C554 Goodbye, old General! (1/2)
Farewell, Old General!
”Why don't we kill the captives? Why are we treating the wounded? There must be a reason behind it. Not only is killing captives harming heaven and earth, which is detrimental to our future career, but on the other hand, this is also a psychological battle without smoke! ”
”Brothers, let me ask you something. Tell me, do you think you will be sad if your relatives die early? How long can you be sad? ”
Xiao Hexin's question made everyone confused, they all shook their heads in shock, but this was the effect that Xiao Hexin wanted, he suddenly lowered his voice and said.
”If you don't understand, then let me change the question. If your family has a sick person who is always bedridden and has no ability to live, may I ask which one of your sorrow is more than the death of your loved ones?”
His words flashed in the minds of many people like a bolt of lightning, and a bold idea popped into their heads.
”Could it be? Could it be that the Prime Minister wants to use the wounded soldiers to attack the morale of the eight flags? ” There really was a smart person in the crowd.
Xiao Hexin was immediately overjoyed, and nodded, ”Actually, death is not scary. The scariest thing is that even if you want to die, you can't, and it's not good if you want to live … Everyone says that there's no filial son in front of the bed for a long time. Think about it, even the parents who have served their son for many years would not be able to stand it, let alone those distant relatives that have nothing to do with it. ”
”The Eight Banners are originally a bandit group. This Eight Banner soldier who collectively has the duty to support the disabled. This is also the cornerstone of their efforts to gather people's hearts. How should we break this pillar?”
”That's right, we should rely on our unparalleled benevolence and righteousness …” ”We will go and save them now, give these heavily injured soldiers to the emperor of the city, and let him have a headache. If he doesn't take care of them, he will be scolded for nothing …”
”It doesn't matter if there's ten or eight of them, or even hundreds of them. What if we send a hundred and eighty thousand crippled Eight Flags Soldier s to them? they can't afford it... ”As long as they can't afford it, these 180,000 disabled soldiers will have to curse and disrupt the morale of their army …”
”More importantly, we've already killed them to the point that they have the guts. Letting them go is equivalent to letting countless of our obligatory propagandists. Just mentioning the name of our New Army would cause them to tremble … Furthermore, they will pass this fear to everyone around them, letting all the Manchu Han people know exactly how strong our new army is! ”
When Xiao Hexin got to the point where he was excited about this, he threw his walking stick with a brass head onto the ground, causing sparks to come out. Our new army is an army with brains, it's not good to just kill, in the future, you all must learn how to have the heart to kill! ”
”What are you still standing there for?” ”Hurry up and save him …”
This time, everyone was enlightened. Although some of them were still ignorant, but they at least knew what it meant to follow the flow and pick up corpses with the surrounding people.
Liu Lang no longer had anything to say, what Xiao Hexin had said earlier was something he had never thought of, every word of his was like chewing on olives, his mouth was filled with a spicy and strange flavor.
”It can actually fight like this? Did Xiao Letian really teach you all these things? ” Liu Lang muttered to himself.
Xiao Hexin didn't have the slightest bit of respect for the old officer, his eyes were like lightning as he stared at the old officer and said calmly, ”Old General, you are already old, your mind is unable to keep up with the times, in the future, you will belong to the Prime Minister … ”I know that you didn't admire the prime minister from the start because you've seen him fall …”
”Yes, humans are always like this, all those years ago when your blade was placed on his neck, and the life of the Prime Minister was worse than a chicken in your hands, so you felt that you had an advantage in your heart, you felt that the Prime Minister did not care, that you would even brazenly boast after drinking, what happened to you back then, and what happened to Xiao Letian back then …”
”Save it, don't base the feeling of success on this comparison. The consequence is that everyone will be further away from you! You don't understand. You have no idea what we went through this time to cross half the Earth... ”The vast sea, the boundless desert, the thousand-year old ancient city, the castle on the cliffs by the shore …”
”After crossing the Malacca, I could even hear the horn of the Three Treasures Eunuch when he went into the Western Ocean. After passing through the Mediterranean Sea, we heard that the ancient Egyptian civilization was glorious. We even looked at the continent of India from the deck of the ship. This is where Tang Xuanzang obtained his scriptures …”
This was the first time Xiao Hexin looked at the old general that he had ever worshipped him with a gaze of pity. He sighed and said, ”Why do you think the Prince wants to stay in Europa? ”That's because Your Highness has already seen how big this world is. He has long since been shocked by this world, and his heart has already incomparably widened …”
”How laughable! Ridiculous... How pathetic! Pitiful... ”After this expedition, I finally understand that I was a frog in a well for the first half of my life, our prime minister. He was the one who tore apart the narrowness in our hearts. Although it was bloody and incomparably painful, we have no regrets!”
”Old General, there are only two paths in front of you. The first is to sincerely follow the Prime Minister and throw away everything to study and be reborn.” ”The other path is retirement. I believe that the Prime Minister will give you a huge sum of wealth, enough for three generations to eat and drink …”