Chapter two hundred and ninety-first surrender and resistance
Directly south of Zhengtai County, less than ten miles away from Longhua Town, in Fengjiazhuang, a group of people looked at the soldiers of the New Army of the Tang Dynasty outside Zhuangzi with sad faces.
"Manager Lin, I'm afraid things won't go well this time. What should we do?" A middle-aged man said to an old man with white hair next to him.
After the old man heard what he said, he did not speak. Instead, he continued to look at the soldiers of the New Army of the Tang Dynasty outside the city. After a while, he snorted coldly: "Damn it!"
"The appetite of these puppet Tang rebels is getting bigger and bigger. They have already come to collect grain before. I didn't expect that in less than a month, they would say they have to pay autumn taxes, and they are still such high taxes!" said the old man!
At this point, he suddenly spoke in a louder voice: "What kind of family is our Feng family? Looking at the entire Xingquan Mansion, it is also ranked among the top three families. How has our Feng family's farm ever paid such taxes!"
"This Zhuangzi is located in Zhengtai County, and Zhengtai County has been completely controlled by the puppet Tang thief army. In order to help me save this Zhuangzi some time ago, I have swallowed my anger and donated a batch of food, but these puppet Tang thief army still can't
Satisfied, we are required to pay this land tax. If we do, how can we have any face to explain to the great master!"
The old man looked a little sad and angry when he spoke!
Since last year, their Fengjiazhuang seems to have been targeted by these pseudo-Tang thieves. They came and robbed them once last year, causing them heavy losses. A large amount of food they had hoarded for a year was robbed.
Afterwards, the person in charge of Fengjiazhuang was changed, and he began to build the village wall, and also assigned a lot of weapons for the strong men to use.
But during the summer harvest in the first half of the year, these puppet Tang bandits came to Fengjiazhuang again. After a battle, the villagers on Fengjiazhuang were undoubtedly defeated. There were not many casualties, but the large amount of grain that had just been harvested in the village was
It was completely robbed.
By more than a month ago, Zhengtai County was completely controlled by the puppet Tang rebels, and their Fengjiazhuang was no exception.
And after seeing the strength of the puppet Tang bandit army, these people in Fengjiazhuang had no intention of resisting at all, especially the tenants below, who simply ignored the requests of the managers in Fengjiazhuang to bring weapons to protect the manor.
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Why, among the many policies of the New Army of the Tang Dynasty, many big landowners and gentry may be disgusted with them, such as paying taxes? How have these big landowners and gentry ever paid taxes? Now the Tang Dynasty wants to collect taxes from them,
It will naturally arouse their dissatisfaction.
However, small and medium-sized landowners and ordinary farmers maintained a welcoming attitude towards many policies of the Tang Dynasty, because many policies of the Tang Dynasty were beneficial to them. At least, all kinds of messy miscellaneous taxes were cancelled, and
There are no officials who use various excuses to plunder them. Although the land tax seems to be much more than before, overall, their burden has been reduced a lot.
In addition, a very important point is that a large number of children of farmers have begun to join the New Army of the Tang Dynasty. Inevitably, the families behind these soldiers will also have a sense of belonging to the New Army of the Tang Dynasty. This sense of belonging does not come from how good the Tang Dynasty is.
, just because their sons are in the New Army of the Tang Dynasty, if their sons serve in the Ming Army, they will also have this sense of belonging to the Ming Army.
Not to mention other places, even among the tenant farmers here in Fengjiazhuang, there are more than a dozen families whose children have joined the New Army of the Tang Dynasty.
Now if you want these families to resist the New Army of the Tang Dynasty, you are fighting against yourself. Maybe there are sons of your own in the New Army of the Tang Dynasty outside.
In the end, the stewards in Fengjiazhuang only summoned fifty or sixty tenants, Qingzhuang. Together with Fengjiazhuang's own manpower, it was less than a hundred people.
However, there were hundreds of soldiers of the New Army of the Tang Dynasty outside Fengjiazhuang. They were wearing brightly colored and even ugly military uniforms. The leader was an officer who was riding a tall horse, and the officer's clothes were even weirder.
Yes, that's right. After the military uniforms of the New Army of the Tang Dynasty were formulated and distributed, they made outsiders think they were very ugly. This ugliness does not mean that the style is ugly. In fact, the style of military uniforms of the New Army of the Tang Dynasty is not much different from that of the Ming Army opposite.
difference.
According to the military uniform regulations of the New Army of the Tang Dynasty, the overall style of their military uniforms still follows the pattern of tops, bottom trousers, and right tops, which has been used for thousands of years.
However, the details vary depending on the service branch and military rank.
Musketeers wear a blue jacket, red trousers, soap-colored cloth shoes, and a rounded wide-brimmed hat. The design is completely based on the requirements of the modern army. The color is extremely conspicuous, even in the smoke-filled environment.
You can easily identify yourself and the enemy on the battlefield.
Based on the same consideration, although the spearmen, archers, and shieldmen are different types, they use the same style and color.
However, different arms will have differences in details. For example, the red trousers on musketeers and artillerymen are pure red. However, spearmen, archers, sword and shield men, etc. are destined to be eliminated in Li Xuan's mind.
Then add a black border on both sides of the red pants.
