When Lin Yuan saw the city gate slowly opening from inside Gaoyou, he was a little confused.
After all, he didn't arrange for anyone to go in to rebel, so this move was the choice made by Gaoyou's soldiers
Not only Lin Yuan, but the people next to him were all stupid, and even the soldiers who were attacking the city did not expect such a situation.
Isn't this opening the door yourself and waiting for them to enter
Almost didn't say "Gaoyou welcomes you".
Lin Yuan shouted, "Enter the city!"
Regardless of whether this is the other party's plan or not, they must rush in now. Even if there are explosives, it is not an easy task to enter the city. Although the city gate is a wooden gate, the thickness is not enough for the explosives to penetrate.
If you use a knocker, the sacrifice will be even greater.
Lin Yuan held up the long knife high, and the Lin family's army had conditioned reflexes, and without thinking about it, they had already rushed into the city gate pointed by Lin Yuan's knife.
Before attacking Gaoyou, Lin Yuan had repeatedly instructed that they were not allowed to invade the people in Gaoyou and rob them of their property.
In fact, Lin Yuan can understand why after the war in ancient times, most of the generals did not care whether the soldiers under their command would fight, smash, and loot, because the soldiers who had just experienced the war were still in an extremely excited stage, and they needed to vent. In order to gather soldiers, generals will not restrict them.
As for the grievances? That is something the emperor has to consider. These generals just fight, and how to rein them depends on the officials sent by the imperial court.
The only way Lin Yuan could think of to get the soldiers out of their excitement was to rob the government office.
He also brought a large amount of food and meat, so that after the war, the soldiers could vent their appetite and smash the official ya.
Although I know that this method may not work, there is no better way at this stage.
In order for the soldiers to develop the habit of not beating and smashing, they can only rely on subtle training.
It's just that their training time is still too short.
Perhaps when the time comes to organize the people in the city to thank them, it will arouse their sense of responsibility and heroism.
Zhu Yuanzhang and Chen Bosong were the first to lead the soldiers into Gaoyou City.
The soldiers behind them followed in their footsteps.
Lin Yuan could not afford cavalry now, so he could only use infantry.
Fortunately, most of the current Yuan Dynasty army is composed of Han people.
Chen Bosong's long knife was curled up. He rode on the horse, tilted his head to avoid the long knife, turned over and dismounted, grabbed the opponent's weapon with his bare hands, and stabbed the opponent through the chest.
Then he got back on his horse and continued to rush forward.
In the battle of cold weapons, it is to see who is more agile and whose weapons are sharper.
Just behind Chen Baisong, the gunpowder team shouted: "Get down!"
All the people on the Lin family's side heard the sound and fell to the ground. Only the soldiers from Gaoyou didn't know what to do, so they raised their weapons and stood dumbfounded.
I saw a flash of fire flashing in front of my eyes, a huge explosion sounded in my ears, iron pieces flew out of the gunpowder bag, only the clothed Gaoyou soldier had no time to react, and the person standing in the position hit by the gunpowder had already fallen. Many people were affected by the iron pieces. If they were lucky, they were only scratched. If they were unlucky, they were directly hit by the iron pieces.
This time, Lin Yuan brought a lot of gunpowder, and he almost threw the gunpowder bag at no cost.
After the gunpowder bag was thrown away, Gaoyou's soldiers were either killed or stunned. They had never seen such a scene before. The eyes were full of fire, and their ears seemed to be deafened by the loud explosion.
Chen Bosong and Zhu Yuanzhang also caught them off guard at this time.
Compared with the soldiers in Gaoyou, the soldiers on Lin Yuan's side had more faith—although this belief originated from feudal superstition.
But this belief filled them with courage and became very brave.
What's more, the low-level soldiers in Gaoyou could only barely eat enough, and it was rare to see meat once a month.
The soldiers on Lin Yuan's side were different. Lin Yuan did not lose any of them, especially when it came to food. He had to make sure that the soldiers had a good physique even if they were selling iron.
—Although not to the point of smashing the pot and selling iron.
Before he set off, he also sold the soldiers a miserable deal, telling them that the reason they were not as full as before was because they were too hungry to eat, so in order to be full, Gaoyou had to be shot down. They can go back to eating meat once in three days.
"Kill!" Chen Bosong in front shouted.
The soldiers behind followed: "Kill!"
Zhu Yuanzhang glanced at Chen Bosong, presumably to avoid being compared by Chen Bosong, he also rushed over ahead.
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After fighting for two days and one night, Lin Yuan breathed a sigh of relief when he won Gaoyou, and it would be unfavorable for them to drag it on.
But Lin Yuan didn't have time to relax. He had to first count the number of casualties, appease ordinary people, and consider how to deal with prisoners of war.
"Master, take a rest." Chen Bosong, who had slept, saw that Lin Yuan was still standing outside waiting for someone to report the number of dead in the war, and couldn't help but persuade him.
