Chapter 120: On Protracted War
In Fujian, Zhang Lu returned to Fujian full of tragedy. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ļ½ļ½ļ½Uļ½Eć infoThis time, he wanted to go to Shanghai to ask for the support of the Heaven and Earth Society, but this time the Heaven and Earth Society did not send troops to support them. And he thought that the mission had failed, a complete failure. The Heaven and Earth Society had no intention of sending troops immediately, which made him very desperate.
"Miss Qiu, I failed, and the Heaven and Earth Society has no intention of sending troops." Zhang Lu said.
"What? Heaven and earth will have no intention of sending troops? Qiu Erniang also looked helpless.
Qiu Erniang no longer has the radiant look she had at that time. At present, the situation in Fujian has begun to stabilize, and the situation in Fujian has begun to favor the Qing army more and more. The rebel army attacked the city several times, often losing its troops. Even if they conquer the city, it will not be able to defend it, which will make them face tragedy. So even if Qiu Erniang's troops had almost 10,000 at the peak, now they have been reduced to less than 1,000 again. Even if there are deserters every day, they don't see hope.
The pressure on the Qing army is getting stronger and stronger, which makes Qiu Erniang fall into a little desperate. She had hoped that Heaven and Earth would be able to send troops, but now she was completely desperate. If Heaven and Earth can be allowed to attack from Zhejiang, then most of the Qing troops in Fujian will be pinned, so as to ensure more survival.
However, the Heaven and Earth Society had no intention of sending troops, so they all fell into the encirclement and suppression of the Qing army. Qiu Erniang is also desperate, even she has not been able to stabilize a woman for a long time, and even a woman who loves beauty is dirty all over, where is there a woman?
"Did the people of the Heaven and Earth Society give you anything?" Qiu Erniang asked.
Zhang Lu thought for a while and said, "The husband of the commander of the Heaven and Earth Society gave me something, but it seems to be useless. ā
"What's that?" Qiu Erniang asked.
"It's useless, it's just a book. At this time, they didn't send a single soldier, but they just gave us a book, so what was the use. Zhang Lu complained.
Qiu Erniang hurriedly asked, "Show it to me!" ā
Qiu Erniang took the book and found a few words on it.
"On protracted war?" Qiu Erniang read it.
That's right, Chen Dingtian, a meat vegetarian who is not taboo and has no discipline, dares to copy any book directly. Chen Dingtian, a copyist who is not taboo in meat and vegetarians, directly dared to plagiarize another famous book of the founding ancestor of New China in later generations. Of course, this Chen Dingtian's version of the protracted war must have been revised, and it is impossible to copy the original text.
In fact, Chen Dingtian found that the current situation in the Manchu Qing Dynasty is quite similar to the situation during the anti-Japanese period. First of all, this must start with the social structure of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, which is actually the Manchu central government, although the power seems to be quite large, but in this Manchu era, the government is not a county, that is to say, the effective rule of the Manchu Qing is only at the county level. As for the township level, it was also handed over to the local gentry to manage, and the gentry below were responsible for management. Many of the gentry took on the role of an intermediate level between the Eight Elements and the government.
If the county magistrate wants to govern, he must have the support of the squire. The squire, on the other hand, is also responsible for conveying the orders of the government, and many times the people do not know the meaning of the government, and they rely on the squire to be responsible for transmitting them. In this way, the squires can also take the opportunity to eat at both ends, and they can increase the amount of taxes when the government collects taxes, and then seek benefits.
Although the Japanese invaders occupied large cities, they were extremely weak in their rule over the truly vast rural areas and even many county towns below. This also provided the basis for many Chinese troops to hide their troops from the people, and even to develop various guerrilla units to disintegrate the war potential of the Japanese army in large cities.
