Chapter 287: Trouble in the North (10)

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As soon as Wu Fengshan arrived in the barracks, the gate of the camp was immediately on guard. These days, the Taiping army is strictly controlled, and the appearance of more people in the gate control has not attracted much attention. As soon as Wu Fengshan entered the barracks, the Taiping brothers in the adobe houses in Shaanxi immediately surrounded him.

"Brother Wu, is there any news?"

"Brother Wu, what did the brothers outside say?"

A group of officers and soldiers asked in a gossiping voice.

"The brothers in the other battalions said that if the family is really the same as what is written in the letter, everyone still wants to go back." Wu Fengshan introduced the attitudes of the other Taiping troops. "Everyone also said that at that time, they followed the king of heaven to fight the world. Now that the king is gone, the world can't fight. It's enough for us to be born and die for the prince for so many years. At this time, our brothers will have to plan for themselves. ”

Selfishness is human nature. When there is a big future ahead, or when the group to which they belong encounters difficulties that can be overcome, it is always easy for participants to burst into heroism and self-sacrifice. The situation is constantly changing, and the great future has nothing to do with the current Taiping Army. When the whole pie can't be expanded, all the problems immediately start to come to the fore.

During this political offensive against the Taiping Army, Wei Ze gave his own opinion.

The reason for the vigorous rise of the Liberation Party in recent years is that the industrialization process led by Weeser distributed the domestic industrial dividends to the entire country and organizations in a relatively balanced manner. Since these benefits are benefits that the Liberation Party and the Liberation Army cannot obtain on their own, Wei Ze asked for more distribution in favor of the masses, and the organization can certainly accept it. With the development of the productive forces, life in the entire liberated areas has become better.

There are only backward leaders, and there are no backward masses. The masses are not stupid, they know what they are giving and they know what they are getting. Everyone knows very well that they will not be able to achieve the current progress in life on their own. In order to get more benefits, everyone naturally followed the Liberation Party and the Liberation Army.

Hong Xiuquan and the kings of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom also wanted to be like Wei Ze's leading group, releasing endless light and heat like the sun. But they can't. With the cleverness of these people, of course they knew that Wei Ze had driven them to the northwest because of some conspiracy that they could not understand for the time being. But there is no need for Wei Zegen to say anything, in order to be able to benefit his subordinates and the local Han people who really support the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom can only clean the northwest. If they don't cleanse the Northwest, they will be wiped out, and if they don't cleanse the Northwest, they won't have the land and possessions to benefit these followers. This is a very realistic thing.

Five or six years have passed since the Great Purge, and the benefits have long since been lost, and everyone's gratitude has faded. The backward productivity and production relations of the agricultural era caused problems for the Taiping army. The Taiping army knew that it could not defeat the Liberation Army, and those in the lower Taiping army felt that they had no future, and those who were not enterprising hoped to be able to disarm and return to the field. Even if you don't get more, at least don't lose anything, that's the common view.

Even if there is no way to look at the problem from the height of Wei Ze, let alone use Wei Ze's inductiveness to summarize what happened, the specific problems seen by the middle and lower echelons of the Taiping Army are the same as the problems seen by Wei Ze. They know they can't get more, so they don't want to lose anything they already have.

Wu Fengshan told the grassroots of the Taiping Army that this was the problem, and about thirty percent of the troops he contacted saw that the changes in their hometowns were good, although they were skeptical about whether it would be better to go home to farm. But home is home, and it's a good thing to be able to go back to your hometown. As long as there is land in the south of the Yangtze River, and only 30% of the tax in kind is paid, then it will definitely not starve to death, and life will become better. However, if the northwest is not watered, no matter how much land there is, it may not be able to completely get rid of the threat of death. And where is the turn of these lower layers to get their hands on the watered ground? The upper echelons and their cronies have long since given up the land. These thirty percent of the brothers thought it was better to go home than to stay in the Northwest.

There are also three percent who have completely lost confidence in the future, and everyone is disheartened. I feel that the current situation is better than dispersing. As for the dispersal, they had no choice but to go home.

The other forty percent feel that "I am a little sorry for people who have left like this", and the land they have been allocated is so-so, and they have married and had children in the northwest. This part of the population does not care about the changes that have taken place above, as long as their current lives are not threatened, it is not unacceptable to be farmers in the northwest.

The specific situation and starting point are different, but everyone has the same idea, that is, they do not want to continue the war.

In the recent political offensive of the Liberation Army against the Taiping Army, this is precisely what has been most emphasized. As long as these old brothers of the Taiping Army are willing to lay down their arms, whether they go home or stay in the northwest, the Guangfu Army will let the old brothers live a stable life. The fall of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom had nothing to do with these brothers.

Wei Ze, the king of Qi, is not a stranger to these old brothers of the Taiping army, there are thousands of people in the Taiping army who have seen Wei Ze, the king of Qi from afar, and in addition to the destruction of Li Kaifang's subordinates of the three prime ministers of the Northern Expedition, the subordinates of the other two prime ministers are very clear about the king of Qi who saved the Northern Expeditionary Army and established the Huai River defense line. Wei Ze's persecution of Hong Xiuquan, the king of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, to "move the capital" is something that all the old brothers of the Taiping Army have experienced. There are as many stories about Wei Ze as there are in the Taiping Army.

