Chapter 162 Doubts abound
From the capital to Jinling, from Jinling to Nanchang, Jiangxi, the straight line is more than three thousand miles away. Finally, Song Yingchang came to Nanchang City, closer to Guangdong.
Song Yingchang planned to stay in Nanchang City for a while. When he was about to attack the rioters in Guangdong, he would personally go to the front line to take charge. As a general in charge of the army, it was impossible for him to stay away from the army.
After coming to Nanchang City, because it was closer to Guangdong, the information about Guangdong was delivered to Song Yingchang faster. Every time he looked at the People's Army's intelligence, Song Yingchang frowned. From this information, Song Yingchang could see that the People's Army was a great enemy!
The enemy is very strong. In addition to Qiongzhou Prefecture, Lianzhou Prefecture has fallen. Not only Guangdong, Huaiji County in eastern Guangxi, but also Dingnan, Longnan, Anyuan and Changning counties in southern Jiangxi have all been captured by the People's Army.
The areas additionally captured by the People's Army are all military tyrants. If they are led by the Ming army, the People's Army will be very passive. If these areas are occupied, the People's Army will lose a lot of trouble.
With this alone, Song Yingchang could see that there were capable people in the People's Army, not ordinary rioters.
"Why don't you serve the Ming Dynasty in the People's Army, but instead surrender to the rioter?" Song Yingchang couldn't figure it out.
Song Yingchang collected a lot of information about the People's Army. From the appearance of the People's Army to the present day, Song Yingchang would pick up the People's Army's intelligence to read it every time he had free time and study it carefully. At the same time, there were many doubts in Song Yingchang's mind.
According to information, the People's Army suddenly appeared in September last year and directly captured Yong'an County and Haifeng County in Huizhou Prefecture, Guangdong Province. Not long after, more than 5,000 Jieshi Guards stationed in Haifeng County were all killed in battle.
According to estimates, the People's Army had more than 10,000 troops at this time, not too much or too little. Moreover, most of the People's Army soldiers were wearing shabby clothes and were farmers who had picked up weapons not long ago, but there was also an elite force that needed attention.
This elite unit is equipped with sharp firearms, with a maximum range of firearms exceeding two hundred feet. Many of the firearms equipped by the Ming army are not as good as that of the firearms, and even many of the firearms are not as far away as those of the firearms.
With the sharp firearm, the People's Army defeated the Ming army again and again and captured one city after another.
This is a sharp firearm better than the Ming army equipped with firearms. Where did the People's Army come from?
Song Yingchang did not think that the People's Army could build such a good firearm. After careful consideration, Song Yingchang thought of a possible source of this firearm.
The Ming Dynasty was able to build various firearms, but the best Flang cannons were foreign. Then the Ming Dynasty copied them in large quantities, and the imitation model was no different from the foreign Flang cannons.
Could it be that the People's Army's firearms come from foreigners?
This idea appeared in Song Yingchang's mind, and more ideas soon emerged. How could the People's Army have money to buy firearms from foreigners? Will the People's Army be supported by foreigners? Why should foreigners support the People's Army...
It was all Song Yingchang's random thoughts, and he was not sure. However, Song Yingchang had sent someone to investigate in this direction. If it was just a firearm purchased by the People's Army from foreigners, then the Ming Dynasty could also buy it, and even prevent foreigners from selling firearms to the People's Army.
Song Yingchang believed that the Ming Dynasty had this ability, and the Ming Navy was very strong. Anyone who came to the Ming territory would not be the opponent of the Ming Navy. If foreigners continued to sell firearms to the People's Army, the Ming Navy would kill the foreigners' fleet.
The firearm problem was followed by the senior management of the People's Army. According to information, the senior management of the People's Army was very young, only about twenty years old, and they all knew literacy. However, the text of the People's Army was somewhat different from the text of the Ming Dynasty. The text of the People's Army called the Ming Dynasty was traditional, and the text of the People's Army was simplified. Simply put, the simplified Chinese characters were simplified by traditional Chinese characters, which is more convenient to write.
The People's Army has sharp firearms. If it is not enough for the People's Army, then the People's Army will not be able to occupy most of Guangdong in a few months.
But the People's Army defeated the Ming army again and again under the leadership of such a group of young people in their twenties. Song Yingchang could feel that these young people were extraordinary.
But according to the information, this group of young people has never appeared in the outside world before. It is said that they are a group of mountain people. How could mountain people have such talent?
The general of the People's Army is said to be a teacher of other senior leaders of the People's Army, but the general of the People's Army is only about twenty years old and is also a young man. How could he teach so many talented peers? This is amazing.
As for the words shown in the information, "The Grand Governor is an immortal descending to earth", Song Yingchang ignored them all.
After thinking about it, Song Yingchang speculated that the young general was not the real envoy of the People's Army. There may be a force behind the People's Army. This force attempted to subvert the Ming Dynasty, so he taught the general general and even other senior leaders of the People's Army.
However, there is no way to investigate this idea. The People's Army has only appeared for a few months. The People's Army should have existed for a long time, but no one has discovered it, let alone the forces that may be hidden behind it.
The People's Army defeated the Ming army again and again. After defeating the Ming army and occupying a large area of territory, it was very good to the people under its rule and distributed land for free. Soon, those people who should be loyal to the Ming Dynasty were all devoted to the People's Army.
The People's Army's approach terrified Song Yingchang. If the People's Army sent these people to the battlefield at any cost, even hundreds of thousands of Ming troops would be submerged. Fortunately, the People's Army did not do this and just selected young and strong people to join the People's Army.
But this method of selecting young and strong also made Song Yingchang understand the difference between the People's Army and other rebels. Other rebels wished to use various methods to strengthen themselves. Even if men, women, young and old were all organized into the army and fished out of the waters, the People's Army resumed production and life under the rule of letting the country and did not blindly expand its territory.
Song Yingchang did not believe that with the strength of the People's Army, he could not defeat Guangxi and Fujian, which had more Ming troops, and Huguang or Jiangxi, which had fewer Ming troops, but the People's Army did not do so.
The People's Army did not continue to expand its territory, but it arrogantly harassed the Ming army in the surrounding areas of Guangdong. It seemed to be trying to eliminate these Ming troops, but Song Yingchang could see that the People's Army's harassment was just to keep the Ming army there honestly, and not enter Guangdong, which would affect the rule of the People's Army.
Often, rebels have no foundation. They lose all their losses in one defeat, but the People's Army is building their own foundation. Once the People's Army is given some time and the People's Army has a foundation, it will be very difficult for the Ming Dynasty to wipe out the People's Army and recover Guangdong, and the People's Army will also become a great enemy of the Ming Dynasty.
Time waited for no one. Seeing the increasing strength of the People's Army, Song Yingchang's heart became anxious.
Chapter completed!