Chapter 22 Military Training Film

  At the end of October, Xia Jun established the 'Hanzhong Party'.

  The so-called "Hanzheng Party" was a party established to carry out Xia Zhi's dictatorial will, and at this time Xia Zhi had already begun to consider things after the Xinhai Revolution.

  In this era, many enlightened people were members of the Revolutionary Party. In order not to be assimilated by the Revolutionary Party, Xia Jun established the Hanmin Party.

  When it was first established, the main members of the Hanmin Party were more than 60 literati recruited. In the past month, there have been continuous influxes of literati into the Security Corps.

  Xia Jun felt it was necessary to establish a party in order to better manage them and provide them with "ideological education".

  He appointed himself as the chairman of the Hanmin Party, while the vice-chairman position remained vacant.

  Zhang Si Gou, the Minister of Intelligence, has now performed like a most loyal dog, and was appointed by Xia Jun as the 'Deputy Director of the Propaganda Department of the Hanmin Party'.

  You Zhengbin was appointed as 'Director of the Propaganda Department', You Zhengbin himself did not have much of a literary air, but more for the sake of living.

  Confucian scholars no longer have a legitimate status, and You Zhengbin also listened to Xia Jun's words, but in terms of brainwashing ability, You Zhengbin is still not as good as Zhang Sige.

  Because Zhang Si Dog is not only obedient, but also shameless. The slogans loyal to Xia Jun change one every day, yet many of these slogans are taught by Xia Jun, and it's hard for Xia Jun to say such things to You Zhengbin.

  "We must always unite around Comrade Xia Jun, and only by establishing a national rejuvenation team with Comrade Xia Jun as the leadership core can we make the great Han nation move towards glory..."

  "Our party's core tenet is to revive the nation. What we are doing is not a violent revolution, but a gentle revival. Whether you are poor or rich, everyone can live a better life in this revival..."

  "We must follow the will of the Chairman and strive to implement the thoughts of the Chairman..."

  Zhang Sigou shouted slogans every day, Zhang Sigou was in charge of shouting slogans, and You Zhengbin was responsible for taking out actual examples to convince the literati within the party.

  The most convincing is undoubtedly the strength of the security team's armed forces, as well as the high-yielding crops owned by the security team and the autonomous system in Xixiang.

  Promoting the strength of the security team is to consolidate the confidence of party members, and high-yielding crops can also enhance the confidence and sense of identity of party members. The most effective way to strengthen this sense of identity is through an autonomous system.

  Xia Jun was in charge of strengthening their national ideology. Xia Jun spent a long time buying many short films from systematic materials and made three military education films.

  They are "The Formation of the Great Han Nationality", "The Glory of the Great Han Nationality" and "The Blood, Tears and Decline of the Great Han Nationality". These three military educational films were not only shown to soldiers but also to scholars.

  Under various means, the ideology within the security team has been greatly unified and strengthened, and its cohesion has also increased significantly.

  Xia Jun's required teaching team was also formed, the teaching team is responsible for supervising military discipline within the army, as well as counting battle results, and also to strengthen ideological education for soldiers, and help them solve their troubles.

  The telegraph training class was also established. Zhang Sigou dug out three telegraph operators from the Jianning Prefecture government office with a large sum of money, and the telegraph training class quickly got underway.

  Telegrams aren't too complicated, as long as you can receive and send them, and look up the meanings in a codebook.

  Xia Jun exchanged a high-power wireless radio in the system, installed this wireless radio transmitter and receiver on the top of Xixiang's highest peak - Pantian Rock, and then connected it to Longcun with a line.

  This wireless telegraph station can serve not only for telegram but also for broadcasting construction.

  At the same time, Xia Jun started setting up telephone lines. The telephone line was not too long, only covering several outposts in Xixiang. However, the construction of radio stations and telephones still cost Xia Jun nearly 5,000 points.

  These facilities were all set up by Xia Jun directly hiring technical personnel from the exchange platform, and the setup speed was very fast, which made Xia Jun very satisfied.

  In terms of energy, Xixiang can only rely on hydropower.

  According to the engineering column of the platform, Xixiang can build 13 small hydropower stations with a total power generation capacity of 4,500 kilowatt-hours.

  Xia Jun spent 1000 points to build a ultra-small hydropower station with an installed capacity of 130 kilowatts in Longjingtou, and hired technical personnel to set up the power lines. This ultra-small hydropower station is already sufficient for the current electricity needs.

  The communication of the security team and the basic electricity have been solved, and there is not much problem on the side of the teaching team. As for the training of soldiers, Xia Jun has become a lot easier.

  Although 400 people were recruited into the team, Xia Jun's security team had been established for nearly three months. Lin Chenggui and other squad leaders could also help train these new soldiers, which solved many things that originally needed to be done by Xia Jun, so Xia Jun was much more relaxed.

