The strategy for Baitu Village finally began officially after Xi Yaya took office. After recuperating for more than half a month, this fat man was kicked out by Wu Nanhai for trying to steal chickens to eat. Although he repeatedly defended that the missing pair of ducks in the farm was not his responsibility, Wu Nanhai still unceremoniously asked him to "stay away". The Army Club, which was in the making, also died as a result.

Baitu Village is a small port village, located between Lingao and Danzhou, surrounded by mountains on three sides, and has a very haode port, which is convenient for ships to enter and exit, and it has always been the main shipbuilding place in Lingao. The report of the reconnaissance team shows that the land transportation here is not easy to walk, there are only a few mountain paths, and the locals have set up horses, deer firewood and forts at the junction to prevent bandits, and by the way, to guard against officers and soldiers and other characters. It is not very difficult for the current new army to storm it, and Xi Yaya thinks that even if this army gives them a big sword and spear to clean up Baitu Village, it will not be a problem, it is just that more people will die.

"However, our operation should only be a police operation." Xi Yaya studied the map drawn by the reconnaissance team of the Military Commission for a long time, "Since these shipwrights want to use them, they can't kill too many people. ”

"What are you going to do?"

"There's an armed march. Forcing them to surrender without a fight. ”

"If you want to talk about cost-effectiveness, I think it's best to use our reconnaissance team." Bei Wei proposed, "The surrounding mountains are not precipitous, it is easy to penetrate into them, go directly to them and catch the main leaders inside, and the matter will be done." ”

"That's right, but Baitu Village is a soft persimmon, just for this group of newcomers to try it." Ma Qianzhu said.

"Embolden them?"

"By the way, these people were still pinching hoes more than a month ago. The officers are all modern people, and I'm afraid they won't be able to cooperate well. Gotta let them smell the fire. ”

"Okay, then we'll get more variety. Exercise of power"

The village itself is not armed, it is not a regiment, but it belongs to the whole army, and it is said that it has killed several small groups of pirates. According to the investigation of the intelligence department, Baitu Village has a population of more than 500, half of whom are Ding Zhuang, and most of them are shipwrights who fled from Guangdong and Fujian. Originally, the village was just a small fishing village, with seven or eight fishermen in it. It was only after the foreign shipwrights fled here that the population slowly increased.

Huang Xiong was promoted. He, the former Ming army general, was all over the place after being summoned, he was not stupid, this battle clearly showed that he didn't trust himself, and this group of Australians wouldn't give him a click because he was suspicious, right? After a few days of suspicion, I also used to run away, but I thought that the people who escaped in front of me had all been arrested and shown to the public without exception, and I may not be an exception, and my identity, once I was caught, I would definitely die.

After a few days of panic, he was appointed as the squad leader of the eighth squad of the third company of the teaching battalion, the commander of the third company was a man named You Laohu, who was good at playing with big swords, and heard that Huang Xiong was an officer of the Ming army, so he had to compare with him with big swords. Huang Xiong hesitated for a moment whether to deliberately lose to him, but Zuihou decided to show his strength to this group of Australians - he knew that Australians had no hierarchy view of the locals, and whoever had the ability and strength could be reused.

But the victory is not easy, this tiger actually has no moves, it is all a big chopping and slashing path, but he is very big, and he has great experience in fighting. It took several minutes for the Yellow Bear to knock his knife off.

"You've lost! Captain. ”

"Use a real knife, you're not my opponent!" You Tiger roared unconvinced, "I have the Blue Dragon Glaive Knife!" ”

"That's a singing thing, you lose faster with it!"

You Laohu looked at him angrily for a long time, and roared: "Good man, you have kung fu." ”

Huang Xiong became You Laohu's "brother" so inexplicably, and he was forced to learn martial arts with him after every day after exercise. He originally thought that You Tiger was going to promote him to be a personal soldier or something, but apparently the Australian army did not do this. As a company commander, You Laohu is in charge of 100 people, and he is also at the level of a capital commander in the Ming army, and there is only one "guard" by his side.

"The determination of this operation is to subdue Baitu Village." Xi Yaya made a mission statement at a meeting of the commanders of the battalion and above the platoon level, "Minimize casualties in the battle and exercise restraint in the operation." There are quite a lot of new recruits participating in the war this time, and the discipline of the troops must be tightened. How is the progress of each company teaching and singing the three disciplines and eight attention songs? ”

"I've been teaching for three days, and everyone can basically sing." Wei Aiwen, who temporarily serves as a political instructor in the battalion, reported.

"Not only do you have to be able to sing, but you also have to understand the meaning of the lyrics." Xi Yaya said. The song of the three major disciplines and eight points of attention is catchy, and it also explains the military discipline and the way of getting along with the people in an easy-to-understand manner, which is a rare military song for education.

"Here's the logistics—"

Since he failed to do it, Ye Yuming came back to do his promising job of raising rabbits. In the past few days, Ye Yuming's ears, which were originally only bothered by mosquitoes, are now full of this sentence. "According to the information revealed by the army people in private chats, this is the first large-scale expedition after the establishment of the new army by crossing the people." The Ministry of Agriculture faces a huge challenge: rations.

"The soldiers and horses have not moved, and the grain and grass go first." At present, the leaders of the army have reached a consensus on whether or not to dispatch the new army -- not only to mobilize it, but also to organize a large armed march of demonstrations on a considerable scale. But there's no doubt that no matter what you're going to do, you have to eat.

