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"Why don't people come out of Wuxing Town?"

"That's right, when we Wuxing people fight, one can stand up to ten. Our Wuxing Town accounts for half of the governors under Mr. Zhao's command!"

"Don't send troops to Wuxing Town, let's go to the county to petition!"

"What is a petition?"

"You don't even know about petitions? Teacher Zhang at school said that a bunch of people go to the government and beg the government to agree to something, which is a petition."

"Okay, let's all go to petition!"

"..."

Huang Shui stood up abruptly, and scolded, "Stop, everyone! Peasants and soldiers are also soldiers, and soldiers should obey military orders. What is the military order now? Wuxing Town does not need to send troops, nor does it need to send out civilian husbands. Everyone go home , if you can’t find a job to do, hold your own mother-in-law to toss every day, and give Mr. Zhao a few more children to plant the land and pay for food!”

"Hahahaha!"

This remark caused a burst of laughter.

Huang Shui said again: "That Zhang Xianzhong doesn't know what is good or bad. He doesn't grow food himself, so he comes to grab our food. If he takes down Anhui, he will come to Jiangxi to pay for food. Are you willing to let him rob us?"

"I don't like it, why should we give Zhang Xianzhong the food we grow ourselves?"

"Captain, that's why we should send troops to help Mr. Zhao kill that son of a bitch Zhang Xianzhong!"

"..."

"Shut up, listen to me," Huang Shui scolded, "The mayor and the village chief have made it very clear that this year there is a severe drought in the provinces, and Mr. Zhao is also short of food to fight. Since Wuxing Town is not allowed to leave , then we should produce grain. Mr. Zhao will not let the farmers suffer. This grain bond has interest. If you save it for a few years, you can get back more. My family’s grain will be taken to the government to buy grain bonds. This year's ration."

Huang Shui held the porridge and said: "Think about it, go back ten years, what kind of life do we live? Can we afford white rice and drink white rice porridge? I'll take the lead and only eat two meals a day from now on. , I only eat thin ones for every meal. Eat more sweet potatoes, bracts, and sorghum, and save all the good food and send it to Mr. Zhao to fight! If Mr. Zhao loses, no matter how much food we have left in the family, we will be punished by Zhang Xianzhong snatch it?"

"well said!"

"If you listen to what your boss says, let's not go to war and give all the food to Mr. Zhao!"

"What interest do you want? The land at home is all given by Mr. Zhao, and all the food is donated to the government, as long as there is enough food for the family!"

"Go, donate food!"

"..."

Regardless of whether Zhao Han called himself the commander-in-chief, the commander-in-chief, or declared himself the king of Wu, everyone in Wuxing Town loved to be called "Mr. Zhao".

Since Wuxing Town was involved in all previous battles, not only were there many mid-level and senior military officers, but farmers, soldiers and peasants were also given a lot of land.Taking the above field as the calculation standard, the land property of the common people in Wuxing Town has reached an average of six mu per person.

The fields in Wuxing Town have long been insufficient, and new sites are often laid down, and the peasants or farmers and soldiers stay there.Then their wives and children were also taken away, and the fields were redistributed in new places, and the original fields were distributed to other meritorious persons.

It can be said that their ideological awareness is very high, and it can also be said that they are a new interest group. Anyway, they regard Zhao Han as a bodhisattva god.

This is not only true for Wuxing Town, but also for the entire Luling County.

In the early three counties of Luling, Jishui, and Anfu, Zhao Han had a lot of fanatical supporters, and the per capita land property of the three counties has exceeded five acres!

In order not to affect people's livelihood, it is also to balance the army.This time in the three counties, very few manpower was transferred, and Wuxing Town was not even allowed to send any more people.

but……

In Luling, Jishui, and Anfu counties, farmers spontaneously set off a vigorous grain donation campaign.

