After the interrogation was over, the subsequent disposal of the prisoners became a thorny issue.

The killings and prisoners are unknown, and wanton killing will destroy the foundation - Naohide doesn't want the white master to turn into a monster covered in a layer of civilization.

Father Peter had a good reputation. When he was in the temple, he often advised the Lucian soldiers not to overly oppress the Hezhe people. He also answered all questions after he was captured. As a result, how to deal with him became a controversial issue.

Women and children are a red line, and further normative constraints are the laws of war and war crimes. The relevant international consensus is the "Geneva Convention" and "The Hague Convention" originating from later generations - the First and Second Geneva Conventions of 1864 and 1909.

The Hague Conventions of 1899 and 1907.

Nowadays, captives can only be dealt with according to the principle of legal due process - this has been around for a long time. The Kingdom of England established the principle of due process in the fourteenth century. This principle originated from the "Magna Carta" of England in 1215.

"Nobility will not be held responsible or harmed unless judged by national law."

The Legal Assessment Institute is the judicial institution of the White Lord, and it also has branches in the military.

Peter could have escaped death, but Naohide, as the prosecutor, asked him two questions: As a military priest, did Peter have the right to resign? If so, why didn't he leave voluntarily after trying to dissuade the atrocities many times without success?

Peter argued that he had tried his best and that all results were God's arrangement. However, the adjudicators unanimously opposed his statement and believed that he had witnessed the atrocities many times without leaving. Considering that Peter had the duty to appease the morale of the soldiers, the jury and the judges unanimously agreed.

Agree that Peter is guilty of conspiracy to kill civilians and conspiracy to torture, and should be sentenced to death.

Fuso did not have a strict legal system at this time, such as the "Prohibition of Public Laws", "Laws of the Military Family" and a series of other laws, such as the "One Country, One City Order", "Kan Yong Order", "Prohibition of Building Large Ships"

"Order", these are more like political regulations. Later generations believed that the two more important laws in the Edo period were the "Keian Gochushu" and the "Edo Town Central Designation" - the former targeted the rural areas within the imperial territory, and the latter

Applied to cities, it was the most important basic law of the Edo period.

However, in many vassal territories and even some imperial territories, these two codes have not been widely implemented. For example, some vassals have formulated their own laws with reference to the "Da Ming Code". At the same time, Fuso people still have no concept of the legal system, and rule by people trumps laws.

Regarding the old system, Bai Zhuli still has a long way to go to reform, but just like today's trial, it will undoubtedly make the internal crowd more aware of the practice - civilization is a system that is slower but more powerful than the sword.

After the trial, Naoyoshi Hori, the land chief, silently followed Naohide to inspect Woidetun. After the inspection, he suddenly said, "If the result of the trial is to let Peter go, do you really let him go?"

In the previous discussion among the main body of the execution office, someone suggested that "no Lucian people should be spared." The reason is: The White Lord attacked the Lucian people without orders from the shogunate. He should hide it as long as he can before he becomes weak. Witnesses will eventually prove it.

It was a solid weapon, so he should be killed without mercy. Because "this evil example cannot be set", under Naohide's persuasion, everyone gave up this idea and agreed to "show no mercy in the battle and conduct a trial after the war."

Now that Hori Naoyoshi said such words, Naohide was not surprised at all. Although the eighteen-year-old Hayato was a student raised by him since childhood, under the influence of the environment, it is not surprising at all that he only wants to win.

Even Naohide himself was shaken before the war. After all, if the shogunate and the Lucians attack from both sides, the currently weak White Lord will definitely fall apart. There is no need to even fight. The shogunate will just send someone to scold and order everyone not to interact with the White Lord.

Just focus on trade.

"Today we kill prisoners, tomorrow we may kill women and children, and the day after tomorrow, if forced to do so, we may kill friends, wives, or children."

"But just because we don't kill others doesn't mean others won't kill us." Naoyoshi Hori is only eighteen years old.

, but he is not yet mature, and he is not a president who still refuses to impose excessive taxes on the people in desperate situations. He still has a lot of fear about the world and life.

