"Ling thief not only came out of Hunan and Jiangxi, they often used donkeys, mules, and ponies to drive them back and forth. The local government couldn’t catch up with them and couldn’t control them... Poxian entering the state often became a major problem. Together with the story of Huaixi Army..."
"A Record of the Perilous Death of Qian Fu" by Zheng Bi, the Secretary and Young Supervisor
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When he got the news of Lu Guimeng's arrival in Guangzhou, Zhou Huaian was also looking at the army under Luofu Mountain. To be honest, although the two famous contemporary "Pi Lu" are also well-known, compared to Pi Rixiu, who has been a little reluctant and has to pinch his nose, he pays more attention to and values the attributes of several rare agronomists of this era. Tortoise Meng.
Because in this troubled world, no one can be saved by poetry, but excellent agronomic knowledge is likely to allow more people to survive; for this reason, the few old literati who can be retained by his men are also technocrats. Such a background or someone who has expertise in people's livelihood affairs.
For example, Fan Chuo, who wrote "The Book of Nanban" but still has some old-style literati idealism; wrote "Ling Biao Lu Yi" with the old bureaucratic atmosphere of the former Guangzhou Sima Liu Xun; and even now this is "Lei Lei Jing" " "Li Ze Series" Lu Guimeng of Liu Ze's later generations.
Although they each have their own problems and limitations; at least they are willing to settle down and learn, and they can also have enough patience and persistence to visit the lower levels of the civil society to obtain first-hand information. This is much more important than the achievements in articles and poems.
So this time, the additional condition of the subsequent negotiations with the powerful Dong Chang who occupy Hangzhou is to find a way for him to get Lu Guimeng out of jail and send it to his own hands. In this way, after Liu Xun, another specialist in charge of the Agricultural College was in place.
As the saying goes, if there are more than 10,000 people, it is boundless. Now the mobilized people have become extremely cramped for the university campus in the suburbs of Guangzhou, and can only be divided into several standby and rest camps to gather here;
This is also a field training ground for regular exercises. After all, in Guangzhou, which is highly developed and relatively densely populated, it is not easy to find a suitable contiguous large-scale exercise site without destroying the farmland and being too close to the village. thing.
The old pawns in the click look quite determined, and the new pawns are relatively full of morale and confidence. Although the colors and styles of their clothes are uniform gray-blue (old pawn) or lead gray (new pawn) crotch shirts, specific clues can be distinguished from the armor.
Ordinary soldiers wear light-brown bust nails or patch-inlaid leather armor, while auxiliary soldiers do not wear armor but only wear small round leather helmets without floral ornaments; old soldiers and senior soldiers wear piece armor or Broad leaf armor, round iron helmet decorated with single color or number color ribbons as equal ranks;
The jumping team and the first ascending sequence need more shoulder guards, armrests, and knee-shielding equipment; the cavalry and infantry are all-colored iron scale armor, with black horsehair inserted on the iron helmet with cheeks; The direct-affiliated regiment and the teaching brigade have more grass green cloaks as logos.
On the other hand, military academies and generals added sleeves and shin guards. A few people still have complete two armors or the upper half of the bright light; as for the helmets or luang pockets, they are from Upturned, flat-topped, and fins have everything.
As for weapons, the three-piece set of bows/crossbows, cards/shields, and swords/spears are the main ones; there are heavy weapons such as long axes, clubs, hammers, and nails in the jump and first ascent sequences. The same is true for the specially woven fire-throwers, they only change into the corresponding equipment when they enter the battle state.
In addition, there is an array of remote equipment. In order to reduce the burden and save energy, they only have self-defense horizontal knives and thick cloth shirts that are easy to move and wear.
But in any case, compared with the original situation in the banner of Stormrage Camp, where only a large number of bamboo and wood armors and paper armors, leather pockets and hats were used to make up the number, it has long been out of the ordinary; now these use periods are very short. All of his equipment was handed over to the local garrison sequence.
After all, it was the full supply of Nanhai County's Iron Industry, the seizure of many friendly equipment, and the remnants of the Guangzhou Metropolitan Government's arsenal, so that the tens of thousands of people and horses in front of them were able to piece together the more neatly packed protective gear.
The troops scheduled for the expedition will be organized into the new and old ten battalions and several special teams, which will carry more than three months of food and supplies through pack animals and carts. There are also seven regiments stationed after the army departs. It is used to maintain and patrol the grain road and defend key strongholds.
So many soldiers are divided into dozens of arrays and scattered in the countryside under Luofu Mountain, holding the flags of swords and guns like forests and staying motionless for a long time. Between occasional breathing and movement, it is like a quiet sea on the surface of the sea. The sparkling sparks.
Among the newly recruited soldiers, their faces are generally ruddy and their eyes are bright, and their mental outlook is different from those of the former refugees and poor people who had cloudy and dull-looking eyes. They are generally physically strong, able to bear weight, and have a wider range of weapons when they grow up. And because they participate in disciplined organizational activities together for a long time, whether it is production or learning, they have a very high understanding of each other. .
That is to say, obedience and psychological tolerance are good, it is not easy to scream, it is not easy to betray the brain, and it is not easy to collapse and escape out of fear. This is a natural source of high-quality troops. Compared with the weaker physique, loose personality, and a little cunning created by the environment, these workers, even if they are only apprentices, are good talents and beautiful qualities.
Today, even starvation to death is almost extinct within the scope of the rebels (death from overwork and disease are not counted); no, more accurately, there are very few beggars everywhere, because they are everywhere ( Mandatory) Opportunity to work. Even if you want to make good parasites such as lazy rogues, you have nowhere to go (and will soon be arrested for labor reform).
