Chiang Kai-shek again sent Zhang Ji and Li Jishen to Wuhan to discuss with Soong Ching-ling on the issue of cooperation between the two parties.

This time, Zhang Chun, Mao Shishan, and Zhang Guotao rushed back to Wuhan. Zhang Chun put forward a proposal for disarmament and construction in various provinces. Zhang Chun now has the establishment of a group army, under the jurisdiction of five field armies and a Wuhan garrison army, each with less than 30,000 men. All of them add up to 180,000 people. Control area of Hubei, Shaanxi, most of Ningxia, part of Gansu and Sichuan. The total population reached more than 60 million. Zhang Chun believes that the country's military should be calculated in such proportions. In a province like Hubei, not counting engineering, medical care, surveying and mapping, and other technical arms, two armies are enough under peaceful conditions. This proposal made Chiang Kai-shek cry and laugh.

In fact, Chiang Kai-shek had always wanted to carry out disarmament and weaken the power of the local warlords. That's good. If he really wants to disarm, he Chiang Kai-shek disarmed the most, because his jurisdiction controls a population of about 100 million, but it has an army of more than 1 million, although many of them are small warlords. Yan Xishan and Zhang Xueliang's armies accounted for a higher proportion of the population.

Chiang Kai-shek thought that the first person to disarm was Zhang Weimin. However, Zhang Weimin said that the current Wuhan government has the least army, and the two provinces together are not as many as Sichuan Province. Moreover, the Central Army has 12 group armies, and it must be disarmed first.

Chiang Kai-shek was also depressed, Chiang Kai-shek and Zhang Xueliang were ruled by dividing the river, and Shanghai was still Zhang Xueliang's. Li Zongren, Tang Shengzhi didn't listen to him. Li Zongren and the warlords in Guizhou, Yunnan Province were fighting, even if they were victorious, Li Zongren would not hand over the territory to the central government. Chiang Kai-shek adopted a military-first strategy, and Zhang Chun was right about one thing. It's about putting education first. The students who come out of the Whampoa Military Academy every year stabilized the Central Army for him. But it is said that there are twelve army groups. In fact, less than four were reorganized.

Zhang Chun preemptively said that he wanted to disarm, and the spearhead was also pointed at the Central Army. Chiang Kai-shek was in a dilemma.

In the end, silence was chosen. endure the daily verbal and written criticism of Xinmin Daily.

Disarmament could not be demanded, and Chiang Kai-shek had no choice but to avail himself of the power of the central government. The small warlords under the warlords are allowed to be organized, and they are divided. At the same time, a large number of party members from the gentry class were recruited and placed in places where there was oil and water, so as to make use of their power and financial resources on the one hand, and at the same time to develop the economy and increase state tax revenue. The problem is that the warlords, big and small, are expanding their armies. Military spending should be spread on the common people. The common people in the Kuomintang area are even more miserable.

However, Chiang Kai-shek's hand was also very powerful, and a group of elites of the gentry class soon gathered around him. Tang Shengzhi, Li Zongren, especially Zhang Xueliang's territory. Some new warlords have risen one after another, and the Northeast Army has also tended to be divided. The warlord melee will make it even more melee, and the central army will have the opportunity to clean up one by one.

Summer grain harvest. Some of the common people in the Hetao area were requisitioned and went to Shaanxi. It mainly opens up the traffic from Hanzhong to Guangyuan.

A group of students from Hubei, Hunan, and Jiangxi came to northern Shaanxi, on the one hand, to lay the foundation for the construction of coal-fired power enterprises and petrochemical enterprises, and on the other hand, a large number of researchers investigated and studied the grassland environment and the planting of trees and grasses in the Mu Us sandy land to control desertification. The construction army also wants to build a green corridor from Yulin to Dongsheng.

Animal husbandry in Hubei has recovered in the past 20 years, and the proportion of the population engaged in agriculture and animal husbandry has increased.

So there are also some herders who follow the communication line north to the grassland, and these herders are also mostly beekeepers. Most herders in Hubei raise goats, because goats eat a lot of food, in addition to grass, they also eat some leaves. So the lines of communication are already enough to feed them.

At first, the Mongols and Muslims were very resistant to these strangers. But the working group in the pastoral area said: You can also move inland along the communication route, and where there is pasture all day long, it is your pasture. You know, pastures are no better than farmland. Pastures belong to the state, and it is not allowed to divide pastures privately, nor is it allowed to build fences to separate pastures.

At the same time, Tong Linge established a cavalry division, half of which was selected from the mounted police and signal troops in Hubei, and with the use of radio, the number of signal troops was greatly reduced. So they added the boys from the pastoral conscripts to create a cavalry division.

This cavalry division is also training in running combat using lines of communication.

"Cavalry, not only fight on the steppe, horses are just your means of transportation. You must be familiar with combat in all conditions, including urban street fighting. "Most of these signal soldiers follow the cadres at the division and regimental level of the unit, and they see a lot, listen a lot, and think a lot. Sun Lianzhong, the commander of the cavalry division, was also learning from them, and although he did not need to be so proficient in individual combat techniques, he was familiar with the tactics of the soldiers of the troops, which a commander must do.

