On July 10, Liu Yongfu led the remaining 700 people, young and old, to Jinpu, where they met with Sun Bin in person to express their intention to surrender. His old friend changed his mind and joined the National Defense Forces. Sun Bin was very pleased and immediately awarded Liu Yongfu the seventh independence He held the position of battalion commander and commanded 400 soldiers, while Shen Fushan was transferred to the Guangning Army Headquarters and was responsible for assisting Sun Bin in managing local affairs in the two provinces.
The Battle of Ha Long and the subsequent operations to capture the three coastal provinces in northern Annam allowed the Quang Ninh troops to seize a lot of weapons and supplies. Among these seized weapons, except for 1,300 old-fashioned muskets with good performance, all other weapons were sold. Gave it to Wu Yazhong in exchange for the Chinese young men in his control area.
People are cheap and guns are expensive. The total number of Chinese refugees living in Annan exceeds one million. Before Sun Bin and the National Defense Forces arrived in Annan, the peasant armed leaders and the Annan army regarded ordinary Chinese refugees as tools to obtain profits. The peasant armed leaders faced the Annan army. During the encirclement and suppression, the Chinese refugees in the controlled area were summoned, and some crude cold weapons were distributed to them to serve as cannon fodder to consume the strength of Annan's army. Then they led their core armed forces to launch a counterattack to break the Annan's army's encirclement and suppression.
The Chinese refugees are all poor and low-income people. When the armed leaders of the peasant army used refugee cannon fodder to occupy a place in Annan, the treatment of the refugees would not be improved at all. The seized finances were divided up by the top brass of the peasant army and controlled the fields in the area. It was still handed over to local powerful people in exchange for their support, but in order to survive, ordinary refugees, under the organization of the peasant army leaders, rented the fields of local big families, and continued to be oppressed by the landlords.
If the leader of the peasant army still leaves a way for ordinary Chinese refugees to survive, then the Annan army will kill them. The Annan army cannot defeat the organized peasant army. When it encounters small groups of Chinese refugees, they often slaughter them all and then use them to Heads upward to claim credit.
Indiscriminate killing of innocent people and pretending to claim credit is a common method used by the Annan army. In order to appease the troops, the officials above mostly turned a blind eye and muddle through. Also because of the Annan army's indiscriminate killing, various groups of Chinese refugees formed villages to protect themselves. He was also very brave when fighting against Annan's troops.
The special war environment has created the ability of the Chinese refugees in Annan to endure hardships and fight well. Nearly half of the millions of Chinese refugees are young and strong. Most of the old and weak who are sick and weak died in the war. Therefore, it is not difficult to recruit troops in Annan. The difficulty is the lack of food supplies and weapons.
Annan has a small but large population, the people are generally poor, the government's tax revenue is limited, food supplies are in serious shortage due to the war, and weapons are blocked by France, making it difficult to obtain them.
Among ordinary Chinese armed forces, it is considered very good for a young man of three to five hundred people to have one or twenty breech-loading guns. However, for a large armed force like Wu Yazhong with tens of thousands of people, it is considered very good to have a total of ten or twenty breech-loading guns. No more than three hundred, of which one hundred were gifts sent to him by Sun Bin.
Although the performance of more than two thousand old-fashioned muskets is not as good as that of breech-loading guns, compared with the armed forces of various peasant armies that mainly use cold weapons, they are still extremely generous. In order to recruit more than 10,000 more Chinese refugees, Sun Bin was willing to pay two thousand dollars. More than a thousand muskets were eventually exchanged with Wu Ya, and the news spread to Chinese refugees in other places, who all praised Sun Bin, which triggered a wave of migration to join the Guangning Army.
Fair trade, everyone gets what he needs. By paying the price of two thousand obsolete muskets, Sun Bin made a name for himself among the Chinese forces in Annan and gained the much-needed Chinese population in Rio Grande do Sul, while Wu Yazhong obtained weapons and food.
, on the surface it seemed that neither party suffered a loss, but in fact because of Wu Yazhong's clumsy methods, all the subordinate armed forces under his command were deeply dissatisfied with him.
