Section 133 The relationship between fish and water
Chapter 133 The relationship between fish and water
Every armed patrol will kill or injure several people. This kind of war of attrition doesn't matter to the bandits - the bandit leaders don't care about the death of a few small bandits, but the constant casualties of trained soldiers will be a serious blow to the morale of the army. "We
There are lessons in this regard during operations in Iraq. Even if the enemy uses old-fashioned bolt-action rifles and fertilizer explosives that have lost their rifling, they can still pose a great threat to small patrols." Xue Ziliang said, "But that
At that time, we had sufficient air superiority, and the aviation force provided necessary intelligence and fire support. What about Lingao? Lingao had no laser-guided bombs, no Apaches, and no drones on duty 24 hours a day. And in Iraq, every day
Each patrol team is supported by armored vehicles."
"An armored oxcart for each patrol!"
Everyone laughed.
"Armored oxcarts are useless, their maneuverability is too poor, and the protection of the oxen itself is also a problem..." Xue Ziliang talked about this issue seriously, but he didn't realize it was just a joke until he noticed that everyone was laughing and joking.
"Sorry, let's continue the topic."
Chuanchuan Group has a complete set of experience in Lingao's bandit suppression activities. Danzhou's bandit suppression work so far follows the same ideas as Lingao's bandit suppression.
However, Xue Ziliang pointed out that Lingao's idea of suppressing bandits cannot simply be copied to Danzhou.
This is not because there is anything special about Danzhou, but because the Cross-Travel Group has zero foundation in Danzhou.
"When Lingao began to suppress bandits, we took control of the county administration and directly controlled a large amount of land and population. Moreover, the local gentry and people had completely trusted our ability and integrity. In other words, our...
…Well…it’s called ‘mass base’ and it’s already very deep.”
In terms of transportation and communications, Lingao had already formed a considerable scale at that time. Regardless of military mobilization or communications, it was not comparable to Danzhou, which was completely blank.
However, this model takes too long. If Danzhou is gradually controlled according to this model, it will take at least 2 years to completely digest the territory. The Senate is not willing to wait for such a long time.
"That's right, if it weren't for time constraints, why would we send out so many work teams at once?" Liu Yixiao complained. Apparently he believed that his superiors required him to stabilize the situation in Danzhou within half a year and completely control the Wangpu Village incident within one year.
Danzhou's goal has a great responsibility.
"Suppressing bandits can also be regarded as a kind of counter-guerrilla." Xue Ziliang said, "The key is to control the people!"
The source of strength for the guerrillas is the people. Xue Ziliang believes that TG's "fish-water relationship" argument is most appropriate to focus on the guerrillas and the people.
Without the support of the people, the guerrillas cannot secure campsites, replenish their troops, and even have food to eat. Therefore, the essence of anti-guerrilla warfare is to compete for the people.
"Well, how can we say that the bandits and the common people have a close relationship?" Someone raised an objection, "The bandits have done great harm to the common people, and the common people hate them to the core!"
"The relationship between fish and water may not be one of gratitude, but can also be one of intimidation." Xue Ziliang said, "As long as the bandits can create an atmosphere of terror, they can force the people to obey and support them. There are many examples of this in guerrilla warfare."
"Our first task is not to rush to publicize that we are the master of kings and the angels who bring them blessings. No, this is not necessary. The first task is to drain the water so that the fish like bandits have no water."
Yu Zhiqian said: "The task of dispatching the work team is to 'pump out water' and win over the masses. Then the bandits will naturally have no water."
Xue Ziliang shrugged: "Yes, sending a task force is the most effective method. It can be called the best way to eliminate the guerrillas from the root. However, the cost will be very high."
In order to ensure the safety of the work teams, it is necessary to expand the size of each work team and add more equipment. The isolated status of the work teams themselves makes them extremely vulnerable to attacks by various means. Once attacked,
Patrols heading to the rescue also make good targets for bandit ambush.
Xue Ziliang believes that these potential threats must be considered.
"Do you have a better way?"
"It's not necessarily better," Xue Ziliang said, "but it will definitely work quickly. There are many ways to pump water."
He then explained his plan. Everyone was speechless.
"This is the thinking of the Japanese and KMT..."
"It's very useful. The US military also did it in the Philippines back then. It proved to be quite successful."
"The Japanese and KMT didn't even manage to kill TG with this trick."
Xue Ziliang shrugged again, showing a dismissive attitude.
"Are you going to compare yourself with the Japanese?"
Xue Ziliang's new plan is to first merge villages into villages and build strategic villages.
There are many small villages in Danzhou, ranging from single-family villages to those with only 20 or 30 households. These small villages are difficult to fortify, lack self-defense forces, and are located in remote areas. They are the most convenient campsites and contact points for bandits.
