Qiming 1158

Chapter 1286 Too easy

In the beginning, Du Ren and the Liu brothers didn't care much about this matter, they felt that it was not important to sneak away anytime, just run and run, one or two are not worth fighting for.

It wasn't until their cronies reported in surprise that more than 1000 people had deserted and escaped that they were very surprised to realize that the problem was a bit serious.

Then they get angry.

I can refuse to feed you, but you can't help me, I can abuse you arbitrarily, and you can't resist me.

One or two is fine, a thousand?

You are trying to kill me!
Then I will let you die first!
This very full sense of ownership made even the Liu brothers who started the rebellion decide to use harsh and brutal means to deal with deserters in order to maintain their status.

Means such as hanging up and whipping, unilateral barbecue, stabbing one person with one knife, and beating to death with random sticks have also been used.

Du Ren has actually gotten used to it.

There is a clear distinction between superiors and inferiors, and Shangguan beats and scolds soldiers at will. In fact, everyone is used to it.

However, the Liu brothers still have some past affection. Some of the old brothers in the same village as them were also arrested and sentenced to capital punishment. Just like being possessed, they don't care about the old brothers' thoughts at all. He killed many people and completely tore the last veil of tenderness.

This ferocity and determination temporarily affected people's decision to escape, but when the basic physiological requirements could not be met, no amount of ferocity was useless.

On the one hand, they dealt with deserters fiercely, and on the other hand, people kept running away. Even the guards who were responsible for guarding and preventing the soldiers from escaping were secretly assisting the soldiers to escape.

The soldiers at the bottom didn't talk about it, and even some middle-level commanders and officers felt that the Liu brothers had gone into trouble sooner or later.

Seeing the ever-increasing number of escapees, the Liu brothers became furious in their hearts, so they treated deserters more and more harshly, which further stimulated the original team.

So fell into a vicious circle.

In just half a month when the Ming army reorganized its troops and horses to prepare for the next stage of the offensive, 700 people escaped from Du Ren's side, and more than 2000 people from the Liu brothers' side escaped, and they couldn't control it at all.

So on the fifth day of the first month of the eighth year of Hongwu, when the Ming army, who had eaten and drank enough to recharge their energy during the New Year's holiday, went south in two directions, Du Ren or the Liu brothers, faced the Ming army. Sharp soldiers are in a state where there is nothing to do.

Du Ren had some resistance anyway. After the field battle failed, he defended the city and committed suicide after the Ming army broke the city.

On the other hand, the Liu brothers were directly defeated.

They personally led their own soldiers, who they thought were strong, to go to the battlefield to supervise the battle, but they did not win. They encountered some setbacks. .

The Liu brothers were both captured, and the entire army was wiped out. After the war, when Su Haisheng interrogated the Liu brothers and some officers, he accidentally learned of the Liu brothers' transformation process and felt very resentful.

"As a peasant, you led a peasant uprising, and finally killed the peasants in the cruelest way. You are truly sinful, and there is no cure!"

Su Haisheng ordered the two men to be tried, and finally hanged them.

The two men were still stubborn before the thick ropes were put around their necks, and each Ming thief scolded the Ming military and political cadres who were interrogating them. When the ropes were put around their necks to prepare them for hanging, the two finally collapsed. A pardon.

Of course, they were still hanged. After struggling feebly, they were hanged in boundless fear.

The soldiers of the Ba Shu Army who couldn't escape watched this scene and wept bitterly. They didn't know whether to miss the past days or to celebrate that the two humanoid devils finally died.

The bankrupt landlords and gentry who were mixed into the original rebel army were also executed by the public trial.

All of them and the top leaders of the rebel army were put on trial, and then all were executed, hanging on the southeast branch and fluttering in the wind, none of them survived, and they were handled cleanly.

Compared with Du Ren's straightforward solution, the handling of the rebels' side made Su Haisheng more heartbroken.

He said a lot to his old partner Han Wei.

"When I saw the peasant uprising, I couldn't help but think of ourselves at that time. Aren't we also the peasant uprising? We also revolted with a bunch of peasants who didn't know how to read. We also fought local tyrants to divide the land, and we We must equalize the rich and the poor, and punish the tyrannical landlords.

So when I looked at them, it was as if I saw us back then. I remembered how dangerous we were back then when we remodeled the countryside while fighting the golden soldiers at a huge disadvantage.How many people died then?Didn't you make it through?How could they..."

Seeing the frustration on Su Haisheng's face, Han Wei also sighed somewhat.

"Thinking about it now, our success back then might not have been because of how hard we were and how much we wanted to make the landlords and tyrants pay the price, aren't they the same? And the real reason why we have come to this day is not because we were born in hardship. It's not suffering, it's our chairman and our revival society.

I once thought about what kind of country the Daming Society would be if there was no chairman, or if there was no Renaissance Society. I think, perhaps the Daming Society is no different from any past dynasty. The reason why we can get to where we are today At this point, the revival meeting is really important. "

Su Haisheng was silent for a moment, then heaved a long sigh.

"Think about it, too, how many people rebelled during the Shandong Uprising, but in the end, only us were left, and I don't know how many of them rose up for the rebellion.

At the back, they themselves became people who oppressed others, just like that Zhao Kaishan, and his group of people, it is really not easy for us to get to where we are today. "

Su Haisheng left a deep sigh, so he rectified the army and marched south again.

In Longyou County, Jiading Prefecture, Su Haisheng personally commanded the army to overthrow the main force of the Lusuo Department of more than [-] people.

Lu Dan ran away alone, but was chased by the cavalry general Chen Qixian all the way, and finally was shot by an arrow, fell off the horse, broke his neck and died.

After Lu's death, Su Haisheng's military operation was declared a success. The three warlords were easily swept away by him, and Longzhou, Meizhou, and Jiading Prefecture were pacified.

The powerful group of landlords who followed Lu to resist the Ming army in the land of the three states was then completely liquidated by the Ming army.

The Ming army launched a massive liquidation operation and land reform movement in the land of the three states, confiscating their family property, incriminating their families, burning all land contracts, redistributing land and so on.

Through the complete liquidation of the landlord tyrannical.The Ming army ripped apart the original local social network and rebuilt the order that belonged to the Ming state.

It was at this time that Su Haisheng got the news that Xu Tong had also completed the task he was supposed to complete.

Fushunjian and the two former rebel armies in Xuzhou, the current enemy armies, were eliminated by him.

Although the revolutionary army led by Xu Tong was not large in number and its combat effectiveness was not that strong, Xu Tong also had an advantage - firearms troops.

Speaking of which, Shenji Camp has gone through many wars since its establishment.

From the earliest pacification in Guanzhong, to the Hexi Campaign, to the Xiangfan Campaign and the second Ming-Song War, to the current Chuan-Shu Campaign, Shenji Camp has never been absent from any major Ming army since its formation. Military action.

The excellent performance of the Shenji battalion in previous battles has basically been trusted and recognized by all the Ming army. More and more senior officers are reporting to the Privy Council, hoping to equip their own troops with a combat-effective Shenji battalion. .

However, firearm manufacturing is still an absolutely high-tech technology in the Ming Dynasty, and it is difficult to fully roll out mass production in a short period of time.

Now it is still slowly cultivating talents, accumulating technical experience, and overcoming technical difficulties, in order to achieve mass production in the future.

Now only manpower and scale can be piled up to increase the output.

On this basis, less than half of the Ming army’s second battalion of magic machines has been formed. It will take a while to fully form an army and form a combat effectiveness. At present, the idea of ​​equipping each corps with a magic machine battalion is still underway. more difficult to implement.

(End of this chapter)