Chapter 153: The Chitose Army
If you want to block Sun Kewang in this vast mountain for hundreds of miles, do you really have a way to wish Yu Jia?
Not to mention, he really has a way, don't look at his usual big grin is half a joke, in fact, he is bold and careful when he does the right thing, and he is very smart.
As the supreme commander of the front line stationed in northern Guangxi, Zhu Yujia has not been idle in peacetime except for stepping up training and expanding the army.
According to the requirements of Lin Xiao's strategic policy, Zhu Yujia deployed several independent battalions under his command in Hechi, Rongxian, Liuzhou, Binzhou, Yangshuo, Pingle and other strategic support points in northern Guangxi, on the one hand, to step up the suppression of bandits to maintain law and order, and on the other hand, to cooperate with the officials stationed by the imperial court to organize the local people to resume spring plowing and recuperate.
The three main field battalions, all equipped with modern weapons, as well as the machine gun company, reconnaissance company, field medical team, and other field units, had already quietly gone north to the Quanzhou area, more than 200 miles northeast of Guilin, to prepare for war, closely monitoring the movements of the main force of the Qing army in the direction of Yongzhou, Hunan, while in Guilin, only more than 600 people from the baggage battalion were left in the center to respond.
At Feng Suqin's strong request, Feng Suqin's independent battalion, which Lin Xiao entrusted to his direct headquarters, was stationed alone in Gongcheng, another front line southeast of Guilin, which was not far from Hexian County, where Jiao Lian's headquarters was stationed.
For the sake of safety, Zhu Yujia specially placed two independent battalions in the Pingle and Yangshuo areas behind him to go north to reinforce at any time, no way, the boss's woman, he can't take care of it, and at the same time, her safety is not sloppy!
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After the deployment of troops stopped, he personally led the soldiers of the reconnaissance company and the guard platoon to go deep into Yongzhou, Wugang, and Jingzhou many times to conduct reconnaissance.
In addition to finding out the situation of the army's subordinates here, he also surveyed the people's conditions, geography, hydrology, and mineral resources in this big mountain.
Zhu Yujia was originally from Hengyang, Hunan, and this place was not far from his hometown in the original time and space, in his mind, since the captain sent him to be in charge of this line, then this area would soon be his own territory, and he had to know himself and his opponent well.
After more than a month of reconnaissance activities, Zhu Yujia was surprised to find that in the vast mountains at the junction of Hunan, Guizhou, and Guizhou provinces, there were so many mountain bandits and grass bandits scattered like cows.
Most of these mountain bandits are ethnic minorities such as the Miao, Zhuang, and Dong ethnic minorities, and these half-people and half-bandits are fierce and aggressive by nature, because there are often professional mountain bandits from other places who come over to do some things that harm the locality, so the local mountain people simply arm themselves for self-protection, and they have also become mountain bandits by fighting poison with poison, and some small villages and even the whole village are bandits, regardless of men, women, and children.
These people generally do not go out to do bad things, usually to farm and hunt for a living, and when encountering problems, they often gather people to fight, mainly to protect themselves, the number of people in each unit is not much, the few people are generally only a few dozen, and the more are nearly a hundred.
They encountered a large force of officers and troops to suppress the wall, into the mountains to hide, with the maze of terrain advantage is easy to avoid the official army's clearance, Lin Xiao and they tracked Sun Kewang all the way along the way rarely encountered mountain people, in addition to the mountain is indeed scarce, there are also factors in this regard, as soon as there is a wind and grass all hidden.
Their leaders are also all kinds of people, some are even commanded by female leaders, local women are not like women in big cities and plains to "three from the four virtues" as constrained, they are basically not poisoned by Cheng Zhu Lixue, in the long-term hard labor and struggle, many people have won the same status with men, and a large number of brave and strategic, do not let the eyebrows of the women women, their command organization talent often exceeds many old and rough men.
In addition to these small groups of mountain bandits, Zhu Yujia also got acquainted with several groups of rebels, and the number of these teams was generally relatively large, even as many as a thousand.
