Chapter 179: The Han Army Enters Gui
The township yamen is unprecedented, and if it is in other parts of the Ming Dynasty, the scribes will never dare to serve it. But in Lingnan, where the Han army was absolutely coercive, the scribes were willing to give it a try. After all, the world is in turmoil, and the children of Hanshi and merchants are not living in peace. Even if the world is stable, they are not willing to give up the opportunity to give it a try.
The most satisfying thing for the officials of the Lingnan Military Government is that they can bring their families, even military family members can be arranged next to the barracks. Historically, the imperial court has been a defense official and general, and they can't bring their immediate family members, of course, they can bring concubines.
Now that we have begun to enter the era of artillery, the role of the city wall is no longer great, and Chen Xiong is not worried about the generals. He wished that the general would betray him, so that he could clear the traitors as soon as possible.
The second entrance examination was still not as lively as the first one, and many scribes did not look down on the small yamen in the township and did not participate in the examination at all. However, there are still 40,000 students who participate, and most of them will pass, after all, hundreds of towns and villages in Lingnan need a lot of people.
After the completion of the examination, the township yamen was first deployed in Guangdong. After the garrison of Guangxi Prefecture and County begins in the spring of next year, Guangxi will also begin to implement township management.
Guangdong had strong soldiers and horses, and naturally no one dared to resist in various places, and a month later, all the township yamen were established. The establishment of the township yamen represents a sign of the decline of the gentry and landlords. The ruling management was directly directed to the front-line villagers, and the gentry could no longer control the village.
In the winter in Guangzhou, the rivers do not freeze and the sky does not snow. However, after the cold north wind mixed with the moisture on the ground, the biting cold was difficult to resist in the thick cotton clothes.
At one hour in the morning, Lingnan was unusually cold, and the drills of the army and the start of the workers' work were also changed to after the sun warmed. The Lingnan Military Government used to start work at 7:8 o'clock, but now it has been changed to after 9 o'clock.
In the charcoal fire, time passed another year.
On the ninth day of the Lunar New Year, in addition to the Zhennan Army of the Han Ninth Army, some of the commanders of the various armies returned to Guangzhou. A second military-government-civilian congress will also be held, but the first will be a meeting of the military government.
The newly built Great Hall of the Military Government is located between the palace and the political court. The two-storey hall is made of reinforced concrete, with Chen Xiong directly directing the construction, and the ceiling is still made of golden yellow tiles, but the wooden beams are all replaced by reinforced concrete beams.
The first floor of the Great Hall can accommodate 5,000 people, and the military, government, and civilian conferences will be held on the first floor in the future.
The second floor houses the new offices of the various departments, as well as two meeting rooms, one for a few hundred people and one for a hundred.
In the small conference room, the commanders of the army and battalions, and the chief officers of the Political Yuan were already present. The nearly 100 represented the top echelons of the junta's ministries, with the difference that most of the nearly 100 were young, gray-skinned scribes or officers.
The silver people with the surnames Bai, Chen, Jing, and Li have all graduated, and they will also officially join the various armies and departments after today.
The meeting was simple, and the main thing was to appoint a silver person to the onboard. The silver officers were appointed as the deputy chief of staff of each army, the division commander and the deputy battalion commander, and most of the scribes and silver men were sent to various states and counties as deputies, except for the division into various departments.
The entry of a thousand silver people also represents Chen Xiong's real control of the military and political power of the military government. At the same time, the General Staff of the Military Department was also officially inaugurated, and it was mainly held by 30 silver staff officers.
"Okay, that's it for the time being, do you have any suggestions?" Chen Xiong looked at everyone, and he also wanted to know if everyone would have different opinions.
Seeing that no one spoke, Zuo Zongwei spoke: "Lord, there are too few officers who have joined the city guard!" ”
Although it is cool to command the army, it is necessary to see who the lord is. Under the hands of King Han, he didn't dare to have any thoughts, not to mention that the defenders of various states and counties also needed reliable officers, otherwise he would have to bear the trouble if he got into trouble!
Chen Xiong nodded with satisfaction, it seems that the generals are not proud of the heavy troops.
"The matter of the commander and officer of the left army will be discussed next year! But I want you to take 50,000 horses to Guangxi and form a city guard, is the general willing? ”
When he went to Guangxi, the command of the Guangdong City Guard Army was naturally returned to the military headquarters.
