Every armed patrol kills or injures several people. [Full text reading] This kind of war of attrition doesn't matter to the bandits - the bandits don't care about killing a few small bandits, but the constant casualties of trained soldiers are a serious blow to the morale of the army. "In our operations in Iraq There are lessons to be learned in this regard. Even if the enemy uses old-fashioned bolt-action rifles and fertilizer explosives that have lost their rifling, they can still pose a great threat to small patrols." Xue Ziliang said, "But at that time we had sufficient Air superiority, aviation provides necessary intelligence and fire support. What about Lingao? Lingao has no laser-guided bombs, no Apaches, and no 24-hour drones. And in Iraq, every patrol has Armored vehicles cooperate.”
"Each patrol is equipped with an armored ox cart"
Everyone laughed.
"Armored oxcarts are useless, their maneuverability is too poor, and the protection of the oxen itself is also a problem..." Xue Ziliang talked about this issue seriously. It was not until everyone was laughing that they realized it was just a joke.
"Sorry, let's continue the topic."
The Crossing Group has a complete set of experience in Lingao's bandit suppression activities. The work of suppressing bandits in Danzhou so far follows the same idea of suppressing bandits in Lingao.
However, Xue Ziliang pointed out that Lingao's idea of suppressing bandits cannot simply be copied to Danzhou.
This is not because there is anything special about Danzhou, but because the crossing group has zero foundation in Danzhou.
"When Lingao began to suppress bandits, we took control of the county administration and directly controlled a large amount of land and population. Moreover, the local gentry and people had completely trusted our ability and integrity. In other words, our... ...Well...it's called 'mass base' and it's already very deep."
In terms of transportation and communications, Lingao had already formed a considerable scale at that time. Regardless of military mobilization or communications, it was not comparable to Danzhou, which was completely blank.
However, this model takes too long. If we follow this model to gradually master Danzhou, it will take at least 2 years to completely digest the territory. The Senate was unwilling to wait so long.
"That's right, if it weren't for time constraints, why would we send out so many work teams at once?" Liu Yixiao complained. Apparently he believed that his superiors asked him to stabilize the situation in Danzhou within half a year and completely control the incident in Wangpu Village within one year. Danzhou's goal has a great responsibility.
"Suppressing bandits can also be regarded as a kind of counter-guerrilla." Xue Ziliang said, "The key is to control the people."
The source of strength for the guerrillas is the people. Xue Ziliang believes that TG's "fish-water relationship" argument is most appropriate to focus on the guerrillas and the people.
Without the support of the people, the guerrillas would not be able to secure campsites, replenish their troops, and even have food to eat. Therefore, the essence of counter-guerrilla warfare is to compete for the people.
"Well, how can we say that the bandits and the common people have a close relationship?" Someone raised an objection, "The bandits have done great harm to the common people, and the common people hate them to the core."
"The relationship between fish and water may not be one of gratitude, but can also be one of intimidation." Xue Ziliang said, "As long as the bandits can create an atmosphere of terror, they can force the people to obey and support them. There are many examples of this in guerrilla warfare."
"Our important task is not to rush to promote that we are the master of kings and the angels who bring them blessings. No, this is not necessary. The first task is to drain the water so that the fish like bandits have no water."
Yu Zhiqian said: "The task of dispatching the work team is to 'pump out water' and win over the masses. Then the bandits will naturally have no water."
Xue Ziliang shrugged: "Yes, sending a task force is the most effective method. It can be called the best way to eliminate the guerrillas from the roots. However, the cost will be very high."
In order to ensure the safety of the work teams, it is necessary to expand the size of each work team and add more equipment. The isolated status of the work team itself makes them extremely vulnerable to attacks by various means. Once attacked, the patrol team going to rescue will become a good target for bandits to ambush.
Xue Ziliang believes that these potential threats must be considered.
"Do you have a better idea?"
"It's not necessarily better," Xue Ziliang said, "but it will definitely work quickly. There are many ways to pump water."
He then elaborated on his plan. Everyone was speechless.
"This is the thinking of the Japanese and KMT..."
"It's very useful. The US military also did it in the Philippines back then. It proved to be quite successful."
"The Japanese and KMT failed to kill TG with this method."
Xue Ziliang shrugged again, showing a dismissive attitude.
"Are you going to compare yourself with the Japanese?"
Xue Ziliang's new plan is to first combine villages and build strategic villages.
There are many small villages in Danzhou, ranging from single-family villages to those with only 20 or 30 households. These small villages are difficult to fortify, lack self-defense capabilities, and are located in remote areas. It is the most convenient camping ground, contact point, and supply place for materials and soldiers for bandits. Therefore, the first step is to cancel all such villages across the state and merge them into strategic villages.
