Lin Gao Qiming

Chapter 2188

Very few villages get this kind of treatment.The local bigwigs are very knowledgeable.During the period of Yao chaos, most villages are most worried about safety issues, so they are not disgusted with this kind of "supreme". .

For ordinary people, it doesn't matter who is the magistrate in the county town who collects money and food. With the local magistrate, knowing that the "emperor" is still there, they feel confident and will not be at a loss.Some thoughtful "village sages", seeing the men and horses of Song Dynasty coming to patrol so soon, their original eagerness to try has faded a lot.

Some villages with weak forces further asked the National Army to send troops to defend the village. Naturally, given the current shortage of troops, it was impossible to do so. They just helped them establish village soldiers and distributed some weapons and captured Ming army firearms. .Fortunately, almost all the villages in this area have set up a stronghold, and a little strengthening of self-defense ability can last for a long time.

The "security and order" carried out at the same time on both internal and external fronts has achieved great results, especially after the extensive establishment of village soldiers, the Baojia system, and the joint security guarantee of each village, the activities of bandits have been greatly curbed, and some large groups of outsiders The bandits couldn't stand in the local area, and fled away one after another.The local bandits either collapsed after being attacked by the military, or disintegrated under pressure, or hibernated in cottages in remote areas-the Suijiang detachment still doesn't care about them at the moment.

Huang Chao's plan was to rush to Huaiji immediately, and then advance to the Sanlian area, but the local security situation forced Yang Zeng and his Suijiang detachment to stay between Guangning and Huaiji for a few more days.It was already the end of May when the official decision to set off for Lianzhou was made.

Before departure, Huang Chao and Yang Zeng had a small meeting.The Lianyang area is said to be one area. The three cities of Lianzhou, Lianshan, and Yangshan are not too far apart, but these three cities are located in the mountains of northern Guangdong, and the transportation between them is not easy. To rebuild order in one area, the Suijiang Detachment had to have a problem of cooperation if it wanted to restore order there.

According to the rules, Yang Zeng is the chief officer of the army and has the right to decide the action plan of the army. Even the elders cannot interfere with his military command.However, the guidelines for the public security activities in the Lianyang area this time are three parts military and seven parts politics.Even if Huang Chao is not a veteran, Yang Zeng also asks for his opinion on the action plan.

Yang Zeng's plan was that he personally lead the main force of the detachment to leave the waterway and take the mountain road to attack Lianshan County.

To attack Lianshan, relying on Pingyao is the second, the main purpose is to occupy the stronghold of Lianshan County.Prevent the Ming army in Hezhou from capturing Lianshan, then attack Huaiji and Guangning, and threaten Zhaoqing, or occupy Lianzhou in the east, and then go down the Lianjiang River, threatening Yingde, or even Guangzhou in the south.Therefore, for the South China Army, the Yao chaos is always a disease of scabies, and the real enemy is the Guangxi Ming Army that Xiong Wencan still controls.

Once Lianshan is controlled, it will completely cut off the possibility of Guangxi Ming army entering Guangdong to interfere with the Yao Rebellion.At the same time, it also blocked the Guangxi Ming army's infiltration road to northern Guangdong.It is good for the security situation of Guangdong as a whole.

From a political perspective, whether the Yao rebellion in northern Guangdong can be properly dealt with is related to whether the Senate can rule the whole of Guangdong stably and effectively, and also determines whether the more complicated ethnic issues in the three provinces of Southwest Sichuan, Guizhou and Yunnan can be dealt with in the future. An empirical model to learn from.Therefore, attacking the heart is the first and only indicator for all political and military work to put down the Yao chaos this time.

Among the current three cities, Lianshan County is surrounded by mountains and there are no major rivers to flow through. The advantage of the Senate in water transportation can only be zero in Lianshan. Because Lianshan is inconvenient to supply, Yang Zeng only plans to bring three Lianfubo troops. I went to attack Lianshan with two squadrons of the national army. After the attack, I only stationed a Lian Fubo army and the two squadrons of the national army, as a stronghold for defending the Hezhou Ming army and a fulcrum for calming the Yao chaos in northern Guangdong. Then take two Lian Fubo troops all the way eastward over the mountains to Lianzhou.

And Lianzhou is another fulcrum. The terrain around Lianzhou is relatively flat, and Lianjiang, a tributary of the Beijiang River, has plenty of water. It connects Yingde, Yangshan, and Lianzhou along the way. It is more convenient to supply. Pingyao chaos' base camp.As for Yangshan, as a transfer station between Lianzhou and Yingde, it must be restored as soon as possible.

Therefore, after a brief discussion, Yang Zeng and Huang Chao decided to split into two groups.Yang Zeng led troops to attack Lianshan in the north, and Huang Chao led Li Miaolian, a brigade and two squadrons of the National Army, a total of more than 600 people, to restore Yangshan in the east.After restoring Yangshan, the two met in Lianzhou.

In Huaiji County, the ground infantry preparing to go to Lianzhou is gathering.Huang Chao briefly inspected it. According to the standards of the Fubo Army, only Li Miaolian can be regarded as a well-organized army. The others look like peasant uncles who have just put down their hoe.

