Chapter 29: Cleansing (3)
Lin Mengchu ran breathlessly on the field path, and this young man of about twenty years old was followed by seven or eight men with weapons, and they were trying to run in the direction of a canal to the north.
"Hurry up...... Run! Lin Mengchu was already sweating profusely, and he couldn't breathe when he ran. While running hard, Lin Mengchu couldn't help but encourage his companions behind him.
There was a plop, first the sound of someone falling, turning his head, only to see the middle-aged member of the team accidentally fall to the ground. Lin Mengchu panted and turned his head to pull him up, but this person had no intention of getting up at all. The whole team had been running for a long time, and because of fatigue and fear, the one who fell to the ground simply lay on the ground and cried aggrievedly.
Lin Mengchu originally wanted to ignore these people and run away by himself. However, when I looked on the way I ran, I saw a small group of soldiers of the Liberation Army rushing towards me. They were originally three or four miles away from Lin Mengchu, and the two sides began to chase. After chasing it for almost ten miles, the distance between the two sides has been shortened to more than 100 meters. After such a delay, I saw that these people were about to come closer.
"Throw the guy in your hand down!" Lin Mengchu shouted at his teammates in despair. He himself led by example and was the first to throw the red tassel gun into the ground. The youngest in this team is about thirteen, and the oldest is Lin Mengchu, about twenty. The remaining few are between thirteen and eighteen years old. He was fourteen years old at the time of the fall, and although he was not the youngest, he was the weakest. Listening to Lin Mengchu's order, the children threw all the red tassel guns in their hands on the ground.
This action of giving up the confrontation won the approval of the Liberation Army, and the Liberation Army team that had chased at least twenty meters or so had already lined up and began to prepare to shoot, and when they saw that this group of dolls had laid down their weapons, they had no intention of doing it immediately.
The commander of the Guangfu army commanded the troops to surround these people, and after taking a breath, he asked, "You are Yue Yongshan's militia group, right?" ”
Listening to the fluent Hakka, Lin Mengchu felt that everything was discouraged in his heart. The contradiction between Turks and Visitors is not unique to Guangxi, and the contradictions between Turks and Visitors in Guangdong are equally intense. The level of armed forces of Guangxi and Turkey ranks first in China, and even if Guangdong does not rank second, it can at least go to the top five. Lin Mengchu, who is a Tujia family, feels that he will not be able to survive if he falls into the hands of these Hakka people.
At this time, Lin Mengchu knelt on the ground, "Master, we are here to fight the autumn wind." In Yue Yongshan's militia group, we followed them, and they only took care of food and did not give anything. We couldn't survive anymore, so we followed his militia out to mingle. I hope the old man spared our lives. ”
"Did you go from Foshan to Guangzhou?" The captain obviously didn't believe Lin Mengchu's words.
Lin Mengchu hurriedly replied: "Don't give us anything, just take care of the food." In order to eat for a few more days, we can only go wherever they go! ”
The captain looked at Lin Mengchu's group of baby soldiers, and he didn't have any firearms in his hands, and the pure plates were all cold weapons, but he also believed Lin Mengchu's words a little. "Follow us now!"
Seeing that the Guangfu Army on the opposite side had no intention of letting them go, Lin Mengchu was frightened. If he was taken to someone else's nest in these years, he would have to shed his skin if he didn't die, so he naturally refused to go. Not only Lin Mengchu, but the group of little dolls who followed him trembled with fear when they heard that they were going to be taken away, and they didn't dare to come out.
Lin Mengchu knew that he couldn't resist the current situation, but he didn't want to let the relatives in the clan who followed him suffer, at this time, Lin Mengchu made a heart and said loudly: "Master, I'll go with you." Please let my little brothers go home! Please! When he had finished speaking, he prostrated again and again.
The captain looked at Lin Mengchu, a look of doubt flashed in his eyes, and finally he said, "Okay, you go with us, and we'll let them go." ”
Knowing that these little guys had a glimmer of life, Lin Mengchu was overjoyed. Hurriedly got up and gathered these teenage and half-year-old children together, "You guys hurry home!" Come on! ”
With that, he stood up and went in the direction he came. He was afraid that the people of the Guangfu Army would change their hexagrams, so he walked quite fast, and he quickly passed the queue of the Guangfu Army and walked ahead. After walking out for a distance, he heard the captain of the Guangfu Army laugh and said, "This old brother, it seems that your little brothers still refuse to let you go alone." ”
Lin Mengchu turned his head when he heard this, but saw that the little guys of those clansmen did not run away quickly, but gathered together from a distance, trying to follow Lin Mengchu and them. He was frightened now, the purpose of them following the militia was to mix rice and eat, not to fight against the Guangfu Army at all. But the Guangfu Army will not care about this, since the militia group has made it clear that they are coming to kill the Guangfu Army, where will the Guangfu Army care whether Lin Mengchu and them join the militia whether it is true or false. The little ones don't know that the rivers and lakes are dangerous, and if they follow along, it will be a dead end.
"Brother! I think you're a righteous person. Let me ask you, do you want to follow us? Money, it's definitely not going to be able to talk about it, but it will definitely give you and these little brothers of yours a full meal. The captain of the Liberation Army asked.
