Lin Gao Qiming

Chapter 654 Captives

The captured officers and soldiers were held in several places, and all the wounded were sent to the Army and Navy Hospital in Ma Niao. The civil and military officials who were screened out were also detained in the special concentration camp in Ma Niao.As for the vast number of captured soldiers, most of them were waiting to be disposed of in the temporary prisoner-of-war camp in Chengmai.

The prisoner-of-war camp was crowded and crowded, and the prisoners had their heads shaved and initially purified.All the armor and uniforms on his body were stripped off, and now everyone is wearing "purification suits". These so-called purification suits are made of "recycled cloth", the quality is very poor, and the appearance of "purification suits" is even simpler. At the extreme, it is almost a pocket with three holes to expose the arms and head.Of course, there are no shoes and socks, just a pair of straw sandals per person.There are personal numbers composed of English and Arabic numerals on the chest and back.

Fortunately, it's summer in Hainan, so even if you're naked, you won't get cold.

This kind of attire doesn't mean escaping, even if you move a little farther away, you will be spotted immediately.

The chief of the POW camp is Yuan Qiushi.This person had been serving as Wu De's guard and deputy in the early days, and he had seen and heard a lot of how Wu De dealt with prisoners and laborers respectively.Although his position in the labor camp was later replaced by Yanghe, he is still a familiar hand.And because they are young and strong, newborn calves are not afraid of anything or taboo.Belongs to a class of people who are particularly cruel and ruthless to their enemies.

Wu De specially appointed this person to be the commander of the prisoner-of-war camp, and he also had the prestige of wanting to kill soldiers.Once the purification was completed, he instructed people to erect a gallows in the middle of the prisoner-of-war camp, and then posted the regulations.

Although the building materials of the prisoner-of-war camp were only straw and bamboo poles, the thatched huts were all neatly arranged, and all kinds of facilities were available.The strictest control is implemented here. Prisoners must fully obey all instructions of the prisoner-of-war camp guards. Any disobedience will be hanged.More than ten people were hanged every day in the first few days.Then suddenly no one was executed, and the entire prison camp was operating according to the system.

The food at the beginning was very poor. It was porridge with more water than rice. The purpose was to keep the prisoners from getting too full, prevent them from making trouble, and at the same time wear down their will to resist.

At this time, the prisoners, who were obviously weakened, were lining up in more than a dozen long lines, entering a wooden house one by one for interrogation.

The interrogation was carried out by personnel sent by the General Political Security Bureau. After a few days of life, the prisoners had been trained to be honest and honest, and they talked about everything.

The content of the interrogation is nothing more than basic materials such as name, age, place of origin, family status, education level, who is subordinate, when he joined the army, what soldier he served, and what weapon he used.Then there are the specific skills the soldiers have mastered: what kind of livelihood did they do before joining the army: whether they will be carpenters, blacksmiths or handicrafts.

Soldiers with handicraft skills were gathered separately, so that they could avoid the hard work of road construction and form labor camps to engage in professional production.Yi Longwen proposed a plan, thinking that it would be a waste to drive the captives with certain skills to build roads. It is better to organize them into a special captive labor camp and engage in professional labor in the prisoner of war camp.

Through interrogation, Yi Longwen also cleared out all the captives on Hainan Island.According to the policy, the local captives were released on the spot.The other captives saw with envy that the Xiangyong and caojun from Qiongzhou Prefecture were gathered together alone, and then took back their personal belongings. Each local soldier was also paid a tael of severance fee.Then they left in batches.

Many prisoners contacted the local Xiangyong and caojun who were unwilling to contribute during the war, and were the first to collapse when they retreated. They felt more and more suspected of collusion between inside and outside.Although Tang Yunwen's department was a battalion soldier, most of them were locals, so their subordinates were well-off, and all of them were released.This even gave many prisoners the idea that "Tang Yunwen and the Kun thief had colluded".

This sentiment was reported by spies scattered among the captives.Zhao Manxiong decided to take advantage of the situation and play a trick of alienation.At least it will make Tang Yunwen and his subordinates not be trusted by the government in the future.

