Chapter 18: The Origin of the Death Camp

Nan Chu is rich, West Qin is poor, the death camp fights with Xi Qin, but he is not afraid of dying in battle, but he is afraid that after death, the body will not be snatched back by his comrades-in-arms and fall into the hands of the West Qin people, it will be miserable, basically he will be stripped naked, and he really responds to the sentence that the red stripes come and go without concern, although he is chic, but he really implements it, I am afraid that no one is willing to go to see the king of Hades with a bare ass like this.

In fact, sometimes Qin Feng and they are also very confused, how did the border army of the Western Qin people become poor like this? Their soldiers, not to mention their armor, are even rich when they are neatly dressed. I don't know how many years the weapon in my hand has been used, it is normal to have a few gaps in the blade, and in battle, Qin Feng and they often encounter heroes who dare to rush over and stab them with half a machete in their hands.

In every battle, the Western Qin people will always die a lot, but they don't seem to care about the number of dead people, as if they have endless manpower, if they die a batch, they will replenish a batch, anyway, after all these years of fighting, the feeling that the Western Qin people give Qin Feng is as if their people are fighting more and more.

In the past, the Western Qin people controlled the Luoying Mountains, and every late spring and early summer, as well as the turn of autumn and winter, the Western Qin people would cross the Luoying Mountains without moving, and launched two large-scale attacks on the Southern Chu people, the purpose was not to occupy the land, but to grab things, after the Luoying Mountains, they entered the rich Anyang County of Southern Chu, as long as they were allowed to get it once, Anyang County would be like being looted by thieves, and became nothing.

The people of Western Qin are like raising a fat pig, robbing Anyang County very regularly, and very principled, that is, they will never kill or injure ordinary people, once they win, they will only rob property when robbing, and will never burn, kill, lewd, roar and roar away. Left a large number of people in Southern Chu who wanted to cry without tears.

At this time, the Southern Chu court could only provide relief, disaster relief, and resettlement of the robbed people, and then the common people began to work hard again, accumulate wealth, and then after they had a little savings, the Western Qin people would come again as promised.

Such a blatant approach naturally made Southern Chu extremely angry, but the western border army of that year was also extremely uncompetitive, and several times they fought for the Luoying Mountains, and they were beaten by the poor Western Qin people in the Luoying Mountains, and when Southern Chu wanted to mobilize the army on a large scale, Dongqi immediately became active, and Dongqi was bent on restoring the territory of the Tang Dynasty in the past, and a rich place like Southern Chu was where they coveted. Under the control of the Eastern Qi, Southern Chu could only watch the Western Qin people raise pigs in such a leisurely manner on the frontier year after year, and the leading generals of the Western Frontier Army changed one after another, until eight years ago, Zuo Lixing took office, and this began to change.

Zuo Lixing set up a death camp, with death row prisoners as soldiers, but as long as the merits are accumulated to a certain extent, they can be whitewashed and returned to the status of normal people, and even can be promoted to officers in the army, although this policy in Southern Chu was greatly affected by those scholars, but the emperor of the Southern Chu court, who was already mad at that time, agreed to Zuo Lixing's request, as long as he is not a death row prisoner who has committed a major crime of rebellion, as long as he is willing to enter the death camp as a soldier, he can temporarily gain freedom and accumulate enough meritorious service, It is up to them to decide whether to leave the barracks or transfer to regular military service.

Zuo Lixing used these thousands of death row prisoners as the vanguard of the army, fought for several years, and finally occupied half of the Luoying Mountains, established Jingjing Pass, and choked the main road for the Western Qin people to enter Anyang County.

Of course, to achieve this goal, tens of thousands of death row prisoners fell in the Luoying Mountains. Death row prisoners from all over Southern Chu continued to enter the death camp, and then fell on this land one by one, of course, there are many successful people, and these people have become the objects of Nanchu's vigorous propaganda.

Regardless of whether the death row inmates who are still in prison believe in the propaganda of the imperial court, one thing is certain, that is, if you enter the death camp, you may die, but if you stay in prison, you will definitely die, so there is still an endless stream of people who sign up. At its peak, the number of death camps reached 5,000. However, in recent years, as Southern Chu gained a firm foothold in the Luoying Mountains, the number of attacks by the Western Qin people decreased year by year, and the number of soldiers in the death battalion shrank to 2,000. The threshold for wanting to enter the death camp has naturally been raised, and without some skills, it is basically impossible to be favored by those who go to recruit.

The people in the western border army are very clear that although the number of people in the death battalion is less than half, but the combat effectiveness has not decreased but increased, the previous death battalion is purely a real death force, life for life, only those with excellent luck can survive, and the commander Zuo Lixing did not regard them as real subordinates, but all the big battles, whether it was rushing into battle, or after the break, it was all done by this army, and he didn't care how many people died, because these guys were originally guilty of capital crimes. It is much more glorious to die on the battlefield than to die on the court, at least they die here, and their families can still get a pension for the death of the war, and they can also wash away their sins in life.

