Li Jiazhuang, War Department.

"The Black Mountain thieves are afraid of us, but their methods are flawless." Jia Xu said and handed a report to Shang Wu, who looked at it, and then put it aside with a smile.

The Montenegrin thieves have been beaten by the Republican Army. Coupled with the trade between the two sides, Zhang Yan, the leader of the Montenegrin bandits, would not speak for a supernumerary leader of the Montenegrin army. He told the IRA intelligence officers that the leader of the Montenegrin Army, named Big Eye, had been expelled from the Montenegrin Army. He had nothing to do with them, and he also talked about a lot of problems of his own, such as that he had 500,000 people, and that it was difficult to solve the problem of food, and that winter had come, and that the brothers could not solve the problem of winter clothing. I also want to get some benefits from the IRA, and if I can, the IRA can provide some assistance. For this, the Montenegrin army will be grateful, grateful.

The IRA wouldn't be so kind-hearted. Their supplies are not blowing in the wind, so the Republican Army is just silent about the matter of aid, but it is still more concerned about the matter of trade. Because the Montenegrin army has a mouth for eating. However, they do not have much food, and although they occupy a large territory, the problem is that the areas they occupy are mostly mountainous and the base area is very large, but there are too few places where they can grow food, and the population is large and the grain is small, so naturally the contradiction is very large.

At present, they have two methods, the first is to grab. It turned out that they wanted to rob the Republican Army, because the Republican Army was relatively stable and still very wealthy, but as a result, the Republican Army counterattacked forcefully, and they did not dare to attack at all. Instead, they began to retreat to the mountains and go on a passive defense. As for the robbers of the imperial court, they attacked several nearby counties many times, but they all strengthened their defenses, and the Montenegrin army was not rich, and they were equipped with old-fashioned firearms that were about to be eliminated, and they had no way to open those county towns that were holding the city. Moreover, the two sides have formed a stalemate, and no one can help the other. The most disadvantageous was the Montenegrin army.

Because their strength is to score one point less than two points. Food, personnel, weapons and equipment, etc., without a regular economic and military system, it is difficult for them to maintain. It can be said that Zhang Yan's Montenegrin army has entered a situation of internal and external difficulties, and they have more than enough to hold onto. The attack is very inadequate. Under such circumstances, it is simply impossible to accomplish such a situation. That's the only way they can do it at the moment. The solution is trade.

Trade with the Republican Army. Because only in such a peaceful way can they get a large amount of material needs, so that they can continue to survive through blood transfusions, otherwise, they will not be able to achieve such a result. In such a situation, they simply can't do such a thing.

Therefore, the relationship between the two sides is still very harmonious, and the harmony lies in the fact that the Montenegrin Army exports a large number of laborers, and they are all mouths for food, which is a burden to the Montenegrin Army, because they simply cannot guarantee the lives of such people, as well as relative security. And for the Republican Army, these are good labor, a lot of farms, construction teams need more, basically, these are from here, the Montenegrin Army imported a staggering fifty-eight percent of the labor. The second is the direction of Julu, they are from Qingzhou, about more than 30 percent, and the rest are in all directions, but most of the labor force is not very large.

These laborers cannot guarantee their citizenship rights, because the IRA cannot release so many household registrations at once, and this is in its own self-interest. Once these people have the right to vote and be elected, the treatment is very different. But the IRA can give a green card, and the purpose of the green card is to perform well. Actively paying taxes, their children can obtain the right of residence here, and at the same time enjoy a certain right to education, if the children are successful in their studies and have great merit, so that they can obtain citizenship, that is, enjoy the right to vote and be elected later. For them, such a process is not very difficult to achieve, but it lasts for a long time, and they must have stable jobs when they enter the Republican-controlled areas, which brings a lot of labor help to the development of the Republican Army. Otherwise, relying on the Republican Army's own development alone, they have at least reduced their development time by more than twenty years. This is the labor base that comes with the development of the IRA.

The educational problems that Shangwu encountered before were basically solved in this way. Because he can't open a gap for hundreds of thousands of people at once, although this can meet their labor needs to the greatest extent, the problem is that it will greatly affect the interests of the local commercial farmers of the IRA, because they really can't find cheaper labor.

