Operation Freedom Trail was launched in parallel with Operation Freedom. The operation, which was carried out by the Ministry of National Defense, was aimed at taking over the southernmost province of Kim Gull in South Vietnam.

When he received the order last night, Zhang Chengjun was a little abrupt.

Teachers and American advisers have said that the entire training course takes 13 weeks, and that their group of reserve cadres of the National Rural Task Force has only been trained for a month and a half.

This is a school that uses the Viet Minh method to train cadres, and the requirements of the "three disciplines and eight points of attention" are like the Viet Minh training course, but the training is for anti-Viet Minh cadres.

At first, the school was preparing to recruit volunteers from various government agencies in Saigon, but this plan quickly fell through. Saigon's civilian cadres did not want their hands dirty in the mud, did not want to work in the countryside, and liked city life, and when they saw the trainees of the training course wearing all the black clothes of peasants, crawling in the fields every day, and not a single one of them came, they thought they were all crazy.

Later, the government thought of the North Vietnamese refugees who had fled earlier, so it went to the refugee camp to advertise and ask if you would like to serve the new government, and the government now has jobs for you. This trick was very good, and many employees and unemployed students who had worked in the government departments of the French colonies in Beijing signed up one after another, and the first batch recruited more than 400.

The school is very strictly managed, and as soon as you enter, you have to take off your fashionable clothes and change to the black three-woman costume of a South Vietnamese peasant.

All the facilities were built by themselves, including classrooms, dormitories, canteens, activity centers, and in the first few days, classes were even held in the open air, and at night I could only sleep on the floor.

The slogans are all Vietminh-style, such as "power belongs to the people" and "fight for national independence". The curriculum is very tight, including administrative management, physical training, learning to use agricultural tools and weapons, etc.

And there are many practical courses, and every three days of classes have to go to the countryside for two days to help the peasants build houses, build roads, bridges, dig wells, and establish village self-government institutions, etc., which are too much like the Viet Minh cadres, and the last time they went out to practice, the national army patrolling near the village almost shot them.

Zhang Chengjun was one of the 23 Chinese in the first batch of students, and after receiving the order, it was convenient for the students to take leave and return to the embankment to say goodbye to their parents. The federation was more informed than expected, knowing that they were leaving tomorrow, and the Ngee Ann Secondary School Club held a special farewell ceremony.

"Cheng Jun, if my family didn't agree, I would definitely go with you to sign up last time."

The Jihuishan family is rich, so they don't have to worry about work at all.

Zhang Chengjun patted his old classmate's arm, shook his head and smiled: "Young Master Ji, your family allows you to endure the suffering of the training school." We have no choice, if there is a better way out, we will not become rural cadres. ”

"How good it is to be a cadre, with Mr. Li under your cover, sooner or later you will be able to become the township mayor and county magistrate."

In order to see off their group of classmates, He Tianming made a special trip from Haiphong to return by plane, and when he saw that the people had almost arrived, he said in high spirits: "Students, we have taken the first step to actively participate in politics and military affairs, Zhang Chengjun, Wang Shubin, Jiang Guixian and other 23 students are the first batch, and we will have the second, third, and fourth batches next. In the near future, there will be more Chinese cadres and military officers in the government, who can speak for the Chinese people and fight for the rights of the Chinese people like Mr. Li......"

Zhang Chengjun asked curiously: "Military, chairman, do you mean that some classmates have joined the army?" ”

He Tianming smiled and confirmed: "Yes, and there are quite a few." 38 in the Army, 16 in the Air Force, and 12 in the Navy. Some of them want to be trained at home, some of them want to go abroad for training, and now they are cadets, and they will soon be junior officers, and they will become battalion commanders, regiment commanders and even division commanders in the future, and one Chinese general after another can be born! ”

Wang Shubin pretended to regret it and sighed and said: "I knew that I could go abroad for training, and I should have joined the army." ”

"I also want to join the Air Force and want to be a pilot."

