Lin Gao Qiming

Chapter 624 Guard
"The prisoner-of-war camps are all ready, and I even trained a group of aunts who shave their heads." Yang He said happily.He spent the whole afternoon talking with Mei Wan about the site selection and construction of the prisoner-of-war camp.The date of commencement has now been negotiated.However, a large number of supporting facilities in the prisoner-of-war camps require the cooperation of other departments.Speaking of the next large number of captives from the officers and soldiers, everyone was very excited.Only Dongmen Chuuyu smiled and didn't speak.He participated in several military meetings, how to capture as many prisoners as possible is not as simple as it is said.After several war games have been deduced, there is a high possibility of defeating the battle.

Once the [-] officers and soldiers were disintegrated, it would be troublesome to gather them together and take them into the prisoner-of-war camp. The Fubo Army lacked cavalry, the most powerful unit in the pursuit battle.

The navy that wiped out Tang Yunwen's occupation of Baisha Water Village can certainly cut off the escape route for the officers and troops to escape to the mainland, but Hainan Island is a huge place and there is also a lot of room for maneuver.The official army can also retreat to Wenchang and other places.Disbanded soldiers can easily be transformed into small groups of bandits on the spot, causing great harm to the local area.The meeting decided that after defeating the enemy in the land battle, the remnants of the Ming army should be returned to Haikou Qianhusuo or Qiongshan County as completely as possible, so as to catch the turtle in the urn.

These days, he had people repeatedly rehearse his troops' siege skills out of such considerations.After a week of continuous training, the coordination among infantrymen has become quite proficient.This earthen city was actually built in a reduced scale according to the scale of Qianhusuo City in Haikou, but the height, thickness and fortification facilities of the city wall are basically one to one, and there is no shrinkage.

After dinner, Dongmen Chuiyu went back to the headquarters.In the evening, a meeting of officers above the field barracks will continue to be held.

He Ming held this meeting under the pressure of the Executive Committee.Wu De, president of the Planning Institute, expressed concern at several coordination meetings: the army is mobilized now, but the economic situation cannot support such wartime operation for a long time.In addition, Cheng Dong, Ma Qianju and others have all asked what the specific battle plan is.He Ming knew that they all hoped that the battle would start as soon as possible. Some hoped to extend the ruling power to the whole of Hainan as soon as possible, and some were worried that the economy of the Traveling Group would not be able to bear such consumption.He knows that everyone has their own reasons, and they can all speak loudly on the table.Moreover, the wind direction of the entire Senate also hopes to eliminate the enemy as soon as possible.

Although neither the Senate nor the Executive Committee had the right to interfere with the strategic and tactical decisions of the Minister of War according to the law, the 90-day deadline made He Ming feel very heavy pressure.If he cannot achieve a decisive victory within three months, it will be difficult for him to pass when the Senate meets to discuss the re-election of the Minister of War.

He Ming knew that now only a quick fight is the best choice.

However, the members of the special investigation team he sent out to operate near Qianhusuo in Haikou and the intelligence transferred from the Foreign Intelligence Agency all show that no one from the Ming army has landed on Hainan Island so far.Only a few thousand troops assembled in Guangzhou. As for whether they were going to cross the sea together after the whole army was assembled, or arrived in batches, there was no information on the information.

The Ming army has not been dispatched yet, which makes He Ming, who is used to modern soldiers, find it difficult to understand-the first thing to do when landing on an island like Hainan Island is to seize the opportunity to ensure the safety of the bridgehead on the island so that the follow-up troops And supplies can be sent to the island continuously.

He and his staff conducted many exercises on the map, and every imaginary Ming army's combat operation started with a small group of troops to reinforce Qianhu in Haikou.Based on intelligence, the staff officers believed that, judging from the Ming army's maritime delivery capability and the speed of mobilization and assembly of troops, the Ming army must use a small number of batches to ferry troops.The best port that can be used in the northern part of Hainan Island is Shenying Port in Haikou.

But so far, the reconnaissance team has not found any signs of strengthening the Ming army in Baisha Shuizhai and Haikou Qianhusuo City.This surprised him, and put his plan in danger of failing.

In order to start the war as soon as possible, he had to change his original prudent plan, and decided to take some measures to stimulate the Guangdong government, forcing the enemy to send troops into Hainan Island as soon as possible.

