readx;??? Nguyen Minh Phuong was sitting in the palace reviewing some of the documents submitted by his men, and in a short time he pulled out a document sent from the prisoner camp. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info He looked at the date, it was sent yesterday, and flipped through it, and it was nothing more than a sign of rebellion among the new army prisoners in the prisoner camp, and they were beginning to connect with each other, as if they were going to do something bad in the near future.

Ruan Mingfang sighed, he was powerless about these captives now. At first, he wanted to get some evidence from the captives that they were traitors, but then he realized that he had miscalculated. Most of these captives are new recruits, many of whom have joined the army for less than half a month, and have just begun to study the station queue, and they are poor mud legs who can't distinguish between the left and right. Originally, there were two officers who had some savings, but they were killed when they forced confessions that day, and by the time the forbidden army rushed over, the family had already transferred their property.

Later, I thought that after capturing so many of your soldiers, I must use money to ransom you, right? As a result, there was no news from the Oriental Port side, and it seemed that people didn't treat these recruits as their own at all. It's no wonder that when I was given the opportunity to withdraw together, I didn't want to leave, and now that I'm arrested, I say it's my own, and I guess those thieves don't recognize it. This group of prisoners was just locked up in the prisoner camp that used to be a military camp, guarded by more than 400 forbidden troops and 500 Xiang troops, and they didn't know what to do with it for a while.

This matter is very tricky to deal with, and it was originally said that the Chinese who had openly defected to Dongfang Port should be proper treason and should be beheaded. However, these people did not participate in the defection, and they did not even attack the officers and soldiers, and if they were really executed, it would be unreasonable. Now the rich people in Champa Port have been swept away by the Chinese and defected new troops, and openly settled across the bridge in the northernmost part of Champanggang's sphere of influence, and I heard that it is a place called Beiqiaotou Town. The defected Forces nouvelles set up a new camp there, and every day the spies could see the recruits lining up to sing and do so, looking completely orderly. And it is clear that new people are joining the rebels every day, because there are more and more people, so it is obvious that these rebels have completely forgotten these captured "former comrades", so they hope that the people of Beiqiaotou will spend money to redeem their dreams.

But if he let it go like this, he felt very unhappy, you must know that it was not easy to catch so many hundred captives, and report this, even if the emperor does not approve it, the six departments will give him a share of the credit. You must know that the Prime Minister's cabinet is now standing together for this matter, although the fat of Champa Port has not been eaten, so that all the rich people have run away, but if Champa Port is restored, according to the princess's previous practice, at least it will be able to attract some profit-seeking merchants. The only thing that made them feel unhappy was that the implementation of this original plan to cut the flesh had turned into an action to let themselves bleed, and they had to pay a lot of money to dredge the waterway of Champa Port and re-establish the dock area, so that it would take two or three years before it could play a role.

So now this group of captives has come to the fore and can be used to solicit merit from Hue. Where there is merit, there must be a reward, and Ruan Mingfang remembered that the reward was about sixty or seventy thousand taels of silver. At this time, he couldn't help but put his pen on the inkstone and began to think about it in his heart. The expenses of his own house will be almost 2,000 taels a year, and if he stays here for four years, he will spend at least 8,000 taels to 10,000 taels. Although it is said that it is sixty or seventy thousand taels of silver, it is impossible for the various parts of the silver that have passed through it not to be withheld. In particular, the household department in charge of the money generally has to withhold more than 10% and less than 20% of the money, and then the various departments responsible for escorting the money must draw water from this silver, and when he gets it, there will be a maximum of 25,000 taels. The 25,000 taels will also be divided into 10,000 taels to reward the forbidden army and the box army who participated in the war, and if it comes to his own hands, it will only be about 13,400 taels at most. Although there are not many, but it can also be used at the top, although there are many officials with various relationships sent by the six ministries under his command, but these officials are all paid by the emperor, and the money is given by the household department, and he doesn't have to worry about it at all, and when he gets the reward, he will take out three or four thousand taels at most, and the entire port of Zhancheng will be happy, as for the new army in the prisoner camp, he doesn't need to care about life or death.

But at this time, before the reward came, this group of captives still had to live, in case the emperor suddenly remembered to escort these rebels back to Hue to deal with it, the number would not be right, and the people would have to be arrested to fill in the time, and there would be chaos in the middle. But he knew that people couldn't eat too much, and if they ate too much, it was not because they were full of lust, but because the group of captives who were imprisoned would plan to escape.

Therefore, Nguyen Minh Phu rebuilt the former barracks of the New Army, concentrated all the prisoners of the New Army in the southwest corner of the barracks, and then used bamboo sticks to fill the wall on that side, so that it was impossible for people to climb out of the wall in that direction. The other camps were now used as garrisons for the 500 forbidden troops who came with him, and another 500 troops were arranged to live on the periphery of the camp. If someone forcibly breaks into the prisoner camp, then they must break through the box army outside, and then they can enter the camp, and then they have to face the five hundred forbidden troops, even if these forbidden troops died dozens of people in the rebellion of Zhanchenggang, they still have strength, speaking of the camp full of barracks dormitories and wooden houses, the forbidden army is still capable of fighting. And in order to use that kind of fast gun against the new army that may appear, he specially ordered his subordinates to collect iron armor everywhere to ensure that his forbidden army captains had at least one iron armor. He was very satisfied with the reconstruction of the prisoner camp, which was originally planned to accommodate a thousand people, and at this time the barracks had been divided into four areas, and the southwest corner was the prisoner quarters, which were usually kept in the barracks, and were only allowed to come out when it was time to let off and eat. The northeast corner was the camp of the Forbidden Army, which was close to the entrance, making it easy for the Forbidden Army to quickly turn to the defensive. In the northwest corner, there were mainly carts that had been in the barracks, and even two six-pounder guns that had been removed from the harbor during the destruction of the port. Craftsmen from the Janissaries came in and mounted the cannons on the carts, and then added shields to the cannons. In the event of a battle, they simply pushed the cannon and turned it to the enemy, and these shields covered with iron not only prevented the fire of bows and arrows, but also the power of their own firearms. For a time, these forbidden soldiers were very fond of their works, and often pushed these two "chariots" to perform in the camp. In the southeast corner was the quarters of the officers of the forbidden army who not only owned a house by themselves, but also bought handmaidens from the local people in great luxury, not only to take care of their food and daily life, but also to provide them with pleasure at night. And there is a special house in the southeast corner, which is the camp brothel of this camp, and at this time, more than ten women provide happy services for this group of forbidden soldiers here every day.

