86_86695 "Two wives and princesses, the first in Hubei." This is talking about the champion in the third year of Yuanyou in the Northern Song Dynasty, from Zhan Miao, the champion of Lichuan County, Hubei. From the beginning of the Song Dynasty to the Ming Dynasty, the only families that could continue to be undefeated for hundreds of years were the Qufu Confucian family and the Yingtan Zhang family. In addition, only the imperial family can continue. But only for the reigning imperial families. Therefore, according to the general law, the Lichuan Zhan family, which was once prominent in the Northern Song Dynasty, soon declined.

However, as long as it is Chinese, as long as it is a normal surname, as long as it is carefully and meticulously investigated and studied. Then, the Chinese, who pay the most attention to inheritance and ancestors, can always associate themselves with their ancestors hundreds of thousands of years ago. For example, in the last years of the Ming Dynasty, among the armed mining gangs in Songzi County, the most powerful Zhan Jiazhai claimed to be the descendant of Lichuan Zhan Zhuangyuan.

Chekhov said, "Rust eats iron, aphids eat grass, vanity eats soul." But Chekhov, the great petty-bourgeois man of letters, failed to realize that, like the seven deadly sins of Jesus, vanity is a human nature. As long as it is an individual, as a human being, there is an element of vanity in his nature. Therefore, the quasi-bandits' recognition of a champion as an ancestor is just a simple reaction of human nature.

Even if they recognize a champion as their ancestor, in the mountainous areas of Songzi County, where there are many bandits, the people of Zhanjiazhai can only succumb to the influence of the social environment and follow the law of the jungle in the cottage. Chinese New Year's Eve, the highest force value of Zhan Datou, is not only the current patriarch of the Zhan family, but also the supreme leader of the Zhan family.

Sitting on a chair covered with bear skin to show his honorable status, Zhan Datou was receiving his own relatives, working as an errand in the Jinyi Wei Jingzhou Thousand Households, and the confidant of Bao Huizan, Zhan Bufan. After being polite to each other for a while, Zhan Bufan revealed his intention: Bao Huizan intended to join forces with Zhan Jiazhai to rob Wang Shuhui's wealth in Zhijiang County.

In Bao Huizan's view, the people of Zhan Jiazhai who occupy the mountains in the deep mountains must be the kind of people who are deaf, unclear-sighted, and information-blocked. As for who Wang Shuhui is, what kind of identity he has, and most of the forces, these miners in the mountains must not know. Therefore, he thinks that as long as Wang Shuhui's wealth and these armed bandits are revealed and arouse their greed, then he will not have to pay money at all, and he can provoke them out of the mountains to make trouble.

When encountering things that have money in their hands, they have to share the fat, which is one of the nature of feudal bureaucrats. Bao Huizan thought that he had a relationship with Zhan Jiazhai, so he figured out the convenience of guò and swallowed up the five thousand taels of silver from Miao Weichang and five thousand households, as well as a few wealthy gentry.

However, what Bao Huizan does not understand is that the development of industrialization has a natural expansive characteristic. Wang Shuhui's Jiangbei Iron and Steel Plant, which uses iron ore and coal as raw materials, was built in Jiangbei Village, across the Yangtze River from Songzi County. How could the forces of the Revival Society not have a connection with the Songzi Mine Bandits?

It is in control of the largest coal and iron pit in Songzi County. The connection between Zhan Jiazhai and the Fuxing Association is very close. In the past year, the Fuxing Society has bartered for grain, salt, cloth, digging tools and other necessities for life and production, and exchanged a large amount of coal and iron ore with Zhanjiazhai. The Fuxing Society is now the main trading partner of Zhan Jiazhai.

Zhan Datou listened to his nephew Zhan Bufan quietly, spitting and bluffing, but his head began to run rapidly. I thought about it for a while, but I didn't come up with any results. Zhan Datou asked Zhan Bufan to go back to see his relatives who were still in the village first, but he turned around and went back to the back hall and summoned the leaders in the village and the clan elders in each room to discuss this issue.

Although the so-called sparrows are small and have all kinds of organs, Zhan Jiazhai, with a total population of more than 1,200 people, has a clear division in terms of organizational structure and division of labor. The person in charge of each room is as powerful as Zhan Datou, and the strong man with a high force value is served. However, it was a few clan elders who were responsible for organizing production and commercial transactions.

