Qiming 1158

Chapter 884 Turning Ghosts Back into Humans

The meeting of the Jiangnan West Road Revival Branch soon began in Song Jun's barracks.

Everyone started discussions and research on the current situation, and discussed how the peasant army should go next.

According to initial statistics, the Song army probably lost more than 3000 people due to cannibalism, and more than 2000 people died during the peasant army's attack, and about five or six thousand escaped, so the number of Song soldiers captured was about four. About 3000 people.

The peasant army played a very beautiful casualty ratio, basically preserved the main force, and the soldiers made great contributions one after another. Many of them had the number of prisoners of seven or ninety Song soldiers, which not only made credit, but also increased their confidence. The strategic advantage and superior mentality of Song Jun.

This is important.

This battle can be said to have completely reversed the strategic situation in which the peasant army was passively beaten.

The proportion of military power between the peasant army and the Song army also changed with it.

In the entire Jiangnan West Road, it can be said that there is no established Song army, that is to say, at present, the peasant army is free, and can attack cities and lands at will, and run wild in the Southern Song Dynasty.

But before that, there is one very important thing to discuss.

How to quickly increase the strength of the Peasant Army, and how to deal with more than 4 prisoners of the Song Army.

"For this matter, I suggest absorbing them."

Zhao Yucheng expressed his attitude and said, "First of all, we don't have enough troops right now, and it will take a lot of time to rebuild, and training is needed, and although these Song soldiers are not very effective, they have been trained anyway.

Second, there are too many prisoners in the Song army, and our soldiers are too small. If we divide our troops to attack the city at this time, there will not be enough people to take care of the prisoners, and if we want enough people to take care of them, we will not be able to gather enough people. The army conquered the city.

The current situation is that we have defeated the Song army and broke the heavy encirclement. Outside the encirclement, there is Song Jiangnan West Road, which has no established military force at all. If we can seize the opportunity, we can capture Longxing Prefecture and Jiangnan in one go. The West Road as a base is also unknown. "

Deputy Director Du Qi thought about it and expressed his objection.

"Yucheng, I don't agree with your opinion. These Song soldiers have hurt a lot of local people in the past, and they have done a lot of evil, and there are many people in their hands. It is a huge hidden danger for us to absorb them.

What if we were sucked in and became hungry, met with ordinary people, and knew each other at first sight, how bad would this be for us?So I don't agree with such an approach and can't accept them casually. "

Zhao Yucheng sighed, thought about it, and decided to stick to his own opinion.

"Lao Du, many times we have no choice. If there is a choice, I don't want to make such a choice, but the fact is that this is our best choice."

"Why is it the best choice? Include the bastards who mutilate the common people?"

"Of course we have to screen first. The bastards must be screened out, and those officers must be screened out, but it is impossible to screen them all out. What do you want to do if they are all screened out? Kill them all? This is more than 4 people. Let's It's not in vain."

Zhao Yucheng said slowly: "I won't say anything else, just say that during the Northern Expedition of the Liberation Army, we were faced with the same problems as we are now. There were few people in the headquarters, and there were a lot of captured soldiers. How to deal with them is a huge problem. .

At that time, the Liberation Army made a decision to conduct screening first, and after screening, to distinguish between those who have committed many evils and those who can be saved, and put those who have committed many evils to a public trial, right in front of those prisoners who can still be saved.

I thought that most of them were brutally oppressed by officers, so many Jin soldiers joined the Restoration Army and fought as soldiers since then. Many of them later became officers and even joined the Renaissance. , very positive. "

Du Qi pursed his lips and remained silent.

Seeing that he didn't speak, Zhao Yucheng continued.

"At that time, there were also people who objected to this decision, who believed that these prisoners had lives on their hands and were dirty, and they should all be executed to deter the enemy and avenge the injured people. 's enemy.

His Majesty believes that after screening and educating them, if they are handled properly, they can quickly transform into our combat power. At the beginning of the Northern Expedition, the Liberation Army had only a little over 50 people. Nearly half a million.

It can be said that at that time, the main force of the entire Jin Army and many local armed forces that followed us all entered the Restoration Army, and the Restoration Army became a hodgepodge. In terms of the complexity of its components, it was far more serious then than we are now, right?

Of course, the Liberation Army did not stop educating soldiers. After Yan Yun stabilized, they conducted two or three screening and re-education of the former captive soldiers in the army. After a period of screening and education, tens of thousands of soldiers were eliminated. People, the total force is limited to 40, which is today's Ming army. "

At the meeting of the Jiangnan West Road Restoration Association branch, many people were listening to Zhao Yucheng telling the story of the expansion, reorganization, reorganization and final formation of the Restoration Army that they did not know very well.

More than half of today's Ming Army was reorganized from the original Jin Army. They used to oppress the people under the Jin Kingdom's system. They were also bullied by Shangguan.

If you ask them to tell the story that they used to be Jin Jun, they will be very upset and angry. They feel that they don’t want to recall the past. They lived like ghosts at that time. What’s there to say?

