As soon as Shen Gai left, Zhang Yuejing ordered Pei Le to lead the main force of the trapped army to attack the Huainan West Road in the Southern Song Dynasty.
Pei Le's soldiers attacked the Huainan West Road in separate groups and captured the entire West Huainan Road in one fell swoop.
Several Southern Song Dynasty state capitals on Huainan West Road had spent a lot of financial, material and manpower in supporting Li Xianzhong's march. Now that Li Xianzhong's army was completely annihilated, the power of these state capitals was also exhausted.
Seeing the powerful Ming army swarming in, these state capitals lost the confidence and courage to resist. They surrendered in large numbers, and officials, wealthy households, and landlords fled in large numbers.
The entire Huainan West Road offensive did not bring any meaningful resistance to the Ming army. The tactics of defending the river but not the Huai gave the Ming army an opportunity.
In Zhang Yuejing's view, since the Southern Song Dynasty was to become the Jiangnan Kingdom, then the Huainan area should be discarded honestly. This would be the standard Jiangnan Kingdom.
Wait, no, part of the Sichuan-Sichuan region seems to be considered Jiangbei.
In other words, simply taking Huainan would not turn the Southern Song Dynasty into a pure Jiangnan Kingdom?
Zhang Yuejing turned his attention to the west.
However, this is not his business.
It was Su Haisheng's job to conquer Sichuan and Shu. The Qilu Corps led by Su Haisheng had been sharpening their swords in Guanzhong for a long time. After the war to eliminate Xixia, Su Haisheng couldn't wait to attack Sichuan and Shu.
From July onwards until mid-August, the Ming army's troops were making very smooth progress on Jingxi South Road, Jinghu North Road, Jinghu South Road, Jiangnan West Road and Huainan West Road, taking the cities occupied by the Song army one after another. With the occupation of Yiyi, Song officials, officials, local tyrants, and evil gentry were either killed or driven away, and the place was completely changed.
The power transformation like the transformation of the king's flag at the top of the city was completely swept into the garbage heap of history by the Ming army, and a new model of change came to this land.
The powerful local officials of the Song Dynasty did not have the courage to organize troops to resist, but how could a small group of temporary miscellaneous troops compete with the powerful regular Ming army?
Not to mention the regular army, even the peasant army, which did not have such strong combat effectiveness for the time being, was not something that these temporary Southern Song soldiers could fight against.
Moreover, Zhang Yuejing also divided the artillery crew and musketeers of the Shenji Battalion into several parts. Each unit was assigned a part of the firearms unit to strengthen its firepower. As a result, the Shenji Battalion made great contributions in this strategy battle and accumulated a large amount of combat experience.
The concept of scientifically planned operations has gradually penetrated into the Shenji Battalion and has become a principle followed by every gunner and musketeer.
As the Ming army advanced, the Song forces retreated, quickly losing many important military strongholds, political and economic centers, and historical and cultural cities.
For example, Lu'an, Shouchun, Hefei, Anqing, Chuzhou, Baling, Wuling, Changsha, Hengyang and many other important places were all captured by the Ming army.
Of course, there were areas that needed to be attacked by the Ming army during this process, but a large part of them were unguarded, and only the common people who could not escape were left in the city, kneeling helplessly in the city, hoping that the Ming army would not abuse them too much.
During this process, many revival meeting instructors discovered a problem.
The demonization of the Ming Dynasty by the upper classes such as the Southern Song Dynasty officials and landlords was certainly one of the important reasons why people in the Southern Song Dynasty generally feared the Ming army and equated the Ming army with the Song army.
However, the propaganda power of the Ming Dynasty has never been weak, but it still cannot improve the people's view of the Ming army in most areas.
Based on their careful analysis and large-scale visits to the public, they discovered a very serious issue.
This world is so bad that people in the Southern Song Dynasty who had never really been in contact with the Ming Dynasty thought that the officials, troops and policies of the Ming Dynasty were good and unreal, and they were false.
They believed that the Republic of China's policy of treating them as human beings was impossible.
