The task of capturing more than 20 unarmed prisoners in a limited area with a fully armed integrated company was not very difficult. Although a very small number of people tried to resist stubbornly, they had no chance to resist under the military superiority of the militias, and they lost their lives in vain. As a result, just as Qiao Zhiya promised to Xiao Laosan, the more than 20 escaped prisoners were quickly arrested one by one, and they kneel at the city gate in two large strings with shackles and chains, and the bodies of the five people who were killed before were piled up on a flatbed truck next to them, and the scene was quite visually impactful.

The defenders above and below the city were all pointing at these prisoners and talking about it, even Xiao Laosan, who had just reached a verbal cooperation agreement with Qiao Zhiya, was a little uneasy at this time, and secretly wondered if these prisoners were deliberately let go by the Haihan people, and then showed off their strength in the name of capture.

"Report to the chief, there are a total of twenty-four fugitives, all of them have been captured, please instruct!" a naturalized civilian officer came over to report the results of the battle to Qiao Zhiya.

Qiao Zhiya nodded, asked him to send someone to escort the prisoners back to the camp on the road, and then said goodbye to Xiao Laosan: "Mr. Xiao, what we agreed on before, we will do our best to implement it next, if there is anything that needs our assistance, please send someone to the camp by the sea to inform you." ”

Xiao Laosan was too shocked before, and at this time, it was as if he was in a dream, so he just subconsciously surrendered his hand and said: "It's easy to say, Major Qiao will meet another day!"

Qiao Zhiya escorted the group back to the camp, and he had already seen Liu Shanxia standing impatiently outside the camp gate waiting from afar. In fact, after Qiao Zhiya led the team to set off, Liu Shanxia was not at ease at all, lest the militia army he brought out have an armed conflict with the Ming army defending the city. Later, he heard that there were dense gunshots in the city, which made Liu Shanxia even more anxious. However, among the few people in the local area, there is only a senior officer like Qiao Zhiya, and most of the others are personnel in engineering technology and civil administration.

Considering the possible situation, Liu Shanxia, in his capacity as the local administrator, issued a wartime summoning order, all the engineering personnel suspended the construction and returned to the camp, the armed and logistical personnel were all in a state of readiness, and even the medical team was on standby, ready to treat the wounded who had returned from the city. If Qiao Zhiya was half an hour late, Liu Shanxia would probably have to send a telegram asking whether the base camp should attack Changhua County, so that he could snatch out a company of militia that had "fallen" in the city.

Although Liu Shanxia is a rare good hand in engineering, he really has no relevant experience in how to solve this kind of military conflict, and being able to do such a thing is basically his limit. Seeing Qiao Zhiya leading the team back safely, Liu Shanxia finally breathed a sigh of relief.

"Didn't you say that it should be properly resolved? Why did you start a fire fight in the county town?" asked Liu Shanxia very anxiously. He also understood that Qiao Zhiya's safe return did not mean that this matter would end there, and if there was really an armed conflict with the Ming garrison in the county, then it was likely that there would be follow-up troubles.

"There was a hiccup in between, but it really worked out. Qiao Zhiya replied with a smile on his face: "Not only did I arrest all the fugitives, but I also got rid of the general Xiao in Changhua County." ”

"You killed Mr. Xiao?" Liu Shanxia's jaw almost fell to the ground. The general of the Ming army in the city, Liu Shanxia, who was not very in charge of things, had also dealt with him twice, and when he heard Qiao Zhiya's tone, it was inevitable that there would be a misunderstanding. The number of prisoners who escaped from the army was small, but if the Ming army officers were publicly killed, it might not end well.

"Don't worry, I'm not so impulsive!" Qiao Zhiya waved his hand and said: "What I said is another matter, that Xiao General has already agreed to find a reasonable reason for our militia to save zài here." ”

Of course, Liu Shanxia also knew some of the methods used by the military to expand and control the area externally, and said happily when he heard this: "That is to imitate Yazhou's practice?"

"That's pretty much what it means, just go back and let the people from the administrative mouth go and finalize the specific price with Xiao Zong. Qiao Zhiya patted Liu Shanxia on the shoulder proudly and said, "How about Lao Liu, my mission has been successfully executed, right?"