The provenance of these women is complex, although a few are said to be provided by local prostitutes, but most of the others are family members of prisoners in the camps. They know that their husbands or brothers are in the prisoner camp at this time, and instead of knowing whether they are alive or dead outside, many people use this way to sneak into the prisoner camp to see if their families are okay, and they can also ask these forbidden soldiers who enjoy themselves to take care of their families.

As for these captives, there is no Geneva Convention organization in this plane, and there is no respect for the captives, and most of them were captured while on the run, and they were treated as thieves rather than as prisoners of the New Army, so the treatment they received can be imagined.

Every morning before dawn they would be called out for a roll call in the open field in the southwest corner, and if someone knew someone had escaped and did not report it, everyone in the same room would be whipped. Although the Forbidden Forces were not yet able to kill the captives at will, it did not stop them from reprimanding those who tried to escape, and those who tried to flee were punished by hanging them from the flagpoles in the open field for a day. Most people who are often hung for a day will fall into a coma due to dehydration, or have dislocations or fractures, but they will not die.

These forbidden soldiers are also happy to think of all kinds of ways to torture these prisoners at this time, after all, there is really nothing to play except for queuing up to go to the camp brothel, not to mention eating a big deflated at the guns of these comrades of the new army some time in advance.

In addition, in order to prevent the New Army captives from escaping, Nguyen Minh Phuong explicitly ordered the administrator of the prisoner camp to allow the captives to drink only one bowl of porridge per day, so that the captives would not have the strength to rebel because of hunger, and could only do as they could. In addition, it would also save him a lot of money on raising captives, and he could not send them out to work now, so he could let them eat less if he could.

For Ruan Mingfang, it saves costs, and for the prisoners in the prisoner camp, it is eight lifetimes of mold. When they first joined the New Army, the food of the New Army was considered to be the best, although they could not eat meat every day, but they still had three eggs per meal in a class, and the white rice was full, and many soldiers of the New Army were raised a lot stronger at that time. As a result, it suddenly became a bowl of porridge every day, and this bowl of porridge had to be deducted a lot by the administrators of the prisoner camp. After such a period of time, the captives were all skinny and skinny at this time, and they had little strength to walk, and some even lay in the corner of the room, motionless, if it were not for the eyes would not have turned, and they looked like a corpse.

Although there were toilets in the house, the Praetorian Army would certainly not come to dig up the dung pits of their captives, so it was already full, and the whole camp was full of stench and filth. All the captives are regretting why they didn't go when they had the opportunity to evacuate to Beiqiaotou Town with the veterans of the New Army, and now it's too late to think about this, and it is estimated that everyone's lives will soon be buried here.

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"We've already scouted the prisoner camp, and it's no different from the map of the new barracks we had before." He Yayun opened a drawn map and spread it out on the table.

Standing at the table was Yang Muqin of the northern latitude, who turned his head and compared the two pictures, "It is true that there is no big change, but the southwest corner is fenced with a wooden plank." Beiwei said and pointed at the camp wall, "Lookouts have been added to the southwest corner and the north wall to the west, which should be specially set up to prevent the prisoners from escaping. ”

"Speaking of which, what are we going to do to save these people?" Yang Muqin couldn't help but feel a little unhappy, "At that time, the people who asked them to follow us to withdraw, but they refused, and now they have been arrested, why do we have to save them?" What did you take us for? Is it Guanyin Bodhisattva who saves suffering? If you want me to say that these people are to blame, if they die, they will die, what does it matter to us? What's more, they're still ......"

"It's still Annanite, isn't it?" The voice next to him sounded, Beiwei didn't even raise his head, he knew the Qian Longzhou who spoke.

"What about the Annamite people? They are now on our side, and even if they were not with us when they retreated, and now they are tortured by the port of Zhancheng, they are definitely our staunch supporters. All we have to do is get them out, and we'll have an army loyal to us. ”

"Impossible, right?" Yang Muqin immediately retorted, "It's not that we haven't counted the number of people inside when we have been lurking and reconnoitring in the past few days, and the more than 1,000 Annan troops are only guarding more than 100 captives at most, but only 130 captives, and now most of them can't even walk because of severe malnutrition." Not to mention that we have to bring a group of people to move them back, what is more troublesome is that even if these people are willing to join us, it will take at least two months of conditioning to return to normal state, do you really expect these more than 100 people to fight? ”

"You......" Qian Longzhou smiled and patted him on the shoulder, "Young man, you are still Too young, too simple, you only see the superficial things of this operation, but you don't see the intention covered by the appearance," he said and pointed to a senate authorization letter on the table, "The executive committee has specially issued documents for your special reconnaissance team to assist our new army in carrying out rescue operations, and even in the next stage of the operation, you may have to put in the marines and militia, and even call in the air force aircraft when needed." , can't you see the intention behind this situation? ”

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