Chapter 688 Chapter 1614 The Tide in the Empire

Chapter 688 16.14 The Tide in the Empire

On October 4, the security forces in the north of the empire were dragged down by the "bandit army" in this anti-bandit operation.

The large tractor vehicles of these farmers should have been a boost in the attack, but because there was no marching formation and no scouts on both sides to protect them, they became the biggest burden.

Enma summarized after the war: "The more advanced the weapons, the more personnel quality and discipline system are needed. Otherwise, advanced weapons not only have no combat power bonus, but are a burden."

In fact, "training" in this plane is not a problem. Some "charm" arcane methods have developed to this day and can directly instill combat experience. These farmers underestimated the enemy, but it can actually be remedied, but what they can't remedy is their command system.

Rather than saying that the Farmers' Youth Army is a bandit army, they are more like a bandit army. Multiple "mountains" are jointly commanded, and even if the empire sends military advisers, they can't be integrated together.

Chaotic command directly leads to tactical chaos.

Two weeks ago, the farmer attacked fiercely, but was bombarded halfway. After three days of stagnation, he received bad news: the farm behind him was demolished by the unruly people.

On the messy ridges of the front line, the servants who ran out of the farm had no sense of confidentiality at all. They ran to the manor owners (division commanders) with tears and snot, crying and shouting, "The wife and children are in the hands of the bandits." This made the army panic. It was uncertain whether to stay.

As a result, the troops were divided into two groups. Well, the group of people who went home was considered one group, but in this group, the troops were immediately divided into many groups, and each went back to their own homes and mothers.

From October 2nd to 4th.

The Imperial Jing'an Army returned to rescue this group, and on the command sand table of the Nongqing Army, it was determined that they should be annihilated first.

These farm owners did not reach a unified agreement even if they "returned to rescue." The tractor teams were scattered, with each team having at most two or three hundred people, and they were still pulled into a long line. The agricultural machinery dragged ammunition and baggage, as the core of a force, and was not protected. After all, these farm owners were not graduates of the Imperial Military Academy, and they did not establish a warning network. They stubbornly let the agricultural machinery swagger forward.

Of course, the landlord armed forces were also unable to establish such a cover. The combat team centered on the landlords, only the inner circle had execution power, and the outer circle was like Zhu Bajie patrolling the mountains.

The "Lord" (Enma's pseudonym) formulated a posture of division and gradual annihilation.

The battle started in multiple stages, and in each stage, the young peasant army mobilized the "agricultural mortar vehicle".

Time and time again, the "rapid shooting" severely damaged the "Imperial Jing'an Army" team.

The troops deployed by the peasant youth army at the front began to intersperse with light machine guns. Block the enemy's escape direction.

In fact, the tactic of blocking the "escape" was unsuccessful. When the landlords' armored vehicles encountered artillery fire, the landlord army fled like a group of rats. They were caught in an instant, and it was impossible to have an organized organization.

This scene made Enma sigh when he wrote the war report: "People are really harder to catch than pigs."

... The North is a relatively backward place in the empire, with backward industrial economy, backward culture and education...

These captured prisoners still received "regularized queue discipline training" in the Qingnong Army prisoner camp.

These prisoners were escorted to the occupied town in a line, sang together (these were not songs from the main world, Wei Keng deliberately concealed the information that he was from the main world), lined up for meals, learned to walk neatly, and then discussed their life stories together.

As for the commanders of the "Imperial Jing'an Army", that is, those stubborn farmers, they were detained separately for a few days. After a period of education, they were pressed to the ground in gray cloth clothes and apologized to the prisoners.

Landlords, how can you put down your self-esteem and bow to the prisoners? ——However, since these farm owners can force the captured women to submit, the iron-fisted teaching team can use the same method to force them to accept their fate.

"Mind reading" is a good method for interrogation. It can be directly used through the people around the farm owners to make them confess. When the interrogation team understands all the activities of these farm owners, they can use a strong psychological offensive to break through.

For the oppressed, it is more shocking to see the masters who have never been high and mighty, wearing high hats, carrying signs, nodding and bowing, and apologizing to them. This is no less than the arcane of a "mental stun bomb".

