The Song Dynasty on the Sand Table

Chapter 141 What to do?
Zhang Yong is the new name given to Zhang Dalang, the captain of the Zhangjia Village team.

He was now wearing a set of armor made by a blacksmith in the county town. He looked decent and if he didn't speak, others would have taken him for a general of the Song army. But once he opened his mouth, his bandit nature was revealed.

Wang Hong cursed in his heart, but he didn't dare to rush towards Zhang Yong.

The pseudo-Jin thieves were already weak in the first place, and once their morale collapsed, they had no fighting power at all.

Wang Hong just wanted to run away.

He didn't care about the scumbag soldiers who were running around like headless flies, and shouted to the more than one hundred personal soldiers around him who could barely maintain their formation: "Retreat, retreat quickly."

"General, which direction should we retreat?"

"Run the same way you came."

The soldiers quickly turned around and ran back and forth.

Fortunately, they did not go deep into the forest, and the way back was not blocked by the rebels, so they were able to fight and retreat.

Several Yuanyang formations rushed over from the side, trying to stop Wang Hong.

Although the personal soldiers around Wang Hong were cowardly, their lives were at stake at this moment, so they had to fight even if they were afraid. A group of brave men rushed up and stabbed the Mandarin Duck Formation with their spears.

There are no monsters like Zhang Dashu in these mandarin duck formations. Their strength is limited, and firearms are temporarily banned. Their formations have changed several times, but were disrupted by the brave warriors using martial arts.

In the end, Wang Hong failed to stay!
He fought his way out of the encirclement and escaped with more than a hundred personal soldiers.

But his other men were not so lucky. The mandarin duck formation that surrounded them from all directions trapped more than 800 other pseudo-Gold thieves. In a short while, hundreds of them died. The rest did not dare to fight anymore, and could not escape, so they knelt down and begged for mercy.

Zhang Yong didn't dare to kill the captives without authorization. He waited until Madam Gong Er, Yue Wenxuan, and Qi Jiguang, the true generals, came down the hillside nearby. Then he respectfully asked for instructions: "Many of the pseudo-Jin bandits have surrendered. What should we do with them?"

Madam Gong Er said, "To work for the Jin thieves is tantamount to being a traitor. Chop them all off."

As soon as these words came out, the group of prisoners started to cry and shout: "Don't kill me... I don't want to... But if I don't join the puppet army, I will die... I will die... I just don't want to die, what else can I do..."

Madam Gong Er said sternly, "You surrender just because you're afraid of death? How dare you say such shameless words? Drag them all out and chop them off!"

The rebel soldiers went to drag the people away...

But one puppet soldier cried loudly: "I have an old mother and children at home. If I don't surrender, my whole family will die...Your family is not in Hebei, and you are in Shandong. How can you understand the difficulties of the people of Hebei...If you think we are wrong, then kill all the people in Hebei. After all, most of Hebei has surrendered."

When these words were spoken, Madam Gong Er was slightly stunned.

The rebel soldier who was pulling him couldn't help but stop.

Yes, Hebei is not as good as Shandong!

The northern part of Hebei has been occupied for a long time. If the Han people there do not surrender, how can they protect their lives and property?

Saying "I'm not afraid of death" and then letting your whole family die is politically correct, but not everyone can do it.

Madam Gong Er suddenly shouted at the captive, "How many Han people have you killed since you surrendered to the Jin?" The captive cried, "None. We never fought a proper battle. We had a fake battle with Guan Sheng at the gates of Jinan, like children playing house. After that, every city we passed surrendered. We didn't fight a single battle, and we didn't kill a single Han person."

Madam Gong Er stared at the prisoner's face carefully, but saw that he did not seem to be lying.

It seems that you can't lie about this kind of thing. Whether the war took place or not will be known after investigation.

At this time, Yue Wenxuan finally spoke: "Why don't you go to Wuma Mountain?"

The puppet soldier cried loudly: "If I have the chance to surrender to Wumashan, of course I will go. Who the hell wants to shave their hair like that? But I can't just go there whenever I want. I only know the name of Wumashan and I don't even know where to go. How can I go there? If I leave the barracks without permission, I will be beheaded if I am caught. How can I escape?"

He cried sadly, and a large group of puppet soldiers followed suit, crying and wailing, making a loud noise.

Madam Gong Er's expression slowly changed. Her face, which had been stern and unwavering just now, now flickered with a hint of pity and compassion. She turned and whispered to Yue Wenxuan, "Master, what should we do? He's not without reason. It doesn't seem logical to exterminate such people. If we surrender to the Jin bandits and kill everyone who works for them, then most of the people in Hebei will be killed."

Zhang Yong also whispered, "It seems they have never fought a battle before. With their current condition, they can't even capture a city."

Yue Wenxuan was thinking in his heart: In fact, it was not just Hebei. Shandong also fell later. Most Shandong people also surrendered and worked for the Jin Dynasty. For example, Ma Banzhou surrendered.

Ma Congyi, also known as Danyangzi Ma Yu, took the imperial examinations of the Jin Dynasty when he grew up and served as an official for several years. He later resigned and became a Taoist priest.

Later, in order to promote Quanzhen Taoism, Qiu Chuji also went to please Jin Shizong. Jin Shizong not only gave him a big peach as a reward, but also asked Qiu Chuji to preside over the Wanchun Festival ceremony.

If you surrender to the Jin Dynasty and work for the Jin people, you will be executed. The above-mentioned people will all be executed. I really don’t know what kind of killing will happen. A large number of famous people in history will be killed.

Yue Wenxuan asked in return, "Second Madam, you don't consider the greater good, but only your simple humanity. What do you think we should do now?"

Madam Gong Er considered it seriously for a while and said, "Surrendering to the Jin is understandable, but attacking the prefectures and counties of the Song Dynasty under the banner of the Jin army is a serious crime. If your hands are stained with the blood of Han people, you must be killed. But if they do this, it seems..."

Yue Wenxuan smiled: "Speak boldly!"

Madam Gong Er said, "It doesn't seem necessary to kill them. We can make them work for us... I dare to ask the True Lord to spare their lives and make them mine slaves to atone for their sins."

Yue Wenxuan: "Mine slaves? That's a good idea."

Madam Gong Er was overjoyed: The True Lord said I had a good idea.

Yue Wenxuan continued, "But the word 'slave' is not good! Slavery is a very backward and barbaric system. We cannot go backwards and make society go backwards."

Madam Gong Er: “???”

Yue Wenxuan: "I'll give them a new name, let's call them labor camp prisoners. They are people who have made mistakes and need to be reformed through labor."

Madam Gong Er: "Reform-through-labor prisoner, that name sounds quite catchy."

Thus, the name of labor camp prisoners was decided.

The rebels began to clean up the battlefield, picking up the arrows that had been shot one by one, and also picking up the weapons and armor that the pseudo-Jin thieves had discarded when they fled. These things were thrown in the woods and grass, and it was really difficult to find them, so they just happened to be escorting the prisoners to do the work.

(End of this chapter)