Chapter 33: The Lion Fights the Rabbit
"Ready for war!"
The news quickly spread throughout the camp. Before everyone in the camp could get excited, Zhang Luo had already ordered a meeting of all the officers above the rank of captain. At the meeting, he announced that almost all of the elite would be required for the operation, and that the Combat Training Section and the troops composed of women and teenagers would remain to guard the camp.
At this moment, everyone was frightened, and no one thought that Zhang Luo would dare to make such a desperate bet. In particular, the female officers of the newly formed women's battalion were so frightened that they couldn't speak. It was immediately announced that the structure of the women's battalion would be reorganized, and young women would be selected to form a purely female unit. The original women's battalion was an establishment of one tun, but now it is divided into two tuns.
"Qu Shuai, what if the Han army sends troops to attack us?" This was the most lethal problem, and a tun chief named Li Ji of the middle-aged team in Lijia Village immediately jumped up to oppose it.
Li Ji, whose name is Ren Chao, is twenty-three years old, has studied in a private school, and looks powerful and powerful.
"Look at the map!" Zhang Luo looked disdainful, "Look at the map, the Han army wants to attack us, what route does he have to take to come over." At that time, the Han army had to fight a battle with the Qingzhou brothers outside the plain city, and after defeating them, they had to cross the river by boat before they could reach us. At present, the Qingzhou brothers are only afraid that the Han army will not go out of the city, where will they be afraid that the Han army will go out of the city! Besides, our brothers from the training department have stayed, and they are all the best of the best! ”
Just saying this, it didn't reassure Li Ji in the slightest.
Zhang Luo was not hypocritical, and immediately ordered, "Comrade Ren Chao, if you don't worry, you can stay." When you go back, inform the whole army that whoever is not at ease can stay! ”
The elite troops are all young and strong personnel, and they are very excited when it comes to fighting. The expected situation of a large number of people choosing to stay did not happen, and in the end, less than ten people, including Li Ji, publicly expressed their willingness to stay. And after discovering that they were a very small minority, these ten people also gave in like the majority.
"We're a family now!" Zhang Luo said loudly at the all-army mobilization meeting, "Since it is a family, the first thing is to trust others. At present, we have just built a family, and the family foundation is thin, so naturally it is not as big as that big business, so we don't have to take too many risks. Now that we're fighting for our lives, everyone has to do their part! ”
No cheers, no praises. All the men, women, and children listened so carefully to Weeser's words.
There is only one solution to the problem that Zhang Luo came up with: "Training!" Training! Training! ”
Before attacking Jijia Town, Zhang Luo strengthened his training. Especially for women and children, he has set strict training rules himself. Children are not required to participate in combat training, but are required to participate in cultural and basic discipline training. Some of the soldiers in the army who had already learned three or four hundred words were transferred to the cultural instructors of the various units, and the cultural instructors also taught cultural lessons to the children and women in the camps.
The training was in full swing to dispel the uneasiness in the hearts of some of the male fighters. In any case, the women also went through the same basic training and crossbow shooting training as the men, and the men who had already undergone these trainings knew the effects of the training, and after seeing the women go through the basic training, the concern of the women for their loved ones gradually began to dissipate after seeing the women become more and more proficient. After all, there are not only women and children in the camp, some elderly people are also in the camp, and these old men are also characters who once licked blood with knives.
Zhang Luo actually didn't care about these at all, he was able to complete his orders even without going through this so-called "mobilization meeting". To go to such great lengths to organize a mobilization meeting, he was just looking for an excuse to be able to conduct a large-scale training of the whole army.
Even if he acknowledges that the system of separate camps for men and women is a model that fits the current situation, Zhang Luo hopes to make more effective use of the situation. What made Zhang Luo feel wrong in this era was not people's insistence on family, but men's attitude towards women as their own private property. There is no better way to emancipate women than to give them common work opportunities, and the emergence of a female army is the best way to do so. Women also have almost equal violence, which can be a very good effect in the military.
