Chapter 244: Dealing with Prisoners
Lu Wen came out and said: "My lord, there are more than 40,000 elites of Wei Ning in the North School Field, many of them are veterans, quick response, rich combat experience, and they are ready to counterattack at the first time, and they are also under the command of Chu Jun, when we arrived, General Zhang's soldiers had already suffered more than half of the casualties, even if I stepped forward with General Liu to help the battle, it was only after more than two hours of fierce fighting that the war ended." Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info"
In fact, what everyone doesn't know is that the more than 40,000 soldiers and horses in the North School Field are the most elite troops under Wei Ning, and many of them are veterans many years ago, and it is precisely because of this that these soldiers let Chu Jun command.
On one side is a veteran who has been fighting for many years, and he was already very elite before he followed Wei Ning; On the other hand, it is the private soldiers of the Zhang Ming family with the lowest combat effectiveness, compared with the two, even if the Wei army is in a slight position, it will definitely not be defeated immediately, otherwise it is still an elite; All of this, it may seem hard to believe, but it is actually an inevitable result.
Ling Feng was silent for a while, then waved his hand and said, "Forget it, it's a happy event to finally capture Qingliang County, so sit down." ”
Opening the previous battle report materials, Ling Feng continued to read them to himself.
After reading it, a happy color finally appeared on his face, not to mention anything else, the 400,000 taels of gold that were found from the treasury of Qingliang County were enough to make people happy, if all these gold were handed over to Ling An, then the organizations distributed in the counties would be able to transmit the news more quickly in the future.
In addition to gold, there were captives; Speaking of captives, Ling Feng couldn't help but feel a little irritable, there were too many captives now, and he really didn't know how to arrange how to deal with them.
Ling Feng said: "Yesterday, Zhang Guozhong of Chu County came with the news, we have been fighting for several months, and the number of prisoners in Pingxing County has reached 70,000, and these 70,000 people have not yet been rebuilt, all weapons have been confiscated, and physical training is only carried out twice a day in the school field, which is under the supervision of Liao Yun; And yesterday's battle, we took more than 45,000 prisoners; These hundreds of thousands of captives consume a huge amount of food every day, and if they are not properly handled, they are afraid that there will be trouble. ”
Han Yong said with a smile: "Lord, you are too worried, these hundreds of thousands of captives are easy to handle, and it is still timely for us." ”
"What do you mean?" Ling Feng asked.
Han Yong said: "Wei Ning's army is not weak, many of them are veterans, we can recruit them all, and merge with our army, in this way, our strength will go up a few steps at once." ”
Ling Feng: ".... ”
Han Yong said: "The lord doesn't have to worry, now that Wei Ning is dead, his army will not rebel again, we will recruit him, there will be no problem." ”
Ling Feng thought about it seriously, he had been dragging the prisoners who refused to deal with Pingxing before, it was because of Wei Ning, because he was at war with Wei Ning at that time, and it was very dangerous to recruit prisoners.
And now, indeed, if recruited, it should not be a big problem.
Li Yan frowned and asked, "The lord is a general of the imperial court, so such a blatant expansion of the army... Won't there be any problems? ”
Li Yan's worries are not unreasonable, if it was two years ago, there would have been a big problem, and if it was not done well, it would have been misunderstood as a rebellion, but now it is different...
Ling Feng said: "The first emperor once said that each county can recruit troops to defend the city on its own, and even a small county order can expand the army, let alone me, a general with a heavy army. ”
After thinking about it, Ling Feng said decisively: "Okay, this matter is decided, after removing the disabled, old and weak, age-incompatible, and so on among the captives, all of them will be incorporated into our returning army; I know that you have suffered heavy losses during this time, and I am afraid that you have been looking forward to this day for a long time, as you wish. ”
"Haha, thank you!"
"Thank you, Lord."
......
Everyone stood up in unison and replied.
As Ling Feng said, they have indeed been looking forward to expanding the army again, the last expansion was in Chu County, according to this half a year, such as Liu Qing and Han Yong, the soldiers under their command have been lost, if they don't make up for it, then what kind of general is it, there are no soldiers.
Liu Qingchang breathed a sigh of relief, his soldiers were the most seriously injured, and half of the barracks were still lying and unable to move.
Ling Feng said, "I will immediately send an order to Liao Yun and ask him to escort all the captives to come to cool down; Zhang Wu can be selected from among all soldiers (regardless of veterans, recruits, and prisoners), and the selection of the conditions is elite; Then, except for the elite soldiers under Zhang Wu's command, all the soldiers were disorganized and fused together for overall training, and after a month, I will distribute them to your soldiers according to your past achievements and official positions. ”
"Okay, okay, okay..." Zhang Wu grinned, his mouth open and couldn't close.
According to what Ling Feng said just now, he can choose among all the soldiers, oh my God, that's an army of more than 200,000, many of them are veterans, and he will definitely be able to select a lot of elites, he estimates that it should not be less than five thousand, at least not less than three thousand, in this case, there will be five thousand people under his command. He had been looking forward to the figure of 5,000 for a long time, and he couldn't help but be excited at this time.
Han Yong smiled and said: "Xiao Zhang Wu, don't be too happy, you can't choose much, our hundreds of thousands of troops have been selected by you, and Wei Ning's also has a lot of recruits, just yesterday the soldiers in the North School Field can still choose a little, I see that you can't even choose a thousand." ”
"A thousand... Hehe, a thousand is not bad, I can beat you 10,000 people with a thousand people, do you believe it? ”
Zhang Wu's expression was quite arrogant; However, it is not difficult to see that he is still a little disappointed, as Han Yong said just now, hundreds of thousands of troops have been stuffed by him like a plug, where is there an alternative, alas... Disappointed...
Lu Wen and Lu Chang's expressions were a little weird, the two of them seemed to be a little happy, but they seemed to be a little distressed, anyway, they would be happy and distressed, and Ling Feng couldn't cry or laugh.
After pondering for a while, Ling Feng seemed to understand what the two of them were thinking.
He was also a general under Qin Huai, so he knew the thoughts of these generals very well; For example, Lu Wen and Lu Chang, the two now have 80,000 elites in their hands, although these elites are not under their control, but compared with other generals, they are the ones with the most troops, if they want to fight, it will be much easier for the two to make meritorious contributions; And now, Ling Feng disrupted the order and then divided the troops, so that the advantage of the two would be gone, so this was where the two were unhappy; And when it comes to the happy place, it is to divide the troops after the great chaos, and the soldiers and horses they get at that time will be completely theirs, just like Han Yong and others, they can be transferred at will; For example, some time ago, Liao Yun could transfer troops to Wushan at will, but if he was replaced by the two of them, he couldn't, because those soldiers and horses didn't belong to him personally, and they needed Ling Feng's order to be transferred.
Therefore, the two will be happy and sad for a while. (To be continued.) )