Chapter 20 Troop Expansion

Huo Hu led a group of lightning occupied the entire Xiapu County, six towns and seventy-two villages, except for a few landlords who had no evil deeds, all the local tyrants were defeated, and the land was also measured and evenly distributed to the landless peasants.

"How is it, Lao Zhao, the work is going very smoothly! Just now, I went to the street for a walk, but I saw the head of a monk in Qingyisè!" Huo Hu said with a smile.

Hearing him say this, Zhao Guang also reacted, Sansha Town, thousands of people, most of them are landless farmers, although it is unacceptable to cut off the braids that have grown on the back of their heads for decades, but they can have their own land, but for thousands of years, the common dream of Chinese farmers, so, under such temptation, it is inevitable that there will be bold bachelors who grit their teeth and cut off their braids and run to the temporary zhèngfǔ station to report.

In the end, the result was perfect, after the first one got his own three acres of good paddy fields and walked around the town in a boastful way, immediately more people cut off their braids and threw themselves into the arms of the new zhèngfǔ, and then the turbulent braided big cháo could no longer be stopped.

"Now that the land, shops and real estate in the county have been disposed of, the money obtained has also been registered and handed over to the logistics office for safekeeping, and the county's zhèngfǔ units have also been formed, now we can breathe a sigh of relief a little!" Zhao Guang said after handing the materials in his hand to Huo Hu.

"Lao Zhao, these management matters, you can take Lao Zhou and them to deal with it, now, I want to know how our new army is formed? You are going to leave more than 500 of my soldiers at once, you will have to make up for me, otherwise I will delay the task assigned by the young master, I can't explain it!"

He wasn't too interested in these economic things. Now, Huo Hu's greatest concern is how to expand his troops, and now he is drooling over the territory of Ningde Mansion and other counties every day! After all, the capture is large, so he can ask the young master for equipment!

The two have been together since the beginning of the militia group, and they know each other very well, and he also knows that Huo Hu is indeed not interested in these!

"We have now recruited five thousand soldiers across the county, and we will start training soon!" Before he could finish his words, he was interrupted by the anxious Huo Hu.

"Five thousand, why did you only recruit five thousand people, I said Lao Zhao, we have made a big deal this time, and you Lao Zhao is also from our army, how to recruit a few soldiers, you have become as good as the landlord and old wealth! No, you have to recruit me enough 20,000!"

"20,000 Huzi, you have a fever! There are only less than 200,000 people in the entire Xiapu County, and if you come up, you will recruit 20,000 soldiers, so who will plant the land in our base area, and how will the economy develop?" Zhao Guang rolled his eyes and said to Huo Da, who was shouting anxiously.

"But 5,000 people is still too little! Lao Zhao, you are adding 5,000, as long as you have 10,000 people, I promise that after three months, it will be handed over to you in the jurisdiction of the three counties!" Huo Da was stunned and said with a lick of his face.

Zhao Guang lowered his head and thought about it, in fact, he also wanted to expand the troops, so as to complete the tasks assigned by the young master as soon as possible, but before the troops were separated, the young master repeatedly explained that he wanted to fight steadily and steadily, occupy one place and digest one place, but he couldn't make up his mind for a while.

Seeing the hesitation on Zhao Guang's face, Huo Hu followed closely and said: "Old Zhao, do you think this is good, the army of 10,000 people, we will train first, and after conquering other counties, I will release these 5,000 people from the army, and then the new departments we have formed will also have sufficient government personnel, what do you think?"

"Lao Huo, I don't see that you still have some ghost ideas! Okay, just do as you say! But now it's chūn sowing soon, and the farm work in the field is very busy, so you have to cut your daily training time by half!" Zhao Guang said with a smile.

"No problem!"

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Although there were not many roads and railways in the Qing Dynasty at this time, and the circulation of news was also very closed, three days later, the news that the countryside below was occupied by a group of bandits who did not wear braids still reached the ears of Zhao Dehou, the county magistrate of Xiapu County.

"County master, do you want to let the green camp go to this matter, I heard that these bandits have many foreign guns, and their strength is not weak!"

After listening to his master's words, Zhao Dehou raised his eyelids, there were many bandits in this era, and this kind of robbery was even more common every year, so he didn't take it to heart.

