While intensively repairing Hengyuan Fort, Ouyang Xuan also ordered Huang Dagen to turn Huaguoshan into a fortress and use it as a permanent camp for the navy. On the one hand, the development of the navy is naturally inseparable from water. Jiguan Mountain is naturally not suitable. Hengyuan Fort must be stationed as a field camp, and Yongqu Township, with developed waterways, has no fastened defense buildings. Ouyang Xuan thought about it and decided to put it there. The navy camp is located here. Unlike Hengyuan Fort, which is purely for military purposes, Huaguo Mountain, which was originally the water bandit's lair, is mainly for civilian use. It is easy to defend and difficult to attack because it is secretive and has a narrow entrance and exit. However, as long as the attacker is not afraid of casualties, it can still be breached. Once the stronghold is broken, there is no way to escape. This is what the art of war calls a "death place." According to Ouyang Xuan's requirements, the Huaguoshan camp must be built for both military and civilian use and can be used to attack or defend.
From a military point of view, it is not difficult to maintain the Huaguoshan camp for a long time. It only needs to use a small amount of stone, cement and steel to strengthen the walls and gates, and then set up a few artillery. , the difficult thing is to evacuate safely after killing a large number of enemies. Huang Dagen looked carefully in the camp for several days, and finally found a gentle cliff at the end of the ravine. The cliff was about a hundred meters high. Except for a huge boulder protruding out of the way in the middle, the rest could be climbed with the help of ropes. . The huge boulder blocking the road weighed no less than hundreds of thousands of kilograms, which was an insurmountable challenge for manpower. However, it was not too difficult for the Pili Army who had gunpowder, and it was successfully cleared after several blasts. With the help of this secret and dangerous passage, the Pili Army can escape from the camp and escape into the dense forest of Wugen Mountain when they cannot hold on. They can also launch sneak attacks from behind the enemy at critical moments when the war is tense.
In the early development plan of the Perak Army high-level officials on the plains, the Perak Army headquarters will be moved here after the completion of Hengyuan Fort, along with field battalions and internal guard camps stationed at Hengyuan Fort. As the main force, the field battalion is stationed here, allowing the Perak Army to advance, attack, retreat, and defend. As long as Hengyuan Fort is not breached, the mountains will be safe. The internal guard battalion is also stationed here mainly for the reconnaissance company and the anti-trafficking company. Go out on a mission. As for the security company and counter-espionage company, they are also located here because outsiders must pass through this place before entering the mountains, so they can be screened in advance. Outsiders need a guarantor to enter the mountains. In addition to checking the route of entry, sentries and patrol soldiers along the way must also conduct strict interrogations and body searches. It is almost impossible for spies and spies from outside the mountains to sneak into the mountains. The garrison battalion led by Yu Zhu was stationed in Wanjiabao. In addition to the permanent unit teaching company, there were also three basic militia companies stationed in regular rotation. In accordance with the requirements of the Perak Army for all soldiers and military training, the garrison battalion has established thirty militia companies. The ordinary militiamen of these companies need to bring their own dry food for training for three days every month, and the squad and platoon leaders of these militia companies have formed The three basic militia companies implement semi-off-the-job management.
In accordance with the decision of the Perak Military and Political Conference, Huang Dagen led three companies of the Marine Battalion to be stationed in Wugen Mountain, with the Huaguoshan Camp and Huangjiadang, Yongqu Township as bases. Huang Dagen took advantage of the low water season in early spring to widen the inlet and outlet channels of Huangjiadang a lot in order to hide navy warships in them. At the same time, he also built defense facilities and material storage points to prepare for a long and protracted war. After the completion of Hengyuan Fort, it will support each other with Huaguoshan Camp and Huangjiadang. Ouyang Xuan understood that such a layout could only allow the Perak Army to gain a foothold at the foot of the mountain, but if it wanted to develop in the plains, it must make use of the crisscrossing river water network in the western Sichuan plain to build a powerful naval force in order to compete with the highly mobile Mongolians. The cavalry resisted, and the current navy of the Perak Army was still too weak. The navy is a technical branch, and it is not easy to expand it. On the one hand, compared with the infantry, the navy consumes more money and resources. Take warships as an example. In addition to requiring a lot of craftsmen and wood, their construction period is also long. If they are equipped with artillery, the cost is even more staggering. The artillery used on the navy warships in the early stage was temporarily transferred from the field camp. During the battle of Huangjiadang to exterminate the water bandits, it was found that it was not very suitable for water warfare. Ouyang Xuan has ordered people to trial-produce artillery suitable for warships. However, due to the artillery production capacity, it will take time to equip the current twenty warships; on the other hand, he will train officers and sailors who are skilled in water-based and water-based warfare. The team also needs time. Now Huang Dagen has taken precautions and begun to train the backbone of the Navy. He has also selected squad platoon leaders to enter the teaching company for further training. However, according to Ouyang Xuan's vision, this training intensity is far from keeping up with the imagined scale of the Navy.
