Lin Gao Qiming

Chapter 650
In the end, the two sides negotiated the conditions, and without any ceremony, Chengmai County quietly surrendered at 3 pm.Mr. Zhou Qian brought a dozen of his own soldiers down from the city first, and the Fubo Army arranged for a boat to send him away.The remaining [-] soldiers saw that the general had left and got money again, so they had no intention of resisting, saying that everything was up to the county's arrangements.

At that moment, five hundred soldiers marched out of the city, disarmed and surrendered.Then a special captive manager announced the four captive policies: captives must obey orders; wounded and sick are given medical treatment; no one is allowed to hide weapons privately; personal legal property is preserved.

They were then searched one by one. To the surprise of the officers and soldiers, the silver, dry food and personal belongings each brought with them were returned to them after a glance.Only things like knives were taken away.

The officers and soldiers have been cleared out of the city, and the Fubo army immediately entered Chengmai County.According to the prior agreement, Song Zonghui would handle everything in person—Liu Jingxuan refused to do so in person—and Wei Aiwen didn’t care. According to the advice in the civil affairs instruction manual, the local gentry were more useful than officials like the county magistrate, and they were more familiar with local conditions. , also has active energy, which is an object that can be striven for and utilized.

Because the personnel for the office in Chengmai had not yet been selected, Wei Aiwen was in charge of civil affairs for the time being. He arranged for soldiers to take over the guards at the gates and key points in Chengmai, and ordered all Lianyong in the city to gather and hand in their weapons.Only then did they take stock of the armored war equipment abandoned by the officers and soldiers in the city, among which there were actually many ladders, and a hundred strange balls that seemed to be made of some kind of leather, which were all black powder when opened.Nobody knows what it is.Later, after interrogating the captives, it was discovered that it was a "hunjiang dragon" - a sea mine.

"Da Ming's firearms are so creative!" Wei Aiwen exclaimed after seeing it.Note that as long as it is firearms and offensive and defensive equipment, select a few pieces that are in good condition and bill separately for storage-this is to be sent to the newly established Weapons Bureau.

After cleaning up the materials, Song Zonghui dismissed Lianyong who had been summoned from various villages as agreed.However, Wei Aiwen did not confiscate their weapons, because these weapons did not deter the Fubo army much, but confiscating them made the village lack the ability to resist bandits.Therefore, the civil affairs instruction manual suggested that before the government cadres could go to the countryside, the landlords' armed forces in each village could be retained to maintain basic social order.

The soldiers and militiamen were busy until dark, and finally cleared up all the supplies left by the officers and soldiers in the city, and arrested some officers and soldiers who tried to hide in the city in plain clothes.They were very rude to them, and they were immediately stripped naked one by one, tied up in a bunch and escorted out.Song Zong would be secretly startled, wondering if this Australian would use stripping people's clothes and showing them naked as a punishment?He couldn't help but feel chilly all over.

After finishing the work, the Fubo army left the county as agreed.This made the whole city breathe a sigh of relief.Although none of the Kun bandits patrolled the city on horseback, and they didn't kill disorderly soldiers on the street, all the Kun bandits who entered the city really did not commit any crimes.Not only did they not randomly enter civilian homes to rob and rape, they even cleaned the streets after clearing out the armored supplies abandoned by officers and soldiers on the streets.For a while, the gentry and the common people had completely different perceptions of this group of "kun thieves".

A small secret banquet was held at Song Zonghui's house that night.At the banquet, Song Zong met with local dignitaries, including the county magistrate's teacher and Wei Aiwen, to exchange cups, and the atmosphere was very lively.

At present, Song Zonghui presented a list of gifts on behalf of the gentry and common people in the county, including 500 stones of white rice, [-] taels of silver, [-] bolts of cotton cloth, [-] bolts of various silks and satins, and [-] jars of locally produced rice wine and shochu.There are also thirty pigs and fifty sheep. "For the noble soldiers to reward the three armed forces."

When Song Zonghui presented the list of rites and said such words, several gentry present sighed again: what is the need for officers and soldiers to ask for it after they enter the city? Mai County and themselves were ransacked by the officers and soldiers, and they were so impoverished that they were about to hang themselves.