"It is difficult to do good if you are powerless. You can give in temporarily, but it must be to achieve a better goal in the future. The road of a man is not easy to walk. Also, when attacking the temple, the prisoner's information must not be taken at face value."

Speaking of the following battle, Naoyoshi Hori temporarily put all his confusion out of his mind. He quickly followed Naohide to find his staff to determine the next battle plan.

In October last year, Hori Naoyoshi and Datou took the risk of encountering a Lucian warship and conducted business with various tribes. They had confirmed the information about the temple village, but the information given by several tribes was somewhat contradictory. Is it one hundred or two hundred people?

There are even more people, and they can't tell at all.

But at that time, Zalasi, the leader of Woide Village, had the intention of resisting the Lucians, and he had the most and most detailed information. This was one of the reasons why the institute placed the preset battlefield in Woide Village.

The original plan was to exchange large sums of money and free relocation of the villagers in exchange for Zalasi's cooperation, but the Lucians themselves messed up the matter. They got a lot of help from the right, but few from the unjust. This group of bandits paid the due price for their atrocities.

According to the original plan, after successfully luring the snake out of the cave, and if the enemy's base suffered little loss, they would continue to attack the enemy's outpost in Miaotun and the winter camp on the north bank of the river mouth.

But the original plan included hiring local people who hated the Lucians to supplement the force. But now that several nearby villages have gone away, they can only recruit people from Woide Village, but Zalasi and others can agree.

What?

Facts have proved that it is better to keep a thin line in life.

Everyone in Woidetun expressed their full support for Naohsiu and others. One reason was the encouragement of the big victory, and the other reason was that the Lucians were so good at what they did.

Zalasi was captured and imprisoned in Miaotun for a winter. Before he was released, he went to a familiar Miaotun resident for a loan. After being robbed many times, the tribe actually had nothing and could only ask for help from outsiders.

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But he discovered that the aboriginal people who originally lived in Miaotun had ten rooms and nine empty houses. Among the Tang merchants who were resident in Miaotun, as long as they dared to stay in the winter, they had all been killed. The tribal people who originally lived here had also been killed.

There were only a few old and young people left, and most of the young and middle-aged people were killed by the Lucians on excuses.

In fact, this is the old trick of the Rusians - after setting up an outpost in an area, they drive away all the nearby people to ensure safety. They would not have done it so ruthlessly from the beginning, but the Governor of Eastern Siberia, Muravio

After my husband sent more than 200 soldiers one after another, the situation became out of control.

The military discipline of the Cossack cavalry was not good to begin with. It can even be said that there was basically no military discipline in the Far East. Stimulated by their wanton behavior, all the Lucians went into a violent frenzy.

Outlying villages such as Woidetun are better off. After all, they still need to pay tribute of food and furs or provide manpower, so the Lucians are actually merciful to them. However, as the outpost is located in Miaotun, they are required to clear out the indigenous people.

To make room for immigrants, the violence became even worse.

After this encounter, Zalaxi saw clearly that there was no way for everyone to survive. After he returned to the tribe, he originally planned to give up his wife and children. After stocking up on some food, everyone hurried away, but he did not expect to meet Naoxiu and others.

The last time Naoyoshi Hori, Datou Hongshang was fair, and he had accumulated some trust. Naohide brought so many soldiers to Woidetun. Zaraxi, who had been a leader for more than ten years, had long seen that something was wrong, but Naohide wanted to fight Lusia.

Man, he definitely agreed with both hands and feet, so he helped with all his strength.

But when it came to attacking Miaotun next, Zalasi was hesitant at first.

The Hezhen people make a living by fishing and hunting, and have gained combat experience in life. It is one thing to ambush the enemy in Woidetun, but it is another thing to attack the enemy's lair. The Hezhe people pride themselves on being brave, but after passing by the Lucians

The atrocities and the baptism of this war made them awe of firearms and felt that

In the future, it would be impossible to resist without a musket.

