There is a cloud in "Gripping the Book of Wonders": "The shape of the guerrilla army, the sudden movement, avoiding the real and the false, seeing the victory and the prosperity, the knot and the ground, and breaking the four meridians." Pen Fun Pavilion www.biquge.info"

Everyone present is no stranger to the setting up of the guerrilla army, and there is a guerrilla general in every military town. The so-called guerrilla general is to lead a group of guerrilla soldiers to defend back and forth in the middle of the war, and to carry out attacks and harassment.

The guerrilla army can only be used as a supplement to the main force in the whole war, and is responsible for assisting the main army to win the war.

"May I ask the governor, I don't know how many guerrilla armies you need to send in guerrilla warfare, and what is the size of each army?" Liu Zhaoji on the side was the first to ask, he had never heard of this kind of tactics since he was in the army, and he couldn't help but want to ask clearly.

"Just the three prefectures of Suzhou, Changzhou, and Songjiang, which are closest to Chongming, have a total of more than ten counties, and each county has sent one or two guerrilla armies, the number of which is limited to battalions, and each has more than 1,000 people."

"With such an army, I'm afraid that even any Qing army can't defeat it?" Liu Zhaoji said dumbfounded.

"Didn't you say that you wouldn't attack cities and plunder land? Occupy the countryside, send sentinels to attack the small Qing army out of the city, and retreat into the rivers and lakes when a large Qing army is attacked. ”

"If we don't fight the city, how can we raise food and salaries, and what about supplies?" Cao Changjiang, director of the Logistics Department, asked the question he was most concerned about, if so many troops were scattered, and the logistics supply had to rely on Chongming Island, it would be difficult to be tight.

"The armies have their own ideas to solve the supply, and now the people everywhere are holding high the banner of resisting the Qing Dynasty, and they must be very welcome to our arrival, is it still difficult to solve the problem of food and salary? Moreover, there were landlords and squires who had taken refuge in the Manchu Qing Dynasty in various places, and we did not need to be polite to those people, we could confiscate their family property to support the army, keep enough grain, grass, and silver for the army, and send the excess back to Chongming. However, we need to keep in mind that we are the regular army of the Ming Dynasty, not bandits and water thieves, and it is forbidden to rob and extort, and we need to keep in mind the military discipline of our Daishan Army. At the same time, we will send personnel from the United Front Work Department to publicize the anti-Qing Dynasty and contact the gentry and heroes of the Ming Dynasty. ”

Ren Siqi spoke eloquently, slowly expressing his understanding of guerrilla warfare in his heart.

"The military strength of our Daishan army is still too poor, if we fight the Qing soldiers head-on, we will definitely not be the opponent of the Qing army. Therefore, we don't need to care about the gains and losses of one city and one place, give up all the cities to the Qing army, we occupy the vast countryside, fight the enemy to strengthen ourselves, and wait for our strength to be large enough, wait for the time to be ripe, and then launch a full-scale attack on the Qing army. ”

"I seem to understand a little," Ren Xingfan pondered carefully for a long time, and slowly comprehended Ren Siqi's train of thought.

"But I still can't figure out how to fight?" Ma Yingkui was still confused.

"It doesn't matter if you can't figure it out, there are still a few days to send troops anyway, and I will explain it to you in the next few days." Ren Siqi said with a smile.

In the next few days, Ren Siqi repeatedly discussed with Li Yanzhi and others about which troops should be sent, and finally decided to send all the other three towns except Jin Yufei Town, and disperse them to Susongchang counties as battalions. The only veterans of the two battalions in the Chongming army who were not disbanded and incorporated into the new army were all in Jin Yufei Town, and they had to stay on the island to deal with the Qing army's attack.

At the same time, Ren Siqi trained the officers who were sent out at the rank and above and repeatedly instilled the essence of guerrilla warfare. The 16-character principle of guerrilla warfare, "When the enemy advances, we retreat, when the enemy is stationed, we disturb, when the enemy is tired, we fight, and when the enemy retreats, we pursue" should be written on a wooden board, so that every officer must firmly remember it.

Then Ren Siqi trained the team supervisors and battalion supervisors of each army, so that they must firmly control the discipline of the army and be sure to prevent the army from breeding free and loose thoughts. The emperor is far away, the current Daishan army is not the army with lofty ideals in later generations, and the army officers are not members of our party with lofty ideals. Therefore, the overseers were instructed to keep the army firmly in control.

In fact, the Daishan Army was completely different from other Ming armies, because the supervision army was set up on the team, and every team and battalion had a supervision army, which basically ruled out the situation that the army would get out of control. According to the Daishan military system, the commander in chief is responsible for the command of the army, but in the event of a major situation, the supervising army has the right to veto the decision of the commander-in-chief. Moreover, the families of all the officers are on Daishan or Chongming Island, which can basically eliminate the possibility of military betrayal.

However, in order to prevent the army from getting out of control, especially when the army was expanded in the future, the newly joined officers and soldiers had no sense of belonging to Chongming. Ren Siqi stipulated that all newly recruited officers must go to Chongming for training, so Ren Siqi decided to set up a lecture hall in Chongming, which was specially responsible for training officers.

In addition, the most important thing is to control the discipline of the army, if you want to fight guerrilla warfare, you must have a good mass base, and the current Manchu shaving order is the best opportunity to gain the support of the people. However, if the discipline of the army is too poor and the phenomenon of disturbing the people often occurs, it will inevitably be disgusted by the broad masses of the people, and it will lose the soil for survival. Therefore, Ren Siqi conducted strict training for the officers and soldiers of the Zhenfu Division under Song Liben, so that after they went down to the army, they must strictly implement the military discipline of the Daishan Army, and ensure that the army does not disturb the people and does not take a stitch from the masses.

For the army at the end of the Ming Dynasty, this is very difficult, because the army at the end of the Ming Dynasty was used to robbing the people. However, the Daishan Army was different from the ordinary Ming army, but developed independently of other Ming armies, which can be described as a self-contained system. At the beginning of the formation of the Daishan Army, in the small fishing village of Renjiawan, Ren Siqi repeatedly instilled various regulations to his subordinates, that is, military discipline. Therefore, from the formation of the army to the present, whether it is in Daishan, whether it is in Shandong, or at the order of the imperial court, it is necessary to send troops to block Zuo Liangyu's army, and the battle of Yangzhou to block Duoduo's 200,000 Qing soldiers. Basically, there was no robbery of the people in the Daishan army, except for the abduction of craftsmen in Nanjing, because it was done by the army in accordance with Ren Siqi's orders, but even then, there was no phenomenon that soldiers dared to rob the property of craftsmen and put it into their own pockets.

Therefore, the military discipline of the Daishan Army is far better than all the armies of this era, which is also one of the reasons why hundreds of thousands of Yangzhou people swore to follow Chongming Island to the death.

But Ren Siqi felt a faint uneasiness in his heart, after all, these troops were put outside, and he was very worried that he would lose control.

It would be nice if there were many people in the army with lofty ideals, just like the members of our party. Party? A flash of inspiration suddenly flashed in Ren Siqi's mind. (To be continued.) )