King of Liao at the end of Han Dynasty

Chapter 514 Assigning Prisoners (2)

Li Lin greeted the soldiers of Cao Jun in the camp one by one. Don't think that these Cao Jun are not afraid of Li Lin. In fact, Cao Jun was quite afraid of Li Lin at the beginning. After a long time, everyone could see Li Lin's temperament. He treated the soldiers very well, amiable, and without airs. Since these prisoners were under Li Lin's hands, of course, they had to do some things that prisoners would do after a normal battle. That is to clean up the battlefield. There are tens of thousands of corpses under the city of Xuchang, those of the Youliao army, and the Cao army who was beaten down from the top of the city.

Not only these, Cheng Yu dug a series of trenches around Xuchang City in order to defend the city, like a gossip formation, but Li Lin used a trebuchet to throw over sacks one by one, filling them all up, and The moat contains a lot of obstacles that Li Lin will enter for the project. Now Xuchang belongs to Li Lin. I don’t underestimate that I will be the one who will defend the city in the future. These are all facilities for defending the city. How can I not use it? , so these prisoners had to take out the sacks in the trenches and clean the moat. This was actually a big siege, but all the prisoners were elite soldiers of the Cao army, and they were strong and strong. During the battles of Lan, Ju Yi and the others, the number of captives is increasing day by day, so these sieges were completed very quickly.

But during this period of time, the prisoners of Cao Jun felt that Li Lin treated them equally. First of all, the food of the prisoners was the same as that of ordinary soldiers. There were so many messes in and outside the city of Xuchang that Li Lin had to take care of. Soldiers were dispatched to help, so the soldiers of the Youliao Army went out to guard the prisoners, and they also had to work with the prisoners. They watched and watched, but Li Linjian ordered that the torture of prisoners was prohibited, and even the prisoners could eat with the Youliao Army every day. , the food is the same, yellow rice, wild vegetable soup, Li Lin came to review several times, and they all ate with the captives, ate the same meal, and talked and laughed with these people, Li Lin's side It was done very well, although there were a lot of elements for show, but it was done after all. In this era, it brought Li Lin a lot of prestige among the prisoners and his own officers and soldiers.

After the treatment of the city is completed, the prisoners will also help build the greenhouse, and now they have to work every day, so now it is the rest period, and the prisoners are resting and chatting in the prisoner camp specially set up by Li Lin, and they will have time When passing by, take a look at the prisoner camp, don’t look at Li Lin’s space for prisoners to be free, but Li Lin is not stupid, these are all his former enemies, of course you have to be prepared, the security of the prisoner camp is doing It was very good. There would always be patrolling soldiers, and there would even be crossbowmen ambushing in secret. Someone rioted on one side and shot the leader to death. That's why Li Lin walked around the prisoner camp with peace of mind.

But now that Cao Cao is dead, most of these captives are ordinary soldiers, poor peasants, who return to serve as soldiers when they have no way out, to reduce taxes for their families. How many of them are loyal to Cao Cao, so Li Lin would feel more at ease, and since he would communicate with the captives in a more down-to-earth manner, who would be so desperate to assassinate Li Lin?The reputation of the guard battalion is not built.

"Okay!" Li Lin nodded to the prisoner Yiyi who came forward to greet him and thanked him: "Everyone has worked hard, continue to rest!" After speaking, the prisoners sat down and chatted.

Since Li Tong was always helping Cheng Yu, he never had the chance to come here, but he was surprised that these prisoners of Cao Jun were so enthusiastic about Li Lin, and asked in confusion, "Marquis Liao! Why, this... ……”

Seeing Li Tong's appearance, Li Lin understood what he meant, and said with a smile: "These captives will also be compared by this troubled world. They are all poor people. Although they were my enemies in the past, maybe They will be my saviors in the future! Treat them with more care than the soldiers under your command!"

Li Tong was very moved after hearing this, cupped his hands and said: "Gao Yi, Marquis of Liao, I will admire you!"

Li Lin waved his hand and continued: "In this big camp, there have been a total of [-] Cao Jun prisoners, of which [-] are prisoners from Xuchang City, and the rest were transported from the surrounding counties and counties. General Li, General Hou , what do you two think?"

Although Li Tong was straightforward, he looked at Hou Yu and understood what he meant. He didn't say anything, but Hou Yu didn't care about that, and said in a cold voice: "There are five thousand prisoners in Xuchang City, I want them!"

"You!" When Li Tong heard it, Hou Yu actually wanted 5000 people directly. Although he didn't know about the terrifying training of Hou Yu's blood killing camp, he felt that Hou Yu wanted too much.

