"It was not easy for our Hometown Protection Army to create the foundation we have today. In the past, General Li led more than a hundred soldiers to fight to the death, creating an opportunity for us to break out of the encirclement and move south. Later, General Sun worked hard to lead us to suppress bandits and colonize Funiu Mountain. So that the warehouses are filled with food and the camps are filled with soldiers.”
"Later, our soldiers fought hard and fought hard through Songshan and Songjiazhuang. There were two battles and dozens of small battles. This established the current situation of our hometown defense army!"
"I will never allow anyone to destroy the great situation of our Home Guard Army!"
"We will not allow the so-called officers, soldiers and thieves to destroy the stable lives of tens of thousands of people in the eight townships in the north and south under the rule of our rural protection army!"
After Luo Zhixue said something, he looked at the crowd again and saw that everyone was still wearing the right-cut military uniforms that were very different from the Ming army uniforms. They were all sitting upright and raising their heads, quietly listening to Luo Zhixue's lectures. , suddenly gave Luo Zhixue a feeling.
I am not acting as an ancient rebel leader, but as a modern warlord.
This sudden feeling even made Luo Zhixue stop his interest in continuing to talk...
After calming down his desire to perform for a while, Luo Zhixue turned his attention to An Yongduo: "The staff office will strengthen the investigation of information and send more reconnaissance cavalry. It is necessary to know the number of troops sent by Chen Yongfu immediately, including the number of combat soldiers and the number of cavalry. , How many artillery pieces!"
"At the same time, we will immediately formulate a detailed plan to fight against it."
"Brother Huang, you have a deep understanding of Chen Yongfu and other officers and soldiers. You should give more advice when formulating the battle plan."
An Yongduo and Huang Guangmao, two people from the staff office, immediately stood up and said loudly: "I obey my orders!"
Luo Zhixue then turned his attention to Wang Dazhuang: "Brother Wang, the Fourth Infantry Battalion must speed up its training and complete training on all tactical subjects within half a month. Once the corresponding ordnance arrives, I want the Fourth Infantry Battalion to be combat effective. "
Wang Dazhuang also stood up and said: "Don't worry, General. I, Old Wang, am good at training troops. I will definitely train those little boys hard when I get back. Our Fourth Infantry Battalion will definitely complete all tactical training in half a month."
Luo Zhixue nodded slightly, motioned Wang Dazhuang to sit down, and then turned to look at Hu Hongzhuo, the director of the Ordnance Department: "The Ordnance Department must cooperate with the Industrial Department. Within half a month, I will see all the equipment of the Fourth Infantry Battalion in place. ."
Hu Hongzhuo, who had been working under Luo Zhixue as early as when he was still a military advisor. Hu Hongzhuo, who had been responsible for ordnance and other matters for a long time, stood up like the others and said: "I obey my orders."
Passing by this person, Luo Zhixue looked at Yu Xiujie, Director of the Logistics Department: "I don't think there is any need to say more about logistics. You, an old baggage officer, know the importance of logistics very well. I only want to make a few requests. All required materials must be delivered to all frontline units on time and in sufficient quantities, and there must not be a situation where food piles up in the rear and soldiers in the front are hungry."
When Luo Zhixue was still a military advisor, Yu Xiujie followed Luo Zhixue to handle logistics and transportation issues.
I don’t dare to say that this person has any talent in logistics matters, but his experience can be regarded as training. He immediately stood up and said:
"Our logistics department will immediately begin to recruit and organize a new transportation battalion, and then urgently transport a batch of military rations to the southern front to prepare for emergencies. At the same time, it will also increase the transportation capacity from Songshan Village to Li Qingdian and increase strategic reserves. No matter what, , our logistics department will ensure the supply of food, grass and ammunition to all frontline departments."
Luo Zhixue listened and nodded slightly!
He was very relieved about Xiu Jie. This person had been in charge of logistics and transportation matters for a long time and had never made any mistakes.
Especially after they conquered Songjiazhuang, they needed to urgently transport a large amount of supplies from Songjiazhuang back to Songshan Village in a short period of time. During this process, Yu Xiujie was busy and finally successfully completed the transportation of the materials within the specified time. There was a surprise in the middle. Nothing went wrong.
Luo Zhixue still has relatively high expectations for him.
Yu Xiujie, Director of the Logistics Department, and Hu Hongzhuo, Director of the Ordnance Department, are actually not old thieves. They both joined the bandits one after another after the Baoxiang Army took control of Funiu Mountain.
They were all refugees who fled into the mountains in search of a living. Because they knew some common words, these two people were also the first batch of civilian talents recruited by the Hometown Protection Army.
In order to recruit them smoothly in the early days, Luo Zhixue paid them a high salary. Not only his own rations, he would also give them extra food and wages so that they could support their family.
It is rare for a thief to not only support himself, but also support a whole family.
Basically, it is a treatment that only high-level talents will receive, such as senior technical talents such as Song Tiejiang San and his son, and talents with a certain cultural level.
The two men have been working under Luo Zhixue since they turned into thieves, assisting Luo Zhixue in handling camp affairs. One is responsible for ordnance affairs, and the other is responsible for food and grass affairs.
After Luo Zhixue became the general, the two men also began to take charge of their own affairs, and served as directors when Luo Zhixue formally established the Ordnance Department and the Logistics Department.