In front of the bank's grain depot in Wuxing Town, a farmer held up the grain bond and shouted at the crowd: "See, all the grain in my family has been donated. If Mr. Zhao wants grain, just give it. Not to mention the interest, the principal No need to pay back!"

After finishing speaking, he tore up the bonds in public, and stuffed them into his mouth, swallowing them one by one.

"it is good!"

"I don't want any food for my family either. My fellow villagers will bear witness. Long live Mr. Zhao!"

"Count me in!"

"..."

Historically, Li Wen, who prepared a call to action for Dorgon and invented the theory of "the Manchu Qing avenged the Ming Dynasty", was serving as the mayor of Wuxing Town at this time.

Last year, the father was redeemed from prison, and the father and son returned to Jiangnan.

Li Wen's father went to do business, and Li Wen signed up as a reserve official without hesitation.First served as a small official in Jiangnan, and was promoted to Jiangxi this year.

Zhao Han has a special instruction for the children of the rich families in Jiangnan and Zhejiang.Those who are willing to be officials should be transferred to Jiangxi as much as possible, so that they can feel the revolutionary enthusiasm, and at the same time let them know the rules of being an official!

At this moment, Li Wen looked at the farmers competing to tear up their bonds, and finally fully understood why Zhao Han was able to grow.

This is called popular support.

This is called the admiration of all peoples.

Perhaps with Zhao Han's order, hundreds of thousands of farmers in Jiangxi could join the army and fight with their own dry food.

After finishing the daily work, Li Wen went back to the house and wrote a letter to her friend, feeling Zhao Han's personal prestige in Jiangxi.At the same time, he complained that the people in Wuxing Town refused to obey the discipline, and they all accepted death.

Li Wen didn't dare to embezzle at all, or even neglect her government. The people here are too horrible.

The literacy rate of children in Wuxing Town is even more frightening. The literacy rate is close to [-]% for children over seven years old and under.Even if it is placed in Zhao Han's territory, it is only this family, there is no other semicolon!

If the mayor dared to fool the people, a bunch of literate youngsters would immediately come to reason.

If the mayor dares to be unreasonable, hey, maybe that young man is the nephew of a certain general.

Li Wen felt that she didn't come to be an official, he came to be the grandson of the people of Wuxing Town.

Ship after ship of grain was transported to Hukou County for storage.

Numerous farmers, soldiers and civilian husbands were selected and sent out by the villages and towns. They went to the county to gather by themselves, and were sent to Hukou by boat by the county magistrate.

There were too many applicants. It was originally planned to recruit [-] peasants and soldiers each in Jiangxi and Hunan, and another [-] civilian husbands each.After reporting and asking for instructions, Zhao Han agreed to recruit [-] yuan each, and... many of the peasants were peasants and soldiers who signed up.

It can be said that only in Jiangxi and Hunan provinces, Zhao Han had [-] soldiers within a month!

Many people don't look like peasants, but they are peasants and soldiers when they hold weapons, and they really bring their own weapons.

High ideological awareness is one aspect, and another is to appreciate the land for meritorious service. The per capita land property of Wuxing Town is [-] mu, which has become a living example for the whole Jiangxi.

Jiang Dashan and Jiang Liang have squatted in Guangdong for the past two years, and have wiped out the bandits in Fujian and Guangdong provinces.

By the way, he raised grass and beat rabbits. In the process of chasing down the bandits, he knocked down all the Wuzhou Mansions in Guangxi, and reported to his superiors to send officials to complete the division of land.

Now, a division stationed in Guangdong has nothing to do except defend Guangxi.

It is too troublesome to transfer troops from Guangdong to the north, but it is possible to mobilize officers.

Jiang Dashan was appointed as the commander of the Hunan peasants and soldiers, and Jiang Liang was appointed as the commander of the Jiangxi peasants and soldiers, and each took dozens of officers northward to take over the troops.

They arrived at their destination before the peasants and soldiers. One was training in Baling and the other was training in Hukou.

