Warlord: Red Alert Base, I challenge the whole world alone

Chapter 22: Forming an Experimental Mechanized Force

Jiang Hua has always been very concerned about the developments in Chengbei. Judging from this trend, war will break out in at most half a month.

The base's daily funding is now.

An infantry division has about 180 million people, and the personnel expenditure alone is 300 million, plus weapons and equipment, a total of about million.

For the base, it is only 11 days.

In other words, he can still hold on for a while and build up another infantry division.

Now he is not in a hurry to launch an attack.

In fact, in addition to recruiting another 4th Infantry Division, Jiang Hua also wanted to set up an experimental force.

He positioned this force as a mechanized force.

Now, whether it is the 1st Division, the 2nd Division or the 4th Infantry Division that is about to be formed, they are all positioned as motorized units.

Although he reinforced each division with a tank regiment, strictly speaking it was a motorized force.

Because trucks cannot keep up with the speed of tanks.

Therefore, among the three divisions, tanks are more used to support combat, rather than like mechanized troops, where all tactics revolve around tanks with stronger assault capabilities.

Therefore, he believed that it was necessary to form an experimental mechanized force.

Although the terrain of the Northern Reef Province is not very suitable for mechanized troops.

But this does not mean that mechanized troops cannot fight on such terrain. It’s just that some terrains are difficult to pass through, and the assault speed may not be very fast.

Of course there is another reason, which is funding.

Mechanized units can cost more to build than motorized units.

So the funds you have now may not be enough.

"Zhuang Hua, come to my place."

Just because you don’t have enough funds doesn’t mean you have no money.

His money is still in the hands of some people, and now is the time to take it out and use it.

"commander!"

Zhuang Hua's office was on the same floor as his, so Zhuang Hua quickly came to his office.

"How's the list of landlords and gentry being compiled? How's the investigation going?"

Zhuang Hua also serves as the temporary chief minister of the military government, so he is also responsible for this matter.

Zhuang Hua attached great importance to this matter, so a lot of data was in his mind. After thinking for a moment, he began to report to Jiang Hua.

"Chishan was the first to collect statistics. After we took over the six counties of Yingzhou, Yulong, Dongsui, Guyu, Tianshan, and Xilin, we collected evidence of their crimes according to the Chishan model.

Except for Tianshan and Xilin counties, where the situation is somewhat complicated, the statistics of the other four counties have been completed and the militia forces have been formed.

Although they are not yet combat-ready, they can still be used to deal with these landlords and gentry without any problems."

Jiang Hua's eyes narrowed, a hint of coldness flashed in them, and he said quietly, "Then let's start according to the plan and eradicate all these cancers for me."

There are many bandits in Tianshan and Xilin counties, and the Second Regiment is still suppressing them, so progress is slow.

However, the landlords and gentry in the four counties had considerable assets, which were sufficient to form an experimental mechanized force.

There is a newly built barracks less than 500 meters away from the town government of Guyu County and Dayushu Town, where the militia squadron of Dayushu Town receives training.

This militia squadron has 7 squads under its jurisdiction. Because there are seven natural villages under Dayushu Village, each natural village has a squad of soldiers, totaling 260 people.

There are only more than 120 people currently undergoing training here, which is equivalent to three infantry platoons in terms of troop size.

The person in charge of training this militia squadron was Zhang Hao, a platoon leader of a company of the former First Infantry Division.

Because he was injured in combat and could no longer exert too much force with his left hand, he was assigned here to serve as the captain of the militia squadron.

Since it was time for lunch, everyone in the group took a lunch box filled with steamed buns and pickles and squatted together to eat.

Zhang Hao also joined the crowd and quickly became friends with these militiamen who came from poor backgrounds.

"Captain, can I ask why you joined the army? Was it because you couldn't survive?"

There is a popular saying in this era: Good iron is not used to make nails, and good men do not become soldiers.

Being a soldier has always been considered a lowly profession in the minds of the people. In addition, the situation is so chaotic now. Unless they can't survive, who would be willing to pick up a gun and join the army?

When the surrounding soldiers heard this question, they all turned their heads, obviously wanting to hear what Zhang Hao had to say.

"What? You want to hear everything?"

When Zhang Hao saw them asking this, he immediately chuckled and asked.

"We want to listen, we all want to listen!"

It immediately aroused a chorus of agreement.

Seeing this, Zhang Hao immediately took a bite of the steamed bun and looked up at the sky with eyes that looked particularly deep.

“There are five people in my family, including my parents, my lovely brother and sister. Although we are not rich, we are very happy.

Until one day, the family's harvest was poor, so they asked the landlord to borrow money.

But it is not so easy to borrow money from the landlord. My father could not pay it back, and the landlord ordered his servants to break his legs. Later, he died of tetanus.

