Now it is precisely when the KPA needs to expand its size, and the Central Military Commission has also issued an order of the CMC, requiring all units to attract as many people as possible to join the KPA when carrying out their tasks.

Of course, the People's Army does not refuse to be rejected by those who come, and it does not indiscriminately recruit anyone into the People's Army, and of course it is necessary to strictly screen and check the ruffians and hooligans and unemployed vagrants in whatever places, so the main targets of the People's Army's recruitment are ordinary people, peasants, and other middle- and lower-class people.

The members of the Boxers were somewhat special, although in the later period of the Boxers did mix in a lot of hooligans and scoundrels, but on the whole, the Boxers were mainly composed of poor peasants, handicraftsmen, urban poor, small traders and transport workers and other lower-class people, and the members of the Boxers were more or less a few tricks, and most of them participated in the siege of churches, Although this experience is actually the experience of fighting in groups, these experiences are also useful to the people's army, which is somewhat stronger than ordinary people, and is conducive to them quickly becoming qualified soldiers.

However, the various behaviors of the Boxers were indeed too extreme and extreme, and because the Boxers expressed their strong anti-foreign sentiments in a very stupid and superstitious way, and they were also blindly xenophobic, these were obviously unacceptable to the People's Army, to be precise, the travelers. Although the ultimate goal of the traveler is to drive all foreign invaders out of China, recover all the lost land, concessions and cancel all unequal treaties, it does not mean that the traveler will adopt a policy of closing the country and not contacting and communicating with foreign countries at all, after all, the traveler understands people and knows that the trend of globalization is inevitable, so as long as it is on the basis of equality, the traveler will adopt a more open policy and better integrate into the world, and will never be conservative.

Therefore, for the Boxers, it is necessary to re-educate them, let them accept the concept of the time-travelers, and completely abandon the stupid superstition and narrow-mindedness of the previous Boxers, so that they can be absorbed into the People's Army.

After Jiang Haidong, Yang Jie, Zhang Shuo, and Liu Zonghai left, the People's Army quickly cleaned up the battlefield, took the collected booty, and retreated to Hualou Peak with the prisoners, and at this time the second team of troops also arrived in the Laoshan area, and the two sides converged at the foot of Hualou Peak to re-establish camp.

Luo Yue immediately told the commander Zhu Yaping in detail about the process of this battle, as well as the casualties of both sides. This is because the People's Army has just become an army, and every battle is an important and valuable experience, which must be popularized throughout the army and conscientiously studied and completed in order to enhance the combat effectiveness of the whole army as soon as possible.

After listening to Luo Yue's speech, Zhu Yaping was very satisfied with the result of this battle, and said: "Battalion Commander Luo, you fought very well in this battle, that is, you won the battle, and refined the team, and also let us see the gap with the strongest army in this era, which can be said to be full of harvest." ”

Luo Yue said: "Commander, there are too many places that need to be summarized in this battle, on the whole, there is a considerable gap between the quality of our army and the German army, and the German army has already set up a position here, which means that the strength of the German army is more than the more than 600 people we have gathered from the intelligence, because the German army here alone has about 150 people, and they are obviously fully prepared in Qingdao, so we are not suitable to fight head-on with the German army." ”

Zhu Yaping nodded and said: "Battalion Commander Luo, you are very right, our attack on Qingdao this time is a simultaneous advance by sea and land, not only by our army, now that we have reached the outer area of Qingdao, we should immediately notify Weihaiwei and let the navy dispatch to carry out a sea and land flanking attack." What we have to do now is to find out the strength and disposition of the German army, so as to facilitate the offensive not only for us but also for the navy. ”

Luo Yue said: "We have captured more than 20 German soldiers this time, we can interrogate them, and maybe we can understand the strength of the German army and the deployment situation." ”

Zhu Yaping smiled and said: "This is a way, in addition, I will also dispatch drones to conduct detailed reconnaissance of the Qingdao area, so that with a two-pronged approach, it should be possible to find out the strength and deployment of the German army, and the matter of interrogating the prisoners will be handed over to you." ”

Luo Yue said: "Well, that's good, I'll arrange it right away." ”

Zhu Yaping then said: "Battalion Commander Luo, Laoshan is still too far away from the central area of Qingdao, and the large army can be stationed here, but I want to set up a forward position in Laoyaling as a forward base for our next attack on Qingdao, and this task will be handed over to your battalion, what do you think?"

Lao Yaling is a continuation of the mountain range in the southwest of Laoshan Mountain, which is roughly located in the northeast of Licang District, Qingdao City, about 10 kilometers away from Hualou Peak, and only more than 20 kilometers away from Qingdao Bay. Therefore, if the People's Army establishes a forward position at Lao Yaling, it will be able to directly threaten the Qingdao area, and after the artillery battalion arrives, it will deploy 105 mm large-caliber artillery on Lao Yaling, so that it can even directly bombard the batteries on Bismarck Mountain.