"The anti-Qing dynasty was not a war for the sake of a war, but an effort to overthrow the Manchus and the feudal ruling groups behind the Manchus. The Manchus relied on the ruling group to occupy the land and exploit the 'landlords' of the common people through land ownership. If this 'landlord' is not dealt with, then even if the rebellion and overthrow of the Manchu Qing Dynasty succeed, it will only be a change of soup and not a change of medicine, and the final effect will be the same. ā
When Qiu Erniang saw this, she immediately said excitedly: "That's right! Haven't we always been like this? From the Tang Dynasty to the Song Dynasty, and even the Ming Dynasty and now the Qing Dynasty, it seems that the days are like this, and there is no change! It seems that they are all relying on this group of 'landlords' who have land ownership to exploit them. They have taken away the fruits of our labor directly and without compensation by relying on land ownership, as if this has been the case for so many years. ā
Next, Qiu Erniang couldn't help but be amazed by Chen Dingtian's description of the landlord, Chen Dingtian directly copied a lot of descriptions of landlords in later generations, and the business model of those landlords was described through simple language. This Qiu Erniang feels very appropriate, which is simply too appropriate. Qiu Erniang was born in a poor peasant when she was a child, and was later sold to the landlord's house as a child daughter-in-law, and later couldn't bear the abuse of the so-called in-law's family, so she ran out as soon as possible. Because her father knows some medical skills, he is valued by his cousin, as an important channel to win over his subordinates through medical skills, in this era of lack of medical treatment in ancient times, it is a very good means to use medical skills to win over the people.
Of course, because most of her subordinates were won over by her through medical skills, she still has a high status in this rebel team. In addition, that cousin has always been involved in the religion of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, which made many people in the team dissatisfied with him, and it was Qiu Erniang's turn to be in charge.
But now that she has seen this Chen Dingtian's version of "On Protracted War", it finally makes her feel like she is suddenly open. She went from the commoner to the landlord's house, and then came out of the landlord's house again, so that she had a lot of knowledge about the landlord and ordinary civilians, but she knew it but didn't know why.
However, this Chen Dingtian's version of "On Protracted War" made her feel that her mouth was suddenly opened, and her past life experience was immediately greatly inspired, and she successfully understood the essence of the landlord. Let her truly understand the nature of the landlords and the Manchu regime that relied on the support of the landlord class, and even the nature of so many regimes in the past.
If the political power held by this landlord class is not overthrown, then even if the political power is established again, it will be a change of soup.
Next, Chen Dingtian carefully analyzed the pretexts of the Manchu rule, from the Manchu Qing to the city, but the ruling power at the grassroots level was weak. This is similar to the situation in the days when the Japanese valued the big cities and despised the countryside and even the county seats. They are also very weak at the grassroots level.
"If you want to overthrow the Manchu Qing Dynasty, or even overthrow the landlords who supported the Manchu Qing Dynasty, you can't rush it. The Manchu Qing Dynasty had a relatively strong regular army, and if we fought head-on, it would be better to attack the enemy with our own shortcomings, especially if we took the initiative to attack the city, it would definitely lose our troops. ā
Moreover, the Manchus attached great importance to the county seat, and the county seat often represented the seat of power, and once the county seat was conquered, it was a very important responsibility in their eyes, and even implicated a large number of officials. So once they attack the county seat, they will desperately resist, and even the surrounding areas will desperately rescue. ā
Qiu Erniang immediately said again: "God, it's really God, I even thought of this." Every time we attacked the city, not only the officials in the city resisted desperately, but even many Qing troops would desperately rescue. In this way, we have lost our troops, and even suffered heavy losses. He was so far away, and he analyzed it right? ā
In fact, this is a common problem of many regimes, from the Scraping People's Party to the Japanese, each of them attaches far more importance to the cities than to the countryside. Valuing the city and despising the countryside, and those who lose a little bit of the big city, many officials have to be held accountable, of course, they are desperate, and even their colleagues support each other to avoid being involved.
Therefore, attacking the county seat would not be worth the loss, but it would strengthen the internal ties of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, and he would also lose his own troops, so that the Manchu Qing Dynasty would have to echo each other from afar.
From the quality of the soldiers, to the combat quality, and even the weapons, etc., they are far inferior to the enemy, and they have to concentrate their forces to fight a tough battle with the enemy, or even as the attacking side, then heavy losses are inevitable. Coupled with the loss of the county seat, as an official of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, they could not afford this political responsibility, then they would be desperate.
To attack the county seat, on the whole, the gains outweigh the losses, especially on the weak side, which is even more so.
