Haisheng Mingdi

Chapter 465 Mobilization
Shandong.

Yongcheng.

The situation became more turbulent. A large number of refugees came from Huainan to the north, and Yongcheng County, Guide Prefecture also poured in a large number of refugees. They dragged their families and came crying all the way.

"Uncle Twelfth, there are many fleeing famines. On the embankment of the Sui River, there are fleeing famines everywhere. I heard that a bucket of wheat can change a daughter-in-law and come back. Many people have gone."

Twelve Scythes had just returned from duty in the team. Ever since he formally joined the Red Spear Club and drank the talisman water made by the Northern Expedition, his whole person has changed.

Putting on the red robe of the Red Spear Society, wearing a red scarf and a red belt, carrying a big red-tasseled gun and a short knife at his waist, training and patrolling every morning and evening, and even sending out a mission from time to time to send a salt shipment Those with rations are very busy, but there are also many benefits. Not only do they eat two dry meals a day in the meeting, but they also have six buckets of rations per month. Every time they go on a mission, they also get extra subsidies.

He has saved some food and copper coins now, and is planning to marry a wife.

"Just after the wheat harvest, why did Huainan come to flee the famine, and I didn't hear that the Huai River was flooded." Twelve's nephew asked puzzled.

The Twelve Scythes were not too clear, and were thinking about going to watch the excitement, when they suddenly heard the sound of horns, he signaled his nephew to keep quiet, listened carefully, and heard that it was the sound of a rallying horn.

Quickly got up and lifted the red gun, then tightened the red belt, and hung the knife on his waist.

"Uncle, what's the matter?"

"The assembly number in the meeting has a mission."

Chen Twelve hurried to the drying ground of the village market, and when he went out, there were already two or three young villagers with red tasseled guns on the road and they also went out. This time the assembly number was emergency mobilization, which was unusual.

When we got to the drying ground, it was already full of people.

Everyone is discussing what happened again.

At this time, someone beat a cowhide drum, and the sound of the drum made people feel hot, and everyone shut their mouths consciously. The common people stepped aside, and the official and reserve members hurriedly lined up and stood in their usual training positions. .

The three-way drum is over.

There are already several team squares standing on the field.

The head coach of the Red Spear Club, senior brother Zhao Zhongyi, came out.

He is dressed all over, a pair of big red cotton armor, a bow and arrows in the double waist, a bird gun on his shoulder, a short gun in his waist, and a goose feather knife on the other side, in his hand Carrying a big red-tasseled gun.

The burly and burly Zhao Zhongyi's outfit was a bit more majestic than the garrison officers in Yongcheng County. He strode out, followed by a team of guards, all of whom were wrapped in red scarves, red armor, and shoulders. Bird guns and long spears in hand, all of them are majestic and burly, young and strong.

The president, Old Master Zhao, was still wearing a long gown, walking slowly.

Seeing this posture, everyone knew that something big must have happened.

"Report to the president and big brother, the members are assembled, please give me a lecture!"

After Zhao Zhongyi walked up to the review, he glanced at this team, and his eyes were very satisfied. Although it was not comparable to the emperor's imperial army, or even the team he had when he was in Jiangyin, but in such a short period of time, he was able to It is not easy to pull up a team and still have such momentum.

"brothers!"

"Many refugees have come up the Suihe embankment, all from Huainan, and this is just the first batch, and there will be more to come."

"Let me tell you the reason. Our Lord Long Live of the Ming Dynasty personally proposed the Northern Expedition of the Sixth Division. Now the 20 imperial court troops are marching northward in three routes.

The emperor even came to Shandong in person and even took Denglai, so now the Manchurian tartars are panicking.

Xuzhou's Grand General Zhengnan, Prince Duanzhong Boluo, and the dignified auxiliary prince have hurriedly led 1 people from Xuzhou to Denglai, and hurriedly ordered the Tartar generals in Lu, Feng, Shou, Huai and other places to abandon the south of the Huaihe River. Retreat to Yingzhou and Xuzhou.

Knowing that they were defeated by Lord Long Live's Northern Expeditionary Army, these Tartars retreated in a panic, but they were inhumane. When they retreated, they snatched all the freshly harvested wheat from the people in Huainan, and then forcibly ordered the people to retreat northward with the army.In order to take the people away, they also sent troops to set fire to the houses, tear down the city and destroy the embankments. Now Huainan is full of beacon fires, and the Huaihe River has also burst embankments...
The people in Huainan have all become refugees, and the Huai land has been destroyed as scorched earth.

Now that countless refugees from Huainan are passing through Huaibei, our Yongcheng bears the brunt.

Rebellious soldiers and hungry people swarmed in. Our situation is very critical. We have just harvested wheat, and everyone still has a little food at home. At this time, we are the target of those rebellious soldiers and hungry people.

Our Red Gun Club, with one red gun and one loyalty, worships the king, relatives and teachers of heaven and earth, and more importantly, guards the village to protect the environment and the people.

So from now on, we must fully mobilize, prepare for the worst, and be on full alert.

All regular members must be assembled, and at the same time, some temporary members must be turned into regular members.

Zhao Zhongyi loudly explained the current situation to everyone.

Yongcheng Daqiuji has been quite stable recently, and it has just been harvested in summer, and there is food on hand. At this time, it is extremely vulnerable to attack.

In order to protect itself, it must be mobilized.

He issued an expansion order. The regular members of the Red Gun Clubs in various places will be organized into ten battalions with 5000 people, and then the reserve members will also be organized into ten battalions.

In addition, the juvenile red gun teams in each village should also be formed and commanded in a unified way.