"Serve!" Liu Shanxia gave a heartfelt thumbs up and praised: "This thing is really beautiful, I won't say anything about praising you now, and I'll express it at ......the banquet table later."

"Let me go today, I'm really sleepy, I don't sleep for a while now, I really might die suddenly......" Qiao Zhiya quickly shook his head and retreated: "I'll go back to make up for the drowsiness, and I'll leave the matter of sending a telegram to the base camp to you." ”

The executive committee was also more surprised than frightened when it received the telegram sent back by the Changhua chemical site, because the storage of the county seat of Changhua has always been a hidden danger for the Shilu project, because the Shilu project must introduce a large number of immigrants to the local area and the corresponding management system and armed forces, and there will definitely be contradictions and even conflicts with the local government, and this contradiction and conflict may rise to the level of military confrontation, so the executive committee has always hoped to be able to buy off the Changhua county government including the garrison in the county, and then pass guò government zhì, the economy, and the military worked together to achieve actual control over the Changhua and Shilu areas in a manner similar to Yacheng.

Even if there had been no evasion from the Changgong site today, sooner or later the Executive Committee would have sent someone to contact the local government again to seek common ground between the interests of both sides. For Haihan, the Shilu project cannot afford to fail, and if the preservation of Changhua County will eventually hinder the construction and production of this key project, then the executive committee will probably really do not hesitate to fight to ensure that this area is completely under Haihan's control. Of course, since Qiao Zhiya was able to reach a preliminary agreement with the local military chief, the militia army would have a more reasonable excuse to enter the area and achieve control over the area, and this solution would definitely be much better than forcibly erasing Changhua City from the map.

"Qiao Zhiya's appearance is not bad!" Tao Donglai praised without hesitation at the executive committee executive meeting: "It has not been a month since he was transferred to be the military chief, and the county government and garrison of Changhua have already been leveled, but it has saved a lot of effort for the work of other departments." ”

"So it was the right decision to transfer him back to the army from Tian Du's chemical industry. Yan Chujie didn't forget to brag about the military as soon as he had the opportunity: "It's a pity that a multi-skilled talent like Qiao Zhiya is moldy in the real room, and he should be given a broad world to play in order to make great achievements!"

"Lao Yan, if you have something to say, just say it, you don't have to go around in circles like this. Ning Qi unceremoniously interrupted Yan Chujie's words. After working together for more than two years, these people have a deeper understanding of each other, and some basic routines can be easily seen through.

Yan Chujie was nodded by Ning Qi, but he didn't care, he took out a stack of papers from his briefcase and distributed them to the executive committee members present: "It just so happens to be the turn to discuss the topic of our military, take a look, this is the militia group's military expansion plan for the second half of the year......"

"Why do you want to expand the army again? Didn't you just discuss the expansion of the army during the anniversary?" Gu Kai, as always, did not welcome military expansion, and before he could look at the information in his hand, he had already questioned Yan Chujie's approach.

Yan Chujie unhurriedly finished sending the information before responding to his question: "The expansion of the army discussed in the first half of the year is the establishment of the navy, and all the ships of the navy have already been put on the slipway, can the establishment not be expanded? In the same way, what we are going to discuss now is the expansion of the army, which is already imperative, and we must do everything we can. ”

Yan Chujie stood up as he spoke, and said loudly: "Please open the information in front of you, and I will briefly explain to you the necessity of this army expansion, as well as our army expansion plan and the recruitment measures that will be taken." ”

Yan Chujie walked to the front of the conference room, where there was a map of the whole island of Hainan Island, in which Yazhou, Sanya, Yinggehai, which Haihan had actually controlled, as well as a large area of mountainous areas in the inland area of Qiongnan, were outlined in conspicuous blue. The areas of Thanksgiving, Changhua, Lingshui, Wanning and other areas that are being laid out are outlined with a red pen.

