Volume 9: Home Chapter 300: Once You Come, You're One of Us
With Xia's preparation, Xiao Yun was too lazy to beat around the bush when it came to the issue of captive placement. He smiled and said directly: "Xia is right. We should not separate last year's captives from this year's captives. We should look at them as a whole. White bears, black bears, and moon bears are all bears. Their military organizations are similar, and they have a lot in common from social structure to military structure. We have already converted nearly 70% of the first batch, so there is no reason why we can't convert the second batch. If you use the hoe well, there is no corner that you can't dig down."
"When they take up arms, we should treat them with swords. When they put down their weapons, we should not treat them as outsiders, provided that they have not caused any property damage to us and are not capable of threatening our lives. Don't you agree?"
Everyone: “…”
This shameless way of persuasion was still very convincing, but everyone was no longer the kind of people who would collectively act cute as before. It was impossible for them to be dealt with by Xiao Yun's few words. Including Hongye, many people showed expressions of disapproval.
Others would be somewhat unconfident in opposing Xiao Yun, but this did not exist for the grassroots tribe leader. As soon as Xiao Yun finished speaking, she immediately shook her head and denied: "I can't support you this time, Ayun. This batch of prisoners is different from last year's prisoners. First, it is summer now, not late autumn when winter is about to come. There is food everywhere. Even if there are no supplies, it is not a big problem to walk out of the grassland alive. Second, we are short of manpower. Now all the soldiers have to surround the cat farm to suppress this batch of prisoners. It is impossible for our soldiers to do nothing and stay there until they convert?"
Xiao Yun smiled and said, "Yes, there are indeed many problems in digesting prisoners of war that exceed one-third of our total population, but there are always more solutions than problems. Now I can give you two suggestions. One is to fight a bear with a bear. The more than 2,000 soldiers who have successfully converted can join the management of new prisoners of war. With such a group of fresh forces joining, the pressure on our soldiers will be much less. And the more than 600 semi-converted soldiers who have gone to their regular army to recall the bitter past can also be pulled over for use! "
"...Remembering the bitter past and thinking of the sweet past..." The grass-roots chief's mouth twitched, "I...okay."
"Ayun, what about the second one?" Xia chimed in very technically.
Xiao Yun nodded to him to show that he knew his good points, and said calmly: "Bear for bear."
"Huh?" The Grassroots Chief was confused. "What do you mean?"
The grassroots chief's words represented everyone's doubts, and everyone turned their eyes over.
Xiao Yun smiled slightly. "Except for Admiral Andrew, all the other captured Moon Bear officers, generals, battalion officers, and team officers will be used to exchange with Moon Bear City for the families of the first batch of converted soldiers. All of us have lost Moon Bears this time. They can't be like the Beast King who doesn't feel sad when he sees other people's children die."
After the era of the Tiger Tribe passed, the Beast King abolished the army division system of the Tiger Tribe era and changed it to a legion system. Under the general (general), if there are more than 100 elite soldiers, they can form a battalion. In wartime, ordinary soldiers of more than 1,000 and less than 5,000 are added to form a large legion.
The biggest advantage of this practice of only giving iron dinners to elite soldiers, team officers, battalion officers, and generals is that it saves money... Soldiers are recruited to expand the force when needed, and when there is no need, a military camp (regiment) only needs to pay the salaries of a few hundred people.
Of course, the flaws are also obvious. Except for elite soldiers who can climb up by their own abilities, it is very difficult for ordinary soldiers to become even the lowest-level sergeant, because in non-war time, ordinary soldiers are not considered members of the legion (battalion) at all - this kind of legion organization lasts for more than 20 years, and internal military positions are basically impossible to be opened to the outside world.
Except for Xia and Chief A Li, the two people who could vaguely guess Xiao Yun's thoughts, everyone else was stunned!
"Wait, how can you be sure that the families of those converted soldiers are willing to come?" The grassroots chief looked confused.
