The cavalry riot that occurred on March 18 was a wake-up call for Zhao Qiang and all senior officers. After quickly handling the cavalry division and completely eliminating hidden dangers, the Guards Division and the Guard Division
The regiment was required to conduct strict inspections from top to bottom, assess those soldiers and officers who had complained, and isolate those with problems to prevent the recurrence of large-scale disturbances by sergeants.
At the same time, Min Cao also investigated people of all ethnic groups who were dissatisfied with Chineseization, and even used extreme measures, that is, allowing informants, and once the investigation was found to be true, all the property of the informants and defendants would be rewarded. Once this method was used, immediate results were achieved, and it only took three days.
By that time, more than a hundred dissidents had been arrested in various places, but at the same time there were also several cases of false accusations. For those who made false accusations, Zhao Qiang ordered the Civil Security Department to treat them with severe punishment to prevent this trend from growing.
A large number of stories of Han people's sages were compiled into easy-to-populate nursery rhymes and widely disseminated. Chen Ang and others also worked hard to make some paintings similar to "little people" to tell the customs of the Han people to the foreigners in a simple and easy-to-understand manner. The old tribe of Wu Jun
The old, weak, women and children were also mobilized urgently, and a market similar to the "temple fair" in the pass was held in Yask, using various means to promote the goodness of the Han people to the foreign people.
Under the dual effects of the butcher's knife and the carrot, the Sinicization of Yask, which has the largest population and the most soldiers, began to get on the right track and headed for the better. A large number of advanced models emerged, and generous rewards became the talk of these foreign soldiers and the people.
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The vanguard divisions far in the east have not been Chineseized for the time being, because the situation at Hu Wang's place is more complicated than that at Zhao Qiang's side. They not only have people of all ethnic groups, but also Koreans and captured Japanese, so there is no way to carry out large-scale operations.
Chineseization on a large scale. In this regard, Zhao Qiang’s letter to Hu Wang said: “We will try every means to expand the team. No matter what country or ethnic group they are, as long as they are controlled by us, they are our wealth. We must try our best to make them
They are used by us."
In view of the purpose of appeasing the foreign soldiers and so that their tense nerves can be relieved a little, Zhao Qiang decided to go to various stations of the rearguard division to see, firstly, the effect of their Chineseization, and secondly, to learn about the winter training of the rearguard division.
Fortunately, after the Battle of Yaksa broke out, the rearguard divisions were properly arranged to participate in the war.
According to the plan, Zhao Qiang decided that the main forces to go to Yaksa were the cavalry division and the Guards division. Hu Wang's vanguard division would go out to Jilin alone with a partial army to contain Jilin. The Qing army in the direction of Shengjing would aid Heilongjiang in the north. And the rearguard division and the
Wu'er Leng's reserve division was used as a non-main force. However, after careful consideration, Zhao Qiang decided that the rearguard division must still be used as the main force, otherwise the manpower gap would be too large.
The full strength of the Cavalry Division was 4,500 men, and the full strength of the Guards Division was 7,200 men. The two divisions together did not exceed more than 11,000 men, and the total number of troops used by the Qing army in the Battle of Yaksa
It has reached 20,000 people, and most of them are elites from the Beijing camp. In terms of strength comparison, Guan Ning's army does not have an advantage. Therefore, the rearguard division must participate in the Battle of Yaksa, so that even with the total strength, it still cannot be overwhelmed.
The Qing army, however, waited for work, attacked halfway across the border, and was unprepared. It still had an 80% chance of winning by annihilating the Qing's Northern Expedition army in one fell swoop.
Wu Erleng's reserve division has now expanded to 5,000 people. In addition to the sailors of the Jilin grain ship and the Oroqen people, there are also young men kidnapped from Sandaotun and Jiangdong 24th Tun, plus emergency mobilization
After the order was issued, two thousand young men were squeezed out from various places and people, maintaining the total number of soldiers in the two regiments of 2,500 each. Their officers were all allocated from Wu Si's teaching brigade. However, in terms of combat effectiveness, the reserve force
The division really couldn't do anything. After seeing them training once, Zhao Qiang smiled bitterly and shook his head. Then he called Guo Fei over and told him that from now on, the reserve division would be under the direct control of the sergeant and would be used for logistics and food.
and maintain public security in the occupied areas, and replenish the battle losses of the main divisions.
Wu'er Leng was just trying to be the commander of this reserve division, but he was also self-aware. Most of the affairs of the division were directly handed over to the sergeant, and the rest were also handed over to those transferred from the teaching brigade.
The officer was in charge, and he seldom interfered. Most of the time, he lived the old life with the old, weak, women and children of his clan. In Zhao Qianglai, Wuer Leng's days were the real "free clouds and wild cranes".
There is a group of Han troops in the reserve division, and most of them are the slaves who were given to Zhao Qiang by Mingzhu. Since these people were escorted to Yask, they have never seen a smiling face, and they have been lamenting and sighing all day long.
, for which he was whipped. Zhao Qiang’s original intention was to send these coated slaves to the silver mines to work as coolies, but considering that they were also Han people, he was extra gracious and allowed them to serve as auxiliary troops in the reserve division, which was considered a consideration.
The feelings of compatriots were lost. Those captured Qing soldiers with the Yellow Banner were not so lucky. They are now working hard in the Dingyuan silver mines, but one person is living a very prosperous life, that is Zuo Lingba
Brother. The reason why he is living a comfortable life is that Zhao Qiang needs him to regularly report developments to Ning Guta, the pearl of the capital. Of course, the name he uses is Volha, who has been made a human pig.
The rearguard division was stationed in Tugursk. After learning that the commander-in-chief was coming to inspect, the division commander Zuo Mingnan summoned hundreds of brigades stationed in various places. When it was originally established, the two brigades of the rearguard division
There are eight brigades in total. Qian Lin is the leader of the first team with 1,000 households, and Li Guangcai is the leader of the second team with 1,000 households.
The eight brigade captains are: Malji, Wu Huacheng, Guargeda, Zhao De, Lu Dacheng, Wang Sanyou, Zhao Wei, and Peng Sixi. They arrived at the Tugursk Division on March 28
of the regiment headquarters.
In addition to senior generals such as Wu Si, He Manchuan, and Wu'er Leng, Zhao Qiang took him to Tugursk, as well as several regimental captains. There was also Zhou Peigong, who had been sitting in the carriage silently but hated everyone.
Qi Zhuang was also part of the entourage. He was not harmed by the mutiny on March 18, and Zhao Qiang did not dismiss him from his post. However, he himself was whipped thirty times at his own request.
All the generals have opinions as to why the marshal brought Zhou Peigong to his side, because Zhou Peigong was the executioner who massacred the Wu army in the Pass. It is unknown how many brothers of the Wu army died under his butcher knife. With the phrase "The Sea of Blood"
"Enmity" is the most appropriate way to describe the relationship between Wu Jun's old troops and Zhou Peigong.
Such an enemy was brought back by the commander-in-chief, and he seemed to want to reuse him, which inevitably made the generals who came from the old army of Wu Army feel uncomfortable. Due to the commander-in-chief's face, the generals did not embarrass Zhou Peigong very much, but they had a good face.