When the criticism struggle began. Enma looked at the suddenly changing "concepts" in the field and the scene of the collapse in the etheric world, and Enma exhaled: "The higher the authority, the greater the shock caused by the collapse," and then he couldn't help but look up.

Wei Keng: The highest authority in this world is the gods. In front of the information concept that is almost eternal, they deposit their self-consciousness in the concept. Maybe one day, I will also form a concept, and then I will also face collapse.

At this point, Wei Keng suddenly paused (sense the industrial godhead trembling), shook his head and denied: "I shouldn't be obsessed with this. No matter how huge and magnificent it is, 'forming a concept in this world' cannot represent the highest and broadest life.

... Complete life, there is birth, there is death...

The phenomenon of life is that "wisdom" takes the initiative to "do something" in the cycle of constant rise and fall in nature

The existence of "life" proves that it completes metabolism in a complex, comprehensive and orderly system.

Compared with ordinary people promoting history, in the multidimensional planes, gods occupy too much weight in all aspects. Therefore, pursuing ‘gods’ as the highest is itself an obstacle to life. )

Life lasts forever, but any state of life also has a beginning and an end. Even if one day, a certain consciousness of mine reaches a state similar to that of a god at this stage. But you still have to choose.

I will pursue the shining, face it with the same indifference, carry the mission, and take my own leave after completing the mission. "

Enma glanced at the farm owners (descendants of the knights) who were embarrassed by the criticism of the group, and whispered: "I will choose the way I exit, rather than lingering and living in such embarrassment."

…

After the Peasant Youth Army has completed the "rescue" journey, it is necessary to eliminate the stubborn ones who are still "moving closer" to the base area.

The Peasant Youth Army had already found out the "weight" of Fei Gute, the division commander who wanted to "attack" against all odds, through preliminary prisoner interrogations. As for the other information, after getting it almost done,

The headquarters even found class brothers who had revolutionary righteousness through persuasion and education, and arranged for a few people to go to Feigute to "report the news" and secretly drain the tractor's oil.

October 10th. The morning fog in the northern land was hazy, and the birds did not take advantage of this opportunity to forage because the continuous gunshots and black engine smoke brought a noise that destroyed nature.

The northern uprising started a decisive battle against the "Imperial Jing'an Army First Corps" approaching the base area at 9:33 am.

The Peasant Youth Army has eighty armored vehicles. These vehicles only weigh 20 to 30 tons, which is about the size of a large truck. The armor is made of pieces of ductile iron. It is not serious armor. The machine gun firepower reaches 100 ( This is a twenty-millimeter caliber firearm, considered a machine gun on Earth).

The previous annihilation of the Imperial Jing'an Army on the "Return to Defense Mission" was a rout. The farmers among the farm owners who had been summoned to fight with each other saw that the situation was not good and ran away.

This left the heavy equipment that the farm owners had previously discarded on the battlefield basically intact, allowing the engineers of the Peasant Youth Army to repair it and put it into use immediately.

He really responded, "There are no guns, no shells, the enemy made them for us."

Fei Gute was unlucky. His unit was the last batch to be annihilated. It faced the Peasant Youth Army who had accumulated combat experience points. Its "military talent" could not be used like "ash fertilizer volatilization".

Since the other farm owners' troops fled too quickly in the early stage, the commanders of the Peasant Youth Army learned from each other's mistakes. After calculating their combat strength, they chose to encircle and kill them.

More than 900 peasant youth troops surrounded them. After preparing artillery fire from all directions, they carried out intermittent operations combining infantry and tanks. According to regular operations, the armored forces should be used as sharp knives to penetrate, but the scale of this encirclement battle was too small, and the landlord army was too "dough", and they did not hide their headquarters. also

Therefore, this solemn battle of the Peasant Youth Army was actually not that formal.

When the Peasant Youth Army's armored vehicles rushed over with sandbags hung on the ceramic steel plate, it truly demonstrated the tank's invulnerability. The remnants of the Imperial Jing'an Army fired two rounds of guns and found that the external sandbags had no effect. They broke up, and of course they were beaten with rifle butts by the peasant youth soldiers who followed them, and they raised their hands to surrender.

