Autumn of the 17th year of Chongzhen

Chapter 406 Training New Soldiers
Since the Longwu court moved to Guangzhou and the Qing soldiers stationed in Fujian, Guangnan has become a new anti-Qing center. Many gentry and righteous men who have the Han Dynasty in their hearts will follow wherever the court retreats. They continued to cross the sea one after another.

Unlike the vassals who fled, they abandoned their homes and businesses and had no livelihood in Guangnan, and the current financial situation of the imperial court obviously couldn't take care of them, so they could only gather outside the city, forming a gathering of thousands of people. Human shantytowns.

In ancient times, the people were wherever the land was, so those who were willing to follow the court from the north to the south of Guangnan were mostly scholars or wealthy families.

Most of them don't know how to farm, and they can't do heavy manual labor. Fortunately, Guangzhou's commerce is developed, and a large number of literate literati are needed to act as accountants and scribes.

At present, the Five Loyalist Army entered Guangzhou on a large scale, and most of the family members of the Shun Army were lost. Some people married their daughters to the soldiers of the Five Loyalist Army, so as to obtain the treatment of military family members.

As the New Year approaches, every household in Guangzhou is busy slaughtering chickens and sheep, and people in shantytowns are also cleaning clothes.

At this time, in a dilapidated yard, a woman with delicate features was holding her swollen belly in one hand and a basket of clothes in the other. She was about to dry in the yard when she saw her husband leading a sheep and carrying a bag of clothes. Mi Xing came back excitedly, and the woman smiled and said, "Sir, has the store issued annual money?"

The man was a student named Zhou Wenqi, a native of Northern Zhili. Some of his ancestors had passed Jinshi, and he was a prominent family in Changping. His wife, Liang Shi, was the youngest daughter of the magistrate of Changping.

After the Qing army entered the customs, they forced the Han people to shave their hair and change clothes. The local Han residents rose up one after another. Dorgon carried out a large-scale massacre in Sanhe, Changping, Liangxiang and other places in Beizhili, which was known as the massacre of Jinan in history.

Most of Zhou Shiqi's father-in-law and father and brother died in this massacre. Afterwards, the Manchurian nobles raced to enclose land. All of his family's land was invaded by the Eight Banners, and his family was also taken as banner slaves. A long and inescapable journey.

At this moment, Zhou Wenqi tied the goat to the yard, put down the rice, and said, "My lady, I have something important to tell you."

Zhou Wenqi took the basket from his wife, and while helping her dry her clothes, said: "I resigned about the business, and I have signed up to join Duke Chu's Five Loyalty Army."

"What?" Liang was stunned for a moment, and the clothes in her hands fell to the ground. Her lips were trembling, and she couldn't say a word. Suddenly, tears welled up in her eyes.

Zhou Wenqi quickly hugged Mrs. Liang in her arms, and whispered in her ear: "From Beizhi, to Nanjing, then to Hangzhou, Fujian, and finally to the present Guangnan, my lady followed me all the way to the present. If Qing If the soldiers capture Guangnan, then you and I will have to jump into the sea together with the court. I don’t want my wife to live in such a worrying and fearful life, so I have to personally take up a knife and gun to protect the peace of my wife and mother.”

Mrs. Liang broke free from Zhou Wenqi and started to cry, "Xianggong is a scholar, so he can gain fame and contribute to the court~ Serve as a soldier and fight in war. Woolen cloth?"

After Liang finished speaking, she ran to the back room quickly with tears streaming down her eyes.

Zhou Wenqi could only be at a loss for a while. He also participated in the imperial examination, but failed to pass the exam. After that, he was going to go to the Imperial College, but he failed in the exam. .

