On the morning of November 4, 1903, more than 1,000 people of the vanguard of the 1st Mountain Brigade, which had arrived in the eastern suburbs of Kunming, launched a tentative attack on the defenders of Kunming.

At three o'clock in the afternoon of the 4th, the main force of the 1st Mountain Brigade arrived at the periphery of Kunming, and the arrival of the main force of the Zhenguo Army made Kunming very nervous, and all the defenders entered a defensive position. Based on the results of reconnaissance, the top brass of the 1st Brigade decided to adopt the tactic of breaking through a little and then blossoming on all sides to disrupt the defense of the Qing army and create favorable conditions for the siege of the 6th Army, which carried heavy firepower equipment.

At 3:30 a.m., the attack began suddenly, and the 1st Mountain Brigade used the cover of mortars to attack the position of Gongjia Village, which was the defensive position of the Green Battalion troops, and it was observed that the defense here was lax, the fortifications were disorganized, and the fire was sparse, and it was best to launch a breakthrough from here. Under the cover of machine guns, the soldiers of the first brigade rushed into the 100-meter fire range without any obstacles, and only then did the Qing troops begin to fire in the face of artillery fire, but the sparse gunfire was not as loud as the New Year's artillery battle. The machine gunner quickly aimed his gun at the Qing position and successfully suppressed the enemy fire.

The Qing army's defense area was too large, which led to enough troops, but too few artillery. In the front-line positions, only the 19th Town of the New Army had a pitiful number of small-caliber artillery, like the Green Battalion position, and it would be nice for the soldiers to have a good rifle in their hands.

The infantry of the 1st Mountain Brigade was also the most elite in the Zhenguo Army, and their figures loomed during the attack, and they were very good at using the terrain to hide their whereabouts, which made it difficult for the Qing troops who dared to brave machine gun fire to aim accurately. The mortar fire paused as the attacking soldiers approached the Qing positions and extended to the enemy's rear, and the Qing troops felt the pressure lessen, and a few minutes later they found that the iron bumps in the sky were flying over.

At a distance of less than ten meters, the soldiers of the first brigade threw out the grenades in their hands, and the sound of explosions was connected on the positions of the Qing army. "Preferential treatment of captives!" The slogan resounded all over the land.

The general trend has gone, the Qing army defending here is less than 500 people, at least 70 people were killed under the sweep of artillery fire and machine guns, dozens of people were wiped out by the rain of grenades, and the rest of the thousands of people rushed in, most of them consciously threw away their weapons and surrendered on their knees, and some sharp-eyed ones took advantage of the chaos to flee and became chaotic soldiers, and these chaotic soldiers created trouble for the future bandits.

Since the Northern Expedition, the Zhenguo Army has not encountered an evenly matched opponent, and the evenly matched here refers to the aspect of warrior morale. The Qing army, whether it was the New Army or the Green Battalion, was often very weak in the face of the attack of the Zhenguo Army, and it was never able to resist resolutely. The gap in morale cannot be solved simply, and in the age of hot weapons, no commander will ignore the role of morale in warfare. In the First Sino-Japanese War, there was a clear gap between the individual weapons of the two sides, but the side with inferior weapons was like a bamboo, and the side with high-quality weapons was defeated.

Of course, the firepower of the Zhenguo army is too strong, which will deal a devastating blow to the morale of the enemy army. In addition, the Zhenguo Army's policy towards prisoners was also an important factor in breaking the enemy's will to resist.

After the Gongjia Village was occupied by the 1st Mountain Brigade, there was no obstacle between this place and Kunming City, and the Zhenguo Army could directly attack Kunming City from then on. The setting of a single-layer defensive line cost the Qing army a huge amount, and the defensive line that had previously taken the most effort to build collapsed. After receiving a direct threat from the Zhenguo army, the Qing army had to shrink a large number of troops into the city of Kunming in order to cope with the recent siege.

At least two days before the arrival of the Sixth Army, the 1st Mountain Brigade entered a period of defensive recuperation, and preparations for the siege began.

"Stand upright! Stand still! Look at your sloppy appearance, no wonder you were defeated by our Zhenguo Army! Sun Fugui held a wooden stick in his hand and shouted loudly in front of a group of Qing army prisoners, his disdainful eyes and ridicule did not stop for a moment, but none of the captives dared to resist.

This was the prisoner camp of the 1st Mountain Brigade, where more than 300 Qing prisoners were held, and Sun Fugui, a sergeant of the 1st Brigade with rich experience, and more than 30 other soldiers were sent to deal with these prisoners.