It is said to be training, but in fact it is to reorganize the troops and practice the cooperation of large corps by the way.

When these two were still training farmers and soldiers, Anhui was already fighting!

Zhang Xianzhong and Sun Kewang attacked the Guangji and Huangmei areas.

Li Dingguo and Ai Nengqi sent troops from Biyang to first occupy Zhenyang County, which belonged to Luo Rucai, and then went south to attack Zhao Han's Luoshan County.

Bai Wenxuan and Liu Wenxiu directly attacked Xinyang Prefecture, but were blocked at Pingjing Pass and Jiuli Pass and could not advance an inch.

Pingjingguan, one of the nine fortresses in the world during the Qin and Han Dynasties.

Sun Wu once led the Wu soldiers to break out of the pass and almost wiped out the state of Chu.

This pass was originally occupied by Luo Rucai. After Luo Rucai fled, he was taken over by the Datong Army.

Bai Wenxuan led more than 1 people to attack, and the Datong soldiers stationed at the pass were only [-] regular soldiers, [-] peasant soldiers, and [-] civilian husbands.

Wufeng Mountain and Fenghuang Mountain stood facing each other, and Pingjingguan was located between the two peaks, which completely blocked Bai Wenxuan's entry channel.

"Boom boom boom!"

Porcelain is an enemy of ten thousand people, just like not needing money, as long as the enemy army gathers a little more, they will be thrown down one after another.

Bai Wenxuan was already confused by the bombing, but he could dispatch two or three thousand troops to go around from both sides across the mountains.But there may be a lot of deaths on the way, even if you can successfully climb over, it will take a month or two.After the past, there was no military rations. If you want not to starve to death, you must first rob the village.

After attacking continuously for half a month, Bai Wenxuan sent someone to question Liu Wenxiu, but Liu Wenxiu sent someone first.

"General, Jiuliguan can't be moved, can you move here?"

"You can beat a fart!"

In addition to these two checkpoints, you can also go east out of the Dabie Mountains in the south.However, there are a series of checkpoints such as Dacheng Pass, Baisha Pass, Muling Pass, Huangtu Pass and Hutou Pass.

There are an average of two barriers in each channel, one is occupied by Zhang Xianzhong, and the other is occupied by the Datong Army.The passage in the Dabie Mountains is not suitable for a large army to march. It is best to send thousands of partial divisions, but if thousands of partial divisions attack, Zhao Han can send hundreds of peasants and soldiers to defend it.

Zhang Xianzhong's central route army was useless, it was blocked by the Dabie Mountains and the checkpoints.

The battle between the two sides depends on the South and North Route Army.

In mid-April, Chongzhen died.

Zhao Han took his own soldiers and went to support Guangji in person, where there were Zhang Xianzhong and Sun Kewang.

The cavalry of Jeju Island also pulled a vote.

Chapter 369 [Persistence]

Guangji County (Meichuan Town, Wuxue City).

Zhang Xianzhong and Sun Kewang commanded 80 troops and countless civilian husbands. They claimed that an army of [-] came to attack.

Pointing to the brand-new city wall, Sun Kewang said: "The construction started last July. What kind of cement was used to lay the bricks, and the middle of the rammed earth was solid, and the foundation was not deep, so I think it will not be very strong."

"Is the main force of the enemy army in the city?" Zhang Xianzhong asked.

Sun Kewang replied: "I'm not sure. In Zhao Han's territory, he dare not ride a horse to inquire, otherwise he will be arrested as a spy. Recently, the enemy has frequently mobilized, and recruited peasants, soldiers and peasants on the spot. It doesn't count."

Zhang Xianzhong thought about it: "Spread out a group of cavalry, go east to investigate the enemy's real situation, and see if we can plunder the Wujia cave by the way."

Wujiaxue is on the bank of the Yangtze River. It was a commercial market town in the Ming Dynasty, which was later the urban area of ​​Wuxue City.

