Arc of Gunfire

On the second day of the engagement ceremony, Wang Zhong, accompanied by Cardinal Rafkid, came to the prisoner of war camp in the suburbs.

Rafkid pointed out the window in the reception room and introduced: "The main road in the middle is the dividing line. The officer area is on the left side of the road, and the ordinary soldiers and junior non-commissioned officers are on the right side. Where are you going to look?"

Wang Zhong: "Pick out those who have graduated from high school among ordinary soldiers."

Rafkid asked doubtfully: "Why?"

Wang Zhong smiled and said: "Because smart people can easily become secularists."

Ravkid thought for a while and said, "It seems to be true when you say it. When St. Andrew founded Secularism, it first spread among scholars in the city."

"Right! So find the high school students among the soldiers, and they must be from the lower class. Those born in the wealthy class are probably not easy to mobilize."

Raf Kidd: "I will first select some people who perform well and let them gather in the auditorium."

Wang Zhong added: "Release the news that I'm coming and see if there are any fans of mine - I mean, there shouldn't be too many admirers. Call them all."

"Okay. I'll make arrangements while you continue drinking tea." After finishing speaking, Rafkid left the reception room of the prisoner of war camp.

He came back a moment later, frowning: "General, as soon as they heard that you were coming, almost all the prisoners of war wanted to see who you were who captured them."

Wang Zhong: "That would be even better. Select those from poor backgrounds and graduates from high school. From now on, they will be our backbone members. Let me know when they are ready."

Rafkid pushed up his glasses: "It's ready. You can go to the auditorium now."

Wang Zhong was shocked and said: "How did you know that I would ask like this?"

"It's not difficult to guess this. At least it's easier than guessing the enemy's main attack direction this year." Rafkid said seriously with a straight face.

Wang Zhong stood up: "Okay, let's go and see these potential allies."

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The auditorium of the prisoner of war camp could accommodate about 4,000 people, but Wang Zhong always felt that at least 8,000 people were crammed into the auditorium. As soon as he entered, everyone looked at him eagerly.

A large number of people suddenly stood up, making the soldiers on guard with submachine guns very nervous.

Wang Zhong waved his hand: "Don't be nervous, everyone is just a little excited to see me."

He personally fired the submachine gun of the guarding soldiers.

When the prisoners saw this, some of them boldly stretched out their hands and said something in Prosen.

Vasily translated: "He wants to shake your hand."

Wang Zhong simply held the prisoner's hand: "Hello, I hope you are used to our food."

After Vasily finished translating, the man talked excitedly.

Vasily: "He said our coffee and tea are very good, and the canned food we have recently started to supply is even better."

Did the Spam can actually conquer the Prosen soldiers? This reminded Wang Zhong of the story on Earth where he led a British officer to eat a can of Spam and was shocked.

Wang Zhong: "Very good."

He continued walking forward, and more people reached out to him.

Wang Zhong was a little surprised: "It seems that I have a good reputation among them. Why?"

Vasily didn't know whether he was pretending to be stupid or he was curious, so he translated Wang Zhong's words. As a result, the sergeant who was shaking hands with Wang Zhong said a lot excitedly.

Vasily: "He said that you single-handedly resisted the invincible Plosin army. You must be a military genius like the reincarnation of Suvorov. The Plosins respect a genius like you."

Wang Zhong was a little surprised. He stared at the noncommissioned officer who was speaking and said, "I am from Ant, what you call an inferior nation."

Vasily translated this sentence with a touch of irony.

The other person looked a little proud when he answered.

Vasily: "He said that one of the great things about a good nation is its ability to accept the strengths of other nations."

It’s actually self-consistent!

It seems that what Emperor Prosen did has gained a lot of support among the people.

Wang Zhong shook his head, walked up to the podium, looked around the entire auditorium, and said loudly: "Everyone! I came to you today because I want to have a chat with you.

"I'm curious, has anything changed in the Empire itself since the Prosin Empire started its war of aggression?"

After Vasily finished translating, the others began to look at each other in confusion.

Wang Zhong: "The changes here refer to the situation of your family. Let me tell you frankly that your backgrounds have been carefully screened. There are no nobles, big businessmen or factory owners among you. You are all ordinary people. .

"It's been three years since the empire began to expand. Has your life improved?"

Wang Zhong started to hesitate after asking, because he suddenly remembered that the Earth's three virtues had just emerged from the Great Depression before they started to invade. Compared with the Great Depression, life had certainly become better.

Could this be the case in this time and space?

Then Mr. Lin Zhe's method of instigating rebellion against the Japanese cannot be applied again.

He waited for the result uneasily, and the prisoners of war also looked at each other. Both sides were silent. As a result, the auditorium suddenly fell into silence.

Suddenly, a prisoner said something loudly.

Wang Zhong hurriedly looked at Vasily.

Vasily translated: "He said that after the war started, the street seemed much more prosperous. The soldiers made the business of the shops along the street better. His own family ran a restaurant. His mother wrote that it was for the soldiers to eat. Whenever I see the military sign hanging at the door of a restaurant, I always tip a little more.”

Wang Zhongxin has finished thinking. It seems that the plan to instigate the Proson soldiers through family circumstances has failed, and the only way to start is from human conscience.

Unexpectedly, the sergeant whose family ran a restaurant started talking again.