Material and soldier supply areas. Therefore, the first step is to cancel all such villages across the state and merge them into strategic villages.
"The establishment of strategic villages is not just concentrated on both sides of the Danzhou-Lingao Highway." Xue Ziliang further elaborated, "It can be set up at any other valuable location. The establishment of strategic villages is not only to control the population, but more importantly, to expand through strategic villages
Territory, destroy the bandits’ space for activities, instead of shrinking the territory and consolidating it!”
A large strategic village controls 200 to 300 households. A work team is dispatched in the strategic village to conduct a comprehensive inventory, establish political institutions, and organize militia. At the same time, a regular army ranging from a platoon to a company is stationed to support and monitor the militia. The strategic village becomes a fortress.
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"Each strategic village will become our reliable stronghold. Our anti-bandit forces can rely on these villages to store food, weapons and ammunition, and recruit local manpower when necessary. Using radio dispatch, troops from all over the place can be deployed anytime and anywhere.
fighting."
Each strategic village controls a large surrounding area, and troops can be deployed to all parts of the state as quickly as possible, instead of coming out from the state city or Zhonghe Commune every time they encounter an alarm or intelligence. The reaction time of the army is greatly shortened.
If the strategic village policy is implemented in other places, sharp conflicts over people's livelihood will break out: farmers are forced to leave their land, and the strategic villages themselves do not have enough means of production to provide them. Farmers lose their livelihoods, live in poverty, and eventually rise up to resist and
escape.
Although the Communists were successful in wiping out the Anti-Japanese Alliance by establishing a group-tribal system in the Northeast, they caused a large number of farmers to die and flee, and they almost lost the support of the people forever. Similarly, the US military established strategic villages in South Vietnam.
It also gained a bad reputation and was ineffective.
However, the traveler has the great advantage of Hainan Island in this time and space, which is vast and sparsely populated. Compared with a population of less than 50,000 to 60,000, there is as much abandoned land as Danzhou, and the traveler has a very high level of agricultural development.
and strong productivity. It is not difficult for farmers in Bingcunjitun to live a subsistence life.
"But you can't drive everyone into strategic villages." Liu Yixiao expressed doubts, "Especially those large villages, which have considerable defense capabilities. If we force them to merge villages at this stage, it will not be economically feasible.
, the second will push them to the side of bandits."
Xue Ziliang nodded: "This involves the second method: dividing the area."
The use of color partitioning is a method that has been adopted by the Travel Group for a long time. However, Xue Ziliang's partitioning is simpler.
"The color divisions remain the same. But on this basis, Danzhou is divided into three areas. Public security areas..."
"We should call you Xuegang Village-"
"You have to admit that he did a very good job in counter-guerrilla work." Xue Ziliang was not angry. To him, Okamura Neji had no special significance, he was just a slightly smarter *** general.
He divided the entire Danzhou into security areas, quasi-security areas and non-security areas.
Strengthen the security of militia, police and police within the security area, and fully implement the ID card system. Use the pass system to restrict the movement of farmers and vendors, especially the movement into quasi-security areas and non-security areas.
Targeting the public security areas, first help larger villages to establish villagers' self-defense organizations so that they have the ability to defend themselves. Villages with more complex backgrounds will be consolidated into villages. Suspicious elements in each residential area will be continuously eliminated and relocated. Key points
It is for household bandits and their family members. The household bandits will be put on public trial and those guilty of serious crimes will be executed. Those who have not committed serious crimes will be assigned to construction sites to build roads. All bandit families will be moved to the public security area and dispersed. They will be subject to mass supervision.
For non-security areas, repeated "punitive operations" must be carried out.
"The crusade has two purposes. First, to force the enemy to rest and recuperate; second, to deprive the enemy of resources. Specifically, to establish strategic villages in non-security areas and force small villages to merge; to attack large villages that are capable of self-defense.
, sending work teams in to help them defend themselves. Conduct crusade against half-hearted villages as a necessary example of terror. Finally, implement material rule and strictly limit the circulation of daily necessities. If necessary, adopt a rationing system."
"How is this possible? Food rationing is a big project."
"It's easy for them to get things like cloth. We can't go to every household and force them to hand over all their grain and cloth to us."
"I didn't say food and cloth." Xue Ziliang raised his hand, "Salt, if you don't eat salt, the bandits will soon be unable to bear it."
There was silence in the conference room. It is not that they have never thought of these methods, but they are not connected in such a systematic way. Secondly, the method Xue Ziliang talked about was considered by many elders to be "ineffective" and "cruel" due to historical stereotypes. Moreover,
It is always associated with words such as Japanese devils and KMT reactionaries. It is emotionally unacceptable to use these methods for a while.