"The opposition to the Qing Dynasty was a protracted war, because we had to oppose not only the Manchus, but also the landlords who supported the Manchus. The foundation of the landlords lies in the countryside, and we might as well take the initiative to abandon the plan of attacking the big cities and take the initiative to bury them in the countryside. We developed production by dismantling the gentry in the countryside and getting the people to join in. And the competition with the landlords and squires for the hearts and minds of the people pulled the people to our side. They even trained troops in the countryside, blocked the communication network between cities, and isolated the county seats. ā
"The cities depended on the countryside for all their material needs, and as long as the countryside was occupied, the supply between the Manchu and Qing cities could be cut off. At that time, the county towns of the Manchu Qing Dynasty will gradually starve to death, and our army will be mature in the countryside and ready to launch a real all-out attack and win the final victory. ā
"This is the countryside surrounding the city!"
In fact, this theory of protracted warfare actually means that the countryside encircles the cities, isolates the various resources of the Japanese army, and cuts off the supply of the Japanese army through various soft and hard means. In this way, the cities have been strategically surrounded, but in order to avoid frontal combat, it is necessary to accumulate strength.
"Through guerrilla warfare, sparrow warfare and other means, the regular forces of the Manchu court can be gradually depleted. Avoid frontal battles with the enemy. If on average, every county in Fujian could annihilate or capture one Qing army every day, that would be about 2,000 people a month. ā
"And it is better to recruit and surrender, because many of these Qing troops are also from a bitter background, not a powerful family, as long as they are mobilized, they are not unable to absorb and join. What's more, they are all Chinese, descendants of China, and try to avoid casualties as much as possible. Even if they have undergone relatively perfect military training, they can be directly used, on the contrary, the enemy will lose a trained soldier because of this, and the blow to the enemy will be even more painful. ā
"Once they master the countryside, then these Qing soldiers will gradually lack food and clothing, and even lack of provisions, then they will even take the initiative to join. Because these soldiers served as soldiers for the Qing court just to serve as soldiers to eat food, they had no faith and no loyalty, so they had a poor will to fight, and once they couldn't eat enough and didn't have military pay, they would also face betrayal. ā
"So occupy the countryside, redistribute the land, win the hearts and minds of the people, cut off the supply of the cities, and win the hearts and minds of the army. In the end, the foundation of Manchu rule would completely collapse, and finally the Manchu and the whole world on which he lived would pass with the Manchus. ā
Qiu Erniang looked at this book "On Protracted War" and finally showed an excited look, these are all things that they didn't expect in the past, in the past, they thought that the uprising was a rebellion, and there was no goal. At first, they may have started to survive, but then they found that after the incident, they seemed to be able to only wander around. Life has not improved much, and even after the incident, there is no goal for how to go.
Although it doesn't seem to be oppressed, it's also life-threatening at any time, killing at any time. They don't know how to go, and in their eyes, isn't it just attacking the county seat and then occupying territory? But they couldn't stand it, and they didn't know how to occupy it.
As a result, a lot of manpower and material resources were sacrificed, and after conquering the county seat, they were kicked out within a few days of occupation. They have no goal at all, and they don't know what to do with the analysis. However, this Chen Dingtian's version of protracted warfare not only told them what to do militarily, that is, to gradually deplete the war potential of the Qing army through movement warfare and corresponding guerrilla warfare.
Even the occupation of the countryside not only avoided excessive irritation of the Qing court, but also gained the vast majority of the population. The countryside is the most populous place in this era, and the countryside is the most important place, where at least 80 percent of the country's population is located.
Whoever gets the support of the peasants will get the greatest reserve force, and whoever solves the needs of the peasants will get the greatest support.
In the countryside, by dismantling the gentry, the basis of Manchu rule, and gradually forming an army, gradually growing stronger, cutting off the supply of the cities, then the greatest benefit was obtained. This method is actually the most suitable method, the most suitable method for China's national conditions.
"Ah, why didn't we think of it in the past? In the past, so many of us, and even so many people in the past, never thought of this way! Good, great, really good, really good. Qiu Erniang said excitedly.
"Miss Qiu, is this useful? Isn't it just a broken book? I almost lost it! That Zhang Lu said.
"Idiot, this is the real baby, the real baby!" Qiu Erniang shouted excitedly, obviously so excited that she didn't even care about the lady, and scolded directly.
"Miss Qiu, this can't kill the enemy, and if you don't send dozens of people, you can still help kill the enemy!" Zhang Lu complained.
"Hmph, dozens of brothers? This thing is enough to bring us hundreds of thousands of brothers! You say, isn't this much better than dozens of brothers? Qiu Erniang said. (To be continued.) )