"The division of labor is different, don't you envy me, I envy him. In addition to some students joining the national army, some students serving as civil servants of the national rural work team, more students want to join the security team of the industrial investment company, and some students want to go to the resettlement villages of the Nong compatriots to serve as teachers to serve the nong villagers.

The best students have more pressure and responsibility, and they have to apply for foreign universities or industrial investment technical schools to study engineering, machinery, chemical engineering, medical care, etc. Only rich people like Ji Dashao are the most relaxed, they don't have to do anything, they just need to donate more dues. ”

Everyone immediately laughed, Ji Huishan was very embarrassed, and hurriedly said: "Chairman, you don't have to do anything, I want to open a machinery factory, in Pingdong Industrial Village, specializing in manufacturing agricultural machinery, and specifically solving the employment of younger brothers and sisters." ”

Zhang Chengjun was happy, and immediately quipped: "Ji Dashao, if your agricultural machinery is of good quality and cheap, I will help you promote it in the countryside, and the rural work team is doing this." ”

"I'll give you a commission then."

"Do you know to be a model of law-abiding, I don't dare to ask for commissions, I have the heart to donate more money to the federation, so that the chairman of the board of directors will let us eat these next time."

Today's meal was relatively simple, and the students laughed again.

More than 200 people gathered together, the atmosphere was very warm, and at the suggestion of a classmate, everyone sang "Everyone Paddles the Big Boat" impassionedly.

After singing, He Tianming introduced in high spirits: "Students, Mr. Li has composed another Hokkien song, which is very easy to learn and very inspirational, and the song is called "Love Fights to Win", do you want to learn? ”

In this era, there are really no good pop songs, and they are tired of listening to Teochew opera and Cantonese opera, and everyone shouts in unison: "Yes! ”

"Of course I want to, chairman, you sing first."

"I don't have all five tones, I can't sing well, Ah Shui comes, Ah Shui knows Hokkien."

"Then I'll make a fool of myself."

Jiang Wenshui cleared his throat and sang in a frustrated voice: "I can't help but complain if I lose my will for a while, I can't help but be afraid for a while, I lose hope, I get drunk every day, and I have no soul and body like a grass man." Life is comparable to the waves of the sea, sometimes ...... Sometimes falls, good luck! Bad luck! All in all, love to work according to the line, three points are destined, seven points rely on hard work, love to fight to win ......! ”

The melody is beautiful, and it really sounds good.

The artistic conception of the lyrics is mostly to encourage people who are downcast or frustrated, but they still have to hold on to faith and work hard, which is really inspirational. At the strong request of a group of female classmates, Jiang Wenshui sang it over and over again until everyone learned it.

Hong Kong and Taiwan singers cover Japanese songs, and later generations grew up listening to Japanese songs.

Plagiarized a few songs to boost morale, Li Weimin was not ashamed, but proud. However, he now doesn't know that "Love Fights to Win" has been set as the song of the Huaqing Association, and he doesn't care about these trivial things, and is holding a meeting with Zhang Qinggui and other Nong generals in the summer palace of Emperor Baoda on the Tushan Peninsula.

"There are pros and cons to relocating 20,000 to 30,000 people in Xining, which is close to the parrot's beak area. In the event of a disturbance in Saigon, once it spreads to the embankment, the Fifth Division can come to the rescue in time, and at the same time can meet the Cambodian and even Lao compatriots.

The disadvantages are highly susceptible to Viet Minh harassment and even large-scale attacks. I don't think there will be any major moves in the next two or three years, so we must use this time to build the garrison into a fortress and an impregnable fortress. At the same time, we should do a good job of the people around us, especially the resettlement of the Catholic refugees in the past, so that they will not fight alone in the future. ”

It is not easy to pick up a weapon, and it is even more difficult to lay it down all at once.

This is good news for Zhang Yinggui and others, and they all showed knowing smiles.

They don't know what will happen in the future, Li Weimin knows that the safety of tens of thousands of people is at stake, he doesn't dare to have even a little slack, and said very seriously: "If you don't break up and adapt this point, Wu Tingyan will not easily change his hexagram since he agreed, but this does not mean that there is no need to reorganize, and he will not put sand on the fifth division."

