resounded throughout the sky.

Between heaven and earth, that long golden figure stood proudly on horseback outside Black Tiger City, with one arm holding a Longquan sword in the air, Emperor Chen Huaian of the Tang Dynasty. At this moment, it was like a god descending to earth, shocking the more than 200,000 Arabs in Black Tiger City. The remaining soldiers of the empire's eastern expedition.

These people witnessed with their own eyes the faith in their hearts. Turhong, the first warrior of the Abbasid Dynasty and the empire's general in the Eastern Expedition, was beheaded after just three moves by the Emperor of the Tang Dynasty, Chen Huaian. Under horseback.

At this moment, the last trace of luck and faith left by the remnants of the Arab Empire in Black Tiger City was shattered and collapsed by the Fangtian Painted Halberd in Chen Huaian's hand.

On the walls of Black Tiger City, countless Arab Empire soldiers raised their swords, guns, swords and halberds and knelt down to surrender to the Tang Emperor Chen Huaian outside the city.

Even Caesar, who was the right vanguard general of the Empire's Eastern Expedition, and General Heidi, the deputy general standing next to him who had just summoned the falcon to land on his shoulder, were like deflated rubber balls, allowing the Empire's Eastern Expedition on the city wall to The soldiers knelt down and surrendered.

The two exchanged glances, and finally cheered up and prepared to walk out of the city and personally ask for surrender from the brave Emperor Chen Huaian of the Tang Dynasty.

After all, the two hundred thousand soldiers in this city still relied on them;

After all, they still had to rely on them to fight for the remains of General Turhun, who was still lying alone outside the city at this time, to return the general's coffin to Baghdad.

Outside Black Tiger City, Emperor Zhaowu Chen Huaian, who stood between heaven and earth, finally set his sights on Turhun, the first Abbasid warrior and the Eastern Expeditionary Army of the Arab Empire, who died in his hands;

He said to himself: "Since I raised my army, I have killed countless generals in front of the battle. You are the first general who can survive three moves under my Fangtian Painted Halberd;"

"It seems that your title as the number one warrior in the Abbasid Dynasty is well-deserved!"

Immediately, Chen Huaian turned to Turhong's personal guard captain Bisuma, who was still stunned in the wind with tears streaming down his face, and said: "What are you still doing? Let's collect the remains of your general;"

"After the surrender of the Arab soldiers in Black Tiger City, I personally approve that you will escort Turhun's remains back to Baghdad for burial!"

After saying that, Chen Huaian rode away without caring whether Bisuma understood what he said.

When he returned to the front of the Tang army, he simply ignored the praises of the Tang generals who greeted him, and just gave an instruction to the deputy governor of Anxi Protectorate (South Palace) and champion Hou Huo Qubing. :

"Marquis Champion, you accept the surrender of the Arab army in the city on my behalf, and you are fully responsible for all matters in Black Tiger City. You will come back after the handling is completed!"

"My lord, take your orders!"

...

It was September 21, the first year of Zhaowu in the Tang Dynasty.

The battle for the Western Regions, which lasted for more than three months, finally came to an end. In the end, Turhun, the general of the Arab Empire's Eastern Expedition, was killed in the battle. The 800,000 Eastern Expedition army suffered more than 300,000 casualties, and there were more than 500,000 Arab troops and their vassals. Ended by being captured.

Chen Huaian, the founding emperor of the Tang Dynasty, who led the expedition in person, once again used his wisdom and bravery to maintain the glory and national prestige of the Tang Dynasty on the Western Silk Road;

Moreover, after this battle, the Tang Dynasty's absolute control over the Silk Road in the Western Regions was completely realized, and the unprecedented achievement of the unification of the thirty-six countries in the Western Regions was completely realized.

When the news of the great victory in the Western Regions came back to Jinling City, the capital of the Tang Dynasty, many historians said in private that Emperor Zhaowu Chen Huaian's feat alone was enough to rival Emperor Qin and Emperor Wu of Han and become an emperor who will go down in history!

Of course, this is something for later, so I won’t mention it for now.

At present, although the Tang Dynasty has achieved victory in the battle with the Arab Empire in the Western Regions;

However, the problems we face are still serious and urgent.