"Honorable Order." Zuo Zongwei didn't think about receiving the order directly at all, and it was in line with his desire to settle in Guangxi. There was no war in the calm Guangdong, but there was a turbulent dark tide in Guangxi. Many mountain villages or cottages still form troops to protect themselves, and they dare not resist the military junta, but they are also unwilling to disarm, let alone accept the surplus grain tax. They always felt that the mountain was high and the emperor was far away, and the Han army didn't bother to pay attention to them. After all, they didn't gather military horses, but the villages protected themselves. The small landlords and the leaders of the small clans were already planning to play tricks, and they did not resist or support the decrees of the military junta. They may pay a little tax, but they will never count it on the basis of surplus.
In these remote and closed villages, the villagers have no idea about the outside world. They didn't even know who the king of Han was, let alone what the surplus grain tax was. The landlords and clansmen of all villages deceived them, and as soon as the Han army and the township yamen came to the door, they would loot all the grain of the mountain people. In order to protect themselves, the mountain people were also willing to take up the sword qiāng to be on guard.
Many gentry even secretly supported and encouraged these local tyrants to cause rebellion, and they were not the ones who were killed in the end anyway. With the support of the gentry's weapons and food, the villages also began to build a mixed city wall of earth, wood and stone.
"My lord, the Fifth Army of the Han Dynasty requests to enter Gui." Chen Chang also immediately asked for help, and they only worked with bandits for a while in Leizhou for a year!
"Lord!" Wu Li shut up as soon as he opened his mouth! Guangxi is not suitable for cavalry entry at all! Although they have been replaced by green war horses, they still haven't changed!
Lin Hu and Lin Jiading were also looking forward to looking at Chen Xiong, but unfortunately they couldn't move lightly.
Seeing the generals like this, Chen Xiongyi pondered, it was time for them to see blood.
"Some villages in Guangxi actually disobeyed the king, the main culprit male slaughtered, all the captives were sent to Annan, and some of the strong were brought back to Guangzhou to be used as supplementary soldiers!"
"Honoring the Lord!" All the generals were puzzled, and the lord did not specify who to send.
Chen Xiong smiled lightly and said: "The Han Five, Han, Han, Han and Seventh Armies and the Internal Guard Army all entered Gui, cooperated with the Commander of the Left Army to form the City Guard Army, and then slaughtered Buchen with the Han Eighth Army. ”
Everyone was stunned and immediately surprised.
"It's the lord."
"Thank you, lord!" Blackball shouted loudly, he was really idle enough.
Lin Hu asked suspiciously: "Lord, what about Shaoguan and Chaoshan defense?" ”
Lin Jiading also frowned, he couldn't just send half of the people! The soldiers and horses left behind at that time will definitely not be happy.
"The First Army of the Han Dynasty and Zhang Shou Wu Rite Department took over the border defense, and you can rest assured that you will enter Gui." Chen Xiong sent a large army into Guizhou this time in order to train the troops and also to set an example for others. If he doesn't kill more than 100,000 or 200,000 people, these gentry, landlords, and tyrants still think he is very kind. At the same time, it is also a deterrent to the arrogant and uninhibited mountain people, and do not think that the high mountains and dense forests can despise the military government.
"Honorable Lord! There is a Han army and a cavalry army border defense foolproof! Lin Hu said reassuringly that 10,000 reincarnated soldiers were enough to destroy his Han Fifth Army.
Lin Jiading nodded and smiled: "Don't lose it, the Han pro-army is dispatched, I'm afraid those Ming troops will be scared." ”
Hehe~ Chen Xiong couldn't help but chuckle.
Five, six, seven, eight, four armies had 200,000, plus the internal guard army and the city guard, there were 300,000 troops. In addition to the Eighth Han Army and the City Guard, each army had an artillery battalion of the Fire Battalion. The artillery is a sharp weapon for the Han army to attack the fortified positions, otherwise it is not known how long it will take to attack the mountain by lining up the army alone.
Although there were 300,000 troops, and the Han Ninth Army at the border pass was on standby, this battle was still difficult. However, in order to train the troops, Chen Xiong could only let the armies fight, otherwise they would not be qualified to go north to fight. Not to mention the Tartar iron cavalry, even the traitor army is enough for them.