Chapter 230: Quelling the Rebellion
On the night of the next day, Huang Dingfeng led the five main infantry regiments of the Second Division B, with a total of more than 6,500 people, to quietly open the west gate and kill the Tuyong Regiment training camp outside the city. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 info
In the face of the Tuyong battalion, which was unvigilant and only sent more than ten village warriors on duty, Liu Shengbang led several strong guards to erase the sentry after three strikes and five divisions.
After the captives arranged the formation, Liu Shengbang led a group of guards to infiltrate the enemy camp and set fire to it. Suddenly, the Tuyong regiment training camp exploded, and many villagers woke up from their sleep, dazed and at a loss, following the clansmen like severed flies, fleeing indiscriminately.
Huang Dingfeng took advantage of the situation to lead the brothers of the second division to cover the past, 300 foreign spears took the lead, 2,000 shotguns followed, and the sword and shield men and spearmen protected the flanks on both sides.
Thousands of villagers in the two villages were unlucky enough to rush to the east, just in time to collide with the oncoming Second Division B, after a round of shotgun fire, hundreds fell to the ground, and the remaining villagers were scattered, and the ghosts and wolves fled backwards, and even the wooden sticks and other weapons in their hands were abandoned. Because he fled too quickly, he trampled with other villagers who would not have time to flee in the future, along with the battalion, and it was night, and I didn't know how many dead and injured there were for a while.
Seeing that these rebels were so vulnerable, Huang Dingfeng put his mind at ease, bullied the rebels with wooden sticks and the like, and led the soldiers of the Second Division B to light torches and pursue them for nearly ten miles towards Xiangyong, who mainly fled to Foshan.
The next day dawned.
The villagers counted the Tuyong regimental exercises in their villages, and found that there were less than 30,000 left, and in one night, they were attacked by more than 6,000 captives, and lost 20,000 people, many of whom trampled to death, and the rest fled and scattered at night.
At this time, the villagers found that they had fled in a hurry, and all the food and everything was lost in the camp. This place is still a few miles away from Foshan Town, helplessly, the villagers are preparing to eat in a village next to it, and suddenly find that a large group of people and horses are rushing towards them in the direction of Foshan Town.
Tuyong Tu Lian, who lacked a clue and a basic sense of army detectives, did not find that there were tens of thousands of Hakka troops behind him until he was attacked by the Hakka army.
When the enemy saw each other, their eyes were very red, and the two teams of men and horses were about to fight, but they saw a large group of red single warships rushing over in the river next to them, and when they landed, they were thousands of soldiers in red scarves to capture the army.
It turned out that the officers and men of the 3rd Division, the 5th Division, and the 8th Division rushed back to the Pearl River together, and Feng Yunshan was completely relieved. Seeing that the rebels had fled to Foshan Town, he ordered the Eighth Division to rush to Panyu County, east of Guangzhou, to clear out all the squires who participated in the rebellion.
Feng Yunshan remembered that Wu Ruxiao went back to lead the Hakka army to attack and kill Tuyong, and now that the reinforcements of his own army had arrived, there was no need to let the other party's Hakka army fight, firstly, so as not to owe this group of guests favors, and secondly, it would not cause a wider range of Turkist disputes. He ordered the 3rd Division A to draw elite troops, and under the leadership of the 2nd Division, pursued all the way, and finally arrived before the Tuke battle.
Among them, the three regiments of the 3rd Division led by Chen Yucheng himself, with 2,500 foreign guns and 1,000 shotguns, plus hundreds of spearmen, were the most elite troops of the capture army.
Chen Yucheng conveyed the order of the Holy King Feng Yunshan, and asked Wu Ruxiao, Lin Dashan and others to lead the Hakka army to retreat to the side.
In the face of nearly 30,000 Tuyong, the three regiments of the 3rd Division and the soldiers of the capture army, under the leadership of the division commander and the three regiment commanders, stood in front of Tuyong and ordered Tuyong to surrender.
"Fellow villagers of Guangfu, the Holy King knows that you have been deceived by traitors and coerced to attack the city of Guangzhou. Now that you have been surrounded by my army of captive, the Holy King has the virtue of a good life, and orders you to surrender unconditionally! A pillar of incense time, put down the weapons in his hands, five hundred people as a team, the detachment came out and surrendered. Chen Yucheng ordered the captives to shout.
The villagers looked at the murderous army in front of them, lined up neatly, although they were a little scared, but they didn't care very much because they had a lot of people. After several village elders discussed, they ordered everyone to retreat westward, wanting to return to Heshan County.
As soon as the villagers moved, Chen Yucheng's face turned pale, and he ordered the shotgunners to shoot and warn! At the same time, the soldiers once again shouted and urged the villagers to surrender.
But how can these villagers care so much.
A group of village elders in the middle of the team let the strongest thousands of villagers bravely rush ahead, and they fiercely rushed towards the captive army with iron forks in hand.
Helpless, Chen Yucheng remembered what the Holy King said, to kill a group of leaders to warn, and at the same time to make the local guests vigilant, afraid of the capture of the army. So, Chen Yucheng ordered to prepare to shoot.
More than 20,000 villagers, armed with wooden sticks and iron forks, fiercely rushed towards the begging army of less than 4,000.
