Withdrawal is not a simple matter for any army.

Unless someone beats him and can't care about anything, there will definitely be a lot of things to carry with him during the withdrawal, especially in the case of the Joan navy: he has won the battle and got a lot of loot, but he does not intend to stay and stay in permanence. Here one should be captured, tools, captives...... Everything that is useful must be taken away.

Fortunately, because the decision not to occupy the place was made very early, the Qiong navy had been preparing for evacuation since the day it occupied the place, and a group of large ships that had been captured earlier had been sent back to Luzon one after another, and about half of the port was still left at this time. When the time comes, some skilled shipwrights will be sent from Luzon, and the troops will be transported back at one time.

And the Joan Navy does not have any requirements for the island's supplies, Cebu Island is not as good as Luzon and Manila, commercial development has not been carried out, the number of residents on the island has been limited over the years, but after the recent occupation by the Joan Navy, thousands of captives have been stranded on the island, which has made this small island prosperous, but there is nothing to covet. The only thing that can claim to be a treasure of this island is the beautiful scenery and the location of the only Spanish stronghold in the area, but neither of these can be taken with you.

Therefore, the "resources" that Zhao Lide is looking at are mainly those captives -- these thousands of people have come all the way from the Americas, and they have more or less some technology in their hands. In particular, the sailors on the ship are exactly the most sought-after goods for the sea power that the Joan Navy is about to expand greatly, and they will stay as long as they can. Although the agreement with the Spaniards stipulated that after the war was over, they would release prisoners who had not committed war crimes. And the vast majority of the prisoners here leave the ship and go to the prisoner-of-war camps, with little chance of committing war crimes. However, in the hands of the Chinese people, there are loopholes in any agreement.

-- Zhao Lide agreed to the release in the agreement with a precondition: voluntary. If the captives had stayed voluntarily, it would not have been a violation of the agreement. Most of these Spanish soldiers came from the colonies, and they went to the Americas because they were desperate or committed crimes in Europe, and some of them were mixed children born after intermarriage between Europeans and Native Americans, and they were discriminated against locally. These people were not very loyal to the Spanish Empire, and with proper communication, they realized that they could have a better future by staying here...... Don't expect a few thousand people to stay, it's always okay to keep a third and a quarter of them.

During this period, the European detachment headed by Captain Aror was very active, and in addition to appearing in the capture of ships, he also often dealt with those prisoners of war in peacetime, and participated in the management of these prisoners of war, and Aror had a lot of experience in managing prisoners of war when he was in Manila, and he was also able to play a role here. They don't have to talk much about it everywhere, as long as they occasionally go around the prisoner of war camps, exchange a few words, and treat them personally, they can naturally have a subtle influence on those "self-motivated" prisoners.

And it is these people that Zhao Lide plans to absorb, as for the others who are not interested in them and want to return to Europe and the Americas, Qiong Navy will not stay.

To be sure, these thousands of captives were not treated badly on the island.

In addition to the fact that their weapons were taken away and their daily range of movement was restricted, their daily living conditions, food and clothing were basically the same as in the former barracks, or even better - the Qiong navy had high requirements for hygiene and nutrition, and even as prisoners of war, many basic living conditions were far higher than the average European standard during this period.

However, the living treatment is not bad, it does not mean that these prisoners live very comfortably According to Zhao Lide's consistent management ideas, whether it is for prisoners or soldiers, in short, the team composed of these strong men must not let them be idle, because once they are idle, they will make trouble. And with Qiong's rich experience in military management, he can always change the way to let them have something to do...............

So the poor Spanish captives soon felt that they were in hell - every morning, as soon as the wake-up call rang, no matter how dead they slept last night, all the captives had to get up and hurry to tidy up their housekeeping: a thin blanket was to be folded into a boxy tofu cube, with sharp edges on the edges, without a trace of wrinkles. If you don't fold well, you will be punished, and if you don't fold fast enough, it will affect the order of breakfast for the whole class...... So much so that many soldiers simply don't use it after folding a blanket, and would rather shrink and squeeze it at night than shake off the blanket, anyway, it's not too cold at night here.

