The heavens start from Changjin Lake

Chapter 363 External Expansion
Due to the change in the strategy of external expansion, after the bandit incident ended, after three days of steady development, after the bandits and the newly joined Red Army soldiers gradually adapted to the internal rhythm of the Red Army, Xia Yuan decided to start external expansion.

Time waits for no one. The exposure of Nianping Village is only a matter of time. The most important thing is that the Red Army in Xihankou needs a solid and reliable backup.

That night, the company held a meeting of cadres, and Xia Yuan began to formulate the next policy and plan for external expansion. First of all, it was about the current establishment of the Red Army in Nianping Village. Filling, such as expanding a platoon to six shifts, or even more shifts.

This seems messy and inconvenient to manage, but Xia Yuan also has his plans and plans. The company-level organization can prevent the real strength of the base area from being exposed. The external name is just a company, and how many soldiers a company can have.

The platoon leader is not responsible for managing the internal affairs, and the deputy squad leaders of each squad will directly manage the internal affairs. The platoon leader is only responsible for issuing orders on missions and arranging troops during combat. This is a change in the organization. If there are many, it will follow the international military establishment.

Then there are the materials currently owned by the base.

In this regard, Xu Lin, the logistics team leader who has been democratically screened, counts. Xu Lin is a villager in Nianping Village and one of the first soldiers to join the Red Army. Excluding the food we seized and distributed to the villagers, there are more than 2000 guns of various types, seven light machine guns, two heavy machine guns, and more than 600 bullets of various types. Stone Mountain."

Xia Yuan nodded in satisfaction: "These materials are enough to support our Red Army for a period of time, but as the team expands in the future, we will not be able to rely on these alone for the food and guns we need."

After successively annihilating the landlords of two large villages, their total silver dollars have reached [-] silver dollars, but with the increase of the Red Army, these silver dollars are not enough.

The next foreign expansion is also an opportunity for foreign trade. The number of clothes in the quilt factory has reached more than 300 pieces, but the output of the quilt factory is still limited. When expanding the site, the industrial system inside the Red Army also needs to expand accordingly. .

"Now the amount of materials is still very considerable, but we can't just focus on the short-term, we have to take a longer-term perspective. Externally, we must not only expand, spread the peasant associations and the Red Army to every village, beat the landlords, and divide the land , in the interior, cut down trees, reclaim fields, and achieve self-sufficiency internally. In addition, the reclaimed fields will also be distributed to our internal Red Army soldiers. A squad of 12 people will plant a field. Except for part of the food in the field, it will be handed over to the Red Army. You can keep it to yourself."

"Establish a study group, aiming at comrades who are new to the Red Army and who are wavering in their thinking, use old comrades to drive new comrades, learn from each other and surpass each other to stimulate comrades who are wavering in thinking. Each platoon builds a sharp knife class and an honor class to promote a collective sense of honor. "

"In terms of life, cadres should care for their comrades, do a good job of ideological work for the soldiers, and let the soldiers understand that the battle is not for themselves, but for the hard-won life created by their hard work."

At the meeting, Xia Yuan formulated a series of plans and measures.

Since the first platoon has successfully liberated Laohe Village, Yang Chengli, the head of the first platoon, already has some experience in this regard. The external expansion will be led by Yang Chenglin, the head of the first platoon, and each platoon will be carried out in several villages where farmers' associations have been established. Attack the landlords and divide the land.

After the meeting determined the task addresses of each platoon, the platoon leaders of each platoon set off with three squads of soldiers early in the morning on the second day. They will become a sharp sword in the base area, invincible.

In the Red Army base areas, many remaining Red Army soldiers are receiving active training, building base areas, cutting down trees, and reclaiming farmland in time for planting late rice.

Here, Xia Yuan led a Red Army team to survey the terrain, dig tunnels, build bunkers, set up cat's ear holes, air-raid shelters and garrison caves. Xia Yuan is the most skilled in this area.

