How many Romanians were captured in battle? That's about five hundred.

This was the largest group of prisoners of war, followed by the German soldiers captured in the various battles, and their total number should have numbered three hundred. As for the Ukrainian prisoners, these people are defined as traitors, and after interrogation some must have been shot, it is not surprising that a hundred remain.

According to the Geneva Conventions, prisoners of war should not be used as labourers, but few countries currently observe this. The Germans were using Soviet prisoners of war to dig iron ore mines, and the Soviets did the same, so it was not a lack of virtue to let German prisoners of war go to Siberia to dig potatoes.

In Yang Mingzhi's view, it is necessary to let these prisoners of war dig potatoes or mine. The guerrilla republic is rooted in the mud, there are no idlers here, and if the prisoners of war do not do the work of mining, then they can only organize the villagers to dig.

Digging for sulphur was inherently risky, and the only protection for workers was captured German gas masks, and even long periods of work could cause serious damage to the lungs. Some of these prisoners of war have already died in the mines, however, the Soviets did not care.

Today, the number of prisoners of war and traitors in the mining has reached a staggering 900, and such a large number of men must have brought the amount of ore mined to a new level.

Everything was as Yang Mingzhi thought, in the loading yard of the overseer, more than 20 carriages were already waiting, and the workers were throwing ore into the carriages.

And these yellow-white sulfur ores with a unique pungent smell have been piled up into a hill of at least five meters!

He noticed that the carriages were completely different from what they had been before – the carriages and horses were all captured from Romanians.

Most of these carriage masters are also sixty-year-old men, their beards are snow-white and their faces are vicissitudes, because they are well-informed, they only have respect for the commander Yang Mingzhi and have no fear.

They did not hesitate to express their satisfaction with these carriages: "The Romanian carriages are very durable, the axles and wheels are mostly made of metal, and there is no need to worry about the axles breaking if they are loaded too much in the future. ”

Some people also asked: "Comrade Commander, do you think that the train tracks should be repaired directly to this unloading yard?" In this way, the ore can be loaded directly into the car, which is the safest way to travel on a rough dirt road, and the rail car is the safest. Even if there is a lack of locomotives, it is a big deal to continue to let the horses pull! ”

Yang Mingzhi didn't come here to chat with these royal husbands, he motioned to the guards to hand over a few cigarette rolls, and said: "I know all your suggestions, and I will implement them." ”

Whether it will be implemented is a matter for the future, not to mention how many problems are there in transportation compared to building railways and leveling and tamping the current dirt roads?

He was still most concerned about how the prisoners of war worked, five hundred Romanians, especially that Brimayo!

How exactly the troops here treat these people can only be seen for themselves. Yang Mingzhi also caught a glimpse of Qiao Shuya's special look just now out of the corner of his eye, and this woman seemed to be in a nervous mood. Suddenly, a bad premonition came to mind.

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Soon, the mine was unveiled to everyone.

Yevlov looked at it and sighed: "It's like a big basin here, and there are really a lot of people working at the bottom of the basin. The smell here is pungent, and I wouldn't have been here if I hadn't come to see the spectacle for myself. ”

"Yes! The smell you smell is toxic and you can get sick if you breathe it for a long time. Yang Mingzhi pinched his waist and responded.

"So serious?! If you look at the mines, the prisoners of war who are like ants are working, aren't they going to die of a lot of diseases? ”

Yang Mingzhi shook his head: "I didn't expect you to care about these prisoners of war!" ”

"Phew! Who cares about them, I just think that if these people die of illness one by one, we will have to go to mining ourselves, and we will be the ones who will be injured! ”

"You can rest assured! Have you forgotten those thousands of sets of German gas masks that we captured? These things are just the right thing to do. Besides, we stayed outside the mine, and the smell was already very faint and didn't affect us. ”

After another month of excavation, the bottom of the pit went down half a meter on average.

It was not only sulphur that was dug here, but also some limestone. These two minerals are often accompanied, and they are irreconcilable, and chemical reactions occur when they come into contact with each other, so a large amount of water vapor transpires along the gaps, and the temperature in the pit is more than ten degrees higher than that outside the mine. If it weren't for the toxic gases, it would be a warm place.

Yang Mingzhi and Yevlov held up their binoculars for a while, and they noticed a large number of captives holding axes to dig ore, and mainly to the small machine-gun fortresses made of sandbags or stones at the edge of the pit.

The mines were defended in such a way that if the captives could not have rioted under the mines, and if they did, it would have become a great grave.

Perhaps, Joshua's so-called defensive pressure is huge, which is also an exaggeration.

This woman followed behind Yang Mingzhi, she was afraid that the commander would make a mistake, so she recruited a squad of guards, so that Yang Mingzhi's guards suddenly reached more than 30 people.

Yang Mingzhi put down the binoculars and turned his head: "Okay!" Joshua, it's time to take me to see that Brimayo, where did you keep that guy? ”

"He's in that house." Joshua stretched out her left arm and pointed to several self-contained wooden houses on the edge of the mine.

"Oh? This is your confinement cell? That place I knew, the German prisoner of war Henschel was also imprisoned there. I still remember that the disobedient prisoners of war would also be taught a lesson there. ”

Hearing the word "lesson", Joshua's expression was obviously flustered. Yang Mingzhi also noticed this, and he asked step by step: "What?" Could it be that you also taught that Brimayo a lesson? ”

"Yes...... Yes. Because we believe that this person is instigating his people not to cooperate well with our army, and even more to plan a collective escape. He's the organizer, so we're ......."

Yang Mingzhi was a little displeased: "Oh? What did you do to him? Did you kill you?! ”

"Nope! We don't! Rather than listen to me, you might as well go and meet this person. In short, this Brimayo is injured. ”

"Okay, you lead the way."

Is it credible that Brimayo is actually planning an escape? Yang Mingzhi was somewhat skeptical, weren't those guys afraid of the Soviet army's machine guns. Of course, as a commander, he still trusts the judgment of his subordinates more, since Joshua said that those people have a plan to escape, she must have conclusive evidence, so there is no problem for the plotters to be punished.

As for how the garrison and the overseers punished disobedient prisoners of war, they did not execute prisoners in public, but only lynched them in small dark rooms, such as whipping, punching and kicking, in short, pure violence.

Therefore, in front of this wooden door, Qiao Shuya motioned to her subordinates to open the lock, and she said to Yang Mingzhi: "This person's state is not very good, I am afraid that he will attack you." So I thought, it's better for my people to drag it out. ”

"Is it necessary? This man is my defeated man. ”

Yevlov decisively stepped in to stop this time: "Or forget it, you forget that these prisoners of war have taken the initiative to attack you?" ”

"It's good! Joshua, you and your female soldiers are careful. ”

After saying that, Yang Mingzhi took a dozen steps back, and his guards even raised their submachine guns, loaded their bullets, and aimed their muzzles at the wooden door, as if a large group of wild boars would come out of here.