Chapter 507 The preparation status of the special operations battalion

"Find another one?" Everyone looked at each other, and most of them didn't understand what Yuan Ruoxiu meant at the first time.

However, Tao Donglai who asked the question seemed to have some clues: "You mean to find an opponent for Ming Dynasty and let him attack Ming Dynasty's territory, and then we will be the good guys?"

Yuan Ruoxiu nodded and said: "The militia can, under the guise of helping the Ming Dynasty regain its lost territory, put on a show and take over control of the towns in the north."

"But this kind of trick probably won't deceive the government officials. Official corruption in the Ming Dynasty is corruption, but they are not stupid." Ning Qi interjected: "If there are no certain casualties by then, smart people will be able to see through it at a glance.

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"There is no need to lie to these officials, it is enough to coax ordinary people!" Yan Chujie took over and said: "These officials of the Ming Dynasty on Qiongzhou Island have only two options in the end. Either cooperate with us, or

It will disappear completely. There is no way they can bring the truth of what happened on the island back to the mainland."

Yan Chujie very keenly grasped the key point from Yuan Ruoxiu's words. The militia can occupy the northern part of Hainan Island in the name of fighting against foreign enemies, and those who are unwilling to cooperate with Haihan can be eliminated in the name of foreign enemies.

As long as ordinary people believe in the justice of the Haihan militia, when they taste the sweetness of the Haihan system, they will naturally slowly forget the importance of Ming nationality. As for those officials, they can only help Haihan maintain local order.

It has no effect at all. If someone is unwilling to do such a small thing, it will be of no use to Haihan.

"Even if they cooperate with us and write the memorial in a colorful way according to our wishes, and even suggest that the Ming Dynasty court hand over Hainan Island to us, they will have official business that needs to be returned to the mainland after a long time. Will this person be released at that time?

Don't let go?" Ning Qi continued to retort.

"Don't worry, those who can go back alive will definitely not talk nonsense." He Xi also joined in at this time: "In the end, those who survive are those who are afraid of death. We have at least 800 different ways to deal with such people.

Solutions are available.”

Ning Qi shook his head and said: "I still don't agree with this plan. There are too many problems that may arise. For such a large-scale military operation, who should we find to cooperate with this drama? No matter how good the acting is, because

There are at least thousands of people involved, and the truth cannot be hidden from the public for a long time. I think it is difficult to predict what kind of reaction the people will have."

"The problems you mentioned can all be discussed and solved. What we need now is a reasonable excuse for war. Ming Dynasty cannot give us this thing, we can only create it ourselves!" Yan Chujie responded in a deep voice: "Discuss

This is the third meeting, and I think this method is the most feasible so far. If you think there is a better plan, you might as well propose it now."

Of course, Ning Qi didn't have any better plan. If he had, he wouldn't wait until now to talk about it. It's not that he didn't really understand the feasibility of this plan, but he thought of some of the possible consequences of implementing this plan.

Terrifying consequences - the military will definitely use this operation to promote force and seek a higher level for next year's military budget, and the military's influence on the Executive Committee will also increase.

It would be difficult to restrain the warlike desire of these roughnecks.

However, it is impossible for the military to give up this life-saving straw that finally appeared. If it were not for Yuan Ruoxiu's suggestion, the Executive Committee would probably delay the battle plan to start in the second half of the year because it could not find a reasonable reason to start the war.

.However, the military has already carried out military expansion and preparations for the Northern Expansion War. At least one battalion of troops has been prepared to be stationed in the northern city in the future. If these troops cannot be put into use as soon as possible, it will be a waste of military expenses to maintain them in vain.

A kind of waste in disguise.

In the end, it was Tao Donglai who made the decision - the Military Commission will formulate a complete action plan within half a month. If other departments need to cooperate, they can make specific requests. The next discussion meeting will be held to discuss this plan.

details.

Tao Donglai's decision was basically to follow this path. This is not because he is dictatorial, but because there are no so-called alternatives to choose from at the moment. It's just such a path, either give it a try or else

All he had to do was wipe his face into his trouser pocket and start the fight.

