In this battle, there were tens of thousands of prisoners from the Qing army, so it was naturally impossible to place them all in one place. Instead, they were detained in dispersed areas outside Yangzhou City.

The Green Camp soldiers, the Eight Banners of Manchuria, the Eight Banners of Mongolia, and the Han Army Banners were all separated.

Moreover, there are a small camp with a thousand people, and everyone has ropes tied under their feet, so they are not allowed to leave the camp.

The Green Camp soldiers are better, and there are two meals of porridge every day.

The other three Eight Banners prisoners camps were given only a bowl of clear and sparse porridge every day to hold their lives.

This is not because of insufficient food and grass, but because they do not want these prisoners to have the strength to cause trouble.

The Han army flag captive camp was placed in the western suburbs.

When we arrived outside the camp, Zeng Ying introduced: "The eight banners of the Han army captured in this battle mainly from Kong Youde's troops, nearly 11,000 people from Zhang Cunren's troops, and the other one thousand people from Geng Zhongming left behind, and a total of prisoners.

Fourteen thousand.”

Zhu Meiyu stood outside the camp and could see that many of the Han flag soldiers inside were lying on the ground basking in the sun, looking lifeless.

These people have been hungry for three days, but I don’t know if they will be executed. It would be strange if they can have energy and spirit.

Seeing these Eight Banners soldiers of the Han army, Zhu Mai noticed that most of the captured Green Camp soldiers had not yet had rat-tailed braids. It should be that Li Chengdong and other warlords who surrendered to the Qing Dynasty in Jiangbei had not had time to shave their heads and change their clothes.

After all, rat-tail braids are not so easy to shave, and the Qing army was very anxious to go south before.

But these Han army's Eight Banners soldiers all had money rat-tail whips. At first glance, it was a bit indistinguishable from those Manchu Eight Banners soldiers.

Hao Guangming also saw this scene through Zhu Niu's mobile phone, and his heart moved and suggested: "These Eight Banners soldiers of the Han army must not be directly mixed into the army, but it is better to transform them first.

We can first select a group of people who are willing to shave their heads from within and let them sign a document to insult Nurhaci, Huang Taiji, Dorgon and Fulin's anti-Qing documents.

Then let these people help manage the prisoners - of course, they are still prisoners themselves, and they cannot violate the rules of the prisoner camp, but they can be rewarded for food.

In addition, you still have tens of thousands of troops stationed in Yangzhou. Except for the generals and some soldiers who need to be responsible for forming the new army town, most of the soldiers have nothing to do.

You might as well let them supervise these Han flag soldiers to work as laborers, repair cities, roads, and clear rivers."

Zhu Mai nodded after hearing this and asked again: "What should the Manchu and Mongolian Eight Banners Army do?"

Zeng Ying and Liu Wenxiu naturally became accustomed to the scene where Zhu Mai seemed to talk to someone.

Although Liu Zhaoji, Ma Yingkui, and Ren Yumin first saw it, they had heard about it in the past few days that Chongzhen seemed to have found a "Immortal World" prince consort for Zhu Ma, and most of the magic weapons that Zhu Ma was given by that prince consort.

Seeing that the prince-consort was not here, they could talk to the princess, but they could not hear it. Liu Zhaoji and others couldn't help but be more in awe of Zhu Mai.

Hao Guangming thought for a moment and said, "The Eight Banners of Mongolia should be available in less than a year or two, so they cannot be stolen.

As for the Eight Banners of Manchuria, all the generals from Niulu Zhangjing can be killed - these people are both Manchurian nobles and the main executioners who slaughtered the people of the Ming Dynasty, so there is no need to stay.

The remaining Eight Banners soldiers of the Manchus should not be kept in stock. They can be sent to the official mines as miners, or sent to the Gongtunying as hard labor for road construction.

Of course, it is best to completely separate them and divide them into hard labor brigades with less than 100 people.

In addition, we should give them a seemingly accessible but impossible hope to prevent them from committing suicide or resisting wildly.

For example, they promised that they could be placed as the people after ten years of hard labor. But in their identities, they would definitely be sent to do the hardest and heaviest work, and not many people could last for ten years.

Even if they persist, the Ming Dynasty could place them in a more dangerous overseas territory, or in a bitter and cold place in the north, so that they could continue to sweat and blood to contribute to the Ming Dynasty.”

