Chapter 358: The Crusade (Subscription Requested)
Sanyuanguan has 50,000 more local workers, whose relatives and friends are in Guangzhou, so it can be said that at least 300,000 people will be directly affected by these workers, and another million will be indirectly affected by these people.
This means that at least half of the more than 2 million people in Guangzhou will be directly or indirectly affected by the three-dimensional view, which is very frightening.
Guangzhou was occupied by the Huaxia army for more than half a year, the market was quite stable, there was no large-scale conflict between the army and the people, and the rule of the Huaxia army in the city of Guangzhou was becoming more and more stable, and it must be said that a large part of it was due to the above.
Of course, from another point of view, Wang Jiuxuan is willing to invest so much money to buy grain to stabilize prices, and also said that because there are many workers of his own sect in Guangzhou, there is a need to help them maintain their livelihood.
If it weren't for these reasons, Wang Jiuxuan was not a fool, how could he spend so much money on a loss-making business to stabilize the situation in Guangzhou.
Relatively speaking, Li Xian's roots are in Leizhou, and he does not have much affection for Guangzhou, nor does he have many demands, and he does not have much willingness to invest in Guangzhou, and his foothold and strategic purpose are very different from the three-element concept.
Therefore, the three-element view controls the basic situation of Guangzhou, and Li Xian seeks the development of peripheral towns, and the emergence of this situation has the necessary logic for its existence.
No matter what kind of Xiao Jiujiu the Sanyuanguan and the Mixed Yuan Sect each turned, one thing was certain, that is, they must start an army as soon as possible to conquer the east, occupy other towns that were still under the control of the Qing court, and obtain the necessary supplies for Guangzhou.
This time the Eastern Crusade will not be as anticlimactic as the last time, and will be satisfied with signing any agreement in Bao'an County.
The Huaxia Guangfu Army is actually two major factions of the Mixed Yuan Sect and the Sanyuan Sect, which have independent establishments for each other, and they attach great importance to this Eastern Crusade, and they are all going all out.
According to the plans of both sides, this expedition was led by Li Xian with 15,000 regular troops, of which 10,000 were the troops of the Mixed Yuan Sect, and the other 5,000 were the troops of the Sanyuan Temple.
It's just that as soon as he was ready to go on the expedition, he was a moth.
According to Li Xian's use of soldiers, he has always paid attention to vigorous and resolute action, since he decided to go to war, he must start from Guangzhou within three days, and then quickly sweep Dongguan and other cities, and land in Bao'an County, and then quickly defeat Yang Fang's troops stationed in Bao'an County, end all battles within ten days, and then return to Guangzhou with a large amount of supplies.
However, after the expedition was determined, the headquarters of the Mixed Yuan Sect was also stopped, and during this time, they were training outside the city of Guangzhou, and even entered the blessed land to conduct various jungle operations, and they were quickly assembled, but the five thousand regular troops of Sanyuanguan were not satisfactory.
Originally, after the occupation of Guangzhou, Sanyuanguan brought most of the troops into the city of Guangzhou and stationed them in various places in the city to maintain law and order.
These soldiers, who lived in comfortable cities, were so accustomed to slackness that they could not go directly into combat for a while, and were slow to carry out all kinds of orders, and it took two or three days just to assemble, and then to collect bedding and weapons and ammunition, and it took another two or three days to get the bedding and weapons and ammunition in between.
Moreover, some soldiers still have some complaints below, and they are very reluctant to leave the comfort of Guangzhou and fight in the field.
What is even more worrying is those officers, most of the officers of the Sanyuanguan army are the original Sanyuanguan warriors, although they are restrained by Xuanzheng and Wang Jiuxuan and others after entering the city of Guangzhou, but as the leader of the occupation army, they also enjoy various privileges.
This time he suddenly had to fight, but he was not so corrupt that he couldn't even pick up a weapon, but he did things carelessly, and some of them didn't even have any weapons under their own hands, and they bragged about how comfortable they lived in the city and how many women they slept with from big families.
Li Xian's face darkened suddenly, but it was not good to be too demanding of the army of Sanyuanguan, so he could only delay the time of sending troops, pull the troops outside the city, and train for fifteen days in a row, feeling that the troops had re-entered the state of war, and then decided to officially send troops.
Li Xian's training has always been lenient and severe, but in the past 15 days, he only showed a stern side, and trained the troops, especially the 5,000 people of Sanyuanguan, to death, which made many officers complain bitterly, and even reported to Xuan Zheng, Wang Jiuxuan and others that Li Xian was too harsh, but in the end they were all suppressed by two people.
Xuan Zheng and Wang Jiuxuan understood how serious the current situation was, and they understood the significance of the army's combat effectiveness to their own strength, so they naturally would not watch their army fall.
In short, the fact that the troops were supposed to be dispatched within three days was delayed until 20 days before they could officially march into the army, which made the financial shortage of the Huaxia Army a little more serious, and made Li Xian and other military officials very unhappy.
When the army set off from Guangzhou, arrived all the way to Dongguan, and lined up outside the city, the magistrate of Dongguan County became an ant on a hot pot in his own home.
"Woe to you, woe to you, after these rebels occupied Guangzhou, they cowered in the Guangzhou Mansion, and did not send troops to attack other counties, I only said that these people have seen the prosperity of Guangzhou, and they have no intention of fighting again, and they have no spirit to fight for hegemony in the world, but I didn't expect to send troops this time.
Now there are only a few hundred green battalion soldiers in the city, and most of them are old and weak. The magistrate was so anxious that his mouth was about to bubble.
"This gang of gods, but sir, it is said that these people use soldiers like gods, when the six princes led 100,000 troops were all annihilated, sir, don't think about serving the country with loyalty and hard work.
Now that the other side is strong, why don't we run through the back door. The county magistrate's wife didn't have an idea, so she could only persuade her master to run away.
"I don't want to run, but you don't know the laws of the court, and you can't see the pro-people officials escaping.
If I run away now, even if I escape and let the court take it, I myself will be scratched by others, and my family will be affected, the men will be exiled, and the women will be sold to become official prostitutes.
I can't say it, I can only fight hard with the rebels, and I can save my name and family. Thinking of the consequences of escaping, the magistrate had to ignite the idea of fighting desperately.
"Then what is it, you are going to fight the rebels, if there is a mistake, what should our family do?" When the county magistrate's wife heard this, she couldn't help crying and grabbed the ground.
It's going on here, and the wife of the county magistrate next to her turned out to be a famous prostitute in the city, and she usually reads countless people, so she has a little insight after all, so she hurriedly mentioned it and said:
"Master, no matter what, this traitor has hit the city, should we close the city gate first, recruit the soldiers, and then think about how to retreat from the enemy?"
The magistrate was stunned for a moment, only to remember that he knew the news of the enemy's invasion and was in a big mess, and he didn't even give the order to close the city gate and let the soldiers go up the city wall, so he just ran to the back office and cried to his wife.