After Lu Yizhong was captured during the breakout, he was recognized by the Ming army captives, and then he was placed as an important prisoner in a temporary prison camp in Chengmai, waiting for the first batch of transshipment.In addition to him, there are also captured staff.In addition to the staff who were captured in the final breakout battle, some people were captured and killed in the camp and elsewhere.In the end, there were about 20 civilian captives sent to Ma Niao.

The more than 20 captives were frightened and ran wildly for another day. Their legs and feet were so weak that they could not walk around, and many of them were slightly injured.Yi Longwen, who was in charge of escorting the prisoners, felt that if they forced them to walk, some of them might die on the road. The officers who were about to be escorted to the Ma Niao Concentration Camp picked up dozens of strong ones and asked them to carry sedan chairs for their staff—— It was also seized-carrying people all the way to Ma Niao.This immediately caused a great sense of disgust among the captured officers, and some people claimed that they would throw the "acids" to death when carrying the sedan chair.

Of course, no one dared to really do this. The card sword players who were ready to kill people with ghost-headed swords were obviously happy to serve the new master immediately.Just the day before their departure, several officers were immediately pulled out and beheaded for "snarling and rudeness".The warriors seemed to be reckless and rude, but they were not rough-minded at all, and they immediately became honest.

The staff and officers were placed in the shed in groups of ten. After Lu Yizhong and others were "purified", they returned to the house in a state of distress. Everyone stared at each other with big eyes and small eyes. He is a senior officer, has been an official, and is also an aide sent by the governor. His status is higher than others. Even after being captured, everyone still maintains a certain amount of respect for him.Suddenly he was like everyone else, with a bald head, no hair and a majestic beard. He seemed to be ten years younger, and he had another pocket on his body.Although everyone couldn't laugh out loud, they couldn't stop laughing.

Only Qian Taichong said angrily: "Sweeping the floor with a gentle manner! Sweeping the floor with a gentle manner!"

Qian Taichong was also captured when he broke through the siege. Originally, he could run away, but Chang Qingyun's horse was shot and fell to the ground. Qian Taichong happened to pass by. He dismounted to rescue the horse and was ridden away by others. He and Chang Qingyun Both were taken captive.

Facing the gleaming bayonet of the gangster, Qian Taichong pulled out his sword and wanted to kill himself. Several soldiers who wanted to arrest him saw that he was going to kill himself, but put away the bayonet for a while, as if they wanted to fulfill him.But Qian Taichong raised his sword a few times, and every time he raised his sword to the throat, he thought of his parents, wife and children at home, and finally he did not die.

Seeing that he was still alive after lifting it several times, several soldiers cursed and knocked off his saber, tied him up and took him away.

Qian Taichong was so ashamed and angry that he wanted to die - before retreating, he thought that if he failed to break through, he would kill himself immediately and would never be humiliated.But when he was really about to die, he didn't die, and was scolded several times by some vulgar bandit soldiers.The shame and humiliation made his lips tremble.Along the road, there are corpses of people and horses everywhere, discarded armor and weapons, and officers and soldiers who have discarded their helmets and armor are driven away in groups.Qian Taichong suddenly rushed forward and fled eastward.He knew that he couldn't run away, there were soldiers of the Kun bandits everywhere, he just hoped that the bandits would kill him and make it a festival of death.

Sure enough, he was captured, and after running more than ten steps, he fell to the ground because his arms were bound and he lost his balance. When the soldiers tried to pull him up, Qian Taichong scolded him terribly and wished for a quick death.

But what he was waiting for was not a knife or gun that could make martyrdom, but a horsewhip. After being whipped seven or eight times by the horsewhip, the pain was unbearable, and he was finally forced to stand up and go back to the captives .This time he was tied up with other captives and driven back to Chengmai for more than ten miles under the whip and bayonet.

They didn't stay in Chengmai for many days and were transferred to Ma Niao.

