Monday, September 22, 1625. Portuguese territory, Terceira of the Azores, Porterto Sangra, US Concession.

The entire U.S. Concession has expanded much more than in previous years, and the entire coastal area west of Angra Sangra has been encircled by the U.S. Concession, with a total area of more than 10,000 acres, and even an independent small port has been built in a small bay southwest of the U.S. Concession.

Baron Lapocon, the new governor of the Azores, who has been in office for a few months, is even more "excessive" than the previous governor Garcia, and not only is the newly revised concession agreement more "humiliating and humiliating" than Garcia's, but also allows the US concession to collect the cargo tax from the ports of the US concession on its own. Privately, however, Lapocon receives 5 percent of the monthly cargo tax at the ports of the U.S. Concession.

In the past few years, not only has it had extraterritoriality, but now it has even obtained a part of the right to tax on trade, and the entire American concession on Terceira Island has become like a country within a country, and a Chinese and American Army infantry company is directly stationed in it. There are more than 1,500 Europeans living and working in the concession for a long time, and the local population of Porterto Sangra is just over 3,000.

There are now as many as 4,000 European refugees who reach the U.S. Concession by sea each year, mostly hungry people from Ireland, Scotland, the Netherlands, Germany, Scandinavia and the Italian peninsula. Contrary to the 17th-century Europeans' impatient adventure to the New World in North America, being able to obtain a ticket and visa to China and the United States is almost a dream of reality that is infinitely close to the Garden of Eden. But the cruel thing is that the number of people who are fortunate enough to be able to pass the guò review and obtain Chinese and American immigrant visas is only more than half of this number, and most of them are relatively complete families or skilled craftsmen.

A significant portion of the refugees who failed to make the cut were working part-time jobs in Port Sansjorísmo or the American Concession, where thriving trade provided enough jobs to feed them. Once they have made enough money, they will be displaced to the rest of Europe. A small number simply entered the American Concession and became long-term laborers in various factories run by the local Chinese and American countries in the Azores. And intends to live in this safe and comfortable place for a long time. I really can't find a job. At least one ration a day at the camp shelter. This kind of happiness away from war and chaos is not something that can be found anywhere.

The method of being able to sneak into the U.S. Consulate General in China at the right time to give birth to a child and thus obtain the status of a U.S. citizen in China has been strictly controlled, much to the disappointment of many refugee families who have been wandering around the U.S. Concession for a year or two. But fortunately, there are more job opportunities here, so I have the attitude of being at ease. but also lived peacefully.

Today, a new factory has appeared in the American Concession of the Azores, which is said to be a black powder factory run by a chemical company in China and the United States. Such a dangerous and low-tech processing plant was created specifically for the present war in Europe. The ability to obtain raw materials and cheap manpower for production in the vicinity seems to a capitalist to have little reason to put them in China.

Almost as soon as the recruitment banner of the Black Powder Factory was erected, countless refugees stranded in the American Concession were waiting for a job, and even the local residents of Porterto Sangra were a little ready to move. As the local economy continues to prosper, so does the rise in prices, and the monthly wage at the Huamei factory has climbed to $7. But only here can you buy a limited number of "cheap" specialty goods that are exported from China to Europe.

Unfortunately, the tiny black powder factory only employs 50 men and women this time, much to the disappointment of thousands of European refugees stranded in the Azores this year. The refugee men and women who were lucky enough to be selected were excited to draw crosses one after another. Or they hurried to the refugee camp where they had temporarily stayed, intending to tell the good news to their families.

On the north side of the concession, on the edge of the mountain forest. In a newly opened temporary refugee camp, there is also a manpower recruitment site. But compared to the black powder factory just across the hillside, the atmosphere here is obviously much stricter.

A small Chinese sergeant of the Chinese American Army walked in the wide camp with his head held high, his eyes swept over the young Europeans who stood crookedly in an ugly phalanx, and behind his numb expression, there was a hint of pride.