Lin Yuan rubbed his face, struggled to stay awake, and said to Chen Bosong, "I won't be able to fall asleep if I don't finish it in one breath."
Chen Baisong was helpless: "It's not a day's work."
Lin Yuan smiled: "You actually know this sentence."
Chen Bosong: "I heard from the scholars in the original stockade."
Regarding this scholar, he was also arrested by Lin Yuan as a strong man, and now he is a gentleman in Taizhou, which is also considered to be the best use of it.
The main reason is that Lin Yuan found out that this scholar was really just a scholar, and he was stupid, so he only asked this person to teach children to read and write. For other things, there were other teachers.
Even the curriculum was formulated by Lin Yuan.
About the problem of thinking too much about himself, Lin Yuan couldn't change it himself.
So always busy.
Zhu Yuanzhang brought his men over at this time, bowed to Lin Yuan first, and then said, "Two thousand six hundred and twenty brothers died."
Although Lin Yuan was prepared, when he heard the number of people, he involuntarily took a breath.
"Bury them well, and give twenty taels of pension to those with family members."
Zhu Yuanzhang agreed.
After the men left, Zhu Yuanzhang and Chen Bosong stood beside Lin Yuan respectively.
"Master." Zhu Yuanzhang still used the original title, "There are more than 4,300 prisoners of war."
Lin Yuan: "Close it first."
The families of these people are not necessarily all in Gaoyou. What we need to worry about now is that if they are accepted, if some of them tip off the court, this will become a problem.
After thinking about it for a while, Lin Yuan said, "Let them go hungry for a while first."
Zhu Yuanzhang responded.
As for how to subdue them at that time, remove those who may have contact with the imperial court, and leave it to later consideration.
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Zhao Xiaosi shrank in a corner of the prison. The first time he went to the battlefield, he became a prisoner of war before he could react.
There are more than ten people in this small cell. They still have blood on their bodies, and some have stab wounds. They can't lie down. There is not that much space. They can only sit next to each other. They are really tired. , just leaned on his comrade and slept for a while.
Zhao Xiaosi was the youngest among them. He was only thirteen years old and only half the height of his robe, so he didn't take up any space when he squatted there.
Zhao Xiaosi whispered, "I'm so hungry."
The comrades did not speak, and the sound of the stomach growling one after another sounded in the ears.
hungrier.
Just as they were sitting numbly, the jailers came in. These jailers were soldiers brought over by Lin Yuan, and they were temporarily in charge of the prison.
The jailers had just received their own meals outside, and they just brought them in to eat, which also made the prisoners of war greedy.
These meals are all special plates that Lin Yuan ordered the craftsmen to make. It is impossible to use iron, but copper is used. There are copper mines in Taizhou, and there are not many mined, but it is cheaper for him.
When making dinner plates, it was still Lin Yuan's drawings.
The style of the plate is the one in the cafeteria when he was in college.
Rice incense soon spread throughout the prison.
The prisoners of war were even hungrier and looked at the jailers with green eyes.
The jailer spat at them: "What are you looking at? Carefully dig out your eyeballs!"
After spit, he said triumphantly, "Did you guys have such a meal when you were soldiers in the imperial court?"
"Have you eaten so much rice?"
"How often do you eat meat?"
One of the prisoners of war had the courage to say, "Eat meat once a month."
He swallowed: "I have never eaten white rice in my life."
The jailer smiled and said, "I've never eaten it before. Since I arrived under the tent of Nan Bodhisattva, I can eat meat once every three days, enough steamed buns every day, and rice once every seven days."
The prisoner of war asked again, "I heard that you don't have to be beaten by the prisoners?"
The jailer sighed: "There is no need for the prisoner to speak. If a classmate doesn't know something, the classmate will beat him."
Otherwise, the evaluation of a class will be over.
If the evaluation is excellent, not only the entire military camp will be named and praised, but also a can of stewed vegetables.
There is meat, vegetables, and sauce, enough for an adult man to eat for a day.
Not only that, but also white rice.
Everyone in the class has it.
If someone dares to drag their feet, the classmates have already taught him a lesson in private without the supervisor's words.
Because armed fights are not allowed in the barracks, they are afraid of being reported, so the way they teach them is to reason with reason. If reasoning is not good, they will be treated coldly.
The training intensity of the reform-through-labor class is higher than that of all classes. It does not stop almost from morning to night, and is stared at all the time. If you want to be lazy, you can increase the intensity.
Barracks now have squads as the lowest unit, followed by platoons.
In a short period of time, they all had a collective sense of honor.
The prisoners of war do not understand, how come they are all soldiers, but the gap is so big
He was a bachelor, neither old nor young, nor wives, and shouted: "Sir! I would like to serve Nan Bodhisattva!"
"Sir! Accept me!"
Zhao Xiaosi looked at the prisoner of war, and he wanted to shout along, but he didn't dare.
He lowered his head and thought, if someone else shouted, would he follow along
If there are so many people together, he will not be afraid.