Section 64 Mobilization

The Senate approved He Ming's proposal to establish a general headquarters of the militia. The militia of workers and commune peasants was the main force, and the militia of all villages was commanded in one place - responsible for the defense of the countryside, the protection of industry, agriculture and infrastructure, the role of logistics, and the assistance of the Fubo army when necessary.

In the course of the battle against bandits, militias have been established in various villages in Lingao -- some of them are the original villagers; Basic defenses were built - at worst, a trench and a wooden fence.

"Militias in indigenous villages are of little use." Dongmen Fuyu, who was in charge of mobilization affairs, said, "They are just village warriors." It's okay to defend your village and fight with bandits, but it may not be okay to take them out to fight the Ming army. ”

Moreover, there is a question mark over whether these militias are politically reliable. In general, the level of reliability varies from village to village. In addition to the various villages under the direct jurisdiction of the commune, the most politically reliable were the area of the Thirteen Villages and the area of the Ma Yuan Peninsula. The latter was the first to take refuge in the traversal, and after the repeated ravages and training of Du Wen and others, the grass-roots organizations of the traversal regime have been fully established, village chiefs have been appointed, and police officers have been stationed, and the unstable elements have either been purged or forcibly relocated.

Except for the absence of a formal commune, there was no significant difference in the degree of control from the four communes.

Other villages are far away from the Wenlan River. The Wenlan River is the ruling core area of the Crossing Group, and basically the farther away from the Wenlan River, the less reliable it is. However, geography is not the whole story of reliability assessments.

Those who have carried out in-depth cooperation with the crossing group, such as a village like Liujiazhai, have a much higher degree of reliability. Their interests are largely tied to the Crossing Syndicate. Villages that don't have much cooperation, but passively receive instructions from the traversal through the liaison are much less reliable. The clan shili is particularly strong, and the big village that has little intersection with the Lingao regime is the most dangerous part. Not only did the Crossing Crowd not bring much benefit to the clans in power, but it curbed their power to rely on the great clans to do evil.

At present, no village dares to resist the orders of the crossing group, and any government order can be issued smoothly, but the Executive Committee believes that such a situation is under the condition of internal and external stability. In the event of any unrest, it is likely that some villages will disobey.

"Villages that live in non-clan groups and have a small population in the village, although they are not reliable, do not dare to act rashly because of poor cohesion and small numbers. It should be A to follow A, and B to descend B. There is no threat to us. When talking about this issue at the military mobilization meeting, Dongmen Blowing Rain said, "The most dangerous ones are actually clan settlements like Huangjiazhai and Liujiazhai." They are all large villages of thousands of people. It is easy to pull out two or three hundred armed strong men. If we are unstable, we are likely to respond to the military to gain political and economic benefits. ”

"They will only rise up and resist when we are crushed and flee for our lives. So I don't think it's likely. These big families know the power of our artillery. Zhang Bolin said.

Wei Aiwen said: "This is the right time to fully test them...... Let's see which villages are vacillating elements, and when the time comes, all of them will be cleared up and arrested. ”

"It's not good." He Ming shook his head, "The rear still requires 'stability', as for things like vacillation, it's hard to say, people are originally timid, not to mention that they want to 'rebel from thieves'." As long as we win this battle, people's hearts will naturally fall against us. We need to rely on the people, and we don't keep them on guard every day. ”

"In my opinion, it is inappropriate to mobilize only the workers and the inhabitants of the commune. This will give the local people the illusion that 'I have nothing to do with the war', and it will also increase the chances that they will be the grass on the wall. Dongmen Blowing Rain said, "The whole county should be mobilized, so that every village must provide food and completely tie up our chariots." ”

"Now there are some soldiers in each village, and up to half of the soldiers in the army are local soldiers." The east gate blew rain and flipped through the military register, "This is not enough, it is a state of emergency, and the recruitment of soldiers for the whole county should start immediately." ”

"I agree."

