The generals sat in sequence, only Hou Fangyu stood, singing loudly and chanting the results of the battle.

Since the fierce battle with Abatai outside Jinzhou City began to the end of occupying Fuzhou, the Ming army killed more than 6,000 Qing troops and captured more than 10,000. Except for those who fled with Haoge to Fuzhou, the remaining Qing troops fled into the deep mountains and forests. So far, the search for the Qing army has continued.

Abatai's body was found not long ago in a river berth, with hundreds of Qing army corpses floating around. The Ming army only brought back Abatai's body, and the remaining Qing army was stripped of armor and allowed the body to rot in the water.

Mandahai fled into the mountains and forests with dozens of personal soldiers, but was later discovered by the searched Ming army and captured him.

This made Gao Yi very unhappy, because the only one who was responsible for searching the Qing army was except for him. The mature duck that fell in front of him was picked by Yu Qi, which made Gao Yi very uncomfortable. You should know that Haoge escaped and Abatai died. The one with the highest reward among the Qing generals was Mandahai.

The soldiers who captured him would receive a reward of 6,000 taels of silver, and the thousand-man team belonging to the soldier would also receive a reward of 12,000 taels of silver. The two together, a total of nearly 20,000 taels of silver, actually missed him. What made Gao Yi most dissatisfied was that the one who caught Mandahai was actually a group of farmers who had just put down their hoes. How could he not regret it?

It is said that when the group of recruits who finally captured Mandahai received a reward of 6,000 taels of silver, they were shocked and cried. There were about twenty people at that time, and on average, each of them could get nearly 300 taels of silver, which was a large sum of silver that they had never seen until now.

After reading it, Hou Fangyu bowed to Zhou Xian and said, "Military Sect, our army's killings are all. In addition, the materials obtained by Deputy General Lin from Deliying City and the results obtained from our pursuit along the way. Although it is still under statistics, it should not be a problem to equip 20,000 soldiers. There is also the red cannons of the Qing army, although they pushed them off the cliff when Haoge retreated. However, after our soldiers went down to inspect, they found that there were still six people who could use them normally, but there were no shells now."

Zhou Xian waved his hand to signal Hou Fangyu to sit down, and smiled faintly, "This is a good thing. Put these red-clothed cannons on the wall of Fuzhou City. You can scare the Qing army without shells. Han Kuo, have you captured more than 3,000 farmers on the road? Pick out eight hundred young and strong people from them and be responsible for transporting the cannons over."

Han Kuo nodded and said, "I will go and do this later. By the way, I have asked those farmers. Except for a small number of locals in Fuzhou, most of them were forced to recruit from Gaizhou and other farther places. How do we deal with these people?"

Zhou Xian pondered for a moment and said, "Distribute some food and food to them and let them return home. As for those who do not want to return to the Qing army again, let's stay! In Jinzhou and Fuzhou, we obtained a large amount of borderless land. In addition to those who promised to the soldiers at the beginning, there should be a lot of leftovers. Let them plant them first and serve as civilian garrisons to supplement our army's rations."

Zhou Tai looked puzzled and asked, "Uncle, this is great! They help the Qing army, and even if they don't kill them, they don't have to let them go back! Besides, since there is a large amount of uninhabited land, leave them all to farm in case they are requisitioned by the Qing army. Will they have to let them go back again and again in the future?"

Li Kai pulled Zhou Tai from the side and whispered: "Young Master, the military gate is using a trick to attack the Qing army! These people are ordinary people, and it is useless to stay with us. But putting them all back is equivalent to installing loudspeakers from the Qing army that have been passed down from mouth to mouth. They will use their actual experience to tell other people in Liaodong that our Ming army is kind and will not kill civilians indiscriminately. In addition, in order to stabilize the rear, the Qing army generally finds ways to hide its own defeat. If we let these people go back, we can let more people know about the defeat of the Qing army and the victory of our army. In this way, we can attack the Qing army from the morale of the army."

Looking at Zhou Tai's sudden realization, Zhou Xian asked, "Do you understand?"

Zhou Tai smiled and nodded, "I understand."

Zhou Xian continued: "Since I talk about these prisoners, I will talk about my opinions on them. All captured Qing troops can basically be divided into three categories, one is Aha, the other is Manchu flag soldiers. The last category is soldiers of other clans except Manchu, such as Han soldiers or soldiers of other ethnic groups recruited by the Qing army."

"Aha has a low status and has a deep hatred for the Manchu nobles in his heart. They can exempt them from their slaves and directly incorporate those who are willing to join the army into our army, and others who are willing to join the army are like those farmers. The soldiers of other tribes are divided into ordinary soldiers and some generals. For ordinary soldiers and lower generals, those who are willing to join our army can directly earn money. For those middle and upper generals, they will be sent to the Denglai Mine as coolies unless otherwise in special circumstances. For Manchu people, some people can be accommodated, but most of them will be sent to the same as those above and sent to the Denglai Mine as coolies. Of course, for Mandahai, it will depend on how the court will prepare to deal with it."

Huang Fei frowned and said, "The soldiers captured by us are mostly Aha and other tribes. If they are included in the army, isn't this a little too many? Besides, these people have had experience of being captured, so they are inevitably disagreeing with our army."

Zhou Xian nodded and said, "This is indeed a problem, but this is almost worth our risk. Although we won this battle, our army has suffered a lot of losses. We urgently need to replenish our troops to deal with greater wars in the future. What I mean is that we can strictly review them when recruiting them into the army, and try to recruit those families who are relatively innocent to avoid possible troubles in the future. If everyone is worried, we can control the number of these soldiers first, and only recruit 3,000 people first, and try how the effect will continue. In addition, we will also disperse them into our army, so that our soldiers can get together with them as much as possible, so as not to give them a chance to have chaos."

Huang Fei pondered for a moment, finally nodded in agreement, and the other generals had no objection.
Chapter completed!