Chapter 37 Hurricane Plan
However, the Zhang Shihua Uprising in Jiangnan was just the beginning. In other provinces, similar uprisings continued one after another. The largest uprising in Shandong was Hai Shixing, the general of Dengzhou Town. Hai Shixing was an old experience of Shandong Green Camp. When the Beiyang War Zone opened up the Shandong battlefield, it was Jiaozhou Town General, who fought with the United States Army and had continuous contacts in private.
After Zhang Cunren took over Shandong, the old camp of Shandong's green camp was basically lost. Originally, Hai Shixing thought that his general, who had a deep experience and great contribution (during the westward advance of the 6th Army, Hai Shixing stood firm in the rear) could be promoted to the admiral of Shandong. Unfortunately, Zhang Cunren chose his own people. Hai Shixing was completely desperate for the Qing Dynasty. Not only did the Shandong admiral not get it, he was accomplice of Dengzhou to defend the sea. Hai Shixing simply tried to please both sides. On the one hand, he was the general of the Qing Dynasty and smuggled trade with the United States. The Beiyang War Zone has always regarded Hai Shixing as the key training target. I hope that one day when Shandong starts a war again in the future, Hai Shixing can play an important role, but when the border is moved to ban the sea, the first unstable factor that Zhang Cunren wants to solve is Hai Shixing.
In recent years, the only achievement of Haishixing has been to use power and money transactions to win over more than a dozen battalions of soldiers in Dengzhou Town. When Zhang Cunren was in trouble, Haishixing gathered more than 7,000 people, gathered around Dengzhou, swept across Dengzhou and Laizhou prefectures. In this way, east of Jiaolai Canal, the Qing Dynasty had no heavy army group. Zhang Cunren kept getting news from various channels, intending to rebel from Haishixing, increase troops to Qingdao fortress, and occupy Denglai again. This is different from the time when the green camps of the three provinces were controlled by the three provinces, and the eight banners of the Manchu and Mongolian assisted the war, with a total of 140,000 troops. Now, Zhang Cunren's army has only 70,000 troops, and is still distributed in various parts of Shandong. There are only more than 40,000 troops on the front line, including the Dengzhou town of Haishixing.
There was insufficient troops and even more so that the troops could not be divided. When the Haishixing rebelled, what Zhang Cunren was most worried about was to send troops to suppress Dengzhou Town. The 6th team of the United States entered the Jiaolai Canal from Jiaozhou Bay and cut off the army's supplies. Most of the Liaodong Navy was under the command of Prince An of Fujian and Zhejiang. Zhang Cunren could not guarantee that the remaining ships could maintain control of the Bohai Sea. In desperation, he had to invite troops to Beijing. The court's order to Zhang Cunren was mainly focused on pacification.
Zhang Cunren did not dare to cross the river to attack. The United States once again actually controlled the peninsula land east of the Jiaolai Canal. The Beiyang War Zone directly added troops to the Shandong battlefield, and dispatched the Yi army Ding Weiyue's troops and the public security army Kawaharada team to join the Shandong battlefield, and ordered a cavalry to join. The overall control of the armed forces was controlled by the military industry. To the east of the Jiaolai River, in addition to the Qingdao defenders, there were also 23,000 troops.
While Martial Arts published an announcement similar to Zhang Shihua in the name of Hai Shixing, accusing the Qing Dynasty of tyranny and forcing the rebellion of the coastal garrison green camp, and liquidating the gentry and officials in Jiaodong. If these people were not liquidated, they could obtain military supplies, and the United States would not authorize the Beiyang War Zone to start a large-scale battle in Shandong.
After Zhang Shihua and Hai Shi traveled, the coastal areas of Fujian also set off a wave of anti-Qing Dynasty. The one who took action was Su Li, the former general of Jieshi Town, Guangdong. Su Li's Jieshi Town Navy was once the First Green Camp Navy in Guangdong, the Qing Dynasty. Before the Battle of Guangdong and Guangxi, Su Li's navy fled to Fujian according to Boluo's order. At this time, the Qing army's Fujian Navy headquarters suffered heavy losses in the Battle of Zhoushan. Su Li was appointed as the Fujian Navy and took the opportunity to serve as the admiral of the Fujian Navy. Unfortunately, Shi Lang surrendered at this time, Yue Le bought horse bones for a thousand gold coins, Shi Lang became the admiral of the Fujian Navy, and Su Li was hidden.
Before that, Su Li had some contact with Li Dingguo. He took this opportunity to take advantage of the opportunity, but it was just different from Hai Shixing and Zhang Shihua. Su Li had a requirement to become a ally of the Ming Dynasty rather than an ally of the United States. After Li Dingguo discussed with Lin Shizhang, he awarded him the title of Marquis of Pinghai, the Right Governor, and the General of the Guangdong Navy, and was still stationed in Jieshi Town. The reason for this was that the southeastern coast of Fujian, Zhejiang and other places were war zones arranged by Yongli to Zheng Chenggong.