He Ming was born as a junior officer, so he didn't have many twists and turns in his stomach.Now that everyone is asked to make suggestions, there is no need to hide it.He briefly stated the current situation facing the Field Army:
"...the executive committee has difficulties. We have a weak foundation. Now we support more than 1 army and navy, as well as more than 2000 militiamen and militiamen. We have to solve the battle quickly. With everyone brainstorming, how can we put pressure on the enemy , let them land on the island in advance."

The officers all agreed with his plan of putting pressure on the enemy and forcing the enemy to enter the island in advance.Some suggested besieging Chengmai, some suggested sending light troops to pretend to attack the city of Qianhu in Haikou, and some suggested sending out the navy to bombard the gates of Guangzhou: Humen and Shajiao...

"I'll take the Fourth Battalion to besiege Chengmai," said You Huhu, the commander of the Fourth Battalion. He was newly promoted and wanted to show off his skills. "I promise to fall into the city one day."

Dongmen Chuiyu finally said: "These methods are good, but if you capture Chengmai County too early, there will be too much movement. Now the Senate and the Executive Committee have different opinions on the war. We should not capture the county too early. We must leave it to Wang Zunde. In addition, according to the intelligence, the government thinks that we are not good at land warfare. If we take down Chengmai County in one go, we will not only be good at land warfare but also attack cities and villages. The enemy will not come so confidently and boldly. Fight us."

Another officer said: "We want to besiege Chengmai, pretending that the situation in Hainan is urgent, but also let the officers and soldiers look down on us. We should think that we are a dish."

"Everyone's opinions are very good." He Ming said, "Let's take a multi-pronged approach."

Now he ordered Youhu to lead some troops to besiege Chengmai.

"You take an infantry company from the Fourth Battalion, and then mobilize [-] militiamen to go together. Bring more gongs and drums, and go to the city of Chengmai to feign an attack. The show should be full, and the county magistrate in Chengmai County should hurry up and ask for help."

"Yes!" You Huo stood up and saluted, "The task must be completed." He continued, "Can you allocate one or two cannons for me? Our gangsters are known for their sharp firearms, and it wouldn't be the same without cannons. "

"You take two 12-pound mountain grenades with you." Ying Yu said, "It's light in weight and convenient for you to carry, and the effect of shooting the city wall with solid bullets is average."

"Okay, I'll set off early tomorrow morning! Send me some good gunners, and I'll knock down the towers of Chengmai County..."

"No, I can give you a few more guns, but as the gunner, you can take the students from the teaching team. Bring more ammunition so that the students can practice more."

Ying Yu knew that He Ming wanted the Ming army to underestimate his own combat capability, so he nodded immediately: "That's the way."

"You go there with great fanfare along the way, collecting food from the villages along the way, and if you don't obey, break it first." He Ming gave the opportunity face to face, "The three major disciplines and eight precautions are the basic principles, you have to watch the militiamen But if anyone wants to fight against us, he will be beaten to pieces. Landlords, old wealthy clan chiefs, kill as many as possible! Let some more escape.”

"Understood!" Youhuo's dark face flushed with excitement.

"Little Leaf."

"Yes." Ye Mengyan stood up.After He Ming became Minister of War and formed a field army, Bei Wei assigned Ye Mengyan's unit directly to his subordinates.

"You lead a team to infiltrate the Qianhu Office in Haikou, and carry out harassment operations." He Ming said, "Kill a few people with great fanfare, and then capture a few officials who are prisoners."

"Understood." Ye Mengyan was very excited. He had carried out the investigation operations to Qiongshan several times before.This time he was able to do a lot of work, which greatly increased his interest.

"Xiao Wei!" He Ming then called Wei Aiwen's name.

"Have!"

"The Senate and the Executive Committee are going to take over the garrison stations in the county. I will leave this to you." He Ming said, "Not to mention the combat power of the garrison, it is mainly a political battle." , The key is to win people's hearts. You take charge. I will give you a company. You do it as soon as possible."

"understand!"

"Go back to Bairen first, and go meet with Wu De and Ma Qianju first. Listen to their opinions." He Ming said, "In addition, you have to let go of some leaders and let them rush to Qiongshan Urgent."

