Chapter 123: Counterinsurgency
"General Qin, this is a letter from the Son of Heaven to you." After the angel read the holy decree, he took out a letter from the Son of Heaven and handed it to Qin Liangyu.
Qin Liangyu took it, read it carefully, with a very strange expression on her face, the content of the letter was written in a straightforward and straightforward manner, and it was clear at a glance, in addition to encouraging her to be loyal to the monarch and patriotism, and to kill the enemy bravely, the most critical content was to tell her that if the commander's command was wrong, or if the friendly army cheated people, resulting in an unfavorable battle situation, and there was a danger of falling into trouble, she could make her own decisions.
This letter is simply the sword above the imperial gift, although there is no privilege of cutting first and then playing, but in addition to having the death-free function of the gold medal for avoiding death, there are also various privileges that can resist the disobedience before the battle, anyway, the cow pen can't do it.
Of course, Zhu Jian understands the role of his letter, which is actually like a double-edged sword, if you use it well, it will be fine, and if you don't use it well, you will be in big trouble, but as a crosser, he clearly knows that Qin Liangyu's character is strong and loyal to Daming, so there is nothing to worry about.
"Your Majesty."
Qin Liangyu whimpered, knelt down in the direction of the Jingshi, and kowtowed respectfully three times, not to mention any high-sounding and lofty slogans, the trust and reuse of the emperor alone was enough to make the Ma and Qin families swear allegiance to the death.
Subsequently, she issued a military order, and the whole army quickly collected camp tents, bags and other things, and 5,000 white-pole elite soldiers embarked on the battle.
Zhu Jian's establishment of white pole soldiers for Qin Liangyu was 6 to 8,000 people, but Qin Liangyu limited the number of soldiers to 5,000, 3,500 white pole spearmen, 1,000 musketeers, 500 people controlled ten Franc machine guns, and at the same time served as a reserve member of the musketeers, and 2,000 logistics auxiliaries who could be put into front-line battles at any time, and the strength was better than before.
During this period, An Bangyan and the 100,000 rebels of Hao Chongming besieged Guizhusi and attacked desperately, and Zhu Xieyuan, the governor of Guizhou, led the army and people of the whole city to rely on the tenacious defense of the fortified city to repel the rebels' crazy attacks again and again.
When Qin Liangyu led his army to Yongning, Xu Chengming, the chief military officer of Guizhou, had recovered Chishuiwei, endangering Shuixi, forcing An Bangyan and Hao Chongming to return to attack Chishuiwei.
Zhu Xieyuan secretly ordered Xu Chengming to feint defeat and lure the enemy, and at the same time ordered the general Lin Zhaoding, deputy generals Wang Guozhen, and Liu Yangkun to attack the three cities of Sancha, Luguang, and Zunyi respectively, cutting off the retreat of the rebels.
An Bangyan wanted to break Yongning first, and then return to the division to meet Lin Zhaoding and other troops, and the Yongning Battle in history began.
Hou Liangzhu, the chief soldier of Sichuan, and Liu Kexun, the deputy envoy of the army, attacked from Shuining, lost a fierce battle with the rebels, and retreated to Shuining.
Qin Liangyu led the white pole army to assist Yongning's officers and troops to defend the city, calmly repelled several strong attacks of the rebels, and took advantage of the situation to kill out of the city, with a thousand musketeers as the front, the three-stage shooting formation to defeat the main force of the rebels, An Bangyan retreated to the top of the mountain, Hou Liangzhu and Liu Kexun took advantage of the situation to attack Taohong Dam, and killed more than 10,000 enemies.
Subsequently, Qin Liangyu, Xu Chengming, Hou Liangzhu, Liu Kexun and other coalition troops took advantage of the fog in the early morning to raid the camp on the top of the mountain, An Bangyan hurriedly responded to the battle, Qin Liangyu ordered the musketeers to suppress the cover, and personally led the white pole soldiers to break the camp, the rebels were defeated, and fled to Exiangling, before they had time to take a breath, Hou Liangzhu covered the army and killed tens of thousands of enemies.
