The news that the "Kun Bandits" were camping on the beach soon spread to various nearby villages. Obviously, these two hundred or so heavily armed men and horses with cannons in tow were not here for tourism. Before it got dark, all the villages within more than ten miles around sent envoys to visit him, bringing wine, dried meat, chickens and ducks.
"I still wanted to ask them to come, but I sent them to the door myself. Tell them to come in!" Xi Yazhou was originally tasked with the task of the executive committee asking him to recruit villages along the way and ask them to surrender.
A radio station has been installed in the headquarters tent, and the laptop is turned on. On it is Xi Yazhou's beloved war game, but it has now been transformed into a combat simulation command system. Outside the tent, two soldiers were pedaling desperately on a double pedal motor.
Xi Yazhou sat on a folding canvas chair in front of the tent of the headquarters. Behind him were two flag poles and spears, flying his favorite red and yellow pennants - this was regarded as his personal command flag. As for the flag of the crossing army , is still being debated. Watching this group of old men wearing their best clothes hunched over and walking in step by step from the entrance of the camp, I quite enjoyed this sense of power.
Xi Yazhou explained to these elders through three translators that in addition to Lingao dialect, there are also people who speak military dialect and Qiongzhou dialect. They are just passing through here and will leave early tomorrow morning. As for the things they sent, they will travel through Jun refused to accept anything. Unexpectedly, this statement made these old men cry bitterly. They all knelt on the ground and begged, wishing they could hug his thigh.
"What's going on?" Xi Yazhou was confused.
Xiong Buyou, who served as the translator, couldn't figure out why Qiu Wubu's declaration would get such a result. After asking nicely for a long time, he found out that these elders thought they were not satisfied with what was sent and wanted to ask for more. They were all crying that the village was so poor that people were starving to death.
"Okay, then just accept all the wine." Xi Yazhou couldn't help but feel the pity of the common people, "If you don't want dried meat, chickens and ducks, ask them to bring more fresh vegetables, eggs and duck eggs."
After hearing Xi Yazhou's instructions, these people all got up as if the emperor had granted him amnesty, and then each village jointly donated 50 taels of silver to "Chief Xi". Xi Yazhou firmly refused again. So he received some compliments such as "The general is honest and self-cleaned" and "Zhang Zhen is honest and dedicated to the public." After Xiong Buyou translated a few sentences, he was too lazy to translate them again.
Xi Yazhou looked serious, and in accordance with the spirit of the executive committee, he announced: All villages will send people to Bairen City to report before the 30th day of the first month of the second year of Chongzhen to discuss the important matter of "preventing bandits and preventing theft". If they fail to go after the deadline, they will All cases will be treated as "trafficking with bandits".
"Everyone knows the fate of Goujiazhuang who got involved with pirates." Xi Yayasu said with a fierce look in his eyes, "When I came to Lingao, I deeply felt that the people's livelihood here was in decline and bandits were rampant. Now I formed a team to practice in order to 'eliminate the strong' Help the weak, protect the environment and the people, and ensure peace for the imperial court. Anyone who does not cooperate with our actions will be in trouble with the people of Lingao, and will be in trouble with the imperial court. If he is in trouble with the imperial court, he will be rebelling. Party! Anyone who gets it will be killed." He slashed his hand down fiercely, "I will tell the villagers who didn't come today."
The people kneeling below are almost confused. Aren't these "thieves" themselves pirates? Why are they making trouble "for the sake of the court"? Confusion is confusion. The bloodbath of Goujiazhuang has been re-created by countless people and has become a legend. Horrible legend, no one dares to say "no", but they are just obedient, and secretly glad that this village has the sense to take the initiative.
Xi Yazhou also asked them to send a liaison officer from each village to accompany the army, and also asked several guides who were familiar with the local mountain roads. This allowed them to exit.
"Have all the villages sent people?" Xi Yazhou asked Xiong Buyou, who marked the villages reporting to the camp on a map.
"Everyone within a radius of ten miles is here, and three within a radius of fifteen miles are here."
Xi Yazhou was full of confidence, "When we finish the Baitu, there will be more villages."
"Why did you ask them to go to Bairen City?" Xiong Buyou was a little curious.
"Collecting soldiers and collecting food," Xi Yazhou looked at the topographic map on the table, "We have no opponents in Lingao County. The next step is to make use of the human and material resources here. General Manager Ma wants to capture the county seat and become the county himself. Order, but Chairman Wen wants to encircle the city from the countryside, use force to coerce the villages, and establish our own administrative network. The county seat does not matter at all."
"I don't think the county seat has much to do. It's just a county government office. It can't be occupied anytime and anywhere."
"Yes, the common people are the foundation."
"Report, Navy Commander Chen is here!"
From tomorrow onwards, the troops will march into the mountains, and the navy's support fleet can only supply the army after arriving at Baitu. After coordination between Xi Yazhou and fleet commander Chen Haiyang, both sides decided to advance separately tomorrow. The Sixth Army will advance to the outskirts of Baitu Village at three o'clock in the afternoon, and then persuade the people in the village to surrender. If the persuasion fails, Xi Yazhou will cast three red sticks After launching the rocket, the "Fubo" began to bombard Baitu Port. If the surrender was successful, it would launch a green rocket - since the recruitment of firecrackers, although it has not been able to make signal flares, model rockets can still be used.
