Qiming 1158

Chapter 1117 Dogs passing by on the street will be slapped twice

As soon as Shen Cai left, Zhang Yuejing ordered Pei Le to lead the main force of the trapped army to attack the Huainan West Road in the Southern Song Dynasty.

Pei Lebing swept away Huainan West Road, which had no defensive strength, and took all Huainan West Road in one go.

Several Southern Song prefectures on Huainan West Road have spent a lot of money, material resources and manpower in the process of supporting Li Xianzhong's march. Now, with the annihilation of Li Xianzhong's army, the power of these prefectures has also been exhausted.

Seeing the powerful army of the Ming army swarming in, these state capitals lost their confidence and courage to resist, and a large number of them surrendered without standing, and officials, wealthy households, and landlords fled in large numbers.

The entire battle of Huainan West Road did not bring any meaningful resistance to the Ming army, and the tactics of guarding the river and not guarding the Huai gave the Ming army an opportunity.

In Zhang Yuejing's view, since the Southern Song Dynasty is to be turned into a Jiangnan country, then the Huainan area should be honestly discarded. This is the standard Jiangnan country.

Wait, no, there seems to be a part of the Sichuan-Shu area that is Jiangbei.

In other words, simply winning Huainan, can't the Southern Song Dynasty become a pure Jiangnan country?

Zhang Yuejing shifted his gaze westward.

However, that's not his business.

It was Su Haisheng's business to attack the land of Sichuan and Shu. The Qilu Corps led by Su Haisheng had been sharpening their swords in Guanzhong for a long time. After the war to eliminate Xixia, Su Haisheng couldn't wait to attack Sichuan.

After July, until mid-August, the Ming army's troops and horses progressed very smoothly in the five places of Beijing Southwest Road, Jinghu Lake Road, Jinghu South Road, Jiangnan West Road and Huainan West Road, and the cities occupied by the Song army were successively connected. The occupation of one city will either kill or drive out Song officials, officials, local tyrants, and evil gentry, and the place will be completely turned upside down.

The change of power in the style of changing the king's flag in the city head was completely swept into the garbage heap of history by the Ming army, and a new mode of change came to this land.

The local officials of the Song Dynasty are not without strong organizational strength to resist, but how can a small number of temporary motley troops compete with the powerful regular army of the Ming army?

Not to mention the regular army, even the peasant army that is not so powerful for the time being is not something that these temporary Southern Song military servicemen can fight against.

Moreover, Zhang Yuejing also divided the artillery and musketeers of the Shenji Battalion into several parts, and each unit was assigned a part of the firearms unit to strengthen the firepower, so the Shenji Battalion made great contributions in this battle and accumulated a lot of combat experience.

The concept of scientifically planning operations has gradually penetrated into the Shenji Battalion and has become a common guideline for every gunner and musketeer.

The Ming army advanced all the way, and the Song State forces retreated all the way, and soon lost many important military strongholds, political and economic centers, and famous historical and cultural cities.

For example, Lu'an, Shouchun, Hefei, Anqing, Chuzhou, Baling, Wuling, Changsha, Hengyang and many other important places were all captured by the Ming army.

During this process, there were of course some that the Ming army needed to attack, but a large part of them were unguarded, and there were only ordinary people who couldn't escape in the city, kneeling in the city, hoping that the Ming army would not abuse them too much.

During this process, many revival instructors discovered a problem.

The demonization of the Ming state by the upper classes such as officials and landlords in the Southern Song Dynasty was certainly one of the important reasons why the people of the Southern Song Dynasty generally feared the Ming army and equated the Ming army with the Song army.

However, the propaganda power of the Ming state was never weak, but it still failed to improve the public's view of the Ming army in most areas.

According to their careful analysis and large-scale visits to the people, they found a very serious problem.

The world is so rotten that those people in the Southern Song Dynasty who had never really come into contact with the Ming state thought that the officials, the army and the policies of the Ming state were good and untrue, and good and very false.

