Zhou Shixiang was unwilling to execute all the Qing army prisoners, but with the strength of the Taiping army, he could not eat so many prisoners, after all, there were only more than 1,000 people left in the Taiping army after the war, and the Qing army that absorbed 4,000 people at once surrendered the troops, and the priorities were completely reversed, which would kill the Taiping army.

Hu Deyu proposed to surrender the troops, which also made Zhou Shi look at the former county magistrate of the mountain, who looked like Si Swenwen on the outside, and secretly admired the good courage and murderous heart of this county lord, which could not be done by Song Xianggong, who was also a scholar. Such a character cannot be underestimated.

The surrender of troops will definitely not be able to kill all of them, and Zhou Shixiang cannot accept Hu Deyu's suggestion of a complete waste of human resources. He found Chen Qice and Wu Yuan and told him what he meant. Zhou Shixiang thinks that although these soldiers are all bastards who help and abandon their ancestors, after all, they are also Han people, whether they are banner soldiers or battalion soldiers, they are still Han in the eyes of the Manchurians, so they can be treated differently from the Manchurians, after all, so many soldiers who have been killed in battle are of use to the Taiping army and the sailors, and it is too wasteful to kill them all.

After thinking about it repeatedly, Chen Qice agreed with Zhou Shixiang's opinion, and Wu Yuan also felt that killing people was not the best way to deal with it, but how to deal with such a large number of troops was also a troublesome matter. At present, the Ming army is under the pressure of a great victory, and the surrendered troops will not dare to act rashly for a while, but if the time goes by, it is inevitable that they will not make any trouble. Besides, the two armies don't have much food, so they can't just feed them like this.

Wu Yuan asked Zhou Shixiang what he could, and Zhou Shixiang suggested that the same as the distribution of people's husbands, the surrender of troops should still be divided between the two families. But before the partition, the surrendered troops themselves had to kill the officers among them, so that they could get rid of those diehards who were still looking for the Qing army. Then the flag soldiers and battalion soldiers were scattered and scrambled to supplement the two armies.

In the Taiping army, there were already Han army banner soldiers and green battalion soldiers who surrendered, and they also had experience in how to rectify and change the surrendered troops, and absorb one or two thousand surrendered troops, although there was still a certain risk. But Zhou Shixiang is confident that it can be solved, even if there are some small troubles, it will not affect the overall situation. If the sailor can't accept so many Qing troops to join for a while, he can use them as masters. No matter how many troops there are, they are locked up in Xinhui City or placed on a ship, with no weapons in their hands and no one to lead, is it possible that they are really afraid that they will turn against the sky. Waiting for the service made them live for a long time, and they were cut off from the idea of surrendering again, and then they naturally became the Ming army.

Zhou Shixiang said another way, you can choose some strong people among the troops. Give them some power, and they will manage the other surrendered troops, so that these surrendered troops with the support and appointment of the Ming army will become the best supervisors of the Ming army, and some good surrendered troops can be selected to directly supplement the army, so that they can get out of the heavy life of hard labor, have hope and example, and then have the supervision of their own people, why worry about the rest of the surrendered troops will not return to the Ming army. Moreover, these surrendered troops were all field armies of the Qing army. The land battle was a weakness of the naval division, and with these surrenders, the naval division was more confident of holding Xinhui, and then cooperated with the possible Li Dingguo's army to threaten Guangzhou.

Listen to these thoughts. Chen Qice praised him, smiled and asked Wu Yuan to arrange it with Hu Deyu, and he pulled Zhou Shixiang along the river to inspect the site where the Sailor Wharf was being built. The old general will be full of thoughts about how to firmly control the new meeting in his hands, for this reason. He had decided to move the base of the sailors from the overseas Shangchuan and Xiachuan islands to Xinhuilai, and the new sailor camp was built by the river. On the way, Zhou Shixiang proposed to exchange some bronze cannons with the Hongyi cannons and sailors at the head of Xinhui City.

The Hongyi cannons at the head of Xinhui City are all big guys transported by the Qing army from Guangzhou. Each one weighs thousands of catties, and this kind of big guy can only be placed at the head of the city and cannot be fought in the field, so the Taiping army has no way to carry these cannons into Xiangshan. Chen Qice's sailors had a lot of warships, Zhou Shixiang had seen that basically every warship was equipped with several to dozens of large and small guns, these guns had poor quality iron cannons, there were also good quality copper cannons, and the weight was not equal, but all of them were much lighter than Hongyi cannons.

Zhou Shixiang could have given all the Hongyi cannons in Xinhui City to Chen Qice, but the thick artillery background of the sailor made him change his mind, thinking about whether he could exchange some copper cannons from Chen Qice that could be easily carried, so that the Taiping army could quickly organize an artillery team to attack the fortified after arriving in Xiangshan.

He also talked to Chen Qice about it with a dispensable mentality, but he didn't want to, but the old general was very generous, and agreed to Zhou Shixiang's request for this exchange without saying a word, and promised that one Hongyi cannon could be exchanged for three bronze cannons with the sailor. In addition, the old general heard that the Taiping Army was short of medicine, and generously gave Zhou Shixiang 750 catties of medicine. For this, Zhou Shixiang is of course grateful.

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With the order of the Ming army, the Qing army officers in the hiding team were identified and brought out one by one, totaling 213 people, including 53 people from the Han army flag, and the rest were from the green battalion.

"Get on your knees!"

More than 200 Qing army officers were ordered to strip naked and naked. Kneeling naked at the edge of the trench, the trench was cloudy, and the stakes were hideously visible.

The Qing officers kneeling on the edge of the ditch knew that they would not escape death when they were dragged out by the Ming army, but their instinctive desire to survive still prompted them to cry and beg for mercy.

"Spare your life! Spare your life..."

"The military master of the Ming Dynasty spares his life, the small ones are Han people, and the small ones are Han people..."

"If it's a Han people, you should kill our Han people?!"

Ge Zheng glanced at these braided bare-bottomed pigs in disgust, and coldly waved his big hand.

More than 200 Qing soldiers who were selected to carry out the execution on the side walked behind the object they wanted to execute with pale faces, and shouted another order, and the Qing soldiers who carried out the execution closed their eyes and gritted their teeth and slashed the big knife, and almost at the same time, more than 200 heads rolled down into the ditch. The bodies of the decapitated officers were then thrown into a ditch and quickly buried by the surrendered troops.

The thousands of Qing army captives who witnessed the beheading of the officer were all trembling at this moment, and they looked at the trench in front of them silently, obeying the subsequent arrangements of the Ming army without saying a word. Groups of soldiers walked out of the ranks, or into the city of Xinhui, or to the riverside to board the boat, or into the temporary camp.

The generals of the Taiping Army and the Navy Division were in charge of each other, and immediately began to reorganize and transform their own homes after the handover and distribution of surrendered troops.

For several days in a row, the Taiping army was rectifying the newly attracted people and young people, and Zhou Shixiang was scheduled to cross the river half a month later, that is, on November 10. On the ninth day of the first lunar month, Chen Qice sent an envoy to Lianchengbi, the governor of Liangguang, to bring back the governor's commendation order for the recovery of Xinhui, and at the same time brought a news that alarmed the Ming army - Li Dingguo, the king of Xining, moved the son of heaven from Anlong Mansion to Kunming. (To be continued.) )