At the same time, Li Ziyuan mobilized all the war horses of the army, even his own war horse, and drew a group of soldiers who could ride horses and one company of each of the three divisional reconnaissance battalions to form a cavalry detachment. With Dong Ping as the detachment leader and a veteran political work cadre as the political commissar, he was specially responsible for mobile support operations.

This cavalry detachment did not have to practice sabre slashing, nor did it practice fighting on horseback. And even in addition to shooting and throwing bombs right away, and the training required by cavalry to maintain formation on long marches. A cavalry needs all the tactics, and they don't have to practice.

At this time, the PLA Army, not to mention the developed countries has developed into mechanization, and even the mule and horse are far from being achieved. Although there are many mules and horses in an army, most of them are powerful mules. Without affecting the use of logistics and artillery, the number of war horses available for Li Ziyuan is not much.

And pack horses are not war horses, war horses need to be trained. For this reason, Li Ziyuan also specially gave friendly troops to the neighbors who participated in the Lanzhou operation and are now preparing to be rebuilt. I was going to send a telegram, hoping that when they returned to the building, they would get some captured green horses for themselves.

However, under the persuasion of a cavalry-born cadre, Li Ziyuan finally decided to use Sichuan horses as much as possible. Although the Kawama is a little shorter, it is not slow to run. At the same time, it is more suitable for the mountainous terrain of Sichuan, and the endurance and adaptability are also suitable. The Sichuan horse is specially designed to adapt to the terrain of Sichuan, and has been cultivated for thousands of years.

After all, it is not to train specialized cavalry, but to train an infantry to be used as a mobile force, and the problem of poor sprinting ability of local Sichuan horses is basically not a problem. Under the persuasion of this cadre, Li Ziyuan finally decided to use local materials. After all, Chuanma is abundant locally, and the quantity is quite large.

As long as * comes out, the speed of forming combat effectiveness is much greater than that of getting horses from the northwest. Moreover, the Sichuan horse has a docile temperament, which is better than the horses in the northwest. So Li Ziyuan finally followed the good and chose the local horse. Because he thinks that what the cadre said is right, horses are just like people, and local horses are more suitable for the local terrain and climate.

Li Ziyuan's movements were very fast, and after deciding on the type of horses, he immediately asked the military logistics department to immediately raise enough horses. In addition, Li Ziyuan also mobilized a batch of automatic firearms for this cavalry detachment as much as possible, so that the number of automatic firearms reached a one-third ratio.

He organized this cavalry detachment for the simple purpose of making the greatest possible use of the horse's mobility in mountain warfare in the mountainous area of the territory, the roads that could be driven by automobiles, and the limited number of cars. Use this mounted infantry as a mobile force and try to get there as quickly as possible if there is a situation.

And the trucks of the military logistics department were gathered and assigned to this cavalry detachment with the strength of a reinforced battalion. As the second echelon, as well as a follow-up maneuvering force. Considering the shortage of mobile forces after the troops were dispersed, Li Ziyuan even transferred two companies from the general guard battalion and allocated them to the detachment.

Those political bandits who have broken their armies and become bandits are still worse, and those bandits who are local robes or habitual bandits are all natives of their hometowns. They are far more familiar with the terrain than their own outsiders. Although these guys have not been trained in guerrilla warfare, they have lived as bandits for a long time, so that they themselves have a certain guerrilla quality.

The attacking troops are large, and they will take advantage of their familiarity with the terrain to quickly retreat or break into pieces. You can even lie dormant in the deep mountains and old forests, waiting for a second chance. Once the guards are relaxed, they will bite you hard like a poisonous snake out of a hole, where you are not prepared.

In this world, there are only thieves who have been thieves for a thousand days, and there is no reason to prevent thieves for a thousand days. If you want to solve the problem once and for all, you have to think of some solutions. No matter what the solution, as long as it can completely solve the problem of bandits in the shortest possible time, then it is a good way. If you want to solve the problem of bandits, in addition to starting from the roots, the most crucial thing is to completely eliminate them on the battlefield.

Of course, Li Ziyuan is not blindly tough. He knew that bandits could cause such great losses, in addition to the fact that the village could not be moved, and the paralysis of the troops themselves. In the final analysis, it is the locals among them who are familiar with the local area and have local eyeliner. Gouging out the bandits' eyeliner and making them blind is also the most important part of the entire anti-bandit operation.

Li Ziyuan arranged for the Political Department to hold study classes for the families of bandits and for those who had been bandits or had connections with bandits. Closely monitor those who may be the bandits' eyeliner. In short, a multi-pronged approach should be used to use whatever means are effective. But he has one thing, and that is that he will never engage in leniency. Resisting the strict way of going home for the New Year will not work with him.

His tactics were formulated, and almost every cadre who had experienced the Japanese army's sweep in North China in the past four or two years felt unusually familiar. Isn't this the tactic of the Japanese army against the Eighth Route Army in Taihang Mountain? Now it's being used by Li Ziyuan to deal with these bandits?

And at the same time as the military strike, in order to more effectively disintegrate the bandit forces. After Li Ziyuan consulted with the military political commissar, he also carried out a series of political disintegrations. In addition to mobilizing family members to go up the mountain to shout, strict control over the return of households and the entry of materials into the mountains in areas where banditry is rampant.

For the bandits who voluntarily went down the mountain to surrender their guns, they were not held accountable before they were held accountable, or they were given a certain reduction in punishment for their crimes. There are even incentives to speed up the dismantling of the bandits. Those who provide favorable clues and catch the bandit leader will even be given a certain heavy reward.

