On the banks of the small shipyards along the Yellow River in Guihua City, steam river deck barges that have just been assembled. The shipyard assembled modular components that the company had recently transported to the Hetao base by long-distance buses. At present, the Hetao base area already has more than 100 steam river deck barges, as well as a large number of towed non-powered barges.

Recently, the Northwest Field Army Headquarters selected a group of young and strong people from among the tens of thousands of displaced people in the base areas during the slack period, and formed two logistical support brigades for the displaced people, with a total number of more than 10,000 people.

They were given strict intensive training, and the main content of the training was the basic queue to strengthen the organization and discipline of the logistics detachment of the displaced people. The second is a variety of logistical support subjects, which are responsible for assisting the main force in fighting after the start of the battle, and helping the troops to scrape the ground and collect the spoils after the battle.

The headquarters of the Northwest Field Army equipped the logistics support detachment with a large number of four-wheeled carriages and various trolleys and other vehicles, which were convenient for rapid maneuvering during the war and loading and transporting war trophies after the war.

In fact, the main task of this Ningxia campaign was not to fight, but to efficiently loot and loot Ningxia Town, and to transport all kinds of loot back to the Hetao base area in the shortest possible time.

It is not easy to achieve this, and after the campaign is launched, all kinds of logistics units must cooperate closely, have a clear division of labor, and take action against various important targets in Ningxia Town in a planned manner. First of all, it must be supported by strong intelligence, and secondly, the battle plan must be formulated extremely carefully, and there must not be a single loophole.

Once there is a mistake in a key link, it will inevitably cause a chain reaction and cause confusion among the participating units. Therefore, the pre-war preparations became particularly important, and all the main forces and logistics support units, as well as the Hetao guerrilla detachment in the Ming Dynasty, had to conduct many drills before the war.

In recent months, the Ministry of Intelligence has also invested a large number of intelligence forces. A large-scale infiltration was carried out into Ningxia Town and other military towns on the three sides of Shaanxi, and a large amount of valuable information was obtained through various means.

The intelligence of the entire Ningxia town and the various military towns on the three sides of Shaanxi was completely destroyed by a large number of Far Eastern intelligence officers, who made an extremely important contribution to the Ningxia campaign.

The newly formed field division of the Ningxi Campaign. A large number of backbone cadres were transferred to form the field reinforcement regiment, the main force of the campaign, and targeted adaptive training was also carried out on the basis of various information transmitted back by the intelligence department. During the tactical drills before the war, several volunteer logistics brigades of displaced people were mobilized and conducted several coordinated exercises with them.

The Hetao base area also bought off the border army in Shanxi Town, and delivered thousands of war horses and a large number of war horses to the Hetao guerrilla detachment through the various border passes in batches and phases. The mobility of the Hetao guerrilla detachment and its ability to carry on the battlefield have been improved.

In order to strengthen the attack force of the Hetao guerrilla detachment, two cavalry battalions were also sent to infiltrate the territory of Daming in batches and join the Hetao guerrilla detachment, so as to provide mobile cover for the Hetao guerrilla detachment after the battle began.

During this period, Song Tao also carried out several months of harsh training for the Hetao guerrilla detachment, and formed several militia detachments and logistics support brigades to prepare for the upcoming Ningxia campaign.

After the campaign was launched, the Hetao guerrilla detachment and its subordinate militia detachment and logistics support brigade. It will be used as a second-line covering force and as a reserve for the campaign. And also after the occupation of the town of Ningxia in the Far East. Led tens of thousands of displaced people to break out of the border wall through Ningxia Town.

On the bank of the Yellow River in the Hetao Plain, here is the modern society Bayannur, and the Hetao base built a town here and named it Hetao Town. The current headquarters of the Northwest Field Army is located here.

Li Ming organized the commanders of the participating units in the Ningxia Campaign and held the last military meeting before the war. Commanders at and above the battalion level of the units participating in the Ningxi Campaign today. All of them gathered here to receive the combat mission of the various units of the campaign.

Shang Ming, chief of staff of the Northwest Field Army, expounded in detail the plan of action for the campaign, issued combat tasks to all units, and emphatically emphasized the problems that all units need to pay attention to after the campaign is launched.

After Li Ming and the others finished speaking, they looked at the commanders of all the units attending the meeting. He said in a deep voice: "The chief of staff has just given you a detailed introduction to the battle plan and has also issued combat missions to all units. If you still don't understand something, bring it up now, so that you don't have to drop the chain after the action starts. ‘

After he finished speaking, he found that everyone did not raise their hands to ask questions, so he smiled and said: "It seems that everyone has made certain preparations and has also made some efforts for this battle." That's good, even if our opponent is scummy, we have to pay enough attention. I would like to add one point here, that is, after the attack was launched, the prisoners of the Ming official army in Ningxia Town must not be harmed.

We must do more work for the captured officers and men of Ningxia Town and the local people, try our best to win them over, and strengthen the strength of our Hetao base area and the Northwest Field Army. After all, we are all of the same Chinese race, and the war between us is actually a civil war, and you don't have to be cruel when dealing with foreign races, and you are not allowed to attack the Ming officers and soldiers who laid down their arms.

After all, the combat effectiveness of the Northwest Frontier Army is still very strong, and most of the border troops are good at cavalry shooting. Although the formation of our Northwest Field Army will be divided into five years, the reserve work of reserve forces and militia must be carried out anytime and anywhere. After our training and education, we hope that they will all become members of our Northwest Field Army in the future.

After we take Ningxia Town, Wang Bo, Zhang Tiezhu, you Dongjiang veterans will organize and go down to the Ming army to do work, I don't need to tell you what to do. I don't care what method you use, try to fool them all, for the Ming officers and soldiers who are unwilling to come, we can't force it, such people are also hidden dangers. ”

Wang Bo stood up and shouted loudly: "Please rest assured, commander, to ensure that the internal affairs are completed." You give this task to me and the hammer, you are the right person, we have a way to deal with these veteran ruffians in the Ming Dynasty. Nothing else, as long as I told them about the food of our Far Eastern Army, most of them would cry and shout and come back with us. ”

Everyone laughed out loud when they heard Wang Bo's words.

Li Ming was also amused by Wang Bo, he nodded and said: "In fact, there are tens of thousands of border troops in Ningxia Town, they are all a group of poor people, most of them have now become those serfs with strong military leaders, getting up early every day and working in the fields in the dark, but in the end, the whole family can't even eat." We want to win them all over and become a part of our Hetao base area. (To be continued.) )

PS: Thank you Ji Danhou for the tip.