Section 361 Military Competition
Yang Zizhao and Yang Zinan brothers had just been notified that they were allowed to temporarily leave school and return to the barracks to organize Tuanyong, and the two of them couldn't help but be happy, not how much they love to lead troops, especially Yang Zizhao is almost sixty years old, if it weren't for the fact that many Hakka gentry invited him out of the mountain many times, he would not have participated in this kind of thing. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 info
The Yang family is a big clan in the Cao Chong area of Xinning (Taishan), and in the midst of the Tuke fight, because the county commander Hong Defang was bent on favoring the natives, he defeated the Hakka towns in the surrounding Chonglou area, and he didn't want to get involved in this kind of thing. Because his family is a local family, and Yang Zizhao was very uneven when he was young, he practiced martial arts, and he was a well-known hero in the local area, so he was pushed out to preside over the overall situation at the last moment.
But the county order definitely doesn't look at it that way, the Tuke weapon fight county officials don't want to care, but if they have to choose one side, they prefer to choose the Turen, a very important reason is that no matter which county order, they will feel that the Turen are more docile, and the Hakka people are too rude, and the Tuke people often give face to the county government, but the Hakka people often kill and injure the Yasku.
The reason why the Xinning County government finally developed to one-sided support for the Turen was that not only did the government come forward to invite the Turen squires to the county to handle the General Bureau of League Training to help the Turen arm themselves, but Hong Defang even promised to allow the Turen to occupy their land as a benefit from recruiting the Hakka people after defeating them, the reason was that in the process of the Hakka fight, they had injured Yang Zhaomeng, the general director of the Nafu Battalion, and 12 soldiers who went to coordinate, which made the county order feel that the Hakka people were not subject to discipline and could not be suppressed.
If the Hakka people are asked to refute it, they will say that Yang Zhaomeng favors the natives and the coordination is not fair at all, and they will also say that Yang Zhaomeng himself is a native, they don't trust Yang Zhaomeng, and they will say that Yang Zhaomeng took money from the natives and oppressed the Hakka people.
In short, this is an unclear lawsuit.
Once the law fails, it will inevitably form a barbaric law of the jungle that speaks with a knife in the end, and in the end, the Hakka knife has never played with the natives.
Fortunately, Zhu Jinglun intervened in advance, Zhu Jinglun's intervention made several counties except Heshan generally in peace, but although it was calm, the undercurrent was surging, and more than ten years of hatred made everyone look at each other, and finally Fang Shan played with people's hearts and constantly provoked threats, resulting in more tension between the two sides, no one was willing to draw a knife first, afraid of Zhu Jinglun's suppression, but for their own safety, the continuous recruitment of troops and horses continued, just like the arms race before the First World War. It's not so much about annexing the other side, it's more out of fear for their own safety.
They didn't fight in the end, but the financial resources of each family were almost consumed, and at this time Zhu Jinglun ordered them all to come to Guangzhou, in fact, the Zhang brothers were relieved, they really couldn't afford to feed tens of thousands of villagers.
Like them, Li Weiping, Chen Yuliang and others of the Xinning Turen wealthy family also have this mentality, they do not recruit troops, they always see the other party training, the Turen think that the Hakka people are rude, and they must arm more people to have a chance of winning, and the Hakka people see that the Turen have more troops than themselves, and they will increase their troops, in this vicious circle similar to the arms race, it is really almost the financial resources of both sides.
Therefore, when they heard the call of the government, the natives also actively sent their regimental training to Guangzhou, the most direct reason was that they could throw this revenge to the government, and the other reason was that they all hoped to marry Zhu Jinglun, after all, the facts have proved that whoever is right with Zhu Jinglun will have a good end.
As for the Manchu court, when Zhu Jinglun defeated Jiang Yili, they had already given up thinking about the imperial court.
Due to the fact that everyone centered on Xinning during that period and continued to accumulate strength, Xinning became the center of the forces of both the Turks and the Hakka, and the Yang brothers and Li Weiping became the leaders of the Tuke two families respectively.
