My Head of the Huaxia Expeditionary Force

Chapter 500 Mining and Brainwashing

A few days later, the Heihe base ushered in a large number of "distinguished guests", and more than 300 devils with their hands bound were taken prisoner to the fortress.

These little devils' eyes were dull and their heads were downcast, as if there was only a rotten skin left to linger on. Except that the marching team was relatively orderly, there was no sign of energy.

Liao Mingyu was not polite to them, and with a big wave of his hand, he pulled them all to the mine. Each of them was given a hand-held crusher or a pickaxe, and the job was over. The next job was to work in the mine without pay. Two meals a day was the biggest gift for them. gift.

There were also more than 1000 local laborers and thousands of recruits selected from the prisoner-of-war camps to join the army. The mighty team filled the main base in an instant. camps for temporary accommodation of these people.

Laborers also have to work in the mining area, but their treatment is much better. They have clean houses, clothes, daily necessities, three meals a day, and the most important thing is that they still get wages every month.

In addition to accepting a certain degree of freedom restricted by military management, the treatment is much better than those little devils who work for nothing.

Of course, the Japanese prisoners of war and the local laborers are managed separately, and the food and housing environment is very different. The former not only has a greater workload, but also has to do dangerous and tiring tasks such as going to the mine and carrying them. To punch and kick or butts in the face.

No matter what, Liao Mingyu's mining area can finally start to operate. Counting the base workers, there are a total of more than 3000 miners mining there. The former also transferred dozens of trucks from the army to facilitate its transportation.

In addition, the guard regiment also sent a battalion of troops to guard and manage the work of these miners and devil prisoners of war to avoid incidents such as resistance and escape.

Although there is no large-scale mining equipment now, the sufficient number of people makes up for a certain efficiency. On average, these thousands of people can mine about 35 tons of iron ore every day. This is still without full horsepower. Extractive mining will only lead to higher yields.

The trucks continuously send these iron ores back to the main base smelter, which is equivalent to earning about 6000 points for Liao Mingyu in a day, so that the base station can be built in less than a month.

But there is one thing to say, there is really nothing to say about the military discipline of the little devils. Although they are prisoners now, their discipline is really textbook-style. They go to work and go to bed every time. Several neat columns, just like in a military camp, do not require too much management by guarding soldiers.

Moreover, the tools will be neatly arranged for you after using them. When eating, they always sit quietly on the ground in their own area and never make any noise. This makes people who see it feel very surprised. Unexpectedly The little devil's "consciousness" is so high.

In fact, the reason why the prisoners of war behaved so well was that, apart from being dealt with a lot in the concentration camp, despair was the greatest weapon to defeat their inner defenses.

There is no such thing as preferential treatment of prisoners, ideological remolding, etc., if Liao Mingyu hadn't ordered them not to be killed, the number of devil prisoners of war would not have been the number it is now.

The bitter and vengeful soldiers wished to drink their blood and eat their flesh... and scraped them alive with knives to avenge their dead relatives and comrades-in-arms.

Although it is impossible to kill a large number of people, some physical suffering is inevitable. Therefore, with the acquiescence of someone... or with the help of others, the "degeneration of human nature" is staged every day in the concentration camp.

Every day before dawn, the little devil had to be pulled up and stood in a military posture for a whole morning, and those who disobeyed were beaten on the spot, and then tied up and tied to a tree to bask in the sun.

Others had to stand all the time if they wanted to eat, and they could only exchange for a bowl of porridge and half a steamed bun until noon, while those devils tied to the tree would have nothing to eat.

In the afternoon, everyone was given a shovel to dig a big hole. At first, the Japanese refused to cooperate even though they thought they were going to be buried alive, but in the end they obediently did so under the threat of big-toed leather shoes and gun stocks.

After digging the big hole, let the devils lie down by themselves, covered with a thin layer of soil, and they are not allowed to get up for a while, the purpose is to let them feel what it is like to be buried alive.

If anyone dared to resist beyond their limits, they would be taken directly to a small black room to sit on a tiger stool, with irons, thorn whips, and water pouring over their heads... Learn about the ten torture methods.

Arranged by such a set of procedures, almost a dozen corpses of devils are transported out of the camp almost every day. The dark life is either tortured or on the way to be tortured. A little devil's heart is full of despair.

But despair is despair, as the saying goes... It is better to live than to die. After being "educated" for a period of time, the little devils finally became more honest, and they all started to behave like human beings with their tails between their legs. No one dared to think any more .

But now, compared to the dark time in the concentration camp, the life in the mining station is simply paradise. Although the workload is heavy, at least there is no need to live in fear every day, and the appetite has become more abundant, so you can rest after work every day , at least give them reason and hope to live.

Liao Mingyu was not idle. He first asked people to select weak-willed soldiers from the devils' captives, or soldiers who were not firm in their thinking and less affected by the spirit of Bushido, and served as the leader of the prisoners. Come together for a unified brainwashing, and give them relatively good treatment and food, so that they are grateful.

Then pick out those devil officers with flowers on their shoulders, clean them up when they have nothing to do, leave all the dirty work to them, and let other Japanese soldiers bully and insult them.

If it were to be placed in the Japanese army in the past, those "little captains" who were selected were big soldiers with no status at all. Now the "slaves" have turned into masters, and the officers who used to be domineering have become the ones who are beaten and scolded by their subordinates at will. Coupled with Liao Mingyu's intentional or unintentional carrot and stick policy, this change in status completely allowed them to let themselves go and gradually take on their own roles.

Originally... there was inherently strict status distinction in the Japanese army, and the subordinates could never go beyond the decisions of the superiors. On weekdays, those officers were always high-spirited and extremely strict with their subordinates. Now the situation is reversed...some people To suffer.

These squad leaders gave full play to the role of dog legs, not only managed the prisoner of war team in an orderly manner, but also suppressed those who had other ideas. It is not an exaggeration to call them Japanese traitors.

In addition, Liao Mingyu also arranged many Japanese-speaking soldiers to act as "instructors" to use their spare time at night to instill various anti-war ideas and the pain that the war has brought to the people of the two countries, especially the people of Japan. The living conditions of these little devils clearly understand the ugliness of the ****.

We must know that most of the Japanese soldiers who can accept surrender are recruits who have just joined the army, or young people who have been slightly harmed by the Bushido spirit. At least they still have a certain chance of being reformed.

Maybe many prisoners of war now behave honestly because they succumb to high pressure and fear, but as long as this kind of brainwashing psychological offensive is carried out for a long time, some people will definitely become obedient puppets. The effect will be beyond imagination...

(End of this chapter)