Chapter 208: Reorganizing the Captives

In history, Li Zicheng and Zhang Xianzhong have been dominating the world for more than ten years, and the basis for their survival is that the imperial court has apportioned and levy three salaries to lose the support of the people.

At the beginning of entering Sichuan, Zhang Xianzhong once defeated Ma Ke, the general soldier of Dashun Sichuan, and everyone lived in a less familiar and unfamiliar city, and not like the people who could rely on coercion as in the past.

After Zhang Xianzhong entered Sichuan, he wanted to change his course, but the Ming army was surrounded on all sides, and the people under his jurisdiction revolted again.

The Ming army achieved restoration with the help of the strength of the four clans, while the Great Western Army was separated from Germany in a calm voice, and everyone was not as united to meet the enemy as in the past.

Under these circumstances, the territory of the Onishi regime has been sharply reduced, and now it feels like it is declining.

This victory is equivalent to helping the Great Western Army reduce its burden, reduce the tens of thousands of people it has brought in, and let it travel lightly on the battlefield in the future.

Just like the Great Western Army in history, although Zhang Xianzhong was beheaded by the Qing army on Phoenix Mountain, hundreds of thousands of troops collapsed at one time, but the main force is still Shang, Zhang Kewang, Zhang Dingguo and other main generals will lead the main force to gallop more than 300 miles, the Ming Dynasty army seized Qingqing, and then jumped thousands of miles into the Yunnan-Guizhou region, not only threw the battlefield to the Southern Ming army, but also obtained Yunnan, a stable development base, and then relied on the Yunnan-Guizhou region to go out of the Northern Expedition, defeated the Qing army.

Just like the Red Army in history, after five failed anti-encirclement and suppression failures, it launched a 25,000-mile long march, although the headquarters suffered heavy casualties, but all the way to the old and welcome the new, arrived in northern Shaanxi to win the Shaanxi-Gansu-Ningbo stable base area, and then developed with this, and finally won the whole country.

The Great Western Army is claimed to be 500,000, and the actual number of troops at its peak also reached more than 200,000, although there are many losses now, but Zhang Xianzhong, the four generals, and each governor and pro-army are only 350,000.

Although this time it also dealt a big blow to Zhang Kewang's pro-army, its main force still exists, and as long as time passes, it is completely possible to make a comeback by absorbing fresh blood.

If Zhang Xianzhong can recognize the reason for the defeat and return to the past rogue combat mode, this will be the beginning of the nightmare of the Ming army.

Thinking of this, Yang Lin looked worried, and tried every possible way to actively deal with it and continue to destroy the foundation for the survival of the Liukou, that is, to exempt the three salaries and prohibit apportionment, that is, to establish a township office in the local area and train soldiers to protect the territory and the people.

These have already been practiced in northern Sichuan, and now they need to be transplanted to the newly occupied areas, which takes time and needs to be implemented for a long time.

The most important thing now is to recover the capital and win a decisive victory first.

In this battle, the rogue was defeated, and the number of prisoners alone reached more than 10,000, and the casualties of the volunteers were also thousands.

Yang Lin announced the expansion of the army, and the regiments participating in the war expanded their troops one after another.

Including Wang Zhibang's militia regiment, it was organized into a type B night battle regiment, and each regiment expanded one after another, with the 1-7 regiments reaching the establishment of 4 battalions and a regiment, and the 8-10 regiments being expanded into a 3-battalion B regiment.

Three militia groups of Hong Zhenglong, Liu Jinfu and Lin Shitai were built.

There are more than 10,000 prisoners of war in this war, and there is no shortage of young and strong men among the prisoners.

These nearly 10,000 captives must have become a poison pill, the rebellion is light, and the most dangerous thing is to cut off the food route of the volunteers, causing the volunteers to fall into a heavy siege.

The militia is generally formed with an infantry battalion or several infantry brigades as seeds, combined with local rebel armies and people's armed forces.

The security regiment is a kind of peripheral military unit of the Volunteer Army, which has been established in all counties under its jurisdiction, one is to maintain local security, and the other is to give priority to its youth and strength in the Volunteer Army after the expansion.

Last year, Zhang Xianzhong besieged on all sides, Wang Shuji's department and Ma Mingluan's department were directly adapted from the local security regiment, and later the Volunteer Army expanded its army several times, and its strength sources also came from the local security regiment.

Now when I heard that two local security regiments were being prepared, some of them didn't think so, and some of them suddenly realized that this was a draw from the bottom of the kettle.

After screening, most of those left behind are old, weak, sick and disabled, and it is really difficult to rebel.

The security corps can be used to maintain law and order, transport baggage, and ensure the safety of the rear.

After receiving the order, Hong Zhenglong led two infantry brigades to the prisoner camp, because the war had just ended, and the prisoners had not yet been collected.

After showing the general order to the captain of the guard team, looking at the dense prisoners in front of him, Hong Zhenglong picked up a simple microphone and shouted loudly: "Brothers, my name is Hong Zhenglong, a person from Huguang, born in Wuju.

In his hometown, he followed the eighth generation of Wang Ruchuan, and was an official in the Great Western Army to the governor.

But to be a man must pay attention to conscience, Zhang Xianzhong kills people all day long, kills his own brothers, kills Sichuan people, I am dissatisfied with the righteous brave army.

Brothers, do you want to be a serious person and no longer have a meal without a meal?

