"Call them when you go on business and complete the formalities."
After the military station officer finished his instructions, he pushed his hat back on his head and hurriedly walked towards the dock, shouting all the way, "...Don't crowd! What's wrong with everyone rushing to reincarnate? This is the army! Stand at attention! Don't talk!..."
"It would be nice if we could make up forty raw melon eggs..." Luo Mao whispered.
"After all, you have a gun, right?" Li Dong said, "I need to pay more attention to training recently - I have a hunch that we are going to fight a big battle this time."
"Don't worry, I promise to fuck them all to death. I'll give them a night fuck tonight to loosen their bones."
"Yeah," Li Dong nodded.
When Li Dong first arrived, he had a lot of procedures to go through. He immediately asked Luo Mao to stay in the camp while he went on a "business trip" with twenty soldiers.
The temporary camp was set up outside Zhaoqing City, but the military depot office was in the city. Li Dong led 20 soldiers to the city.
Zhaoqing, as the location of the front finger, has become a large military camp. Troops and supplies from Sanshui, as well as wounded and prisoners evacuated from the front line, are all suspended here. The wasteland along the river outside the city has been requisitioned and dense camps have been built.
and cargo yard. On the newly built dirt road, there is a constant flow of vehicles and pedestrians.
There are very few pedestrians in Zhaoqing City, and only the National Army patrols the roads. Although the shops are open, most of them are only half-open, making them look very depressed.
There were fortified sentries everywhere in the streets and alleys, checking documents anytime and anywhere. Li Dong had already learned from other soldiers passing by on the road that the surrounding areas of Zhaoqing were not stable either. The rout of the army and bandits were very violent at one time, and people from the surrounding villages came out in large numbers.
After taking refuge in the city, the order in the city was very chaotic for a time. It was not until the National Army's full reinforcements that the surrounding situation 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 military depot, submitted the form and application form, and soon received the supplies distributed to them. In addition to the guns and ammunition 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 of "field rations" for each person. This fully confirmed his estimate of "a big war."
Back at the camp, additional soldiers had arrived. There were a total of forty soldiers, arranged in two rows. Li Dong took the roster and looked at it. They ranged in age from seventeen to forty. Although they were old and young, the notes on the roster were
Ming, they all received eight weeks of basic infantry training.
Li Dong looked at their faces and bodies one by one. Although they were a bit thinner overall, they felt that they were still strong and capable.
"What's your name, Private?"
"Yes! Sir, my name is Ma Lai!" The soldier who was called came back with his chest raised and roared.
"Have a rest," Li Dong asked, "Have you ever shot a gun?"
"Report! One week of Nanyang rifle training, forty dry shots and five live rounds!"
"how old are you?"
"Report, nineteen years old!"
"Very good!" Li Dong nodded and walked to the front of the team:
"You have officially entered the Wuzhou National Army Brigade Integrated Squadron from today!" Li Dong looked at the row of soldiers in front of him with his eyes, "Our army has been newly formed recently, but it has also withstood the test of the battlefield! It has a glorious record!
I don’t care what you did in the past, whether you were soldiers or ordinary people. Since you have come to this army today, I will forget all about the messy old army and the ways of the ordinary people as soon as possible! Become an upright Senate
Soldiers under my command!”
After the training, Li Dong asked Luo Mao to take the recruits to the riverside for training. He returned to the tent to start the paperwork for replenishing equipment. At this time, a messenger suddenly came from outside.
"Immediately go to the Western Guangdong Front Finger to attend the meeting."
The headquarters of the Western Guangdong Forward and First Brigade is located in the Guandi Temple of the Naval Camp outside the east gate. When Li Dong rushed to the Guandi Temple, he found that many officers had arrived. In addition to the National Army officers, there were also
There were officers from the Fubo Army and several elders under the eaves of the corridor.
The staff officer at the brigade announced that Commander Zhu was studying the map and asked everyone to wait a moment. It is impossible to bring so many officers together just for training. There must be important military operations to be deployed. Li Dong thought to himself.
At this moment, a huge map of western Guangdong hangs on the wall of the brigade headquarters. There are also a few old space-time satellite photos of special rations of controlled materials spread on the table. The colorful markings on the glass plate covering the map are painted over and over again.
Some flowers were spent. Zhu Mingxia was dressed meticulously in the uniform of a major general and paced around the table.
After the Badai Yao uprising in April, Yao people from all over western Guangdong responded one after another. Although Zhu Mingxia immediately recruited and surrendered the garrison officers and soldiers abandoned by Xiong Wencan after occupying Zhaoqing, gave them names, and managed to supplement some of their food and wages, but Xiong Wencan's
The complete withdrawal of the main force of the Ming Army's field corps led to the complete collapse of the original "Zhen Yao" system in the Xijiang River Basin. Emergency documents from the various Ming armies that were collected flew to Zhaoqing. Some counties that had surrendered were captured by Yao people's armed forces. The Yao rebellion,
It broke out on a scale that far exceeded historical records.