Vasily translated: "He said, but there are fewer civilians in the restaurant, and only civilians working in military industrial enterprises can spend money in the restaurant. He also said that the dishes in the restaurant have also decreased, because most of the vegetables have been purchased by the army. Restaurant The furniture inside has not been updated for a long time, because the factory that produces the furniture is now making Mauser gun butts.”

Wang Zhong suddenly felt that there was hope, so he nodded and said: "Very good, thank him for sharing, Raf Kidd, please give him a pack of cigarettes."

Ravkid nodded to the priest next to him, and a pack of cigarettes made in China was delivered to the noncommissioned officer.

The prisoners of war became excited when they saw the cigarette hair.

It seems that Wang Zhong guessed correctly, cigarettes are a rare item in prisoner of war camps. He came to this conclusion based on films such as "Bridge on the River Kwai" that depict prisoner of war camps.

Another corporal came on stage and began to tell his story.

Vasily continued to translate: "This person said that his father was a worker in the factory. Before Emperor Reinhard's reforms, the factory was half-stopped and basically could not pay wages. After the war started, the factory was acquired by Henschel, and began to Producing screws, wages can be paid normally.

"But their family can buy less things every month than before, because the big businessmen spread all the money they spent on war bonds into the selling price of the goods!"

Wang Zhongxin thought that he was right to invite high school graduates to hold this meeting, and he also knew that the price became more expensive because the war bond money was evenly divided into the selling price of the goods.

Suddenly, Wang Zhong had an idea and asked: "Do you know anything else about the old men making war fortune?"

After Vasily translated, the worker's son thought for a while and said: "I know that when the Carolingians were occupied, the division commander emptied all the wine cellars of the nobles stationed there, and looted all the gold and silver jewelry."

Wang Zhong: "You didn't get a share?"

After Vasily finished speaking, the prisoners all laughed.

A sergeant shouted something below.

Vasily said: "He said how is it possible? Those are division commanders and brigade commanders, not even the battalion commander!"

Wang Zhong: "Very good, are there any other stories about making war fortune?"

Someone was jabbering below. Wang Zhong, without waiting for Vasily to translate, pointed at the person and said, "Come to the stage and say it!"

The man also didn't wait for Vasily's translation, went directly to the stage, pushed aside the worker's son just now, and started speaking passionately.

Vasily translated sentence by sentence: "'In Khazalia, the officers asked us to go down to grab grain during our rest, and used guns to force the people to collect grain. Then all the wheat was transported back to the rear. In November, I My sister wrote and said that the wheat and flour from Kozalia are now being sold in the city, but they are very expensive, saying that shipping and labor costs have been added!'"

Wang Zhong: "Okay! The gentlemen took away the food rations from the people of Kosalia, but the people of Ploson couldn't eat it! All the food went into their own pockets! The so-called labor and military expenses were not paid to you at all. In hand!"

As he talked, he thought, this trend is very good. If it continues to develop, it will become a grievance conference!

Next, more soldiers came on stage and told everything they knew about the officers and nobles developing war wealth.

These shocking facts make people wonder whether they are true.

But Wang Zhong had read relevant information before traveling through time, and knew that San Dezi was actually very corrupt, perhaps just a little better than Principal Chang's party-scratcher.

Therefore, Wang Zhong feels that these things that sound outrageous may not be completely fictional.

More and more Proson soldiers came on stage, probably because there were no officers or nobles on the scene, and they were becoming more and more relaxed.

When Wang Zhong saw that the heat was almost up, he raised one hand to stop the prisoners of war who wanted to continue on the stage, and walked to the center of the podium.

Wang Zhong: "The war has been going on for so long. You have occupied a large area of ​​land. The gentlemen are well fed, but the people are miserable! You have not yet started wartime mobilization. After mobilization, the situation will be even worse!

"Prosen will definitely mobilize, because they have already started a war with most of the world for their own selfish desires! The people of Prosen will have more and more hardships, but those gentlemen who advocate the theory of superior nations will continue to have a shiny face!

“I am here today to tell you that cooperating with us is not surrender, but choosing the right path for the future of your motherland!

"I don't expect you to turn around at once, I just ask you to think about who has benefited from the continuous expansion, think about your parents, think about your sisters!"

After Wang Zhong finished speaking, he nodded to Raf Kidd.

The transformation of thoughts does not happen overnight. He just made a start, and then he will work slowly and carefully.

After the conference, Rafkid approached Wang Zhong and said, "Should we start with the family? It's a very good idea."

Wang Zhong: "You must translate the secular classics into Prosen language as soon as possible and show them to them."

"There was originally a version in Plosen. In fact, the spread of the secular sect in Plosen was pretty good before. It's just that we bear the name of the Eastern Holy Religion, and Plosen people generally don't believe in the Eastern Holy Religion.

"Reinhard drove away all the Eastern Saints who were originally in Plosen, and a large number of secular members came to Melania, and then came to us."

Wang Zhong: "Then let them come, first spread the Eastern Holy Religion, and then recruit volunteers from prisoners of war."

Rafkid nodded: "I understand, I will implement it."

Wang Zhong was very satisfied, but he suddenly realized, how could he give instructions to the cardinal like a leader? Who should I send it to?

He decided to pretend not to notice.