Nothing will be immediate, and after Zhang sows the seeds, he allows them to grow freely. He took the members of the staff and began to prepare for battle. After reading the map that Bian Xi took out and listening to his introduction to Jijia Town, Sima Ju asked a very realistic question: "Do I want to occupy Jijia Town?" ”
If Jijia Town is really a town with strong protection capabilities, as Bian Xi said, the imagination of using it as a base is quite attractive.
Zhang Luo poured a basin of cold water on it, "Aren't Julu City and Guangzong City bigger than Jijia Town?" ”
As soon as these ruthless words were said, the commanders were honest. Before Taiping Dao, 80,000 or 90,000 people were guarding Julu City, but in the end, they couldn't hold it. At present, more than 1,000 men, women, and children are guarding Jijia Town, and the result will only be worse.
"So what the hell am I going to do?" Pei Yuanshao asked.
Zhang Luo replied: "We must pull up the team as much as possible, accumulate materials through mobile operations, and accumulate combat experience. ”
In fact, when Zhang Luo first began to lead his troops south, he also had the ambition of "a spark can start a prairie fire". The problem is that after walking for a while, he understands one thing, the spark of the future can ignite the prairie because the relationship between the various forces is life-and-death, and Jinggangshan is only one of the forces, or a relatively weak force. Therefore, Jinggangshan can take advantage of the contradictions between various factions to continuously develop itself.
At this time, the Han court was still a unified regime, and no matter how fierce the contradictions between the local and central governments were, they did not reach the endless contradiction between the enemy and ourselves. However, there was an absolute contradiction between the court and the rebel forces. In such a situation, Zhang Luo can only "coerce" the people and expand the team first.
"Qu Shuai, what if we defeat Pingyuan County?" Zhou Cang asked.
This question is not only the content that Pei and Zhou are concerned about, but also the content that the brothers who went south with Zhang Luo are concerned.
Zhang Luo smiled: "Hehe, I'll just wait for such a few people, can I hold it after capturing Plains City?" If you want to hold it, you must be able to collect money and food, you must be able to recruit troops, and you must be able to subdue the Quartet. What do you think we can do now? ”
The officers looked at each other, and Mo said that they couldn't do so much now, and many people didn't even think of so much.
Zhang said with a little malice: "Even if we occupy Plains City, can we let this Jijia Town honestly pay us food?" Can any of you, brothers, come up with a solution? ”
"We don't have any other way than to beat them." Wang Zhen, the head of the fifth tuntun, said in silence.
The brothers were a little confused in the face of the problems they had never thought of, and after listening to Wang Zhen's straightforward and concise advice, some brothers couldn't help laughing. Violence is the easiest way to solve the problem, everyone may have stayed in Jizhou for too long, too accustomed to owning the city, and now the idea is a little dull.
"Good! Then I'll go to Jijia Town! Pei Yuanshao's whole person suddenly became as energetic as a sharp blade out of the sheath.
Although Zhang Luo shouted that the whole army should be dispatched, in fact, it was only Sima Ju who was dispatched first. If Sima Ju could rely on Sima Ju to solve the battle, Zhang Luo would not really let the whole army out. Wu Lu's brothers did quite a bit of a job, and they transported more than 100 people to the vicinity of Jijia Town in one day.
After joining Wu Lu, Zhang Luo's self-cultivated villages near Jijia Town have been fully mobilized, and the men have prepared flat shoulders, sacks, and hemp ropes, which clearly shows that they want to transport things to their homes after breaking Jijia Town.
Zhang Luo couldn't help but ask Wu Lu, "Brother Wu, what did you say to the villagers." ”
"Qu Shuai, are you worried that we will not serve you as the master?" Wu Lu asked Zhang Luo rhetorically.
"I'm worried that you want me to be a grass king here." Zhang Luo sneered, "Brother Wu, you are also a person who travels from south to north, and if I break Jijia Town today, I will offend the government." The brothers in Pingyuan City can't take the county rule, so they will naturally disperse, and the official army will come to Jijia Town sooner or later. If they take Pingyuan City, the official army will only attack Pingyuan City on a large scale, and once the county is lost, the official army is afraid that they will come to Jijia Town next. Brother Wu, if you really just want to make a profit, then you might as well say it directly. If you feel that you are full of food today and sleep today, you don't care if you die tomorrow. Then what does it matter if I help you break Jijia Town?