Xiao Yao came to the urn city where the prisoners of war were held, and looked at the black and oppressive people, and couldn't help but be a little frightened: it turned out that 10,000 people were gathered together, it looked so frightened, dense phobia!

"These are all captives? How many people are there? There are so many of them, and they are still defeated by us, it's too cowardly! It seems that Gao Changgong's soldiers are not bad! Xiao Yao said disdainfully.

"There are almost 10,000 people imprisoned here, and 5,000 people are imprisoned in another urn city! Before the siege, there were more than 20,000 defenders in Xuyi City, but most of them were defeated soldiers who fled back from the previous Battle of Shiliang City, and they were already afraid of us! So as soon as our infantry battalion attacked Xuyi City, they all collapsed when they saw our muskets and artillery, and they surrendered immediately! Huang Wenyuan smiled excitedly, there were tens of thousands of captives captured by his cavalry team this time, which is a great achievement!

And now he is responsible for managing these prisoners, no way, the entire infantry battalion, he has the highest level of education, and has experience in managing prisoners, after all, his father is Huang Faqu, the general of the expedition to the west, when he was in the Western Route Army before, of course, he saw how to manage prisoners of war.

"That seems like too much! The whole urn city is full, and these few people eat, drink, and sleep here? Xiao Yao asked.

"Because we blocked the city gate in advance, except for Gao Changgong's dozens of people, none of these defenders could escape, except for the thousands of people who died during the siege, and the more than 3,000 people who were hunted down and killed by us later, the rest of them all obediently surrendered to us! Commander, what are to be done with these prisoners of war? These two orders are a waste of food for them! Huang Wenyuan asked.

"How did your dad deal with the captives before?" Xiao Yao, who had little experience, couldn't help but ask curiously.

"When my father dealt with prisoners of war, he usually killed them directly!" Huang Wenyuan said casually.

"Kill? Kill so many people? Xiao Yao was surprised.

"If you don't kill it, why keep it? Wasting food? Huang Wenyuan glanced at his boss, and then continued: "Do you want to dismiss them all?" Isn't that the same as letting the tiger go home? It is also impossible to integrate them into our troops for our use, after all, they are Qi people, and if they suddenly betray at that time, then we will be in trouble. Even if you don't kill them and sell them as slaves, you won't need so many people! And there are old, weak, supportive, sick in it, and it's useless not to die! ”

"It's cruel! More than 10,000 people, kill them, you devils! Xiao Yao looked at Huang Wenyuan with disdain.

"Commander, don't forget that you have already killed more than 3,000 of them!" Huang Wenyuan retorted: "But it's the first time I've seen so many captives!" Before, my father only captured a few hundred and one thousand prisoners, and with trouble, he was dismissed and was afraid of letting the tiger return to the mountain, so he killed them all, which could not only blow the morale of the enemy, but also strengthen the prestige of our army! Since he felt that it was a pity to kill them, what good way did the commander think of to deal with these prisoners of war? ”

"Let's pick out all the old, weak, sick and disabled among them first, and let them go back!" Xiao Yao said.

"Put it back? But it's okay, those old guys can't even hold their weapons steadily, and they probably won't be able to go to the battlefield anymore if they put them back! And what about the young and strong ones left? Killed? Huang Wenyuan asked.

"Why are you so cruel, you always want to kill people! For the rest of them, let's first distinguish the Han people from other ethnic groups, and I have my own arrangements! Xiao Yao looked at Huang Wenyuan with disdain again.

After a while, Huang Wenyuan said to more than 3,000 veteran generals: "Captain Xiao is a righteous gentleman who is true to his word!" If you surrender, you don't kill, so I didn't put you soldiers to death! And Xiao Xiaowei is a great good person and has a compassionate heart! For your old age's sake, I don't want to labor you. That's why I decided to let you go back! Each of them brought three rations, and each of them went home! ”

These veterans were dumbfounded, and at first they singled them out and thought they were going to be executed, after all, if they kept the old and weak soldiers here, it would be useless except for wasting food, but now they heard that they were all let go, and three rations were given, and this plot reversal was a bit unbelievable.

