In fact, before Mao Wenlong's death, because of the "Battle of Ding Mao" that occurred in 1627, the Dongjiang Army, which suffered heavy losses, was basically on the verge of collapse. [No pop-ups]

In July 1629, just as the Baath Party's agrarian revolution in the Ludong base area was beginning to enter its final stage, as happened in history, Yuan Chonghuan was fooled into falsely preaching the holy decree and killing Mao Wenlong, the warlord leader of Dongjiang Town.

After being posthumously recognized by the imperial court, Yuan Da Fu adopted the method of divide and rule, dividing the entire Dongjiang Army into two parts, and handed them over to the commanders of Chen Jisheng and Liu Xingzuo, who had deep contradictions. He used this kind of dirty means commonly used by feudal bureaucrats who had been in internal strife for a long time to directly provoke civil strife in the entire Dongjiang Army.

The death of Mao Wenlong and the split of the Dongjiang Army, especially because Yuan Chonghuan divided and provoked the generals of Dongjiang Town through scheming, the Dongjiang Army, which was already greatly injured, completely fell into chaotic infighting and completely lost its combat effectiveness.

The warlords of the Dongjiang Army, who were busy with infighting, competed to curry favor with the imperial court, so that the military salaries and materials allocated by the imperial court, which were already very scarce, were completely cut off after July 1629.

Dongjiang Town was originally a relatively remote military group that was purely supported by external material transportation. Under the limited material delivery of the imperial court, because of the shortcomings of the feudal system itself, a large amount of money and materials were embezzled by various bureaucrats, including civil officials at all levels, and the warlords of Dongjiang Town itself, and the ordinary soldiers and people of Dongjiang Town have always been in a fragile situation of survival. When the imperial court completely cut off the material supply of Dongjiang Town, the ordinary soldiers and people of Dongjiang Town could not guarantee even a little rations.

Although about 30,000 people were diverted from Dongjiang Town through trade in the Ludong Base Area of the Ba'ath Party, the total population of Dongjiang Town was originally as high as about 120,000. Of the remaining 90,000 people, their situation has not improved because of the decline in population.

Of course, it is impossible for the officers at all levels in Dongjiang Town to use the materials exchanged for the population and the Baath Party for the remaining ordinary soldiers and civilians. They all put the materials in their pockets, and with these materials, they did a lot of business with the North Koreans and even the Jurchens, made a lot of money, and made a good fortune themselves.

In this way, the overall situation of Dongjiang Town has not changed because of the emergence of the Baath Party. When the imperial court completely cut off the food and salary of Dongjiang Town after Mao Wenlong's death, the more than 90,000 soldiers and people in the entire Dongjiang Town fell into a desperate situation of no food and no salary.

Whether it's Chen Jisheng or Liu Xingzuo, they are now caught in infighting. The warlords of Dongjiang Town, big and small, have all spent their time and energy in this great infighting. They used to ignore the lives and deaths of ordinary soldiers and civilians, and now they have no time and energy to care about the lives and deaths of ordinary soldiers and civilians.

Therefore, around September 1629, the situation of the whole Dongjiang town was that the upper class was in the quagmire of internal struggle for power, and the soldiers and common people of the lower class were launching one after another incidents of food and wages.

Wang Shuhui knew that in the history of the late Ming Dynasty, the fate of Dongjiang Town was not very good. Originally, before Mao Wenlong died, Dongjiang Town was able to carry out a certain military attack on the Later Jin Jurchen, which caused a certain restrain on the military strength of the Later Jin Jurchen. However, after Mao Wenlong was killed, the Dongjiang Army, which fell into infighting, was first completely split in several rebellions, and then they either surrendered directly to the Later Jin Jurchen under the leadership of large and small warlords, or launched a great rebellion in the interior that shook the Ming rule in Shandong (Wuqiao Mutiny), and also surrendered to the Later Jin Jurchen, and sent advanced military technology to the Later Jin Jurchen.

