Chapter Eighty-Seven: The End
Under the course of the war, the Red Republican Army was obviously a little struggling, after all, people are not machines, five or six days of high-intensity fighting, an average of only a few hours of sleep a day, even if there is an iron will, it cannot block the dead rule of physiological limits. As for the Imperial Army's side, the Fifth Group has been beaten to death. The command of the various departments went into a state of confusion. However, this confusion was also discovered by the staff of the Red Republican Army, and soon some of the soldiers of the Fifth Army found that the fire from the north was weakened. Some daring soldiers began to break through in this direction. Heavy equipment and a large number of weapons and ammunition were discarded, and they escaped from the republican army in embarrassment.
Because it was a flight, I didn't bring all the bulky equipment. The exiled troops were also emboldened, and after escaping the encirclement, they rushed north like refugees, freeing some 6,000 members of the Fifth Army from the encirclement. However, after letting these people go, Ren Di's command immediately commanded and began to launch a fierce attack on the area where Zhang Xiang, the headquarters of the Fifth Army, was located. Three hours after the attack, when the Republican soldiers broke within 300 meters of the headquarters of the Fifth Army, the headquarters of the Fifth Army hoisted the white flag. Zhang Xiang, the commander of the empire, chose to be as loyal to the empire as the commander of the Third Army at the last moment of the defeat, and committed suicide by swallowing a gun.
This is already the third group army of the empire, from the commander to the formation, it was completely destroyed by Ren Di. A year ago, Di didn't dare to think about it, and of course the Ming Empire wouldn't think about it. Now Ren Di still has more than 60,000 people in his hands, and the last enemy he faces is only 20,000 people of the Seventh Army. At this time, however, the war entered a period of relative peace. Why peace? Because the last army group is already a turtle in the urn of the Red Republican Army. At this time, Ren Di was no longer in a hurry.
Ren Di is now in peace, and Nandu is now crazy. To be exact, the mind is on the spot. Obviously, as agreed a month ago, the imperial army will meet to exterminate the rebels in the central region, and then go south to clean up the southern bandits. Before the main lord in the south was encountered, the thieves in the place where Taizu was born in this dynasty began to sweep Liuhe. What the hell went wrong. Could it be that Fengyang's dragon spirit is so strong that the old Zhu family can't stop it and start to go out of the wall.
The warm and humid air from the southeast and the cold air from the north staggered with gloomy weather in the south, adding a gloomy atmosphere to the Imperial Hall. The emperor looked at the quarrel of the ministers below with a gloomy face, and the military was already drenched in blood by the civilian faction at this time. If the battle is like this, the black cauldron must be thrown out.
"Are you military pigs, before the war, you swore that the rebels in the central part are like chickens and dogs, and under the thunder of the army of nets on all sides, there is no armor left. You want the Arms Empire to give it to you, you want financial support, the Empire has given it to you, now what? "It was not Emperor Yongcheng who said these words, but an impassioned civil official of the Donglin faction. In the political arena of the Ming Dynasty, the Donglin faction was hit once during the invasion of the Later Jin, and then with Qian Qianyi as the leader, it actively embraced the foreign aid of the Hai Song Dynasty politically, and advocated moving closer to the friendly country of the Hai Song Dynasty after the economic war, and became the comprador class of the Ming Empire.
In the current military defeat, the Donglin faction began to attack the military, but in fact, there was a question about the dominance of the imperial power in the military. The Imperial military had been beaten to death by this time. The Donglin faction now wants to get involved in military power, and just a few days ago, the observers of the Hai Song Dynasty handed over a report on the integration of local regimental training, asking the fully open and enlightened parliamentarians to call on the local gentry of the empire to organize local armies and organize a parliamentary army under the training of military experts from the Hai Song Dynasty. This will allow for a more effective mobilization of the power of the Empire.
