Section 133 Fish-Water Relationship

A number of people were killed and wounded on each armed patrol. This kind of war of attrition doesn't matter to the bandits - the bandit leader doesn't care about the death of a few petty bandits, but the constant casualties of trained soldiers are a serious blow to the morale of the army, "We have learned a lesson in this aspect of our operation in Iraq." Even if the enemy uses old-fashioned tethered rifles and fertilizer explosives that have run out of rifling, they can still pose a great threat to small patrols. Xue Ziliang said, "But at that time we had full air superiority, and the air force provided the necessary intelligence and fire support." What about Lingao? Lingao does not have laser-guided bombs, nor Apache, nor drones on duty 24 hours a day. And in Iraq, each patrol was accompanied by armored vehicles. ”

"One armoured ox cart per patrol"

The crowd laughed.

"The armored ox cart is useless, the mobility is too poor, and the protection of the ox itself is also a problem......" Xue Ziliang talked about this problem seriously, until he found out that everyone was giggling and haha, and realized that it was just a joke.

"Sorry, let's move on."

The crossing group has a complete set of experience in the anti-bandit activities in Lingao. So far, Danzhou's anti-bandit work has also followed the idea of suppressing bandits in Lingao.

However, Xue Ziliang pointed out that Lingao's idea of suppressing bandits could not be simply copied to Danzhou.

This is not that there is anything special about Danzhou, but that the foundation of the crossing group in Danzhou is zero.

"When Lingao began to crack down on bandits, we took control of the county government and directly controlled a large amount of land and population. Moreover, the local gentry and the common people have fully trusted our abilities and faithfulness. In other words, our ...... Well...... The 'mass base' is already very deep. ”

In terms of transportation and communications, Lingao had already formed a considerable scale at that time, and the army was not comparable to Danzhou, which had a blank space, in terms of military mobilization and communication and liaison.

However, this model takes too long, and if Danzhou is gradually mastered according to this model, it will take at least 2 years to completely digest the territory. The Senate was not willing to wait so long.

"That's right, if it weren't for the time constraints, why would we send out so many teams at once?" Liu Yixiao complained, apparently he thought that the Wangpu Village incident, the superiors asked him to stabilize the situation in Danzhou within half a year, and the goal of completely controlling Danzhou within a year had a great responsibility.

"Suppressing bandits can also be regarded as a kind of anti-guerrilla." Xue Ziliang said, "The key is to control the people"

The source of the guerrillas is the people, and Xue Ziliang believes that TG's "fish-water relationship" argument is the most appropriate for the guerrillas and the people.

Without popular support, the guerrillas could not get camps, could not afford to replenish their troops, and could not even guarantee food. So the essence of anti-guerrilla warfare is to fight for the people.

"This, how can bandits and ordinary people be said to be a fish-water relationship?" Some people objected, "The bandits are very bad at harming the common people, and the common people hate them to the core"

"The fish-water relationship is not necessarily gratitude, but can also be intimidating." "As long as bandits can create an atmosphere of terror, they can force the people to obey and support them," Xue said. There is no shortage of examples of this in guerrilla warfare. ”

"Our priority is not to rush to publicize that we are the teachers of kings, the angels who bring them well-being, no, this is not needed. The first task is to drain the water so that the bandit fish has no water. ”

Yu Zhiqian said: "What the dispatch team did was to 'pump water' and win over the masses, so the bandits would naturally have no water. ”

Xue Ziliang shrugged his shoulders: "Yes, the method of sending a task force is the most effective, and it can be called the best way to eliminate the guerrillas from the root." However, the cost will be significant. ”

In order to ensure the safety of the task forces, it was necessary to increase the size of each task force and to add more equipment. The isolation of the task force makes them vulnerable to all kinds of attacks, and once attacked, the patrol to the rescue will be a good target for bandit ambushes.

Xue Ziliang believes that these potential threats must be considered.

"Do you have a better way?"

"It's not necessarily better," Mr. Xue said, "but it will definitely work quickly." The ways in which water is pumped are varied. ”

He then elaborated on his plan. The crowd was speechless.

"This is the train of thought of the Japanese devils and KMT......"

"Very useful. The U.S. military also did it in the Philippines back then. It turned out to be quite successful. ”

"The Japanese devils and KMT didn't kill TG with this zuihou."

Xue Ziliang shrugged his shoulders again, showing a disdainful attitude.

"Do you want to be compared to the Japanese devils?"

Xue Ziliang's new plan is: First of all, we will merge the villages and build strategic villages.