Fatgut huddled behind the wheels of the armored vehicle, shook his pistol, and cursed: "Hold on, hold on for me."

Just as he was dancing, Feimo knelt down, but it was not him. Fatgute turned his head and pointed the black muzzle at his head.

"Hand in the gun and not kill" Hong Zhong's voice shouted to these cowards huddled behind the tires,

With a click, Fei Mo immediately threw away the gun, knelt down, and echoed: "Yes, yes, if you hand over the gun and don't kill, the hero will spare his life." Fei Gute glared at the guy and cursed secretly: "Damn, this is This is my line. ’

But as the bayonet rushed towards them, they both peed simultaneously.

...A zombie with its whole body rotten will not realize that a small piece of its back is burnt...

The civil unrest in the northern part of the Sky Empire came to an end in late October.

Forty-five towns were captured by a local force said to be called the "Iron Star" led by the "Lords", after the landowners in these towns were paraded through the streets. Beginning to declare acceptance of imperial rule, of course it was just an announcement. In every town, the Peasant Youth Army arranged educational groups.

Except for a few die-hards such as Fei Gute, as many as 2,300 prisoners were all "criticized and educated and then released."

The teaching team told these prisoners: "The Jing'an Army are the bandits and plundered illegally", and each of them was given two silver coins as travel expenses. Good guy, this is more than the salary the landlord originally gave them.

These captured people, after running back, used this to laugh at the lack of luck of those who ran away first.

On the side of the Northern Agricultural Youth Army, the concept of "Blazing Iron Star" was condensed in the atmosphere of victory.

In the Northern Campaign, the emerging forces used military means to capture a series of large towns, but the subsequent political and economic blow to the local strength was far stronger than this military impact.

The Peasant Youth Army base areas simply extended to these villages and began to recruit personnel. They still made temporary compromises with the cities. Among the interlocutors who came to the cities, they claimed that they would still supply sufficient food. However, in terms of recruiting troops, due to their escape, There are too many shady accounts, so we need to slow down.

How did wealthy households resist conscription in the past? With the food supply as a threat, how can the Peasant Youth Army come now? As for the empire, will it accept the qualified status or prepare to encircle and suppress it?

Enma dug the "pit" and laid out the "camouflage net" to sincerely invite everyone.

This battle in October of Fire Emblem Calendar 3428 was silent throughout the empire. Some thoughtful people in big cities noticed that the uprising in the north was a bit unusual, but since these villages did not resist the food supply, they ignored it for the time being. The empire now did not have the extra troops to suppress it.

Yet even among dissidents in the Empire, not much is known about the war.

As a "postman", Enma was certainly a system that connected the imperial opposition to communicate with each other, but he did not overly publicize this victory as an achievement.

Wei Keng explained: "For these upper-class revolutionaries, they are focused on the route of change in the city center. So even if we talk about the results, they will not care about it, and this propaganda is of no benefit. There are still many people in the entire imperial opposition. They don’t have much experience in fighting. Exposing rural and rural base areas at this time will only be used as a bargaining chip by them to seize power in the city.”

Wei Keng: Only when the chips are raised at the most critical moment can the greatest effect be achieved. And when is the most critical time? When the balance of power between the two sides is broken. Among the weights at both ends of the scale, the last weight has the greatest say.

…Farming is the last word…

After November, the northern farmland territories seized the opportunity to carry out agricultural production. One hundred tractors were integrated to form a special joint farming team, harvesting from north to south and east to west. (The climate in the north-eastern part of the empire is a week faster than in the southwest)

This rural-rural joint company model is more efficient in dispatching agricultural machinery and using labor force. Far more than the "noble Junker" farm model in Sky Empire.

The old forces in the countryside, such as Fei Gute and other old landlords, are still undergoing transformation.

This is a tough and skillful transformation, but it is not a rough repression that takes away the land and distributes it equally.

Because directly grabbing land will cause uneasiness to many people, because there are still many middle peasants and rich peasants who own land, and even serfs want to own land. Breaking the concept straight away will leave everyone at a loss.

