Chapter 297: Treating Prisoners of War

This late-night pursuit battle went very smoothly, and when the two teams of Qi Jiajun cooperated with each other, the time for the real battle did not take too much.

Facing a group of enemies who could not compare with themselves in terms of fighting spirit and combat skills, the battle naturally ended quickly, and the other party, when they were pursued at the beginning, they did not do anything too fierce, and then, after their cavalry was wiped out, they knew that they had to raise their swords and be superior to the Qi family's army, but even so, their purpose was to resist it, so as to quickly break through the encirclement of the Daimyo army here.

However, they were not the opponents of the Qi family's soldiers, and this way of obviously just coping with it was naturally impossible to break through, and even saving their lives became a problem.

That's it, these more than 7,000 Fusang troops who rushed to the shore, under the attack of the Qi family's army, only survived for more than an hour before they were almost annihilated, and in the end, only a few people were captured as prisoners, and they were not all killed.

The battle is going very smoothly, but this situation is too weird for Qi Jiguang, Zhang Fan and others.

"Lord Qi, this ...... This is really too weird," Zhang Fan couldn't help the question in his heart at first, and asked Qi Jiguang, "It's obvious that our military strength is stronger than the other party, but they ...... It's like they're here to die, and they're just stupid and rushing over, ...... What the hell is going on,"

"I'm also a little confused," Qi Jiguang also looked puzzled, obviously for him, this situation is also very rare, "They look like they are here to die, and the people who want to report to them will inevitably tell them that there are already our 3,000 soldiers on the shore, even if they don't know that our 3,000 people have muskets in their hands, but they don't know that they are fighting this time, but they are not until our people have already rushed into their formation, Only then did I know that I picked up my own weapons to fight back, and their counterattack was really too powerless,"

"What the hell is going on," Qi Jiguang had already raised such a question, and Zhang Fan had no idea for a while.

"General, my lord, now that the war is over, more than 1,000 enemy prisoners have been captured," At this time, an officer under Qi Jiguang ran over to report to the two, "Since we have already begun to meet the enemy three miles away before, it will take some time to know how many enemies we will kill now,"

"Well, I see," Qi Jiguang said after listening to the report, "Where are those captives now?"

"Those people are now under the care of our soldiers, what do the generals command," the man said.

"Take me and Master Zhang there, there are some things to ask them," Qi Jiguang said.

"Yes," the visitor replied, turning and walking towards the place where the prisoner was being held.

"Lord Qi wants to ask those Fusang people to see what is going on," Zhang Fan asked Qi Jiguang as he rode a horse and followed him.

"Yes, that's what I mean," Qi Jiguang nodded and said, then frowned again, "But I don't think I can find out anything from them,"

"What does Lord Qi mean by this," Zhang Fan was a little confused by Qi Jiguang's words.

"I saw just now that the generals of those Fusang people had been shot by our people in the chaos just now," Qi Jiguang replied, "That is to say, most of the remaining more than 1,000 captives are just foot soldiers with the highest status, even if there are one or two officers, their rank is estimated to be very low, and they may not know anything,"

Zhang Fan listened to his words, and thought so in his heart, but it was the same.

As they spoke, the two of them had been led to the place where the Fuso prisoners of war were kept.

When Zhang Fan commanded the guards on the tower of Yangzhou City before, he had also seen these people, and even fought with these people, but he didn't have the heart to carefully observe these people before, and now the other party has become a prisoner of war and a prisoner, Zhang Fan came to them and took a good look.

I saw that these more than 1,000 people, most of their clothes are the same, they are all dressed in cloth robes, but they are wearing a pair of simple armor made of rattan armor and other plants, and the armor on their hands and legs is also made of such simple materials, almost all of them are wearing hats, wearing a pair of simple straw sandals under their feet, and some people still have chess pieces behind their backs, but most of them are already tattered, standing there crookedly.

Seeing this, Zhang Fan couldn't help but slander in his heart, the root cause of this group of people still belongs to Fuso's current nominal real power ruler, the general of the Muromachi shogunate, Ashikaga Yoshiaki's people, but this seems to be, but it is so miserable, especially now, they are a defeated army, and their faces are full of loss and hesitation, which makes people feel even more miserable, but in the end, their lord Ashikaga Yoshiaki is really poor, or is the situation in Fuso like this, in order to save money, The equipment distributed to the soldiers was so rudimentary that it was simply a matter of ignoring human life and not taking people's names seriously.

