The Guangxi side had assembled and launched the Southwest Battle, Zhou Shixiang specially sent a letter to the governor of Guangxi, Shao Jiugong, and ordered him to fully control the fourth town of Wang Youxi, the tenth town of Wang Xing, the second town of Lu Guangzu's expeditionary army, and the third town of newly built wolf soldiers in Guangxi. The fastest update of these four towns was also combined into the Southwest Field Army, and the command position of the corps was temporarily replaced by Shao Jiugong. The food and supplies required by the army were led by Song Xianggong, the governor of Guangdong and Guangxi, and Zhang Zichang, the governor of Guangxi. Because Guangxi was broken and it was difficult to bear the food and grass required by the army, the food and grass of the Southwest Field Army were mainly transported by Guangdong through water. Nearly half of this was the rice transported by the expeditionary army from Annan. Even so, Guangdong was under great pressure because this Southwest Battle was started at the same time by military and political affairs.

The military commander's office required that every time the army occupied a place, it would immediately restore the local people's livelihood, set up officials to govern the people, convene exiles, and resume production. The former is easy, but the latter is much more complicated. Not only does it require a large number of officials, but it also requires a large amount of food and grass to help the people. Others such as agricultural tools and seeds, and the number of simple living tools is even more amazing. Duke Xiang of Song wrote to Zhou Shixiang for this, saying that as soon as the Southwest Battle began, all the output in Guangdong in recent years will be exhausted. In the future, the number of officials needed by Yunnan and Guizhou provinces will also take away the talents that Guangdong has finally cultivated. It can be said that there will be no idle people in Guangdong from then on.

In his reply, Zhou Shixiang said to Duke Xiang of Song: "Guangzhou Province was the first province to be restored by our Taiping Army, and it was also the first to build villages. In the past, the Yue Kingdom was born in ten years and learned a lesson for ten years, and then it was successful in destroying Wu. Now, Guangdong Province has worked hard to bear the southwest, but the suffering is in front of us, but it is beneficial for the future. Only by making the southwest stable as soon as possible and the people are no longer hungry can we be considered to be restored successfully. Otherwise, the place will still be unstable, the people will still be hungry, drowning women for living men and selling their wives for living children. What is the meaning of restoration?"

Shao Jiugong did not expect that he could make a comeback and become a leading official.

In the Battle of Liuzhou last year, Shao Jiugong was not in good command. If it weren't for the command of the fifth town Yu Shizhong, Guangxi would have been afraid that Guangxi would have fallen into the hands of the line Guoan long ago. After the war, Shao Jiugong was promoted to governor of Guangxi, which seemed to be a magistrate of the border, but for the Taiping Army that valued military merits, Shao Jiugong's future was obviously not as good as those of his colleagues who directly led the army. Although after the establishment of the Dingwu court, Shao Jiugong was still granted the title of Marquis of Xinfeng, the value of this marquis was far less than that of Ge Yi, Tieyi, and the marquis.

Yu Shizhong, Jiang He, Suna and others who were posthumously awarded the title of Duke Zhongguo. They were also in Guangxi for a long time and were far away from the political center of Nanjing, which made Duke Shao Jiugong think that he was neglected by the Grand Marshal. They were a little discouraged at one time and even had the idea of ​​retiring and returning to their hometown in Jiangxi. Unexpectedly, the Grand Marshal, who was thousands of miles away, did not forget him and re-entrusted him with important tasks. Although he was the commander of the temporary commander, Duke Shao Jiugong knew that this was an opportunity given to him by the Grand Marshal. When he received the official document to form the Southwest Field Army, Duke Shao Jiu was really ecstatic.

The order to treat the prisoners of the Wu army well was not because of the good intentions of Shao Jiugong, but Zhou Shi had clear requirements against him. Zhou Shixiang asked Shao Jiugong to treat the Wu army and the Qing army differently, and to take the attack of the heart as the best and the attack of the city as the best. The Wu army that stubbornly resisted should be resolutely annihilated, and the Wu army soldiers who took the initiative to put down their weapons and surrender should be well pacified, and they should never kill them.

