Chapter 39, too many books to read
The end of August in the Nine Borders of Yongli.
Li Shan, the commander of the 1st Division of the 6th Army, personally led a mobile unit composed of a cavalry regiment, an infantry regiment and a flying cavalry and artillery company to Shunchang County, Yanping Prefecture, Fujian, and went to rescue a part of the Mixed Brigade led by Duoya.
According to the plan, the temporary mixed brigade detachment of the Doyana team would cooperate with the rebels to go to Yanping and Shaowu prefectures to "sweep" and block the Qing reinforcements from Jiangxi, and try their best to buy time for the rebels in Fujian. The plan was very smooth at the beginning. Most of the troops in Fujian were on the coast. The six state prefectures in the inner 6 dared not act rashly except for defending the city. They obediently paid the money to redeem the city. Until the reinforcements sent by Hong Chengchou, the five provincial governors arrived, the situation changed.
The large-scale anti-Qing climax set off in Fujian made the entire Qing court think that the United States was going to fight in the southeast and restore Fujian. For the Qing court who lost Guangdong and Guangxi, it was extremely difficult to lose Fujian again. Therefore, it had to delay the southwest plan and recruit elite troops to aid Fujian. The general sent by Hong Chengchou was Zhang Yong, the general of the right bid. This Northwest general participated in the quelling of the Gansu rebellion. The Qing court considered that he was both wise and brave, with sufficient troops and horses, and could be called the leader of the green camp.
Zhang Yong brought more than 4,000 elite troops this time, and selected some Jiangxi Green Camp in Jiangxi, with a total of more than 9,000 troops and horses. From Huangtu Pass to Shaowu Prefecture, his elite cavalry attacked everywhere and successively defeated many rebel troops. Duoya gathered all the rebel troops in Shunchang County, Yanping Prefecture, and guarded the river. Duoya's cavalry and artillery of only 6 armies under Duoya had 5,000 cavalry and cavalry, even if they were alone against Zhang Yong's troops, they were not afraid of fighting alone. However, the rebel troops participated in the battle. Duoya's troops gathered for 40,000 troops and horses. Such a large army and a rebel army with extremely low combat qualities, were difficult to march and set up a formation. Duoya had to set up a large camp along the Jianjiang River to defend. He originally thought that Zhang Yong's troops had only 10,000 people and did not dare to attack rashly. He had to wait until a larger reinforcements arrived before a decisive battle. He could retreat directly at that time, but he never thought that Zhang Yong's attack was fierce.
For the first time, Zhang Yong sent his northwest cavalry to harass the front line. Several rounds of arrows were thrown to disrupt the formation of the rebel army. All the rebels retreated into the camp. There was another night attack that night. The rebel army was in chaos, and the camp caught fire and then collapsed. Not only did they scatter and flee, but they also looted all the supplies of the 6th Army, and the units of the 6th Army were also divided.
Fortunately, the Duoya troops were also elite troops of the 6th army. All kinds of elite troops gathered with the infantry battalion as the center. The infantry was arranged in each line, including battalions and sub-battalions, and then the infantry camps gathered at the brigade headquarters. The damage was not great, but they were swept up by the rebels and dispersed more than 400 people, which was not worth the loss.
Zhang Yong delayed the Duoya tribe, and then the surrounding reinforcements arrived, especially Yue Le, who sent elite troops to advance from Fuzhou and vowed to annihilate the 6th army in Shunchang. Duoya had no choice but to ask for help, and Li Shan personally led his army to Duoya.
In Shunchang County, the 6th Army and the cavalry supported by the Jinfan dispersed the cavalry of Zhang Yong's troops, successfully covered the infantry into the battlefield and launched a formation. Together with the artillery, they covered the retreat of Duoya's mixed brigade. Along the way, some of the 6th Army soldiers who were scattered by the rebels were gathered, and then used the cavalry as the back team to cover the rear. The entire army retreated along the Shaxi River to Shaxian and Yong'an, and then entered Zhangzhou Prefecture. Li Shan's original intention was to rescue Duoya's troops, and he had no intention of fighting at all, nor did he want to get entangled with the Qing army.
Except for the refugees who retreated to Chaozhou in advance, only the family members of the Yi army could directly enter Chaozhou. The rest, whether they were the Rebels or ordinary people, were placed on centralized resettlement areas and overseas islands. By the time the Allied forces completely withdrew from Fujian, a total of more than 1.4 million Fujian people fled to the actual controlled area of the Allied forces.
Guangdong suffered consecutive wars and suffered heavy losses. Jinfan immigrated 300,000 yuan to various prefectures in Guangdong to settle down, and the remaining 1.1 million yuan was handed over to the United States to resettle. This was the greatest wealth the United States gained in Fujian and the greatest loss.
The only thing that is thankful is that the United States has no shortage of territory to resettle these populations. Luzon, South China, and two first-level administrative regions and Borneo and Kowloon all urgently need population. When the northeastern monsoon blows in September, all kinds of ships were loaded with immigrant ships to pick up Fujian refugees from coastal islands. People in Zhangzhou and Quanzhou have had the tradition of going to the South China Ocean since ancient times. I heard that going to Australia, South Africa and Ceylon can not only directly obtain national identity, but also allocate land free of charge. A large number of Fujian people went to these three places, enriching the population of these places.
