Chapter 343: Going Deep into Denglai
Li Ming looked at the Dongjiang rebel generals, he didn't mean to meet them, he was waiting quietly, waiting for them to come up and meet him. Kong Youde and his entourage, seeing the generals of the Far East, hurriedly ran up in a few steps.
Kong Youde's eyes swept down the crowd, and when he saw Li Ming at a glance, he involuntarily knelt down, bowed down and shouted respectfully: "Kong Youde, the old general of the Dongjiang River, greets the general." ”
Li Ming looked at the Dongjiang rebel generals who were kneeling on the ground, and said with a smile: "Get up, this time the Far East will rely on the generals." ”
Kong Youde got up from the ground and said respectfully: "Our brother was born in the Dongjiang River, and he has long admired the tiger power of the Far East, and he has never had the opportunity to meet him, and he will rely on the care of adults in the future." Rest assured, our brothers will do their best! Tens of thousands of Denglai people are now being escorted to Dengzhou. ”
Li Ming smiled faintly and said: "You can do it boldly in Denglai, no matter how many people you gather, we will continue in the Far East." But if anyone dares to kill and abuse the people, we will kill one in the Far East. I have something to do, so go get busy. ”
Kong Youde hurriedly knelt down again, and bowed several times before leaving respectfully.
Song Tao looked at Kong Youde's back, and said with a smile: "These big traitors are not very good, I see that several of them are so frightened that their legs are shaking." ”
Wang Yaowu next to him sneered: "They are a fart, even if Chongzhen and Huang Taiji see the strong military strength of our Far East, their legs have to tremble." Is it okay to send these guys to Southeast Asia? Don't let people work together to destroy them. ”
Li Ming said with a smile: "Don't underestimate these guys, many of them are pirates, prisoners, outlaws, and ruthless characters who have fought hard in the Dongjiang River and Tartars." Moreover, when they came to Denglai, Sun Yuanhua found a lot of Portuguese military instructors, and carefully trained them for a long time, so that they were good at operating firearms and artillery.
By the way, are we still under house arrest on Phi Island, King Shang Kexi, and Mao Wenlong's righteous son Mao Chenglu and other Dongjiang generals. They are also a hidden danger in the Dongjiang River, and they can't be killed, so they and those stubborn Dongjiang soldiers who can't be reformed will be sent over for a while. Let them go together to Southeast Asia to scourge them. ”
Song Tao also smiled and said: "Send them all out, although these things dare to fight hard, they can harm people even more." I think I'll send them to Vietnam, let them fight the Vietnamese monkeys, haha......"
Wang Yaowu nodded and said: "Yes, just send them to Vietnam, just help them gain a foothold in Vietnam, and be a pioneer in our Far East." ”
Zhou Cheng lowered his head and thought for a while: "Commander, I listened to Kong Youde's words, it seems that they have gathered a lot of people, should we notify Vladivostok and release the two big ones." ”
Li Ming thought for a moment and said, "Well, you go and send a telegram to the company and ask them to send a ship over." The two 10,000-ton ships run two more times, even if they gather more immigrants, they will not worry about the capacity. ”
In the afternoon of the next day, with nearly 10,000 officers and men in the Far East working day and night, the construction of a huge coastal base was finally completed. The sailing ships on the sea began to dock at the temporary military port wharf one after another, unloading the materials on board and sending them to the storage center for storage.
The nearly 10,000 officers and soldiers of the Shandong Army were busy for two days, and before they could take a breath, the first batch of people from Dengzhou were escorted over by the rebels. Thousands of people were chained into strings of ropes, men, women and children supporting each other in horror as they walked into the migrant camp.
A group of fierce ruffians of the overseas legion shouted loudly, separating the men and women of the people of Denglai and sending them to the men's and women's purification camps respectively. The camp was filled with cries and wails, which made people feel sad to listen to.
The migrant camp is divided into men's and women's camps, and the company's civil affairs committee has specially sent a large number of staff, including many female workers, to manage the women's camp. Moreover, the person in charge of the women's battalion guard work is to teach the officers and soldiers of the brigade, and Li Ming said that he would not worry about letting those soldiers of the overseas corps guard here.
The company has accumulated rich experience after several large-scale migrations, so this time when we came to Denglai, whether it was the setting of the immigration camp or the coordination of various departments, it was in an orderly manner without the slightest confusion.
The immigrants who came out of the purification camp were given a set of migrant suits produced by the company's textile factory and leather goods factory, all of which were packed in a Russian-style military canvas backpack, including a set of khaki cotton overalls, a pair of suede shoes, a pair of cloth shoes, a penny cap, two pairs of labor protection gloves, four pairs of cotton socks, two sets of cotton underwear, two underwear, a military satchel, a military kettle, a set of dental jars, a set of utensils, and a set of bedding.
Migrants are dressed and enter the camp directly along a fenced passageway. Register, all kinds of people will be treated separately. The first to be loaded and left were Category A talents, including craftsmen, craftsmen, langzhong, bookkeepers and single women.
Here they will be formed into squadrons according to 100 people, and the first thing the immigrants do when they enter the camp is to recite the rules and regulations of the immigration camp, and those who can't memorize them will be punished and not allowed to eat for a day.
