The Song prisoners of war held in the prisoner of war camp were all ordinary non-commissioned officers and junior officers, and the senior generals and middle-ranking officers of the Song army were held in the city; After the war drums sounded, it took half an hour for the Song prisoners of war to gather here, and watched Li Yue, a Song prisoner of war staggering below, sitting on the edge of the school platform.

Li Yue took a wooden loudspeaker and said to everyone: "Brothers, I know that you wonder who I am and why I am here; Now I will tell you that I am the commander of Li Yue's Xia army, and I am also the righteous son of the Great Xia Emperor, and I will also be your commander in the future;

I know that most of you are forced to become soldiers in desperation, who doesn't want to stay at home well, guarding the hot kang head of your wife and children, I also like those days, but why you can't live like that You know what? ”

A Song Army prisoner of war in the front row suddenly said: "Why else, the land at home was robbed by the landlord!" ”

"This brother is right, because the land has been robbed by others, but why should they force your land, why can they be superior to others." Li Yue continued to say to these prisoners of war: "There is no natural nobility in this world; I don't want to fight, but do any of you know why you want to fight? Why did the Great Xia Empire and the Great Song Dynasty fight for many years, causing the lives of the world to be miserable, and let you abandon your family and children to come to this battlefield to die. ”

"I don't know ......"

"I don't know ......"

"It doesn't matter if I don't know, I'll tell you." Li Yue continued to say to the prisoners of war: "The Great Xia Empire was originally a small frontier country in the northwest of China a few decades ago, from the beginning of the founding of the Great Xia Taizu, the emperors of the Great Song Dynasty wanted to occupy our homeland and enslave our people, just like the Great Song Emperor enslaved you, he paid all our tributes and cattle and sheep, which are the foundation of the survival of the people of the Great Xia Empire, just like asking you to pay high taxes every year;

At that time, the small people of the Great Xia Kingdom were weak, so they had been paying this tribute to the Great Song Dynasty, but the Great Song Emperor's appetite was getting bigger and bigger, and even sent troops to the land of the Great Xia Kingdom to loot, so the two countries fought together, and a dozen was decades, the Great Xia Empire had negotiated peace with the Great Song Dynasty several times, hoping that the two countries could live in peace, but the Great Song Dynasty repeatedly provoked wars, and this time it was also for their own glory and wealth and that little bit of vanity, the Great Song Emperor and the officials of the Great Song Dynasty did not hesitate to push you to the battlefield and let you die for them;

You can touch your conscience and think about what kind of life your parents live at home, guarding their land from beginning to end of the year, what can you get, and the grain you have worked so hard to grow is finally handed over to the landlord and handed over to the court, while your family has to starve in the cold wind, do you want to live like this for the rest of your life? You can go and see what kind of life the people of the Great Xia Empire lived, they may have been like you in the past, but they were not only able to eat and drink enough, but also occasionally ate a meal of meat;

Ben Shuai did not come to enslave you, nor did he come to kill you, but to save you; You can ask the people around you whether my Xia Army has done anything illegal and undisciplined since entering Shu, and the reason why I tell you so much is that I want you to join the Xia Army;

You may think that this is not the same as the Great Song Dynasty! You still have to fight, but Ben Shuai tells you that this is different, you will not get anything in the end by fighting with the Great Song Dynasty, but it is different with Ben Shuai, because you are fighting for yourself, you can rely on your military exploits to obtain land, salary, and titles; Where did your land come from? From the hands of the landlords and bullies, who have enslaved you, don't you look like you are resisting? ”

In the end, Li Yue stood up and said: "Agree to join the Xia Army, this marshal hereby declares that he can be exempted from taxes for three years after the war, and those who are unwilling to join the Xia Army can take five big money and leave on their own after eating and drinking enough for a while; Someone is here to serve food to the brothers......"

After Li Yue's order, the rice and vegetable stew and fat that had already been prepared were pulled into the camp by cart, and the Song army prisoners of war began to line up to eat under the supervision of the Xia army soldiers, for the Song soldiers and junior officers, they usually eat very poorly, generally white rice and pickles, like today's vegetable stew I can't even think about it, these meals are the food of the officers, but the soldiers of the Song army went to war, and the ordinary soldiers basically did not have any salary.

After eating and drinking enough, Li Yue ordered people to set up a row of tables at the gate of the camp, those on the left who were willing to stay, and those on the right who were willing to leave; After everything was prepared, Li Yue said to all the prisoners of war: "Brothers, those who are willing to stay go to the left to register, after becoming a soldier of the Xia Army, you can eat meals like today every day, and what Ben Shuai said will be fulfilled one by one, and those who don't want to join will go to the right to get money and leave, and you can go there wherever you want to go in the future, but I hope that after you return to your hometown, you can tell the villagers that the Xia Army is not a flood beast, and the soldiers of the Xia Army are here to rescue you......"

Li Yue spent a whole day brainwashing these Song prisoners of war, and finally there were as many as 180,000 Song prisoners of war who were willing to stay, and the rest of Li Yue also fulfilled his promise and left with five big money each; The reorganization of the 180,000-strong army began the next day.

In order not to weaken the combat effectiveness of the Xia army too much, Li Yue transferred 18,000 people from the Xia army into these Song army prisoners of war, Li Yue also ate and lived with these Song army prisoners of war every day, Li Yue's move completely subdued the military heart of these Song army prisoners of war, of course, during this period the Xia army was not idle, with Wei Cheng as the center, the Xia army began to attack everywhere, because Li Yue released a large number of Song army prisoners of war before, the Xia army's benevolence and righteousness had long been spread all over the Quartet, and the main force of the Song army was basically wiped out. Therefore, where the Xia army passed, Song City looked at the wind and fell.

Even only a hundred or even dozens of people can occupy a city; A few days later, at the Weicheng General's Mansion, Li Yue summoned Xu Da and said, "Where does Xu Da's army occupy now?" ”

"Marshal, our army has now occupied Mianzhou, Zizhou, Longzhou, Maozhou, Weizhou, Hanzhou and other places." Xu Da said to Li Yue.

"In the past few days, the army has almost been integrated, but the Japanese commander will lead the army into Chengdu; This marshal will give you 10,000 fine cavalry, go to Jianzhou and Langzhou to garrison and guard against Wu Lan leading the army south, you can recruit 50,000 troops by yourself, as long as Wu Lan does not go south, it is easy to say, remember not to take the initiative to attack the Song army. Li Yue said to Xu Da.

"Yes, the last general ...... order"

The news of the Xia army's defeat of the main force of the Sichuan Shu army reached Chengdu, and the entire Chengdu government was shocked, in the eyes of the Song people, the Xia army was a demon who killed people without blinking, and now the Sichuan and Shu army is gone, so don't they just wait for death? However, some Song prisoners of war who returned from the Xia army's prisoner of war camp publicized the Xia army's policy, and the Song people were also suspicious of it, but those landlords hated the Xia army very much.

(End of chapter)