Han’s Son is Not a Slave

At the same time that Nanning was broken, Zhou Shixiang rushed from Liuzhou to Guilin, and arrived in Guilin with Shao Chengguo's cavalry brigade, Tie Yi's second town, Suna's sixth town, Weiyuan Hou Guo Dengdi's ninth town, Qi Hao The artillery battalion was thus connected to the fifth town of Zhao Ziqiang, which had captured Guilin earlier. The Taiping army assembled in Guilin had a total of more than 42,000 infantry and cavalry soldiers, and accompanied the army to recruit young people and young men, together with 12,000 prisoners who served as auxiliary soldiers. , known to the outside world as an army of 100,000.

On the 20th, after receiving the military report that Nanning had been occupied, Zhou Shixiang ordered Wang Xing's tenth town to be stationed in Nanning Prefecture, and was also responsible for the occupation of Taiping Prefecture, Guishun Prefecture, Siming Prefecture, Zhen'an Prefecture and other places south of Nanning. ; ordered the eleventh town of Gaojinku to be stationed in Wuzhou, responsible for the strategy of Wuzhou, Pingle, and Xunzhou that did not return to the county; ordered the third town of Shaojiugong to be stationed in Liuzhou, responsible for Liuzhou, Qingyuan and Si'en. Guizhou County Raiders.

In order to integrate Guangxi's territory, money and grain resources, eliminate local reactionary forces, and ensure that Guangxi can become a safe and stable rear area, Zhou Shixiang ordered the establishment of the Guangxi Chenggong Announcement Office in Liuzhou, with Shao Jiugong as the governor of Guangxi and the political envoy of Guangxi. The first case of a senior general of the Taiping Army serving as a local governor.

Shao Jiugong, who served as the governor of Guangxi, not only directly commanded the third town of his headquarters, but also controlled the eleventh town in Wuzhou and the tenth town in Nanning. After the surrender of the Qing army in various prefectures and counties in Guangxi, they were directly sent to Liuzhou for reorganization. At the same time, Zhou Shixiang asked Shao Jiugong to create two new towns of Guangxi wolf soldiers within three to five months.

As early as in Guangdong, Zhou Shixiang wanted to train a Guangxi wolf soldier. Since ancient times, it has been said that Guangxi wolf soldiers are the world's leading soldiers. Later, 20,000 to 30,000 Guangxi soldiers set off a vigorous Taiping Heavenly Kingdom movement. I'm afraid history has long since been rewritten. After the Great Chaos in Tianjing, the soldiers of the Taiping army were gradually dominated by people from Anhui and Jiangsu and Zhejiang, which led to the rapid weakening of the combat effectiveness of the Taiping army. Zeng Guofan, Zeng Dao, who was known as the leader of the ZTE in the late Qing Dynasty, had 300,000 soldiers in the middle and late period of Long Mao. The combat power is far less powerful than the 30,000 soldiers who just came out of Guangxi. The two battles won by the Manchu and Qing foreign wars were also fought by Guangxi soldiers. For example, Liu Yongfu's Black Flag Army fought against France in Vietnam and against Japan in Taiwan. Feng Zicai's army who won the victory at Zhennanguan were all Guangxi soldiers.

Zhou Shixiang, who was a member of the People's Liberation Army in his previous life, is naturally aware of the military history. "First attack the weakest security team, second the stronger Central Army, and finally the strongest Gui Army" is the strategy deployed by Marshal Liu Bocheng to destroy the enemy. It can be seen how powerful the Guangxi soldiers are.

Zhou Shixiang still remembers some historical materials describing Guangxi soldiers when he was in the army. The most impressive thing is that the People's Liberation Army at that time wanted to distinguish the elite troops in the Kuomintang army. First, look at the equipment. American equipment must be elite troops; second Depending on the accent, troops with a Guangxi accent must also be elite troops. If it has both American-style equipment and a Guangxi accent, it is definitely the most elite in the Kuomintang army.

The performance of Guangxi soldiers in the Taiping Rebellion and the evaluation of Guangxi soldiers by later founding fathers certainly made Zhou Shixiang want to build Guangxi wolf soldiers, but the most important thing is the performance of Guangxi soldiers in the Ming Dynasty.