Wei Aiwen expressed his gratitude very politely.This stuff is certainly good, but it's not enough for the planning institute to bite the teeth, let alone the huge appetite of the executive committee.Although there were a lot of spoils obtained in the battle of Chengmai, and tens of thousands of free laborers were captured, the consumption was also astonishing.Since Chengmai is already a piece of fat in the mouth, it is natural to cook it well, squeeze out more, no, contribute more manpower and material resources to supply the entire new order of China.So he doesn't argue about the numbers - as long as the ruling power is established in Chengmai, at least the benefits in terms of food will be far more than that.

He proposed to set up a "aftermath bureau" in Chengmai.Everyone was dumbfounded for a moment.Yes, generally speaking, after military disasters and chaos in localities, the government always comes forward and appoints some powerful and well-known local gentry to form a team like the aftermath bureau to deal with the aftermath.It is nothing more than burying corpses, helping the poor, recruiting exiles, setting up agricultural businesses, appeasement of localities and the like.The name is not big, but the power is very extensive, and there are many things to be handled, which is much faster and more effective than the government office.

This "Chief Wei" suddenly proposed to deal with the aftermath. Everyone felt that the intention was not good, but there was no way to refute it, and they dared not refute it.

According to Wei Aiwen's proposal, the aftermath bureau should still be headed by the county magistrate Liu Jingxuan, and three or four respected gentry in the county should be selected to preside over specific affairs as the chief executive and committee members.As for them Australians, they also have to occupy a place in it.

"We are not from Chengmai, so we should be deacons on duty." Wei Aiwen pretended to be generous.

A group of people showed bitter faces, and no one knew that the so-called "year-old deacon" of the Australians was the real position of power.Moreover, once the aftermath bureau is established, it is equivalent to setting up a "second yamen" in the county.The so-called aftermath covers everything, and you can intervene in almost everything. It won't take long for a dove to occupy the magpie's nest and take away the power of the county government.

Wei Aiwen didn't allow them to lament and beg, and waved his hand carelessly: "That's the deal."

The gentry and the county magistrate had nothing to do. It was originally a matter of man's knife and me being fish and meat, so they had to agree now.Fortunately, there were many examples of such half-official, half-civilian yamen at the time, and it could not be regarded as exceeding the system.Afterwards, it was discussed that according to the usual practice, county magistrate Liu would be appointed as the general office of the Chengmai Rehabilitation Bureau, Song Zonghui would be appointed as the in-charge office, and four or five gentry from the county who were rich and powerful and enthusiastic about public welfare would be selected as committee members.As for the so-called "deacon", of course it must be left to the Australians.In less than 24 hours, everyone changed the word "Kun thief" into "Australian". People like Song Zonghui immediately flattered Wei Aiwen with "the head is long and the head is short".

Wei Aiwen arranged the matter properly, and immediately sent a telegram to the executive committee, asking them to select personnel to form a working group to Chengmai as soon as possible, so as to grasp the county government as soon as possible.

The news that He Ming led the whole army to defeat the Ming Army's Guangdong Commander-in-Chief led five generals and one guerrilla unit with 2000 people reached Lingao at noon that day.The Executive Committee and the Senate were originally waiting for this news, although there was no suspense about the outcome from the very beginning, and the battle in the past few days has been very smooth.But everyone is still very nervous.

Shortly after 7 a.m. on July 11, all the gates of Lingao City suddenly beat drums simultaneously, and then the ships moored in the county town, Bairen City, Bopu, Nanbao, Gaoshanling, and Maliao fired their cannons three times at the same time.The sound shook the whole city.Immediately, the soldiers and civilians everywhere knew that the entire army had been annihilated in Chengmai on the morning of the 11th, and more than 1 people had been captured.

Li Yunxing was the first person to know the news of the complete victory. He received a call report from He Ming on the radio.But this is only a verbal notice, and it will not be announced until the official telegram arrives.At ten o'clock in the morning, the field army telegram officially announcing the victory in Chengmai finally arrived.