They thought it was impossible for the Ming state to treat them as human beings.

They are used to being bulls and horses, and even think that they are bulls and horses instead of people, and should not be treated as people at all, so how could they be treated as people by the officials of the Ming Dynasty?
So this must be false, it must be the words of the Ming Kingdom, and I cannot believe it.

The Ming army is a little better than the Song army at best, but it must also be ferocious, and it must also be the type of geese plucking.

Song Jun is the kind of army that even the dogs that pass by on both sides of the road will be slapped three times when they are marching.

If Ming Jun is a little better, um, it should be the kind of dog who will be slapped twice on the street.

One less slap is a beautiful fantasy of the people of the Southern Song Dynasty about the Ming army.

After the Ming army went deep into Jinghu Lake Road and Jinghu Lake Road, they found that this situation was particularly frequent.

Wherever the Ming army reached, the people of the mountains and fields scattered and fled, daring to escape into the deep mountains.

The city dwellers have all run away, and the rest are those who can't run without money and can only wait for fate to come.

When they saw the Ming army entering the city, they either hid or put on an open-minded look, resigned to their fate, and watched with fear and despair on their faces.

The members of the Army Revival Association were very surprised and helpless about this kind of thing.

They tried to preach the policies of the Ming Dynasty and the military rules of the Ming army, but they did not achieve much because people generally did not believe it.

They generally reported this matter to the Henan Corps Renaissance Branch, and gathered it to Wen Anzhi, who read and analyzed the issue at the Henan Corps Renaissance Branch meeting.

"We have to admit that the policies we put forward, our requirements for officials, the army, and our actual actions are extremely different from those of the Southern Song Dynasty. I have a lack of adjectives, so I can only say this. .

But everyone must be clear, the huge gap I am talking about is so big that the people of the Southern Song Dynasty, who were generally brutally oppressed, do not want to believe it. The people did not take the initiative to help us.

What we thought we would eat the pot of pulp to welcome the king did not happen, but the bureaucrats and landlords of the Southern Song Dynasty were scared away because of our propaganda, which greatly reduced the burden of us occupying the land of the Southern Song Dynasty, but this still is a problem. "

Wen Anzhi gave a presentation on this issue at the meeting and put forward his own methods to solve the problem.

"The people of the Southern Song Dynasty were so miserably abused by the rulers of the Southern Song Dynasty that they couldn't believe that Daming would really treat them like this when they didn't see and experience these things with their own eyes. Our propaganda is here. Something went wrong.

We can't talk about ourselves so well that it makes people feel incredible and unbelievable. That would be detrimental to propaganda work. So I suggest that we should change our propaganda strategy in the future. Let the people of the Southern Song Dynasty believe it. "

Wen Anzhi's method made many participating members feel inexplicably amused, but also felt a little sad.

"Because of the policy of caring for the people and not being believed by the people who were abused, this sounds really inexplicable and ridiculous. It can be seen that the Southern Song Dynasty abused the people to such an extent that they could not believe that the world is really that good. things."

A member said so.

After he finished speaking, other members also expressed their feelings.

"Don't tell me, I first heard about the Liberation Army... At that time, it was still the Liberation Army. When I first heard about this policy, I couldn't believe it was true, until the Liberation Army really did this. The abolition of extortionate and miscellaneous taxes has really divided the land and the houses, and I really believe that I am not dreaming, and the Restoration Army is not lying."

"I can't believe it anymore. It took me half a year to believe it after I got the land, house and farm tools."

"I didn't dare to believe it until I recognized more than 100 characters. Before that, I thought it was a dream."

"Me too, I'm..."

Members, you talked about how you went from being a mistreated scared bird to believing that the new regime was really good to them.

Listening and listening, Wen Anzhi only felt a strong sadness.

"This fully proves that they lived like cattle and horses under the rule of the Southern Song Dynasty, so that some people treat them as human beings, but they can't believe that they can really be seen as human beings. How cruel is this... "

(End of this chapter)