Daming: I help my wife be the empress

Chapter 338 Serving the captives, Yang Zhan reports victory!
The Qing army captured tens of thousands of prisoners in this battle. Naturally, it was impossible to place them all in one place. Instead, they were scattered and imprisoned in four places in the southeast, northwest, and outside of Yangzhou City.

The Green Battalion, Manchurian Eight Banners, Mongolian Eight Banners, and Han Army Banners are all separate.

And there is a small camp for thousands of people, and ropes are tied under everyone's feet, and they are not allowed to leave the camp.

The green battalion soldiers are better, and they have two meals of gruel every day.

The remaining three camps of the Eight Banners Army captives were only given a bowl of clear gruel every day to hang their lives.

This is not because of insufficient food and grass, but because they do not want these captives to have the strength to make trouble.

The Han Army Banner prisoner camp was placed in the western suburbs.

Once outside the camp, Zeng Ying introduced: "The Eight Banners of the Han army we captured in this battle were mainly more than 2000 people from Kong Youde's department, nearly 1000 people from Zhang Cunren's department, and the [-] people left behind by Geng Zhongming, a total of [-] prisoners. Four."

Standing outside the camp, Auntie Zhu could see that many of the Han Banner soldiers inside were lying on the ground basking in the sun, looking lifeless.

These people have been starved for three days, and they don't know whether they will be executed. It's strange to be energetic.

Seeing these soldiers of the Eight Banners of the Han Army, Zhu Yuxi noticed that most of the captive Green Battalion soldiers did not have rattails. It should be that Li Chengdong and other warlords who surrendered to the Qing Dynasty in the north of the Yangtze River had not had time to shave their hair and change clothes.

After all, it is not so easy to shave the rattail, and the Qing army was in a hurry to go south before.

But these soldiers of the Eight Banners of the Han Army all wore money rattail whips. At first glance, they were somewhat indistinguishable from the soldiers of the Eight Banners of Manchuria.

Hao Guangming also saw this scene through Auntie Zhu's mobile phone, and his heart moved, and he suggested: "The Eight Banners soldiers of the Han Army must not be directly used in the army, but they might as well transform them first.

You can first select a group of people who are willing to shave their heads from among them, and ask them to sign an anti-Qing document insulting Nurhachi, Huang Taiji, Dorgon, and Fulin.

Then let this group of people assist in managing the prisoners—of course, they are still prisoners themselves, and they cannot violate the rules of the prison camp, but they can be rewarded with food.

In addition, you still have tens of thousands of troops stationed in Yangzhou. Except for the generals and some soldiers who need to be responsible for forming a new army town, most of the soldiers have nothing to do.

Let them supervise these Han Banner troops as laborers, repairing cities, roads, and clearing rivers. "

Aunt Zhu nodded when she heard the words, and then asked: "How should the Eight Banners Army of Manchuria and Mongolia be dealt with?"

Zeng Ying and Liu Wenxiu are naturally used to seeing Aimee Zhu talking to someone.

Although Liu Zhaoji, Ma Yingkui, and Ren Yumin saw it for the first time, they had already heard about it in the past few days. It seemed that Chongzhen had found a "fairyland" son-in-law for Auntie Zhu, and most of Auntie Zhu's magic weapons were obtained by that son-in-law.

Seeing that the son-in-law was away, they could talk to the princess, but they couldn't hear them, so Liu Zhaoji and the others couldn't help being more in awe of Aimee Zhu.

Hao Guangming thought for a while and said, "The Mongolian Eight Banners should be available within a year or two, so we can't feed them off.

As for the Eight Banners of Manchuria, the generals from Niulu Zhangjing to the top can be beheaded-these people are not only Manchu nobles, but also the main executioners who slaughtered the people of Ming Dynasty, so there is no need to keep them.

The remaining soldiers of the Eight Banners of Manchuria should not be raised or abandoned. They can be sent to the government-run mines as miners, or sent to the common camps as hard labor for road construction.

Of course, it would be best to disperse them completely and divide them into labor brigades with less than a hundred people.

In addition, it is necessary to give them a seemingly achievable but impossible hope to prevent them from committing suicide or rebelling wildly.

For example, it is promised that after ten years of hard labor, they can be resettled as civilians.But with their identities, they will definitely be sent to do the hardest and heaviest work. It is really not likely that many people can persist for ten years.

Even if there are those who persevere, Da Ming can also place them in more dangerous overseas territories, or the bitter cold places in the north, so that they can continue to sweat and blood to contribute to Da Ming. "

After listening, Aimee Zhu was speechless for a moment.