The earth was shaking, the villagers were shouting and scolding, and the footsteps were sounding. However, the captives remained motionless, only half-crouching, clenching the shotguns and foreign guns in their hands, listening to the commander's orders in their ears.
Three hundred steps, two hundred steps!
One hundred and fifty steps! One hundred steps!
When he reached 80 steps, Chen Yucheng shouted, "Put!" ”
Suddenly, the sound of gunshots like fried beans rang out. There were still more than 100 steps ahead of the captive army, and nearly 100 Xiangyong made a blink of an eye, and more than half of them fell to the ground, howling miserably. Soon, the soldiers, who had been trained extremely skillfully in foreign guns, reloaded the gunpowder. Before the townsmen in the back row had rushed a hundred paces, the second round of muskets rang out.
This time, more Xiangyong was hit. Even the villager with the title of the book was killed at the beginning.
What kind of war is this, it's a complete one-sided massacre. Chen Yucheng, who did not stop doing two things, ordered the third shooting.
After three rounds of shooting, Tu Yong and Tuanlian suffered more than 2,000 casualties, not only did they not rush into the range of 50 steps, but even Xiang Yong, who originally wanted to move forward, retreated one after another and squeezed into a ball.
A few villagers in the middle of the team were also scared silly! They never dreamed that the foreign guns in the hands of those begging soldiers were so powerful, completely different from those bird guns. Their hearts are dripping with blood, these dead and wounded villagers are the strongest laborers in their respective villages, and some are even their sons and nephews.
Not only were the villagers stupid, but the Hakka soldiers were also trembling at the black barrels of the guns stained with blood. This is simply a demon from hell, and the harvest of human life is terrifying because of the harvesting of rice.
With this kind of weapon in hand, it's ridiculous that Tuyong still dares to make trouble. Even the most ferocious Hakka man, at this time, was shocked and silent, for fear that the black muzzle of the gun would be aimed at him.
And the townspeople are completely collapsed.
With Chen Yucheng's order again, the Chinese captives shouted in unison: "Put down your weapons and come out and surrender!" ”
The village warriors in the crowd no longer cared about the old squires, so they threw away their wooden sticks and surrendered.
On the same day, Tuyong, composed of 30,000 Cantonese people from Heshan, Xinhui, Shunde, Nanhai and other places, was forced to surrender by 4,000 captives.
A few days later, with the further advance of the 3rd, 5th and 8th Divisions, the villages in the prefectures and counties of Zhaoqing and Guangzhou were completely controlled.
The 30,000 Tuyong who participated in the rebellion and were captured, including more than 800 village elders, gentry and other leaders of the Tuyong regiment, plus more than 500 landlords and gentry who harbored Manchu absconding officials found in various villages and counties, were all imprisoned.
30,000 Tuyong, after careful investigation and verification, there were nearly 13,000 people, and they were indeed honest farmers who were coerced, and Feng Yunshan asked them to return to their hometowns together.
Feng Yunshan ordered them to be sentenced to five years in prison, some of them were sent to the Dabaoshan Iron Mine and Quren Coal Mine in Shaozhou, which had already been discovered, and some of them were sent to Guiyang, Zhunan, for mining.
For this rebellion, Feng Yunshan attached great importance to it. When he personally interrogated several squires one after another, why did they rebel, a squire said: "My Zhang family's ancestral land, even the Manchu Qing aliens came, they didn't confiscate it for me, and now you, the long-haired thief, want to confiscate it, this is the enmity of the children and grandchildren, how can I not oppose you, how can I not fight hard?" ”
The other squire, feeling that he was going to die anyway, simply said, "You thief! I heard that you are going to carry out land reform and divide the land, and all my family's fields will be distributed to those lazy poor ghosts, I can only hope that you will perish as soon as possible, let the government come back, and continue to protect my fields. ”
An ordinary native of Guangfu also said: "I am just an ordinary farmer, but I heard that the Holy King wants to divide half of the land of our native people to those arrogant guests, which is even more hateful than the Manchu government, and of course our native people must rise up against it!" ”
Feng Yunshan somewhat understood! The class struggle is irreconcilable. Before his land reform was completely carried out in Liangguang, he encountered such great resistance, and he could take advantage of this opportunity to forcibly carry it out. However, is it really what you want to divide the land equally?
There is no such thing as absolute equality and fairness in this world! Maybe it's something I've thought about! We can't be too anxious, this land reform and division of land, if you want to do it in one step, it will inevitably cause huge social turmoil.
Even ordinary Canton locals rose up against themselves, although it was because of the deliberate incitement of those conspirators, but it also showed a truth. I can't just because of an ideal, because of a good society in the future, that everyone have their own land in the present era.
Think about it, Guangdong, a land with a large population and little arable land, unlike the southern Hunan area, where the land is vast and sparsely populated, and each person can be divided into even 2 acres of land. It's different here in Guangdong. I am going to develop industry here, if everyone has land, who will open the mine and work? The Industrial Revolution in Britain was because of the training of a large number of industrial workers.
Feng Yunshan thought about it carefully, perhaps, in view of the situation in Guangdong, the land reform policy of Yongzhou and Guilin should not be completely applied. Rather, it is necessary to adapt measures to local conditions, make improvements on the basis of the original, and attract peasants to leave the land through vigorous development of industry. (To be continued.) )