They are used to being cows and horses, and even think that they are cows and horses, not human beings. They should not be treated as human beings at all, so how could they be treated as human beings by the officials of the Ming Dynasty?
So this must be false, it must be the words of the Ming Dynasty, and it cannot be believed.
The Ming army was at most a little better than the Song army, but it must have been brutal, and it must have been the geese plucking type.
The Song Army was the kind of army that even slapped the dogs passing by on both sides of the road three times while marching.
If the Ming army was a little better, well, it should be the kind of dog that would be slapped twice if it passed by on the street.
Being slapped less was the beautiful fantasy that the people of the Southern Song Dynasty had for the Ming army.
After the Ming army went deep into Jinghu North Road and Jinghu South Road, they found that there were particularly many such situations.
Wherever the Ming army's front reached, the people in the mountains and fields fled in all directions, fleeing deep into the mountains and not daring to come out.
All the city residents who could run away have run away, and the rest are those who have no money and can only wait for their fate to come.
When they saw the Ming army entering the city, they either hid or looked resigned, watching helplessly with fear and despair on their faces.
Members of the Army Revival Association were very surprised and helpless about this kind of thing.
They tried to preach the policies of the Ming Dynasty and the military regulations of the Ming Dynasty, but with little success because people generally did not believe it.
They generally reported this matter to the Fuxinghui branch of the Henan Corps and summarized it to Wen Anzhi. Wen Anzhi read out and analyzed this issue at the Fuxinghui branch meeting of the Henan Corps.
"We have to admit that there is a huge gap between our proposed policies, our requirements for officials and the army, and our actual actions compared with those of the Southern Song Dynasty. I have a lack of adjectives, so I can only say this .
But everyone must be clear that the extremely huge gap I am talking about is so big that the people of the Southern Song Dynasty, who were generally subjected to brutal oppression, simply do not want to believe it. That is why we will find that despite our efforts in publicity, in various places, the Southern Song Dynasty The people did not take the initiative to help us.
What we thought we would do to welcome the king's army did not happen. Instead, the bureaucrats and landlords of the Southern Song Dynasty were scared away by our propaganda, which greatly reduced our burden of conquering the territory of the Southern Song Dynasty, but this still is a problem. "
Wen Anzhi preached on this issue at the meeting and proposed his own methods to solve the problem. .
"The people of the Southern Song Dynasty were so mistreated by the rulers of the Southern Song Dynasty that they couldn't believe that the Ming Dynasty would really treat them like this without seeing or experiencing these things with their own eyes. This is where our propaganda Something went wrong.
We cannot describe ourselves so well that people find it unbelievable or unbelievable. This is not conducive to publicity work. Therefore, I suggest that in the future we should change our publicity strategy. We need to describe ourselves not so well so as to facilitate Let the people of the Southern Song Dynasty believe it. "
Wen Anzhi's method made many participating members feel inexplicably funny, but also felt a little sad.
"Because the policy of caring for the people was not believed by the abused people, it sounds really ridiculous and ridiculous. It shows how badly the Southern Song Dynasty abused the people, so that they couldn't believe that there was really such a good thing in the world. thing."
One member said this.
After he finished speaking, other members also expressed their feelings.
"Don't tell me, the first time I heard about the Liberation Army...it was still the Liberation Army. When I first heard about this policy, I couldn't believe it was true until the Liberation Army actually did it. It was really The abolition of exorbitant taxes and miscellaneous taxes really divided the land and houses, and I really believed that I was not dreaming, and the Liberation Army was not lying."
"I couldn't believe it even more. It took me half a year after I got the land, house and farm tools to believe it."
"I only dared to believe it after I recognized more than a hundred characters. Before that, I thought it was a dream."
"Me too, I am..."
Members talked about how they changed from a frightened bird who had been tortured to believe that the new regime was really good to them.
As he listened, Wen Anzhi felt intense sadness.
"This fully proves that under the rule of the Southern Song Dynasty, they lived like cattle and horses, so that some people regarded them as human beings, but they couldn't believe that they could really be regarded as human beings. How cruel this is... "
