Daming: At the start of the showdown, Lao Zhu was stunned

Chapter 982 Mars
In the Ming army camp, Xie Jin and Zhu Xiongying were standing on the observation deck, looking towards the enemy camp. There was nothing unusual in the direction of the enemy camp, which made Xie Jin quite worried and impatient.

"Your Highness, should we try to contact Guilichi and others and ask them to create unrest in the enemy camp?"

"Just relying on the arguments that the captives don't care about and two steamed buns... will the captives really rebel and cause unrest in Tatar?"

"You have to know that these grassland people under Ben Ya Shi Li are all die-hards who are determined to oppose the Ming Dynasty. Otherwise, they would not still respond to the banner of Ben Ya Shi Li and Alutai and fight against the Ming Dynasty together with them in the current situation."

"These people, relying only on the kindness of us two steamed buns,

"Will they really take the initiative to rebel against the Tatars and serve the Ming Dynasty?"

Zhu Xiongying glanced at Xie Jin, smiled bitterly and said, "Yes, sir, you are right. In fact, I originally thought so."

"These past few days, I have been tossing and turning, still unable to understand how those captives could possibly rebel against the Tatars and turn their hearts to the Ming Dynasty. If we release them, will it be like letting a tiger return to the mountains, making the Tatars even more powerful?"

"But, when it comes to winning hearts and minds, Uncle Five is the best in my Ming Dynasty. Even Uncle Four, who has won every battle, highly praises Uncle Five's strategy of winning hearts and minds. Although Uncle Five is thousands of miles away, since he left a secret letter to me, I think he has already thought it through carefully."

"Moreover, I have figured out some ideas these days... Mr. Xie, why is it that 'helping someone in need' is more memorable than 'adding icing on the cake'? They are both gifts of kindness, aren't they?"

Xie Jin was stunned, thought for a moment, and replied, "They are incomparable."

"If you are in a desperate situation and receive help, you will naturally be more grateful."

"What you said is very true. If people receive help when they are in danger and desperate situations, they will naturally be more grateful." Zhu Xiongying said.

"Those people are either die-hard fans of the Golden Family or feel that the Ming Dynasty has seized their Mongolian homeland... In short, their desire to oppose the Ming Dynasty is more deeply rooted than others."

"They and our Ming Dynasty are mortal enemies who fight each other. Whether they kill all our Ming army or our Ming army kills them all, it is only natural."

"However, we, the Ming army, did not kill them. Instead, we gave them hope to survive and let them return north. When we let them go, we even gave them two steamed buns because we were worried that they might be hungry on the way."

"Sir, do you think they will be more grateful to us? ... Even if they are just grateful for the kindness of these two buns?"

Xie Jin was silent. He pondered for a while, then shook his head and said, "Although this is the case, as Your Highness said, we should be in a situation where we fight to the death with them."

"It's not hard to guess what we are doing. It's obviously to show our goodwill to them. I'm afraid even an ordinary soldier can understand our intentions. So these favors... I'm afraid they are still not enough to change their minds against our Ming Dynasty."

"Hahahaha." Zhu Xiongying laughed. "I felt the same way before."

"But, tonight I suddenly felt that since even an ordinary Tatar soldier could guess that we wanted to show them kindness, how could the Fifth Uncle's deep intentions be limited to this?"

"My fifth uncle once taught me that human hearts are very complicated... They may subconsciously resist our army's overtures because of their vigilance against the Ming Dynasty."

"But when they return, if they are treated unfairly or even badly, they will immediately think of their experience in our army, think of those two buns, think of how good our army was to them, and then become even more angry about the unfair treatment they received... even if those favors were actually very insignificant."

"The favor from the enemy...will be more conspicuous under the harsh treatment of friendly forces, is that right?" Xie Jin murmured, his eyes becoming brighter and brighter.

"Perhaps..." Zhu Xiongying said, his face was full of energy, he felt that he had learned a lot from this incident about how to control people's hearts and minds. "Perhaps, Uncle Wu wanted to let those people work for the Tatars while slowly getting closer to the Ming Dynasty..."

"This is really crazy...but, it's not impossible."

"I'll wait a little longer."

"Perhaps, it is really possible..."

Zhu Xiongying looked expectantly towards the east where the Tatar camp was located, hoping that one day he would see the fire described in Zhu Su's letter in that direction.

A fire that guided the Ming army to victory.

……

At this time, Guilichi in the Tatar camp was witnessing the sparks before the fire started.

"Even those Ming people have never treated us like you do."

When they heard these words, Guilichi, Hulegen, and even the Ming army spies who were sent into the interior of Tatar were all stunned.

Even though they had thought about whether or not they should take the initiative to stir up trouble, they did not expect that someone would say such words so directly.

Of course, this statement may not be sincere, it is just an angry remark said during an argument.

But what was incredible was that this sentence was beyond their expectations and was unanimously recognized by the released captives. They were even more united in their hatred of the enemy and used it as an argument to attack the Tatar soldiers on the opposite side.

In their view, the reason they were captured by the Ming army was because they had fought to the death with the Ming army. This was the act of a warrior. Even the Ming army recognized their courage and did not make things difficult for them during their captivity.

However, these "comrades" in front of us are even worse than the enemy Ming army, and they are so cruel that they despise and exclude them. God knows whether you are safe because you sold out your teammates during the battle, and now you are here to call us cowards?

The Tatar soldiers also had their own theories about this. They looked down upon the released captives without mercy: "If the Ming army was so good, wouldn't you have been captives of the Ming dogs for the rest of your lives?"

"You are a bunch of defeated soldiers, and you still have the nerve to come here to beg for food!"

"You call yourselves the warriors of the grasslands. Warriors, where are your weapons? Oh, I forgot that all your weapons were seized by the Ming army. You shamelessly ran back with only your underpants left!"

"Yo, you still dare to attack me? You have no weapons, what can you use to attack me? The only bird that has not been captured?"

Under the constant provocation of each other, the two groups completely wrestled with each other, and the scene was completely chaotic.

"Actually... there has been a civil strife!" Guilichi and others were stunned.

(End of this chapter)