Unlike Hao Shaoqi, who seemed to be indifferent, Xiao Xuan still felt a little disappointed after seeing some of the situations about Huang'an County that were seen by comparing the military situation with the direct feelings. I couldn't help but sigh: Could it be that in the past four hundred years, there is really such a big difference between Huang'an County in this era and the era of the Republic of China? From the land of the first good to a powder keg? More importantly, for the most important at this stage, the attempt to gain fresh blood through grassroots reform seems to have achieved nothing in the whole of Huang'an County. Xiao Xuan can imagine: Huang An today is likely to have only replaced the people in power with a group of earth tyrants, and has not really mobilized the local people thoroughly, let alone provided with many soldiers who are willing to participate in the war.

Throughout the summer, many reports and teams gathered by water made Xiao Xuan's heart settle down a little. The lesson of Huang'an County is certainly not without reason. It seems that the social contradictions are not serious at this time, and I only let Hao Shaoqi and some people who are not very outstanding in ability do this, which can only be such a result. Elsewhere, however, it is clear that the situation is much better. Among the selected groups of 50 or 6 million counties with an estimated population of 5 to 6 million and 7 or 800,000 soldiers of appropriate age, a total of about 15,000 volunteers, or about 2 percent, took the initiative to assemble in the city of Guangzhou.

Such a result, of course, is largely in line with Xiao Xuan's expectations. Xiao Xuan is very self-aware of the ability of the current Datong Society and even the expatriate forces of the revolutionary army, of course, they cannot be compared with the ability of the revolutionary political forces in the true sense of the modern era, and they can only do many things with low efficiency, simplicity and rudeness, and wide nets and low gains. Just relying on liberation to make people who have been in the world for thousands of years generally willing to die? I am afraid that this will require considerable political and organizational input, and the revolutionary army and even the Datong Society at this time simply cannot come up with sufficient organizational resources.

Fortunately, the scale of warfare and the level of the opponent in this era and modern times are fundamentally different. Xiao Xuan did not need to rely on capture as an important source of arms as the revolutionary army in the difficult period of modern times, and fought hard in almost a year before winning a decisive victory in the country with average firepower. It is possible to make use of the munitions support system that has been gradually developed and perfected over the past two or three years and has concentrated the main military engineering and munitions resources of the Beijing Division, so that at least tens of thousands to tens of thousands of troops can have superiority in equipment and even firepower in operations against the enemy, and there is no doubt that the consumption and demand for troops will be reduced to a great extent.

If this group of fresh blood is added and slightly expanded, the strength of the volunteer division will reach about 40,000 people in seven divisions, then it will not be too far from the goal of meeting the demand.

When about 15,000 volunteer recruits from these counties came to Guangzhou City to assemble, as many as 1,000 were reduced due to the lack of adaptation to the water and soil and the summer epidemic on the way, but this was also a "discipline education" to a large extent, so that these recruits learned the importance of maintaining hygiene awareness and marching common sense according to the requirements at the cost of their lives.

Another major problem faced by the whole team, of course, is that the dialects are very mixed, because the members come from all over the place, and it is not at all like in the past when a division was mainly a provincial or provincial military source, and it does not take much time to unify the language and communicate, which makes Xiao Xuan have to start from pinyin, so that these school-age recruits can first learn basic cultural and communication skills. This kind of additional cultural training, coupled with basic military training, will obviously not be until the end of the third year of Chongzhen's reign to make this contingent of about 15,000 people truly have decent combat capability.

At this time, Xiao Xuan of course also had a lot of patience, and was not worried about what was likely to happen to the main force of Jianzhou, but ordered the armies everywhere to take "political army building" and "political army expansion" and even supporting grassroots reforms as the first priority, and in this way, the storm in the summer of the third year of Chongzhen was not only confined to the more than 50 counties demarcated in the past, but expanded to more than 200 counties in the entire newly liberated areas in the south.

Of course, Xiao Xuan understands that even if the people who volunteer to participate in the war, not all of them can meet the main standards and requirements of the ideal volunteer division, and some people will definitely need to be eliminated in a big wave. Therefore, it does not seem appropriate to carry out the assembly throughout the summer. With the newly formed units of the Volunteer Division as the vanguard, and the brigades of the Central Route Army of the Revolutionary Army as the main force, the final offensive against the remnants of the enemy in the southeast was launched.

It seems that the resistance of the remnants of the enemy in the summer suddenly became much stronger, and it is clear that the bloody rain and storms in many places frightened many people, so that many people in the southeast region gave up their past illusions, and fewer and fewer people surrendered.

Of course, because the time interval between this does not seem to be too much, although the combat effectiveness of the new army of the volunteer division is far from being consolidated, but the southeast army has not had time to transform or even buy the hearts of the people for a while, and under the devastating attack of the various armies of the Central Route Army and the New Army of the Volunteer Division with the south route as the main force, they are still on the verge of defeat very quickly.

In order to speed up the progress of the war in a season that is not suitable for combat, the casualties and losses and non-combat attrition of the last combat-ready volunteer divisions and even the brigades of the new army of the revolutionary army have also increased markedly throughout the summer. At least tens of thousands of unrecoverable losses in the battle, coupled with the epidemic brought about by the summer operation, the main force of the volunteer division and even the new army alone suffered losses of about 10,000 people.

However, the gains in this kind of combat were also huge, not only were a few thousand "liberation fighters" of good quality selected from the teams that had been digested by surrender to make up for the losses of consumption to a certain extent, but also a large number of gunpowder, firearms, and even ships and even warships of acceptable quality were captured.

Towards the end of the canal's co-navigation time, there may be only some sea pirates on the sea or even some in the southwest border in the entire Guannai that have not been finalized. Although the deployment of troops was relatively southern, it did not seem that it would take much time to prepare for a decisive battle with the last opponent in the north in late autumn to early winter

In the first half of September of the old calendar, after several months of consolidation and digestion and even war training, the Fifth and Sixth Volunteer Divisions were established one after another, and the volunteer instructors formed by concentrating the elite main force were established. The entire volunteer army system has formed two armies, the First Army and the Second Army, with a total of seven divisions and about 45,000 troops.

Although the conditions for political organization are seriously backward compared with modern times, relying on a wider range of selection conditions, the expansion and building of the Volunteer Army, which is close to the expected goal, can be regarded as barely completed.

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