Chapter seventy-three
Since there is going to be a war, with the current military situation, we must go all out. This is the guiding opinion of the military plan formulated by Chen Ke in the Central Military Commission. In the final plan, the People's Party mobilized almost all the troops. The military plan was simple and traditional, with Hua Xiongmao and Xu Dianjin negotiating in Weizi first. When they come out, as long as Zhang Youliang does not immediately agree to hand over the land and personally go to the headquarters of the county insurance regiment, then the People's Party will attack. After the main force consisting of two and three companies on the front besieges the enemy, and after drawing the enemy's attention to the front, the troops on the back of the enclosure that really decide the victory or defeat will be dispatched. This is the army led by Chen Ke. Chen Ke did not command a large army, but a small one. This small is only compared to the second and third companies and the reconnaissance team, a total of more than 500 people. He brought a company of rows and two rows. The two platoons combined also have a hundred and ten people. This force alone is the same as the number of troops that Zhang Youliang can mobilize.
The plan drawn up for this battle was carried out against Zhang Youliang's enclosure. Zhang Youliang's enclosure has a simple structure, with only one gate on the south side. Moreover, the enclosure only has a wall, and although there is a watchtower on the north side, the watchtower is very small, and can accommodate two or three people standing at most. And not really a point of fire support. Although Zhang Youliang has some bird guns and muskets, he definitely doesn't have machine guns, and if you deal with bandits, these watchtowers can still be useful. It will not work at all against a well-organized force.
Chen Ke's troops set off at the earliest, and as soon as it was dark yesterday, the first and second platoons of the first company followed Chen Ke. At midnight, the troops quietly went to the north side of the fence and laid an ambush. Chen Ke personally led the demolition team to set up explosives under the wall. Fortunately, after the floods, the soil was wet. Moreover, the volume of explosives made by the free powder is much smaller than that of black powder. Even so, Chen Ke and the others quietly dug for half a night, and only then did they dig up enough space.
After planting the explosives, everyone hid behind a mound that had been inspected a long time ago, which was only more than 300 meters away from Zhang Youliang's enclosure. There were still some miscellaneous trees and shrubs on the mound, which were drowned in the water. When the weather is clear, the sun roasts it, and all the leaves turn yellow. If it weren't for the poisonous and spicy sun during the day, just looking at the scene, it would be the season when everything withers in late autumn. After the flood, there were no people in this vicinity, and if it was another time, Chen Ke would never dare to make such an arrangement. Even so, such a distance is too dangerous. Not only in case of encountering people, but also the warriors who lay in ambush here all day, the requirements for the troops are also very high. This is a great test of discipline.
The first thing the troops were to keep quiet, and no one was allowed to speak without an order. It may sound simple, but it is extremely difficult to implement. Chen Ke ordered the troops to sleep first, and the cadres to stand by. But sleeping on the mud floor is really unbearable. After a night's march, the troops, though tired, slept until noon and woke up. The first problem is urination. Troops can't go wars without food and water. In addition, sleeping on the muddy floor, the stomach is easy to get cold. This is very frequent.
It's okay to say this, everyone is desperate to keep quiet, and the soldiers obeyed the order and held back one by one. I saw their eyes rolling around, looking left and right. Everyone is tired of lying down and sitting, and when they are tired of sitting and lying down. Some people lie down and do it so often that it's like doing sit-ups. Chen Ke really gave a death order this time, and the officers who had stopped these restless officers in the past were not allowed to say anything. Just glared at the warriors and kept them from moving. So there was another silent stalemate with big eyes and small eyes. It's not that the fighters have to deliberately disobey orders, the insurance regiment has not conducted harsh queue exercises, and everyone is not used to such silence at all. Staring at the commanders is also an expression of emotion. Chen Ke knew that the fighters would naturally be nervous in the face of the upcoming battle, because the decision time for this battle was short, and it was too late to carry out a profound and comprehensive mobilization. Moreover, now that the ranks are mixed, and the general mobilization is only afraid that the news will leak out, Chen Ke's idea is to carry out a full mobilization before launching an attack in the afternoon. Let everyone hold back now, and when the time comes, it will be easier to arouse the fighting spirit of comrades.
Since it was a silent order issued by Chen Ke, he himself implemented the model of integrating officers and soldiers, and lay on the ground without saying a word. In these days, meetings are held all day and work is directed. There is fire in his throat when he talks every day, and he is finally able to lie quietly, even if there is mud behind him, Chen Ke still has a rare sense of leisure. Looking at the dry yellow leaves on his head, Chen Ke felt that if there was no combat mission, it would be like a comfortable autumn outing now. The pressure of the first battle was not great, and Chen Ke also wanted to open it, the bullet did not have long eyes, and he was not a superman, nor was he a Wolverine, so whether he would be killed instantly by a stray bullet was not in Chen Ke's consideration at all. The insurance regiment dispatched 600 troops, and nearly 200 muskets of various kinds. Among them, there were 40 rifles, more than 20 pistols, and the rest were miscellaneous guns bought from various places. The other soldiers were armed with spears. The entire insurance corps has been practicing spear assassination hard, and now that it is impossible to build its own guns, the price of buying guns is also very high. The spear training was helpful for bayonet skills in the future, and as long as the officers and men of the insurance regiment were to undergo rigorous training.