"This is Ma Niao from Lingao County!" Kun Bandit, who came to accept the captives, said arrogantly to them, "You have come to Lingao—only as captives!"

This kind of humiliation is really nothing compared to the "purification" process encountered later.Be it Qian Taichong, Lu Yizhong, or the other staff members, they had originally imagined that the Kun thief would still give some preferential treatment to them, the scholars in the staff - sending them in sedan chairs was a proof.They thought they would receive some courteous treatment when they arrived at the place where they were detained, take a shower and change their clothes, and then have a simple but comfortable residence—it was probably a small courtyard of a wealthy local family, or they would be placed in a temple if they were not good enough.Some people even think that not only will the thieves give them good living conditions, but they may also have beautiful girls to entertain them.They know that there are not many scholars here, and if they catch so many scholars at one time, can they be polite and write their own articles seeking talents?

As a result, not only was there no courtesy, but he was greatly humiliated.When Qian Taichong was staggered and driven to the barracks, his heart was like a frozen cellar.

There is no such thing as a "small courtyard of local rich households" or a "temple house" at all, but a rectangular wooden structure room. The room is very empty, with ten double-decker beds lined up with straw mats on the beds.Apart from that there was not a single piece of furniture.

With such a shabby house and everything that happened to him, there was no sign that the other party treated him favorably!

The captured staff sat on the bed one by one with sad faces, their heads were uniformly shaved, and they wore pocket-like clothes. Everyone was so depressed that they didn't even bother to do the usual polite things.Although Lu Yizhong's strange appearance caused a burst of laughter, everyone was soon overwhelmed by gloom.

"It's a blessing to be alive now, so what's the point of being gentle?" Chang Qingyun said dejectedly.His original rhetoric was instantly wiped out.

"The Kun thief humiliated our scholars so much!" Qian Taichong said angrily, "I'll wait..." For a while, he was at a loss for words again.What else could they do now?If you want to die, you will commit suicide in Chengmai.Now he is a prisoner of others, and can only be at the mercy of the other party.

Lu Yizhong couldn't even speak at this moment, he was too old, and after the torment of purification, he could only breathe.Lying on the bed, he secretly regretted why he came up with the idea of ​​"suppressing Kun", and why he coveted gifts from generals and spoils after the war and promised Wang Zunde to be a "staff of the army supervisor".I'm afraid that even my little life will be lost.

Compared with others, Lu Yizhong knew that his prospects were bleaker.He is the mastermind behind dealing with the Guangzhou station, I am afraid that the Kun thief has known this for a long time.With such a large property destroyed, it goes without saying that the thief hates himself to the bone.Now that it falls into their hands, it must be shredded into pieces.

Thinking of this, his teeth were chattering, and the "clack" sounded non-stop.

"Mr. Lu, are you suffering from a fever?" Although Qian Taichong looked down on him, but he was kind, he asked.

"It's not... the student just feels a little unwell. It's good to rest." Lu Yizhong finally replied.

"I don't know what the Kun thief wants to do to us?" Someone pondered.

"Probably because we don't want us to be fake jobs - otherwise we don't need to humiliate us like this; probably we don't want us to die, otherwise we can be beheaded in Chengmai. The students thought that the gangsters wanted to take us as hostages." , negotiate peace with the royal army."

"Mr. is right." Chang Qingyun heard the truth, and his spirit improved a lot. "Wang Zhijun will definitely not ignore..."

"According to my younger brother, not necessarily!" Qian Taichong said proudly again, "He Zhentai's entire army was defeated in Chengmai, Wang Zhijun may not be able to explain to the court, how could he care about us!"

This time the hearts of the people fell to the bottom.The food here is poor, the accommodation is terrible, and they are handed over to meet up every day. How do they live like this?What made them even more unhappy was that as scholars, no matter how poor they were in the past, they still received a little attention from the people around them. Only here was the Kun thief, who only regarded them as the same as other captives.This makes them very unhappy.

