The Fourteenth Gege's strategy of "the first to enter the customs becomes the marquis" immediately received unanimous praise from the headquarters. Many people applauded on the spot. Because this strategy is not only vicious and immediate, but also difficult to crack.
, is not a "conspiracy", but a "conspiracy". The intention is very simple, one person can
Everyone in the Zhengzhou Corps can see through it at a glance, but they will definitely still be willing to break their heads and get in. Chen Wangwu knows that there is nothing he can do. His best way is to grab his direct team and join them as soon as possible.
In the midst of "Raiders of the Lost Ark", there might be hope of grabbing Hangu Pass.
Because it was a matter of canonization, Tang Yunsheng went to report to Zhu Yourong and asked His Majesty to make a decision.
Zhu Yourong had already fallen asleep, but after hearing the urgent report about the war situation, she got dressed again to meet Tang Yunsheng. After listening to Tang Yunsheng's explanation, she immediately felt that the fourteen grids was a very good idea.
It was immediately approved. However, the name of the title was changed. It was not called "Guanzhong Hou" but "Marquis of Guanzhong".
"Zhenguanhou". Guanzhong is too big, equivalent to half a province, and cannot be used to name "Hou". Generally, the name that precedes the title of "Hou" can only be the name of a county. "Zhenguanhou"
"Guanhou" means that the "fiefdom" of this Hou is in the Hangu Pass area, which means "Guanguan" for the emperor.
Zhu Yourong personally delineated that the fiefdom of Zhenguanhou will include Hanguguan Town and Tongguan County, that is, starting from Hanguguan in the east, to Tongguan in the west, and a narrow area of more than 50 kilometers in between, all belong to "Zhenguanhou"
Fiefdom. In terms of area, it has reached the size of a county.
Of course, the concept of "fiefdom" in the Ming Dynasty today is just a symbol. All the taxes in the fiefdom will not be given to this noble as in the past. The nobles in the Ming Dynasty today adopt an annuity system, and the annuity for each title is the original canon.
It is fixed at the time. For example, Princess Liaoyang's nominal fiefdom is in Liaoyang in the northeast, but she only has a fixed annuity of 700,000. Xiang Xiaoqiang's nominal fiefdom is in Jiangxinzhou, and her fixed annuity is 500,000.
Zhu Yourong set the annuity of "Zhenguanhou" at 500,000 mingyang. This is quite generous. It has caught up with Xiang Xiaoqiang. Although Xiang Xiaoqiang is only an earl, he is a close official of the emperor and has made great achievements. He
The actual annuity is considered high among marquises. The title of Princess Liaoyang is a princess. In the Ming Dynasty, a princess is the highest female title, equivalent to a prince among male titles. Her annuity is only 700,000.
The annuity of 500,000 mingyang is unparalleled in its appeal to the officers of the Zhengzhou Army. 500,000 mingyang is equivalent to 350,000 U.S. dollars, equivalent to 1.15 million pieces of Qing silver, equivalent to 6,220 taels of gold, and a total of 311 kilograms.
In the "Uprising Bonus Order" of the Ming Army, it is stipulated that if an entire army surrenders, the military commander will be rewarded 500,000 mingyang at a time. And once you get the title of "Zhenguanhou", you can get 500,000 yuan every year
Ming Yang.
After all, there are very few people who have the opportunity and ability to pull an entire army to surrender. First of all, they must be at least the commander of the army. Secondly, they must have good control over the army under their command. Moreover, they must plan to surrender.
On the eve of , it cannot be detected by the special agents in the stick-stick department in the army. In short, it is very difficult.
But the opportunity of "Zhenguanhou" is completely open. Even if you are a regiment commander and battalion commander, as long as you have the ability to grab Hangu Pass and don't let others snatch it away, Zhenguanhou will be yours...
Moreover, the matter of "Searching for a Marquis" is the ultimate dream of Chinese officials and military officers in all dynasties. It is the emperor's highest affirmation of a person's merits and achievements, and it is a supreme honor. "Looking for a Marquis three thousand miles away", many times in the past dynasties
A famous general, a veteran, a veteran, his hair and beard are gray and he abandons his comfortable life.
He lived and died on the battlefield again and again, just to pursue the highest dream of "making a prince". At that time, Li Guang, a famous general, fought all his life and made great achievements in battle. In the end, because he could not be made a prince, he committed suicide on the battlefield in despair and hatred, leaving behind "Li Guang".
The eternal regret sentence of "It is difficult to seal a wide area".
Therefore, the high command unanimously believes that none of the Northern Qing officers in the Zhengzhou Army can resist this temptation. Anyone with some strength will take risks and participate in this bloody game.
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Dongchang No. 1 Bureau, a long-established agency for propaganda against the Qing Dynasty during the Ming Dynasty, the writing team below worked overtime urgently. Several veterans who wrote leaflets closed the door and drank a few ounces of whiskey. They wrote as if they were full of energy, and they used all the skills they had spent half a lifetime to write.
