"Have you heard? The Chinese disaster army is going to seize the territory captured by the expeditionary force. They can't do anything, but they are the first to seize the fruits of victory!"
"That's right, I heard that the superiors have issued an order to let the expeditionary force return to their own territory. Damn, I haven't seen them being so active in fighting the little devils. If the expeditionary force is allowed to leave, the little devils may come back again. If it weren’t for the expeditionary force this time, we would all be doomed.”
"Who says otherwise? The most powerful thing to fight now is the Expeditionary Force. If they stay, I still believe that the Japs can't defeat them. But don't count on the Chinese Expeditionary Force. It's not a good thing at all. Look at the Expeditionary Force. I express condolences to everyone and distribute relief food. What will the disaster army do when they come? The first thing is to ask everyone to send money and food!"
"Have you heard about the situation on the South China Sea Island? I heard from a classmate of my uncle's second daughter's husband's cousin that the expeditionary force conquered that place, and an attack group was sent to stay behind to prepare for the construction of the South China Sea Island base. , no one can get in.
Now, if you go there and want to farm, the fields will be given to you. If you want to work in a factory, you will be directly arranged to work as a worker. You will receive 30 kilograms of grain a month and a few pocket money. "
"Real or false? Wang Ergou, where did you get this news? There is still such a good thing now."
"I'm not going to lie to you, this is true. They also issued a notice welcoming businessmen to invest and build factories there. The tax is less than 1/10 of the current level. Many factory groups around me have now begun to relocate. For large-scale They are also responsible for transporting machinery and equipment. If you don’t believe it, you can ask if all the trucks in Yangcheng have been requisitioned now?”
"Wang Ergou, I really believe what you said. Yesterday, my brother-in-law was asked to be a driver. It was said that he would drive a truck to transport equipment to the South China Sea Island."
"You see, I am very well informed. You still don't believe me. I'm telling you that if you go and allocate the fields you still have, if you go too late, the land will be allotted and the factory will be gone."
"Let's go together!"
There are similar rumors fermenting everywhere in the streets of Yangcheng City. Some of them are spread by people, but some of them are really spread by Gao Jianwu.
These rumors drove tens of thousands of people to move toward the South Sea Islands. After all, having land to farm was very attractive at this time.
In addition, for those who have a job and can receive 30 kilograms of food for a month, this is also a coveted good thing for those who have settled down.
After Ding Wei put up a recruiting sign, the 50 consultation points for signing up to join the army were quickly filled with people. Thanks to this round of atrocities committed by the little devils, who took the whole city hostage, many numb people came to repent. That's why so many young people enthusiastically came to join the expeditionary force.
After all, the Expeditionary Force's reputation for being invincible has become very loud, and many young people want to join this heroic army.
After Ding Wei raised the recruitment standards, it still took two days to recruit a full 30,000 people. These are all young people over 18 years old and under 30 years old. Many of them are literate and have attended schools in the city for several years.
Faced with these high-quality soldiers, Gao Jianwu did not organize them into a new merit group this time, but directly organized these people into the current attack group.
The 1st, 3rd, 4th and 5th and 6th attack groups each increased by 6,000 men, with 5 new infantry battalions and 1 artillery battalion.
Facing the big move of the expeditionary force cluster, the two national army infantry division commanders who came later wanted to jump out and stop it, but they knew that their own energy had no deterrent effect on the expeditionary force cluster.
They once wanted to find Gao Jianwu to share some of the grain, weapons and ammunition seized from the Jaap Warehouse. In fact, these were the items that Gao Jianwu received from the warehouse. Gao Jianwu naturally let them get away as far as they could without taking them seriously at all.
These two guys were a bit desperate, and instead of trying to use force to solve the problem, they found local gentry to allocate money and food!
After all, until the food and salary from the superiors are in place, someone must take care of their food, drink, and toilet.
Such a significant difference makes it natural for the people of Yangcheng to make a choice.
