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Chapter 763: Hiding troops from the people

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    Li Guoyao, who did not know that the danger was about to come, knew nothing about the vicious plan of the North China Front Army Headquarters. At this time, he was training new recruits in Xiong'er Mountain.

    After the battle, Li Guoyao ordered all units to send all the rescued prisoners of war and miners to the headquarters for unified training.

    At the same time, all propaganda teams were sent out and asked to go deep into the countryside to publicize the brutality of the Japanese army and anti-Japanese policies.

    The main force also went deep into various towns and villages near Xiong'er Mountain to form grassroots political power and began large-scale recruitment.

    As the reputation of the Shandong Guerrilla Corps spread throughout southwestern Shandong, the common people gradually recognized Li Guoyao's troops. I heard that it was Li Guoyao's troops who were recruiting troops, and a large number of young and middle-aged people took the initiative to join the troops.

    For a time, almost every village in the entire Xiong'er Mountain Area had young men and women joining the national army.

    This is a good thing for Li Guoyao and the entire Shandong Guerrilla Corps. Firstly, these young people who are familiar with the terrain will join the army, which will further enhance the army's guerrilla warfare capabilities. Secondly, these recruits are related to the local people.  Therefore, their participation tied the interests of the Shandong Guerrilla Corps to the local people, which was beneficial to the future development of the army and the cause of the Anti-Japanese War.

    Half a month later, the Shandong Guerrilla Corps conducted statistics on its troops and found that after half a month of recruitment, the army had recruited more than 4,000 soldiers from various local villages alone.

    Including the previously rescued prisoners of war and the puppet troops on the battlefield, the number of recruits in the Shandong Guerrilla Corps exceeded 9,000.

    If the old troops had not suffered heavy losses in this battle, the Shandong Guerrilla Corps would now have considerable strength.

    However, many things only have results and not ifs. The casualties of thousands of main troops have greatly reduced the combat effectiveness of the Shandong Guerrilla Corps. Even if the recruits recruited are twice as many as the casualties, in terms of combat effectiveness, the troops are not only  Instead of improving, it dropped a lot.

    Many people will ask at this time, although the strength of the army has obviously increased, why has its combat effectiveness declined?

    In fact, this kind of thing happened often in history. For example, in the late Northern Song Dynasty, the number of troops increased year by year, but their combat effectiveness became weaker and weaker.

    At the end of the Song Dynasty, less than 100,000 Jin troops captured Kaifeng, Tokyo, the largest city in the world and the capital of the Northern Song Dynasty. The two emperors of Huiqin and more than 2,000 people including the harem, officials, and craftsmen were escorted to a bitter cold place where dripping water turned into ice.

    Friends who have read "Water Margin" know that the leopard-headed Lin Chong in it is known as the instructor of the 800,000 Imperial Army in Tokyo. It can be seen that the total military strength of the Song Dynasty exceeded 800,000, but such a large number of troops could not stop the 100,000 golden soldiers. It is really surprising  Puzzled.

    In fact, the combat effectiveness of the troops in the early Song Dynasty was still very strong. Song Taizu followed the imperial army system of Chai Rong, Shizong of the later Zhou Dynasty, and transferred the country's elite soldiers to the capital and incorporated them into the imperial army.  In the early days of the founding of the Song Dynasty, the number of troops nationwide was less than 300,000, of which only more than 100,000 were the Forbidden Army.

    But Song Taizu was worthy of being a professional soldier. He relied on this small family fortune to collect the two lakes, enter Sichuan, restore Lingnan, and merge with Jiangnan, basically unifying the southern region.

    By the time his younger brother Song Taizong Zhao Guangyi was on the throne, the number of Song Dynasty troops doubled to more than 600,000, and the actual number of forbidden troops was close to 300,000. China's traditional territory was finally unified in the hands of Song Taizong.

    But in the battle against the Liao Dynasty, Song Taizong's performance was not satisfactory. In the two Northern Expeditions, the Song army was defeated again and again, and its troops lost 150,000 to 200,000.  The two major defeats made the Song people fear Liao, and they no longer had the ambition to regain Yanyun's area.

    During the Song Zhenzong period, there were no major wars in the Song Dynasty, so the emphasis on the army was greatly reduced.  But during the reign of Emperor Renzong of the Song Dynasty, the Dangxiang tribe in the northwest rose, and its leader Li Yuanhao openly proclaimed himself emperor, and the country was named Daxia.

    In the battle in Xixia, the Song army lost more than it won, and all the troops and horses in the northwest were almost exhausted; the Daliao Kingdom in the north and the small affiliated country Jiaozhi in the south were both ready to move.  Under such a critical situation, the number of troops of the Song Army reached its historical peak, with a total strength of more than 1.4 million. This number was the largest army in the Central Plains dynasty of China except the Ming Dynasty.

