Chen Menglei's body was wrapped in a straw mat and carried to a hillside outside Dongcheng. Zhao Qiang'en allowed Chen Zhao to bury his father with his own hands and allowed him to erect a monument for his father.【】
Subsequently, Zhao Qiang summoned thirty-six influential people to the account, including Dong Guoxiang, the former minister of the Ministry of Personnel, Ji Kaisheng, the official of the Ministry of Rites, Ding Peng, the scholar and political official of Henan, Zhang Tianzhi, the left minister of the Ministry of War, Wu Da, the governor of Shandong, and Wu Da, the governor of Shanxi.
Liu Simei and other senior officials of the former Qing court.
After half a stick of incense was poured out, the Ministry of Rites gave the official a start. Eleven people including Liu Simei, the governor of Shanxi, were taken out of the military tent and executed. The rest knelt down and expressed their willingness to join the Guan Ning Army, serve Zhao Qiang, and contribute to the cause of anti-Qing Dynasty.
After Dong Guoxiang and others informed the prisoners and readers about the recruitment of Guan Ningjun, most of them remained silent except for dozens of people who cheered. There were Cheng Xuemin, a political scholar in Hunan, Zhou Zhengguang, director of the Ministry of Industry, Lu Zhi, a scholar in Jiangsu, and others.
Forty-nine people swore not to surrender. Later, they were driven to the Beicheng River, where they all drowned. After their death, their heads were cut off and hung together with the heads of the bannermen at the head of Shangyang Fort.
Those who follow me will prosper, those who go against me will perish!
The die-hard loyalty of Chen Menglei, Ji Kaishan, Liu Simei and others to the Qing court made Zhao Qiang no longer benevolent as a woman, and he no longer had much hope for these readers. He decided that from today on, he would treat these Han people with an iron fist.
If Wan means does not obey, he will be killed immediately.
He has always been confused about how to deal with the Han readers inside and outside the Pass, but after receiving profound lessons from Zhou Peigong and Chen Menglei, he realized that most of the readers in the Pass have now identified with the rule of the Manchus and actively integrated into the rule of the bannermen.
We can tell from the continuous increase in the number of people participating in the imperial examination every year. In this case, we cannot have any illusions about them, and we may even have to use a butcher's knife to make them feel scared and surrender like the Manchus did.
The process of the Manchus occupying the country was very bloody, especially those who refused to surrender. It can be said that they were all killed. Although this sounds very cruel, it is actually the most effective method. After repeated weighing, Zhao Qiang decided
It was decided that the Manchus could learn from this practice in order to minimize the rejection and hostility of the Han landlord class and scholar class towards Guan Ning's army.
It was very frustrating and painful to make such a decision. Killing one's own compatriots was quite criticized. However, Zhao Qiang found that he really had no other good solution except doing this. Could it be that he had to persuade them one by one with sincere words?
They remembered that they were Han Chinese and shouldn't work for the Manchus, let alone be loyal to the Manchus to death?
At the end of the Qing Dynasty, the folk customs and thoughts had become quite enlightened. Tan Sitong also said, "I will smile at the sky with my horizontal sword, and leave the liver and gallbladder." He tried to keep the Manchu emperor, but forgot that he should overthrow him, because this emperor was never the emperor of the country, nor was he the emperor of the country.
The emperors of the Han people are aliens, real aliens. Under their rule, the Han people are just slaves. Everything the Han people have can be taken away at any time, and they can even "prefer to be a state rather than a domestic slave"! Therefore, Zhao Qiangjue
We can't imagine that those slaves who have been castrated will remember that they are Han people and understand that they should help Guan Ningjun instead of going against him.
Zhao Qiang didn't want to be a British leader who was widely expected and scholars from all over the world were vying for support. However, reality and the characteristics of this era told him, no! No matter how benevolent and righteous you are, no matter how you build yourself, those Han people will not agree with you. In their eyes,
In their eyes, Guan Ningjun will always be a thief and rebel, and Zhao Qiang will always be a murderer who kills without blinking an eye and brings harm to the country! In their eyes, they live in the Qing Dynasty, not the country. They are the Qing Dynasty.
People, not countrymen.
Moreover, Guan Ningjun was born out of Wu Sangui's old tribe, and the imprint of the Wu family on him cannot be worn away in a short time. For those Han people who have been brainwashed, Wu Sangui is a slave of the third surname, and this person is not worth defecting to.
, and his remnant troops are not worth mentioning. The embarrassment of Zhao Qiang is that he is a former Wu Jun, and his core subordinates are also the old Wu Jun troops, so it is impossible for him to do it before the Qing Dynasty is overthrown.
What we call "de-Wuhua" is unrealistic and will inevitably shake the morale of the military.
How can an army that can't even figure out its own army's origins be able to work together to cut off the gold?
Zhao Qiang cannot allow his subordinates to have confusion in their thoughts. He must let them have only one thought in their minds: fight against the Qing, fight against the Qing, fight against the Qing! In addition to thinking about how to fight a good war, they must not be allowed to have other thoughts, no, absolutely not!
It is undoubtedly a very unwise thing to deny the inheritance of one's own army before gaining a decisive advantage, so Zhao Qiang must suppress all thoughts and ideas in the army that are detrimental to the cause of countering the Qing Dynasty.
Zhao Qiang's petition to the Guan Ning Army has clearly affirmed his identity, and also affirmed Wu Sangui in a positive way. "Xiandi Zhaowu" is not just a few words written on the petition. Therefore, what Zhao Qiang is doing now is to inherit Wu Sangui
As his successor, he led the Guan Ning Army to carry the banner of anti-Qing, thus making tens of thousands of old people of the Wu Army and the 20,000 Yunnan people who were loyal to Wu Sangui and moved outside the Guan by the Manchu Qing Dynasty loyal to him.
