Outside Dayuncang, the transportation center of Xinzhou (now Shangrao, Jiangxi) along the river, in the battlefield just after the end, corpses are everywhere and the remnants are wrong. Groups of officers and soldiers with knives and guns swam past, supervising many civilians to clean up the mess all over the floor.
Huainan Pioneer Clashing Envoy and Commander of the Battalion Army and Horse Envoy Zhang Lin, Gu Pan calmly watched the grass thief captives kneeling on the ground; although from time to time there were identified leaders and leaders, they were dragged aside and decapitated before throwing their corpses. Aside, but the remaining grass thieves were even more unresisted and shrank into a ball on the ground one after another.
He is a burly man with a bronze complexion and a national face and thick eyebrows. Under his ordinary appearance, he has a sense of standing still and steep as a mountain; and when he stepped on the battlefield, he again It is a different style and tolerance; within the sturdy body of the chieftain who waved vertically and horizontally, it seems that there is always the force of fearful landslides.
Therefore, even if it is under his color, let alone those subordinate generals, even his direct-led subordinates and close associates, they dare not speak directly and loudly with him.
After the prolonged game and struggle and compromise in the court, I saw that the heart of the Tang Dynasty, which was full of energy, was also like a severely ill and unresponsive patient; finally he had been eroded from Hunan to Jiangxi, and from Jiangxi to Jiangdong. Both Zhejiang and Zhejiang; there are swarms of thieves in various places who have responded, or have surnames, treacherous people claiming to be the other part of the grass thief, and the situation of the Southeast Board, which makes the officials, soldiers and civilians rushing, has made sufficient responses and made all-out countermeasures and deployments. Come.
Therefore, it is said that Liu Hong, the newly appointed Zhedong Observatory by the imperial court, has already arrived by sea and has begun to prepare for war. Although still unable to stop the erosion of the grass thieves' army raging everywhere; but at least it also ensured that the remaining cities of eastern Zhejiang would not continue to fall.
On the other hand, in addition to stepping up to urge the Shannan Jiedushi Liu Jurong and Jiangxi to recruit Cao Quanzhu troops to step up the campaign and regain lost land; the imperial court has already levied money and food and has exhausted the central government to allocate "out-of-boundary grain" and "transportation money." , Zhaoyi (Zelu), Kanhua (Xu Si), Yicheng (Zhenhua) and other soldiers were sent from the Northland to assist the Huainan side to fight the grass thieves;
However, the order and meaning from Gao Linggong is, how can such a first effort to break the thief and calm the chaos easily be passed on to outsiders, and it is better to let the Huainan army receive it alone; The position of discussing the thieves and determining the chaos is basically the same, but as to who will lead the process and the overall situation, there are disputes and back-ups; and Huainan, who bears the brunt, undoubtedly has the advantage.
At the very least, we must ensure that the credit for overcoming the difficulties of recovery, most of them fall into the hands of the righteous brothers Liu Jurong, Cao Quanlu, Zhou Baozhi and others who have a connection with Ling Gong. However, it must not be cheap. The political enemies of Lu Xianggong, who have always been close to Linggong’s important internal aid to the court, such as the former prime minister Wang Duo and Cui Anqian’s Northland military town, have become the base for the other party to take the opportunity to return to the court. And credentials.
On the other hand, it is to bring out the guard soldiers, guard soldiers, and regimental trainees who have many names under Huainan, but are intricately related to the local area, and bring them out to the rightful ones and consume more in the thieves;
Nowadays, although Ling Gong's subordinates have compiled and trained 70,000 local and Hakka troops, they only used the soldiers who were able to bring them to the Moxie capital and recruit Danyang children on the spot for many years. Most of the remaining are the former grass thieves who came from the rebels; after eliminating the old and weak, they are still strong and brave.
However, under the control of wealth and power, we expect to use the power of these former grass thieves to deal with, run and squeeze out the indigenous forces in Huainan Town; we must also be vigilant and prevent them from taking the opportunity to be difficult to cure; and Both secret suppression and open support were given to both secretly suppressing everything and making it mutually restrictive of the long-term antagonism between them and the native-born soldiers. Only then can the public security sit firmly in the southeast hub (Yangzhou) and maintain the situation.
Therefore, this time dispatching troops can effectively weaken and consume these two hidden dangers under the guise of the grass thieves, and gain enough credit and qualifications. That is the best of both worlds and even countless things in one fell swoop. For this reason, among the Huainan army he brought this time, apart from the tens of thousands of battalions in this formation and the two guest cavalry from Tianping and Pinglu, the rest are guards, regiments, and guards from all over the world. Existence that can be lost and consumed.
On the other hand, there is also the process of chasing the grass thieves, waiting for the opportunity to place Linggong’s subordinates and people under the sect to those who have fallen into the vacant position of Guangfuzhou County; in order to form the entire southeast connection under the leadership of Linggong. Guaranteed a big game of chess,
Therefore, it is very important to grasp the specific scale in the end, not only can the grass thief be defeated in one go, but also lack the buffer and room for the calm layout of the princes of the court and the local army who are eager to make contributions; but also to maintain sufficient strength and leeway. The upper hand, in order to justifiably exclude other forces that might intervene in, and become an important basis and basis for the authority to negotiate more pros and cons with the court.
