C3114 Reuse of prisoners of war (1/2)

The two thousand men may not be a lot, but it could be the needle that could pierce a balloon. What they needed to do was not to kill the enemy, but to pierce a few holes in their defense line that was thirty kilometers away.

Any breakthrough would become a strategic point for the Chinese Army to forcefully break through, and the rushing Chinese Army would reach the back of the enemies, some would even cause trouble, and some would even attack the back of the Spaniard.

A small crack line could tear a huge gap in the front lines, ten of them could completely cut the Spaniard's army formation into pieces like dead snakes!

Breakthrough! Breakthrough! He continued to break through! The good news was continuously sent to the headquarters. Sakamoto Ryoma, who was drinking, smiled with relief, ”Looks like I'll be able to sleep in bed in the Manila City District tomorrow night …”

General Cai Mao smiled as he poured a cup of wine for him. ”This city, if you want to sleep there, then sleep. Even if you want to sleep in the General Governor's Mansion, I can arrange something for you.”

”But first you have to tell me, how did you train this mercenary? ”Would those arrogant Russians really accept our command?”

”The battle has already reached this point, and there's no trouble at all. There's no rebellion, and no deserters. How did you do that?”

Sakamoto Ryoma put down his chopsticks and said, ”Some things look difficult, but it's actually not that difficult to do … I did not know how to proceed until I had a telegram with the head of state in Europe. ”

After War of the Far East's end, a large number of Shaos prisoners entered the POW camp. In the Far East, Tanggu Industrial Special Zone, Bulbus Glazed Island and even in the Fu Sang's Chinese mining area, there were still many POW camp's existences.

According to the Chinese high-ranking officers' assumption, these prisoners of war would definitely be able to earn a lot of money in Russia. Before the Russian had no compensation, all the prisoners of war would have to work in exchange for their rations.

Logging, mining, moving goods... All sorts of heavy work was put on these prisoners of war, and at the same time, the Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs Sect and the Russian Federation were in close negotiations.

Negotiations like this could not be concluded in a day or two, and this would take a very long time. The Chinese Lion King opened its mouth and Sha Russia immediately gave back the money. The two sides could not come to an agreement!

There was actually another reason for the two sides to wait and see, because the outbreak of the Franco-Prussian war had left the Russian Federation hoping that the French would defeat the Chinese and reap the rewards in the end.

Since they did not want to negotiate, the two sides began to delay. However, as time dragged on, the Russian prisoners of war would not be able to stay any longer.

Riots began to appear, and in the end, there was even an outbreak of rebellion! These Russian soldier s of the POW camp secretly turned the ladle into a dagger and used iron nail s to nail the wood to make a hammer.

Or they could directly arm themselves with wooden sticks and stones. They would secretly set a time to start a riot, kill the guards, charge the defenders, and snatch the weapons!

The Chinese had to be prepared. Under repeated suppression, none of these crazy prisoners of war had ever succeeded!

In the year 1870, more than 1,200 prisoners of war had died as a result of the suppression. This showed just how wild and unruly these Russian prisoners of war were!

However, under such a big background, the Head of the Guards actually ordered a selection of reformers from the Russian captives to form the Mercenaries, in order to make up for the lack of manpower of the locals.

This order was really a headache, even Xiao Hexin scratched his head, thinking, just by looking at the way these prisoners of war are rioting, will they accept an adaptation of the Chinese people?

It was impossible just to think about it! However, no one could question the leader's order. The Grand Council had continuously met to choose the person to execute this mission, but in the end, they had actually thought of Sakamoto Ryoma!

Sakamoto Ryoma's identity was extremely special, half of his body was covered with the leader's blood, and in the end he had even left home. He did not have any official position in the Chinese clan, but everyone felt that he could hold any position.

Sakamoto Ryoma himself already had a lot of tasks of coordinating the internal powers. He was clearly a monk, but he had always participated in the politics.