When it came out, each sentence in the flyer became more attractive and more tempting. When it was finally finished, the factory supervisor read it and gave it to the headquarters on the phone, where he read it out over the phone.
Several old men in the central command hall and Zhu Yourong listened to the loudspeaker and felt very satisfied. They had a stomachache and laughed and said:
"The general now wishes he could become a battalion commander in the Zhengzhou Corps."
Several old men looked at him, somewhat puzzled.
She had a stomachache and then smiled and said:
"So that we can rush to Hangu Pass before others."
Everyone laughed, knowing that the stomachache was a disguised form of praise for how well-written the flyers were and how "lethal" they were.
So the decision was made.
A series of leaflets were sent to the People's Guard Left Headquarters. Propaganda against the enemy during the war was mainly implemented by the Political Work Team of the People's Guard. The political work team had printing cars at various airports and in each army, with machines and ink in the cars.
The paper is all ready. Once the message is received, it can be produced in large quantities immediately
Printing leaflets. Moreover, when the Ming army captured every city and county in the Qing Dynasty, the political work team would station at the local radio station to broadcast propaganda to the Qing Dynasty at any time using clear medium wave. The coverage distance of the short wave was long, but the sound was very unclear.
Medium wave coverage is short, but very clear.
From late night on the 24th to early morning on the 25th, printing trucks began to roar at several frontline airports of the Ming Army in the western theater, and stacks of new leaflets were printed out. The closest transmitting tower to the Zhengzhou Corps was the newly occupied Kaifeng Radio Station.
, also began to conduct medium-wave broadcasts to the Zhengzhou Corps. The policy of "the first to enter the customs will be the marquis" was spread to the radios of the Zhengzhou Corps headquarters at all levels over and over again.
But in the Zhengzhou Corps, and in a night battle, the number of people who could hear the radio was very limited, only some high-ranking officials. The "target audience" of the Ming army's propaganda offensive was mainly the regiment commanders and battalion commanders below.
The Zhengzhou Corps is to start chaos from the middle level. Therefore, it mainly relies on leaflets.
Bonfires were also lit at several frontline airports, and Ming army reconnaissance planes took off between the two bonfires and rose into the dark sky. Soon, along the more than 100-kilometer-long front line from Zhengzhou to Luoyang, "first-in" missiles were falling everywhere.
The leaflet "Those who are shut down are marquis".
At the same time, the Ming army's firepower became sparse and they no longer desperately attacked. All units temporarily retreated to repair.
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The Ming army's offensive weakened, and all levels of the Qing army on the front line breathed a sigh of relief and finally had a chance to breathe.
However, within half an hour, it became clear that something was wrong with the atmosphere.
No matter on the Luoyang mountain front line or the Zhengzhou plain front line, in those trenches, behind sandbag bunkers, or in observation shacks, both officers and soldiers were picking up leaflets falling from the sky, staring at them, and their expressions were wrong. The soldiers were jealous.
He looked at his superior and whispered softly:
"It's your mother, isn't it..."
"...Really?"
"Female lord..."
"Look, look, I said above, there is no distinction between levels..."
"Then we can also rush to the border?"
"You are just a coward and want to be granted the title of Marquis. You are as cowardly as you are..."
"This is not Ran Buran's business. This requires having soldiers in hand... We can't just be soldiers, at least we have to be the commander..."
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As for the officers, who had a few soldiers in their hands, their eyes were all red at the moment, they were swallowing saliva, holding leaflets in their hands, and their faces were turning red and white.
"Master Battalion Commander!"
In a bunker shack, a battalion deputy suddenly shouted loudly, startling a large circle of junior officers.
Each of these junior officers held a leaflet in their hands. They all had their own agenda, and their faces turned red and white.
"Mr. Battalion Commander!" the battalion deputy shouted impassionedly, "You usually treat your brothers like brothers, but at this juncture, there is nothing to say! All the brothers in the battalion are risking their lives to protect you from Hangu Pass!
Our grandfather
We are here going through life and death just for Chen Wangwu's few taels of gold! Why not go to the west now and make the battalion commander the marquis of Zhenguan! Battalion commander, you have made the marquis, as long as you don't forget it when the time comes
Just brothers!”
The battalion commander's face flushed with excitement, he clutched the flyer tightly, walked around in circles a few times, slapped the table, and shouted:
"Okay!!! Brothers, if you have such a childlike heart, as long as Liu Di, whose surname is the name, grabs the title of Zhenguan Marquis, he will not treat the brothers badly! In the fiefdom of Er Di, brothers, big and small, will be indispensable! When the time comes, the marquis and below will be
, counts, viscounts, barons, all the brothers in the battalion are indispensable! If the brothers feel that Emperor Nanming is not generous, Liu Di will use his own money to provide annuities to the brothers!"
"Ouch!!!"
A burst of excited howls erupted from the shack, followed by a gunshot. The battalion commander clutched his lower back and stared at the battalion deputy next to him, slowly falling down with a pool of blood underneath him.
