Chapter 117: The Rebels

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If in the 20th century, the Huizhou Uprising fired the first shot of the Chinese Revolution and made the Chinese people begin to understand and sympathize with the revolution, then the Wanning Uprising was a well-planned, organized, and more influential and significant event.

First of all, the Wanning Uprising is illustrated, more realistic, and more inspiring; Second, the uprising loudly and clearly set forth the purpose and slogan of the Renaissance Society, which was completely different from the nature of the rebellious insurrection of the Congress, and greatly boosted the confidence of the revolutionaries.

The revolutionary party is a general term, and although it has the same ideas on the overthrow of the Manchus, there are great differences in ideology, strategy, and behavior. It is useless to rely on the mouth, only the success and performance in action are the real proof. It is a potential stock and a high-performance stock, so naturally some people are seeking to buy it; It's a garbage stock, and naturally few people care about it.

Regardless of whether the Wanning Uprising was not yet organizationally free from the weakness of the old-style Hui uprising, it clearly reflected the influence of revolutionary ideas in its propaganda, and this had already achieved the original purpose of the Renaissance Society.

But for Chen Wenqiang, who is in Qiongzhou, if he can get more benefits from this uprising, why not?

For the time being, in Qiongzhou, only Yaxian is in the hands of the hidden Revival Society, and most of the immigrants are settled here. In order to mobilize more immigrants, there must be a larger territory, and it must be a safer and more stable place. After all, poverty is poverty, but no one wants to live in a place of turmoil.

Wannings. Chen Wenqiang ordered Xu Chunshan to lead his troops to the southeast and attack Lingshui; He urged Zheng Hongming to march to Qionghai, firstly, to attack the city and seize land, expand his influence, and secondly, to expand the space for activities. Be prepared to meet the Qing army moving south from Qiongya (Haikou).

There were only more than 100 people in Xu Chunshan's department, and the guns were not complete, so it was obviously very difficult to attack Lingshui. But this is only on the surface, in fact, Wu Luzhen has led more than 300 people out of the base and will join Xu Chunshan's department. Under the banner of the righteous army, they attacked Lingshui and Baoting. This has two purposes, one is to greatly expand the control area of the Revival Society from Yaxian, and the second is to train the team with actual combat and increase the actual combat experience of the soldiers.

At the same time, the merchant militia in Yaxian County also began to mobilize in arms, under the banner of protecting the territory and the people, but they were ready to support the operation in a timely manner, or "regain the lost territory" from the hands of the rebels.

Obviously, Zheng Hongming was in high spirits, and he didn't know that Chen Wenqiang was hiding evil intentions. Although some subordinates complained that Chen Wenzhong and the law enforcement team were too strict. They were given less opportunity to act recklessly, but most of the guns seized were generously paid to him; When he was rewarded for meritorious deeds, he was also satisfied with the money and food taken out of the treasury. In addition, the people in the county town were not only not harassed, but also received some money and food, and the praise and compliment to him also greatly satisfied his vanity.

More than 1,000 people, nearly 300 guns, and the response of the local three-point brothers, in Zheng Hongming's view, is already a very powerful armed force. Take Mannings lightly. Almost all the patrol battalions were wiped out by a sentry of the Qing army, and such a record made Zheng Hongming feel that the Qing army was not enough, just striking while the iron was hot and making meritorious contributions.

The development of events seems to be not far from what Zheng Hongming expected. Towards Qionghai. The villages and towns along the way encountered little resistance, and the troops were already not far from the county seat of Qionghai.

"The Qing army has been frightened, and it seems that it is not impossible for Qionghai County to go down without a fight!" Zheng Hongming rode on the horse and said triumphantly to Chen Wenqiang.

"General Zheng's name of Wu Yong must have been known to the Qing army. How dare you fight so easily? Chen Wenqiang touted, hoping that Zheng Hongming's head would be more hot, "Maybe they all hid in the county town and wanted to resist through the moat!" ”

"The walls can't stop us." Zheng Hongming waved his hand confidently, "We haven't prepared a ladder, and we have brothers who are not afraid of death, so it is not a problem to take Qionghai." ”

In this regard, Chen Wenqiang agreed. The first is that there are not many Qing troops in Qionghai County, and the second is that there are three local points that will be secretly planned. If the attack is fast enough and the attack is fierce enough, the righteous army can also do it across Qiongnan. If the people and merchants of the Revival Society were mobilized, the several patrol battalions of the Qiongya Garrison Road would not be opponents. But now it is obviously not the time to restore Quanqiong, and all the light and dark forces are exposed, which is even more short-sighted.