At the end of May, the Executive Committee held its first discussion on this plan and revised some of the action details. Although it was still not satisfactory, the basic outline of the entire action plan had gradually become clear.

On June 2, the two "Dignity-class" hybrid-electric warships completed several months of sea trial training and officially entered the combat fleet. Although the steam engines on board did not have major faults during this period, minor problems were still unavoidable and unavoidable.

The operation time of the malfunction is actually far less than the military's expectations. But for the military, whether this new type of large warship can continue to be built is far more important than picking up minor performance problems - anyway, this kind of warship

Wind power is the main propulsion power. Marine steam engines, which are still in the trial and improvement stage, are only auxiliary power after all, and will not seriously affect the combat effectiveness of the ship itself.

The commissioning of the "Dignity" and the "Wei Signal" showed that the water power of the militia navy was sufficient to implement a relatively comprehensive blockade of the Qiongzhou Strait. This was also one of the prerequisites for Haihan to launch an offensive against the Ming Dynasty's sphere of influence in the north.

In early June, several teams dispatched by the Ministry of Security infiltrated into several cities in the north under various identities. Their mission was to spread news in the early stages of the operation and create public opinion favorable to Haihan. If necessary,

We still have to do some dirty work, such as cleaning up some voices among the people that are not friendly to Haihan.

June 7, 1630, April 27, the third year of Chongzhen in the Ming Dynasty, Cat Ba Island west of Halong Bay in Annan.

In the bay at the southern end of the island, there is a small port hidden. This was the settlement of Annan fishermen three years ago, but now the fishermen have long been moved to other places, and this has become the Annan Military Region Overseas Station.

The location of the training base. The Black Tu Port Special Operations Battalion, which is famous for its combat power within the Haihan Militia, has its training base located in this place.

Cat Ba Island is the largest island in Halong Bay. It is located about 20 nautical miles southwest of Black To Port and only more than 10 nautical miles from Do Son Base to the west. It is almost exactly in the middle of Black To Port and Do Son Base. This island covers an area of ​​146 square kilometers.

It is almost entirely mountains and jungles, and there is a large area of ​​karst terrain on the island. Except for a small number of fishermen who settled here in the early days, there are no human traces at all.

After Qian Tiandun inspected the natural environment here, he used it as a field training base for the special operations battalion and carried out corresponding development and construction. The military camp on the island can station a battalion of troops, and various living facilities are also available.

Everything is available. With the help of the natural conditions here, soldiers can practice various tactics in the mountain and jungle environment. Last year, Qian Tiandun even asked the soldiers to build a 300-meter-long city wall on the island, which also divided into different

Several sections of height and thickness, city gates, towers, moats and other city defense facilities were also built in a pattern to practice siege operations in different environments.

Similar training facilities have actually been built at the Army Training Base in Luhuitou, Sanya, but the time is slightly later than the city wall on Cat Ba Island. In terms of training content, Qian Tiandun often walks in

In addition to the fact that due to limited conditions, the militia army here in Annan could not practice infantry and artillery coordination tactics frequently, Qian Tiandun used almost all the training knowledge he knew here to

Training standards for special operations forces are used to build this force.

As for formation shooting, which the militia musketeers are best at, Qian Tiandun did not invest much energy in training this combat skill. Because in his opinion, as industrialization continues to advance, the technological progress of individual weapons is only

It is a matter of time. As the loading process of ammunition becomes simpler and simpler, the shooting frequency will increase significantly. Coupled with the improvement of weapon shooting accuracy and the maturity of weapons of mass destruction, the "backward" tactic of queuing up to shoot the party will become more and more difficult.

Within a few years, they were eliminated from the militia army.

By then, infantry assault tactics similar to the "three-three system" will gradually become the mainstream of basic tactics. Qian Tiandun's approach is to let his troops receive some training methods in skirmishing in advance and master some

Basic tactics. For this reason, the individual weapons issued to the soldiers of the Annan Special War Battalion are short-barreled large-caliber flintlock rifles that are more conducive to skirmishing combat. Although this weapon has a slightly shorter range than the rifles equipped by other troops.

