Chapter 274 Secret Decree
It's time to fight!
Not only did the people in the People's Army ruled by the People's Army know that the People's Army is going to go to war with the Ming army, but even the people of the Ming court who lived close to the People's Army ruled by the People's Army also knew about the news. The People's Army and the Ming army were mobilizing with great fanfare, and anyone could see that the war was about to break out.
The people are suffering, the people are suffering, and the people are suffering. Especially in the war, the people in the war areas are the most dangerous and will not be killed by a certain army if they are not careful.
It may be because the enemy army is trying to hide its traces, or it may be because its own army is trying to kill well, and as the lowest-level people can only continue to struggle on the verge of life and death.
There is a small village called Lijiazhuang near the People's Army ruling area in the eastern part of Guangxi. After learning that the Ming army was going to fight with the People's Army, the villagers of Lijiazhuang sighed one by one. They were most worried that the area where their village was located would become a battlefield and that everyone in Lijiazhuang would lose their lives.
Go east or north to flee?
The villagers of Lijiazhuang do not want to leave this land where they have lived for generations. More importantly, the villagers do not have much money in their hands. Once they are far away from their homes and have no means of living, they may starve to death on the way to escape, and other dangers may occur on the way.
"We can't leave. What if we leave, what should we do with the land here?"
"Everyone can share several acres of land regardless of men, women, age and age. We will stay here. I hope the People's Army can defeat the official army and we will all have our own land at that time."
"Yes, we can't leave."
People who live close to the People's Army ruling area can easily know the situation on the People's Army. Everyone in the People's Army ruling area can own their own land. There are no landlords yet, and the government has oppressed and exploited them.
The people yearn for the People's Army-ruled areas very much. Many people even hope that the People's Army can defeat the official army and occupy the area where they live, so that they can also own their own land.
The villagers of Lijiazhuang were talking a lot, and most of them supported them to stay. The last few clan elders made a decision to prepare a temporary residence in the mountains. If the People's Army and the Ming Army go to war, everyone fled into the mountains and waited for the war to end before leaving the mountain.
The decision of the clan elders was recognized by the villagers, and soon the young and strong people in Lijiazhuang took action and went to the mountains to build a temporary residence, and moved some food to the forum just in case.
The war is about to break out. The gentry and merchants in the area of the Ming Dynasty ruled by the People's Army ruled have already packed up their gold, silver and fine materials and ran away. Most of the gentry and merchants even ran away two or three years ago and have never come back. At most, they send some subordinates back to collect rent.
The people at the bottom have no money and don’t leave if they can’t leave. They would rather take some risks to stay. If they really have no hope of life, they will choose to escape. Escape itself is a choice with extremely low survival rates.
Most of the people near the People's Army ruling areas made the same choice as Lijiazhuang and chose to stay. Once the area where they live was reduced to a battlefield, they could escape to the mountains nearby, and some villages built temporary residences in the mountains in advance.
They are clearly ordinary people in the Ming Dynasty ruling area, but most of them hope that the People's Army can defeat the government in the upcoming war. They are too disappointed with the government. Now a better choice is emerging, so of course they are willing to choose the People's Army.
Under the Ming Dynasty, there were many people who could be loyal to the emperor. For the lower class, they did not know what the emperor was or what the loyal emperor was. They only knew how to survive. However, under the oppression and exploitation of the government and the landlords, their lives were too difficult and difficult, and it was common for people to starve to death.
"Whoever can be good to us will be directed to whoever we are."
The people's ideas were very simple, so after the People's Army occupied Guangdong, it quickly gained support from the people under its rule.
The Ming court officials seemed to know this situation. The government carried out various negative propaganda on the People's Army, saying that the People's Army is a man-devouring evil spirit, and there is no way to stay wherever they go. The gentry and merchants are also helping the government to conduct negative propaganda on the People's Army.
However, this negative propaganda has little effect on the people living in neighboring the People's Army-ruled areas, and they are more likely to get news about the People's Army-ruled areas.
Many ordinary people even wanted to take their families to the People's Army-ruled areas, but most of them were stopped by the Ming army. Only a small number of people came to the People's Army-ruled areas by chance. After the People's Army determined their identities, they arranged their place to live, allocated land, and lived a new life.
Compared with the lower class people, the gentry and merchants from Guangxi, Huguang, Jiangxi and Fujian, who felt that the war was about to break out, either went to the prefectures with tall city walls or hid in the provincial capital, or moved to other places temporarily.
The gentry and merchants basically knew that the Ming court ordered Li Chengliang to lead one million troops to encircle and suppress the People's Army, but they were very worried. They were so close to the People's Army ruling area. They learned that the Ming court lost in each battle, and hundreds of thousands of people were killed or injured.
In the eyes of the gentry and merchants, the People's Army is not very powerful. Perhaps Li Chengliang led a million Ming troops to defeat the People's Army, but many people think that it is not easy to wipe out the People's Army in one battle. Once the People's Army breaks out, which city can block the People's Army's military front.
Living in a county with relatively short walls is the most dangerous. The wealthy gentry and merchants who don’t have much wealth move to the prefecture and provincial capitals. The wealthy gentry and merchants who have a lot of wealth move to farther places. Anyway, the farther away from the battlefield, the better. If you stay, you may be affected by the war.
The Ming court was paying attention to the upcoming war. The People's Army caused too much damage to the Ming court. Now the Ming court is determined to wipe out the People's Army.
While hoping to wipe out the People's Army, Zhu Yijun and some ministers were also worried about Li Chengliang. Most of the troops in the Ming court were in the hands of Li Chengliang. Now Li Chengliang is leading the army to wipe out the People's Army. It's okay if Li Chengliang leads his army to wipe out the People's Army. When Li Chengliang wipes out the People's Army, what they are most worried about is that Li Chengliang will become the next People's Army.
The Ming court had the strength to wipe out the People's Army, but did not have the strength to wipe out the next People's Army.
Zhu Yijun is quite familiar with the situation of Li Chengliang's army. The 500,000 Ming army in Jiangxi was almost unable to be poured into the water run by Li Chengliang. That was a 500,000 army with a large number of elite troops.
Zhu Yijun really wanted to be able to lose both the defeat with the People's Army in the next war to encircle and suppress the People's Army.
For this reason, Zhu Yijun also issued a secret order to Tang Qi, Li Zhengmao and Zheng Yuewen, requiring the three men to slow down the offensive appropriately when the war begins, and let the People's Army fight against Li Chengliang's army.
As long as the People's Army and Li Chengliang's army are destroyed, even if one million people are killed or injured, Zhu Yijun will be able to accept it.
Chapter completed!