This time, along with the fleet to the south, there will also be a battalion of the 3rd Regiment, which will go to Tamsui, Taiwan, to fight the front station. This time, I also brought a lot of daily necessities such as agricultural tools with me to the south, which will be distributed to those who are willing to farm.

At the same time, nearly 1,000 veteran workers in infrastructure and highways will accompany them to the south, and they will mainly use them for the construction of the area near the Bund in Shanghai County, as well as the construction of some roads. A small number of people will rush to Hong Kong to plan the office buildings, warehouses and ports that the Hong Kong trading branch will need. The civil affairs department's work on land acquisition in Hong Kong is progressing very quickly, after all, Hong Kong is not the next generation, and it is not so difficult to buy land.

In addition, there are several hundred staff members of civil affairs and trading companies.

They will buy a million chickens in Songjiang, Suzhou, Yangzhou, Hangzhou and Nanjing, without chickens and ducks. The number of these areas is not enough, and they will also go to Fujian, Guangdong and other places to buy.

Theoretically, a chicken can eat one and a half acres of locusts in a day. It is not that no one has used the chicken herding method to exterminate locusts, but in recent years, grain production has decreased, and the number of chickens has continued to decrease. And the government needs a lot of money to undertake this matter, and the court is so poor that there is no money to get it.

Maritime surveillance warships and supply ships were used to hold chicken cages, and passenger and cargo ro-ro wheels and wooden cargo ships were freed up to carry hungry people.

After these chickens arrive in Shandong, they will be mainly managed by the troops of the Tiance Army and will go to various parts of Shandong to exterminate locusts.

Some of them will be distributed to Wang Zhuo's subordinate units, the guards, and they will exterminate the locusts. These chickens were loaned to them at half price, and in the future, they will need to repay this loan with eggs, which can be regarded as half selling and half giving away, and at the same time, it can also enrich the supply of eggs in various places. The reason why they are not given free is because they don't know how to cherish the things that come for nothing, what if these chickens are sacrificed to the Five Organs Temple by them.

The 200,000 hungry people near Chaling had just been captured, and the first task was to calm the hearts of the people, and the methods of the Tiance Army were to distribute food and sustain propaganda.

The first thing to distribute was the seized grain, Zhang Xianzhong and others were in a hurry to escape, and a lot of various baggage was discarded, of which grain was the majority.

Wang Yue ordered the 200,000 people to be divided into 100 detachments, and then distributed in blocks. The distribution of grain was done by the Ming army, the coachmen brought by Hui Dengxiang and Li Wanqing, and the distribution of grain was done by the Tiance army and the security army, the purpose was to make them remember these flower skins and remember the Tiance army.

This detachment is only so roughly divided, and it will be subdivided in the future.

The grain left behind by Zhang Xianzhong is very miscellaneous, rice, white flour, rice, and all kinds of beans, and the main grain distributed is rice and white flour, and other grains are used for other purposes.

Ten catties of grain for each hungry person are packed in a snakeskin bag, which is actually a small snakeskin bag (woven plastic bag) that Wang Yue got from later generations, which can prevent rain. Ten pounds per bag is not weighed, a bag of ten pounds is used as a sample, and then it is estimated that there are so many pounds.

It was still raining, and for the sake of these hungry people, every third person would be given a large raincloth that could be supported by wooden sticks to protect them from the rain. This kind of rainproof cloth is the same material as the snakeskin bag, which is very common in later generations, and the hungry people on the other side of Changfeng Shagang also sent this thing.

The distribution of food made the hungry people relax immediately, it seems that these officers and soldiers still count when they speak, and the loudspeakers are also playing the policy of reassuring the people formulated by Wang Yue on a loop, which further calms the people's hearts.

The distribution of food was distributed in several areas, and the scene looked chaotic, full of people, but in fact it was in order.

But at the same time, there were sporadic gunshots near the hungry soldiers' camp.

A large pit was dug next to the camp of the hungry soldiers, and several people in the style of hungry people were dragged to the big pit, and the soldier shot him in the back of the head, and killed those who kicked into the pit without immediately burying them. It's right there for everyone to see.

The soldier with the loudspeaker was still shouting, "Everyone has seen it, this is the end of the disorder." The same is true of those who do not obey orders, and those who rob others of food. ”

In order to maintain basic order, such a large number of hungry people must be decisive in killing and deterring those with ulterior motives. In particular, there are many of the original leaders of the hungry soldiers who have escaped the roll call, and these people will not be able to use the Tiance Army, but some people still want to continue their days of power, which is impossible.

With carrots in one hand and a stick in the other, the hungry camps are more orderly.

The weather was nearly late, and seeing that everything was in order, Wang Yue called a meeting of the officers and assigned tasks.

"Hongwu, your detachment did a good job this time when you went south." Wang Yue said to Wang Hongwu.

Wang Hongwu saluted: "These commanders praise each other, this is what we should do." ”

Wang Yue nodded and said, "Everyone sit down!" ”

This is a military tent, and the seats are all folding chairs, and ammunition boxes with stuff padded and stuffed.

Seeing that everyone was seated, Wang Yue said: "At present, we have two tasks to do, the first is to continue to pursue Zhang Xianzhong's department. Yuanshan, tell me about the current investigation of Zhang Xianzhong's whereabouts. ”

Feng Yuanshan said: "Report to the commander, although the rogues scattered and fled, the scene was extremely chaotic. But according to the report of the reconnaissance platoon in front and the observation results of the drone, Zhang Xianzhong's main force should have gone to the hidden mountain. ”

Wang Yue nodded, of course he received a report on this situation as soon as possible, and asked Feng Yuanshan to bring it up in order to mobilize everyone's subjective initiative.

So he asked the officers present: "Tell me, why did Zhang Xianzhong go in the direction of Qianshan?" ”

Although the Tiance Army is powerful, Wang Yue does not want his officers to have developed limbs and simple minds, and the Tiance Army also needs officers to continuously improve their strategic vision, so Wang Yue always gives such a judgment to the officers.

Wang Hongwu said: "Obviously, Zhang Xianzhong wants to avoid the mountains, and Yingshan, Luotian and other places in the west of Qianshan Mountain are all Dabie Mountains. In the battle with our army, the rogues have already seen the firepower of our army, and Zhang Xianzhong and others must have wanted to rely on the mountainous area to continue to resist the encirclement and suppression of the official army. ”

All the officers nodded frequently, and they all agreed with Wang Hongwu's judgment.

Wang Yue hummed and said: "Mountain operations will be a huge test for our army, mainly because the requirements for logistics are higher, and armored vehicles are likely to be unable to directly attack the enemy." However, this is an opportunity to train our army, and I hope that commanders at all levels will use their brains more to fight. ”

Dabie Mountain is a place where even Lao Jiang has a big head, Lao Jiang has hundreds of thousands of troops, but the strength of the Tiance Army is only 9,000, and the vast mountains will disappear when they are sprinkled in.