Chapter 69: Hiding Soldiers in Bandits

"If you can't even resist the invasion of foreign enemies, you don't deserve to sit on the world!"

There are a hundred different Hamlets in the hearts of a hundred people.

Liang Haowen's words, listening to Liang Haowen's ears, he understood that his nephew wanted to replace the Nguyen dynasty in Vietnam; Listening to the ears of Huang Qiying and Tieqiao San, they heard the smell of the apprentice's desire to overthrow the Manchu Qing and replace him, because in their subconscious, Vietnam would sooner or later be in the bag of the Liang Jiajun.

Although their understanding is biased, Young Master Liang's ambition to compete for the world is clearly revealed!

Young Master Liang knows the development process of history. Now it is not only him who has his eye on Vietnam, but also the top power in the world today - France. The opening of the Suez Canal greatly shortened the sea voyage from the Mediterranean Sea to the Far East. Steam-powered warships have become widespread in Europe, and fleets are getting faster and faster; During the Second Opium War, it took three months for the British and French fleets to reach China from Europe; And now the arrival of the French Mediterranean fleet in Vietnam did not even take a month, shortened by more than two-thirds, not only the supply consumption and other materials were greatly saved, but for a large fleet, the difficulty of fighting was greatly reduced.

Therefore, it would be unwise to challenge the powerful France now. When the Franco-Prussian War started, the French at that time would be in a state of exhaustion, and the domestic regime was still extremely chaotic. Moreover, the French had only invaded Vietnam for about ten years, and their interests in Vietnam were not great, so it is estimated that they could only endure Zou Zou.

When Liang Jiajun gains a firm foothold in Vietnam, and the combat power of the army under his command is the best in the world, will he still be afraid of the French?

The training mode, army management, combat methods, and future weapons and equipment of the Liang Jiajun are at least decades ahead of the world, and the two sides are fighting with a completely unequal strength, just like an adult fighting with a child, and the outcome is naturally self-evident.

As for using Japan as a whetstone, it can be said that it kills two birds with one stone, which can not only hone his Liang Jiajun, but also strike at the Meiji Restoration that Japan has just begun, and by the way, knock a bamboo pole hard. In the previous life, Japan relied on devouring China's flesh and blood to strengthen itself, and in this life, Young Master Liang came to the Japanese to get it back; The Japanese are a strange low-boned people, and the more you suppress her and ravage her, maybe she will have an unexpected orgasm.

This nation is naturally revered and strong, and if you are defeated by it, it will immediately step on your face and show off its strength; If you defeat it, it will immediately kneel in front of you and shout at you.

Liang Haowen is willing to really join the Liang family army and fight for the world together, which makes the young master Liang very happy, and estimates that most of the Liang family will agree with this matter in the future, with the full support of the Liang family, the journey of the Liang family will be easier and easier.

The four of them then sat down and discussed their future development plans.

Young Master Liang proposed the division of labor among the four people: "The fifth uncle will be responsible for the affairs of the base in the future, including the steel plant, the cement factory and the soon-to-be-established military factory; Now the base is facing expansion, you need to do it, your burden is very heavy, if you can't get busy, find a few reliable helpers from home."

Liang Haowen was already accustomed to Young Master Liang's handshake shopkeeper, and nodded in agreement.

"Master Huang is in charge of recruitment, and Master Liang is in charge of the Intelligence Bureau; I thought about it last night, this time I went to the border of Guangdong and Jiangxi, the border of Guangdong and Hunan Province, and the border of Guangdong and Guizhou to recruit troops, and at the same time of recruiting troops, we should reconnoiter whether there are any bandits' cottage strongholds in these places, and we will use these bandits to train troops in the future, and after occupying their cottages, we can transform them into our secret bases. ”

As he spoke, Master Liang took out a map, pointed to the places marked on the map, and said: "These mountainous areas are far away from the towns, but they all have trade routes passing through, including the border between Guangdong and Fujian, there will definitely be a large number of bandits, and their bandits' dens should be in these mountainous areas; After we transform these cottages, they can be connected together, starting from the Guangdong-Fujian border to the west and going deep into the interior, passing through the Guangdong-Jiangxi border, the Guangdong-Hunan border until the Guangdong-Guizhou border, and the northeast, north and northwest of the entire Guangdong are connected into a line, and they are all around Guangdong, which can not only echo each other, but also facilitate supply; We can also connect the telegraph lines to these secret bases, so that the command can also be convenient and fast. ”

The other three followed his guidance and saw the secret base group connected in a line, and their eyes were all bright, so beautiful! If these bases are built, they can hide a large number of troops, and the surrounding mountains are natural and excellent training places. A few of them are also people with a bit of vision, and these places are all strategic locations. Moreover, they are all around Guangdong, whether it is material supply and troop mobilization, it is relatively convenient.

Liang Haowen nodded and said: "This method is really good, hiding troops in the bandit cottage, the outside world has no way of knowing where these troops belong, and such a large secret base, it is no problem to hide two or three hundred thousand troops, the only problem is that if there are too many people, the pressure on material supply is relatively large." He understood his scope of responsibility, so the questions he asked were also about this aspect.

Tieqiao San also agreed: "We can take our time, we can't deploy too many troops at the beginning, and gradually increase it later, and the logistics supply will gradually adapt and find a suitable way".

Huang Qiying said: "Then we simply recruited troops and suppressed bandits at the same time, and after the bandits, we occupied the cottage, which is a ready-made residence, as long as it is slightly transformed, it can be turned into a secret base, and if the number of hidden soldiers is not large at the beginning, it should be enough." ”

Young Master Liang said with a smile: "I think so too, after suppressing the bandits, recruit a group of recruits nearby, place them in this cottage, and then let the engineer battalion be transformed, and leave a group of backbone forces to let them be responsible for training recruits, which also saves the time and cost of transporting recruits to the Qiongzhou base." ”

The four of them decided on this plan to hide troops so happily, but now the bandits in these mountains are going to be unlucky, how wronged are they? They are all conscientiously doing the great cause of robbing houses and robbing caravans, and they have not provoked the Liang family army at all.

Young Master Liang decided to give them a few promotions, which can be regarded as an encouragement and comfort for their hard work and efforts: "Fifth Uncle, in the future, you will serve as the instructor and deputy head of our escort regiment, Master Huang will serve as the deputy regiment commander and commander of the second battalion, and Master Liang will serve as the deputy regiment commander and director of the intelligence bureau." ”