Chapter 252 The problem of prisoners
On the plain, the cavalry was faster than the infantry. Zhu Youcheng's cavalry had already charged to the enemy and surrounded the rebels from behind.
The main general was captured, and the retreat was blocked again. There was only one way to surrender before the rebels. However, the rebels did not dare to surrender. When they knelt down and begged for mercy, the Ming army's cavalry directly stepped on their heads. Once again, their heads were not cast by copper and iron, and they could not be broken no matter how hard they stepped on them.
Fortunately, Xu Yan saw that there was an opportunity, so he rushed down with the more than 40 young men of the barbarians. The four heroes were very clever and knew that they were not as good as the Jinyiwei. While shouting in the barbarian language, they slashed with a scimitar. Of course, their calls were not to want to take prisoners, but to tell the rebels that they were also barbarians and were considered fellow villagers. As the saying goes, when a fellow villagers meet, they will slash behind their backs. If we don’t do such unethical things, we will give you a knife in front of you. In fact, the content of their calls is irrelevant, the key is to say it in the native language of the barbarians. The content of their calls can actually be replaced with something else, such as Zhu Youcheng, who is a smoky person who is not ethical and has no anus for giving birth to a child, but they are afraid that the Jinyiwei will hear it, so they changed the words that are very correct to surrender when they hear it.
Unexpectedly, this slogan that was originally a fool is very effective. When I heard the friendly local language of the hometown, the rebels in the barbarians actually knelt down, and there were even people who helped these compatriots in the barbarians to persuade them to surrender, and they shouted together.
Zhu Youcheng was ready to try to repair the rebels, but looking at the battlefield, there were not many opponents standing. If they attacked the surrendered enemy, they were not Jiannu or Japanese slaves, so they would not be able to do this.
Fortunately, no matter which unit, there are always some deadly members who are not sure about the situation. Zhu Youcheng saw a barbarian nearby who was slashing around. He urged him to step forward, and he was distracted. Unexpectedly, a shot flew into the slanting slanting. The barbarian was nailed to the ground, and the barbarian died immediately.
Zhu Youcheng was furious and looked back to see that the troublesome ghost was ruining his good deeds. But he saw Wang Feng smiled apologetically at him, hit the horse, pulled out the steel gun that was stabbed on the rebels, and went to find the next unlucky ghost who resisted to the end.
There are too few stubborn resistance on the battlefield. Where can each of the five thousand cavalrymen get an enemy, so it is often a group of cavalry that bullies the rebels home. They already have one more horse than others, and their martial arts skills are higher, and they are also crowded with power, so will they let people live?
The cavalry ignored the rebels' resentment. After a sudden slaughter, the rebels fell down with blood holes all over their bodies. The Jinyiwei's gun technique was practiced over the years. No matter which one of the blood holes pierced on the body was enough to be fatal. It was not that the Jinyiwei was tyrannical, but that everyone was fighting for merit. The Jinyiwei killed the Jinyiwei and the rebels were frightened, and more people surrendered.
After cleaning up the rebels who were deadly, the Jinyiwei began to capture the prisoners. The Jinyiwei had never cared about the prisoners. They threw the ropes to the rebels kneeling on the ground and gave them a choice. Either tied up each other or... hehe...
The rebels couldn't help but burst into tears. They bullied people too much. Even if the Jinyiwei is invincible in the world, they can't treat the prisoners like this. Let's choose for ourselves, can I choose not to tie them? However, the Yi people were just talking about these words. Seeing Xueliang's spear, they swallowed and tied each other obediently, and tied them up very strongly, for fear that the Jinyiwei's uncle was dissatisfied.
After dealing with the matter on the battlefield, Zhu Youcheng looked at the sky and it was already dark. It was not realistic to go back to the camp. He crossed the mountains in the middle of the night, and the danger was very high. Anyway, there were camping materials among the seized materials, so Zhu Youcheng asked the Jinyiwei to camp on the spot.
The battlefield statistics officers came to report that one person died, three people seriously injured, and sixty-seven people were slightly injured. Five thousand to twenty thousand, only paying this little price. The Jinyiwei won a great victory, but Zhu Youcheng was still in a heavy mood because another young and precious life was lost on the battlefield. He waved his hand and asked someone to go to Sheng Lian's corpse of the sacrificed soldiers, but the guards reported that the corpse could not be retained because the Jinyiwei died at the hands of his own people. He was hit by a rebel arrow in his face and accidentally fell off his horse. The Jinyiwei behind him was too busy to avoid it. The soldier was trampled by the Ranma, and now...
Zhu Youcheng trembled all over. The situation he was most afraid of was that. Although the soldiers were not afraid of death, such a tragic death would definitely stimulate the soldiers. If they were not handled properly, a thorn in the soldiers' hearts would affect future battles.
Zhu Youcheng ordered people to go to the camp quickly and invite Taoist He Zihong to perform rituals for the sacrificed Jinyi Guard soldiers. Of course, Yu Jiayan also had to invite them to treat the injured Jinyi Guard.
Sure enough, when the soldiers of the Jinyi Guard heard that their comrades died so tragically, they all looked gloomy and seemed to be worried. It was not until He Zihong's ritual was over that they returned to normal. Zhu Youcheng thoughtfully, it seemed that it was reasonable to have a priest in the Western army.
