Li Dong's military training work in Xu Gang lasted for a week. Although the work had twists and turns, it was still going smoothly. The bandits besieging Xu Gang scared the men of the Xu family to death, and they all looked to the "Great Song Army" to save their lives. , let alone reorganizing the militia, I would be happy to ask them to sacrifice their concubines.
Bei Wei had issued a notice on how to reorganize the militia. Basically, the militia must highlight "regionalization" and emphasize "locality", so that people who lack political training can have sufficient motivation to "defend their hometowns" to fight. As long as they do not leave their hometowns, their combat effectiveness will be stronger than that of officers and soldiers.
The deteriorating social security environment at the end of the Ming Dynasty caused every small-scale village to form Xiangyong with the clan or the wealthy gentry as the core. The number of village warriors in these villages ranges from a dozen to hundreds. They are actually the prototype of a "militia". It's just that the quality of these militiamen varies, most of them are untrained, and there are also many "bad guys" from the countryside among them. Instead, they harm the villagers first. Moreover, the Xiangyong with clans and large households as the core often become "private soldiers." Therefore, Beiwei's reorganized militia basically focused on transforming rural warriors.
Although some people question the effectiveness of such a transformation that does not touch the rural socio-economic foundation, the current situation leaves the Senate with no choice. We can only adopt the "boiled rice with raw rice" model and send armed patrol teams to each village to initially organize and control the grassroots villages.
The experience of forming militia has been accumulated in the security war in Hainan, and it is similar to Guangdong. Roughly following the model of drawing one out of two soldiers in a large village and all soldiers in a small village, village soldiers are formed and equipped with cold weapons, a small amount of captured firearms and armor. And urged villages to build defense facilities.
At present, based on the capabilities of the Senate, it is impossible and impossible to directly lead and train these village soldiers. Therefore, Bei Wei has set the goal: the captains and deputy captains of the village soldiers must be appointed by the local county National Army Garrison Squadron. Appointed while accepting command from the county.
The main responsibility of the militia captain is to maintain the security of the village and establish joint security relationships with surrounding villages. The joint protection does not simply designate a number of villages, it is basically based on terrain conditions. Generally, the distance between villages is no more than 3 kilometers in a straight line and can be reached within half an hour on foot. So that the villages can support each other.
The militia team is mobilized by the county to perform tasks, which generally does not exceed one month. Under normal circumstances, village soldiers do not go to other counties to fight.
For villages with too small a population, village gathering measures are adopted, and multiple small villages are merged into a small village with better defense conditions. Make sure that each village has at least thirty people.
The Baojia system is strictly enforced in each village - the reason why it is said to be "strict" is because the Baojia system already existed in the Ming Dynasty. Because of the Yao rebellion in Guangdong and Guangxi, every village has a Baojia system. Now further rectification continues. Bei Wei ordered the county security forces to send small teams to the villages to complete the Baojia one by one. At the same time, he established a villager's household registration book: one copy to be kept by himself and one copy to be kept by the county. Foreigners without a fixed residence must obtain a guarantee from a well-to-do person in the village. Those who have no guarantee, have suspicious backgrounds, or are "bad" in the village will all be taken to the labor camps in the county for re-screening.
A "watch and help" policy is implemented in each village. Signal towers are set up in each village. Neighboring villages use beacon smoke during the day and firelight to communicate and alert at night. Once a warning occurs, the county will be notified in a relay manner. Once a help signal is sent out, militiamen must be dispatched to each village in the UN Security Council to provide rescue, except that the dispatch at night can be delayed until dawn the next day. During the transportation of materials through flood and drought roads, they are escorted by villagers and soldiers in relays. If any items are lost, the villages escorted by this section will compensate according to the price.
Normally, carrying out this kind of transformation would be a lot of effort, especially the burden on the village soldiers. But now the threat of bandits burning, killing and looting has made every village enthusiastic about setting up militias to build armor and build walls. The work of collecting villages was also carried out relatively smoothly. Although gathering a village means a loss of property, the land cannot be taken away by bandits. As long as people are alive and the world is peaceful, family assets can always be accumulated again.
Li Dong's work in Xu Gang went smoothly. Xu Weicheng agreed to all his requests, and soon a militia team of 120 people was organized, all armed with standard spears and machetes. They were given a dozen blunderbuss and light Folang machine guns from the seized materials in stock in Yunan County. I even bought some armors specially.
This armor was really not in good condition when we got it: it was stained with rust, and the connecting leather strips had broken in some places, and some of the armor pieces were lost. However, when this thing was worn by several "selected forwards" of the militia to show off, Li Li Many of Dong's subordinates still showed envious eyes.
No matter what, with armor on you, your chances of survival are always higher.
For the people in Xu Gang, the arrival of these weapons and equipment has made their trust in the Senate a step further: the National Army of neighboring counties provided timely rescue at critical moments, and now the county has given them weapons to help train troops. Rich and poor, they all feel that they have a reliable support in this troubled world.
