Chapter 600: Three Great Mountains
Humen prisoner of war camp.
Evans, a British soldier who grew up in the filth of London's East End, sat on a bench and listened intently to Mr. Chen's lecture.
His ancestors were peasants who had been driven into the cities during the enclosure movement, and had been struggling in poverty for generations, and his mother, a female textile worker, gave birth to eight children, four of whom had miscarriages, two of whom died in a few months, and two of whom died on the sacred water of the East India Company. Only he and a younger brother and two younger sisters survived, and now the younger brother and a younger sister work as child laborers in the coal mines, and the other adult sister is a daughter, in order to be able to realize his dream of getting ahead, he can only serve as a soldier to the east thousands of miles away to sell his life, but because of the defeat and become a prisoner.
At that time he thought he was going to die.
However, to his surprise, it was not whips and hard labor that awaited them.
The Ming soldiers who watched over them provided them with ample food and clean housing, provided them with medical care, and even allowed them to move freely in the vicinity......
They don't have a place to run anyway.
Sometimes they even go on trips to villages and cities, where they see a beautiful country where everyone is well fed and clothed, where there are free hospitals in cities and towns, where there are no overseers' whips in the factories, where workers work eight hours a day, even one day off every five days, they even have their own unions to defend their rights, and every child here receives a free education in school......
It's like a dream.
And all this is completely opposite to the Zhenjiang he had landed and occupied before, if it was hell, it would be heaven.
As for Europe......
Well, he doesn't feel much stronger than hell either.
He really didn't understand why there were such two extremes in the same country, but now he finally understood that after the God Emperor, who was rumored to be a demon, patrolled the prisoner of war camp with a warm smile like a spring breeze, and personally used his divine power to remove the horrific scars on the faces of the two severely burned prisoners of war, the arrival of several English-speaking teachers made him understand the roots.
These are said to be the instructors who were specially transferred from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to help them, and the Divine Emperor found that most of the Ming troops who supervised them did not understand English, so they could only rely on a few translators to maintain communication, and brought them a completely new terminology......
Class.
"The three mountains, the Tatar colonizers, the traitors who were their minions, and the landlords who formed the basis of their rule, were once under the heavy oppression of the Chinese people in these three mountains, and their blood and sweat fed the former, no matter how industrious they were, because all the income from their hard work was taken away by the Tatars, traitors and those landlords, and they were hungry and cold to satisfy the extravagant life of the latter. This is actually no different from Europe, you have the monarch above your head, the nobles who own the land, and the capitalists who control the factories, the blood you shed in the colonies thousands of miles away, the sweat of your relatives in the factories for eighteen hours a day, all turned into the luxurious life of the monarchs, nobles and capitalists.
The gaze of the Tatar Emperor from the throne of the Imperial Palace in Beijing is no different from the gaze of your Queen from the balcony of Buckingham Palace.
The image of the traitorous officials eating, drinking, and merry-drinking at a table full of delicious food and wine is no different from the image of the nobles dancing at the ball.
The image of the landlords with whips forcing the peasants to give them their grain is no different from the image of the capitalists in the factories forcing you to work hard with whips.
The poor in the world are one family.
Our suffering is over, because we have the Emperor, but your suffering continues, and you don't have the Emperor, you only have the priests, and although I have no intention of judging your religion, it is clear that they have not taught you how to change all this.
Well, I will now speak of the bourgeoisie and the proletarians, the freedmen and the slaves, the nobles and the commoners......"
Teacher Chen on the podium continued to talk eloquently.
Yang Feng stood in the distance, looking at this scene in the square with a relieved smile.
In other words, these teachers are not ordinary people, these are all graduates of the tinder class trained by him personally, this class is simply engaged in theoretical work and according to their assigned goals, at the same time training in various Chinese languages and customs, and then released in various capacities to light the fire. This is also an internship for them, and after he establishes diplomatic and commercial relations with European countries, he can release these people to work in various countries, and he is looking forward to the ghost roaming over Europe and making European people stand up and fight for their rights.
In other words, this is the real big killer.
He was not worried that the people of Europe would succeed, and history had proven that the people of Europe did not yet have such fighting power, and did not fall with the vigor of the Paris Commune? It is not for nothing that all of Europe, with the exception of Russia, has failed.
All he wanted was the flames of war......
Even if it's a flame of light.
"The flames of light are also ashes!"
The Divine Emperor muttered to himself.
And at the same time as Yang Feng released the ghost, the Ming army continued to be overwhelmed on the battlefields everywhere.
