Li Dong's military training work in Xu Gang lasted for a week. Although the work had twists and turns, it went smoothly - the bandits besieging Xu Gang frightened the men of the Xu family, and they all hoped that the "Great Song Army" could
Help, let alone reorganizing the militia, I would be happy to ask them to sacrifice their concubines.
Bei Wei has issued a notice on how to reorganize the militia. Basically, the militia must highlight "regionalization" and emphasize "local locality", so that people who lack political training can have sufficient motivation to "defend their homes and their hometowns" to fight.
As long as you don't leave your hometown, your combat effectiveness is stronger than that of officers and soldiers.
The deteriorating social security environment at the end of the Ming Dynasty caused each relatively large-scale village to form a Xiangyong with the clan or the village's large gentry as the core. The number of Xiangyong in these villages ranged from a dozen to hundreds. In fact, they had already
It is the prototype of a "militia". However, the quality of these militiamen is uneven, most of them are untrained, and there are also many "bad guys" in the countryside mixed with them. Instead, they harm the villagers first. Moreover, they are based on clans and large households.
The rural braves who are the core often become "private soldiers." Therefore, Beiwei's reorganized militia basically focuses on transforming the rural braves.
Although some people question the effectiveness of such transformation that does not touch the socio-economic foundation of rural areas, the current situation leaves the Senate with no choice but to adopt the "cooking rice with uncooked rice" model and send armed patrols to each village to remove grassroots villages.
Initial organization and mastery.
The experience of forming militiamen has been accumulated in the public security war in Hainan, and it is similar to Guangdong. It is roughly based on the model of one out of two soldiers in a large village and all soldiers in a small village. Village militia are formed and equipped with cold weapons. A small number of
Seized firearms and armor, and urged villages to build defense facilities.
At present, based on the capabilities of the Senate, it is impossible and impossible to directly lead and train these village soldiers. Therefore, Bei Wei has set the goal: the captain and deputy captain of the village soldiers must be appointed by the local county National Army Garrison Squadron.
Appointment, and at the same time accept the command of the county.
The main responsibility of the militia captain is to maintain the security of the village and establish joint guarantee relations with surrounding villages. Joint guarantee does not simply specify a number of villages, it is basically based on terrain conditions. Generally, the distance between villages,
The straight-line distance does not exceed 3 kilometers and can be reached within half an hour on foot. This allows villages to support each other.
The militia team is mobilized by the county 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 too small a population, village integration measures are adopted, and multiple small villages are merged into a small village with better defense conditions. It is ensured that each village has at least thirty people.
Strictly enforce the Baojia system in each village - the reason why it is said to be "strict" is because the Baojia system already existed in the Ming Dynasty. Due to the Yao rebellion in Guangdong and Guangxi, every village has Baojia. Now it is further rectified and continued.
Bei Wei ordered the county security forces to send small teams to the villages to complete the guarantees one by one. At the same time, they established a household registration book for the villagers: one to be kept by the person and one to be kept by the county. Foreigners without a fixed residence must obtain a guarantee from a well-off person in the village.
Those with suspicious backgrounds or "undesirables" in the village will all be sent to the county labor camp for re-screening.
The policy of "watching and helping each other" is implemented in each village. Signal towers are set up in each village. Neighboring villages use beacon smoke during the day and firelight at night to contact the police. Once a warning signal occurs, a relay will be used to alert the county. Once the help signal is sent, in addition to
Except that the dispatch at night can be delayed until dawn the next day, all villages in the joint protection must dispatch militia for rescue. During the transportation of materials through flood and dry roads, they will be escorted by the villagers and soldiers in relays. If there is any loss, it will be escorted by the villagers in this section.
Compensation based on price.
Normally, carrying out this kind of transformation would be a lot of trouble, especially the burden on village soldiers. But now the threat of bandits burning, killing and looting has made every village very enthusiastic about setting up militiamen to build security guards and repair walls. The work of gathering villages has also been carried out.
It went relatively smoothly. Although the village gathering meant a loss of property, the land could not be taken away by bandits. As long as people were alive and the world was peaceful, the family fortune could always be accumulated again.
Li Dong's work in Xugang was also smooth. Xu Weicheng agreed to all his requests and soon organized a militia team of 120 people, all armed with standard spears and machetes. From Yunan County
From the inventory of seized materials, they were given a dozen blunderbuss and light Folan cannons. They also had a few sets of armor specially brought over.
This armor was really not in good condition when we got it: it was stained with rust, and the connecting leather strips had broken in some places, and part of the armor was lost. However, when this thing was worn by several "selected frontmen" of the militia to show off, Li Li
Many of Dong's subordinates still showed envious eyes.
No matter what, with armor on you, your chances of survival are always higher.
