Lin Gao Qiming

Chapter 167 Armed Parade

News of the "Kun Thieves" camping by the sea quickly spread to nearby villages. Obviously, these 200 people who were fully armed and dragging cannons were not here for tourism.It was still dark, and all the villages within more than ten miles around sent envoys to visit with wine, dried meat, chickens and ducks.

"I still wanted to ask them to come, but I sent it to my door. Call them in!" Xi Yaya had originally shouldered the task of the executive committee asking him to appease the villages along the way and ask them to join him.

The radio station has been installed in the headquarters tent, and the laptop is turned on. It shows Xi Yaya's favorite war chess game, but it has now been transformed into a combat simulation command system.Outside the tent, two soldiers were pedaling desperately on a two-person pedal generator.

Xi Yaya was sitting on a folding canvas chair in front of the tent of the headquarters, behind him were two flagpoles and spears, flying his favorite red and yellow pennant flag—this was his personal command flag, as for the flag of the crossing army , is still debated.Watching this group of old men in their best clothes hunched over and walked in step by step from the gate of the camp, this sense of power is quite enjoyable.

Xi Yazhou explained to these elders through three translators that besides the Lingao dialect, there are also people who speak the military dialect and the Qiongzhou dialect. The army refused to accept him at all. Unexpectedly, this statement made these old men cry bitterly. They all knelt on the ground and begged bitterly, wishing they could hug his thigh.

"What's wrong?" Xi Yaya was puzzled.

Xiong Buyou, who was acting as an interpreter, couldn't figure out why Qiu's declaration of innocence would get such a result. After asking nicely for a long time, he realized that these elders thought they were not satisfied with the things they sent and wanted to ask for more. They are all crying and complaining that the village is so poor that people are starving to death.

"Okay, then take all the wine." Xi Yazhou couldn't laugh or cry, and felt the pity of the people, "No dry meat, chicken and duck, ask them to bring some fresh vegetables and eggs and duck eggs."

Hearing Xi Yazhou's order, these people got up as if they were being amnesty by the emperor, and then all the villages joined together to donate 50 taels of silver to the "Chief Chief".Xi Yazhou firmly refused again.So he got a lot of compliments such as "the general is honest and clean", "the chief is really honest and honest", Xiong Buyou translated a few sentences and didn't bother to read them again.

Xi Yazhou looked serious, and in accordance with the spirit of the executive committee, he announced that all villages should send people to Bairen City to report to Bairen City before the [-]th day of the first month of the second year of Chongzhen to discuss the important matter of "guarding against bandits and preventing theft". All shall be dealt with as "bandits".

"Everyone knows what happened to the Goujiazhuang that hooked up with the pirates." Xi Yazhou showed a fierce look in his eyes, "When I came to Lingao, I deeply felt that the people's livelihood here is dying and bandits are rampant. Help the weak, protect the environment and the people', and keep one side safe for the court. If anyone does not cooperate with our actions, he will have trouble with the people of Lingao, and the people of Lingao, that is, with the court. If he has trouble with the court, he will be a rebel Party! Everyone gets it and kills them." He slashed his hands down fiercely, "I will tell you about the villages that didn't come today."

The people kneeling below are almost confused. Aren't these "kun thieves" themselves pirates? Horror legends, who dares to say "no" is just obedient, and secretly glad that the village is very sensible and took the initiative to come.

Xi Yazhou also asked them to send a liaison officer from each village to accompany the army, and also asked for several guides who were familiar with the local mountain roads.That's what makes them quit.

"Have all the villages sent people here?" Xi Yaya asked Xiong Buyou, who marked the villages that came to report to the camp on a map.

"All came within a radius of ten miles, and three came within fifteen miles."

Xi Yazhou was full of confidence, "When we finish Baitu, more villages will come."

"What are you asking them to do in Bairen City?" Xiong Buyou was curious.

"Requisition for Ding and Grain," Xi Yazhou looked at the topographic map on the table, "We have no opponents in Lingao County, and the next step is to use the human and material resources here. President Ma wants to capture the county and become a county himself." However, Chairman Wen wants to encircle the cities from the countryside, coerce the villages by force, and establish our own administrative network. The county seat doesn’t matter at all.”

"I don't think the county seat is anything to do. It's just a county government office. It's not something that can be occupied anytime and anywhere."

"That's right, the common people are fundamental."

"Report, Navy Commander Chen is here!"

From tomorrow onwards, the troops will march into the mountains, and the navy's support fleet can only resupply the army after arriving at Baitu.After coordination between Xi Yazhou and the fleet commander Chen Haiyang, the two sides decided to advance separately tomorrow. The army will advance to the outskirts of Baitu Village at [-]:[-] p.m., and then persuade the people in the village to surrender. Rockets, the "Fubo" began to bombard Baitu Port. If the persuasion was successful, it would release a green rocket——since the recruited firecrackers, although they can't make signal flares yet, model rockets are still available.

