Chapter 4: The Hundred Days of Founding the Army
Wang Guorui returned to the magistrate's yamen in Hsinchu County, found his master, and announced an order.
"Master, in view of the fact that the connection between Taiwan and the mainland has now been cut off, the Japanese Japanese can land and invade our Taiwan at any time. Taiwan is now in danger at any time, and if the Japanese Japanese invaders are allowed to land in Taiwan, I am afraid that the final outcome of our people will also be very miserable. So I decided to form the Taiwan Garrison Volunteer Army, and then immediately start training, ready to resist the Japanese invasion at any time, how about it? As court officials, we naturally have the duty to guard the country, if we lose the land, how can we face the people and the country? Wang Guorui said.
The master immediately replied, "Since the adults have this idea, then we naturally have to help the adults." Moreover, Taiwan has now lost contact with the mainland, and not long ago, Taiwan's governor Tang Jingsong also ordered all localities to form troops as appropriate to be ready to resist the invasion of Japanese pirates. Although the main force of the Japanese Japanese is in Liaodong, we also have to guard against it! We don't have a navy army in the Qing Dynasty anymore, so it's all up to us. The formation of a volunteer army at this time is a good thing to conform to the general trend of the people! However, how to get the ordnance and weapons and equipment is a very headache. Taiwan does not have much armament in the first place, and firearms are even more scarce. At this time, Taiwan has lost the channel to contact the mainland, so there is no way to buy it if you want to! With these big blades alone, how can they be the opponents of those Japanese pirates! ”
Now Taiwan is also in danger, so everyone in Taiwan will be concerned about their own fate. After all, Taiwan is isolated overseas, and it has almost lost contact with the mainland, so everyone is even more sensitive. Therefore, people on the island of Taiwan are panicking, and everyone is afraid that the Japanese army will send troops to land in Taiwan, which is really very miserable. Whether or not Taiwan can hold on to it is certainly an issue of concern to everyone. At this time, the expansion of the army will not only not be subject to suspicion, but will be able to be a patriotic expression.
"I'll figure out the matter of ordnance and pay, you hurry up and prepare it for me now, and then start recruiting soldiers. As soon as we had recruited the soldiers, we began to organize training. As for the head of soldier training, we also have ideas and preparations, you don't have to worry. Within 100 days, a volunteer army must be formed. This volunteer army will be the foundation for us to defend Taiwan, if the army's combat effectiveness is not good, then who knows if the Japanese army will have the ability to resist when it attacks! You should also know the ferocity of the Japanese army. If these gangs come, then our people will definitely face the result of being slaves of the country. Wang Guorui said.
"My lord, isn't a hundred days too nervous? One hundred days, that is, only ordinary training can be completed. Master asked.
Building an army in 100 days was simply not possible in ancient times. Because the preparation of ordnance alone requires a lot. Moreover, the training of soldiers should take at least two months, otherwise it will not be possible to train at all. Therefore, the master was also very surprised, Wang Guorui actually wanted to build an army within a hundred days, which was a very difficult task.
"Don't be nervous, you have to do it! The Japanese will attack at any time, and if we don't prepare, I'm afraid we will all be slaves to the country! We can also get the soldiers to train more intensively, train for a few more hours a day, and make sure to get the time back. I'd rather be a ghost who died in battle than a slave who died in the country! Wang Guorui gritted his teeth and said.
And this master also feels that Wang Guorui is different, the original Wang Guorui is just a very lazy son, but now his temperament has changed greatly, and he has become a person who loves the country and the people. And now Wang Guorui is full of enthusiasm, and he is not the original person who heard about the arrival of the Japanese army and was so frightened that he didn't dare to take charge at all. The master doesn't know why there is this reason, since this Wang Guorui suddenly fainted a few days ago, he has become very worried about the country and the people when he woke up, and he is no longer the one who came to be an official for the so-called money.
Soon, under Wang Guorui's orders, the master soon issued an order and began to recruit volunteers. At this time, many people in Taiwan began to form militia groups, and various armies also began to expand, so as to resist the Japanese invasion. As for how much combat effectiveness these militia groups and the so-called green battalions can have, this is actually very worthy of scrutiny. Even if it is Liu Yongfu's Black Flag Army, although they have blood and courage, they are probably not opponents under the rain of bullets and bullets of the Japanese army.
