Chapter 294

Liu Jiajun decided when he was born. He and Liu Kou are irreconcilable.

Therefore, many rogue bandits think that if they fall into the hands of Liu Jiajun, they are basically a dead end.

Especially when a large number of their generals and army leaders were pulled out and beheaded one by one, it made them even more frightened.

Zhang Xianzhong brought more than 30000 soldiers this time, of which more than 3000 were his elite veterans, and the others were ordinary soldiers. Most of these soldiers fled.

In this world war, Liu Jiajun killed at least 1500 elite soldiers and captured more than 1000 alive. As for those ordinary soldiers, they are not interested in calculating, because these soldiers are similar to the existence of cumbersome and auxiliary soldiers for both the roving bandits and them. Liu Bu probably read the report, That is, they should have captured nearly 10000 people. This victory is very brilliant.

But dealing with these prisoners of war has also become a difficult problem after the war.

The local people have been suffering from rogue bandits for a long time. They hate them to the bone. They have advocated that all these rogue bandits should be beheaded to calm the people's anger, which can also be called official anger.

The squires and dignitaries in these places found Wang Zhiwen, the magistrate of Anqing, and asked him to be fair and kill all these prisoners of war.

On the surface, Wang Zhiwen is temporarily acting as the magistrate of Fengyang. This position is appointed by himself, and he has no soldiers. He mainly depends on the power of the Liu family. Without the power and military support of the Liu family, he is nothing, so he is forced to come to Liu BU for discussion.

He was very upset when he heard that he was going to kill so many people, because there has been an ominous saying since ancient times.

The famous general of the Warring States period rose in vain, but an awesome character with a nickname of killing God. Every time he fought, he would kill all those who surrendered. That's why he won his nickname of Changping killing God, but his final end was also very bad.

Now that Liu Bu has joined the army, he also has the honor and pride of his soldiers. That is, he will do everything he can to defeat the enemy, whether it is a conspiracy or a fair and aboveboard policy. However, if he is allowed to kill unarmed prisoners of war, he really can't do it.

Because killing the enemy on the battlefield is meritorious service. If the prisoners of war are slaughtered after the war, it is unjust. As a soldier, if he does such a thing, he is a butcher, not a qualified soldier. If a soldier does not have the sense of honor of a soldier, he is no different from ordinary thieves, so he resolutely refused to slaughter prisoners of war.

Wang Zhiwen also knew Liu Bu's concerns. He did good or bad and said, "General Liu, you have great ambition and refuse to kill the prisoners. This official can understand. However, if you don't kill some, you will go to work. The officials and gentry here will not be satisfied, and the court will not be satisfied."

Liu preached, "haven't we handed over dozens of officers and gone out?"

Liu bu also knew that it was not easy to subdue these high-ranking officers, and most of them were unruly people. They were people who had followed Zhang Xianzhong for many years, killed many officers and soldiers and killed many people. For Liu Bu, these people had no value in training or taking in, so he sent someone to identify them, If he is guilty of slaughtering the people, he will ask them to kill them one by one. This is also a way for him to explain. After all, as an official and army of the imperial court, he represents the interests of the imperial court. It's unreasonable to seize these people without cutting off a batch of heads.

However, if he was allowed to kill prisoners on a large scale, he would not be able to do such a thing. He did not let them idle. He drove them to build bridges and roads, repair all kinds of ruins and clean up the garbage in the city. Now these people are working.

These prisoners are fed half full while working. This is a way for them to manage prisoners. That is, if these people are fed half full, they only have the strength to work and have no strength to think about other things.

However, for the elite old camp of Zhang Xianzhong, he still wanted to make his idea. If he could integrate this group of soldiers into Liu's army, their strength would be quickly supplemented, so he did these things quietly in the dark.

Liu Buhe was about to release some prisoners who were not angry and did not commit any crime. As a result, he had this idea. Wang Zhiwen asked him to kill all these prisoners so as not to waste food and make a job with the imperial court. He was unhappy.

In fact, Liu Bu has the official title of a guerrilla general. He has no level to deal with these things. If other officials and generals would not ask him for advice, but he defeated Zhang Xianzhong's army, captured these prisoners, and only he has military power in Fengyang City, so we should look at his face and be a man.

