Chapter 183: Follow-up One
On 10 July, Liu Yongfu led the remaining more than 700 young and old people to Jinpu and personally met Sun Bin to express his intention to take refuge. The old friend changed his mind and joined the Wehrmacht. Sun Bin was very pleased, and immediately gave Liu Yongfu the post of commander of the 7th Independent Battalion, commanding 400 soldiers, while Shen Fushan was transferred to the Guangning Army Headquarters to assist Sun Bin in managing the local affairs of the two provinces.
The Battle of Ha Long and the ensuing occupation of the three northern coastal provinces of Annam resulted in the Quang Ninh troops seizing a large number of weapons and supplies, of which 1,300 old muskets were left in good condition, all of which were sold to Wu Yazhong in exchange for the Chinese in the area under his control.
Before Sun Bin and the Wehrmacht arrived in Annam, the leaders of the peasant armed forces and the Annan troops regarded the ordinary Chinese displaced people as a tool to obtain profits, and when the peasant armed leaders were faced with the encirclement and suppression of the Annan army, they summoned the Chinese displaced people in the control area, issued some rudimentary cold weapons and let them serve as cannon fodder to consume the strength of the Annan army, and then led his core armed forces to launch a counteroffensive to break the encirclement and suppression of the Annan army.
When the armed leader of the peasant army used the cannon fodder of the peasant army to occupy a place in Annam, the treatment of the displaced people would not be improved in the slightest, the seized finances were divided among the top leaders of the peasant army, and the fields in the control area were still handed over to the local tyrants in exchange for their support, while the ordinary displaced people, in order to survive, rented the fields of the local large families under the organization of the leader of the peasant army, and continued to be oppressed by the landlords.
If the leaders of the peasant army still have a way to live for the ordinary Chinese displaced people, then the Annam army will put them to death, and the Annam army will not be able to defeat the organized peasant army forces, and when it encounters a small group of Chinese displaced people, they will often slaughter all of them, and then use their heads to take the credit.
In order to appease the troops, most of the officials above turned a blind eye to the past, and because of the indiscriminate killing of the Annan army, the various Chinese displaced people formed villages to protect themselves, and they were also very heroic when fighting with the Annan troops.
The special war-torn environment has created the ability of the Chinese displaced people in Annan to endure hardships and be good at fighting, among the millions of Chinese displaced people, nearly half of them are young and strong, and most of the old and weak who are sick and weak died in the war, so it is not difficult to recruit troops in Annan, and the difficulty is the lack of food, materials and weapons.
Annam is a small land, the people are generally poor, the government has limited tax revenue, there is a serious shortage of food and materials due to the war, and weapons are facing a French blockade, making it difficult to obtain.
In the general Chinese armed forces, it is very good that the young men of three to five hundred people can have one or twenty breech guns, but a large armed force like Wu Yazhong, who gathers thousands of people, has no more than three hundred breech guns in their hands, and one hundred of them are gifts from Sun Bin.
Although the performance of more than 2,000 old-fashioned muskets is not as good as that of breech guns, it is also a remarkable amount compared with the armed forces of various peasant armies, which mainly use cold weapons. In order to recruit more than 10,000 Chinese refugees, Sun Bin was willing to pay more than 2,000 muskets to exchange with Wu Yazhong, and the news spread to the mouths of Chinese refugees in other places, and they all praised Sun Bin, which also triggered a migration tide to the Guangning army.
Fair trade, each according to his needs, Sun Bin made a name for himself among the Chinese forces in Annam by paying the price of 2,000 eliminated muskets, and harvested the Chinese population urgently needed in Rio Gran do Sul, while Wu Ya finally obtained weapons and food, on the surface, neither side suffered a loss, but in fact, because of Wu Ya's frustrated methods, the side forces under his command were deeply dissatisfied with him.
After Wu Ya finally obtained the food and muskets, he directly waved his hand and distributed 1,500 muskets to the subordinate troops, and then distributed the remaining 500 muskets and the 500 severely worn out rifles eliminated by the descendants to the collateral troops, and all the food was in his own hands, and only enough food for three to five days was distributed to the collateral troops.
The vast majority of the young and strong side forces that were exchanged were distributed, and when it was their turn to distribute weapons and supplies, only a small part of each side force was allocated.
Contradictions do not accumulate in a day, Wu Yazhong's intention to abandon the Annan base area, and the counterattack on Taiping Mansion has already aroused the dissatisfaction of most people, and the distribution of materials and weapons is undisguised in favor of the descendant troops, and the dissatisfaction of the side peasant army armed forces has accumulated to a critical point, and it only takes a primer to blow up Wu Yazhong's body to pieces.
This introduction did not make the leaders of the peasant army wait too long, Ye Chenglin was ordered by Sun Bin to sneak into Gaoping City, contacted three or four leaders of the peasant army who had friendships, and several people complained and talked, and reached a decision to oust Wu Yazhong from power.
On the night of the 14th of July, Wu Yazhong, who was drunk and asleep, was woken up by the guards who told him that all the people under him had rebelled, and that only about 400 peasant soldiers in the city who were guarding Wu Yazhong were still resisting.
His subordinates turned against the water, and what Wu Yazhong had been worried about became a reality, and he didn't wait for him to gather reinforcements from other areas of the city.
Lu Zhiping, Huang Fusheng and other peasant army leaders led their subordinates to attack the inner house and capture Wu Yazhong.
Wu Ya was finally captured, and the peasant army forces that were still resisting quickly laid down their arms and surrendered, and in just one night, Wu Ya, who had been on the border of Yungui and Annam for several years, finally became a prisoner and lost control of the tens of thousands of Chinese armed forces in Gaoping.
Wu Yazhong was well-known in the peasant army, so after being captured, he was only placed under house arrest and was not executed in public, although Wu Yazhong temporarily saved his life, but lost control of the army, even if he could escape in the future, it was impossible to pose a threat to others.
Successfully taking over the territory left by Wu Yazhong, Lu Zhiping, Huang Fusheng and other leaders of the peasant army agreed in advance that 4,000 peasant army armed forces who were willing to defect to the Quang Ninh army left Cao Bang Province with 20,000 old and weak and rushed to Lang Son Province, which was controlled by the Quang Ninh army.
Lu Zhiping and Huang Fusheng were elected as the chief and deputy commanders of the remaining nearly 5,000 peasant armies, responsible for commanding the remaining peasant army armies.
After dealing with the internal distribution of power, Lu Zhiping and Huang Fusheng accepted Ye Chenglin's advice and took the initiative to take refuge in the Hue court.
On 20 July, the Hue court and the peasant army reached an agreement on recruiting An, the peasant army withdrew from Bac Giang and Ha Duong provinces, and the Hue court recognized the control of the peasant army over Cao Bang province, and made Lu Zhiping the governor of Cao Ping, and Huang Fu Sheng as the deputy governor.
Less than three days after the news of Lu Zhiping and Huang Fusheng being recruited came out, Huang Chongying was then canonized by the Hue Imperial Court as the commander of Congsanpin, responsible for the two counties of Mengkang and Baosheng in Lao Cai Province, which were originally based in Lao Cai Province.
The Chinese forces that had plagued Annam for many years were recruited one after another, and the Annam army was able to draw more strength to deal with the local rebel forces in the territory, and at the end of July, the last of the rebel army was routed, and the Annam army succeeded in recovering the provinces occupied by the rebels, and the counterinsurgency operation ended.