There are many small villages in Danzhou, ranging from single-family villages to only twenty or thirty households. These small villages are difficult to defend, lack self-defense, and are remote. It is the most convenient camp, contact point and supply place for bandits and supplies. Therefore, the first step is to dismantle and merge all such villages in the state into strategic villages.

"The setting of strategic villages is not only concentrated on both sides of the Danzhou-Lingao highway." Xue Ziliang further elaborated, "It can be in any other valuable location. The establishment of strategic villages is not only to control the population, but more importantly, to expand the territory through strategic villages, squeezing the space for bandits to operate, rather than shrinking the territory and holding on."

A large strategic village controls 200~300 households, and dispatches a team to conduct a comprehensive inventory in the strategic village, establish political power institutions, and organize militias. At the same time, a regular army ranging from a platoon to a company was stationed to support and monitor the militia, and the strategic village became a fortress.

"Each strategic village will become a reliable base for us. Our bandit forces can rely on these villages. Stockpiling of food, weapons and ammunition and, if necessary, the requisition of local manpower. Use radio dispatch to put troops into battle from anywhere, anytime, anywhere. ”

Each strategic village controls a large area around it, and the troops can be deployed to all parts of the state as quickly as possible, instead of coming out of the state city or Zhonghe commune every time an alarm or intelligence is encountered, and the army's reaction time is greatly shortened.

In other places, the implementation of the strategic village policy will erupt into sharp contradictions in people's livelihood: the peasants are forced to leave their land, and the strategic villages themselves do not have enough means of production to provide them, and the peasants lose their livelihoods, live in poverty, and eventually rise up to rebel and flee.

Although the Japanese were successful in the final result of the anti-Japanese alliance in the northeast, they caused a large number of peasants to die and flee, and almost lost the support of the people forever. Similarly, the U.S. military in South Vietnam has also gained a bad reputation for strategic villages, and the results have not been good.

However, Hainan Island, which is in the time and space, has the great advantage of being vast and sparsely populated. Compared with a population of less than 50,000 or 60,000, there is more abandoned land than Danzhou, and the traverser has a very high level of agricultural development and strong productivity. It is not difficult for the peasants in the villages and villages to live a subsistence life.

"But you can't drive everyone into the strategic village." Liu Yixiao expressed doubts, "Especially those large villages, they have quite a lot of defense. If we force them to merge villages at this stage, it will not be economically viable, and second, it will push them to the side of the bandits. ”

Xue Ziliang nodded: "This involves the second method." Divide into regions. ”

The use of color partitioning is a method that has long been used by the Crossing Group. But Xue Ziliang's partition is simpler.

"The color partition is the same. However, on this basis, the whole Danzhou is divided into three regions. ...... of the security district"

"We should call you Xuegang Village—"

"You don't admit it, but he's done a good job in the fight against guerrillas." Xue Ziliang was not angry. To him, Okamura Ninji didn't mean anything special, just a slightly smarter Japanese general.

He divided the entire Danzhou into public security areas, quasi-security areas, and non-security areas.

Militia, police and political security have been strengthened in security areas, and the identity card system has been fully implemented. The permit system is used to restrict the movement of farmers and traders, especially into quasi-security and non-security areas.

In targeting public security zones, we should first help larger villages establish villagers' self-defense organizations so that they have the ability to defend themselves. For villages with more complex backgrounds, the implementation of village consolidation. Suspicious elements in each settlement are constantly being cleared and relocated. The focus is on home bandits and bandits. The bandits at home were put on public trial, and those who committed serious crimes were put to death, and those who did not commit serious crimes were assigned to construction sites to repair roads. All the bandit dependents were relocated to the security area and dispersed. Accept mass supervision.

In non-public areas, it is necessary to carry out repeated "crusade operations."

"The crusade has two purposes: first, to force the enemy to not rest; Second, deprive the enemy of resources. Specifically, the establishment of strategic villages in non-security zones has forced the merger of small villages; For large villages that are capable of self-defense, teams are sent to help them defend themselves. Conduct a crusade against half-hearted villages as a necessary example of terror. zuihou, the rule of materials, strictly restricting the circulation of daily necessities. If necessary, rationing. ”

"How is this possible? Food rationing is a big project. ”

"Cloth and other things are still easy for them to get, and we can't go to every house and force them to give us all the food and cloth."

"I didn't say grain cloth." Xue Ziliang raised his hand, "Salt, if you don't eat salt, the bandits will soon be unbearable." ”

There was silence in the conference room. They hadn't thought of these solutions, but there was no such systematic connection. Secondly, the practice that Xue Ziliang talked about was considered "ineffective" and "murderous" by many elders because of historical prejudices. And it's always associated with terms like Japanese devils and KMT reactionaries. To use these means is emotionally unacceptable for a while.