Yu Shan "showed an excellent performance" in the battle to save the special combat team more than 50 days ago, and after sticking to the sniper position with Qiao Yan, Sergeant Major Makarov and others without hesitation, he almost used his hands to dig out the seriously injured Lieutenant Scott and others from the hellish battlefield after the naval artillery covered it.

Afterwards, Sergeant Major Makarov, who had been on a trip to the Ghost Gate, no longer regarded Yu Shan as the biggest scourge of idiocy in the company, and the report he submitted from his hospital bed was full of praise, which also made Yu Shan get his wish and be promoted to army sergeant when he returned to his homeland in early September. After more than 10 days of rest, Yu Shan was once again given the important task of being sent to the American Concession in the Azores to be responsible for the recruitment and training of recruits for the Army Command's formal establishment of the "Sino-American Foreign Legion."

"Think about it, what are you going to say?" Walking in front of a group of young European refugees with yellow and thin faces and numb expressions, Yu Shan proudly held the whip behind his back, and kept looking at several European employees who were responsible for working as translators around him, with a cool expression on his face, "You guys are so lucky!" It has to do with your guts, you know? ”

As soon as the voice fell, several European employees hurriedly repeated the translation of Yu Shan's words, but no matter how well prepared the American Concession was, it was impossible to have translators who could speak all European languages at the same time, so they could only select German, French, Norwegian, Dutch, Italian and other major European language translators based on the main composition of refugees.

Good luck?! Except for some young men who had been mercenaries before, more men all smiled wryly. Who would have come to the Azores if it weren't for the scourge of natural disasters and wars?

"Starting today, my colleagues and I are going to pick 300 people from among you and go and enjoy a good life!" Yu Shan's speech was very unlevel, but the left sentence of good luck and the right sentence of good life made the young faces of many European refugees gradually ruddy.

"Want to immigrate? Want to get rich? Do you want your wife and children to eat every day? Want to own a farm that is truly your own? All of this can be done, and it's very simple, just join our Army Foreign Legion and you can make the whole family eat and drink! I can assure you that you will receive a lot more military pay than you can imagine in your life! ”

Yu Shan continued to say these words triumphantly, these words were taught by Sergeant Major Makarov from his hospital bed before leaving, and they were said to have a great temptation for European hillbillies. Really. As soon as this remark came out. Many of the refugees had their eyes shining. In particular, several sturdy former mercenaries were full of anticipation.

"A bunch of shit guys, why should they get a higher salary than me......" At this point, Yu Shan couldn't help but muttered to himself.

"But. This qiē will not be satisfied until you have completed your service period! When Yu Shan thought of the treatment system formulated by the Army Command, which was completely different from that of the active Wehrmacht, he felt that it was very unfair. However, with his simple mind and thinking, he could not understand the evil thoughts of those leaders in the country.

Unlike the Wehrmacht's generous treatment and high death pensions and retirement benefits, except for officers. Soldiers of the Foreign Legion usually receive only 20% of the monthly salary of the Wehrmacht, and there is no death pension! But as long as you complete the entire period of your military service contract alive, you will receive a retirement bonus of 30 to 50 percent that exceeds the standard of the Wehrmacht's death pension! Those who retire early due to a non-curable disability will also receive disability benefits according to the length of service.

It is said that this treatment was "carefully calculated" by the Ministry of Defense. In the case of a private-class F-FDTL soldier, for example, the rates for a death benefit and disability benefit are $1,000 and $500, respectively. According to the calculations of the past and future wars, the average annual mortality and disability rate of a light infantry company with a standard establishment of 105 personnel is as high as 10 percent, and almost more than 50 percent of the soldiers will have to be replaced several times after the five-year military service period, not including the retirement pension that is not less than the pension. In the end, the total payout will scare the individual to death.

In exchange for the special treatment of the Foreign Legion, they can enjoy a better monthly salary than the Wehrmacht officers. However, no more than 40 per cent of the soldiers will survive five years with their limbs intact and without worry, and even if all the bonuses are paid at the rate of a maximum of 150 per cent of the death pension, the total expenditure will be much lower than that of the Wehrmacht.