Then it's about learning to be in order. In charge of them are the ruffians of the Overseas Legion. Each of them was given a leather whip in his hand, and if he encountered an unruly immigrant, he would be given a whip.
The soldiers of this group of overseas legions have very poisonous eyes, and they can pick out scoundrels, villains and other miscellaneous farts in the team, maybe they are like that, so they are very sensitive to their own kind. As long as these rattle immigrants make a mistake, they will be severely cleaned up and hung on the playground of the migrant camp for a day and a night. These people will be classified as D immigrants, unless they are special talents, and most of the rest will be kept in centralized custody, and when the Far East leaves, they will be evicted.
If it is a family, they will also be divided into a squadron according to the men's and women's camps, and they will also take turns to meet each other between the two fences between the men's and women's camps at the specified time. Every day, in front of the two fences between the men's and women's camps, migrants gather to meet their families on the other side.
In just a few days, tens of thousands of people have been purified of the Dengzhou migrant camp. Every day, a large number of migrants board ships at the temporary military port and transport them to Vladivostok. In order to alleviate the pressure of the Dengzhou migrant camp, Li Ming also asked Song Shiping from Jiangsu and Zhejiang to send a lot of sea ships to pick up and drop off the immigrants. Hundreds of seagoing ships were also sent to the Donggang Islands, which were loaded with immigrants and sailed to Jeju Island nearby.
In order to supervise the situation of the Liao rebels in collecting immigrants, Li Ming sent more than a dozen reinforced companies to advance into the depths of Denglai and the two provinces. At the very least, it can have a certain deterrent effect on these ruffians.
Each reinforced company includes several special operations team and War Department personnel, and one cavalry company, one machine gun platoon, and one artillery platoon of the overseas corps. Armed with three water-cooled heavy machine guns, two 60-mm mortars, one 70-mm infantry gun. Each person was accompanied by a war horse, and more than 30 horses accompanied him.
Song Tao deliberately selected some soldiers who could ride horses to form a company, and then led his troops all the way to the west, advancing towards the depths of Denglai. They came to the Zhuangzi of a wealthy gentry, where a raging fire was blazing. Song Tao turned back to Wang Bo, the platoon commander of the overseas company, and said, "Old Wang, you can take a few people to take a look." ”
Wang Bo shouted: "Yes! The brothers of the first class came with me. ”
After a while, Wang Bo came back with someone, he shook his head and said, "It has been washed clean, it is full of dead people, and those guys have black hands." ”
Song Tao's face was gloomy, but he didn't say anything, just led the troops to move on. Wang Bo urged the horses to Song Tao's side, and said with a smile: "My lord, don't really take it to heart, what is this." The people of the nine sides of the Ming Dynasty are living hard. The Later Jin and Mongol Tatars plagued again, they left, and the Ming army came and harmed again.
The people who were plagued there were ordinary people, such gentry and rich families had Zhuangzi soil forts, and when the Tartars came, they were enough to protect themselves, such people were not simple, and the Ming army did not dare to touch them at all. In the end, it was the people who suffered. If we hadn't released our words, the two mansions of Denglai would have been full of corpses. ”
Zhang Tiezhu, the second platoon commander next to him, also persuaded: "My lord, these gentry and rich families are not worthy of your pity, don't look at them as scholars, but they harm the common people more ruthlessly than anyone else." In the year of disaster and famine, the common people had no food or drink and could only sell their land, so they lowered the price of land and said that no one was allowed to buy it.
In the years when the disaster was struck, they hoarded grain and then inflated the price of grain to sky-high prices, preferring to watch the victims starve to death rather than sell it. Although there are also well-meaning rich families who will do some good deeds and give some porridge and rice to the victims, there are very few such rich families. Catch up with the domineering big households, they hope to meet the disaster year, the more disaster years they are, the more ruthless they are, forcing the farmers to sell their land, occupying other people's wives and daughters, anyway, they have done all the household affairs. ”
Song Tao was still panicked in his heart, but after listening to the words of the two, he felt much more comfortable. Zhang Tiehammer's words Song Tao understood very well, if it weren't for the ruthlessness of these gentry and rich families and the government, where would so many peasant uprisings come from in the late Ming Dynasty. A group of honest turtle farmers, even if they have a little way to live, they will not rebel.
After walking for a few days, the looted Zhuangzi gradually increased, and these Liao rebels did not dare to blatantly harm the ordinary people, so they all vented their anger on these squires and wealthy households. A large number of Zhuangzi were slaughtered to the ground, and their belongings were looted, and finally the Zhuangzi was burned clean.
But the ordinary people escaped the catastrophe, but they were driven out of their homes and sent to Dengzhou in strings. Of course, killing and plundering could not be avoided at all. But at least there was no mutiny that lasted for more than a year, as in history, and hundreds of thousands of people were killed by the rebels.
When Song Tao led the team deep into Pingdu, the shape became complicated. Many villages along the way were looted, and the farmers in the villages died horribly. When Song Tao saw such a scene, he was immediately furious, and he found the nearby Liao rebel general and asked him what was going on.
Only after the Denglai Mutiny occurred, the bandits and deserters of the Ming army also took the opportunity to massacre and loot, and they couldn't deal with the big gentlemen, so they all started the idea of ordinary villages. R1152