Chapter 171: Escorting the Captives Target: Dongshengzhou

Hearing that Baotou had been defeated, Prince Tori said, "Many of my people used to live in Baotou, let them go back to Baotou too!" ”

Chen Yufeng and Ouyang He originally wanted to arrange their own people to Baotou first and then inform Prince Tori, but they didn't want his people to go back. So when Prince Tori said this, it made Chen Yufeng and Ouyang He embarrassed.

However, Ouyang He immediately said, "Your Royal Highness, let's wait!" The people we sent to Baotou are all capable of fighting, and our migrant workers are also trained in the military. If we send people back, we will add a burden there. There was a bloody battle, and the destruction was worse than naturalization. We don't have much energy to look at that side for the time being, so let's talk about it later. ”

Although Prince Tori felt uncomfortable, he had no choice but to stop talking about it.

Li Jing discussed with Li Kui and decided to clean up the dead bodies in the city as soon as possible, otherwise there would be a plague soon. So the next day, Li Jing and Li Kui did not deal with the massacre of the city by the Mongol soldiers, and organized the captives to transport the corpses out of the city in a carriage.

Mongolian Wanhu asked Li Jing: "General Li, what are you going to do with these corpses?" ”

Li Jing and Li Kui didn't think too much about it, because the bodies of the naturalized Chahar people were all pulled out to feed the wolves, and Prince Tori's people were buried by themselves. Li Jing replied: "The naturalized corpses are all pulled down on the grassland to feed the wolves. ”

Wan Hu said: "General Li can't do this, what our warriors are most afraid of is that their corpses will be eaten by wolves after death." We must bury them. ”

Li Jing said: "Your Anda's corpse should be buried by you in your own way." But that's more than 10,000 people, and you can't bury a grave for each of you. This is war, and it is destined to have many lonely ghosts. My suggestion is that when the spark is over, bury a large grave. ”

"That's all it can be." Wan Hu said.

As a result, it took a day to transport the body outside the city. Until the evening, on a hillside north of Baotou, dozens of piles of wood were erected, and the piles were filled with the corpses of Mongolian soldiers, and the firewood piles were sprinkled with fireoil. When it gets dark, it is lit directly, because if you don't light the fire, the corpse will rot.

Dozens of blazing fires lit up the sky. After the fire was lit, Li Jing ordered the captives to enter the city. The ashes that have been burned will be disposed of in the city the next day.

At dawn, Li Jing arranged some people. The captives were escorted out of the city to bury the ashes, and the rest of the people shoveled off a layer of soil from the streets in Baotou City, pulled out of the city by horse-drawn cart, and then brought back new soil from outside the city. The entire main street of Baotou has been replaced with a new layer of soil. In this way, the smell of blood in Baotou City is much smaller.

After doing these tasks, Li Jing's special forces began to be assigned to the cavalry team to teach the cavalrymen, mainly to explain to them how to do ideas. Because the cavalry regiment brought by Li Jing and them was adapted from the new cavalry from Yulin. They have no experience in doing ideological work, and they need Li Jing to teach them from scratch.

At this time, the soldiers and migrant workers from the naturalization arrived. As soon as they entered the city, they smelled blood and covered their noses. Li Jing told them that it was much better. The division commanders and deputy division commanders of this sixth division are all veterans of Yaogang. Li Jing told them about the need to screen the captives and determine which of them were involved in the massacre.

The division commander said: "This is not a problem, our ideological work is our strength, and we have practiced it when we go north and south with Mr. Zhang." Leave that to us. ”

When Li Kui heard this, he asked, "What do you do?" Let's talk about it! ”

The division commander said: "Commander Li! I can't say a word or two about this matter, so you can follow us and take a look! ”

"I'd like to see what else you little bunnies have to say." Li Kui was not convinced again.

There were many veterans of the Sixth Division, and Li Jing arranged for veterans of a regiment to take migrant workers to the city to visit the people door to door, to comfort the families of those victims. Tell everyone that the current difficulties are temporary, everyone stand up, and good days are coming. Where have the people seen such an army, and they still ask for warmth and warmth, and send food and oil. These people who had just come out of purgatory-like suffering felt that everything in front of them was very unreal, and many suspected that they were dreaming.