Of course, another way for the navy to expand rapidly is to accept the submission of navy soldiers from the official army. Although the overall combat strength of the official army is weak, this is caused by the national culture of favoring martial arts. There are still many loyal, brave and passionate men in each army. After elimination and selection, they can quickly form an army. It's just that the Perak Army is still an official army in name. Even for "friendly troops" like Pan Luohuan, they dare not blatantly poach people. Even Yu Laodou, Le Quan'an, Liao Niluo and others' interactions with their former colleagues remain private. level. At first, this kind of communication was just about friendship, mostly involving money, food, salt and cloth provided by the Perak Army to help the navy forces left behind in Fucheng and Xinjin City. Later, it expanded to business dealings with or without secret communication, and the communication changed from secretive to semi-public. As the exchanges deepened, the officers and soldiers in Fucheng and Xinjin became more and more envious of the management of the Pili Army, and they became more disgusted with Pan Luohuan. "Destroying a person's wealth is like killing one's parents", Pan Luohuan simply couldn't stop this kind of financial connection. In addition, his cronies also benefited from it and turned a blind eye. He was the only one who was kept in the dark. inside. Ouyang Xuan was not only aware of the private contacts between the soldiers of the Perak Army and the naval forces left behind in Fucheng and Xinjin City, but this was actually his instruction.
Although Ouyang Xuan rejected Pan Tongzhi's request to provide artillery, money, grain, and free labor for building the city, he still sent a batch of farm tools and seeds to Chongqing City in the name of the Perak Army from the perspective of the anti-Mongolian cause, but was rejected by Pan Luohuan. Received. Seeing that what he sent was not artillery, money, food, and people to drive, the dandy put down his harsh words and walked away angrily. He was not interested in the hard work of farming at all, but he was interested in having sex with beautiful women. Huang Dagen asked Liao Nilu and Yu Laodou to secretly give the seeds of the farm tools to their former colleagues, which made the navy men very happy. Pan Luohuan disdained the Pili Army's seed farming tools, but his soldiers did. "Food is the first priority for the people." If there is no planting in the spring, there will be no food in the autumn. If there is no food, Pan Luohuan may not necessarily starve, but his soldiers will definitely starve.
Chongqing Mansion belongs to the core area of western Sichuan. The land around Fucheng is extremely fertile, and the light and heat conditions are also very good, so wheat can be sown in autumn and rice can be planted in spring. Most of the land reclaimed by the Perak Army is dry land, and only dry crops such as wheat, sorghum, and soybeans can be grown. Most of the seeds Liao Niyi and Yu Laogou gave to their former colleagues were rice seeds. The yield per mu of rice is much higher than that of dry crops, but the requirements for irrigation conditions are also high, so it is suitable for planting in plains with developed water networks. However, most of the land on the east bank of the Wenjing River around Fucheng was planted with wheat and other dry crops last autumn. Rice seedlings can only be transplanted after the summer harvest. There is not much idle land.
Liao Niyi and Yu Laodou suggested that their former colleagues go to the west bank of Wenjing River to open up wasteland. The reason why there is so much wasteland on the west bank is that it is inconvenient to farm across the river. Floods in the rainy season especially make it inconvenient to pass. This difficulty is obviously not a problem for the navy soldiers. Although the water conservancy facilities on the West Bank are in disrepair for a long time, the foundation is still there and they only need to make more efforts to renovate them. The iron farm tools sent by the Pili Army this time were extremely sophisticated, even much better than the weapons of many of Pan Luo Huan's men. With the tools at hand and the soft soil here, it would not take long to rebuild the system of ditches and ditches. Liao Niyi and Yu Laodou also based on the experience of the Perak Army's farming, and asked the Fucheng soldiers to control the farming on the west bank within one mile of the river. They also directed the excavation of crisscrossing canals and a large number of sinkholes on the outside and inside of the farming. Horse pits were built to prevent and delay attacks by Mongolian cavalry.
