Chapter 126: Hostage Strategy
Tan Feng entrusted all the affairs of the Anshan Industrial Base to Dai Zi and Dai Jing father and son, Tan Feng actually didn't know much about industry, so he naturally wouldn't interfere casually. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 infoAfter all, Tan Feng is just a person, not a god, and understands everything. Therefore, if you don't know how not to meddle easily, especially not easily in the technical aspect, this is the most important thing.
However, Tan Feng still asked various staff officers in the headquarters to conduct deductions, and he must deduce various operational possibilities as soon as possible to ensure that more combat plans can be completed as much as possible. This staff assignment was their most important command weapon and the most important foundation for their defeat of the Manchus.
"Commander, we have deduced that even if all our troops are combined, it is only about 60,000. Even this is already our maximum army. Even whether we, the 60,000 troops, can fight with us against the Manchus with one heart is a big question. After all, we are forcibly conscripted, and people's hearts are not very stable! A staff officer said.
Tan Feng recognized this judgment, in fact, Tan Feng also understood that his method of forced conscription was nothing for the army on weekdays, but once it was time for war, it was also a question whether they would defect.
Especially the Manchu Qing Dynasty, which has a huge population of 400 million, is only a few hundred thousand here, and the gap between a few hundred thousand and a population of 400 million is too great. In particular, the rear troops of the Manchu Qing Dynasty could be replenished continuously, and even if the Manchu Qing lost tens of thousands of troops, it would not hurt the Manchu Qing Dynasty. But Tan Feng lost tens of thousands, which is almost certain death, and those troops who were captured and came from the strong men would almost immediately rebel and rebel, and they would not be merciful.
Tan Feng's predicament is almost the same as that of the Manchu Qing Dynasty before entering the customs, and he can't afford to die or even win miserably. If you fail once, you will almost die, and this is a complete tightrope walk.
"The enemy is strong and I am weak, how can we deal with it like this, this is the biggest problem. After all, we are still on the underdog side, and there are not enough forces within the Manchus that can help us contain the Manchus. Back then, the Manchu Qing Dynasty was able to rise and skip grades, which was much better than us. At that time, there were hungry people in the Ming Dynasty, and the climate and environment also made the Ming Dynasty miserable. But now it happens to be the so-called prosperous era of Kangqian, although the prosperous era of Kangqian has more water, but it is much better than the troubled era at the end of the Ming Dynasty. ”
"The Yongzheng period is not a chaotic era at the end of the Ming Dynasty, the Manchu Qing Dynasty is still at its peak, there is no strong enemy outside, there is no large-scale civil strife inside, you can mobilize all your forces to attack us, so that hundreds of thousands of troops have no pressure at all."
In fact, in the final analysis, this situation is still very embarrassing, in fact, the strength is not good, if the strength is enough, then you can go without fear of the Manchu Qing.
However, at this time, a staff officer took the initiative to say: "Commander, in fact, we are weak, which does not mean that we are completely unable to defeat the Manchus. Just as the commander at that time asked the soldiers of our Einsatzgruppen to use the method of sneak attack on the enemy, deliberately harming the enemy, instead of killing the enemy. This indirectly weakened the Bannerman troops. Because Fu Erdan was worried about the bannermen, because his troops were all bannermen, he did not dare to abandon the bannermen casually, which became a burden to them and weakened their combat effectiveness. “
"In fact, if it weren't for Fu Erdan's too many scruples at that time, we would not have played so easily and freely. We have the advantage of being small in numbers, which means that we are more free and can use almost any means. However, although the number of people in the Manchu court was large, it meant that there were more weaknesses, and there were many scruples, too many scruples to use casually. ”
"And, Commander, have you forgotten? Didn't we capture more than 10,000 eighth-phase banner men? In fact, these are not the 'scruples' of the Manchu court? ”
Tan Feng's eyes suddenly lit up, the more than 10,000 bannermen he captured were actually a big scruple of the Manchu Qing Dynasty. After all, the Manchu Qing Dynasty took the banner people as a privileged group, and the banner people were the characters in a privileged group, and they were all dominated by the banner people. As long as he held these more than 10,000 bannermen as hostages in his hands, the Manchus had to have a lot of scruples.
