This is true of the herdsmen on the grasslands, and even more so of the Han people who have depended on the land for their ancestors. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 infoThe smiles on the faces of the common people are the driving force for Li Han and the provincial government officials to reform, and in this case, if someone is working against the provincial government's policies, how will Li Han spare him.

These are all matters on the part of the government, and on the army side, the regiments directly under the military headquarters of the security forces have also gotten rid of the embarrassing state of having only a few hundred people per regiment and even staying on paper.

At present, the guard regiment has reached a full strength of more than 2,500 people, the reconnaissance regiment, the special service regiment, and the baggage regiment have also been expanded to 2,000 people, and the communications battalion and field hospital have also been fully strengthened.

However, although the troops are full, they are not recruited from Chahar Province, and the population of Chahar is too small, not to mention that Li Han cannot recruit soldiers, and even the factories opened by cities and counties cannot find workers now, so they have to spend a lot of money to recruit workers from other identities.

However, the factory's recruitment of workers from other provinces also inspired Shi Dingzhong, who was in charge of immigration, and after consulting with Wang Wei and Yan Zhonghua, he decided that the provincial government would subsidize the cost of recruiting merchants outside the province.

Of course, this is a subsidy from the provincial government, and if it is simply a worker to come to Chahar, then the government is only responsible for providing subsidized fares.

If the workers' families can be brought to Chahar, the government will not only subsidize all the losses of the merchants, but also plan to reduce the sales tax and other benefits for the companies or factories they set up after a certain amount.

Li Han was also inspired by the wave of businessmen recruiting workers outside the province, in Chahar Province, there are many factories invested by the government, and there are many big businessmen like Xiang Yan Zhonghua who work in the provincial government and cities and counties at all levels, and these people make money while also undertaking the duty of cooperating with the government.

Recruiting troops directly from other provinces will not only cause dissatisfaction among the provincial governments of other provinces, but also easily attract the suspicion of the central government.

However, how can the living be suffocated by urine, and the external recruitment is changed to external recruitment, but it is just a change of words, but it is very easy to recruit tens of thousands of good soldiers for the security army.

The treatment of the security forces is much better than that of the troops in other parts of the country, and the military pay is directly paid to the soldiers' accounts, which also makes the recruits who serve in foreign lands put their hearts in their stomachs.

And if you really don't want to be a soldier, you can also choose to enter the factories directly under the jurisdiction of the provincial government as workers, and now Chahar is out of the period of rapid development, factories have sprung up like mushrooms after a rain, and the demand for workers has always been in short supply.

However, although tens of thousands of good soldiers were recruited, Li Han did not integrate all of them into the security army, mainly because the finances of the Chahar provincial government did not support Li Han's large-scale army expansion, and Li Han did not want to attract the hostility of the 29th and the Central Army because of the expansion of the army.

Despite this, the strength of the security force after the full establishment has also reached 30,000, of which the number of the 145th Division has reached more than 14,000.

However, although the number of troops is much larger, the weapons and equipment have not kept up, and the equipment of the various units of the security army under Li Han can be described as varied.

The pace of this expansion is too great, and the strength of the troops is three times that of the original 145th Brigade. Li Han didn't have that much weapon in his hands to arm the soldiers. As a last resort, he shook out all the Japanese weapons and equipment he had previously captured.

In addition, after the disbandment of the Allied Army, Li Han was also given a batch of weapons, but they were all half-new rifles and light machine guns, heavy machine guns and mortars, not to mention field artillery.

Even Li Han's starting team, the 145th Brigade, is half Japanese and half German, and this can be regarded as a relatively well-guarded unit in the security army.

Several other units could not guarantee the uniformity of weapons even by a regiment, and even the guard regiment responsible for defending the military headquarters was armed with several models of guns.

At a time when everyone was at a loss, there was a regiment that was equipped with a unified German rifle, and the regimental troops should be equipped with the same weapons as others.

Needless to say, this regiment must be Yan Chihuo's 17th Regiment, and the number of his regiment is also the largest among all the regiment-level troops of the Security Army, with a total number of 2,800 people.

There are many mortar companies, heavy machine gun companies, and submachine gun companies directly under the regimental headquarters, and the three infantry battalions still maintain the luxurious configuration of light machine gun equipment to the squad and heavy machine gun equipment to the platoon.

However, the whole army of such a regiment is only Yan Chihuo, and Li Han cannot always expect the commanders of the troops at all levels to pay for the armed forces themselves, which is very detrimental to the development of the security forces, and the troops below can easily develop into the private army of officers.

Although Li Han has inevitably embarked on the road of small warlords, he does not want to spawn more small warlords in his own troops, because not all people can be like him, focusing on fighting devils.

