Chapter 65: The War of the Heart
A secret imperial document was rolled up in a bundle and smashed against the carved dragon's sandalwood table. Emperor Yongcheng was very angry, a year ago I don't know where the traitors appeared, in the mountains of southern China, 70,000 or 80,000 troops went in to suppress for a year, and the lost soldiers were retreated to the Guangzhou area for repair. The war in the Huai River valley near the southern capital was equally irritating, with 30,000 troops quickly stagnating after entering the war zone, relying on a series of cities in the eastern part of Anhui Province. Defense, as for the remote and impoverished mining county to the west of Anhui Province, it is possible to easily suppress an imperial army with ten times the number of religious soldiers in Western Asia. It has not been able to destroy the rebels entrenched here.
Now there are three stacks of reports on Yongcheng's table, one stack is the front commander of the Imperial Army, Sun Ze's request for food and grass for mules and horses, supplies, and a request for forty aircraft. Now Sun Ze also understands that these armies of his own are not here to suppress the rebellion. If you suppress the rebellion and go directly to the location of the rebellion, you can decide the victory or defeat against the thief army. The Imperial Army found itself now in search of bandits.
Ren Di's army organized and premeditated the destruction of local gentry. The effect is already being felt militarily. In the past, the Ming army suppressed the miners' riots # and the rice grabbing commotion. The local gentry can quickly guide the king. Easily chase the thief army.
But now, the local gentry have disappeared abruptly, and the local people who farm the land have encountered the crossing of the border by officers and soldiers, just like hiding from the plague. The system of controlling the local area is easy to destroy, but difficult to establish. Society is a kind of relationship between people, and local management needs to establish this relationship between people. The relationship between the manager and the managed is not inherently inherently a king. can be used as a manager.
Without the control of the local gentry, the imperial army could not even buy food. If you expect the soldiers to go to the house to buy food, pay the bill in person. Have you forgotten the gun in your hand when the Imperial Army? Obviously, you can get food by intimidating it, and it comes with a flower girl. Why spend your own silver coins. The Ming army will definitely collect the sufficient amount of grain, and then collect the silver coins that the commander asked him to pay. The officers of the modern army are all smart people, and the clever practices of the people below cannot hide them. Therefore, no officer will give money to soldiers and let them buy it after giving an order to requisition food on the spot.
The slogan of loyalty to the monarch and patriotism to protect the territory and the people can still be maintained as a tailwind situation in the imperial army, but now it has been detouring all day for dozens of days. From time to time, he was shot cold, stationed outside and attacked, and no one's good temper could help but sharpen. After walking around, I didn't find the enemy, and when I saw the people in the countryside watching the play, the old men of these armies had a bad temper, and everyone looked like bandits. And this place is not as prosperous as Nandu. The local chickens in the brothel can't satisfy these soldiers. So risking the danger to go out of the city to fight, there is naturally a desire to vent and indulge. This sentiment was not dared to be suppressed even if the commander of the Imperial Army wanted to. The soldier's mood was already irritated to the extreme. It must be channeled.
As for where to channel these tyrannical emotions? Venting in the city? Now most of the local councillors are gathered in the city, and the voices of these local councils can be heard directly to the sky. Therefore, these people in the city who have the right to speak cannot afford to bully. Then the only outlet is the local mustard people. What's more, the old men in the local council now hate the Diao people in the township so much, their own family property has been divided, and the people around them have benefited, and they have kicked themselves, and everyone has a mood of wanting to take revenge on the society.
This trick could be seen by some of the squires, but in this tide of anger, this wisdom was quickly drowned out. As the military discipline of the Ming army in Huaibei deteriorated, the local peasants began to take sides in this cruel war.
In an era when the peasants dominated the population of China, a regime that neglected the largest masses of the people was bound to turn from prosperity to decline. The activities of the Ming army in Western Anhui were increasingly restricted. And the Red Republican Army seems to be getting more and more brave in battle. A week after the first annihilation of a regiment of the Ming Army, three campaigns were launched at the same time, and by the same means, the Red Republican Army, which was several times larger than the Ming Army, was quickly mobilized, with the squad as the combat unit. Launch an assault under the cover of rapid-fire artillery. Interspersed with cuts, wiped out in a few hours. Two regiments of the Ming army were disabled, and fourteen battalions were abolished. A total of 3,400 casualties were lost.
Sun Ze now has a headache, his own army is gathered together, and if he doesn't come from the other side, he scatters, and the enemy army quickly pounces on it and gnaws a small piece. In the textbook traditional # battle examples, it is usually a general battle, a one-time decision, a powerful firepower bombardment, and then see who can't withstand it first, and then end with one side defeated. Crisp and neat. And this kind of battle, up to a month. No winner or loser was decided. Sun Ze found out that the opposite side was fighting a battle against himself who had the advantage in firepower.
This was a serious test for Sun Ze's imperial army in terms of logistical supply. The longer it drags on, the longer the logistical formations that need to be transported will be. It is impossible for tens of thousands of imperial troops to leave their baggage and run back to the southern capital to eat. The heavy weapons are there, and so many people can't leave.
However, Sun Ze didn't want to admit defeat, and the glorious family glory made him unable to admit defeat. His report to the Central Committee of the Empire was that he wanted mules and horses, cavalry, and airplanes. Luckily, I hope that after the rebels have won again and again, they will have a decisive battle with their main force.