As for the county government of Guangji, no city was built in the Ming Dynasty.

After Zhao Han occupied this place, he quickly built the city wall in half a year.The stone and compound soil are used as the base of the wall, the rammed earth is used as the city wall, and the wall is made of cement bricks.There is no moat, only a Meichuan River blocks it.

The cement brick wall is very brittle, and it will fall if it is hit by a cannon. It is purely to protect the earth wall inside from the wind and sun.

Strictly speaking, this is a traditional rammed earth city wall.

"Old Ma, this time you lead the cavalry as the vanguard. Be careful when you meet the enemy. Zhao Han's firecrackers are really powerful." Zhang Xianzhong instructed another person beside him.

This man was called Ma Shouying, nicknamed "Laohuihui".

In the fifth battalion of Gezuo, King Zuojin died in battle with the Ming army, while Geliyan, King Gaishi, and King Chaoshi were killed by Zhang Xianzhong and annexed their tribes.

Now only Ma Shouying, the old Hui Hui, is left, and Zhang Xianzhong's territory is assigned to Yunyang.This man was from the frontier army of the Ming Dynasty, and the cavalry under his command included not only Han Chinese and Muslims, but also Mongols.

Zhang Xianzhong's army camped near Guangji County, and sent out a team of [-] cavalry as spies, while Laohui led [-] elite cavalry and headed straight to Huangmei County.

All villages in Guangji County have been fortified and cleared.

The people either retreated into the mountains in the northwest, or retreated into Guangji County.Zhang Xianzhong led his troops all the way, some seedlings had already been planted along the way, and some paddy fields were too late to transplant.

At this moment, the people guarding the city looked at the enemy army outside, with hatred in their eyes.

Especially for those farmers who are too late to transplant rice seedlings, they have already sowed seeds to grow seedlings, plowed the fields to store water, and finished all the work, leaving only the crucial step of transplanting rice seedlings.Once Zhang Xianzhong came, he did nothing for nothing, and the farming season had already been delayed!

The next day.

Zhang Xianzhong took out a pair of civilian binoculars, which Xizuo bought in Jiangxi.

He sent out many spies, all of whom had their family members as hostages.But only half of them were able to come back, and they didn't know whether they were killed or stayed in Zhao Han's territory and refused to leave.

The city tower is densely packed, and the number of defenders is very large, but it seems that they are all miscellaneous soldiers.

Zhang Xianzhong put down the binoculars. He had an intuition that the Datong regular army was not here.The city should be full of common people, and those who guard the city are also local people.According to the detailed report, every village in Zhao Han's territory has farmers and soldiers, and the defenders who want to come to Guangji County are mainly farmers and soldiers.

This city is not easy to fight. Although there is no regular army stationed there, the preliminary preparations are too sufficient!

No matter how difficult it is to fight, Zhang Xianzhong must be defeated.

Due to the terrain, the Yangtze River is to the south and the Dabie Mountains are to the north. Zhang Xianzhong's passage for dispatching troops is very narrow.If he didn't take the city and drove straight in, his food road was very dangerous, and it was very likely that the defenders in the city would run out and cut off.

A few days before the siege, craftsmen and civilians must be sent to build seven or eight pontoon bridges on the Meichuan River.

Zhang Xianzhong made people build bridges while cutting down trees to make siege equipment.

Some of the scattered cavalry headed southeast, and they tried to plunder the commercial market town of Wujiaxue.

Running to the outside of the town, I saw that two wide trenches had been dug around the town. The peasants from the villages along the way had already evacuated, and most of them retreated to Wujiaxue Town for defense.

The horse team ran back to report the situation: "Your Majesty, there are deep moats outside Wujiaxue Town, and only a few trenches are left that are narrow enough to pass through. The farmers along the way are gone. I am afraid they have withdrawn to the town. There may be 3 to [-] people in the town. .”