If Rudai follows this point system, it would take a prisoner three years to accumulate enough points under normal circumstances. However, the point system was announced later to show the prisoners that as long as they work obediently and do what they are told, they will be able to earn enough points.
If you have crooked thoughts, your life will not be in danger, and there will be a day when you will be released.
In fact, the vast majority of prisoners don't have the courage to tie their heads to their belts. In addition to joining the rebellion because they can't survive, they also have some herd mentality. Although there is no prisoner who has accumulated enough points to be awarded
Although they were released, there are still many prisoners who received points upgrades for reporting officers and are now able to enjoy some special treatment. This is a living example before our eyes, and in these battles, the Merchant Army showed
The strong fighting power also has quite a shocking effect on the captives. In this case, as long as the captives feel that there is hope, most of them will naturally settle down.
In addition to working hard, everyone can also find ways to get reward points, not only to accumulate points as soon as possible, but also to upgrade to a high-end captive after accumulating a certain number of points to improve their life.
Conditions. Although most of the captive officers have now reported, Shang Yi also announced that as long as other prisoners are found to have bad intentions and attempt to escape, they can also report. This has also caused dissatisfaction among the prisoners.
The situation of mutual supervision and competition has, to a certain extent, eliminated the tendency to form cliques and plot evil.
They also uniformly dressed each prisoner, shaving off all their hair and beards, and putting on uniform prison uniforms. This way, the signs were obvious. Even if they wanted to escape, they would not be able to escape very far before being recognized.
After formulating the prisoner management system, Shang Yi immediately divided the prisoners into groups. Now the merchant army had a total of 2,053 prisoners. Shang Yi divided them into forty squads, each with a captain.
, held by prisoners who have upgraded their points and are responsible for managing the entire team. Each prisoner is numbered and a file is created to record each person's name, age, residence and habits, and record their work performance, rewards and punishments in the future.
.It will also facilitate the system management of the prisoners in the future.
At the same time, Shang Yi sent thirty more scouts, disguised as prisoners, and infiltrated among the prisoners. On the one hand, they wanted to understand the prisoners' ideological conditions, and on the other hand, they also promoted among the prisoners how powerful the merchant army was.
You are not your opponent, and you can't expect anyone to save you, so don't resist, accept the transformation honestly, and you will be released after you have accumulated enough points.
Now there is no heavy work for the Shang army to do, because Guangzhou is only a temporary garrison, and Shang Yi does not plan to spend much money to build any permanent fortifications here. Therefore, the main job of the prisoners now is to repair some food in the city.
Public facilities, such as building bridges and auxiliary roads, and now is the time when crops require a lot of irrigation, so most of the work of the captives is to carry water to the fields. The labor intensity is not very high, but it can also be given
A step-by-step process for the captives.
At the same time, the prisoners must undergo one hour of queue training every day. This is mainly to strengthen the prisoners' sense of discipline and obedience. It is also to prepare for the selection of soldiers in the future.
However, although the officers were eliminated, there were still many thorny elements among the prisoners. Therefore, in the first few days, many of them were disobedient, talking back to the correctional officers from time to time, and even smashing plates and bowls while working. , idle and dissatisfied. Some people dominate the captive team, form cliques, and bully other prisoners. Some even want to take advantage of the opportunity to escape.
Shang Yi showed no mercy to such people. Anyone who dared to show up would be whipped. If the circumstances were serious, they would be beheaded. In three days, fourteen more prisoners were killed, and more than twenty prisoners suffered. Under the strong pressure of the iron fist, the whole atmosphere in the prisoner team quickly changed. Everyone was honest and soft and obeyed the command.
So every day in Gwangju City, you would see teams with shiny bald heads and gray linen clothes, under the supervision of soldiers, repairing roads and houses, and delivering water to irrigate the fields outside the city. These measures immediately won praise from the people, who all praised the merchant army as a benevolent and righteous army.
But at this time, Shang Yi received an order from Wu Gang, asking him to immediately attack Xinyang Prefecture and then attack De'an Prefecture.
It turned out that Wu Di dispatched three groups of troops to attack. Huang Degong and Liu Liangzuo received money and food. After returning to their stations, they stood still for four or five days. Wu Di urged them twice, but they all found various excuses to shirk. But here. At that time, Shang Yi captured Guangzhou, defeated the Chuang army, and reported victory by killing General Han Huamei of Youwei. The news also reached Luzhou.
After receiving the report, Wu Di couldn't help but be overjoyed, and once again urged Huang Degong and Liu Liangzuo to send troops. Moreover, the wording this time was very harsh, and it seemed that if the two of them did not send troops, they would be beheaded. Huang Degong and Liu Liangzuo also knew what was going on. They couldn't refuse, so they had to send troops separately. One attacked Luotian, and the other attacked Macheng.
