Lu Xiangsheng returned to Shenyang and left Liaodong the next day and returned to Xuanfu by airship. Gao Jianguo, Wang He and others rushed to Shenyang Airport to see them off.

Gao Jianguo looked at the airship that was gradually moving away, turned around and said to Zhou Billy with a smile: "Old Zhou, you have been accompanying Lu Xiangsheng for the past few days, do you think you can fight for him." ”

Billy Zhou shook his head and said: "It's very difficult, I have walked around with Lu Xiangsheng below in the past few days, and I feel that he is no different from the traditional scholars of the Ming Dynasty." I don't think it's better to fantasize about transforming the gentry class of the Ming Dynasty. Instead of spending a lot of energy on them, it is better for us to start anew and train our own grassroots cadres. ”

Wang He nodded and said with a smile: "Since this is the case, then we will implement it step by step according to the strategy formulated before." ”

Gao Jianguo said in a deep voice: "We in the Far East have already cultivated a large number of grassroots management cadres, so why bother looking for them if we don't use our own people." Next year, we will go south to the Central Plains, and we will still say that we will kill the local tyrants and landlords and bullies in those fish and meat towns in Daming, and we must not be soft. It is also necessary to take certain measures against the stubborn forces that refuse to cooperate with the Ming locality, and simply move them overseas and let them fend for themselves. ”

In the winter of 1643, the Hetao base area was particularly busy.

This year, the 300,000 displaced people received from the northern part of the Ming Dynasty have begun to carry out intense winter training one after another. The six newly built cavalry divisions of the Northwest Field Army, which have been training for several months, are also in the midst of intense intensive training.

Next year, the Far East Company will move south to the Central Plains, and the Northwest Field Army will be stationed in Kazakh and Moscow respectively, and the remaining 10 new cavalry divisions will become the main assault force in the Far East and the Central Plains. In addition, the three field divisions of the Northwest Field Army, as well as a large number of combat logistics support units, will also be the main force moving south to the Central Plains.

Considering the vast territory of the Ming Dynasty, the number of the main force of the Northwest Field Army was slightly insufficient. In view of the good performance of the Japanese armed police forces in the overseas control areas of the Far East and the positive role they have played in these areas, the Military Commission has decided to establish armed police units in the field armies as well.

The armed police force is mainly responsible for maintaining law and order in the occupied areas, guarding patrols, garrisoning cities and towns, guarding prisoners, escorting baggage, and so on.

Moreover, the amount of material and time spent on training an armed police force will be greatly reduced to the main force. But the role played in the theater of operations is greater than that of the main forces. It not only saves a lot of army building costs, but also has a very high efficiency-to-cost ratio.

Therefore, in the past two years, the Northwest Field Army, the Dongpo Field Army, and the Southern Field Army have newly trained a large number of armed police units with the nature of a military force.

The newly trained armed police force of the Northwest Field Army consists of eight detachments. Each detachment is subordinate to a detachment directly subordinate to a detachment and six brigades, each of which has six squadrons.

Each armed police detachment has a full strength of nearly 6,000 men, and the weapons of ordinary soldiers are Type 28 rifles, non-commissioned officers are equipped with double-barreled hunting guns, and officers are armed with revolvers.

Each detachment had very few heavy firearms, except for one squadron of machine guns and three 70-mm infantry guns and six water-cooled heavy machine guns. In addition, each brigade is equipped with a machine gun squad, armed with three water-cooled heavy machine guns.

The Northwest Field Army also strengthened the building of grassroots musket militia companies, and formed more than 200 musket militia companies in the Hetao base area, each with 150 people, equipped with front-loading rifled musket guns.

The Ethnic Affairs Committee of the Far Eastern Company has also transferred more than 100,000 grassroots management cadres and grassroots political work cadres to the Hetao base area in Liaodong, Northeast China, and other regions. Although the cadres transferred this time are all veteran grassroots units who have worked at the grassroots level for a long time and have rich experience in grassroots management, the situation in the northern regions of the Ming Dynasty is fundamentally different from that in eastern Liaoning and the outer northeast of the country.

Therefore, various departments of the Nationalities Affairs Committee have drawn out elite soldiers and strong generals to conduct a second winter training for these grassroots cadres. The content of the winter training is also based on the situation in various parts of Daming, and targeted training is carried out.

After the campaign is launched, a large number of grassroots cadres of the Far Eastern People's Committee will form working groups to follow behind the main force. Strive for the main force to occupy an area, and each grassroots working group will control an area.

With the assistance of the armed police force and the militia force, the grassroots working groups of the Ethnic Affairs Committee will quickly stabilize local order and establish grassroots organizations in various localities.

Of course, the number of grassroots cadres gathered in the Hetao area is far from sufficient. The main reason is that the conditions in the Hetao area are limited, and there are not too many grassroots cadres to be accommodated.

In Liaodong, Outer Northeast, Nanyang, Luzon, and other regions this winter, a large number of grassroots cadres will also be transferred to carry out a unified second winter training.