Chen Wenqiang rode up a small mound and watched the procession on the main road. The clothes are still messy, but the logo is already there, that is, a red scarf around the neck. According to some people who automatically make up for the brain, hundreds of years ago, Zhu Yuanzhang, the Taizu of the Ming Dynasty, commanded the Red Turban Army, expelled the Tartars, and restored China.

However, the army in Chen Wenqiang's mind should be a vast army wearing steel helmets, neat uniforms, morale like rainbows, and complete guns, which is far from the troops in front of him, and cannot be compared with the Red Turban Army. Although Zheng Hongming was able to recruit more men after the capture of Wanning, the strict conditions set by Chen Wenqiang did not expand the rebel army too much.

The large number of people is no longer suitable for modern warfare, but it has increased the pressure on logistics and the difficulty of maintaining military discipline. The messy personnel are called soldiers and generals, which is an ancient war, and it is an exaggeration in the commentary.

Few of the rebels who walked under the small mound dared to look at Chen Wenqiang, and they immediately bowed their heads and hurried away with an occasional glance. In Wanning, Chen Wenqiang can be said to have killed people's heads. Wang Xuqi and other corrupt officials, the patrol battalion Qing soldiers who participated in the looting, the righteous officers and soldiers who violated discipline, and the ruffians and hooligans who took advantage of the fire to loot were all executed in public without exception. This is not just Liwei, but a purge and rectification.

Zheng Hongming was not without opinion on this, but he was persuaded by Chen Wenqiang. Through this iron-fisted rectification, the complicated situation of the rebel army has changed greatly, the leaders of each family have been hollowed out, their subordinates have been dispersed, and the troops have been organized into three battalions, led by Zheng Hongming, Li Jiajun, and Huang Jiaqing. In this way, it is to flatten the various hills, so that the army can command the unity, which is also beneficial to Zheng Hongming on the surface. But in essence, except for Li Jiajun's people. Chen Wenqiang was not very optimistic about Zheng Hongming and Huang Jiaqing. The reason is very simple, Li Jiajun is already a member of the Revival Society, and the troops are also controlled by the people sent by the Renaissance Society, which is trustworthy.

Keep fighting as it is. Even if a few more county towns are taken, I am afraid it will be impossible to train any soldiers with excellent skills and tactics. Chen Wenqiang has already seen this, because it is too different from the way the regular army fights. Moreover, the opponent is really not angry.

A normal war should be full of artillery fire and gunsmoke, and it should be trenches and complete fortifications. It should be a skirmish line attack, a flank detour, a shouting charge, and so on. Chen Wenqiang is not good at military affairs, but this does not prevent him from making judgments based on his own knowledge.

In other words, a few more victories for the rebels will not change the fact that they are not real soldiers. Training, actual combat, officers, commands, artillery, machine guns...... This team is far from a real army! A team like this, even if there are 108,000, I am afraid that it is not the opponent of a town of the Beiyang Army.

Thinking about it this way, Chen Wenqiang will naturally not be as optimistic and underestimate the enemy as the revolutionary Beichen and revolutionaries like him. Think that as long as the uprising succeeds in one place. It was able to respond to all calls, sweep the whole country, and overthrow the Manchu Qing Dynasty.

Obviously, revolutionaries are understandably anxious to succeed, but they cannot carry out the revolution according to this strategy. Revolution is not a simple matter, it requires long-term, meticulous and patient work. But fanaticism drowns out reason, and lessons or experiences are always learned in the face of bloody facts.

"Big brother." The cat rode a mule and staggered up the mound, a little ghostly.

Bullet blasting. The blood flowers bloomed, killed with one blow, and controlled life and death, all of which undoubtedly gave Ah Mao great pleasure. Got great satisfaction. He began to enjoy killing and made it a pleasure. This pathological psychology threatens to ruin him, because snipers are not paranoid murderers.

Chen Wenqiang knows this very well and has always kept him by his side, teaching him skills and guiding his psychology. Try to make him develop normally. After defeating Wanning, Chen Wenqiang had a secret talk with Ah Mao, asking him to kill Zheng Hongming at the right time, preferably on the battlefield, when stray bullets were flying, to create the illusion of his unfortunate death. Perhaps it was also this conversation that made Ah Mao feel a little bit of a thief, and he became what he is now.

