Lin Gao Qiming

Chapter 165 Expedition to Baitu Village

The strategy for Baitu Village finally officially started after Xi Yazhou took office.After resting for more than half a month, the fat man was kicked out by Wu Nanhai for trying to steal a chicken.Although he repeatedly argued that the missing pair of ducks in the farm was not his responsibility, Wu Nanhai still asked him to "stay away" very bluntly.The army club that was brewing also died because of this.

Baitu Village is a small port village, located between Lingao and Danzhou, surrounded by mountains on three sides, and has a good port, which is convenient for ships to enter and exit. It has always been the main shipbuilding place in Lingao.The report of the reconnaissance team showed that the land transportation here is not easy, and there are only a few mountain paths. The locals set up Juma, Luchai, and fortresses at the intersections to prevent bandits, and by the way, guard against officers, soldiers, and servants.It is not too difficult for the current new army to attack by force. Xi Yazhou thinks that even if the current army is given swords and spears to clean up Baitu Village, there will be no problem, it is just that more people will die.

"However, our operation should be just a police operation." Xi Yazhou studied the map drawn by the military commission's reconnaissance team for a long time. "Since these shipwrights need to use them, they can't kill too many people."

"What are you going to do?"

"A parade of arms. Make them surrender without a fight."

"In terms of cost-effectiveness, I think it is most appropriate to use our reconnaissance team." Bei Wei suggested, "The surrounding mountains are not too steep, and it is easy to infiltrate them. Go straight in and capture the main leaders inside. It's done."

"That's right, but Baitu Village is a soft persimmon, just for this group of newcomers to try something new." Ma Qianzhu said.

"Embolden them?"

"Damn, these people were still pinching the muddy legs of hoes more than a month ago. The officers are all modern people, so I'm afraid they can't cooperate well. Let them smell the fire."

"Success, then let's make more designs and varieties. It's right as a drill."

Baitu Village itself is not armed. It does not have a regiment, but it belongs to the whole people. It is said that it has fought back several small groups of pirates.According to the investigation of the intelligence department, Baitu Village has a population of more than 500, half of whom are young and strong, and most of them are shipwrights who escaped from Fujian, Guangdong.This village was originally just a small fishing village with seven or eight fishermen.The population slowly increased after foreign shipwrights fled here.

The yellow bear has been promoted.He, a former general of the Ming Dynasty, was always in a state of turmoil after being summoned. He is not stupid. This battle clearly shows that he does not trust himself. This group of Australians will not kill him just because they doubt him, will they?After a few days of doubt and fear, I also tried to escape, but I thought that all the people who escaped before were arrested and displayed to the public without exception.

After living in fear for a few days, he was appointed as the squad leader of the eighth squad of the third company of the teaching camp. Than a big knife.Huang Xiong hesitated for a moment whether to deliberately lose to him, but finally decided to show his strength to the group of Australians - he knew that the Australians had no respect for the locals. If there is strength, it can be reused.

But the victory didn't come easily, this Youhuo actually didn't have any moves, they were all slashing and slashing, but he was extremely powerful and had a lot of experience in fighting.It took the yellow bear several minutes to knock out his knife.

"You lost! Company commander."

"Use a real knife, you are not my opponent!" You Huo roared unconvinced, "I have Qinglong Yanyue knife!"

"That's for singing, you can lose faster with it!"

You Huhu looked at him angrily for a long time, and shouted: "Good man, he has a lot of kung fu."

Huang Xiong became Youhuo's "brother" inexplicably, and was forced to learn martial arts with him after exercising every day.He originally thought that Youhuo was going to promote him as a soldier or something, but obviously the Australian army didn't do this.As a company commander, You Huo is in charge of 100 people, and he is at the level of a commander in the Ming army, and he only has one "guard" by his side.

"The determination of this operation is to subdue Baitu Village." Xi Yazhou gave a mission statement at the meeting of commanders above the battalion and platoon, "Minimize casualties during the battle and maintain restraint during the operation. There are more recruits participating in the battle this time. , The discipline of the troops must be tightened. How is the progress of each company teaching the three major disciplines and eight attention songs?"

"I have been teaching for three days, and everyone can basically sing." Wei Aiwenhui, who is also temporarily serving as a political teacher of the camp, reported.

"Not only must you be able to sing, but you must also understand the meaning of the lyrics." Xi Yazhou said.The Three Disciplines and Eight Points of Attention are catchy and easy to understand about military discipline and the way of getting along with the common people. It is a rare military song for education.

"Then it's logistical—"

Ever since his failed attempt at suicide, Ye Yuming came back to his promising job of raising rabbits.In the past few days, Ye Yuming's ears, which were only troubled by mosquitoes, are now filled with these words. "According to the private chats of the Army people, this is the first large-scale expedition after the establishment of the new army by the crossing people." The Ministry of Agriculture is facing a huge challenge: soldiers and rations.

"Soldiers and horses have not moved, food and grass go first."Now the leaders of the army have reached a consensus on whether to dispatch the new army-not only must it be dispatched, but it must also be of a considerable scale, turning it into an armed parade of demonstrations.But there is no doubt that no matter what you plan to do, food must be eaten.

Although this army is still in its most primitive state, the order to develop military rations has already been issued to the Council of Agriculture.The biggest headache for the people in the Ministry of Agriculture is to try to produce field rations that can be carried with the army and ensure sufficient nutrition in the high-temperature and high-humidity environment of Hainan.

