Han’s Son is Not a Slave

Chapter 1135: Ghost Of Fascism

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Zhou Shixiang’s act of letting the orphans of the fallen soldiers call him “handsome father” made all the civil and military people present couldn’t help but think of Zhang Xianzhong, the king of the Great West, because this move was almost like withdrawing from his adopted son.

Zhang Xianzhong set up a juvenile battalion in the army before his death, and accepted many outstanding young people as adopted sons, such as Sun Kewang, Li Dingguo, Liu Wenxiu, and Ainengqi, the four outstanding commanders of the Western Army who later became Zhang’s adopted sons.

In addition to these four, there are eight others, known as the “Twelve Taibao” of the Daxi Army. At the time of Zhang Xianzhong’s death in the “Twelve Taibao”, there were only four Sun Kewang left, and the remaining eight died either fighting with the Ming army or fighting with the Qing army.

Although Zhou Shixiang did not directly call himself a foster father, but called himself a handsome father, there is obviously no difference in the meaning of the two. Since ancient times, as long as the word “father” has been added, it is not a godson but also a foster child.

However, the generals didn’t think much about it. They only felt that Zhou Shixiang asked these children to call him “handsome father”, that he was a father who sympathized with their dead, so that these children would be able to stand out in the future, to fulfill the promise against the fallen soldiers, and also A means of increasing military morale.

This method is too common in this era, and it is very effective, which is understandable. Even the eunuchs in the palace back then, didn’t they also like to take dry children? Although the great scholars of the imperial court did not have the custom of accepting their adopted son, what was the difference between that disciple and this adopted father and adopted son?

Comparing heart to heart, if one day he is also killed in battle in the future, then the generals are obviously willing that their sons can worship Zhou Shixiang as adoptive father. Because this is not only a shortcut to kill the enemy and make meritorious deeds on the battlefield, but it is also an affirmation of oneself. If there is no serving the country in front of you, how can the commander value you?

As the adopted son of the commander, what identity can be more worthy of the commander’s trust than this? It is certain that in the future, each of these teenagers will have their own fortune, and among them, the best talents of the Taiping Army may emerge, because their grand avenue has been paved by their leaders from this moment.

Compared with the simple-mindedness of the generals, the civil servants thought more. Jiang Guozhu, the governor of Jiangsu who came together, thought that the founding emperors of all dynasties liked to receive adopted sons. For example, in the late Tang Dynasty, Li Keyong accepted 13 adopted sons and was called “Thirteen Taibao”; while the founding emperor of the Ming Dynasty, Hongwu, in his early years He also had adopted sons, among whom Zhu Wenzheng, Mu Ying, Li Wenzhong and others later became heroes of the founding of the country. Zhang Xianzhong set up a juvenile Ying Ying son, undoubtedly imitating the previous emperors. Facts have also proved that all of Zhang’s adopted sons were entrusted with important tasks by him. Sun Kewang and Li Dingguo took over the command of the entire Daxi Army after Zhang’s death.

Now Zhou Shixiang considers himself a “handsome father” and regards this future leader of the Taiping Army as his adopted son. What is his motive?

Jiang Guozhu calmly looked at Zhang Changgeng, who frowned at the side, guessing what the other party was thinking at this time, and at the same time he was envious of the other party, because according to the gossip in the governor’s mansion, Zhou Shixiang intends to let Zhang Changgeng be the governor of Yungui, if there is news If it was true, Zhang Changgeng would be one step ahead of him.

At this time, Zhang Changgeng was not thinking about Zhou Shixiang’s adoption of his adopted son, but about how much weight this Army University would occupy in the Ming Dynasty Hall in the future. With Zhou Shixiang’s current emphasis on the Army University and the investment of resources, it is not difficult to imagine that the future of the Army University must be brighter than that of Guozijian, and every officer who comes out of this university is nominally a student of Zhou Shixiang, so is it possible to say that , Is it possible that the students of the Army University will become the disciples of the emperor?

As demoted officials, whether Zhang Changgeng or Jiang Guozhu, whether they are willing or not, they are naturally tied to the same boat with Zhou Shi. Whether it was for their lives or their future, it was impossible for them to defect to Emperor Dingwu, who did not care about political affairs, so they could only help Zhou Shixiang wholeheartedly. The most important thing is that after Jiang Guozhu and Zhang Changgeng surrendered, they always charged forward for Zhou Shixiang, and they were responsible for clearing the debt, the three cases, and the suppression of the rebellion.

Dorgon’s lessons in the past were still in sight. Zhang Changgeng and Jiang Guozhu didn’t want to become the remnants of the Zhou Party in the future, so they supported and were extremely enthusiastic about Zhou Shixiang’s claim to the emperor. It’s just that the two of them talked a few times, but Zhou Shixiang didn’t reveal anything, which made the two of them have no idea what they were thinking.

