"Zheng Xin's method is inappropriate." In the Nanjing Imperial Palace, Chen Ming thought for a while and did not agree with this opinion. "It is certainly not wrong to govern the army strictly, but it is inevitable that there are no people who hold grudges but hide them and hide them in the army. This kind of person has a gloomy mind, and it may not be possible to fight and kill the enemy, but he is very talented in fanning the flames, and he is very likely to cause trouble in the future. No matter how big or small, it is not desirable. "It's a typical rat poop that spoils a pot of soup.

There was another urgent report from the Burmese battlefield, which was Zheng Xin's method - to hold a large recruitment in the prisoner of war camp. It is clear that among them, the loyalists are promoted to middle and lower rank officers (squads, platoons, squads). In this way, it will be enough to convince the people—for if they are faithful, they will be able to take their hearts. Zheng Xin's brain is nimble and he comes up with a seemingly good note. But there is no guarantee of the true loyalty of those who are 'faithful'.

The headquarters of the Nanyang Navy Division was very happy when they heard it, and they were very appreciative of the method that Zheng Xin came up with. This allows them to get rid of a burden as soon as possible.

"Your Majesty, the best thing about this method is that it can be a fair split captive. Since they have been taken prisoner, most of the more than 10,000 Burmese soldiers are greedy for life and afraid of death. There may be, but not many, those who are loyal to Myanmar. Local garrisons are also treated better than the Burmese army in the past. In terms of recruits recruited in Myanmar, this is very attractive. So there are not many people who are willing to work under the lure of gold and silver? Add to that the open selection and it's even more attractive. As a result, an irreparable rift will inevitably arise between those who are willing to surrender and those who are not. At the very least, this will allow for further screening of who the real 'Burmese' is. This is important. ”

"If the majority of the prisoners of war who are willing to serve are Mon, then it will be even more open to divide the Mon and Burmese......

This should also be the biggest reason why the Nanyang Navy Division Headquarters agreed to Zheng Xin's plan.

Chen Ming knew that if he didn't give the order to stop it, he wouldn't be able to stop Zheng Xin from recruiting prisoners of war. Because by the time the letter reached him, several days had passed. Now when he was reading this urgent report, Zheng Xinbao was not sure that he had already started to do something.

Now he can certainly stop Zheng Xin's movements, but in this way, the blow to Zheng Xin's prestige will be too great. Chen Ming can't take this risk. So, now he has to watch Zheng Xin and Zhu Lian join forces. Hopefully that will be good.

Under Zheng Xin's insistence, the reorganization of Burmese prisoners was jointly sent to the headquarters of the Nanyang Naval Division by Zhu Li, and Zhu Li no longer insisted on the restoration after being recognized by the headquarters. In a few words, the two men settled down the next rules, and they mobilized an entire regiment of troops into the prisoner camp, and joined up with a reinforced battalion guarding the prisoner of war camp, and Zheng Xin added a cavalry battalion under his command to press the line. All prisoners of war in the prisoner of war camp were informed that those who were willing to surrender to the Sino-Siamese coalition forces could register with the guards now.

On that day, the guards also urged a group of prisoners of war to be busy all afternoon, clearing a large playground in front of the prisoner of war camp and erecting a wooden platform.

And not to mention the reaction from the outside, just talking about the situation inside the prisoner of war camp, it can be said to be a reversal. The prisoner of war camp looks like a "battalion", but in fact it is indeed ten camps, large and small. Nearly 10,000 prisoners of war were scattered in 10 small camps. The next day, the prisoner of war camp did not close them again, and 10,000 prisoners of war consciously gathered in the large playground that had just been renovated.

According to the close relationship on weekdays, it is not uncommon for these nearly 10,000 prisoners of war to be less than three or five in groups, six or seven in a bunch, and as many as forty or fifty. There were also several large ones, no less than two or three hundred people, sitting together. The whole playground was full of discussion and discussion about surrender and recruitment.

It was exactly what Zheng Xin thought. This attention did divide the POWs into two groups: for or against. There is no neutrality in this matter.

The playground was heavily armed all around, but the prisoners in the middle were not under much pressure, because if you shouted "I want to surrender", you could immediately enter another camp that was doing quite well (relatively). Or shout "I'm submitted", or you can walk into the facility, which is relatively good. In the end, all that remains is the stubborn bunch!

On one side is the bitter life of a prisoner of war, and on the other side is ......

The whole recruitment process went smoothly beyond Chen Ming's imagination in Nanjing City, and it was only one day, except for the last 2,000 people who were stuffed into a small camp where less than 1,000 people were held on weekdays.

- This is a real prisoner of war camp. They will have two meals a day for the rest of their lives. Dry in the morning and thin in the evening. For in the morning they have to work, and in the evening they ......, and the bed is a millstone.

The other 4,000 or so prisoners of war were still living in the same old places. The place was a little more spacious, and the preferential treatment came immediately, that is, the food—after a month, they finally saw the meat, one salted fish per person. They chose to submit, but they were a little lower, so they became reserves. Only the first 3,000 people, a third of the total population, lived in the same places where the guards used to live, and the food was better. They can now be said to be members of the local garrison.

