Time flickered and more than half a month passed. At the time the hostile rebels in the city were put down, it took three days one after another to capture the last five or six hundred sergeants and soldiers who were entrenched in the Huaisheng Mosque in Xicheng, Waiguo, and killed more than a dozen soldiers during the forced civil strife. The stubborn boss came out and surrendered.
Then, it was time to search and clean up over and over again like a sieve and a filter. After the defeat, it was time for the stragglers scattered around the city; and the aftermath of the chaos continued to sway, and Gradually spread from Canton to other places.
Many states and counties began to experience varying degrees of chaos and turmoil, as well as the escape of officials appointed by the left-behind department and the collapse of the remaining troops stationed there. They even left the station and ran to the place. After wanton robbery, they turned into bandits.
Therefore, after calming the chaos, Zhou Huaian suddenly discovered that the available forces under his command had become stretched again; and this was mainly because he was ordered to besiege the pots of the rebels in Guangfu; large areas of their original jurisdiction and defense areas appeared. There is a gap in power and a shortage of armed forces, and Zhou Huai'an continues to divide the forces to take over and maintain order, otherwise the rebels will easily create and stabilize the situation after they defeat Lingnan, and it will begin to collapse again.
Therefore, he can only give priority to stabilizing more than a dozen states located in the Pearl River Basin of Lingdong, which are relatively abundant in output; as for the original Huguan and Guiguan, they will not take care of it for a while, and can only let it go for a while. .
Despite this, he still had to tear down the east wall to make up for the various moves of the west wall, and was exhausted to arrange manpower to deal with various situations; frequent persistence, this is even more difficult and torturing than confronting the enemy, and tests people's abilities. ；
Today, the composition of the Sanjiang Army under Zhou Huai'an is also more complicated. Basically, it consists of three main parts. There are old brothers from the north of the rebel army, and the old official health and tutu that have been attached and transformed, and the local Lingnan Recruited soldiers; now, after the conquest of Annan, Jiao, Fengchang, Ai, and Guangwu prefectures to vote for the young and Zhuang and Tutuo selected.
The proportion of the old brothers of the rebels who went south with the Yellow Chao army has actually been diluted to the point where it is difficult to fundamentally deflect the overall situation. Although it still occupies a considerable degree of the middle and lower leaders, the inside is actually divided into the old camp from Henan, and the difference between the soldiers from Shannan, Jiangxi, Liangzhe and Fujian added along the way.
Coupled with the persistent perseverance and subtle infusion and promotion (brainwashing), the volunteers who really have a sense of belonging to Huang Chao's headquarters and are willing to take risks for it, are very small.
Among the local soldiers in Lingnan, they are divided into the refugees recruited on the spot in Lingdong and the children from Xun and Chao localities, and the poor people in Cantonese who are replenished near Guangzhou. As for the officials and soldiers, there are Fujian soldiers, Guilin and Huguan soldiers. The difference also added a batch of sources for the Annan defense forces.
They mixed together and used sufficiently magnificent principles and beliefs to constrain and align themselves with clear goals of struggle; then they used strict military discipline and discipline to carry out the daily forging of unified thinking, habitual collective belonging and identification.
As long as after a period of time, most people become accustomed to a common rule and system; basically, it is difficult to produce most traditional internal conflicts of the rebels, that kind of person can pull away a large number of people with a lift, or Secretly incited a wave of his fellow villagers to make trouble.
Of course, this is also a disguised restriction and checks and balances for the upper ranks; at least there must be a bottom line and principles that cannot be easily broken, and cannot be used casually like traditional rebel generals who often use personal authority and will as the transfer. Need enough wrists and mind to guide and control.
Chai Ping, who is still the first deputy in fact, once again played the role of the firefighting team; and led a three thousand mobile horses that were easily pieced together with mule horses and pawns as supplements, and went everywhere to fight these places. The riots and disturbances on the site. At the same time, he was also used as the qualification to follow the two leaders of the rebel army, Wang Xianzhi and Huang Chao, to recruit and recruit the remaining rebel soldiers in those places.
As the main focus of governance adjustment. After more than half a year of recovery, Wang Pan, the Sanjiang patrol envoy, who was initially able to get up and walk around easily, was also invited to come to Guangfu and continue to partner with Zhou Huaian; as a replacement for him to stay in Chaoyang to guard the family business, this time Cheng Da Bite was not lightly wounded in the chaos; after all, there are still many industries and other businesses that the rebel army has just established.
