Time flies, and more than half a month has passed. At the beginning, it took three days to pacify the hostile rebel armies in the city, and it took three days one after another to bring the last five or six hundred penny soldiers entrenched in the Huaisheng Temple in Waiguo Xicheng to the civil strife, kill more than a dozen stubborn leaders, and come out to surrender.

Then, it was like a sieve and a strainer to search and clean up the garbage of the stragglers scattered all over the city after the rout; And the aftermath of this turmoil continues to ripple, and gradually spreads from Guangfu to other places.

In many prefectures and counties, chaos and turmoil began to occur to varying degrees, as well as the flight of officials appointed by the left-behind divisions and the rout of the remnants of the troops stationed there.

Therefore, after pacifying the chaos, Zhou Huai'an suddenly found that the available forces under his command became overstretched again; And this is mainly the pot that was ordered to come and besiege the rebel army in Guangfu; There was a large gap in power and a shortage of weapons in their original jurisdiction and defense area, and they continued to have to divide Zhou Huai'an to take over and maintain order, otherwise the situation that the rebels had easily created and stabilized after conquering Lingnan would begin to collapse again.

Therefore, he can only give priority to stabilizing the relatively productive dozen states located in the Pearl River basin in Lingdong; As for the original Hu Guan and Gui Guan, they will not be able to take care of it for a while, and can only let it go for a while.

Despite this, he still had to tear down the east wall and make up for the west wall, and he was tired of arranging manpower to deal with various situations; Frequent perseverance is even harder, more tormenting, and testing of people's abilities than fighting directly against the enemy;

Now the composition of the Sanjiang Army under the leadership of Zhou Huai'an is also relatively complex, basically composed of three major parts, including the old brothers of the righteous army from the north, as well as the old subordinate officials and Tutuan who have been attached to and reformed, as well as the soldiers recruited locally in Lingnan; Now it is added to the Qingzhuang and Tutuan Xuanding who came to vote after the conquest of Annam, Jiao, Fengchang, Ai, and Guangwu Prefectures.

The proportion of the old brothers of the rebel army who followed the Huangchao army south has actually been diluted to the extent that it is difficult to fundamentally deflect the overall situation. Although it still occupies a considerable degree of middle and lower class leaders, it is actually divided into the old battalion from Henan, and the difference between Shannan, Jiangxi, Liangzhejiang and Fujian soldiers who are added along the way.

Coupled with the accumulation of indoctrination and propaganda (brainwashing) that has always adhered to it, the veteran of the righteous army who really has a sense of belonging to the Huangchao headquarters and is willing to take risks for it is a very small existence

Among the local soldiers in Lingnan, they were divided into the displaced people recruited on the spot in Lingdong and the children of the Xunzhou and Chaozhou places, and the poor people of Guangfu who were supplemented by Guangzhou; As for the Guanjian and Tutuan, there are also differences between the officers and soldiers of Fujian, Guilin, and Huguan, and the sources of the Annan defense army have also been added.

They are mixed and mixed together, with enough great and righteous beliefs, and clear goals of struggle to restrain and run-in; Then use strict military discipline and training as a code of conduct, and carry out the daily forging of unified thinking, habitual collective belonging and identity.

Over time, most people get used to a common rule and system; Basically, it is difficult to produce the internal contradictions of most traditional rebels, such that a certain person can pull away a large number of people with a single shout, or secretly and easily incite a wave of his fellow township party to make trouble.

Of course, this is also a disguised constraint and balance for the superiors; At the very least, there must be a bottom line and principles that cannot be easily broken, and it is impossible to act casually like the traditional rebel generals who often rely on personal authority and will, and need enough wrists and minds to guide and manipulate.

Chai Ping, who is still the actual first deputy, also played the role of the firefighting team again; and led a group of 3,000 motorized men and horses, which were easily cobbled together, supplemented by mules and horses, and horsemen, to extinguish the riots and disturbances in these places. At the same time, he also used his qualifications as the two leaders of the rebel army, Wang Xianzhi and Huang Chao, to appease and co-opt the remaining rebel soldiers in those places.

As the most important adjustment of the focus of governance. After more than half a year, Wang Pan, the Sanjiang patrol envoy who has recovered from his injuries and can initially get up and walk around, was also invited to come over to sit in Guangfu and continue to partner with Zhou Huai'an; As a candidate to replace him who stayed in Chaoyang to guard the family business, he was injured in this turmoil; After all, there are still many industries and other businesses that are just beginning to grow for the rebels.