Anyway, Suli directly captured Pingtan Island and went south to attack Kinmen Island. Huang Fei led the Qiongfan Navy to the north, joined forces with the Suli tribe in the Kinmen waters to defeat the Fujian Navy Admiral Shi Lang's tribe, climbed to Kinmen, and blocked Zhangzhou Bay. However, the two divisions successively attacked Kinmen fortress and failed. The United States sent 6 teams to support and finally captured Kinmen.
Along with the three major forces, there were also rebels from all provinces of all sizes. For a time, China's coastal fires swept across several provinces, and the United States' "Hurricane Plan" was fully launched.
During the reign of Dorgon, the strategy of moving the boundary and banning the seas in North Korea was the focus of the United States. The United States made a living by the sea and obtained a large amount of population and merchants from the coast every year. Even though the United States prohibited merchants from trade with the Qing Dynasty, it was essentially monopolizing smuggling trade through the intelligence channels of the Security Bureau. Although the relocation of the boundary and ban on the seas would not threaten the survival of the United States, it still had a huge impact on the country.
After the end of the Sino-Netherland War, the hurricane plan was put on the agenda because it was determined at that time that the focus of the United States' six-land strategy was in the southwest. Therefore, the premise of the hurricane plan was to not invest too much resources, and to achieve this premise, the most important thing was to use less troops.
The first phase of the hurricane plan was strategic differentiation and deception. Strategic differentiation was to sow the relationship between the Green Camp and the Eight Banners, and the relationship between the gentry and the Qing court, which had been achieved, which had consumed the Qing Dynasty to the greatest extent. Strategic deception was to make the Qing Dynasty think that the United States would carry out a large-scale 6-development battle on the coast, forcing the Qing Dynasty to concentrate the coastal forces together, so that it could not use all its strength in the relocation of the boundary and banned seas.
Now that the first phase has been basically reached, the United States has responded and cooperated with the large-scale division of the three provinces, it has led to the division within the Qing Dynasty. Although the governors and governors of the five coastal provinces have almost issued an edict from Beijing to pardon all officials and generals involved in smuggling, they will not pursue responsibility in the future, and only require them to go to the inner six to defend, and the inner six green camp and the Eight Banners to complete the relocation of the boundary and ban on the sea, this is still distrustworthy by the coastal green camp.
During the hurricane operation, the Beiyang War Zone launched large-scale military operations in Tuolin Town and Jiaodong, while the Southern War Zone occupied Kinmen, and the 6th army in Chaozhou also cooperated, making the Qing Dynasty think that the United Nations Congress attacked Fujian and Shandong on a large scale.
The second stage is to support and arm local armed forces and peasant armed forces on a large scale, and provide them with weapons. The United States opened a large-scale weapon treasury, delivering the Qing army weapons seized over the years and the Ming army weapons confiscated to the islands and strongholds on the front line. Not only did the Zhang, Hai and Su tribes who had already been armed, but they also contacted the clan forces and gentry landlords on the coast to give their weapons and equipment in order to make them have the strength to resist when the Qing Dynasty was relocating to the boundary and banning the sea.
The third stage was a large-scale migration operation. The navy and the sixth team occupied more than 70 islands, both large and small, along the 30,000-mile coast of the Ocean Island Fortress to Chaozhou Prefecture, hoarding tents, food and other daily necessities, especially on the coast of Fujian and Shandong. These two areas have basically eliminated the sea threats of the Qing army. In addition to hoarding materials outside the sea, they also announced the locations of all strongholds to coastal towns and villages for their escape.
The third stage is large-scale amnesty and rewards, especially for the Green Camp generals and coastal gentry. In the hurricane plan, Li Mingxun signed tens of thousands of amnesty orders to gentry in several coastal provinces. As long as the gentry who holds amnesty orders arrive at the coastal stronghold, they can ensure the safety of their personnel and property, and no longer hold them accountable for their legal responsibilities in the occupied areas of the Qing Dynasty, and give them quasi-national treatment. Regardless of whether they have been officials in the Qing court and participated in the Qing imperial examination, as long as they arrive at the stronghold during the hurricane plan, they will be exempted from all guilt, and those who can lead the crowd to surrender and kill Tartar officials and generals can also receive rewards. In order to enhance the will of these coastal gentry, Simmons also created a "reimbursement system".
The so-called reimbursement system is to provide equal returns to the gentry who provided materials to the rebels in the hurricane plan. For example, the Xu family in Huating, Songjiang, heard that Zhang Shihua had come to contact him anyway. After hearing that Zhang Shihua had moved to the border, he was informed that the sea was forbidden. The land and houses and ancestral temples under his command were even within the range of the relocation. The Xu family had packed up the gold, silver and fine materials at home and retreated into Tuolin Town. The rice, grain and cloth stored in his home could not be taken away for a while, so they were handed over to Zhang Shihua's troops in Tuolin Town. Zhang Shihua sent troops to transport them, and a total of 14,000 stones of rice, 7,000 pieces of silk, and salt, iron and other military supplies. After the Beiyang War Zone sent people to inspect, they issued reimbursement documents. After the Xu family retreated to Taipei, they took the documents to the Taipei Strategic Reserve Bank to use 20,000 stones of rice, 10,000 pieces of linen, and the goods were supplemented with 2,300 yuan in cash.
