PS: The second update is here, ask for subscriptions, ask for monthly passes and likes!

After the Xinhua army invaded Guangdong, the surrounding provinces of Guangdong received orders from the Qing emperor, asking the governors of the provinces to step up their defense against the Xinhua army. Ma Dianjia, the governor of Guangxi, led 20,000 green battalions of Chen Bing Wuzhou, Hunan Governor Changchun led 30,000 green battalions to garrison Chenzhou, Jiangxi Governor Zhang Qingyun led 20,000 troops to garrison Ganzhou, Fujian Land Governor Putuobao led 30,000 green battalions to garrison Zhangzhou, and Fujian Waterway Governor Sai Zhenbiao led 5,000 sailors to garrison Xiamen. A total of more than 100,000 green battalion soldiers were deployed in the periphery of Guangdong Province. In addition, 200,000 Green Battalion soldiers, Mongolian cavalry, and Eight Banner Iron Cavalry drawn from the northern provinces also began to move south. The Qing court obviously intended to complete the battle and completely wipe out the Xinhua army in Guangdong.

"If hundreds of thousands of Qing troops attack at the same time, will we be able to resist their attack?" Long Yufei asked. The Qing court dispatched 300,000 troops, while the available strength of the Xinhua army was only 60,000, only one-fifth of the opponent's. Although the other 20 infantry brigades have been formed, these recruits are still in intensive training and have not formed combat effectiveness at all.

"Your Majesty, at present, our army has deployed defensive positions on the border, which are enough to resist the attack of the Qing army. As long as our recruits finish their training, they can counterattack the Qing army. Lieutenant General Niu Meng, Chief of the General Staff, said. Even if the 20 newly formed infantry brigades are counted, the available strength of the Xinhua Army is only 180,000, which is much less than that of the Qing Army. However, the combat effectiveness of the two sides was not at the same level at all, and the 180,000 well-trained Xinhua army was enough to defeat the Qing army two or three times their size.

Fortunately, Xinhuaguo has been in the past few years. A large amount of weapons and equipment was stored. At present, the transport ships of the Xinhua Army are constantly transporting rifles and artillery needed by the recruits to Guangdong from Manila and Xinhua City. It will only take another three months. The newly formed units of the Xinhua Army will be able to form combat effectiveness. At that time, the Xinhua Army will no longer have to blindly adopt a defensive position.

In the next few days, Long Yufei walked around Guangzhou, and also took time to go to the three recruit camps outside Guangzhou to see the training of recruits. The training of the Xinhua Army was very hard, and even though most of these recruits were hard-working peasant children, some of them could not hold on. The Xinhua Army will not force them. If you feel that you can't stand it, you can give up. However, the treatment of the soldiers of the Xinhua Army. They don't enjoy it either. All the settling-in allowances previously issued had to be returned to the Xinhua Army. Fifty yuan is a huge amount of money for many families. Therefore, even if it is for the fifty Chinese dollars. A lot of recruits are gritting their teeth and holding on.

Liu Laosan is the third son of Liu Laoshi's family. I'm only nineteen years old this year. Originally, they planned to move their family to Nanyang. However, after the conscription notice of the Xinhua Army came out, Liu Laosan suddenly thought of joining the army again. Liu Laoshi was very dissatisfied with his son's request, and beat and scolded him, good iron does not nail, and a good man is not a soldier. It's a good day, but what kind of soldier do you have to be? Besides. Now it's a war, and being a soldier is going to die, so if there's something bad on the battlefield, how can you get it? Liu Laosan's current Liu Li is also persuading his son with a handful of snot and tears. However, Liu Laosan seemed to be iron-hearted, and he must join the Xinhua Army. There was no way, Liu Laoshi had to agree to his son's joining the army. Fortunately, after Liu Laosan joined the army, the Liu family could get a settling-in fee of 50 yuan, and after arriving in Nanyang, they could also get an additional reward of 50 acres of land, as well as two indigenous slaves, which made Liu honestly feel a lot better. They didn't have any savings in the family, fifty Chinese yuan, just enough to solve their urgent needs, and even the eldest and second children could say a daughter-in-law, I don't know if they could tell their son a daughter-in-law after they went to Nanyang. In order to join the Xinhua Army, a big reason for Liu Laosan is to change the predicament of his family. The Xinhua Army has a lot of money, even the lowest-level soldiers, there are 5 Chinese yuan per month, which is the money that the whole family may not be able to save in a year in the past! Even if he dies in battle, his family can get a pension of 300 yuan, which is enough for the family to live comfortably.

After joining the army, Liu Laosan trained very hard, coupled with his tenacity, and was praised by the commander in charge of training, which made Liu Laosan very excited. Of course, he didn't want to be just a soldier for the rest of his life, and if he could get ahead, it would be the best. However, in the training of the military camp, there is also one thing that makes Liu Laosan very distressed, that is, the cultural class every night. From the beginning of recruit training, every night the instructors of the Xinhua Army will begin to teach everyone to read, write, etc., and they are used to holding the hoe and pick up the pen, which makes Liu Laosan feel indescribably awkward. However, when he learned that the officers of the Xinhua Army must not only have a strong combat quality, but also understand cultural knowledge, Liu Laosan worked even harder when he studied cultural classes.