As for Zhou Huai'an's other important subordinate, Du Guan, he was transferred to Shaoguan to guard and face the officers and troops from Jiangxi; Although compared to the monster colosseum with many strong towns in the Northland; The forces of Fangzhen south of the Yangtze River are much weaker, and the northbound rebel army led by Huang Chao is turning the world upside down; But that doesn't mean you can sit back and relax, and you won't give people a chance.

Compared with the bloated and difficult to return court, there were many outstanding and handsome people or momentary figures in the late Tang Dynasty; For example, the founders of the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms are almost all grassroots or reckless. He didn't want to be a stepping stone for someone who rose up because of the situation during the weak transition period after he pacified the chaos.

Therefore, under the psychological influence of this kind of prevention and gradual deterioration, Zhou Huaian can be said to have spared no effort;

Other Su Wuming, Wu Xingchen, Sun Liumao, and Lu Fang, who are known as the captains of the tenth battalion, Ge Cunzhou, Huo Cun, Luo Nian, Qu Chengyu, who are deputy generals or other generals, and even Wang Tianming, Lin Ming, Zhang Biao and others of the lower ranks, and even Zhong Yi and Zhao Yinggong, who are from the background of the former official army, have been assigned corresponding tasks, and finally even Xiao Qi, who is in charge of the juvenile exploration team, Mi Bao, who leads the apprentice team, and Yuan Jing and Liao Yuan, who are used as assistant clerks, have been sent out, and they are each responsible for a bunch of affairs;

So much so that in the huge city of Guangzhou for a short time, there were only two or three kittens such as Zhang Guiba and Sha Da who were more familiar to him; At least at this stage, he is more concerned about whether he can seize this window period when time is not waiting to quickly integrate and sort out the new internal and local order. And with the distribution of various manpower, the need to expand the army was once again in front of us.

Fortunately, after defeating the main force of the Guangzhou Left-behind Division to which Meng Wei belonged, he still obtained some of the foundation and industries left by the other party. For example, many weapons were seized in the city; In addition, it also took over several large and small arsenals under the direct command of the remaining envoys. Although most of the armor has been removed by the rebels who have gone north, there are still tens of thousands of old materials such as knives, spears, bows, and cards left.

Then, with the new order sent back, most of the garrisons that had taken shape in the three prefectures of Chaoxunmei, which were the basic plates, were also pulled over to make up the numbers. In the end, it relied on the basic plate of the new and old 10th battalions and the 47th regiment; There are also the wounded and sick who are collected and arranged in the local ambulance battalion, and the city sergeants and soldiers under the name of Lin Yan; In addition, the tens of thousands of Hou Tu Zhuang brought back by Annan and the thousands of Long March soldiers and Tutuan athletes gathered by the local area were able to make up nearly 50,000 posts to suppress the situation.

Of course, at present, most of them are still lightly armed foot soldiers without armor and helmets; Compared with the loss of those manpower in the rebellion, I don't know whether it was a loss or a gain. As the price of demolishing the east wall to make up the west wall, in addition to Jiaoling Pass in Meizhou and Shaoguan in Shaozhou, it can be said that the tide in Lingdong and Meishao have become extremely empty; Outside the county seat, the local area can only be maintained by patrols composed of half-employed young people in the local cantonment centers.

Fortunately, the local grassroots forces were cleaned up before, and the neighboring five prefectures of Fujian were becoming a mess, and there was really no time to care, but there were constantly displaced people to vote; Otherwise, it is all kinds of village sages and gentry who endure humiliation and wait for the opportunity, and the internal and external officials and armies have risen because of the situation.

According to Zhou Huai'an's expectations and plans, in the future, after further survival of the fittest on the basis of this number, it will be reorganized into about 30 battalion heads. Ten of them are the old battalions of the four regiments that are the mobile force and the main force, and they still use the five-party sequence as the number; The remaining 20 were the new battalions of the 2nd and 3rd Regiments, which were not properly organized, and were stationed in the prefecture cities and strongholds of Lingdong.

Next are the garrisons of the 70th and 80th regiments, which are relatively simplified; In accordance with the practice of the states, they were stationed in the minor counties, towns, and road nodes in turn, as a means of suppressing and deterring the local remnants of resistance, maintaining basic law and order, and protecting the garrisons of nearby cantonments.