"Yes, yes, these flag men are hostages! Immediately send an order, don't abuse these bannermen, let alone let them lose their lives casually, these are our talismans! Tan Feng said.
Tan Feng suddenly became enlightened, although the strength of the Manchu Qing Dynasty is strong, he seems to be weak, but being strong has the advantages of being strong, and being weak also has the advantage of being weak. As a weak party, you don't have to worry about public opinion, you don't have to worry about various moral factors, you can use whatever means are useful, and you don't have to worry about bearing the moral pressure of public opinion.
Even if Tan Feng took more than 10,000 flag captives as hostages, so what, anyway, "I'm weak and I'm reasonable", that's how I used it, I'm shameless, what should you do? However, the Manchu Qing Dynasty was different, the Manchu Qing Dynasty was a country established by a privileged group of banner people, and the banner people were a special privileged group. Because the flag people were about 100,000 people at the earliest, after so many years of internal reproduction, almost all the flag people were related to each other.
In later generations, Tan Feng even heard that the flag people in the late Qing Dynasty could climb up to relatives if they caught two of them, which was also the result of intermarriage within the flag people.
While this is good for unity, it also has a negative side. If Tan Fengyong, a captive of more than 10,000 Qi Banner people, said something, it would be very embarrassing for the Manchu Qing Dynasty. Throwing rat bogey, if Tan Feng is forced to slaughter these flag people directly, it will be painful.
"Yes, that's it. Not only these Eight Banner Bannermen, but also those women, as long as we take these tens of thousands of Banner men and women together as hostages, we can also threaten them. They will inevitably throw a rat bogey, so that once hundreds of thousands of troops throw a rat bogey, this will be very beneficial to us. ”
"We can coerce them with the Yongqi people, but they can't coerce us with the Yonghan people, so they will suffer a lot of losses!"
This hostage strategy can only be used by Tan Feng against the Manchus, but the Manchus cannot use it against Tan Feng. Although Tan Feng discounted the banner of recovering the Han Dynasty, it does not mean that he cares about the lives of the Han people. The vast majority of the Manchu army and the population ruled by the Manchus were Han Chinese, and it was impossible for the Manchus to use Han Chinese to blackmail Tan Feng.
Now it is no better than the early years of the Qing Dynasty, when the Manchu Qing Dynasty could engage in massacres. However, in the middle of the Qing Dynasty, it was impossible for the Manchus to carry out internal massacres themselves. Tan Feng can use the Manchu bannermen to blackmail them, but the Manchus have no hostages in their hands! The Han people are not hostages, although Tan Feng is known as the Great Han Dynasty, but the Han people in the hands of the Manchus are definitely not hostages, and the Manchus do not dare to take the Han people as hostages. As long as the Manchu Qing was in his right mind, he knew that the foundation of his rule was the Han people, and it was impossible for him to massacre him internally.
"Well, this method is one of the very useful methods. We will take care of those banner men immediately, don't let them die and hurt too much, these are our hostage talismans. In the future, if the Manchu Qing attack too hard and persecute us too deeply, these banner men are our talismans! Anyway, we can use it, we are weak, so we have no scruples about using this kind of first-rate tactics. But although the Manchu Qing Dynasty seemed to be powerful, he had many scruples, and he had far more scruples than ours. ”
"The social system of the Manchu Qing Dynasty was deformed, with the banner people as a privileged group on the one hand, and the Han people on the other hand. I have tens of thousands of men and women in my hands as a servant, and they must be afraid that we will kill the hostages. The Manchu nobles had to compromise with me, so that I could gain a great deal of stability. ”
Thinking of this, Tan Feng felt that this was the more important strategy he really wanted to adopt against the Manchus. Because he remembered that in later generations, even the Yankees who were coaxed by cowhides, when facing those terrorists, and even when facing those countries that were obviously very weak, they couldn't bear it again and again, and finally had to choose to leave mellowly?
Is this Yankee too weak? No, the Yankees can easily destroy them, as long as they use nuclear weapons, it will be easy to exterminate them in the United States.
