Among the sparse snow flakes that were constantly spaced apart, Song Hao, the Jiedu Envoy of Jingnan, who had just arrived, was also running along the way to attract troops to capture Jingmen. The elongated team stepped on the road that was still thinly covered with snow. In the midst of the snow and winter, it gasped into smoke like a long dragon shaking its head and tail.
As a veteran general from the loyal army, he never believed in the excuse that the grass thief suddenly became fierce and difficult to be entangled; but deeply suspected that it was the Liu Jieshuai master who started to repeat the old tricks in the city. , And even unwilling to fight against the grass thieves to preserve their own strength.
So he simply used the name of Jiedu from Jingnan to collect the remaining officers and soldiers and soil regiments under his jurisdiction, and with the help of Duan Yanmo to bring the Yanzhou cavalry from the Taining army, and used the funds of the treasury to join forces to make more than 10,000 people. . Riding on the real heavy snow in winter before the road was blocked, he suddenly went south to test the fineness of this peaceful thief; it was also to establish his reputation and authority as the newly arrived Jingnan Jieshuai.
Otherwise, as Jingzhou, Lizhou, Langzhou, Xiazhou, Kuizhou, Zhongzhou, Wanzhou, and Guizhou under the jurisdiction of the Jingnan Jieshuai, most of him will either fall into the hands of thieves or establish a separate regime for local independence; It is too embarrassing and helpless for an aspiring general in Xiangzhou.
After all, with the Shandong Jiedu envoys in Xiangzhou, Yingzhou, Junzhou, Fangzhou, Tangzhou, Fuzhou, Suizhou, and Dengzhou, as well as the Tianping Army and Jiangxi recruiting envoy Cao Quanlu in the same territory; It’s not an easy task to levy the power of wealth, escort, and Ding. The soldiers and Taining guest army he brought also needed corresponding financial rewards and military merits.
Otherwise, in accordance with the usual style and usual practice of the children of the military town, the corresponding dissatisfaction and resentment will accumulate over a longer period of time, and will eventually be bitten by this handsome man; you must know that even the most loyal military town and the court One of the Ping Fans, the loyal military army Jidu Envoy was not an example of not expelling or even killing Jishuai.
Xue Neng, who was just like the former loyal military ambassador of Jiedu, was born into a jinshi but was a handsome probationary, Xu Si and other Jiedu ambassadors, who is also a scholar of the Ministry of Industry, is a world-famous generation of great poets. As a result, the Xuzhou Army’s old army who had been in transit slightly treated the former army during his tenure, which aroused dissatisfaction and anxiety among the local Xu Zhou soldiers.
As a result, Zhou, a general dental soldier of local origin, was angered by the suspicion and incited Xue Neng to use foreign troops to suppress the slaughter of his children in this town. And slaughter its home. The imperial court could not even restrain or punish, and had to pinch his nose to send an envoy to chase after the new town commander.
Song Hao, who was born in the Chenzhou system of the Zhongwu Army, although he did not directly participate in the incident, he can be regarded as witnessing the whole process. It is not without the sadness of the rabbit and the fox; and this time, Xiao Yang (Fuguang), who is known as the "two sheep in the big house" Jianzhen, using his father Yang Xuanjie's old relationship to recommend him out of Jingnan, he should also have enough feedback and rewards.
If not, I believe that Xiao Yang Jianzhen, who is oppressing the towns, will not hesitate to give his nominal deputy, Taining Army General Duan Yanmo, more opportunities; although his rank and rank in the court are higher than that. The opponent, but the deputy who is also one of the generals of the feudal town, does not seem to be a person willing to live under people for a long time under a fairly respectful appearance.
It's just that at the moment they are all guest troops coming from afar, and they lack real territory. It can be said that apart from regaining lost ground from the thieves, there is not much room for a foothold. If you don't get together to survive the hardship, then you really don't have to count on everything.
And the existence of Duan Yanmo was another feudal commander who used the Tianping Army Jiedu and Jiangxi to recruit Cao Quanzhu's heart disease; at least for that day, don't expect the support and echo from this powerful friendly army. This was clearly a mess made by the court officials, and it was an unexplainable disaster that fell on them.
However, thinking of this, he felt even more resentful for leading soldiers to the south, and the loyalty army who had been cut off so far would call Zhou Yanling. This guy, who was originally just a warlord but relied on gentleness to make the family relationship higher, the three thousand loyal fighters who had taken away should have been allocated to his own command. If these three thousand loyal and military soldiers are emboldened, his Jingnan Jiedu's actions in the local area will not be so "lame."