After Wu Ya finally obtained the food and muskets, he directly distributed 1,500 muskets to his direct line troops with a wave of his hand, and then distributed the remaining 500 muskets and the 500 severely worn Suifa guns that had been eliminated by the direct line.
To the collateral troops, all the food is in his own hands, and only enough food for three to five days is distributed to the collateral troops.
The young and strong collateral armies that were exchanged accounted for the vast majority, but when it was the turn to distribute weapons and supplies, each collateral arm was only allocated a small part.
Conflicts did not accumulate in a day. Wu Ya finally intended to abandon the Annan base and counterattack Taiping Prefecture, which had already aroused the dissatisfaction of most people. When allocating supplies and weapons, he unabashedly favored the direct troops, and the dissatisfaction of the collateral peasant army accumulated to
At a critical point, with just one trigger, the other armed leaders of the peasant army who broke out would blow Wu Yazhong to pieces.
This introduction did not keep the peasant army leaders waiting for too long. Following Sun Bin's order, Ye Chenglin secretly sneaked into Gaoping City and contacted three or four peasant army leaders with whom he had friendship. After a few complaints and conversations, they reached an agreement to drive Wu Ya away.
The decision to finally step down.
On the night of July 14, Wu Yazhong, who was drunk and sleeping, was woken up by his guards and told him that all the people below him were rebelling. Only the more than 400 peasant soldiers guarding Wu Yazhong in the city continued to resist.
His subordinates rebelled, and what Wu Yazhong had been worried about came true. Before he could summon reinforcements from his direct descendants in other areas of the city,
Men led by Lu Zhiping, Huang Fusheng and other peasant army leaders stormed into the inner house and captured Wu Yazhong.
Wu Ya was finally captured, and the peasant army who were still resisting quickly laid down their weapons and surrendered. In just one night, they finally crossed Yungui. Wu Ya, who had been on the Annan border for several years, became a prisoner and lost control of the tens of thousands of Chinese armed forces in Gaoping.
right.
Wu Yazhong was well-known in the peasant army, so after being captured, he was only put under house arrest and was not executed in public. Although Wu Yazhong temporarily saved his life, he lost control of the army. Even if he could escape in the future, he would not be able to escape.
May pose a threat to others.
Successfully taking over the territory left by Wu Yazhong, Lu Zhiping, Huang Fusheng and other peasant army leaders, according to the prior agreement, 4,000 peasant army armed forces who were willing to join the Quang Ninh army left Gaoping Province with 20,000 old and weak people and rushed to the area controlled by the Quang Ninh army.
Mountain Province.
Lu Zhiping and Huang Fusheng were elected as commanders and deputy commanders by the remaining nearly 5,000 peasant soldiers, responsible for commanding the remaining peasant army armed forces.
After handling the internal distribution of power, Lu Zhiping and Huang Fusheng accepted Ye Chenglin's advice and took the initiative to join the Hue court.
On July 20, the Hue court and the peasant army reached a recruitment agreement, and the peasant army withdrew from Bac Giang and Ha Duong provinces. The Hue court recognized the peasant army's control of Cao Bang Province, and made Lu Zhiping the governor of Cao Bang and Huang Fu Sheng the deputy governor.
Less than three days after the news that Lu Zhiping and Huang Fusheng were recruited, Huang Chongying was subsequently appointed as a third-level commander by the Hue court, responsible for the two counties of Mengkang and Baosheng in Lao Cai Province, the original base, and other Chinese armed forces who were recruited.
According to the strength of their power, they were canonized as the fourth-rank Guanqi, from the fourth-rank Xuan comfort envoy, to the cavalry captain, to the fifth-rank defensive lieutenant and other Annan military attache positions.
The Chinese armed forces that had troubled Annan for many years were recruited one after another, and the Annan army was able to mobilize more power to deal with the local rebel forces in the territory. At the end of July, the last large-scale rebel army was defeated. The Annan army successfully regained the provinces occupied by the rebels and put down the rebellion.