Great Qing Dynasty talker

Chapter 451 Certificate of Surrender

When the Ke Yongs all over the mountains appeared in sight,
Li Yu urged his horse to rush up a small mound of earth.

Rein in the horse, raise the sword to the sky,
shouted:
"Guards, all of you stop and prepare for battle."

……

The soldiers stopped in unison, quickly poured out the primer in the flintlock powder pool and replaced it with dry primer.

Many people also replaced their flints.

A new flint with sharp edges can ensure a successful firing rate of more than 20 rounds.

After that, it gradually decayed.
Orders were issued layer by layer.

Form a square formation in company units and deploy the troops in battle formation.

The second lieutenant and the flag bearer stood at the front of the square, and the drummer was on the right side of the square.

Li Yu silently observed the soldiers' formation changes and was basically satisfied.

It's fast and there's little confusion.

This is the performance that an elite should have~
The expensive uniforms and higher salaries of the Guards were not spent in vain.

Military joke:

The 2nd Corps is the sharp knife of the Wu army~
The Guards Corps is the tip of the Wu army's sword~
……

The long marching horns sounded,

20 company-level infantry phalanxes began to march forward in big strides.

However, the artillery of the Guards Corps did not unload the vehicles at this time, but continued to accelerate forward.

Mules and horses pulled in front, and artillery pushed in the back.

Try desperately to move the artillery back to the appropriate position.

The appearance of the Guards Corps made both the Cantonese and Hakka sides a little confused.

at this time,

The two sides are preparing for the latest and final round of decisive battle.

All the people are soldiers~
Li Yu raised the telescope and scanned the battlefield.

There were an endless number of Cantonese men in the four counties, at least 8, ranging from young boys to white-haired old men, equipped with standard swords and guns to hoes and dung forks.

They lined up with their backs to the village behind.

……

On the Hakka side, men, women, old and young all joined the battle, and the scale was similar.

Following the signal of the dozen or so flags of the leaders in the front, they advanced and retreated in unison.

When the gong sounds, charge.

It has the flavor of a paramilitary organization.

suddenly,
Li Yu had an idea: Isn’t this the best “Border Reclamation Corps”?

Love the land and be especially united.

Excellent farming skills and full-level fighting skills.

When the empire is finally established,
Resettling one million Hakka people from northern Guangdong to the Ili River Valley, the Mekong Plain, the Red River Plain, and the Luzon Plain is simply a masterpiece.

The border is peaceful and the empire has granaries.

Guangdong, also needs peace~
What is the conflict between natives and immigrants?
Ultimately, it comes down to one word - resources.

If you have enough to eat and warm clothes to wear, why do you have to fight and destroy the village?

We are all Han Chinese, we are all living people, and no one has nothing better to do than to have nothing to do.

even,

If you think further ahead, you can also sponsor some Hakka people to go to San Francisco, on the other side of the Pacific Ocean, to join a volunteer gold-mining group.

In time,

It was a perfect colonial support point and reason for military intervention.

……

Li Yu took a deep breath.

Don’t look up at the stars for now, just beat up these hundreds of thousands of people in front of you first.

"Where are the four Hakka leaders?"

"Now return to the main camp and tell your people my plan."

Looking at the leader's figure,
There was a commotion in the Keyong formation, and tens of thousands of people raised their weapons and cheered, feeling that their supporters had arrived.

Li Yu whispered:

"Send a cavalry team with loud voices to tell Guangyong my resettlement principles."

……

"Your Majesty has ordered that the conflict between the natives and the Hakkas was instigated by the Qing court and could have been eliminated. The 5 Heavenly Soldiers will actually control Guangdong and ban armed fights between the natives and the Hakkas from today. The government will be responsible for demarcating the boundaries, lowering the price of grain, and lifting the ban on sea and mining to give you a way to survive."

"Your Majesty has ordered that both the native and Hakka armed forces lay down their weapons and disband on the spot. No blame will be paid for past actions."

"When this incense burns out, the army will destroy all armed rioters, regardless of whether they are native or foreign."

The cavalrymen shouted repeatedly as they ran,
Make sure everyone on both sides can hear you.

then,

The Guards Corps cooperated in battlefield mobilization.

150 guns, divided into two,
The left wing is aimed at Guangyong and the right wing is aimed at Keyong.

