The attack on Baitu Village finally officially started after Xi Yazhou took office. After the fat man rested for more than half a month, he was kicked out by Wu Nanhai for trying to steal chickens. Although he repeatedly defended the disappearance of the farm A pair of ducks was not his responsibility, but Wu Nanhai still asked him to "stay away" rudely. The planned Army Club also died due to this.
Baitu Village is a small port village. It is located between Lingao and Danzhou. It is surrounded by mountains on three sides and has a good port. It is convenient for ships to enter and exit. It has always been the main shipbuilding place in Lingao. The report of the reconnaissance team shows that this place Land transportation is difficult, there are only a few mountain roads, and the locals have set up horse barriers, deer chai and forts at the intersections to guard against bandits, as well as officers, soldiers, and police officers. We must attack the new army by force. It wasn't difficult at all, Xi Yazhou felt that even if the current troops were given swords and spears to clean up Baitu Village, there would be no problem. It would just result in more people dying.
"However, our operation should be just a police operation." Xi Yazhou studied the map drawn by the Military Commission's reconnaissance team for a long time. "Since these shipwrights are going to be used, too many people cannot die."
"What are you going to do?"
"Let's have an armed parade. Force them to surrender without a fight."
"In terms of cost-effectiveness, I think it is most appropriate to use our reconnaissance team." Bei Wei suggested, "The surrounding mountains are not dangerous. It is easy to infiltrate and go directly in to capture all the main leaders. It’s done.”
"That's right, but Baitu Village is a soft persimmon, just for these newcomers to have a taste of something new." Ma Qianxu said.
"Embolden them?"
"My enemy, these people were just as weak as hoes more than a month ago. The officers are all modern people, so I'm afraid they won't cooperate well. We have to let them smell the smell of gunpowder."
"Sure, let's make more designs and varieties. Let's do it as a drill."
Baitu Village itself cannot be said to be armed at all. It has no regiment, but it is an all-people army. It is said that it has fought off several small groups of pirates. According to the investigation of the intelligence department, Baitu Village has a population of more than 500. Ding Zhuang accounts for half, and most of them are boat builders who escaped from Guangdong and Fujian. This village was originally a small fishing village, with only seven or eight fishermen households. The population slowly increased after the foreign boat builders fled here.
Huang Xiong has been promoted. As a former Ming army general, he was in a state of confusion after being summoned. He is not stupid. This group has made it clear that he does not trust him. This group of Australians will not give him a slap just because they doubt him. Right? After a few days of doubt and fear, I thought about running away, but I thought that all the people who had escaped before were captured and shown off to the public, and I might not be an exception, and because of my identity, once I was captured, I would definitely die. .
After a few days of panic, he was appointed squad leader of Class 8 of the 3rd company of the training camp. The commander of the 3rd company was a man named You Huhu, who liked to use a sword. I heard that Huang Xiong was an officer of the Ming army and insisted on fighting with him. Compared with Da Dao, Huang Xiong hesitated for a moment whether to lose to him on purpose, but finally decided to show his strength to these Australians - he knew that Australians had no sense of family status towards the locals, who would? Skills, whoever has the strength will be reused.
But the victory did not come easily. This wandering tiger actually didn't have any moves. He was all about slashing and slashing, but he was extremely powerful and experienced in fighting. It took Huang Xiong several minutes to knock off his knife.
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"You lose! Company Commander."
"If you want to use a real sword, you are no match for me!" You Laohu roared unconvinced, "I have the Qinglong Yanyue Sword!"
"That's an opera thing, you'll lose faster with it!"
You Laohu looked at him angrily for a long time and yelled: "What a good man, you have some skills."
Huang Xiong inexplicably became You Laohu's "brother", and was forced to compete with him every day after training. He originally thought that You Laohu was going to promote him to be a soldier or something, but apparently in the Australian army, Huang Xiong
Don't do this. As a company commander, You Laohu is in charge of No. 100 people. He can reach the rank of Dusi in the Ming army, and he only has one "guard" around him.
"The determination of this operation is to subdue Baitu Village." Xi Yazhou explained the mission at a meeting of battalion platoon and above commanders, "minimize casualties as much as possible during the battle and maintain restraint during the operation. There are more new recruits participating in the battle this time.
, the discipline of the troops must be tightened. How is the progress of each company teaching the singing of the Three Major Disciplines and Eight Points of Attention?"
"We have been teaching for three days and everyone can basically sing," reported Wei Aiwenhui, who temporarily serves as the camp's politics teacher.
"You not only have to be able to sing, but you also have to understand the meaning of the lyrics." Xi Yazhou said. The song "Three Major Disciplines and Eight Points of Attention" is catchy, and it explains military discipline and the way of getting along with the people in an easy-to-understand way. It is a rare song.
Military songs for educational purposes.
"The following is a logistical issue -"
Since the attempt failed, Ye Yuming returned to his promising job of raising rabbits. In the past few days, Ye Yuming's ears, which were originally only troubled by mosquitoes, are now filled with this sentence. "According to people from the Army who chatted privately.
, this is the first large-scale expedition after Chuanzhong established the new army." The Ministry of Agriculture is facing a huge challenge: military food.
"While the troops and horses are not moving, food and grass must go first." Now the military leaders have reached a consensus on whether to dispatch the new army-not only must they dispatch the new army, but they must also have a considerable scale and become an armed demonstration. But there is no doubt that
, no matter what you plan to do, you have to eat.
Even though this army is still in its most primitive state, the order to develop military rations has been issued to the Committee of Agriculture. The biggest headache for people in the Ministry of Agriculture is to trial-produce something that can survive in the high temperature and humidity environment of Hainan.