If nothing else, the U.S. military advisory group will help the new government reorganize it in their own way. Vietnam is not European, and the topography of Xining is more complicated, so it is not necessarily a good idea to reorganize into a heavy division. Therefore, you must have a bottom in your heart, they will reorganize theirs, we will train ours, and we must train the Fifth Division into a mountain division and jungle division that can leave the road and can still fight without air cover.

As for the sand-rubbing, they should go to the training they organized, and the officers who should accept them will be accepted. But those who go out for training cannot be assimilated, and those who are accepted must be assimilated. ”

Huang Yasheng went to France, Huang Duqing had just been appointed as the warden of Phu Quoc Island Prison, and Zhang Yinggui was the only candidate for the commander of the Fifth Division, and confidently assured: "Although Mr. Li can rest assured, no matter how much sand they pick, no matter where they are transferred, no matter when, the 5th Division will always be the Nong Division." ”

"Pay attention to ways and means, and don't make the relationship too stiff."

"Okay, we'll take care of it."

Li Weimin nodded slightly, and continued: "There are more than 16,000 locals in the Zhensha area, and our 20,000 or 30,000 plus Catholic refugees are definitely not so much land. So when I got there, I talked to USAID officials about the large-scale water conservancy construction on farmland, and they would send agricultural experts and water conservancy experts to assist. Plan first, and then use a pump to pump the silt to create fields, and we don't need to pay for the funds, the United States will provide assistance, we just need to contribute.

Compared with Xining, Zhensha's security problems are less serious, and the main focus is on guarding against harassment by Vietminh guerrillas who have infiltrated the past. Therefore, the resettlement villages should not be too far away, and the militia self-defense force should be mobilized, and when the time comes, the 5th Division can be trained in rotation, and the security team of Vung Tau Industrial Village will also send members to the station in turn for adaptive training. ”

Zhang Yinggui muttered: "We originally had two divisions, and after replenishing the 5th Division, there was also a regiment and two battalions, leaving two battalions in Zhensha as a militia, and the remaining regiment was scattered in other resettlement points. ”

"More than one regiment."

Wang Jingui snuffed out his cigarette and said with a smile: "Since the announcement of the Geneva Agreement, we have contained more than 2,000 soldiers of the national army and more than 80 officers at all levels in our 16 detention points in Vietnam. Under the arrangement of the Chinese Youth Association, we are rushing to the resettlement sites in the south through various means, and more than 100 people can be distributed in one village, which can greatly alleviate the security pressure at this stage. ”

I only remember to give them a little money, but I didn't expect such a big harvest, Li Weimin was happy: "So much." ”

"Actually, there are more in Myanmar, Thailand and Laos, but no one has to take them in."

"Then send people, what we lack most now is people."

"Yes, I'll arrange it when I get back."

After discussing the immediate issues, Li Weimin said in a kind way: "Ladies and gentlemen, the present is important, and the future is even more important, so we must be prepared for danger in times of peace and really mobilize the militia reserves. What the Vietminh is best at is crowd tactics, and the survival of millions of people is at stake, and this matter cannot be joked. ”

Chen Runwei, who is in charge of the security of the Nong resettlement site, immediately assured: "Mr. Li, don't worry, I will train the militia as a regular army." There is one battalion in one village, and sixteen battalions in 16 villages, as long as we have enough weapons and ammunition, we can pull out and fight. ”

"There are 12 industrial villages, one regiment per village, and Phu Quoc Island has the strength of one division, as long as there are enough weapons and equipment and time, if there is any trouble, we can pull out 6 divisions."

Li Weimin shook his head and said: "Six divisions are far from enough, and they can only be used as a five-year plan. We need to have a 10-year plan or even a 20-year plan, we have to unite the Catholic villages, we have to have appeal to the government army, and we have to be able to pull out 20 to 25 divisions in the event of a life-and-death war. ”

Zhang Yinggui asked in a low voice: "All the people are soldiers?" ”

"This time we can retreat south, once the Viet Minh army moves south, where will it retreat then? It's all life and death, and all that can be on must be on it. ”

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