Han’s Son is Not a Slave

The Guangxi side was assembled, and on the eve of launching the Southwest Campaign, Zhou Shixiang specially sent an urgent delivery to Shao Jiugong, the governor of Guangxi, and ordered him to exercise full control over Wang Youxi's fourth town, Wang Xing's tenth town, Lu Guangzu's second town of the expeditionary army, and Guangxi's newly built town. The third town of wolf soldiers. The fastest update The four towns were co-edited into the Southwest Field Army Corps, and Shao Jiugong temporarily replaced the commander of the army. The food and grass required by the army was in charge of Song Xianggong, governor of Guangdong and Guangxi, and Zhang Zichang, the political envoy of Guangxi. Because Guangxi was dilapidated, it was difficult to bear the food and grass needed by the army. Therefore, the food and grass of the Southwest Field Army was mainly transported by water from Guangdong. Nearly half of this was rice brought back from Annan by the expeditionary army. Even so, Guangdong was under great pressure, because this southwest campaign was started at the same time by both the military and the government.

The requirements of the military commander's office are that every time the army occupied a place, the local people's livelihood should be restored immediately, officials should be set up to manage the people, exiles should be summoned, and production should be resumed. The former is easy, the latter is much more complicated. Not only a large number of officials, but also a large amount of grain and grass are needed to help the common people, and the number of other tools, seeds, and simple living tools is even more amazing. Song Xianggong once wrote to Zhou Shixiang for this reason, frankly saying that when the Southwest Campaign started, all the output of Guangdong in recent years would be exhausted. In the future, the number of officials needed by Yunnan and Guizhou provinces will also take away the talents that Guangdong has finally cultivated. It can be said that there will be no idlers in Guangdong Province from now on.

Zhou Shixiang said to Song Xianggong in his reply: "Guangdong Province was the first province to be recovered by our Taiping Army, and it was also the first to build villages. Today, the province of Guangdong is responsible for the southwest. The suffering is in front of you, but the benefits are in the future. Only when the southwest is stabilized as soon as possible, and the people are no longer hungry, can our generation be considered successful in the recovery. A man drowns a woman, sells his wife for a living son, what is the meaning of liberation?"

Shao Jiugong did not expect that he could make a comeback and become a leader.

In the battle of Liuzhou last year, Shao Jiugong's command was unfavorable. If it wasn't for the fifth town Yu Shizhong's command to go south desperately, I'm afraid Guangxi would have fallen into the hands of Xian Guoan. After the war, Shao Jiugong was promoted to the governor of Guangxi, and he seemed to be a senior official of the frontier. However, for the Taiping Army, who attached great importance to military merit, Shao Jiugong's future was obviously not as bright as those of his colleagues who directly led the army. Although after the establishment of the Dingwu court, Shao Jiugong still had to be named Xinfenghou, but the gold content of this lord is far less than that of Ge Yi and Tie Yi who were marquis, and Yu Shizhong, Jiang He, Suna, etc. who were posthumously awarded as Duke Zhongguo. people. And being in Guangxi for a long time, far from the political center of Nanjing, Shao Jiugong also thought that he was neglected by the commander, and was a little discouraged for a time, and even had the idea of ​​​​returning to his hometown in Jiangxi. Don't want to, the commander who was thousands of miles away did not forget him, and re-entrusted him with a heavy responsibility. Although he was temporarily acting as the commander, Shao Jiugong knew that this was an opportunity that the commander gave him. Shao Jiugong was really overjoyed when he received the official document for the formation of the Southwest Field Army.

Ordering Lu Guangzu and Wang Youxi to treat the Wu army captives kindly was not because Shao Jiugong was kind, but Zhou Shi had a clear request for him. Zhou Shixiang asked Shao Jiugong to treat the Wu army and the Qing army differently, to focus on attacking and attacking the city. The Wu army who stubbornly resisted should be resolutely annihilated, and the Wu army soldiers who took the initiative to lay down their weapons and surrendered should be appeased, and must not be killed indiscriminately.