Of course Wei Aiwen knew the intention.He said happily: "I understand! It must be done in a week."

"The Guards Army has two camps on the edge of Li District, with hundreds of people. They are relatively good at fighting." He Ming said, "After the two camps are taken over, don't dismiss them for the time being. Just arrest the officers who are angry with the people. The food and pay will be provided by the county as usual."

He Ming was worried that once the two camps were cancelled, the people would take the opportunity to start a riot, so he asked to keep these two camps temporarily.

"I see." Wei Aiwen said regretfully, "Actually, we can recruit Li Miao soldiers..."

"I'll talk about this later, you should get this thing done in the guard first."

Early the next morning, Wei Aiwen drove back to Bairen with an infantry company.The company commander of this company is Lin Fu.It turned out that they were villagers from Yanchang Village, the first batch of indigenous personnel to join the army.He was the first Aboriginal company commander in the army.Just as Wei Aiwen left the camp, he saw You Huo carrying a frontier sword—ever since he saw Wen Desi's private collection, You Huo has always wanted to get such a domineering guy.For this expedition, he talked about everything, and he just borrowed the knife from Wen Desi.At this time, he was walking beside the queue brazenly, leading the team that was going to besiege Chengmai.

More than 300 militiamen had machetes in their waists and spears in their hands. Some were pushing carts, and some were carrying bows and arrows and old-fashioned firecrackers.Three mountain howitzers were mixed in the team, and each gun was dragged by seven or eight young men.If it weren't for the tight formation of the infantry company, it would look like a group of bandits.

"Xiao Wei!" You Huo saw him, and raised his sword on his shoulder, "Are you going to carry out land reform again? This time you are a long-term worker who still needs money?"

"Are you bringing this group of people to become bandits?" Wei Aiwen was not to be outdone, "Do you know how to use this knife? Don't just carry it all the way to Chengmai."

"This time I went to Chengmai to see Lao Tzu beheading a few people, so I will give this knife a piece of meat." You Huo said, "Otherwise, it will be used as a display at Lao Wen's place."

Wei Aiwen led the team back to Bairen, and Wu De had already made various preparations in advance.The house raiding team of the Planning Institute was assembled, and the militiamen were mobilized to carry the supplies with their cars.

The official name of the Weisuo in Lingao is the Houqianhusuo under the Five Thousand Households of Neifuwei.There are two settlements.One is near Nanbao, which is the official city of thousands of households, and the other is not far from Gaoshanling.Both are fortified walled city buildings.Although it was a long time ago, due to the long-term threat of Li chaos in the local area, the two garrisons have undergone certain repairs, with sufficient weapons and firearms, which are in a better state of defense than the inland guards.

The time-traveling group had a good grasp of the situation of the guard early on.There are more than 100 military households in Qianhusuo City, with more than 500 men, women and children.In the other place, there are only thirty or forty military households.

Accepting the various guards and camps did not encounter much resistance. The military households were not very strong, and they had not been trained for a long time. They lived in hardship and had no fighting spirit.Australians have been in Lingao for a long time, and everyone knows that they act kindly and fairly. Not only will they not die in time, but they can live a better life than they are now.So Wei Aiwen surrendered immediately when he appeared next to the walled city with his troops.While receiving weapons, materials and livestock from various places, the people from the planning institute counted the population.Wei Aiwen only arrested all the soldiers in the two Zhenli camps, and appointed a few prestigious soldiers to temporarily act as agents, and led the soldiers to stay in the local garrison, waiting for reorganization.

However, there was a small-scale battle in the city of the inner guard.When the infantry company led by Wei Aiwen approached the wall of the walled city, Liu Qianhu of the rear camp closed the gate first with a few personal soldiers, and then forced the whole village Ding Zhuang to defend.

Wei Aiwen didn't expect that the guards would dare to resist, so he immediately called an indigenous clerk from the special search team of the Planning Institute who could speak military dialect to come forward and shout to them to open the door and surrender immediately.

Liu Qianhu shouted at the gate of the village: "You and I have always been in the same place as the river! I have never interfered with your affairs! Don't come to provoke me! This is the place where the imperial court governs, and you are trapped in this place." Chuzhaizi is raising the flag to rebel, and the imperial court is going to send a large army to conquer..."