But before the renewal of the oath, there is an additional episode to be performed; Zhou Huaian personally awarded the fields to the senior veterans (sergeants); yes, it is the field award, strictly speaking, it is a beautifully printed field award certificate. ; There are also detailed personal information such as name, age, and birthplace, as well as antecedents and consequences, encouraging words of encouragement and slogans of the volunteers.
This is also where the long-term system and regulations scheduled by the left-behind department after the change of number and flag are located; it is also the most common method used by most traversers. Zhou Huaian also specially selected this node that was about to go out again, and threw out this big killer to justify the people.
After all, "the place has soil" has been the main pursuit and lifelong goal of most people in the traditional Chinese agricultural society for thousands of years; this is true even in the early days of New China. Therefore, this alone is enough to impress these rebel soldiers who, overwhelmingly, were in exile due to loss of land and bankruptcy, and ultimately desperate to set foot on the road of rebellion.
Although the granting of land is currently limited to senior veterans, the share of each person’s name is only ten to fifteen acres, and the total number of granting fields before and after is only a thousand people; only a small village can be used to settle all of them.
But for other people who joined the rebel army, there are no opportunities and hopes; because they only have to serve in the army for more than five to eight years, they will naturally obtain the preliminary qualifications for granting land; it is about 10 acres starting from the calculation.
Then this is just the beginning. As a follow-up reward and punishment incentive mechanism, as long as the majority of soldiers perform normally and make no mistakes, the amount of land granted can be added year by year; or if there are frequent contributions, they can also be added as appropriate.
Of course, these granted fields are only under the name, and only after death or disability is retired, can you actually receive the specific acres with this item; but the average yield of the corresponding acres can be converted according to the age. Subsidies on paid food.
It can be regarded as a kind of exclusive benefits and advantages for the elderly, and it is not too big for the current financial expenditure pressure, and it can be regarded as a benefit without expense. When more territories are conquered in the future, there will be more room for resettlement and land grant.
After going through this process in a simple and solemn way, the atmosphere and morale of the army in the countryside is no longer the same as Japan, and it is filled with a certain eagerness and ubiquitous longing, and there are scattered everywhere and it is difficult to suppress. The cheerful atmosphere.
Of course, regardless of the overall situation or personal considerations, Jiangling will inevitably rescue one or two; this node located in the Jianghan waterway hub is really too important, and it is related to the left-behind division and the Taiping army led by Zhou Huai'an. In Hunan, Jiangxi and other places, directly or indirectly supported and secretly communicated, the survival and safety of many small and medium-sized rebel camp forces.
Although these so-called rebel forces are really mixed, many of them just took the opportunity to take the opportunity to take the opportunity of the rebel forces, and the main forces of the rebel forces left blank places after their departure; but these existences themselves also destroyed and damaged Tang Ting in Jianghan in disguise. The land, and even the basic structure of the ruling foundation and order in the Jiangnan region.
On the one hand, their existence prevents the government from effectively using the resources and population in these places. The so-called basic principle is that even if it can't be used for its own use, it cannot be cheap to its opponents. On the other hand, they are the partners of the Taiping Army's potential trade gains and resource input for a long period of time. They are also one of the important barriers and peripheral buffers for the Lingnan region to stay out of the way and gather forces.
Of course, from another aspect, this is also a disguised and shaded corner of the main force of digging the Yellow Nest rebels; it can't be easily dismissed and satisfied by others.
At least according to the news and dynamic analysis accumulated by Jiangling; at present, after some setbacks and losses, some of the rebel forces have taken up a place in the name of rest and reorganization and refused to leave. As a result, disputes and disputes have also emerged within the General's Mansion.
Although their motives and goals are different, and they don’t have such lofty demands, they may only be selfish in order to facilitate robbery and raids; they can be more or less ensured that in the future, the main force of Huang Chao will go north to the Central Plains and suffer a final defeat in the south. The seeds and flames that continued to rebel came; and Tang Ting's rule in the vast south continued to rot like a wound that was difficult to heal.
Of course, it would be even better if you could smash the treasures of Datang's money bag and lifeblood in the Southeast of Fortune, and then leave. Zhou Huaian did not believe that in this case, the Southeast's blood transfusion was cut off. The Chang'an court can survive another generation or two as tenaciously as in history.
Of course, the most immediate and critical benefit at the moment is that, taking the opportunity of sending troops, you can directly take Guizhou (Guilin, Guangxi), where the Guizhou management and strategic envoys are located, and this important water and land transit hub and military node will be taken rightfully. Coming down; the last gate to carry the water through the Gulin Canal into and out of Wuling is in your hands.
The veteran Wang Chongyin's younger brother and Zuo Feng Lang general Wang Chongba was sent from Jiangling to ask for help and act as a liaison. At this moment, he was accompanying Zhou Huai'an at the same time, and he was slightly surprised and strange.
Only in the database accumulated by Zhou Huai'an, I also vaguely remember that in normal history, this man is also the number one person; but he was born as a famous general in the late Five Dynasties, and he had served in the Later Tang, Later Jin, Later Han, Later Thursday dynasties, until the founding father of the Northern Song Dynasty, Wang Yanchao. His father; but he couldn't help but ask.
"From what you can see, I would describe it as strong or not..."
"Although Guan Jian is elite, there is nothing more like this... The difficulties of Jiangling may be worry-free."
The other party replied respectfully.
"Then let us have a good meeting, your lineup is as strong as a landslide, Shannan official army Jianrui..."
Zhou Huaian said that he couldn't think about it, and then he faced Zhang Guiba, who was holding the Dazhu, and Sand Avenue, who was holding the main flag.
"Waving the flag and blowing the trumpet, it's time to beat the drum and go..."
With the utterance of the order, the foot of Luofu Mountain was once again transformed into a rushing ocean with drum horns and noisy sky.
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