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"Most of the factory equipment has now been moved. There are at least 50,000 people willing to go to the Nanhai Island base.
For us, the most important thing at the moment is to solve the problem of food and drink for these people. We have organized to transport 300 tons of food to Nanhai Island, but for these people, this amount of food is just a drop in the bucket, enough to last more than ten days. "Ding Wei complained to Gao Jianwu in pain and joy.
"The food problem in the Nanhai Island base still needs to be solved through Nanyang. After all, it is a grain-producing area. I have ordered the Nanyang working group to do its best to solve it.
At present, the first batch of grain is purchased and transported from Annan to Nanhai Island. If it is transported by sea, it only takes a few days, so the problem is not too big. Gao Jianwu said.
This is the advantage of laying a foundation in Nanyang. At least in terms of food supply, Nanyang is a large grain growing base.
Although Gao Jianwu is very cold towards Ruan Aiguo and his organization, Ruan Aiguo, who has a glorious record of annihilating the Japs last time and is now quite powerful in Annan, is still very cooperative with the Nanyang working group.
After all, their strength is completely different from that of the Free Army in his new homeland. In many ways, he needs help from the Free Army.
"Since you have prepared for the food problem, Lao Gao, then I can rest assured.
Next, let’s talk about the issue of factories. Now we have relocated most of the factories here, but some of the things produced by these factories are not very competitive.
But these factories themselves are owned by individuals, and we can't force them to produce other things. "Ding Wei raised the second thorny question.
For ordinary people, this problem is really not easy to solve. Gao Jianwu has already had a solution, which has been actually verified.
“We don’t force them to do anything, we just guide them and tell them information. At the same time, we also open some factories and recruit them to join voluntarily, exchanging equipment and investment for shares.
You can also purchase their machinery and equipment directly.
Especially for the machinery and equipment that our military industry needs, we can give them some discounts in price negotiations.
In this regard, we have very mature implementation experience in Jinyang, so we can just transfer this set over.
Individual self-employment, public-private partnership, public enterprise management incentives, enterprise supervision system and audit system. We should directly implement these mature experiences in the Nanhai Island base area, and I think it is also suitable for other base areas. Gao Jianwu said very confidently.
Now no one knows how to run a business better than him.
“As for land issues, we must treat them with caution and carefully identify local land owners. Landowners who rely on hard work to get rich. We must recognize his ownership of the land.
But we must also liquidate the local tyrants and evil gentry who obtained land through plunder and robbery.
Only truly ownerless land can be returned to the local authorities in the base area and used for individual long-term contracting. Within five years, the income will be divided at 70/30, with the local government harvesting 30% as public grain expenditure, and the contracting farmers will keep 70% for themselves. Otherwise, no other rights are allowed. Allocate any further expenses.
The revenue sharing will be renegotiated after five years, but the proportion harvested by local authorities will not exceed 30%.
In order to regulate the use of land, local authorities should divide land into two categories: basic farmland and economic land. Basic farmland can only be used to grow food, while economic land can be used to grow vegetables, fruits or other cash crops and be managed independently as farmers' private land. No intervention except to be abandoned.
For farmers whose land has been abandoned for two consecutive years, the local authorities take back the land and re-contract it to other people in need. "
Gao Jianwu's idea of land was only gradually formed recently. He took advantage of Ding Wei's question and raised it this time, hoping to use the relatively closed area of the Nanhai Island base to conduct experiments and summaries.
Ding Wei looked at Gao Jianwu and wondered why this young man had so many things in his head. But what Gao Jianwu said, Ding Wei vaguely felt was a feasible strategy.
Because so far, nothing Gao Jianwu said has not been realized.
"I'll write down everything you said, and I'll call Chu Yunfei and Feng Zhengwei later to take advantage of this incident to work together." Ding Wei responded.
"As for the transaction issue with the National Army that I mentioned before, now we can formally raise it." Ding Wei continued.