My mother went to the landlord's house to try to reason, and then he chopped off her hands and feet. When I collected my mother's body, the blood had already dyed the ground red.

My silly brother was not convinced, but he also knew that he was no match for the landlord, so he looked for an opportunity to seize the landlord's land.

He got his revenge, but he also died because the landlord believed that he was the one who did it, and it was indeed him who did it.

Because he burned the landlord's land, the landlord burned him to death.

But the landlord was still not satisfied. How could he let the loss of a piece of land be resolved by burning my brother to death? So he forcibly took my sister and made her his slave.

I escaped and I joined the army, and that's what happened to me."

Zhang Hao was a Red Alert soldier, so how could he have such experience? He said this just as an introduction.

However, it must be said that his acting skills are still very good, with rich voice and emotion, which aroused everyone's hatred towards the landlord.

Everyone fell silent after hearing this, and some people even had red eyes.

There is anger, empathy, sadness...and so on.

"To be honest, we all come from poor backgrounds, and I'm afraid few of us haven't been oppressed by landlords. Da Heiwa, you hate landlords the most, so tell me about it."

The big black boy Zhang Hao mentioned got his name because of his dark skin.

"My family is actually similar to the squadron leader's. We have three mu of land with five people in our family, but we have to pay 200 kilograms of grain as rent to the landlord every year, and we also have to pay more than ten yuan in various taxes.

So my family owed the landlord more than a hundred dollars, and the annual interest alone was more than thirty dollars.

My family also raised two cows, and we had to pay three dollars in rent to the landlord every month.

I don't have a younger sister, but I have two younger brothers. Every year, I work for the landlord to pay off his debts. However, after several years, the money has not been paid off, and the debts are getting bigger and bigger, so much that I can't pay it off in my lifetime.

I heard that being a militiaman here pays five dollars a month, and that you only have to train three days out of seven, so I decided to join the army here."

At this time, another thin militiaman stood up.

“Let me also tell you about my experience.

I wanted to study since I was a child, but the landlord wouldn't let me. He said that I was of low birth and unfit to be a scholar, and that I could only be a slave in his family. I could only learn to read secretly with a tattered book.

But the landlord found out, tore up all my books, and beat me up."

"I'd also like to say that my sister was married to a landlord's stupid son when she was 16 years old. However, after the marriage, she was taken over by the landlord.

Then my sister was spotted by the landlord again, who raped her and wanted to sell her to a brothel.

I was protecting my sister at the time, and the landlord beat me half to death. Later, my sister also jumped into the well."

One by one, the militiamen stood up and told about the days when they were oppressed and exploited by the landlords, and the crowd was very excited.

If the landlord appeared in front of them now, they would want to eat him alive.

Zhang Hao had been listening attentively the entire time, and when he saw the time was right, he said, "I wonder if you've noticed anything in common between our experiences."

When everyone's eyes were focused on him, Zhang Hao continued, "Landlords, it is the evil landlords and gentry who have caused our misery.

The landlords treated us as slaves, not letting us have enough food to eat, not letting us wear good clothes, and not even treating us as human beings. It was impossible for them to see us live a good life.

If you want to live a good life, there is only one way, and that is to defeat them.

There is an opportunity before us now.”

After saying that, Zhang Hao took out a document from his pocket and shook it in front of everyone.

"This document was issued by the military government. Our Commander Jiang deeply understands the sufferings of the world and is well aware of the crimes these landlords have committed against us.

So now let us take up our weapons, overthrow all the landlords who have abused us, divide up their fields and lands, and take back what belongs to us."

Upon hearing this, the militiamen obeyed without even eating, and rushed out of the camp with their weapons in hand.

Their first target was Zhang Jia, the largest landlord in Dayushu Town.

These scenes are not only happening in Dayushu Town.

In the past few days, it has happened in almost every town and village in the six counties of Chishan, Jianping, Yingzhou, Yulong, Dongsui and Guyu.

This day is the nightmare of all landlords.

Angry militiamen rushed into the landlords' homes with guns.

When enemies meet, they are extremely jealous of each other. If there were no discipline, these landlords would probably be beaten to pieces.

In just three days, a cleansing operation targeting landlords was launched throughout the central and northern regions of Beire Province.

It was at this time that Jiang Hua realized how rich these landlords were.

Just taking gold and silver as an example, the amount of silver sent from all over the country has exceeded 800 million, not counting the gold and silver that has been cast into silver and gold ingots.

There are also their land deeds, shops, antique calligraphy and paintings, precious medicinal materials, etc.

A rough estimate shows that it is worth at least 20 million yuan.

This wave of actions was also a great harvest for Jiang Hua.

After he had the money, he started spending it to build this experimental mechanized force.

He also wanted to see whether this mechanized force could demonstrate its strong combat capability in this war.

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