Yan Chujie raised his hand and pointed to the map and said, "Let me explain to you the logo on the map, the blue area is the area we actually control, and we have the final say on the land, sea and air." The red zone is the area that we jointly control with the Ming Dynasty, and in these areas we do not have the public right to speak and the administrative power for the time being, but the economy and military have been controlled by us in a certain way. The remaining areas are mainly concentrated in the east and north of the island, if the length of the coastline is concerned, the area that our current power can radiate has probably occupied half of the coastline of the whole island, such a long coastline in addition to the need for a considerable number of navies to carry out maritime defense tasks, but also need a certain scale of land forces to achieve actual control over these areas. ”

"As we all know, the army currently deployed by the Ming Dynasty on Hainan Island has a total of 11,000 guards, each of which has a strength of 1,000 people, a total of 11,000 people, plus several border troops and naval divisions stationed in several major states and counties, the total establishment is about 14,000 people. With an army of this size, the entire Hainan Island is still like a sieve, full of loopholes. Yan Chujie looked around at the people present: "Some people may say that there are many vacancies in the establishment of the Ming army, and the actual number of troops is far from reaching the number of establishments, and their combat effectiveness cannot be compared with our militia army at all." This is true, but is our militia army, especially the army, really enough for now?"

Yan Chu made a gesture, and immediately someone under his command stepped forward and hung another chart on the wall in front of the conference room.

Yan Chujie said: "Everyone, please see, this is the current garrison situation of the Haihan People's Regiment Army......

"Why isn't there a Black Earth Harbor Camp?" asked someone below.

"Because the Heitugang Independent Battalion is a separate organization and has been stationed abroad for a long time, it cannot participate in the daily defensive operations on Hainan Island, so they are not counted in this table. Yan Chujie explained: "The last time the army was expanded was before the attack on Hue, when our troops could barely make up two reinforced battalions. After the end of the Hue campaign, some of the militia were discharged or transferred to the Ministry of Justice, and we were able to make up two reinforced battalions after replenishing the troops from the reserves. ”

"The first battalion is currently responsible for the defense of the Sanya area, which includes an area of more than 100 square kilometers from Yacheng to Tielu Port, from Shengli Port to Tiandu's inland. Yan Chujie deliberately paused for a moment before continuing: "Shengli Port Base, Sanya New Port, and Tiandu Industrial Zone, these important military defense targets have already occupied most of the strength of the first battalion. Here I would like to reveal to you a military secret -- the strength of the first battalion, which can be used for daily mobile deployment, is only one company. Can you imagine how much of a company, even if it is a reinforced company, if something really happens, or if a war breaks out against foreign invasion, how much of a difference can such a small number of manpower play?"

Yan Chujie didn't wait for everyone to think about this issue carefully, so he continued to introduce: "Let's look at the task distribution of the second battalion, one company lives in Guangzhou, one company lives in Wanshangang, and two companies lives in Changhua. Compared with the first battalion, our second battalion does not even have troops left for mobility! Moreover, the garrison is thousands of miles apart, so please tell me, how can we command the operation in the war? Our territory is still constantly expanding, and the population of the control area is gradually increasing, if we do not expand the army, how can we control the larger territory?"

Seeing that everyone present was lost in thought, Yan Chujie continued: "When we attacked Hue in the first half of the year, we were almost out of the nest, and the base camp had to rely on the reserve militia to maintain the defense. In fact, the military risk of this practice is very large, and once there is a problem on the mainland, the troops who go overseas to fight will not have time to come back to help. Therefore, our troops could only retreat in a hurry after breaking through Hue City, and if it weren't for the emptiness of the home defenses, we would have had the opportunity to plunder more wealth and population from South Vietnam!"

Yan Chujie's words were a little biased, at that time, the militia group chose to attack quickly to solve the battle and then retreat, the reason was not only because the troops were not enough to guide the emptiness of the rear, but also because there were other objective reasons, such as the logistics supply problem that put the entire Haihan Group under great pressure, as well as the problem of battle damage and the decline in troop morale caused by long-term overseas operations, as well as the direction of the coastal monsoon on the Indochina Peninsula and many other issues that had to be considered. However, Yan Chujie highlighted the problem of insufficient troops at this time, and no one tried to break his little trick.