Development has to come at a cost, and that price is that the workload of these people is very high. But they can live, and that's the best thing to do. But compared to the Republican Army, their rights and interests are still very low, so some people will actively take over their children for a green card, and some people work hard for stability, but also for a green card.

Zhang Yan didn't know what a road was, what a living road was, and what a way out was. Because he never thinks about it, he can eat enough. Foreign exchange reserves obtained by the export of a large amount of labor, because each person who goes out has to pay a fee. This fee is not low, accounting for 30% of their personal income. This will reduce many people's savings, but it is the only way for them to survive. If they don't go out and work with the Republican Army, they will have no way to live, and they will not be able to enjoy the legal equality of the Republican Army. At the same time, they also have to pay a certain amount of taxes, as well as their exit expenses, but this is their only way to live, and with such a way of living, they don't care about anything. Something like that, for them, that's what they have to do.

Foreign exchange reserves are a lot of republican dollars, and the Republican Army is doing everything possible to calculate the Montenegrin Army, so they will not give each other money, and if they want to buy it, only paper money, otherwise they will not carry out such a labor trade. At the low end, they have no choice at all, so their only way is to accept such a situation. That's their situation, and it's a very disadvantageous situation. But there is nothing to be done. Because of such a thing, they have to accept this situation.

As for the way out, it is their children. A lot of people figure it out. They also see it. If you want to live well, people want to understand that there are some contrasts, and they know what is good and what is bad when they compare them, in such a situation, they have to stay here in the Republican Army, this is the way out, Zhang Yan will not know such things at all, because many things are not something he can understand, so some things still need him to do this.

"In this way, the Montenegrin army does not plan to send troops. And it is impossible for them to send troops at all, they have so much strength, and it is difficult for them to send troops. Shang Wu said helplessly.

"yes, that's the problem. If it weren't for that, we wouldn't be in this situation. It seems that the only way at the moment is that we have to send troops, but the question is how to fight, how the special brigade can do this, everything is blank. Jia Xu said so.

Shangwu has set the tone, that is, to use special forces to fight, which is equivalent to the early mountain troops, and the hybrid of special operations troops, because their combat area is mainly concentrated in the Taihang Mountains, where the terrain is extremely complex, and those bandits are even more cunning, they have built their nests on areas with complex terrain, ordinary, difficult mountainous areas, and even extremely difficult to detect, which is why they have been entrenched there for a long time and cannot be eliminated.

"The special brigade also needs to learn. and exploration, but this time it is a real battle, and it is also an assessment, if they do well, they can graduate early. Shang Wu said.

The IRA has always been pragmatic, and if it didn't achieve such an effect, they would naturally not do such a thing. But the situation is how they can make their situation more favorable, and it is still very disadvantageous to rush into it.

"Give them some time, let them scout, if there are other issues, then discuss them, anyway, this is their first battle. If you don't play well, tell them that the number is to be revoked. "Shangwu gave a strict order.

"Report." At this time. The combat staff officer shouted anxiously and reported. Jia Xu waved his arm, and then an urgent telegram was handed to Jia Xu.

Jia Xu frowned after reading it. Shang Wu looked over.

It turned out to be a retaliatory attack by the Bingzhou cavalry. They hit one of the border posts of the Republican Army. One squad, twelve people, eleven were killed, one was seriously wounded, and the bad thing is that the Republican army launched several rescues to avoid being repulsed. The casualties were not small, and only later did a gap open under the command of the regiment commander, but a border post was also knocked out.

"Our IRA would never suffer like this." Shang Wu put the telegram aside and said. Jia Xu can clearly realize that Shangwu is very annoyed, because the Republican Army rarely suffers such a big loss.

"The current number of troops on the border is too small, and the bad thing is that we don't have a cavalry team yet, and the situation of the independent division is not too favorable." Jia Xu said that this was the situation where the infantry was completely against the cavalry, and the other side also came to a siege point to send reinforcements, which made the independent division of the Republican Army suffer a dark loss. They've never lost anything like this.