Chapter 718: Overwhelming
With the 30,000 sergeants who were good at mountain warfare that Qin Zhan had privately trained in Guangdong, plus the 20,000 mountain special battalions led by Najib before, there were already 50,000 troops who were good at fighting in the mountains and forests, which was more than enough as a vanguard battalion to attack Yunnan.
Coupled with the 40,000 elite infantry led by Fang Yuan, the 8,000 special combat army, and the 40,000 sergeants of Gao Yuanjue's department led by Gan Hui in the direction of Jiangxi, and the 30,000 sergeants under Xu Cheng's department, the total strength reached 160,000.
A total of 160,000 troops on the two roads are well-equipped with sufficient grain and grass, and with the national strength of a corner of Yunnan alone, how Mu Tianbo fights is a dead word.
Fang Yuan's only worry was whether Sichuan's Zhang Xianzhong and Liu Zongmin would rescue Yunnan. Also, whether the toasts in Guangxi and Guizhou are in the same stream as Mu Tianbo.
If Zhang and Liu, the two thieves, sent troops to rescue, plus the two ends of the Tusi Shou Rat in Guangxi and Guizhou, when the imperial army crossed the border, they suddenly attacked in the back, and the battle situation would fall into a stalemate.
Fang Yuan sent a sergeant from the Third Route to deliver the order.
All the way it was passed to Gan Hui, who was preparing for war in Huguang, and it was agreed that the day of sending troops would be two months later on the fifth day of November. also secretly told Gan Hui that Mu Tianbo instigated the alliance of the six provinces. When he marched, he must beware of the disobedience of the Guizhou Tusi, and ordered the Guizhou Tusi who passed through to send protons to show his submission. If you don't send protons to the toast, you will be killed on the spot and there will be no future troubles. It's a big deal to destroy Guizhou first, and then attack Yunnan, and you don't have to rush for a while!
Along the way, Zheng Zhibao, who sent 100,000 urgent military reports to the Central Military Region, ordered Li Yan and his wife to lead 40,000 troops south to Huguang on the fifth day of the first day of November, to guard Yiling, an important military town along the Yangtze River, to strengthen the defense force of Huguang, and to prevent Liu Zongmin from sneaking out of the Three Gorges to attack Huguang.
There is also a way to send the Tusi to the provinces of Guangxi, when the imperial army crossed, to provide military support and crusade against Yunnan together. If the toast is unwilling to send troops, the bottom line is to send protons to show loyalty, otherwise they will be exterminated with reference to the Guizhou toast.
And also promised two principles in the edict, the imperial court will re-divide the sphere of influence of Guangxi Tusi after the war.
Moreover, the principle of the division of forces this time is to confiscate the land, silver, people, young and strong, and women of the stubborn Tusi as trophies. Tusi who are willing to provide troops and fight together will participate in the distribution of war profits. Toasts who only provide protons and do not provide support from soldiers do not participate in the distribution of war spoils.
As soon as the edict arrived in the hands of various Guangxi toasts, it was like a stone stirring up a thousand waves. Among these toasts, there are angry people, there are people who seek intercession with Fujian-Guangzhou, and four toasts directly sent protons without saying a word in order to show their obedience. The first surrender is the voluntary surrender, and the second surrender is a forced landing, and the treatment of the distribution of war profits is obviously different.
Fang Yuan immediately praised these four toasts, and ordered them to gather 15,000 wolf soldiers to join the army in battle.
Two months later, the agreed time for the dispatch of troops had arrived.
Fang Yuan ordered Qin Zhan and Naji to lead the 60,000 troops of the Southern Military Region to enter Guangxi under the leadership of 15,000 wolf soldiers of Guangxi Tusi. And Fang Yuan led 30,000 elite infantry soldiers and 8,000 special combat troops from the north to escort the army's food and grass, which was one day behind.
The first stop in Guangxi was not to go straight to Yunnan, but to send troops first to exterminate the six Guangxi Tusi who did not send protons or provide troops.
These toasts are scattered in Guilin, Wuzhou, Pingle, and Qingyuan.
The vanguard led by Qin Zhan and Najib, plus the elite infantry led by Fang Yuan, the special combat army. This massive legion is like a giant bulldozer, and the front is overwhelming everywhere it goes.
