Hunan, Changsha, the gate of the governor's yamen.

A group of people in long robes knelt at the door, first crying loudly, and then the gang shouted in a Shonan accent: "My lord, please send troops to help us regain the land!" ”

It is really very rare for so many people in robes to cry at the door of the governor's yamen. The people in short clothes on the road secretly peeked sideways, but they didn't dare to stop here. Every once in a while, a number of notices will mysteriously appear in Changsha City. Every time such a batch of notices appeared, the Changsha government would search for them. Whether the owner has been caught or not, the people of Changsha do not know. From the people's point of view, the constant appearance of notices proves that the right people have not been apprehended. It's just that the government never discriminates in arresting people, and the people avoid it.

In the previous paragraph, a large number of notices appeared, and the government immediately arrested people everywhere like mad dogs. Unexpectedly, a group of people in long robes suddenly appeared outside the governor's yamen, and even the people in short clothes did not dare to surround them, but they couldn't help but peek secretly when walking.

Hunan Governor Mao Hongbin had already known the news in the yamen. In the past half month, many landlords and gentry in the area under the control of the Guangfu military have fled to Changsha, and after they arrived in Changsha, they are begging the government to send troops back to southern Hunan to help them regain their land. As soon as Mao Hongbin investigated, he learned that the Guangfu Army had carried out land reform in southern Hunan, and all the land was returned to the public, and then the Guangfu Army distributed it to the local people for cultivation.

According to the landlords, the local people were deluded, and they did not talk about fighting against the foreign Liberation Army, but instead ignored the feelings of living in the same village and the same township for generations, and attacked the landlords. After losing the land, the landlords and gentry could only leave their hometowns and come to Changsha to beg the government to send troops to help the landlords regain the land.

Of course, Mao Hongbin refused to send troops. After the Guangfu army conquered Yongxing, they mastered the waterway and could go down the river to Hengyang. If Hengyang is lost, Changsha will not be able to keep it. At present, the total number of Hunan troops in the whole Hunan is less than 60,000, and the defense of the city is still insufficient. These landlords and gentry in southern Hunan had always refused to pay grain and taxes, but now that they had been deprived of their land, they came to beg the officials and soldiers to be dispatched. In Lord Mao's heart, the Guangfu Army is the most hateful, and these landlords and gentry are the most hateful.

"My lord, the gentry are on their knees and crying." Someone came to report it.

"Ignore them." Mao Hongbin said coldly.

For the next three days, the gentry knelt at the door of the governor's yamen every day and cried, and Mao Hongbin did not see them every day. No matter what kind of officials came to lobby, Mao Hongbin ignored it.

On the fourth day, some gentlemen from Yuelu Academy asked to see Mao Hongbin. Mao Hongbin ordered someone to bring these scholars into the living room. Yuelu Academy is the largest academy in Hunan, and it is also the place where Hunan scholars most want to study. When the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom attacked Changsha, Hong Xiuquan sent people to burn Yuelu Academy. Zeng Guofan used this incident as an excuse to call on Hunan scholars to rise up and support Zeng Guofan and eliminate the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom.

Among the news obtained by Hunan scholars everywhere, Yuelu Academy was a mess. At this time, transportation was inconvenient, and after receiving Zeng Guofan's letter, the angry Hunan scholars immediately supported Zeng Guofan. When the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom was defeated, many scholars full of grief and indignation came to Changsha to prepare to rebuild Yuelu Academy. Only then did they realize that only a small part of the academy had been destroyed. The only thing that can really be called damaged is that the statue of Confucius has been smashed.

Not long after, Yuelu Academy reopened. It's just that a large number of literati joined the army, and the Confucians didn't have anything to do and went to Yuelu Academy to show off, so the people gathered here were those who refused to be soldiers and wanted to use the name of Yuelu Academy to become "opinion leaders".

