Seeing that Xu Rui was not moved at all, Wan Xiangyun wailed: "Xu Rui, what do you want?"
"What do I want?" Xu Rui chuckled, his sharp eyes swept over the faces of more than a hundred prisoners including Li Motang who were still standing in line, and then said, "I actually don't want to, and I can't do anything to you, I just want to
Let me make you suffer a little and help you grow your memory, so that you will think twice before doing something again in the future."
Wan Xiangyun said repeatedly: "I have a long memory, I will think twice before I act in the future."
Xu Rui suddenly said: "Really? You really have a long memory. Will you really think twice before taking action in the future?"
"Yes, yes, I really have a long memory." Wan Xiangyun nodded repeatedly and said, "I will think twice before taking action in the future."
Xu Rui said: "Then let me ask you, whose order did you follow to send troops to attack our Feixi Independent Regiment?"
"Whose order did you take?" Wan Xiangyun was stunned when he heard this, and said blankly, "I didn't take this order from anyone. This was an order from me. Of course, I also listened to other people's temptations to do this.
This is a bad move, Commander Xu, I promise you that something like this will never happen again in the future, and it will definitely never happen again."
Xu Rui shook his head: "I think you still don't understand what it means to think before you act, and you still need to be careful!"
"Captain Xu, please don't, or can you give me some hints?" Wan Xiangyun shouted, "How many hints can you give me?"
Seeing Wan Xiangyun's imageless pleading there, Li Motang wished he could dig a hole in the ground and crawl in. Your mother, there is really no one else who can stand on such a high peak.
Xu Rui ignored Wan Xiangyun and just continued to wait.
After a while, Wan Xiangyun couldn't bear it anymore and passed out again, and then he was woken up by Zhuanshan Leopard pouring a ladle of water on him.
After Wan Xiangyun woke up, he continued to beg, but Xu Rui still ignored him. Not long after, there suddenly started to be noisy outside the yard. Li Motang and the more than a hundred captives in the yard were beginning to feel sleepy, but Leng Buding heard this.
After the commotion, everyone woke up from their drowsiness.
Li Mutang listened carefully, and faintly heard the roar of people and the neighing of horses and the crunching sound of tanks' tracks. Hearing this sound, it seemed that a large army was coming back, and Li Mutang's heart suddenly sank.
Then Zhuanshan Bao ran in and reported: "Captain, Mei Xiucai and the others are back!"
"Really? The 1st Armored Battalion is back?" Xu Rui asked, "Is the work done?"
"Commander, the 1st Armored Battalion has successfully completed its mission." As soon as Xu Rui finished speaking, a voice sounded outside the door, and Mei Jiuling strode in with a dusty look.
"Complete the mission successfully?" Xu Rui asked happily, "How complete is it?"
Mei Jiuling said cheerfully: "No one escaped, we caught them all."
Mei Jiuling's words are inevitably bragging. The National Army that was defeated from Feixi Town had more than 20,000 soldiers. It would be a lie to say that not a single person escaped. There were definitely those who slipped away quietly.
There are not a few, but it is true that most of the more than 20,000 people from the four divisions who came to Feixi Town this time were captured.
Xu Rui was surprised: "No one escaped, but you all caught them?"
Mei Jiuling said: "From the army commander to the top soldier, we basically arrested everyone."
After hearing this, Li Motang and more than a hundred prisoners in the yard were stunned. Wan Xiangyun, who was hung on the neem tree, couldn't help shouting: "This is impossible, what a joke."
"Are you kidding?" Mei Jiuling glanced at Wan Xiangyun, turned around and shouted, "Bring people in!"
Someone shouted loudly outside the yard, and then a group of soldiers with live ammunition came in escorting dozens of prisoners. Wan Xiangyun looked intently and was surprised to find three army commanders: Xia Hanzhong, Wang Xiyuan, Liu Mingquan, Wang Tiehan, and He Kui.
The four division commanders Wang Zhibin and Zhang Wenqing were all present, and the rest were brigade commanders.
It's true that the four main masters who came to Feixi were really impressive.
"This, this, this..." Wan Xiangyun was completely dumbfounded. He just muttered and repeated, how is it possible?
Li Mutang was also shocked. This result could be said to be completely beyond his expectation. He thought that the four main divisions of the 32nd Army would be defeated, and one or two of them might even be captured.
However, more than 20,000 people from four divisions were captured. He did not expect such a result at all.
Wan Xiangyun and Li Mutang were surprised, and Xia Hanzhong and others were even more surprised when they filed in.
"Main seat? Guest seat?" Xia Hanzhong was the first to walk in and saw Wan Xiangyun hanging on the neem tree at a glance, as well as Li Motang lined up in the yard, and then said in surprise, "You two
No matter what..."
Speaking of this, Xia Hanzhong paused abruptly and swallowed the second half of the sentence back into his stomach, but his meaning was clearly expressed. How come you two were also captured?
Li Mutang sighed softly. The wolf fangs came so fast that they had no time to evacuate.