The reimbursement system can ensure that the gentry can use their household wealth to support more than 30 rebels designated by the United States without any worries, and the family wealth they spend can be fully or partially reimbursed, which is better than the gentry burned or used by the Qing Dynasty.
By mid-April of the ninth year of Yongli, the material preparation and personnel equipment of the hurricane plan were basically in place. At this time, the United States was waiting for the Qing court to move the border to ban the sea, but the Qing court was a little at a loss. Without money or food, the only reliance on the ban on the sea was the troops along the coast. However, at this time, the Green Camp and the Eight Banners were in harmony with each other, and when there were large-scale rebellions in various provinces, the Qing court was already lacking in confidence.
At the end of May, Beijing Fulin finally made up his mind to move the boundary and ban the sea. First, he won over the green camp officers and soldiers on the coast and arranged new flood areas for them to avoid threatening their fundamental interests. On this basis, the green camp's attitude gradually loosened, and the tension eased. The green camp's family became the first people to move the boundary, making the coastal gentry truly realize that moving the boundary and ban the sea has become a fact, but the gentry is still watching, especially the gentry on the coast. They are watching and resettled and safeguarding the green camp's court how to ensure their own interests. Some people even prepared to bargain, but in the end, the Qing court completely disappointed them. The court had no resources to guarantee their interests, and the Manchu relatives in Beijing did not care about the interests of these slaves.
Almost at the same time, the relocation of the five coastal provinces was launched one after another. The eight banners and the green camp soldiers of other provinces rode horses to measure the land, determined the boundary between twenty and fifty miles, and put flags on studs, and told them that those who did not follow would be killed!
Such a ruthless tyranny made the coastal gentry quite puzzled. Not to mention the people, they watched the local gentry and walked, but the gentry was extremely puzzled. Some time ago, newspapers flying along the coast promoted the tyranny of the world. The emperor said that if they did not follow, they would beheaded. No matter whether the people or gentry were in trouble, they would look at it together. The gentry thought that the United States was spreading rumors and smearing the Qing court, but they never thought that the facts were even more cruel than what was said in the newspaper.
In the five coastal provinces, except for Liaodong, killings were launched everywhere in the four provinces. When the time came, the Qing army came to kill, and everyone outside the boundary was killed without any mercy. The Qing army killed people and set fire outside the boundary and plundered the people's wealth. The people had to have three days off. The Qing court did not provide silver, money, rice and grain to resettle, so the people had to carry rice, grain, pots, and flee to the mainland, avoiding being killed. Seeing that moving to the boundary was as cruel as the newspaper said, even the gentry would abandon all the fields, mu of houses and ancestral tombs. Even a big mess was caused, and rebellion in various places surging.
People outside the world, those who are procrastinated were killed, those who fled were killed, those who carry treasures were also killed, and those who are afraid of the Qing army and migrated accordingly, those who are drifting for a long time and have no livelihood. The father and son were abandoned, and they cried and carried together. In the mainland cities, people from many people have a son who fight rice and a hundred coins, and the wealthy family can get the whole family as slaves. In order to make a living, the young and the young are slaves, and the old and the weak are displaced and cannot live, either die on the roadside or throw themselves into the river. Some officials regard them as ants, and they have no grace to plant them. The relatives and clans regard them as mud and sand, and they have no comprehensive friendship. Those who are unwilling to be slaves stand up as thieves and gather together to resist. The gentry who loses land and relatives also participate in it, organizes good offices and mediates, and the powerful.
Since ancient times, what the feudal dynasties feared most was not peasant uprisings. Although peasant uprisings were huge, the rebels often had low organizational capabilities and were constantly fighting in the internal struggles, and they could be easily wiped out. What the feudal dynasties feared most were the rebellion of gentry and landlords. These people were not short of resources or knowledge. They had a prosperous reputation in their hometowns, and often responded to the whole country.
For the coastal gentry, the surrender of the Qing Dynasty was because the Qing Dynasty could provide them with a stable environment. Even though they endured the humiliation of shave and change of clothes, they were still difficult to refuse in the face of real benefits and threats to strong soldiers. However, the move to the boundary and ban on the sea was completely a plan to eliminate households. They were emptying the land of the gentry, destroying the landlord's houses, and their descendants and clans could not reproduce, and their ancestral tombs were in peace, which caused resentment from the heavens. In contrast, the United States, although no longer recognized the special interests of the gentry class in politics, law, and taxation, they were not as slaughtered as before. The Qing Dynasty was a dead end to destroy the family and the Chinese side was a living situation of immigrating overseas, and there was still national justice to choose. The coastal gentry didn't need to think too much about how to make a decision.
Chapter completed!