Wang Zhiwen said to him, "general, you should know that after this war, you will be famous all over the world and be simple in the heart of the emperor. Even the emperor will look at you differently. As long as you do something to invite merit and reward to the emperor, you will naturally get the due reward and honor. If the general is kind to these prisoners, you may be bad spoken by people with a heart."

Liu Bu said, "if there is anything bad to say, I will be indomitable and afraid of others. What's more, God has the virtue of living well. If the prisoners of war are slaughtered on a large scale, who will surrender to us in the future."

Wang Zhiwen said, "but the local gentry are very dissatisfied with this. They have made these rogue bandits miserable. If they don't hand in some, they won't convince the people all over the world."

Liu Buhe said, "in this way, let them come to the POW camp to identify. As long as there are people who rob, kill and maim the people, they will pull them out and cut them. If there is no real evidence or evidence, there is no need to kill innocent people."

Wang Zhiwen knew that this should be Liu Bu's last concession, so he had to say, "I'll go back and discuss with the squires. I believe they are still satisfied with such a plan."

Liu Bu was thinking about elite soldiers in the POW camp, and others were also thinking about the POW camp. Therefore, as soon as he saw that the news was wrong, he immediately ordered the release of a group of people. The group of people he ordered to release were tall and strong soldiers he liked. After they were released, they were immediately recruited as soldiers of their Liu family army.

As for the ordinary soldiers in the prisoner of war camp, Wang Zhiwen, they want to take a group of beheadings to ask for merit and reward from the above, and they can only let them do it like this. After all, they still have to explain to these people. If they don't explain, they don't look good, and all the efforts he has done in the past have been wasted.

Liu Bu's approach is to obtain the full support of Liu Zhongyong. As a qualified soldier, Liu Zhongyong disdains to massacre prisoners of war. Moreover, seeing these good soldiers, he inevitably gives birth to a love for talents.

Liu Zhongyong is also a soldier from the bottom. He knows that in fact, these ordinary soldiers are not enemies of the class. They do not have any ideals to join the army, just to eat enough. That's the so-called food for soldiers. Whoever gives them food will work for who. So after starving these soldiers for a few days, they go to them to recruit soldiers and buy horses, As a result, these people basically vowed without hesitation that they were willing to join Liu Jiajun's barracks under the of Liu Jiajun.

Several senior generals of Liu Jiajun are generals who have the ability to lead the army. When they see the soldiers of these troops, they inevitably love talents. Everyone hopes to supplement their own troops.

They did recruit many rogue bandits into their army, but they certainly would not form these people into a battalion independently, but break them up into the battalions of Liu Jiajun

In this way, they are not allowed to keep warm together and form hilltop doctrine.

After starving for a few days, these soldiers took them into Liu Jiajun's canteen. They basically had no hesitation, and immediately took an oath to join Liu Jiajun.

Liu Jiajun is different from other armies. When they want to join Liu Jiajun, they must swear in the name of his heaven and earth parents after the conditions are qualified.

At this time, people are generally superstitious. They still dare not disobey the oath made in the name of their parents and heaven and earth, and it is still very binding.

Not to mention the issue of binding force, just when these people saw the canteen of Liu Jiajun, their eyes were straight. Where is the canteen of the army? It was richer than the banquet of the landlord and the rich.

Even in Zhang Xianzhong's elite old camp, they don't have such a way to eat. They give each person a meal. Even after eating, it's like Liu Jiajun's canteen. Good white bread and good rice are piled here for you to eat. Until you eat enough, this treatment is only available to officers in other armies.

But ordinary soldiers here in Liu Jiajun also enjoy such amazing treatment. Seeing this way of eating, every soldier sighs that it is worth even being a soldier of Liu Jiajun one day.

Liu Jiajun's canteen is still very good. In the words of many soldiers, it is to celebrate the new year here every day.

This is also the reason why they attract many talents. In this troubled times, only Liu Jiajun can have such a good canteen, such good food and such a good way to eat.

In the age when food was widely used as soldiers, with such good food, there were no other benefits, and many people competed to be soldiers.

It can be said that there are millions of troops in Daming, but more than half of the troops come to serve for a bite, which is called serving food.