At the same time as the city of Nanning was broken, Zhou Shixiang rushed to Guilin from Liuzhou, and arrived in Guilin with Shao Chengguo's cavalry brigade, Tie Yi's second town, Suna's sixth town, Weiyuan Hou Guo Dengdi's ninth town, Qi Hao's artillery battalion, so that Zhao Ziqiang's fifth town that captured Guilin in advance, the Taiping army assembled in Guilin had a total of more than 42,000 foot cavalry, and the army conscripted and sent 12,000 prisoners as auxiliaries, known as 100,000 troops to the outside world.

On the 20th, after receiving the military report that Nanning had been occupied, Zhou Shixiang ordered Wang Xing's tenth town to be stationed in Nanning Prefecture, and at the same time was responsible for occupying Taiping Prefecture, Guishun Prefecture, Siming Mansion, Zhen'an Mansion and other places south of Nanning; The eleventh town of Gao Jinku was ordered to return to Wuzhou, responsible for the strategy of Wuzhou, Pingle, and Xunzhou; The third town of Shao Jiugong was ordered to be stationed in Liuzhou, responsible for Liuzhou Mansion, Qingyuan Mansion and Si'en Mansion and other places that were not returned to the state and county.

In order to integrate Guangxi's territory, money and grain resources, eliminate local reactionary forces, and ensure that Guangxi can become a safe and stable rear, Zhou Shixiang ordered the establishment of the Guangxi Chengxuan Embassy Yamen in Liuzhou, with Shao Jiugong as the governor of Guangxi and the political envoy of Guangxi, which was the first case of a high-ranking general of the Taiping Army serving as a local governor.

Shao Jiugong, who served as the governor of Guangxi, not only directly commanded the third town of his headquarters, but also controlled the eleven towns in Wuzhou and the tenth town in Nanning. After the surrender of the Qing army in various prefectures and counties in Guangxi, it was directly sent to Liuzhou for reorganization, and the powerful ones supplemented the towns, and the old and weak were resettled on the spot for tuntian. At the same time, Zhou Shixiang asked Shao Jiugong to form a new two towns and Guangxi wolf soldiers within three to five months.

As early as Guangdong, Zhou Shixiang wanted to train a Guangxi wolf soldier out, since ancient times there is a saying that Guangxi wolf soldiers are strong in the world, and later generations of 20,000 or 30,000 Guangxi soldiers set off a vigorous Taiping Heavenly Kingdom movement, attacking the city and the land is unstoppable, if it were not for the high-level civil strife of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, I am afraid that history would have been rewritten. After the Tianjing Rebellion, the soldiers of the Taiping Army gradually became mainly Anhui people and Jiangsu and Zhejiang people, which led to the rapid weakening of the Taiping Army's combat effectiveness, and Zeng Guofan, who was known as the head of the famous ministers in the late Qing Dynasty, had a combat effectiveness of 300,000 soldiers in the middle and late stages of Changmao, which was far less powerful than the 30,000 soldiers who had just come out of Guangxi. The two battles won by the Manchu Qing Dynasty in foreign wars were also fought by Guangxi soldiers, such as Liu Yongfu's Black Flag Army resisting France in Vietnam and resisting Japan in Taiwan, and Feng Zicai's army that won a great victory in Zhennanguan were all Guangxi soldiers.

Zhou Shixiang, who was a member of the People's Liberation Army in his previous life, naturally knew the military history, and "first attacked the weakest security team, then the stronger Central Army, and finally the strongest Gui Army" was the policy of destroying the enemy deployed by Marshal Liu Bocheng.

Zhou Shixiang still remembers that he saw some historical materials describing the Guangxi soldiers when he was in the army, and the deepest impression was that the People's Liberation Army at that time had to distinguish between those elite troops in the Kuomintang army. Second, we have to look at the accent, and the troops with the Guangxi accent must also be elite troops. If it had both American-style equipment and a Guangxi accent, it would definitely be the most elite in the Kuomintang army.

The performance of the Guangxi soldiers in the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom Movement and the evaluation of the Guangxi soldiers by the founding fathers of later generations certainly made Zhou Shixiang's idea of building Guangxi wolf soldiers hot, but the most important thing is that the performance of Guangxi soldiers in the Ming generation made him attach great importance to it.

The so-called wolf soldiers are actually not Han soldiers and horses, but local armed forces formed by the local Zhuang Tusi in Guangxi. Some officials also referred to the Guangxi wolf soldiers as wolf soldiers, which refers to the soldiers of the Tujia family in western Hunan.