Everyone also agreed on the contact signals and handling plans under various circumstances. It was around six o'clock in the evening before Chen Haiyang returned to the Fubo in a rowing boat. He declined Xi Yazhou's invitation to stay for dinner, and took the food allocated to the navy with him. Vegetables and eggs were returned to the ship. Xi Yazhou was confident that there would be more delicious food on board the Fubo. He felt resentful about this, especially when he saw the guard bringing him a large bowl of hot rice noodles.
Dinner is Cao Cao No. 3 and Cao Cao No. 4. The former is rice noodles and the latter is rice noodles. Cook it thoroughly in a large pot, and put the whole package of compound seasoning on the shelf: it contains salt, dried green onion, and pepper - unfortunately there is no chili, otherwise it would be better with some spicy oil - and there are many glazed ones. Clay pot with fish sauce. The jars are covered with rattan to prevent damage when moving. Various vegetables and eggs sent by nearby people also enriched the content of the soup.
The cooked food tastes quite good, but there is no oil or water. Xi Yazhou once again saw the good appetite of farmers in this time and space: a soldier ate almost three kilograms of rice and noodles in one go.
The officers added sliced luncheon meat to their soup. The fine tradition of hard work and simplicity shows its power here again. A 125g can of lunch meat is shared between two people. The person in charge of cutting must be very careful not to cut too much or too little. Finally, even the grease on the inner wall of the can was washed away with hot soup.
"I didn't expect luncheon meat to be delicious!" Dongmen Chuiyu took a sip of the rice noodle soup. After adding luncheon meat, the soup seemed to become richer. The luncheon meat also added a variety of spices to the soup, which was better than Soup noodles with simple seasonings are much better. It seems that there is no big problem with Cao Cao No. 3 and No. 4. The disadvantage is that there is no grease. If there is no luncheon meat, the taste is still too bland simply using the seasoning packet.
He wrote down his feelings about the rations in his notebook, then walked out of the tent and prepared to relax a little, but he had a bit of a nasty thought in his heart - but he kicked something and rolled it with a clang a long way away. When he looked closely, it turned out to be a Empty can of lunch meat.
"It's such a waste, who did this!" Dongmen Chuiyu was heartbroken. Tin-plated tinplate is something that the industrial sector has not yet been able to produce - when cooking in the canteen every day, not to mention cans, even vacuums The aluminum foil bags and plastic bags were carefully washed and collected and returned to the Planning Commission warehouse. He searched around for a while and found all the cans. He quickly ran to the headquarters to report to Xi Yazhou, and that night all officers received an order: the cans that had been eaten must be washed and recycled.
Ying Yu, commander of the artillery training company, was marching in the mountains. Sweat has soaked the military uniform. Is this still winter? He stopped, took a sip of salt water from the kettle, and looked at the winding mountain road.
The dense forest obscured the marching column. The mountain was not steep, but it was rugged and difficult to walk. But Ying Yu could imagine his subordinates: an artillery platoon from the artillery training team of the Sixth Army, three 12-pound mountain howitzers. The cannon was dismantled and carried on horseback. According to the standard 12-pound howitzer organization, each gun is carried by three horses. The first one carries the gun body, the second one carries the gun frame and wheels, and the third one carries two ammunition boxes. An ammunition box contains 8 artillery shells: 2 grenades and 6 solid shells. 2 ammo boxes are only 16. Under normal conditions, the base number of a gun is 48 shells. But it was not enough for all the horses and donkeys in the hands of the traversers to go into battle. Even though only three artillery pieces were dispatched, most of the horses in the farm were already used. Wu Nanhai also wanted to ensure that all the horses would come back safely. For this reason, he did not hesitate to send Yang Guogui to the expedition team to take care of the horses. , but he could march by boat instead of marching on foot.
Several artillerymen passed by Ying Yu. Like the infantry, they all carried full equipment and rifles. The only one who did not carry a rifle was a 15-year-old child. He was a gunnery student at the Military and Political School. He was as thin as a monkey. Ying Yu looked at his appearance and gave him permission. Not carrying a rifle.
"When will we have cavalry artillery that is all mules and horses?" Ying Yu sighed.
There were a dozen porters behind the artillery platoon, all carrying the artillery's equipment and supplies. These are the "liaison officers" sent by each village yesterday. Xi Yazhou is prepared to send these people back to the village to contact and make arrangements in case additional manpower and material resources are needed. Ying Yu said that they had nothing to do anyway, so they should help me carry some equipment to reduce the burden on the horses. There were too many odds and ends for the artillery.
Bei Wei led a reconnaissance team and several guides out for a few kilometers to conduct an interception search to eliminate possible ambushes and observation posts. According to the guides, Baitu Village rarely communicated with surrounding villages. They all directly sailed out for trade. They had enough to eat, and even the wood for shipbuilding was brought from the sea. They lacked nothing and lived a very comfortable life. It is rare to come out of the mountains to go to the market, and foreign silver is often used for shopping. Some people have seen large foreign ships visiting Baitu.
Due to the intrusion of local bandits, Baitu Village set up a wooden stronghold at key points on the road leading to the village and sent people to defend it. As for the heroes at sea, they don't come to intrude - they often repair and buy ships in Baitu.