Brothers, do you want to eat pot helmets? Do you want to eat white rice? ”

Everyone stood up one after another, and everyone looked at Yang Wei, who was riding on a war horse, wearing armor, and holding a microphone majestic, and his mouth was cracked, and some people shouted loudly, so that fools don't want to eat pot helmets and white rice.

Some swallowed their saliva, reminiscing about the taste of pot helmet and white rice, in the past, everyone often ate pot helmet and white rice dry rice, but in the past six months, everyone often drank porridge, and there was too little oil in the porridge, and many people were even more diarrhea.

Seeing everyone's enthusiastic response, many people were full of envy, Hong Zhenglong raised his big hand, signaled everyone to be quiet, and continued: "Brothers, we followed the eight generations of kings and traveled thousands of miles from northern Shaanxi, Henan, and Huguang to Sichuan, isn't it because the local officials are tyrannical and exorbitant, regardless of whether we ordinary people live or die?"

Isn't it because everyone has no way to live that they left their hometown and came to this land of Xishu?

But Wang Zhaolin's clever words confuse the lord, and the eight generations of kings are even more moody, not only killing loyal ministers who dare to speak loyally, but also killing many people who are as lonely and helpless as we used to be, just seeking to have enough to eat.

The people are not very disturbed, thousands of miles of red land in various places, everyone has opposed the tyranny of Zhang Xianzhong and Wang Zhaolin, brothers, we should no longer be the accomplices of Zhang Xianzhong and Wang Zhaolin, and do not help Zhang Xianzhong and Wang Zhaolin to harm the people. ”

Just like in the previous life, Chinese people just don't like to express their views and become a silent majority, but everyone has been educated in loyalty, filial piety and shame since childhood.

Now when I hear Hong Zhenglong say this, I especially see more than 100 soldiers under his command raising their big hands and shouting, "Don't be Zhang Xianzhong and Wang Zhaolin's accomplices, don't help Zhang Xianzhong and Wang Zhaolin harm the people."

Everyone was frightened, first a few people raised their arms and shouted softly, but seeing Hong Zhenglong's sight, many people were forced by him, and some were even more worried about being poisoned, so they also raised their arms and shouted.

After doing this seven or eight times, everyone felt refreshed, and the initial anxiety in their hearts had long since disappeared, and some even straightened up their waists, temporarily forgetting their identity as prisoners.

Hong Zhenglong was overjoyed, looked at everyone, and said with a smile: "Brothers, our adult Yang Lin is a character like Zhuge Liang, although the adult is young, but at the age of fifteen, he was selected as Yougong at the age of nineteen, starting from the big head soldier, in less than three years, this volunteer army has become a strong force in the world."

Everyone said that Zhuge Liang made wooden carts, oxen and horses, and did not need horses, and this wooden cart cattle and horses could move freely in the mountainous areas.

Brothers, I haven't seen this wooden cart, oxen and horses, but everyone has seen the two-wheeled rickshaw built by our lords.

Everyone says that our adults are not stars in the sky, and we are immortals like Zhuge Kongming? ”

In various ancient novels, in order to deify someone, it is often said that it is the star in the sky that descends to earth, and it is rumored that Bao Zheng is the star of Wenqu descending to earth, and Yue Fei is the reincarnation of Dapeng bird.

Even in the 80s of the twentieth century, the farmland area was still quite superstitious, and when it came to officials, many people thought that this was a god and that was a monster.

According to the propaganda materials of the Barbarian Qing Dynasty, didn't Zhang Xianzhong often say that he was sent down by Taishang Laojun to collect treacherous and cunning criminals?

When everyone heard Hong Zhenglong say this, many people believed it, especially looking at this two-wheeled rickshaw, it was amazing?

Seeing that the goal had been achieved, Hong Zhenglong announced that as long as he joined the security regiment, he would have enough food every day, and if he made meritorious service on the battlefield or the next time the volunteer army was expanded, he would be given priority to be incorporated into the volunteer army, and at least he would have something to eat.

The volunteers have 1 tael and 5 yuan of silver every month, and the pensions for the war dead and wounded are very generous.

Although the Great Western Army deliberately slandered, the treatment of the volunteers had already spread far and wide, and Hong Zhenglong had a special identity, he was the governor of the Great Western Army in the past, and he was his own person, so everyone believed it even more.

According to Qi Jiguang's training method, Hong Zhenglong appointed the general battalion commander of the militia regiment, and then the squadron leader appointed the squadron leader, and the squadron leader appointed the squad leader.

The squad leader selects the ones he likes from among the captives and forms a unit.

According to the selection criteria, more than 500 prisoners were assigned to a brigade, and Hong Zhenglong left the captain to form the headquarters, while Hong Zhenglong rode to other prisoner camps and quickly formed a new militia group.

There are more than 500 people, and more than 100 are selected, and although there are still some people with bad intentions, they are already toothless tigers, and it is difficult to make any waves.

In the next few days, the captives will be screened by officials, and a small number of repeat offenders will be placed in labor camps and reformed through labor under the watchful eye of the armed forces.

Others, as displaced people, were dispersed into the localities and carried out labor and farming. Now there is a shortage of war, and there is a large-scale desertion in various places, and as long as the food is provided for a few months, everyone can survive in the local area.

After two days of rest, Yang Lin left a heavy casualty Jing Keqin regiment to garrison Genting City, Hong Zhenglong and Lin Shitai led the militia to protect the grain road, and personally led the main force to slowly advance to the city capital.