Chen Ke didn't know that it would not be long before Xu Dian, a former scholar, would show the results of the spear assassination technique. Before the military action, Chen Keman's mind was all about the party and government structure, and he completely did not consider the issue of war.
After using the flood to organize such a big stall, Chen Ke himself is actually not used to it. He used to be a teacher, and at most he had fewer than a hundred students. All of a sudden, you have to take care of the lives of these tens of thousands of people. Chen Ke was completely in a state of unaccustomed feeling. Of course, Chen Ke is just not used to it, and he still has more than 100 years of historical experience to learn from. The other comrades were not only unaccustomed to it, but were outright helpless. It can be said that the reason why no one dares to challenge Chen Ke's current status is entirely based on Chen Ke's ability to lead everyone to solve problems.
For example, Chen Ke mobilized people to build a waterworks at that time, and everyone thought that this sounded too profound. In fact, it is really not so troublesome at all, the waterwheel lifts water, preliminary precipitation, coarse sand and gravel filtration, fine sand and gravel filtration, and then precipitation, and finally uses fine sand filtration. After such layers of filtration, the "tap water" is also purified. There is no shortage of sites in Fengtai County, and what needs to be controlled is the length of these filtration "workshops", and after experiments to determine how to ensure that the precipitation can be completed to the greatest extent, and to clean and sterilize the filtered sand and gravel in time. Chen Ke has no plans to spread tap water to the entire county in the short term. Focusing on the location of the insurance group, giving priority to providing services to the insurance group and ensuring the livelihood of the people who are dependent on the insurance group, this is Chen Ke's action guidance.
It is clear that the ability to provide food and clean drinking water in disaster years is in itself a control of the subordination of the victims. It is because of the hierarchical system that the treatment of the members of the insurance group is significantly higher than that of their families, and the treatment of the family members of the insurance group is higher than that of ordinary disaster victims. In this way, the insurance group can grow rapidly. However, such an operation brought only a bunch of mercenaries, and the people had to follow the BJP and the insurance group because they wanted to survive. If a more powerful force had intervened at this time, a considerable number of these people would have been scattered.
But talking about industrialization and revolution for the victims of the disaster has no positive effect in the slightest, except that these people are frightened and then fall apart. Now Chen Ke has to use natural disasters to greatly destroy the social organization system of the old era, and the social contradictions are now based on life and death, so the contradictions have become simpler and more acute. There was now an unprecedented antagonism between the landlord class and the victims. As long as Zhang Youliang who dares to stand up for confrontation is solved, and then other forces that dare to confront are resolved, and at the same time, those landlord forces who can accept cooperation are co-opted. Fengtai County will be completely under the control of the People's Party for the next six months. This stage is the most dangerous and the most opportunistic time.
Chen Ke was thinking about this, and suddenly felt that something was very wrong, and there seemed to be an abnormal change from Zhang Youliang's scarf. If you listen carefully, it seems that there are many people in a commotion. Could it be that Zhang Youliang is already preparing to fight by force? Chen Keteng sat up and broke the silence.
"Everybody get up and get ready." As soon as these words came out, those comrades who had long been unable to stand it got up one after another with excitement on their faces. Comrades who had fallen asleep, or were dozing off in a daze, were also woken up, and they looked at the excited others one by one with sleepy eyes.
In order to conquer Zhang Youliang's encirclement, the Military Commission made a lot of preparations. Long before the troops were dispatched, reliable soldiers who were originally natives of Yuezhangji were sent in. The task of these fighters in the plan is to keep an eye on the news. As a result, Zhang Youliang was far more cautious than he imagined, he blocked the entry and exit of the enclosure, and after the soldiers finally mixed in, there was no way to pass the news out.
Moreover, the plan could not keep up with the changes, and the People's Party had already decided to eliminate Zhang Youliang's forces in the short term, and the original plan was completely changed. Chen Ke also did not expect the comrades who had been mixed in to be able to cooperate with each other, but these comrades still had a lot to do. Now, after all, there was no aerial reconnaissance, so Chen Ke sent new comrades to infiltrate, and these comrades brought fireworks. All they had to do was to set off fireworks when they were sure that Zhang Youliang's men were attracted to the front door in the second and third consecutive attacks. Chen Ke and the others will immediately detonate the bomb and explode the north wall and rush in.
Everyone moved, and Chen Ke couldn't hear the movement inside the fence clearly. At this moment, all of a sudden, fireworks were lifted into the air as an agreed signal. This method of contact was known only to a very small number of officers, and the other soldiers were surprised to see the sudden fireworks. The officers who knew about this were puzzled by the signal that had been planned to be sent in the evening. Chen Ke didn't hesitate at all, he shouted: "Detonate!" ”