On the eve of the Guangxi Campaign, Zhou Shixiang sent an urgent delivery to Shao Jiugong, the governor of Guangxi, ordering him to control Wang Youxi's fourth town, Wang Xing's tenth town, Lu Guangzu's expeditionary army's second town, and Guangxi's newly built third town of wolf soldiers.
At the same time, these four towns were combined into the Southwest Field Corps, and the command of the corps was temporarily replaced by Shao Jiugong.
The grain and grass required by the army were in charge of Song Xianggong, the governor of Liangguang, and Zhang Zichang, the political envoy of Guangxi.
Because Guangxi was dilapidated, it was difficult to bear the grain and grass needed by the army, so the grain and grass of the Southwest Field Corps were mainly transported by water from Guangdong.
Nearly half of this was rice brought back from Annam by the expeditionary force, and even so, the pressure on Guangdong was very great, because this southwest campaign was started by the military and the government at the same time.
The requirement of the military marshal's office was that every time the army occupied a place, it should immediately restore the livelihood of the local people, set up officials to govern the people, call the exiles, and resume production.
The former is easy, the latter is much more complex.
Not only do they need a large number of officials, but they also need a large amount of grain and grass to help the people, and the number of other things such as farm tools, seeds, and simple living utensils is even more amazing.
Song Xianggong once wrote to Zhou Shixiang for this reason, saying frankly that once the Southwest Campaign began, 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 be siphoned off the talents that Guangdong has cultivated with great difficulty, and 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 is the first province to be recovered by our Taiping Army, and it is also the first to build townships and villages.
Today, Guangdong Province is responsible for the southwest, and the suffering is in front of us, 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.
Otherwise, the land will still be quiet, and the people will still starve, and they will drown their women for the sake of the living man, and they will sell their wives for the sake of the living son, and what will be the point of restoration?"
Shao Jiugong didn't expect that he would be able to make a comeback and become a leader.
In last year's battle of Liuzhou, Shao Jiugong's command was unfavorable, if it weren't for the fifth town under the command of Yu Shizhong, he was afraid that Guangxi would have fallen into the hands of the line Guoan.
After the war, Shao Jiugong was promoted to the governor of Guangxi, and it seemed that he was serving as a feudal official, but for the Taiping Army, which attached great importance to military merits, Shao Jiugong's future was obviously not as bright as those colleagues who directly led the army.
Although after the establishment of the Dingwu Imperial Court, Shao Jiugong still had to be named Marquis Xinfeng, but the gold content of this marquis is far inferior to Ge Yi and Tie Yi who were marquises, and Yu Shizhong, Jiang He, Suna and others who were posthumously presented as loyal princes.
And he has been in Guangxi for a long time, far away from the political center of Nanjing, so that Shao Jiugong also thought that he was snubbed by the marshal, and he was a little discouraged for a while, and even had the idea of returning to his hometown in Jiangxi.
No, the marshal who was thousands of miles away did not forget him, and entrusted him with a heavy responsibility again, although he was temporarily in charge, Shao Jiugong knew that this was an opportunity for the marshal to give him.
When he received the official document for the formation of the Southwest Field Army, Shao Jiugong was really ecstatic.
Ordering Lu Guangzu and Wang Youxi to treat the Wu army captives well was not because Shao Jiugong was kind, but because Zhou Shi had clear requirements for him.
Zhou Shixiang asked Shao Jiugong to treat the Wu army and the Qing army differently, and to attack the heart and attack the city first.
We must resolutely annihilate the Wu army that stubbornly resists, and appease the officers and men of the Wu army who take the initiative to lay down their arms and surrender, and we must not kill them outright.
Zhou Shixiang's request is naturally due to the fact that the Wu army is, to a certain extent, no longer a green battalion soldier who aids and abuses, and the composition of the Wu army is very complicated, and the soldiers and horses that really belong to Wu Sangui are probably less than a quarter, and the rest are all the original Ming and Qing army departments, with complex factions, and there is no shortage of people at both ends of the first rat.
For these people, it is necessary to appropriately win them over, not only to reduce the casualties of the Taiping army, but also to speed up the course of the war.