The infantry phalanx approached directly to within 1 mile of both sides and waited on the spot.

……

Guangyong side,
The sweat on Wen Yuande's forehead kept dripping down.
A heated debate broke out among the groups.

"The Yankees have bad intentions. I won't accept it. I'll fight them!"

"Do you want to exterminate all the people of the Siyi tribe?"

"Nonsense, the Tartars were not able to wipe out the four counties when they entered the pass, so how can the northerners do that?"

"You have a pig brain. The emperor of the other side has come and tried to mediate the fight in person, but you didn't give him face. He got angry and simply allowed the guest bandits to raid Siyi. With such a good opportunity, what would you do if you were the leader of the guest bandits?"

……

Everyone's heart skipped a beat.

The bright yellow umbrellas and banners on the opposite side were indeed dazzling.

This set of ceremonial equipment was made overnight by Li Yu before he left Guangzhou.

Mainly for the sake of showing off.
Dignity is sometimes more effective than guns and cannons.

……

Wen Yuande, the Minister of Militia of Guangdong, felt like a raging storm in his heart as he listened to his fellow villagers' unbridled discussions.

While everyone is not paying attention,

He and his trusted followers slowly moved to the side, away from the vortex of the storm.

just in case,

Which group always comes to say:
"Cut off Mr. Wen's head as a token of our surrender to the people of Siyi."

We must be on guard.

Wen Yuande is a genuine native of Kaiping, one of the Four Counties, and the Cantonese people understand the Cantonese people best!

……

First of all,

The people of Guangdong did not submit to the Qing government, from the beginning to the end of the Qing Dynasty.

then,

In the minds of the old Cantonese, the clan must be far superior to the imperial court, no matter whether it is the Cowherd Emperor or the Wild Boar Skin Emperor.

During the Qing Dynasty,
It has always been very difficult to collect grain and taxes in the Guangdong and Guangxi regions.

The "proportion of overdue money and grain" is inversely proportional to the military strength of the Qing government.

If they were killed and surrendered, Guangdong and Guangxi would pay grain.

Since they couldn't kill them, Guangdong and Guangxi resisted paying taxes.

When Li Shiyao was still the Governor-General of Guangdong and Guangxi, he had a famous saying:

"The people of Zhili paid grain because they respected the imperial court. The unruly people of Guangdong and Guangxi paid grain because they could not defeat the soldiers who came to the countryside."

……

Wen Yuande was a rare Cantonese who was loyal to the Qing court.

He took the lead in organizing militia and was loyal to the emperor.

The people of the Siyi tribe responded positively in order to govern themselves.

Therefore,
During this period, Wen Yuande had a pleasant cooperation with all the group leaders.

but now,
The situation changed suddenly.

Let the militia fight to the death and be buried with the Qing Dynasty? That is impossible.

unless,

Wu Tingming was determined to eradicate the roots of the Lao Cantonese.

There was nothing we could do. We had to fight to the end in the front and organize an escape to the sea in the back so that we could still leave behind our bloodline.

……

Chen Ruifen, the leader of the Xinhui Youth League, struggled to push away the crowd around her and looked around with a knife in hand.

He shouted:

"Where is Master Wen?"

"Lao Wen, where are you?"

"Fuck! Old dog Wen ran away!"

Upon hearing that their commander was missing, tens of thousands of people in the four counties were in an uproar.

It would be quite difficult to find one person out of a gathering of less than 100,000 people.

At this time, Wen Yuande threw away his hat and took off his official robe.

The coarse cloth shorts underneath were exposed, and there were actually 4 patches on them!
The confidants were stunned.

I thought,

It turns out that the master has a pure heart and is prepared for both situations.

As expected, she came from the Ministry of Rites~
Wen Yuande pulled the jade pendant from his waist and held it in his palm. He put his hands in his sleeves and just walked away.

……

Ke Yong was even more furious.

A group of leaders widened their eyes:

"What? You want us to disband? What if Guangyong takes revenge in the future?"

Zeng Huaigu was surprisingly calm. He stood at the edge of the crowd and observed the Guangyong formation not far away.

His eyesight is quite good.

Seeing the same commotion on the other side, I guess they were also shocked by His Majesty's suggestion.

Since his Fengtang Village was involved in an armed conflict, more than half of the villagers were killed or injured, and his good friends died in the battle.

after that,

It was just a constant battle of moving from one place to another in western Guangdong, winning and losing, and going back and forth.