"The establishment of strategic villages is not just concentrated on both sides of the Danzhou-Lingao Highway." Xue Ziliang further elaborated, "It can be at any other valuable location. The establishment of strategic villages is not only to control the population, but more importantly, to expand through strategic villages Territory, squeezing the bandits’ space for activities, rather than shrinking the territory and consolidating it.”
A large strategic village controls 200 to 300 households. A work team is dispatched to conduct a comprehensive inventory in the strategic village, establish political institutions, and organize militia. At the same time, a platoon to a company of regular troops was stationed to support and monitor the militia, and the strategic village became a fortress.
"Each strategic village will become our reliable stronghold. Our anti-bandit forces can rely on these villages to store food, weapons and ammunition, and recruit local manpower when necessary. Use radio dispatch to deploy troops from all over the place anytime and anywhere. fighting."
Each strategic village controls a large surrounding area, and troops can be deployed to all parts of the state as quickly as possible, instead of coming out from the state city or Zhonghe Commune every time they encounter an alarm or intelligence, which greatly shortens the army's response time.
If implemented in other places, the policy of strategic villages will lead to sharp contradictions in people's livelihood: farmers are forced to leave their land, and the strategic villages themselves do not have enough production materials to provide them. Farmers lose their livelihoods, live in poverty, and eventually rise up to resist and escape.
The Japanese established a group tribal system in the Northeast. Although it was successful in terms of the ultimate result of annihilating the Anti-Japanese Alliance, it caused a large number of farmers to die and flee, and almost permanently lost the support of the people. Similarly, the strategic villages built by the US military in South Vietnam were notorious and ineffective.
However, travelers on Hainan Island in this time and space have the great advantage of being vast and sparsely populated. With a population of less than 50,000 to 60,000, Danzhou has as much abandoned land as there are in Danzhou, and those who travel through it have a very high level of agricultural development and strong productivity. It is not difficult for farmers in Bingcunjitun to live a subsistence life.
"But you can't drive everyone into strategic villages." Liu Yixiao expressed doubts, "Especially those large villages, which have considerable defense capabilities. If we force them to merge villages at this stage, it will not be economically feasible first. , the second will push them to the bandit side.”
Xue Ziliang nodded: "This involves the second method. Divide the area."
The use of color zoning is a method that the Time Travel Group has long adopted. But Xue Ziliang's partitioning is simpler.
"The color divisions remain as usual. But on this basis, Danzhou is divided into three areas. Public security areas..."
"We should call you Xuegang Village-"
"You have to admit that he has done a good job in countering guerrillas." Xue Ziliang was not angry. To him, Okamura Neji had no special significance, he was just a slightly smarter Japanese general.
He divided the entire Danzhou into security areas, quasi-security areas and non-security areas.
Strengthen militia, police and political security in security areas, and fully implement the ID card system. Use the pass system to restrict the movement of farmers and traders, especially into quasi-security and non-security areas.
Targeting the public security areas, we first help larger villages to establish villagers’ self-defense organizations so that they have self-defense capabilities. Villages with complex backgrounds will be merged into villages. Suspicious elements in each residential area are continuously eliminated and relocated. The focus is on household bandits and bandit relatives. Household bandits will be put on public trial and those found guilty of serious crimes will be put to death. Those who have not committed serious crimes will be assigned to construction sites to build roads. All the bandit family members moved to the public security area and were dispersed. Accept mass supervision.
For non-security areas, repeated "punitive operations" will be carried out.
"The crusade has two purposes. First, to force the enemy to rest and recuperate; second, to deprive the enemy of resources. Specifically, to establish strategic villages in non-security areas and force small villages to merge; to target large villages that are capable of self-defense. , sending work teams in to help them defend themselves. Conducting crusade against half-hearted villages as a necessary example of terror. Finally, implement material rule, strictly restricting the circulation of daily necessities. If necessary, adopt a rationing system."
"How is this possible? Food rationing is a big project."
"It's easy for them to get things like cloth. We can't go to every household and force them to hand over all their food and cloth to us."
"I didn't say food and cloth." Xue Ziliang raised his hand, "Salt, if you don't eat salt, the bandits will soon be unable to bear it."
There was silence in the conference room. It's not that they haven't thought of these methods before, but they haven't linked them together in such a systematic way. Secondly, the approach Xue Ziliang talked about was considered by many elders to be "ineffective" and "cruel" due to historical prejudices. And it is always associated with words such as Japanese devils and KMT reactionaries. It is emotionally unacceptable to use these methods for a while. v! ~!