The Senate and the Executive Committee informed: Our field army was defeated at 7:11 on July 0900, and all divisions of He Rubin, the future offender of the Ming army, were defeated.Most of the enemy was wiped out.

Field Army Command He Dongmenwei
"Quick, forward the full text and power on!" Li Yun opened the office door excitedly, and delivered the telegram to Shao Zong himself along the way.

Shao Zong glanced at it, and hurried to the press room himself.Within a few minutes, the telegram had spread to every department and field station with a radio station.

Ding Ding had already sent a clerk to wait in the telecommunications office, and after copying the telegram from Shao Zong's hand, he hurried towards the newspaper office.

After Shaozong sent the telegram, he immediately went to the telecom computer room on duty: "Hurry up, send a group of text messages immediately!"

A few minutes later, all the elders received news of Chengmai's victory.As soon as the text message was sent, he heard sporadic gunshots and cheers outside.

"Fuck, this is a waste of bullets!"

At noon, the envoys who came all the way from Chengmai also came to Lingao as the first batch of letters that smelled like ink were sent out, and then a special plenary meeting was held in the Senate, where the envoys reported the whole battle process.Hearing that the enemy has been wiped out, everyone is very happy, but He Rubin and other major generals and officials escaped, and some people are not reconciled-according to some people's thinking, they are going to drag these high-ranking officials to Lingao to be executed in public, so that It shows the prestige of "coming offenders must be punished".

"Since He Rubin and Zhao Ruyi have not been caught, it is better to hang the old dog who caught Lu Yizhong in public!" After the Guangzhou station was forced to evacuate, Guo Yi, Pei Lixiu and others participated in the Senate as if they were being tried. Seven or eight hearings.Everyone hated Lu Yizhong deeply and wanted to put him to death.

"Hanging is too light! It should be quartered!"

"The law, everyone must respect the law!" Vest hurriedly came out to object, "We should organize a public trial and conduct a large-scale trial of war crimes, so that the masses can fully realize the seriousness of the law, and not engage in bloody non-criminal punishment!"

"Hmph, I think we should emulate what the British did to the Scots, disembowel and kill them! Then cut off the head and limbs, and hang them at the gates of the city, as a warning to others!" The hippopotamus made a big difference when he opened his mouth, " I'm going to do gymnastics."

"It's too bloody, it's too bloody!" The person who made this statement was Dugu's marriage proposal, which surprised everyone.Dugu's marriage proposal has become unknown since she was "removed from all duties and duties".But Dugu used to be known for being cruel to the aborigines, and now he would say the words "too bloody" which was beyond everyone's expectations.

"I think they should use a pump to pump air into their chrysanthemums! Hit until the intestines burst!" His creativity is really extraordinary.

Hippo didn't take it seriously: "It's superfluous, it's better to follow the way the British deal with the Scottish separatists!"

Someone said: "It seems that the genitals have been cut off and hung on the bridge..."

There are also retro trends: several historical talents working in the large library requested to build a Beijing temple outside Lingao County.To demonstrate the illustrious martial arts of the Australian and Song regimes.

"It's disgusting!" Du Wen strongly objected, "It's fine if you want to hang a few heads, this inhumane and cruel feudal dross must not be revived!"

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The Senate was full of voices. After a lively discussion on how to deal with the living and the dead, the focus of discussion turned to the arrangement of affairs after the victory.After the big victory, Yu Wei will occupy the whole of Hainan in one fell swoop, which is already in sight.However, the elders also have many different views on the specific construction and governance direction.The victory meeting is not over yet, and the Senate has already started a debate.

Ma Qianju was not in the mood to participate in such an empty debate. Before the meeting was over, he returned to the office of the Central Government Affairs Council and told Hou Wenyong to invite Wu De and other executive committee members and the vice ministers of departments that had not yet elected executive committee members to the meeting.