On the issue of whether or not to participate in Bao Huizan's robbery of Wang Shuhui, Zhan Jiazhai's martial arts faction is more active. However, the clan elders in charge of production and trading did not approve of participating in Bao Huizan's robbery of Wang Shuhui. Fifty-four-year-old Zhan Baixu said to Zhan Datou, "Chief, I heard that this Wang Shuhui is a relative of the emperor Lao'er, but that Bao Huizan is a servant of the emperor's family. Think about it, as the head of a village, how would you deal with the evil slaves who colluded with outsiders to bully their relatives. ”

Although Zhan has a big head, he is not a person with a bright mind. After Zhan Baisu explained the contradiction between Wang Shuhui and Bao Huizan with a straightforward and simple truth, Zhan Datou, who was originally eager to rob Wang Shuhui, calmed down.

Seeing that Zhan Datou was deflated, several martial arts faction chiefs immediately became anxious. Zhan Datie, the head of the fourth room, hurriedly said to Zhan Datou, "Owner of the village, what does the fight between their Zhu family have to do with us. It's the two of them who fought and bled out, and that's their own business. It was the emperor Lao'er who blamed him, and the big deal was also borne by the people of the brocade guard. Let's just finish the fight, run after the robbery, or we'll be done. In the past hundred years, which officer and soldier dared to go into the mountains to attack our Zhan Jiazhai. Could it be that it is just relying on the county office, the dozen or so archers who can't even pull the bow! ”

Listening to Zhan Datie's words, several martial arts faction chiefs burst out laughing. Zhan Datie is not wrong at all, since Zhan Jiazhai came to establish the village, it is not without the situation that the government organized people to come to clear Zhan Jiazhai. However, relying on Zhan Jiazhai's own force, the dangerous terrain of the cottage and its independent weapon production capacity. Not once did the government's liquidation not end in failure.

Strong force is the foundation of the bandits' existence. Zhan Datie's words dissipated the fear of these leaders of Zhan Jiazhai for the emperor Lao'er a lot. Zhan Bai's eyes kept turning. To tell the truth, as the person in charge of Zhan Jiazhai's organization of production and trading, Zhan Baixu was also quite greedy for the seemingly endless supplies of grain, salt, cloth, and iron tools of the Fuxing Society. However, because of his breadth of knowledge, he was never able to make up his mind.

Zhan Baixu disagreed, and the elders of the Zhan family village, who had always respected Zhan Baixu, disagreed. You must know that in Zhan's village, although the young men of the martial arts faction can be in a dominant position in many things, they still instinctively listen to the opinions of experienced old men whenever they encounter major events.

Zhan Datou looked at Zhan Baixu, who was silent, and his heart was uncertain. After thinking about it for a long time, after squeezing his brain cells to the fullest, he said to everyone, "If you want me to say, it's better to let that Bao Huizan take out real money and bet it in our hands first." In this way, even if we go out of the mountain and do not get any real benefits, we will have some silver to compensate everyone for their efforts. If you can take the opportunity to get a vote, then return the money. In this way, we Zhan Jiazhai will not suffer a loss. ”

As an armed gang with the nature of bandits, whether or not it can take advantage of the armed forces in armed struggle is the core value of the bandit armament. Zhan Datou's method ensured that Zhan Jiazhai could get actual benefits and take real advantage no matter how he participated in Bao Huizan's attack on Wang Shuhui. Therefore, as soon as Zhan Datou said his thoughts, everyone agreed.

Zhan Datou's method once again amazed everyone. This is the reason why Zhan Datou can firmly sit on the position of the leader of the bandits' den in Zhan Jiazhai. Don't look at his usual muddled appearance, when it's time for the real trick, this big head can always say a way that everyone admires.

After making a plan, Zhan Datou ordered someone to call Zhan Bufan back and told Zhan Bufan of his decision.

After listening to Zhan Datou's words, Zhan Bufan opened his burden without saying a word, revealing the neat eight hundred taels of silver inside.

Five thousand taels of silver, after Bao Huizan's hands, became one thousand taels. One thousand taels of silver, after Zhan Bufan's hands, became eight hundred taels. This is widely stored in all levels and departments of the Ming Dynasty government, the legendary "drifting".

However, even if there were only eight hundred taels of silver left, the accumulation of these silvers together made Zhan Datou, who had never seen much real silver, shine with a dazzling eye. Whether it is bandits or bureaucrats, in fact, the essence is the same. They are all the kind of people who have black eyes and can't see silver.

Eight hundred taels of silver swung there, and the people of the entire Zhan family village became willing to join forces with Bao Huizan to attack Wang Shuhui.

After Zhan Bufan left Zhan Jiazhai, Zhan Datou took out 600 taels of silver from 800 taels of silver, and mobilized 600 young people in Zhan Jiazhai at the price of one tael of silver per person.