The rest of the 6th Division was mixed with the men of the cavalry regiment and began to work in the prisoner camps. Of course, first separate them for scare. These surrendered soldiers were particularly afraid of death, and their leader came back to tell them that the kiln gang people wanted to find them to settle the account for the slaughter of the city, and they were all afraid. They all knew what they had done, but then they thought that there were too many people doing it, and they wouldn't handle it all. Maybe it will symbolically catch two people and kill them. Because no one can know which of them killed or not.

But they underestimated the wisdom of the kiln people, and even their head and ten thousand households thought so.

The commander and deputy commander of the 6th Division were very experienced, and they told the soldiers about the atrocities of the Mongols, which mobilized the anger of the soldiers. The division commander told the fighters that our job was to make those who committed crimes die without saying anything.

The soldiers of the Sixth Division first drove all the Mongol soldiers of 100 households into a courtyard, and then, one by one, tied them up and told them that because you participated in the massacre of the people, you will kill all of them today, and then throw your corpses on the grassland to feed the wolves.

These Mongol soldiers were particularly afraid of death at this time, especially because they were even more afraid that their corpses would be eaten by wolves. They began to shout, and the Mongolian interpreter said: "Some people say that they did not participate in the killing, and that they are too wronged." ”

The soldiers of the kiln gang pretended to discuss in front of them, and then asked the interpreter to tell them that if any of them reported the murder of others, they could avoid death. This time, the brave Mongol soldiers began to denounce their Anda.

Li Kui has been following the soldiers of the Sixth Division, and this time he is convinced. Those cavalry from Yulin were even more admired.

In this way, over the course of several days, the Mongol soldiers reported each other, and more than 2,500 people were found to have killed in this massacre in the city. The Kiln Gang kept them alone in a camp.

This time, the Mongolian Wanhu was dumbfounded, and there were two leaders among the people who were reported. Now the number of captives has also been counted, and there are more than 9,000 in all. The proportion of 2,500 people is too large. Wanhu cautiously came to Li Jing's big tent. Li Jing knew that he must be asking how to deal with these murderers.

Sure enough, after Li Jing asked him to sit down, he asked, "General Li, how are you going to deal with those who make mistakes?" ”

"Did they make a mistake?" Li Jing asked: "According to your Mongolian military regulations, are they considered to have made mistakes?" According to your Mongolian military regulations, what is the crime of indiscriminately killing innocents? ”

"This, of course, is a capital offense according to military regulations. But we have never dealt with the killing of foreigners after we sent our troops. Wan Hu said.

"This shows that your military regulations are not strictly enforced. This time, I will take military discipline seriously for you. Li Jing said.

"Didn't you say that as long as you surrender, you won't kill them!" Wanhu is unwilling.

Li Jing said: "Okay! I don't kill them! I let you Mongols kill them. ”

Li Jing still used the old method to avoid the temptation of death for those Mongol soldiers who were willing to kill one of their Anda. These Mongols all expressed their willingness to kill one of their Anda in order to have a chance to live.

Li Jing held a meeting in a large camp in Baotou City and invited all the citizens here. Then the two thousand men took out two hundred and tied them and displayed them on the platform that was set up in front of them.

Li Jing said: "Fathers and fellow villagers, you have suffered. A few days ago, a heinous tragedy occurred in Baotou City. A large number of our innocent people have been killed, and the beasts who participated in this massacre have more than 2,500 people in total after several days of screening. What is in front of you is a part of these beasts. What do you think should be done with them? ”

The people in the audience couldn't bear it anymore, and when Li Jing asked them, he shouted: "Kill them!" Kill them! "If it hadn't been for the soldiers, the people would have rushed over and tore the beast apart.

