Chapter 215 deals with demotion and competition for posts

The Wei army first surrendered more than 50,000 people in the base camp at the request of Sima Yi's commander's order, and then several troops outside the city, because the main general was captured, the Shu army easily obtained their general seal, and the people of the Shu army carried the order with Sima Yi's handsome seal, and the letter and personal token covered with their main general's seal, to the various units to accept the surrender, the process was quite smooth.

Except for one unit, that is, Xiahou Ba's troops, Xiahou Ba did not attend this meeting because of diarrhea, and only sent a deputy general over and successfully escaped this catastrophe. The captured adjutant general obviously didn't play a role, so the Shu army had to leave this unit alone for the time being, and focus on digesting other troops first.

The entire 100,000 Wei army needed to be digested and processed, and the number was twice as large as the Shu army, and this project was so huge that when Guo Youzhi took advantage of Xiahouba's failure to react, he concentrated his forces to eat them, and Liu Hou gave up this very tempting plan after thinking about it again.

Because there were so many prisoners to deal with, and all the forces of the Shu army had been mobilized to receive these prisoners, it was impossible to draw troops to deal with a force of 50,000 soldiers, Liu Hou could only drool and watch Xiahouba's troops withdraw under his nose.

However, Shu Jun was really full this time, and he was a little indigestion, and Liu Hou should actually be satisfied. In the final count, there were 180,000 prisoners, plus Xiangyang City, a strategic fortress at the north-south point.

It is really difficult to deal with these 180,000 horses, but fortunately, the Shu army has been prepared for a long time, and when they sent special forces to Xuchang to kidnap Sima Yi's family, they had already begun to do the work of receiving a large number of prisoners.

These captives were first given ideological and political work for three days and three nights by the soldiers. Joining the army is something like a political commissioner, who is specifically responsible for giving political lessons to soldiers in the army, doing ideological work, and of course, also has a certain role in supervising the army.

Joining the army was set up by Liu Hou after he conquered Chenzhou City, feeling that there were too many prisoners, and there would be more and more prisoners, and it was very difficult to deal with them. At that time, it was only set up to the regimental level, and after such a long period of development, now all combat units at the company level have been assigned to join the army.

When they joined the army, they would give ideological and political lessons to the regular soldiers, and when the prisoners came, they were responsible for educating the prisoners ideologically. After their mobilization and ideological education, most of the captives were often able to quickly change their ideological concepts and turn their allegiance to Shu Han. Even if they can't be made to die for Shu Han and Liu Hou, at least they can no longer hate the Shu Han regime.

Now, all the soldiers at all levels in the Hong army have been drawn out to do ideological work for the newly captured Wei soldiers, which is not enough, Liu Hou has already recruited a large number of scholars from Jingzhou, Yizhou and other places in the early stage, and after giving them simple training, he will let them temporarily serve as political and ideological teachers.

The scholars of this era basically still received Confucian education, and the idea of loyalty to the monarch and patriotism is a very important part of Confucianism.

Therefore, it is not difficult for these scholars to preach the patriotic ideas of loyalty to the captives, and they usually read a lot of books in this area.

The main contents of the ideological education work carried out on the Wei captives this time were: the feudal ideas that the Liu clan of the Han Dynasty was orthodox and that Cao Wei was a traitor to the country; Liu Chan, the emperor, is the true dragon son of heaven who is destined to return to the heavens, and the world of the Han Dynasty is destined to be recast by him, as long as he follows him, the world will be peaceful, and the people will have these superstitious sayings that they have a good life.

Although these feudal superstitious sayings are suspected of fooling the people, the advantage is that the effect is fast, the people of this era generally have a low level of cultural knowledge, especially these big soldiers of the Wei State, most of them are illiterate people who don't know a single word, what do you say to him from the #by the people#Lord, what doctrine is what, it is similar to playing the piano to the cow.

How could they understand the kind of thinking that is beyond the millennium of this era, but these feudal superstitions, they can easily accept them. Although Liu Hou was not very much in favor of promoting feudal superstition, he was forced to compromise temporarily.

In terms of what kind of dialectic, the main contradiction at this time is the question of whether these Wei soldiers are willing to submit to the Han Dynasty, not the question of whether their thinking is not advanced first.

Therefore, we should now find a way to quickly resolve this main contradiction, and as for the ideological education of the common people, we must wait for the unification of the world in the future, the education of Guangxing, and the gradual opening up of the wisdom of the people. A hundred years of trees, ten years of cultivating people, and educating the people is one of the contents of Liu Hou's work in the decades after reunification, and it is definitely not something that should be considered in this war period.

After three days of ideological education, most of the Wei soldiers' hatred of Shu Han was appeased, and a few admired Shu Han and Liu Hou very much, and at this time, it was the second step of transforming the prisoners.

The second step is to give them the freedom to choose their own path in the future. Liu Hou and the three stinkers planned three choices for the captives. The first choice was to join the Shu army and fight for the great Han emperor.

After ideological education, some of the soldiers who returned to Shu Han and Liu Hou chose this path. There are not many of them, only more than 20,000 but less than 30,000.

Even so, Liu Hou was already smiling from ear to ear, the Hong army has always taken the route of elite soldiers, and it doesn't need too many soldiers, and it can't afford to raise too many soldiers, this time it's not easy to digest 20,000 more people, this is the number of more than two standard divisions. Of course, the division here refers to the division that is organized in strict accordance with the three-three system.

As a matter of fact, the Hong Army has never strictly followed this standard in the establishment of division-level units. The rattan armor soldiers are generally 15,000 people in a division, which is caused by the original division of the 30,000 vine armor army of vulture bones into two.

Cold weapons troops, such as Zhu Bao's Fourth Division, had no fixed number at all, sometimes more and sometimes less, because other troops drew men from this unit from time to time, and Zhu Bao often recruited new recruits or recruited prisoners.

Therefore, when the fourth division is more than 30,000 people, when it is small, it is only 10,000 or even a few thousand, of course, its default establishment is 20,000 people.

As for the firearms unit, in the past, there were not enough fire# guns, so for a long time it was less than 10,000 people, or in other words, although there were more than 10,000 people, there were only a few thousand real fire# gunners, and the rest were reserve personnel.

Later, after the reorganization of the fire # spearmen into several brigades, the divisional units can basically be said to have died out. The current establishment of the Hong Army is a bit chaotic, but there is no way, with the current productivity, it is impossible to convert all the troops into firearms units in a short period of time, and this kind of mixed formation of hot and cold will surely exist for a long time.

After thinking about it for a long time and discussing it with the three stinkers, Liu Hou decided to reorganize the more than 20,000 Wei troops into three brigades, each with about 8,000 people. Several regiment commanders from the 1st, 2nd and 5th brigades were brought together and a competition was held, and the top three were promoted to brigade commanders in the three new brigades. This is arguably the first ever competitive position.