The composition of these big dreadlocks is more complicated, in addition to the leaders are generally well-known figures, many of them once served as the Ming army, after the Qing army waved south, their men and horses were either scattered by the Qing army, or forced to retreat to the rear with Yongli, and more, it was directly reduced to the Qing Dynasty and turned into the green camp of the Qing army.
In short, after the officials ran away, most of these men became stragglers, and falling into the grass became their only choice, after all, they were unwilling to shave their hair and become obedient people of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, and they would have nothing else to make a living except for killing people with knives.
After falling into the grass, these people did not bully the people on weekdays, but when they learned that the Ming army in Guangxi had won several big victories, and even Kong Youde, the king of Dingnan of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, was killed, these men came out of the mountains one after another to join the rebels in line with the idea that the Han family still wanted to fight with the Tartar soldiers to the end.
It was under this situation that Li Laiheng's "Thirteen Families of Kuidong" rebel army, which was active in eastern Sichuan and western Hubei provinces, regained strength and strength, and recently persisted in the struggle against the Qing Dynasty in the mountainous areas of western Hubei Province.
And in the mountains of Xiangxi here, there is such a magical anti-Qing rebel army team active - "Chitose Army", which is said to be magical because the leader of this team is a strange woman.
This woman, it is said that she is not very old, her name is Chu Fang, because of her milk name Fangfang, her family is used to calling her Fangfang, and she was originally the daughter of a local Chu surnamed Tusi in Suining County, Jingzhou.
Suining County is bordered by the Xuefeng Mountains in the north, and the eighty miles of Danan Mountain in the south, it is a small basin sandwiched between the two mountains, and a Wushui River passes through it, so the local vegetation is rich in humid climate, there is no scorching heat in summer, there is no severe cold in winter, and agricultural products such as gynostemma and berry tea are abundant, and the life of the local people is quite comfortable before.
Fangfang's family is a local noble family, quite powerful in this area, there is a large earthen building in the house, in which there are hundreds of slaves and tenants, gold and silver wealth, grain, cattle and sheep are countless, and the life is very rich.
Because the local people are fierce and martial, even girls are not bound by Confucian rules, Fangfang has loved to dance with guns and sticks since she was a child, and then she has been repeatedly instructed by famous teachers, and she has learned a good stick.
After waiting for the time, her father married her to a Tongzhi surnamed Si of the Jingzhou Xuanfu Division, which was a six-grade official position granted by the imperial court, and the marriage between the two sides could be regarded as a strong alliance.
Unexpectedly, four years ago, the two parties were not married, and poor Fangfang had not even seen her fiancé in person, so she met the first southern expedition of the Qing army Kong Youde.
When the Qing army reached Suining, her fiancé, as one of the highest local governors, resolutely decided to lead the troops to resist, but soon died on the battlefield due to defeat, and her own home was also ransacked by Kong Youde's green battalion soldiers, and most of her family members, including her parents and brothers, were brutally killed.
So, with full of national hatred and family hatred, she organized more than 100 survivors to go up the mountain to pull up the team, played the banner of resistance to the Qing Dynasty, vowed to avenge her father, and set up the cottage in a place called Shenpo Mountain, which is a mountain peak more than 1,000 meters high, the terrain is dangerous, easy to defend and difficult to attack.
Although this Chu Fang is not very old, he is very talented in leading troops, and he also knows how to strategize when marching and fighting, and in just a few years, they swept away the bandits and grass bandits in the Danan Mountain area of eighty miles south of Suining, and gradually incorporated many small groups of local mountain bandits in the vicinity of Gaodingshan, Niupotou, and Jigongpo, while recuperating and recuperating with the Qing army, and gradually gathered the hearts of the people in the surrounding area.
(Question: What kind of uniforms was Lin Xiao based on for the first batch of military uniforms that Lin Xiao prepared for the troops?) )
Happy holidays to fellow female compatriots! There is poetry and books in the belly, and the goddess who loves to read is the most beautiful!
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