When centralized authority is challenged, other members of a power system will inevitably try to fill in and replace it. The bourgeois revolution in power is by no means a revolution in which the planners of the revolution cannot survive. Taking Ren Diwei's American Revolution as an example, the famous Boston tea party incident was not a tax increase by the British Empire, but a tax reduction on tea, and the interests of a group of smugglers were damaged. God is pitiful, the British Empire has never treated the American colonies badly when it looted wealth and burned and looted all over the world. Individuals in the United States pay a little more than a little more than a shilling, while local individuals pay dozens of shillings. As a result, these American profiteers colluded with the French and began a revolution.
In the same way, the current Ming Empire is a dynasty established by compromise between the imperial power and the gentry power. When the imperial power was damaged, the parliament decided to expand its power. Of course, the gentry asked to expand their power at this time because someone gave them confidence, and the person behind this was Hai Song. There is a political undercurrent surging in the Daming Palace, and the people who are circling in it will be swept up if they don't pay attention to it, and there will be no residue left to swallow it.
Yongcheng's gloomy face suddenly smiled, and he smiled weirdly. said: "With Huang Aiqing's suggestion, what should I do now?" An old man with a gray beard said leisurely: "The old minister's eyesight and hearing have been declining day by day, and I am afraid that he will not be able to listen to the saints." "Huang Zongxi, an old man who was originally in 1695, was a great thinker both in this plane and in the original plane. A character who was focused on supporting after being noticed by Hai Song. At the same time, his disciples and grandchildren were a powerful political force in the Ming court. This person who talked casually with Yongcheng was the son of Huang Zongxi of the Huang Baijia family.
When Yongcheng heard this answer, his breathing became heavy. There is a culture called calm air in the officialdom of the Ming Dynasty. The two sides sit together, and the two of them are old gods who often drink tea in Youzai, and then wait for the other party to exit first. Show that there is a request for the other party. Obviously, this forced character is now thrown here in Yongcheng, and Huang Baili almost didn't say: "You want Corporal Lixian." Of course, Yongcheng understood what the other side meant. Suppressing his anger, he said with a smile: "Aiqing, but it doesn't hurt to say it." ”
Huang Baili said: "Lao Chen believes that with the current situation of the empire, if you do not seek external forces, you will not be able to quell this disaster. ”
The camera switched, Ren Di walked slowly in the trench, carefully avoiding the barefoot girls in the trench. When resting, the feet are raised and then barefooted, which is required by the command, in order to prevent the trench feet. A person's feet will rot if they are in a humid environment for more than 20 hours. However, now is the rest time of the soldiers, and they are tired after the highly tense battle, and the soldiers sleep to death as soon as they relax, and they can't wake up without a wake-up number.
However, at this time, the soldiers stood up and saluted him, and Ren Di did not think it was necessary to do so. When the officers in this position saw Ren Di, Ren Di made a quiet gesture and came to a pre-war headquarters to start talking. Ren Di took out a pen and looked at the uneasy head of the regiment and said, "Relax, I'll listen to what you say next." Eight hours of fighting, talk about your offensive plan. ”
The officer spread out the map and said: "We now occupy this high ground ,......" In the process of explaining, Ren Di stretched out his head from time to time to look at the physical landscape in the distance, listening to the officer's explanation.
Without investigation, there is no right to speak, Ren Di now asked some people in the command to go to various positions on the battlefield to take a look with their own eyes, listen to the opinions of the front-line officers, and then come back to have a meeting with everyone to summarize. Going to the front line is naturally a dangerous job. So the command is sent on a rotational basis. Now it's Ren Di's turn.
After listening to this, Ren Di spread out the map and said, "You are here to be a key point in the next general attack. How many of the tasks assigned to you by our headquarters can you accomplish? What kind of support do you need? And what kind of cooperation does the surrounding brother troops have? Ren Di said a few questions. These problems would be very easy if they were supported by the equipment of the informationized troops in later generations. As for now, the speed of the telegraph to exchange information is too slow to explain the tactical problems on the topographic map, so Ren Di decided to run over and ask directly opposite. The interrogation quickly yielded results.