This situation was not until Qin Feng entered the death camp.

Qin Feng is an outlier, when he joined the army, his martial arts were quite rooted, in the recruitment of the Western Frontier Army, he was a blockbuster, and defeated several good players in the Western Frontier Army, Zuo Lixing originally wanted to include him in his own personal army to cultivate well, but this boy who was only sixteen years old at the time had to enter the death camp, otherwise he would rather not enter the army.

Zuo Lixing had never seen such a bad person, in a fit of anger, he really sent him to the death camp, and never bothered to pay attention to him, until a year later, he repeatedly saw this person's name on the merit book, it turned out that this guy was not only not killed in the death camp, but became a lieutenant step by step, and only when he reached the rank of lieutenant, his name would appear in Zuo Lixing's eyes.

Next, Zuo Lixing began to pay attention to this guy. Four years ago, in order to seize control of the Huiying Mountains, the Western Qin people destroyed the Jingjing Pass, mobilized a large army, and launched a surprise attack, the tragedy of that battle made Zuo Lixing still think about it and still have lingering palpitations, two thousand daring battalions, and finally only survived less than 100 people, after repelling the Western Qin people, Zuo Lixing saw Qin Feng's name again in the list of survivors.

This time, Zuo Lixing did not hesitate, even if he summoned Qin Feng and wanted to transfer him to the regular army as a captain, Zuo Lixing wanted to grind this guy for two years, and then transfer him to his side as a captain in his own military battalion, to be able to live in the death camp for so long, and step by step to be promoted to lieutenant, has fully demonstrated the skills of this eighteen-year-old boy.

But the two talked for a long time, Zuo Lixing finally understood why Qin Feng wanted to go to the death camp, and after a long sigh, he appointed Qin Feng as the captain of the death camp.

It was from that moment that the death battalion began to metamorphose. The Western Qin people were also injured in this battle, and there was never a war of this scale again, although there were countless small-scale battles, but it did not hinder the Southern Chu people from holding the Jingjing Pass steadily, controlling half of the Luoying Mountain Range.

The strength of the death battalion shrank again and again until it had only 2,000 men, nearly half less than the average battalion, but their combat effectiveness always ranked first among all battalions. Zuo Lixing also made up his mind to incorporate the death battalion into his command and become the official establishment of the Western Frontier Army.

Qin Feng became the captain of the death battalion that could not be shaken, and he stayed in the death camp for six years. The result of staying in the death camp for many years is that the death camp only knows that there is Qin Feng, but does not know that there is Zuo Lixing. But Zuo Lixing didn't care, because of Qin Feng's details, he knew very well, and although it was a pity in his heart, he couldn't do anything. He personally cut Qin Feng's pulse and practiced that kind of domineering internal breathing technique, which had already put Qin Feng's body in danger.

After the death battalion became a formal unit, it beat a group of its peers to the ground in many military exercises on the western border in which it participated, and established the status of the death battalion in the western border army in one fell swoop. Their equipment is second only to Zuo Lixing's pro-military battalion in the western border army, which makes all the departments envious, but there is nothing to say, who can let the family fight, and the war achievements are great!

The death battalion still maintains the old tradition of recruiting death row prisoners into the army, but the recruitment is selected by the death camp itself, and every year, one of the three lieutenants of the death battalion will go to the mainland to select those death row prisoners who have signed up. This makes the standard of the soldiers who enter the death camp higher and higher, and of course, more and more difficult to manage.

But no matter how arrogant the guy is, as long as he enters the death camp, he will be disciplined by Qin Feng to be obedient, and he will never dare to blow up his hair again. Qin Feng was training and fighting, and the military discipline was so strict that the other battalion leaders were daunted, but in peacetime, he never cared what the people in the death camp did, which also caused the death camp to become a public nuisance.

Several generals who walked out of the death battalion also wanted to implement what they had learned under Qin Feng in other troops, but they all failed without exception, and the leopard had to change a battalion to become a lieutenant, because he wounded several lieutenants, and the fight was won, but the order was ineffective.

Only then did they realize that the one in the death camp would not work anywhere else.

The death battalion has become an outlier in the western border army, and of course, he is also an outlier in the entire Southern Chu army, and now, this outlier is carefully advancing in the Luoying Mountains, and every officer knows in his heart that this time, they are decoys, and they are going to an extremely dangerous situation. According to the intelligence of the imperial court, in front of them, there were countless Western Qin people who were waiting for them, and how to convince the enemy that their main force was on the way to come, and how to make themselves get out smoothly was a question that every officer was worried about.

They have fought with the Western Qin people for so many years, and they know too well what kind of virtue the Western Qin people are, that is a group of poor and crazy guys. In their eyes, the soldiers of Southern Chu are a moving treasure trove, and as long as they defeat one, they will make a fortune.