Xiao Yun chuckled: "For the top leaders of Moon Bear City, do their opinions matter?"
This truth choked everyone.
"If we can bring back the important officers, they are very likely to be willing to exchange... Wait, that's not right." Hongye's eyelids jumped, "Without the elite soldiers, it's useless to bring back the officers, right?"
Xiao Yun said "Hey" without hesitation: "If they want to take back the elite soldiers, we will not release the officers, and we can only release half of the elite soldiers. The families of the Moon Bear converted soldiers are not as many as the elite soldiers, and we cannot suffer a loss in this regard. Let the leader of Moon Bear City decide whether officers or elite soldiers are more important."
The whole audience was silent for a moment.
Harris, the python elder Gustav, and the great elder Greg, who all had a deep hatred for the bear tribe, all had a little sympathy for the moon bear tribe... Ah Yun had captured their captives and poached their friends, and he wanted them to start an internal fight for fun...
"I think it's possible. What do you think?" Chief Ali was the first to express his opinion. "Converting the families of soldiers here will increase our population base. Of course, the more of our own people, the better. As for whether Moon Bear City is willing to replace officers or half of its elite soldiers, that's their problem. It has no impact on us."
Well, this guy is the typical "not feeling sorry for other people's dead children, but even going to watch the fight between the host and hostess", so it's normal for him to support Xiao Yun...
The three snakes looked at each other and raised their hands silently.
Sympathy is sympathy, but the hatred must still be remembered!
Xia pretended to think seriously for a long time, and said to the others in an uncertain tone: "I think that if the strategy of exchanging bears for bears is implemented, it should be difficult for Moon Bear City to respond to the call of the Beast King and organize troops to fight us again... What do you think?"
"It's a stretch. Including the batch from last year, we have nearly 4,000 elite warriors of the Moon Bear Clan in our hands." said Chief A Li. Last year, the Beast King used the "elite beheading tactic". White Bear General Wood and Moon Bear General Bazel brought elite soldiers, and Black Bear General Aubrey also had 1,000 elite soldiers among his 3,000 men.
The two sang the same tune, and their meaning couldn't be clear - by eating more than 19,000 moon bear prisoners, the moon bear, one of the three largest bears, won't be able to stretch its claws any further. It's a huge profit without even rounding off!
"If the risk is bearable, I think it's acceptable to take them all in." Chief Arthur, who had rushed back from the Ice and Snow King City, pondered for a while and said cautiously, "Our Grand Canal project has been suspended for half a year. If we can put the captives into the Grand Canal project, we can make up for the progress delayed in the first half of the year in the second half of the year."
Apart from the engineering team, the one who was most worried about the Grand Canal project was Chief Arthur! She had a deep memory of the flood that hit the No. 1 cat farm two years ago!
Upon hearing this, A Yue, the director of the Engineering Department, who was not very concerned about military affairs, immediately raised his hand in support.
Qingyan was very realistic. He raised his hand only after seeing more people supporting him... and asked for labor on the spot: "Farm No. 3 is expected to open up 200,000 acres of soybean fields this year. The progress of land reclamation has been delayed for more than two months due to the war. Can we get some prisoners to make up for the progress?"
Xia had been preparing to talk about this for a long time, but he was just cunningly waiting for others to speak first. As soon as Qingyan expressed his opinion, he nodded very naturally: "Well, Farm No. 2 also has tens of thousands of acres of lac saplings that have not been planted in time."
Hongye scratched her cheeks embarrassedly. After all, she was an opponent before, so she was a little lacking in confidence when she spoke: "Well... if a few hundred moon bears can come to the coal mine, the gray dwarves and goblins in that area can be free to do something else."
The grassroots chief looked at the big households that were in need of people and asked for them one after another with a painful look on his face, and said with a smile: "They haven't even started serving us willingly, and you're already thinking about dividing up our manpower!"
