Chapter 19: Capture Strategy

As mentioned last time, Liu Hou wrote a blank check, and Pan Jun wanted to take the opportunity to slap Liu Hou. didn't know that Liu Hou had a very bad impression of him, but he still needed him for the time being, so he gave him some sweetness to eat, the purpose was to let him do things well according to his own intentions.

"General Pan not only made meritorious contributions to mobilizing the people and collecting materials before the war, but also took care of the prisoners after the war. You see, there are 30,000 people in Eastern Wu, and General Pan only has 1,000 soldiers, and an average of 30 people have to be guarded by one person, how difficult it is. Although General Pan's soldiers all had weapons, the Eastern Wu soldiers had no weapons, and their hands were still tied, but once the Eastern Wu soldiers made a mess, 30 people could kick the soldiers to death if they hit the guards with their bodies.

So, this is a very difficult task to take care of the captives. However, General Pan rose to the challenge and miraculously completed the task, guarding more than 30 times the number of prisoners under his command, which is really admirable to the son of this world. This must be a great achievement, and I must ask for another credit for General Pan in the performance of the report to my father. ”

"Thank you for your support!" Pan Jun obviously didn't hear some of the meaning of Liu Hou's words, his face was flushed with excitement, and he forgot to shirk and be modest, looking like he couldn't wait to get Liu Bei's reward and promotion immediately.

"General Pan has to complete this mission well." Liu Houdao, "These 30,000 captives are quite important, and we will ask Dongwu to exchange a few cities for these horses, so it can be said that these horses are priceless treasures, and they must not be lost." ”

"Please rest assured, my subordinates will do their best to do this well to ensure that not a single captive escapes." Pan Jun was as excited as if he had been beaten with chicken blood, he didn't expect that he would be able to take over such an important task, a task related to several cities.

"It's a very difficult and risky task, General Pan. I ask you, if these 30,000 people riot, will you be able to stop 1,000 people? ”

"This ...... This ......" Pan Jun was like being poured a basin of cold water on his head, and he was stirred, and his feverish mind gradually sobered up. Although Liu Hou's expression was pleasant, the content of the question was not so pleasant.

"I Jianyì General Pan, you have to treat these captives well, you see, these Dongwu people belong to the donkey, if you beat them hard, they will be indignant, and they will become Jiangdong tigers again, and they don't need to untie the ropes when the time comes, they just need to stand up and kick each of your soldiers, 30 people kick one, I believe that not everyone of your soldiers can take 30 feet without fainting."

Seeing that Pan Jun didn't understand the meaning of what he said just now, Liu Hou had to remind him again.

Hearing this, Pan Jun fell in a cold sweat. It's really like this, the disparity in strength between the two sides is too great, if a few people break free from the ropes, and then quietly untie the ropes of others, it will be a big deal.

Due to the conditions, there were not so many chains, shackles and shackles, so these Eastern Wu soldiers just tied their hands behind their backs with hemp ropes. It's not easy, and finding 30,000 ropes at a time is not to say that you can find them, it took Pan Jun's strength to get together 30,000 ropes of sufficient length and strength.

But hemp rope is hemp rope after all, and the sturdiness is very limited, not to mention those legendary martial arts masters, a fortune can shatter the rope, shock the section, to be realistic, as long as people find a little harder things, such as stones, slowly grinding can break the hemp rope, and even if you are desperately injured and desperately struggling, maybe you can also break the rope.

"That's... That...... So what to do? Pan Jun was a little confused and asked.

"First of all, I would like to ask you to stop beating and abusing those captives, if they feel insulted, or feel that there is no way to live, and the future is bleak, it is easy to take risks and rise up to resist, and then not only will your thousand soldiers and horses have no way to live, but also our several cities will be gone."

