In fact, the Great Han Heavenly Kingdom recruited 250,000 recruits to sign up, and under the strict requirements of Luo Yang and others, the recruits were carefully verified, selected, and eliminated 100,000, leaving only 150,000.

In this process, there were two things that had a great impact on the recruitment activities, one was the release and mobilization of more than 10,000 Qing prisoners of war by Luoyang, and the other was the respect and invitation to the Tiandihui organization and the Pao Ge organization in the region, which greatly stimulated the enthusiasm of the local people and secret non-governmental organizations.

The main force of the Qing army defending Chengdu was the Sichuan army, and the Hunan army had only a few 3,000 people, because the main force of the Hunan army was lured away from the correct place by 7,000 people of Li Fuyou's army of Shi Dakai's large partial division, and turned to Guizhou, leaving aside the gateway of Sichuan, so that the main force of Shi Dakai's army turned to the north, took advantage of the weakness, and fought in the first battle of the purple land, and the main force of the Hunan army on the northern line of more than 3,000 people, under the leadership of Hu Zhonghe, the governor of Sichuan, first held on to success, and then was attacked by the paragliding troops of the Luoyang army, and the grenade fire counterattacked, the casualties were exhausted, and Hu Zhonghe was captured. The 8,000 Sichuan troops led by Tang Yougeng, the general soldier of Chongqing, all had to be tailed and fled cleanly, so in the battle to capture the city, the 10,000 Qing troops captured were all local indigenous Sichuan troops.

Luo Yang's idea of recruiting Qing prisoners of war was strongly opposed by all the Taiping generals, including the commanders of the Four Great Banners.

As a loyal fan of Luoyang, Zeng Shihe, a fan, fiercely opposed, he said: "King Rui, these Manchu Tatars, all of them are not good people, and they are stained with the blood debt of our Taiping Army brothers, if you want to show benevolence and righteousness and win the hearts of the people not to kill them, we can barely agree, but if you want to absorb them to join us, I am worried." These bunnies, if there is a sudden backlash on the battlefield, then it will be worth it? ”

"Yes, King Rui, we now have flying thunder cannons, a large number of foreign cannons, and we are not afraid of Qing demons at all, but you have to organize them and place them in our team, oh my God, in case they have bad intentions and suddenly sneak attack, we are too hanging!" Lai Yuxin instinctively objected.

In fact, many Taiping generals even had limited support for the release of Qing prisoners of war, and hoped that they could keep these people in prison and force them to be used as slaves in the army, such as building fortresses, city defenses, or digging trenches and other heavy physical work, and then release them one after another after subduing them, so as not to harm them.

"If we are still the Taiping Army, then, these people do need to be handled carefully, if we only take a handful of cats around Chengdu and leave, then there is no need for such a lenient policy, now, we are the Han Heavenly Kingdom, the Heavenly Army, the goal is to establish a unified Chinese country, we have to absorb more classes and ethnic groups, personnel to join, close the country, self-isolation is not good. Although these people have been Qing demons, they are essentially Han Chinese. ”

Luo Yang repeatedly did ideological work among the generals, explaining his own strategy and the importance of transforming the Qing army, and also demanded that the transformation and absorption of Qing officers and soldiers at any time and place be regarded as a trump card to strengthen his own strength on the battlefield, and that he should also treat the Qing prisoners of war well as an important united front means to divide and disintegrate the Qing army.

"People's hearts are flesh and blood, as long as we are good to the Qing soldiers, the vast majority of them can be moved and can join in, at that time, think about it, there is one less Qing army, one more person in our army, inside and outside, how much worse? Besides, the Qing army knows that our army is benevolent and righteous, can it still be so fierce when it moves with us? If the war is unfavorable, you may raise your hands and surrender and give up stubborn resistance! Anyway, if they surrender, they won't have to worry about their lives, so why bother? Their will to fight has weakened, and the difficulty of our victory has not been reduced. ”

Soon, Luo Yang's thoughts were accepted by everyone, and after everyone turned the corner, they all said that Ruiwang's vision is long-term and high. Then, there was another longing for worship.

In fact, it is the old method of the Chinese People's Liberation Army, the principle of treating prisoners well, in Luoyang's view, it is simply common sense.

Modern social common sense also caused a violent reaction at the time, and of course, it also produced extremely good results.

Luo Yang personally led the generals to preach among the Qing prisoners of war in custody and educate them that they should recognize the dark, rotten and reactionary nature of the Manchu rulers, in a word, the Manchu regime is the power of the plutocrats, the tools of the officials, and the group that oppresses the people, and if you want to live a good life, you must overthrow them and start anew.

Regarding the reactionary rule of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, Luo Yang explained in detail many of the information he had collected, and asked other Taiping soldiers to tell the typical examples he had seen and heard.

In order to strengthen the effect of the explanation, Luo Yang specially selected some officers and soldiers from the army to form an ideological task force, and in the face of the kind and simple people, the ideological work was more likely to succeed; although these lower-level soldiers of the Qing army were also poisoned by the ideology of the Manchu ruling group, the instinctive line of interests made most of them change rapidly.

"The Taiping Army won't kill us, okay!"

In fact, what these people are most worried about is the outcome of their revenge and slaughter by the Taiping army, everyone knows that for a long time, the Qing army and the Taiping army have fought fiercely continuously, and the resentment is great, and the two sides have fought red, and many extreme methods have been adopted on the battlefield to deal with the enemy, often after the victory, a barbaric slaughter policy is adopted. Almost all captured Taiping soldiers were brutalized to death by the Qing army in a variety of heinous ways. In fact, when I thought of this, all the Qing prisoners of war trembled, and some of their pants were wet.

Who is not afraid of Ling Chi's execution? However, in order to inspire the courage of the Qing army, how many Taiping prisoners of war were executed in front of the Qing army generals? Light the sky lantern, bury the head half-alive, burn, peel the skin, cut the waist, and do the most barbaric and shameless things.

The superiors of the Qing army, without any lower limit, educate the officers and soldiers to be ruthless to the Taiping army, therefore, after the victory of the siege, the slaughter of the city, robbery, random killing, **, are all open rules, not even secrets, this situation, especially serious in the Hunan army, has become a kind of atmosphere, like Zeng Guoquan's army several large-scale massacres of the city, in Anqing, a deception to kill nearly 20,000 Taiping troops, and kill tens of thousands of citizens!

In modern historical forums, many people have argued that the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom was the main culprit in the killing and injuring of the Chinese race and causing huge losses to hundreds of millions of people, although it is not entirely a smear, but it also has ulterior motives, because, at the very least, the responsibility for the war is half the same. Don't beautify the Manchu Qing Dynasty officials and troops and strive for a kind of model, thinking that you are a little ninety-nine and selling your own ugly ideas. The Taiping Heavenly Kingdom died, and the main heroes died, and only the enemy was allowed to slander and slander.

"Okay, people didn't lie to us!"

When a large number of Qing troops were released in an organized manner and freely accepted the speeches and propaganda of the Taiping army, under the hot sun, what they felt was not hot and terrible, but warm as spring and passionate ripples.

Listening to the speech of the Taiping Army and looking at the warm and lovely faces of the people, these Sichuan indigenous soldiers were all emotional.

"Gotta get! The Kingdom of Heaven of the Great Han is really wanted! Lao Tzu is in! ”