The purpose of their visit to Mao Hongbin was naturally to support the landlords and gentry, hoping that the government would send troops to help the landlords regain the land. Lord Mao Hongbin has long known the virtues of these literati, and he has a good idea of what they will say. After listening to the opinions of these public opinion representatives, Mao Hongbin replied: "If we send troops now, we can't do it without 50,000 soldiers. 50,000 soldiers and horses were dispatched, and there were no garrison soldiers in the whole of Changsha. Since you have such intentions, it is better to put pen to paper and join the Hunan army. When you conquer Shonan, you can also make great contributions and seal your wife and son. ”

Hearing that Mao Hongbin was in the army, these scholars were dumbfounded. They were also prepared and thought of dealing with Governor Mao Hongbin's possible "shirk". Unexpectedly, Governor Mao Hongbin did not shirk it, but directly asked the scholar to become a soldier. If the scholars who were willing to be soldiers would have gone out to serve as soldiers a long time ago, the group of people who stayed in Yuelu Academy were naturally unwilling. By now, they had received too many news of the killing of scholars who had served in the army.

Especially in the Battle of Fuzhou and the Battle of Sanhe, the elite of the Hunan army was annihilated by more than 10,000 people. Tens of thousands of families in Hunan are hanging filial piety to summon souls, and such a tragic situation scares these scholars stupidly. As soon as they heard that they were going to join the army, the scholars immediately shut up.

Mao Hongbin didn't let go of these people, he said coldly: "If those gentry really want to regain the land, why don't they join the army?" If no one joins the army, where will the government have soldiers to fight? They knelt in front of the yamen and begged, looking pitiful, but in fact they just wanted to coerce the government. I don't care about them, I just feel sorry for them. If they really think about it, these people will have to go to prison. When you get out, make it clear to them that you're either going to join the army or you're going to leave. If you continue to block it like this, don't blame the ruthlessness of national law. ”

These words obviously worked, and not long after the scholars were "sent" from the governor's yamen, the landlords and gentry dispersed. The final result also disappointed Mao Hongbin, he thought that some of the landlords and gentry would join the army in anger, but he didn't expect that no one would do so.

Shen Xin, secretary of the Hunan Provincial Party Committee, soon got the news of this, and since the invasion of Hunan, the intelligence network of the Guangfu Army in Hunan has become stronger and stronger. Although I don't know what happened in the governor's yamen, the news of Hunan Governor Mao Hongbin's refusal to send troops can be gathered.

At this time, the Guangfu Army began the land reform in the control area, Hunan is a tea town, there are many mountains, the land is not very suitable, planting tea trees, planting mulberry trees is very convenient. Such poor mountainous areas are very cheap in terms of manpower, not only to divide the land, but also to cancel all the debts owed by the peasants to the landlords in the past. The land was divided and the debts were cancelled, and the local masses were grateful to the Liberation Army and wholeheartedly supported it. And the landlords are gritting their teeth and trying to retaliate.

At this time, Shen Xin did not immediately take the means of killing, and he applied to the central government to form the Eighth Army in Hunan. Soon, the central government agreed to Shen Xin's construction, and gave not only the number of the Eighth Army of the Hunan Military Region, but also the number of the Ninth Army of Hunan. The working group sent by Shen Xin immediately began to recruit troops in various parts of Hunan.

Every time the troops arrived in a village, they would bury pots to make rice, bacon, all kinds of canned food, and pour spirits in glass bottles, first with the villagers to eat and drink, and then to make a family routine, telling the people that if they want to save the current life, no one can fight as a soldier. As for the targets of the war, the working group did not make the slightest secret of saying that it would fight the Hunan army, the landlords, and the scholars who only knew how to speak for the landlords.

The people were very realistic, and as soon as they heard that the Liberation Army was going to attack the target, everyone immediately agreed with the Opinions of the Liberation Army. In addition, when he learned that the family of the soldier could immediately receive a stone of rice, the willingness to join the army was even higher. There are many children in the mountains and families, and in a short period of time, 50,000 people are in the army.

There are also a number of female soldiers in the task force, who wear handsome uniforms and have the same status as men. At first glance, he is not bullied in the army. Men are given one stone of rice for joining the army, and girls are given two stones of rice for joining the army. Some families with many girls finally succumbed to reality, and the effect of such demonstration was beyond the imagination of the troops, and many little girls from the mountains secretly came to ask to join the army. There are not many reasons for them to ask for military service, and the most concentrated reason is that "they don't want to marry". R1058