Chapter 366: Go home and farm

The KPA is coming!

The People's Army has come to divide the land for us!

When the news of the arrival of the People's Army spread throughout Taishun County, the people at the bottom cheered.

Taishun County is the closest county in Zhejiang Province to Fujian Province, and what is happening in the People's Army-ruled area cannot be concealed at all, and it is spreading everywhere in Taishun County.

Even though most of the people didn't believe that the People's Army would give them land for free at first, as more and more people said it, everyone believed it.

The pursuit of the people at the bottom is not much, as long as they are given fields to be able to eat enough, and the People's Army gives adults four acres and children two acres, and the family can easily eat enough just by farming, for the people at the bottom, being able to eat enough is to live a good life.

As a result, some ordinary people who had no land and could not have enough to eat dragged their families and families to escape to the areas ruled by the People's Army, and many of them really succeeded.

But more ordinary people stayed in Taishun County, and their lives were barely able to get by, and they hoped that the People's Army would come and drive away the officials and soldiers and those hateful landlords, and also give them land so that they could also live a good life.

I didn't expect this day to come, and their good days were coming.

In fact, more than three years ago, those powerful gentry and businessmen in Taishun County ran away, and at that time the People's Army had already occupied Fujian Province, and even sent troops into Zhejiang Province, and the gentry and businessmen who could run ran away.

With the signing of the armistice agreement between the People's Army and the Ming Court, some of the gentry merchants came back, they were reluctant to stay in the shops and land in Taishun County, and the autumn harvest had just ended this year, and many of the gentry merchants ran away again, but there were still some gentry and merchants who stayed, but most of them were weaker.

"It's over, why did the thieves call?"

"What about the officers and soldiers? What about the officers and soldiers? Why did the thieves go straight into the city? Could it be that the officers and soldiers have voted for thieves? ”

"Quickly bury all the silver, send the child out to hide, this time my Li family is going to be finished, alas, why should I come back."

The gentry and businessmen who were panicked when they learned that the People's Army had entered the city no longer knew what to do, and even some of them fainted directly.

Not long after the People's Army took control of Taishun County, government officials also followed into Taishun County, and they will use the county government as the office of the Taishun County People's Army Government, and quickly establish the Taishun County People's Government.

There is no need to worry about copying the wrong house, the agents of the Military Intelligence Department have already figured out the situation in various parts of the Ming Dynasty, and all the gentry and businessmen who have done evil in Taishun County have been recorded here in the Military Intelligence Department, as long as they follow the records one by one.

Most of the 59th Division of the People's Army, which was responsible for taking over Taishun County, would not stay in Taishun County for too long, and at most only three battalions would be left in Taishun County before moving forward to occupy the next area.

When the 59th Division occupied Taishun County, other units of the Second Army had already bypassed Taishun County and continued to advance, and the People's Army needed to occupy the entire area south of the Yangtze River in the shortest possible time, and then move north.

Most of the 59th Division wants to leave Taishun County, there is still a very important matter to be solved, Zheng Yuewen's Ming Army has released a battalion of 3,000 troops in Taishun County, if they are not properly placed, it is easy to leave hidden dangers.

Nearly 2,000 of the 3,000 Ming troops were local young men in Taishun County, who spent most of the year working in the fields, and only took up arms to become a Ming soldier for the rest of the year.

In fact, the vast majority of these young people have no idea of joining the army, they are afraid of death, and the salary is too small, and they mainly rely on farming to feed their families.

These nearly 2,000 Ming troops were directly disbanded on the spot, went home and waited for the People's Army to give them land, and they would be honest in farming in the future, but it is also possible that a small number of young and strong people will have the opportunity to join the People's Army in the future.

The local young and strong combat effectiveness in Taishun County is relatively weak, and there are still more than 1,000 soldiers who have joined the army for more than three years, and they have all experienced the last war between the People's Army and the Ming Court, and they are lucky to survive.

For the resettlement of this part of the population, it is first necessary to select those whose hometowns are in the north of the Yellow River and give them two choices, one is to return home to farm after the war is over, and the other is to join the People's Army.

The People's Army has formed a northern division, and many troops are also rotated to the south bank of the Yangtze River for training in winter, but it is too far from the winter in the north.

In the face of the choice given by the People's Army, many Ming soldiers whose hometowns are in the north are moved, and joining the People's Army can obtain additional military land, and more importantly, the People's Army has won a hundred battles, and the number of casualties in each war is not much, and these veterans who have been in the army for more than three years seem to have become accustomed to life in the army, and it is a good choice to continue to join the People's Army.

However, compared with the Ming army, the People's Army had strict military discipline, which not everyone could bear, and in the end, less than 150 people decided to join the People's Army and conduct recruit training outside Taishun County on the spot.

As for the other veterans of the Ming Army, they will return to their hometowns after the war is over, and temporarily stay in Taishun County to accept the care of the People's Army.

After settling the matter in Taishun County, Meng Cheng led most of the 59th Division to leave Taishun County and continue to advance, leaving only one battalion each of the Musket Regiment, the Xiandeng Regiment, and the Ordinary Regiment in Taishun County, adding up to more than 1,100 people.

The 59th Division is a first-line unit, responsible for attacking the city and pulling out the ground, and there will be second-line troops to replace it in the future, and the second-line troops are specifically responsible for defending various places, but the second-line troops are not as strong as the first-line troops, equipped with muskets, light artillery, grenades and other firearms, but will not be equipped with heavy artillery.

This was only the route of the 59th Division of the People's Army, and the People's Army made direct attacks in multiple directions, and the troops of the three major armies entered Yunnan, Guizhou, Zhejiang, and Nanzhili in more than a dozen routes, and in less than half a day, more than five cities were captured in a row, but not a single battle broke out.

It can be said that the closer you are to the area ruled by the People's Army, the more you will understand the People's Army, and the combat effectiveness of the People's Army has made many people unforgettable for life, and they dare not have the mind to fight with the People's Army, especially Tang Qi, Zheng Yuewen, Li Zhengmao and others surrendered, so that the People's Army had a very smooth start.