  The 400 new recruits were organized into three companies, each with three infantry platoons, a cooking squad, a machine gun squad (equipped with two machine guns), two scouts, two communication soldiers, and two company commanders, six deputy platoon leaders, with a standard strength of 133 men per company, totaling 399 people.

  Xia Junyuan's original company was reorganized as the 1st Company, while these second-line troops were numbered from 21 to 23, leaving the vacant numbers for the first-line troops.

  Although he had Xia Ge's help in training new recruits, Xia Jun was still busy to the point where his feet couldn't keep up with him. He felt like he was racing against time.

  The year after the Xinhai Revolution is about to arrive.

  One must establish a certain foundation before the Xinhai Revolution arrives in order to achieve sufficient results in the great transformation.

  As the troops' formation was determined, training also got on the right track. Xia Jun withdrew the three classes arranged at the sentry post and then dispersed the 21st company to various sentry posts.

  Xia Jun inspected for several days and determined 9 outposts, each outpost dispatched a squad to garrison, and each squad was equipped with a heavy machine gun.

  These sentry posts are not only distributed on the 4 roads leading out of the countryside, but there are also 5 sentry posts on important roads within the countryside. These sentry posts are mainly used to check passing personnel and prevent bandits. The five sentry posts are located at key road sections, and most villages where bandits commit crimes must pass through one of these sentry posts.

  The 22nd and 23rd Regiments were dispatched to suppress bandits outside the county. The two regiments that were dispatched would be dispersed into company-level units, a total of six companies, responsible for 'Xiaosong, Mabang, Dong'an area', 'Dongfeng, Dongyou, Shunyang, Shuiyuan area', 'Chuanshi, Zhenghe, Songxi area', 'Xiaoqiao, Yushan area', 'Nanya, Daheng area', and 'Xudun, Jiyang area'.

  These six detachments extended to Jianyang, Nanping and Zhejiang respectively. The six detachments were responsible for clearing the bandits within their respective areas and could also coordinate with the main force through radio communication to carry out clearance work.

  Xia Jun plans to train for another two months, during which he will first deal with the bandits in Xixiang and let the second-line troops accumulate some combat experience. After the New Year, they will be sent out to suppress the bandits.

  The scouting team has already investigated the bandits in Xixiang and got a clear picture of them. The lair of these bandits has also been investigated, and there are still four groups of bandits in the whole Xixiang.

  The largest of the four groups of bandits has a population of about 100 people, and they have recently settled down in Xixiang. Originally, after the autumn harvest was the time when bandit activity was most rampant, but this year Xixiang did not experience any incidents of bandits attacking villages.

  Those four groups of bandits have all fled to the countryside to commit crimes, apparently intimidated by the strong strength of the security team. These bandits generally have informants.

  These bandits must have been to Long Village before, seeing the well-equipped security team, they would naturally feel deeply inferior. Compared with the equipment of the security team, it's simply a difference between the rich and the poor.

  But this does not mean that Xia Jun will let them off, on November 16th, Xia Jun led the 1st, 22nd and 23rd Regiments to launch a surprise attack on the bandits at White Fog Ridge under the cover of night.

  The number of bandits in Baiwuling is the largest, with more than 100 people. This group of bandits follows the principle that rabbits do not eat grass at the edge of their nests and rarely plunder in Xixiang, but often run to Jianyang to plunder.

  The bandits on White Fog Ridge hadn't even reacted yet when they were caught by the security team up in the mountains.

  Xia Jun was not afraid of casualties at this time, and the two companies directly rushed up the mountain. Under the moonlight, they had a fierce gun battle with the bandits. The strong firepower of the security team firmly occupied the upper hand.

  The battle ended at 3 am, and the bandits of Baifeng Ridge were completely annihilated.

  This battle killed more than 60 bandits, captured nearly 80 people, and Xia Jun obtained a cumulative score of over 20,000 points. The leader of the White Fog Ridge bandits, Hu Fei Tian, was killed, contributing 3,000 points to Xia Jun. It seems that he is not as evil as Lu Haoshen after all.

  The security team had more than ten people injured and two killed in this battle.

  Pressing the crowd back to Long Village, Xia Jun gave 50 silver dollars to the families of the fallen soldiers. At this time, the business was just starting out and funds were insufficient, so it was not suitable to give too much consolation money.

  Fifty silver dollars seem like a lot, but they can only buy tens of stones of grain. Is a person's life worth only tens of stones of grain?

  And still martyrs who dedicated their lives to the country.

  So Xia Jun had Yu Zhengbin set up a special archive room, where he carefully collected the information of the fallen soldiers. Later, every month, they would send some subsidies to their families, and when the mission was accomplished, they would be properly comforted.

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  The third watch!