Halfway through the meal, a fight broke out.

He had just laid down to sleep when he got up again to fight.

The knife never leaves my hand.

You have to put it under your head when you sleep.

This nightmare-like life has lasted for so long that I can no longer tell whether it is reality or a dream.

He did have a firm belief that no one could be trusted except the handle of the knife.

……

The empty space in the middle,

The incense stick flickered, neither fast nor slow.

It seems,
It will burn out in half an hour at most.

Li Yu turned his head:

"Pass the order, the infantry phalanx will advance 10 feet every breaths."

"Excuse me, Your Majesty, may I open fire?"

"Don't fire the first shot. But tell the whole army that if either the Hakka or the Turks dare to fire first, or advance more than 10 steps, the square formation in front of them can open fire on their own without asking for permission."

After a pause, Li Yu reminded again:
"Our army is not here to massacre. We will attack any unit that dares to step forward with all our strength. It is acceptable to kill less than 500 people. The decision to open fire is left to the second lieutenants of each company."

"As ordered."

……

The drums suddenly sounded.

The Wu army formation began to advance slowly, but the soldiers still held their flintlock rifles on their shoulders.

The atmosphere suddenly became tense~
The square formation advanced 10 feet and then stopped.

The officer turned and shouted:
"Put down your weapons and treat everyone equally."

The soldiers shouted in unison:

"Put down your weapons and treat everyone equally."

At first, the shouts were not very uniform.

Later, they gradually became more united, and their voices echoed throughout the battlefield.

Although the Guards Corps only had 7000 people, their momentum far surpassed that of the mob.

war,

It's never about quantity.

……

The leader of the Guangyong group took a few steps forward.

Slowly throw down the sword in your hand~
It was like the first domino fell, causing a huge chain reaction.

The dark crowd followed suit and dropped their weapons, but they still stood where they were.

Li Yu saw clearly through the telescope,
Turning to Ke Yong's side,
He saw a group of young and strong men in the distance, with complete weapons and eager to charge at Guangyong.

Instantly, the hair on my body stood up and pointed in that direction.
Yell:

"Use heavy artillery to bombard the front of their path."

……

Among the brave Hakkas, an elite force was composed of miners. They would charge into the front in battles and provide protection from behind in times of defeat.

Zeng Huaigu is instigating one of the mine heads:
"Now is a golden opportunity. You lead a hundred or so people to charge, and the people around you will charge with you. Defeat the opposing Guangyong in one fell swoop."

It's like a done deal. As long as we defeat Guangyong, the new government will have to rely on us more."

The mine boss and the miners were eager to give it a try.

after all,

In this era, one must be strong, brave and fierce to be a miner.

and,

The biggest advantage of miners is their organization.

They are more willing to obey the orders of their leaders and cooperate than farmers.

……

"on!"

The miners suddenly left their formation and ran forward.

Not long after they ran out, the sound of artillery fire suddenly rang out.

More than a dozen large-caliber solid bullets whizzed over and bounced forward.

The huge impact force smashed a land temple into pieces, with bricks and stones flying and dust flying.

This round of bombardment,
It didn't hit anyone, and mainly landed in the open space where the two sides were confronting each other.

The 200 miners who had charged retreated in a hurry and returned to their main camp.

cannon,

There is an inexplicable pressure on ordinary people.

The deterrent power of the musket is average, because there are a lot of three-barreled guns in the folk, and the people are not unfamiliar with them.
……

Thanks to Ming Qing,

Turn artillery into a kind of symbol, a mechanical god, a mechanical soul.

Before casting the cannon, people burn incense and offer sacrifices collectively.

After the cannon is cast, the barrel should be tied with red silk.

Before firing, the gunner has to kneel down.

The name of the artillery is also very divine.

For example, 1 three-general and 3 two-general.

……

current,

The most important thing for Wu’s artillery is to gain the upper hand, while accuracy comes second.

The second round of shelling was adjusted to be louder.

20 heavy artillery pieces bombarded one after another,
There was a deafening roar and white smoke filled the battlefield.

Three of the shells grazed the edge of the crowd.

Li Yu saw through the telescope that half a person was thrown high into the air and then fell to the ground.

It is impossible for a person to remain intact after being hit by a solid bullet.

Half a person is more accurate.