"What I mean is to use the Yangcheng, Fofan and other nurturing lands in the Pearl River Delta that we control to exchange for actual control of this area and build our base in South China." Ding Wei pointed to the map and drew lightly with a pencil A large triangle circle.
Gao Jianwu stared at that place and couldn't help but feel a little dazed.
Because the places Ding Wei painted were relatively poor places even in his time.
"This is the Wuling area. Although the land is poor and the people are poor, it is located in the corner of Guangdong, Jiangxi and Hunan, and is relatively weak in all aspects. In addition, the high mountains and ridges are not conducive to military operations. It is a geomantic treasure for our development base area.
As far as Huiyang in the south, it coincides with the Dongjiang Column's activities and is close to the sea, so it can receive some maritime support in the future. As far as Nanxiong in the north, it has a depth of 500 miles and a large room for maneuver. "
"If that's the case, we have to take Hong Kong and Kowloon?" Gao Jianwu looked at the map thoughtfully.
"If we don't capture Hong Kong and Kowloon, it will be difficult for us to communicate with the Nanhai Island base. With the little devils causing trouble in the middle, it will be difficult for us to safely circulate materials and personnel to each other. After all, it is more convenient to transport bulk materials by sea. If we walk a lot, we don’t have that much transportation capacity to be safe at the same time, and it’s even harder to be protected.”
"So for this matter, our allies, especially Dai Ying, can make another deal. We can take Hong Kong and Kowloon, but the allies will supply us with weapons and ammunition again!" Ding Wei then laughed, "Two little The Japs Division must be sold at a good price."
If you want to talk about good calculations, you have to look at Ding Wei. Compared with him, Gao Jianwu actually relied on his advantage of foresight. If he were in the same era, Gao Jianwu would not be able to calculate Ding Wei at all.
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Yangcheng Century Hotel.
A unique negotiation begins.
"Commander Gao, Commander Ding, Yangcheng and other places are our defense areas. Shangfeng has already given orders for us to receive them. It is unreasonable for your department to forcefully occupy this place. If you do not follow Shangfeng's orders to evacuate here, our department will follow Shangfeng's instructions. Take decisive action." Commander Yu of the war zone faced Gao Jianwu and Ding Wei who were participating in the negotiations, and he was very aggressive when he came up.
"Sir Yu, we conquered Yangcheng with blood and sweat. How can we say we occupied it by force? If you want to use force, go out and ask the people to see if they agree?
The little devils have been occupying this place for many years, and I haven't seen you come to take it over. Why did you come to take it over just after we conquered it? It's not such a good thing.
If you think you are better than the little devil, go ahead and give it a try. Our expeditionary force group does not cause trouble, but we are not afraid of it either. I will not attack anyone unless they attack me. If someone attacks me, I will do my best to annihilate them. No matter in Myanmar, Britain or the Nanyang Islands, our expeditionary force group has never been afraid of anyone. "When Ding Wei faced Commander Yu, who was in charge of one aspect, he didn't show any fear at all and went straight back.
"Commander Ding, what you said is wrong. At this time of national crisis, brothers should work together as one and work together to fight the Japanese. Why do they always shout to kill? Isn't it true that relatives and enemies are happy? Everyone Let’s discuss it carefully if you have anything to say.” Chief of Staff Wang of the War Zone came out to smooth things over.
Some harsh words said that forget it, but if they really wanted to fight, even the 10 people they tied up were no match for the expeditionary force cluster.
"Chief of Staff Wang, you are right. We are friendly forces to begin with, and there is no problem in discussing it carefully if we have anything to say.
It's not impossible for us to give up here.
But I have so many brothers here who have to live in Hukou, so we must be given a territory. We can't just watch you eat meat. We can't even drink the soup. This is inappropriate. "Seeing that the heat was up, Ding Wei also slowed down.
