It's going to war!

Not only did the people in the areas ruled by the People's Army know that the People's Army is going to war with the Ming Army, but even the ordinary people of the Ming Court living in areas close to the People's Army's rule also know the news, and both the People's Army and the Ming Army are moving with great fanfare, and everyone can see that war is about to break out.

Prosperity, the people suffer, death, the people suffer, especially in the war, the people in the warring areas are the most dangerous, and if you are not careful, you will not be killed by a certain army.

It may be that the enemy army is trying to hide its tracks, or it may be that its own army has taken the risk of killing, and as the people at the bottom, they can only continue to struggle on the edge of life and death.

There is a small village called Lijiazhuang in the area ruled by the People's Army in the eastern part of Guangxi, and the villagers of Lijiazhuang sighed one by one when they learned the news that the Ming army was going to fight with the People's Army, and they were most worried that the area where their village was located would become a battlefield, and the lives of all the people in Lijiazhuang would be in danger.

Flee east or north?

The villagers of Lijiazhuang do not want to leave the land where their ancestors have lived for generations, and more importantly, the villagers do not have much money in their hands, and once they are far from their homes and have no means of livelihood, they are afraid that everyone will starve to death on the way to escape, and other dangers may occur on the way.

"We can't go, and if we do, what will happen to the land here?"

"On the People's Army's side, regardless of men, women, and children, everyone can share several acres of land, let's stay here, hoping that the People's Army can defeat the official army, and then we can all have our own land."

"yes, we can't go."

Ordinary people living relatively close to the areas ruled by the People's Army can easily know the situation on the part of the People's Army, where everyone can own their own land, and there is no oppression and exploitation by landlords and the government.

The common people are very eager for the areas ruled by the People's Army, and many even hope that the People's Army can defeat the official army and occupy the area where they live, so that they can also have their own land.

The villagers of Lijiazhuang talked a lot, most of them supported staying, and finally the elders made a decision together, to prepare a temporary residence in the mountains, if the People's Army and the Ming Army went to war, everyone fled into the mountains, and then went out of the mountains when the war was over.

The villagers' decision was approved by the villagers, and soon the young men of Lijiazhuang took action to set up a temporary shelter in the mountains, and also moved some grain over just in case.

The war is about to break out, and the wealthy gentry and merchants in the area adjacent to the People's Army's rule in the Ming Dynasty have already packed up their gold and silver and run away, and even most of the gentry and merchants ran away two or three years ago and have not returned, at most they have sent some of their subordinates back to collect rent.

The people at the bottom have no money, they can't go, they would rather take some risks to stay, if there is really no hope of life, they will choose to flee, and the escape itself is a choice with a very low survival rate.

Most of the people in the neighboring areas ruled by the People's Army made the same choice as Lijiazhuang, choosing to stay, and once the area where they lived became a battlefield, they could flee to the nearest mountains, and some villages set up temporary shelters in the mountains in advance.

They are obviously the common people of the Ming Dynasty, but most of them hope that in the upcoming war, the People's Army can defeat the official army, they are too disappointed in the government, and now there is a better choice, of course they are willing to choose the People's Army.

For the common people at the bottom, they didn't know what the emperor was before, what was the loyalty, they only knew how to survive, but under the oppression and exploitation of the government and landlords, their lives were too difficult and too difficult, and starvation to death was a common thing.

"Whoever can be good to us, we will go to."

The idea of the common people is very simple, so after the People's Army occupied Guangdong, it quickly gained the support of the common people under its rule.

The government of the Ming court also seems to know about this situation, and the government conducts all kinds of negative propaganda against the People's Army, saying that the People's Army is a demon that eats people, and there are no chickens and dogs wherever they go, and the gentry and businessmen are also helping the government to carry out negative propaganda against the People's Army.

However, this negative propaganda has little effect on ordinary people living in neighbouring KPA-ruled areas, who are more likely to receive information about KPA-ruled areas.

Even many ordinary people wanted to drag their families to the KPA-ruled areas, but most of them were stopped by the Ming army, and only a small number of people were lucky enough to come to the KPA-ruled areas.

Compared with the common people at the bottom, the gentry and businessmen in Guangxi, Huguang, Jiangxi, and Fujian, who felt that the war was about to break out, either went to the capital cities and provincial cities with tall city walls to take refuge, or temporarily moved to other places.

The gentry and businessmen basically already knew that the Ming court ordered Li Chengliang to lead an army of one million to encircle and suppress the people's army, but they were very uneasy, it was so close to the people's army's ruling area, and they all knew that the Ming court had lost several major battles with the people's army before, and the Ming court had lost every major battle, with hundreds of thousands of dead and wounded.

In the eyes of the gentry and businessmen, the People's Army is not ordinarily powerful, perhaps Li Chengliang led a million Ming troops to defeat the People's Army, but many people think that it is not so easy to wipe out the People's Army in a battle, once the People's Army breaks out, which city can block the advance of the People's Army.

Living in a county town with a relatively short city wall is the most dangerous, and the wealthy gentry and merchants who do not have much wealth move to the capital and provincial capitals, and the wealthy gentry and merchants move to farther places, anyway, the farther away from the battlefield, the better, and if they stay, they may be affected by the war.

The Ming court is paying attention to this imminent war, the damage caused by the People's Army to the Ming Court is too great, and now the Ming Court is bent on exterminating the People's Army.

While hoping to exterminate the People's Army, Zhu Yijun and some ministers were also worried about Li Chengliang, most of the Ming Court's troops were in the hands of Li Chengliang, and now Li Chengliang led the army to prepare to exterminate the People's Army, but when Li Chengliang exterminated the People's Army, what they were most worried about was that Li Chengliang would become the next People's Army.

The Ming court has the strength to exterminate the People's Army, but it does not have the strength to exterminate the next People's Army.

Zhu Yijun has a better understanding of the situation of Li Chengliang's army, and the 500,000 Ming army in Jiangxi is almost impenetrable by the water run by Li Chengliang, which is a 500,000 army with a large number of elites.

Zhu Yijun very much wanted that in the next war to encircle and suppress the People's Army, Li Chengliang's army could be defeated and wounded by the People's Army, or one dead and one disabled.

For this reason, Zhu Yijun also issued a secret order to Tang Qi, Li Zhengmao, and Zheng Yuewen, requiring the army under the command of the three to appropriately slow down the offensive in the war, and let the People's Army engage Li Chengliang's army.

As long as the People's Army and Li Chengliang's army are destroyed, even if there are one million casualties, Zhu Yijun will be able to accept it.