A few days later, the Heihe base welcomed a large number of "distinguished guests", and more than 2,300 Japanese prisoners with their hands tied were escorted to the fortress.
The eyes of these little devils were all dull and dejected, as if they were just dragging their feet with only a piece of rotten skin. Apart from the fact that the marching team was relatively orderly, there was no trace of energy at all.
Liao Mingyu was not polite to them. He dragged them all to the mine with a wave of his hand. Each person was given a hand-crank crusher or a pickaxe, and that was it. The next job was to work in the mining area for free, and they were given two meals a day. Gift.
Also arriving were more than a thousand local workers and thousands of new recruits who had been selected from prisoner-of-war camps to rejoin the army. The vast team instantly filled the main base, and the guard regiment had no choice but to set up several units around it. A camp for these people to temporarily stay.
Laborers also have to work in the mining areas, but their treatment is much better. They have clean houses, clothes, daily necessities, three meals a day, and most importantly, monthly wages.
In addition to accepting certain freedoms restricted by military management, the treatment is much better than that of those little devils who work for nothing.
Of course, Japanese prisoners of war and local laborers were managed separately, and the food and housing environment were very different. Not only did the former have a greater workload, but they also had to do dangerous and tiring work such as going into the mines and transporting them. A little laziness would lead to Come and punch or kick or hit your face with the butt of a gun.
No matter what, Liao Mingyu's mining area can finally start to operate. Counting the base workers, there are more than 3,000 miners working there. The former has also transferred dozens of trucks from the army to facilitate its transportation.
In addition, the guard regiment also sent a battalion to guard and manage the work of these miners and Japanese prisoners of war to avoid resistance, escape and other incidents.
Although there is no large-scale mining equipment now, the abundant number of people makes up for a certain degree of efficiency. On average, these thousands of people can mine about 35 tons of iron ore every day. This is without full power. If the miners do not care about their physical condition, With squeeze mining, the output will only be higher.
Trucks continuously bring these iron ore back to the main base smelting plant, which is equivalent to earning about 6,000 points for Liao Mingyu in one day. In this way, the mining base station can be built in less than a month.
But there is one thing to say, the military discipline of the little devils is really nothing to say. Although they are now prisoners, their discipline is really textbook. Several neat columns, just like in a military camp, do not require excessive management by the guarding soldiers.
Moreover, after using the tools, they will arrange them neatly for you. When eating, you will always sit quietly on the floor in your own area and never make any sound. This surprised everyone who saw it. Unexpectedly The little devil's "awareness" is so high.
In fact, the reason why prisoners of war are so well-behaved is that, in addition to being punished a lot in the concentration camp, despair is the biggest weapon that breaks down their inner defenses.
There is no such thing as preferential treatment of prisoners, ideological reform, etc. If Liao Mingyu had not ordered them not to be killed, the number of Japanese prisoners of war would not be what it is now.
The bitter and grudge-ridden soldiers wanted to drink their blood and eat their flesh... they scraped them alive with knives to avenge their dead relatives and comrades.
Although a large number of human lives could not be taken, some physical suffering was unavoidable. Therefore, with someone's acquiescence...or fueling the flames, the "degradation of human nature" was performed every day in the concentration camp.
Every day before dawn, the little devils had to be pulled up to stand in a military position. They stood there all morning. Those who disobeyed were beaten on the spot and then tied up and placed in a tree to bask in the sun.
Others had to stand until noon to get a bowl of porridge and half a steamed bun if they wanted to eat, but those who were tied to the trees had nothing to eat.
In the afternoon, each person was given a shovel and asked to dig a big hole. At first, the Japanese thought they were going to bury them alive but they refused to cooperate. However, they still did it despite the threats of big leather shoes and gun butts.
The Japanese were asked to lie down in the big hole they dug, and their bodies were covered with a thin layer of soil. They were not allowed to get up for a while. The purpose was to let them feel what it was like to be buried alive.
Anyone who dares to resist without knowing what they are capable of will be taken directly to a small black room and sat on a tiger bench. They will be subjected to branding irons, thorn whips, head coverings and water pouring... Learn about the ten tortures. If you don't die, you will have to peel off your skin.
Arranged by such a set of procedures, more than a dozen Japanese corpses were transported out of the camp almost every day. The dark life was either tortured or being tortured. The number of prisoners of war, which was originally three thousand, shrank to just over two thousand. Every little devil's heart is filled with despair.
But despair is despair, as the saying goes... it is better to live than to die. After being "educated" for a period of time, the little devils finally became more honest and began to behave with their tails between their legs. No one dared to have any evil thoughts. .
But now, compared to the dark days in the concentration camp, life in the mining station is simply paradise. Although the workload is heavy, at least you don't have to live in fear every day, and you have more food, and you can rest after working every day. , at least it gave them a reason and hope to live.
Liao Mingyu was not idle. He first asked people to select weak-willed soldiers from the Japanese prisoners, or soldiers with unstable ideas and low influence of Bushido spirit. He acted as a team leader among the prisoners of war and took the lead. He summoned this group of people every day. They will be brainwashed together, and they will also be given relatively good treatment and food to make them grateful.
Then they picked out all the Japanese officers with flowers on their shoulders. They would clean them up if they had anything to do, and left all the dirty work to them, allowing other Japanese soldiers to bully and insult them.
In the Japanese army in the past, the selected "squad captains" were the top soldiers with no status at all. Now the "slaves" have become the masters, and the once domineering officers have become the ones who are beaten and scolded at will by their subordinates. The target, coupled with Liao Mingyu's intentional or unintentional carrot and stick policy, this change in status completely allowed them to let themselves go and gradually assume their own roles.
Well... there are strict status distinctions inherent in the Japanese army. Subordinates can never go beyond disobeying the decisions of their superiors. Normally, those officers are always arrogant and extremely strict with their subordinates. Now the situation is reversed... some people... Something is going to happen.
These team captains gave full play to their role as doglegs. They not only managed the prisoner of war team in an orderly manner, but also suppressed those who had other ideas. It would not be an exaggeration to call them Japanese traitors.
In addition, Liao Mingyu also arranged for many soldiers who can speak Japanese to act as "instructors" and use their free time in the evening to instill various anti-war ideas and the pain that the war has brought to the people of the two countries, especially the Japanese people now The living conditions made these little devils clearly realize the ugliness of the Communist Party.
You must know that most of the Japanese soldiers who can accept surrender are new recruits who have just joined the army, or young people who have been lightly harmed by the bushido spirit. At least they still have a certain chance of reforming.
Maybe many prisoners of war behave honestly now because they succumb to high pressure and fear, but as long as this kind of brainwashing-like psychological offensive is carried out for a long time, some people will definitely become obedient puppets. The effect will be beyond imagination...
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