You must know that the "Sanshun King" who left a strong mark in the history of the late Ming and early Qing dynasties were all from Dongjiang Town.

Sitting back and watching the nearly 100,000 young and strong living forces, after being senselessly consumed by one-third in the infighting, and then surrendering, Wang Shuhui certainly would not do it.

After the Baath Party began to trade with Dongjiang Town, Wang Shuhui had already drawn up a detailed response plan with the Ludong Base Area Party Committee. After purging the upper echelons of Dongjiang Town, the plan to thoroughly reorganize Dongjiang Town and transform this warlordized local Ming armed force into a revolutionary contingent had already been formulated at the request of Wang Shuhui.

Therefore, at the end of September 1629, when the agrarian revolution in the entire Denglai area was completed, the Ludong base area began to enter into farm-based construction, and a series of small basic factories such as basic coal, steel, fertilizer, cement, and machinery factories were completed and put into production, a force of 10 battalions, all of 5,000 people, composed of Baath Party veterans, landed on Phi Island on 20 2,000-ton war transport dual-purpose ships under the Ludong base area, under the leadership of Wang Shuhui and the Dongjiang Reorganization Headquarters.

Speaking of which, when the entire Dongjiang Town faced the 5,000 heavily armed revival army, Wang Shuhui was really disappointed. Except for a few Dongjiang warlords who carried out a desperate resistance against the Fuxing Army with more than 100 of their own family members in the process of being disarmed by the Fuxing Army, Chen Jisheng and Liu Xingzuo, as well as warlords of all sizes like Kong Youde, did not show the true character of a hero as Wang Shuhui originally thought. They all surrendered obediently at gunpoint of the Ba'ath Army.

In less than three days, with the support of 5,000 heavily armed Baath Army fighters, the Baath Party's Dongjiang Reorganization Headquarters arrested all the warlord leaders of all levels in Dongjiang Town. The tens of thousands of ordinary soldiers and civilians of the Dongjiang Army, who had completely despaired and did not hesitate to make trouble in Dongjiang Town, calmly accepted the reorganization under the unlimited supply of grain and canned food from the Baath Party.

A steady stream of materials from the Ludong base area and the Hubei base area were transported to Dongjiang Town through an advanced 2,000-ton hybrid transport fleet, which strongly supported the rearrangement of Dongjiang Town by the Baath Party. A large number of soldiers and civilians in Dongjiang Town, who were over 30 years old, were reorganized into the Production and Construction Corps by the Baath Party. Young people under the age of 18 were directly reorganized into the Cadet Army by the Baath Party and began to receive comprehensive cultural education and training.

After a comprehensive reorganization, less than 40,000 soldiers of the Dongjiang Army remained, totaling nearly 100,000. After these 40,000 fighters went through the grievance campaign and participated in the public trial and criticism meetings of the warlords at all levels of the Dongjiang Army, they not only began to make an all-round leap in their living standards, but also began to sprout revolutionary consciousness in their ideological understanding.

In addition to the 40,000-strong regular troops, Wang Shuhui transferred half of the more than 50,000 Dongjiang troops reorganized into the Production and Construction Corps back to the Ludong base area to make up for the manpower gap in the base area.

You must know that in the Denglai area at the end of the Ming Dynasty, there was a large loss of population due to natural disasters. Judging from the current statistics, the total population of the dozen or so counties in Dengzhou and Laizhou is less than 500,000. Even if a large number of displaced people from other parts of Shandong are absorbed, the farm construction and industrial construction in the Ludong base area still need a large amount of human resources to supplement it.

As for the boys' army, which numbered less than 10,000 people, Wang Shuhui directly transferred them to the Baath Party's base on Jeju Island.

There, the Baath Party Education Bureau has set up a base school that can accommodate 20,000 people to attend classes and train at the same time. And more than 3,000 cadet instructors have been waiting there for a long time. Space-Time Gate 1619

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Chapter 382 East Adaptation 1