Li Han has always wanted a piece of land, that is, to gather the strength of the whole province to reorganize the army and the military, but after working in Chahar for almost half a year, not only did he not get a dime of benefits, but instead filled in hundreds of thousands of oceans.

In addition to the more than 30,000 members of the security army, Li Han also had to provide military salaries for more than 7,000 people of Nguyen Xuan Wu's independent 39th Brigade.

If it was just that, Li Han would not say anything, after all, Nguyen Xuan Wu was also a real anti-Japanese general, and he was also very cooperative with his work in Chahar Province.

It was not too difficult to provide military salaries for the 39th Independent Brigade, and not all of their military expenses were borne by the Chahar Provincial Government, and the 29th Army, which occupied the rich Pingjinji region, also paid almost half of the military expenses.

However, providing military salaries for Liu Guitang, a bandit army that had done a lot of evil, was unbearable for Li Han, and Liu Guitang's troops brought a lot of trouble to Li Han in Chanan.

Liu Guitang has never changed his nature as a bandit, he is cruel by nature, murderous like hemp, and the place where he used to be the hardest hit area of the local government.

According to incomplete statistics, in the four years from 1925 to 1928, more than 1,000 villages in the Yimeng area of Shandong Province alone were looted by Liu bandits, more than 200,000 houses were burned, more than 12,000 people were brutally killed, and countless women were killed.

In a sense, Liu Guitang's damage to the Chinese people has exceeded the damage caused by the Japanese army to the Chinese under the same number, and it can be said that he has lost his human nature, and he is no different from animals.

And for Liu Guitang, temperament, dignity and the like are not worth a penny, and he is also famous for having milk and being the mother. Before he defected to the Alliance, he was still a puppet army, and after fighting with the Alliance Army and finding out that he was not an opponent, he took refuge in the Alliance.

After the disbandment of the Allied Army, it was incorporated by Song Zheyuan into the Chahar Chadong Guerrilla Detachment, which had three regiments.

In addition to the Security Army and the 63rd Army, the other troops of more than three regiments have basically been taken under the command of the 29th Army, only Liu Guitang's troops Song Zheyuan did not even glance at a second, and now Song Zheyuan is very clear about Liu Guitang's character, this is simply a jackal who can't be raised.

Obviously, Song Zheyuan's prediction was not wrong, and after he became the commander of the Chadong guerrilla detachment, Liu Guitang still did not change his gangster nature at the beginning.

Fortunately, Li Han also stationed a brigade of troops in Longguan, which prevented Liu Guitang's barbaric behavior in time and did not cause greater losses.

But this still can't curb Liu Guitang's greedy nature, as Chahar began to develop, the local people also had some continuation, and more and more businessmen came to Chahar, and Liu Guitang's right was ready to move together.

To prevent Liu Guitang from rushing away, Li Han also transferred the Independent Brigade from Huai'an to Xuanhua.

In this way, there were more than 6,000 troops of the 155th Brigade in the direction of Longguan, more than 20,000 troops of the 63rd Army in Huailai and Yanqing, an independent brigade in Xuanhua, and more than 10,000 troops directly under the Security Army in Zhangjiakou, completely blocking all the retreats of Liu Guitang.

Of course, he could also choose to flee into Beiping, but if the more than 80,000 people of the 29th Army wanted to destroy it, it was as easy as pinching an ant to death.

However, if Liu Guitang is afraid of this, he will be sorry for his reputation as the number one bandit in North China over the years. Seeing that Chahar is getting richer and richer, and he can make a lot of money by doing a few small votes, Liu Guitang's heart itches when he thinks of this, and he always wants to kill him with a few votes and leave.

Liu Guitang is an old bandit, he can calm down, he knows that Li Han mobilized troops everywhere and surrounded half of the Chadong region, just to prevent his own mentality of running away with one vote.

So if he doesn't do it, he has to do a super big vote, at least it can let him run to other places, and pull up a team that is not weaker than the current scale, so that he can do it. Of course, an old bandit like him would not do it.

However, what Liu Guitang didn't expect was that he had always wanted the opportunity to make a super big order, and he didn't let him wait long to come, but the consequences of doing this vote were much more serious than he wanted before.

On 5 February, less than ten days before the New Year, Lee Han received his old acquaintance, the German arms dealer Weir, at the provincial government.

"Commander Li, I'll give you an early greeting first, and I wish you a happy new year!"

Will arched his hand to Li Han, he has been in the Republic of China for some years, and he knows more about the traditional festivals of the Republic of China, knowing that the Spring Festival of the Chinese is as important as the Christmas of their Westerners.

"Thank you! It seems that Will knows a lot about the folklore of our country! ”

Unexpectedly, Will would still know about Bai in his early years, which surprised Li Han.

"Will, I've basically taken control of Chahar Province now, how is the rifle bullet production line that I told you last time?"