Chapter 94: Standard Military Uniforms
"Drive! Drive! Driving"
"Drive! Drive! Driving"
On an official road southwest of Aihui, more than 300 horsemen were running fast.
This pair of people is very distinctive, all dressed uniformly, with two small pockets on the top and two large pockets on the bottom, a special belt around the waist, a leather belt on the chest, a new pistol hanging behind the belt, trousers and a shirt are obviously the same, the calves are bandaged, and the feet are wearing standard cloth shoes.
The biggest feature of this cavalry is that there are no braids on their heads, which is the first time that so many people without braids have appeared on the territory of the Qing Dynasty.
On the official road along the way, everyone who saw this team of cavalry consciously stood on the side of the road and saluted, and most of the people were full of respect in their eyes, of course, everyone did this, not because these people were arrogant, but because of the two big flags in the team, the two big characters on the flag, which were particularly eye-catching, that is, "Yue" and "Hei".
The Black Dragon Army is already a household name in the north of Aihui, not only because the Black Dragon Army defeated Tsarist Russia, after all, Tsarist Russia has not yet entered Aihui and has not caused much loss to the people, but the Black Dragon Army unified the green forest in the north of Aihui, which made the social security clear in an instant.
This group of people is naturally the Black Dragon Army, and the person who led the team was Yue Weihua.
After returning from Aledrovsk, it has only been three days until today, but three days is enough time for Yue Weihua to do a lot of things.
The third and fourth battalions were reorganized, all officers of the two battalions were in place, and special training began.
The guard battalion was also formed, and Yue Weihua even led the officers of the guard battalion to appear in various important places in the wolf domain, explaining the key points of the guard in combination with the actual situation, and exchanged a large number of guard-related books for the officers and soldiers of the guard battalion to study together.
The gendarmerie was also formed, but most of the gendarmerie were veterans drawn from various battalions, so after only a short period of training, they went directly to work, and the gendarmerie was mainly in charge of Yue Xiang, so Yue Weihua didn't put so much thought into it.
Not to mention the engineer company, on the day of the completion of the formation, Yue Weihua personally led a platoon of soldiers into the depths of Bulun Mountain, all the way into the Yunxia Valley, drawing the terrain along the way, preparing to build new fortifications, and the wolf domain is also because of the formal establishment of the engineer company, making the construction of various fortifications more standardized and efficient.
The special training for 150 new members of the Intelligence Department has finally been completed, and there are 11 teams and 110 members of the Intelligence Department in today's team, all of whom are going south or entering the customs to collect intelligence.
Of course, before going to various places, he may have to assist Yue Weihua to do some things.
On this trip, in addition to the 110 members of the Ministry of Intelligence, there were 60 members of the special combat team, the deputy captain Zhou Dabiao personally led the team, a cavalry battalion with 120 people, led by the battalion commander Yue Xiaodong personally, and more than a dozen people who were specially selected to belong to the Taoist family, as well as two or three former younger brothers (now also soldiers of the Black Dragon Army), a total of 50 people, a total of 340 people.
340 people, one person and two horsemen, wearing standard clothing, galloping on the official road, naturally eye-catching, and even suspected of showing off force, but this is what Yue Weihua wants.
The first stop of Yue Weihua's trip was Murgen City (i.e., Nen*Jiang County).
The city of Morgan set up the deputy capital of the Yamen, which, like Aihui, was under the jurisdiction of the Heishui Provincial General's Office.
The north of the city of Morgan is Yilhuli Mountain, and it is connected with Huma County; It is bordered by Bulun Mountain in the east, and is adjacent to Aihui; It is adjacent to the Nenjiang River in the west, and faces the Inner Mongolia Magic Dawa Daur and Oroqen across the river; It is an important economic, transportation, logistics distribution and military strategic place north of Qihar, an important agricultural grain production base in Hehei City, and has the reputation of "the granary of the northern country" in later generations.
The purpose of going to Morgan City is to procure, food, materials, horses, but everything that can be bought with money, Yue Weihua has to procure, especially food is the most important.
The Black Dragon Army has grown, there are more military dependents, and the scale of the Wolf Domain alone exceeds 10,000 people, and this is only the current scale, Yue Weihua believes that once Tsarist Russia is not able to keep the Tsarist Russia out of the Heishui River, then the people of Aihui will definitely be devastated.
At that time, there will be a lot of people displaced, and the refugees who pour into the wolf domain will definitely be very many, and the Black Dragon Army has played the banner of the people's soldiers, so it is understandable to accept these refugees, in this case, Yue Weihua must prepare food for them and solve the most basic stomach problems, which is unshirkable.
Although the Black Dragon Army annihilated Su Ma's family, there were nearly 10,000 tons of grain captured, even if one load was calculated as a hundred catties, it was 500 tons, and the two cargo ships captured by Tsarist Russia also had 100 tons of rice and 100 tons of noodles, plus about 100 tons of grain purchased from all over Aihui, adding up to no more than 800 tons in total.