Just when he was feeling depressed, an old woman came out of the house, he rushed to meet her, supported the old woman, and called out: "Mother~"

The old woman nodded and asked him to help him to sit in the yard, "Son~ your mother understands your ambition, so you can rest assured!Mother will advise you well, wife, you don't have to worry about your family, you just went to the battlefield, don't just think about avenging your father and brother, remember to protect your body and return safely. "

Wang Yan did not expect the recruiting to be so smooth. He originally thought it would take at least half a year, and he would even go to Guangxi and Guizhou to recruit recruits.

Wang Yan thought about it. This may be due to his recruitment policy, but the main reason is that the Qing soldiers invaded the bandits before, killing and looting wantonly, which made the Guangnan people feel the crisis.

Things in the world always have two sides. The Qing soldiers invaded Guangnan, which caused a large number of casualties, but also broke the original pattern of Guangnan.

Now the soldiers of the Qing Dynasty, with a sharp sword hanging over the heads of the Guangnan people, and Wang Yan instructed the folk storytellers to publicize the brutality of the Qing soldiers, and asked Su Kunsheng and Li Xiangjun to arrange "Jiangyin Eighty Diaries" and "Kunshan Records" " and other dramas made Guangnan people tense up, and they were more supportive of the reforms carried out by the imperial court to resist the Qing Dynasty.

Since the recruits were recruited based on scriptures, Wang Yan immediately ordered Dai Zhifan, Wang Shixiu and others to preside over the preliminary training, and after three months, the recruits would be added to the various armies.

In order to control the army, the chief generals of the towns of the Five Loyalty Army did not have the right to pay and recruit soldiers, and Wang Yan made up for any deficiencies in each department.

For Zhongzhi Town, which is stationed in Hunan, Wang Yan transferred Xie Kuang to the army after Xie Kuang left, and presided over the recruitment and training of Hunan soldiers.

The recruit camp is located in the western suburbs of Guangzhou, near the Pearl River. It is a large military camp covering an area of ​​several thousand acres, with thousands of large tents. Fifty thousand new soldiers are stationed in it. Five thousand old soldiers who came over also entered the camp.

In addition, Kuang Lu's martial arts academy also entered the camp. Unlike the task of replacing five thousand old soldiers with new ones, his task was to train officers.

At present, 50 new recruits, ten people for a small banner, and [-] people for a general banner, are divided into a thousand small squares. Because it is only elementary training, it will be sent to various towns after completion, so there is no higher establishment.

The recruits received infantry armor, military uniforms, weapons, and military blankets, and assigned tents, and then returned to their tents.

The tents for recruits are very large, and 50 people live in one tent, which can better cultivate the feeling of robes and facilitate training.

Although they are all new soldiers, Dai Zhifan trained completely according to the standards of veteran soldiers. The conditions were very difficult. The soldiers were not excited for a day, but they were put to sleep by the veterans.

Zhou Wenqi tidied up the quilt, and just about to fall asleep, the curtains suddenly opened, and a gust of cold wind rushed in. A first-rank official in a crimson robe and a jade belt walked in, followed by several An officer in mountain armor.

He saw Dai Zhifan, the general who was giving them a lecture during the day, standing respectfully behind the scarlet-robed official, and saw the iconic scar on his face, so he quickly saluted, "Greetings, Duke of Chu."

Wang Yan was slightly surprised, waved his hand, realized that he didn't need to be polite, and looked again, many soldiers who had already slept in the tent, then retreated out again.

"Although the climate in Guangnan is not as good as that of Jiangnan and Beidi, it is winter after all. The missing quilts must be made up as soon as possible." Wang Yan said as he walked.

Li Suiqiu nodded, "Duke, the matter of being served is easy to solve. The key is armor and weapons. The shortage is too large, and there is not enough pig iron."

"I thought it would take half a year to recruit [-] people, but I didn't expect it to be full in less than two months. It's reasonable that we can't make weapons and armor." Wang Yan thought: "The governor ordered people Talk to a couple of firms and see if they can get another load of pig iron."

(Thanks to Lao Chen for swiping the screen for the reward, thanks to Huamancheng 66, Yuedong Woxin for the reward)

(End of this chapter)