Wan Xiangyun simply closed his eyes and began to pretend to be dead. Just now, only Li Motang and the guards and staff of the headquarters were there, so he had no psychological burden, but now in front of these army commanders, division commanders, brigade commanders and regiment commanders,
Wan Xiangyun also felt shameless. In front of these subordinates, he made such a big mistake. How can he rely on to convince others in the future?
Naturally, Xu Rui would not take care of the mood of these prisoners, and asked Mei Jiuling: "Where are the remaining prisoners?"
Mei Jiuling said: "On the way to Feixi, we were watched by brothers from the cavalry battalion and the guard battalion. Our first armored battalion escorted these ringleaders back first."
"On their way to Feixi?" Xu Rui was surprised, "Why, are you planning to take them back to Meixian?"
"Isn't that right?" Mei Jiuling said blankly, "Take them back to Mei County and let them dig coal. These are free labor. Isn't this how prisoners of war are treated?"
Wan Xiangyun, Li Motang and others were shocked when they heard this.
Since being captured, Wan Xiangyun, Li Mutang and others have been worried about how Xu Rui will deal with them. When Xu Rui mentioned this matter, everyone pricked up their ears and wanted to see what Xu Rui planned to do.
manage.
Xu Rui said: "Those are Japanese prisoners of war. After all, the Thirty-Second Army is still Chinese and must be treated differently."
"Treat them differently?" Mei Jiuling scratched her head and asked blankly, "What should we do, let them go?"
Xu Rui said: "Go and conduct the necessary screening of the prisoners. Bring all the physically strong recruits and veterans who have been on the battlefield back to Meixian. Select the remaining recruits, pay them two yuan for travel expenses, and let them go."
Well, they didn’t want to be soldiers in the first place. They were originally strong men who were forcibly recruited by the Kuomintang, and it was just right for them to go home and reunite with their relatives.”
Upon hearing Xu Rui's words, Wan Xiangyun and other senior generals of the 32nd Army immediately changed their expressions. Xu Rui not only wanted to recruit their only veterans, but also let go of the strong men they captured!
Mei Jiuling said cheerfully: "Captain, this has been screened a long time ago."
"I passed the screening." Xu Rui was surprised, "Then you can tell me, what was the result?"
Mei Jiuling replied: "Almost three thousand people meet the conditions, and the rest do not meet the conditions."
"Only 3,000 people?" Xu Rui shook his head when he heard this, thinking how long it had just taken for the Nationalist Army to degenerate into this. There are 20,000 troops in four divisions, but only 3,000 people meet the qualifications to serve as soldiers.
The remaining 27,000 people are actually weak and strong men who do not meet the requirements. How can such an army have combat effectiveness?
With such a force, it is no wonder that 20,000 people besieged the 2,000-strong Feixi Independent Regiment and fought for three days but still could not defeat them.
With a unit like this, it's no wonder that they ran away when they saw the Dameishan Independent Regiment and fell apart in the blink of an eye.
With such a force, it’s no wonder that by 1944, the world’s anti-fascist battlefields were winning one after another. Only the National Army was defeated in the battlefields of Henan, Hunan, and Guangxi. Not only did they lose a large area of land, but they also lost millions of troops.
The army! US President Roosevelt was so angry that he shouted: Military aid given to the National Government is worse than feeding dogs.
Of course, having said that, the 32nd Army captured so many unqualified young men from the Dabie Mountains, which also reflected from another aspect how difficult the life of the people in the Dabie Mountains was at this time.
, causing the common people to be so skinny that even a gust of wind can blow them down.
The reason why ordinary people live a difficult life is because the taxes and miscellaneous taxes are too heavy.
Especially after the fall of Jiangsu and Zhejiang, the National Government's tax sources dried up rapidly. In order to support the huge army, huge bureaucrats and powerful groups, it could only continue to increase taxes on the people in the Kuomintang-controlled areas.
This forms a vicious cycle. The more taxes are imposed, the poorer the people will be. The poorer the people will be, the poorer their health will be. The less qualified soldiers will be provided. The less qualified soldiers will be, the worse the combat effectiveness of the National Army will be. And then
If you continue to lose battles, your territory will continue to shrink, and then your tax sources will be further depleted, and then you can only continue to increase taxes.
In the end, an extremely absurd scene even occurred in Henan. After the Huayuankou embankment burst, Henan suffered from severe drought for three consecutive years, followed by a large-scale locust plague.
Instead of providing disaster relief, they continued to collect grain from Henan, and eventually three million people starved to death!
In contrast, in areas under the control of communist troops, the lives of local people are much easier.
Therefore, whether it is the Eighth Route Army in North China or the New Fourth Army in central China, they have never worried about the shortage of soldiers. Because of the effective improvement of life, there are many strong young adults to serve as soldiers. Because of this, by the end of the Anti-Japanese War, the Communist Party's troops
Talent has grown from 40,000 people before the war to nearly 2 million!
Thinking of the hardships of life for the people in the Kuomintang-controlled areas, Xu Rui added: "In this case, let's give them ten yuan for travel expenses. Seeing that the New Year is coming soon, let them go home and spend a good New Year with their relatives."