It wasn't until they took a few steamed buns and walked out of Xuyi City that they came back to their senses, Xiao Yao really let himself go home, and they were so excited that they were all grateful to Xiao Yao, he was a bodhisattva of great compassion!

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Seeing that this group had been reduced, and there were nearly 10,000 Han captives, Xiao Yao stood on the urn city, holding a big papier-mâché and shouting: "I am Xiao Yao who defeated and captured you!" Are you finding that there are fewer people around you? That's right, I've singled out all the aliens among you, and I'm ready to send them to the Southern Barbarian Realm to work as coolies, where they will dig coal and mine day and night until they die! ”

Hearing Xiao Yao's treatment of alien prisoners of war like this, this group of Han captives all looked at Xiao Yao in horror, after all, the killing god in front of him, who was only sixteen years old, beheaded three of their comrades-in-arms and three corpses! The tragic scene of the body being separated and the blood flowing like a river is disgusting to think about!

Xiao Yao smiled and continued, "Do you know why I singled you out? It's because you're Han Chinese! We were all people of the Han Dynasty three hundred years ago! I am a descendant of the Lanling Xiao family! But why don't I become a soldier of the Qi Kingdom? It's because I'm also Han! I don't want to be a lackey of those Xianbei aliens! ”

"We Han people are a family, like brothers! But back then, when the Wuhu Rebellion in China, those foreigners invaded our Central Plains, not only ruined our country, but also slaughtered our Han people! Pathetic! Humiliation! Just like the Han people who are still living in the Qi country, they are enslaved and bullied by the Xianbei people! The Han people went to war and died, and the Xianbei people ate and drank at home! You are all Qi people, think about it, have you ever been bullied by Xianbei people! ”

"Many people will, when they become soldiers and fight, just to fill their stomachs! This shows that your usual life is difficult, and you have no food to eat! Are you still willing to live under their rule? There must be some of you who will find a way to escape back to Qi, but you are only a soldier, and you are a Han soldier, what can you do when you go back? It's not that he was captured by the Xianbei people to be a soldier, and the result will only be to die on the battlefield or be captured again, and the next time I am captured, I won't be so lucky to meet me Xiao Yao, but will be executed on the spot by other generals! ”

"Why am I talking to you? Because I want to give you a way to live, because we are all Han Rao, and because we were all from the same country three hundred years ago! Many people have advised me that it will be a scourge for you to stay in the world after all, because if you are released, you will go back to Qi to continue to be soldiers and continue to fight with us! It's better to kill you all now, and you're all gone! But I can't bear it, everyone is Han, I can't do it! So I want to ask you, do you want to live! ”

"Yes!" The captives responded in unison, and the echo of the urn city was very good, and the echo could not be subsided for a long time.

"Now you have two paths to take! One is that I keep my promise, since you surrender to me, I will spare you from death, and I will let you go, but whether you can survive or not to pass through the blockade outside the city, I dare not guarantee it! Because those are not my soldiers, they don't have to obey me! The second is to stay in Huainan, stay in Xuyi, and honestly be the people of our Chen Kingdom! Of course, Chen Guomin is not so easy to be, so you have to be a labor prisoner for three years! ”

"Re-education through labor?" Everyone was at a loss, and even Huang Wenyuan on the side was confused.

"Re-education through labor prisoners are prisoners of re-education through labor! What kind of labor transformation is to change one's identity through manual labor such as cultivating fields, clearing wasteland and building roads, etc.! ”

"I have made friends with those big landlords and tycoons in Xuyi City, and they are willing to lend you a year's grain, and then within this year, you will form a wasteland team to open up the wasteland and farm the land! Or go to work on the estates of different landlords! In short, as long as you can work honestly, do not betray, and do not rebel, you will be able to become a real Chen Guoren in three years! When the time comes, if you behave well, the state will give you land, and you can marry a wife and have children, and live a good life in Huainan! Would you like to? Xiao Yao asked loudly.

"Yes! Willing! Hearing that not only could they live, but they could even divide the fields in the future, the group of captives shouted excitedly, and some even knelt down to worship Xiao Yao, thanking him for giving them a way to live!