388 Retaliation of the Taipings
A group of ordinary townspeople, even if there are guerrilla members in them, are no match for the battle-hardened Taiping soldiers when they are unarmed and defenseless, and even in the last crazy moment, many male townspeople rush in front of the Taiping soldiers who are firing, and they will be easily picked to death by the soldiers of the Heavenly King's Guards who are proficient in bayonet hand-to-hand combat.
The fighting power between elite soldiers and civilians is like a chasm, not to mention the fact that one side is armed with a murderous weapon and the other is barehanded......
As for the TV series, an ordinary old man can knock to death a veteran who has experienced a hundred battles with just a wooden stick, purely for the effect of artistic beautification, the veteran who really crawled out of the sea of corpses and blood on the battlefield, even if he can't see and hear in all directions, it is almost the same, and it is impossible to be successfully attacked by an ordinary person in broad daylight!
What happened in this town happened one by one in all areas except the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom itself, and the Taiping army divided them into village heads, town mayors and other plenipotentiary officials according to their dedication to the heavenly kingdom of the white traitors of the heavenly kingdom, and accepted local rule instead of the Taiping army.
Every time the small troops of the Taiping Army went to a village or town, they would loot all the useful materials such as food in advance, and according to the performance of the appointed town mayor or village head, they would give the other party a certain amount of help, and eradicate some recalcitrant resistance elements along the way.
Anyone who dared to disobey the Taiping soldiers would be severely executed!
Many white civilians in villages and towns, because their rations were robbed, and at the instigation of the guerrillas, there were large-scale clashes with the Taiping army, which was naturally welcomed by the Taiping soldiers, because it meant that the Taiping army did not have to go to great lengths to find the guerrilla nest.
The battle on the surface was the easiest for the soldiers of the Heavenly King's Guard.
This behavior of the Taiping Army quickly attracted the attention of the anti-Han allies, and the Taiping Army did too much, and many white villages and towns that resisted were slaughtered and burned into a pile of white land, not one or two, but dozens or hundreds!
The same tragedy happened from time to time in the Italian peninsula, and when it came to protecting their property, the Italians rarely lost their cowardice and chose to resist or die......
Naturally, the anti-Han allies did not feel heartache for the tragic death of those civilians, they just saw an opportunity to disrupt the rear of the Taiping army!
One by one, spies from the anti-Han allies began to carry out propaganda campaigns in areas poisoned by the Taipings, and trained hateful whites to form new guerrilla units.
Because the original guerrillas suffered heavy losses under the Taiping Army's three-light policy, after all, few people who could be guerrillas could endure the Taiping Army's blatant robbery, and almost all of them were completely wiped out in the confrontation.
A team of 100 Heavenly King's Guards is enough to easily defeat and annihilate a guerrilla force composed of hundreds of people, and the guerrillas are scattered organizations, and the backbone combat members of a region are only about a few hundred.
However, to the horror of the anti-Han Allied spies, the guerrilla units they had formed were in serious shortage!
The reason is very simple, the vast majority of white men who were dissatisfied with the Taiping Army were slaughtered, and the remaining ones either lived in the big cities where the Taiping Army was stationed, or were arranged to go over to the white traitor family, whose hands were also stained with the blood of their compatriots, and naturally it was impossible for them to join the guerrillas.
Moreover, those who are willing to be traitors are all people who think that the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom is invincible, how can they go to the guerrilla rebels who have no prospects?
Don't you think you're dying fast enough?
The spies of the anti-Han allies soon sensed that white traitor treason was becoming the mainstream, and those who resisted were dead, and the rest were traitors, and traitors naturally became the mainstream......
Therefore, the spies began to form hoe teams one by one, and the spread of traitorous ideas was even more terrible than the rule of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, because it meant that the rebellion consciousness in the land ruled by the Taiping army was rapidly dying!
It is impossible to confront the Taiping army, and without enough soldiers, it is impossible to gather a large number of cannon fodder...... Oh no, it's a guerrilla fighter, so naturally it can't send the battle record to the Taiping army.
But it is much easier to deal with the white traitors, most of the white traitors only have cold weapons, at most they have a few flintlock shotguns, the number is not large, and the war is not professional, the spies with a few local guerrilla fighters with combat experience can hit a black stick, and then in front of the locals, publicly get rid of these white traitors, let the locals know that the Taiping army is not invincible, and the fate of following them is to be killed by the hoe team!
I have to say that the spies' routine of avoiding the important and trivializing is really effective, and the white civilians who have been frightened into obedience by the brutal methods of the Taiping Army are so frightened by the methods of the hoe team that they dare not betray the country anymore, and the atmosphere of betraying the country and seeking glory has gradually faded.
Soon, the Taiping army found out about this situation, and then, the Taiping army dispatched on a large scale again, and Hong Tiancheng would not allow the consciousness of resistance to reawaken!
Anyway, Hong Tiancheng never cared about the life or death of white civilians......
When the Taiping army entered the towns and villages where the white traitors were executed, the members of the hoe gang had long since disappeared, leaving only a group of ordinary local whites to bear the wrath of the Taiping army.
Fortunately, the Taiping army is still reasonable, and will ask white civilians about the whereabouts of the hoe team, and if the information given is true, the Taiping army can even let them take the place of the dead white traitor.
It's just that the hoe gang has already established its authority by killing people, and the hoe gang is elusive, and it is impossible to inform the local white civilians of their whereabouts, so the Taiping army naturally cannot get specific information.
In this regard, the Taiping army's approach was very simple, they pronounced that the local white people did not protect the officials appointed by the Taiping army, and they would be punished with joint punishment, so that the entire village or town was slaughtered because no effective information was provided!
The Taiping army wants to kill people and establish power, and let the local white people know that after the arrival of the hoe team, if they do not stand on the side of the white traitors to deal with the hoe team, the whole village and town will go to hell together to be buried!
I have to say that the Taiping Army's approach inadvertently made those white traitors feel warm in their hearts, and they could let the people of a village or even a town be buried with their own deaths, this honor is really good for an ordinary person!
In this way, the hoe team and the Taiping army fought repeatedly in the local area, but it was the local white civilians who suffered, and most of the white villages and towns were retained in the Tuou plan, but under the rampant hoe team and the retaliation of the Taiping army, the casualties of white civilians began to rise sharply!