Chapter 518: Huan Fan's Means
However, the relocation of Xiongnu civilians was a huge and systematic project that could not be completed within a few months or even a year. If Cao Liang was allowed to handle this matter personally, the time would definitely not be wasted.
Therefore, Cao Liang could only leave the specific affairs to the people of Hedong County to handle. Fortunately, Cao Liang had a good relationship with Ding Juncheng and Lin Duwei, and Ding Juncheng and Lin Duwei were also willing to help, so the matter was quickly resolved.
After it was finalized, the plan was proposed by Cao Liang, and the specific implementation steps were completed by Hedong County.
Of course, Cao Liang also asked Cao Liang to report to Luoyang immediately to inform Cao Shuang about this matter. For such an important decision, Cao Liang must obtain Cao Shuang's consent.
As for the prisoners of war, Cao Liang handed it over to Huan Fan, who had full authority to deal with it.
During the initial battle, Cao Liang had sought Huan Fan's opinion, and Huan Fan immediately gave Cao Liang an idea. Now that this situation occurred, Cao Liang naturally kicked the ball to Huan Fan.
Huan Fan did not refuse, perhaps he already had a plan in mind when he proposed advice to Cao Liang.
There were about 5,500 Xiongnu prisoners of war. If there were a large number of prisoners of war, Huan Fan would naturally not dare to imprison them in one place. Instead, he divided them into eleven prisoner of war camps, with about 500 people in each camp, and held them separately.
They are incompatible with each other.
The purpose of this is obviously to prevent riots. The camps are so far apart that they can't even hear each other's voices. Even if the prisoners of war in one camp riot, it will not affect the other camps.
In order to prevent prisoners of war from escaping, most of these prisoner-of-war camps chose some valleys as their bases. In this case, the Wei army did not need to send many soldiers and horses to act as guards. As long as they sealed off the surrounding valleys, they could completely control these prisoners of war.
After being captured, most of these Huns were uneasy. They didn't know what was waiting for them. Will they be beheaded? Therefore, these people's emotions were extremely uneasy. If there was any slight disturbance, they would become
Get nervous.
Perhaps most of these Huns soldiers already regretted it. On the battlefield, they still had weapons in their hands and had the capital to fight to the death. However, after surrendering, they lost their weapons and naturally became meat on the chopping board, ready to be slaughtered.
The Wei army did not seem to have any extreme measures. In addition to being more closely guarded, they rarely even entered the prisoner-of-war camp, and turned a blind eye to some conflicts that occurred in the prisoner-of-war camp.
Since the food rations in the prisoner-of-war camp are not very abundant, after being imprisoned here, these prisoners-of-war can only be allocated one meal a day, which is barely enough to satisfy their hunger. It is impossible to be full.
The shortage of food will naturally lead to some contradictions and conflicts. In prisoner-of-war camps, bullying often occurs. Some Huns form gangs and rob lonely people of food. Sometimes, they even beat people to death.
The guards of the Wei army seemed to turn a blind eye to this phenomenon and allowed the Huns to rob and even kill people. They did not care. At most, Wei soldiers entered the prisoner-of-war camp only after someone was seriously injured or died.
The injured or dead were dragged away.
Even when some of the beaten people came to ask for help from the Wei soldiers, what they encountered was the cold eyes and swords and guns of the Wei soldiers. Only after death would the Wei soldiers come to collect the corpses.
The situation in each prisoner-of-war camp is not much different. Although these Huns are greedy for life and afraid of death, they will easily surrender under the coercion of the Wei army. However, when they really rebel in the nest, they are still very violent, and the Huns are very brave.
The ruthless energy is vividly displayed.
Huan Fan has been wandering around these eleven prisoner-of-war camps for the past few days. The performance of the Huns prisoners of war is not beyond his expectation at all. In order to survive, people often do whatever it takes. The behavior of these Huns soldiers is normal.
But that's it.
Huan Fan wanted such an effect. Although the food and wages distributed by the imperial court could only be used by the Pingbei Army battalions, the large amounts of food, grass and materials captured by the Wei army in this battle could still be put to use.
Under normal circumstances, there would be no problem in temporarily supplying the prisoner-of-war camp with sufficient food. However, Huan Fan deliberately asked the Wei army to reduce the food supply to the prisoner-of-war camp, just to see how the Huns would react to the food shortage.
If these Huns prisoners of war had united to fight in order to survive, Huan Fan would have used other methods to deal with it. But now it seems that the Huns have no sense of unity at all. They fight with each other and rob each other, which is completely in Huan Fan's way.
Fan’s intentions.
So Huan Fan ordered to further reduce the food rations for the Huns, cutting off half of the original supply at once, which would make nearly half of the Huns hungry.
Hunger makes people crazy. When the hungry Hun soldiers saw the food, their eyes turned green, because the food provided by the Wei army today was not the kind of bran vegetables that were difficult to swallow, but was roasted to a golden crisp and full of aroma.
The temptation of roasted whole lamb is definitely irresistible to a hungry person.
But when five hundred people come to divide this sheep, you can imagine what will happen.
The Hun soldiers, blinded by hunger, swarmed up to snatch the roasted sheep. In the process, stampedes and crowding would inevitably occur. Many Hun soldiers were trampled on by others as soon as they stretched out their hands in front of the roasted sheep.
The feet were trampled until their flesh and blood were bruised, and it was too horrible to look at.
Soon a roasted whole lamb was torn to pieces by countless hands. The Hun soldiers who snatched the lamb stuffed it into their mouths excitedly. But these people were only a few after all. More people in the back saw even the bones of the lamb being divided.
Nothing is left.
Hunger makes people lose their minds. In order to snatch food, all brotherhood and friendship are completely ignored. The Huns soldiers who grabbed the food became the targets of the murder. They just stuffed a mouthful of mutton into their mouths, and the back of their heads
The flowers bloomed immediately, and the stone picked from nowhere smashed the Hun soldier's Tianling Cap, and the ground was covered with red blood and white brains.
The fight for food gradually evolved into a larger-scale conflict, in which almost all the Huns prisoners of war were involved, and the entire prisoner-of-war camp was in chaos.
Huan Fan twisted his beard and smiled slightly. This bloody and cruel scene was originally directed by him. The Huns killed each other. This is probably the best result. Without the help of Wei soldiers, these Huns started fighting among themselves. Look.
Chapter completed!