For them, the days after joining the Liberation Army are the lives of people, the meaningful days in their eyes. Only after that can they live meaningful and valuable lives. The days when they were in the Jinjun can never be looked back on. .

Du Qi still didn't speak, but his expression changed.

So Zhao Yucheng made persistent efforts and resorted to the ultimate move.

"The reason why the Song army is doing so many evils is this oppressive old army system. The officers usually oppress the soldiers, and when the soldiers feel unbearable, they indulge them to burn, kill and loot to relieve their pressure, thereby controlling their spirits and putting them down. Transformed into a tool for killing.

All of you should have heard of this evil old military system. Under this system, is there any individual who can be alone?I think it is very difficult, so the real sin is not the individual, but the whole system of Song Jun.

Of course, those who have been completely corroded by the system are hopeless. They should be screened out, put on trial, executed, and seek justice for the victims. Those who are not deeply poisoned and can still be saved should be screened out and rescued. Let them be human again.

This is the work of our Fuxing members, and this is the meaning of the Fuxing Association's existence within the military. Song Jun turned normal people into ghosts, and we will turn ghosts back into human beings. The army will not be reduced to the point of killing tools, gentlemen, what do you think? "

Zhao Yucheng's speech was very sincere and very reasonable, and won the support of many people.

In the end, the opposition, represented by Du Qi, reserved their opinions and did not oppose Zhao Yucheng's prisoner transformation plan, but they did not support it, and decided to wait and see how things developed.

Zhao Yucheng initiated a motion vote, which was voted by the entire branch's Renaissance members. The voting figures proved that Zhao Yucheng's proposal was supported by the overwhelming majority, and the rest had no objection, and basically chose to abstain.

That's it, there's nothing more to say.

The motion was passed, and implementation began immediately.

The Peasant Army immediately dispatched more than 1000 manpower that could be dispatched at present, and began to register and screen these captive soldiers, preparing for the first step of taking them in.

Identify the officers and soldiers who have committed many evils and enjoy this system, initiate a public trial against them, reprimand them for their criminal behavior, and carry out public executions as the first step in transforming the captive soldiers.

While Su Yonglin launched a large-scale movement in Shandong, Zhao Yucheng and others also completed the primary screening and secondary screening of more than 3000 Song Army prisoners through strong execution and organization, which took nine and a half days.

Through two screenings, 760 nine officers and soldiers with definite records of killing innocent people were identified.

Afterwards, the peasant army began to organize the captured soldiers of the Song army to initiate a public trial of these scumbags.

Their crimes were read out, their bullying of colleagues and subordinates was also announced, and finally, the peasant army personnel in charge of the execution announced the results of the disposition of these scumbags.

For ordinary Song army prisoners, the experience of these few days is really outrageous.

After the extreme chaos of bombing the camp, they became prisoners, and gradually recovered from the extreme panic of bombing the camp, and then began to lament their impending fate.

Caught by this group of thieves, is there any way to survive?

Just wait to die.

The only difference is that the way of dying may be different, but all are the same, all die.

They think so.

But they soon ate their first meal as captives. It was vegetable porridge, very thick, with a lot of salt added.

They almost all thought it was the peasant army as the victor's meal, but when the peasant army escorted them to line up for dinner, they were horrified.

Because this kind of good food is very rare for them. It is difficult for the officers to eat it. Gruel is the norm, and they can eat vegetable porridge occasionally. When they can eat dry rice, they basically want It's time to work hard.

So they also thought that this might be their farewell meal.

The bandit army is quite conscientious. They give him a meal before they die. They won't be starving ghosts when they die, and they will probably feel more comfortable when they get to the bottom.

With such emotions, the Song army captives finished their [Last Supper].

The night passed, nothing happened, and the next morning came the exact same breakfast.

The captive soldiers felt a little strange.

Do you want to eat two meals after the decapitation?
But they don't care, there are things they don't eat bastards.

After the meal was over, their stomachs were very full, and they quietly waited for death to come. Then, the peasant army began to take their places and began to ask them some very strange questions.

For example, family origin, whether there are relatives in the family, how long you have been in the army, what position you currently live in, how you feel about Song Jun, and how you feel about your superiors, etc.

Then there are the tougher questions.

For example, have you ever harmed people, whether you have killed innocent people indiscriminately, whether you have participated in such acts as massacres of cities, and how many lives you have in your hands, do you know whether your companions or superiors have records of killing innocents indiscriminately, etc.

These questions sound very strange. Except for those who have never been on the battlefield and the new recruits who have just joined the army, how many veterans who have joined the army for more than two years have no life?

As for whether it belonged to the enemy army or the common people, it was hard to say. It was normal for Song Jun to kill a good person and take merit.

As a result, the staff of the peasant army announced to them that as long as they didn’t do anything inappropriate and answered honestly, they could avoid death once it was confirmed. Direct execution.

This time the Song army prisoners were surprised.

Can you avoid death?
Is there such a good thing?

So what's the hesitation?
As long as you can survive, you can say anything!
As a result, many inside stories of the Song army that made the peasant army feel incredible were explained, and the peasant army cadres who listened to it frowned.

(End of this chapter)