Lin Gao Qiming

Chapter 2150 The First Mission

Bright pine torches were lit on the playground, and the personnel gathered in squadrons.

The blackboard is made locally, and the wooden board is painted with black ink, or it is a picture table of a wealthy family, or the table top of the Eight Immortals table.Only the chalk was sent from Lingao - the delivery of "non-combat" materials such as wooden basins and chalk caused Minister Hong to complain: these things greatly increased the complexity of logistics supply transfer.

The instructors are naturalized civilian cadres and military officers in Wuzhou, at least all holders of second-class diplomas.The content taught is mainly literacy.

The literacy rate in this time and space itself is not high. Most of the ordinary soldiers are from the bottom of society, and the proportion of illiteracy is extremely high.According to the preliminary investigation when enlisting in the army, most of the soldiers can only recognize their own names: of course, the names are very simple, such as Chen Dawang Shiwu.

Wei Aiwen of the Political Department of the General Staff clearly pointed out in the "Cultural Education Instructions" issued to the entire army that "cultural education" and "political education" are inseparable.It is necessary to subtly carry out "political education" while cultural education.To this end, the Office of Truth and the Political Department have specially compiled a special "Army Culture and Education Textbook", which is revised every year according to changes in the times.

The latest "Textbook" has added words specially added for the mainland strategy: "We must save the suffering compatriots", "The oppressed people rise up to welcome the Senate", "Overthrow the tyranny of hypocrisy", "The Senate comes Demonstration sentences such as slogans such as "There is food to eat"-the soldiers have learned that they can be directly painted on the wall as slogans.It is said that this idea came from Mr. Xie Yuan, who is also a veteran who likes to talk about "the role of propaganda".Therefore, I specifically explained to Qian Duo: We must pay close attention to the cultural and political education of the National Army.

The initial education is literacy training, starting with teaching simple basic words, and then gradually teaching some words and short sentences related to military affairs and politics.It is gradual.

However, for the National Army recruits who have been trained all day and have just eaten, cultural learning is nothing more than a lullaby.Within a few minutes, someone dozed off—and was beaten awake again by the instructor with a military stick, and forced to stand and listen to the class.

As a result, the entire playground was filled with the screams of the soldiers who were batoned and the reprimands of the instructors, mixed with the sound of yawns one after another.

After [-] minutes of a class, most of the soldiers didn't learn a single word, but they suffered a lot of beatings.

A sound of "disbandment" made the sleepy-eyed soldiers go back to sleep as if they had received amnesty.

Because Yang Erdong dozed off, he was fined to stand for half an hour, and then yawned for half an hour, with tears and snot coming out.My whole body was sore and sore, and I only felt that my eyes were blurred. The figure of "Sir" dangled in front of the table, but he couldn't see or hear what he was doing.He didn't even hear "disband", and finally Lipton gave him a hand, and then he came back to sleep in the room.

After a day of tossing and tossing, everyone was exhausted and fell asleep on the bed. As a result, before dawn the next day, the wake-up call sounded in the camp. Most of the soldiers who were still unfamiliar with the wake-up call did not respond in time. It was not until the sound of "dong dong" of the assembly drum that people were called out of the bunk.

So the three squadrons stood in the military posture on the playground for a long time, suffering from leg cramps and being mercilessly beaten with military sticks-if anyone screamed, the instructor would give him an extra kick and "like a sissy" " comments.

Treating soldiers like this makes these newly enlisted soldiers complain endlessly. Although the officials of Ming Dynasty also beat people, and the beatings were more severe, they rarely practiced on weekdays. .The Australian army officer dangled in front of his eyes every day, and from time to time an order came out, and if he didn't understand it, he would be beaten in a daze.

Human potential is infinite, and soon, the problem of not being able to understand the instructor's accent will no longer be a problem.

Every day is endless queue training: get up at the sound of the trumpet, tidy up housework, assemble the whole team, physical training, eat breakfast, queue training, eat lunch, queue training, eat dinner, culture class, and then go to the playground to assemble the whole team to run A few laps, and finally lined up back to the dormitory to sleep.The days are boring and difficult.

"We've all become mill animals!" Lipton murmured secretly among the soldiers.In addition to eating and sleeping every day, you just walk around the playground endlessly. If the instructors are upset, you will double up with tricks such as "night drills" or "night emergency assembly" to toss the soldiers.

The most frightening thing is the "examination", starting from the simplest writing of one's own name, to memorizing the "Fubo Army Disciplinary Regulations"; Important theoretical articles: "The Holy Ship and the Dawn", "The Senate is the Only Supreme Court of the Chinese People", "The Senate is the Morning Star of the Communist Party".

Although these three articles are not too long, they are all written in "Newspeak" and filled with all kinds of new terms. It is not easy to read smoothly, let alone these illiterate soldiers who have difficulty writing their names.Therefore, each squadron adopts the primary school students' style of leading and reading a sentence, followed by a sentence.Regardless of whether you understand it or not, you should memorize it before you talk about it.Those who don't know how to recite, as usual, have military sticks and stand in a military posture to serve.

