Upon hearing that Wang Qi had also fought the enemy on the wall that day, Song Zhenping looked at him with admiration.
Wang Qi said smugly, "Of course, I'm a fierce general too! That day I killed a Di tribesman and found three horses. Brother Zhou is going to report my military merits."
He was almost cleaved in two at the beginning of the day, but later he also killed a person climbing the wall and went out into the mountains to find three horses.
The Battle of Suijinwei yielded not only prisoners and heads, but also a large number of horses.
Song Liyun saw that the garrison was slaughtering horse meat, which consisted of more than thirty horses that had been shot dead on the spot or died from their injuries. The garrison also seized fifty good horses, making them rich overnight.
The battlefield was cleaned up, and the battle report arrived.
The total number of people in the Suijinwei is only one hundred, which is not enough to support so many horses.
Only ten horses were kept; the rest were sent to Hecheng along with the battle reports and documents.
In the main camp at Xiashi Pass, Zhao Tinglei looked at the battle report and forty warhorses of the Broken Gold Guard and could not hide his joy.
Since the beginning of winter, several garrisons have been attacked. Although only Pingliang Fort was lost, it still caused widespread panic.
In particular, the bandits committed crimes everywhere, plundering villages and towns. The government was powerless to suppress them, which was said to be due to the presence of barbarian people among them, making it impossible for the government to fight them.
Now that the Broken Gold Guards have killed more than eighty enemies, they have also managed to quell a small group of bandits. This should be reported to the court for a great reward.
After reading the battle report, Marquis Zhao Yanjiao of Zhenbei was also pleased and highly praised the Suijin Guard.
After leaving the others behind, he asked his eldest son, "Why do you think the Yue Lun tribe ended up in Suijin Town?"
These two stayed at Xiashi Pass for decades, and their understanding of the Di people probably exceeded their understanding of their own women.
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