"Don't dare, don't dare, please rest assured, I will definitely stop beating and scolding them in the future." Pan Jun broke out in a cold sweat, although Liu Hou said it well, what do you ask you to do, as the son of Liu Hou, he should have instructed Pan Jun to do things in a commanding tone, if this is the case, maybe Pan Jun will disobey the yang and the yin, but now Liu Hou said the word please with a pleasant face, but Pan Jun was scared, and he no longer dared to say one thing and do another thing behind his back.

Although the contact time was not long, in the brainstorming meeting, Pan Jun saw Liu Hou's resoluteness and indifference when he said that he wanted to release water to flood Jingzhou City; I have also seen Liu Hou's indifference when he talks about and analyzes various common tactics; I have seen the ruthlessness of the poison time that was finally destined to be born and captured by the Eastern Wu generals; I also saw his wit and deep scheming when he officially confronted the Dongwu people.

Pan Jun didn't dare to treat his little lord as a 12-year-old child, in his opinion, this son of the world was faintly coercive, and he was more scheming than those decades-old guys. Who knows if this son of the world is the kind of person who has a sweet mouth and a sword, and he speaks nicely, but he is actually thinking about how to fix you. Didn't you see that even Lu Meng, the governor of Eastern Wu, was so angry with his smile that he vomited blood? So to give Liu Hou such a beating today, he really didn't dare to play any tricks behind Liu Hou's back.

"Also, these Dongwu people still have to give them food, they can't starve them to death, if they starve to death, they won't have the bargaining chips to exchange the city with Sun Quan." Liu Hou didn't know that he was approachable, but he scared Pan Jun and continued.

"This ......" hesitated for a moment, and Pan Jun decided to say what he thought in his heart:

"The prince doesn't know anything, and not giving them enough food is the best way to prevent them from escaping."

"Oh, and that's the way it goes? You say come and hear it. ”

"Yes, son, it has always been the practice of giving only a little gruel every day to hang their lives so that they do not starve to death, but not to give them a full meal. Not only did this save on military rations, but it also gave the captives little to eat. As long as they starve them for two or three meals, let alone that they want to resist and riot, even if they untie the rope and let them escape, they will not have the strength to escape. ”

"Uh, there's such a thing?" Liu Hou couldn't help but be stunned. In the previous life, he came from a civilized society, and in the later life, he was also clothed and fed, living in an ivory tower, and he really had never been exposed to such a cruel thing.

"Yes, it's conventional. Our soldiers would have been treated like this if they had been captured. ”

"This doesn't seem to be very good...... Liu Hou hesitated, how can he be considered a civilized person, he only drinks a little gruel every day, isn't this also an abuse of prisoners? But Pan Jun is also reasonable, now Guan Gong is in the middle of the war on the front line, a large amount of food and materials have been continuously transferred to the front line, there is not much grain in Jingzhou City, and now there are suddenly 30,000 mouths, and the logistical pressure is really not ordinary.

Moreover, the second question Pan Jun said is also reasonable, he is now suffering from a shortage of manpower, and he can't afford to look at these 30,000 soldiers and horses, if all of them are starved to the point of weakness and weakness, powerless to resist and escape, it is also a way. Although this method seems so inhumane, it seems that the effect should be good.

Liu Hou began to struggle, he wanted to treat these captives well, in addition to being based on humanitarianism, another reason was that he wanted to subdue these people. These are elite soldiers, if they can be collected, they will undoubtedly be like a tiger, no matter how bad they are, they can't be allowed to be soldiers, and they can have an extra 30,000 strong laborers.

During the Three Kingdoms period, a large number of people died and labor was in short supply, especially strong laborers, many of whom were forced or voluntarily conscripted into the armies of various forces, resulting in even fewer strong laborers. Therefore, it is no wonder that Liu Hou covets these 30,000 sturdy men.

If you want to subdue them, you have to be kind to them, if they are too bad to make them feel bad about themselves, then even if you forcibly recruit them into the army, you will only lag behind in the end, and there is even the possibility of being counterattacked.