If the superior is willing to replace the shrimp soldiers and crab generals under him except Li Miao Company with a company of the Fubo Army, he will be 100 million happy.Back then, he led a platoon of the Fubo Army, combined with some Shuli and local village braves, to wipe out all the banditry in Lingshui, including the bandits and the hostile Lidong.

At this time, Yang Zeng had already led the team to climb among the mountains for most of the day.Although he has been in the army for many years and has already exercised plenty of physical strength, this is the first time he has led troops to walk in the middle of such a large mountain. The team of more than 600 people was hidden without a trace among the mountains. Yang Zeng would send out messengers every 15 minutes to keep the troops from getting out of touch.Only then did Yang Zeng understand why the chaos in Guangdong, Guangxi and Yao in the Ming Dynasty was so difficult to deal with. Sure enough, nature is the biggest enemy of an army. The endless mountain climbing consumes the energy of the army endlessly. This situation can still be maintained, but the national army has problems again and again. The physical strength of the national army has reached a critical point, and it has begun to fall behind.

Seeing that the sun was already high at noon, Yang Zeng ordered the whole army to stop marching, rest and have lunch on the spot, and wait for the soldiers who fell behind.Before departure, Huang Chao and Yang Zeng agreed that whoever arrives in Lianzhou first will treat the other party to dinner.Yang Zeng knew that Huang Chao was sure of his meal. First of all, his marching path was almost entirely mountainous, and as long as Huang Chao climbed over a mountain, he could march along the flat land on the bank of the Lianjiang River. In Yangshan City, they waited for the reinforcement fleet of the Beijiang Task Force, and they only needed to take a boat for the rest of the journey.

Although the terrain was complicated, Yang Zeng was not too nervous.This action will be more of an armed parade.According to Yang Zeng and Huang Chao's predictions, the Yao people who heard the news would most likely withdraw from Lianshan City, and the Fubo Army could occupy Lianshan City without fighting.Then, Yang Zeng led his army eastward to control Luming Pass, occupied Sanjiangwei, and then arrived in Lianzhou.

The whole process took about five days, so each soldier brought five days of dry food with him, and each company and national army squadron had to take turns to bear the burden and carry the dry food for another five days.Yang Zeng can't say for sure when the supplies sent from Guangzhou will arrive at the city of Lianzhou, and he doesn't guarantee whether Huang Chao can restore Yangshan smoothly.Yang Zeng chewed on the dry rations of the grassland series, looking at the flag that Huang Chao gave him before departure. It was a Chinese-style long-pole flag with ten words densely written on it in small letters: Great Song West Road Soldiers and Horses Marshal Zhu.

According to Huang Chao, in order for various tasks to be carried out smoothly, the momentum must be large enough. For those Yao people who are fearless, no matter how strong they are, they must pretend that they are strong. A big banner of bluff is very useful .

So Huang Chao also made a big banner for himself, and wrote: Song Lianyang Recruiting Envoy and Know Lianzhou Military Huang.Looking at this flag, Huang Chao has had a good time of pretending to be addicted to it. At the same time, he also hopes that this flag can convey such a message to those Yao people who have no information. Although they are not the government of the Ming Dynasty, they are also a regime, willing to negotiate.

He announced to the officers and soldiers under him that the whole army would set off at dawn tomorrow and march towards Yangshan County in the northeast. He also emphasized that most of the marching routes would be mountain roads, and asked everyone to prepare mentally and materially, especially for shoes.

Huang Chao's planned combat intention is not to directly attack Yangshan County, but to first march to Yonghua Township in Yangshan County, pacify the area, and then surround the points to fight for reinforcements, waiting for an opportunity to ambush the Yao people who return to the rescue.

The residents of Yonghua Township are mainly Yao people. In the sixth year of Wanli, Zhao Wenzheng, the magistrate of Yangshan County, went deep into Yaoshan Mountain. Yonghua Township.This is one of the few stories in the history of Guangdong and Guangxi that successfully appease the Yao people.

However, judging from the little information, most of the Yao people occupying Yangshan County are from Yonghua Township, and a small number of them are from other Yao Mountains in Yangshan.The Yao people in Yonghua Township do not belong to the Bapai Yao system, but belong to the Pingdi Yao system.Most of the Yao people in this township live in mountain valleys. Although the land is not fertile, it is not barren either, and the output is acceptable.The economic level is much better than that of the other Yao people living in Dashan nests outside the government system of the Ming Dynasty. The Yao people of Yonghua Township, who are registered households under the government, have always kept their own law and order, and there is really no reason for chaos.

This group of Yao people must have their own reasons for their rebellion. If we can fight to put down the Yao people's riots in Yonghua Township and appease them as soon as possible, we can exclude this group of Yao people from the Yao rebellious camp. Solve Ba Pai Yao.

As long as the operation is good, it is even possible to use Yonghuayao's power-the company commander leads too few people in the mountain company, which is far from enough to cope with the local geographical environment.He planned to build a mountain company of Yao people for his trend, even if he didn't have training to fight, he could at least serve as a reconnaissance unit.Fighting in this kind of mountain, intelligence is much more important than military strength.

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