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Lin Mengchu was gasping for breath as she ran on the small path in the field. The young man in his twenties was followed by seven or eight armed men. They were trying their best to run towards a canal in the north.
"Hurry … run!" Lin Mengchu was already sweating profusely and out of breath. While running, Lin Mengchu couldn't help but encourage her companions behind her.
With a plop, someone fell. Turning his head, he saw that the middle-aged member of the team had accidentally fallen to the ground. Panting, Lin Mengchu turned around and tried to pull him up, but he had no intention of getting up. The entire team had been running for a long time. Due to exhaustion and fear, the one who had fallen simply lay on the ground and cried pitifully.
Lin Mengchu wanted to ignore these people and escape by herself. However, when he looked along the way, he saw a small group of Liberation Army soldiers rushing over. Initially, they were about three to four miles away from Lin Mengchu. After chasing for almost five kilometers, the distance between them had already shortened to only a hundred meters. With this delay, these people were about to arrive.
"Drop the weapons in your hands!" Lin Mengchu shouted to her teammates in despair. He took the lead and threw the red tasseled spear to the ground. The youngest in the group was about 13 years old, and the oldest was Lin Mengchu, who was about 20 years old. The rest of them were between the ages of 13 and 18. The one who fell was fourteen years old. Although he wasn't the youngest, he was the weakest. Hearing Lin Mengchu's order, the children threw their red tasseled spears on the ground.
This action of giving up on confrontation won the approval of the Liberation Army. The Liberation Army squads, who had chased them for at least 20 meters, had already lined up and were ready to shoot. When they saw that the group of children had put down their weapons, they did not immediately take action.
The captain of the Liberation Army directed the troops to surround these people. After panting for a while, he shouted, "Are you Yue Yongshan's militia?"
Listening to the fluent Hakka language, Lin Mengchu's heart was filled with despair. The conflicts between the natives were not limited to Guangxi. The conflicts between the natives in Guangdong were equally intense. The armed forces of both Guangxi and Hakka were ranked first in all of China. Even if Guangdong wasn't ranked second, it was at least in the top five. As a member of the Tu family, Lin Mengchu felt that if she were to fall into the hands of these guests, she would not be able to survive.
At this moment, Lin Mengchu made up her mind and knelt on the ground. "Master, we're here to get some benefits. When we followed Yue Yongshan's militia, they only took care of our meals and didn't give us anything. We couldn't survive anymore, so we followed his militia. Master, please spare our lives. "
"From Foshan to Guangzhou?" The captain obviously didn't believe Lin Mengchu's words.
Lin Mengchu quickly replied, "They don't give us anything, they only take care of our meals. In order to eat for a few more days, we can only go wherever they go! "
The team leader looked at Lin Mengchu's group of child soldiers. They didn't have any firearms in their hands, and all of them were cold weapons. He somewhat believed Lin Mengchu's words. "Follow us now!"
Seeing that the Liberation Army had no intention of letting them go, Lin Mengchu was scared out of his wits. In this day and age, if he was taken to someone else's nest, even if he didn't die, he would lose a layer of skin. Naturally, he wouldn't go. Not only Lin Mengchu, but the group of children who followed him also trembled in fear when they heard that they were going to be taken away. They didn't even dare to breathe loudly.
Lin Mengchu knew that he couldn't resist the current situation, but he didn't want his relatives to suffer. At this moment, Lin Mengchu made up his mind and said loudly, "Master, I'll go with you. Please let my little brothers go home! Please! "After saying that, he kowtowed repeatedly.
The team leader looked at Lin Mengchu with a puzzled look in his eyes. Finally, he said, "Okay, you come with us, and we'll let them go."
Knowing that these little guys had a chance of survival, Lin Mengchu was overjoyed. He hurriedly got up and gathered the teenagers together. "Hurry up and go home! Go quickly! "
After that, he stood up and walked in the direction he had come from. He was afraid that the people of the Liberation Army would change their minds, so he walked very fast. Soon, he overtook the Liberation Army's formation and walked in front. After walking for a distance, he heard the team leader of the Liberation Army say with a smile, "Brother, it seems that your little brothers are not willing to let you go alone."
When Lin Mengchu heard this, he turned around and saw that the little guys of his relatives didn't run away in a hurry. Instead, they gathered far away and tried to follow Lin Mengchu. This time, he was scared. The purpose of following the militia was to make a living, not to go against the Liberation Army at all. However, the Liberation Army didn't care about this. Since the militia was obviously going to kill the Liberation Army, the Liberation Army didn't care whether Lin Mengchu and the others joined the militia sincerely or not. The little guys didn't know the dangers of Jianghu at all. If they followed them, they would die.
"Brother! I think you're a loyal person. Let me ask you, do you want to follow us? Getting rich? Of course not, but it will definitely let you and your little brothers eat their fill, "the team leader of the Liberation Army asked.
Although he didn't know whether what those people said was true or not, Lin Mengchu knew that he had no chance to refuse. He immediately replied, "As long as Master is willing to take us in, I'll follow you!"
After the two sides agreed on this matter, they immediately changed from being enemies to a cooperative and employer-employee relationship. The Liberation Army team brought Lin Mengchu's little brothers and went straight to Guangzhou City. Of course, along the way, they arranged a task for Lin Mengchu to identify the captives and corpses from the battle that had ended not long ago.
