Not long after Qin Dong's army set out from the small town of Basel, he quickly recovered the two small cities occupied by the Burgundians, and restored his rule over the two small cities, and then he led the army down the southwest direction into the hinterland of the Burgundian Kingdom, and broke dozens of large and small cities of the Burgundian Kingdom along the way, capturing more than 8,000 Burgundian soldiers, and capturing all the Burgundian tribes and people who were hostile to the Hu Empire as prisoners and slaves.

After breaking through the northern important town of Neuchâtel of the Kingdom of Burgundy, Qin Dong divided the army into two, and the Eastern Route Army, with Duoyin as the main general, led two infantry divisions down the west bank of Lake Neuchâtel to take the important town of Lausanne on the north shore of Lake Geneva, and the Western Route Army personally led a cavalry division and an infantry division to attack the line of Besançon, Dole, Dijon, and Beaune, and planned that the two routes of army and horses would finally converge under the city of Lyon.

After the Burgundian king Gundorbad decided to ask for help from the Western Roman Empire, Gundorbad ordered all towns to be strictly defended, and they must rush to the rescue of the Western Roman Empire's army.

The attack of the eastern and western armies is very smooth, because the siege equipment of several divisions brought out by Qin Dong this time is very sophisticated, and the siege battle has already been used in a messy manner under the command of him and Duoyin, and the general city will not be breached in a few days, coupled with the order issued by Qin Dong in advance, every time a city is broken, a large number of craftsmen in the city will be captured first. But don't mistreat them, as long as those craftsmen cooperate well and do their best to build all kinds of siege equipment. Treat them preferentially, if they don't obey or kill, the craftsmen are afraid of death, and they have no discipline, they can only serve Qin Dong's army and help Qin Dong's army build a large number of siege equipment to deal with the city of the Burgundians.

Although Qin Dong's army attacked fiercely and quickly, the Burgundians were also very stubborn in their resistance. The Western Route Army led by Qin Dong personally encountered the most stubborn resistance under the city of Dole.

Under the city of Dole, the Hu Empire's Western Expeditionary Army was a large camp of the Western Route Army.

Dolle is a well-connected town, with a north-west access to Dijon. To the southwest leads to Beaune, to the southeast leads to Loon-les-Sogne, and from Lunn-les-Sogne you can go straight down to Lyon.

In the big tent of the Chinese army, Qin Dong's face was not very good. Because the attack on Dole has suffered a lot of losses in the past few days. Although the Burgundians in the city of Dole also suffered heavy losses, Qin Dong was still in a bad mood because his own losses in the siege were too large.

The atmosphere in the big tent was not very good, and the generals didn't dare to speak, Qin Dong cleaned up his mood and shouted: "Battle damage statistician, report the losses of today's siege battle!" ”

"Yes, Your Majesty!" The statistician stood up tremblingly, took out a roll of parchment, and read: "In today's siege battle, our side killed 1,052 people, wounded 833 people, and lost a total of 37 siege equipment. Consume countless stone bullets! ”

Although Qin Dong guessed that today's losses were very large, he did not expect to directly reduce half of the regiment. After listening to the report of the statistical officer, his face was very ugly.

Barhan stood up and said: "Your Majesty, the loss is too great, the lives of the soldiers of my empire are precious, every soldier can only become a real soldier after several years of training, it is too wasteful to use in siege warfare, it is not worth it, Your Majesty, I think it is useless to keep those prisoners, it is better to force them to attack the city, but all the prisoners who can obtain the merits of the war will be rewarded, and this can also allow the army that cares for them to take out and do other things!" ”

Qin Dong's heart moved when he heard this, and he thought that he should not look at Balhan as a big man and three coarse, but in fact, he still had a lot of ideas in his heart, and the idea he proposed was very good, which could not only play the role of prisoners, but also avoid the need for a large number of troops to guard them.

After thinking about it for a while, Qin Dong frowned and said: "Balhan's method is good, but the empire has abolished slaves now, if the captives are reduced to slaves now, I'm afraid those defenders in the court will not let me live a comfortable life!" ”

Agul stood up and said: "Your Majesty don't worry, it's a time of war, and the basic principle is to win this battle, and when we win, after the war is over, we will control the territory of the Burgundians and then restore their free identity, so that they will become subjects of our empire, and the defenders will naturally have nothing to say!" ”

After weighing it up, Qin Dong nodded and said, "Okay, but we have to think carefully about how we can firmly control them, and we must also be able to make them serve the dead, you can all say it, you can say any good ideas, it doesn't matter if you say it wrong."

Encouraged by Qin Dong, the generals and ministers accompanying the army began to express their opinions and express their thoughts one after another, but none of them said a way to satisfy Qin Dong.

Qin Dong looked around, and when he saw Agul's leisurely appearance, he knew that he already had an idea, so he asked, "Agul, do you have any good ideas?" ”

Agul stood up and said: "Your Majesty, the minister thinks that the method of step-by-step jurisdiction can be adopted, and the captives who have participated in a battle and survive will be automatically promoted to third-class slaves, and the third-class slaves who have obtained certain combat merits will be promoted to second-class slaves, and second-class slaves will be promoted to first-class slaves after obtaining certain military merits, and finally, first-class slaves will be allowed to become soldiers of the empire and become free people after obtaining certain military merits and passing assessments. Step-by-step jurisdiction means that a third-class slave can govern a few captives, a second-class slave can govern several third-class slaves, and a first-class slave can govern several second-class slaves. What reason is there not to be loyal to His Majesty? Taking a step back, even if someone has hidden evil intentions, the rights of those slaves are given by His Majesty, and His Majesty can take them back at any time, as long as they dare to rebel. A single edict can make all the rebellious among them rebel and leave! ”

The generals and ministers of the army had a lot of discussion about Agul's strategy, and most of them said that this method was very good and rigorous. As long as it is perfected, it can be implemented.