Everyone agreed on the contact signals and disposal plans for various situations, and it was after six o'clock in the evening that Chen Haiyang returned to the Fubo by rowboat—he declined Xi Yazhou's invitation to stay with him for dinner, and brought the navy's share with him. Vegetables and eggs returned to the boat.Xi Yaya firmly believes that there are more delicious meals on the Fubo.He hated it, especially when the guards brought him a big bowl of hot rice noodles.

Dinner is Grass No. [-] and Grass No. [-]. The former is rice noodles and the latter is rice noodles.Cook it thoroughly in a big pot, and put the whole package of compound seasoning on the shelf: there are salt, dried green onion, pepper in it—it’s a pity that there is no chili, otherwise it would be better to have some oily peppers in this thing—and there are many glazes Clay pots with fish sauce.The jars have rattan jackets to prevent collisions and damage when moving.All kinds of vegetables and poultry eggs sent by the people nearby also enrich the content of the soup.

The taste of the cooked food is quite good, but there is no oil or water.Xi Yazhou once again saw the appetite of the peasants in this time and space: a soldier ate almost 3 catties of rice noodles in one go before he could forget about it.

Sliced ​​luncheon meat was added to the officers' soup.The fine tradition of hard work and simplicity shows its power here again. A can of 125g luncheon meat can be eaten by two people. The person in charge of cutting must be very careful not to cut too much or too little.Finally, even the grease on the inner wall of the can was washed away with hot soup.

"I didn't expect luncheon meat to be delicious!" Dongmen Chuiyu took a sip of the rice noodle soup. After adding luncheon meat, the soup seemed to become richer. The luncheon meat also added a variety of spices to the soup, which was more delicious than rice noodle soup. The noodle soup with seasoning is much more delicious.It seems that Grassland No. [-] and No. [-] are not a big problem. The disadvantage is that there is no fat. If there is no luncheon meat, the taste of simply using seasoning packets is still too bland.

He wrote down his feelings about the rations in a notebook, and then walked out of the tent to relax, but he felt a little hot in his heart-but he kicked something, and rolled away with a bang, but when he looked closely, it turned out to be a luncheon meat empty cans.

"It's too wasteful, who did this!" Dongmen Chuyu was heartbroken. Tin-plated tinplate is something that the industrial sector has not been able to produce until now. The bags and plastic bags were carefully washed and put away and returned to the Planning Commission warehouse.He searched around for a while, and found all the cans.He rushed to the command post to report to Xi Yazhou, so all the officers received an order that night: the canned food after eating must be washed and recycled.

Ying Yu, the commander of the artillery teaching company, was marching in the mountains.Sweat has soaked the military uniform.Is this still winter?He stopped, took a sip of the light salt water in the kettle, and looked at the winding mountain road.

The dense forest covered the marching ranks, and the mountain was not too steep, but it was rough and difficult.But Ying Yu can imagine his subordinates: a artillery platoon of the Army Artillery Teaching Team, and three 3-pound mountain howitzers.The cannon was disassembled and carried by horses on the march.According to the standard 12-pound howitzer, each gun is carried by 12 horses, the first packs the gun body, the second packs the gun frame and wheels, and the third packs two ammunition boxes.An ammunition box contains 3 shells: 8 grenades and 2 solid bullets. There are only 6 rounds in 2 ammunition boxes.Under normal conditions, the base number of a gun is 16 rounds.But all the horses and donkeys in the hands of the traversers are not enough.Even though only three cannons were dispatched, most of the horses in the farm had already been used—Wu Nanhai had to make sure that all the horses would return safely, so he did not hesitate to send Yang Baogui to the expedition team to take care of the horses , but he can march by boat instead of marching on foot.

Several artillerymen passed by Ying Yu's side.Like infantrymen, they all carried full armor and rifles. The only one who didn't carry a rifle was a 15-year-old boy. Do not carry a rifle.

"When will there be mounted artillery with mules and horses?" Ying Yu sighed.

There are more than a dozen porters behind the artillery platoon, all carrying the equipment and supplies of the artillery.These are the "liaison officers" sent by the villages yesterday. Xi Yazhou is prepared to send these people back to the village to contact and arrange in case extra manpower and material resources are needed.Ying Yu said that they had nothing to do anyway, so they would help me carry some equipment to lighten the burden on the horses, since there were too many odds and ends for the artillery.

Beiwei led the reconnaissance team and a few guides a few kilometers ahead to conduct an interdiction search to eliminate possible ambushes and observation posts. According to the guides, Baitu Village seldom interacts with surrounding villages. Eat well, and even the timber for shipbuilding is brought from the sea.They lacked nothing, and lived a good life.It is rare to go out from the mountains to go to the market, and I often buy things with foreign silver, and some people have seen large foreign ships go to Baitu.

Because of the intrusion of local bandits in Baitu Village, a wooden village was set up on the key road leading to the village and people were sent to defend it.As for the heroes from all walks of life at sea, they don't come to disturb them-they often repair and buy ships in Baitu.

(End of this chapter)