And before he took office, he smashed pots and sold iron to gather and gather soldiers, and he was only capable of pulling out three battalions from Chenzhou, with about 1,700 worthy soldiers; in comparison, he was dwarfed. Of course, Song Hao didn't think there was any grass thieves in this world that could threaten these three thousand loyal martial artists; I'm afraid it was tied to a certain place in Hunan because of this.
But in any case, there are now the three major contributors in the territory of Shannan Road. It is also a huge pressure and anguish for the local people's livelihood and the supply of taxation and corvee; therefore, he does not want to build on the other two big businesses. If the big veteran feudal towns are squeezed out in the imperceptible daily life, they can only lead the soldiers out as soon as possible.
It's just the big households, the rich family manor, and the survivors who ran out of the hiding place to complain and plead that were obviously looted or demolished along the way; it made him very unhappy. Under the rule of Liu Jurong and Liu Deliang, they were too negligent and indiscriminate, letting the local civil commotions and bandits behave recklessly. This is still in the territory of Xiangzhou, which is the ambassador of Jiedu.
According to the reactions and expressions of the good homes and top leaders in these places, these thieves acted extremely brutally and rudely, but with very different rules and regulations. The equipment was sophisticated and orderly, and there were a lot of methods to do everything. He even dared to pretend to be the official army to deceive the gates of towns and villages, and kill the gentry and wealthy families who had withdrawn from the insurance, and then scattered the refugees and poor households with small favors to gather and drive them.
Therefore, although there is no shortage of self-raised soil groups in these places, there are many knives, bows and drums, and the towns and villages are echoed in the joint protection; but under the attack of these mysterious bandits, they can't take care of the heavy losses. The disaster of breaking the family. But this is also a potential trouble for Song Hao. He can't get enough supply and cooperation from Xiangzhou.
Although there are still some castles, towns and others still survived, the things and manpower they can provide; for the tens of thousands of Jingnan army under his command, they are just a little better than nothing. Instead, he had to find a way to restrain those subordinates who had not been able to get enough benefits, so as not to be robbed of these relatively submissive places.
If he doesn't want to rely on a wave of food from the ground to solve the southern bandits, he has to rely on these fairly intact local strongholds to establish his own back road and supply grain platform. Just after he arrived at Zhangmen Town, the junction of Lexiang County, the southernmost part of Xiangzhou, and Jingzhou, the newly formed Jingnan Army finally encountered an unknown attack.
At least three of the eleven cavalry teams that went out for sentry food were overdue. Two of them were almost destroyed and only a few cavalrymen fled back to report the letter. The news came back that there were hordes of bandits.
"These ditch rats finally emerged... It's time for me to wait for the country to serve the country and kill the thieves."
But Song Hao didn't look angry, but happily said to the left and the right.
That night, in the dark and sparse bush forest, a few plain white cloaks covered in thick woolen jackets covered with mottled snow, but still flushed with cold faces, were trying to lift a few large and heavy objects. Staggering a little closer;
Later, he assembled it into a decent catapult, but it was a catapult with a very short service life. Then another workhorse was brought over and took out the jar filled with arson grease from the basket. He slipped into the leather case; began to move forward slowly again.
However, the camps set up by these officers and soldiers outside the town are still in order. Whether it is on the temporary towers and arrow towers, or the torches that faintly sway behind the fence, they are always in constant communication. You Ye kept on, it seemed that he had used considerable manpower to maintain sufficient alertness.
Therefore, they didn't dare to get too close to each other, but only started to adjust this small mechanism within the maximum projection range, and launched it with the maximum power without hesitation.
In the night, when a little faint spark appeared in the eyes of the sentry on the wall, it had not yet attracted obvious attention; then the faintly swaying spark quickly became larger, and amidst the eager cry of the alarmed sentry, it slammed down. It was near the fence wall; and a bright fire was burned on the spot, and it also illuminated the battalion defense fortifications, such as horses, trenches, pickets, and ropes, which were wrongly shadowed within a radius of more than ten steps.
At this moment, the camp of the officers and the army was like a pot that was boiling quickly. With the torches and fire cages that were constantly lit up, the voices of the people suddenly became boiled, and it seemed that they had been prepared. In general, there is not much chaos between the noise.
Instead, someone on the wall began to launch rockets one by one in the direction of the fire, and then inserted them on the dark-covered snow outside the camp at different distances, which became a guide in a certain distance and direction; and then the camp gate. The armored soldiers who rushed out of the unanimous flame and holding the staff in a big burst, under the guidance of these flames, tried their best to culminate in this approximate direction.