Li Jing said: "Okay! In order for those innocent victims to be able to close their eyes. I listened to everyone, and I killed them outside the city today. ”

The people wanted to see them killed, so that they could relieve their hatred, and they all rushed out of the city at once. Li Jing asked these death row prisoners to be tied up and dragged outside the city by horses. The cavalry of the kiln gang surrounded the execution ground outside the city, and many wooden stakes had been erected on the execution ground. When these Mongol soldiers are tied to a wooden stake, a Mongol soldier will come out and cut off their heads with a knife. The dead body was taken away and thrown into the grassland. More than 2,000 Mongol soldiers fought until the afternoon, and the sun did not finish until the sun set in the west. The people in the city gritted their teeth at first, feeling relieved. But soon they vomited.

However, Li Jing's move won the hearts of the people in Baotou at once.

That Wanhu has no way to do this to the kiln gang people, since he is a prisoner of other people's steps, and they are doing it well, and they have to endure it if they are not satisfied.

Li Jing and Li Kui informed Chen Yufeng and them by telegram of the news that they had finished disposing of the Mongol captives and that there were still more than 6,500 people left. Chen Yufeng called back: Baotou was handed over to Li Kui to be responsible for defense, and Li Jing quickly led people to rush back to Hua.

Chen Yufeng and Ouyang He received the telegram and were a little worried when they knew that there were more than 6,000 captives in Baotou. There were more than 2,000 captives in the naturalization, and there were nearly 9,000 captives in total. The great war was approaching, and there was a lot of food to supply the captives every day, and it was necessary to send people to guard them. Of course, according to what Prince Tori said, kill them all, that's easy to do. However, neither Chen Yufeng nor Ouyang He would do this. But it was only then that they understood why there were so many killings of prisoners in history.

Chen Yufeng said: "These captives, they can't be put here, what will they do in the future?" They can't be used here to open up land for farming. Let them out, and they will run away. ”

"I think we can only send them back to the smelter, and our new cement plant will also need a lot of labor. They were in a position to watch them for labor. Railroad sites may also be held to their work. Ouyang He said.

"Send a telegram to the family and let the family see how to arrange them?" Chen Yufeng said.

Zhang Zhimu of Yaogang has been paying attention to the battle situation on the grassland. But they didn't think about the prisoners of war. Lu Chengxiang was happy when he heard that there were Mongolian prisoners of war, and said: "This is a treasure, and you don't need to spend money on labor." Tell Mr. Chen that the more they are, the better, and Li Dong said a few days ago that production has expanded and more workers are needed. Besides, cement factories and brick factories need a large number of people. ”

Yan Boju said: "Let's take people back, we still have some policemen, they can watch them work." ”

Received a call back from the kiln gang. Chen Yufeng said: "We are not very well-informed in the grassland. I don't know when the Qing army will arrive. This is a matter of escorting captives. You can't divide too many troops, but you can't wait for it. ”

"The cavalry who went out to reconnoiter had been out for a few days, and had not yet spotted their brigade, they would not be so fast. I see that we have captured a lot of war horses this time, and the cavalry we sent to escort the prisoners still follow General Yan's method, let the prisoners ride on horses and tie their feet to the stirrups. Riding a fast horse, you can run to kill Hukou in two days. At the same time, let the division that killed Hukou send two regiments out of the pass to respond. As long as you don't encounter a large group of Manchu troops, nothing will happen. Bring them two radios so that they can be contacted. Ouyang He said.

Chen Yufeng thought for a while and said, "There are two regiments, one regiment is responsible for guarding, and the other regiment is responsible for escorting. Even if there is a problem, they each ride in pairs, and it is no problem to rush back. I don't think we need to keep too many prisoners, and I don't know how many we will take next time. For the sake of convenience, the naturalized captives were transported to Baotou together, and from there the captives set off and walked together towards the killing of Hukou. The captives were to be ridden in two persons. ”

Ouyang He came to the large map, pointed to the map and said: "I think we will let kill Hukou to send out two cavalry regiments, and the team that set out from Baotou to escort the captives will advance towards each other at the same time, and we will send one way to escort two thousand prisoners, starting from naturalizing them, and the three roads will converge together in Dongsheng Prefecture (Tuoketuo County)." The three directions are more than 200 miles, and fast horses can reach it in a day. I don't think there will be any problems on the way, because the captives know that the consequences of escaping can be serious, but camping at night is not a small problem. Thousands of captives are not good to look at in the wild. The three of them meet together, and it is easier to do it when there are more people. ”

Chen Yufeng nodded and said, "This method works, but I don't know if there are Chahar people guarding Dongsheng Prefecture now." ”

"Don't be afraid, there won't be many people guarding it. We don't necessarily have to go into the city. Ouyang He said.