She instinctively felt that such an arrangement was cruel.

But rationality told her that such an arrangement was reasonable—and no matter how much blood of Ming people had been stained on the hands of these people, they could not be treated leniently just because of their status as elite soldiers of the Eight Banners of Manchuria.

At least it cannot be treated with leniency before the Qing Dynasty is destroyed.

Otherwise, if one is not handled properly, it will easily cause disaster.

Moreover, if these Manchurian Eight Banners captives are lenient, how can the heroic souls of the Ming army who died fighting for the Ming and Qing armies for decades rest in peace?

How can they be worthy of those Ming people who died tragically at the hands of these Manchurian Eight Banners soldiers?
On the other side, Hao Guangming didn't hear Auntie Zhu's response for a while, so he thought she had softened her heart.

Women, especially young women, are generally more prone to soft-heartedness and kindness.

He then added: "If you think it's a bit cruel, you can refine it based on my suggestion.

For example, ten years of hard labor, can we increase their treatment in stages, and then reward those who are willing to work hard, so that they can feel more 'hope'..."

Before Hao Guangming could finish speaking, Auntie Zhu said, "I understand, I will let people carefully plan this matter later."

Afterwards, Auntie Zhu first discussed with Zeng Ying and other generals, as well as Ren Yumin, the magistrate of Yangzhou, about how to deal with the captives of the Han Army Banner.

When Ren Yumin learned that there would be more than 1 hard labor available, he was naturally very happy.

Because after the war, Yangzhou City did have a lot of reconstruction work that required labor.

For example, repairing the city walls, houses and streets in the city damaged by Hongyi cannons, cleaning up rivers blocked by broken warships and shipwrecks, and repairing some roads that have been in disrepair for a long time.

So after listening, Ren Yumin bowed deeply to Aunt Zhu, and said: "My minister pays homage to Jian Guo on behalf of the people of Yangzhou!"

Zeng Ying asked: "Where should the newly formed garrison of the two towns find the missing soldiers?"

Aunt Zhu said: "Let's draw a battalion of soldiers from the Nanjing Garrison to fill it."

Hearing this, Zeng Ying had no objection.

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Another three days later, April 25th.

News came from Yang Zhan that he had defeated more than 3 people from the Eight Banners Army and the Green Battalion Army of the Zhunta Department on the south bank of the Baitu River, east of Xinghua.

In this battle, Yang Zhan killed more than [-] enemies of Manqing Batulu Zhunta in front of the battle, and captured more than [-] people from the Green Battalion of Liu Zeqing's troops!
It's a pity that they failed to do their best, and more than 3000 Eight Banners Army and more than 1 Green Battalion Army fled to the north.

He did not continue to pursue the Qing army because there were two to three thousand casualties in the town and the lack of supplies.

Now on the way back to Yangzhou.

On this day, Zeng Ying also led the Second Town of the Frontier Defense Army and the two newly formed garrison troops led by Liu Zhaoji and Ma Yingkui to go northward along the canal in an attempt to recover Xuzhou.

As for Huang Degong and Ai Nengqi who had gone north a few days ago, they also sent back a telegram stating that today they will conquer Huai'an Prefecture and govern Shanyang.

Through Jin Yiwei's interrogation of the Qing army's captives, Zhu Yuxi had already learned that the prefectures and counties in the north of the Yangtze River that the Qing army hastily captured were basically managed by former Ming officials who surrendered in anticipation or Qing Han officials sent from Shandong.

Most counties do not have troops stationed there, and even a prefecture as important as Shanyang only has a few thousand Green Battalion troops and a thousand Han Banner troops stationed there.

However, with the speed of the Qing army's news transmission, even if the civil and military officials of the Qing Dynasty in Shandong knew about Duoduo's defeat in Yangzhou, they might not have time to send troops south.

Even, it is impossible for them to have extra soldiers and horses, and they may not dare to go south.

Therefore, Aimee Zhu is not worried about Huang Degong and Ainengqi's recovery of Shanyang...

After sending off the soldiers of Zeng Ying's troops, Zhu Yu drove back to the government office from outside the city.

Soon, Linglong came over and said: "Jianguo, Nanjing Ma Shiying sent a telegram, saying that the case of Zhu Guobi, Zhao Zhilong, Gao Qiqian and others has been tried, hereby send a letter to report."

　Second more.

　　Good night~
　　
　
(End of this chapter)