The cavalry is even more special. The cavalry will be issued an additional pair of long leather boots, and the materials used in the military uniforms will be better.
The military uniforms of the officers are different. The hems of their coats are longer, and the buttons are made of copper metal buttons. Moreover, the whole body of the military uniforms is dark blue, with long leather boots. However, they still have
An additional black cloak will be issued to protect against water and wind.
Conspicuous colors, easy identification, and uniform attire are the most basic and core requirements for military uniforms in modern armies. As for whether they look good or not, well, this is naturally very important, but it is not important to say it is not important.
And whether it looks good or not is a personal subjective feeling. Some people think it looks good, and some people think it is ugly.
For example, Li Xuan himself often wore modern general officer uniforms. Many people thought they were ugly, but Li Xuan himself thought he was extremely handsome. So whenever Li Xuan led his army into battle, he would wear the same clothes as the warlord leaders of later generations.
, well, all I need is a pair of leather shoes that can make a blind person's eyes bright.
But it was also strange. At first, every time Fang Dongquan and the others saw Li Xuan's clothes, they would inadvertently show some weird smiles.
But after watching Li Xuan wear it for a long time, they gradually got used to it and no longer secretly looked at Li Xuan with strange eyes.
Of course, this is also related to the fact that Li Xuan still wears Confucian uniforms in daily life. Li Xuan still wears Confucian uniforms for daily attire. Military uniforms are usually worn when he leads the army on an expedition.
As for the military uniforms of the new soldiers of the Tang Dynasty, they were also ugly in Li Xuan's opinion. If he had followed his own ideas, he could have directly copied the military uniform styles of later generations. There is no need to create such traditional Chinese characteristics.
Modern military uniforms are ugly in style and color.
But again, whether it looks good or not is just a subjective feeling. When the new army of the Tang Dynasty sweeps across the world, this military uniform of blue clothes and red trousers will definitely leave a deep impression on people and win praise from them.
If there are still people who think it looks bad at that time, it must be envy and jealousy!
Well, that’s right, it’s definitely envy and jealousy!
The style of the military uniforms of the New Army of the Tang Dynasty has been finalized for a long time, but it has only been in the past two months that large-scale equipment has been started. This is because recently, the New Army of the Tang Dynasty has obtained enough cloth to make military uniforms.
The last time Old Man Sun came here, in addition to bringing many strategic military supplies, such as iron, copper, sulfur, saltpeter, etc., he also brought a large amount of daily necessities.
These daily necessities include cloth, salt and other random things.
Once these cloths were accepted, the new army of the Tang Dynasty collected cloths from other channels and began to make military uniforms.
Most of these military uniforms were sewn by the villagers in Xikou Village and surrounding areas. Soon these military uniforms were produced one after another, and each unit was dressed in order. The first person to change the uniforms was naturally the absolute leader of the New Army of the Tang Dynasty.
Main force: 1st Infantry Battalion!
Next is the First Mixed Battalion, the Second Mixed Battalion, and the subsequent infantry battalions and other units will also change their equipment in the future. The whole process will not last too long. In the next month, the three thousand soldiers of the Datang New Army will
All eight hundred officers and soldiers can wear unified new military uniforms.
However, because the supply of military uniforms is still relatively tight, except for officers who will be issued two sets, soldiers are temporarily issued only one set of military uniforms.
Although there is only one set of military uniforms and it is inconvenient to change between them, there is nothing that can be done about it, although the Tang Dynasty cannot obtain so much cloth in a short period of time.
With nearly four thousand people, two sets per person would require eight thousand sets of military uniforms, which the Tang Dynasty would not be able to supply in a short period of time.
At this moment, the people in Fengjiazhuang were looking at the soldiers of the Pseudo-Tang Dynasty Army who were wearing strange clothes outside. At first, the old man in charge had a very tough tone and closed the gate of the village and refused to open it.
But as an officer of the New Army of the Tang Dynasty riding a horse outside stepped forward and shouted: "If you don't open the door if you don't open the door, don't blame me for being rude!"
As soon as these words came out, many people in Fengjiazhuang became weak. Most of them had fought against the puppet Tang rebels and knew how powerful these puppet troops were.
When the old manager heard this, he didn't know what to say for a moment. Just when he wanted to speak tougher, the person next to him pulled him: "Manager Lin!"
The faces of others were full of fear, which meant very clearly, don't talk nonsense. If the puppet Tang rebel army really breaks in, everyone will be doomed.
Manager Lin looked at the other people next to him. They all had fearful expressions on their faces, and many people had retreated quietly.
After a long time, I could only sigh: "Open the door!"
After saying these words, he seemed to have lost his life. Opening the door would mean surrender. How should he explain to the big man in Fucheng from now on?
But within a few days, Steward Lin felt lucky and fearful, because he heard that the puppet Tang rebels had been everywhere in the past few days, almost all over Zhengtai County, and they were so brutal that they ransacked six houses in total.
Large households willing to pay land tax.
One of the large households even organized manpower to try to resist with the help of the manor. After being breached, dozens of members of the family and more than a hundred people who resisted were killed and injured on the spot.
This fully revealed the determination of the Tang Dynasty to implement the new tax system!
For those who dare to resist, the swords and guns of the New Army of the Tang Dynasty will never be polite!