The battalion mate held a smoking pistol and shouted:
"Brothers! This guy surnamed Liu has never been to the military academy, and his family bought him a battalion commander. He usually flatters his superiors and bullies his subordinates, and drinks the blood of everyone's soldiers. All the brothers in the battalion dare to be angry but dare not speak out. Today, this donkey will not be weighed down.
Considering his own quality, he still wants the whole battalion to protect him as the Marquis of Zhenguan?"
The battalion deputy obviously had more military morale than the battalion commander. A louder cheer broke out from below, and everyone immediately called him "battalion commander."
"Sir, battalion commander!" a junior officer shouted, "It's more than 200 miles from here to Hangu Pass! How do we get there?"
"How to go? Take the train! The train is the fastest!" the new battalion commander waved his pistol and pointed and ordered, "Immediately start making arrangements and ask the brothers in front to withdraw from their positions and go to the north to grab the train! Quick! Quick.
!If you take a step slowly, others will get the upper hand!"
As soon as the order was given, the headquarters was in chaos. Every officer picked up the field phone and shouted to the front line, asking the troops to withdraw and march quickly towards the northern railway.
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For a time, a similar scene was playing out in the entire Zhengzhou Corps and almost every frontline headquarters. The command system and control structure of the entire group army collapsed in an instant. And this collapse started from the middle level, with the battalion as the leader.
The main force. The fastest response at the battalion level, throwing down flyers
Within an hour of arriving, all battalions and regiments were busy moving troops back. And those at the division and brigade levels could not sit still and were trying their best to control their own teams. But these division commanders and brigade commanders were not as stable as the team.
They continued to resist the Ming army, but wanted to gather their own troops and also go west to capture Hangu Pass.
But divisions and brigades are also composed of battalions and regiments. The battalion commanders and regimental commanders below all feel that they have enough troops to seize and defend the pass. The division commanders and brigade commanders can no longer command the battalion commanders and regiment commanders below them.
.They watched their army fall apart.
, there is nothing we can do. However, the companies, platoons, and squads at the lower levels are basically not in chaos, and they still follow the command of the battalion commander. Because they all know that the company and platoon-level troops are not enough to capture Hangu Pass. They want to get a share.
If your son is rich, it is best to save your boss and grab it.
The agents in the Qing Army's Sticky Branch were all dumbfounded at this time. They did not dare to come out to control the situation. Their status as agents was usually quite impressive, but that was based on the fact that the imperial court could control the army. Let alone the imperial court now.
Can't control it
The army, not even the group army commander, corps commander, and division commander can control the army. In front of us are groups of armed, red-eyed "bandit armies" who are crazy about making marquises. If a little spy jumps out to fight them, that's not
Looking for death?
These officers decided to join the game and participate in "Raiders of the Lost Ark". The reason why they could make up their minds so easily was because it was not an all-or-nothing decision. In normal times, this kind of behavior is no different from killing an officer to rebel.
Losing your head. Because
There is no way out, so it is difficult to make a decision. But at this moment, it is obvious that there is only the benefit of killing officials and rebelling, but there is no risk of killing officials and rebelling. Of course, everyone is happy to capture Hangu Pass and seal the Zhenguan Hou. Even if they fail and do not capture it,
It doesn't mean there is no way out.
The escape route is very simple: at worst, surrender to the Ming army. Even if you can't capture Zhenguanhou, as long as you can bring your brothers to surrender to the Ming army, the Ming army will at least get a bonus.
Therefore, under this kind of stimulation with only benefits and no risks, whoever sticks to his position is a fool.
Within an hour, almost all regiment and battalion commanders withdrew their troops from the front line and swarmed westward. The Zhengzhou Corps suddenly disintegrated and turned into independent gangs.
And, just as Fourteen Grid had planned, the fight quickly began.
These gangs have hundreds or thousands of people, and if such a large group wants to evacuate west quickly, the best way is to take a train. But there is only one railway line, which is the Qinqi Railway. So, south of the railway line
There are still dozens of miles away, and "civil wars" are starting one after another.
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The first "bandit" to grab the train was a battalion, and it was also a logistics unit. This is not surprising. The logistics unit has the most control of transportation. They unhooked all the carriages and rode only the military horses and mules. There were also
For the small number of cars, they also threw all the ammunition and baggage off the cars, and the brothers sat on the trucks.
Just like that, a copycat version of the "motorized camp" appeared. With car lights swaying on the mountain road, amidst the sound of car horns and mules and horses, it rushed to the northern railway line first.
The most wicked thing was that in order to ensure that they arrived at Hangu Pass first and not allow other troops to get transportation, they burned all the extra cars, tanks, carriages, and bicycles in the division before leaving.
Those "brotherly troops" who only relied on these two legs to run were all left behind. They cursed, and while running forward with their legs, they cursed: The wind and water are turning, and they will catch the group of cowards in front.