As for Zhou Huai’an’s other important subordinate Duwei Laoguan, he was transferred to Shaoguan to guard and face the officers and soldiers from Jiangxi; although compared to the monster beast houses lined with strong towns in the north; the area south of the Yangtze River The power of the town is much weaker, and the northward rebels led by Huang Chao are turning upside down; but it does not mean that you can sit back and relax without giving people opportunities.
Compared with the bloated and hard-to-return court, there were many outstanding and handsome people or temporary figures in the late Tang Dynasty; like the founders of the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms, most of them were grassroots or The origin of grass. He doesn't want to become a stepping stone for someone who has risen from the situation inexplicably during the weak transition period after he calms the chaos.
Therefore, Zhou Huaian has spared no effort under the influence of this kind of anti-fading mentality;
Su Wuming, Wu Xingchen, Sun Liumao, and Lu Fang, who are known as the captains of the ten camps, Ge Cunzhou, Huo Cun, Luo Nian, Qu Chengyu, who are deputy capitals or other generals, and even lower-level Wang Tianming, Lin Ming, Zhang Biaozhi and his like, and even Zhong Yi and Zhao Yingong, who were from the background of the former officers and army, all had corresponding assignments. In the end, even Xiaoqi, who was in charge of the juvenile exploratory team, and Mi Bao, who led the apprentice team, also served as assistants. Yuan Jing and Liao Yuan of the clerks were sent out, and each was responsible for a whole bunch of affairs;
So that in a short time in the huge city of Guangzhou, there are only two or three kittens around him who are familiar with Zhang Guiba and Sha Da; at least at this stage, he is more worried about the probability of his subordinates making mistakes. I care about whether we can seize this empty window of time, and quickly integrate and sort out the new internal and local order. And with the dispatch of all kinds of people, the need to expand the army is once again in front of us.
Fortunately, after defeating the main force of the Guangzhou left-behind division to which Meng Hui belongs, he still gained some foundation and industries left by the opponent. For example, a lot of weapons were seized in the city; in addition, they also took over several large and small arsenals that were directly taken by the left-behind envoys. Although most of the armor and weapons have been removed by the rebels going north, there are still tens of thousands of old materials such as swords, spears, and bows.
Then, with the new orders sent back, most of the garrisons that have taken shape as the basic set of Chaoxun Mei Sanzhou were also pulled over to make up the number. In the end, rely on the basic board of the new and old tenth battalion soldiers and the 47th regiment; the wounded and sick people gathered in the local ambulance camp, and the city sergeants under the name of Lin Yan; plus the Annan belt Only after the return of tens of thousands of patches and thousands of local fighters of the Long March and Tutuo troupe were they able to gather nearly 50,000 posts to suppress the situation.
Of course, at present, most of them are still light infantry without armor and little helmet; compared to those who lost their hands in the chaos, it is not known whether they are losing or gaining. As the price of tearing down the east wall to make up for the west wall, apart from Jiaolingguan in Meizhou and Shaoguan in Shaozhou, it can be said that the tides in Lingdong have become extremely empty in all states of Meishao; and outside the county seat, it can only rely on the locals. The patrol team composed of young men and women in the village was part of the production to maintain the place.
Fortunately, the local grassroots forces have been cleaned up before, but the neighboring five states of Fujian are in a mess, and there is no time for him to worry about it, but there are constantly refugees to vote; otherwise, it is a township that bears the burden of waiting for the meeting. The virtuous, gentry, and so on, joined forces inside and outside to rise in response to the situation.
According to Zhou Huaian's expectations and plans, in the future, after further survival of the fittest based on this number, they will be reorganized into about 30 battalions. Ten of them are the old battalions of the four regiments, which are the mobile force and main force, and still use the five-party sequence as the designation; the remaining twenty are the new battalions of the second and third regiments of the dissatisfaction group, which are stationed in the states and cities of Lingdong. stronghold.
Then came the garrison troops of the 70th and 80th regiments, which were relatively simplified in armament; in accordance with the precedents of the states in Chaoxun, they were stationed in various minor counties, cities, towns, and road nodes in turn to suppress and deter the remaining signs of local resistance. , To maintain basic public order and protect the defensive forces in nearby villages.
