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After finishing speaking, Yang Xingguo didn't care about the stunned expression on the face of the Japanese major general, and asked Yan Bing directly: "You calculate, according to the standard I just set, see how much silver the Japanese army needs to redeem these artillery and officers." Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ”

"Two million five hundred and thirty thousand taels of silver, only less, not more!" Soon, Yan Bing replied.

"I don't want a fraction, two and a half million taels of silver, and the officers and artillerymen will all take it away!" Yang Xingguo followed closely and replied very briskly.

The Japanese major general finally reacted from the shock, and said with a stammering face: "This, this is too much, plus the previous 850,000 taels, that is, 3.35 million taels of silver, not counting the hundreds of thousands of taels of silver compensated to your army!" ”

"My Manchurian army can't take out so much silver at all!"

After the Japanese major general finished speaking, he looked at Yang Xingguo with a posture of no money.

Yang Xingguo was not worried at all and replied: "I don't know if it's much, anyway, if it's lower than this price, you don't want to take people away." It really doesn't work, you can take ordinary soldiers back. Expensive officers and artillerymen stayed here to work as coolies for us, and by the way, it would be good for me to be an instructor in the Liaodong Army......"

"No way!" The Japanese major general refused without thinking about it.

Although he didn't explain it, Yang Xingguo knew what the reason was.

Ordinary soldiers were ransomed, but officers were not. If the matter spreads, it will undoubtedly be a very big blow to the morale of the tens of thousands of officers of the Manchurian Army, and may even cause dissatisfaction among all the officers of the empire against them.

When the time comes, if you don't say that you are a major general, even if you are a lieutenant general or a general, you will be ousted from power by the hairy officer and end your military career early.

Therefore, for these prisoners, the Japanese army must save them if they want to save them, or they will not save them.

Of course, some people may say that Yang Xingguo's asking price is so high, will he directly scare the Japanese army away and make the Japanese army give up rescuing these prisoners.

At the beginning, Yang Xingguo was indeed worried.

But later, after seeing the number of captured officers provided to him by Zhou Zhongju, Yang Xingguo was not worried.

In this Liaoyang offensive and defensive battle, although the Japanese army only lost one division.

However, because of the serious attrition of the Japanese army in the previous Battle of Liaoyang, many troops were downsized.

Although the Liaodong Army eliminated only one division, this division concentrated the officers of almost two divisions. “

It is certain that as long as the Manchurian Army exchanges these prisoners back, coupled with a steady stream of new recruits from the country, it will not be long before these prisoners can be expanded into two field divisions with considerable combat effectiveness, and even worse, it is possible to expand into three divisions.

Compared with the veterans and officers of two or three divisions and regiments, more than three million taels of silver is nothing.

Therefore, Yang Xingguo, who thought about it, finally asked Yan Bing to quote the redemption price that made the Japanese army bleed.

Seeing that Yang Xingguo didn't let go, no matter what he said, there was a calm smile on his face.

The Japanese major general could only say helplessly: "All the prisoners, our Manchurian army must bring them back." However, the Manchurian army could not come up with so much silver. Two million taels, our Manchurian army can only come up with two million taels of silver at most. ”

Seeing that the other party didn't seem to be lying, Yang Xingguo immediately fell into deep thought, seeing if he could dig something else good from the Manchurian army.

Soon, a piece of information sent to him by the special operations detachment some time ago came to Yang Xingguo's mind.

Laborers, in order to cope with the huge logistical pressure of the Russo-Japanese War, liberated their limited troops. The Japanese army not only captured a large number of laborers from Korea to transport logistics materials and repair their positions, but also captured a large number of laborers in the northeastern occupation area, causing many families to be ruined.

This is also a very important reason why so many people in the occupied areas have to abandon their homes and move to areas controlled by the Liaodong Army.

If you continue to live in the occupied area, you may be captured by the Japanese army as a laborer at any time. Not only is there no pay, but you can die on the battlefield at any time.

Rather than live in this worry, it is better to abandon your homeland and go to the area controlled by the Liaodong Army to live again.

Not to mention, there are still 70,000 or 80,000 Koreans among the laborers plus locals from the Northeast.

Among them, 30,000 local laborers in the Northeast are absolutely indispensable.

The reason why these laborers attracted the attention of the special operations detachment was to mention the just-concluded Battle of Liaoyang.

The Japanese army, which also lost a large number of troops in the battle, had to replenish the limited garrison in the rear to the front line in order to ensure the results of the battle.

In this way, the rear of the Japanese army was completely empty. In order to avoid accidents, the Japanese army immediately thought of the Korean laborers who had been enslaved by them for a long time.

10,000 laborers who were not very hostile to the Japanese army were drawn from among the tens of thousands of laborers, they were given weapons, and some disabled Japanese soldiers were sent as officers to form local garrisons.

Because these troops were related to the security of their own rear, the Japanese army did not consider the local labor in the northeast.

As soon as he occupied this place, he captured them as laborers, and many laborers died of exhaustion or were killed by mistake on the battlefield. Under these circumstances, the local laborers in Northeast China had only hatred for the Japanese, but no goodwill, and the Japanese did not feel at ease at all about giving them weapons.

Because a large number of laborers were withdrawn to form local garrisons, the Japanese army could not find new laborers in a short time.

The more than 30,000 local laborers in Northeast China in the hands of the Japanese army immediately endured a huge amount of labor, and every day some people were exhausted to death because they could not hold on.

In this case, if he can rescue them, then these young and strong laborers will definitely be grateful to the Liaodong Army.

At that time, among the more than 30,000 laborers, as long as more than 10,000 people are willing to join the Liaodong Army, it will be a big profit for themselves.

There is no shortage of weapons in his hands now, and as a large number of factories begin to be built, there is no shortage of silver.

However, a very important reason why the Liaodong Army did not expand its army was that the population under the control of the Liaodong Army was too small. If there are too many recruits, it will definitely affect local production.

Therefore, after the last army expansion, the first few counties occupied by the Liaodong Army, although the enthusiasm of the common people to join the Liaodong Army was very high, Yang Xingguo did not let go, and no longer continued to recruit troops in the five counties of Liaozhong.

As for Liaoyang and Xinmin counties, which had just been occupied by the Liaodong Army, although they also had a population of 500,000 or 600,000, according to estimates, they could recruit at least 20,000 troops. However, because the recognition of the Liaodong Army by the people in these places is not very high, it is difficult to recruit soldiers in a short period of time.

And the end of the Russo-Japanese War is getting shorter and shorter.

The Liaodong Army must expand its forces as much as possible, increase its strength, and achieve its ability to protect itself.

Unable to expand the army in a short period of time, Yang Xingguo could only set his sights outside the area occupied by the Liaodong Army.

And tens of thousands of laborers who were controlled by the Japanese army and whose life and death were worse than those were undoubtedly Yang Xingguo's best choice.

Thinking of this, Yang Xingguo immediately made up his mind.

used the Japanese prisoners in his hands to exchange all the local laborers in the northeast in the hands of the Manchurian Army. (To be continued.) )