To say that there is no desire to usurp the throne and become independent, the three major cases and the suppression of the rebellion are in full swing, and many gentry who oppose the Taiping Army have been uprooted in this series of actions. In addition, the Grand Governor’s Office was also openly established in Zhenjiang. In terms of power, the current Zhou Shixiang is only worse than Jiuxi. Sun Kewang back then was probably not as good, because when Sun Kewang was there, he did not unify the Ming army, but Zhou Shixiang now controls all the troops, and there is no fear of a second Li Dingguo. The trend created by Gu Yanwu in Nanjing and his subsequent arrests by the army also showed that there was a shadow of Zhou Shixiang behind these incidents.

All signs are showing that Zhou Shixiang is taking steps towards becoming emperor, so Jiang Guozhu and Zhang Changgeng would not believe that he had no intention of usurping the throne. Since ancient times, which loyal minister and righteous person has been domineering to such a degree? Moreover, it is not the matter of Zhou Shixiang alone, but a matter of the Taiping Army group.

It is not only Jiang Guozhu and Zhang Changgeng whose hands are stained with the blood of Jiangnan gentry who are afraid of being purged in the future, but also those generals who climbed out of the sea of blood. Others don’t say, Jiang He, who has been shouting that the commander is the emperor in Wencun, can be at ease as his loyal minister of Emperor Dingwu? It is rumored that several generals in the Taiping Army had conspired to replace Zhou Shixiang with Huangpao. If this incident broke out in the future, how would these generals handle themselves?

Zhou Shixiang proclaimed the emperor, it was like the arrow was on the string, and he had to send it.

The title of “handsome father” makes people daydream.

After inspecting the orphans of the fallen soldiers, Dong Changqing brought ten young students to accept Zhou Shixiang’s “examination” according to the prior arrangement.

The questions of the “Examination Questions” had been explained in advance, and Zhou Shixiang had no intention to play it temporarily. He asked a few questions about the army step by step. The students performed well. Unique view. One of the students, named Luo Lun, impressed Zhou Shixiang, because this person’s topic was about the coordination of infantry and artillery.

“Infantry and artillery synergy” is Zhou Shixiang’s tactics after the hot weapons matured in his previous life, and it first appeared during the First World War. At that time, because of the emergence of machine guns, the price paid by the infantry to launch an intensive charge was unacceptable. It often cost tens of thousands of people to advance every 2 or 3 kilometers. So the Germans came up with a way to choose strong, experienced, skilled Excellent veterans form a powerful squad. Under the circumstance of doing sufficient investigation, the squad and platoon as a unit, under the cover of Xu Jin’s barrage, step on the bomb point, and launch it in the form of a ricochet crater like the enemy’s weak fortifications. After the shock, the German army soon broke the deadlock of trench warfare that had been silent for nearly a year. The British and French allied forces were defeated, but their own casualties were surprisingly small. Gradually, this tactic was accepted and adopted by the armies of various countries.

For the current Taiping Army, this tactic of infantry and artillery coordination is actually a bit too whimsical, or too advanced. Because whether it is an opponent of the Taiping Army or itself, the artillery used is still traditional solid shells. Although Zhou Shixiang has written out the idea of “flowering cannonballs” and made it a key research topic of the Ordnance Bureau this year, even if the Ordnance Bureau has developed a flowering cannonball, it is impossible to have the tactic of infantry artillery coordination on the battlefield. The reason is that, whether the Qing army or the Guan Ning army, they simply do not have a hot weapon (machine gun) strong enough to stop the Taiping army from launching a group charge.

When flowering artillery shells are applied to the battlefield, there will only be one outcome, that is, the Taiping army will be like reaping straw, easily defeating the enemy in front of them, no matter how many troops and cavalry the opponent has. Therefore, the tactic of infantry and artillery coordination is now completely “chicken” and useless at all, so the teachers of the Army University are skeptical about whether to teach this tactic.

However, Zhou Shixiang insisted that this tactical course must be opened, because the future enemy of this tactic is not the Qing army, nor the Guan Ning army, but the Westerners, which are the Western armies that are entirely based on firearms.

What Lauren made Zhou Shixiang admired was not that he understood the concept of coordinated infantry artillery tactics, but that he had analyzed the tactics of the squad infiltration front. That is, attack one of the enemy’s front lines with powerful artillery fire, and then infiltrate forward with the formation of troops, shortening the distance between one’s own side and the enemy’s front line under the cover of artillery fire, and then these vanguards will capture a point of the enemy’s army, and then the large troops will follow. Enter, defeat the enemy in one fell swoop.

Zhou Shi admired Loren’s analysis very much. In many cases, when the two armies fought, it was not the two sides posing to hedge, but to build a defense line by virtue of the geographical advantage. Squad artillery cover infiltration tactics is a model of the specific application of infantry artillery coordination, which can determine the disadvantage of the wall terrain to one’s own side.

“Listen to the accent, are you from Sichuan?”