Speaking of which, in these years, there are not many people who work for a tael of silver. To be honest, there really can't be more. A big girl with yellow flowers in the Jiangnan area is only worth four or five taels of silver. Desperately working for a tael of silver, it is a very cost-effective deal. What's more, in Zhan Jiazhai, where the mine bandits gather, there are really not too many outlaws who can sell their lives for money.

In fact, from the fact that Zhan Datou only embezzled 25 percent of the money, it can be seen how high the combat effectiveness of Zhan Jiazhai is.

According to historical records, even in the era of the Ming Dynasty's peril. The military salary allocated by the emperor to the border army was "floated" four floors before leaving the city of Beijing. When I went to the border army, starting from the governor and governor, to the lowest level of the general, more than ten or twenty layers were scavenged down, and when I arrived at the soldiers, I could receive one or two taels of silver a year, so I had to thank the commanders for their kindness.

In this case, do you say that you can complain that those border troops are always, and when they encounter the enemy, they will be routed, and they will surrender to the wind. Speaking of which, it is more beneficial to be a soldier to the wild boar skin barbarian than to be a soldier in the Ming Dynasty. Of course, there will often be that kind of battle, when the soldiers of the Ming army fight with the soldiers of the Eight Banners, they all lose the battle. And once these soldiers surrendered the boar skins and became the Green Battalion soldiers, it became a bloody and heroic situation.

Just comparing the treatment of Zhan Datou, the bandit leader, to his little bandit is far better than the treatment of his soldiers in the Ming Dynasty. Otherwise, the many clearances organized by the local government in the past 100 years have failed. Ask the soldiers who participated in the clearance if they could earn a real tael of silver in a single battle.

Of course, if you compare it to the Revival Army under the Revival Society. Not to mention the soldiers and small bandits of the Ming Dynasty, even the Eight Banners of the wild boar skin are not treated as well as the soldiers of the Fuxing Army.

Not to mention the military salary of three taels of silver (three silver coins) per month. Four seasons of the year, two sets of clothes, shoes and hats from the inside to the outside, from top to bottom; Each soldier was equipped with hand towels, soap, toothpaste, toothbrushes, lunch boxes, drinking glasses, quilts, and felt blankets; Eat meat at every meal; The accommodation is equipped with glass windows and has a heated barracks for every four people. Even, recently, because the Fuxing Association absorbed a large number of young women from the Jianghuai disaster area, the soldiers of the Renaissance Army began to be organized and arranged to marry on a large scale.

Married soldiers of the Baxing Army, each family can also receive the Baxing Army farm every year, 20 acres of land for a year. (Wang Shuhui used land as capital, and carried out centralized farming management of the remaining land after the implementation of land division.) Soldiers and Renaissance cadres at all levels could only receive land revenues, that is, income from crops on the land converted into money, and could not be directly distributed to the land. In a way, every soldier of the Renaissance Society was a landlord who entrusted the management of the land to the Agricultural Committee of the Renaissance Society and collected annual rent. ）

Within the Renaissance Army, Wang Shuhui insisted on carrying out the activity of "kissing brothers and settling accounts." Every soldier of the Ba'ath Army knew that his salary and the benefits he enjoyed came from the profits from the business operations of the Ba'ath Society and the income from the operation of the farms. They all know that it is the hard work of the factory workers and the farm workers that allow them to enjoy such a good treatment.

Through the unremitting activity of "settling accounts with brothers," the soldiers of the Renaissance Army not only realized in their ideological education that "the army and the people are close to each other, and the army and the people are in love with each other," but also realized from the perspective of their own practical interests the importance of protecting industry and commerce, protecting farms, and protecting workers and peasants.

Not to mention the advanced organizational model of the Renaissance Army and the weaponry that transcends the times, in terms of the most basic treatment, the Renaissance Army is also the most powerful armed force on the earth at present.

Military activity is not the kind of violent conflict that erupts in the countryside over water, over land disputes. It definitely doesn't unfold in the form of a group fight.

Even if the mining bandits like Zhan Jiazhai are armed with them, before carrying out military activities, they must probe the enemy's reality and demarcate the route of the march, and make complex preparations for the battle. Especially for an armed gang like Zhan Jiazhai, which has been entrenched in the mountains for a long time. Zhan Datou and other leaders clearly know that conducting cross-regional operations is not the kind of situation in which they swarm after slapping their heads and shouting "Brothers rush for me".

After sending a few people who had been trading with the Fuxing Society for a long time to investigate Zhijiang County, Zhan Datou immediately conducted physical training on the young men who participated in the operation, and began to equip them with weapons such as broadswords and rattan cards. Zhan Datou and Zhan Bufan met again a month later, and the two sides negotiated the way to coordinate the troops, as well as the route of the march and the place of rendezvous. In the end, it was determined that the two sides would converge at Lijiadu, on the south bank of the Yangtze River and opposite Jiangbei Village.