Zhou Shixiang's request was naturally because to some extent, the Wu army was no longer the Green Camp soldiers who helped the evil, and the Wu army was very complex. The direct troops who really belonged to Wu Sangui were probably less than one-quarter. The rest were all the units of the original Ming (Qing) army, with complex factions, and there were many people with both ends of the head and rats. For these things, these were the first and the rats.

It is necessary to win over people appropriately, which can not only reduce the casualties of the Taiping Army, but also speed up the process of war. Simple killing can certainly make the Wu army afraid, but it will also make the Wu army in Yunnan and Guizhou have no way out and fight to the end with the Taiping Army. This is obviously not in line with the intention of this Southwest military use.

Fast fight and fast advance, and capture Yunnan and Guizhou with lightning speed, was the tone set by Zhou Shixiang for the Southwest Battle. Only by fast can Wu Sangui be forced to divide his troops from the Central Plains to return to the rescue, which will affect his decisive battle with the Qing Dynasty and achieve the goal of restraining the Wu army from the north in strategic direction. Of course, in the eyes of some people, Zhou Shixiang's move also indirectly helped the Qing Dynasty, but in Zhou Shixiang's own opinion, this kind of favor must be helped. Because if you don't help Fulin, Zhou Shixiang would not be able to block all the old and young Manzhou in the north. Beijing was in one pot. Manzhou retreated outside the pass and became the Later Jin Dynasty, and Zhou Shixiang was absolutely unwilling to repeat the history of ten thousand years. Either he didn't do it, and if he wanted to do it, he would do it clean.

What Zhou Shixiang wanted to fight was a war of extermination. Wu Sangui was too fast, which would only make the Qing Dynasty give up on the North and flee outside the pass. Zhou Shixiang vaguely remembered that in the history of his past lives, when the "Song of the Manchu Song" was singing all over the country and recited "Revolutionary Army", the shaky Qing Dynasty was preparing to escape outside the pass and flee back to the so-called hometown they snatched from the Han people. If Yuan Shikai had not given the provision of preferential treatment for the Qing Dynasty, the Qing Dynasty might have really left the pass.

In his previous life, Zhou Shixiang regretted that the Qing Dynasty did not escape from the clearance, because in that case, Manchu would definitely be completely liquidated. After all, more than two hundred years later, the world was already a hot weapon era. Without the so-called preferential treatment clauses for the Qing Dynasty, the Qing Dynasty who escaped from the clearance was destined to be cleaned up, so that there would be no "soul-receiving" decades later, and there would be no purple air coming from the east, worshiping ancestors in the Temple of Heaven, and braids on the screen.

Now, Zhou Shixiang did not want the Qing Dynasty to escape from the clearance because the Taiping Army was strictly a unit with cold weapons. If the Qing Dynasty escaped from the clearance, it would be more difficult to encircle and suppress them. After all, there were no Han people outside the clearance, and it would be impossible to restore the outside of the clearance to the state of ten thousand years without decades. At that time, there were more than three million Han people outside the clearance. Without Han people, they had to rely on the army to go out of the clearance again and again to "sweep away" the Manzhou people who existed like guerrillas. This difficulty was very small. Outside the clearance, there were white mountains and black waters, and the grass was cut and the roots were not eradicated, and the spring breeze was blown away again.

During the dispute between the Ming and Qing dynasties, or the war between the Han people and Manzhou that lasted for more than 40 years, Zhou Shixiang determined that two ethnic groups could only exist when he was in Xiangshan.

If you want to solve Manzhou once and for all, you can only keep them in Beijing. Therefore, Zhou Shixiang had to launch a civil war. He did not believe that Wu Sangui would have a tremendous blood hatred against Manzhou like him.

Fulin gave up on Beijing. It was an assumption that Fulin surrendered to Wu Sangui. The Manzhou people and the traitors who were dogs for Manzhou became officials of Yongdaming. Fulin could even be a man, a marquis, or a king. This seemed ridiculous, but it had realistic possibilities.
Chapter completed!