The company's intelligence department in Daming intelligence station, since last year, has invested a lot of resources, a large number of intelligence officers were sent to the north of Daming, using various ways, crazy collection of intelligence, and a large number of valuable information back to the company's headquarters.

Especially for the Ming Nine-Border Military Town, it is a key care. Various means such as deterrence and inducement were adopted, and when necessary, even narcotics and other abnormal means were used to win over a large number of officials and military leaders in border towns for the use of the Far Eastern Company.

Beginning next spring, the Far Eastern Company will take charge of the Central Plains, and the Northwest Field Army will have a very heavy task, shouldering the offensive tasks in the northwest and north China. The front of the offensive direction is very wide, covering the towns of Jizhou, Xuanfu, Datong, Taiyuan, Yansui, Ningxia, Guyuan and Gansu.

To this end, the Central Military Commission also transferred one field division and one garrison division from Dongye, as well as four armed police detachments and a large number of musket militia companies to the northwest to strengthen the offensive strength of the Northwest Field Army.

In this way, the main force of the Northwest Field Army, which participated in the southward movement, included four field divisions, two garrison divisions, ten newly built cavalry divisions, and a large number of combat logistics support detachments. In addition, there are 12 armed police detachments, as well as paramilitary and militia units of nearly 400 musket militia companies.

In order to ensure the logistical strength of the Northwest Field Army, the Logistics Department of the Central Military Commission has specially set up two logistical advance bases in Bayannur and Ulanqab in the Hetao area. Since last year, large quantities of ammunition, grain, forage, bedding, and other strategic materials have begun to be massed in these two areas.

The logistics department is also equipped with a large number of field four-wheeled carriages and has set up a number of logistical self-brigades to follow behind the main force and provide support to the main force at any time.

It also mobilized the northern grasslands, gathered a large number of ploughing cattle and war horses, and drove them by various Mongolian nomadic detachments to the two logistics advance bases of Bayannur and Ulanqab. During the war, each Mongolian nomadic detachment will also dispatch a large number of herdsmen to drive a large number of horses and wagons to undertake the logistical transportation tasks of the various participating units.

The Northeast Field Army will also launch an offensive at the same time, and they will put in the main forces of two field divisions and two garrison divisions, and the direction of attack will be Liaodong Town, where the Guanning Army is stationed, and through the coastal areas of western Liaoning, it will go straight to Shanhaiguan. It will also land in the coastal areas of Hebei and Shandong, with the support of the Admiralty.

The Southern Field Army will also invest four overseas divisions to land in the coastal areas of Zhili in the south of the Ming Dynasty. and on river steam deck barges to attack and advance westward along the Yellow River, occupying various key areas along the Yellow River.

At the end of this year, the Far Eastern Army will also set up the Central Plains Campaign Command, with Li Ming as commander-in-chief, political commissar Shi Mingfeng, chief of staff Lin Hua, and deputy commanders Song Tao, Qiang Quansheng, and Hao Changfeng. The Central Plains Campaign Command will be located in the Hetao base area.

In recent years, the military leaders and officials of the Ming Dynasty Jiubian Military Town have been in frequent contact with the Far East Company. At present, many military leaders in various military towns in the Ming Dynasty have more or less business dealings with Far East companies through Far Eastern merchant groups or Hetao base areas.

While making a lot of profits, they are still desperately drinking the blood of soldiers, deducting military salaries and greedy for military funds. They are all like mirrors in their hearts, and they have already analyzed the intention of the Far East to go south, so this period of time is their last madness.

The 300,000 displaced people collected in the Hetao base area every year arrived at the Hetao base area through the border walls lined with border forts. Every year, a large number of commodities from the northern grasslands are also transported to the territory of the Daimyo through the border wall organized by the Hetao area.

Wu Xiang, who controlled the Guanning Army, was even more explicit, he constantly contacted the Far East Company, and not only helped the Far East to collect a large number of displaced people every year, but also made great efforts to help the Far East raise food and other materials.

The Daming Naval Division on the northern coast of the Ming Dynasty has long become a supernumerary force in the Far East, and they are now basically holding the Far East's salaries and silver to help the Far East escort the displaced people to the sea. Moreover, these military leaders of the Daming Navy Division all acted as agents for the sale of goods in the Far East in Daming, earning amazing profits.

Anyway, the military leaders of the Ming Nine-Border Military Town are now crazy about accumulating money, and they know it very well in their hearts. Once the Far East goes to the Central Plains, their financial routes will be cut off immediately, so they have gone completely crazy, accumulating wealth regardless of it.

They knew that the Far Eastern Army would never retain their military power, so they only thought about making enough money and becoming a rich man in the future. Even many generals have already bought houses and shops in cities in the Far East such as Manila, and have long since found a way back.

The generals and leaders of the generals were crazy about accumulating money, and the same was true of the officials in various parts of the Ming Dynasty. These Ming officials, who have read the books of sages and sages, are even brighter. They are not as simple as the military leaders just want to be rich, they want to continue to be officials in the new Far Eastern Dynasty.

(To be continued.) )