Chapter 581: Sparks Burn the Plains
Of course, Yang Feng would not have known that his evacuation had turned into a singing and crying battle for the defense of Jiangyin under the wonderful pen of the county commander......
Great victory.
The county commander was not afraid of the command, the Jiangyin army and the people fought bloodily, and at the critical moment when the Huangshan Fort was broken through the sea deputy capital and martyred, the Jiangyin lonely city blocked the attack of the demon Yang Feng and thousands of bandits, and finally waited for the reinforcements led by Zhou Shirong, the general soldier of Susong Town, and joined forces with the general army of Zhou to defeat the bandits in one fell swoop. Yang Demon had to lead the remnants to flee in a hurry, and then under the pursuit of the official army, thousands of bandits fell into the Yangtze River and were buried in the belly of the fish, only the demon escaped back to the boat with more than 100 bandits and fled downstream, but the general soldiers of Zhou killed the enemy and was also martyred by the demon with demon art, in short......
In short, countless enemies were killed, but there were no beheadings.
They all fell into the Yangtze River and drowned, how can there be a head to behead.
Of course, this is not important, the important thing is that the demon was frightened after this battle, and he himself was seriously injured by the official artillery, so he no longer dared to attack upstream.
Zhenjiang, Yangzhou, and Jiangning were all saved.
This is absolutely true.
That's a big win!
In short, this good news came out, the entire Yangtze River was jubilant, after confirming that the Yang demon had indeed fled downstream and even out of Chongming, Chen Luan, the acting governor of Jiangsu and Liangjiang, wrote a great victory for Daoguang on the hospital bed, and even his condition was much better for a while.
And this 800-mile urgent good news, coupled with Ge Yunfei's previous victory in Dinghai, also made Daoguang's mood much better, and even diluted a series of unfortunate news such as Hailing being piled up in Beijing, Chen Jieping killing Wu Song in battle, and sending bandits entrenched in Fuzhou, and at the same time, Yishan, who attacked Guangzhou on the southern front, also gave him victory again. Although I know that the water in Yishan's performance is serious, but since Yishan is still successful, it means that the bandits have not broken through the Qing army's defense line, and at this time, Daoguang has already begun to look at the twists and turns of those great victories, no matter how much water is in these concerts, but as long as it is still a good news, it means that things have not developed for the worse, at least they have not lost ground again, however......
He still overestimated Yishan's discipline.
"Su Sanniang?"
In the lobby of the former governor of Guangzhou, Yang Feng said with great interest.
The name really intrigued him.
"God Emperor, this Su Sanniang and her husband Su San are both from the Heaven and Earth Society, and a group of boatmen who are in a row are ready to raise troops to respond to us, but they were killed by defecting and betraying their husbands, and she led her subordinates to break through Gaozhou and killed the guards and officials to send people for help. In fact, during this time, not only Su Sanniang, but also Yang Silong, a charcoal worker in Jiaying Prefecture, also led a group of charcoal burners to raise troops, originally wanted to attack Jiaying Prefecture, but was defeated by the Tartars, and at this time he was stationed in the mountains and waited for our reinforcements. In addition, Qinzhou also has a group of boatmen who have put a platoon to raise troops, led by Feng Zicai, they also occupy the mountainous area, and send people to Guangzhou to ask for help, such a small force of armed forces is basically all over the two Guangzhou, but except for Su Sanniang to occupy Gaozhou, the others can only occupy the mountains and forests, and then wait for us to go to the rescue. ”
Chen Liu said.
"This is also a spark of fire!"
Yang Shenhuang said with satisfaction.
Anyway, these are all celebrities, Su Sanniang, Yang Silong, uh, this is the original name, but Feng Zicai actually devoted himself to geming made him a little surprised, but this is not strange.
At this time, Feng Zicai was still a standard proletarian, his parents died when he was a child, his only relatives and grandmother at the age of fifteen also died, and his family had no land, so he relied on a pair of fists and a strength to make a living as a bodyguard and a boatman.
"Dispatch Luo Outline to Gaozhou, he is suitable for this kind of thing, so I will name him."
Yang Feng said.
Indeed, there is no one better suited than the Luo outline.
"Let him take the sixth and seventh brigades to land in Dianbai to meet Su Sanniang in the north, and at the same time set up a separate fourth army based on these two brigades, with him as the commander of the fourth army, and give him the number of the thirteenth and fourteenth infantry brigades, let him incorporate Su Sanniang's subordinates and expand the army, if you are interested, even Su Sanniang will receive it!"
The God-Emperor continued.
At present, he has arranged a total of 12 brigades, the second brigade is on Ambuna Island, the 11th and 12th brigades have been given to Xie Pingren in Fuzhou, and they have also been given the official number of the third army, while the other nine brigades are all in Guangdong, of which Luo Xuan is the fourth brigade, Chen Liu is the first, third, and then the fifth to tenth brigades, and these nine together with the 1st and 2nd artillery brigades belong to the 1st and 2nd armies. His army brigade is the basic unit, the army is the front army, there is no fixed composition, the artillery brigade is directly under the General Staff, the chief of the general staff is Chen Liu, and the first army is the Northern Guangdong Front Army, the military headquarters is in Qingyuan, the second army is the Guangzhou garrison army, mainly focusing on the defense of Xinhui and other surrounding areas, the fourth brigade of the Luo Outline also belongs to this army, the fleet, coastal defense and marines of the naval system are directly under the General Staff, because of the limited scale, there is no separate naval staff for the time being.