The Guards Corps infantry phalanx also followed up in time.

The soldiers held their flintlock rifles horizontally and marched forward to the beat of drums.

The clanging sound of military boots is full of power and beauty.

The people were frightened by the momentum and retreated step by step.

……

The second lieutenant at the head of the phalanx pointed his sword straight ahead.

Roar:
"Back off, back off, back off."

The soldiers also shouted:
"Back off, back off, back off!"

The continuous pressure forced the crowd to retreat and stay away from the weapons on the ground.

The soldiers' boots made clanging sounds as they stepped on the weapons on the ground.

The officers were relatively calm.
Gradually slow down your pace to avoid applying too much pressure and crushing the person.

honestly,
No one wants to kill civilians for no reason.

One side advances, the other side retreats.

Half an hour later,
The Wu army achieved all its combat objectives.

In the distance, the sound of cow horns signaling the withdrawal of troops was heard.

……

Lin Chuan was uneasy.

He commanded more than 3000 civilians under his command to clean up the battlefield and move the captured swords, spears, axes, sticks, halberds, forks, muskets, and matchlock rifles onto carts.

Then throw them into a nearby ditch to soak~
Wait until the situation calms down before dealing with it in a centralized manner.

It's nothing more than smelting and recycling.
The Wu army has always looked down on the Qing army's weapons, not to mention the homemade weapons of the people.

Two officers from the baggage battalion supervised the entire process.
He patted Lin Chuan's shoulder meaningfully.

"Xiaolin, you are loyal."

……

Lin Chuan burst into tears instantly. He had finally waited for this day.

suddenly,
He realized what the two officers meant by loyalty.

When the Wu army launched long-range artillery fire and mobilized the guest warriors, his reaction was to order the civilians to continue sitting where they were, not to stand up, and not to make any noise.

Recalling again,

There were at least 5 shotguns around at the time, and the muzzles seemed to be~
Suddenly, he broke out in a cold sweat.
……

The Guards Corps was divided into more than 20 small teams to supervise the disbanding of both sides and their return home.

So far,

Li Yu successfully stopped the boiling water by adding more water.

even though,
It did not fundamentally solve the problem, but at least it temporarily ensured that the problem would not get worse.

Around the battlefield,

Outside the temporary military tent
100 people representing Siyi and 100 people representing Keyong sat down quietly.

The soldiers checked each of them carefully to make sure none of them were carrying any weapons.

Fortunately,
There are no active violators.

At this critical moment, Li Yu didn't want to kill anyone unless it was absolutely necessary.

……

around,

The place was filled with fully armed soldiers with sharp bayonets.

The Cantonese and Hakka representatives were also separated by a human wall of soldiers to prevent accidents.

It's like a flat "日" character.
Li Yu arrived late and stood on a wooden table in the tent.

Because of the light,
The whole person is in the shadow and is positioned above the audience.

He looked around,
Take a deep breath and say loudly:
"The Qing court is evil, and it incites people all over the world to fight each other. Cantonese and Hakka are both Han people, and there is no conflict between them. It is all because of the Qing court's instigation. The more fiercely you fight, the more secure the Qing court can be."

"From now on, I declare a ban on armed fighting between Cantonese and Hakka people. Anyone who violates the ban will have their leader executed, their ancestral hall destroyed, and all participating villagers exiled."

……

finished,

Li Yu paused for a long time, seeing that no one dared to object openly.

Then he smiled and said:

"It's all about one word: money."

"I have already ordered the transfer of grain from Jiangnan to Guangdong. Soon, spring grain from Jiangxi will be available in large quantities and can be transported to Guangdong. A drop in grain prices is just around the corner."

"Since you are already subjects of Wu, we should show you kindness."

"I hereby announce that 100 civil servants will be selected from the young men of Guangdong, and restrictions on iron smelting by the people in western Guangdong will be lifted."

"Recruit a large number of young and strong people from the Hakka people to join the army, and lift the ban on mining in the mountainous areas."

"In order to reduce friction, the government will adjust the counties where Cantonese and Hakka people live together. Hakka people will go to the north, Cantonese people will go to the south, and they will be separated by boundary rivers and boundary markers."

"For the specific matters, my bodyguard Lu Zhou will work with you to come up with a plan as soon as possible."

After all,

Li Yu drifted away~
(End of this chapter)