800 tons of grain, even if the rations of 20,000 people are prepared, calculated based on one pound of grain per person a day, it is enough to eat for 80 days, not to mention, once the battle starts, the rations of the soldiers will definitely increase, and the common people will definitely have to increase the rations if they want to be auxiliaries, so that it will be enough for two months at most.
Aihui has many hills, there are not many fields, and Lao Maozi's invasion is imminent, Aihui's autumn harvest this year will definitely be greatly reduced, so Yue Weihua must take precautions, take advantage of Lao Maozi's second wave of invasion has not yet started, quickly go south, buy food and materials, so there is also this trip.
Of course, this trip is far more than the purchase of food materials, but the importance of the purchase of food materials is indeed in the first place.
From the second station to the city of Morgan, it is about 180 kilometers, passing through the towns of Eyel and Kumutun, and then entering the sub-capital of Morgan, passing through the towns of Khalkhatu and Klor, and then reaching the city of Morgan.
Yue Weihua led the team to set off from 4 o'clock in the morning, maintaining the speed of the horse at 20 or 30 kilometers per hour, running for two hours, and resting for an hour, and finally at about 11 o'clock in the morning, through Kumutun, entered the Khalkhatu territory of the Murgen Vice-Metropolitan Territory.
"The person in charge came to pick up the food and horse feed, and an hour later, set off on time."
After entering Khalkhatu, Yue Weihua stopped marching, and it was almost time to rest, so he ordered everyone to come and get food and horse feed.
If it weren't for the existence of the Meritorious Tower, it would be impossible to maintain such a fast marching speed, after all, equipment and food and other baggage will consume a lot of manpower and horsepower, you know, the Mongolian iron cavalry, even if it is one person and three horsemen, its marching speed is about 100 kilometers a day.
The main reason is that the weight is too horsepower-consuming, and it is very time-consuming for horses to eat forage, and Yue Weihua specially prepared a large number of high-grade horse feed, such as soybeans and other mixed horse feed, which can not only shorten the eating time, but also save physical strength to the greatest extent.
"Commander, from here on, it won't be our territory." Yue Xiaodong said lightly.
Yue Xiaodong, as the commander of the cavalry battalion, was originally supposed to stay in the wolf domain to train the troops, but was named by Yue Weihua to participate in the operation here, firstly, Yue Xiaodong has been walking darts all the year round, and he is familiar with this road, and secondly, he is a long-distance journey, and he has to hurry, if he is not a person who mixes on horseback for a long time, he really can't stand it, and thirdly, there are a lot of beards along the way, Yue Weihua wants to recruit them, which requires Aihui's fellow green forests to come out, and now these masters are actually in Yue Xiaodong's cavalry battalion.
"Well, further on, it's Banshan Tiger's territory, right?" Yue Weihua asked.
Banshan Tiger, the nest is on the Ban Mountain in Khalkhatu, less than ten miles away from the boundary of Aihui, before the Black Dragon Army has risen, these guys often go to Aihui to find food, but since the Black Dragon Army destroyed the Su Ma family, and then Yue Xiaodong unified the green forest in the north of Aihui, he no longer dared to cross the line.
"Yes, five or six miles further is the territory of Banshan Tiger, Banshan Tiger has three or four hundred guns, not much notoriety, we have gone through the dart bureau before, generally there is nothing to do, of course, there will be robberies, but they generally do not do it, at least it will not hurt people's lives, well, they are the big boss Hu Yihu, and our third company deputy commander Nie Sifeng has a good relationship, but whether he can persuade Ban Shanhu to take refuge, he is not sure." Yue Xiaodong said truthfully.
This trip all the way to Morgan City, the beards in the Aihui territory are basically subordinate to the Black Dragon Army, but the beards in the Mergen territory are not, there are nearly a hundred kilometers away, and there are hundreds of guns along the way, and there are seven or eight groups, more than half of which have a decent reputation, and these people are the objects of Yue Weihua's recruitment.
Between the beards and the beards, in fact, they are similar to those mixed on the road in later generations, as long as they are not adjacent, there is no conflict of interests, and there are few life and death to each other, and even many beards have a good relationship with each other, and there are many worshippers, Aihui and Moer are simply adjacent, and many of the masters on both sides are old acquaintances, so Yue Weihua brought the original green forests of the cavalry battalion.
This Nie Sifeng turned out to be a big boss of Ku Mustun, who was designed by Yue Xiaodong and Xiao Guangtian, and was fished into the cavalry battalion of the Black Dragon Army, but most of these masters performed well, and after less than ten days of transformation, most of them already regarded themselves as members of the Black Dragon Army.
Although these people occasionally have bandit habits, Yue Weihua believes that as long as they slowly infiltrate their minds and go through one or two battles, these people will be reborn, and in the future, they will also have a place in the Black Dragon Army.
Yue Weihua nodded, and then said: "No one dares to guarantee this kind of thing, but since Nie Sifeng dares to come, it means that there is still a little possibility, so let's do it, since the distance is not far, you let Nie Sifeng take his men over now, and by the way, let Nie Sifeng tell Hu Yihu, just say that we are in a hurry on this trip, if you have the heart, wait for me to return and negotiate." ”
"Yes, Commander."
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