"Call them when you're on a business trip to complete the formalities."
After the military station officer finished his instructions, he pushed his hat back on his head and hurriedly walked towards the dock, shouting all the way, "...Don't crowd! What's wrong with everyone rushing to reincarnate? This is the army! Stand at attention! Don't talk!..."
"It would be nice if we could make up forty raw melon eggs..." Luo Mao whispered.
"After all, I have a gun, right?" Li Dong said, "I need to pay more attention to training recently - I have a hunch that we are going to fight a big battle this time."
"Don't worry, I promise to fuck them all to death. I'll give them a night fuck tonight to loosen their bones."
"Yeah," Li Dong nodded.
When Li Dong first arrived, he had a lot of procedures to go through. He immediately asked Luo Mao to stay in the camp while he went on a "business trip" with twenty soldiers.
The temporary camp was set up outside Zhaoqing City, but the military depot office was in the city. Li Dong led 20 soldiers to the city.
Zhaoqing, as the location of the front finger, has become a large military camp. Troops and supplies from Sanshui, wounded soldiers and prisoners evacuated from the front line are all suspended here. The wasteland along the river outside the city has been requisitioned, and dense camps have been built. and cargo yards. The newly built dirt road is filled with vehicles and pedestrians.
There are few pedestrians in Zhaoqing City, and only the National Army patrols the roads. Although the shops are open, most of them are only half-open, making them look very depressed.
There are fortified sentries everywhere in the streets and alleys, checking documents anytime and anywhere. Li Dong had already learned from other soldiers passing by on the road that the surrounding areas of Zhaoqing were not stable either. The defeated troops and bandits were once very violent. People from surrounding villages poured into the city to take refuge in large numbers. The order in the city was once very chaotic. It was not until the National Army's full reinforcements that the surrounding situation stabilized. Only then did the gentry and people hiding in the city gradually return to their hometowns, and the order in the city gradually improved.
Li Dong arrived at the military depot, submitted the form and application form, and soon received the supplies distributed to them. In addition to the guns and ammunition for all personnel, a small amount of grenades were also distributed.
The ration also included a pair of new army shoes, leggings and three days of "field rations" for each person. This completely confirmed his estimate of "going to fight a big war."
Back at the camp, reinforcements have arrived. There were forty soldiers in total, arranged in two rows. Li Dong took the roster and looked at it. The ages ranged from seventeen to forty. Although they were young and old, the notes on the roster stated that they had all received eight weeks of basic infantry training.
Li Dong looked at their faces and bodies one by one. Although they were a bit thinner overall, they felt that they were still strong and capable.
"What's your name, private?"
"Yes! Report to the commander, I call Ma Lai!" The soldier who was called came back with his chest raised and roared.
"Have a rest," Li Dong asked, "Have you ever shot a gun?"
"Report! One week of Nanyang rifle training, forty dry shots and five live rounds!"
"how old are you?"
"Report, nineteen years old!"
"Very good!" Li Dong nodded and walked to the front of the team:
"You have officially entered the Wuzhou National Army Brigade Integrated Squadron from today!" Li Dong looked at the row of soldiers in front of him with his eyes, "Our army has been newly formed recently, but it has also withstood the test of the battlefield! It has a glorious record! I don’t care what you did in the past, whether you were soldiers or ordinary people. Since you have come to this army today, I must forget about the messy old army and the ways of the ordinary people as soon as possible! Become an upright Senate Soldiers under my command!”
After the training, Li Dong asked Luo Mao to take the recruits to the riverside for training. I returned to the tent to start the paperwork for equipment replenishment. At this time, a messenger suddenly came from outside.
"Immediately go to the Western Guangdong Front Finger to attend the meeting."
The headquarters of the Western Guangdong Forward Command and the First Brigade is located in the Guandi Temple of the Navy Camp outside the east gate. When Li Dong rushed to Guandi Temple, he found many officers coming. In addition to the officers of the National Army, there were also officers of the Fubo Army. There are several elders under the eaves.
The staff officer at the brigade announced that Commander Zhu was studying the map and asked everyone to wait a moment. It is impossible to bring so many officers together just for training. There must be important military operations to be deployed. Li Dong thought to himself.
At this moment, a huge map of western Guangdong hangs on the wall of the brigade headquarters. There are also a few old space-time satellite photos of special rations of controlled materials spread on the table. The colorful markings on the glass plate covering the map are daubed and wiped. Some flowers. Zhu Mingxia was meticulously dressed in a major general uniform and paced around the table.
After the Badai Yao uprising in April, Yao people from all over western Guangdong responded one after another. Although Zhu Mingxia immediately recruited and surrendered the garrison officers and soldiers abandoned by Xiong Wencan after occupying Zhaoqing, gave them a name, and managed to supplement some of their food and wages, the complete withdrawal of the main force of Xiong Wencan's Ming Army Field Corps made the original "Zhenyao" in the Xijiang River Basin The system completely collapsed. The collected urgent documents from various Ming armies flew to Zhaoqing like a snowflake. Some counties that had surrendered were captured by Yao people's armed forces. The Yao Rebellion broke out on a scale that far exceeded historical records.