Guangxi wolf soldiers make good use of long card machetes, during the rebellion in the first year of Jia, the imperial court has sent wolf soldiers to Jiangsu and Zhejiang to fight against the Japanese invaders. The wolf soldiers performed outstandingly, and they were able to attack the crowd with less, and won nine out of ten, which made the Japanese invaders frightened and became the anti-Japanese force second only to the Qi family's army. The wolf soldiers also fought differently from the Han army, they were in a team of 7 people, and each army fought independently; Four of the soldiers were dedicated to stabbing and three were beheaded, so that they could receive a reward. When charging, one person forward, and the left and right men of the same group shouted for support. When a team moves forward, the left and right units support it, and the whole team cooperates closely, with the spear bearer in front and the crossbow bearer guarding both sides, forming a sharp knife formation and playing the role of long and short weapons.

During the Chongzhen period, the Liao affairs were fierce, and the imperial court once again recruited Guangxi wolf soldiers to participate in the war in Liaodong, and the local Ming army in Liaodong was afraid of war, the wolf soldiers must move forward bravely every time they encountered the Qing army, and they were not afraid of hand-to-hand combat with the Qing army. The Liaodong Ming Army, which was called the Guanning Iron Cavalry at the time, included thousands of Guangxi wolf soldiers, and was a descendant of the superintendent Yuan Chonghuan.

In view of the fact that most of the wolf soldiers are Zhuang, Miao, and Yao people, and the Zhuang people in Guangxi are divided into Shengwu and Mature Servants, the Mature Servants are all Sinicized and are naturally close to the Han regime, but the Shengwu are in the deep mountains and old forests, and it is very difficult to recruit them to be soldiers. And the ethnic groups in Guangxi are mixed, many ethnic groups are self-contained, holding each other, whether it is the Ming Dynasty or the Qing Dynasty, it is difficult for them to get close, so before entering Yunnan, Zhou Shixiang wrote a long letter to Shao Jiugong, in which he instructed Shao Jiugong to carry out the affairs of ethnic minorities returning to Han in Guangxi.

For the familiar servants who were close to the Ming Dynasty, Zhou Shixiang suggested that Shao Jiugong directly regard them as Han people and make a book for these familiar servants, and from then on, the government will no longer call them servants, but directly call them Han people, and treat them the same as the Han people in the territory, regardless of each other. As for the raw servants, they also tried not to threaten with force, but lured them out of the mountains to join the Taiping Army with benefits. All servants who are willing to join the Taiping Army, whether they are raw servants or mature servants, will be given material rewards when they join the army, such as oil, salt, sauce and vinegar, grain and meat food, and those who perform well can also be rewarded with gold, silver, cloth and other items. Of course, in order to distinguish between raw servants and mature servants, and also to stimulate raw servants, in terms of specific rewards, the treatment of mature servants is higher than that of raw servants. Only if the raw servant has served in the army for one year, or brings his whole family to join the vote, then he can enjoy the treatment of the mature servant. In addition, the reward is determined by the merits of the war.

Zhou Shi repeatedly stressed to Shao Jiugong that he must not discriminate against the Zhuang people of Guangxi like the Qing army, not only not to discriminate against them, but also to attach importance to them, and to find ways to turn them into Han Chinese. For the leaders who are willing to cooperate, it is necessary to let them get tangible benefits, if they want to be officials, Wen Ke can be the prefect, and Wu Ke can be the general soldier. In short, the Taiping army welcomed all ethnic minorities in Guangxi who were willing to give up their servant status to become Han Chinese, and guaranteed that they would receive far more benefits than those who refused to be Han Chinese.

"Compared with recruiting one or two wolf soldiers who can fight, it is more important to make those ethnic minorities in Guangxi become Han Chinese. The former is just a twig, and the latter is the trunk, which must not be reversed. Our Chinese civilization has always been the Han civilization, and our Han family has never been based on blood, but on civilization. As long as they are willing to accept our Han civilization and become a member of our Han people, then they are Han people, and their children and grandchildren are also Han people.

As small as a county, as large as a province or a country, if everyone speaks the same language, writes the same language, celebrates the same festival, inherits the same tradition, and inherits the same clothes, then we no longer have to worry about the misfortune of different races, because there are no different races in this world, only the Han people. ”

You have to make a noise, or you'll be too embarrassed to think about it. I went out at night to catch monkeys and sell them for money, so that I could support my writing. You're thinking too dirty, I'm not worth much. (To be continued.) )