Chapter Fifteen: The System of People's Hearts

  "One two one, one two one..."

  In the early morning, Longcun Village was filled with the sound of Jianzhou Security Regiment's morning run. A team of 200 people, wearing neat military uniforms and holding M1 Garands, were running through the village. These soldiers had all cut off their queues.

  These days, the villagers of Longcun have become accustomed to this. They work from dawn till dusk, and the Jianzhou Security Team has not disturbed them. On the contrary, they have often helped the villagers do good deeds in recent days.

  No, after breakfast, Xia Jun led the soldiers in the team to help the villagers dig a well. The ancient well in the village has not been producing water recently, which has brought some trouble to the villagers.

  The security team was digging a well, and the villagers saw it and came to help voluntarily. As a result, it only took half a day to dig a well.

  Xia Jun then found a stone mason and had him engrave a stone tablet with the words "Military and civilians are one family". In the afternoon, Xia Jun took some grain and oil to visit and comfort the elderly and poor households in the countryside.

  "If there are difficulties, look for our security team. The security team will definitely solve them for everyone." Xia Jun says this every time he visits a family.

  This way of showing off has become very popular in later generations. Usually when showing off, there are media present, then a burst of photography, and then it goes on TV.

  After taking pictures, just pat your butt and leave, actually it has no effect at all, purely for show.

  However, Xia Jun's show is different. He intends to seriously tackle the difficulties faced by his compatriots, which makes a fundamental difference from just showing off.

  He was so positive because yesterday Xia Jun activated the 'Civil Heart System', and the platform assistant program reminded him that winning civil hearts can also earn points.

  Since doing some good deeds for the villagers in the past few days, this system of people's hearts has been activated. The population of Long Village is over 300 households, with a total of over 1,300 people.

  When it was first launched, the data on the platform showed that the average person in the village could generate 0.1 points per month, which means they can get 130 points per month.

  According to the platform assistant program, each person can produce 10 points per month, mainly looking at their support for Xia Jun and others.

  Currently displayed on the exchange platform, the villagers of Long Village have a calm and wait-and-see attitude towards the security team.

  And on that day, Xia Jun helped the village to dig a well and comforted them everywhere. The platform showed that the villagers' attitude had changed to - slightly supportive.

  Each person can generate an average of 1 point per month.

  Xia Jun thought, if he shouted out a slogan about equally dividing the land now, it would probably instantly boost the people's morale. However, once he shouts out this slogan, it will be hard for him to mix in afterwards!

  Now I am active in rural areas, and local government basically doesn't care about anything unless they have to. Those officials just want to make money and don't care how you do things.

  If the slogan of equal distribution of land is shouted out, it will immediately affect the interests of the landlord class. Once the interests of the landlord class are affected, local officials cannot help but take action.

  At the same time, Xia Jun felt that equal distribution of land had no benefits at all. In an industrially developed country, agricultural population is absolutely a minority, and once the land is equally distributed, it will trap labor in a few acres of land. Fujian's arable land was already scarce, how many acres could one household get? To develop industry, wouldn't they have to re-consolidate the land again in the end?

  If the ruling class continues to move, it will push many talents to the opposite side, and don't think about doing any industry smoothly. Xia Jun's ideal is to establish a superpower, and such violent means are unacceptable.

  Even if the land is divided equally, its purpose is only to eliminate the gap between the rich and the poor. Why not strive to increase wealth and then control it through policies?

  Xia Jun now has this wonderful exchange platform, and the means of dividing up the land is not suitable for him at all, it would only make him lose out.

  In comparison, the way of obtaining points in Da Tu Pian is not as impressive as the way of obtaining points in Min Xin system.

  Bandits are fewer and fewer as they are beaten, and have won the hearts of the people, earning points every month.

  Bandits want to fight, people's hearts also need to be won over.

  Xia Jun trained the new recruits of the Security Regiment for several days and then organized them into 18 companies.

  18 troops were divided into 5 squads of 3 troops each. The 5 squads were then formed into 1 company, 1 reconnaissance squad, 1 machine gun squad, and the other three troops became 1 cooking squad, 1 communication squad, and 1 guard squad (13 people).