After listening, Zhu Mai was speechless for a moment.

She instinctively felt that this arrangement was a bit cruel.

But Reason told her that such an arrangement was reasonable - no matter how much blood of the people in the Ming Dynasty were stained in their hands, they could not be treated relaxed by their identities as elite soldiers of the Eight Banners of Manchuria.

At least we cannot be lenient before the Qing Dynasty is destroyed.

Otherwise, if one is not handled properly, it will easily cause chaos.

Moreover, if these Eight Manchu Banners prisoners were polite, how could the heroic spirits of the Ming army who had been killed in battle for decades of Ming and Qing army?

How can we be worthy of the Ming people who died tragically by these Eight Banners of Manchus?

On the other hand, Hao Guangming didn't hear Zhu Mi's response for a while, so he thought she was soft-hearted.

Women, especially young women, are generally more likely to be soft-hearted and kind-hearted.

He then added: "If you think it's a bit cruel, you can do some details based on my suggestions.

For example, ten years of hard labor can improve their treatment in stages, and reward those who are willing to work hard, so that they can feel more "hope"...

Before Hao Guangming finished speaking, Zhu Ma said: "I understand. Looking back will make people plan this matter carefully."

Afterwards, Zhu Mai first discussed the handling methods for the Han army prisoners and generals such as Zeng Ying, as well as the Yangzhou prefect, Ren Yumin.

Ren Yumin was naturally very happy to learn that more than 10,000 hard labor would be available.

Because after the war, there were indeed many reconstruction work in Yangzhou City that required labor.

For example, repairing city walls and houses and streets in the city that were damaged by red cannons, cleaning up broken warships, rivers blocked by shipwrecks, and repairing some roads that have been disrepaired, etc.

Therefore, after listening, Ren Yumin bowed deeply to Zhu Mai and said, "I am grateful to the people of Yangzhou for the people of Yangzhou!"

Zeng Yingze asked: "Where should we find a replacement for the shortage of troops in the garrison stations of the newly formed two towns?"

Zhu Ma said, "Let's draw a battalion of troops from the Nanjing garrison to fill it."

After hearing this, Zeng Ying had no objection.

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Three more days passed, and April 25th.

Yang Zhan heard news that he had defeated the Eight Banners Army and the Green Camp Army of the Juanta Army east of Xinghua on the south bank of the Baitu River.

In this battle, Yang Zhan killed the Qing Dynasty's Batulu Qunta in the face of the battle, killed more than 8,000 enemies, and captured more than 10,000 Green Camp troops originally belonged to Liu Zeqing's troops!

Unfortunately, he failed to do his best, so he fled to the north by more than 3,000 Eight Banners Army and more than 10,000 Green Camp Army.

Because he suffered two or three thousand casualties in the town and was not in enough supplies, he did not continue to pursue the Qing army.

Now on the way back to Yangzhou.

On this day, Zeng Ying also led the second town of the border guards and the two towns led by Liu Zhaoji and Ma Yingkui to form a new garrison army, along the canal, in an attempt to recover Xuzhou.

As for Huang Degong who went north a few days ago, Ai Nengqi also sent a telegram back, saying that he would recover Huai'an Prefecture and govern Shanyang today.

Through the Jinyiwei interrogation of the Qing army's prisoners, Zhu Mai had already learned that the prefectures and counties that the Qing army hurriedly captured in Jiangbei were basically managed by the former Ming officials who surrendered in sight or the Qing Han officials sent from Shandong.

Most county towns do not have troops stationed. Even the government as important as Shanyang is stationed only with thousands of Green Camp troops and one thousand Han flag troops.

With the speed of the Qing army's news transmission, even if the Qing civil and military officials in Shandong knew about Duoduo's defeat in Yangzhou, they might not have time to send troops south.

Even they could not have any extra troops and might not dare to go south.

Therefore, Zhu Mai was not worried about Huang Degong and Ainengqi's recovery of Shanyang...

After sending the soldiers of Zeng Ying's troops to the expedition, Zhu Meiyu Imperial Admiral returned to the government office from outside the city.

Soon, Linglong came over and said, "The State Supervisor, Nanjing Ma Shiying sent a telegram saying that the case of Zhu Guobi, Zhao Zhilong, Gao Qiqian and others had been tried, and a special telegram was sent to report."
Chapter completed!