"After the notification, you can go to the various departments of the Government Affairs Council to notify: the chief officials of each department are required to attend the enlarged meeting. No absence is allowed!" After Ma Qianzhu took care of him,

Half an hour later, the Executive Committee, the Deputy Minister of Affairs, and the chief officials of various departments arrived one after another.They are not as happy and elated as ordinary senators, thinking about how to kill people, award medals, even engage in triumphal ceremonies, build a triumphal arch, and so on.The Executive Committee and the Deputy Minister of Affairs have a deep understanding of the entire administrative organization, and they know that there are problems and drawbacks in the regime. Although the situation is very good, many internal problems must be resolved as soon as possible.

"We have won a big victory this time." Wen Desi, who presided over the meeting, said, "Xiao Cheng has always said that we can't afford to fight a war. Now that the war is over, we will switch from a state of war to a state of peace tomorrow. The next step in governance Let’s talk about how to do it.”

The first is the handling of prisoners. More than 1 captives have not yet been classified. According to the preliminary report of Dongmen Chuyu, about 80 to [-] of them have been identified as officers. Some officers should wear uniforms of small soldiers in an attempt to hide, but these people have not yet been identified.

The general policy was drawn up long ago. Officers asked their family members to redeem themselves. Those who could not redeem themselves would stay in Lingao for labor reform.

As for the soldiers, most of the elders believed that the bad habits of the soldiers in this time and space were very strong.

"Even Qi Jiguang knew to train recruits to choose dull, old and honest people from the countryside instead of bachelors from the market. Such soldiers are especially unusable."

However, some people take PLA's transformation of "liberation fighters" as an example, and believe that ordinary soldiers under the old military system can still be transformed into qualified army soldiers.

Moreover, once the subjugation operation against the whole of Hainan is to start, a large number of troops will have to be stationed everywhere. The original six battalions are obviously not enough.Absorbing and reforming three to 4000 people from captives can effectively solve the problem of insufficient troops.

But this proposal has not been approved by the majority of people. It seems to them that it is a very risky thing to immediately absorb these people into the army without long-term transformation.

Wu De said: "That's right, they have no sense of nationality, and they fight for whoever pays the food. It doesn't matter if they are soldiers of Ming Dynasty, Li Zicheng or Jianlu. With the generous treatment of our army, it goes without saying that they are Extremely happy. Such people are very dangerous. To put it bluntly, the soldiers of GMD are better than them-at least people know that it is disgraceful to be a puppet army. When the Ming and Qing Dynasties alternated, the soldiers who took refuge in Jianlu Have you ever thought about it?"

"There should be some, anyway, there are still quite a few people in the green camp."

"But compared to the majority, it is still a very small part." Wu De said, "Now we are not transforming a few people, dozens of people, but thousands of people. So many people want to transform their bodies in a short period of time. Thought, it is still impossible to do it with our current capabilities."

Skade said: "I think they can be used as immigrants sent to Southeast Asia by the Ministry of Colonial Trade, and some supplies and weapons can be given to them, and they can be sent to Southeast Asia to build fortresses to develop local resources. It is stipulated how much supplies they pay each year and we will give them. Supplies. Let them turn Southeast Asia into a bloodbath."

"It's not good. These soldiers are usually controlled by the harsh laws of the army. If you send them to Southeast Asia, doesn't that mean that the horse has gone to the bridle?" Wu De continued to object.

"They do what they like in Southeast Asia. They kill and set fire to rob girls. If they can beat them, it's okay. If they can't beat them, it doesn't matter if they are wiped out by the locals..."

"What kind of fortress will we build if the locals are wiped out?" Wu De said, "Besides, if they act recklessly, how can they honestly open up wasteland and farm land to collect supplies? It's not just a matter of robbery. In the end we got the most The good result is nothing more than a group of Han bandits in Southeast Asia. Does this count as colonization? These officers and soldiers are not controlled, and I am afraid that they will kill each other when they arrive in the local area. If we send another person to manage the fort, it may be the first to fight with the They fought. To colonize and reclaim wasteland, the first thing is to unite, and it is difficult for such rebellious people to come in handy."

　Note: The so-called Jingguan is to pile up the corpses of the enemy's dead, and the outside is piled up like a hill.This practice seems to have existed in the Spring and Autumn Period.And once affected the Korean peninsula.

　　
　
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