The so-called wolf soldiers are not actually Han soldiers, but local armed forces formed by the local Zhuang chieftains in Guangxi. Some officials refer to the Guangxi wolf soldiers as the wolf soil soldiers, which refers to the soldiers of the Tujia people in western Hunan.

Guangxi wolf soldiers made good use of long-brand machetes. During the Japanese rebellion in Jiaqian years, the court dispatched wolf soldiers to fight against Japanese pirates in Jiangsu and Zhejiang. The wolf soldiers performed outstandingly. They were able to attack the crowd with less attack, and out of ten, they won nine out of ten, which made the Japanese pirates fearless and became the anti-Japanese force second only to the Qi family army. The wolf soldiers were also different from the Han army when they fought. They formed a team of 7, and each team fought independently. In each team, 4 were dedicated to stabbing, and 3 were dedicated to cutting heads, in order to ask for merit and receive rewards. When charging, one person moves forward, and the left and right of the same party shouted and attacked to support. When one team moves forward, the left and right teams support each other. The whole team cooperates closely, with the gun-wielder in the front, and the crossbow-wielder on both sides, forming a sharp-edged formation and playing the role of long and short weapons.

During the Chongzhen years, Liao affairs were fierce, and the imperial court once again dispatched Guangxi wolf soldiers to fight in Liaodong. After the Sichuan soldiers and Qi's army, another group of soldiers and horses played the prestige of the Ming army in Liaodong. At that time, there were thousands of Guangxi wolf soldiers in the Liaodong Ming Army, which was called the Guanning Iron Cavalry.

In view of the fact that the wolf soldiers are mostly Zhuang, Miao and Yao people, and the Zhuang people in Guangxi are divided into children and mature children. , refused to accept Wang Hua, and it was very difficult to recruit them as soldiers. In addition, ethnic groups in Guangxi live together, and many ethnic groups form their own systems and stick to each other. It is difficult for them to get close to each other, whether it is the Ming Dynasty or the Qing Dynasty. Therefore, before entering Yunnan, Zhou Shixiang wrote a long letter to Shao Jiugong, in the letter Instructed Shao Jiugong to carry out the matter of ethnic minorities returning to Han in Guangxi.

As for the familiar children who were close to the Ming Dynasty, Zhou Shixiang suggested that Shao Jiugong directly regard them as Han people and create a book for these familiar children. From then on, the government no longer called them children, but directly called them Han people, and treated them as Han people in the territory. regardless of each other. As for the birth children, try not to threaten them with force, but lure them out of the mountains to join the Taiping Army with interests. All teenage boys who are willing to join the Taiping Army, whether they are born or mature, will be given material rewards when they join the army, such as oil, salt, sauce, vinegar, grain and meat. Those who perform well can also get gold, silver, cloth, etc. Item reward. Of course, in order to distinguish between raw children and mature children, and to stimulate the birth of children, in terms of specific rewards, the treatment of mature children is higher than that of natural children. Only a child who has served in the army for one year, or brings his whole family to join the cast, can enjoy the treatment of a mature child. In addition, the amount of reward is determined by military merit.

Zhou Shixiang Shao Jiugong repeatedly emphasized that he must not discriminate against Guangxi Zhuang people like the Qing army. For leaders who are willing to cooperate, it is even more important to let them get real benefits. If they want to be officials, Wen Ke can be the prefect, and Wu Ke can be the general soldier. In short, the Taiping Army welcomes all Guangxi ethnic minorities who are willing to give up their Tongren status to become Han Chinese, and guarantee that they can get much more benefits than Tongren who refuse to become Han Chinese.

"It is more important to make those ethnic minorities in Guangxi become Han people than to recruit one or two wolf soldiers that can fight. The former is only a small branch, the latter is the backbone, and it must not be reversed. My Chinese civilization has always been Han civilization, but My Han family has never been based on blood, but civilization. As long as they are willing to accept the civilization of our Han family and become a member of our Han people, then they are Han people, and their descendants are also Han people.

As small as a county, as large as a province or a country, if everyone speaks the same language, writes the same language, celebrates the same festival, inherits the same tradition, and inherits the same clothes, Then we no longer have to worry about alien races, because there are no alien races in this world, only the Han nationality. "

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You have to speak up, otherwise it will be too unbearable for you to think. I went out at night to catch and sell money, so as to support my writing. (To be continued.)