To put it simply, the Wehrmacht is blessed with the dead and injured and his family, and the Foreign Legion is happy with his own survival, and the treatment is ultimately visible!

“…… You can choose between a 5-year or 10-year military service contract. If you choose a 5-year contract, your wife and children can only stay here. If they choose 10 years, they can go to live in China and the United States. However, your visas and theirs can only be labor visas. Yu Shan continued to talk eloquently, and memorized the content of the commanders' explanations word for word, "No matter which one it is, when you retire beautifully, you can choose whether to take money or get the right to settle." But now, you must first volunteer to join, and then undergo a physical examination and a Q&A test, and those with stupid brains please take the initiative to give up! ”

After speaking, Yu Shan pointed to the recruit physical examination and registration area in the distance behind him, and showed a harmless smile.

"Great, my wife and I have 4 children, they are all very capable people, I choose 10 years! I used to be the best spearman in the Oldenburg garrison! A German man, about 30 years old, was the first to shout, and everyone around him cast disdainful glances.

"Hey, so what are you waiting for, why not start now? I'm the smartest in the family, I'll choose 5 years! A shrill voice came out of the crowd again, and it seemed to be a young man from Italy.

There was a surge in the crowd, Yu Shan couldn't help but take a step back slightly, these people were simply too enthusiastic! Who said that a good man is not a soldier, and a good iron is not nailed? These Tessipani are really sharpened and want to join the Foreign Legion!

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In the prison mine located nearly 60 kilometers north of the city of Mancheng, on the east bank of the Song River, in the later town of Osining, groups of hard laborers are dragging their tired bodies, wielding various mining tools and hammering on the ore body, and then carrying almost the same weight of ore as their own weight, pestle and wooden sticks to the designated storage area.

Every day, hundreds of tonnes of copper, lead, zinc and silver ore are mined in a semi-primitive way by manpower, and then crushed and processed before being sent down the waterway to the new industrial park in the outer islands of Mancheng, where they are finally processed and smelted into copper, lead, zinc and silver ingots, which are urgently needed for the country's industrial development.

The lack of manpower and the difficulty of mining the veins of this project, which was originally promoted by Congress and the government, were the "main culprits" of the northern campaign that directly led to the previous year. Not only is there more than 500 prisoners of war from various Indian tribes serving here, but it is also an excellent place to intern more than 500 European pirates that the Chinese and American navies have captured from the Atlantic Ocean in the past two years. In the past two years, hundreds of European immigrants who have been deprived of their right to settle for crimes such as theft and assault have also been assigned to serve prison sentences here.

Domestic white bread, rice, ham, fruits, fish and shrimp, and fine wine are like paradise, but here. The variety of food is not only monotonous and coarse. The supply is even more stingy. In accordance with the rules of the prison. Only the top 10 criminals in terms of daily mining volume will receive the equivalent of half-full food, and the bottom 10 will only get a small amount of food. In order to obtain food that can sustain one's life. The miners worked tirelessly every day, and even if the police didn't whip themselves, they couldn't get through the terrible feeling of starvation.

Any strong pirate can stay here for a month. You'll completely regret how you chose the pirate profession in the first place. And the criminals who finally obtained the immigration qualification and finally did not cherish it are even more repentant.

Almost every week, slave miners are carried away from the area due to overwork or accidental death. Criminals with immigration status are better, non-single people will have family members crying to collect the body, and single people will be buried in the convict cemetery outside the prison, and there is a tombstone. The pirates or Indian prisoners of war had to be hastily thrown into a large pit and buried.

In order to conserve manpower, the mine managers had to make some changes, adding a small amount of food rations one day a week, depending on the overall output of the mine. This benevolent but conditional provision. This made the slaves work harder.