, but the shorter gun body is more conducive to soldiers' activities in various complex environments, and the enlarged caliber ensures the rifle's ability to kill with one shot at close range.

In addition, all kinds of new military equipment manufactured by Sanya Military Products Research Institute are almost all first tested here. For example, imitations of Maxgear, 511 and other classic style field backpacks, various field self-heating military rations, new models

Canvas military boots, etc., the soldiers of the special operations battalion are almost the first batch of users. In addition, new individual weapons manufactured by the Sanya Arsenal will also be sent here, and the soldiers of the special operations battalion will give their opinions after trying them.

.As a result, the individual equipment level of the special operations battalion is almost the highest level of combat units in the entire Haihan Militia.

Although Annan's militia army has not carried out any large-scale combat missions in the past year or so, Qian Tiandun has never relaxed its efforts to expand its establishment and train its troops. The personal abilities of the soldiers in the special operations battalion are very strong, because

Qian Tiandun trained each of them as grass-roots non-commissioned officers rather than ordinary soldiers. Over time, when the Haihan Militia expanded its army, these people could be promoted to grass-roots officers immediately. As long as there were sufficient soldiers, the army's establishment could easily be expanded.

Expand more than five to ten times in a short period of time.

Due to the intensity of the training, the soldiers also needed a lot of food. A livestock farm was even built on the island, and boats were arranged to go out to sea for fishing every day to satisfy the appetite of the soldiers. Although these Most of the soldiers were from Annan. Strictly speaking, they were not of Han descent. However, in Qian Tiandun's view, this did not matter. Most of these young people were from the lower classes and had simple natures. As long as reasonable methods were used to instill consciousness into them. , it is easy to make them feel loyal.

For this reason, at the beginning of the year, Qian Tiandun specially selected a group of grassroots officers to return to Sanya to participate in a training class for young cadres jointly organized by multiple departments, which is the class that Yu Xiaobao and Fu Li attended. Now this A group of people have returned from their studies and established the core organization of the "Haihan Youth League" in the militia.

Qian Tiandun himself has been there, and of course he understands how much appeal this kind of political official organization will have. The officers or cadres who will be promoted in the future must be from the Youth League. And being able to join the Youth League, for these awareness The simple young people brought it and said that it didn't have so many ideas, it was simply a symbol of loyalty to the Executive Committee. Only those who had joined the Youth League could stand up and openly declare that they were loyal fighters of the Executive Committee.

In addition to daily training, the most training these soldiers receive is political study. The recruitment stage will even exceed the time of literacy courses. After the establishment of the Youth League organization, the soldiers' thinking has become more single-minded. Anyone who questions the Military Commission and the Executive Committee Any idea of ​​making a decision will be regarded as heresy. They will carry out the orders issued by the officers without hesitation and go to the battlefield with the concept of fighting for the Executive Committee. Qian Tiandun believes that this is what the Executive Committee needs most in the future. war machine.

"Report! Urgent call from base camp!"

With a shout, Qian Tiandun came out of his thoughts and stretched out a hand. Adjutant Gao Qiaonan immediately handed the telegram respectfully into his hand. Qian Tiandun tore the seal on the telegram and said, When he opened it, he found that the content of the telegram was very long. It took Qian Tiandun almost ten minutes to read it. However, when he folded the telegram again, a faint smile appeared on his lips.

"It seems that we will have an opportunity to perform on the battlefield in the second half of the year!" Qian Tiandun said softly.

Takahashi Nan looked happy and said: "Has the Executive Committee already decided to take action against Ming Dynasty?"

"Yes, and we will be the first batch of main troops to attack." Qian Tiandun nodded and responded: "It's just that the task will be a little difficult."

As early as more than two months ago, when Qian Tiandun returned to Sanya to report on his work, he already knew the decision of the Executive Committee. However, at that time, the Executive Committee had only made a decision, but had not yet come up with a clear action plan. Takahashi Although Nan is a naturalized citizen, Qian Tiandun also knows that this Japanese dwarf has long regarded him as his retainer, and his personal loyalty to him even exceeds the level of the executive committee, so he does not I hid it from him and told him the relevant situation very early.
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