As if the pressure on Zhu Mingxia was not strong enough, due to the march of the Senate and the riot in Bapaiyao, a large number of Ming Dynasty officers and soldiers dispersed in the countryside. They immediately joined forces with the bandits in the countryside and formed countless gangs, burning, killing and looting everywhere. plunder. If the riots in Badai Yao were limited to the Sanlian area between Hezhou and Shaoguan in northwest Guangdong, then the bandit riots that broke out subsequently spread to all counties in the Xijiang River Basin. The traces of large groups of bandits even reached Sanshui.
In this situation where people were living on all sides and smoke was rising from all sides, Zhu Mingxia had to give up the next offensive after taking Wuzhou. He did not even take Teng County and hurriedly led the main force back to Zhaoqing to deploy defenses and deal with the riot.
Nowadays, except for the counties along the Xijiang River between Zhaoqing and Wuzhou, which are controlled by the National Army, most of the inland counties and garrison posts in the mountainous areas north of Xijiang are still defended by the temporarily incorporated old Ming army, and are appointed by local demoted officials. And the Jin gentry "maintained the place". Many naturalized county magistrates and national army squadrons were forced to stay in Zhaoqing because of "blocked roads", which made the situation even more chaotic.
Zhu Mingxia knew that most of these "maintaining local" demoted officers and soldiers had a wait-and-see attitude. If the Yao people's armed forces were not imminent, the speed of these people "abandoning the dark and turning to the light" would not be slower than the speed of "bearing humiliation and turning to Kun". Even in the current precarious situation, there are still people who are secretly colluding with Xiong Wencan, who is well connected, and some are even acting as a protective umbrella for those "official bandits".
But now, he can't take care of these people. The existence of these people can resist the expansion of the Yao people's armed forces and ensure the basic social order.
The current situation is still not optimistic, but the situation is gradually becoming clearer. According to the intelligence collected, Badai Yao is mainly distributed in the Lianshan, Lianzhou, and Liannan areas between Hezhou and Shaoguan, and is separated from Zhaoqing Wuzhou in the south by Cangwu, Huaiji, Guangning and other counties. After the uprising, the Yao people first conquered Lianshan County, and then moved eastward to occupy Lianzhou, Ruyuan, and Yangshan with great momentum. It was not until they were frustrated by the Yingde and Shaoguan Middle Route Army that they calmed down and withdrew from Ruyuan. It comes from the south looking for bad luck. After a month of observation, it can now be determined that it has a tendency to move closer to the Xijiang River Basin and unite with the Yao people of Guangxi to further expand the situation.
Not only that, the chaos of the Badai Yao uprising gave Xiong Wencan a glimmer of hope hiding in Guangxi, so he kept sending his confidants back to Guangdong, inciting bandits and broken troops to riot by granting officials and making wishes, and tried his best to expand the scale and scope of the riot. On the one hand, it trapped Fubo's army from marching westward, and on the other hand, it used this to consume the Senate so that it could have a chance to "counterattack" in the future. The intelligence collected along the Xijiang River fully illustrates this point.
However, there is a big difference between this kind of "official gangsters" and "bandits". In order to obtain more loot and gain greater "prestige", they tend to continuously expand their gangs to enhance their ability to attack strongholds. . The result is that the scale of the bandit group is increasing day by day, which in turn gives the Fubo Army favorable conditions to find, capture, and annihilate.
Not long ago, Bei Wei commanded the troops to wipe out several bandit groups in Gaoyao, and the southern part of Zhaoqing became much calmer. Although the bandits are more harmful when they gather into one group, they are much easier to annihilate than the scattered small groups of bandits, and the evil-doing strongmen of all walks of life just push the local gentry and the masses to their side. The continued implementation of Bei Wei's "public security crackdown" has something to do with this.
Zhu Mingxia looked carefully at the red dots on the map. Has the time to reverse the passive situation come?
The staff officer came in and reported: "Chief, according to your order, the chief officers of the Zhaoqing company and above have been assembled."
"Let everyone come in."
More than thirty people came into the official hall at once, and it became overcrowded. All the officers lined up silently and consciously, appearing orderly in the chaos.
"There are many officers here that I am meeting for the first time. Please introduce yourselves."
The squadron commanders of the newly arrived National Army squadrons were the first to report in. Zhu Mingxia had actually read the training/combat reports and chief officer briefings of these units in advance.
Although these troops are uneven, most of them have a common characteristic, that is, they have all withstood the test of war.
A newly formed squadron is considered qualified if it can stand alone in a battle without having its personnel collapse. Although it may not necessarily be used as a sharp knife, it can barely be used as a shield.
As for the inexperienced rookie squadrons that had just arrived from Guangzhou, they could only serve as garrison troops.
"Everyone, it's time to show off the results of your daily training. As you all know, there are Yao people in the north of Wuzhou and Ming troops in the west, but my own strength is weak. Therefore, I am determined to carry out a forward operation to change our current passive situation. We will gather today. In order to inform everyone that the superiors have agreed to our plan. Staff officer, please tell everyone the battle plan."
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