Daming: I help my wife be the empress

Chapter 648 The generals bombarded the literati in the south of the Yangtze River, and the reporter interviewed the Oala captives

Although they mainly traveled by water and also by train, the press team did not arrive at Zhenyisuo in Gansu until early November.

They set off in late September, which meant that they had traveled for more than a month, mainly because it took too much time to go up the Yellow River and land in Gansu.

Because Daming News is an imperial department under the News Department of the Propaganda Department, and it is a department that has become very popular in the past two or three years, almost all the people know it, so when the reporter team arrived at the town barracks, they were warmly received by the border guards.

On the night of their arrival, the top military commander of the Zhenyi Institute held a banquet with Zhang Neng, the No. 16 No. [-] Battalion Counselor of the No. [-] Town Battalion at Huangfengkou, accompanied by Liao Wen, a battalion officer, and Sun Lin, a battalion staff officer Clean up the dust for the press corps.

These three obviously read newspapers at ordinary times. Although those folk newspapers and periodicals that published articles questioning the sacrificed soldiers of the Gansu garrison were not distributed in Gansu, because the Daming Daily published articles criticizing such remarks in the past one or two months, so All the soldiers in Gansu also knew about it.

At the banquet, Zhang Neng, a general who first served as a frontier army, then served as a peasant army, and then became a new army general, was filled with righteous indignation when talking about this matter.

"How can those people slander our soldiers guarding the border? How can they think that soldiers from the garrison army cannot have loyalty and will not all be loyal to the country?"

Although he didn't drink, Zhang Neng, who is already 40 years old, was still blushing, his beard and hair were swollen when he spoke, and he slapped the table in front of him with food.

"How do those people who play with pens know the thoughts of our lieutenant officers and soldiers? How can they speculate about us so maliciously?
These people eat, drink, and enjoy themselves in the south of the Yangtze River, but they have no loyalty in their hearts. They are selfish and full of calculations. Do they think that our soldiers are just like them? ! "

When Zhang Neng said the last sentence, Liao Wen, a member of the military and political affairs, changed his face instantly, and coughed repeatedly to remind Zhang Neng not to talk nonsense.

Staff officer Sun Lin almost spit out a mouthful of food and wanted to laugh.

But Zhang Neng didn't notice it at all. After finishing speaking, he asked with concern: "Liao Junzheng, why do you keep coughing? Could it be that your throat is uncomfortable?"

Liao Wen, who was speechless, could only bow his hands to Liang Mengchang and Li Daoying, the two chief and deputy members of the reporter corps, and said apologetically, "Our general was confused by those scribbled private newspapers. Don't take it to heart."

Zhang Neng finally came to his senses at this moment. What he said just now scolded the members of the Daming News reporter team in front of him, and apologized: "The military and political officers are right, but I was confused. What I said just now, I didn't say what you mean, so don't take it to heart?

In this way, replacing wine with soup and toasting a bowl to the gentlemen of the press corps should be regarded as an apology. "

After finishing speaking, he actually picked up the not-so-small pot of mutton soup in front of him and drank it directly.

As journalists, Liang Mengchang and Li Daoying can be said to be used to dealing with all kinds of people, so they didn't take Zhang Neng's words to heart.

Liang Mengchang smiled and said: "General Zhang Shen was a brave general who defeated tens of thousands of cavalry with more than [-] men. He is a straightforward man. It is too late for me to admire him. How can we care about his words?

In fact, not to mention that Zhang Shenjiang was angry when he saw the articles in those non-governmental newspapers, so did I.

Liu Tiju sent me to the Gansu Zhenyi Station this time to slap those people in the face with real evidence through on-the-spot interviews, so that they will no longer have face to see others. "

"Okay!" Zhang Neng was excited, slapped the table and said, "I just want to hit those people in the face, but unfortunately Gansu is too far away from Jiangnan to hit them.

Mr. Liang, if you need our help, just tell us, as long as you can hit those people in the face so that their parents can't recognize them, we will definitely help you from the third battalion! "

Cheng Song, who sat at the bottom seat with the three regiment managers, found it interesting to hear Zhang Neng talking.

