Xu Shiyang originally planned to launch a new offensive after taking a break for an hour after conquering Wuliyi, but the front-line staff thought that the propaganda team had done a very good job, so it suggested postponing the offensive, letting the released prisoners go first, and fermenting the results of the propaganda team as much as possible before launching a new attack.

Xu Shiyang recognized the judgment of the General Staff, so the real time for the attack was actually on the next day.

The offensive on the second day of the sixth month was not much different from yesterday, the Qi army spent half a day singing and walking thirty miles, then spent half an hour demonstrating firepower, half an hour demolishing Luyan, filling in trenches, blowing up city gates, and capturing prisoners.

And then the battle was over.

Yesterday's casualties were very minor, and today is even more so, because the prisoners released yesterday were intercepted by the Shihou army on the side of the 35-mile post, although the number of defenders at the 35-mile post was objectively increased, but the prisoners also conveyed a lot of special news to the defenders: the Qi army does not eat people.

Not only does he eat people, but he will even give out some food after being caught by the Qi army, and he can also watch a good show, and then go home safely.

In that case, why resist? Even if the city is broken, there is no need to flee outside the city in a panic, just squat on the side of the road with your head in your hands and wait for the soldiers of Qi to come and count it.

As a result, only 55 people died in the entire process of conquering the 35-mile post, of which 38 died in the shelling, and the rest were those who had not been captured and insisted on fleeing because they did not believe their comrades, causing a stampede.

The Qi army still suffered no casualties, but they captured nearly 8,000 prisoners in one go—nearly half of whom had already been captured once yesterday.

The large number of old prisoners made the management of prisoners of war much easier for the Qi army, and those who held wooden cards no longer needed to be counted, and some of them were clever enough to even help manage new prisoners and teach them the importance of queuing.

The rest is naturally to deal cards, receive rations, watch the propaganda team act, and then form a team and go home.

On the third day after the Qi army launched the offensive, on the third day of the sixth month, the Qi army conquered the sixty-mile post step by step, and the casualties this time were less than the thirty-five mile post, and the Shihou soldiers died a total of 39 people, and the prisoners were as high as 15,000!

It's just that at least half of them have been captured once, and there are even thousands of old prisoners who have been captured three times.

"It doesn't work! How can there be such a thing? A staff officer complained: "If you catch them once, you have to give them five catties of rations!" They were captured once a day, and they all became a battalion! ”

The rations issued by the Qi army were treated as severance pay, and giving five catties could roughly support a strong man for more than five days, which was enough for them to walk home.

But now it seems that these peasants are not as honest as they imagined, watching the Qi army talk well, and go to the next fort again and again to wait for the five catties of severance pay after being captured - it is said that some of the first guys who were captured have now saved several catties of grain!

This is here to fight, this is specially to be a prisoner to earn severance pay!

"It really can't go on like this."

Xu Shiyang also agrees with this, after all, he is here to fight, not to be the wrongdoer, no matter how much he loves the people, it is not this way to play, and it makes little difference if he directly opens a warehouse and releases grain.

"The food of those who were captured at the Thirty-five Mile Post and the Sixty Mile Post will be distributed as usual, and those who were captured at the Wuli Post on the first day of the first month of June will not be distributed this time! Tell them that we will not be able to send any more and more to the ninety-mile post when we reach the ninety-mile post, and the thirty-five mile post will not be captured. ”

Xu Shiyang was only allowed to receive two severance pay from the captives, but he couldn't let those who were captured three times wait here in vain, after all, they had already been captured and had experience to help the Qi army do some limited work.

"Tell the captives that if they are really not in a hurry to go home, they will help us, and we will pay them for the amount of food."

The Qi army set off this time with a lot of food, all of which were loaded in small boats to follow up in the Hushui River next to the carriage road, not to mention that their current location is not too far away from the Qi control area, and the logistical pressure is not great, in fact, they do not need a large number of prisoners to help transport supplies and grain.

However, Xu Shiyang still planned to make the best use of his manpower, and among the 15,000 captives, more than 9,000 were released again, and the remaining less than 6,000 were given to the back of the Qi army, responsible for collecting firewood and boiling water, or leveling the road.

The Qi army gave them rations ranging from three to five catties as revenge, depending on their daily workload, and promised to let the laborers eat meat every three days.

Of course, it's not good meat, it's just that every 10 people can get one can of meat scraps.

It's just that this is already a rare good life for poor peasants.

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The development of the war situation frightened the princes.

They found that their troops and fortifications did not work at all against the Qi army, and since the beginning of the battle, the Qi army attacked at a completely orderly pace, marching every day, conquering the fort in an hour, then screening the prisoners to rest the troops, and repeating it the next day.

The nephews and housekeepers of the family, who acted as high-ranking officers, reported that those township soldiers did not even bring any casualties to the Qi army, and the biggest loss may be that every day of prisoner given to the Qi army can consume a little more military rations of the Qi army.

What is even more frightening is that with the increase in the number of captures and the increase in the number of township soldiers who have been captured many times, there has been a kind of atmosphere in the army of the prince that being captured by the Qi army is nothing at all.

This kind of thinking does not only exist among ordinary village soldiers or village heads, and even many middle-level housekeepers have similar ideas.

Some of the sons and nephews, cronies, and chief stewards of the Marquis family tried to organize a team of supervisors, and some of the sons and daughters of the usual domineering even started to cut down a few township soldiers who preached the Qi army's capture policy everywhere, and also threatened to sell their wives and daughters, and their fathers and mothers were driven into the mountains.

As a result, this untimely cruelty first angered the prince's own soldiers, and in the middle of the night of the third day of the sixth month, a mutiny broke out in the Jiuli Station, and the villagers killed the prince's nephews and friends stationed here, and took control of the small fortress before the arrival of the Qi army.

The next day, the defective villagers consciously filled in the trenches, demolished Luyan, and sent people to drive mule carts to the Sixty Mile Post and surrender to Xu Shiyang.

On the morning of the fourth day of the sixth month, the Qi army saved an hour of siege time, and the soldiers stepped into the ninety mile post without bloodshed, but the change of hands of this small fort was the most bloody since the launch, because last night the sons and nephews of the marquis, the chief housekeeper, the family and other cronies killed more than 50 old prisoners, and the mutinous township soldiers retaliated and killed more than 200 people of the Shihou family.

Many of the dead party of the Marquis who were killed were the defending officers of the first few forts, and every time they were defeated, they were at the back of the troops, and they were the earliest and fastest to escape, so the losses were not large, but I didn't expect to die so many at one time.

This is something that the Qi army has not done in the past few days.