But this requires a large number of low-level leaders (middle and lower-level officers) and key veterans (non-commissioned officers) to fill the period, otherwise it is still the kind of one-time military template that basically cannot withstand failure; it depends on the selection and experience in the army. The manpower that came out can no longer meet the needs.
Therefore, now that the external forces and resistance have disappeared, Zhou Huaian found that he could actually consider starting to establish a more long-term and stable military personnel training mechanism.
Of course, things like military academies can't be made out of nothing or can be achieved in one fell swoop; as far as the current conditions are concerned, the facilities and environment of the workshops are already in front, so he can expand the corresponding venues with less investment. Start with the simplest short non-commissioned officer training course in March and May;
First, find someone to compile the collected ancient art of war and battles, and select some easy-to-understand content as basic teaching materials; then let the apprentice team members who have a certain text basis to preach and read;
The survivors are mainly selected from the army, young and better-learning newcomers; or old pawns who are motivated and ideal. The number is not too much, just start with a hundred or eighty people as an experiment; then in the exploration of crossing the river by feeling the stones, deficiencies and omissions are found, and then gradually divided into classes and subjects, and gradually expand the scale and refine the teaching. Content.
The officers of the generals in service can also take the time to do one or two part-time teaching, briefly talk about various experiences after birth and death; or discuss and speculate on specific goals and issues in groups.
Zhou Huaian, who is behind the scenes and compiles teaching materials, does not have so much specific time to go to class; but he can also collect and summarize their questions on a regular basis to answer questions and solve puzzles, and continue to play the well-known and well-known role of omniscience.
In addition, through cleaning up and encircling the rebellious army in Guangzhou, nearly 20,000 prisoners were finally obtained. However, there are a lot of people who are indiscriminate, or come from desperate, fugitive and bandit backgrounds with suspicious origins.
There have also been disputes and disagreements within the Sanjiang Army regarding the disposal of these captured former friendly forces. Some people advocate that these forces should be incorporated and absorbed on the spot to supplement themselves, just like the former rebel forces that invaded each other because of contradictions and suspicions.
Some people also suggested that a certain percentage of them would be cut and killed by a quick knife and a certain percentage, and then the rest should be exiled to remote areas such as Annan, so that it is not easy to see; others have suggested that they are all from the past after all. After the fellow volunteers liquidated some of the chief evil and accomplices, all the others drove north to the outside of the ridge, and they survived on their own. . . There are so many inconsistencies.
So much so that for a while, it turned into a personal attack that turned into a hostile personal attack, and finally brought the problem to the table and put it in front of Zhou Huaian. So after weighing it over and over, he finally made the decision and the tone:
It is impossible to directly incorporate so many people. It will not only severely affect and impact the purity and stability of the Sanjiang Army; it will also cause those who are new to join who are not firm enough to make mistakes and make mistakes. Lucky, or disappointment that doubts the direction of the body's struggle;
Therefore, they must not waste this vital force, but also make them pay for what they have done and force them to spend the rest of their lives for atonement. Fortunately, the Sanjiang Army had initially formed a certain amount of mature experience in handling and reforming the prisoners of the official army.
The first is to encourage mutual disclosure and confession in private, and to punish the people who have notoriously committed the crimes one by one outside the city gate to comfort the people who died in the city and their families; of course, the main purpose is to clean up those influential by the way. The big and small bosses, as well as their influence and traces in the old rebel army, were also removed together.
The remaining ordinary prisoners were all sent to the newly opened farms for supervision and labor. After all, most of them were ready-made laborers transformed from farmers; they were supervised and reformed for a period of time and organized and guided them to deal with the vices and abuses of the former rebels. After accumulating malpractices and unreasonable complaints from the opponent, according to the performance of pardoning some of them, they are gradually absorbed into the rebel system.
Then, after the announcement of this decision, I didn't know why it was leaked, but in the temporary prison where the prisoners were held, it caused several riots and riots again; at one time, it broke through the fence and fled into the city. But in the end, after hacking thousands of heads one after another, it calmed down and stopped.
But it also further exacerbated Zhou Huaian's "notoriousness" in certain aspects.
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