"It's still early, don't be so nervous, stare like a thief, and no one will see through it." Chen Wenqiang reminded Ah Mao that in this regard, Ah Mao is still immature, not as old and treacherous as Chen Wenqiang, and when facing the person to be killed, he can still be kind and natural, making him defenseless.

Ah Mao nodded hurriedly, glanced at Zheng Hongming not far away, and said in a low voice: "It's better for the eldest brother to pinch him and let him rush ahead when attacking the city, and then-"

"It doesn't have to be so urgent, and it doesn't have to be so obvious." Chen Wenqiang shook his head and said: "No, when the Qing army came, on the real battlefield, there was no chance." Seeing you like this, I really regret leaving it to you. ”

"I listen to my eldest brother, you can do it whenever you say." Cat smirked.

By now, Cat has become a sniper, and the process is quite difficult and challenging. In addition to physical strength, physical fitness, and shooting skills, his level of education was also a big obstacle.

Usually in the era of war, many weak readers will regret that they waste their time on the desk in the study, and envy those rough men who have a good body, good strength, and can fight at critical moments. But on the other hand, if a scholar exercises well, he can master some skills several times faster than those illiterate men.

For example, the eye-jumping method, a simple distance measurement method that does not require the use of specialized equipment: the observer closes his right eye, stretches his right arm forward, and gives a thumbs up. Select a point on the target and align it with the left side of your thumb. If you don't move your arm, use your left eye to observe, remember where the left side of your thumb is aligned at this time, and estimate the distance from the point to the target point, and then multiply it by ten times to get the distance between the observer and the target. The principle is that the distance between the pupils of the two eyes is about one-tenth of the length of one's own arm, and the distance from the standing point to the target is obtained by multiplying the width of the measured object by ten.

Of course, people with insufficient experience or poor comprehension ability will have large errors, and they must be practiced repeatedly to improve their accuracy after continuous proficiency.

But it is such a small trick, and it is not so easy for many blind soldiers to understand and master. A cat is one of them, learning literacy and arithmetic, in his cognition, this is a hundred times more difficult than lying on the grass with mosquito bites.

"You still have to practice, you still have to learn, you can't be complacent." Chen Wenqiang's requirements for Ah Mao are also constantly increasing, because he wants to transfer the name of "Chen Sheng", the first killer of the Revival Society, to Ah Mao to inherit it, and assassinate those high-ranking Manchu chieftains who dare to oppose the Revival Society and hinder the development of the revolutionary cause.

Hearing this, Ah Mao hurriedly corrected his attitude, for fear that Chen Wenqiang would leave some homework for writing and arithmetic.

"Not only long-distance sniping, but also close-range assassination, and various assassination methods." Chen Wenqiang looked into the distance thoughtfully, and said slowly: "If you want to say the most shocking, I think it is the bomb." Not only can it deter the enemy in assassination, but it should also be powerful on the battlefield. How many cannons can a Qing army like the patrol battalion have, and how many explosions can it hear? I guess some of them haven't even seen a machine gun, right? ”

"Machine guns, okay, a dozen." A cat casually agreed.

Chen Wenqiang woke up from his divergent thinking, glanced at the cat, and said: "After you go back, you have to learn explosives, which is easier than sniping, but you need more knowledge, don't blow yourself up." ”

Oh, Ah Mao happily agreed, he was also familiar with and understood Chen Wenqiang's temper and temperament, which was the same as Chen Wenqiang's frequent probing of others. In this society, people deal with each other and people ponder people. Chen Wenqiang has skills, others have methods, look at faces and looks, and so on, and these methods may be quite old in China.

After the horse descended from the mound, Chen Wenqiang walked slowly, next to the marching baggage team, various livestock carts, and carts pushed by people. His gaze suddenly fixed on a man.

In the sun, the man's face was red, his braids were coiled around his neck, his muscles were knotted, and an axe was pinned to his waist, and he was pulling the cart with grain. The reason for the striking is not complicated, half of the blackened and withered ears are worn by ropes and tethered to the axe handle.

Seeing that someone was staring at him, the man raised his head and looked at Chen Wenqiang.

With broad shoulders, calm eyes, and firm lips, this guy is a soldier in his bones. Chen Wenqiang smiled and nodded, his legs clamped, the horse accelerated, and galloped forward.

…………… (To be continued.) )