Wei Aiwen was furious when he heard this, and said to the caller: "Tell the military households in the city to quickly arrest the officials and open the gate of the village to surrender, otherwise the village will be destroyed and no one will be left behind!"

There was a sudden commotion on the wall of the village, and the military households did not want to fight—this is not a fight with the Li people.They usually know that Australians are not bloodthirsty and looting, and treat their subordinates very generously.Even if it is not necessarily a blessing to live under their hands, it is no worse than being under the hands of thousands of families.

"Who dares to move, who dares to move?" Liu Qianhu yelled, brandishing a big knife, and the soldiers behind him also yelled.Although he is only a small Qianhu, his family has been an official here for generations, and he has not given up his martial arts for the sake of Zhenli's relationship.Jiwei was still there, and the military households were reprimanded by him with a straight face, and they dared not speak up.

Wei Aiwen couldn't help being annoyed when he saw that there was no movement on the top of the city.There are special shooters in his company, who can kill Liu Qianhu with one shot.But he secretly hoped that someone in the military household would take the initiative to resist, and it would be best to have an armed conflict.In this way, it will be much easier to carry out political education in the future.The military households will also completely despair of the government.

"Speak up!" Wei Aiwen's face turned livid, "Liu Qianhu can't take care of himself, tell the military households not to work hard for him and quickly rise up to resist! What's the benefit of him being a thousand households and ordinary military households?"

There was a commotion on the wall of the village with shouts. The military households didn't want to sacrifice their lives at first, but now under the continuous instigation by Wei Aiwen and others, many people feel that it is not worthwhile to defend the village here for the master. This stockade cannot be defended no matter what.

Seeing that the situation was not right, Liu Qianhu scolded and threatened him, but he had no choice but to shout: "This is a place controlled by the imperial court, and the thieves dare not attack! Everyone defends the stronghold with all their strength, and those who do not make noise will be beheaded, and those who do make great efforts will be rewarded with silver." One or two!"

However, this reward could no longer win people's hearts. Suddenly, someone dropped their swords and guns and ran down the city. For a while, the soldiers guarding the village, who were originally discordant, dispersed in a crowd, and all of them dropped their weapons and went down the city. run.

The soldiers immediately slashed wildly with their knives, beheading a fleeing military household.However, this was not only useless, but it aroused the anger of the people, and some people turned to attack and kill them. The soldiers around Qianhu were outnumbered and almost all were killed. Qianhu himself was protected by the remaining servants and fled to the city.The military households immediately started killing indiscriminately in the city walled city. Hundreds of households, soldiers, servants, and managers who were domineering on weekdays were also chased and killed. The military households pulled out the family members of their enemies and chopped off their heads one by one. The female relatives were pulled out, raped, and then killed.Suddenly, the city was in chaos.

Wei Aiwen was very calm and was not in a hurry to enter the village.He guessed that there was a riot in the city, and he only hoped that the riot would be bigger. The military households killed the court officials, so they had no choice but to follow them wholeheartedly.At this time, a group of military households had already opened the gate of the village, lowered the suspension bridge and shouted, "Come into the city quickly! Enter the city quickly!"

Lin Fu pulled out his command saber and glanced back at Wei Aiwen.Wei Aiwen nodded.He immediately shouted: "Quan Company, assault!" He was the first to rush up.The trumpeter didn't have time to blow the trumpet, and Quan Lian galloped forward behind him.

He quickly entered the city with the infantry company. Although it was his first time here, the intelligence department had clearly drawn the structure diagram inside and handed it over to him.Lin Fu had already assigned tasks to each platoon and each class.As soon as the troops entered the city, they dispersed according to the predetermined plan, occupying all the grain depots, stables and important places.On one side, a special person beat the gong to ask the military households to put down their weapons and wait for orders.Some military households were red-eyed, and those who continued to hack and kill were caught and killed.

Order in the Walled City was quickly restored.Only then did Wei Aiwen lead other personnel into the city.Dead bodies can be seen from time to time under the corners of the streets.Wei Aiwen came to the Martial Arts Hall in the center of the city, and the disarmed military households were all sitting on the ground waiting to be punished.

Lin Fulai reported that the entire Walled City had been brought under control and order had returned to normal.Several fires were also extinguished.

(End of this chapter)