However, Tian Jianxiu led the army to rescue Guangzhou at this time. Huangzhou was empty of troops. Liu Fangliang, who stayed behind in Huangzhou, concentrated his troops on defending Huangzhou Prefecture. Luotian and Macheng counties were almost undefended, so their troops were When they arrived, they captured Luotian and Macheng counties without any blood. However, the two of them did not dare to continue marching into Huangzhou to fight the Chuang army, so they stationed themselves in Luotian and Macheng counties. Of course, they wrote to Wu Di In the report of victory, he said that he had fought desperately and fought with the bandits several times before he captured these two counties.
After Wu Di had just received the victory report of the capture of Luotian and Macheng, Shang Yi's second victory report was sent to Luzhou. This time the victory was even greater than the last time. He defeated the leader of the thieves Tian Jianxiu and killed the leader of the thieves Liu Rukui on the battlefield. , Liu Xiyao, beheaded nearly 10,000 people and captured more than 1,000 people. Such a great achievement in suppressing thieves had not happened in several years. So when Wu Zong saw it, he couldn't help but dance with joy. It seemed that Shang Yi was brave enough to win the three armies. His reputation as brave and good at fighting is indeed well-deserved. I made the right move by sending him south this time.
Several ministers around Wu Di also came up with ideas at this time, suggesting that Wu Di seize the opportunity, immediately order an all-out attack, and maybe it would be possible to defeat Li Zicheng in one fell swoop this time. If Sun Chuanting sends troops, this You cannot take all the credit.
After Wu Zong heard this, he also got excited for a moment and immediately ordered Huang Degong and Liu Liangzuo to immediately send troops to attack Huangzhou. At the same time, he also sent an order to Guangzhou and ordered Shang Yi to immediately attack Xinyang and then attack De'an Prefecture. Then the two groups of troops attacked together. Xiangyang, defeated Li Zicheng in one fell swoop.
After receiving Wu Di's order, Shang Yi just rolled his eyes and threw it away. At the same time, he immediately wrote back to Wu Di, saying that his troops had suffered heavy losses after continuous battles, and the men and horses were tired, so they needed to rest for a while.
It is impossible to send troops to capture Xinyang immediately.
But the other generals couldn't understand. Zhou Shaohuan said: "Your Excellency, now most of the bandit army Tian Jianxiu's troops have been injured by us. If we attack Xinyang at this time, we will not waste much effort. Why don't you plan to
What about attacking Xinyang?"
Shang Yi smiled slightly and said: "Yes, it won't take much effort for us to capture Xinyang, but have you ever thought about what to do if we capture Xinyang?"
This question immediately stopped everyone. Everyone only thought that it would be very easy to capture Xinyang, but they had never thought about what to do after Xinyang was captured. After a while, Cheng Jin said: "We captured Xinyang.
Can we continue to attack De'an Mansion?"
Shang Yi said: "But we only have two regiments now. In the past, we fought near Guangzhou and were able to return troops as soon as possible. Therefore, we can leave only a few troops to defend in Guangzhou City. But Xinyang is separated from Guangzhou by a mile.
One hundred and twenty miles away, if we take Xinyang, we must divide our troops to garrison them. Our troops must be divided into two parts. If we continue to attack De'an Prefecture, we must divide our troops into three parts. This will only cause our troops to be scattered and be defeated.
The rebels will be defeated one by one. If not, it is better to station in Guangzhou, concentrate our forces, and wait for the rebels to attack again. With Guangzhou as the core, we will look for opportunities to defeat the rebels."
Cheng Gang said: "Sir, is it possible that we can stay in Guangzhou like this, just waiting for the bandit army to attack on their own initiative, instead of attacking the bandit's territory? If we continue to fight like this, when will we be able to pacify the bandit bandits?"
Shang Yi chuckled and said: "There are only two purposes for fighting, to destroy the enemy and seize the city. It would be great to be able to do both, but if you can only choose one of the two, you still have to do it."
The main focus should be on destroying the enemy. Because the city must be defended by people. If the enemy is not completely eliminated, even if we capture the city, the enemy can still take it back. What's more, we don't have enough troops now to capture the city.
There is no way to leave troops to garrison. Therefore, we can only wait for the enemy to take the initiative to attack. On the contrary, the enemy has occupied more places and must divide the troops to guard, which also gives us the opportunity to defeat them one by one. Wait until we have eliminated the effective strength of the rebel army.
It’s almost done, so naturally there are no troops to garrison these places. If we want to capture them, wouldn’t it be easy?”
After a pause, Shang Yi continued: "Didn't I tell you in the scriptures before? Our current goal is to eliminate the effective strength of the rebel army as much as possible. Don't care about the gains and losses of one city or one place.
That’s why I refused Commander Wu’s order not to attack Xinyang. This is the reason. Not only when dealing with the rebels now, but also on other battlefields in the future, this principle will still be useful.”
After listening to this, the generals fully understood what Shang Yi meant.
At this time, a spy came to report that Li Zicheng's general Liu Zongmin led 20,000 troops and arrived in Xinyang via the warship.