Liu Hou struggled for a long time, but he couldn't come up with a reason, so he had to put aside the controversy and go his own way. He plans to wait until tomorrow to discuss with Fei Yi and Guo Youzhi. After all, I don't have enough social experience and don't think about the problem comprehensively, so with these two people to help me, maybe I can come up with a better solution.

So, Liu Hou no longer struggled with Pan Jun about this problem, and taught Pan Jun a trick to tie his thumb. In his previous life, he once played a game with his friends, which was to tie his thumb. The general idea is that as long as you find a small rope and tie the two thumbs together, then the person is basically unable to break free by himself, although he still has two hands with a total of eight fingers that can be moved, but, it can be said that without the cooperation of the thumb, basically nothing can be done.

The hands of the Eastern Wu soldiers have been tied behind their backs, so they don't need to worry much, Liu Hou mainly asked Pan Jun to find some thin ropes, and tied the thumbs of the two feet of the Eastern Wu people with thin ropes, which is solid. In this way, they will not be able to stand up, let alone kick people. The point is that this method of tying only the thumb is very economical rope, and the rope used is less than one-tenth of the rope compared to tying the whole body.

Then, Liu Hou said that he was afraid that he would not have enough troops, and was ready to send him a battalion of troops to help him. In the past, he was 10,000 unhappy about Liu Hou mixing sand with his troops, but he had just beaten Liu Hou, and now he wished that Liu Hou could send more people over to strengthen the strength of his guards.

Therefore, Liu Hou sent a battalion* of the 3rd Regiment to garrison the barracks to strengthen the defensive force here. After arranging this matter, Liu Hou rushed to the prison cell of the government office, where the seven generals of Eastern Wu were imprisoned. These 7 have different identities, of course, they have to be treated specially, and they can't just be thrown in the barracks, first, because the defense here is weak, and secondly, they are afraid that they will join up with other soldiers and use their influence to launch a riot.

When he came to the dark and damp cell, Liu Hou smelled a musty smell mixed with some unspeakable stench, and he couldn't help but cover his nose. He really wasn't used to this kind of environment, but for the sake of these 7 Dongwu warriors, he could only endure it.

The generals of the Eastern Wu were at least locked up in houses, and unlike the Eastern Wu soldiers who were locked up in the barracks, most of them were guarded in tents, which was very unsafe. The walls of the cells are thick brick walls, and inside is a walkway, with cells on both sides of the walkway, and Liu Hou, led by the cell leader, walked in the corridor, and the cells on both sides of the corridor were sealed with wooden railings.

Liu Hou covered his nose and looked around, and finally found the place where the 7 generals of Eastern Wu were imprisoned. The seven of them were all detained in the same cell, each of them was locked in shackles and shackles, one by one or sitting, lying or standing, seeing Liu Hou's arrival, before Liu Hou could speak, Han Dang, Zhou Tai, Pan Zhang, etc., who had a hot temper, started scolding.

They are all rough people, and they are mixed in the army, and they have a deep experience of scolding people, how to scold how ugly, how disgusting how to scold, even with Liu Hou's face, Cheng Dù can't help but cover his ears and don't want to listen.

"Presumptuous, in front of the prince of Hanzhong, you dare to be so rude!" The lord humiliated the ministers to death, and the cell boss saw that his little lord was insulted, of course he wanted to come up to protect the lord loyally, so he went to the wooden railing and shouted and scolded the generals of Eastern Wu.

"Little cell boss, when will it be your turn to speak here, roar ......" Zhou Tai yelled, and wanted to pounce on the cell head.

Zhou Tai has been through a hundred battles, killed countless people, and is powerful, and his body naturally exudes a strong murderous aura, and with Zhou Tai's majesty, Liu Hou can even smell a faint smell of blood. The cell boss was frightened and retreated again and again, looking panicked.

The generals of Eastern Wu couldn't help laughing, wantonly making fun of the cell boss, and by extension, laughing at the people of the Liu group as cowards.