Queen, go for hegemony

Chapter 30 on how to take prisoners of war
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I summed up Feng Chaowen's two methods of subduing prisoners of war and defeating the enemy.

The first one is to use the army to deter them. Needless to say, everyone in the world knows that Prince Qi has tens of thousands of horses in his hands and sweeps across the countries.

The second is to attack the heart first, Xiaozhi persuades them with reason with emotion, influences education with facts, wins the trust of the enemy with behavior, and lures each other with freedom and food and clothing.

In the Battle of the Yellow River Valley, although General Huang Jie was besieged by the generals of the Qi army and lost to the enemy, he went on a hunger strike afterwards and refused to surrender to the enemy.Zhao Yong, Su Ren and others did not fall behind General Huang Jie, they all participated in the political struggle of this hunger strike, and they also fought indomitably in the enemy's rear.

However, the enemy's crown prince, Feng Chaowen, has a broad mind and first-class self-cultivation skills. He has never committed any murders of prisoners, nor has there been any scandal about torture of prisoners. Those in the countryside went to the countryside to receive re-education.

It has to be said that Da Qi’s actions against political prisoners have achieved remarkable results. Even during the 200 years since the founding of Qi, they have followed this national policy of devolving the countryside to allow the children of noble relatives, powers and nobles to receive re-education from poor and lower-middle peasants. The government and the people are as close as fish and water.

One of the people who experienced it, Zhao Yong, said with emotion that after receiving re-education from the poor and lower-middle peasants, he had no desire to die at that time, and wished to fly to his hometown to cultivate his own three acres of land.

He is an honest man.

The second person who experienced it, Su Ren, was much harsher: "Prince Qi is insidious and cunning, using a stable life in this world to soften our loyalty to the emperor and patriotism in pursuing ideals and sacrificing for our beliefs! What a villain!"

I kicked him with a kick: "Then why don't you die now?"

He sighed solemnly: "Thinking of eight generations of poor peasants in my Su family, nine generations of single heirs, my old father is old, and the incense has faded. If I die, I will marry a beautiful girl and pass on the incense before I die!"

Me: "..." Why don't you admit that you are greedy for beauty?
Because of General Huang Jie's uprightness, his soldiers are all from poor families. After years of wars, he has no food and clothing, so he put his head on his head and joined the army in order to earn a living.

The people of the countries swept by the Qi army now all have the surname Qi, live and work in peace and contentment, pick tea and grow mulberry, who doesn't yearn for a stable meal?
On the night he returned to the Qi army camp after receiving re-education, General Huang Jie committed suicide.

The only sentence he left to the sergeants who he personally led through life and death was: "Go back to your hometown alive." The words are sincere and sincere!

General Huang Jie was loyal, brave and patriotic all his life, and fought on the battlefield. However, the factional struggle in the army was extremely fierce, no less than that of the imperial court.Above the imperial court, the Empress Dowager took over the power, civil servants and military generals refused to give in, and the only little emperor was very confused. Chen's world is hopeless.

He was also born in a poor family, he was in a dilemma whether he was loyal to the emperor or loving the people, so he simply wiped his neck to settle it.

Feng Chaowen didn't know whether he really respected General Huang Jie as a man, or he actually held a simple and solemn funeral for General Huang Jie in order to make these prisoners no longer feel bad. At that time, I was recuperating in his big tent, Never witnessed that scene with my own eyes.However, tens of thousands of prisoners of war who participated in the funeral have since changed their views on His Royal Highness Prince Qi. Although they never had the idea of ​​joining the enemy army, they were working as handymen in the camp, and they all wanted to wait for the unification of the world to return home and farm.

Prince Qi said that all those who serve in the battalion will be able to share enough food and clothing according to their families to cultivate the land as long as the world is unified.

When Feng Chaowen returned to the camp, I mentioned the matter of General Huang Jie, and wondered why he didn't kill these prisoners of war. He stared at the battle report without turning his eyes, and said casually: "The world is full of soldiers and bandits. The young and middle-aged people will be the breadwinners of my Great Qi Kingdom in the future. If they are killed, what good will they do to me? It will only add ten thousand corpses!"

I take it for granted.I also felt that the death of General Huang Jie was a warning to me, so I asked again: "Then if Emperor Da Chen is captured, he will be sent to the field for further education?"

He raised his head from the thick battle report, looked at me deeply, and the inquiring intent in his eyes couldn't be more obvious: "What do you remember?"

I thought it was not good to lie to him, so I shook my head, "I heard from them that I was the companion of Emperor Chen, and I grew up with him since I was a child." The so-called childhood sweethearts are probably like this.

He stared at me closely, and finally said word by word: "I don't want to lie to you! After all the kingdoms have been destroyed, there is no reason for the subjugated emperor to live. Even if he has no idea of ​​restoring the country, the people who are attached to him will not Let it go. You have always heard the words of cutting the weeds and eradicating the roots, right?"

My heart skipped a beat, and a round, chubby face filled with cheerful smiles suddenly appeared in my mind... At this moment, I felt that my various memories were slowly surfacing, and the deep sea was no longer silent.

That night I went to bed early as usual, and before Feng Chaowen finished reading the battle report, I got into the soft bedding room.

When I woke up, the tent was dark and there was no one around me. I felt that I was too excited in the prisoner-of-war camp during the day and talked too much. Even when I fell asleep in the middle of the night, my mouth would dry up. The teapot on it was actually empty, so I had to go back to the bed, put on my clothes and go to the front tent to find some water to drink.

