Chapter 1533 The hearts of the people are greater than the mountains
Chapter 1533 The hearts of the people are greater than the mountains
Author: Hecheng Fengyue
The coast of Qiongzhou Prefecture is slightly concave, forming a shallow bay, similar to Liolo Bay.
According to common sense, as long as you deploy defenses along the coast, you can form a three-sided attack against enemies coming from the sea and gain an absolute advantage.
Unfortunately, the generation difference in weapons made Huang Qi's arrangements come to nothing.
The hidden piles and mines in the bay were slowly removed bit by bit by the South China Sea Fleet, and more and more waterways were opened up.
The first team of soldiers from the 1st Marine Division had already rushed to the beach.
They pushed the boat underneath them onto the shore, then flipped it upside down to form a simple shelter.
This is a trick I discovered during many exercises.
Sure enough, as soon as this step was completed, the defenders' artillery hidden in the woods fired over.
The accuracy of the solid shells was very poor, and only one of the three shells hit the boat.
Although a hole was opened on the outside of the boat, causing sawdust to fly. However, the cannonball also lost its kinetic energy and gradually stopped after colliding back and forth in the underturned space of the boat.
The soldiers hiding behind the boat were unhurt.
The firing artillery exposed its position and immediately became the focus of attention of the battleship.
In front of hundreds of heavy artillery pieces, there was no need for accuracy at all. Just one round of covering fire could even level the entire forest.
At this moment, Huang Qi woke up from a dream and shouted quickly.
"The death squads go up quickly and drive the traitors into the sea!"
The local Shaomin natives were relatively tough, so they acted as the main force in hand-to-hand combat. After receiving the order, they immediately swarmed out and rushed onto the flat beach.
This situation is really ideal for soldiers of the National Defense Forces.
The soldiers were lying on the hull of the ship, firing their muskets non-stop.
Although there were only more than two hundred people, the firepower network formed covered the ground with the defenders who rushed out, and no one could rush forward.
Seeing more and more people dying, the remaining defenders lost their fighting spirit and fled back one after another.
Taking this opportunity, the 1st Marine Division began to consolidate its position.
Two hours later, the number of troops on land exceeded 1,000.
At this point, the defenders no longer had the strength to fight anyway.
During this period, Huang Qi frantically organized several counterattacks, but they had no effect except adding more dead people to the beach.
There are even several indigenous leaders who have fled with their people.
A sharp whistle sounded, and the 1st Marine Division walked out of the beachhead position and began to counterattack.
With the coordinated use of guns and artillery, the defenders were completely unable to stand and could only retreat steadily, finally slipping back into the city.
Without waiting for follow-up, these one thousand troops directly pursued the city and began to study how to attack the city.
Although it is located in the south of the sky and is regarded as a wild land, the construction of Qiongzhou Prefecture has never been neglected.
The overall fortifications include city walls and moats. Although it cannot be compared with the big cities in the Central Plains, it is still a troublesome attack.
"The first company, the second company, the third company, and the fourth company are to guard the city gates respectively. The other departments are building engineering equipment and must be completed before tomorrow morning."
Zhao Wentong, who was leading the vanguard, made a decisive decision and decided to use local materials without giving the enemies in the city more time to prepare.
Murong Fu followed the third batch of landing troops ashore.
When we arrived at Qiongzhou City, we had already received more information.
"Wen Desi, the magistrate of Lingao County, is Huang Qi's loyal supporter and one of the masterminds of the fight against our army. According to the scout's report, this person has led the remnants back to Lingao and is very likely to flee across the sea to Guangxi. In addition, Long, who is also with him,
Gongji Shengtian is also the largest landowner in Hainan, and most of the troops gathered by Huang Qi come from his territory."
Although the relationship between Li and Han people in Hainan has become increasingly close since the Song and Yuan Dynasties, and they have influenced each other, there are still unique social production and organizational models within Li society.
That is the joint-acreage system.
Several families, tied by blood ties, jointly manage and cultivate a piece of land, which is called a co-acreage system.
However, with development, more and more non-blood members have participated, making the scale of the joint-ownership system larger and larger.
These non-blood related immigrants are called dragons.
Most of them depend on others because of difficulties in survival or mortgage debt. Of course, there are also political reasons.
The person who takes refuge is called Duke Long.
In fact, such people are no different from Han Chinese big landowners. They have great power in their hometown, almost as much as the Tu emperor.
Huitong’s Longgong Ji Shengtian is such a person.
He was very resistant to the empire's economic policies, so after Huang Qi's instigation, he immediately joined the resistance camp. He was also the most active in helping others.
Murong Fu made a judgment immediately.
"Such die-hard elements must be resolutely eliminated. Only by appropriately demonstrating force can we effectively intimidate the local area. Third Battalion, your troops will immediately go south to pursue Ji Shengtian. It is best not to let him escape back to his lair, which will increase the difficulty of eradication."
Guo Zichang, commander of the third battalion, quickly took the order and left.
Ji Shengtian has been frightened by the strength of the National Defense Force.
After retreating from the beach, he ignored Huang Qi and led his troops alone, only wanting to return to join forces.
There he can gather more people to resist the National Defense Forces. Although he knows that he cannot defeat them, as long as he shows his strength, he can have the capital to negotiate with the National Defense Forces.
He thought very well, but he didn't expect that because of his excessive expropriation, greed and cruelty over the years, he and the local people had already hated him to the bone.
In the past, he was in charge of the local area and his power was so powerful that everyone had no choice but to endure it silently.
This time, he took most of his strength to Qiongzhou Prefecture to participate in the war, which immediately left his lair empty.
How could the empire's intelligence officers let go of this opportunity? They began to agitate among the people and quickly built momentum.
"Uncle Chen, if the empire comes, will it really give us land?"
The person in question is called Chen Daming, an indigenous people from Hainan Island.
However, the land at home was taken away by Ji Shengtian more than ten years ago in order to repay debts.
Chen Daming had no choice but to venture out to sea and wander around.
The villagers thought he was dead.
Who would have thought that he would actually come back fine.
Not only is he a good person, but his appearance has changed drastically, and he seems to have endless money in his pocket.
Through his narration, everyone knows what he has experienced over the years.
After Chen Daming went to sea, he quickly joined the pirate Zheng family. Because of his hard work, he was promoted to a small boss soon after.
Later, the Zheng family was defeated by the empire, and he was also recruited and became a member of the empire's Nanyang Transportation Group.
Because of his good sailing skills and familiarity with shipping routes, he was reused.
Now he has bought a rich property, married a wife and had children.
Chen Daming explained the empire's policies one by one, which made the villagers' hearts beat with excitement. At the same time, they became even more intolerable to Ji Shengtian, who had done many evil things.
These landowners and gentry suppressed the island as firmly as Wuzhishan, leaving the people breathless.
But now the people's hearts that have been inspired are even more vigorous than Wuzhishan.