In the early years of Chongzhen's third year, a series of breakthrough operations, from the battle of Xiangyang and Jiujiang to the battle of Jianmen Pass, although the victory was not too great, and the victory had been laid, but in Xiao Xuan's expectations, it seemed that it was not an easy task to fight in the entire south that was not conducive to marching operations and destroy all the remnants of the enemy and the resistance forces. It will be very difficult to completely solve the southern issue before autumn.

However, a series of voluntary defections and surrenders from Jiangxi to Sichuan greatly accelerated the progress of the war. At the beginning, Xiao Xuan thought that these surrenders and defections were likely to be some kind of ploy of the enemy, or "compromise", until Xiao Xuan completely digested and reorganized the enemy army that defected, it did not bring much change, and he began to gradually believe that these people really just wanted to avoid the destruction of their own family.

When the spring of the old calendar approached in March, the whole territory of Sichuan, the whole territory of Huguang, the whole territory of Jiangxi, and most of the northern provinces and most places were restored under the offensive of the main force of more than 100,000 troops of the seven armies of the revolutionary army and the three instructors. That is, when the soldiers approached Meiling and the Liangguang area, they encountered a lot of resistance. However, it seems that this has been expected for a long time, and the main forces of the two instructors and multiple armies, including the Second Division of the Volunteer Army, which moved south by water, launched a bloody purge of all resisting forces, and before the rainy season came, the army had already conquered Guangzhou, Quanzhou and other places. Except for a few remnants of the forces who fled to Yungui, the remnants of the Ying Tianfu forces could only gather the remnants of their forces within the core of a few wealthy cities in the southeast, such as Nanjing, Suzhou, Hangzhou, and Songjiang, which were less than about two provinces.

Judging from the experience of many previous siege battles, the fortified cities built in the old era are no longer reliable in the face of siege tactics similar to those of the Vauban era. It is not an exaggeration that the main combat forces that can sweep away the whole of the South even before the rainy season gathers up.

"I didn't expect the war to go on so quickly... When the battlefield cleaning work in Guangzhou City had just ended, Xiao Xuan also felt a little incredulous. However, when we carefully reflect on everything that happened in the past, and even some situations in history, although it is unexpected, it is also reasonable.

"Yes, it is the monarch who overestimates the will of those people. If most of them had the determination to do it for the sake of their own and even their own families' interests, and even the kind of class consciousness that our army had conceived before, the incident of Shenzhou Lu Shen in the Southern Song Dynasty would not have happened. In the eyes of some people, although our army was more terrible than the Mongols in those years, it was more harmful to the so-called 'Huaxia'. But the people who supported us at the lower level were not comparable to those who could be compared when Shenzhou was sinking... "The war in the thirteen provinces was initially decided, and Zhou Dayong seemed to be a little relieved.

Xiao Xuan suddenly felt a trace of hidden worry, but when he thought about it, he felt that it was nothing, so he solemnly admonished: "Since Xia Yu back then, the innovation of completely turning over the lower class people in a real sense and realizing the equality of everyone has never appeared. It is not surprising that many people do not believe that what we are doing is a revolution, and that it is just a civil war like the Jingkang Revolution, or at best, a change of dynasty. After all, the work done by our army at the grassroots level is now only limited to Xuzhou, Shandong, and other places. When the enemy is overseas, it is actually much larger and more dangerous than the enemy at home. Relying only on the current three or four instructors of our army, with a total of more than 20,000 elite forces, which are not very consolidated, are not enough to truly conquer the extraterritoriality of China, which is not inferior to China in terms of population and economic scale, and because of the repeated wars for many years. In Anhui, Jiangxi, Hunan, Guangdong, and other newly liberated areas in the south, where contradictions are conspicuous and the people's courage and determination are quite decent, grassroots reform should be effectively carried out. Don't be afraid of chaos, the old and the new alternate, no chaos is new. Even when there is a shortage of manpower, you can let those who have newly surrendered go to the name to see if they are in good shape, as for the Jiannu in the north. We used to think it was a threat. But now it seems that the traditional northern minority regime is no longer qualified to be the primary threat to our army... ”

Regarding the idea of grassroots land reform and even a large "forced industrial upgrading", Xiao Xuan is more open than in the past. Xiao Xuan has seen a lot of modern history before, and he is accustomed to advocating not making mistakes, and the protagonist army and even anyone in the protagonist system will never make universal mistakes. But where can things be done as people wish? It can be said that the consensus on change in the whole society today is far from comparable to that of modern times. Even if a person like Ah Q can't become a trendsetter of the times? In this era, there may be more people who are unfair, unjust, unpopular, and even unjustly killed than in modern times, but Xiao Xuan believes that if China is to be greatly changed in a few decades, this is needed. There is too much labor in China, and the people are too industrious and submissive. If it is easy to get stable benefits from the people, who will bother to upgrade their management system and even technical system? Europe can be reformed, and to help China enter the modern society, I am afraid that the only way to do this seems to be a bit costly big changes... ”

In this way, a storm soon staged in the summer of Chongzhen's third year. According to Xiao Xuan's arrangement, stirring up the stagnant water at the grassroots level, starting with the county governance in some places where the people's customs are relatively strong and not weak. Compared with the era of the Great Revolution in history, most of the talents that are really barely available in Xiao Xuan's hands are in the army, and there are not too many reliable people to use at the grassroots level.

Under such circumstances, only a small number of battalion officers with the army as the core can take over the county administration in some localities and handle several major cases with great influence in accordance with the new ideology, legal system, and even the system of laws and regulations. If the mess is too big, then concentrate on a thorough cleansing of these areas. I don't care how many unjust cases there are, how simple and crude the methods are. Because Xiao Xuan knows very well that he doesn't have the talents and conditions to work hard now: unless he is willing to waste at least seven or eight years, more than ten years of time for training. But Xiao Xuan was very worried that at that time, he would not be entangled in some mundane things related to the dispute over the country.

The acting county commanders of the first batch of "military management committees" and even the selected cavalry battalions first determined that a small number of 50 local clans, such as Huang'an, Macheng, Luhaifeng in Guangdong, Lu'an, and Yulin, where the clan forces were not too strong, but the people's customs were not too weak, and first set up "models" to let the surrounding "orange counties" and districts that were "determined by the rumors" understand how they should do things according to the new rules.

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