Everyone takes Yongcheng Daqiuji as the center, and then the villages where the branches are located are the bases, and the villages fight on their own and communicate with each other.

"Whoever dares to attack our Red Spear Society, no matter if it's bandits or thieves, or the green camp of the Qing army or the Tartars, we will never allow it!"

These words are already very rebel. After all, this place is still under the rule of the Qing court, but everyone seems to have gotten used to it.

After all, although the Red Gun Society did not openly call out such things as raising the flag to rebel, it has officially cut its braids after it has reached a certain scale.

"For the starving people who came to Huainan to escape the famine, we can't just ignore it. After discussing with the old master, I plan to set up a refugee camp outside Jiwai to give them porridge relief."

"In addition, if you have an unmarried man of the right age in your family, you can also say goodbye to refugees at this time..."

At this time, the starving people are very willing to marry off their daughters, even as long as three or five buckets of food, at least they can exchange some life-saving food, which is better than selling them to those crooked businessmen, they are more ruthless, and how much they sell is for the sake of Slaves were even sent to the fire pits of brothels.

Zhao Zhongyi suggested that everyone find refugees to marry at this time, not only for the sake of the local bachelors, but also to help the refugees tide over the difficulties.

"As long as the daughters of refugees are married, they can live in another area in the west of our village. We can also borrow some food for relief, and they can help us farm and work together..."

In addition, Zhao Zhongyi also planned to recruit young and strong from these refugees to join the army, and form another ten or twenty battalions. At that time, each person will have a red tasseled gun, which will be the reserve battalion.

When he said this, Zhao Zhongyi was passionate and generous.

He also got the nod and support of the villagers below.

Everyone's life is hard. Now that there are so many refugees in Huainan, everyone feels sorry for them and is full of vigilance. Some people have already gone to the river embankment to exchange food for girls to be their wives.

Now Zhao Zhongyi's proposal is actually in line with everyone's ideas, and Zhao Zhongyi's appearance in the name of the Red Gun Club makes everyone feel more secure.

And the Red Spear Club wants to gather people, and everyone feels more at ease.

Although some people think that Eldest Brother seems to have a big plan, but in this troubled world, everyone can only hug together to keep warm.

Everyone knows that when there is a real chaos, there will be no laws and regulations. Soldiers are bandits, and hungry people are also bandits.

Hungry refugees are sometimes more ferocious than wolves. Once they show any flaws, they may be bitten to nothing. The turmoil in the past few years has destroyed many villages in Henan.

We still have compassion in our bones, but we are also vigilant.

Zhao Zhongyi didn't directly call out the slogans of welcoming the king's teacher and expelling the Tartars, but temporarily used the slogan of protecting the environment, safety and people's self-defense.

After the mobilization, the battle battalion will start training, the auxiliary battalion will also start to bring guns to the fields, and the pre-battalion will also cultivate while training. With Daqiuji in Yongcheng as the center, Zhao Zhongyi appointed the battalion officers of each battalion, the grain platform, etc. , Established the Daqiu General Assembly Camp Affairs Office to unify the command.

A news office was also established to be responsible for intelligence collection and transmission.

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"Refugees who enter our territory must be resettled and monitored. Set up more porridge sheds, set up camps, take in and resettle them, and don't let them come here randomly,"

Inside the school, the old master held a meeting with a core congregation.

"Try to recruit those young men aged 30 to [-] into the reserve camp, gather them together for training, and form another camp for their families, and place them separately on the edge of our village,"

"The rest of the refugees should also be resettled as much as possible. If they are just leaving the country, they should be monitored and escorted out of the country, and they should not be allowed to make trouble."

Wang Tiezhu is a core member. After Zhao Zhongyi and the others came, the first member they recruited was a stout man who used to be Cao Ding. He was very strong and generous.

"President, brother, I think we might as well just take down the county seat. Although there is a garrison battalion in the county seat, there are only three hundred soldiers in total. In fact, there are only a hundred soldiers, and only one team can fight. , we want to take it down without breaking a sweat."

"Don't be impatient." The old master shook his head, "Yongcheng is sandwiched between Xu and Ying. If we occupy the county seat and raise the banner of rebellion, we will definitely attract the full-scale encirclement and suppression of the Tartars. Now we have to keep on developing," he said to Zhao Zhongyi , "You had a good relationship with Yongcheng Garrison before, don't you still call them brothers? Make good use of this relationship, and let's use the name he gave us as a regiment to act externally."

Zhao Zhongyi said, "This man surnamed Wang is very greedy, and he is afraid of death and has no skills. He has always wanted to use our red guns to work for him. Two days ago, he said that the higher-ups are very strict in urging taxes, and they are required to go to the countryside in a garrison camp. To help collect food, he came to us again to help."

"Coax him first, this person is still useful to us, it would be even better if we can reverse it."

The Red Spear Society is gaining momentum now, but in the final analysis, it is mainly a group of peasants, with some training and organization, but lacks weapons, armor, and horse mules. It's still early.

"When we are assembled, we can't just train. With so many people mobilized, the daily rations and subsidies alone are not small numbers."

"You can pull them out to suppress bandits, or you can sell salt and grain in secret. Now that the army is in a panic, these businesses are not easy to do, but they are also profitable."

The third senior brother Tie Zhu couldn't help asking, "The emperor is coming to Denglai in person now, and the Tartar prince Boluo has rushed over with his troops, shall we do nothing?"

"If the court really needs us, it will give us an order. There is no order now, which means that we are not needed yet, so we don't need to worry."

"Let's stay in Yongcheng. This is an important place for military strategists, and it will be of great use sooner or later!" The old master was very calm.

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(End of this chapter)