The first problem is that with the surrender of the Arab Empire army trapped in the Black Tiger City of Uihe, the total number of prisoners of war of the Arab Empire's Eastern Expedition and its vassal armies held by the Tang Dynasty in the Uihe Khanate has exceeded fifty. Ten thousand people;

How to deal with these 500,000 prisoners of war is a big problem!

Secondly, among the captured Arab Empire’s Eastern Expeditionary Army and its vassal armies, there were tens of thousands of lightly and seriously injured people. If not dealt with in time, it would easily cause a plague in the army and even in the entire Western Region;

Finally, after this "war catastrophe", the reconstruction work of the thirty-six countries in the Western Regions and the promotion of the New Deal Reform that took the lead in implementing "separation of military and political affairs" in the Western Regions were all the work of Emperor Zhaowu Chen Huaian and the Tang Dynasty who conquered the Western Regions. A big problem that the generals urgently need to solve.

It's night, inside the Chinese army's tent.

Emperor Zhaowu Chen Huaian summoned his generals to discuss how to deal with the aftermath of the war.

Huo Qubing, the champion of the Tang Dynasty and deputy governor of the Anxi Protectorate (Nanfu), took the lead in reporting to the emperor: "Your Majesty, as the enemy forces in Black Tiger City collectively surrendered to our Tang Dynasty today;"

"As of now, the total number of prisoners of war of the Arab Empire's Eastern Expedition and the vassal armies of the Western Regions has been counted is 583,437;"

"In addition, the number of prisoners captured by the various armies that conquered the Western Regions is still being counted. Preliminary estimates are at least 50,000!"

Immediately afterwards, Guo Dingfang, the Marquis of Zhenxi and the Minister of War of the Tang Dynasty, also stood up and reported to Chen Huaian: "Your Majesty, I have also followed your orders and counted the current food and fodder reserves of the army in the Western Regions;"

"In addition to the food and fodder seized from the Arab Empire's eastern expedition reinforcements in the battle of the Varahan Corridor a few days ago, our army's current food and fodder reserves in the Western Regions are enough to support our army in the Western Regions for half a year, enough until the beginning of next spring;"

"But, if we add the rations for the nearly 600,000 prisoners of war, the time that the food reserves can support will be shortened by half. If not, If we transport food from the country, the army will be out of food before the beginning of next spring;"

After a pause, Guo Dingfang continued: "In addition, the total number of lightly wounded and seriously injured soldiers in our Tang army and captured enemy troops concentrated in Heihu, Meijian and Khatun has exceeded 100,000. The consumption of various medicines, especially wound medicines, is extremely huge. All the medicine reserves of the military medical camp are in urgent need;"

"After these lightly wounded and seriously injured soldiers, the captured soldiers of the Arab Empire's Eastern Expedition and their vassal troops account for as much as 80% of the wounded and sick;"

"I still have to ask the emperor to make a decision on this matter!"

Hmm!

On the main seat, Emperor Zhaowu Chen Huaian nodded frequently.

What the champion marquis Huo Qubing and Zhenxi marquis Guo Dingfang reported had long been within Chen Huaian's expectations. The military reports of these matters were piled up in a thick stack in his desk drawer.

In the past few days, Chen Huaian has been thinking about how to deal with these hundreds of thousands of prisoners of war.

Of course, for Chen Huaian, who has the [Born to be an Emperor] system, these so-called food and medicine are not a problem at all. They are just a string of numbers in the system mall.

However, if Chen Huaian is asked to use the food and medicine in his system to rescue the enemy soldiers who are on the Eastern Expedition to the Tang Dynasty, he will never be able to do it!

It is true that Chen Huaian governs the world with benevolence, but he is not a saint with overflowing sympathy, and he will never raise a group of invaders for nothing.

On the other hand, it is not okay to ignore these captives and wounded soldiers. If a plague breaks out in the army, it will be troublesome.

As a time traveler, Chen Huaian has experienced the power of the plague. If things go wrong, he may not be able to achieve his long-cherished wish of becoming the greatest emperor in the history, and the newly established dynasty will be wiped out by the plague!

Suddenly, a fierce voice came from the big tent: "Your Majesty, in my opinion, just kill all these captive soldiers from foreign countries and put an end to it;"

"Anyway, the Uighur Khanate is vast and sparsely populated, so just dig a few big pits and bury them. There is no such thing as so much food and medicine for these foreign barbarians!"

"Just kill them!"