"You're going to be training here for a month, and you're going to be scheduled after the training. My name is Sun Fugui, I am your instructor, and during the training, you must obey my orders in all your actions, including eating, sleeping, and peeing! Finally gathered the fifty captives he was responsible for, and Sun Fugui began to become serious.

"Sun Fugui, you still know me, Sun Futian, we are from one village!" One of the captives shouted loudly, his voice filled with joy.

"Sun Futian, come out! Run three laps around the playground, quick! Sun Fugui didn't give the fellow face at all, "There is a report to the instructor in advance, and you can only speak after getting permission!" ”

"Today, we will first study the 'three major disciplines and eight points of attention' of the Zhenguo Army, and you will listen well, the first of the three major disciplines is to obey the command in all actions, the second is not to take a stitch from the masses, and the third is that all seizures must be returned to the public."

"We're okay with this one, what are we doing with other people's needles and threads!"

"That is, if you want to take it, you will take the silver."

Sun Fugui: "I can't even take a needle and thread, and I still want to take silver!" Shoot them all! You two, go for a lap! Sun Fugui continued, and when it came to the last of the eight notes, the panting Sun Futian finally finished three laps and returned to the queue, and when he heard the "do not abuse prisoners" clause, he couldn't help it.

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"Why are you again, Su Futian, speak!"

"Why do you think this is the abuse of prisoners, come up and let me run three laps! Have you ever been a prisoner, and why are you talking about us here? "Sun Futian has a lot of resentment against this fellow.

"Look at how you have never been a prisoner, I was a soldier in Guangdong back then, and I became a **** soldier after I was captured, I have the most right to speak! Tell you, after training, you'll be like me and you'll be a new person, and besides, what's the abuse of just letting you run three laps? We run 10,000 meters every morning! Sun Fugui continued: "You will receive discipline education, grievance education, military training, and those who are willing to stay in the Zhenguo Army as a soldier after a month will enter the recruit training camp, and those who are not willing to continue to be a soldier will be issued here to pay the travel expenses and pack up their bedding and go home!" ”

The battle reports on the front line are piled up, and the staff officers have their own to solve them, and Lu Liang has another thing to pay attention to, that is, the development of cadre training.

Since the armed uprising, there has been a shortage of administrative cadres. The expansion of the scope of use of genetic people and the lack of production capacity of the steel base made Lu Liang suffer, so from 1901 onwards, the revolutionary government regarded the training of cadres as a major event. The Guangzhou School of Administration trains senior cadres, but the scope of application is more extensive in the cadre training courses scattered all over the country.

In every county town in Guangdong, Guangxi, and Fujian provinces, there are cadre training classes, and the trainees are selected from ordinary people, most of whom are young adults who have graduated from night schools, and middle-aged people account for a small part.

However, the southern provinces are very regional, and there are great differences in the language and customs between each province and even between each county, and the cadres trained in the original three provinces are not necessarily applicable to other places. The Northern Expedition is coming to an end, Guizhou Province has been recovered, and there are too many administrative cadres needed, and the cadres of the original three provinces have shown great discomfort there. The promotion of Mandarin Lu Liang has not paid much attention, now it seems that this is a big problem, of course, he will not Beijing dialect as the standard promotion of Mandarin, Cantonese is not good, there are too many dialects in various parts of China, Lu Liang should choose the most widely applicable as Mandarin promotion.

To get back to the point, in order to ensure the administrative work in the newly recovered areas, short-term cadre training courses have been rolled out on a large scale, and all students from new-style schools and old-style officials have been selected, and even some young people under the age of 18 have been recruited.

Liang Chengcheng is a student in the cadre training course of Xishui County in Zunyi Prefecture, he was originally a servant of the Xishui County Ya, because he was responsible for his duties on weekdays, and he was recruited by the new court for the change of dynasty.

Whoever does it is done, Liang Cheng is not exclusive to the revolutionary government, even if he asks to cut off his braids and change his clothes as soon as possible, Liang Cheng does not feel how awkward, raising a family, where is there so much hypocrisy? Unlike those educated old people, who don't cut their braids when they live or die, Liang Cheng believes that they will suffer sooner or later. Because through the study of government notices, he found that there are such cases in Guangxi and other places, families who do not cut off their braids, no high-yield rice seeds, no tax incentives (reduction and exemption of agricultural taxes), no factory building qualifications, no business, etc., under those high-pressure policies, no one can resist for long.