Thousands of prisoners of war or convicts live in the darkness of day-to-day servitude, not knowing when they will be able to get out. I don't know when I'm going to die.

In this way, the prison mine, jointly invested by the state-owned energy and mining group and the North Industries Corporation, has become a well-known "scenic spot" known to a small number of people in China, and it is also an important mine that domestic capitalists have repeatedly called for to expand production capacity. But to the vast majority of ordinary citizens, such a place is only an inconspicuous little spot on the map, and almost no ordinary citizen can disembark at this mine dock, except for the transport ships that specialize in transporting ore and supplies.

But today, a special group of people came to the mine on a navy patrol ship, led by several army officers, and at the head of it was You Nanzhe, who had just finished his combat mission from Guadeloupe at the beginning of the month, was promoted to major, and returned to China to recuperate.

At the whistle of the police overseer, the slave miners throughout the mine gave up their work, and the few Mohok prisoners of war, who were still nervously clinging to their mining tools and refused to let go, were driven out of the mine with whips.

Thousands of dirty, thin, ragged prisoners of war criminals filled a corner of the mine, looking in horror at the dozens of armed army soldiers and the cool major, many of whom were so frightened that they peed their pants.

"In whatever way or for any reason, you have fought against this noble civilized nation, so you will spend the rest of your lives paying for the sins you owe." In front of him, there were piles of miners who were more savages than savages, and the smell of feces, urine and musty smell made You Nanzhe couldn't help frowning, "But in my opinion, maybe you won't be able to pay it off until you die, so your fate is completely made by yourself." ”

"But you are lucky, because at least you are not directly sentenced to hanging, but out of humanitarianism, you can still live here with your own hands until you give up ......"

You Nanzhe's indifferent and sensational speech once again set off a wind of despair among the tired miners, and many young pirates let out a slight cry.

"But now, the state will once again give you a chance to be a new person, just one chance. We will voluntarily select 50 criminals who are determined to change their minds and join the glorious Army of the American Republic of China as members of the Foreign Legion. There, you can enjoy the same treatment, enjoy the life of a normal person, and enjoy a high salary. The service period is 5 years and 10 years, choose 5 years, and your qiē will be written off! Those who choose 10 years, along with your families, can become a part of this country and become a heroic veteran to be admired. ”

Just when many criminals had bowed their heads and accepted their fate, a voice no less than God's voice suddenly came, and many pirates suddenly raised their heads, showing hungry and thirsty expressions like wild beasts, and the eyes of the former immigrants who had been sentenced to serve for heavy crimes were also brightened. But the Mohok prisoners of war, who had been sent here two years earlier, had demented expressions. It seems that what these former enemies say means nothing to themselves.

"Alright. Give everyone an evening to think about it. Tomorrow the police will register volunteers and be screened. Remember, there are only 50 slots! After speaking, You Nanzhe turned around and left.

The back of the army officer disappeared. Most of the Mohok prisoners of war in the mines were silent, but the pirates and convicts erupted in cheers, and many were eager to try, this time. Their clamor was not subjected to the whipping of the police. There are 50 places, and only 50 people can leave this hopeless hell and live a rich and free life, even if it is to become a soldier!

"They will become the most qualified cannon fodder, and even the most worthy military men of the country, who knows?" You Nanzhe, who re-boarded the Navy patrol ship to return home, couldn't help muttering.

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Guadeloupe's rainy season is coming to an end, and with an overwhelming storm of naval gunfire, the remaining Caribbean indigenous young men in the northern part of the East Island have suffered heavy losses and completely lost the ability to continue fighting. Resistance has been minimal.

In that decisive battle, Lieutenant Scott's troops attracted as many enemies as possible with great self-sacrifice. Until the bayonet hand-to-hand combat, and finally adopted the fearless bloody tactic of "shoot at me". Perhaps this was a helpless choice in itself, but of the 21 Army officers and soldiers who followed Scott at the time, only three survived: Sergeant Major Makarov, Sergeant Qiao Shi, and Corporal Yu Shan.