On the Jingzhou side, the soldiers composed of Miao Weichang and 5,000 households and a few powerful people, with a total of 600 people, took two sand boats to Lijiadu. After that, the 600 Zhanjiazhai armed young men who arrived in Lijiadu boarded the ship of Jingzhou in Lijiadu and raided the Shuifu Temple on the other side of Lijiadu.

After the landing at Shuifu Temple, the two sides organized their teams and attacked the market town of Dongtankou, which was located near Shuifu Temple. The proceeds of looting at Dongtankou were divided equally between the two sides. After that, the two sides camped near Dongtankou for one night, and the next day Yanchang River by land to the east, passing through Zhijiang County, and attacking Wangfu Town, where Wang Shuhui was located.

After attacking Wangfu Town, Zhan Jiazhai's armed forces could "move freely". Jingzhou, on the other hand, went straight to Wangfu Town to arrest Wang Shuhui, whether he lived or died, but he wanted to see people alive and corpses when he died.

The problem with military operations is that the course of the battle is not the largest part of the overall military operation. Whether it is the era of cold weapons or the era of hot weapons, in a specific battle, the battle between the two sides may be decided after ten or twenty minutes. However, the key factor that really determines who wins and who loses in these tens and twenty minutes of combat is the preparation of both sides before the battle.

The efforts made by the troops of both sides in the training of soldiers, weapons and equipment, ideological education, command level, intelligence reconnaissance, and so on will eventually produce crucial results in combat.

As the saying goes, "10 years of work off the stage, three minutes on stage", like literary and art workers, it is precisely the 10 years of work under the stage and the preparations before the outbreak of the battle that determine the outcome of the battle.

Although for the attacker, the personal combat strength of the Zhanjiazhai mine bandits was higher than that of Jingzhou Wei's troops with serfs as the main members. However, those serfs in Jingzhouwei have a certain collective consciousness after all. The 100 family members that Miao Wei often dispatched were trained by Miao Weichang. Therefore, when it really comes to the battlefield, Jingzhouwei's serfs may be better.

Regarding the matter of organizing manpower to attack Wang Shuhui this time, in order to curry favor with Zhang Wenda, the secretary of the ministry, Miao Weichang and Bao Huizan were very solemn. They not only conducted serious training for the 600 men of Jingzhou Wei before the operation was launched, but also directly sent more than a dozen veterans who had participated in the Battle of Banzhou and were proficient in military training to Zhanjiazhai to help the mining bandits in Zhanjiazhai train in formation and teach them battlefield cooperation.

It may be because the miners in Zhanjiazhai have realized the importance of array and cooperation in their long-term combat practice. In terms of military training, the two sides were the Zhanjiazhai mine bandits with rich practical experience, and their mastery of the array and coordination was relatively smooth and rapid.

What is ironic is that the 500 soldiers carefully selected by the 5,000 households of Jingzhou Wei served as serfs for military attachés at all levels because they had been engaged in agriculture for a long time. The training of them is more time-consuming and energy-intensive than that of the miners in Zhanjiazhai.

The most interesting thing is that when Zhanjiazhai and Jingzhou Wei were in full swing of military training and were making sufficient preparations for the attack on Wangfu Town. Whether it is Zhanjiazhai or Jingzhouwei, the intelligence center of the Fuxing Society has received information that two armed gangs are plotting to attack Wangfu Town.

It's really funny to say, the person who reported to the Fuxing Society was the person sent by Zhan Jiazhai and Jingzhou Wei to Wangfu Town to collect intelligence and find out the truth. Zhan Jiazhai reported to the Fuxing Association that it was Zhan Baixu's own son Zhan Tianxiong. The Jingzhou Wei side reported to the Fuxing Society that it was a relative of the soldiers who had been transferred to the training of the two thousand households this time.

Speaking of which, this situation really can't be said to be an accident. In the process of expanding the power of the Revival Society, ordinary people and low-class people are the main beneficiary groups.

For example, Zhan Tianxiong was treated by the hospital of the Revival Society after suffering from acute appendicitis. As for the Jingzhou Guard, it was because of the two soldiers who were transferred, their brothers and sisters who took refuge in the Fuxing Society and worked on the farms in the Jingzhou area of the Fuxing Society.

It can be said that the two sides have not yet waited for the two sides to fight. The preparation of the offensive operation Zhan Jiazhai and Jingzhou Wei had already failed