Although there was candlelight in the front tent, Feng Chaowen was never there, and he didn't know where he went in the middle of the night.I picked up the teapot, poured my mouth against the spout, and suddenly heard whispers outside the tent, as if it was Feng Chaowen and Wu Ke, who stayed awake in the middle of the night and whispered to the moon.

I rubbed my eyes, and was about to go back to sleep, but a few words came to my ears intermittently: "...Tell the Yan family father and son, you must try to open the city gate within three days...the servants in the palace don't have to be executed... ...Only capture the royal family alive..."

Until lying on the bed, covered with a thick quilt, although the weather is getting hotter, I still feel chills all over my body.

After a long time, Feng Chaowen walked in lightly, undressed, took off his boots, touched my body, lifted the quilt, and touched my head: "It's a hot day to cover such a thick quilt." , sweat all over your face, and you're not afraid of the heat?"

I closed my eyes and hummed twice, feeling a silk handkerchief gently wipe my forehead, and suddenly felt that I understood General Huang Jie very well.

Just thinking differently.

He wants to be loyal to the king and love the people.But to me, even if the people in the world are living in dire straits, it doesn't have much to do with me.Loyalty to the emperor and patriotism are too great, Dad said, it is better not to pursue people like me, lest these words be tarnished.

He has a point.

I just want to protect one person, that fat, round meatball who grew up with me, like my own brother, who accompanied me through my teenage life.

Huang Liang had a dream and woke up today.

The dream of China has never been broken, the family has never died, and the old father has never died.

In my dream, I was pampered and cherished by others, and I made promises lightly, for the rest of my life.

In the dream, he held my hand, wiped the sweat from my forehead, frightened away my nightmares, and warmed my cold heart with his chest...

Although he is domineering and domineering, he always reprimands me with a tense face, never gives up half a point when he fights with me, and always has the upper hand, but I remember the warmth of his fingertips and the tenderness in his eyes...

A drop of tears flowed down slowly, where he couldn't see, and fell on the bamboo pillow that he slept with...

——Just like, I never knew you were good.

On the second day, after I got up, I offered a plan to Feng Chaowen, and I went to the city to surrender.

He refused to agree, and I spent a long time by his side, at the cost of showing off my anger and ignorance, and finally got his consent.

"There are all father's former subordinates in the city, what's so scary?"

His eyes were full of worry: "You won't never leave, will you?"

I smiled and patted him on the shoulder: "His Royal Highness, are you stupid? This Dachen Kingdom is surrounded by your [-] cavalry like an iron barrel. If I can fly away with wings, then naturally His Majesty the Emperor who wants to come to Dachen can too. "

He has always had confidence in his cavalry, the corners of his lips were slightly curved, and his face was no longer tense: "That's true. Now the big Chen country can't even fly a fly."

He personally ordered a hundred cavalry to escort me to the capital of Dachen.

I stood under the city, with mixed feelings, and shouted to the wall, because I was sure that the Yan family father and son would open the city gate and let me in, so I never worried that I would not see Xiao Huang today.

A soft word outside the tent told all about the strangeness of the battle in the Yellow River Valley.

I remembered the battle of Suicheng, the expression on Yan Ping's face when he stood in front of my horse and prevented me from going out.

He is savvy.

The father and son of the Yan family had already secretly surrendered to Daqi, and the two sides echoed each other, and this was the reason why Dachen's army was defeated like a mountain.Standing on the city gate, Yan Ping personally opened the city to welcome me back to the capital. I waved to the hundred horsemen sent by Feng Chaowen behind me: "Everyone, go back and tell His Highness the Crown Prince that An Yi will surely fulfill his mission!" Solo rider stepped into Dachen, the last lonely city.

Yan Ping came down from the top of the wall and stood in front of my horse. He seemed a little happy and understood, and we knew each other. I smiled at him: "General Yan, long time no see!"

He ranks higher than me, but I don't want to dismount.

In my memory, I have always looked up at him humblely and looked at him, which is deeply engraved in my heart.

It's not wrong to be infatuated with someone, what's wrong is that I found the wrong person and used the wrong method.

But now all of this is no longer important, love or not, the country will perish, people will go, what is the point of pursuing it?

"General An, since you are already in Qiying, why did you come back?"

He must have thought that I had surrendered to the country and become a traitor like him.But I ask myself, there is always a difference, right?
I looked around, and there was only a group of guards around him, presumably they were the personal guards of the Yan Mansion, so I said with a smile: "An was ordered by His Royal Highness the Prince of Qi to come to persuade His Majesty to surrender, and I also asked General Yan to pass it on for him!"

"Stupid!" He glared at me.

Well, actually, I also think I'm extra stupid.But now is not the time to care.

I followed Yan Ping into the palace unimpeded, and found Xiao Huang who was nesting in the Chonghua Palace.

At that time, he was sleeping soundly like a pig, and he hadn't seen him for more than half a year, and he became fat again and couldn't sleep.It can be seen that the war did not affect the quality of food in the palace.

I grabbed his cheeks with both hands and pulled them out. He woke up from the dream, jumped off the dragon bed, and shouted barefoot in the hall: "The Qi army has come in? The Qi army has come in?"

I suddenly found a sense of sympathy with this little fat man.

Even if the world collapses and the country is ruined, what does it have to do with this little fat man?
I am afraid that he only needs three meals to eat and clothe, food and fish to live in, and a house to live in, and still sleep soundly.

(End of this chapter)