Han’s Son is Not a Slave

After the reorganization of the Huizhou Army, the Taiping Army had seven towns outside the cavalry brigade, water camp, and artillery camp, including the old four towns and the new three towns.

The seven towns are Ge Yi's first town, Tie Yi's second town, Baldy Jiang He's third town, Shao Jiugong's fourth town, Zhao Ziqiang's fifth town, Suna's sixth town, Hu Qili's seventh town town. Among them, the first to third towns actually have 8,250 soldiers, and the fourth to seventh towns actually have 7,575 soldiers. The total number of soldiers in the seven towns is more than 55,000, plus more than 2,000 soldiers from the cavalry brigade and the water battalion. 5,000 soldiers in the battalion, 5,000 soldiers in the artillery battalion, and 800 soldiers in the Iron Man Guard. The strength of the entire Taiping Army has more than tripled from the 20,000 before the Eastern Expedition. The actual number of soldiers is more than 70,000, and there are others of the same number. Security force.

In other words, after the Battle of the Eastern Expedition, Zhou Shixiang was able to actually mobilize the troops and horses he commanded, surpassing Li Dingguo, the King of Jin in Yunnan, and becoming the second heavy army group in Nanming after Jinxia and Zheng Chenggong. On the land he owns, Zhou Shixiang has stabilized Zheng Chenggong, and he actually owns the three prefectures of Guangzhou, Chaozhou and Huizhou.

The town generals were selected, Ge Yi, Jiang He, and Shao Chengguo were old brothers from Daqiao Mountain, Tie Yi was a miner who was rescued, Qi Hao was from the Daxi Army, and the rest were all surrendered generals. According to the time of surrender of the Taiping Army, Shao Jiugong was the earliest, followed by Zhao Ziqiang, Suna, and Hu Qili.

At the level of the town generals, half of the descended generals, and even more at the brigade school and battalion level. 50% of the total Taiping army, the remaining 50% are young people who Luo Ding cast all the way to, among which Xiangshan has the most children. Nearly 20,000 civilians from all over the country who were conscripted by the Qing army joined the Taiping Army.

Among the officers, about 60% were descended from generals. Half of them were from the Green Camp, and the rest were from the Han army, and the remaining two were from Manchu and Mongolia. Of the dozens of people who started the uprising in Daqiao Mountain, only five people are alive today, except for three town generals. The other two are brigade schools. Although they are all in high positions, in terms of the death rate alone, the death rate of the people in Daqiao Mountain is as high as 90%. Because there are only a few people left. Therefore, most of the officers in the Taiping Army who were not descended generals came from the children of Luo Ding and Xiangshan, and they were all at the level of battalion commander, Weiwei commander, and An army envoy. It can be regarded as the backbone of the Taiping Army.

In terms of population, Guangzhou has more than 500,000, Huizhou has nearly 800,000, Chaozhou has nearly 180,000 (there are more than 130,000, and more than 40,000 people have been forcibly moved to Huizhou and Guangzhou), and the number of people in the three prefectures has reached more than 140. Ten thousand. The population of 1.4 million is placed in the developed coastal areas or in populous provinces such as Henan and Sichuan in later generations, but it is only the population of one city, now. It is half the population of Guangdong Province. Zhaoqing, Gaozhou, Lianzhou, Qiongzhou, and Leizhou occupied by other Nanming armies were originally remote and remote areas, with a population of one million being the limit. The populations of Shaozhou and Nanxiong, which were still occupied by the Qing army, were between 400,000 and 500,000.

The population of the entire Guangdong, Zhou Shixiang and Song Xianggong made the most optimistic estimate, should be around 3 million. Before the Qing army entered Guangdong, the population of Guangdong was 12.56 million according to the Yellow Book of the 12th year of Chongzhen. In the past 20 years, Guangdong's total population has dropped by three-quarters. In addition to normal deaths, soldiers died. Among them, about 5 million people were slaughtered by the Qing army, and 1.4 million people were killed in Chaozhou and Guangzhou alone. In some areas, such as Luoding Zhili Prefecture, only a few thousand people were killed.