The rebels fled all the way, the Ming army was reluctant to chase and kill, the rebels were defeated again by Jiang Tuchuan, the leader-level leader died more than 140 people, An Bangyan, Hao Chongming and the rebel governor Mo De all died in the chaos, the remnants of the army fled to Shuixi, and the Yongning Battle ended.
An Bangyan's son An Wei led the rest of the troops to continue to resist stubbornly, wanting to rely on the complex and steep terrain of Shuixi to block the Ming army, Zhu Xieyuan adopted the combat policy of attacking from all sides and gradually purifying, stationed troops at dangerous checkpoints, gradually compressed the activity space of the Shuixi rebels, cut off their material supplies, and after more than 30 days of encirclement and suppression, beheaded 10,000 enemies, An Wei surrendered more than 60 days earlier than the original history, and the rebellion of Shuixi and luxury subsided.
The good news was transmitted to the Beijing Division, the court was jubilant, Zhu Jian wantonly rewarded the meritorious soldiers, this time to counterbalance the rebellion, in addition to the commander Zhu Xieyuan's command, the soldiers served their lives, and the supply of materials could be ensured, in fact, although the rebels of peace and luxury claimed to be 100,000 horses, but the combat power was not high, more scum than the people's army, it was normal to be beaten on the ground by the Ming army, Qin Liangyu and her white pole soldiers did not have too much brilliant performance, but Zhu Jian was still full of confidence in her.
During the period when the Ming army violently beat the rebels, Zhu Jian has not been idle, and he and the imperial military advisers and the civil officials of the imperial party are busy tinkering with the "Daming Times".
Newspapers are not a new thing in the Ming Dynasty, and the newspapers at the beginning were famous for their literati, mainly publishing articles, and slowly evolved into discussions on political affairs, comments on political opponents, etc., and gradually formed one of the mainstream channels for understanding today's political affairs.
The most powerful weapon of the Donglin Party is public opinion, controlling public opinion is equivalent to standing on the commanding heights of morality, a small thing can use public opinion to expand it to infinity, black can be said to be white, white can be said to be black, Ruan Dacheng was originally used by the Donglin Party to use public opinion to spray his skin, wanting to die, and finally was forced to resign and run away, and he endured it for several years before making a comeback.
Ruan Dacheng naturally knew the power of public opinion, and after returning strongly, he gathered people from the Jiangnan Department to set up the "Jiangnan Daily" to control part of the public opinion, so that he could barely compete with the Donglin Party.
Of course, Zhu Jian knows the doorway inside, so he did not hesitate to spend some energy, manpower and financial resources to set up the "Daming Times", and the new newspaper must not be compared with the "Donglin Daily" of the Donglin Party and the "Jiangnan Daily" of the Jiangnan faction.
These aspects are not difficult for Zhu Jian from modern times, he copycats some modern lace tabloid practices, publishes some anecdotes, lace news, some brain teaser jokes, etc., whether it is the ancients or modern people, from the lack of people burning gossip heart, some fresh and interesting things are easier to accept, and the article carrier is in an easy-to-understand vernacular, as long as ordinary people who know a few words can understand, the last step is to fight a price war, anyway, the price will be better than the Donglin Bao and Jiangnan Bao are nearly half cheaper, and they make small profits but sell them quickly, not to mention that the real purpose of running a newspaper is not to make money, but to control public opinion in society.
To collect all kinds of small street news and gossip, you need some clever people to run errands, the new professional post of the Ming version of the reporter was born, of course, ordinary people can also come to the newspaper to sell some news, depending on the fun, viewing, entertainment of the news to give a certain amount of remuneration, as for the authenticity of the news, will be noted in words, the authenticity of the news also needs to be confirmed by the reporter again, and bear the relevant responsibility after the fact, want to fool the fake can not be.
Newspaper editors can be recruited easily, "Daming Times" is based on simple, easy-to-understand vernacular text, does not require too high writing skills, the streets are full of down-and-out readers, in order to make a living, only a few editors have N million readers signed up for the competition, the competition is so fierce that it is indescribable.
After more than ten days of intense planning, the first issue of "Daming Times" was finally published.
"Read the newspaper and read the newspaper, "Daming Times" is freshly baked, it looks good and fun, it is given away for free, read the newspaper and read the newspaper, "Daming Times" is freshly baked, it is good to watch and fun, and it is given away for free......"