For the bandits who stubbornly resisted to the end, Li Ziyuan adopted severe suppression measures. Even in a pursuit operation, more than 1,000 remnants of bandits who were surrounded by troops on all sides and trapped on a rugged and difficult mountain road. Considering that the assault could cause huge casualties, Li Ziyuan simply ordered the attack to be stopped.

An artillery battalion, as well as a heavy mortar company and two regimental mortar companies were directly transferred, and thousands of shells were fired directly when they came up. Thousands of shells went down, and everything from trees to stones was blown to pieces on the mountain. Those bandits in the mountains, where have they experienced such formations?

The more than 1,000 remnants of bandits who had been stubbornly resisting the terrain were basically shocked into fools or deaf people, except for those who were killed or injured by the explosion. His eyes were staring straight down the mountain, and he couldn't do anything. The troops who were washed up the mountain were carried down the mountain one by one like rats in a cage.

Political disintegration and military strikes went hand in hand, mobilizing family members to go up the mountain to shout, and giving heavy rewards to bandits who took the initiative to go down the mountain to surrender their guns. The bandits who resisted to the end were killed on a large scale, and the bandits who had been bandits for more than two years and had mutinied in the rebel troops, as well as the backbone and veterans, were severely suppressed. In the more than a dozen counties under Li Ziyuan's jurisdiction, more than a dozen people were shot every day in each county.

Li Ziyuan even shot to death more than 60 backbone bandits in front of the people of the city in front of the people of the city in the suburbs of Nanchong, as well as those who had blood debts from the People's Liberation Army and the masses. Li Ziyuan adopted a multi-pronged approach, that is, military strikes and political disintegration, and formed an effective deterrent to the remnants of the bandits by shooting hardcore and die-hard elements.

Although Li Ziyuan also knows that this kind of overly extreme measures are not a long-term solution. Killing people can only be solved for a while, not for a lifetime. But the problem is that a lot of times if you don't kill people, he can't solve the problem. Li Ziyuan saw with his own eyes that a bandit who was released one day because of his good attitude fired black guns at the troops the next day.

Sometimes there is no boundale of magnanimity, and it can only be infinitely harmful. Although he has always advocated careful killing, only kill if there is evidence. If you can kill or not, you should kill as little as possible. But the problem is that if you kill less and kill carefully, people will think that you are weak and can be bullied, not only will you not abandon evil and follow good, but will become worse.

Before clemency, harsh repression is necessary. Sometimes killing one can save a hundred. Severely suppressing the first evil and the backbone, those little bandits will be afraid and dare not resist to the end. And some bandits don't kill, it's really not enough for civilians to hate. Only by killing can the common people sleep well.

However, although Li Ziyuan's tactic has received some criticism, the effect is still quite good. Under the military attack and political disintegration, in less than five months, Li Ziyuan wiped out all the bandits in the jurisdiction. For the remaining scattered bandits, Li Ziyuan adopted the tactic of chasing after them and vowing not to give up until the bandit leaders were caught.

In just three and a half months since the launch of the anti-bandit operation, Li Ziyuan commanded the troops and local armed forces, and had already formed more than 60,000 bandits, of whom more than 50,000 were prisoners. More than 30,000 long and short guns and more than 40 mortars were seized. As for the earthen cannons made by the bandits themselves, there are even more than 1,000 pieces.

His cavalry detachment, while chasing a stream of stragglers. He also helped the western Sichuan region and eliminated seven bandits totaling more than 5,000 bandits. And captured alive the western Sichuan region, the largest bandit leader. and a former Sichuan army commander who defected after an uprising and was preparing to flee to Tibet with a group of henchmen.

By the end of the first half of '50, when the Southwest Military Region asked all subordinate second-level military regions to report the number of remnant bandits, Li Ziyuan sent a telegram back to the head of the military region, saying that there were no bandits left to suppress in the area under his own jurisdiction. After receiving Li Ziyuan's telegram, several leaders of the Southwest Military Region were a little unconvinced, and directly dispatched an investigation team headed by the deputy chief of staff of the Military Region.

The purpose of the investigation team is twofold, one is to investigate whether Li Ziyuan is deliberately fooling his superiors, and the other is to learn from experience. The person who was ordered to come to Li Ziyuan's headquarters to investigate was none other than the Erye Command. Wang Cheng, who was transferred from the position of deputy commander of a certain army, was transferred to the post of deputy chief of staff of the Southwest Military Region.

Wang Cheng also felt very cordial after seeing Li Ziyuan. After receiving the order to inspect the Li Ziyuan Defense Zone, he specially brought his wife, who had entered Sichuan with the General Hospital of the Field Army, and who was already in Chongqing and was preparing to build a medical school of the Southwest Military Region and had been appointed as the director of surgery.

Regarding what Li Ziyuan has encountered in the past few years, especially knowing that Li Ziyuan and Chang Juan are married. But Chang Juan died during the Battle of Longhai Road and left a daughter to Li Ziyuan, Wang Cheng and Li Ziyun also sighed for a long time. After knowing that Li Ziyuan had remarried, Li Ziyun's heart that had been hanging was let go again.

After Li Ziyuan brought Liu Cui and her children over, Li Ziyun understood everything as soon as she saw Liu Cuisheng's son and the lively and cute baby. glared at Li Ziyuan fiercely, and dragged Liu Cui's hand to talk to many parents. I also gave the current Parker fountain pen that I had kept while I was studying to my nephew who met for the first time.