But this requires a large number of low-level leaders (middle and lower-level officers) and key veterans (non-commissioned officers) to fill the period, otherwise it is still the kind of one-time army template that basically cannot withstand failure; Relying solely on the selection and training of personnel in the army can no longer meet the needs.

Therefore, now that the external constraints and resistance have disappeared, Zhou Huai'an found that he could actually consider starting to establish a more long-term and stable mechanism for cultivating military talents.

Of course, military schools are not something that can be easily created out of nothing or achieved in one leap; As far as the current conditions are concerned, with the facilities and environment of the training center in advance, he can expand the corresponding space with less investment, starting with a short non-commissioned officer training course that lasts for the simplest time in March or May;

First of all, I found someone to compile the collected ancient art of war and war examples, and selected some easy-to-understand content as the basic teaching materials; Then let the members of the apprentice team who have a certain foundation in writing preach and pass on;

The recruits are mainly selected from the army, young and with good learning ability; Or he is a self-motivated and ideal pawn. The number doesn't need to be too much, just start with a hundred and eighty people as an attempt; Then, in the exploration of crossing the river, we found the deficiencies and omissions, and then slowly divided the classes and subjects, and gradually expanded the scale and refined the content of the teaching.

The generals and subordinates of the various generals and schools in service can also take the time to teach one or two part-time in them, and briefly talk about their various experiences after birth and death; Or they can discuss and think about a specific goal or issue in small groups.

As the head of the scene and the compilation of teaching materials, Zhou Huai'an, although he does not have so much specific time to go to class; However, it is also possible to collect and summarize their questions on a regular basis and answer them, and continue to play a well-informed and omniscient role.

In addition, by cleaning up and encircling the rebel army in Guangzhou, nearly 20,000 prisoners were finally obtained. However, there are many of them who are promiscuous, or have backgrounds of outlaws, fugitives and bandits of dubious origin.

There was also controversy and disagreement within the Sanjiang Army about the results of the disposition of these captured former allies. Some people advocate the local co-optation and absorption of these forces to supplement themselves, just like the rebel armies that invaded each other because of contradictions and disagreements in the past.

It was also suggested that a certain percentage of them should be slaughtered with a quick knife, and then the rest should be exiled to remote places such as Annam, so that the blind eye could not see it; There are also people who suggest that after all, they are all former comrades of the rebels, and after liquidating some of the first evils and accomplices, all the others are driven north to the outside of the ridge, and they are still left to fend for themselves... And so on and so forth.

So much so that for a while, the dispute turned into a vicious personal attack, and finally the problem was put on the table and put in front of Zhou Huai'an. So after weighing it again and again, he finally made a decision and tone:

It is impossible to directly recruit so many people, and it will not only seriously affect and impact the purity and stability of the Sanjiang Army; It will also make those who are not firm enough to join in the first place, have the luck of making mistakes and doubting the law and not holding the public accountable, or the disappointment of questioning the direction of their struggle;

Therefore, this vital force must not be wasted, but they must also be made to pay for their actions and be forced to spend the rest of their lives atoning for their sins. Fortunately, when the Sanjiang Army dealt with the prisoners of the officers and soldiers before, it had initially formed a certain amount of mature experience in dealing with and reforming them.

The first is to encourage mutual denunciation and denunciation in private, and to punish the notorious ones outside the city gates one by one, so as to comfort the people who died in the city and their families; Of course, the main purpose is to clean up those influential big and small leaders by the way, and also uproot their influence and traces in the old rebel army.

The rest of the ordinary captives were sent to the newly opened cantonment camps to supervise labor, after all, most of them were ready-made and strong laborers converted from peasants; After receiving a period of supervision and reform, and organizing and guiding them to complain about the vices and shortcomings of the former rebel army, as well as the unreasonable opponent, they will be pardoned according to their performance, and gradually absorb them back into the system of the rebel army.

Then this decision came out and I don't know why, and in the makeshift prison where the prisoners were held, there were several riots and riots; At one point, he broke through the fence and fled into the city. But in the end, it was only after thousands of heads were cut off one after another that it subsided and stopped.

But it also further aggravated Zhou Huai'an's "notoriety" in some aspects.

(End of chapter)