Zhou Shixiang noticed that the student named Luo Lun spoke Sichuanese.

Luo Lun said: “Returning to the commander, my subordinates are from Chengdufu, Sichuan.”

Dong Changqing briefly introduced this person.

Luo Lun was born in a hereditary military household in the Ming military guardhouse. His father was a hereditary hundred households in western Sichuan, and later died at the hands of the Daxi Army who entered Sichuan. After Luo’s father’s death, Luo Lun was taken into the camp by the Daxi Army because he was young, and later moved to Yunnan and Guizhou with Ainengqi, one of the four princes of the Daxi Army. After Ai Nengqi died at the hands of the Yunnan chieftain, Luo Lun joined Li Dingguo’s army and participated in two campaigns against Guangdong. After the defeat, he was scattered in Guangdong. After the Taiping army occupied Guangzhou, Qi Hao sent people to contact the lost Daxi army. Luo Lun joined the Taiping army.

“Before Luo Lun came to the Army University, he was a hundred households in Xinyi Town, and he led people to fight the battle of Liulaozhuang.”

“Oh? It turned out to be our fighting hero!”

Zhou Shixiang laughed, admiring the young man even more. The battle of Liulaozhuang was a small battle in the Battle of Jiangbei, but it was known to the whole army. Because of this battle, a team of Taiping Army forcibly blocked six charges of nearly a thousand Qing troops. In the end, there were only 9 people in the whole team. Luo Lun, the leader of the team, was seriously injured and was promoted to a hundred households because of this. He was specially recommended by the town department to be sent to the Army University to study.

Zhou Shixiang patted Luo Lun on the shoulder: “Very good, good students learn at school, good students listen to the instructors, ask if you don’t understand, don’t feel like a fighting hero, I’m the best in the world, no one is better you.”

Loren said loudly: “Don’t worry, Commander, your subordinates will pass the assessment with the best grades!”

“Okay, that’s what I want!”

Zhou Shixiang was very satisfied, but when he was about to leave, he saw this Lauren suddenly say: “Commander, can you say another word to this subordinate!”

“Haha…” Zhou Shixiang laughed, raised his hand and said, “It’s okay, but it’s okay to say it.”

As a dean, Dong Changqing didn’t know what Laurent was going to say, and was a little uneasy because he was afraid that he would say something that would make the commander unhappy.

All the civil and military people looked at this young Baihu with great interest, wondering what he was going to say to the commander.

Luo Lun took a deep breath, and his eyes contacted several students around him. After getting their affirmative answers, he suddenly became embarrassed, and suddenly fell to his knees with a “thump”, and said in a loud voice: “My subordinates beg the commander to get in touch soon. proclaim oneself emperor!”

As soon as this statement came out, everyone was stunned, and Dong Changqing’s face instantly became rare. Zhang Changgeng and Jiang Guozhu were also dumbfounded. Blind Li’s eyes lit up, and the more Lauren looked at him, the more happy he became.

“Congratulations to the commander to become emperor as soon as possible!” The other nine students also fell to their knees.

The time in the field seemed to be stagnant, and the atmosphere suddenly became tense, and everyone looked at Zhou Shixiang nervously.

Is the ceremony at the Army University about to evolve into a ceremony with Zhou Shixiang wearing a yellow robe?

In the drizzle, everyone’s breathing became rapid.

Luo Lun and the students were even more uneasy at this time. They were ready to be punished, but they were even more afraid that the commander would not be the emperor.

After a long time, Luo Lunfang, whose heartstrings were extremely tense, heard the words of the handsome man in his ears.

“Why do you want me to be the emperor?” Zhou Shixiang looked solemn, unable to see any emotional fluctuations in his heart.

Roren said without hesitation: “Only when the commander becomes emperor can we do great things!”

Zhou Shixiang shouted: “Then you say, what’s the big deal?”

“Kill the Tartars, restore China!” Lauren’s voice was very high-pitched.

“If I don’t claim to be an emperor, wouldn’t I also take you to kill the Tartars?” Zhou Shixiang tried his best to calm his voice, he didn’t want people to misjudge.

Lauren shook his head violently: “It’s not the same!”

“What’s the difference?” Zhou Shixiang stepped forward, his cold gaze fell like a sword on Loren’s wet face.

“In the eyes of my subordinates, killing Tartars and restoring China can only be done with iron and blood!” Facing Zhou Shixiang’s stern gaze, Lauren did not flinch or fear, but burst out a voice that had been hidden in his heart for a long time. come out.

“Master, what we need is a Da Ming who can only make one voice, a Da Ming who can only rely on the will of the commander, and a Da Ming who rises up again with iron and blood! And this can only be achieved by the master as the emperor! ”

One leader, one voice, one will?

Iron and blood?

Zhou Shixiang stood there in a daze, he was a little dazed, was he blinded, why did the ghost of fascism appear in the Ming Dynasty in the 17th century?

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