The land confiscated in the Agricultural Youth League's land policy is limited to wasteland and barren mountains. The idle land resources in these barren mountains are not effectively used in the name of the old landowners, and others are not allowed to use them.

It was often the farmer who erected an inscription and designated the entire mountain as a family asset. Any untouchable who entered the mountain would be whipped at the least, or beaten to death at the worst.

“This act of occupying space,” Enma described, “is like someone occupying a row of seats with a book in a university in the 21st century.”

The action of taking these "land occupied by a few people" into public ownership and then redistributing it has not encountered any resistance. The villagers all clapped their hands and cheered.

As for the land that has shown signs of cultivation within three years, there has been no change in property rights.

However, it is not up to the old forces in the countryside to decide what to plant on these lands.

…Wei Keng: “The village tyrants in the new era do not rely on dominating land to support their subordinates, but rely on monopolizing communication between urban and rural areas,”…

"The collapse of the old ruling system was that the cost of land was too high, while the new capital was to control waterway communication." This was summarized by a financial expert in Wanlun Continent six hundred years ago.

This is a popular theory among the reformers in prison. Now, blackboards are used as teaching materials in rural areas of the north. And started practicing.

In the sky empire, the rural youth faction headed by Enma has traveled through big cities. The capital that controls rural villages now lies not in the "land production materials", but in the control of sales channels for agricultural and sideline products.

Under the capital system, there is a struggle for control of "capital".

The main point of the dispute between the Peasants' Youth Association and the landlord groups is not land property rights. For "industrialized" groups like the Peasants' Youth Association, what they need to do now is to control all channels for transportation to the city. And controlling the "channels" will give you the ability to cut the cake in "industrialization".

Commercial channels in urban-rural integrated areas were the channels through which the first generation of village tyrants got rich during the period of the opening up of the East in modern times. Wei Keng has ready-made social information in the Chinese plane.

Enma: "I have a mature system, bloodless, to combat the power of landlords."

...City people have many more routines than country people. …

Feigute was wandering around the prison. Now he was much more honest than before. When he saw the people in the reform camp, he began to nod and bow down, and he always started studying with a pen in hand. Because he wanted to go out as soon as possible.

Fei Gute: "I will resolutely follow the policies of the Farmers and Rural Associations. If you let me go west, I will not go east!"

Why did this resister suddenly transform into an activist? Because his family came to see him and did "ideological work" for him. Start persuading him to reform!

Cough cough cough.

Because the family situation of these farmers has changed.

After the war, when all the families desperately wanted to come to the Peasants Youth Army to redeem their masters, the Peasants Youth Association did not ask for their money, but started doing their work in reverse.

Agricultural Youth Association: The old farm owner is currently undergoing renovation. We will not confiscate your family’s property rights, but the property rights legal person of the farm must be replaced. All legal heirs of your family should register with us, and we will help you allocate it first.

In short, the land was still divided, but it was not directly distributed to the tenants, but to those in their families who had not "broken the law". What, you still want to resist? Those who resist will not get the land?

Soon, the people of these farm owners' families turned from rescuing the head of the family to surrounding the peasant youth army to divide the land.

"Whether the head of the family will come back or not, let's postpone it. Who will be the master of this family next? This needs to be discussed first!" This is the original contradiction within all the big families. Now the peasant youth army is holding their heads and directly intensifying their contradictions.

Although this grand activity to decide the "family property" is to "divide the land" within these farm owners' families, Enma proposed a "policy spirit": we should decide on rural activities according to local conditions and try to get everyone involved.

Divide the land? How to divide it?

It is difficult for an honest official to judge family affairs, so these working groups that entered the rural areas began to hold meetings at the entrance of the village, count the population of the entire rural area, and let the tenants of the farmers vote to decide the distribution of land.

The rural work teams were not responsible for distribution, but they maintained order and were responsible for public vote counting. At the same time, it was strictly forbidden for the heirs to threaten the voters.

As a result, the sons and nephews of the local farmers were all turned into good people and began to seek support from each household.