So Luo Yue nodded and said, "Yes, our battalion guarantees to complete the task." ”

Zhu Yaping said: "Okay, then don't hesitate, leave the wounded soldiers, your battalion will rest now, and set off after lunch, you can reach Lao Yaling before dusk and establish a position." ”

After lunch, Luo Yue was about to lead the team to set off, when Jiang Haidong, Yang Jie, Zhang Shuo and others came over, and not only the three of them came, but also brought eight young people from the same village, it turned out that they were all encouraged by several of them to go out and do something big, Jiang Haidong's cousin Liu Zonghai was also among them. Luo Yue took them to see Zhu Yaping, and he took his troops and rushed to Lao Yaling.

Zhu Yaping had heard Luo Yue talk about their situation, and he agreed with Luo Yue's way of dealing with them, and now was the time to employ people, of course, the more people who came, the better, so Zhu Yaping personally met with the twelve of them, and encouraged them a few words, left them all in the barracks, and sent someone to tell them the discipline of the People's Army. The next day, the follow-up artillery battalion and firepower reinforcement battalion also arrived in the Laoshan area, and Zhu Yaping divided the twelve of them into two groups and arranged them to work in the artillery battalion and the firepower reinforcement battalion respectively, mainly to do some miscellaneous things, so Jiang Haidong and others stayed in the barracks.

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Lieutenant Colonel Nedewicz led a group of German troops, fought desperately, and finally broke through the array of the People's Army, escaped from the Hualoufeng position, collected the defeated and fleeing German soldiers, and recruited a total of more than 50 people, including more than 30 wounded, and hurriedly rushed back to Qingdao Bay to report the battle situation to the German commander Waldsea.

After listening to Lieutenant Colonel Nedewitz's report, Waldsea was very angry, and before establishing the forward position of Hualoufeng, he repeatedly told Nedewitz not to hold the position and fight hard with the enemy, and to withdraw immediately when he encountered the enemy. Because although the number of this German army is not large, it is a regular army, not a naval soldier drawn from a warship, it belongs to the elite of the German army on the island, and it is also a force that Waldsea values very much, in Waldsi's plan, after this army is withdrawn, it will be incorporated into the reserve army, so that he has enough mobile forces in his hands.

However, Nedewitz violated his own orders and held his position to fight hard with the enemy, and not only did he not hold the position, but he also lost more than 100 men, and although such a loss was not considered a wound, it was also a heavy casualty, and at the same time it greatly damaged the morale of the German army, so how could he not be annoyed? Not only did he reprimand Nedewitz bitterly, but he also removed Nedevitz from his post and let him go to the Saxony stranded on the beach to command the ship's guns.

Of course, it was easy to deal with Neidevitz, but now the situation was even more difficult, and Waldsea could only order various positions and hold them tightly, because the overseas Chinese army had already reached Qingdao.

At dusk, Waldsea received a report that the scouts had discovered that the overseas Chinese army had advanced to Old Crow Ridge to establish a position.

Of course, Waldsea knew that Lao Yaling was there, and he also knew how much of a threat to Qingdao was when the overseas Chinese army established a position in Lao Yaling, and if the overseas Chinese army had heavy artillery and erected it on Lao Yaling, it could at least hit the fort on Bismarck Mountain. Of course, the heavy artillery of the Bismarck Hill Fort can also hit the Old Crow Ridge, but this requires knowing the detailed location of the enemy troops, and setting up observation posts near the Old Crow Ridge to provide the artillery with the correction parameters of the firing unit. Otherwise, the Lao Yaling area is dozens of square kilometers in circumference, and who knows where to fight.

Valdsey, who was proficient in the art of war, of course would not lose his defense, so he immediately ordered a platoon to attack overnight, rushed to Lao Ya Ridge to find out the position of the enemy's position, and used the cover of the night to set up a secret observation post, and then bombarded Lao Yao Ridge with the heavy artillery of the Bismarck Hill Fort.

However, the enemy obviously expected that the German army would have this move, so a large number of outposts were set up near the position, and as a result, the Germans approached the enemy's positions from three directions, but they were all discovered by the enemy's sentinels, not only failed to get close to the enemy's position, but on the contrary, more than ten people were killed, so they had to give up and retreat.

In fact, the People's Army did not set up so many sentinels, and Bi Jingluo Yue had less than 400 people, so there were so many manpower, but the People's Army had unmanned reconnaissance aircraft and a large number of night vision equipment, so the whereabouts of the German army were completely controlled by the People's Army, and it successfully intercepted the German army.

And after dawn, Wadsey received the report, and he could only do it stupidly. Fortunately, the enemy did not attack the German position, and the two sides held each other for a day, but there was no fighting, not even skirmishes, and it was very calm.

However, Valdesy knew that this calm was only a superficial appearance, as if under the soil layer, countless magma was moving violently, accumulating energy, and once it was sprayed, it would be earth-shattering.