Originally, there were only more than 300 people in the village. After being destroyed by Lucia, there were less than 30 adult men left. Due to the living standards and sanitary conditions, a large number of children died at that time. When a young adult grows up, there are 2.3 people.

times the number of children, and the proportion of non-children in the population is about 30% of the total, but the Hezhen tribe is more cruel and has fewer elderly people.

Zalaxi was firstly afraid that Dingkou would be damaged again, and secondly, he was afraid that he would not be able to defeat him. At the same time, he was also afraid that after the strong men left, he would be attacked by nearby tribes or the Lucians - life in the North was very difficult, and there were all kinds of threats.

have.

But he didn't dare not agree, because Naoxiu promised him before the war that he could move all the tribes away. This was the best outcome for the Woide tribe - if they moved on their own, at least half of them, the old and the weak, would die due to lack of supplies.

After this war and the previous conversation, Hori Naoyoshi seemed to have matured in a day. Of course, it cannot be said that he was immature before, but now he has an inexplicable sense of weight.

Naoyoshi Hori, the land chief, promised Zalaxi through Horizhiyuan that fifty Lucian muskets could be left for the tribe and the number of troops could be reduced to fifteen, but this condition was not allowed to be changed.

Moreover, although the nearby villages had fled, they would certainly not be far away. He gave Zalaxi three days to gather people, with the following conditions: Those who participated individually could issue muskets and food or other supplies; if it was a tribe, seven out of a hundred people could do it.

Like Woidetun, they were moved by ship to make a living elsewhere.

Horinao Yoshiaki told Zalaxi that in this attack on Miaotun, the Hezhe people would not be arranged to rush into the front, but it would not be easy either. They would have to search every house for fish that had slipped through the net, and the casualties would definitely be higher than in the battle of Woidetun.

Gao, if you don’t participate, you won’t be forced to do so.

Woyidetun could only go to the dark side with Zhixiu and others. After hearing these words, Zalaxi no longer hesitated and immediately sent people around to look for people after agreeing - the more people, the smaller the casualty ratio.

Zalasi understands this simple truth.

It would be nice to have local snakes to help. Trilin Tun and Biaoerguo Tun didn't run far to begin with, they just hid in the nearby mountains and forests - their food was also not enough to support migration, and with the addition of several small tribes that had slipped through the net before, they actually

More than forty soldiers were gathered together.

Having more warriors is a good thing, but what follows is an increase in population.

All tribes were frightened by the Lucians and planned to migrate, so they moved to Woidetun one after another. The total number of Hezhe people exceeded a thousand. The temperature is not bad now. It is late spring at the end of June. Find a dry land.

We can make do with accommodation, but how to solve the problem of food?

Fortunately, the last time everyone in Lucia rode horses, more than fifty horses were killed, more than twenty were injured, and more than fifty were captured. Naohide ordered that all the injured horses be killed and treated as dead horses together.

food.

The monastery did not raise horses at all before. Firstly, Xiao Zhixiu didn't like the fuso horse, and secondly, it couldn't afford to raise one.

This time, more than 50 war horses were retained, but Naoyoshi Hori and others insisted - according to Naohide's idea, in the future, naval warfare will be the main battle, and land warfare will be supplemented. All maneuvers will depend on ships, and raising horses is useless. But Naoyoshi Hori and others said

These war horses are relatively tall and can be used for farming. Naohide thinks this makes sense.

During this period, Nakahama Manjiro returned with the ship on June 24.

There is about 50 kilometers of road between Woidetun and Miaotun. Calculating the time in all aspects, Naohide and Nakahama Manjiro agreed to return within ten days. If the Lucians huddled in Miaotun during this period, Naohide would have no choice but to retreat.

After all, having to fight does not mean being reckless. You can still find opportunities in the future, but it will be more passive. Maybe the lower reaches of the Wulong River will have to let the Lucians run rampant.

On June 25, all the soldiers boarded the ship. Except for weapons, ammunition and three days of supplies, all other supplies were left in Woidetun. Zalasi and his men stayed behind.
Chapter completed!