Su Yan still took Chen Ying's suggestion, but before that, he had to solve the biggest problem at hand.

That is, these 681 Qing prisoners who surrendered.

These Qing prisoners of war were all Han Chinese from the Green Battalion, and although Su Yan had a lot of disdain for their traitorous behavior, he could also understand the bitterness of these people to surrender.

If it weren't for the lack of food and clothing, who would want to bear the infamy of a traitor and take refuge in the Tartars?

However, if they were directly incorporated in this way, Su Yan was not at ease, it was difficult for him to guarantee that these people would not suddenly turn back when the army attacked the county seat.

After thinking about it, Su Yan decided to ask the system to see if the system had a way to solve this problem.

[The host can transform these two types of people into elite soldiers loyal to the host by sending civilians or soldiers into the barracks of the troops.] 】

"Troop barracks? If I'm not mistaken, it was a first-class military building in the city. ”

[Yes, when the host captures a city and establishes a base, it can open the building plate to recruit troops and obtain silver by building various buildings.] 】

After reading the system's answer, Su Yan knew that if he wanted to strengthen his power, he still had to get a base as soon as possible, and now it became a top priority to capture Dehua County.

Retracting his thoughts, Su Yan looked at the prisoner who was kneeling down again, pressed his hand on the hilt of the sword, and shouted:

"Put the officers above the general level out of the ranks."

His voice fell, and the four of them looked at each other and stood up from the crowd, all four of them turned pale, walked up to Su Yan, and knelt down again.

Su Yan and Chen Ying looked at each other for a moment, although they didn't speak, the latter still understood what he meant, and under his order, several line infantry forcibly dragged the four people aside, pointed their guns at the heads of the four people, and opened fire.

After four gunshots, all four were shot and killed, and the rest of the soldiers were even more shocked when they heard the gunshots, and did not dare to move.

Su Yan said loudly at this time: "You were the people of the Ming Dynasty before, but you didn't think about being loyal to the monarch and serving the country, but instead went under the command of the Tartars, acted perversely, and harmed the people.

However, this general is not a person who is easy to kill, such as you are willing to abandon the darkness and join our army, resist the Qing army, this general can also stay and wait for a life, if there are still people with two ambitions, these four people will be the end! ”

As he spoke, he pointed to the four corpses.

The soldiers looked at the soldiers who were eyeing them around, and then looked at the four generals who fell in a pool of blood, where did they dare to say anything against them, so they had to kowtow again and again to apologize, and shouted: "I am willing to be driven by the general." ”

Su Yan didn't rush to get them up, he looked at these soldiers with a smile, and said, "Since you have joined our army, there is no reason to continue to keep that money rat tail, Chen Shenggui, you make a statement and go to braid." ”

Go to braid Mingzhi, this trick is really poisonous.

Everyone knows that the Qing court is now forcibly promoting the shaving of hair and changing clothes, shouting the slogan of "keep your head without hair, keep your hair without your head", and they took their braids away, even if they returned to the side of the Qing army, they were afraid that they would be arrested as an anti-Qing rebel party and cut off their heads for military merit.

Although Chen Shenggui was reluctant, under the threat of the black holes and guns, he could only pick up the short knife with a bitter face and cut off his braids.

With Chen Shenggui as an example, others also cut off their braids, and several of them also wanted to secretly hide the cut braids, so that they could stick them back in the future to avoid the crime of killing their heads.

But Su Yan seemed to see through their intentions, and ordered the soldiers to light the fire, so that these soldiers threw their braids into the fire and burned out.

Looking at the braids that were quickly devoured in the flames, Chen Shenggui knew that he would not be able to return to the realm controlled by the Qing army until his braids grew back on.

"General, do you want to burn this Tartar banner in pieces?"

Just as he was watching those soldiers line up to burn their braids, two soldiers came over with two-bar flags and asked Su Yan.

Su Yan looked at the sound and saw clearly that the soldiers were carrying the banner that this group of Qing soldiers was carrying when they came, he thought for a while, waved his hand and said, "Keep it for now, I'm still useful." ”

"Yes."

After removing the braids, the soldiers cleaned up the battlefield under Su Yan's orders, buried the Qing soldiers who died in battle, and collected the weapons scattered all over the place.

At the beginning of the Qing Dynasty, the weapons and equipment of the green battalion were not as simple as those of later generations, and most of them could still wear armor, completely dressed as Ming soldiers, and the weapons were basically long knives, spears and shields.

After cleaning the battlefield, the most valuable ones captured were the thirty-one sets of cotton armor, seventeen sets of cloth armor and one set of fish scale armor, but unfortunately these armors all had holes in them that were pierced by projectiles, and after they settled down, they had to find a special craftsman to repair them before they could replace them for the soldiers.

The set of fish scale armor was taken from the dead Wang Manhan, the poor Qing army lieutenant general's armor was actually shot through eight holes, when Su Yan's soldiers found his body, his eyes widened, he did not bat at death, and his face still had the stunned look on his face.

In addition to the armor, for the sake of prudence, Su Yan also distributed the sixty-four long knives captured to the line infantry to improve their melee combat ability—the current line infantry was not equipped with bayonets, so they only had a flintlock pistol and a dagger for self-defense.

As for the other shields, spears, and bird guns, Su Yan couldn't look at them, so he brought them with the looted silver rations.

After all this was dealt with, Su Yan finally checked the task reward after completing the task.

[Mission Complete: Defeat the Qing army Wang Manchu Han Division.]

Reward: Line Infantry ×1]

Looking at the task reward, Su Yan didn't have any waves in his heart, he knew that the reward for the first task would not be too good, as long as it wasn't a militia or a spearman, he would steal it.

"System, summon the line infantry."

After Su Yan meditated in his heart, as before, the line infantry also disappeared from the system space, and it didn't take long for 120 soldiers in red Western-style military uniforms to cross the woods and join Su Yan.

Looking at the team that appeared again, all equipped with firearms, Chen Shenggui and the other soldiers of the Green Battalion were even more jealous of Su Yan in their hearts.

You must know that firearms are not something that can be taken out casually, and Su Yan's gang is definitely not a simple rebel army.

……

Before dusk fell, the army arrived outside the city of Dehua County.

Su Yan did not directly lead the army to the bottom of the city wall, but took the general's guards to the Daqi Mountain outside the city, condescendingly, looking at the city standing on the edge of the Chanxi.

The city wall of Dehua County was built in the 36th year of Jiajing, and then increased by three feet in the 14th year of Chongzhen, and now has a height of 1.6 zhang (5.2 meters).

However, considering that most of the troops stationed in the county town were withdrawn, and there were less than 100 defenders left in the city, Su Yan quickly had an idea.

He rode back to the temporary garrison of the army and recruited Chen Shenggui of Toucheng.

Soon, Chen Shenggui was brought over, and as soon as he came up, he knelt in front of Su Yan and said, "General, you called the little one to come, but it was to seek the matter of Dehua County?" ”

He had heard the conversation between Su Yan and Chen Ying clearly before, so as soon as he came up, he took the initiative to mention this matter.

Su Yan nodded and asked, "What is your relationship with the defenders in the city?" ”

"General Qiyu, the little one once drank with Zhang Xun, the head of the thousand, and there is no other intersection than that." Chen Shenggui replied.

"I'm not asking you to persuade the defenders to surrender, I'm going to let you take some people and enter the city under the banner of the Qing army, kill the defenders of the city gate, take the city gate, and welcome the army into the city.

If you do this, I will promote you to a thousand households, and I will give you a rich reward, how about it? ”