"There's one more thing we should do right away." At the military mobilization meeting, Ma Qianzhuo said, "The local garrison in Lingao. ”

"You mean the ...... of the guard?"

"Yes, the guard." Ma Qianzhuo nodded, "Although the local Weisu army is not a climate, it still occupies a large area of fertile land and has a population of several thousand. ”

In the past, the traversal did not touch the interests of the guard, and the guard has always been an independent existence in Lingao. This is first of all out of the basic principle of "peaceful coexistence" with the Ming government, and thousands of households were wiped out at once, and the county is not easy to explain, and the second is for the sake of "Zhenli".

Although the Weisuo army was rotten and its combat strength was only 10 at most, they were still an important part of containing the local Li people. Before the crossing group did not establish a good relationship with Li Min, and before its own Liliang was not strong, it was not necessarily a good thing to rashly destroy the guard.

Without the deterrence of the guards, the Li and Han contradictions here are very deep - the Li rebellion is just a matter of the last years of Wanli, and if the Li people want to make a comeback, the crossing group will have to go into battle to suppress the Li people. Hatred has to be formed right away.

Based on these considerations, the crossing group has never touched the interests of the guards, and the guards have not shown the spirit of "defending the homeland and the country" that the officers and soldiers should have. The two sides also occasionally make some deals. It maintains a state of relative harmony.

Now, the crossing group no longer needs to worry about all this: the Fubo army has become large, the villages have established a militia system, and the Li district has also maintained friendly relations, and as for the friendly relations with the Ming Dynasty, I am afraid that the friendly relations with the Ming will end soon. The guard station became the most dangerous fifth column in Lingao. Ma Qianzhuo believes that in terms of the military ability of the guard, of course, it is insignificant, but if there is some small damage, it will still outweigh the losses for the traversers.

He proposed to take out the guards immediately. Accept the land, population, and property of the Guards in their entirety. As for the guard itself, it is possible to keep an empty shelf, and to keep a few puppets of officials - under strict guard, of course.

Ma Qianzhu immediately ordered a county-wide village meeting. The liaison officers of each village, the village chief, and the police stationed in the city were all summoned to the city for a meeting. At the meeting, the order to mobilize was announced.

Each village, whether it belongs to a commune or a supporting village, has to allocate a different number of Ding Zhuang according to the number of people. The liaison officers were explicitly asked to:

"You must report for duty within 14 days," Fuyu at the East Gate, who is in charge of the mobilization work, stressed at a meeting of the liaison officers, village heads, and police stationed in each village.

At the same time, hundreds of women were conscripted for short-term service in the Ministry of Light Industry. In addition, the militia must be organized in each village and ready to be called upon at any time.

"The militia of each village is divided into two teams, and once the order is received for conscription, one team is sent to assemble at the designated place. According to the distance, set off and arrive at the disposal of the dispatch. Sending out the township warriors of the great clans can also reduce the possibility of them gathering crowds to cause rebellion. ”

This part of the militia, the east gate blowing rain to prepare for the necessary time to call them up for logistics.

"Do you want to bring your own rations......" a liaison officer asked.

"No, as long as people come, we also prepare clothes and weapons."

Hearing that there was no need to pay for food, the liaison officers in each village breathed a sigh of relief, and the amount of Pai Ding was not too heavy. Everyone said that they would send Ding Zhuang and the women on time and on schedule.

According to the rough demographics in Wude's hand, this round of conscription can be called up to about 2,000 ding.

"Now that so many people are recruited, is it too late for training? What if the enemy soon sends troops? ”

"Most of them are used in engineering construction and auxiliary units, and they don't require much training."

Recruited soldiers, young and strong to fill in the infantry and artillery, and older to the auxiliary forces.

After this round of recruitment, the Fubo Army has five infantry battalions in Lingao, one field artillery battalion, one infantry training team and one artillery training team can be put into battle at any time. With the addition of auxiliary forces, the army alone has more than six thousand troops. This is not counting the size of the Navy.