The Yang brothers and many Hakka gentry formed the Wanxing Bureau, Yang Zizhao served as the director of the bureau, and other squires were the gentry, uniting the entire Hakka regiment.
The Turen organization is larger, more complex, and more difficult to reconcile, Li Weiping and others set up a Equalization Bureau, Shengping Bureau and other public bureaus are responsible for coordinating the actions between the various regimental exercises, but there is no leader, but the highest prestige is indeed the big landlords Li Weiping and Chen Yuliang.
Now 20,000 Hakka group training, and 40,000 native group training, all of which have been incorporated by Zhu Jinglun, these gentry and leaders have been sent to the military academy to study, for many squires, reading the textbooks of those military schools makes them feel very laborious, and they are not young to take care of them, so they are not allowed to participate in military training, but because of this, they can't understand what fronts, battle columns and other tactics at all.
Now that they have all been released, it feels like a prison, and the government has informed them that the regimental training organization has been temporarily restored, and the regimental courage is still organized in their original way, and new weapons have been issued, in the past they used iron knives and guns, but now they have all been replaced with steel, and an artillery team has been sent to help them suppress the formation.
The two squires have also become officers in a blink of an eye, and they have official bodies, although they are only a military attaché, and the salary is not low for ordinary people, but what they value more is status, and the government told them that big squires like Li Weiping and Yang Zizhao are directly at the level of commanders, and they are higher than the prefects, and they can speak at the same level when they see the prefects.
While giving them status, of course, they had to use them, and ordered them to rush to Fogang and Qingyuan immediately, and cooperate with the officers and soldiers to exterminate the rebel Zhang Qianshan.
The Turen group training and the Hakka group training are separated, the Turen group training goes to Fogang, and the Hakka group training goes to Qingyuan, otherwise they may fight first.
A large number of staff officers were sent to them to help them plan military operations, but they were also told that this was a competition, and whoever attacked Chaozhou Mansion first between Yang Zizhao and Li Weiping would be the Daotai of Nanshao Liandao, and those who lagged behind could only be relegated to the post of prefect of Shaozhou Prefecture, and as for the other squires, they were also given official positions in various states and counties of Nanshao Liandao, provided that they could conquer here.
For these landlords and squires, being a soldier to fight a war is far less attractive than being an official, they had to train the village warrior in the past, mainly for self-preservation, in fact, they have no interest in leading soldiers at all, if they can change an official, it is really the ancestral grave smoke.
Most of the landlords and squires are scholars, who have never dreamed of the imperial examination, but most of them can't get famous, and they can't even pass the show, that is, they can't get into the officialdom for a lifetime, so they can only mix in the countryside and dig in the soil, and now Zhu Jinglun has given such an opportunity, you can imagine how excited these local tyrants are in their hearts.
You can also imagine how tragic Zhang Qianshan's fate is.
But Zhu Jinglun has a bottom line, and the lives of the regimental warriors cannot be disregarded, so he excludes the staff officers to help them, otherwise let them fight and rush indiscriminately, and even if they win the battle in the end, the casualties will not be small. As for Zhang Qianshan's main army, Zhu Jinglun decided to use the main force to conduct a frontal battle, which is what the regular army should do.
For this reason, Zhu Jinglun even let the Baoke regiment stationed in Wuzhou defend independently, temporarily transferred the Xin'an Second Army back from Wuzhou, and assembled in Qingyuan to fight against Zhang Qianshan. The Canton Army resisted in Fogang.
But Zhu Jinglun still underestimated the desire of the two Turkish and Hakka gentry for official positions, and when Zhu Jinglun's heavy army group and Zhang Qianshan's army were engaged in a battle, the Tuke and Hakka families invariably moved their minds and secretly sent troops to Shaozhou from the rear, bypassing the frontal battlefield.