Xiao Yun knew that the Grassroots Chief was euphemistically saying that she had been convinced, so he raised his hand and pressed it down, smiling: "Okay, don't worry. The auxiliary soldiers who are easier to convert than combat soldiers among the prisoners of war this time have basically no combat losses, and can make up for some of the manpower gaps. But even if they are easier to convert, it still takes time. Everyone, wait patiently for a month or two. As long as the prisoner camp starts to arrange for people to come out, there will definitely be a share everywhere..."
The bear-headed guys had only been in the enemy's hands for less than two days, and they had no idea that their fate had already been decided...
The Snow Wolf Tribe, who were busy defending their homeland (training prisoners of war), did not participate in this year's War Ball Day. After the hottest period of summer, many Cronin nobles, including Prince Morris, sent personal letters to greet Sage Ayun. After the outbreak of the star War Ball player spy case last year, the War Ball sport was neglected for a while. However, after the annual War Ball Day in the Robbins Knight Territory was successfully held, people's suppressed love for this sport for half a year suddenly broke out, and the popularity soared, directly crushing the traditional team sport of the human race, polo...
So, it makes sense for someone who wants to become famous by taking an unconventional approach to hype up banned topics~!
The snow elves also took this opportunity to send over Lieutenant Selena, a fellow war ball enthusiast and old friend of the grassland people.
Xiao Yun pretended not to see through Lieutenant Selina's intention, and revealed the battle record of the Fire City defenders VS the Moon Bear Army. He also personally took Selina to visit the super-large prisoner-of-war camp outside Farm No. 1.
The Snow Elves can also achieve zero casualties in a home war with the advantage of geography and people.
But the Snow Elves could never inflict a crushing defeat on an enemy force four times their own in number with a total casualty (death) of less than 10%, and take over more than 90% of the prisoners (labor force) almost completely.
Selina, who had dealt with Xiao Yun for many years, repeatedly confirmed the data provided by Xiao Yun and strolled around the prisoner-of-war camp for a long time, but still found it difficult to accept such an exaggerated result. She almost made such an impolite request to "personally count the number of prisoners of war"...
Xiao Yun would never tell Selina how many dirty tricks Huoyan City had played in this self-defense counterattack. He deliberately misinterpreted Selina's focus and pretended to sigh: "Although our generation of grassland people have never seen the scenery of the Far East, it is the homeland of our ancestors after all. Even though we are now forced to confront the Far Eastern orcs, their ancestors once lived on the same land as our ancestors. We really can't bear to watch them bleed dry on foreign land..."
I would never have said this last year, but now, the pig brains have been beaten into dog brains, and as a winner, I can totally put on this hypocritical attitude - the captured bear brains are all good bear brains!
Selina didn't say anything, just looked at him sideways.
Don't think I don't know that you wrote down your victory results in a letter and sent it to those Kronin nobles, you bastard!
On the one hand, you slapped the Beast King's face, and on the other hand, you pretended that you couldn't bear to see the Moon Bear suffer too many casualties. Who are you trying to make sick to death? !
Wait, that's not right.
Selina suddenly remembered the letter this guy left for her last year, and her eyelids began to twitch.
Xiao Yun looked at her kindly and continued to show his sympathy and compassion for the moon bear.
Selina's face gradually became expressionless: "...You want to use our channels to publicize your achievements in the Far East. Can you just say it directly?"
"No, no, no, it's not enough to just show off the victory." Xiao Yun said frankly: "What we hope to do more is to fully express the attitude of our Fire City. We were forced to fight, and we are friendly to all the Far Eastern orcs, including the bear tribe. The reason why we had to fight each other sadly is purely because the Beast King was too selfish and ignored the overall situation of the orcs being united as one family... Can you help beautify these words and take them back to your king? When promoting them, try to help us promote the peaceful attitude of our Fire City..."
Selina: "...Your shamelessness is as deep as the abyss. Is there no limit?!"