Qiao Yan, who has been low-key for a long time, is bent on death in the "love field" behind his back, and is still sleeping in the hospital, will not mention it, and the fierce and abnormal Bayonet Major Makarov is even more of a small force, and he was actually stabbed in 5 holes with a spear and has not died, and it is said that there are at least 4 Carib corpses removed from his body. And Yu Shan was as lucky as shit and was unharmed, and now he is leisurely hanging the rank of sergeant in the American Concession of the Azores.

With the help of a tragic search and rescue victory, and then the commander-in-chief, Major Feng Bin, and the staff officer, Captain You Nanzhe, took advantage of the situation to expand the results of the battle, and by the end of last month, the entire East Island could no longer hear the gunshots, and the goal of the East Island Clearance Operation was finally achieved after nine months, but the losses were also huge.

In these nine months, the Chinese and US Army paid a heavy price of 325 sick, wounded, killed, and missing, accounting for almost one-third of the combat strength, including 124 soldiers killed and 32 severely disabled, and the total number of killed and disabled was almost three times that of the Northern Campaign the year before. Especially in the search and rescue of Captain Zhu Xiaoli, 25 non-commissioned officers or veterans with great combat experience were hung up at one time.

But the results were also huge, as many as 6,000 Caribbean indigenous men and women living on the East Island were eliminated during the entire East Island Clean-up Operation, of which more than a third were killed, and most of the rest were sent to various mines on the mainland as prisoners of war, and the young women were divided among the North American Indian tribes who belonged to them. The natives who tried to infiltrate the East Island by canoe from the West Island were also caught and overturned by the Navy patrol boats again and again, and they could only honestly hide back to the West Island and sit and wait for death. The twin ports of Guadeloupe have finally been given a stable environment for development.

The summary report of the operation, which was published at the end of August, as always, made more complaints about the current weaponry than it did at the end of the Northern Campaign. The "primitive backwardness" of the Type 22A breech single-loading rifle and the series of weapons and ammunition represented by paper shell bullets, as well as the poor performance in the rainy season, made the army command deeply hated from the beginning of the Northern Campaign.

When it comes to the processing of copper straight-barrel ammunition and the mass production technology of safety primer, it has not yet reached practicability, and these demands of the Army Command really make the engineers of General Industries and North Industries break out in a cold sweat. At present, even paper-shell ammunition is semi-artificially produced, and the cost of large-scale procurement is difficult to reduce much, and then it is necessary to forcibly equip weapons with metal ammunition, and regardless of whether the quality and safety can be guaranteed, just the production cost, it is estimated that the army headquarters can all take off their pants and run naked.

In addition to pledging to step up the promotion of relevant military technology, the two major military industrial enterprises have also pledged to continue to intensify efforts to improve the operational and logistical support performance of the current army's standard weapons in the rainy season.

Subsequently, the operational summary report also put forward more core and valuable opinions on the issue of the army's troop strength at the present stage.

Due to the limitation of total manpower in China, the scale of the Chinese and US Army has always been in a very tangled state. This elite national defense army must not only undertake foreign military expansion, but also be responsible for the daily garrison of domestic cities and towns, and even emergency rescue and disaster relief must also be on top. According to the view of the posterity. Isn't this the people's soldier of the national defense force supposed to do this? But in later generations, there were millions of active-duty soldiers. And what can be compared with today's China-American pocket army?

Operation Higashijima. It was the result of the in-depth cooperation of the army and navy fighting in the island and the tropical rainforest, and the result of the harsh tactical targeting, the elite army of the United States, which had absolute technological superiority in this era, had to be consumed in jungle warfare like the natives, which was really a bad idea that made people feel indignant. It will be necessary to endure so many more terrible casualties of troops. It is estimated that Army Major General Chen Liwen will be the first to have a nervous breakdown.

