Chapter 247: The vassal town does not kill the vassal town
If they are low-level officers or ordinary soldiers, if they are unwilling to surrender, Lin Ziran will actually let them go in the end, and it won't even take too long.
The most they can do is throw them into a prisoner-of-war camp for a period of time and do some hard work, and then they will be released gradually.
There is no such thing as killing someone if they don't want to join you.
Even if Feng Haozhong falls into the hands of Lin Ziran in the future, Lin Ziran will not kill him. At most, he will be placed under house arrest for a period of time and will be released when he is no longer a threat.
The Daheng vassal town has been fighting for so many years. Although the wars between each other are sometimes cruel, after the war, the victorious vassal town rarely kills them all.
No matter whether it is the vassal town, the officers or the soldiers, they will not be killed.
If the winning side had to kill all of them, the Daheng people who have been fighting for decades would have died long ago, and there would still be more than 200 million people there.
At the same time, this is also a tacit understanding between the Daheng clan, because there is a high probability that they will be defeated.
Daheng is full of vassal towns, and in so many vassal towns, almost everyone will fail in the end!
Because there can only be one winner, and that is the person who reunites Daheng!
Although everyone wants to be the only winner, the one who can reunite Daheng.
But any sensible feudal town will know that the probability of success is very small.
For the sake of your own life after failure, it is necessary to maintain this tacit understanding of not killing prisoners, especially not killing feudal lords.
Lin Ziran is also a person who respects tradition, so he can recruit these prisoners of war if he can. If they don't want to, it doesn't matter. At most, they will be allowed to work in the prisoner of war camp.
However, Lin Ziran still believed in Luo Mazi's recruiting ability.
There were hundreds of Guang'an prisoners of war, but most of them eventually became part of the Sixth Division.
Even people like Xu Zhongshu eventually became generals under Lin Ziran, not to mention other prisoners of war.
Lin Ziran estimated that this time he would be able to recover a lot of veterans and even military officers from prisoners of war.
After all, what they were fighting was a civil war in Daheng, not a war between countries, nor a war between Daheng and alien races. There was no life-or-death hatred between them.
Even many of the officers under the vassal's command, and even themselves, were classmates and friends in the past.
Lin Ziran also specifically asked Luo Mazi to ask Wu Guanlin, Xu Zhongshu and other people from Luohai Military Academy or Luo'an Military Academy to help recruit them.
It's easier to recruit this way.
Because there are several officers inside who are their alumni!
Most of the professional officers in Guang'an and Luo'an counties, especially those who served ten to three years ago, came from Luo'an Military Academy.
Xu Zhongshu himself was born in Luo'an Military Academy. Many of his classmates either served in Guang'an Army or Luo'an Army. Afterwards, he confirmed that there was a battalion commander in the Third Division garrison stationed in Fengyan Town who was from the same class as him.
Classmates, when we were studying in Luo'an City, we visited the green small building together...
Unfortunately, this man was unlucky and was directly hit by artillery fire and died in battle. Xu Zhongshu lamented when he learned about it, but finally restrained himself and wrote a letter to inform his family.
Wu Guanlin, who was born in Luohai Military Academy, is even worse, because his classmates are all over the military community of Nanhai Prefecture.
Luohai Military Academy is the premier military academy in Nanhai Prefecture. Students come from all over the state and even from several surrounding states to study. It is not just limited to Luohai County. After graduation, these students may not necessarily choose Luohai.
Serving in the Navy.
Some of them would go to serve in various vassal towns and generally did well. As for Wu Guanlin in the early years, that was a special case.
So Xu Zhongshu had a good relationship with his classmates, but Wu Guanlin had a very bad relationship with other classmates. He was often ridiculed by those classmates back then.
Otherwise, he would not have the desire to lead an army to flatten Luo Hai City, or even demolish the entire Luo Hai Military Academy!
The classmates of Wu Guanlin and Xu Zhongshu were scattered in many feudal towns. This was not a special situation, but the norm.
In this way, after one of the parties is defeated, it will be easier to recruit the loser's people. After all, you can gain connections by just pulling the strings.
Even if the other party is unwilling to surrender, they will not kill them all.
After all, we were brothers who slept in bunk beds many years ago, went shopping together in the green building, and boasted about each other. Although they later attacked each other and fought to the death for their respective futures, when the winner was decided, they didn't go so far as to kill them all.
Because there is no guarantee that the winner will marry the sister of the loser. If he is really killed, he will have to kneel on the washboard when he returns home...
Lin Ziran asked Luo Mazi, Xu Zhongshu, Wu Guanlin and others to screen and recruit hundreds of prisoners of war, and the results were quite good.
Most ordinary soldiers are not opposed to this. As long as they are paid on time and do not deliberately use them as cannon fodder, these ordinary soldiers do not mind whether they work for Feng Haozhong or Lin Ziran.
In troubled times, most people who serve as soldiers only make a living. It would be better if they can also receive salary and send it to their families after having enough food.
But those officers were not easy to recruit. Except for the two low-level corporals who agreed on the spot, three other officers chose to wait and see, which meant that they did not explicitly refuse or directly agree, and the other four were very reluctant.
I simply refused.
Of course, this kind of rejection was also temporary. Xu Zhongshu and the others also rejected it at first, but later they did not surrender.
As long as the Sixth Division develops better in the future, we don't have to worry about them not joining us.
Ordinary people join the army just to make a living, but these professional officers join the army and have much more to consider, such as glory, wealth, and other ideals.
However, in such troubled times, these officers are constantly being selected. Their thoughts are the same as Xu Zhongshu's, they all hope to devote themselves to a vassal town that has real hope of unifying Luo'an County and even the entire Nanhai Prefecture to make contributions.
It is impossible for those useless feudal towns to win the favor of these professional officers.
As the saying goes, good birds choose trees to roost in.
Lin Ziran was quite satisfied with the attitude of these prisoner-of-war officers. At least two of them surrendered on the spot, and three others had vague attitudes. However, as long as they continued to persuade, it is estimated that surrender would be a high probability.
Even the remaining four people will have a chance to win them over in the future.
After the selection of prisoners of war was completed, the strength of Lin Ziran's troops instantly recovered to several hundred.
And this number can continue to increase in the future, because among the captured defenders, in addition to hundreds of uninjured people, there are also hundreds of wounded, many of whom have relatively minor injuries. After these wounded are treated and recovered, they will also
can be supplemented.
And in order to allow these veterans of the Third Division who had surrendered as prisoners of war to play a greater role, Lin Ziran dispersed them into various units.
This is not to guard against them, after all, these are just ordinary soldiers.
The more important thing is to allow these veterans of the Third Division to lead the new with the old, so that the units filled with a large number of new recruits can increase their combat effectiveness as quickly as possible.
While Lin Ziran was arranging these things in Fengyan Town and deploying houses in the six towns on the east bank of Lingchang, people from other parties also successively received news that Lin Ziran was leading the army to conquer the six towns on the east bank of Lingchang.
The first person to react was not Feng Haozhong who had been robbed of his territory, but Jian Minggang, the county guard over there!
Lin Ziran had just taken Fengyan Town, and there was a force of about 3,000 people who belonged to the county governor's office and came to the six towns on the east bank of Lingchang.