In addition to these tasks, Xia Yuankai set up a study group in each platoon and class of the Red Army, led by three comrades with high ideological consciousness and three comrades with low ideological consciousness and procrastination in doing things. Competitive study.

The establishment of the study group has, to a large extent, enhanced the Red Army soldiers' enthusiasm for learning and enthusiasm for training.To build the sharp knife class and honor class, only soldiers who train hard, study hard, and have outstanding performance in combat missions can enter the sharp knife class and honor class, so that the training of soldiers is more active and hard.

While building the base area, Xia Yuan also kept an eye on the progress of the Red Army's mission in nearby villages. The Red Army's activities in the three villages of Xinji Village, Lijiazhuang, and Lianghekou went very smoothly. The society had already paved the way. After the Red Army entered the village, the villagers of the three villages responded positively. The landlord had little room to resist. Under the general situation, he could only admit his crime.

The landlords of two of the villages were shot, and the landlord of one of the villages only confiscated part of the family property and all the land, and asked them to return the grain they collected.

According to the information sent back by the correspondent, the Red Army of the three teams launched a movement in the village, distributed land and food to everyone, defeated the landlord, established a militia, and with the help of the peasant association in the village, many Young people choose to join the ranks of the Red Army, and the strength of the Red Army is growing.

In Lianghekou, where the third platoon was in charge, more than 100 young people aged 28 joined the Red Army team. This was just a village, and Xia Yuan was looking forward to how far this Red Army force would develop.

On the training ground, Huzi and Baoya are leading several recruits to build houses. After the incident in Laohe Village, they stayed in the base area and were responsible for leading the Red Army soldiers to open up the base area. However, both of them were a little absent-minded and could not integrate into other Red Army soldiers. The two seem a little out of tune in their daily lives.

The reason why other Red Army soldiers joined the Red Army was mainly because the White Army oppressed them and arrested the strong men everywhere. Now, after the Red Army came, they were given food, land, and taxes. It is the Red Army that can bring them a happy life. Joining the Red Army means that they can also protect this happy life.

On the contrary, Huzi and Baoya followed the landlord, and the Red Army did not distribute land or food to them. They were completely caught by the Red Army and joined the Red Army in desperation. In fact, they also wanted to leave the Red Army. , but they just don’t know where they will go after leaving the Red Army. If the Red Army didn’t take care of their food, they would have left long ago.

"I have to cut down trees to open up land again. I don't know what to do with so much land."

Beard wiped the sweat from his forehead, and couldn't help mumbling, since the meeting ended, the tasks in the base area have obviously become much heavier.

A soldier bent over sweating beside him said happily: "You don't know yet?"

Hu Zi asked, "Know what?"

The soldier said: "The land opened up is for us to grow. The company commander said that not only the farmers have land, but also our Red Army soldiers should have their own land."

Only with the land can they have a sense of belonging. The only expectation in the hearts of those soldiers who were originally bandits is to own a piece of land of their own, and then live a happy life. Their idea of ​​joining the Red Army is the same, but they left I don't know where I can go next. After all, the world is so chaotic, and the White Army has started to catch strong men everywhere. They are on the top of the mountain, but they heard that many bandits on the top of the mountain have been ordered by the White Army. They went to the battlefield, but they don't know Will it be possible to come back alive?

Huzi was a little taken aback. He didn't know much about some things in the Red Army, and Baoya and Baoya insisted on living a day-to-day life.

Hu Zi said: "Grow it for us? Who will get the food?"

The soldier said: "We are the same as the people in the village. We just plant a piece of land in one squad. Apart from part of the food that is planted, it belongs to the Red Army, and the other part belongs to ourselves."

Hu Zi said: "There is such a thing, when was it announced?"

The soldier said happily: "Only two days ago, these lands were given to us. The company commander can count on what he says. If he says he will give us the land, he will give us the land."

Hu Zi looked at the ground under his feet, thinking something in his mind.

Owning his own land, he really never thought about such a thing.

