Lin Gao Qiming

Chapter 1075 Refugee Shelter Team

"I have sent scouting cavalry to search in the direction of Huang County," Zhu Mingxia said. "After the rebels captured Huang County yesterday, they are carrying out organized looting and burning in the county. Most of the villages near the city wall have been destroyed. Now It is estimated that the first wave of refugees has already formed. We go out to take in now, and at most we will encounter sporadic small groups of rebel rangers, and we will not encounter the main force."

Lu Wenyuan was no longer at ease: "However, the speed of the refugee brigade is very slow, and I'm afraid they won't be able to walk two or three kilometers in an hour. The team is long..."

"It doesn't matter, as long as I maintain the order of the army, the containment team still acts as a whole. Once I encounter a large group of enemies, I will immediately gather up and resist. Huangxian County is not far from here, you can come anytime reinforce."

Zhu Mingxia and Lu Wenyuan agreed on the contact method, and then trotted all the way to the playground. The containment team had assembled according to his order.

Containment parties are more like armed caravans than troops.Zhu Mingxia has done a lot of work in order to carry out large-scale armed refugee shelter work in Shandong.Especially how to cover the slow-moving and large number of refugees, he worked out several different plans and tried different troop formations and equipment.Eventually a system was formed.

This system is roughly based on the concept of carts and trains used by Eastern European armies in the 16th and 17th centuries.Since the Hussite uprising, Eastern European armies have generally used cart formations.At first, the carts for transporting baggage were used as mobile fortifications.They only used large carts as protective shelters when defending and camping, and then gradually developed into a chariot formation that could move while fighting.Cossack, Polish and Russian armies became increasingly proficient at using this tactic against the Tatars.In the event of an attack, the large convoy used the firearms and spears on the cart against the highly mobile Tatar light cavalry on both wings of the army, covering the movement of foot infantry, non-combatants and baggage.

This system is not available everywhere, and can only be used effectively in the flat terrain of Central and Eastern Europe.Although the Huangxian area is a hilly area, there are many flat lands along the coast, and there are not many rivers. The use of cart arrays can indeed play a certain role.

However, Zhu Mingxia didn't have many large carts—even if he did, he couldn't find enough cattle to pull them, so his large cart array was made up of purple electric carts, which was similar to Sun Yuanhua's cart formation.However, Sun Yuanhua's car array relies on the immature firearms system. Regardless of his light artillery or bird guns, there are problems of slow reloading, short range and low accuracy-of course, the same problem is the same in Europe, but the Ming army is sad. His habit of using firearms: opening fire as soon as he saw the enemy charging, and then running away - making the astonishing number of firearms owned by Daming never able to effectively play their due role.

Zhu Mingxia didn't have this problem. Not only did he have enough high-quality firearms—much better than the British brown bess that beat the Eight Banners all over the place in 1840, but the army had also received strict training.

In the end, he also had a secret weapon: several typewriters dismantled from naval battleships were temporarily installed on a blast-type two-wheeled cart.Once this thing fires, it can be suppressed even if hundreds of Manqing Baja Lai charge together.

The reception team is composed of three main parts: the guard team, which is responsible for armed protection, is composed of army soldiers from the northward detachment; the civil affairs team, all of whom can speak the local dialect-most of them have recently taken in refugees.The job of civil servants is to comfort refugees while maintaining order within the refugee ranks.Finally, the transport team.They carried part of the vehicles and livestock, transported the old, young, women and children among the refugees, and accelerated the marching speed of the entire team.Zhu Mingxia's instructions to them were not to pretend to be anything, but mainly to pretend to be people: especially children and women.

The transportation team and the civil affairs team are mainly composed of Qimu Dao Xiangyong. Everyone has a standard machete, and some of them have a standard spear. When necessary, they can fight in hand-to-hand combat.Although Lu Wenyuan felt that spears were a bit of a hindrance, Zhu Mingxia believed that spears were very useful-first of all, spears can effectively deal with cavalry in formations, and secondly, spears can be used as crutches, which are very useful when walking on the snow. Can be used to assemble a stretcher.

Except for the soldiers, each containment team member must carry three servings of rations and drinking water, which are used to supplement the refugees at any time-of course, the bulk of the portable rations are transported by the vehicles and livestock of the transport team.In order for the refugees to eat on the way, the rations carried by the reception team are biscuits in the relief ration: this biscuit is similar to rice cakes, and is baked with a mixture of rice flour, sweet potato flour, salt, and sugar.The texture is crunchy.It is easy to digest, and does not require a lot of drinking water when eating - it is difficult to replenish safe drinking water in time for large groups of refugees.