In addition, those Tusi who surrendered obediently had long coveted the territory of these diehards, and in order to share more silver, land, and women after the war, under the temptation of huge interests in reality, they were not soft at all in internal strife, and even worked harder than the soldiers of the imperial court.
These local wolf soldiers in Guangxi have become the main force advancing all the way, Qin Zhan and Najib only need to send troops to wave their flags and shout behind them, and it is enough to increase the momentum, and they don't need to go to the battlefield in person to operate.
Within a month or two of entering Guangxi, this army directly swept away the five toasts in Guilin, Wuzhou, and Pingle, and one toast in Qingyuan Mansion, which was further away, for the time being.
With the advance of Fang Yuan's army, in Guangxi, there were successive battles, and they came to defect, and they also wanted to share a wave of war profits
Because of the original strict orders of the party, whoever robbed the property belonged to whom, and the land and people were uniformly distributed after the war. Those Tusi who had become the leading party did not dare to privately distribute people, but only robbed the property and escorted the five Tusi clansmen, men, women, and children, a total of more than 28,300 people, to Fang Yuan's military camp to await punishment.
Fang Yuan was slightly shocked when he saw it, there were only five Tusi, and they actually escorted more than 28,000 clansmen waiting to be punished. This, in Fang Yuan's estimation, maybe there are more than ten clans! Isn't the striking surface too wide?!
Fang Yuan found Najib, who was familiar with the customs of these toasts, and asked, "Here, there are 28,000 people in the five toasts, how did you calculate it?" ”
Najib replied truthfully, "According to local customs, anyone with the same surname as Tusi was always a family hundreds of years ago, and they all belonged to the clan. ”
"It was one hundreds of years ago, what the hell is this?!"
Fang Yuan was taken aback when he heard this, and muttered, "The clansmen still have such an algorithm? If the Han people want to be wiped out in this way, if the clan destroys a person surnamed Wang, how many people with the surname King will be killed? It's ridiculous! ”
Najib smiled bitterly and said, "Actually, these pioneers think that the clan is wiped out, and the land and women are gone, so as not to leave one or two men in trouble." I've heard that they had killed at least half of the men who were closer to each other before they were sent to the camp, and that they were only a small number of men of the clan who could not be beaten together, and that they were also trying to deal with the regent. ”
Fang Yuan's brows furrowed, among the twenty-eight thousand people he sent, at least ten thousand were men, and these were still a small part. It can be seen that after the destruction of these toasts, at least tens of thousands of men in the clan have been slaughtered. These uncivilized toasts are too cruel to kill their own people, and they have no humanity.
This genocidal policy must be stopped!
Fang Yuan held back his anger and asked again, "What about women?" How is it distributed according to customs?! ”
Najib said, "The women are all released into the deep mountains and old forests, and then the sergeants who participated in the distribution go into the woods to rob together, and whoever grabs it belongs to whoever!" ”
Fang Yuan smiled and said, "This method, women are beautiful and ugly, everyone wants to rob the beauty, it is estimated that when they rob it, they will be on fire first!" ”
Najib nodded, "The regent guessed right, and it is true that there are often fights for the sake of robbing beauties. ”
Fang Yuan asked rhetorically, "Why don't you take the method of drawing lots?" ”
Najib smiled, "Drawing lots is all about luck, these wolf soldiers advocate force, not luck, stronger than force." ”
Fang Yuan sighed lightly, the way of assigning women can be to follow the local customs and fully respect the local folk customs. But organized genocide, except for the Manchus, who posed the greatest threat, Fang Yuan had never used and must not allow it.
Fang Yuan said in a deep voice, "Najib, the distribution of women is according to local customs. However, all the men who were escorted were innocent and implicated, and they must all be released, and innocent people must not be killed indiscriminately. ”
Najib asked, "These people have no land, what will happen if they are released?" ”
Fang Yuan said, "All the young and strong people who can go to the battlefield will be transferred to the Southern Military Region, and if they are old and weak, they will be divided into some government fields and woodlands in Guangdong!" ”
Since Fang Yuan wanted to pardon these innocent clansmen, Najib could only give up his life.
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