In addition to the most characteristic "tofu block bedding" of the Qiong Navy, the managers are also very perverted in other housekeeping requirements: the towels and cups for washing their faces and brushing their teeth are required to be lined up in a straight line: military uniforms and uniforms are always required to be clean and tidy, even after a day of hard training, the sweat and greasy on the body are several layers, no matter how hard it is, the clothes must be cleaned and ironed and sewn to be qualified.

And these internal affairs were only basic, and the prisoners spent most of their time on daily queue training - the kind of education that recruits receive every year when they enter the camp in modern society. It may sound inconceivable to train a group of 17th-century Europeans to later recruits, but for a group of 17th-century prisoners of war, it is better to train in formation every day than to do hard labor, which is the norm in this era.

Of course, private rebellion and complaining were inevitable, and some white soldiers, who still could not let go of their superiority mentality, felt that the Chinese army treated them in this way as if they were even more cruel than making them do hard labor, and there were a few small commotions for this, but they were soon forcefully suppressed—after all, most people still knew what was good and what was important. And the Joan Navy doesn't have to treat them as well as its own recruits. When they saw that the few troublemakers were enjoying the real hard labor treatment, the other soldiers immediately became honest.

There was a combination of work and rest, and there was a time of relaxation - every day after training, the captives were also organized to play some ball games and games. Basketball, as an extremely popular sport in the modern military, is no exception here.

At first, it was just the caretaker of the Joan navy playing with themselves, but the Europeans quickly learned the rules, and later they were even able to play friendly matches against the Joan navy as the caretaker.

The tall size of the white man finally showed his strength in this regard - relying on the advantage of his tall and large figure, these prisoners who had just learned to play basketball for a short time could actually play the same level as the Joan naval players, and every time the game came, the sports court was very lively, and even the aristocratic officers who were arrogant and did not usually mix with the soldiers at all could not help but get off the field to participate in the sports at this time.

In addition to paradoxing, housekeeping, daily cleaning and renovation of the barracks, and various competitions, the captives were sometimes organized to do extra tasks, such as cleaning the harbor and repairing the streets...... In one case, after a hurricane, they were organized to assist local residents, assist ambulance crews, and salvage homes and property. For these extra jobs, the Qiong Navy is paid, and the salary standard is not low, so the people who signed up were very enthusiastic.

And all these things require a lot of time and energy to be spent on them. Whether the captives were aware of this or not, their daily schedules were packed anyway, with little time to spare. And everything requires them to do their best, almost with their minds and bodies. In this era, there was always chaos in the European military camps, and at night most people either got together to drink and make trouble or gamble, but in the prisoner of war camp managed by the Qiong navy, there was no such thing, and every day after dinner and tidying up their duties, most of the prisoners staggered back to their dormitories, and prayed a little more reverently, and the rough embryos fell down on the bed and snored...... Before the lights out signal sounded at night, most people must have fallen asleep early. In this state, even if someone wants to plot something, most of them won't even be able to get together - people won't waste precious sleep time messing around with you.

- If you want to say that the Joan Navy tosses the prisoners so much, those people should hate them very much? In reality, however, it was the opposite—as time went on, the Spanish army became more and more submissive to the Chinese army who ran them, and the original pride had long since disappeared, replaced by obedience and reverence. It is not surprising that the military is the most powerful of the group, and the European soldiers were so proud that they felt that they were strong and that there was no one to match them in this Asian land. However, this time it was a big heel in the hands of the Qiong Navy, at first I felt that the other party was using tricks, and I was not convinced, but with this period of training, even if it did not involve military projects, it was just through the internal affairs, queues and other training requirements, even those who were the most arrogant, or the most sluggish European soldiers could feel that this was a much more elite armed force than them, even if the two sides faced each other, they would definitely lose.

If the skill is not as good as that of others, then you can only admit it, and since you admit defeat psychologically, then when you accept the training of the Qiong Navy, its resistance will naturally be greatly reduced. What's more, this kind of queue training produces results very quickly, and even children in schools in modern society can still get out of a decent queue after a few weeks of military training, not to mention that these are regular soldiers after all. I don't know if the combat effectiveness has improved after practicing like this for a period of time, but at least, the spirit and spirit of the army as a unit have been very different from the original.