"Who is our enemy?"
"Everyone, are you willing to return to this life?" Zhang Mu asked slowly. Du Yonggui, your parents gave you the name Du Yonggui. They hope that you will always be rich and noble. Let me ask you, are you willing to be like this for the rest of your life? If you have another wife and a child, are you willing to let him be like your previous child?“
"No!"
Du Yonggui roared angrily.
"Very well, I'm not willing either!"
Zhang Mu said loudly," We don't want to, but the Qing Dynasty wants us to return to this kind of life. The current situation is very cruel. Either we are treated as bandits by the imperial court and exterminated, or we return to the past and farm at home. If a disaster occurs, your wives will starve to death, and your children will starve to death. We have no other choice. There is only one choice, and that is to destroy the Qing Dynasty and take back our land so that our descendants can have land. They could all be farmed so that they could eat their fill and wear warm clothes!!”
"We are not bandits, we are not rioters, we are the army of justice, we want to create a new world!”
Zhang Mu slowly said," Perhaps, most of us, including me, will not be able to see that day. However, I believe that this day will exist. Kings and generals, how can they have guts?"”
Zhang Mu raised their morale.
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However, Zhang Mu was still very busy with work.
First, he needed to reorganize these 300 people.
Five people in a team, a total of 60 teams.
Ten squads formed a class.
More than 300 people were quickly organized by Zhang Mu.
After that, he would undergo organizational training. The training method was simple. He had been a soldier before and knew how to train.
The remaining 186 people were the old, weak, sick, and disabled. They were mainly responsible for cooking and building some defensive fortresses to solve their food, clothing, and accommodation problems.
Then, every day, apart from training them, Zhang Mu also forced them to read and write at night.
At the very least, he had to understand some simple Chinese characters.
The peasant army that had followed him only had seven or eight literate people. Moreover, they only knew his name and some simple words. They wouldn't be able to recognize anything else.
Zhang Mu could only force them to recognize some Chinese characters.
He had never read a book.
All the squad leaders and team leaders had to bring their soldiers back to learn how to read.
Zhang Mu mainly promoted simplified Chinese characters.
Right now, it was not considered stable even without a base.
When things stabilized, he would promote Hanyu Pinyin.
There were also sentries.
He needed to arrange for sentries to see if there were any Qing soldiers coming over. If they really came over, he would basically be finished.
The other thing Zhang Mu needed to do was to work on his ideology and politics.
Only Zhang Mu could handle this matter.
No one else could.
After all, in this era, Zhang Mu was the only one who was armed with his thoughts.
This needed to be done step by step.
Moreover, it needed to have a long-term effect.
The most important problem was still discipline.
Orders and prohibitions were carried out.
At the same time, Zhang Muruo made many requests.
The most important thing was still the issue of discipline.
He needed to make these soldiers follow orders.
Zhang Mu adjusted the training time to 21 days.
After all, they only had enough food for 30 days.
During these 21 days.
It was also his precious time.
Zhang Mu's plan was very simple.
Attack Yangzhou City.
Although there were not many of them, as long as they could catch them off guard, it would not be a problem.
They had stolen a batch of food and a ship.
The most important thing was to take advantage of this flood to tear open the Great Qing Dynasty's wounds as much as possible. The greater the damage to the Great Qing Dynasty, the better.
Yangzhou was an important economic region.
However, before that, Zhang Mu still needed something.
Boats.
With a boat, they could go down the waterway to Yangzhou. Then, they could go upstream along the Yangtze River and kill their way into the forest.
The Great Qing Dynasty was not the future.
The best route was not the railway but the waterway.
This was the fastest route.
Only with a ship could he purchase food and weapons.
As for the source of the ships, Zhang Mu had his eyes on the river defense camp. The common laborers used by the Yellow River and Yangtze River were all local farmers. When these local farmers gathered together, it was easy for them to change. However, the imperial court could not guard the river defense all year round. In the 17th year of Kangxi, Jin Fufu, the governor of the river, thought that it would be better to recruit more river soldiers and enforce military law. He petitioned the Qing Emperor for permission to establish this military organization, called the River Camp, which lasted until the Republic of China.
Zhang Mu had his eyes on the river defense camp of Gaoyou in the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal.
There were not many people in the river defense unit, only about 1,000.
The most important thing was that they had more than twenty ships. As long as they could take down these ships, they could head straight for Yangzhou City.
Su Sanhao was in charge of gathering information.
night falls
Su Sanhao reported the situation of the river defense unit to Zhang Mu in detail.
The daily routine of the river defense unit and even their military discipline were extremely detailed. Many things were requested by Zhang Mu and taught to Su Sanhao bit by bit. Su Sanhao did not disappoint Zhang Mu.
The combat strength of the troops stationed on the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal in Gaoyou was not ordinary.
There was no training at all. In fact, their numbers were wrong. There were more than a thousand people, but the actual number was probably only 500.
Everyone knew the combat strength of the local garrison. They were basically eating empty food.
If the Qing army had entered the pass, even in the early years of Kangxi, the local garrison would not have been so lax. However, it was already the later years of Kangxi. Kangxi wanted to retain his reputation as a benevolent ruler, so the local garrison began to show signs of eating empty salaries.
Eight Banners 'combat strength was already extremely weak.
The Green Army was not a local garrison.
The local garrison troops could only deal with them for a while. It was impossible for them to really have combat strength.
The imperial court was very strict and was afraid that the local government would expand.
However, the soldiers of the Green Camp are hereditary soldiers, and when the father dies, the son inherits. The generals were under the direct command of the Bureau of Military Personnel, and the generals could not command the troops directly, effectively preventing the soldiers from holding their own. With the corruption of the Eight Banners Army, the importance of the Green Army grew.
Before the middle of the Qing Dynasty, the Green Camp was still called elite. However, after a long period of peace, the camp was abandoned and became more and more corrupt. Since the first year of Jiaqing, when he suppressed the uprising of the White Lotus Society in Sichuan and Chu, he had been unable to do anything. Therefore, from Tongzhi to Guangxu years, it was reduced and finally reorganized into a police-like patrol camp, which lost its role as a regular army. The green camp system only had an empty name.
Right now, the river defense unit was trash.
The twenty-seven ships of the river defense battalion were mainly used to transport food. Other than that, the officials of the imperial court would use these ships to transport goods and so on.
Zhang Mu listened to Su Sanhao's report and had a plan in his heart.
They would directly attack the river defense unit and seize these 27 ships first.
Thinking of this, Zhang Mu had an idea.
As for how to fight, the first thing was to catch them off guard.
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