The troops will have to rest until the beginning of next spring, when the purge of the western island will begin again, and possibly other surrounding islands will be included thereafter. This is because Spain has "transferred" all the islands of the Lesser Antilles to China and the United States, with the exception of Trinidad and Tobago.

With the exception of St. Kitts and Barbados, which had already been eaten by England, these islands are now invariably lost to the sovereignty monument by naval warships. Even if there is no rush to develop in the next few years. The domestic capitalists' demand for prisoner of war labor will probably also use a number of congressional mouths to drive the army into battle, and the layout and construction of a number of new colonized towns in North America have been included in the government plan, and the army will be occupied even more.

It is obviously unlikely that the army will continue to be expanded on the mainland, but the needs of all parties are approaching a critical point. At the operational summary and report meeting, Lieutenant Colonel He Yu, who has been transferred to the chief of staff of the army, proposed the establishment of a foreign legion. According to his idea, the vast majority of the soldiers in this unit under the Army Command, except for officers and some mid- and high-ranking non-commissioned officers, would be recruited from foreign refugees who were not eligible to enter the United States because of the strict restrictions on the number of immigrants.

The Foreign Legion will be directly organized as a brigade-level combat unit and play the role of a vanguard in foreign military operations. The brigade is composed of three light infantry battalions, one brigade-affiliated combat engineer company, and one brigade-affiliated fire support company. and a number of support units, with a total strength of more than 1,300 people.

Initially, a light infantry battalion will be formed first. After the beginning of the spring of 1626, they were also engaged in the purge operation on the west island of Guadeloupe, in order to "train and train" a group of qualified non-commissioned officers, and then expand the army on this basis, and the time for the completion of the whole brigade was set for 1627.

The Regulations on the Organization and Military of the Foreign Legion provide:

First, convicts deprived of their national residency rights in the United States of China, as well as adult men of non-Chinese American nationality, may voluntarily apply for membership and be admitted on a merit-based basis.

Second, all soldiers and their dependents and children are automatically eligible for a labor visa.

Third, there are two types of military service contracts: 5 years and 10 years, and they can receive retirement bonuses when they retire. A 5-year retirement qualifies for permanent residency and a 10-year retirement qualifies for permanent residency.

Fourth, during the period of military service, those who become officers of the rank of lieutenant are automatically transferred to the right of permanent residence, and those who become officers of the rank of colonel are transferred to the right of permanent residence.

Fifth, during the period of the military service contract, the soldier's salary will be slightly higher than that of the active Wehrmacht, and the wartime allowance will be the same as that of the Wehrmacht; In the event of a death during the period of military service, the children of their families may be transferred to the right of official residence. Those who have received three consecutive excellent evaluations in the combat table can be qualified for promotion as a non-commissioned officer or officer.

6. Violations of military regulations during the period of military service contracts shall be dealt with in accordance with domestic military law. If the cumulative record reaches three times, the contract will be terminated and the compensation will be doubled according to the retirement pension. Those who are unable to repay shall be subject to compulsory labour for twice the length of the contract period.

VII. At all times, the soldier must be unconditionally loyal to the Legion; Regardless of any battle order, the soldier must obey unconditionally.

8. Wounded or killed comrades must not be abandoned for any reason; At no time should you surrender voluntarily.

9. Except for inquiries from the commander-in-chief at or above the battalion level of the unit to which they belong, no one else is allowed to inquire about the past experiences of the officers and men of the Foreign Legion, and the officers and men of the Legion have the right to refuse to answer in the face of similar inquiries.

10. The oath of the Foreign Legion: The legion is the country, and the legion is the family!

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There are dozens of regulations on the organization and management of the Foreign Legion, including detailed rules such as those related to training and operational command, which is almost all the details that He Yu can think of. No matter how you look at it, this will be a high-level cannon fodder unit, and it will also be a death squad with a very high desire to fight and financial interests!

