The meeting of the Jiangnan West Road Revival Association branch soon began in the Song army's barracks.

Everyone began to discuss and study the current situation and discussed how the peasant army should move in the next step.

After the initial statistics, the Song army lost about 3,000 people due to the killing of each other, and more than 2,000 people died during the attack of the peasant army, and about 5,000 or 6,000 escaped, so the number of people captured by the Song army was about 43,000.

The peasant army made a very beautiful casualty ratio, basically conserving the main force, and the soldiers made great contributions. Many people had seventy or eighty or ninety prisoners of Song soldiers. They not only made contributions, but also increased their confidence and established their strategic advantages and superior mentality for the Song army.

This is very important.

This battle can be said to have completely reversed the strategic trend of the peasant army being passively beaten.

What changed was the proportion of military power between the peasant army and the Song army.

The entire Jiangnan West Road can be said to have no established Song army. In other words, at present, the peasant army is free and can conquer cities and territory at will and run wildly within the Southern Song Dynasty.

However, before this, there is another very important thing to discuss.

How to quickly increase the strength of the peasant army and how to deal with more than 40,000 Song army prisoners.

"I suggest to absorb them for this matter."

Zhao Yucheng expressed his attitude and said, "First of all, we do not have enough troops now, and it will take a lot of time to reorganize and need training. Although these Song soldiers are not very good at combat effectiveness, they have been trained at least.

Secondly, the Song army had too many prisoners and our soldiers were too small. If we divided our troops to conquer the city and seize the land at this time, there would be insufficient personnel to monitor the captives. If we wanted to monitor the manpower, we would not be able to gather enough troops to conquer the city and seize the land.

The current situation is that we have defeated this Song army and broken the encirclements. Outside the encirclement, there is Songjiang South West Road, which has no established military force at all. It is unknown if we can seize the opportunity and capture Longxing Prefecture in one go and occupy Jiangnan West Road as a base."

Deputy Director Du Qi thought about it and expressed his objection.

"Yucheng, I don't agree with your opinion. These Song soldiers have hurt many local people before, and have committed many evil deeds, and many people have their lives on their hands. It is a huge hidden danger for us to absorb them.

If you absorbed it in and did hungry people, meet the common people, and know each other at a glance, how bad will this have on us? So I don’t agree with this approach and can’t accept them casually.”

Zhao Yucheng sighed, thought about it, but decided to stick to his opinion.

"Lao Du, we often have no choice. If there are any choices, I don't want to make such a choice, but the fact is that this is our best choice."

"Why is the best choice? Insert the bastards who harm the people?"

"Of course, you have to identify first. Bastards must identify them. Those officers must also identify them, but they will not be able to identify them all. What do you want to do if you want to? Kill them all? There are more than 40,000 people, and we are not Bai Qi."

Zhao Yucheng said slowly: "I won't talk about the others. I just said that when the Restoration Army fought in the Northern Expedition, we also faced the same problems as ours now. There were few people in the headquarters and many prisoners of Jin soldiers. How to deal with them is a huge problem.

At that time, the Restoration Army made a decision to first make screening. After the screening, they distinguished the evildoers from those who had saved them, and conducted public trials on the part of the prisoners who had saved them, which was a great impact on them.

I thought that most of them were cruelly oppressed by the officers, so many Jin soldiers joined the Restoration Army and have fought as soldiers since then. Many of them later became officers and even joined the Restoration Association, which was very active."

Du Qi pursed his lips and remained silent.

Zhao Yuzheng saw that he didn't speak, so he continued to speak.

"At that time, some people opposed this decision, believing that some of these prisoners were killed and dirty, they should be executed to deter the enemy and avenge the injured people. However, His Majesty disagreed with the public and asked us to pay attention to screening and distinguish the captured enemy forces.

Your Majesty believes that after the screening is selected, they can quickly transform into our combat effectiveness if they are handled properly. The Resurrection Army had only more than 100,000 troops at the beginning of the Northern Expedition. After conquering Zhongdu, the troops had expanded to nearly 500,000 in just a few months.

It can be said that at that time, many local armed forces in the entire Jin army followed us entered the Restoration Army. The Restoration Army became a hodgepodge. In terms of the complexity of the components, it was far more serious than we are now, right?

Of course, the soldiers' education work was not stopped within the Restoration Army. After Yanyun settled down, they screened and re-educated the former captive soldiers in the army twice and three times. After a period of screening and education, tens of thousands of people were eliminated, and the total force was limited to 400,000, which is the current Ming army."

At the meeting of the Jiangnan West Road Revival Association branch, many people were listening to Zhao Yucheng telling the story of the expansion, reorganization, reorganization and final formation of the Restoration Army that they were not very clear about.

More than half of the Ming army are now reorganized by the Jin army. They once oppressed the people under the Jin system. They were also bullied by Shangguan and were confused and did not know when they would be born and die.

If you ask them to tell the story of the Jin army, they will be very upset and angry, and feel that such a past does not want to recall. At that time, they lived like ghosts. What is there to say?