Qi Jiguang himself knows Fusang dialect and is very proficient, but now in this kind of scene, it is impossible for him to personally go down to ask these prisoners, firstly, this is not suitable for his identity at all, and secondly, the soldiers under his command will not agree.

When the translator came, Qi Jiguang said to him: "You go and ask them, why did they stay in Suzhou City for so many days, but today they suddenly opened the city gate and wanted to break through,"

The interpreter answered yes and asked loudly to the captives in front of him in Fuso.

Speaking of which, these people have some backbone, no one planned to stand up and answer this first questioning, Qi Jiguang was not surprised when he saw this, he immediately ordered someone to drag someone out casually and go to the front for a separate question.

Sure enough, this person was called out separately for questioning, but he still didn't have any intention of answering, and it was obviously very hard like that, and he looked at Qi Jiguang and Zhang Fan with a slight contempt.

Zhang Fan understood their hard bones, he didn't think it was strange, he was just curious, curious about how Qi Jiguang planned to treat this person.

Qi Jiguang saw this scene, but the expression on his face did not change at all, with a relaxed look, he raised his hand and waved it out.

Immediately, two sergeants came over next to him, and directly dragged the man to the side, but the man still looked unflustered, in his opinion, this was just to beat him, in Fusang, almost every soldier has been beaten, in their army, as long as they are not careful, they may be beaten violently, they have long been used to this.

However, what he didn't expect was that he was dragged by these two soldiers of the Qi family army and forced him to kneel, but he saw one of them directly pull out the saber on his waist, and at this moment, he was scared, the pupils in his eyes contracted sharply, but before he could shout, a good head fell like this.

However, the group of Qi Jiajun did not change their expressions in the slightest, and the interpreter continued to think about the questions of those Fusang people who had already changed their faces as usual.

"Lord Qi, this ......" Zhang Fan really didn't expect Qi Jiguang to be so ruthless, and executed a prisoner without saying a word.

"Lord Zhang, although you have also gone on a few expeditions with the army, and you have seen a lot of things in the army, but after all, you have spent too little time in the army, and there are many things that you have not seen," Qi Jiguang explained to Zhang Fan, but his eyes were always looking ahead, "Lord Zhang is a scholar, and there is a sentence 'If you are not of my race, your heart must be different', presumably Lord Zhang is very clear,"

"I know this, but ......" Zhang Fan didn't know why Qi Jiguang would pull this sentence.

At this time, Qi Jiguang's subordinates didn't need Qi Jiguang's own orders at all, and they had already dragged a person out again, ignoring the look of fear on the faces of that person and the captives behind him.

"Lord Zhang, these people from other countries, the armies of other countries, are now on the territory of my Ming Dynasty, have you forgotten what they have done here," Qi Jiguang didn't wait for Zhang Fan to finish speaking, and then continued, "In the final analysis, these people are no different from those Tartars in Northern Xinjiang, they all covet the prosperity of my Daming country, they all want to come here to reap a lot of benefits, and they don't care about the life and death of my Ming people.

"The two countries clash, and the people or soldiers have died, which is understandable, but these people, they are different, they will not take the initiative to fight with my Ming army, but the civilians who are the first to attack my Ming, although this is nothing, I will do it if I change it, but why should we be merciful to them, you can think about it, if our people are caught by them, they will have the slightest mercy on you,"

At this time, the person who had just been pulled out was pulled over and beheaded by the soldiers next to him because he hesitated about the meaning of the question.

And Zhang Fan, after listening to Qi Jiguang's words, fell silent, yes, the two countries are at war, especially this kind of war on the territory of other countries, the casualties of the people are inevitable, however, the people of the Central Plains have always been benevolent, but this benevolence is not exchanged for the respect of the enemy, but the contempt of the enemy.

Besides, there is nothing wrong with Qi Jiguang's approach, and there are no international organizations in this era that formulate those war regulations to protect prisoners of war.

Moreover, the most important thing is that Qi Jiguang's approach has now shown results, after the second person was cut down, the third person was just pulled out, and the translator didn't ask questions, he was already chattering, and his face was even more frightened and weeping.