The size of the army is already a very large army in terms of the population of Lingao itself -- the entire population of Lingao, the local population plus all kinds of immigrants, is only 1230,000. The total number of the navy and army has exceeded 10,000.

Fortunately, the total economic volume and industrial scale of Lingao are very large, and the army is also used as unpaid labor force for most of the time, and it is not a pure consumption unit on the whole, and it can still support an army of such a size for a while.

"Don't skimp on ammunition, every soldier from now on, every soldier should complete 100 shots for recruits and 20 shots for veterans in a month." He Ming instructed the officers, "All companies should pay close attention to formation training, especially the double-column horizontal formation at the company and battalion levels. ”

Subsequently, he issued an order that all the infantry squads originally stationed in various artillery towers should be reorganized and replaced by newly trained basic militia. Each turret should be stocked with 20 days' worth of dry food and water in advance. Adequate food, ammunition, fuel and drinking water should also be prepared in other sporadic locations, as appropriate.

"At present, there are quite a few detachments on scattered duty," He Ming said, "and the scattered duty is a great obstacle to the cultivation of the quality of the troops, and in the future, the field troops and the garrison units will be separated." ”

"What are you doing with the food and drinking water stored everywhere, do you have to guard against being surrounded?" asked the east gate, who was puzzled by the rain.

"Prepare for the worst. What's the worst-case scenario, you say? ”

Dongmen Blowing Rain couldn't imagine it, he hesitated for a moment before saying, "Although the worst plan is correct, I don't think we will be defeated in this battle." ”

"Of course not, if you defeat it, you don't have to defend it, you just jump into the sea." He Ming lit a cigarette, "The worst-case scenario is that the enemy has a large number of stragglers infiltrating our territory to cause sabotage. That's the worst thing that can happen. ”

The Stragglers are small in number, but they are extremely scattered, making them difficult to purge quickly. It is also the most destructive.

"Although I was a company commander in the PLA, I don't know anything about how the Ming army will fight." He Ming flicked the ashes of his cigarette, "To be honest, I don't necessarily understand how the Fubo Army fights......" He probably felt that it was not appropriate to say such a thing, so he stopped talking about it and continued the topic just now:

Enemy forces are likely to organize small units to carry out smuggling operations, and when they come ashore, they will carry out indiscriminate killings, looting, and arson. It is also possible to incite the local gentry on the spot - almost all the larger villages in Qiongzhou Prefecture have village warriors, and clan settlements are common, and once the officials and soldiers incite them with official vows, they will be full of flames in an instant.

“…… It was because I was worried about this that I asked each base to keep a certain amount of food and water. This way, we don't have to risk being attacked by the enemy halfway to resupply and rescue the various strongholds. Only then can we concentrate on the stragglers and carry out the clean-up operation. ”

Make sure you're safe first, and then talk about how to get out. He Ming handed over the expansion and training of the army to his officers, and threw himself into the fortification of Lingao.

The surrounding areas of Bairencheng, Dongmen City, Xuetianzhuang, the county seat and the various commune stations were cleaned up. Urgently excavate trenches and lay barbed wire fences in locations where there are no walls or trenches to protect them, and construct temporary shooting towers.

These measures were mainly aimed at the situation of enemy stragglers and local tyrant riots in Lingao County. At the same time, Shan Daoqian began to inspect the roads in the county, and carried out emergency maintenance on the problematic roads to ensure the smooth passage of troops and vehicles maneuvering along the roads. If necessary, it will use the various fortified bases as the support and the highway as a link to carry out mobile defensive operations on the inner line. Make sure that the whole county can be subdued with less mobile force.

In order to ensure the transportation of troop materials, the Planning Institute will be equipped with the remaining six four-wheel drive agricultural vehicles for the artillery company to form a strategic transport team, which will be ready to dispatch at any time to quickly deliver troops and supplies.

Jeeps, all motorcycles and e-bikes are organized into mobile teams that serve as strategic reserves. Assemble near Bairen City to deal with emergencies at any time. If necessary, it is possible to reinforce the front line directly.