For them, the days after joining the Restoration Army are the days that people live, the days that they see are meaningful, and then they live meaningful and valuable. The days they once were as Jin Army were completely unreviewed.

Du Qi still didn't speak, but his expression changed.

So Zhao Yucheng continued to work hard and used his killer move.

"The reason why the Song army is doing so many evil is this oppressive old military system. The commander usually oppresses soldiers. When the soldiers feel unbearable, they indulge them in burning, killing, looting to relieve their pressure, thereby controlling their spirits and transforming them into tools for killing.

You should have heard of this evil old military system. Under this system, are there any individuals who can protect themselves? I think it is very difficult, so the real sin is not the individual, but the entire Song army system.

Of course, those who have been completely corrupted by the system are beyond cure. They can be identified, tried, executed, and sought justice for the victims. Those who are not poisoned and still have to be saved should be identified and helped to make them re-become.

This is the work of our Revival members, this is the meaning of Revival within the army. The Song army turned normal people into ghosts, and we must turn ghosts back into humans. We must keep the army full of humanity and prevent the army from falling to the level of a tool of killing. Everyone, what do you think?"

Zhao Yucheng's speech was very earnest and reasonable, and received support from many people.

In the end, the opposition represented by Du Qi retained its opinion and did not oppose Zhao Yucheng's plan to transform prisoners, but did not support it. He decided to wait and see what happened before talking about it.

Zhao Yucheng initiated a motion to vote, with the entire branch's revival members. The voting numbers proved that Zhao Yucheng's suggestion received the support of the vast majority of people, and the rest did not object, so he basically chose to abstain.

Now that things have come to this point, there is nothing to say.

So the motion was passed and the implementation began immediately.

The peasant army immediately sent more than 1,000 people who could be dispatched so far, and began to register and identify these prisoners and prepare for the first step of storage.

The officers and soldiers who do evil and enjoy this system were identified, public trials were initiated against them, and their crimes were reprimanded, and public executions were carried out as the first step in transforming the captive soldiers.

While Su Yonglin launched a large-scale movement in Shandong, Zhao Yucheng and others also completed the first and second identification of more than 43,000 Song army prisoners through their strong execution and organizational skills, which took nine and a half days.

Through two screenings, two thousand,769 officers and soldiers with exact records of innocent killing were identified.

Subsequently, the peasant army began to organize the captive soldiers of the Song army to initiate a public trial of these scumbags.

Their crimes were read out, their bullying against their colleagues and subordinates was also announced, and finally, the peasant military personnel responsible for the execution announced the results of the scumbags.

For ordinary Song army prisoners, the experiences in the past few days are really outrageous.

After the extreme chaos of the bombing camp, they became prisoners and gradually returned to normal from the extreme horror of the bombing camp, and then began to lament the fate they were about to encounter.

If you are caught by this group of thieves, is there still a way out?

Just waiting for death.

The only difference is that the way of dying may be different, but everyone is the same and they all die.

That's what they think.

But they soon ate their first meal as prisoners, which was the porridge of vegetables, which was very thick and added a lot of salt. The taste was very strong and the aroma of the food was everywhere.

Almost all of them felt that this was the food of the peasant army as the winners, but when the peasant army escorted them in line to serve the meal, they were horrified.

Because such a good meal is quite rare for them, it is hard for them to say that military officials can eat it. Porridge is the norm, and occasionally you can eat vegetable porridge, but when they can eat dry rice, it is basically time to work hard.

So they also think that this may be their farewell meal.

The thief army is quite conscientious. They give them a meal before they die. They will not be a starving ghost even if they die. They will probably feel more comfortable when they are at the bottom.

With such emotion, the captive soldiers of the Song army finished their [Last Supper].

The night passed and nothing happened. The next morning, a exactly the same breakfast came.

The captive soldiers felt a little strange.

Is there two meals for the slaughtered rice?

But they didn't care, they didn't eat bastards if they had something.

After a meal, their stomachs were full. They quietly waited for the arrival of death. Then, the peasant army personnel began to take their seats and began to ask them some very strange questions.

For example, family origin, whether there are relatives at home, how long they have joined the army, what position they currently hold, what is their impression of the Song army, what do you think of your superiors, etc.

Then there are more acute problems.

For example, whether you have harmed the people, whether you have committed innocent people, whether you have participated in the massacre of cities, and how many lives you have, whether you know whether your companions or superiors have recorded the killing of innocent people.

These questions sound strange. Apart from those erotic soldiers who have never been on the battlefield and the new recruits who have just joined the army not long ago, how many veterans who have participated in the army for more than two years have no lives?

As for whether it belongs to the enemy or the common people, it is hard to say. Killing good people and taking credit for the Song army is also very normal.

As a result, the staff of the peasant army announced to them that as long as they did not do anything that was harmful to nature and answered honestly, they could avoid death once they were confirmed. If they deceived, even if they did not kill innocent people, they would be dealt with assault on innocent people and executed directly.

The prisoners of the Song army were surprised.

Can you avoid death?

Is there such a good thing?

Then what else is there to hesitate about?

As long as you can survive, you will say anything!
Chapter completed!