(Nonsense. Some contemporary historians estimate that the population of the late Ming Dynasty was tens of millions, but the Qing Dynasty had more than 400 million. The conclusion shows that "My Qing Dynasty" has made great contributions to China's population prosperity. Little do they know that his tens of millions The population was left by the killing of the Qing army, and the hundreds of millions of people who died in vain were selectively ignored by them. Furthermore, the increase in the Han population was because the Han people valued the reproduction of their descendants in their bones. The Qing court also needed a large number of Han people to produce for them out of the need for rule. Coupled with the potato crops that can fill their stomachs, the population of the Han people has reached 400 million in more than 200 years. But if there is no alien rule for more than 200 years, the number of the Han people is probably more than one billion. The tens of millions who survived Humans can still reproduce to 400 million, how many more than 100 million people who died in vain can reproduce?

The population data in this passage is not just rambling. Just based on the slaughter records recorded by the Qing court itself, it can be roughly estimated that more than 100 million Han people died in mass slaughter in the city, and this does not include those rural people. certainly. There are also many civilians who died at the hands of the Ming army and the peasant army, but in any case, they were not as many as those who died at the hands of the Qing army. After all, after the Qing army entered the customs, they organized the massacre of the Han people. The reason is that there is no food supply for the starving Han people, for stability. They can only resort to massacre, a simple and crude but very effective means of "harmony". These two paragraphs are not billed, and are purely emotional when I write them. )

The large reduction in the population made the Taiping army build villages and build townships in the occupied areas, and the centralized cultivation of land basically did not encounter any resistance. Even in Xiangshan, except for the few killings by Tie Yi, the Taiping army did not attack the landlords in the townships. The reason for targeted elimination is that there is a large amount of unowned wasteland available for cultivation, making land conflicts less prominent.

A group of subordinate generals and staff of the army, after summarizing the successes and losses of the Eastern Expedition in detail, and after inspecting the towns respectively, reported a result, that is, if the advantages of the Mongolian cavalry can be exerted, there will be no geographical advantage. The Taiping army can still have a field battle with the Qing army of the same size, and the hope of winning accounts for 60%.

This estimate is based on the premise that the Taiping Army has completely integrated and surrendered its troops, and has been rested, supplemented with money for ordnance, and commanders at all levels are also in place, and the morale is high. So Zhou Shixiang just laughed after reading this report, and did not immediately go west to Guangxi according to the optimistic estimates of the guys in this report.

After resolving the military and political affairs in Chaozhou and Huizhou, Zhou Shixiang would return to Guangzhou to start integrating the Ming army entrenched in Zhaoqing, Gaozhou, Lianzhou and Leizhou. Whether it is tough or cooperative, these complex factions of the Ming army must be unified into the Taiping army. Zhou Shixiang must also establish a grain and grass transportation line from Guangzhou to Zhaoqing to Luoding to Gaozhou. Taking Gaozhou as the westward base~www.wuxiaspot.com~ to enter Wuzhou, Guangxi, and then decide whether to seize the communication channel between Guilin, Liuzhou and Kunming, or enter Guizhou to open up the back road of the Qing army and force them to retreat.

The more than 4,000 people who were eliminated by Huizhou soldiers were not dispatched on the spot, because many of them were bandits. These people had blood on their hands and tasted the sweetness of looting. Continue your old life as a fisherman. If they are just dismissed like this, most of these thousands of people will return to their old jobs and cause chaos in Huizhou.

Therefore, Zhou Shixiang ordered these people to be sent to Guangzhou in several batches, one to be placed in Xiangshan, the other in Nanhai, and the rest in Zengcheng.

Every county in Guangzhou has already implemented the construction of villages and townships. There are security teams in the villages, security squadrons in the townships, and security brigades in the county. Together with the garrison, these Huizhou soldiers sent to dozens of villages and fields are closely monitored. , even if they have intentions to make chaos, facing the Taiping army, which has been woven into a powerful net from top to bottom, I am afraid that the slightest sign will be immediately suppressed. Hundreds of the old and the weak were dispatched on the spot because there was no danger. Zhou Shixiang ordered the officials of the counties in Huizhou to bring them back to their hometowns to avoid wandering outside. Those who can move will be given some fields to support themselves, while those who cannot move will be helped by the government to arrange some people who can make ends meet.

After the war, people made up their minds that Chaozhou must be stable, Huizhou must be stable, and Guangzhou must prepare urgently while it is stable. (To be continued.)