Half an hour later, after Ren Di returned to the headquarters, a guard officer saluted Ren Di and said, "Report to the commander, Zuo Zitang, a general-level prisoner of the Ninth Group Army of the Ming Army in the prisoner camp, wants to see you." Ren Di said: "No." The guard officer said, "But he said that if you don't see him, he will go on a hunger strike." Ren Di said angrily: "Whatever he wants, hand him the Jinling Times for the past two days and tell him that he wants to die, and many people welcome him to commit suicide in fear of sin." After the guards left, Ren Di said disdainfully: "What an adult, you still learn to be angry with children." What does it matter to me whether you live or die?"
Ren Di put down stacks of front-line record reports, and according to the priority of the next attack, each observer who arrived at the front line conveyed the combat intentions of the front-line officers of the observed positions in turn. and the situation with the state of soldiers with front-line weapons. After the meeting, the military command began to develop a plan for the operation.
Ren Di breathed a sigh of relief and was about to close the net. A month is as long as a year has passed. I thought I was fighting alone, but now it has become a sweep of thousands of troops.
March 3, 1704. The Red Republican Army launched an encirclement campaign against the last 20,000 men of the Seventh Army in the encirclement. Four hundred and twenty artillery pieces, captured and already produced, launched an offensive against the Seventh Army of the Imperial Army in three directions.
To the north-west of the position, part of the Fifth Army was absorbed by the Seventh Army on the battlefield due to the collapse of the Fifth Army. There are about 3,000 people in this group. This is also the product of Ren Di's policy of releasing people to the Fifth Army, and the officers of the Fifth Army, who were unable to take down the Republican Army in surprise again and again, immediately absorbed this army after seeing the available forces appear. Organize defensive positions. But that's when something happened.
The officers of the Fifth Army of the Imperial Army drove the soldiers of the Imperial Army to charge, and of course let the men of the Fifth Army charge. However, after several heavy casualties, these officers and soldiers from the Fifth Army felt aggrieved, "Is Nima here to be cannon fodder for you?" As a result, these upright and cheerful Northeast men, after finding that they could not resist when the Red Republican Army launched an attack, surrendered on a large scale and killed the supervisors of the Fifth Army in front of the uprising???
It's like swinging a hammer to smash a wall, only to find that when the hammer goes down, it's not a brick wall but an earthen wall. The Red Republican Army's Peak suddenly made a big gap in the already fragile defense line of the Imperial Army.
When Ren Di heard the news, he thought of the mountaineering that had repeatedly appeared in TV records emphasizing elimination. Adhering to the idea that the enemy had made a mistake and that he would have to put an end to it by countering the ideological method, Ren Di thought about it for a while. Evaluations are given, and everything comes from the desire of individuals to control the army. Yuan Dashuai often gave soldiers such a paragraph of "Whose meal to eat?" The soldier said: "Eat Yuan Dashuai's meal" When the salary was paid: "Whose salary do you take?" The soldier said: "Take Yuan Dashuai's salary." As a result, in the Republic of China, in order to ensure the loyalty of the soldiers, the commanders gave themselves such a paragraph. Until the establishment of the party# state, the tricks of playing allegiance to so-and-so in the army emerged one after another, and the factions of the army were complicated.
Soldiers are very honest, and once they are given allegiance to someone, then the soldier understands that someone can be allegiance. And the person who came up with this is a smart person, who wants the soldier to be loyal to him, but not only a smart person in the world, everyone realizes that they can do this thing. So the army factions are in a miasma. It is clear that there are also factions in the Imperial army on the opposite side.
Ren Di recorded here in his memo that in order to prevent the birth of a faction, the concept of allegiance to someone must not be allowed to breed in the army, and it is necessary to fight for a certain idea. The party commands the gun, not the gun.
The Great Battle of East China began to come to an end.