Shaozhou is a state capital with many mountains, there are many cottages, the locals are very difficult to mess with, these cottages are often made of mountain stones, most of the cottages have water sources, easy to defend and difficult to attack. There are five horse villages in the famous cottages, the first horse is called the big village, the second horse chicken village, the three horse nose village, the four horse cotton village, the five horse east cottage, and the silk grass village, the river lip village, the copper drum village are connected nearby. There are also dozens of cottages such as Qiaoshan, Beizi Village, Dayugong Village, Jinzhu Village, Mud Village, Liuzhou Pi Village, Niulan Village, Wuduan Village, Diaogou Village, Lihuyan Village, Yangzhou Village, Leek Village, Lion Village, Muping Village, Rocky Beach Village, etc.
These cottages must be bypassed, even if the regular army is opposed, it is difficult to deal with, so the Tukka and the Hakka have no intention of entanglement with these cottages, and in the end the Hakka people are good at crossing the mountains and mountains, when they appear near Shaozhou Mansion from Luokeng, the Turen are still entangled near the Niulanzhai.
When Zhang Qianshan found that there were countless Tuke detachments of all sizes behind him, it immediately affected the morale of the army, and he wanted to transfer troops back to help, but on the tense battlefield, it directly affected the army, causing his main force to be directly defeated by the Guangzhou Army, and the main force of the Guangzhou Army and the Turen Regiment broke through Zhang Qianshan's defense from the front and defeated its main force.
The defeat of Fogang soon affected the war in Qingyuan, Zhang Qianshan intended to withdraw the army from Qingyuan, but the retreat turned into a rout, seeing that the situation was unfavorable, Zhang Qianshan made an old mistake in preserving his strength, and fled to the old territory of Lianshan with the cavalry, and the rest of the miscellaneous troops were all annihilated and captured.
Zhang Qianshan just arrived in Lianzhou, he heard the news that the defenders of Shaozhou Mansion surrendered and the Hakka regiment bravely captured Shaozhou.
Before Zhang Qianshan could catch his breath from the bad news, he received a report that the main force of the Ming army had pursued to Lianzhou like a maggot on the tarsal bone.
At this time, he threw down those miscellaneous armies, and was all thrown by the Ming army to the Tuke regiment training, and the main force did not stop at all, always chasing him, at this time Zhang Qianshan knew that his son-in-law was no worse than him when it came to being ruthless.
After pondering for a while, he planned to admit it, and sent someone to send a letter to his son-in-law, saying that the bandits were serious, and he couldn't do anything now, except for Lianzhou, he could control it, Shaozhou and Nanxiong were handed over to his son-in-law to quell the chaos, obviously he just wanted to keep Lianzhou's nest, but Zhu Jinglun wrote back to him and said that he heard that some bandits had run into Guangxi, and hoped that his father-in-law would help pursue him, and his son-in-law's reply was obviously unwilling to accept that his father-in-law would continue to stay in Guangdong, and drove him to Guangxi.
Zhang Qianshan gritted his teeth, beat him and found that he couldn't beat his son-in-law, so let's go, make a decision immediately, lead the troops into Guangxi, take advantage of Guangxi's defenselessness, and directly take Hexian, but at this time his son-in-law also marched to Guangxi, attacked from Guangning to Huaiji, and wrote to Zhang Qianshan that he heard that the bandits had fled to Pingle, and hoped that his father-in-law would help quell the chaos.
Zhang Qianshan understood, his son-in-law wanted him to help cut off Jiang Yili's back road, Pingle is located between Wuzhou and Guilin, controlling the Guijiang River waterway, either fight with Jiang Yili, or fight with his son-in-law, Zhang Qianshan thought about it, he felt that it was more cost-effective to fight Jiang Yili, because at least there was an official road from Hexian to Pingle, and to fight back to Guangdong, but he had to go over the mountains and mountains all the way, he really didn't want to go through the mountain road, especially when the mountains were full of Yao people. (To be continued.) )