After the two discussed this matter, they immediately called Liu Yun and Liu Chenghuang. Hearing that the captives needed to be sent back, Liu Yun said: "In the past few days, everyone has been talking about it, so many prisoners can't use anything, and they need a lot of food to eat every day." It's time to send it away. ”

Chen Yufeng said: "You are specifically responsible for this matter, go and return quickly, I don't know when the Manchu army will arrive." To be on the safe side, you should carry a few heavy machine guns with each regiment in case of contingency. Don't be afraid of the heavy, with heavy machine guns, no one can help you on the steppe. ”

Liu Yun said: "In this way, we will send a cavalry regiment to Baotou early tomorrow morning to help Uncle Kui and them escort the prisoners." Let them bring the radio with their regiment as well. We'll set off early the day after tomorrow at the same time. Also inform the family to prepare. ”

"Okay, you go ahead and arrange it." After sending Liu Yun away, Ouyang He sent a telegram to the command center. Zhang Zhimu agreed to Chen Yufeng's arrangement and immediately sent a telegram to the troops who killed Hukou. Kill Hukou now has an infantry division and a cavalry division. As soon as the cavalry division commander received the telegram, he jumped with joy. The whole division watched the other divisions go out to fight, but they waited here, and they were simply depressed. This time, it is much better to have such a chance to fall from the sky and go out of the customs than to train at home.

It was the 1st and 2nd Cavalry Divisions that followed Chen Yufeng out of the pass, and the 3rd Cavalry Division stayed in Kill Hukou.

After Li Jing returned to naturalization with people, she was still trembling in her heart. He didn't know what Uncle Shi and Ouyang He would do with him.

When Chen Yufeng saw Li Jing coming in, he didn't say anything, just said lightly: "Li Jing is now with hard wings!" ”

Li Jing was just about to sit down, but quickly got up again and said, "Uncle Shi, Mr. Ouyang He, listen to me, we really didn't mean to disobey orders. You say we just annihilated a patrol from Baotou. Baotou is still defenseless, we can't watch the opportunity slip away from us! ”

Ouyang He didn't mean to let Li Jing sit down this time, he said, "Even if your action is successful, it will disrupt our entire plan. A large part of the success of your operation was due to good luck. If we come out to fight by luck, our good luck is coming to an end. Your mission is clearly a reconnaissance operation, but you took the initiative to take Baotou. According to military law, you are guilty of killing your head. You're still quibbling! ”

The sweat on Li Jing's back was already flowing. Chen Yufeng said: "Mr. Ouyang has repeatedly said that you have no loss this time to lay down Baotou, which can be regarded as a credit, even if you will make a contribution." Otherwise, if I want to spare you, military law will not spare you. ”

Ouyang He said: "If there are no rules, there will be no circle, you don't know this truth." If Li Kui is a little confused, it is forgivable, why are you such a person messing around? ”

Li Jing thought to herself, this Uncle Kui really killed me, why was I fooled by him. But Li Jing didn't want to push the matter on Li Kui. He said: "I don't blame Uncle Kui for this, it's all because my head is hot, and I didn't think too much about it." I promise it won't happen again. ”

"Humph! You still want to have a next time. Chen Yufeng glared at Li Jing.

"Hurry up and prepare, follow Liu Yun to escort the prisoners!" Ouyang He said.

"Yes! I went. Li Jing said yes and ran away, he knew that this level had finally passed.

