I Build an Aircraft Carrier in the Ming Dynasty

After the Armageddon, Wu Changqing has been busy restoring the soldiers' physical and mental states.

Psychological trauma, not only will the soldiers who defeated the battle, but also some soldiers who have won the battle.

Like some flintlock soldiers, depending on the high rate of fire, some people even killed ten enemies in a battle. Those are all living people, the same kind.

In human nature, there is a natural repulsion to slaughter the same kind.

Even if some ordinary people don't commit murder, they can't do it, because there is such a nature in their genes.

Crazy slaughter of the same kind, this is against human nature, and it is easy for these soldiers to have psychological problems.

Especially the scene of soldiers and war horses dying in a pile, like hell on earth, gives a huge visual impact. Some farmers who cleaned the battlefield afterwards couldn't even walk when they saw that scene.

Soldiers' psychological endurance is stronger, but it is also limited. People who have seen such a scene will have some psychological problems to some extent.

In the face of some soldiers in serious condition, Wu Changqing had no good solution. How can he have so much time for one-on-one psychological consultation, and he is not an expert in this field.

All Wu Changqing could think of was to find some prostitutes for the soldiers to vent.

However, there were too many soldiers under him, and Changzhou was far less prosperous than Nanjing, so how could there be so many prostitutes.

If it's only part of it, then it's better not to. Not suffering from widowhood but suffering unevenly, if other soldiers get the enjoyment, the other soldiers who do not get the enjoyment will definitely not be happy.

Therefore, Wu Changqing could only organize the soldiers to carry out some collective activities, such as singing hometown songs, drinking some wine, eating some meat together, and having another swimming competition and fighting competition.

In short, try to find things to do for these guys as much as possible, so that they have no time to be sentimental and recall those terrible things.

The effect of this treatment is relatively general.

Wu Changqing has no better way to do this. The problem of war trauma is difficult to solve even in the 21st century. It can only rely on the soldiers' own ability to adapt. Those who can't adapt can only be left to fend for themselves.

From an individual's point of view, this is cruel, but for a country, it has to bear the price.

It is impossible not to fight in order to avoid the psychological trauma of soldiers, which is obviously impossible.

In addition to restoring the state of soldiers, the most important thing during the rest period is to recruit and surrender those prisoners.

These captives were trained professional soldiers, much stronger than the newly recruited farmers.

Soldiers are actually very easy to recruit. As long as they are fed and paid, they generally don't care who they work for. Even, they were more inclined to give their lives to Wu Jun, because Wu Jun scared them and overcame them.

Soldiers all hope to follow the strong, so that the chance of dying in battle will be smaller.

It is useless to recruit and surrender these soldiers. An army soldier is a leaf, and the commander is a branch. Without a branch connecting these leaves, they are a pile of loose leaves.

With branches and trunks connecting them, they can become a towering tree.

And recruiting and surrendering officers is much more troublesome. These officers are somewhat literate, and they will have more things to consider.

For example, will there be a future for me to follow Wu Changqing, will I be ridiculed and abused by the world, will my family be implicated......

The best way to recruit them and make them die is to make them believe in the strength of Wu Jun, and believe that following Wu Changqing can be promoted and rich.

At this time, Dai Zhijun, Dong Tianbao, Xue Guiren and others are the best lobbyists. They use their own examples to prove how good it is to follow Wu Changqing.

For example, Dai Zhijun, who was originally just an admiral's military adviser, is now a military general of a 100,000-strong army, coordinating all logistical matters.

This kind of improvement in status is simply a leap.

As for Dong Tianbao, he was originally just a guerrilla general with thousands of troops. But after surrendering to the Wu army, he is now the leader of a division with ten thousand troops.

As a surrendered general, his status in Wu's army did not decline but rose, which shows that Wu Changqing treated the surrendered generals equally and without prejudice.

This situation made many Qing army generals excited. The reason why they were reluctant to surrender was because they were afraid that after surrendering, they would be squeezed out and suppressed, or even become cannon fodder.

But now, with Dai Zhijun, Dong Tianbao and others as role models, they are relieved a lot.

Another aspect is to let these people see the strength of Wu Jun, let them visit Wu Jun's daily training, and let them feel the momentum of Wu Jun.

In fact, this step is a bit redundant. In the previous decisive battle, these people have been taught obediently, and I just want to kneel down and call Daddy.

They have no doubts about the strength of Wu Jun.

The new master is powerful and does not discriminate against and suppress generals. This is the best conditions for surrender that these Qing army generals have ever seen.

Therefore, after several surrenders, most of the generals chose to swear allegiance.

And a very small number of generals did not agree to surrender because they were worried about implicated family members. This group of people, Wu Changqing, sent people to be detained first, and we will talk about the situation later.

Use it if you can, or throw it away if you can't. Anyway, Wu Changqing's demand for iron ore has no limit.

The recruitment and surrender of the Han Army's Eight Banners was relatively smooth, but it was much more difficult to reach the Mongolian Eight Banners and the Manchu Eight Banners.

They belonged to the privileged class in the Qing Dynasty and enjoyed the privilege of being superior to others. After surrendering to the Han army, his status naturally declined sharply.

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The minority was not the main ethnic group of the Qing Dynasty, and even before, it was conquered by the Manchus and forced to surrender.

For the Qing Dynasty, their loyalty was not much higher than that of the Han people.

The Manchu Eight Banners were the most difficult to surrender. Of the more than forty generals, only twelve were willing to surrender, and the others would rather die than surrender.

Wu Changqing had no better way to do this. He could only send all the generals who refused to surrender to Suzhou to be imprisoned, and the soldiers who refused to surrender were thrown into the mines.

After several days of continuous surrender, a total of 34,000 people surrendered, of which almost all the Eight Banners of the Han Army surrendered, the Eight Banners of Mongolia surrendered 9,000, and the Eight Banners of Manchu surrendered 5,000.

Together with the 20,000 new troops reinforced by Suzhou, Wu Changqing's army increased to 100,700.

The number has increased a lot, but the actual combat power has not increased much. Those 20,000 recruits are naturally not as powerful as the veterans. And the 34,000 surrendered troops needed time to integrate into the Wu army.

Before it is integrated, the combat power is doubtful. Maybe they will have a rebellion before the battle, that is the most disgusting.

In order to avoid this kind of thing, Wu Changqing also did a lot of work, disrupting their original affiliation as much as possible, and letting the generals lead soldiers they were not familiar with.

Without prestige among the soldiers, it is difficult for them to agitate the soldiers.

Another example is to disperse the descending troops into various divisions, so that they cannot gather together. When the power is dispersed, the desire to rebel will also fade.

After all, unless you are a die-hard Manchu loyalist, you will always consider risks and benefits when doing things. If the risk of rebellion is too high and the payoff too small, then no one will go to die.