But do the Yankees dare to use nuclear weapons? They don't dare, they obviously have, but they don't dare to use it, why is this? Because there are too many scruples, and the Yankees have too many scruples as a great power. A big country, on the contrary, has too many scruples, and it affects the whole body.
As for those small countries, they are not afraid, because they are also "rotten lives", and they are not afraid to fight with you. Anyway, if you lose, you will die, so it is better to simply sacrifice yourself to cause more damage, so that more people in the motherland can survive.
This is the case for everything from a country to a single person. There are countless examples of this kind, when New China had just opened the country, but instead went out to resist US aggression and aid Korea. That's not because China is so powerful, it's because China has nothing, and it's almost impossible to get anywhere.
But later, when the economy developed, they didn't dare to fight easily, and this is a phenomenon. Even the rich are more afraid of death and more timid than the poor, and this is also a case.
"Good, good, that's what we did. We're not afraid to wear shoes barefoot, we don't have to worry about anything, we have nothing anyway. On the contrary, the Manchu Qing Dynasty had too many scruples, and these banner people were all scruples one by one. Those bannermen from the Eight Banners will not let us kill these bannermen and capture them, they will inevitably choose a possible amount of rescue or compromise with us in exchange for the survival of these bannermen. ”
"What we have to do is not to fight them, but to use the strategy and launch a political offensive. We took advantage of the deformity of the Manchu political and social structures and punched them hard! ”
These staff officers also suddenly became enlightened, if you want to say that militarily, they are not opponents of the Manchus, there is no need to think about it at all. Tan Feng's army not only lacked cohesion, but the army that relied on Lazhuang Ding was obviously not loyal. If they encounter the Jiannan Dao War, they may defect quickly.
Therefore, it is necessary to avoid a military confrontation with the Manchus, and it is necessary to give the Manchus a heavy blow politically to this deformed political and social system, so that they will inevitably face more problems.
"If we use this Manchu bannerman as a hostage, the bannerman will inevitably prevent the Han generals from attacking, and then the bannerman will also drag the Manchu Han army back. However, once the army formed by the Han people is dragged behind, it will inevitably cause the disgust and dissatisfaction of the Han army, which can separate the contradictions between the Manchu banner and the Han people, and this will be conducive to our political offensive! Tan Feng said.
Tan Feng finally quickly found the biggest weakness of the Manchu Qing, perhaps militarily the Manchu Qing was very strong, at least many times stronger than Tan Feng now. However, the political weakness of the Manchus was staggeringly large and unavoidable. The deformed social structure of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, the deformed distribution of power, and the deformed military system will all become a dead hole that the Manchus cannot bypass.
As long as the right means are used, avoid a military confrontation with the Manchus, and use more political means to attack the Manchus. Using the deformed social and political systems of the Manchus against them can have a good effect, and it is more effective than a military strike. If it is used well, not only will the Manchu army be restrained everywhere, because the Manchu political system is deformed.
"According to the theory that war is a continuation of politics, our rebellion this time is not actually a military act, but an out-and-out political act. Although we are militarily weak, we have almost no political weaknesses. Although the Manchus were very large militarily, they had too many weaknesses in the political system, and they were too big to grasp at will. We are weak, barefoot and not afraid to wear shoes. But they, they have too many scruples, and they can't take the Han people hostage. And we can take the bannermen as hostages, so that our military losses can be replenished politically. ”
Tan Feng then ordered: "Very good, then you make a plan, when the Manchus invade in the future, we must not directly confront them." We weaken them through political means, weaken their sharpness and combat effectiveness, and then eat them step by step. We don't have to fight hard, we don't have to fight hard, otherwise we will lose a lot. ”
Tan Feng then pointed to the staff officer who had just proposed to take the flag man as a hostage, and asked, "What's your name, I haven't seen you before, it's a new transfer, right?" ”
The staff officer quickly replied: "Commander, my name is Zhang Chao, and I was originally the captain of a special steam with the rank of captain. Because of the orders exchanged between your staff officers and the junior officers, I have just been transferred to serve as an operational staff officer. ”