Therefore, he must fight against the grass thieves severely in order to maintain sufficient pressure and advantage to think of merit and reputation; and at the right time to relax the other side's lingering moments, so as to prevent the grass thieves from dispersing and letting themselves fall into Go in a dilemma that no thieves can discuss; it's really not worth the gain.
Zhang Lin was not from a famous background, but an orphan from a military camp, but he was valued by the fledgling Linggong in his early years. Since then, he has embarked on a magnificent military life. It can be said that from the time when Ling Gong was still a young man, he brought him who was caught stealing food and was caught by his side. Ling Gong and him are recreating parents and the most trustworthy person in the world. .
Therefore, even if he has now officially worshiped the generals of the guards, the guards of the military department of the prosecutors, the pioneers of Huainan (town), and the soldiers and horses of the southeast battalion, he received the honor of the three hundred households of Haimenzi (jue); but the righteous name of the court For him, it was not even as good as Linggong's momentary likes and dislikes. In a sense, this is also where his greatest attachment and weakness lie.
It is said that Linggong Rongma has served hundreds of generals under his command, but the most trusted ones are always following the left and right, and Zhang Lin and Ryazan, who are known as the "shuangjun" of the right hand and the right arm. He also consciously has a long way to go and dare not let him down.
Therefore, even if there is a slight private disagreement and strange voice in this trend of rapturous advancement, it will soon be suppressed and become Zhang Lin's uncompromising and prohibitive remarks.
"Report, there is a grass thief, Chang Hong, who has led a large force to attack..."
At this time, a small school carrying the flag rushed towards him.
"Fighting with the former Luzhou governor Yang Xingmin..."
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It was already two days later when Zhou Huai'an led the land and water forces to join forces and set off again from Changsha City in Tanzhou. And in such a short period of time, he has also dealt with many aftermath and leftovers, and at the same time completed the corresponding supply and maintenance work;
Finally, after arranging the corresponding garrison forces of the garrison camps, temporary battalions and newly recruited battalions according to the ratio of 1:3:5; the forces under his command have grown to more than 28,000 people again; the main reason is to recruit and regroup. It is because of the remnant armed forces of the rebel forces in Tanzhou City.
We must know that the original three military orders in Tanzhou City totaled more than 17,000 posts; plus the five other troops who came to eat, recruit, and repair; from the book, there are at least three More than 10,000 people; but because of the sudden civil turmoil and the heavy losses caused by the sudden attack of the officers and soldiers; the last ten did not save three or four, and after removing the old, the weak and the sick, only four or five thousand people were left. ；
And Zhou Huaian couldn't let them continue to stay in the original location, he needed to bite the bullet and take them all on the road. Otherwise, in the absence of sufficient external force to suppress and supervise them, the suspicions and grievances caused by this turmoil among them may also become the source of new vendettas and continue to circulate locally.
That week, Huai'an's effort to lay a relatively stable rear and supply line was done in vain.
At least in Gangneung, they have their common enemy, the official army, to shift the direction of internal contradictions and overall hatred. In this way, after only a few battles, the colors and traditions left over from the old-fashioned rebel system with many drawbacks can be effectively diluted. It is also a cliché to solve internal problems externally.
But this requires the ability to control the rhythm of the battlefield and the formation of the march. But before leaving, Zhou Huaian had just received good news from Lingwai.
However, it was the former Guangzhou Sima who took people to Yazhou on Hainan Dadao to recruit local Liliao farms and conduct agricultural development and production practices. Liu Xun, now the head of the Agricultural College, has succeeded in promoting cotton cultivation in the local area. To say that this old-school bureaucrat has various problems, but in the field he focuses on, he still has a stubborn energy to seek results.
Of course, the cotton varieties currently available in Lingnan or Guangzhou are mainly grass cotton from overseas Kunlun country/Africa, short-staple cotton from Tianzhu/India, and kapok native to Hainan Island. As for the upland cotton, which will occupy the world's major cotton varieties, it is imported from the Western Regions; and the best quality of the other long-staple cotton originating in the Americas, this will be beyond the reach.
As for the corresponding cotton spinning industry, the manpower is readily available. On the one hand, whether it is the refugees who fled from Fujian or the people of the Guiguan generation in Lingxi, there are many folk experts who are good at spinning white fold (cotton); on the other hand, It is in the area where Hainan Liliao live, and it also produces another kind of cotton called Jibei cloth;
You must know that later generations of Huang Daopo learned the cotton-making technology here, and promoted the stirrer (cotton gin), slingshot bow, spinning wheel, loom and other equipment in Songjiang and other places in the south of the Yangtze River.
Therefore, coupled with the natural power bonus provided by the construction of water conservancy workshops, as long as there are enough sources of raw materials, it is quite easy to explode the production capacity.
It is important to know that cotton planting and its derivative products, such as the cotton spinning industry, are good things. Not only can they provide a large number of high-quality textiles to meet people's livelihood needs, but also serve as key products for domestic and foreign trade and the growth point of new economic crops; in terms of industrial raw materials It is also quite useful. For example, after different degrees of nitrification treatment, military products such as explosives can be digested from the nitrocellulose propellant tract.
Therefore, another cornerstone of the early firearms industry has been solved. This is undoubtedly a gratifying and exciting thing. Unfortunately, Zhou Huai'an has not been able to talk to him for a long time, but can only hold it in his heart.
But before he left Changsha, he took the time to go to a sandbank in the Xiangshui River full of orange trees, leaving a stele and a poem, which was regarded as a memorial and inscription for his visit.
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