Lin Gao Qiming

Chapter 2170 Assembling the Team
"Call them when you are on business, and make up the formalities."

After finishing his orders, the officer of the military depot pushed his hat back on his head, and hurriedly walked towards the pier, yelling all the way, "...don't squeeze! What's the matter with rushing to reincarnate? This is the army! Stand at attention! Don't speak!..."

"It would be nice if you gave us [-] raw melon eggs..." Luo Mao whispered.

"At least I have a gun." Li Dong said, "Recently, we need to hurry up in training—I have a hunch that this time there will be a big battle."

"Don't worry, I promise to fuck them all to death. Give them a night drill tonight to loosen their bones."

"Yes," Li Dong nodded.

Li Dongchu had just arrived and had a lot of formalities to go through, so he asked Luo Mao to be in charge of camping at the camp, and he took twenty big soldiers to "go on business".

The temporary camp was set up outside the city of Zhaoqing, but the office of the military depot was in the city. Li Dong led twenty soldiers into the city.

As the location of the former finger, Zhaoqing has become a large barracks. The troops and supplies from Sanshui, and the wounded and prisoners sent back from the front line are all suspended here. The wasteland along the river outside the city has been requisitioned and densely packed camps have been built. and cargo yards.On the newly built dirt road, vehicles and pedestrians flowed continuously.

There are few pedestrians in Zhaoqing City, only the national army is patrolling the road. Although the shops are open, most of them are only half open, looking very depressed.

There are fortified sentry posts everywhere in the streets and alleys, checking documents anytime and anywhere.On the way, Li Dong had already learned from other passers-by soldiers that Zhaoqing's surroundings were not stable. The defeated army and bandits made a scene, and people from surrounding villages flocked to the city to seek refuge. The order in the city was once very chaotic.It was not until the National Army fully reinforced that the surrounding situation was stabilized.The gentry and people hiding in the city gradually returned to their hometowns, and the order in the city gradually improved.

Li Dong arrived at the depot, handed in the form and application form, and soon received the supplies assigned to them. In addition to the guns and ammunition equipped for all personnel, a small amount of grenades were also distributed.

The ration also included a pair of new army shoes, leggings and three days' "field dry food" for each person.This fully confirms his estimate that "a big battle is going to be fought".

Back at the camp, supplementary soldiers have arrived.A total of forty soldiers, in two rows.Li Dong took a look at the roster, and there were ages ranging from seventeen to forty.Although they are old and young, the notes on the roster indicate that they have all received eight weeks of basic infantry training.

Li Dong looked at their faces and bodies one by one. Although they were a little thinner overall, they felt that they were still strong and capable.

"What's your name, Private?"

"Yes! Report to the officer, my name is Malay!" The soldier who was pointed out shouted back with his chest raised.

"Relax," Li Dong asked, "Have you ever fired a gun?"

"Report! A week of Nanyang rifle training, [-] air shots and [-] live ammunition shots!"

"how old are you?"

"Report, 19 years old!"

"Very good!" Li Dong nodded and walked to the front of the line:
"You have officially entered the integrated squadron of the Wuzhou National Army Brigade from today!" Li Dong inspected the row of soldiers in front of him with his eyes, "Our army was newly formed, but it has also withstood the test of the battlefield! We have had glorious achievements! I don't care what you did in the past, whether you were soldiers or ordinary people. Now that you have come to this army today, forget about the messy old army and ordinary people in the past! Become an upright Senate Soldiers under your command!"

After the training, Li Dong asked Luo Mao to take the recruits to the river to practice.I went back to the tent to start the paperwork for supplementary equipment. At this time, a messenger suddenly came from outside.

"Immediately head to Western Guangdong to attend the meeting."

The former finger of western Guangdong and the headquarter of the first brigade are located in the Guandi Temple of the Navy Camp outside the east gate.When Li Dong rushed to Guandi Temple, he found many officers, besides the National Army officers, there were also officers from the Fubo Army.There are several elders under the eaves of the corridor.

The staff officer of the brigade announced that Chief Zhu was studying the map, please wait a moment.It is impossible to bring together so many officers just for lectures, there must be important military operations to be deployed.Li Dong thought to himself.

At this moment, there is a huge map of western Guangdong hanging on the wall of the brigade headquarters, and on the table are some old space-time satellite photos that were specially distributed as controlled materials. Some flowers.Zhu Mingxia was dressed in the uniform of a major general and paced around the table.

After the Ba Pai Yao uprising in April, Yao people from all over western Guangdong responded one after another.Although Zhu Mingxia recruited and surrendered the garrison officers and soldiers abandoned by Xiong Wencan as soon as he occupied Zhaoqing, gave them names, and tried to supplement some food and salaries, but the full withdrawal of the main force of Xiong Wencan's Ming Army Field Corps made the original "Zhenyao" in the Xijiang River Basin The system collapsed.The compiled emergency documents from various Ming armies flew to Zhaoqing like a snowflake.Some counties that had surrendered were captured by Yao people's armed forces.The Yao chaos erupted on a scale far exceeding historical records.