The containment team has a radio station—carried by a military four-wheeled light carriage made by Lingao, and keeps in touch with the base at any time. Due to its preciousness, a cavalry squad is specially equipped to protect its safety
Zhu Mingxia inspected the shelter team gathered on the playground—everyone was dressed neatly, and all the cold-proof clothes were available, although most refugees did not get enough clothes, and they barely survived the winter by warming themselves.However, all those who were elected to the village brave team were given cotton-padded clothes, trousers, cotton hats and gloves.

He randomly checked the equipment of some people to see if their leggings were well worn. The soldiers of the Northward Detachment had warm military boots to wear, but the villagers could only be satisfied with reed flower sandals.

But this is not bad-many refugees have walked hundreds of miles barefoot in the cold wind to reach Qimu Island.

He pays the most attention to the condition of the clothes, especially the northward detachment. Although the northerners are recruited from the whole army to enrich the northward detachment, the majority of them are southerners. After winter, there are many downsizing due to frostbite.

"Have the troops had breakfast?" Zhu Mingxia asked Huang Xiong, who was following closely to inspect the troops—he served as the company commander of the Northward Detachment, and because he was also a soldier in Dengzhou, the guards chose his company as the backbone, and he was in charge. team leader.

"Report to the chief, we have already eaten." Huang Xiong, wearing a gray military coat, raised his hand and said in salute.

"How are the soldiers doing?"

"Report to the chief: very high!"

"Can I leave now?"

"Report to the chief: anytime, anywhere!"

"Very good." Zhu Mingxia said.The soldiers had been completely lightly dressed, except for weapons and ammunition and warm clothing, they only carried one day's rations and water.The military flag remained at the camp, and according to the order, they did not carry identity cards or any documents.Zhu Mingxia has already issued an order that all soldiers who died in battle and their weapons and equipment must be recovered, and they are not allowed to be discarded or buried on the spot.

He checked and found no major problems. Just as he was checking, the scout cavalry returned from the outside sent new news: there was a wave of about 3000 refugees coming towards Qimu Island. .There is no major rebel activity nearby.

"The main force of the rebel army is moving around Huang County, and some of them are transporting the looted supplies and food to Dengzhou." The scout reported, "They took a large number of women and young adults to Dengzhou. Let the young and middle-aged deliver supplies .”

"Is there a small group of rebels operating nearby?"

"Report: No, most of the small rebels are operating in several towns and cities around Huang County, and no one is coming to the sea."

"Your task is well done, go and rest first." Zhu Mingxia ordered.

"The troops are ready to leave!" Zhu Mingxia looked at his watch, "Leave in 15 minutes!"

At 400 a.m., an armed containment team consisting of more than [-] people drove out of Wickerside.The troops advanced in columns, and the cavalry company sent three times as many search cavalry forward. In addition to being responsible for early warning of the enemy, they also had the task of discovering refugee groups in time-if there were small groups of refugees, the cavalry would directly bring them to the large army.

From Qimu Island to Huangxian County, the straight-line distance is only more than 20 kilometers.If you are a person with sufficient food and good health, it will take seven or eight hours to walk the entire distance on foot.But considering the status of the refugees, it will take at least two days.Zhu Mingxia decided to take the risk and advance to a place about ten kilometers away from Huangxian County.At the same time, in order to facilitate the reception, he planned to find a village in the middle of the entire journey as a temporary camp, leaving some personnel and food as a place for the reception and refugees to spend the night.In terms of the current temperature, many refugees would die if they spend one night in the field. He wanted to reduce the death rate of refugees as much as possible.

At the same time, this camp can also accommodate sporadic refugees on the road, without having to take them on a long march.

The troops marched on the ground covered with ice and snow. Although the weather was fine, the severe freezing still brought great difficulties to the march.Especially for the fully loaded trolleys, each trolley had to cooperate with several Xiangyongs to pull the trolleys with lasso in front.Zhu Mingxia ordered the organization and containment team to follow at the back of the team—he thought that there was no problem with the Northward Detachment, but it was hard to say whether the newly established advancing column would be left behind on a large scale.

The land of Huang County outside Qimu Island was desolate. After walking for more than ten miles, I didn't hear a sound of chickens and dogs. The villages I passed were dilapidated and there was no living person.Dead bodies can be seen from time to time on the road and in the field, most of which died of cold and hunger.

Zhu Mingxia did not ride a horse, but walked in the middle of the team on foot. He was carrying an SKS-D with a 30-round magazine. Compared with many veterans who do not like semi-automatics, he has a lot of affection for this weapon.

The cold wind was stinging on his face, but Zhu Mingxia didn't feel cold at all. He stopped from time to time to check the map and compass to make sure that the marching route did not deviate from the route he chose.

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