So Wang Guorui knew that these people were unreliable, and they all had to rely on themselves. And Wang Guorui must build an army with a sufficient level of training within a hundred days, otherwise he will not be able to resist the Japanese army at all. And Wang Guorui plans to select some soldiers from the real natural people, and the natural people in the army must account for the vast majority in the future. There is no way to do this, because who made Wang Guorui's Red Police Base unable to produce capacity, and Wang Guorui's resource collection level is not enough for him to use all the Red Police Forces!
According to Wang Guorui's speculation, in order to drive the Japanese out of Taiwan, there must be more than 15,000 people and be equipped with sufficiently advanced weapons. The 15,000 soldiers, plus their necessary equipment, must have 300,000 yuan if all of them are produced by the Red Police base. However, this Red Alert mining truck can only earn 1,250 yuan every six hours, and it must theoretically take 600 days to make up for this money. But now Wang Guorui has no time, if he had waited for 600 days, Taiwan would have fallen long ago.
What's more, these soldiers can't all be ordinary infantry, they must also have some machine gunners and some artillery. If there were no such soldiers, how could they defeat the kind of Japanese army with all kinds of arms? And these machine guns and cannons are even more expensive. A cannon costs more than 1,100 yuan, which is almost the income of a mining vehicle at one time. And more than a thousand yuan is also the price of a dozen soldiers. So now there is only half a year left, and the collection speed of the mining vehicle will definitely not be able to keep up with Wang Guorui's needs.
That Wang Guorui also adopted another method, recruiting soldiers directly from natural persons. If a soldier is recruited from a natural person, he only needs to bear a salary of a few silver dollars a month, which is less than fifty silver dollars a year. Although they are not like those soldiers who can be completely loyal to them at once, the advantage is that they will not let Wang Guorui consume too much wealth at once. What Wang Guorui lacks most now is time, and saving the wealth of the red police system is saving time, and the wealth of the red police system can be used in more important places.
In addition, if it has been relying on the red alert system in the future, what hope does the country have? Therefore, Wang Guorui must beware of the fact that one day the red alarm system disappears, and the army that can only rely on natural people in this time and space to maintain national security, so it is necessary to let natural people form an army, so that China can continue to be strong.
"It has been less than 180 days since the Japanese army landed in Taiwan. And the quasi-work of all kinds of things, as well as the preparation of all kinds of resistance, the time is still very tight. Forming an army in a hundred days, it would simply not be possible if there was no Red Alert base. When the time comes, the 5,000 Red Guard Army will be used as the backbone, and then an army division of about 15,000 people will be formed, so that it can completely resist a Japanese division. ”
Wang Guorui was familiar with the history of the Japanese army on May 29, 1895, and the official surrender of Taiwan to the Manchu negotiator Li Ching-fang on June 2. Although Taiwan experienced heroic and unyielding resistance, it was ultimately defeated under the attack of the Japanese army's absolute superiority. This is not that Taiwan's military and civilians are not heroic enough, but that the actual conditions are completely incomparable, which allows the Japanese army to occupy Taiwan.
When the Japanese army took over Taiwan, it dispatched a whole division, and it was also known as the most elite army guard division in the Japanese army. The 15,000 army is actually very small, and it is still a little stretched to resist Japan. At present, there are too few troops in Taiwan that can fight, and there are not enough advanced weapons, so it is impossible to resist the Japanese army. And as the resistance deepened, the Japanese army finally mobilized more troops to attack Taiwan. In order to eliminate the resistance forces in Taiwan, the Japanese army dispatched more than 100,000 troops to attack, which was almost comparable to the number of Japanese troops dispatched during the First Sino-Japanese War at that time.
However, the price paid by the Japanese army was not low, and the division commander of a royal family's Guards Division was also killed. In the process of Taiwan's military and civilian resistance against Japan, the Japanese army was killed 4,800 people and wounded more than 20,000 people.
And Wang Guorui came to this world, not only to inflict heavy losses on the Japanese army, but also to drive the Japanese army away, and occupy Taiwan, so that Taiwan became the foundation of his own beginning.
With such a powerful enemy, even if this Wang Guorui has a red alert system, he can't guarantee that he will definitely win. After all, the time is too short, if the Japanese army can land later, then I am afraid that Wang Guorui can prepare more, and the probability of success is higher. However, the Japanese army has less than 180 days, and Wang Guorui can only overestimate this kind of war as much as possible, and definitely cannot underestimate it slightly. Therefore, Wang Guorui must train into an army within a hundred days, otherwise he will not be able to defend against the attack of the Japanese army at all.