Although simple killing can make the Wu army fearful, it will also make the Wu army in Yungui have no way to retreat, and fight to the death with the Taiping army, which is obviously not in line with the intention of using troops in the southwest this time.
Fighting fast and moving forward, seizing Yungui with lightning speed was the tone set by Zhou Shixiang for the battle in the southwest.
Only by being fast can Wu Sangui be forced to send troops back from the Central Plains, which will affect his decisive battle with the Manchu Qing and strategically achieve the goal of containing Wu's northward footsteps.
Of course, in the eyes of some people, Zhou Shixiang's move also indirectly helped the Manchu Qing Dynasty, but in Zhou Shixiang's own opinion, this favor must be helped.
Because if he didn't help Fulin, Zhou Shixiang would not be able to block all the old and young in Manchu in Beijing.
Manchuria returned to Guanwai and became Houjin, repeating the history since Wanli, and Zhou Shixiang was absolutely unwilling.
Either don't do it, do it, and do it cleanly.
Zhou Shixiang wanted to fight a war to exterminate the clan, and Wu Sangui moved too fast, which would only make the Manchus abandon Beijing and flee to Guanwai.
Zhou Shixiang vaguely remembered that in the history of his previous life, when the north and south of the river sang the songs of the Manchu Dynasty and recited the revolutionary army, the crumbling Manchu Qing were preparing to flee outside the Guanwai and escape back to the so-called hometown they had snatched from the Han people.
If it weren't for Yuan Shikai's preferential treatment of the Qing Dynasty, I am afraid that the Manchu Qing Dynasty would have been out of the customs.
In his previous life, Zhou Shixiang regretted that the Manchu Qing Dynasty did not escape from the Guanwai, because in that case, Manchuria would definitely be completely liquidated, after all, more than two hundred years later, the world is already the era of hot weapons.
There is no so-called preferential treatment clause for the Qing Dynasty, and the Manchu Qing who escaped from the customs are destined to be cleaned, so that there will be no "conjuring spirits" decades later, let alone any purple qi coming from the east, the Temple of Heaven worshipping ancestors, and braids full of screens.
Now, Zhou Shixiang did not want the Manchus to escape from the Guanwai, because the Taiping Army was still a cold-armed army strictly speaking, and if the Manchus escaped from the Guan, it would be more difficult to encircle and suppress them.
After all, there are no Han people outside the Guanwai now, and it is impossible to restore the Guanwai to the state before Wanli without decades.
At that time, there were more than 3 million Han Chinese outside the Guan.
Without the Han people taking root there, it was entirely up to the army to go out again and again to "sweep up" the Manchurians who existed like guerrillas, and this difficulty was not ordinarily small.
Outside the pass is very large, white mountains and black waters, cutting grass does not remove roots, and the spring breeze blows and grows.
The dispute between the Ming and Qing dynasties, or the war between the Han and Manchu that lasted for more than 40 years, Zhou Shixiang decided that there were two ethnic groups as early as Xiangshan, and only one could exist.
The only way to settle Manchuria once and for all is to keep them in Beijing.
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Therefore, Zhou Shixiang had to start a civil war, and he did not believe that Wu Sangui would have the same monstrous blood hatred against Manchukuo as he did.
It is a hypothesis that Fulin gave up Beijing to get out of the customs, and another hypothesis is that Fulin surrendered to Wu Sangui, and the Manchurians and the traitors who made dogs for Manchu turned into officials of the Yongli Ming Dynasty, and Fulin could even mix up with a prince, a marquis, or a king.
This may seem absurd, but it is a real possibility.
No matter which assumption it is, it is imminent to take action against Wu Sangui.
The first step is to contain Wu Sangui, so the southwest campaign must be fast, 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 claimed to rescue King Li Jin from outside the border when he used troops against Yungui, anyone with a discerning eye knew that this was the beginning of the civil war between the Taiping Army and the Guanning Army, and there was nothing to deny about it.
Zhou Shixiang never cared what the so-called discerning people think. oshow7 t1706231537: