Lin Gao Qiming

Chapter 2169 Return to Zhaoqing
Li Dong's military training in Xu Gang lasted for a week. Although there were twists and turns in the work, it went smoothly-the bandits besieging Xu Gang scared the old men of the Xu family, and they all counted on the "Master of the Song Dynasty" to save their lives. Not to mention reorganizing the militia, even asking them to donate their concubines would be happy.

Bei Wei issued a notice on how to reorganize the militia.Basically, the militia should emphasize "regionalization" and emphasize "locality", so that those who lack political training can have sufficient motivation to "defend their hometown" to fight. As long as they don't leave their hometown, their combat effectiveness is stronger than that of officers and soldiers.

The deteriorating social security environment at the end of the Ming Dynasty made each village of a relatively large scale form a village brave with the clan or the big households in the village as the core.There are as few as a dozen or as many as hundreds of bravery in these villages, and they are actually the embryonic form of a "militia".It's just that the quality of these militiamen is uneven, most of them are untrained, and many "bad people" in the villages have been mixed in among them, and they first harmed the villagers.Moreover, the bravery of the township with the clan and big family as the core will often be reduced to "private soldiers".Therefore, Beiwei's reorganized militia basically focused on reforming the bravery of the township.

Although some people questioned how effective such a transformation without touching the social and economic foundation of the countryside would be, the current situation left the Senate with no choice.We can only adopt the model of "cooking and sandwiching raw rice" and dispatch armed patrols to each village to grasp the initial organization of the grassroots villages.

The experience of forming a militia has already accumulated sufficient experience in the security war in Hainan, and it is similar to that in Guangdong.Roughly in accordance with the model that two members of a large village draw one, and all members of a small village are soldiers, village soldiers are formed, and they are equipped with cold weapons, a small amount of captured firearms and armor.And urged the villages to build defensive facilities.

At present, with the capabilities of the Senate, it is impossible and impossible to directly lead and train these village soldiers, so Bei Wei set the goal: the chief and deputy captains of the village soldiers must come from the local county national army garrison squadron Appointed, and at the same time accept the command of the county.

The main duty of the militia captain is to maintain the security of the village, and at the same time establish a joint guarantee relationship with the surrounding villages.UNPROFOR does not simply designate the number of villages, it is basically based on terrain conditions.Generally, the distance between villages is not more than 3 kilometers in a straight line, and it can be reached within half an hour on foot.so that the villages can support each other.

The militia team is mobilized by the county to go out to perform tasks, which generally does not exceed one month.Under normal circumstances, village soldiers do not go to other counties to fight.

For villages with an underpopulated population, the measure of gathering villages is adopted, and multiple small villages are merged into a small village with better defense conditions.Make sure that there are at least 30 young people in each village.

The Baojia system is strictly enforced in every village - the reason why it is said to be "strict" is that the Baojia system already existed in the Ming Dynasty. Because of the problem of Yao chaos in the Guangdong and Guangxi regions, every village has a Baojia system.Now further rectification continues.Beiwei ordered the county guards to send teams to the villages to improve Baojia one by one. At the same time, he established a household registration book for the villagers: one copy was kept by himself, and the other was kept by the county.Foreigners without a fixed residence must obtain guarantees from well-to-do people in the village. Without guarantees, with suspicious backgrounds, or "delinquents" in the village, they will all be housed in labor camps in the county for re-screening.

The policy of "watching and helping each other" is implemented in each village, and signal towers are set up in each village. Adjacent villages use beacon smoke during the day and firelights to communicate and warn at night.Once a warning signal occurs, the county will be alerted in a relay manner.Once the signal for help is sent out, except at night, the dispatch can be delayed until the next morning, and militias must be dispatched to rescue in all villages of the UNPROFOR.In the process of transporting materials through water and dry roads, they will be escorted by village soldiers relay. If there is any loss, the villages escorted by this section will compensate according to the price.

In normal times, carrying out this kind of transformation will inevitably take a lot of trouble, especially the burden on the village soldiers is extremely heavy.But now the threat of bandits burning, killing, and looting made the villages set up militias to build Baojia and repair the walls.The implementation of the village work is also relatively smooth.Although setting up a village means loss of property, bandits cannot take away the land. As long as people are alive and the world is peaceful, the family business can always be accumulated again.

Li Dong's work in Xu Gang was also considered smooth. Xu Weicheng agreed to all his demands, and soon organized a militia team of 120 people, all armed with standard spears and machetes.From the seized materials in Yunan County's inventory, a dozen birdcracks and light Flang cannons were distributed to them.I also specially made a few armors.

This armor was really bad when it was brought: it was full of rust, and the leather strips were broken in some places, and some armor pieces were lost. Many of Dong's subordinates showed envious eyes.

In any case, with the armor on the body, the chance of survival is always better.