For these wavering Taipings, they only need one thing, and that is to determine whether Wei Ze's promise will be true. After all, the Taiping Army is not the Liberation Army, if Wei Ze plays a trick on everyone, who will reason with this?

Wu Fengshan's true identity is naturally an intelligence officer of the Liberation Army, and he also clearly feels this. The persuasion work ahead was easy, but everyone was stuck in this step. If they can't have faith in Weez, the rest of the things can't be pushed forward at all. But this kind of thing, relying on the efforts of people like Wu Fengshan is a drop in the bucket. Apart from anxiously waiting, Wu Fengshan had no other way.

August passed day by day, and on the 19th, a person appeared in the official office of Zhang Yingchen, the leader of the Chang'an Imperial Forest Army. This person was dressed quite neatly, and he also washed his face a little before seeing Zhang Yingchen. But the thick smell of sweat on his body is enough to prove that he has not been running for a day or two in the scorching heat of August.

After seeing Zhang Yingchen, the man saluted tiredly, "I've seen King Yong." ”

"Sit down and talk." After all, Zhang Yingchen came out of the Guangfu Army, and he did not have the kind of posing strength of the prince of the Taiping Army. After all, the education and training that Zhang Yingchen has received since joining the army has repeatedly emphasized that "the purpose of doing things is to accomplish things, and any choice must be as beneficial as possible." Allowing subordinates to sit down and talk comfortably is good for reporting work. Even after the report is completed, immediately drag his subordinates out and kill them. But this has nothing to do with letting him report well.

After Zhang Yingchen broke away from Wei Ze's subordinates and became a direct member of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, he relied on this attitude to gain a firm foothold step by step. Following King Yong is not angry, this is the unanimous feeling of Zhang Yingchen's subordinates.

"King Yong, there is a demon law on the side of the Liberation Army!" The soldier of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom sat down and immediately said in a tired voice.

"Demon law?" Zhang Yingchen pursed his lips almost invisibly. It is strange that Wei Ze does not have a "demon law", just like when Zhang Yingchen began to establish a hospital system in the Taiping Army, many people said that Zhang Yingchen was engaged in demon law. If it weren't for the fact that the military hospital had saved many brothers who had died on the battlefield, and the military hospital was indeed operated by other units in the same way when they had no contact with Zhang Yingchen at all, Zhang Yingchen would have been tied to the pyre and burned.

"Be more detailed." Zhang Yingchen continued to ask.

This soldier who came to see Zhang Yingchen was Zhang Yingchen's eyeliner in Shi Dakai's troops, and this time Shi Dakai sent troops to attack Luoyang, and he participated. The whole thing happened so quickly, so this eyeliner can't actually recall much.

At first, everything was normal, and the Taiping army, which was marching rapidly, rushed straight to a pass of the Guangfu army. Shi Dakai's elite is also very capable of fighting, he did not make stupid hard attacks, but adopted the tactics of attracting in front and attacking in the back of the flank. The tactic was initially successful, and the seemingly impregnable defensive position was breached in an instant.

When the two teams of men and horses in front and rear converged and were ready to continue to divide and annihilate the enemy, they found that bullets began to fly from several fairly solid fire points. This is not a platoon of bullets, with the continuous sudden sound, the bullets really blow like a storm of Shi Dakai's elite. Every raindrop had a lethal effect, and Shi Dakai's troops were knocked to the ground as if they were cutting rice.

The Taiping army had never encountered such an attack, and they could not see the enemy clearly from a distance, and they themselves were beaten like this. Fortunately, the Taiping army was also battle-hardened, and they immediately found a place to hide. Then, the artillery of the Liberation Army plowed the hiding place of the Taiping army with a terrible rate of fire and accuracy.

The eyeliner saw that things were not going well and began to run away. The rest of the memories are very chaotic and fragmentary, how to run, how to run out, the eyeliner is no longer clear. The only thing he could remember was bullets and shells flying sideways around him, the sounds of various battlefields intertwined, falling, getting up, running, falling again, getting up again, running again. By the time he came to his senses, less than 200 of the more than 3,000 people who had set out had escaped. These people have already thrown away their guns, and dozens of people have even run away from their rubber soled shoes with laces.

At this time, Shi Dakai's subordinates had nothing to say, and immediately began to flee for their lives.

Recalling that battle, recalling the corpses all over the ground when he looked back, his eyes could only say repeatedly: "King Yong, King Qi knows how to demons!" ”

Zhang Yingchen was not excited at all, he let his eyeliner rest first, and sat on the chair with his eyes slightly closed and thought. Judging from the description of the eyeliner, Weeser must have developed a new weapon. And this weapon is capable of firing bullets at an alarming rate. More powerful than any firearm. has been following Wei Ze for several years, and Zhang Yingchen is not surprised by this at all. On the contrary, the development of weapons of the Taiping Army is very slow, and it is strange that this speed is delayed on the side of the Liberation Army.

After determining this, Zhang Yingchen got up and went to the palace. He is the leader of the Imperial Forest Army, and he is the commander of the garrison military region on the side of the Liberation Army. It is Zhang Yingchen's duty to see the king of heaven.