"This fertile land in the Pearl River Delta is the essence of Guangdong, and we are watching it from top to bottom. If we are not here, you will not get it. By then, this fertile land will be a mixed bag, and no one will be left behind. Consider it. We are all friendly forces, so we are willing to take a step back and choose eastern and northern Guangdong as the territory of the expeditionary force group, and we will withdraw from here."
After Ding Wei finished speaking, he took out a map and mapped out half of Guangdong. This was where the lion was asking for money, waiting for Chief Yu and the others to pay back the money on the spot.
"Impossible, absolutely impossible. Not to mention that everyone in our 12th Army Group will not agree, even the principal will never agree." When Chief Yu heard this condition proposed by Ding Wei, he was a little furious at the time. This was simply Bleed him. After all, as the boss of Guangdong Province, he has long regarded the entire Guangdong Province as his own private territory.
"Since this is the case, there is no need to talk. Commander Gao ordered us to leave. It seems that there is no need for Commander Yu to continue talking with us." Ding Wei stood up and made a show of leaving with Gao Jianwu.
Today they had a secret negotiation and wanted to complete it through private transactions. Therefore, Ding Wei appears to be stronger in terms of strategy. After all, he far exceeds the opponent in terms of military strength. If there is a head-on confrontation, the opponent will definitely suffer a big loss.
"Commander Gao, Commander Ding, please stay. Stay, the deal will be negotiated step by step. Don't be anxious, everyone. Since we have chosen to sit here today, we also have sincerity in negotiating." Chief of Staff Wang once again stood up to smooth things over. , leaving Ding Wei and Gao Jianwu behind.
"But to be honest, the condition you put forward, Commander Ding, is really hard for us to accept. After all, this is our defense zone. If you take away half of it at once, we can't explain it to the principal. If we are sincere, we should make a more realistic proposal. Just a little bit of conditions, there really is nothing we can do about your current conditions."
Chief Yu and Chief of Staff Wang knew long ago that it would be impossible without a little blood this time, but Ding Wei and the others were too cruel to agree to such conditions.
"Since Chief of Staff Wang said so, then we will make another concession. From here to here and here, we want to stay as our defense areas. There are no big cities in these places, and they are not of much value to you.
As for our people who stay here, you also know that in the future, if the Japs attack again, we will not sit idly by and do nothing.
We choose this place. In addition to deterring the little devils in Hong Kong and Kowloon, they are also preparing to march and attack the places occupied by the little devils in Hunan and recover more territory. "Seeing that the other party finally started to seriously consider it, Ding Wei proposed his final plan.
"If you don't agree with this, we will aim at the place occupied by the little devils and take it for ourselves. If you want to retain your strength, then retain your strength. The territory we have established by ourselves has nothing to do with you."
Looking at the territory Ding Wei has drawn now, it is more than half less than at the beginning, and all of them are poor places in mountainous areas. In fact, it is difficult to even collect some food from these places, and it may even be necessary to provide relief to them.
For these places, they don't actually manage them very much at ordinary times and let the local governments operate on their own. They don't care if some counties are occupied by little devils.
Chief Yu and Chief of Staff Wang looked at each other. Although Ding Wei's condition still made them feel uncomfortable, compared with the initial condition, it was already a huge difference. After all, there were several big cities with oil and water. , Gao Jianwu and his expeditionary force group did not get involved.
"Commander Gao, Commander Ding, Commander Yu and I have no objection to the matter you raised, but we have no way to do it at Shangfeng, so if you go to these places to develop, that is your business. We The Chief's Department will not have any public opinions." Chief of Staff Wang saw Chief Yu nodding and put forward his final opinion.
Speaking of which, this is almost exactly the same as the Jin Territory. So far, Chief Yan has never said that the Jin Territory is under the management of the Eighth Route Army, but he stayed motionless on the edge of the Jin Territory, as if he didn't know that the Jin Territory was recovered.