  Xia Jun exchanged equipment for 200 soldiers again and also exchanged 2 Madsen heavy machine guns, spending 6,760 points, leaving 56,740 points remaining.

  When exchanging equipment, Xia Jun was too lazy to pretend and directly exchanged equipment in the military warehouse of Long Village. As for where the equipment came from, let them guess!

  The lower equipment was issued, and the squad leaders of the five squads were selected one after another. Lin Chenggui became a squad leader, and now there is only one company, he became the company commander, what about Xia Jun, the regiment commander?

  The original Class 1 has been disbanded, either becoming the head of a class or the deputy head of a class, and then Xia Jun launched a new training.

  Scout platoon and machine gun platoon conduct separate combat training.

  The training program for the reconnaissance team was the most complicated, and Xia Jun bought a "Reconnaissance Soldier Training Manual" in the system data column, and looked at it all day.

  Scouts are a special type of soldier in regular troops, and specialized scouts require superhuman military qualities. The actions of scouts are even faster and more flexible, with higher requirements for individual physical fitness, agility and comprehensive combat awareness. It can be said that scouts are the "special forces" within regular troops.

  The role of scouts is to gather important military intelligence and carry out sabotage strikes against the enemy's important military or transportation, communication facilities in the rear.

  In general, the tasks of scouts include 'topographic mapping', 'map making', and sneaking behind enemy lines to strike and destroy transportation, ammunition depots, fuel depots, hospitals, enemy command centers, and prisoner-of-war camps. There are two ways to do this: one is to guide artillery fire to these targets for destruction, the other is to conduct sabotage alone, using large-caliber sniper rifles, explosives and other weapons.

  Xia Jun sighed after reading, now it's not yet qualified to develop regular scout troops! First of all, these scouts must have a certain level of culture, otherwise how can they draw maps? How can they guide the direction of artillery fire.

  But scouts aren't something that can be dispensed with, without scouts it's like being blind, Xia Jun gritted his teeth and bought a manual on terrain mapping and map production as well as map drawing tools on the platform.

  Teaching a group of illiterates to draw maps is an extremely daunting task.

  At this time, the military camp of the security team was on the open space outside the village, and it did not occupy any strategic location, but occupied a large area of flat land, which was very suitable for training. A warehouse was being built on this open space, and usually Xia Jun and the soldiers in the team lived in tents and absolutely did not live in civilian houses.

  Warning lines have been drawn on the empty land, and unrelated personnel are not allowed to approach.

  The villagers could see the soldiers of the security team being trained to death every day. Xia Jun already had a certain foundation at this time and was not afraid that the training would be too hard to drive people away, and the amount of training increased day by day. Of course, he still had a sense of proportion in his heart about how much each soldier could withstand.

  The most trained are obstacle cross-country, rapid march and long-distance marching training, as well as trench warfare training and anti-trench warfare training.

  This is training for ordinary soldiers, and the cultivation of officers is also underway. Every day, Xia Jun brainwashes them and instills military ideas in them.

  "Our troops are centered around machine guns in combat, and to bring out the power of machine guns, apart from crossfire, we must also work with barbed wire. Barbed wire can hinder the enemy's charge, and after the enemy attacks, they will inevitably destroy the barbed wire, but if it is destroyed on a large scale by manpower, they will have to pay a huge price. But if it is destroyed on a small scale, then the enemy will inevitably concentrate together when attacking, and similarly fall into being slaughtered."

  "Squad leader, what if we're the attackers?" Zhang Sidao listened intently and asked as soon as Xia Jun finished speaking.

  "Before the infantry charges, use artillery to bombard first. When the infantry charges, explosive tubes can be used. This weapon has a very good destructive effect on barbed wire, and at the same time, use snipers to attack the enemy's machine gunners." Xia Jun replied.

  "Oh!"

  The current enemy we are facing basically does not engage in trench warfare, so training for this aspect can be slowed down a bit. Xia Jun is not in a hurry, so anti-trench training is only done occasionally.

  In the era without aircraft and tanks, the means of breaking through trenches were limited. It basically relied on the crazy bombing of artillery and the use of human waves. Judging from the process of World War I, such methods had little effect, and both sides eventually evolved into a war of attrition.