    In addition to the need for foreign wars, the reason why the number of troops in the Song Dynasty increased significantly was to maintain stability.  In order to prevent domestic peasant uprisings and eliminate domestic instability, once a famine occurs in a certain place, the Song Dynasty government will go to the local area to recruit troops and integrate all the elites into the Forbidden Army.

    Therefore, although the number of troops in the Song Dynasty continued to increase, their combat effectiveness declined.  In the wars with Liao and Xixia, the Song army was often at a disadvantage and could onlyContinue to increase the number of troops to make up for the lack of combat effectiveness.  The Song Dynasty fell into this vicious cycle of getting weaker and weaker, and getting weaker and weaker.

    In the early days of the Song Dynasty, the main force fought against the Liao Kingdom in the direction of Hebei. In the more than 40 years since the establishment of the Song Dynasty, the Song Army and the Liao Army launched repeated contests.  The two sides are evenly matched and have been in a state of confrontation.

    But after the Chanyuan Alliance in 1004, the Song Dynasty and the Liao Dynasty reached peace talks. Since then, there has been no war between the Song Dynasty and the Liao Dynasty. The people of Dai Bai did not understand military revolution.  While the peace talks brought peace to the two countries, the combat effectiveness of the armies of both countries declined rapidly.

    In the next 30 years, the combat effectiveness of various armies in Hebei during the Song Dynasty declined significantly, and they eventually became mere charlatans.

    In addition, the number of the army is really not worthy of the name. At the beginning of the establishment of the Song Dynasty, the number of the army was real. However, with the political corruption, the establishment of the Song Dynasty army became unworthy of the name, which is commonly known as "short quota".  During the reign of Song Huizong, the "genius emperor", the corruption of the Song Dynasty's army was no longer something to be attached to.

    The current problems faced by the Shandong Guerrilla Corps are actually similar to the situation at the end of the Song Dynasty. Due to several consecutive fights with the Japanese army, a large number of elites were killed, and the newly recruited soldiers were all freshmen without much training.  Before these new recruits complete their recruit training, none of the three of them may be the opponent of the original veterans.

    When such a state is quantified, the gap in combat effectiveness is very obvious.

    Fortunately, Li Guoyao was already prepared for this. This situation would happen every time the troops were expanded, but there was no need to worry. He just had to train with peace of mind, wait until these new recruits were almost trained, and then take them to fight on the battlefield.  Let them fight.

    If you want to make these recruits grow up quickly, you can also let them train in battle. Although the casualties will be greater, the trained soldiers will be stronger and more aggressive.

    However, the troops had just experienced a major war and were in urgent need of rest and recuperation, so Li Guoyao did not order the troops to attack.

    "But what Li Guoyao didn't expect was that he didn't take any action, but the little devil took the initiative to provoke them.

    On the night of June 26, a group of cavalry wearing Japanese military uniforms quietly emerged from Shanting County and headed straight to a village in the Xiong'er Mountain area dozens of kilometers away.

    The village is located in the northwest of Xiong'er Mountain District, called Lizhuang. It is a small village with a population of only more than 300 people.

    Because it is close to the Xiong'er Mountain Area, the Japanese army built a small stronghold here before. However, after it was captured by Li Guoyao's troops, the stronghold was removed by the Chinese army.

    After that, a small unit from the first column of the Shandong Guerrilla Corps stationed here. On the one hand, it developed secretly, and on the other hand, it was to monitor the movements of the Japanese and puppet troops in Shanting City.

    Small units like this are very common in the Shandong Guerrilla Corps. Almost all larger villages will have small units of the national army stationed. A larger village may have two to three hundred people stationed, and a smaller village may only have a dozen or so troops stationed.  people.

    Li Guoyao borrowed this strategy from the Gui Army to hide troops from the people. The Gui Army was the most powerful force among the local armies during the Republic of China.  Although it is a local army, it has participated in almost all the battles of the national army's frontal battlefields. The reason why it has become an iron army that everyone praises has a lot to do with the thought of leading troops by the leader of the Guangxi Army, Chief Li.

    First, Chief Li, who was in charge of Guangxi, attached great importance to armaments. Second, the Guangxi Army was better equipped, even better than the Central Army. Third, the Guangxi Army had good discipline and received much support from the people, so its morale was high.

    Before the Anti-Japanese War, Chief Li strengthened war preparations by "hiding troops among the people".  Soldiers return to their hometowns after joining the army for two years, recruit new soldiers for training, and the cycle repeats. Although the standing army is small, there are many retired veterans who have undergone military training in their hometowns.

    When soldiers are recruited for the Anti-Japanese War, veterans who have received military training can form combat effectiveness once they join the army.  Most of the weapons of the Guangxi Army were purchased from Germany, and all soldiers wore Czech-style steel helmets.

    All these factors have created the Gui Army¡¯s powerful combat effectiveness!

    Now that the Shandong Guerrilla Corps has its own territory, Li Guoyao will not waste it. He also wants to learn this strategy of hiding troops from the people, but he did not expect that it would bring huge disasters to the people in the base area.  (Remember the website address: www.hlnovel.com
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