For the people in Xu Gang, the arrival of these weapons and equipment has made their trust in the Senate a step further: the National Army of neighboring counties provided timely rescue at critical moments, and now the county has given them weapons to help train troops.
Rich and poor alike feel that they have a reliable source of support in this troubled world.
Li Dong didn't care about the soldiers' thoughts. He kept urging the soldiers to train the militiamen. One week was a short time to train the militiamen. However, the villagers in each village had not received much training in the past, so they could barely guard the villages.
It's okay. Now after their simple training, their combat effectiveness has improved somewhat. Especially the original leader of the local warriors, Xu Yong, was quite active in training and always pestered Li Dong to learn "Australian martial arts" - he didn't believe in Australian martial arts.
The soldier's hand-to-hand training only involved a few simple moves, which made Li Dong extremely annoyed.
A week later, Li Dong's detachment boarded a transport ship descending from Wuzhou. However, what he received was not an order to return to Wuzhou. Instead, he immediately headed downstream to report to Zhaoqing.
One squadron at the time of departure was split into two. Captain Zhu Si stayed in Fengchuan with half of the squadron, while he went to Zhaoqing with the other half of the squadron. What on earth were he planning to do?
An order is an order. No matter how confused Li Dong and others were, all the soldiers boarded the transport ship and arrived at Zhaoqing again.
The headquarters of the 1st Brigade in Zhaoqing is also the location of the Western Guangdong Forward. A large number of troops were originally gathered. But 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 were assembled.
Anyone with a little military experience knows that Zhaoqing is planning a large-scale military operation.
"Be careful, the ship is about to dock..."
Following the sailor's shout, the three large boats slowly docked at the berth on the shore.
"Get off the boat! One by one, don't mess around." The sergeants greeted, and Li Dong also relaxed his waist and boarded the gangplank.
As soon as they landed, officers from the military station on the shore came to greet them.
"Which part?"
"We are from the Wuzhou National Army Integrated Squadron..."
"Come from Fengchuan?"
Li Dong thought that they knew clearly:
"That's right."
"All the weapons are kept," said the military station officer, "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 joining 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 should they be asked to disarm as soon as they landed ashore? Since
Disarm, why keep the rifle?
But since he said that, he naturally had no choice but to do it. Now leave all the standard spears, machetes and other weapons behind - Li Dong noticed that there were already a lot of standard spears and other cold weapons piled on the ground.
Could it be that they all need to change their clothes? A thought flashed through Li Dong's mind.
Before he could think about it in detail, several more ships arrived at the pier, and several officers holding flags with serial numbers were calling people to assemble on the shore. It turned out that the reinforcements of the National Army from Guangzhou had arrived.
The numbers of these later squadrons generally reached double digits, and the soldiers still carried the unique uneasiness of new recruits. They looked so shabby and ridiculous holding standard spears. The Wuzhou squadron, which had fought two battles, had a sense of superiority when passing in front of them.
Li Dong suddenly felt a little emotional. The brothers were just like this when they left Sanshui last month. Now they can show off their qualifications in front of others. Time flies so fast.
The officers of the military station placed them in temporary tent barracks - the original requisitioned military barracks and temples were already full.
"Although we are a squadron, there are only half of the squadron here." Li Dong was a little confused when he saw that the barracks arranged by the military station officer for them could accommodate more than a hundred people.
"You will report the vacancies tonight and we will replenish the troops for you." The joint logistics officer took a hard board clip and wrote on it, "The Joint Logistics Department has instructions that all troops must supplement their troops according to the organizational structure - the one on the dock
Have you seen the supplementary troops? They are supplemented for each squadron."
"If you add half of the raw melon and eggs, it's not going to be a good fight..." Luo Mao interjected.
The joint service officer smiled and said: "After a few hits, it's no longer an issue - check your Nanyang rifles tonight and report any damage as soon as possible. Don't forget to report the ammunition shortage."
"Are we going to be issued rifles to all of us?" Li Dong asked.
"That's right." The joint service officer nodded, "Your squadron has performed well, so this time I have been transferred to change the uniforms - work hard, and you will have the opportunity to make meritorious deeds!"
These words confirmed the suspicion that there would be a large-scale operation soon, and the soldiers were in a commotion. Li Dong quickly said: "What are you arguing about? If you continue to argue about having night exercises at night! Get out of here and prepare to camp!"
"After the camp preparations are completed, send twenty soldiers to the depot for business and pick up things." The joint service officer looked at the team, "How many soldiers are there now?"
"Report, there are actually sixty people. However, three of them have no military registration..."
These three were acquired through their "on-the-spot expansion" in Xugang. Joint Logistics recognized this on-the-spot recruitment, but they had to complete the enlistment procedures afterwards——
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