Ouyang He said: "With Li Jing, a clever ghost, following Liu Yun, I feel a little more steady. ”

Chen Yufeng nodded and said, "This guy won't eat at all." ”

On the day of departure, Li Kui personally escorted more than 6,000 prisoners with two cavalry regiments, and left Baotou and headed east at dawn.

Yesterday, Li Kui found Wanhu in Mongolia and said to him: "Lord Wanhu, according to the order, we will send you to Yaogang tomorrow, and you must cooperate well." Those who do not cooperate will be put to death immediately. ”

Wan Hu lowered his head, no matter what he said, after Li Kui said it, it was different from the General Li Jing who left. Li Kui said again: "This time, I am afraid that you will have a hard time on the road, so I will also equip each of you with two horses." Afraid that you will not obey, we will tie your feet to the stirrups. All the horses were to be tethered to each other. If you go back and tell them that they are disobedient on the way, I will not ask the reason and kill them immediately. No way, there are too many of you. ”

Li Kui was still very good at dealing with cavalry, and before setting off, he tied the reins of the horses in a row of four, and the reins of the horses behind him were tied to the saddles of the horses in front, and there were five horses in front and behind. Such a square of horses was twenty horses, and ten men were taken prisoner. After the captives mounted their horses, the soldiers of the kiln post tied their feet to the stirrups.

Before leaving, tell the captives that if they find a prisoner on the road with a rope on his feet that has been opened, they will not report it, and they will not spare it; If the reins of any horse and the saddle in front of it are opened, it is not reported, and it is found that it will not be spared; There are disobedient and shouting and unforgiving; Before the brigade rested, it was convenient to dismount and immediately cut down.

Don't look at Li Kui, he gives people the impression of being very rude, but he is careful in his heart. Li Kui's method later became the standard practice of the Yaogang people, and the military academy in Yaogang wrote these into the textbook.

Li Kui and the others sent two cavalry battalions to open the way in the front, and one cavalry battalion in the rear hall. Li Kui personally led a cavalry regiment to escort the large group of prisoners.

The two cavalry regiments in Yaogang went out of the customs in advance at night, and as soon as they closed the gate, they opened and closed the door and quickly exited the customs through the killing gate, in order to prevent the details of their exit and the time of their actions. After they had left the customs, they galloped westward for a while, and then immediately set up camp and rested for the night. As soon as the morning dawned, we continued to run westward early.

Liu Yun and Li Jing took a regiment with more than 2,000 prisoners on time in the morning, left Naturalization and went straight south to Dongshengzhou (Tuoketuo County).

In fact, the distance of these three people to Dongsheng Prefecture (Tuoketo County) is almost the same. But the two regiments that came out of Hu Kou did not have the burden of prisoners, and they came out in advance. They were suffocated in the killing of Hukou, like birds out of the cage, so they ran all the way, and they were much faster than the other two roads in front of Dongsheng Prefecture (Tuoketuo County).

The commander of the Third Cavalry Division is also a veteran of Yaogang, although he was very excited after receiving the order and led the team to run wildly, but he is not a reckless man. He knew in his heart that due to the decline of the Ming Dynasty, this was originally the place of the Ming Dynasty, but the Ming Dynasty had long lost the ability to manage, and in fact it was already under the control of the Mongols. He was still very careful along the way, and they walked around the villages and towns they encountered. Before arriving in Dongshengzhou, they did not rush forward due to the unclear situation. He sent scouts to investigate, only to report that "this place has been taken by the Chahars, and we have taken a prisoner back." ”

The division commander hurriedly asked the interpreter to ask about the situation of the captured Dongshengzhou. The captive said after a period of education. There are more than 1,000 people stationed in Dongkatsu Prefecture.

The cavalry division commander saw that the sun was already in the west, and the people who were escorting the captives in the brigade were about to arrive, if so many prisoners were camped in the wilderness, it would be really inconvenient to manage, and there were more than a thousand cavalry on this side It was also a threat. It's better to attack suddenly and take this Dongsheng Prefecture at once.

The idea must have been, and the division commander immediately ordered: take advantage of Dongshengzhou's lack of preparedness to raid Dongshengzhou.

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