In this way, Luo Xuan led two brigades to land in Dianbai to join Su Sanniang, and the offensive operations in southern Guangdong and Guangxi were handed over to this army.
The Qing army there was actually not strong.
However, the gentry's regimental training armament is relatively strong, in fact, at this time, the regimental training in this area basically replaced the green battalion, and the gentry who were afraid that the geming flame would burn past and the Qing army really couldn't count on it, had to endure the pain and pay a large number of armed regimental training, and even hired mercenaries from Annan and other places, it is said that even foreign instructors have it.
I have to say that in the face of pressure, these gentry are still very flexible.
But the price of doing so is that they must increase the oppression of the tenants, because they must bear the additional military expenses for these regimental training, and the annual rent is only that, and they must not keep a few less concubines, right? In the end, he could only continue to increase rent and donate to squeeze the poor, so it was normal for Feng Zicai, the last old bone of the Qing Dynasty in history, to devote himself to geming.
It's all forced!
Luo Xuan passed as a liberator, and it is estimated that he will be welcomed by the common people.
However, it is not Yang Feng's main strategic direction, his real strategy is to blossom along the coast, and then break through in the middle, that is, to establish a base area with the navy constantly harassing the coast, and the middle road out of Shaoguan into Hunan, along the Xiangjiang River and down the Yangtze River to Nanjing, which is the only choice for the Northern Expedition of Liangguang. First cut off the entire Jiangnan by sea and land, and then go north by sea to Beijing, and at the same time go north along the canal by land to cut off the Central Plains and Hebei again, leaving Sichuan Guanzhong and Northeast China to take it slowly.
Not only Guangxi, but also other places, including Yunnan, are not worth using the main force.
In this way, the task of accepting Su Sanniang was handed over to her husband in the original history, as for whether she can accept this widow, it depends on Luo Xuan's own ability, and after Su Sanniang is absorbed, the Fourth Army can continue to attack south, collect those armed forces all the way, until it sweeps Guangxi, and even attacks along Guangxi to Yunnan. In the future, this front will be completely handed over to Luo Xuan, and relying on the logistics base of Guangzhou, the coastal ports, and the inland river transportation lines, the arms they need can be continuously transported to their hands, and by the way, they can popularize new agricultural technologies, especially to do a good job in the problem of corn breeding, and to develop the industry of canned fruit processing, so that they can basically stabilize their own back.
In other words, Yang Feng now has to consider the future land economy, after all, the enthusiasm for fighting local tyrants and dividing the land cannot last long.
After this enthusiastic period, you have to play the economy.
Guangdong as the core of the territory, of course, is to vigorously develop industry, relying on the high-quality iron ore in northern Guangdong to play the iron and steel industry, as for the lack of coal, had to temporarily solve the problem from Annan, after all, the coal in Guangdong is in the deep mountains of northern Guangdong, rather than go to Meizhou to mine coal is better to go to Annanhai to load ships!
But this is only this core control area, the economy here can be solved by industry, but we can't expect those mountainous areas that account for the vast majority of Guangdong's area to also rely on this, agricultural planting is the means to let the people who have been allocated land to achieve food and clothing as soon as possible, this place potatoes can't do it, can only rely on rice and corn. And these two crops can no longer be solved by the immortal seeds from the sky, and must rely on new agricultural technologies, breeding, fertilizers, and insect control, in short, these things are the main thing. In addition, there is the cultivation of cash crops such as fruits, but rubber is not good, there is a colony of Borneo that of course has to grow rubber there, especially to Java Malaya, this thing requires a lot of arable land, in Guangdong such a place where there is a lack of arable land to grow rubber is too exaggerated.
It is only right to go to Southeast Asia to plant.
As for the cultivation industry here, of course, it should be based on all kinds of fruits in the mountains, and in the future, make a canned fruit and squeeze juice and the like, especially orange juice and the like, don't underestimate this, the Americans are devouring Central America with the fruit industry, and the sea crews will cheer for these things.
As for the textile industry......
Yang Feng thinks that he really can't do the British.
It is said that people are using blood and tears to sweep away all opponents, even the equally ruthless Swedes have been defeated, Yang Feng thinks that he can't be more ruthless than those British gentlemen who regard workers as slaves, saying that in this worse era, if you want to compete with those European and American capitalists, you really have to show some ability.
"God Emperor, Zhennancheng telegraphed, the British fleet crossed Zhennancheng."
A voice interrupted Yang Feng's imagination.
"It's finally here."
His Majesty the Divine Emperor took the telegram from the attendants, and then said with a long breath.