Chapter Seventy-Seven: The Placement of Prisoners of War

Hu Zhen was the first to speak, and said: "Childe, at present, our army's military food is not abundant, even if a lot of materials in Sun Jian's army are captured, it will still not be too much, if these prisoners are left, the grain and grass consumed every day is a heavy burden, and our army is afraid that it will be difficult to bear, and these prisoners of war dare to raise troops against the prime minister, then it is not the courage of the ambitious leopard, and they must be killed in a trap to set an example." "Hu Zhen is so angry, he shouts and kills when he speaks, but food and grass are indeed a problem. Moreover, because Hu Zhen did not open up the situation on the left flank in this battle, coupled with the subsequent suicide attack, his subordinates lost more than 1,000 soldiers, and he was distressed, and he felt as if he had lost a piece of flesh from his body. That's why they are so angry and advocate the killing of prisoners of war. In fact, the officers and men of the Xiliang Army are generally more murderous, but now under Dong Shouye's command, they are bound by Dong Shouye's strict military discipline, and under the leadership of Dong Shouye, they have gradually begun to develop in a better direction, at least there will be no indiscriminate killing of innocents.

Du Yi next to him heard Hu Zhen's words, but he immediately stood up and objected: "Childe, the killing of prisoners since ancient times is unknown, please think twice!" Du Ji's view represents the general traditional Confucian view, that benevolence loves others and that there should be no killing. In the long run, the average person who loves to kill has not achieved much good results. In a sense, this can be regarded as a cycle of cause and effect, and retribution is not happy!

After listening to this, Dong Shouye asked rhetorically: "What should I do with these 40,000 prisoners of war?" ”

Du Yi replied: "Gongzi Qi, although our army won a big victory in this battle, it also reduced a lot of troops, and the commanders of each general have more or less insufficient troops. Most of these prisoners of war were peasants who had lost their land, honest and honest, and they were ideal soldiers. As for the remaining prisoners of war, they can be discharged on the spot and left to fend for themselves. ”

Zhang Ji said loudly: "Although Boyan's words have merit, Zhang does not agree. The use of prisoners of war to supplement soldiers has been the case throughout the ages, and Zhang has no objection to this. However, Zhang also absolutely did not approve of the disbanding of these prisoners of war on the spot. These prisoners of war followed Sun Jian into the army and went through nearly half a year of military training. If these people are disbanded on the spot, they will inevitably be absorbed by other princes, and may even return to Sun Jian's command. When the time comes, if we gather together again, we can still pose a huge threat to our army, and we must guard against it. As for how to settle it, I still hope that the son will forgive his sins, Zhang has not thought of it. ”

Dong Shouye said loudly: "General Wencai, the matter of killing prisoners is slightly inappropriate, don't mention it again." However, General Wencai's worries are also reasonable, and this son will consider it carefully. After speaking, he looked at Hu Zhen, and then turned to Du Ji and Zhang Ji and said: "Bo Yan, De Jong is reasonable, in the opinion of this son, it is feasible to collect prisoners of war to supplement the losses of the army, and the generals and captains can select a part of the prisoners of war to supplement according to the losses in this battle." As for the remaining prisoners of war, Ben Gongzi will not let them go for the time being, and as for what to do with them in the end, let Ben Gongzi think about it carefully. ”

Some people say that a good leader is definitely a master of mud, Dong Shouye did not recognize this sentence before, now Dong Shouye himself has been a leader, leading tens of thousands of people, Dong Shouye really feels the key role of mud, in a team there will undoubtedly be people from all over the world, with different cultural processes, different thoughts, different values, as a leader can not be all-encompassing, it is impossible to unify everyone's thoughts, At this time, it is necessary to reconcile with the mud, because reconciling the mud can appease the people under him to the greatest extent, and finally exert the energy of the people to form a powerful team to work together to complete a thing or a huge project.

Sun Jian is the most valued general under Yuan Shu, and I am afraid there is no one. Sun Jian's ability is obvious to all, needless to say. And for such a general, Yuan Shu will not fully trust, and will always keep a hand.

Yuan Shu sent his generals Chen Ji and Lei Bo to Sun Jian to support Sun Jian's attack on Luoyang, and he was also one of the expressions who did not trust Sun Jian.

Chen Ji and Lei Bo's existence is a kind of defense for Sun Jian, if Sun Jian makes any changes, Chen Ji and Lei Bo will definitely lead the soldiers and horses to attack Sun Jian or do some small actions to drag Sun Jian's hind legs.

On the other hand, all the grain and grass of Sun Jian's army were supplied by Sun Jian, which was tantamount to choking Sun Jian's neck, as long as Sun Jian was disobedient, Yuan Shu could immediately run out of food. Without grain and grass, Sun Jian's soldiers and horses may become a rabble.

Fortunately, Sun Jian has always been more obedient with the lesson of the Tiger Prison Pass, and he has always served his master Yuan Shu very well, so the current Yuan Shu is very relieved of him, and he is also quite generous in terms of grain and grass.

When Sun Jian's army marched towards Luoyang, Yuan Shu waved his hand and allocated more than a month's worth of grain and grass to Sun Jian.

A month's grain and grass, including no less than 100,000 stones, and in fact, Yuan Shu's bags for Sun Jian were extremely rich, and the grain had reached 150,000 stones, if Sun Jian saved a little, he could even use it for two months without any problem.

Sun Jian and Dong Shouye had been wrestling for so many days, and they actually consumed more than 30,000 stone of grain, while Sun Jian's retreat Liang County stored 10,000 stone of grain.

Therefore, after Dong Shouye defeated Sun Jian, Dong Shouye's timing was very accurate, and he did not give the other party a chance to let the other party destroy the grain, so Dong Shouye's capture in this battle was very rich, and there were 100,000 stones of grain alone.

But these 100,000 stone grains and grass are still a bit small for Dong Shouye, because 40,000 prisoners have to be placed.

The Xiliang army led by Dong Shouye lost more than 6,000 people in this battle, and after removing this part, there were still 34,000 mouths to eat. It is a good choice to sell some of these prisoners of war to the family clan, but Dong Shouye is not willing to do this, because it is an act of strengthening the enemy, and Dong Shouye's main reliance in the future will definitely not be those family clans, most of them should not cooperate with Dong Shouye, and can only be enemies.

Now that spring ploughing has just ended, is it still early before the harvest season? Therefore, at present, the food in Dong Shouye's hands is not enough to house the prisoners of war. In fact, it's not enough, it's just that Dong Shouye has a lot of heart, and he wants to completely swallow this batch of prisoners of war and transform them into a part of his own strength, because Dong Shouye knows that as the war continues to intensify, young and strong labor will become more and more precious.

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