The old ghost has been on the mountain for a while and has done a lot of work. He found that the Red Army is really a rare team. In addition to the formation team, they also have a three-member combat team and a six-member study team. Learning is better than life, even better than training. In short, as long as they can compare, they must compare.

Yesterday there was an award for young masters of farming, and today there was an award for young masters of tree cutting. He didn't know what these awards were for, but those simple Red Army soldiers were made happy by this award for a long time. The other Red Army soldiers were envious.

The old ghost couldn't figure it out. He couldn't figure out how to be happy even if he won a broken award without paying the military salary. He also couldn't figure it out. The old ghost thought about his life in the White Army before. There is a lot of debauchery outside.

While working to transform myself, while observing, I gradually saw some tricks.

The policies of the Red Army and the White Army are completely different
Two days later, Xia Yuan issued a new order.

"The platoons centered on the mission village and moved to other villages, liberating villages such as Ningping, Baitu, Huangshi, and Bandian respectively, attacking landlords, distributing land, establishing peasant associations, militias, and promoting the policies of the Red Army."

After the platoons received the task, they continued to spread outward, suppressed the landlord by force, and called a meeting of the whole village to judge the landlord. Although this method was simple and effective, it also sent Xia Yuan the villagers Incompatible information.

Xia Yuandao: "The rule of the landlords is already deeply rooted in some areas. It is not an easy task to break their thinking and make them bravely resist the landlords."

The problem with this plan is still here. The villagers’ worry is not that the Red Army will drive away the landlords, but that the Red Army will uproot the landlord class. The villagers who followed the Red Army to resist them carried out massacres and more serious exploitation of other villagers.

In response to this situation, Xia Yuan immediately ordered the Red Army team to let the previous village peasant associations follow along when expanding abroad, and use the peasant associations to spread the peasant associations in the struggle.

Under the parallelism of various plans, a vigorous revolutionary struggle was staged in the villages near Nianping Village. The power in Xia Yuan's hands was gradually expanding, and batches of new members entered the base area. The strength of the army has reached the size of two battalions. Only farmers who have a deep understanding of the Red Army's policies will trust the Red Army unconditionally and send their children to the Red Army to strive for the happiness of the people's lives.

Xia Yuan sits in the base area, directs the training of recruits, and directs the transformation of the base area. The trained recruits are sent to other villages and towns to carry out activities against landlords.

Half a month passed in a blink of an eye.

The number of villages controlled by the base has reached as many as 700, the number of the Red Army has reached more than 3000, the number of militias has reached more than 1, and the number of registered members of the peasant association has reached more than 30, leading more than [-] villages There are about [-] farmers.

And this is just half a month of expansion.

Due to the growing strength of the base area, Xia Yuan had to seize the time to consolidate the base area, postpone the pace of expansion, and re-expand the establishment. The original strength was only one company, but in just half a month, it expanded to the strength of one and a half regiments, and Every day, people came to Nianping Village to join the Red Army in the base area. During the consolidation phase of Xia Yuan's base area, the strength of the Red Army had reached 900 people, the size of a whole regiment.

The previous weapons and ammunition could no longer be used by so many Red Army soldiers. When Xia Yuan was frowning, the county lord received the news that the Red Army forces appeared in the villages under his jurisdiction, which frightened him a lot.

"Grandma, I heard that the peasants in the village were uneasy. I thought it was just caused by the landlord's exorbitant taxes. I didn't expect it to be the Red Army. Isn't the Red Army in Xihankou? Why did they run into Lao Tzu's territory!"

The county master was shocked and angry when he received the news. He couldn't believe that this happened on his territory.

The old housekeeper next to the county master asked: "Master, what should we do now, should we inform Captain Sun and the others?"

The county master thought for a moment and said: "Yes, you must inform. The Red Army is a group of desperate people. Have you forgotten the Red Army team two years ago? Even the county town was taken down. This guy in our hands , but I can't stand the toss."

(End of this chapter)