Douluo: The Adventures of King Skin

“The supplicant must speak first, the victor must remain silent.”

——Lucius Cornelius Sulla

It was true that Pyrrhus would not dare to practice with Philip himself as soon as he debuted.

But he was still a little unwilling to practice with these few 200 people, and the other party surrendered directly.

He called the officers of the garrison of Iolkos for questioning, and asked him why he neither retreated nor surrendered, and why he did not resist heroically when there was a fight.

The officer said in a desperate tone:

"General, it's not that I don't want to retreat. The soldiers feel that they can't escape by retreating, so they might as well not run; it's not that I don't want to surrender, but the soldiers feel that the benefits of surrendering without a fight are not guaranteed, and they want to fight first. "

"Profits? What interests do these soldiers want to protect?" Pyrrhus was quite surprised.

"Uh, um..." the officer cleared his throat and said seriously:

"First of all, the personal safety of the prisoners must be ensured, and secondly, their personal property must be protected from infringement. In this way, they will be willing to join your army."

Ok?

Is this how the successors fight? !

"Then why did you surrender again later?"

The officer said in a tone of disdain, "The soldiers saw that you had siege machinery and felt that it was not worthwhile to fight forcefully, so they surrendered again..."

"..."

Although I do lack qualified soldiers now... But if you encounter such an 'uneconomical' situation when working for me in the future, will you surrender so simply and ask to join?

Pyrrhus felt a little hard to make a decision.

He told the officer to think about it first.

As a result, the officer thought that Pyrrhus also had to discuss with the soldiers, and gave him an "I understand" look.

"..."

Pyrrhus thought for a while and thought that he still had to ask someone knowledgeable about this matter first.So Oandros was called.

He gave several old Silver Shield soldiers a donkey and asked them to lead the mounted infantry.Firstly, walking less can save energy and increase the service life of these veterans; secondly, Pyrrhus also has high hopes for this highly mobile infantry, hoping that these experienced veterans can lead them to play a key role.

The veteran was still a little uneasy about returning to Shangguan without being a "donkey". He hesitated and said to Pyrrhus: According to the usual practice, these prisoners have not proven themselves on the battlefield and are unconditional surrenders. Compared with the general standards, they can be harsher.

Pyrrhus: "..."

What is a 'general standard'!

The veteran said that the general standard is that the spoils should be divided into two parts, one part for the captives to keep for themselves, and one part for the victor to be distributed by the generals and soldiers.

Then he added, "Of course we don't need the spoils now," which means we can give them all to Pyrrhus.

At this time, the captain of the female camp prisoner team came over to report the situation to Pyrrhus. This was a very strong aunt.

The aunt led a group of aunts under her men to dig up the prisoners and touch every corner of the prisoners' bodies cruelly and roughly. Finally, they found out about 50 talents of loot.

At this time, Pyrrhus was really in a dilemma.

He wanted to take in these 200 people, but he didn't expect them to be so rich. More than 200 people can draw 50 talents!

But according to officers and veterans, Pyrrhus could get up to 30 talents, and no more than that would allow these people to help him fight.

Or you can simply break up, take all the money, and then sell the person into a slave, and be done with it.But this has a big disadvantage

——There is no airtight wall in the world. Once word spreads, no one will surrender to him easily in the future.

Not only the 200 people and 50 talents in front of him, Pyrrhus should face many such choices in the future.

He sent his men to do their own things, while he sat in his tent and meditated.

Huangtian paid off and finally asked him to come up with an idea to get the best of both worlds!

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It's already dinner time.The armor on the prisoners' bodies had also been stripped off as property, and now they were all wearing single clothes and waiting in line to get food from the aunts of the cooking team.Several fierce-looking aunts were standing by with knives and sticks to maintain order.

Of course, the prisoners also had food, and the quality was the same as that of Pyrrhus's men, and it smelled quite good. However, the portions were a bit small, to prevent them from overeating and affecting their mental health.

Then at this moment, Pyrrhus came up to the prisoners with a large army.

When they saw that it was the enemy general who had defeated them, the prisoners all had tragic looks on their faces.

——Yes, we hid money on our bodies, but it’s too much for you to let a bunch of aunts come to take advantage of us, right?

Before they could complain, Pyrrhus stood on a tall grain cart nearby and cheerfully expressed that he wanted to "give everyone a surprise."

The surprise is:

Pyrrhus didn't want any of the money found on them!

Not only don’t you want it, but you have to give them more in proportion!

It's just that they can't get the money back now...

Pyrrhus looked at the dull faces below and swore with a serious look on his face.

——Of course, this is not robbing, this is borrowing!I will give you an IOU!

Interest can be withdrawn every three months, and the principal will be returned to them after the war...

After Pyrrhus gave an order, Lyceon's students set up tables one by one and began to register property and IOUs on slips of paper to the stunned prisoners.

Then Pyrrhus continued to promote to the prisoners, talking about the benefits of joining his army:

Those who join can immediately return their equipment and enjoy regular military treatment.

——Although the regular army usually does not receive military pay, it usually eats very well and has a wide variety of meals...

After the war is over, land will be allocated to all regular troops, and everyone will be citizens of the same city-state, loving each other...

Of course, you can leave if you don't want to join. Pyrrhus can advance them half a quarter's interest to pay for their travel expenses...

There is another option. Those who are unwilling to fight or leave can work as workers, with food, housing and daily wages...

"... Of course, no matter whether you want to stay or not, whether you are a soldier or a worker, the money I owe you will definitely be repaid...

"...As long as I, surnamed Pi, am still alive, even if I sell myself, I still have to pay back the money I borrowed from everyone..."

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The next morning, Pyrrhus led his army towards Philae, one of the three largest cities in Thessaly.

And the number of people under him has swelled to 3400.

Half of the extra four hundred were recruited on the spot. Of course, these people had to be paid, but they were given less than usual 'national disaster pay'. This was due to the early newspaper publicity, and the aunts of the propaganda team also Out of great force;

The other half were Macedonians who surrendered. Most of them chose to take back their weapons. Pyrrhus broke them up and organized them into heavy infantry and pikemen. Only a few chose to be workers. Pyrrhus promised that they would not have to participate in the battle. .

There is still a small part of the Macedonians left. They are not willing to join Pyrrhus's army, nor are they willing to leave like this. They insist on asking Pyrrhus to pay back the money. That's great. Pyrrhus laughed. He was already very aware of his creditors - so he tricked them into boarding a ship and took them to Athens, and let them work in his workshop, which solved their temporary employment problem.I believe they will definitely treat the workshop as their home in the future!