Chapter VII Political Commissar System

As mentioned last time, Bu Qi reported the statistics after the war to Liu Hou, and just finished talking about the battle losses of the Shu army, which made Liu Hou very sad.

Then, Bu Qi reported on the situation of the Eastern Wu army: more than 20,000 of the 30,000 horses of the Eastern Wu army were killed, and only more than 8,000 were captured, and most of them were wounded.

It can be seen that these Eastern Wu soldiers are also brave people, and their resistance is very tenacious, and it is rare for more than two-thirds of the troops to surrender after losing more than two-thirds of the battle.

This made Liu Hou very interested in Han Dang, the commander of the Wu army, but unfortunately he knew that this was a stinky and hard stone, and he was busy with the Northern Expedition now, so he didn't have time to subdue him.

Liu Hou arranged for some military doctors to treat these Eastern Wu soldiers, planning to fill the baggage team after they recovered from their injuries, and just took 10,000 people to Zhu Bao, and now they can immediately replenish most of them, which is not bad, at least it makes Liu Hou feel better.

These Eastern Wu soldiers were injured and captured, and they were already waiting for death, in this era, let alone prisoners, even if their own soldiers were injured, they rarely could be treated, most of them relied on their own hard resistance and left to fend for themselves.

However, in the Shu army, they were actually well treated, and the doctors of the Shu army carefully cleaned their wounds and applied the best Jinchuang medicine.

The effect of these gold creation drugs is so good, they have only seen it in their lives, even high-ranking officials and nobles can't use such good gold creation drugs, right? But he didn't expect that the Shu army would be willing to take these precious medicines and use them for lowly people like themselves.

They didn't know that the Jinchuang medicine prepared by Hua Tuo after getting Panax notoginseng was of course the best in the world, and the efficacy was almost the same as that of Yunnan Baiyao in later generations. Because of the limited production, it is now specially used by Liu Hou's Hong army, and other people from other countries are not to mention high-ranking officials and nobles, even if they are the emperor, they are useless.

Not only were they treated, but these Eastern Wu soldiers were also surprised to find that the food in the Shu army was surprisingly good, three meals a day, each meal could be full of rice, and there was a piece of meat to eat every two days, although it was not much, but was it easy to eat meat this year?

Originally, they thought that the Shu army treated themselves like this, did they treat themselves very favorably, wanted to buy their hearts, and wanted to trick them into surrendering.

But soon, they found out that this kind of food was the standard food of the Shu army, and the Shu army usually ate like this. They just followed the Shu army to eat the same meals as usual.

This time, they couldn't help but have mixed feelings, when they were in the Eastern Wu Army, they could only eat two meals a day in peacetime, and unless there was a war, it was impossible to eat enough for every meal. If you want to eat meat, don't even think about it unless you win a battle or celebrate the New Year.

I didn't expect that there was such a good treatment in the Shu army, which made them a little confused. At this time, Liu Hou sent personnel from the military department who specialized in ideological work to brainwash these prisoners.

The Military Department was a newly established department of Liu Hou, and he felt that there were more and more prisoners, and the workload and difficulty of transforming these prisoners were getting bigger and bigger, and Liu Hou felt that he could no longer rely on the previous local methods. It is necessary to have specialized professionals to do this.

Not only prisoners, but also their own regular army soldiers also need to do ideological work. After all, when people eat grains, they have all kinds of ideas and trends of thought. There are good and bad ideas and trends of thought, and how to guide these ideas and trends of thought in a direction that is conducive to one's own rule is a technical task.

There is an old saying: "Cangli knows etiquette", but at the same time, there is a saying: "full of warmth and lust". Therefore, it is not enough to give these soldiers good treatment, because some people will gain an inch, and some people will forget the miserable situation when they were poor and suffered, and instead begin to live their minds.

Therefore, Liu Houcai set up this department specifically for ideological work. These departments are mainly filled by graduates of the college, who are well-versed in poetry and can speak well, and these jobs are most suitable.

Their main job is to instill in everyone the ideas of loyalty and patriotism, the orthodoxy of the Han Dynasty, as well as the decadent feudal ideas of Liu* father and son, such as virtuousness, benevolence, and the return of the destiny of heaven. Of course, they are also in charge of military discipline and military regulations.

The military department is an organization established by Liu Hou by copying the political commissar system of later generations, and he originally wanted to call them political commissars, but after he proposed this name, Guo Youzhi, Bu Qi and Fei Yi all objected, saying that they didn't know what the name meant.

After Liu Hou explained the functions of the political commissar, Guo Youzhi said, isn't this just joining the army? As a result, Liu Hou had no choice but to follow the customs of the locals and use a large number of college graduates as soldiers at all levels to join the army. Due to the limited number of talents, only regimental-level units are currently allowed to join the army.

Except for Liu Hou's pro-military battalion, there is no army for the time being. At present, the main focus of the work of joining the army is on the prisoner camps. The enlistments of all units were temporarily drawn out and sent to the prisoner camps to carry out ideological work. Their task was to do their best to convert the minds of these captives, so that they could return to Liu Hou and devote themselves to work.

Since the Shu army set out from Chengdu, they have fought all the way and captured all the way, and now most of the soldiers in the army have returned from captives, so they are still quite experienced in transforming prisoners, and Liu Hou believes that they should be able to complete the task in a short time.

Six days after occupying Chenxian County, Guo Youzhi finally contacted the "CIA" people. This is a very ordinary-looking young man named Zhou Xu. He is a meticulous work lurking in Changsha County, and his identity on the surface is a merchant who walks the streets and alleys. This identity is more suitable for inquiring about all kinds of news.

Of course, he can't fight alone, the "CIA" has lurked many people in Changsha County, especially in Changsha County, from peddlers and pawns to rich people, with various identities. Changsha County is one of the focal points of the work of the "CIA", and here it has a complete organizational structure of the "CIA".

Zhou Xu was a liaison sent by the Changsha branch of the "CIA" and was responsible for reporting the news of this period to Liu Houyu. Liu Houtong asked Zhou Xu, and only then did he learn some of the things that happened in Jingzhou during his time in Lingnan.

It turned out that about half a year ago, Wei and Wu each sent hundreds of thousands of troops to besiege Shu, and the two countries* troops that attacked Jingzhou alone had 300,000. Of course, such a large-scale use of troops could not be kept secret, so the movements of Wei and Wu were detected by the "CIA" early on.

Therefore, Guan Gong got the news early and made some preparations in advance. For example, asking Chengdu for help, such as hoarding food and ordnance, such as relocating people, clearing the wilderness, and urgently recruiting people to join the army, strengthening the training of the army, and so on.

Guan Gong has done everything he can do, but Wei and Wu are using Yang Mou this time, and they plan to use an upright army to defeat Shu and defeat Guan Gong with absolute strength.

Therefore, they are not afraid of being known in advance, and they don't care how much preparation Guan Gong has made. Because they believe that no matter what Guan Gong does, he will not be able to stop the crushing of the armies of the two countries.

However, what they didn't expect was that this time Guan Gong would resist in Jingzhou City for four months.

Hearing this, Liu Hou sighed very much, in ancient times, they often fought for a year and a half, I really don't understand how those ancients were so patient, they couldn't attack a city for so long, aren't they bored?