For Xu Gang, the arrival of these weapons and equipment has made their trust in the Senate a step further: the National Army of the neighboring county provided timely rescue at a critical moment, and now the county is sending them weapons to help them train. Rich and poor, they all feel that they have a reliable support in this troubled world.

Li Dong didn't care about the minds of the soldiers, he kept urging the soldiers to train the militia.One week to train the militia is a bit short anyway, but the braves of the villages have not received much training in the past, so they can barely do enough to guard the villages.Now after their simple training, their combat effectiveness has improved somewhat.In particular, Xu Yong, the former leader of Xiangyong, was quite active in training, always pestering Li Dong to learn "Australian martial arts" - he didn't believe that Australian soldiers' white-blade training was as simple as a few tricks, which made Li Dong overwhelmed It's annoying.

A week later, Li Dong's detachment boarded a transport ship going down from Wuzhou. However, what he received was not an order to return to Wuzhou, but to immediately head downstream and report to Zhaoqing.

One of the squadrons was split into two at the time of departure. Captain Zhu Si stayed in Fengchuan with half of the squadron, but he took the other half of the squadron to go to Zhaoqing. What was he planning to do?
An order is an order, no matter how puzzled Li Dong and the others were, all the soldiers came to Zhaoqing again on the transport boat going up and down.

The headquarters of the first brigade in Zhaoqing is also the location of the front finger in western Guangdong, and a large number of troops were originally assembled.When Li Dong arrived with half of his squadron, he found that there were more troops here than when he passed by last month, and a large number of transport ships had also assembled.

Anyone with a little military experience knows that a large-scale military operation is brewing in Zhaoqing.

"Be careful, the boat is about to dock..."

Following the sailor's yell, the three large boats slowly pulled up to the berth on the shore.

"Get off the boat! One by one, don't mess up." The sergeants greeted, Li Dong also relaxed his waist, and boarded the gangplank.

As soon as he landed, the officers of the military depot on the shore greeted him.

"Which part?"

"We are from the integrated squadron of the Wuzhou National Army..."

"From Fengchuan?"

Li Dong thought they knew it clearly:

"Yes."

"The weapons are all kept," said the officer at the depot, "the daggers and Nanyang rifles are kept."

Everyone looked at each other and carried their weapons with them. This was often emphasized in the education they received after enlisting in the army. Even when they were resting, their weapons had to be put in place so that they could be used at any time.Why do we have to ask them to disarm as soon as they land now?Since disarmed, why keep the rifle?

But since I said that, I can only do it.Now leave all standard spears, machetes and other weapons - Li Dong noticed that there were already a lot of cold weapons such as standard spears piled up on the ground.

Do you want to change all the clothes?A thought flashed through Li Dong's mind.

Before he could think about it in detail, a few more ships came to the pier, and several military officers were calling for people to gather on the shore holding banners with numbers on them—it turned out that the National Army reinforcements from Guangzhou had arrived.

The numbers of these later squadrons were generally ranked in double digits, and the soldiers still had the uneasiness unique to recruits, and they looked so shabby and ridiculous with standard spears.The Wuzhou Squadron, which had fought two battles, had a sense of superiority when they walked past them.Li Dong suddenly felt a little emotional. When he left Sanshui last month, the brothers were also like this. After such a short time, they can boast of their qualifications in front of others. Time flies so fast.

Officers at the depot housed them in temporary tent barracks—the original barracks and temples were already full.

"Although we are a squadron, there are only half of the squadron." Li Dong was a little puzzled when he saw that the barracks arranged by the officers of the military depot could accommodate more than 100 people.

"You report the shortage tonight, and I will make up for you." The joint logistics officer held a hard board clip and wrote on it, "The joint logistics department has instructed that all troops must make up for the troops according to the organizational system—— Have the supplementary soldiers seen it? It is for the squadrons."

"It's a hard battle to make up half of the raw melon eggs..." Luo Mao interjected.

The joint logistics officer smiled: "After a few rounds, it won't be a melon egg—you order and inspect your Nanyang rifles at night, and report any damage. Don't forget to report the ammunition shortage."

"Are we going to distribute rifles to all of us?" Li Dong asked.

"That's right." The joint logistics officer nodded, "Your squadron performed well, so this time it was transferred to change outfits—work hard, and you will have a chance to make meritorious service!"

These words confirmed the conjecture that there would be a large-scale operation soon, and the soldiers were in a commotion.Li Dong hurriedly said, "What are you guys arguing about? If you're arguing about having night exercises at night! Get the hell out and get ready for camp now!"

"After the camp preparations are over, send [-] soldiers to the military depot to go on business and collect things." The joint logistics officer looked at the team, "How many people are there now?"

"Report, there are actually 60 people. But three of them have no military registration..."

These three came from their "in-situ military expansion" in Xugang. The joint logistics team recognized this kind of on-the-spot supplement, but they had to go through the enlistment procedures afterwards.
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