"Dinner!" someone yelled outside.According to the system, each barracks must arrange someone to be on duty, responsible for such things as receiving meals and cleaning.Once it was Qian Taichong's turn, he felt remorseful because of his cowardice, so he deliberately refused to do the work on duty, planning to "curse the thief to death" once the thief pursued him.

But the thief didn't pursue it. Qian Taichong refused to fulfill his duties on duty. As a result, no one went to pick up the meal, and everyone was hungry for a day.Qian Taichong did not "die by scolding the thief", but was complained all night by the people in the same barracks.

They also once resisted cleaning—something that should be done by servants.But the result of lack of sanitation was the stench, and the thieves obviously didn't care what the smell was like in this barracks until they were so overwhelmed by the stench of excrement and urine that they offered to clean it up.

"Correct your attitude, you are captives, not the old man!" The bandit officer in charge of the camp said viciously, "It is considered preferential treatment if you are not sent to build roads!"

Sure enough, within a few days, they saw the officers in the barracks being driven out in groups early in the morning, and returning one by one exhausted with dust and dirt on their faces at night.

Qian Taichong was not afraid - he came from a so-called farming and studying family, and his own family also worked in the fields, so he was able to endure hardship, but the others were frightened by this threat.Most people thought that the other party hadn't done anything too extreme, so there was no need to get into a stalemate with the Kun thief.

"What's the point of sitting in the prison of a gangster now? The prison in the government is even worse than here." An aide who knows the name of the prison said, "It's pitch black, black without bottom!"

Chang Qingyun said: "I don't think the Kun bandits don't treat prisoners preferentially."

He was talking about a certain house in this prisoner-of-war camp, where the officers were never sent out to build roads, and the food and drink seemed to be good-you could often smell meat and fish.

"All Tang Yunwen's subordinates live here." An aide whispered.

This is part of Zhao Manxiong's alienation plan: Under his arrangement, the officers captured by the Tang Department in the officer concentration camp were all isolated separately, and they were given better housing and food--the officers were poorly fed, and they were only guaranteed It's just to survive, after all, these people will be released in the future.The guards were also very polite to them, and sometimes interrogated them alone for several hours.When I came back, the people around didn't look like they were being interrogated, but rather went to eat, drink and have fun.

"The Kun bandit has been in Lingao for three years, but Tang Yunwen didn't care about it. There must be something hidden in it!" Chang Qingyun gritted his teeth and said, "If he had been able to attack in time, the Kun bandit hadn't even taken off yet, how could he be defeated today!"

Everyone felt the same, and they all became suspicious of Tang Yunwen—some even suspected that Tang Yunwen's ability to escape before the entire army retreated was a trick.

Lu Yizhong also came to his spirits: "He Zhen ordered the whole army to retreat that day, with the Tang Ministry and Qiongzhou's local troops as the vanguard, this army collapsed in the first battle, and there is something strange about it!"

"The Kun bandits are overseas barbarians. I am the master and the other is the guest. When fighting, the host and the guest change positions. Our soldiers are always passive! Without the guidance of the traitors, how could the Kun bandits be so smooth?"

"That's right, it's all traitors and bad things!"

……

The impassioned discussion here once again confirmed the truth that "enemies are not to be feared, and those who do bad things are always traitors".As for Tang Yunwen's betrayal of the country, it seems to be a nail in the coffin.

Some of them felt that there was something unreasonable, but at this moment, everyone wanted to find a reason for this big defeat that had nothing to do with them, and no one raised any doubts. Instead, they searched for suspicious signs of Tang Yunwen's "traitorism" .

Qian Taichong didn't doubt it, but he didn't agree either.He felt that Tang Yunwen's theory of betraying the country was not so rigid.Tang Yunwen is an economic general, and he said that he deliberately refused to suppress or report bribes from the Kun bandits, which is possible.It is very impossible to say that he instructed his men to deliberately defeat and disrupt the army.No matter how greedy Tang Yunwen was for money, he would never dare to sacrifice his own army in exchange for money. It was even more impossible for him to seek refuge with the Kun bandits—the court's military generals were improper, so could he be an official of some overseas barbarians?Common sense doesn't make sense
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