During the siege, they were not able to kill too many Ming soldiers, because after breaking through the city wall, the Ming army itself was defeated. Countless Ming soldiers took off their military uniforms, and then became civilians and hid.
, trying to muddle through.
However, the Army of the Tang Dynasty was already very familiar with hunting down defeated soldiers. They directly sealed off the entire city and then began to gather the people in the city. As long as the young and strong people were young and strong, they should be gathered together first.
Among them, any outsider without a local accent is a key target of suspicion, and anyone who resists will be shot without mercy!
Unless relatives come to identify and pick up the person, they will basically be routed and gathered on the spot.
You have to ask whether it will be difficult to do this. In fact, it is not difficult at all, because there are generally not many residents in cities these days. There are only a few thousand people in ordinary counties and tens of thousands in prefectures, unless it is like Jinling City.
Otherwise, the permanent population of a large city rarely exceeds 100,000.
The permanent population of Jingzhou City is only tens of thousands, but the garrison troops number tens of thousands. If you think about it, it would be quite difficult for these defeated soldiers to hide among the people and try to get by.
When searching for defeated soldiers, as long as they are young and strong, I don’t say the percentage, but there is at least a half chance that this young and strong person may be defeated by soldiers!
Fortunately, the Tang Army's reputation for treating prisoners well has spread throughout China, and it rarely kills prisoners of war. Therefore, many of the captured prisoners of war did not resist.
If you are caught, you will have to work as a coolie for a few years at most, but your life will usually be saved.
What's more, when the Tang Army treated the prisoners of war of the Ming Army, they also treated them differently. Needless to say, the middle and senior generals were killed if they should be killed, imprisoned if they should be imprisoned, and exiled if they should be. Well, most of them would be imprisoned.
A few diehards will be regarded as typical and sentenced to death.
For low-level officers, they are usually imprisoned for a period of time first. If they are willing to join the army and pass the quality in all aspects, they can also be arranged to undergo various crash courses and then continue to join the army after being assigned.
Ordinary guardsmen and young men will basically be directly incorporated into various reclamation regiments. Without much effort, they will reclaim wasteland for a few years, or build official roads and various water conservancy facilities. Generally speaking, the two
After three years, they will be released home, and when they encounter amnesty, they can be released earlier.
The various new armies in the Ming army, such as Du Biao, are treated differently. Some technical arms, such as cavalry, artillery, sword and shield soldiers, etc., are usually tried to persuade them to continue to join the army. These technical arms
It is difficult to train, and the Tang Army is also relatively lacking in these technical arms. If you are willing to continue to join the army, you can be assigned to various units after ideological education and simple training.
As for ordinary infantry, those who are willing to join the army and have passed the qualifications are also directly thrown into the recruit training camp for training. After passing the training, they are assigned to various units. They are basically treated as ordinary recruits.
Those whose quality is not up to par, or who are unwilling to continue serving in the army, will be incorporated into the reclamation regiment.
Generally speaking, there are still a small number of low-level officers and ordinary soldiers in the new Ming army who have good quality and are willing to join the Tang Army. This is not to say that they are unwilling to join the Tang Army, but because their quality is generally not up to standard.
The Tang Army's requirements for the quality of its soldiers in all aspects have become increasingly higher, especially physical requirements, whether it is height or weight, which are clearly stipulated.
The latest, in the recruitment regulations of the 6th year of Xuanping Dynasty, there are clear and strict requirements for the recruitment of new soldiers in various arms!
The minimum recruitment requirements for ordinary soldiers are: height must not be less than 1.55 meters, able to lift 100 kilograms of weight, march ten kilometers in one hour with light equipment, aged 18 to 25 years old, strong and healthy, no
any disease.
Then there is a very important point, which stipulates that one must be a good family member without any bad discipline.
It is not stated clearly what a good family member is. In theory, anyone without any criminal record can be accepted, but in fact, when recruiting, basically all children from rural areas are recruited, and children from citizens are not accepted.
The above are only the most basic requirements, but for each branch of the military, there are even higher and clear requirements. For example, artillery requires a height of more than 1.6 meters and strong physical fitness.
As for the grenadiers, they are required to be over 1.7 meters tall!
These are just the conditions for the Tang Army to recruit new soldiers. If they are recruited from prisoners of war, then these conditions will be higher. If they are not outstanding prisoners of war, then they are basically not needed.
Therefore, most of the prisoners of war ended up joining the reclamation regiment, whether they wanted to or not!
Of course, there are still a very small number of die-hard elements, such as those Ming soldiers who resisted to the end and were finally forced to surrender. The King of the Tang Dynasty expressed his admiration for your courage to resist, so we will also provide you with support and support.
Such courageous treatment will not be sent to the various settlement regiments, because the Ming army prisoners of war in the settlement regiments are all a bunch of weaklings. Putting these brave Ming army prisoners of war with them is an insult to these warriors.
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Therefore, the Tang Army would organize them into various prisoner-of-war camps, and then send them to various mining areas under the Ministry of State-owned Enterprises to mine until they die!
Only in this way can they be worthy of their courage!
Of course, the above treatment method does not include the uprising troops and uprising generals!
The Emperor of the Tang Dynasty has always given preferential treatment to the Ming army who rebelled and surrendered. Those who are willing to join the army will be selected, trained and continued to join the army. Officers will also give them appropriate military rank treatment. There is no need to expect actual military leadership positions, but a sinecure can still be done.
Got it.
For those who are unwilling to continue serving in the army, the soldiers will be sent home with travel expenses, and the officers can also arrange for civilian employment.
All in all, the treatment is quite generous!
Many of the Ming army prisoners of war in Jingzhou City were ordinary prisoners of war. They were neither diehards who resisted resolutely, nor Ming soldiers who rebelled and surrendered, so they were treated like ordinary prisoners of war.
The Second Infantry Division captured Jingzhou. At this time, Fei Qinxiang personally led the reinforcements, but they had not yet arrived in Jingzhou!
They had no choice but to get the news a little late. When they realized it and came with reinforcements, they had to delay a lot of time on the road. Finally, when Fei Qinxiang led the combined 6,000 troops to Jingzhou City, they arrived twenty miles away.
When I was outside, I discovered that Jingzhou City had already changed its owner.
Now Fei Qinxiang is left with a difficult multiple-choice question: Should he counterattack Jingzhou, return to Anluzhou, or go west into Sichuan?