However, Sun Ze's report just ignited the dissatisfaction of Emperor Yongcheng of the Ming Dynasty. Another stack of paper on the Yongcheng table is full of the impeachment of Sun Ze by members of Congress. Fearing the enemy without fighting, one general is incapable of killing thousands of troops, these old men who are far away from war are in a hurry. Anxious for their own money.
Anhui mining represents a group of interests, although the province of Anhui is poor, Suzhou, Anhui, Jing, Shandong, and several other prosperous provinces are connected, the location of traffic is extremely important, the local railway line is cut off, which is a group of commercial interests. As Hai Song's industrial area is dominated by the Shanghai Concession, it is affected by the shortage of ore. So the push in Congress. Well, the elders of the older generation of Hai Song may have instilled too much when they were young, and there were very few war materials on the theme of the Red Revolution, and the priority was to translate all technical materials. Therefore, the current patriarch does not have the same awareness of Jiang Gong as to what is happening in the Ming Dynasty at the moment.
Since the south of Chongzhen in the Ming Dynasty, the monarchy began to compromise with the local gentry and began to rule the world together. The world is not only the world of emperors, but also the world of scholars. The emperor made a compromise of rights, and the local gentry also made a compromise on paying taxes. The gentry also understood that it was impossible to protect themselves without an army, and Li Zicheng went to Beijing to squeeze out tens of millions of taels of silver, giving a lesson to the Ming Emperor who would not let go of power, and at the same time, he also gave a lesson to the gentry. The gentry class, who controlled a large amount of capital, began to seize state power. To a large extent, the stability of the country was ensured, even if there were small-scale peasant uprisings. Also the logistically adequate Imperial Army was wiped out. What is it in Hai Song's words? That's right, there was no revolution in the era of breech guns.
Indeed, the powerful forces of the reactionaries have been entrenched for seventy years. This era was caused by the previous wave of traversers carrying super-era technology, and now Ren Di's wave of traversers has brought super-era struggle ideas. No revolution in the era of breech guns? That's because the Europeans are too servile.
Yongcheng's desk had already drafted a letter of dismissal against Sun Ze, Yongcheng picked it up and looked at it, and instead of stamping it with his jade seal, he put it in his drawer and pressed it with a paperweight.
Yongcheng picked up the third stack of papers on his desk, which was the intelligence from the Imperial Secret Service Group Jinyiwei on the rebellion in Western Anhui. On the first page, Ren Di's sketch portrait jumps onto the page. With a bang, Yongcheng turned the page. The following records the materials purchased by Ren Di in the Anqing Exchange in 1701, more than 5,000 tons of grain, 3,000 tons of various types of steel, and 40 tons of nitric acid.
And the approximate forecast of the number of troops possessed so far, about 15,000 to 20,000 taels. Later in the report, it is written that the number of troops is still increasing. In terms of the use of artillery, it was clear that the core of the army did not resemble a traditional peasant uprising.
Looking at the report, Yongcheng leaned back in his chair, and the eunuch next to him got a signal and stepped forward to gently help Yongcheng squeeze his temples. Yongcheng's face gradually relaxed, and then he asked the eunuch behind him, "Li Banban, how is Yuerong there?" The eunuch replied: "Your Majesty, the eldest princess, be well." The Haisong newspaper interviewed His Royal Highness the day before yesterday, and the eldest princess now has the title of General Phoenix. ”
Yongcheng frowned, sighed, and said, "It's time for her to get married." The queen mother now misses her. After a moment of silence, Yongcheng said, "What about today's newspaper?" Yongcheng asked, and Eunuch Li's face turned bitter. Emperor Yongcheng looked skeptical. Immediately said majestically: "Give me the newspaper." ”
Dozens of seconds later, the newspaper was spread out on Emperor Yongcheng's desk, and the headline on it was a striking big character - women do not let their eyebrows be shaved. Below is a smaller title, Her Royal Highness the Eldest Princess: "If you don't break the thief's nest, you won't return it." ”
Camera cuts. War is not a playhouse, it is not a toy, no matter what you are fighting for, the cruelty of war will not be reduced in any way, and with ideology, it is just that you can bear a little more of the cruelty of war.
Ren Di sat in this ward, which was full of disabled people, and did not say a word. Some were blind, others had broken legs. Sulfonamides have been used, which have dramatically reduced the rate of casualties among soldiers infected by infection. But bullets, shrapnel, bayonets can still take human lives. Ren Di has a very good memory, most of the people in the army can call out their names, and they have an impression of every fresh life. However, Ren Di is now a little scared at night, afraid that after a few days, the person who used to talk to him will suddenly disappear.
Not far away, on the school grounds, there was a group of soldiers recovering from two months of physical fitness. Soon to be replenished to the army. "Is it really worth it" Looking at these, the sunny young people walked to the battlefield with the beliefs they had instilled, just for a belief that did not oppress society. Ren Di couldn't help asking, "Is it really worth it?" This generation will pay a lot for the establishment of a new society, but it is the descendants who will benefit from the new society, and these descendants do not understand the past, and they do not know the good and bad and slander the foolish hat of the giver. ”
If Ren Di himself was in the position of these soldiers, he would definitely say: "It's not worth it." It's stupid to fight for benefits that you don't enjoy. ”
Ren Di is an evolutionary officer who has jumped into the firepower era in one step. I have never been an emperor, I have never been a superior. In the end, it's still the heart of an otaku. And the cruelty of war will forge Ren Di's heart. The ruthlessness of the absolute superior may be able to have a subtle influence in many missions to be the king of God, but now it is too fast for Ren Di, and the ruthlessness is not attached.
Ren Di's eyes regained his composure and said, "I should be a coward." ”