It stands to reason that since this expedition is a low-intensity operation, and it is estimated that it will only take three days at most, the mechanical team has developed a cooking vehicle, and the guarantee of using hot meals and hot dishes is the most ideal.There is no such thing as field rations that are delicious in ancient and modern times, and they are emergency supplies in emergency situations.

Because this operation also has an experimental nature of comprehensive testing of existing equipment, the Military Commission requires that it must be equipped with field rations sufficient for three days-there can be more types, mainly for the troops to try and listen to their reactions.

The Ministry of Agriculture has already tried all kinds of portable foods from all over China and even all over the world, such as fried rice, steamed cakes, rice balls, fried noodles, pancakes, naan, rice cakes, and Bingliang pills.Wu Nanhai also developed the rather weird Jinhua shortbread.Facts have proved that this thing can indeed be preserved for a long time, but it is really difficult to swallow.Moreover, shortbread requires a lot of lard, and all fat is considered a "strategic material" right now.

Dry pancakes, fried noodles, naan and dry buns are all mature portable dry food and easy to process.In particular, pancakes showed their value in the battle against Goujiazhuang.Pancakes are extremely storage-resistant. In the past, people in Shandong often took dry food with them when they traveled far.However, the food situation in Lingao is more rice than noodles. Although the main ingredient of Shandong pancakes is actually sweet potatoes, the nutritional value of sweet potatoes is too low to meet military rations. Therefore, it is out of the game together with fried noodles and naan.

The rest is rice products. Ye Yuming proposed to make fried rice, and also proposed to use fried rice and maltose to make fried rice cakes.But fried rice is not as storable as chow mein, and they don't have maltose available.So someone proposed to continue to make military food pills—they have made some in the past: the taste of this stuff is really horrible: it is made of boiled rice and dried, and it is said to be extremely durable—the Japanese samurai in those days gnawed it every day Fighting with a thing, everyone came to the conclusion after trying it that only the Japanese can eat this thing.

Rice noodles, rice cakes, rice noodles, rice noodles, rice balls, rice skins... All kinds of rice products have been excavated from the depths of our memories. Through the cooperation of the canteen and the agricultural department, we have fully searched for information and used our imaginations With great effort, a table full of experimental products was quickly produced.

This military ration experiment got a great name "Long March Project" in the documents. Later, Wu Nanhai considered that this great name might be used for other purposes in the future, so it became the rather anticlimactic "Grassland Project" in the files. name.

Facing the whole table of weird so-called field ration experimental products that looked more like a prank, everyone reached an amazing consensus on the issue of tasting: distribute all these things to the expeditionary army, and then eat them in the most hungry troops. Observations are distributed at times to allow the troops to test the truth in practice.But who was the follower?Thinking of those angry officers, everyone immediately started pushing each other again...

When everyone was eyeing each other, trying to get rid of accepting this life-threatening task, the savior finally appeared.It was Dongmen Chuyu, the wise staff officer who had been in and out of the new army headquarters recently.At this critical moment, he passed the farm.

Dongmen Chuiyu originally wanted to see if he could get some private goods such as tomatoes on the farm, by the way, to see the little girl here in Wu Nanhai, but after being discovered, after a short but ambiguous period, it was enough to numb a pig After meeting each other, everyone enthusiastically asked Comrade Dongmen Chuiyu to come to the Ministry of Agriculture to observe the development of field food...

Inspired by a burst of fearlessness and internationalism, Comrade Dongmen Chuiyu resolutely agreed to represent the Ministry of Agriculture's field food investigation.And I got two tomatoes as I wished.All the colleagues on the farm watched his back with reverence.As the saying goes: the wind is rustling, the water is cold...

After intense preparations, the Baitu expedition group set off from Bopu.These include the first company of the teaching battalion, one platoon for the second company and one platoon for the third company, with more than 160 people, 30 cadets from the military and political school, 10 people in the reconnaissance team directly under the Military Commission, and more than 40 people in the artillery unit.There is also a medical team sent by the health team, consisting of girls' technical school students led by hippopotamuses, and finally a 100-person transport team.

The navy dispatched the newly repaired and refitted two-masted sailing ship "Fubo" to serve as maritime support, and there were also 6 locally purchased and refitted civilian ships, fully loaded with various supplies.If it weren't for too few ships, Xi Yazhou planned to use all ships to transport them.

Five infantry platoons marched in four-way file. The soldiers wore cane helmets on their octagonal hats. The rattan helmets were made in the style of the colonial helmets. With the number of the unit, it can also provide soldiers with a certain amount of extra protection, and there is a white sunshade neck cloth behind it-this item is indispensable when marching and fighting in a place like Lingao where the sunshine time is extremely long.The canvas leggings were drawn tight.The cowhide belt is equipped with double ammunition boxes, and a total of 4 rounds of bullets and 120 flash caps are placed in the 130 ammunition boxes.Water bottles, bayonets, engineer shovels, and sundry bags were hung on rattan backpacks stuffed with various items, and thin cotton blankets were tied on top of them.Although there will be supply ships along the way to provide food, each soldier still reserves a pack of 10 rice cakes in his back box.The monitor also has a bottle of shochu.This is emergency food, and it is only allowed to be used after an order is given.

(End of this chapter)