Li Dong didn't care about the soldiers' thoughts. He kept urging the soldiers to train the militia. A week is a short time to organize and train the militia anyway, but the village warriors in each village have not received much training in the past, so they can barely do enough to guard the villages. Now after their simple training, their combat effectiveness has improved somewhat. In particular, Xu Yong, the original leader of the local warriors, was quite active in training and always pestered Li Dong to learn "Australian martial arts" - he did not believe that the hand-to-hand training of Australian soldiers was just a few simple moves, which made Li Dong overwhelmed. Its annoying.
A week later, Li Dong's detachment boarded a transport ship descending from Wuzhou. However, what he received was not an order to return to Wuzhou. Instead, he immediately headed downstream to report to Zhaoqing.
One squadron at the time of departure was split into two. Captain Zhu Si stayed in Fengchuan with half of the squadron, while he went to Zhaoqing with the other half of the squadron. What on earth were he planning to do?
An order is an order. No matter how puzzled Li Dong and the others were, all the soldiers boarded the transport ship and came to Zhaoqing again.
The headquarters of Zhaoqing's First Brigade was also the location of the Western Guangdong Front Point, and originally gathered a large number of troops. When Li Dong arrived with half of his squadron, he found that there were more troops here than when he passed by last month, and a large number of transport ships had also gathered.
Anyone with a little military experience knows that a large-scale military operation is brewing in Zhaoqing.
"Be careful, the ship is about to dock..."
Following the sailor's shout, the three large boats slowly docked at the berth on the shore.
"Get off the boat! One by one, no chaos." The sergeants greeted, and Li Dong also relaxed his waist and boarded the gangplank.
As soon as they landed, officers from the military station on the shore came to greet them.
"Which part?"
"We are from the Wuzhou National Army Integrated Squadron..."
"Come from Fengchuan?"
Li Dong thought that they knew clearly:
"That's right."
"All the weapons are kept," said the military station officer. "The daggers and Nanyang rifles are kept."
Everyone looked at each other and carried their weapons with them. This was often emphasized in the education they received after joining the army. Even when they were resting, their weapons had to be put in place so that they could be used at any time. Why do we have to ask them to disarm as soon as they land? Now that you have disarmed, why keep the rifle?
But since I said so, I naturally had no choice but to do it. Now leaving all the standard spears, machetes and other weapons behind - Li Dong noticed that there were already a lot of standard spears and other cold weapons piled on the ground.
Could it be that they all need to change their clothes? An idea flashed in Li Dong's mind.
Before he could think about it in detail, several more ships arrived at the pier, and several officers holding flags with serial numbers were calling people to gather on the shore - it turned out that the reinforcements of the National Army from Guangzhou had arrived.
The numbers of these later squadrons generally reached double digits. The soldiers still had the unique uneasiness of new recruits, and they looked so shabby and ridiculous holding standard spears. The Wuzhou Squadron, which had fought two battles, felt quite superior when walking past them. Li Dong suddenly felt a little emotional. The brothers were just like this when they left Sanshui last month. Now they can show off their qualifications in front of others. Time flies so fast.
The officers of the military station placed them in temporary tent barracks - the originally requisitioned military barracks and temples were already full.
"Although we are a squadron, only half of the squadron is here." Li Dong was a little confused when he saw that the barracks arranged for them by the military station officer could accommodate more than a hundred people.
"You will report the vacancies tonight and we will replenish your troops." The joint logistics officer held a hard board clip and wrote on it, "The Joint Logistics Department has instructions that all troops must supplement their troops in accordance with the organizational structure - the one on the dock Have you seen the supplementary troops? They are supplemented to each squadron."
"Take half of the raw melon and eggs, it's not going to be a good fight..." Luo Mao interjected.
The joint service officer smiled and said: "After a few hits, it won't be a fool's errand. In the evening, you will inspect your Nanyang rifles. If there is any damage, please report it immediately. Don't forget to report the ammunition shortage."
"Are we going to be issued rifles to all of us?" Li Dong asked.
"That's right." The joint service officer nodded, "Your squadron has performed well, so this time I have been transferred to change the uniforms - work hard, and you will have the opportunity to make meritorious deeds!"
These words confirmed the suspicion that there would be a large-scale operation soon, and the soldiers were in a commotion. Li Dong quickly said: "What are you arguing about? If you continue to argue about having sex at night! Get out of here and prepare to camp!"
"After the camp preparations are completed, send twenty soldiers to the depot for business and to collect things." The joint service officer looked at the team, "How many soldiers are there now?"
"Report, there are actually sixty people. However, three of them have no military registration..."
These three were acquired through their "on-the-spot military expansion" in Xugang. The joint logistics team recognized this on-the-spot recruitment, but they had to go through the enlistment procedures afterwards.
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