The first army out of Shaoguan went up the Wujiang River in just half a month, and it had already fought out of Guangdong and won Yizhang, and then the army came to Chenzhou, Zhou Tianjue was dismissed because of abandoning Shaoguan, and Wu Qijun, the governor of Hunan who temporarily acted as the governor of Huguang, and more than 10,000 regiments urgently put together to practice and defend Chenzhou. But those regimental training recruits who had just picked up arms, when the Ming army's flowering bombs exploded overhead, they immediately abandoned the city and fled, and the famous botanist Governor Wu jumped directly from the city tower in anger. After the Ming army broke through Chenzhou, it was temporarily stopped because the logistics could not keep up, waiting for the 100,000 green battalions to build roads behind, but it was only a hundred miles of sand and dirt roads, and the 100,000 road construction army and the people who were about to be requisitioned were estimated to be completed in less than half a year.
The other way out of Shaoguan was the Second Army.
This army also quickly conquered Nanxiong, but was temporarily blocked by Meiling.
Yijing, the minister of the Qincha in Nanjing, and Niu Jian, the governor of Liangjiang, went to Nanchang, including the Eight Banners and the Green Battalion that Liangjiang had previously mobilized to resist the British army, and all entered Jiangxi, and went south to Meiling to block the gate of Jiangxi, while Qi Shen, the governor of Sichuan, led the Sichuan Green Battalion, which had the strongest combat effectiveness of the Green Battalion at this time, and some of the Shaanxi-Gansu Green Battalion reinforced Hunan. However, the Qing army in Jiangxi was not only the second army to resist, the sixth army from Meizhou to the north also approached Ruijin, and the third army in Fuzhou was also along the Min River after receiving reinforcements from two brigades, the goal of these two roads was to attack Nanchang from Fuzhou, and the second army was actually three armies from the third road into Jiangxi.
However, these three logistics are somewhat difficult.
Third, the Sixth Army is purely a partial division, most of their offensive routes have to be transported by land, and the speed of the march cannot be fast, the real main attack is the Second Army, but after the latter opens Meiling, it must first build a road to ensure that the Meiguan Ancient Road can pass through the load-bearing carriages, and connect Zhangshui and Zhenshui to complete the transportation of materials, and this road is different from the Hunan side, this road is to really go over the mountains and mountains.
On the contrary, the Fourth Army of the Luo Gang Division, which went north from Guilin to Hunan, was unimpeded.
They have spiritual channels.
At this time, the Ling Canal is still in play, and even after a repair before, so the materials transported from Guangzhou can directly go up the Xijiang River to the Li River, and then go north from the Li River to connect the Xiangjiang River water system, but the capacity of this route is small, especially when the Li River reaches the dry period, it will be completely abandoned.
It is said that the dry season of the Li River is very serious.
Therefore, this army can only do auxiliary attacks as well.
In addition to these Northern Expeditions, Yang Feng also transferred Li Kaifang alone, and he commanded four brigades to count the Seventh Army, this army attacked in the direction of Yunnan, as for when to enter Yunnan, Yang Feng had no requirements at all, their task was only to contain the Qing army in Yunnan, Guizhou and other places, if Li Kaifang could enter Yunnan, he would continue to beat Burma to the south, saying that since it was the Ming Empire, of course, it was necessary to discuss with the Burmese the issue of betraying the Ming Emperor back then.
In this way, the Northern Expedition was the Fifth Route Army.
As for when to hit the Yangtze River and go straight down to Nanjing, Yang Feng did not have any special requirements, on the contrary, he asked the generals on the front line to fight steadily and strictly prohibit the greed for merit, and they must lay down one place to reform one place, and move forward while carrying out land reform, and strictly prohibit too much before the land reform in the occupied areas is resolved. It is indeed not difficult to go straight to Nanjing, if he wants, he can achieve this goal in less than a month, but it is useless, he wants a thorough purge rather than just a refreshing handful, so it must be delayed for a longer time, because only in this way can it be cleaned more carefully.
He didn't want to leave a bunch of viruses mixed in his body and then trouble to operate on himself, or even turn into cancer cells and spread all over the body.
What if those gentry surrendered voluntarily?
It's not that these guys can't do it, for example, the previous ones, these guys have already played a destructive role after surrendering, and the land reform in that area is particularly laborious, on the contrary, those places that are beaten down by force are much simpler, and all the gentry can go directly to the house as long as they meet the standard and obey the words, but if they surrender on their own initiative, they have to tell you about this law, morality, human rights, and the like.
Obviously, those young land reform team members who play this Yang Feng still can't do these old foxes.
So Yang Feng would rather delay it longer.
He tried his best to avoid letting the gentry quickly lose hope in our Qing Dynasty, and let them always have some illusions, only in this way could he ensure that those gentry would continue to stand under the banner of the Qing Dynasty, wait for his army to arrive and then raid their homes, and then clean up a clean and clean Lang Lang Qiankun.
In short, the Ming army on the front line just advanced slowly.
As for his next ......
Of course, I went to copy the Old Summer Palace, how could I not do such a fun thing! Anyway, the princes and nobles of Beijing are still waiting for him to go to ****!