In the face of the construction of the Foreign Legion submitted by his subordinates, Army Commander Major General Chen Liwen gasped, this is completely a nationalized foreign mercenary, and it is also a complete version of robbing homes. Think about it left and right, though. The cost of such a comprehensive use is much lower than that of the active national defense army. It is also a strategic force and vanguard that can be mobilized in a timely and flexible manner. It is simply tailor-made for the United States, which is now thinly staffed, and it can also be said to be able to train the Wehrmacht in high-intensity battles through the rotation of officers and joint operations.

It was first discussed within the Army Command. Almost all the officers agreed. Looking at the Navy's ambitious expansion plans for the next few years, what Army officer would oppose the addition of more Army combat units? All of them regard themselves as "Han Xin's soldiers, the more the merrier".

After collating a formal result, the opinion report is submitted to the Ministry of Defence. Then a more detailed argument was made in the cabinet of the government. Regarding the Army Command's consideration of "worrying about the country and the people," Premier Qi Jianjun was undecided. If such a unit is well managed, it will naturally be possible to solve the problem of insufficient strength of the army at present, but with the changes in the world situation, it will not only need a brigade of foreign legions in the future, will it be necessary to continue to expand this kind of army unit in the future to deal with it? I'm afraid that one day, such an army unit with "the legion as its home" will be overpowered! If it is submitted to the National Assembly for consideration, I am afraid that countless lawmakers will question whether the Army Command has warlord tendencies.

In addition to curing the symptoms, we must also address the root causes of the problem of national army building. It's not impossible for a simple emergency Foreign Legion to plagiarize historical classics. But it will not be enough to solve the country's military needs in the next 20 years, after all, there is an even more intractable "historical problem in the Far East" looming day by day.

The Prime Minister's concerns are naturally more thoughtful than those of the Army Commander, who is in a hurry to expand the army, but he can't just choke on food, right? Chen Liwen has never received a clear reply from the government, and is so anxious that he runs to the Ministry of National Defense almost twice in three days.

As the parent officer of the army, Defense Minister Zheng Quan is also worried in his heart. However, this problem finally found a breakthrough on the first day of September. That night, Zheng Quan went home and talked to his wife, Liu Lanxi, the minister of police, about this matter, and after some pondering, he thought of the establishment of the national guard of a certain world police country in the future, which could be adapted to the current national needs as long as it was slightly improved.

This paramilitary force, which is subordinate to the local government, will be subject to compulsory military service, which will be performed by all male citizens who have reached the age of 18 and have passed the medical examination, and the period of service will be only one and a half years, of which half will be the training of new soldiers, and after a few years, a considerable number of reserves will be available in the civilian population. The National Defense Force, on the other hand, will continue to maintain a professional volunteer military service system, and some soldiers will be recruited from among these retired National Guard soldiers. In the event of a heavy war, according to the existing "National Defense and Military Service Law", all of them can be conscripted into active duty troops, and all of them have mature military skills, and they can directly pull into the battlefield!

Amending the "National Defense and Military Service Law" and establishing a national militia reserve unit to replace the army on active duty to be responsible for the defense of various cities and towns will not only liberate the army strength as much as possible, but will also reduce the pressure on the national defense budget of the state central authorities considerably because it is financed by local governments. In peacetime, the soldiers are hidden in the people, and in wartime, all the people are soldiers! This idea made Zheng Quan suddenly open his mouth, so that the army construction will be more stable, and there will be no need to blindly rely on the double-edged sword of the Foreign Legion, which may produce hidden dangers.

Zheng Quan didn't even want to sleep anymore, so he went directly to the study and worked hard to write.

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In early September, Premier Qi Jianjun and Defense Minister Zheng Quan submitted to the National Assembly proposals for the formation of the Foreign Legion and the amendment of the National Service Law to establish a national militia reserve force.

The former can solve the problems of lack of land military strength and high pressure on military spending in the early days of the founding of the People's Republic of China, while the latter is an effective supplement to the country's long-term military strategic security. Some of Congression's concerns coincide with Qi Jianjun's, but for now, as long as the Army can develop healthily, it is not a bad idea to tolerate a high-level cannon fodder force now.