The next three days. Several groups of people came one after another around the prisoner of war camp. These people were better treated, and they camped alone. These people are the Burmese who volunteered to join the army. Unlike ordinary prisoners of war, their 'active' participation in the army gave them a higher status than the captives.

Chen Ming didn't know that this incident had a significant impact on the Irrawaddy River Delta region, which was a bit of a 'gold to buy horse bones', and the Sino-Siamese coalition army vigorously recruited the Mon people, which was very attractive when the latter's regime was destroyed and reduced to slavery? Many of the Burmese prisoners of war who voluntarily surrendered were Mon.

Behind each of them is a family, a family.

The influence of this incident continued to spread with the Southern Route Army in Yangon as it moved north, so don't look at the fact that the Southern Route Army was not as fast as the Northern Route Army, but the local influence exerted was much stronger than that of the Northern Route Army.

Pa Yirong didn't know that just when he sent out a news from the flying pigeon to the Southern Route Army, a reconnaissance detachment sent by the Southern Route Army was besieging the Burmese army he had just known.

The latter did not have many troops, but the former had even fewer troops, and a Chinese Marine Corps of only fifty men had to deal with ten times more enemies.

Li Xin's prediction was really accurate, they were very unlucky when they came out this time, and his right eye kept jumping when he set off. Isn't this surrounded by so many Burmese troops. Thankfully, the battlefield was not in the rainforest but in the middle of a mountain, otherwise their team would have been able to fight in the streets.

The Burmese obviously wanted to eat this Chinese marine corps, and they relied on their large numbers to shrink their heads like lone wolves, but they just didn't leave the position.

"Which turn next?" Li Xin's eyes were fixed on a target, while pulling the trigger of a rifled gun, he was not a sniper, but just an ordinary rifled gun shooter. With the reorganization of China's entire army and the replacement of weapons, more and more rifled guns appeared in the troops, just like the Chinese battlefield in World War II, and each infantry squad was equipped with a machine gun to enhance the firepower of the troops. At present, the Wehrmacht has added rifled gun shooters to a large number of units to ensure the long-range suppression power of the formed units. Many rifled shooters are eliminated snipers, and they may not be able to adapt to some of the training of snipers, but they are much better than ordinary people in terms of pure shooting talent and ability.

Li Xin skillfully reloaded the ammunition and yelled, "Throw it when you need to, blow up his son of a bitch." ”

The situation is already quite dangerous.

As soon as the words fell. Twenty or thirty grenades, emitting sneering fireworks, fell on the attacking Burmese soldiers. A dozen more grenades were thrown from the position.

A "boom" explosion sounded. The Burmese soldiers, who had long been afraid of grenades, looked at the bullets fired from the hill and immediately jumped up and ran away. You must know that they were frightened by a few rifled guns before, but now many of the panicked Burmese soldiers straightened up. Even ordinary flintlock pistol fighters paid a lot of dividends. After a rain of bullets and a flurry of people on their backs, the Burmese finally retreated halfway up the hill again, and the battle came to an end.

If the latter wants to muster up the courage to continue the attack, it will have to go through a period of adjustment. This gave them time to rest.

Lying under the rocks or lying in the thatch, the potholes on the mountainside became a good place for Burmese soldiers to take refuge. It's a lot safer here than on bare flat land.

Ne Win turned his head to look behind him again, his eyes aching from the blood-red thorns on the side. It was the bodies of five fleeing Burmese soldiers, including a junior officer.

They saw with their own eyes that the trapped Chinese had released two white pigeons on the top of the mountain, and if nothing else, the Siamese army would soon arrive, but Ne Wen was very eager to eat the Chinese soldier in front of him, which would boost morale more than defeating ten times the Siamese army.

"Everybody listened. Laying down this mountain, each person was rewarded with ten jia [the ancient currency unit of Burma]. There were twenty of them each. Except for these people, those who capture Chinese soldiers alive will be rewarded at least 50 Jia, depending on their rank. ”

Ne Wen himself wanted to lay down the mountain very much, so he gave a heavy reward, and the allusion that there must be a brave man under the heavy reward may not be available in Burma, but the meaning is the same, and it is worth it even if he fights all the people in his hands after defeating this Chinese army. As long as he rushed back to Bosheng with the head and the captives, King Meng Mang would not only not blame himself, but would also reward himself greatly.

"Soldiers, follow me—" Ne Wen decided not to stare down anymore, and in order to boost the morale of the Burmese army, in addition to the heavy money, he decided to raise a shield made of bamboo strips and join the attack. Casping his shield to his chest, Ne Win drew his knife and rushed in front of the group for the first time.

The Burmese soldiers, who were stimulated by the heavy bounty, saw that they were rushing forward in the first place, and their morale increased greatly, and they climbed towards the top of the mountain with golden eyes in their eyes. While they were still afraid of rifled guns at the top of the mountain, they had regained their momentum.