Chapter 713: The Great Drought in Chongzhen (14)
Just when the Shanxi guerrilla detachment was training intensively, Li Ming, Song Tao and more than a dozen other people returned to Daming by airship. They rushed to the Luliang base area and immediately convened a meeting of the responsible persons of the various detachments of the Shanxi guerrilla detachment. Li Ming read out the company's order to the Shanxi guerrilla detachment and made specific operational arrangements.
"This year's drought in the north of Daming has affected Shaanxi, Gansu, Shanxi, Hebei, Shandong, and Henan provinces, and now countless victims have fled their homes and are struggling on the line of death. Far Eastern Corporation has already made a general mobilization and decided to do its best to help the victims. The original mission of our Shanxi guerrilla detachment has also undergone a relatively big change.
The original plan for the troops to be trained in the Luliangshan base area was cancelled, and five guerrilla detachments were formed with more than 5,000 regular troops of the detachment as the backbone, and more than 10,000 militia units were used to enter Henan, Shandong, Shaanxi, and other places to collect the displaced people and establish base areas. In order to support the newly formed guerrilla detachments, the Central Military Commission has sent a large number of cadres and technical units such as communications, artillery, logistics, and engineering to strengthen the combat effectiveness of the detachments.
At present, the ship carrying support supplies and personnel has set sail and will arrive in Shanxi in the near future. Before the support units arrive, our Shanxi guerrilla detachment should do a good job in the reorganization of the troops, and use the soldiers of the regular units of the original detachment as instructors to conduct intensive training for the militia units, so as to enhance their combat effectiveness and organizational discipline as much as possible.
Together with Wang Haiyang, Song Tao, and others, I will set up the Far Eastern Daming Guerrilla Command in the Luliangshan Base Area, with me as the commander, Song Tao and Gao Qiang as the deputy commanders, and Gao Qiang will also serve as the chief of staff of the guerrilla headquarters and political commissar Ma Qing. The leaders of the other guerrilla detachments were all selected by the field division, and the former leaders of the detachments served as deputy leaders of the guerrilla detachments. ”
When he said this, he said to Song Tao, Gao Qiang, Ma Qing and others next to him: "Do you have anything else to add?" ”
Song Tao shook his head and said, "I don't have anything to say, let's get the troops organized as soon as possible." I'm taking advantage of the time when the company's support has not yet arrived. Lead the special combat personnel to conduct reconnaissance in various places and draw up a safe marching route for the troops. ”
Gao Qiang also nodded and said: "Commander, I am responsible for the training and reorganization of the troops, and strive to complete the reorganization of several detachments before the arrival of the company, and wait for the supporting materials and reinforced personnel to be in place." The troops will be able to move out immediately. ”
Seeing that everyone had nothing to say, Li Ming gave the order to adjourn the meeting, and the responsible persons of each unit hurriedly returned to their respective units to carry out preparations before the reorganization.
After arranging the work of the troops, Li Ming convened a meeting of the working group of the Nationalities Committee of the Luliang Base Area. At the same time as the establishment of the Daming Guerrilla Command, the company also set up the Lüliangshan Base Area Management Committee, with Hu Wei as the director of the Management Committee, and the Standing Committee members included Li Ming, Song Tao, Zhou Lin, Ding Weiguo, Lin Jinghua and Lu Yongren, who were actually several members of the Standing Committee of the future Hetao Base Area.
Now Hu Wei is dealing with some things in Liaodong. In a few days, they will make an airship and rush to Shanxi, and Lin Jinghua and others in Henan will also take a boat to the Luliangshan base in the next two days. Because the conditions in the Luliangshan base area are relatively difficult at present, and there is no commercial foundation, Liang Yujie stayed in Henan and was responsible for the work of the Far East Commercial Bank.
In the future, the Far East will also send a large number of grassroots management cadres and political work cadres to enrich the base areas of the guerrilla detachments after they have been established. As a base for the management of the area.
In the next few days, the Shanxi guerrilla detachment began to be intensively reorganized. Five guerrilla detachments were formed. Each detachment was still organized according to the Shanxi guerrilla detachment. It's just that at present, all detachments are in a state of shortage, and the personnel can only be replenished after they arrive in various places.
In order to improve the combat effectiveness of each detachment, the Far Eastern Company transferred a number of elite cadres and technical units from the Far East to form units directly under the detachment, all of which are equipped with modern weapons, which greatly enhanced the combat effectiveness of each detachment.
A brigade was drawn from the Overseas Corps. The six battalions of the brigade were reinforced to the Luliangshan base area and five guerrilla detachments, all equipped with war horses to form a cavalry battalion. In addition, an artillery battery was equipped with two 70-mm infantry guns and four 60-mm mortars for the Luliangshan base area and the units directly under the five guerrilla detachments. One engineer company, one reconnaissance company. and a number of logistical support units.
The main force of the guerrilla detachment is three guerrilla brigade brigades with a mixture of spearmen, musketeers, and sword and shield men, and seven squadrons, including five spear squadrons, two musket squadrons, and one sword and shield squadron. Each brigade headquarters and the team directly under the brigade are also equipped with a squad equipped with 10 Huzun artillery guns, a cavalry reconnaissance squadron, an engineer squadron, and a logistics squadron.
Each guerrilla detachment has more than 6,000 personnel, and at present there is a shortage of more than 10,000 personnel in the five guerrilla detachments.
After three days of reorganization, the officers and men of the former Shanxi guerrilla detachment began to conduct intensive training for more than 10,000 militiamen. Although the time was tight and the task was heavy, the instructors who had just been promoted immediately entered the role and conducted inhumane training for the militia.
They were tortured by the soldiers of the Far Eastern Overseas Brigade for several months, and now they finally found a channel to vent and desperately destroy their militia. Two trips a day to carry five kilometers of cross-country loads, ten hours of queue, physical fitness, weapon mastery and military formation training during the day, anyway, it is not fast to sharpen guns in battle, because the time is urgent, they can only grow up in the war.
Half a month later, support from the Far East arrived in Shanxi one after another, and except for some horses, other materials, including cold weapons, muskets, clothing, shoes and hats, food, and other materials, had all arrived at the Luliang base area.
Li Ming organized everyone to carry out another reorganization, and the various supporting units were organized into various guerrilla detachments, and after a short period of adaptation and training, the five newly organized guerrilla detachments in the Far East were set up as a shelf.
Most of the cadres and noncommissioned officers of the unit were transferred from various units of the Central Military Commission, which basically ensured the combat effectiveness of the troops, and after strengthening modern artillery and other equipment, the firepower of various guerrilla detachments could sweep the world even at the end of the Qing Dynasty.
Song Tao and the special combat team also rushed back from various places, and with the cooperation of the airship troops, they worked out the marching routes of the five guerrilla detachments. Several guerrilla detachments entered Shaanxi, Henan, Shandong, Nanzhili and Ningxia and Gansu. They will grow stronger in constant battles, and then establish bases and do their best to collect the displaced people. (To be continued......)