"Cavalry, it's not okay to be able to slash and slash. Because in front of the machine guns of the armored corps, the sharpshooters of the field army, you are the target. They can use a variety of features for concealment. And once we charge, we can only rely on horses and speed to save our lives. So some people say that cavalry is a backward branch of the army. But in fact, this is not the case, it can only be said that simple charging and slashing are backward tactics. And the cavalry is highly mobile and is not limited by terrain and roads, and is able to equip more weapons, because we have our partner, the horse. Therefore, cavalry is destined to be a powerful assault class. ”

Zhang Tiemei is a college of the command department of the Military Academy, and she is a girl born in the military horse farm. She specialized in cavalry tactics and was now a regimental staff officer.

There are many female soldiers in the Hubei army, but there are not many female soldiers fighting on the front line. Zhang Tiemei is counted as one, and she is armed with at least dozens of pounds of equipment on her body. She had all kinds of long and short guns and bazookas, and she had a lot of things on her horses, and even ten throwing knives more than a foot long. And her other two horses came out on horseback with individual tents, rations, and ammunition.

Three horses per man, characteristic of this particular cavalry division.

The shock that this group of Hubei soldiers brought to Sun Lianzhong and the Mongolian men was incomparable. In addition to their excellent physical strength and dazzling tactical movements, their close relationship with the horses is also a major feature.

These horses are of different breeds depending on the need. The horses are tall and fast, but they have little stamina. The pack horse charges slowly, but has good stamina and is able to run for long periods of time. So most of the time, these soldiers are like a wrangler. Fully armed Wrangler. The pack horses are in front, and the war horses are in the back.

Every day, they feed the horses themselves, wash their bodies, and play with them. They don't treat horses as animals, but as real companions.

At first, the Mongols were not convinced, and wanted to wrestle with these soldiers. But others don't compare with you at all, and they just come up and knock you down. One punch and one kick, the movement is not big but the power is great. And they are familiar with the body structure such as the musculoskeletal body of any person and animal. It's easy to take down a horse empty-handed. Not to mention people who have not been systematically trained.

The cavalry division also attracted these northerners to want to go to the south.

What they don't know is that half of the people they go out will stay in the south because of the prosperity of the south. Most of the southerners who came to the grassland did not leave, and they had to complete the task of transforming the grassland.

Zhang Chun was also on the grassland, leading two ponies given to him by the New People's Army Horse Farm.

Behind him was a platoon of cavalry and a herd of horses for a survey team.

The survey team didn't have as many weapons as the cavalry, but there were quite a few, they just didn't have heavy weapons like bazookas. And there are more daggers and some knives on his body.

There is always a time when bullets run out, but knives don't. Those who were able to enter the grassland investigation team were all three-star students. This is to take into account the fact that wolves will be encountered on the steppe.

"The ecology of the grassland is better than that of the farming area. This generation of pastoralists and livestock will evolve very quickly. The Mu Us Sandy Land is actually the result of over-farming, which is too homogeneous and seriously disrupts the species balance. The leader of the investigation team introduced.

In the Ordos grassland, there are still some sparse woods in this era. Especially in low-lying places where there is water.

The investigation team was accompanied by several tamed wolves, which were actually hybrids of wolves and dogs. Ever since Xinmin's children started raising wolves, this has become the norm.

However, these tamed wolves have been selected and have large and robust physiques.

"The herders fight wolves and other animals very hard. This results in pastures with only a few species. There are not many wild animals. This is also the reason for the degradation of vegetation and grasslands. Some woods and low-lying lands we are ready to restore as forests. As the number of herders decreases, the population of wild animals increases. The number of carnivorous animals is too small, and we are ready to introduce a batch. At the same time, hunting teams were formed. The main thing is to maintain the balance of biological populations. Pastoralism will still exist, but on a smaller scale. ”

"The trees will recover quickly. Have you considered proper farming? ”

"In the future, agriculture will be concentrated in areas with water, and it is better to cultivate intensively than to plant widely and harvest thinly. However, it should be after the forests and species have recovered to a certain number. In fact, no matter what the place is, there should be an appropriate proportion of agriculture, forestry, animal husbandry and sideline fishery. In the south, there needs to be an increase in the establishment of pastures near communication lines and on some low, unsuitable hills. After the nationalization of land, no enclosures were allowed in these areas, which facilitated the movement of herders throughout the region. The migration of animals is very beneficial for the spread and evolution of biological populations. In order to break the north-south boundary, the pastures around the communication line will play a key role. You can't cultivate farmland everywhere. I feel that Hubei has some shortcomings in restoring all forests, forest fires are the inevitable result of nature's forest regeneration, although we intervened, delayed the natural regeneration of forests, but one day it will happen, it is a disaster, forests and grasslands should be rationally allocated, conducive to arson, but also conducive to the exchange of regional species, increase species diversity. After all, people and animals will unconsciously spread some species. ”

The leader of the investigation team was a young lecturer.

In the distance, a cavalry regiment appeared on the steppe. Tens of thousands of horses galloped, very spectacular. (To be continued......)