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Chapter 154 Who Likes Hard Work?

Zhao Hanfeng spread his hands and said: "You don't know, Commander, the bandits have been suppressed for decades, and the world has been devoid of bandits. Now there are only a few stubborn bandits in western Hunan and western Hubei. They are extremely cunning and cunning. "

Yao Liangchuan also felt the same about this. He recalled: "My ancestral home is in Jingzhou. When I was young, I often heard my ancestors talk about rampant banditry. It is indeed extremely vicious and cruel. There are too many deep mountains and old forests in Huguang. Ten or hundreds of miles away, if you drill down there, even 10 people will not be able to search it.”

Zhou Changfeng looked at Zhao Hanfeng and asked, "What happened to the gangsters who attacked Yiling after the New Year's Eve? Do you have any specific information?"

The latter rummaged through the folder on the side a few times, but couldn't seem to find it, so he could only try his best to recall and replied:

"The current leader of this group of bandits seems to be called 'Wan Tianhu'. His real name is unknown. They have been involved in disasters for decades, and because they know the local area well, they have escaped many times."

"However, its troops were severely injured several times, and the bandit leader was shot to death many times. However, every time, the remnants ran into the depths of the mountains and joined together again, and at the same time kept taking in and annexing other remnants and fugitives."

"They were active in the Guizhou and Yidu areas, between Chutai Mountain, Tianbao Mountain, Lijia Mountain, Liujia Mountain, and Zhaizi Mountain. The scale was between 400 and [-] people."

"This group of bandits is well organized. Although their actions are brutal, they are not procrastinating, and they are quite fast. When the local garrison hears the news and arrives, they have often let them slip away."

After listening to his brief introduction, Zhou Changfeng picked up his teacup and took a sip, thinking with great interest.

Suddenly, he tilted his head and asked, "Speaking of which, can you take the initiative to apply for this task of suppressing bandits?"

The few people present were immediately stunned, and then looked at each other in blank dismay.

Grass!This is downright hard work!What are you thinking about?

Fan Qijin, who has always been reticent, couldn't help but say, "Commander, this is feasible, but it's really hard to go to such a place to attack and suppress, and it's not a great achievement, and often no one wants to."

What is the scene of going to the mountains in western Hubei to suppress bandits?Drilling into ravines every day, crossing mountains and ridges, but also beware of all kinds of poisonous snakes and insects, which can torture people to death.

Bandits who are familiar with the terrain can shoot in the east and explode in the west, disturbing the advancing army.

In this way, in the end, after a lot of hard work to catch up, after a battle, even if he comes back victorious, it is only a small feat.

how?Can a gangster brag?Obviously, neither the military nor the civilians have a high degree of recognition for this.

Ever since, no one is willing to perform this kind of task.

It’s okay to endure hardships and dangers. As long as you can make great contributions, there are no shortage of people who are willing or even struggling to do it. However, suppressing bandits, which is hard, tiring and fruitless, is naturally disgusted by the local garrison.

Therefore, the Metropolitan Governor's Mansion usually chooses to deploy troops from other places to perform this task, because the troops are still somewhat conscious, and take protecting the environment and the people as their own responsibility, and then publicize that the bandits are evil, so their morale and motivation are still full at the beginning.

But after a while, after suffering, their ambition and energy are worn out.

Everyone looked depressed, and when Zhou Changfeng saw this, he said seriously: "I know this is hard work, but someone has to do it, and our future combat environment is also complicated, not to mention landing on the beach, we have to go deep into the jungle Combat. Cities, mountains, and deserts are all possible, and it would be good to have a sharpening before that."

This is not the same as security warfare. It is a major challenge for the troops to take the initiative to go deep into the mountains to scout, search, chase, and encircle and wipe out those extremely cunning and stubborn bandits.

Many faults and omissions cannot be found in training and exercises, and they cannot be found out without an actual combat.

Seeing that their interest was not high, Zhou Changfeng thought for a while, waved his hands and said: "Don't worry about this right now, let's do a good job in this drill first."

"Yes." All the officers present clasped their fists together and saluted.

Although in Zhou Changfeng's view, attacking and suppressing this stubborn bandit is an excellent training opportunity, it can be said to be beneficial and harmless. When the big battle starts in the future, the performance of the First Marine Regiment will definitely be better.

However, he also knew that the awareness of the Ming army should not be overestimated, especially now that it is still a time of peace. If you really want to drive the ducks to the shelves, the morale may be relatively high at the beginning, and then it will fade soon.

In the next two days, the officers and soldiers of the whole regiment devoted themselves to the intense training of landing and swimming.

People who went boating on Taihu Lake found that there was a long cordon connected by buoys, and a large part of the lake was turned into a "no-passing area".

From a distance, you can see a dense crowd of people, which are heavily armed soldiers conducting armed swimming training.

Zhou Changfeng, who was riding in a speedboat, was holding a loudspeaker and yelling, "Recite the mantra, don't forget the essentials! When paddling, don't move your legs, close your hands and then your legs, stretch your arms first and then kick your legs!"

And in a farther place, "iron cans" are floating on the sparkling lake, followed by a trail of white waves.

On the first day of early February, the Marine Regiment's application to the Ministry of War was approved.

During this period of time, he sent telegrams to both the Admiral's Office and the Navy Department of the Eastern Fleet. Although Xu Zhanming, Yang Zhen and others thought it was strange, they all expressed their understanding after hearing his explanation.

That's right, at least he understood the principle of "sweetness after bitterness", and tried every means to improve the combat power of his subordinates, so Xu Zhanming didn't feel bad for his dozens of bottles of Moutai and Mianzhu Daqu all of a sudden.

In order to boost morale, Zhou Changfeng made a request to Xu Zhanming - can the credit for attacking this group of bandits be made greater?
The latter, who was in a good mood, expressed generously that if he did a good job, he would personally ask for credit at that time.

With the assurance from the admiral of the Admiral's Office of the Eastern Fleet, everyone was relieved, and on the night of the end of the exercise, they began to talk with each other about how to deploy at that time.

It was very interesting to listen to these guys chattering about the strategy of attacking and suppressing. However, just as Zhou Zhangfeng was listening with gusto, a guard came in and reported: "Regimental Commander, there is a call for you."

"Okay, here we come."

Are you looking for yourself at night?
After arriving at his tent, Zhou Changfeng picked up the phone and asked, "Who is it? I am..."

Before he finished speaking, a familiar female voice came from the other end of the phone, "You can always do something different from ordinary people."

Grass!Why is it you again?
Feeling baffled, Zhou Changfeng thought for a while and replied: "Removing harm for the people is one aspect, but it is also a test and sharpening, killing two birds with one stone."

"The thing that kills two birds with one stone in your eyes is something that others can't avoid." There was a bit of helplessness in Zhu Lingjing's tone.

She, who is busy with epidemic prevention and control, only learned about this today, which can be said to be very speechless—no, why do you rush to do things that others don't like, so you love to stand out?
Going to Batavia at risk last time was outrageous, so come again this time?Do you like dirty work so much?

(End of this chapter)