Li Lin hurriedly said: "Well... this General Hou, isn't it a little too much for you? General Li Tong is also responsible for the defense of Jizhou. Originally, I planned to draw [-] yuan from our soldiers. Give it to him, but now General Li calls for the prisoners of Cao Jun by name, which also saves our army's hard work, and General Li is an old general of Cao Jun, so he can rest assured to lead them, so it is not as good as General Hou, and there will be more wars in the future Yes, you are not in a hurry to take these prisoners, in fact, I would like to keep some of them and incorporate them into Xuchang's defenders, after all, many of Cao Jun's prisoners here are locals, so guarding Xuchang is more suitable!"

Hou Yu remained expressionless and did not speak. He just looked at the front coldly. Seeing this, Li Lin was very speechless. He looked back at Li Tong and said, "Well, General Li, you think these eight thousand prisoners are not as good as You just absorb and take away three thousand, and I am sending you three thousand Youliao troops to supply you? There are still several thousand troops left by General Tian Yu in Jizhou, enough for the general to defend Jizhou!" Li Lin knew that although Jizhou was dangerous , but there may not be places where weapons are used. Liu and him are not sneaking, and they will not directly fight with themselves, right?I just need to control Jizhou, just a few counties and 5000 people are definitely enough.

"Me!" Li Tong was so embarrassed that he couldn't speak. He wanted Cao Jun's soldiers, but of course he was afraid that his Cao Jun's captives would be oppressed and unfair under Li Lin's command, so as a general, he had to do his best to protect them. But looking at it now, Li Lin can't help treating the captives very well, and these captives have already supported Li Lin very much. In my opinion, these captives may be good under the command of the general who carried them back, but this Hou Yu in front of him, The world is full of notoriety, killing the god Hou Yu, killing the city with blood, and the city with black armor, who would dare not follow?The bloodthirsty name of the blood killing camp has already caused a sensation in the world. Li Tong felt that there was something he didn't want to let Hou Yu lead the soldiers.

Li Lin looked at the two of them without saying a word. He agreed to whatever he would do, and he didn't regret it. Of course, Li Tong led Cao Jun's captives. Yu's blood killing battalion has been said at all. Although the soldiers of a blood killing battalion in Xunlun have to pay a huge price, there will be more and more battles in the next step. The large-scale battle alone is too expensive. After going south to fight, he almost wiped out all the wealth he had accumulated over the past ten years, so Li Lin decided to rely on elite sneak attacks like the Blood Killing Camp, focusing on blitzkrieg, and the more people in the Blood Killing Camp Li Lin was happier.

Li Lin walked around for a long time, and suddenly said: "Since you don't talk, I can make my own decision. How about this? I want to be average, and the rest of you will be one and half. Do you think it's okay?"

Li Tong is so simple and straightforward. After getting acquainted with Li Lin, he didn't shy away from talking, so he said directly: "This! This is too bad!" Looking at Hou Yu, of course, his face was still expressionless.

"Anyway, that's what I said. General Li, you go and take two thousand captives to Jizhou, and I will ask General Tian Yu to leave you his soldiers and horses, and Hou Yu will take two thousand soldiers. You can train wherever you like. Let's go to training!" Li Lin said angrily, since the two of them didn't talk, don't blame yourself for playing dumb.

"In that case..." Li Tong looked at Li Lin speechlessly, and looked at Hou Yu who still didn't respond. Although Hou Yu didn't respond, Li Lin knew that this was Hou Yu's most unique move. Trick, silent protest...  

"It's not as good as this!" Hou Yu suddenly said, his voice was still cold, Li Lin and Li Tong looked at him, Hou Yu said: "It just so happens that I will go to Jizhou for training with the Blood Killing Battalion, and General Li will also go to Jizhou Jizhou, how about we take all the captives of this battalion away, and we will discuss and choose each other's prisoners after arriving in Jizhou!"

Li Lin immediately said speechlessly: "I knew, did you plan it a long time ago!" Hou Yu still didn't speak.

Li Lin shook his head helplessly, turned back to Li Tong and said, "General Li, what do you think?"

Li Tong immediately cupped his hands with a smile and said, "The general thinks it's very good!"

"Okay..." Li Lin made a long voice, Hou Yu is like this, Li Lin already knew it, and he just kept silent there, thinking of other ways?If no one has an unanimous answer, Hou Yu will speak out his own method. Of course, in this way, he cannot be coerced, and Li Lin does not know the consequences of violating Hou Yu's final decision, because Li Lin has never Once violated, Hou Yu would often give Li Lin an idea he could not refuse, and even Li Lin would feel a little oppressed in his eyes.

Li Lin immediately gave an order to Fang Fang behind him: "Since the decision has been made, Zhongde and Wenda will set off tomorrow, and quickly order the soldiers in this prison camp to tidy up, so that they don't have to work in the afternoon!"

"Promise!" Fang Fang clasped his hands, and he could go forward to deliver the order. These prisoners already knew that they were just soldiers, so they didn't need to take care of them. Going to Jizhou is indeed a mixed blessing. I think that wandering soldiers like them may have the same fate there...

(End of this chapter)