If you want to say that General Zhang Shen is uneducated, but an idiom pops out of his mouth from time to time, and he actually has a certain degree of exquisiteness in speaking.

But if you want to say that he is educated, some of his words are strange and weird, which makes people want to laugh at first, but it is quite vivid when you think about it.

But what touched Cheng Song the most was Zhang Neng's protection of the soldiers on the border and his loyalty.

Some gentry and scholars hated the peasant army in the past very much, and they also criticized the fact that most of the new army now have generals from the peasant army.

In the past, Cheng Song couldn't tell the difference between right and wrong, but now that he met Zhang Neng, he felt that if all the generals from the peasant army were like this, they would be much better than most of the generals in the army.

Here, Liang Mengchang said: "Thank you General Zhang for your kindness, our reporter team needs to interview some parties in addition to field inspections.

Such as those surviving soldiers who were breached by the side pier, and the Oirat captives who knew the process of the Oirats attacking the pier.

If I can interview their confessions as evidence, I think more than half of the purpose of slapping those faces will be achieved. "

Zhang Neng waved his hand and said: "This matter is easy to handle. The Oala captives are still working as coolies in the town of Emen. If you want to interview Mr. Liang, just mention it.

As for the surviving soldiers who were breached, they all belong to the garrison, but presumably they will not refuse to be interviewed by Da Ming Pao. "

"Then thank you General Zhang."

The next day, according to the plan, Liang Mengchang and others took some photos and interviews with the soldiers of the No.16 No. [-] Battalion. , is worth interviewing.

On the third day, those Oirat captives who had experienced the battle of breaking the piers were selected, led by several officers who understood the language of the Oirats, and were interviewed by the reporter group.

The reporter group was divided into three groups. Liang Mengchang, Li Daoying, and Du Xing simultaneously questioned and interviewed the Oala prisoners.

Cheng Song naturally followed Liang Mengchang's group.

When the Oirat captives were brought here, they were all wearing thin clothes in the winter, and they were all very thin. They looked very pitiful.

But Cheng Song thought that these people had killed the soldiers of the Ming army and wanted to invade and plunder the people of Ming Dynasty, so he felt that they deserved what they did.

Even, Daming didn't behead them all like before, and build a city with their heads at the capital, but just let them do hard labor, which is considered benevolent.

"Which pier have you experienced the battle against?" Liang Mengchang asked these Oirat prisoners, and his words were very straightforward, which made the officer comfortable in translating.

"I didn't attack that pier." The Wara captive looked at Liang Mengchang and others with some fear, and seeing Liang Mengchang frown, he quickly explained: "But I watched other people attack Heaodun, Dashidun, Maomutoudun, etc. Pier."

"Can you talk about the specific process of your attacking these piers?" Liang Mengchang asked again.

"of course can."

The captives are very cooperative, because before they are selected, they are told that if they can provide useful information, they will be rewarded with meals, clothes and other rewards.

Daming now has a set of standard methods for enslaving captives to do coolies. It is not just to use the whip to force them to do it recklessly, but to use various management methods of later generations to manage them.

In this way, the loss rate of captives will be greatly reduced, and at the same time, the enthusiasm for labor will be greatly improved, and more things can be done for Ming.

In addition, the way Daming treated the captives was spread, which would make the enemy much less resistant when facing the Ming army.

With such a great victory, many Wala people who had no time to escape decisively surrendered, waiting to be captured by the Ming army, and the Ming army captured nearly 3000 people in this battle!

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After several days of interviews, the reporter group obtained a large number of descriptions from the Oala captives about the piers being breached by captive cavalry, which of course also included the performance of the Gansu garrison soldiers who were defending the piers.

When sorting out these interview materials, the talented Du Xing cried more than once, the young Cheng Song also had tears in his eyes many times, and Liang Mengchang and others also had red eyes.

　Second more.

　　Good night~
　　[I drove my parents to visit my grandparents’ and grandparents’ homes in the countryside today. I was busy for most of the day, and when I came back, I accidentally scratched a lot of the car, so speechless]

　　
　
(End of this chapter)