Although the organization of the Foreign Legion was approved, the size of the brigade with a total strength of no more than 1,500 men became a dead limit. Except for combat, the Foreign Legion can only be stationed in overseas territories during non-emergency situations, and there is no possibility of transferring the mainland in peacetime, and the right to transfer in wartime belongs to the government cabinet. Whether it is a day-to-day exercise or a wartime transfer, it is delegated to the command of the Army Command by the Cabinet of Ministers.

In addition, officers of the Foreign Legion must be uniformly arranged by the Army Command, including officers who have been promoted from the Foreign Legion, and no officer has served in the Foreign Legion for more than five years in total, and must be transferred from his post within the period.

It has to be said that all these restrictions are a kind of special "historical and national conditions complex" at work, and this kind of troops, which have far more feelings for the army than for the country, God knows which day will be mastered by careerists. Privately, Congress is wishing that such a unit would change once a year, and it will always be a new recruit.

However, in order to maximize the value of the Foreign Legion, it is the only force that can be mobilized directly by the Prime Minister without the authorization of the Diet for war, and can directly carry out foreign military deployment tasks with the highest efficiency.

On the other hand, according to the latest "National Defense and Military Service Law", after the National Day in 1625, all cities and towns will also carry out the compulsory military service recruitment of the National Guard, and each town government shall recruit no less than one squadron (platoon) and no more than one squadron (company) of National Guard soldiers according to the law. In the event of a serious military security problem, the National Guard units in various localities can also be temporarily concentrated and used to form brigades (battalions) or wings (brigades).

The National Guard is subordinate to the local government and is responsible for public security affairs such as local military defense and emergency rescue and disaster relief in the local territory and overseas territories, but it must be organized and dispatched by the Ministry of National Defense. At this stage, the number of officers in the active army is obviously insufficient, so the daily training and management of the National Guard reserve force is the responsibility of the non-commissioned officers of the army on active duty. When the first qiē is on the right track, the non-commissioned officers or officers of the National Guard will be retired soldiers of the National Guard.

The first towns to be approved for the establishment of the National Guard Reserve were the capital city of Manchu, West Point, Jersey Town, Silver Valley, Porter, Twin Bays, Bermuda, and Twin Ports on Butterfly Island. As for the two new towns that will be established in "Haizhou" (Massachusetts) and Yushu Town (New Haven) in Songzhou, the two new towns that will be established in the autumn will still need to be garrisoned by the army for a period of time.

When the Army Command received the news of the proposal passed by Congress, Major General Chen Liwen finally let out a long breath. As long as the contents of these proposals are implemented, the pressure on the army to be mobilized in the spring of next year will be greatly reduced, and there will be more time for officers and men to rotate.

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While the Army Command was preparing for the next phase of Guadelou Pussi's operations, Lieutenant Scott, who still had some shrapnel in his body, was still lying in the Mancheng National Hospital, and learned from his hospital bed that he had been promoted to captain. Although he saved his life from the naval gunfire, he lost an eye forever due to the fact that he was seriously injured and the transfer was not carried out in time.

And on the surface, Sergeant Major Makarov, who was more seriously injured than him, was discharged from the hospital a week earlier.

Almost every day, old neighbors, Mrs. Santos or Old Allen, would show up in the ward with Scott's lovely daughter in their arms, and many friendly residents of West Point would spontaneously come to greet them. The Battle of Guadeloupe East, which lasted for more than half a year, killed more than 20 young people in West Point, but the grief of the families of the fallen soldiers has long been drowned out by overwhelming state propaganda.

In the newspapers, West Point is a place of personal excellence, and the "gifted" military talents and very different courage of the young men have become a special calling card of the town. According to the arrangement of the Army Command, several outstanding mid- and high-ranking non-commissioned officers of West Point nationality were selected to study at the West Point Military Academy and became a new generation of talents in the Chinese and American Army. (To be continued.) )