After hearing this order, Lin Mengchu's face twitched. The battle not long ago was too scary. Lin Mengchu just followed them, and suddenly, a large number of soldiers appeared in front of him. Lin Mengchu was here to make a living, and he only knew that he had to fight against the rebels. For people like them, who couldn't even be considered subordinates, they were purely here to make up the numbers and make a name for themselves. Naturally, the militia wouldn't tell them anything.
But Lin Mengchu was a smart person. He saw that there were many people on the other side, and that their momentum and movements were completely different from the Heaven and Earth Association that had fought against Master Yue's militia. Prompted by an indescribably strong sense of danger, Lin Mengchu secretly led his little brothers and slowly retreated. After retreating far away, he took advantage of the fact that no one was paying attention to run away with his little brothers.
After running for a while, he heard the sound of gunfire and the roar of cannons behind him. The militia immediately collapsed and began to scatter in all directions. However, two groups of cavalry suddenly appeared on the left and right flanks to outflank them. They didn't stop when they ran into the rice fields and canals. Instead, they dismounted and ran until they completely surrounded the militia. Lin Mengchu was so frightened that he ran for his life with his little brothers, but in the end, they still caught up.
When he returned to the vicinity of the battlefield, he found that the water in the canals had been completely dyed red. Many corpses were lying on the ground, in the rice fields, and by the canals. The ground and water were full of blood, and the air was thick with the smell of blood. Lin Mengchu hadn't eaten for half a day and had been running all the way. Now that he saw such a scene, his vision went black out of intense fear and he didn't know anything else.
"This enemy force is made up of four militia groups, all from the vicinity of Foshan. The largest group is the militia of Yue Yongshan's family. They fought very fiercely against the Heaven and Earth Association and won the praise of the governor-general of Guangdong and Guangxi, Ye Mingchen. " The section chief of the Second Military Intelligence Department was able to speak with fervor and assurance in front of the joint conference of the General Staff Headquarters and the Political Department of the Governor's Office. At this time, the intelligence gathering work was basically in place and the enemy had been completely wiped out, so the section chief's tone was very steady.
"Why did that militia run over and fight with us? Don't they know that we've captured Guangzhou? "Bi Qingshan, the director of the Guangdong Land Affairs Office who had just been in office for less than four hours, asked.
The section chief of the intelligence department replied with a bit of embarrassment, "They originally didn't come to fight, at least they didn't think they came to fight. Our defensive perimeter grew larger and larger. After the reconnaissance troops ran into them, the two sides clashed. The reconnaissance troops immediately came back and reported that there was an attack. After our troops surrounded them, they were still arguing over what to do. Then, they started fighting. "
After hearing this news, other than the officers in the Second Army who already knew about the situation, the others didn't know whether to laugh or cry. Vézé's troops had undergone strict training and had been fighting on the frontlines against the Qing Army. So, to everyone, in a state of war, it was very normal to quickly organize a regiment of infantry and cavalry for a joint operation in a little more than an hour.
But for the militia group, this speed was unavoidably too swift and decisive. When faced with a dense formation of nearly two thousand enemies, the troops would definitely shoot first and ask questions later. The difference in fighting strength between the two sides was too great, so nearly two thousand militia groups were completely destroyed in half an hour. This was something that couldn't be helped.
After confirming the entire process, Bi Qingshan smacked his lips and didn't know what to say. As the director of the Guangdong Land Affairs Office, Bi Qingshan knew that his job wasn't to fight but to establish an administrative system as soon as possible and start paying taxes. In Anhui's accumulated experience of paying taxes, how to deal with the landlords was the core of the land problem. For example, the landlords in Huainan were relatively obedient under Vézé's lightning fast advance. As long as these people's land problems were investigated and they were forced to pay taxes, they would soon be able to obtain food to support the army.
Now that they had solved the group training in the Foshan area, it was indeed a good way to establish their prestige. But it was a little too hasty. From Huainan's experience, the most effective method was to use peaceful means before using force.
Of course, Bi Qingshan didn't want to blame the troops for this trivial matter. Doing so wouldn't get anyone's support. Bi Qingshan's original plan was to use force to lure the important figures in the Pearl River Delta and the nearby areas to Guangzhou City. Then, under the witness of everyone, he would execute the governor of Guangdong and Guangxi, Ye Mingchen, and a group of governors from Guangdong and Guangxi, as well as the senior officials of Guangdong and Guangxi. After seeing the fate of the Manchu Qing officials with their own eyes, the local tyrants in Guangdong would probably be moved.
As long as they didn't incite the local tyrants to rebel at the same time and draw the most basic bottom line of "loyalty to Manchu Qing", the Liberation Army would be able to defeat the local guys one by one. Now that they had killed the militia groups near Foshan, it seemed that the people in Foshan would become targets to establish their prestige.
"I can only say that the people in Foshan are unlucky." Bi Qingshan sighed in his heart. Of course, he didn't feel the slightest bit of pity for the local tyrants in Foshan. The number of tyrants was actually very limited. Most of them were ordinary people who served as cannon fodder for the tyrants. The Liberation Army didn't want to treat these ordinary people as their enemies, but the people they killed the most were these ordinary people.
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