Coincidentally, however, the warning horn was also suddenly sounded in other directions, and also a little ignition head flew out and flew into the camp. In that moment, a section of the fence where the outpost was located was ignited and burned. Several police whistle archers screamed, fell, jumped and escaped. . .
After dawn, Song Hao, with a displeased expression, looked at the small camp that was burned to ruins and a number of corpses scattered in it; compared to the harassed sleepless night, it was still morale intact; but the southwest corner followed. After being hit by a few fire regiments in the camps of more than a thousand Turkmen army at night, there was a scream.
Then, in the panic that was awakened, these soldiers rushed out of the camp under the push of one another and trampled on one another. However, they were treated as an attacker by the Xiangzhou united soldiers in another camp that was approaching alert. The bandits shot and slaughtered a lot with bow and crossbow fire arrows; then the Taining cavalry, who served as the response, rushed out to support, and slashed and slashed a lot.
The result was that, except for a few unburnt debris in the withered forest, all the bandits who harassed and attacked outside the camp escaped; after dawn, the army and cavalry found the truth and stopped, but it was too late to regret. Nearly all of the native soldiers in this camp were killed or injured or escaped. As for the remaining soldiers in the other camps, the morale of the soldiers in other battalions could not help but be depressed in a tragic manner.
Jingzhou was frustrated just after his debut, and Song Hao couldn't help but cast a heavy shadow in his heart, and he became more cautious and favored by the opponent who planned it.
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At the same time, Zhou Huaian, who had just sent a support army to Jingmen City, was also in a regular retreat with businessmen in the city, pretending to listen to his opinions and enthusiastically speaking through the screen, and began to summarize and introspect. The gains, losses and achievements of governance in the recent period.
As various post-war policies for stability and governance in Hunan have been implemented one by one, it is not surprising that they have encountered varying degrees of resistance and resistance in various parts of Hunan. The Taiping Army is least afraid of the public rebellion of the old knowledge; because this also means the justified liquidation and confiscation, and all the net worth of these rebels and their connections.
On the contrary, those secret resistance and non-cooperation are more troublesome and more concealed. In addition to the apparent force of suppression and deterrence, it also requires enough personnel with simple training to go to the grassroots level as the basic administrative order. Where the execution lies; and gradually eliminate this soil of resistance and non-cooperation.
After all, under the small peasant economic system inherited from the original feudal society; although the economy as a tenant is extremely fragile, the system of landlords and large households who collect taxes on behalf of the grassroots and collect taxes by raising family members and thugs is also efficient. It is known for its low cost and high cost.
Among them, the routine losses caused by layers of waste, greed, and deductions are extremely considerable; and these additional costs also have to be borne by farmers and tenants themselves, often several times or even ten times the original levy base.
Therefore, the power of the Qin and Han dynasties, with fewer household registrations and productivity than later generations, was able to explode stronger national mobilization capabilities than in most of the later generations; it is because the executive ability of officials who penetrated into the grass-roots townships in the basic areas such as the Guannei area It can even assign responsibilities and powers to households; instead of sacrificing efficiency and cost, handing others.
This is entirely worthwhile for the Taiping Army to promote the establishment of a more advanced and rigorous regime management system in the name of restoring the ancients and mentoring sages, so as to obtain corresponding administrative efficiency and decreasing execution costs.
In this process, it is impossible to absorb scholars from the corresponding land interest class, or retain personnel from the old system, so that they have the opportunity to participate in it, or deliberately distort and deviate things.
The overcorrection or inexperience caused by the corresponding personnel is one of the tolerable and unavoidable costs in the process of establishing a deep-rooted government.
In this chaotic world of cannibalism, even over-correction is better than doing nothing. It’s better to just sit and watch everything happen or sit and wait for death; in the words of a forerunner in later generations: Only when there is nothing to lose After that, completely smash everything and recreate everything to get the whole new world.
Although he cannot guarantee what kind of thing he created this hodgepodge and four differences in the future; after all, under the conditions of ancient productivity, he wants to implement many current social systems and measures in future generations, but lacks a realistic foundation and Guarantee conditions.
But the most basic requirement of being a superior can ensure that those who are willing to follow and trust themselves get a good result, and through reasonable resource redistribution and promotion of more value created by productive labor, they can make all kinds of things under their control. People waited better than before.
In other words, in the future, it may be possible to use a less terrible feudal system to replace this late dynasty system, which has developed so much that it is hard to return, and makes people very desperate; and then use the methods of routine external social contradictions in later generations to extend the lives of future generations. By the way Leave some signs of enlightenment awakening.
The four thousand five hundred words chapter has been delivered as promised, I hope everyone can do more └(^o^)┘
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