To put it bluntly, it means not admitting it, not opposing it, and certainly not giving up. He just kept silent when he was inferior to others.
Regarding this kind of negotiation, Gao Jianwu believed that he had no ability in this area, so he let Ding Wei implement it. This time, Ding Wei did a good job.
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Seven days later.
With the approval of superiors, the founding meeting of the South China Base Area and South China Military Division was held in Huiyang. The original guerrilla groups such as the Pearl River Column and Dongjiang Column all gathered together and merged with the first attack group of Ding Wei's expeditionary force to establish the South China Military Division. Ding Wei was appointed commander-in-chief. Since then, the layout of the two base areas in South China assigned to Gao Jianwu by his superiors has been initially completed.
It's just that many sites in the South China base area are still a mixed bag, and Ding Wei needs to win them one by one. With Ding Wei holding more than 20,000 elites, these problems are only a matter of time, and opening up in the future is a matter of course.
"I have already negotiated with Major General Smith. The Allied Forces will transport a large amount of weapons and ammunition to our Qiongshan base on Nanhai Island. After the liberation of Hong Kong and Kowloon, they will be transported to Huiyang for delivery. Old Ding, you have a heavy burden this time. You have to be responsible for the delivery." Expanding northward and truly rebuilding the Hunan-Guangdong-Jiangxi border area will require a lot of weapons and ammunition, and relying on sea supplies from South China Sea island bases is also unstable.
So after taking care of the little devils in Hong Kong and Kowloon this time, all the weapons and ammunition seized will be supplied to your base in South China. It is best for the unit to mainly use Japanese weapons for easy supplementary use.
Go back and build a number of arsenals for the production of weapons and ammunition in the South China base area to lay the foundation for your self-sufficiency. "After the meeting, Ding Wei and Gao Jianwu said goodbye with some reluctance.
"Lao Gao, I won't say anything more. It's all for the common cause. The enemies you face this time when you go back are not easy. Although Lao Li and the others did a good job in Jin. But now you have been considered The most important combat target of the little devils is not only the little devils in North China, but also the 800,000 Kwantung Army.
In terms of overall strength, we are still far behind.
Our elite expeditionary force team is hard-earned. I hope you can use it to your advantage and change our strategic environment. "Ding Wei said very sincerely.
"We must not give up our now very successful tactical advantages of mobile warfare and annihilation warfare. When fighting in the Northeast Plains of North China, we still focus on annihilating the enemy's effective forces, rather than considering occupying territory.
Only in this way can we become stronger as we fight. This is something that our expeditionary force group must not only pay attention to, but also pay attention to convincing our superiors to support our tactical arrangements. We must not turn our expeditionary force group into a defensive force that sticks to a certain place. We do not have this condition yet. "
This time, they will fight separately in different places. After a year of fighting side by side, the two have developed a very strong comradeship, so they can express many opinions frankly to each other.
"Old Ding, I understand that I already have a rough plan on how to act after returning to Jindi and resting. When I complete the plan, I will send it to you via the radio. You can check it with me. Gao Jianwu said.
Gao Jianwu was actually very reluctant to let go of Ding Wei, the eldest brother who understood him best. After all, there are many ideas for many things in the Expeditionary Force Cluster Gaojian, but there is indeed a lack of practical experience and time in implementation.
So many of his ideas were realized by Ding Wei.
However, there is no way to fight alone in this place. Not only does it require a military mind, but more importantly, it also requires an overall view and the ability to have both sides. After all, the current South China base area lives in the cracks between the Japs and friendly forces.
In terms of total strength, it is still weak.
Compared with Chu Yunfei's South China Sea Island base, Ding Wei's South China base is actually more dangerous.
Fortunately, Ding Wei did not do such things in a day. Compared with the previous difficult environment, his foundation is much better now. After all, the weapons and equipment Gao Jianwu left him can arm at least 50,000 to 60,000 people.
I believe that with his talents, the base will be able to develop soon.