So Fei Gutt was in a hurry in the reform camp, and his sons could not beat his nephews at all. And after the distribution was completed, even if the empire fought back, the distribution was a foregone conclusion.

…What is worse than confiscation of property is that your wealth is divided by people you don’t like…

Wei Keng: This trick was learned from the group of people who were engaged in demolition in the ancient times.

As long as you try to get as many people related to the property rights as possible, you can use one faction to fight another. Narrator: In the ancient industrial era, many demolition agreements for nail households were signed by the nail households who were involved in conflicts and were locked up, and then their relatives who were found from nowhere signed the demolition agreement on their behalf.

Although the Youth League did not directly confiscate the assets in this land division, it took the initiative. Now the family heirs of the rural farmers who have divided the land are extremely cooperative with the Youth League's various canal construction and food policies.

For example: in a company, one party holds 51% of the shares and the other party holds 49% of the shares. The 51% has the final say. At this time, they suddenly expand their shares and give up 10% of the shares to the new entrants. Who has the final say at this time? The mistress has the final say, because at this time, whoever stands on the side of the 10% of the shares will win.

These rural local rich people can't beat the young people who have seen the world in the city.

The Youth League took control of the agricultural land production materials without bloodshed.

On the side of the majority of "tenants", the Youth Farmers Group opened a large number of small workshops and factories. These labor-intensive industries just need people. Straw processing, fish pond care, clothing manufacturing.

In June of the 3229th year of the Fire Emblem calendar, the first batch of grain was delivered to the city as promised. There was even an extra 10% to make up for the mistake of "unsuccessful conscription work", which was left unresolved at this time.

...To limit the drawbacks of "capital", one must understand "capital"...

The perspective returns to the uprising of the Northern Young Peasants Association. In December of the 3228th year of the Fire Emblem calendar, at the gate of the prison in York City, Greve, wearing a gray suit and a hat, walked out of the metal gate.

For the empire, such political dissidents will attract attention if they are locked up for too long. After being thrown out for a short time, their popularity will naturally decrease. At that time, the military police will keep an eye on them and conduct irregular searches of their daily letters.

However, the empire never expected that in a series of large cities such as York City, there would be a guy like the "postman" who has all the power. Greve's influence on the revolutionaries in the entire empire in prison has not only not decreased, but he has written three books a year and gradually become a thought leader.

As for the military police? Oh, the military police now drink tea and carry "sugar cubes", "chocolate", "meat jerky" and "tofu" at home. Well, every day when they go to work, they pound their chests and shout "loyalty to the empire".

At the prison gate, Enma drove a battery car and drove over.

Greve looked at such a very young man in front of him, and he was very confused. After Wei Keng introduced himself, he took out Greve's handwritten letter in prison, wrote a line of words himself, and confirmed the handwriting. Greve sighed: "Comrade postman, you are really too young."

Greve always thought that Wei Keng was a middle-aged man. Of course, when he saw Enma in person, he was still not sure whether this was a "postman". If so, he had a hunch that this young man would be the key to stirring the wave in the next great change of the empire.

…The sky of York City is still thick with clouds, but the sun can be vaguely seen behind the clouds…

Enma drove Greve to his residence, which was where he lived before his arrest. It has been cleaned up now. Wei Keng took out an envelope with a stack of banknotes, which contained his living expenses.

Enma: "The arrangement is a bit rudimentary, and the imperial spies are watching closely."

Greve opened the window and looked around. Wei Keng raised his hand and marked several observation points around him. Those were the observation points of the military police.

Greve looked at Wei Keng's magic and seemed to understand something.

Enma: "I have made friends with these imperial gendarmes (bribed them). The empire is monitoring your every move, senior. If you plan to connect with other comrades, you must be careful, very careful."

Enma knocked on the phone line and pointed to the bug inside: "There is a power outage now, and the next door can't be started yet. There will be a call in 20 minutes. The content of your phone call will be followed by them."

Enma: "By the way, I will arrange some unrelated people to give you coal, water, and takeout, disguised as a social network for you, as for your contact with other comrades."

Enma paused and took out a table with the communication mode of revolutionary organizations in other cities. Wei Keng: "Read it once and burn it."