Qiming 1158

Chapter 885 The Peasant Army's Great Counterattack
Song Jun not only maintained the image of a brutal bully to the common people, but also oppressed, exploited, and treated cruelly to the inside.

There is very little warmth between each other, and they are basically bullying others. If they are not officers, they are ants. They are humiliated by others in the army.

Of course, this does not mean that being an officer can be achieved in one step.

Being an officer can indeed transcend the pain of ordinary soldiers, but it is by no means without pain. A similar situation occurs between officers and officers. The superior officer is the sky, and the subordinate officer is the ground. When dealing with the superior, the subordinate officer is directly as low as dust. inside.

If you are a little careless, a word from Shangguan can make you lose your military rank, become a soldier again, lose everything, and it is very likely that you will be bullied collectively by the soldiers who were bullied when you were an officer. Life is better than death.

In this group of strict hierarchy, one link is linked, one layer is layered, and the bitterness is not enough for outsiders.

As a result, many grass-roots Song soldiers began to cry as they spoke, wiping away their tears while speaking, which made the peasant army cadres who were responsible for the screening were also quite emotional.

With such a terrifying oppressive system, it is no wonder that this army collapsed so completely because of a rumor. If it was them, the outcome would not be much better.

The armies thus cultivated have no trust in each other, only mutual suspicion and extremely serious hatred. As long as an opening is made, the hatred will burst out like a volcanic eruption, and become a bombing camp that famous generals hear.

So what else is there to say?
The screening of the peasant army is really simpler than expected. Many scumbags are exposed by the soldiers under their subordinates. Every time they explode, they are accurate.

Only a very small number of officers still maintain a fresh mind and treat soldiers with military law, while the more gentle soldiers who love soldiers are one in a hundred.

It was very difficult for them.

After the screening, the entire public trial meeting lasted for three days. The public trial in the daytime and the bonfire party in the evening.

In this case, it is often the cadres sent by the peasant army who take the lead in telling about their tragic past and the great changes in the present.

Under such circumstances, some Song soldiers let their guard down, could not stand the condemnation of their conscience, and vomited out the wrong things they had done.

For example, who has robbed someone, who has molested their daughter, who has stolen their cattle and sheep, etc.

They confessed their mistakes in front of everyone and expressed their willingness to accept any treatment.

The cadres of the peasant army said that this is not a capital crime, and it will not be brought to the point of public trial.

If you really want to do this, you won't be able to finish this public trial meeting in five days and five nights.

This kind of crime is of course a serious crime among the peasant army. Maybe it will be executed by the Military Justice Department, but in a group like the Song Army, it is a layer-by-layer system.

If there is a grass-roots soldier who does not do this kind of thing, it is abnormal, and it is estimated that he will not live now.

Therefore, such sins require them to atone for their sins in the future, and use their own actions to clean up their sins, so they don't have to go to the public trial stage.

The public trial ended three days later, the scumbags were executed, and the remaining Song prisoners faced a choice.

If they are willing to go home, they can go to the peasant army to collect the travel expenses, and the peasant army will pay the travel expenses, and they will never be forced to stay.

If they are willing to join the peasant army, the peasant army welcomes them and is willing to absorb them into the army and become their comrades-in-arms and partners.

From then on, everyone is a family, we eat and drink together, and as long as we have something to eat, we will never let anyone go hungry.

This is the highest level of commitment the peasant army can currently do.

The captured soldiers of the Song Army had never seen such a formation. They had never seen such a reasonable army since they were born, and they didn't know whether to leave or stay for a while.

But the choice has been given to them.

The prisoners waited and watched for a while, and then they boldly stepped forward to express that they wanted to go home, that they did not want to continue serving in the army, and that they missed their family.

They feel that the military is too hard. They were recruited to serve as soldiers. Now they can go home, of course.

Zhao Yucheng nodded and allowed them to go and collect the toll, and then they could leave.

According to the distance of the journey, the peasant army sent the toll to the prisoners who wanted to go home. After receiving the money, they were suspicious, and then tentatively left the barracks, and no one stopped them until they went far away.

There would have been no one to stop it.

Seeing that someone had really left, the remaining ones who wanted to go but didn't dare to go were overjoyed. They rushed up and said that they wanted to go home, saying that they were fed up with the suffering of the army and really didn't want to stay in the army.

It's normal to feel this way, and it's normal to not want to stay in the army that brings you hellish experiences.

But can the home they return to give them the shelter they want?
no one knows.

Zhao Yucheng can only wish that they can really live the peaceful life they want when they return to their families, instead of coming to an end under the increasingly harsh rule of the Southern Song Dynasty.

Many prisoners chose to lead the way home, and of course many more chose to stay.

After the three-hour-long lead-off part was over, those who still stayed in the barracks and were unwilling to leave, of course, would not leave.

They chose to join the peasant army to continue fighting.

"Since you don't want to leave, you don't want to go home, then you are our comrades from now on. As comrades, we will accept all of you. to make a complete change.”

Zhao Yucheng stood on the high platform with open arms.

"Welcome to join us!"

After voluntary selection, a total of 120 people chose to stay and join the peasant army.

This is still a large number.

So Zhao Yucheng and Du Qi immediately mobilized the army reorganization committee to start handling the army reorganization.

First of all, they promoted those who had a certain level of cultural knowledge and military accomplishment in the peasant army to grass-roots officers and let them lead the newly recruited prisoners.

Then, politically outstanding members of the peasant army were selected to serve as instructors at all levels, and the skeleton of the peasant army after the expansion was built according to the path of the Ming army.

It is not easy for the 5000 peasant army to absorb more than [-] Song troops.

But with thought as a weapon, with strict military regulations and discipline as constraints, with superiors leading by example, and Zhao Yucheng's exemplary leading role, the rebirth of this army is not a strange thing.

At the beginning of July in the third year of Hongwu, the reorganized Peasant Army was reorganized into four combat divisions and two combat brigades directly under the Ming Army, with a total number of 4000.

And at this time, there is no need for the peasant army to continue to hide and tuck.

Under Zhao Yucheng's plan, the four combat divisions were dispatched in an all-round way, and the troops were divided into four groups to start a major counterattack against the Southern Song Dynasty.

On the fifth day of the seventh lunar month, the First Division of the Peasant Army and two combat brigades directly under the army, led by Zhao Yucheng, captured Jishui County and Yongfeng County one after another after capturing Luling County, the capital of Jizhou.

On the sixth day of the seventh lunar month, the third division of the peasant army, led by division commander Lu Chengren, captured Anfu County after capturing Yongxin County.

On the same day, the Second Division of the Peasant Army, led by division commander Xu Tong, captured Longquan County after successively capturing Taihe County and Wan'an County.

On the ninth day of the seventh lunar month, the Fourth Division of the Peasant Army, led by the division commander Zhang Xiaohu, broke into the Nan'an Army, and attacked Meiguan, Xiongguan, South Guangdong with lightning speed. important channel.

The peasant army made an all-out attack and blossomed everywhere. Everywhere the Song army went, the Song army broke up. At the beginning, a very small number of defending officials committed suicide to the end, but they fled in large numbers. A few were captured by the peasant army and became the material of the public trial, which accelerated the thinking within the peasant army. building.

(End of this chapter)