The Commander mobilized all the usable ships to transport refugees, and even battleships joined in it, but there was still no way to transfer so much of the population at once. Some people were temporarily placed in Nan'ao, Pingtan, Kinmen and Penghu. Although the Immigration Bureau wanted Taiwan to accept some of its population, the Taipei Chief Executive District said no to the Immigration Bureau. Today, Taiwan has a population of nearly three million. Although it has not reached the upper limit, it is the richest place in the United States. Free immigration with knowledge, technology and property is needed here, rather than poor people who bring security problems. Only overseas territories are open to any population from China.
The Luzon administrative region is the biggest acceptance point for this immigration. This administrative region is closest to the base camp and has more abundant preparations. Since its establishment, the administrative region has a population of nearly 600,000. For this Fujian immigration, Luzon plans to accept 250,000 to 300,000 in two years, which will further take Lin Qian's "Million National Plan" within 15 years.
Fujian had allies in charge, but there was no danger. The uprising army in Tuolin Town, Songjiang, persisted longer than Fujian. The resistance of Tuolin Town was not to migrate the people, but to cooperate with the naval operations, the Beiyang War Zone deliberately did not invest in the 6th Army and the 6th Corps. Once, the Qing Dynasty thought that Tuolin Town was abandoned by the United States and sent troops to siege. Yue Le also sent a navy to support it. However, the Garre warships under Yue Le encountered the United States warship warning chain outside the sea of Hangzhou Bay. Although they retreated quickly, they were chased by two heavy patrols. The battle lasted for only half an hour and seven warships were sunk, allowing the Manqing navy to realize who the world was in the outer sea.
Unlike the southeast coast, the sea travel on the Jiaodong Peninsula was not closed until the end of the ninth year of Yongli. Before the winter came, he transported his family's private property to Jiaozhou by sea ship, led his troops and recruited more than 30,000 Ding Yong to fight in Jiaodong, conquered cities and land, and once occupied 17 cities of all sizes. Before the Jiaolai Canal was frozen in winter, he brought more than 200,000 people into the Qingdao Fortress Area, which was officially enthroned by the United States.
By the end of the ninth year of Yongli, the hurricane plan was declared to end. Just like the name used in this plan, the coastal areas of the five provinces of the Qing Dynasty really seemed to have a hurricane, and it was a mess. The entire territory of Fujian was captured. The coastal areas of Zhejiang were invaded by Zheng Fan. The two prefectures in Denglai, Shandong were swept away again. The battles in Songjiang Prefecture in Jiangnan were caused by the wind and panic. Even Liaodong was repeatedly attacked. The fugitives under the armed forces of the United States Army caused a large amount of losses. The 30,000-mile coastline of the Qing Dynasty was damaged. Even though there was no loss of much territory, there were no loss of many elite troops of the Eight Banners, but the losses were particularly huge.
After the storm of moving to the boundary, the land outside the boundary was silent. The city walls and wards were broken, the skeletons and dead bones were hidden among the grass, the rural ruins were no rubble, the salt field was broken and leaked, the water was cut off, the fields were deserted, and the ditches were abandoned for a long time.
The war losses caused by the migration of the territory will not be discussed for the time being. Fujian alone will be abandoned to 25,000 hectares tomorrow because of the migration of the territory. The loss will be increased by more than 200,000 taels. The amount of land and grain abandoned in Zhejiang Province every year will reach 300,000 taels. This does not consider the reduction in salt, fishing, commercial tax and other aspects.
Fujian was punished for the relocation of the border and banning the sea. In just half a year, it colonized the territory, because of migration, hunger, and more than one-third of the damage was lost. A large number of people plundered and bought it as slaves. Even after the Allied forces withdrew, there were also rebels and bandits in the territory. There was almost no peace in the Fujian area.
Even so, the Qing court tried its best to ban the sea and moved the boundary, and sent soldiers to patrol the boundary from time to time. Whenever the boundary was cheated outside the boundary, they would be killed immediately. The Qing Dynasty's ban on the boundary not only moved the coastal areas of the people, but also built large-scale construction. At the beginning, the houses were demolished to obtain wood to build a wooden city along the boundary, which was three meters high. A layer was added to the road at Haikou. Like a city god, the green camp was built in three miles of the wooden city to guard the hut. The wood was not as much as the expenditure, and the fence was used as the boundary. However, it eventually evolved into building a soil wall. Deep ditch was dredged, military camps and troughs were set up along the line, and soldiers were sent to guard it, especially Fujian and Zhejiang provinces. Deep ditches were dug, deep ditches were dug for the boundary walls, and the Qing Dynasty conquered farmers and promoted corvee labor, which resulted in the death of millions of people.
Such tyranny has never been seen in China for thousands of years. If we look at the past and present, China and abroad, the only way to compare is the colonial place where the colonists live. It is precisely because of this that the United States regards the Qing court as a foreign colonial regime and does not regard the people of the Qing Dynasty as their people, or even as slaves. Slaves as their master's property, and generally does not treat this way. The migration of the boundary and ban on the sea caused the displacement of millions of people along the coast and the death of millions of people. This was also a heinous crime committed by Manchuria against China, which will eventually be liquidated by later generations.
Chapter completed!