Zhou Shixiang’s request was naturally due to the fact that Wu Jun, to a certain extent, was no longer a green battalion who helped Zhou and abused him, and the composition of Wu Jun was very complex. I am afraid that less than a quarter of Wu Sangui’s direct line of soldiers and horses really belonged to Wu Sangui, and the rest were Yuan Ming ( Qing) military departments, the factions are complex, and there are many people on both sides of the first mouse. to these

People, it is necessary to properly win over, not only can reduce the casualties of the Taiping army, but also can speed up the progress of the war. Simple killing can certainly frighten the Wu army, but it will also prevent the Yungui Wu army from retreating and fight the Taiping army to the end, which is obviously not in line with the intention of the southwest army.

Fight fast, fast forward, and seize Yungui with lightning speed. This is the keynote set by Zhou Shixiang for the battle of the Southwest. Only fast, can Wu Sangui be forced to divide his troops from the Central Plains to return to the aid, which will affect his decisive battle with the Manchus, and strategically achieve the purpose of containing the Wu army's footsteps north. Of course, in the eyes of some people, Zhou Shixiang's move was indirectly helping the Qing Dynasty, but in Zhou Shixiang's own opinion, this help must be helped. Because if he didn't help Fulin, Zhou Shixiang would not be able to block all the old and young in Manchuria in Beijing. Zhou Shixiang was absolutely unwilling to return to Manchuria to become Houjin and repeat the history of the past ten thousand years. Either don't do it, do it, do it cleanly.

Zhou Shixiang was going to fight a battle of genocide. Wu Sangui moved too fast, which would only make the Manqing abandon Beijing and flee outside the customs. Zhou Shixiang vaguely remembered that in the history of the previous life, when the "Chasing Manchu" was sung all over the country and the "Revolutionary Army" was recited, the crumbling Manchus were preparing to flee outside the customs and return to the so-called hometown they robbed from the Han people. If Yuan Shikai hadn't made a provision for preferential treatment of the Qing Dynasty, I am afraid that the Manchus would have left the country.

In the previous life, Zhou Shixiang regretted that the Manchus did not escape from the customs, because in that case, Manchuria would definitely be completely liquidated. After all, more than two hundred years later, the world is already in the age of hot weapons. There is no so-called preferential treatment for the Qing Dynasty. The Manchus who escaped from the customs are destined to be washed away, so that there will be no "spirits" after decades, and there will be no purple air coming from the east, offering sacrifices to ancestors in the Temple of Heaven, and full screen. braid.

Now, Zhou Shixiang didn't want the Manchus to escape from the customs, because the Taiping Army was strictly a cold-weapon force. If the Manchus escaped from the customs, it would be more difficult to encircle them. After all, there are no Han people outside Guanwai, and without decades, it is impossible to restore Guanwai to the state it was in before 10,000. At that time ~www.wuxiaspot.com~ there were more than three million Han people outside the customs. Without the Han people taking root there, the army had to go out again and again to "mop up" the Manchus who existed like guerrillas. This difficulty was not trivial. Outside the gate is very large, with white mountains and black water, the grass will not be rooted out, but the spring breeze will blow and grow again.

The Ming and Qing wars, or the Han and Manchu wars that lasted for more than 40 years, Zhou Shixiang decided that there could only be one of them when he was in Xiangshan.

If you want to solve Manchuria once and for all, you can only keep them in Beijing. So Zhou Shixiang had to start a civil war. He didn't believe that Wu Sangui would have the same **** feud against Manchuria as he did.

It is an assumption that Fulin gives up Beijing and exits the border. Another assumption is that Fulin surrenders to Wu Sangui, and the Manchurians and the gang of traitors who are dogs for Manzhou have turned into officials of Yong Daming. What else can Fulin even mix? Duke, what prince, or what king. It seems absurd, but it is a real possibility.

No matter which hypothesis, it is imminent to do something with Wu Sangui. The first step is to contain Wu Sangui, so the Southwest campaign must be quick. If it is delayed in Yungui for a long time, the impact on the Central Plains battle situation will not be too great. Although Zhou Shi's use of troops against Yungui, relatively speaking, was to rescue King Li Jin outside the border, but people with discerning eyes knew that this was the beginning of the civil war between the Taiping Army and the Guanning Army. There is nothing to hide. Zhou Shixiang never cared what the so-called discerning person thought. (…)