Field rations that are carried with the army and ensure adequate nutrition.
It stands to reason that since this expedition is a low-intensity operation and is expected to last only three days at most, the mechanical team has also developed a cooking truck. The guarantee of hot meals and hot dishes is the most ideal. Field rations are something that has been used in ancient and modern times at home and abroad.
There is no delicious food, it is an emergency supply in an emergency.
Because this operation also has an experimental nature to comprehensively test existing equipment, the Military Commission requires that enough field rations for three days must be provided. There can be more types. The main purpose is to let the troops try them and listen to their reactions.
The Ministry of Agriculture has long tried and made portable foods from all over China and even around the world, such as fried rice, steamed cakes, rice balls, fried noodles, pancakes, naan, rice cakes, and soldiers' grain balls. Wu Nanhai also developed Jinhua Crispy Cake.
This is quite a weird thing. Facts have proved that this thing can indeed be stored for a long time, but it is really hard to swallow. Moreover, shortbread requires a lot of lard, and all fats and oils are now considered "strategic materials."
Dry pancakes, fried noodles, naan and dry steamed buns are mature portable dry foods and are easy to process. Pancakes, in particular, showed their value in the battle against Goujiazhuang. Pancakes are extremely durable and were often taken with them when they traveled far away in the past.
Dry food. However, the food situation in Lingao is that there is more rice than noodles. Although the main ingredient of Shandong pancakes is actually sweet potato, the nutritional value of sweet potato is too low and does not meet the military rations. Therefore, it is eliminated together with fried noodles, naan and other flour products.
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The rest were rice products. Ye Yuming suggested making fried rice, and also proposed using fried rice and maltose to make fried rice cakes. However, the shelf life of fried rice was not as good as that of fried noodles, and they did not have maltose available. So someone else proposed to continue making military grain pills -
They have made some things in the past: the taste of this thing is really horrible: it is made from cooked rice and dried in the sun. It is said to be extremely durable - the Japanese samurai in those days used this thing to fight every day. Everyone is trying it out.
Afterwards, I came to the conclusion that only Japanese people can eat this food.
Rice noodles, rice cakes, rice noodles, rice noodles, rice balls, rice cakes... all kinds of rice products were unearthed from the depths of memory. Through the full cooperation of the canteen and the agricultural department, they fully searched for information and used their own wild imaginations.
With great effort, a table full of test products was quickly produced.
This military ration experiment received a great name "Long March Project" in the documents. Later, Wu Nanhai considered that this great name might be used for other purposes in the future, so it became the rather anticlimactic "Grassland Project" in the current archives.
name.
Facing a table full of weird so-called field ration experimental products that looked more like being used to tease people, everyone reached an astonishing consensus on the issue of tasting: distribute all these items to the expeditionary army, and then use them when the troops are the hungriest.
Observations were distributed during the period, allowing the troops to test the truth in practice. But who was the observer with the army? When thinking of those angry officers, everyone immediately began to blame each other again...
Just when everyone was looking left and right, trying to escape from accepting this life-threatening mission, the savior finally appeared. It was the wise staff officer Dongmen Fukiyu who had been in and out of the New Army Headquarters recently. At this critical moment, he passed by
farm.
Dongmen Chuiyu originally wanted to see if he could get some private goods such as tomatoes on the farm, and take a look at the little girl here in Wu Nanhai, but after being discovered, after a brief but mei...
After meeting each other's eyes, everyone enthusiastically requested Comrade Dongmen Chuiyu to come to the Ministry of Agriculture to observe the development of field food...
Inspired by a fearless and internationalist spirit, Comrade Dongmen Chuiyu resolutely agreed to the field food survey on behalf of the Ministry of Agriculture. And he got two tomatoes as he wished. All the colleagues on the farm watched with reverence.
Looking at his back. As the saying goes: the wind is rustling, the water is cold...
After intense preparations, the Baitu Expedition Group set off from Bopu. It included the first company of the teaching battalion, one platoon each of the second and third companies, more than 160 people, 30 cadets from the Military and Political School, 10 people from the reconnaissance team directly under the Military Commission, and artillery There are more than 40 people in the team. There is also a medical team sent by the health team and composed of students from the Women's Technical School led by Hippo. Finally, there is also a 100-person supply team.
The navy dispatched the recently repaired and refitted two-masted sailing ship "Fubo" to serve as maritime support, and there were 6 locally purchased and refitted civilian ships, fully loaded with various supplies. If there were not too few ships, Xi Yazhou would have planned to use all of them. Ship transportation.
Five infantry platoons marched in in four columns. The soldiers wore rattan helmets on their octagonal hats. The rattan helmets were made in the style of colonial helmets. The front of the helmet was inlaid with a shiny piece of steel stamped on it. With the unit number on it, it can also provide some additional protection for the soldiers. There is a white sunshade neck gaiter floating on the back - this is indispensable when marching and fighting in places like Lingao where the sunshine hours are extremely long. Canvas leg wraps are also included. It was tightly drawn. The cowhide belt was equipped with double ammunition boxes. A total of 120 rounds of bullets and 130 flash caps were placed in the 4 ammunition boxes. Kettles, bayonets, engineer shovels and sundry bags were hung in each of the stuffed areas. They carried rattan boxes on their shoulders, with thin cotton blankets tied on top. Although there were baggage ships along the way to provide food, each soldier still kept a pack of 10-yuan rice cakes in his own backpack. The squad leader also had a bottle of rice cakes. Soju. This is emergency food and is only allowed to be used after an order is given.