It seemed that Zhu Mingxia's pressure was not strong enough. Due to the advance of the Senate and the riots of Ba Pai Yao, a large number of Ming army officers and soldiers dispersed in the countryside, and immediately merged with the bandits and villains in the countryside, gathered into countless gangs, and burned and looted everywhere. sweep.If the Ba Pai Yao riots were limited to the Sanlian area between Hezhou and Shaoguan in northwestern Guangdong, then the bandit riots that followed spread to all counties in the entire Xijiang River Basin.The traces of a large group of bandits even reached Sanshui.

Living in these four directions, with smoke coming from all directions, Zhu Mingxia had to give up the next offensive after the original plan to take Wuzhou, and even failed to take Teng County, and hurriedly led the main force back to Zhaoqing to deploy defenses and deal with the riots.

Now, except for the counties along the Xijiang River between Zhaoqing and Wuzhou, which are controlled by the Nationalist Army, most of the inland counties and guards in the mountainous areas north of the Xijiang River are still defended by the temporarily recruited old Ming army, and the local demoted officials are appointed. He "maintained the place" with the gentry.Guihuamin county magistrate and many national army squadrons were forced to stay in Zhaoqing because of "blocked roads", which made the situation even more chaotic.

Zhu Mingxia knew that most of these demoted officials and troops who "maintained the locality" took a wait-and-see attitude. If the Yao people's armed forces were not imminent, the speed of these people's "abandoning the dark and turning to the bright" would not be slower than the speed of "bearing humiliation and turning to the dark".Even in the current precarious situation, there are still people who are secretly hooking up with Xiong Wencan who is related to him, and some are even acting as a protective umbrella for those "official bandits".

But now, he can't take care of these people. The existence of these people can somewhat resist the expansion of the Yao people's armed forces and ensure the basic social order.

The current situation is still not optimistic, but the situation has gradually become clear.According to the collected information, Ba Pai Yao is mainly distributed in Lianshan, Lianzhou, and Liannan between Hezhou and Shaoguan, separated from Cangwu, Huaiji, Guangning and other counties along the line of Zhaoqing and Wuzhou in the south.After the incident, the Yao people first conquered Lianshan County, and then marched eastward to occupy Lianzhou, Ruyuan, and Yangshan. The source comes from the south to seek bad luck.After a month of observation, it can now be determined that it has a tendency to move closer to the Xijiang River Basin and further expand the situation by uniting with the Yao people in Guangxi.

Not only that, the chaotic situation of the Ba Pai Yao riots gave Xiong Wencan a glimmer of hope in hiding in Guangxi, so he continued to send his confidants back to Guangdong, inciting bandits and routs to riot by sealing officials and making wishes, trying to expand the scale and scope of the riots, On the one hand, the pace of the Fubo Army's westward march was trapped, and on the other hand, it was used to consume the Senate, so that there would be a chance to "counterattack" in the future.The intelligence collected by Lian along the Xijiang River also fully illustrates this point.

However, this kind of "official bandits" is very different from "bandits". In order to obtain more loot and gain greater "prestige", they tend to continuously expand their gangs to enhance their ability to attack fortified villages .The result is that the scale of the bandit group is expanding day by day, which instead gives the Fubo army favorable conditions to find, capture, and annihilate.

Not long ago, Beiwei commanded troops to wipe out several bandit regiments in Gaoyao, and the southern part of Zhaoqing became much calmer.Although the bandits are more harmful when gathered together, they are much easier to wipe out than sporadic small groups of bandits, and the strongmen from all walks of life who do evil just push the local gentry and the masses to their side.It is not unrelated to the fact that Beiwei's "security purge" can continue.

Zhu Mingxia carefully looked at the red dots on the map. Has the time to reverse the passive situation has come?
The staff officer came in and reported: "Chief, according to your order, the chief officers of units above the Zhaoqing Company have assembled."

"Let everyone in."

Thirty people entered the official hall at once, and it became extremely crowded. All the officers lined up silently and consciously, appearing chaotic and orderly.

"It's the first time I've met many officers here. Please introduce yourself."

The squadron leaders of the newly arrived squadrons of the national army were the first to report. Zhu Mingxia had actually read the training/combat reports and the briefings of the chief officers of these troops in advance.

Although these troops are uneven, most of them have a common characteristic, that is, they have all withstood the test of war.

A newly formed squadron can stand alone in the battle without any collapse, and it is considered qualified.Although it may not be able to be used as a sharp knife, it can barely be used as a shield.

As for those inexperienced rookie squadrons who just came from Guangzhou, they can only serve as garrison troops.

"Everyone, it's time to show off your daily training results. You also know that there are Yao people in the north of Wuzhou and the Ming army in the west, but my own strength is weak. Therefore, I am determined to carry out a forward battle to change our current passive situation. Gather today, that is In order to inform everyone that our superiors have agreed to our plan. Staff, please tell everyone about the battle plan.”
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