The battle of Fort San Petro ended, and the Jiangning army won this battle and captured more than 5,000 people, which is of course a good thing, but there were more than 5,000 mouths at once, which was also a big challenge to the logistics of the Jiangning army.

However, while taking Fort San Petro, the Jiangning army also seized a large amount of weapons and ammunition, as well as a lot of food, which made the pressure on the baggage battalion in charge of logistics not so great.

It's just that the food is sufficient for the time being, but accommodation has become a problem.

Although there were still many houses in Fort San Petro, it was obvious that Huang Jiye, who was in charge of guarding the prisoners, would not be stupid enough to let so many prisoners live in these houses, so under the current circumstances, he only set up a vacant land of about hundreds of acres in the southwest of the castle and placed these prisoners in the open air.

Of course, Huang Jiye never thought of improving the living environment for these prisoners, after all, for the Jiang Ning army, fighting war is their main business, and building houses is not part of their business.

It stands to reason that although Huang Jiye's management is relatively rough, he is the one with the knife after all, and those captives are reluctant and dare not speak up, and Luzon belongs to the subtropical climate, and it is only October, and the weather is still within the tolerable range, but I can't bear the somewhat changeable climate here.

The next morning, Huang Jiye, who had just gotten up, immediately received a report that nearly 100 prisoners had colds of varying degrees, and even many of them had fevers, so Huang Jiye had a headache.

Although he didn't have a good impression of these red-haired devils, he couldn't ignore them. The cold and fever of these years is not a trivial illness, it can kill people.

If he didn't pay attention, the sick crowd would definitely increase at a geometric rate, and once something went wrong in the prisoner camp, Yang Feng would definitely hit him when he held it down.

In desperation, Huang Jiye could only go to the medical camp in person, asking Zhang Bailing to send medical personnel to see these wounded, and on the other hand, he managed to put together a batch of tents, although the number was not much, only more than 200, but it was able to place more than 2,000 women and children in it, and as for those young men who were young and strong, they could only continue to stay in the open air.

However, the Jiang Ning army did not raise these people in vain, and there were many things to do after the war, and these male prisoners were escorted by the sergeants to Fort San Petro every day to clean up the ruins and repair the collapsed or damaged buildings, while the women and children were arranged to do some easier tasks such as sewing, washing clothes, and cooking.

In the evening, after the work was over, the prisoners were taken back to the prisoner camp in the southwest outside the city, as usual, while the women who were in charge of cooking hurriedly brought dinner aside and prepared it.

Although it is true that the prisoners' living conditions were poor, they were not treated very harshly in terms of food. Although it can't be said that big fish and meat serve them, but porridge, steamed buns, and pickles are full.

After dinner, it was already dark, and groups of captives gathered in groups to gossip.

Castro sat on the ground with a tree root behind him.

At this moment, he has long lost the well-dressed appearance of the past, and the original straight military uniform is not only dirty, but also broken in several places.

"Colonel, I've been looking for you for a long time, why are you sitting here alone?" A voice rang out next to him.

Castro turned his head and looked, "It's Haust, what's the matter?" ”

A thin ensign walked quickly to Castro and sat down and whispered: "Colonel, have you heard, many of us have spread the word today, and those Ming people want to pick people among us, do you have any ideas?" ”

As soon as Castro heard this, he leaned back against the root of the tree and said lazily, "What...... Do you have any ideas? ”

Haust smiled wryly, "Colonel, the Marquis of the Ming Kingdom also said two days ago that we will have to serve fifteen years of hard labor here to regain our freedom, but you also know what it is like to serve hard labor, let alone fifteen years, I am afraid that even three years will not be able to achieve it."

So if we don't want to die here, we'll have to apply for a job from them, as the marquis said. ”

"When you apply for a job, you bow to them, right?" Castro had a look of anger on his face.

"Ensign, don't you forget how Governor Field and those of our compatriots died, and have you forgotten their hatred so quickly?"

A look of shame appeared on Haust's face, but slowly his expression became firm again, and he said slowly: "Colonel, I know that you are still obsessed with the battle a few days ago, but after all, it is a war, isn't it normal to win and lose?"

I'm only twenty-five years old, and I want to go home, I don't want to die in a dark pit and be thrown into some big pit, and finally my body will be eaten by wild beasts, I don't want to! ”

In the end, Haust became excited, "I'm afraid you don't know yet, just today, just today, Captain Mitchell has called away dozens of his original subordinates, and it is said that they have defected to the Ming people together." ”

"What?"

Castro stood up, his face flushed.

Mitchell ...... How dare he betray Spain, betray His Majesty the great Philip IV! I'm going to slaughter this bastard! ”

"He ......"

Haust just wanted to speak, but when he just raised his head, he saw a group of people walking towards him, and then smiled bitterly: "Mr. Colonel, it seems that you don't need to do it yourself, Captain Mitchell is here in person." ”

"Hmmm......"

Castro looked up in surprise and saw a group of people walking not far away, who was not Captain Mitchell at the head?

Today, Mitchell has also put on the green military uniform unique to the Jiangning Army, and wears the high-top rubber shoes unique to the Jiangning Army on his feet, but what surprised Castro the most was that they were still carrying firecrackers behind their backs.

Being able to wear weapons proves that they have gained the trust of the Ming people, how is this possible?

With a stomach full of doubts, Castro slowly stood up.

Soon, Mitchell walked up to him and stopped, and the two of them looked at each other silently.

After a long time, Castro said contemptuously: "Captain Mitchell, congratulations on finding a new master, are you here now to prepare to execute me?" ”

"No!"

Mitchell was not angry at Castro's words, he smiled faintly: "Colonel, on the contrary, I came here today to discuss something with you, please rest assured, this matter is a good thing for you and for us who have been captured." ”

"Good thing!"

Castro laughed, with a sad and indignant expression: "The good thing you said is to be a dog of the Ming people like you?" ”