The mechanical department jeep is equipped with makeshift armor and several rows of sharp spikes on the nose and body, making it look like a bandit car from a wasteland shijie from a B-class sci-fi movie. A gun carriage was installed on the roof rack for mounting the M240 machine gun.

"The road that has been repaired by electric bicycles in the county is okay, but once the horse is crossed, the post road over there is no use, and the road can only be passed by off-road bicycle." Shan Daoqian proposed a plan, "We can cross the line and build roads. ”

The so-called cross-border road construction is to start from Ma Yuan and build a road to Qiongshan County.

Strictly speaking, this is a renovation, as it is basically a road reconstruction along the route of the original post road. Roads are built according to the standards of simple roads.

"There will be a war soon, and such a big project ......" Wu De hesitated a little.

"It is precisely because of the war that it is appropriate to start this project." Shan Daoqian said, "The army needs roads, and our army especially needs roads. In the condition of the post road, how many people do you need to drag a cannon? ”

The elders knew very well the difference in the road conditions of the Hainan Post Road -- it was not a road, it was a ditch. And it's a potholed ditch.

Since the Fubo army in Jihua was going to take advantage of the situation to take Hainan completely, repairing the road to the capital was a top priority.

"Are we going to build a road all the way to the foot of Qiongshan County?" Od was a little surprised—even if it was an improvised road, the amount of work was considerable. Moreover, it is in the enemy's territory to the foot of Qiongshan County, and there is a Chengmai across it. Even the straight-line distance is more than a hundred kilometers.

"Yes, that's my Jihua. Of course, it is very likely that before the destination is reached, it will encounter the army of the Ming Dynasty. However, with the help of simple roads, logistics and transportation will be much more convenient, and the troops' supplies can be quickly transported to the front line, and the troops will be able to move much faster. Besides, it's always useful to build roads. After this battle, we will expand to the whole of Hainan, and the road around the island was originally to be built. Shan Daoqian said, "Qiongshan County is the capital of Hainan, and there is no direct highway, how can it be effectively controlled?" ”

"If there are roads, it will be much easier for us to move." He Ming expressed his support, "The army can also undertake a certain amount of labor. Even if we push a little slower, it's fine. Anyway, the enemy won't run. ”

He Ming originally did not express an opinion. In his original Jihua, the army's maneuvers would be on land and sea. Heavy weapons and ammunition were transported by sea, and infantry marched on foot by land. Now Shan Daoqian's idea of building a cross-border road has made his eyes shine.

"You want to fight on the lines of communication," Wu De understood.

"Most of the wars on this shijie are fought around lines of communication, and we are no exception." He Ming said.

The logistical workload of the Fubo army is much greater than that of a traditional army. Not counting the ammunition, it is much more food for the soldiers than for the Ming army every day. Lin Shenhe often said that the Fubo Army was an army in the 19th century, but it could only be supplied by the logistics system in the 17th century. Even worse than the contemporaries - the severe shortage of horses and livestock forced the Fubo army to rely more on manpower and carts to transport supplies.

He Ming roughly calculated that if he led the main force not to rely on the supply line to attack Qiongshan County, but to rely on the dry food and ammunition carried by the soldiers themselves, he would probably be able to maintain the problem of running out of food for the sixth day, and if there was no follow-up supply, he would face the problem of running out of food. Ammunition, even if it is dispensed with double ammunition for infantry, can only guarantee the consumption of one battle. And he could hardly carry any artillery units. In the terrible condition of the Hainan Post Road, only light artillery such as a 12-pounder mountain howitzer could pass quickly.

"Of course, I can count on the support of the Navy. The Navy can send ships along the coastline to provide logistical supplies to the army at any time, and can even directly transport troops for maneuvering. But let's be honest: I'm not at ease with this Fubo army......"

"No, it won't. The army has been trained in a modern way," said Uude, who was taken aback at the words of the army's supreme military commander.