After Guangdong was brought under the rule of the Xinhua Kingdom, it was gradually on the right track. Although the big war is imminent, government affairs at all levels are advancing in an orderly manner. The graduates of the School of Administration dispatched by Xinhua have played a tremendous role in promoting the reform of the grassroots government in Guangdong. Of course, if we want to completely abandon the influence of feudal ideology on Guangdong, it is not something that can be done overnight, and it has to be imperceptibly changed for a long time.

At the beginning of December, the first batch of immigrants from Guangdong to Nanyang, a total of 100,000 people, set off from Shunde on more than 300 merchant ships and began their unknown journey. They don't know much about Nanyang, but they know that there is a vast and sparsely populated land, fertile land, and a hot climate, and after they go, everyone can get 50 acres of land. For the land, everyone is full of longing, with countless longings, to go to a distant place.

Liang Baochang, the governor of Guangdong Province, and others personally went to the wharf to see off these immigrants. Next, every three days, 100,000 migrants will leave for Nanyang. In a little more than four months, all of Guangdong's more than 4 million migrants will be sent to Borneo. At the same time, the remaining people in Guangdong will also start new reforms. At present, the government is sparing no effort to buy the land in the hands of the landlords, and these lands will be distributed to the landless and landless peasants, but not to Nanyang at one time, but only five acres per person. In addition, the agricultural tax is also 10 percent. Under the guidance of the government, many landlords had no choice but to sell their land to the government and then engage in industry and commerce. As a result, industry and commerce in Guangdong Province have developed rapidly. When the peasants were allocated land and their living standards improved, they would buy more goods to improve their lives, thus promoting the further development of industry and commerce. The two are mutually reinforcing. And Xinhua will also be able to get more taxes from it to support the reunification of the Xinhua Army!

Shaoguan in northern Guangdong is a key area for the Xinhua Army. Here, the Xinhua Army deployed three infantry brigades. Because, here you have to face the Qing army from Hunan and Jiangxi at the same time. Fortunately, the northern part of Guangdong was mountainous and the traffic conditions were poor, and only a few key passes needed to be deployed to block the Qing army's attack. The Xinhua Army had no problem at all with three infantry brigades to deal with the 50,000 green battalions of Hunan and Jiangxi combined.

On December 2, a group of Qing cavalry came from the north and approached the position of the 5th Infantry Brigade of the Xinhua Army. A battalion of the Xinhua Army was responsible for garrisoning positions in the northern part of Nanxiong County.

"Stop, this is the defense line of the Xinhua Army, if you move forward, don't forget it!" A captain, company commander on the forward position, warned. At the same time, the two 60-mm mortars on the position, as well as the rifles in the hands of the infantrymen, were already aimed at the invading enemy, and they could kill all the cavalry at the command of the company commander.

"Bold, this is Lord Saishan, the minister of the Great Qing Dynasty and the minister of military aircraft, why don't you quickly retreat and let your person in charge come out!" A Qing soldier pointed at the company commander of the Xinhua Army and scolded.

"What bullshit? We are now at war with the Manchus. The company commander said disdainfully. In the eyes of the Xinhua Army, the Qing Army was nothing more than that. In the first battle south of Guangzhou, the 5th Brigade of the Xinhua Army easily defeated more than 20,000 Qing troops with more than 6,000 people.

"Hubris. We are going to Guangzhou to negotiate peace with you, and if you delay a major event, you can't afford to be guilty. The Qing soldiers were furious.

"You wait, we have to report to the superiors." The company commander was not frightened by the Qing army and the threat, and still let the Qing army stop outside the position, and at the same time sent someone to report to the battalion commander.

The commander of the 2nd Battalion of the 5th Brigade of the Xinhua Army also did not know what to do with Lu Dao, and they did not know the news that the Manchus were going to negotiate with Xinhuaguo, so he had to send someone to Shaoguan to ask Brigadier General Zhao Mingfu, the commander of the 5th Brigade, for instructions. It took a day to go back and forth.

The Manchu minister Sai Shanga was very dissatisfied, he was the military minister of the Qing Dynasty, a member of the first rank, who actually stayed in the wilderness for a whole day, he felt that he was insulted by the Xinhua army, and the majesty of the Qing Dynasty was provoked. If it weren't for the fact that there were only a few dozen people he brought with him, and those Xinhua troops had more than a hundred people, and the muskets in their hands seemed to be very difficult to mess with, he would probably have ordered a forced pass. Fortunately, he restrained the anger in his heart, otherwise, he would have been killed by the Xinhua army before he arrived in Guangzhou.

Brigadier General Zhao Mingfu, commander of the 5th Brigade of the Xinhua Army, gave an order and agreed to let go. However, those Qing troops had to hand over their weapons to the Xinhua army. Otherwise, if they break out and hurt people while clearing the level, it will be troublesome. These Qing troops are all cavalry, once they are allowed to get close, the Xinhua army will face a huge threat, for the safety of the defense line, the Xinhua army has to be cautious. (To be continued......)