Although he didn't know if what those people said was true or not, Lin Mengchu knew that he had no chance to refuse. He immediately replied: "As long as the master is willing to accept us, I will follow the master!" ”
After the two sides negotiated the matter, they immediately changed from a hostile relationship to a cooperative employment relationship for the time being. The team of the Guangfu Army also brought Lin Mengchu's little brothers with them, and then went straight to Guangzhou City. Of course, along the way, Lin Mengchu was assigned an errand to let him identify the prisoners and corpses in the battle that ended not long ago.
After hearing this order, Lin Mengchu's face twitched. The battle not long ago was too scary, Lin Mengchu just followed, and suddenly a large number of soldiers appeared in front. Lin Mengchu came to eat alone, only knowing that he was going to fight with the thieves. For them who can't even talk about vassals, they are purely here to fill up the numbers and gain momentum. Naturally, the militia will not say anything to them.
However, Lin Mengchu is a smart person, and when he sees that there are many people on the other side, and his momentum and actions are completely different from the world and world where he fought with the militia of the old man Yue in Foshan before. Driven by an indescribable strong sense of crisis, Lin Mengchu secretly took his little brothers and slowly retreated. After retreating into the distance, he took advantage of the lack of attention and ran away with his little brothers.
After he had run out for a while, he heard the sound of gunfire behind him. The team then collapsed and began to flee in all directions. However, in the distance on the left and right flanks, two groups of cavalry suddenly appeared and outflanked them. They did not stop at all after being blocked by rice paddies and canals, but dismounted and ran, and finally completely surrounded the militias. Lin Mengchu was so frightened that he ran away with his little brothers, but in the end he was caught up.
When he returned to the vicinity of the battlefield, he found that the water in the canal was completely stained red. Many bodies lay on the ground, in the rice paddies, by the canals. On the ground, there was blood in the water, and there was a strong smell of blood in the air. Lin Mengchu hadn't eaten for half a day, and he was running all the way away. Seeing such a scene at this time, under the intense fear, his eyes went dark, and he didn't know anything.
"This enemy is made up of four militia groups, all from the vicinity of Foshan. The most important one is the militia group of the Yue Yongshan family in Foshan. They fought fiercely in the battle with the Heaven and Earth Society, which was quite appreciated by Ye Mingchen, the governor of Liangguang. "The chief of the intelligence section of the Second Army was still able to talk eloquently in the face of the joint meeting of the General Staff and the Governor's Office, and at this time, the intelligence gathering work was basically in place, and the enemy was completely annihilated, so the section chief's tone was very steady.
"Then why did the militia come and fight us? Don't they know that we have captured the city of Guangzhou? Bi Qingshan, director of the Guangdong Land Issues Office, who had just taken office for less than four hours, asked.
The chief of the intelligence section replied a little embarrassed: "They didn't come to fight in the first place, at least they don't think they are here to fight." Our defensive circle grew larger and larger, and after the reconnaissance unit collided with them, the two sides clashed. The reconnaissance unit immediately returned and reported that someone had attacked. After our troops had already surrounded them, they were still there arguing about what to do. And then the fight began. ”
After hearing the news, except for the officers in the Second Army, who already knew the situation, everyone else showed expressions of crying and laughing. Wei Ze's troops have strict training and have been fighting on the front line of the Qing army, so for everyone, it is very normal for everyone to quickly organize a regiment-sized infantry and cavalry to fight in more than an hour under a state of war.
But this degree is inevitably too vigorous for the militia group. Seeing a dense formation of nearly 2,000 enemies, the troops must have fired first and then questioned. The difference in combat effectiveness between the two sides was too great, so nearly 2,000 militia regiments were completely destroyed in half an hour. It's something that can't be helped.
After determining the whole process of the matter, Bi Qingshan smashed his mouth and didn't know what to say. As the director of the Guangdong Land Affairs Office, Bi Qingshan knew that his job was not to fight, but to establish an administrative system and start paying taxes. In the experience accumulated in Anhui's grain payment and taxation, how to solve the problem of landlords is the core key to the land problem. For example, the landlords of Huainan were relatively honest under Wei Ze's thunderous advance, and as long as they found out the land problems of these people and ordered them to pay taxes, they would soon be able to obtain food to feed the army.
Now the team training in Foshan has been solved like a storm, which is indeed a good way to Liwei. But it's a bit of a rush. From Huainan's experience, the most effective way is to salute first and then to fight.
Of course, Bi Qingshan didn't want to blame the troops for this, and he wouldn't get anyone's support for doing so. Bi Qingshan's original plan was to use force to go to the city of Guangzhou, where the leading figures from the Pearl River Delta and nearby areas were not necessarily killed, and under the witness of everyone, Ye Mingchen, the governor of Liangguang, and a number of high-ranking officials of Liangguang, Yamen, and Guangdong were executed in public. After seeing the fate of these Manchu officials, I would be a little touched when I thought about coming to these local snakes in Guangdong.
As long as it does not provoke the local heroes to resist at the same time, and draws a basic bottom line of "whether they are loyal to the Manchu Qing Dynasty or not", the Guangfu Army can break through the local guys individually. Now that the militia groups near Foshan have been killed, it seems that the people in Foshan are afraid that they will have to become the target of Zhengwei.
"This can only say that the people over there in Foshan are not lucky." Bi Qingshan sighed in his heart. Of course, he did not have the slightest pity for the local heroes of Foshan at this time. The number of Haoqiang is actually very limited, and a large number of them are ordinary people who are cannon fodder for Haoqiang. The Liberation Army did not want to be enemies of these people, but it was these people who could kill the most.
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