Since Wu Sangui and his descendants were all killed by the Qing court, Zhao Qiang did not have to worry about someone coming up as "Emperor Chu Yi" or "Prince Zhu San". Therefore, he had to build up the banner of being the successor of Wu Sangui so that Guan Qiang could succeed.
The old troops of Ning Army and Wu Army were able to follow him without hesitation.
Substantial interests and realistic considerations are what Zhao Qiang has to do, rather than raising the flag of the Ming Dynasty or using his own banner as Liu De and others said. These are unrealistic, at least for now.
In fact, the biggest disadvantage of Guan Ning's army flying the banner of Wu Sangui's old army was not the disapproval of the people and readers in the pass, but the green camp generals.
The status and wealth of the Green Camp Han generals who participated in the pacification of San Francisco came from their bloody suppression of the Wu army. Therefore, if Guan Ning's army gained a foothold outside the pass, the next step must be to send troops into the pass. At that time, the enemies of Guan Ning's army would no longer be
It is the Eight Banners soldiers, because the Eight Banners soldiers in the pass are so bad that they can only be defeated by tens of thousands. Therefore, it can be expected that once Guan Ning's army enters the pass, Kangxi will definitely use the Green Camp as the main force to quell the rebellion, and may even attack in Shengjing
In times of crisis, the green camp will be transferred out of the border.
The hands of Luying and those Han generals are stained with the blood of the Wu army, so they must fight to the death with Guan Ning's army. Otherwise, who among them can guarantee that Guan Ning's army will not avenge the past if they win the world?
In order to cope with the upcoming Qing counterattack, Zhao Qiang must reorganize Wu Jun's old troops and recruit talents as soon as possible. These prisoners and readers in Shangyang Fort are one aspect of governance, and they have a negative impact on Wu Jun's old troops and existing divisions.
Adaptation is another aspect.
There were more than 370 prisoners and scholars who were willing to surrender. Zhao Qiang put them all under the charge of Liu De, and placed them under the supervision of the military and civilian Cao Cao of the General Administration Office and the various divisions.
The reorganization of the army is also in progress. The purpose of the reorganization is to deploy the various divisions of the Guanning Army more jointly to cope with large-scale battles, especially the cavalry. According to reports, Ningguta General Bahai has four soldiers.
Qianba Banner Cavalry, so the cavalry division must be expanded.
The cavalry division originally had three regiments with 4,500 soldiers. Zhao Qiang ordered three more cavalry regiments to be added immediately, increasing the strength to 9,000 soldiers.
There is no shortage of war horses. The Northern Expedition Army led by Peng Chun has more than 2,000 war horses left in Aiai. With the plunder in Shangyang Fort, they can make up the needs of three regiments. The soldiers are from the reserve division and those who have served as cavalry in the past.
The old troops of Wu Army were transferred.
After the three newly formed regiments were formed, Zhao Qiang divided the cavalry into a heavily armored regiment and a light armored regiment. The difference between the so-called "heavy armored" and "lightly armed" was whether they were armored or not.
The Guards Division originally had four regiments with 7,200 troops. Yu Aiai added a fifth regiment with 9,000 troops. Now two more regiments have been built, with a total of seven regiments with 12,600 troops.
The rear guard division originally had two regiments with 4,800 troops. A third regiment, the Manchuria Regiment, was added, and the strength increased to 7,400 troops. Now two more regiments are added, with each regiment having 1,800 troops.
soldiers, a total of 9,000 soldiers.
The reserve division was reduced to 5,000 people, and a group of 500 people was stationed in various places. It no longer moved with the army and became a security maintenance force.
The cavalry division's three heavy-armed regiments have a thousand households, including Wu Fengqiu, Ma Long, and Bagan, and the three light-armor regiments have a hundred households, namely Jiang En, Kong Guohua, and Guiji.
The original four thousand-household guards of the Guards Division were Jiang Si, Chen Wei, Ji Feng, and Tang Erguang, and the three new regiments of thousand-households were Grifsky, Ge Feihu, and Wei Xiaojiang.
The three thousand-household rearguard divisions are Qian Lin, Li Guangcai, and Burcha, and the two newly added thousand-household regiments are Zhao Wei and Wu Huacheng.
After such an adjustment, it is possible to integrate the existing troops with the old Wu army and the criminals. Although this adjustment is not very good, Zhao Qiang can only reorganize in this way first, and then attack the Ning army after taking Shengjing.
radical reform.
It took three days for each division to integrate the newly added old troops of the Wu army and the young and strong criminals. It was still the old rule that veterans lead new recruits. The distribution of officers was not troublesome. During the war in the south, there were a large number of sergeants with small flags who had accumulated military merit and could be promoted. They were just transferred to
A new regiment was established, and Wu Si had been ordered to lead the teaching brigade from Shouyi City to Shangyang Fort, and all the more than 400 students in the teaching brigade were assigned.
Counting the time, Anmar should have arrived at Ninggu Pagoda. Zhao Qiang also believed that Bahai must know the news that the Northern Expedition Army had annihilated Monk Yangbao and had fallen, so he decided to transfer the entire army to Ninggu Pagoda tomorrow, but before that, he still
There is a big thing to be done. If this thing is done, the Manchu Qing Dynasty will be surrounded by enemies and have to demolish the east wall to repair the west wall. This is also the condition he agreed to Bagan when he was in Shouyi City. Now the time is ripe, and he can