The Jinyiwei suffered casualties, and the rebels suffered even more shocking losses. In less than an hour of battle, the number of rebels died at 3,000, and the wounded were more than 2,000. The remaining 15,000 were captured. Zhu Youcheng had no sympathy for the rebel wounded. The seriously injured did not have to waste precious medicine at all. He cut off his head as a military merit, and the minor wounded just bandaged it. Want to use medicine? The Jinyiwei himself was not enough, so how could it be wasted on you?
When dealing with the remaining 15,000 barbarians, everyone was in trouble. The total number of prisoners was three times that of the Jinyiwei, and guarding became a big problem. Not only that, there was another bigger problem. When the Jinyiwei was in Tongren Mansion, he replenished all the food and grass, but this was limited to 5,000 Jinyiwei. Now Zhu Youcheng's team has soared to 20,000, and where can the remaining food and grass be found? It would be fine if it was in another province, but Guizhou itself was poor. Coupled with the She'an Rebellion, the local area was corrupt, and the treasury was so empty that even mice had to move. Where could they get food?
The generals present knew that there was actually another very simple way to deal with this problem, which was to kill prisoners. Killing prisoners was very simple. For example, by placing the prisoners into the valley, blocking the entrance to the valley, and a fire could solve them; or by putting arsenic into their food, they could also easily bring down a piece of them. Unfortunately, none of the generals were Jiannu or Japanese slaves, and they had not developed the bad habit of massacre prisoners. If they were asked to bring down 15,000 enemy troops on the battlefield, they would not even frown, but if they were asked to kill so many prisoners who put down their weapons, they would not be able to make up this decision.
However, Gu Long said bluntly: "Sir, since captives are so troublesome, it's better to kill them all."
All the generals, including Zhu Youcheng, were frightened and stared at Gu Long with strange eyes. This kid was so vicious that he killed his own tribe that he remained calm. From then on, he was a member of the Jinyiwei.
The other young people of the Yi tribe agreed, and only Wen Rui'an said, "My lord, you don't have to kill them all. Because according to my observation, there is no black lord among those barbarians, all of them are kids. The kids are not so loyal to An Bangyan. Participating in the rebellion is either the instructor of the head of the family, or wanting to have a good meal. Not only do they not have to worry about those people rebelling, they can use them. Their hearts are filled with anger at the black lord, but because of the large number of minions of the black lord, they cannot resist."
The social structure of the Yi tribe is actually very primitive, especially the tribes in the deep mountains and old forests, which are still in a slave society. The slave owners are called Heiyi, while the slaves under them are called Wazi. Heiyi adopted a cruel and bloody rule over the slaves. Most of the slaves were from their own tribes, namely the Yi tribes, and some prisoners captured from foreign tribes. During the Ming Dynasty, the Yi tribes were very honest and did not dare to plunder the Ming population as their children. However, during the Miqing period, due to the promotion and indulgence of Jiannu, the Yi tribes began to kidnap Han people as slaves.
In the memory of my previous life, the government at that time took advantage of the conflict between the black and the widows to disintegrate the chieftain regime in one fell swoop. It seems that this time, we must copy the policies of the later generations, liberate the widows, and use the Yi tribe to defeat the Yi tribe.
As for the food issue, Zhu Youcheng didn't have to worry about it. There were many Yi tribes in this area. I believe that the Yi tribes were very happy to take the Jinyiwei to scout Heiyi's home. As long as one or two families were scouted, the food problem should be solved.
Zhu Youcheng laughed loudly, and he already had a plan to deal with the prisoners of the Yi tribe.
To make good use of these Yi captives, the first task is to arouse their deep hatred for the black and white people. If Liu Jingting or Ling Mengchu were here at this time, they could hand over the propaganda task to them. But now Zhu Youcheng had to be Feng's wife again, retake the trick, and make a propaganda plan.
It is definitely not OK for a child to be illiterate, not speak Chinese, write novels, and tell them to appreciate stories. Zhu Youcheng chose a form of drama that is suitable for both young and old, and is popular with everyone.
The script written by Zhu Youcheng is "White-Haired Girl". The original plot is that Xier was bullied by the landlord Laocai and fled into the mountains. Due to years of malnutrition, her black silk turned into white hair. Zhu Youcheng changed the name of the villain Huang Shiren to An Bangyan, and his identity was also changed from an ordinary landlord Laocai to Black Yi.
Among the carriages brought by Zhu Youcheng, there are several performance carriages. As long as the walls of the three-sided carriages are turned down, they become a stage. The actors are also ready-made, namely nurses in the thousand households of medical care. The people in the thousand households of medical care are all versatile. They make the rations for the marching, they play the accompaniment of singing during the marching, they treat the wounded after the battle, and they also play the plays of rest time.
However, although the nurses in the thousands of medical households are capable, they cannot speak the verbal language. The four great heroes and the young people of the barbarians took the initiative to ask for help, dubbed them in the play, and translated the Ming Dynasty's official language into the verbal language of the barbarians.
After the drama performance, the captives were sensational, their eyes were full of anger, and their resentment towards Heiyi was beyond words. The shameless Zhu Youcheng's plan succeeded again.
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