These two people are actually considered to be the few people in the Baoxiang Army who are literate where Luo Zhixue rose to power.
In addition, he has always worked under Luo Zhixue, so it is natural for him to continue to be reused by Luo Zhixue.
It is also interesting to say that in the large system of Baoxiang Army, the main elite forces, especially the talents worthy of Luo Zhixue's trust and attention, are basically in the military system.
There are only two half-skilled scholars under him who can do their jobs independently. One is the director of the logistics department, and the other is the director of the ordnance department. In addition, An Yongduo, the director of the staff department with a background as a soldier, and Luo Zhixue single-handedly promoted them. His direct descendants Huang Dingquan, Huang Chengyong and others are all in the army.
The internal affairs system is much worse. Now it seems that there are many talents in the internal affairs system, but in fact the heads of many departments are all illiterate thieves, and the one who really does the work is actually Guo Quanshu. , Huang Chengxuan, a scholar who was forcibly captured.
As for the half-baked scholars recruited, many of them are really lacking in ability, and some have not yet grown up.
Therefore, the so-called civil servants in various internal affairs departments and townships are actually not very good...
It's just that Luo Zhixue is not dissatisfied with this. What he is solving now is whether there are problems. Later, when there are more talents under his command, he will slowly select talents who are trustworthy and reused.
Anyway, as long as the army is in hand, he is not afraid that the so-called civil servants in the internal affairs will turn things upside down, and they can just replace them at any time if they find problems.
In the final analysis, the Baoxiang Army is a very pure anti-thief team, and the army is the core. As for the civil servants in various internal affairs departments and townships, they actually serve the army, and their most important task is not to govern the place. , but to meet the various needs of the military.
For example, the Grain Collection Office, which was most valued by Luo Zhixue in internal affairs, the only purpose of this organization's existence was to collect enough tax revenue to meet military needs.
There is also the administrative system of townships and villages supported and established by Guo Quanshu of the Personnel Affairs Office. The biggest task of these local administrative agencies is to ensure the smooth development of grain collection.
As for other matters, that's all incidental...
In an emergency meeting, Luo Zhixue assigned relevant tasks to the Staff Office, Logistics Office, and Ordnance Office, and asked the Fourth Infantry Battalion to speed up training.
But he did not make detailed military deployment arrangements on the spot.
After all, Chen Yongfu hadn't even sent out troops yet, and he didn't even know how many enemies there were, what direction they were coming from, or how many routes they would take.
In addition, after some military discussions, Luo Zhixue has basically finalized the follow-up strategic direction, which is to delay time.
It has been delayed until May at the earliest, until both the six battalions and two posts are fully combat effective.
It would be best to postpone it until June or even later, waiting for him to complete the Nine Battalions and Three Sentries plan.
During this process, even if necessary, Luo Zhixue did not intend to severely damage Chen Yongfu's troops, let alone annihilate Chen Yongfu's troops. Even if he had the strength, he would not do so for the time being.
Because now the annihilation of Chen Yongfu's troops seems to have killed an opponent, but it will attract a stronger and more main force of officers and soldiers.
This is a waste of money.
Luo Zhixue dared to guarantee that once he annihilated Chen Yongfu's troops, the Ming Dynasty would definitely send the main force to encircle and suppress him.
Even if we do not consider the main forces of the Ming army fighting in Henan and other places, that is, the main forces of the Central Plains armies and the Shaanxi ministries led by Hong Chengchou, we must also consider Lu Xiangsheng on the Yunyang side.
Lu Xiangsheng, who is now the governor of Xunyang, is a ruthless character!
This person is good at training troops, good at field battles, good at running, good at attacking camps, good at governing the place...
There are a series of "good" words in the evaluations given to him by many outsiders. From this, we know that this person is not easy to mess with.
Since Lu Xiangsheng led the reorganized Tianxiong Army to the north of Shunde, he defeated the bandits heading north. After this small test of his skills, Lu Xiangsheng quickly became the most outstanding and even the most famous commander in the Ming court in the past two years. Soldiers and civilian officials.
After serving as the governor of Yunyang in the sixth year of Chongzhen, Lu Xiangsheng was faced with the many main rebel forces that were entrenched in Yunyang. He was still unable to take care of himself with the main force of the rebel army fought by officers and soldiers.
In the end, the rebel army suffered heavy losses in Yunyang, and the remaining soldiers were forced to flee back to the depths of the Qinling Mountains in embarrassment to lick their wounds.
And if you just look at the series of battles Lu Xiangsheng commanded in Yunyang, especially when you see the various running attacks, surprise attacks, and the vocabulary of using less to win more, you may think that he is commanding a group of elites who have experienced battle formations, are well-equipped, and have high morale. Where is the teacher?
But in fact, among the tens of thousands of troops under his command at the time, except for the five hundred pacesetters who were combat-ready soldiers he brought from the north to take office, the rest were all miscellaneous local troops.
That is to say, among Deng Qi's five thousand Sichuan soldiers, there are still some capable soldiers, while the rest of the Ming army are all fighting scum.
A veritable rabble.
For a general, leading a group of elites to win battles is not considered a skill, it is just his job.
But if a general can win a battle with a group of scumbags, and he can do so beautifully, then that's a big deal.
Naturally, Luo Zhixue would not despise Lu Xiangsheng like this.
After all, these are the only few generals in the Ming court who can fight!