Seeing that the ministers agreed, Qin Dong said: "Okay, since the generals and the adults who accompany the army have no other better way to use Agul's method to carry it out, Agul, after you go back, you will immediately improve this strategy, and show it to me early tomorrow morning, and if it is feasible, it will be implemented tomorrow morning!" ”

Agul saluted, "Yes." 陛xià! ”

The next morning, Qin Dong approved the implementation after seeing the well-established strategy for managing prisoners of war and slaves sent by Agul.

Beginning in the morning, Agul, Barhan and others went to the camp where the prisoners were held to pick up people. It was important to select the first group of captives, all of whom were Burgundians who were not of the same race as the Hu Empire, and were therefore very wary of the arrival of people such as Agul and Balhan.

Barhan looked at Agul. Agul nodded. Balhan motioned for a Burgundian who had come over to come out and shout, and the Burgundian went up to the captives and shouted: "Listen, everyone, now the general will recruit the brave warriors from among you, and those who are willing to participate will at once receive a pound of cooked beef and a bowl of wine each, and when you have eaten and drunk enough, someone will distribute weapons to you, and the general of the empire will direct you to attack the city, and you will be rewarded for your exploits." An enemy head can be exchanged for one silver dollar, and a living captive can be exchanged for two silver dollars. After you get the silver dollars, you can save them yourself, you can also buy things in the barracks, as long as those who survive the battle can get better food and treatment than other prisoners, those who participate in a battle and survive are promoted to third-class slaves, you can be a squad leader in charge of five prisoners, those who capture three enemy heads or capture two captives are upgraded to second-class slaves, you can be a squadron leader in charge of five squad leaders, and those who kill six or more enemy heads or capture five captives are upgraded to first-class slaves, You can be a team leader and be in charge of five squadron leaders.

Captives can only eat wild vegetables with batter at each meal, third-class slaves have steamed buns and bread to eat at every meal, second-class slaves have meat buns and bread to eat at every meal, and can have their own separate small tents to sleep and rest, first-class slaves can eat meat in addition to steamed buns and buns at every meal, beef and mutton can be chosen at will, they can have their own separate tents to rest, and they can also go to the women's prisoner camp to choose women to sleep in, if there are people who are willing to sign up for the battle, you can stand up and walk to the open space on the left to line up, someone will register you, okay, start signing up now! ”

This reward measure is too tempting, in this era these barbarians have no nationalist pride at all, they are all the masters of the mother, many prisoners who think they have some fighting power are eager to try after hearing these incentives, but they do not see others taking the lead, so they dare not go out.

However, the power makes people lose their minds, the wealth is moving, and there must be a brave man under the heavy reward This sentence is not a lie, when many people are watching, finally someone can't help but lure and bewilder to stand up and walk to the right, and the others see that someone is taking the lead, and they can't help but get up one by one and go to the right.

More than 3,000 of the more than 10,000 captives in the camp are willing to join the death camp to fight, as long as they can survive a battle, they can become third-class slaves, and they will have steamed buns to eat every day in the future.

The effect was very obvious, in the morning more than 3,000 dead soldiers were recruited, and in the afternoon Qin Dong ordered these captives to form a death camp to attack the city. Although the casualties during the siege were much greater than those of Qin Dong's army, no one retreated and fled during the battle, and the captives of the death camp stormed the already crumbling city wall of Dole wave after wave, and finally broke through the city three hours later, and the city of Dole was breached.

After seeing the effect so obvious, Qin Dong also ordered a large number of prisoners to be captured, and tried to use the captured prisoners to attack the city and reduce the casualties of his own army, he also ordered that all prisoners who made meritorious contributions in the battle should be rewarded and rewarded, based on the number of enemy heads and the number of captured enemies as the number of rewards, the more heads or prisoners of the enemy were obtained, the more rewards they would get, and generally the reward for captives was greater than the reward for getting heads. Therefore, the captives were keen to capture prisoners, and in the future, the battle basically did not need the army of the Hu Empire, only the army of slaves.

In order to manage so many captives and slaves, Qin Dong had to divide the captives and slaves into four classes, the captured Burgundians were captured at the beginning, and after a battle, they became third-class slaves, and after obtaining military merits, they were promoted to second-class slaves, and then first-class slaves, and if the first-class slaves passed the inspection, they could be absorbed into the army of the Hu Empire and become free soldiers.

Qin Dong adopted the method of slave management of slaves, the first-class slaves managed the second-class slaves, the second-class slaves managed the third-class slaves, and the third-class slaves managed the captives, with layers of jurisdiction, forming a strict hierarchy, if there were captives who escaped, the third-class slaves who managed them would be held responsible, and if the third-class slaves ran away, the second-class slaves who managed them would be held responsible, and so on, and the sanctions were taken by the method of joint sitting, if one prisoner ran away, the entire squad and the third-class slaves who managed them were beheaded. (To be continued......)