As if the pressure on Zhu Mingxia was not strong enough, due to the march of the Senate and the riot in Bapaiyao, a large number of Ming Dynasty officers and soldiers dispersed in the countryside. They immediately joined forces with the bandits in the countryside and formed countless gangs, burning, killing and looting everywhere.
If the riot in Badai Yao was only limited to the Sanlian area between Hezhou and Shaoguan in northwest Guangdong, then the bandit turmoil that broke out spread to all counties in the Xijiang River Basin. Traces of large groups of bandits even reached
Got Sanshui.
In this situation where people were living on all sides and smoke was rising from all directions, Zhu Mingxia had to give up the next offensive after the planned capture of Wuzhou. He did not even capture Teng County and hurriedly led the main force back to Zhaoqing to deploy defenses and deal with the riots.
Nowadays, except for the counties along the Xijiang River between Zhaoqing and Wuzhou, which are controlled by the National Army, most of the guard posts in the mountainous inland counties north of the Xijiang River are still defended by the temporarily incorporated old Ming army, with local demoted officials appointed
and Jin gentry "maintained the locality". Many naturalized county magistrates and national army squadrons were forced to stay in Zhaoqing because of "road obstruction", which made the situation even more chaotic.
Zhu Mingxia knew that most of these "maintaining local" demoted officers and soldiers had a wait-and-see attitude. If the Yao people's armed forces were not imminent, the speed of these people "abandoning the dark and surrendering to the light" would not be slower than the speed of "bearing humiliation and surrendering to Kun". Even now, they are in danger.
In this situation, there are still people who are secretly colluding with Xiong Wencan, whom they have a close relationship with, and some are even acting as a protective umbrella for those "official bandits".
But now, he doesn't care about taking care of these people. The existence of these people can resist the expansion of Yao people's armed forces and ensure the basic social order.
The current situation is still not optimistic, but the situation has gradually become clearer. According to the intelligence collected, Badai Yao is mainly distributed in Lianshan, Lianzhou, and Liannan areas between Hezhou and Shaoguan, and is separated from Zhaoqing and Wuzhou in the south by Cangwu.
, Huaiji, Guangning and other counties. After the uprising, the Yao people first captured Lianshan County, and then marched eastward to occupy Lianzhou, Ruyuan, and Yangshan with great momentum until they encountered the Middle Route Army of Yingde and Shaoguan.
Only then did the gray nose calm down a little, and they left Ruyuan and came to the south to seek bad luck. After a month of observation, it can now be determined that they have a tendency to move closer to the Xijiang River Basin and join forces with the Yao people of Guangxi to further expand the situation.
Not only that, the chaotic situation of the Badai Yao uprising gave Xiong Wencan, who was hiding in Guangxi, a glimmer of hope, so he kept sending his confidants back to Guangdong, inciting bandits and broken troops to riot by granting officials and making wishes, and tried his best to expand the scale and scope of the riot.
On the one hand, it trapped the Fubo Army from marching westward, and on the other hand, it used it to consume the Senate so that it could have a chance to "counterattack" in the future. The intelligence collected along the Xijiang River fully illustrates this point.
However, there is a big difference between this kind of "official bandits" and "bandits". In order to obtain more loot and gain greater "prestige", they tend to continuously expand their gangs to enhance their ability to attack strongholds.
.The result is that the scale of the bandit group is expanding day by day, which in turn gives the Fubo Army favorable conditions to find, capture, and annihilate.
Not long ago, Bei Wei commanded troops to wipe out several bandit groups in Gaoyao, and the south of Zhaoqing became a lot calmer. Although the bandits are more harmful when they gather into one group, they are much easier to annihilate than the sporadic small groups of bandits, and they do evil things.
Strong men from all walks of life just pushed the local gentry and the masses to their side. The continued implementation of Beiwei's "public security purge" has something to do with this.
Zhu Mingxia looked carefully at the red dots on the map. Has the time to reverse the passive situation come?
The staff officer came in and reported: "Chief, according to your order, the chief officers of units above Zhaoqing Company have assembled."
"Let everyone come in."
More than thirty people came into the official hall at once, and it became overcrowded. All the officers lined up silently and consciously, appearing orderly in the chaos.
"There are many officers here that I am meeting for the first time. Please introduce yourselves."
The squadron commanders of the newly arrived National Army squadrons were the first to report in. Zhu Mingxia had actually read the training/combat reports and chief officer briefings of these units 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 is considered qualified if it can hold its own in a battle without any casualties. Although it may not be able to be used as a sharp knife, it can barely be used as a shield.
As for the inexperienced squadrons that had just arrived from Guangzhou, they could only serve as garrison troops.
"Everyone, it's time to show off your daily training results. As you all know, there are Yao people in the north of Wuzhou and Ming troops in the west, but my own strength is weak. Therefore, I am determined to carry out a forward operation to change our current passive situation. Let's gather today.
In order to inform everyone that the superiors have agreed to our plan, please tell everyone the battle plan."——
Next update: Volume 7 - Guangzhou Governance Chapter 374