Captured from the middle.

Zhao Run raised his eyebrows and walked towards his children with a slight smile.

It was a rare family gathering, and he didn't want to be disturbed by anything. What's more, with Zhang Qigong in Bashu and Sima Shang, Xu Li, Huan Hu and others in Song County, he really didn't need to worry too much.

Half a month later, that is, in early May, a reply from Wei King Zhao Run was sent to "Feng County" in Song County and delivered to the hands of Sima Shang, the governor of Song County.

After carefully reading Wei Wang Zhao Run's analysis of Chu's cruel military training methods in his letter, Sima Shang was convinced and secretly admired the monarch's discernment.

He invited Ma You, the general of Shangshui Youma who was still in Song County, and showed the latter a letter from Wei King Zhao Run, and said: "Your Majesty signaled to us that we should treat those Chu people as cruelly as the cold winter."

The soldiers of the state, let the soldiers of the Chu state fear our Song County. At this time, the generals of the Chu army forced the soldiers of the Chu state to attack our country, Wei, at the expense of sacrifice. Then,

Some soldiers will be resentful towards their generals; in addition, your Majesty asks us to treat the soldiers of Chu State who are willing to defect to our Song County...Chu State treats them with "strictness", and we will treat them with "strictness".

"Kindness"; the Chu State treats them with "violence", and we will treat them with "kindness". As time goes by, those Chu soldiers will continue to flee towards us."

Hearing this, Ma You was also very happy and said repeatedly: "In this way, Chu State is like making a wedding dress for me, the Wei Dynasty... I immediately wrote a letter and sent someone to inform Shang Shui."

It turns out that a similar phenomenon occurred in Shangshui County a month ago.

On the same day, Sima Shang came to the prisoner camp in Changyi City to inspect the conditions of the prisoners of the Chu army.

These prisoners of the Chu army were all captured by the Wei army during the recent Chu army's attack on Feng County.

To be honest, Sima Shang had a headache for these prisoners.

Kill them. It is not his character to kill prisoners for no reason. But let these people go. Nine times out of ten, these people will still escape to the command of Xinyang Lord Xiang Pei, and then follow the orders of the Three Pillars of Chu State.

Next, he came to attack Feng County again.

Therefore, Sima Shang simply decided to temporarily imprison these prisoners, and usually let these people repair the city defense under the supervision of Wei soldiers.

But now, with the instruction of King Zhao Run of Wei, Sima Shang decided to start with these prisoners first.

It has to be said that the civilians of Chu State are indeed much less loyal to their country than those of Wei State and South Korea. Just like the prisoners of the Chu army in the prison camp, more than half of them are food recruits - that is, in order to obtain

He fed his family with a meager amount of food, but he resolutely sold himself to the civilians of the Chu army.

For these civilians who joined the Chu army because they were desperate, how could they be willing to set foot on the battlefield as long as they were given a way to survive?

Therefore, when Sima Shang asked them if they were willing to defect to Wei and become Wei's subjects, these Chu soldiers expressed their willingness to submit.

Their only concern is their parents, wife and children staying at home.

Seeing this, Sima Shang smiled and said to them: "Even if you are worried about your family members who are still in Chu State, I will release you and give you dry food so that you can return to Chu State and take your family to our Song Dynasty."

County... If you are waiting for someone you know from Tongze, or if you have few brothers or uncles at home, you might as well take them with you.

Come to me, Song County. We, Song County, have enough money and food to support you and so on... In addition, if you and others can recruit brothers and uncles who are comrades in the army, we, Song County, will reward you accordingly. If you recruit five people, you will be awarded

For the post of corps commander, if there are ten people, the post of commander will be given to you. In addition, there are also fields and houses available for you and others."

These words conveying the instructions of King Zhao Run of Wei made the prisoners of Chu army feel excited.

An hour later, Sima Shang ordered people to open the city gate and release all the prisoners of the Chu army.

Looking at the backs of these Chu army prisoners running away, Sima Shang said to Ma You: "As long as half of these people are persuaded by you and me, the Chu army will have fun..."

"Hehe." Ma You gloated and laughed.

Just as Sima Shang guessed, among the more than 2,000 Chu army prisoners, only a few 700 to 800 people returned directly to Chu State, returned to their hometown to pick up their children and defected to Song County.

It's not that the others just pretended to surrender to Song County. The more reason is that these soldiers did not know the way back to their hometown, so they had no choice but to return to the command of Xinyang Lord Xiang Pei.

After returning to Xinyang Jun Xiang Pei's command, these Chu soldiers revealed Sima Shang's words to the other Chu soldiers, which made the other Chu soldiers also feel excited.

As a result, the Chu army under Xinyang Jun Xiang Pei began to show signs of premeditated escapes of large numbers of soldiers - these soldiers often formed groups of acquaintances from the same village and county, and fled together at nightfall.

So that we can take care of each other.

During this period, Niyu, the brave general who became Xiang Pei's subordinate after Xiang Mo's death in battle, was the first to notice this situation. When he ordered the arrest of a group of deserters, he interrogated the real reason why these soldiers fled and quickly reported the matter.

Report to Xinyang Jun Xiang Pei: "Your Majesty, Sima Shang of Song County, released the captive soldiers of our army and promised them all kinds of favors, so that deserters appeared one after another in our army..."

After Xinyang Jun Xiang Pei heard this, his expression changed drastically.

Immediately, he let out a long sigh.

In fact, he had long expected that something like this would happen: they treated their soldiers so cruelly, and they did not hesitate to let the supervising team and the regular army hold up weapons to force the food recruits and new recruits to step onto the battlefield to fight the Wei army. It was conceivable that

I know the deep resentment in the hearts of these soldiers.

But now, Sima Shang of Song County took the opportunity to express his goodwill to these soldiers and made various promises to instigate them to rebel. Just think about it and you know which side those soldiers will choose.

But understanding is understanding, and the position he is in makes Xinyang Jun Xiang Pei unable to tolerate this situation.

So, he immediately summoned all the troops under his command, and in front of the entire army, he executed the deserters who tried to escape, and said to the soldiers in the camp: "This is the fate of deserters!... I will kill them,

It's not just because they became deserters, but because they tried to defect to the Wei army. Wei is our enemy of Chu. In the near future, Wei will send a large army to attack our Chu. If everyone is like this

Traitors usually defect to Wei, and Chu will be overthrown because of this. Remember, you are sacrificing yourself for the country!"

In the next few days, Xinyang Jun Xiang Pei spared no effort to instill the idea of ​​protecting the home and country into his soldiers, which made the situation of the soldiers' escape slightly improved.

But unfortunately, Sima Shang of Song County seemed to want to go against Xiang Pei, Lord of Xinyang. He deliberately sent Chu soldiers who defected to Song County to shout to the soldiers of Chu state under Xinyang Lord Xiang Pei, shouting something like "Wei Chu"

The war has nothing to do with the civilians," "Chu is tyrannical and unkind, and the kings should not help it do so," etc., which led to signs of soldiers fleeing in large numbers in the Chu army.

This made Xinyang Lord Xiang Pei itch with hatred.

It was hateful, and there was nothing he could do about it.

As a result, the situation in Song County has reached a stalemate with a strange balance: the Chu State has devoted all its efforts to arrest strong men, or used slogans like "protect the family and the country" to coax domestic civilians to go to Song County; as for Song County's Sima

Shang, on the one hand, mercilessly killed the Chu soldiers who invaded the territory, and on the other hand, he promised various generous treatment, instigated rebellion, recruited these Chu soldiers, and incorporated them into the army of Song County.
Chapter completed!