"Well, I know! Aren't they just bandits? They will leave on their own in a few days! As for the green battalion soldiers in the county, there is no need to send them first, let's go down!"

"Yes, county master!"

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"Why is the efficiency of the officials of the Qing Dynasty so poor, it's been almost a month, why is there still no movement in the county!" Huo Hu, who was full of hope to fight with the Green Battalion soldiers and train his troops, shouted dissatisfiedly.

"Hehe, I think this county master may have treated us as ordinary bandits!" Qian Gang, the chief of staff sitting on the side, said with a smile on his face.

"Yes, I saw the description of these situations in the State of the Union address written by the young master before, and I didn't believe it at the time, but now after experiencing it myself, I really found out that the truth is more serious than we imagined, no wonder the young master always said that the Qing Dynasty is already difficult to return, and the Westernization movement will definitely fail completely!"

"Lao Zhao, isn't this just right, overthrow the Manchu court, and let our young master ascend the throne and be the emperor when the time comes!

Although it is still too early to say this, in the era when the mínzhǔ republic had just been introduced to China and the feudal ideology was still very strong, ascending the throne and becoming emperor was undoubtedly the guarantee for the establishment of the new regime!

"Okay, let's not talk about that! I called you two here today, I want to communicate with you about something!" Huo Hu said as he walked to the large map of Fujian Province in the Qing Dynasty with the two of them.

"What, do you want to fight other counties?" Qian Gang asked with a smile as he looked at the few names circled in pencil on the map.

"Yes, now our newly recruited 10,000 people have been trained for a month, although we don't expect them to go to the battlefield yet, but it is still possible to garrison the place, so that our main force will be liberated, I believe that it will not take much time to fight these towns where there are not many troops stationed, and besides, you also know what the current green battalion soldiers are like! If it weren't for the young master's permission, I would have killed them a long time ago!"

"Lao Huo is right, our current strategy is still too conservative, with our equipment, we can defeat the Qing army several times more than ten times!" Qian Gang said after thinking about it.

"Well, that's what I said, the army was born to fight, and after a month of governance, Xiapu County has completely calmed down, and the people have recognized our rule, it's time to expand our base outward!" Zhao Guang also said in agreement.

"So you agree?" Huo Hu said with some disbelief, he had prepared a lot of rhetoric before, but before he could say it, the two of them had already agreed!

"Agreed!"

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"Young Master, the news from each regiment has come back! The mission has been completed smoothly!" Huo Shi said with a smile.

"It must be going well, the letter that the tiger wants to equip has been handed to Fu Bo! Can it not go well?" Huo Shi also knew about this matter, Huo Da was stunned after conquering Xiapu County and seizing a large amount of gold and silver, and immediately asked the equipment department for 10,000 rifles, 500,000 rounds of ammunition, plus 30 60 mortars! As a result, the logistics department, which had the shortest cannibalism, could not directly reject it, but directly handed over this equipment list to Fu Bo, wanting the young master to decide.

"Young Master, how much should we allocate to them?" Huo Shi said with a smile.

"How is the expansion of the production capacity of the arsenal now?" Huo Shan did not answer directly, but turned his head and asked Li Yunfeng, the minister of the armament department, who was sitting next to him.

"Now we have six rifle production lines, two grenade production lines, 15 rifle ammunition production lines, and one mortar production line, with a monthly output of 10,000 Type 80 rifles, 20,000 wooden-handled grenades, 1 million rifle cartridges, and 60 60 mortars! The remaining pistols, machine guns, 70mm infantry guns, and 82mm medium mortars have been successfully developed, and the production lines are being formed! It is estimated that our arsenal will be able to mass-produce them in another month!" Li Yunfeng said proudly.

"Good news! Do we still have our new rifles in stock?" Huo Shan then asked.

"No, as soon as the new guns leave the factory, they will be directly handed over to the second batch of troops who are about to set off, and now the 40,000 troops in the army, there is still a shortage of 25,000 new guns to be replenished urgently!"

"Well, I see, the production line of the arsenal continues to expand, and we must ensure that each of our soldiers has a gun!"

"Yes, young master!"