Despite the fact that this army is still in its most primitive state, the order to develop military rations has already reached the Committee of Agriculture. The biggest headache for the people in the Ministry of Agriculture is to try to produce field rations that can be carried with the army and ensure sufficient nutrition in the high temperature and high humidity environment of Hainan.

It stands to reason that since this expedition is a low-intensity operation, and it is expected to take only three days at most, the mechanical team has developed a cooking car, and the guarantee of using hot meals and hot dishes is the most ideal. Field rations are not delicious in ancient and modern times, and they belong to emergency supplies in emergency situations.

Because the operation also had the shiyan nature of a comprehensive inspection of the existing equipment, the Military Commission demanded that it must be equipped with enough field rations for three days -- there could be more types, mainly for the troops to try and listen to the reactions.

The Ministry of Agriculture has long tried to carry food from all parts of China and even Shijie, such as fried rice, steamed cakes, rice balls, fried noodles, pancakes, naan, rice crackers, and Bingliang balls. Wu Nanhai also developed a rather weird thing called Jinhua shortbread. It turns out that it can be stored for a long time, but it is really hard to swallow. Moreover, shortbread requires a lot of lard, and at the moment all grease is considered a "strategic material".

Dry pancakes, fried noodles, naan, and dried buns are all ripe, portable dry foods that are easy to process. In particular, pancakes showed their value in the battle against Goujiazhuang. Pancakes are extremely shelf-stable, and in the past, Shandong people often brought dry food when they went out. Although the main ingredient of Shandong pancakes is actually sweet potatoes, the nutritional value of sweet potatoes is too low to meet military rations, so it is out of the game with fried noodles, naan and other flour products.

The rest is rice products, Ye Yuming proposed to make fried rice, and also proposed to make fried rice cakes from fried rice and maltose. But fried rice is not as preservable as chow mein, and they don't have maltose available. So it was proposed to continue making military food pills -- they had done a few in the past: the taste of this thing was terrifying: it was made from boiled rice and dried in the sun, and it was said to be extremely shelf-stable -- and the Japanese samurai of those days were fighting with a thing every day, and after tasting it, they came to the conclusion that only the Japanese could eat it.

Rice noodles, rice crackers, rice noodles, rice noodles, rice balls, rice skins, ...... A variety of rice products were excavated from the depths of memory, and through the cooperation of the canteen and the agricultural department, the full table of shiyan products was quickly created after full inquiry and imagination.

This military food experiment obtained a great name "Long March Jihua" on paperwork, and later Wu Nanhai considered that this great name might be used for other purposes in the future, so it became the name "Grassland Jihua" that is quite anticlimactic in the archives now.

Faced with a table of grotesque and more human-like so-called field ration shiyan products, there was a surprising consensus on the question of tasting: distribute all these things to the expeditionary force, and then distribute them for observation when the troops are at their hungriest and let the troops test the truth in practice. But who is the military observer? As soon as the thought of the angry officers began, everyone immediately began to blame each other again......

Just as everyone was eyeing each other left and right, trying to get out of accepting this life-threatening mission, the savior finally appeared. It was the wise staff officer of the General Staff who had been in and out of the headquarters of the Forces nouvelles recently, who had been blowing rain at the east gate. At this critical juncture, he passed by the farm.

Dongmen Blowing Rain originally wanted to see if he could get some tomatoes and other private goods on the farm, and by the way, he took a look at the little girl here in Wunanhai, but after being discovered, after a short but ambiguous enough to numb a pig's eyes, everyone very enthusiastically asked Comrade Dongmen Blowing Rain to come to the Ministry of Agriculture to observe the development of field food......

Inspired by a fearless spirit and a spirit of internationalism, Comrade Dongmen Fuyu resolutely agreed to the field food investigation of the Ministry of Agriculture. And got two tomatoes as he wished. The colleagues on the farm watched his back with reverence. As the saying goes: the wind is sluggish, and the water is cold......

After intense preparations, the Baitu Expedition Group set off from Bopu. These include a platoon of the 1st company, 2nd company, and 3rd company of the training battalion, 30 non-commissioned officers and students of the military and political school, 10 reconnaissance teams directly under the Military Commission, and more than 40 artillery detachments. There is also a medical team of students from the girls' Jishu school led by hippos sent by the health team, and a baggage team of 100 people in Zuihou.

The Navy dispatched the newly repaired and refitted two-masted sailing ship "Fubo" to serve as a marine response, and six civilian ships were purchased and converted from the local area, loaded with various supplies. If it weren't for the fact that there were too few ships, Xi Ya would have planned to transport all of them by boat.

Five infantry platoons marched in four columns, and the soldiers wore rattan helmets on octagonal caps, which were made in the style of colonial helmets, and the front of the helmets was inlaid with a gleaming piece of steel, on which were stamped with the number of the troops, and also provided some additional protection for the soldiers, and behind them were white sunshade neck guards - this is indispensable for marching and fighting in a place like Lingao, where the sun hours are very long. The canvas leggings were pumped tightly. The cowhide belt is equipped with a double ammunition box, and the four ammunition boxes contain a total of 120 rounds of ammunition and 130 fire caps. Kettles, bayonets, sapper shovels, and sundries were each hung in a rattan box stuffed with various items, and a thin cotton blanket was tied to it. Although there were heavy boats along the way to provide food, each soldier still stocked a pack of 10 rice crackers in his backpack. The squad leader has another 1 bottle of soju. This is an emergency meal and is only allowed to be used when ordered.