The training has become a nightmare for the soldiers, so that being on duty during the training interval has become the most desired thing for everyone.Standing guard, patrolling and working as a construction worker is not a good job, but it's a lot better than the trembling on the coaching field.When I was serving as a soldier in Ming Dynasty, the most feared thing was to "mobilize", but now everyone has an inexplicable expectation of "going out on a mission" and "fighting"-no matter how dangerous the war is, at least it is a happy life or death. It really feels like years to be fucked day and night.

Finally, the day of the mission arrived.On this day, Qian Duo received an order from Zhu Quanxing, asking him to immediately send a squadron to Fengchuan County.Escort transport convoys on land.

From Wuzhou down to the Xijiang River between Fengchuan County, there is a section of shoal, which is not only dangerous but also shallow.Even the shallow-water gunboats of the Inland River Fleet could not pass.Only gunboats with a draft of no more than 1 meter can pass.

Although the situation was originally tense, attacks occurred along the coast from time to time.However, there is not much danger for transport ships navigating on the Xijiang waterway: most of the transport fleet from Sanshui to Wuzhou sails in tandem with tugboats, and ships rarely run aground due to the current.The gunboats escorting them had strong firepower, enough to disperse the sporadic attacks on the shore. Moreover, the Xijiang River was very wide, and the projectile weapons owned by the bandits or the rioting Yao people could not threaten the transport ships in most sections of the river.

But the latest escort, the transport fleet was attacked on a shoal in the Xijiang channel shortly after passing through Fengchuan County.

There are many shoals in the waterway of the Xijiang River. In order to sail smoothly, every time you sail, you must hire a boatman who has been sailing here for a long time to lead the boat to pass smoothly.The maintenance navy also deliberately set up a number of navigation marks in various shoals,

However, when they arrived at Jieshou Beach, which was 19 kilometers away from Wuzhou City, the escorting naval officers found that not only the waterway markers were completely destroyed, but some of the waterways also showed signs of man-made shipwrecks blocking them.When they tried their best to escape the danger, an armed force of unknown origin suddenly launched an attack from the shallows.

Although there were not many escorts, the firepower on the gunboat was strong, and the attackers were quickly repelled.The convoy suffered no further losses other than a few wounded.But this attack sounded the alarm to the Logistics Command and the First Brigade Headquarters in Zhaoqing-the Xijiang waterway can no longer sail with peace of mind.

As an emergency countermeasure, under the arrangement of the First Brigade, counties along the Xijiang River began to organize escort fleets.The escorts are sent by the national army squadrons in each county to send personnel, and the escorts are relayed one by one.When the fleet was sailing, the National Army patrolled and protected it by motorized boats.When encountering the narrow river surface passing by the channel, the commanding heights and shoal areas are used for landing warning, and when an attack is encountered, the landing is carried out for expulsion.This kind of patrol also has the function of maintaining law and order on both sides of the Xijiang River and suppressing bandits and Yao people's armed forces.

Qian Duo in Wuzhou also received the same order.Because the national army in Wuzhou has the largest establishment, the area they are responsible for is also the largest. They are responsible for the waterway from the lower reaches of Wuzhou to Xintan.

There are four shoals in this waterway: Longzhou, Jieshou, Panlong, and Xintan. The water depths of the shoals are different, the deepest is 3 meters, and the shallowest is less than 1 meter. The river is open and the sandbars are crisscrossed. , the current is stable, but the sandbars here are densely covered and there are many reefs, so it is still difficult for the fleet to navigate upwards.It takes a lot of time to cross the beach, and the speed of the boat has dropped to the point where it is slower than walking.It is a good place for the enemy to launch a land attack.

Qian Duo and Zhu Si studied the map, and the task was quite arduous.The channel from Wuzhou city to Xintan is about 50 kilometers long.Even if the patrol team sent out goes well, it will take two days to complete a round-trip full patrol.

Zhu Si said: "There is no problem with Xilong Island. It is only 3.5 kilometers away from Wuzhou City. It was originally within the security area of ​​Wuzhou, and Battalion Commander Zhu's troops often patrol there. Mainly the few sandbars below."

"From the perspective of ensuring safety, we must send at least one squadron for each patrol to be safe." Qian Duo said, "The escort ships must sail along both sides of the bank at the same time to ensure the fastest response speed."

"Four squadrons are enough, the problem is that they are still in training..." Zhu Si began to scratch his head.

"We can only train and fight at the same time." Qian Duo said, "That's good, at least you can train the troops. As for your concern about the combat effectiveness of the troops, I think for the time being, we will temporarily mix veterans and recruits every time we go out on missions." , Engage in integrated squadrons and send them out."

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