Chapter 176: A shot back
Putting hope on the enemy is the stupidest and most unrealistic. Although Zhao Li really hopes that the enemy can take the correct actions he expects, this can only be a fantasy, and it can truly decide whether to win or his own efforts.
Kang Hongyuan's efficiency shocked Zhao Li very much. Perhaps this time it was really an opportunity to rise, Kang Hongyuan used all his skills. When Zhao Li received Kang Hongyuan's notice to complete the recruitment, it was not yet two hours.
When Zhao Li looked at the standing areas all over the mountains and fields with no training movements, he still couldn't believe it in his mind that Kang Hongyuan solved the problem that he thought was the most difficult?
In Zhao Li's mind, even if the Jinwuxing citizens' wishes are the ones, it will take at least one week. Unexpectedly, it took Kang Hongyuan two hours to solve the problem. This surprised Zhao Li, while also gaining a higher understanding of Kang Hongyuan. In terms of arousing public sentiment, Zhao Li could not catch up with a master like Kang Hongyuan.
"This is just your wishful thinking." Kang Hongyuan did not make any contribution to this: "It is so easy to do so, thanks to your reputation here." Whoever deserves credit, and Kang Hongyuan never seems to be unpaid: "You care about your reputation and your behavior of working for Jinwuxing City have inspired everyone. Joining the army and defending your home is what the people want, and following you is another premise that everyone is willing to join immediately. At least, you will never let them suffer losses, and even if you sacrifice, you will not sacrifice in vain."
These quasi-soldiers are the people who were mobilized before who came with Kang Hongyuan this time. They are all young and middle-aged people, very suitable soldiers, and their morale is high. Not long ago, they witnessed the victory achieved by Zhao Li and more than 100 people. They are full of confidence in following Zhao Li.
The number of these people is more than 4,000. In total, there should be more than 5,000. However, Kang Hongyuan threw this question directly to Zhao Li: "Who do you think is suitable, stay. If you don't, go back. In short, you can do it." This tone of speaking made Zhao Li really doubt whether Kang Hongyuan had expected all this and made all preparations in advance? If Kang Hongyuan had not been able to access the latest battle situation report here, Zhao Li would have really thought that Kang Hongyuan had planned it.
The number of people is a problem. However, it is a problem of too many, not too few. I don’t know when the airdropped materials will be in place and whether they can consume so many people. If there is no problem, Zhao Li plans to train them all, anyway, one sheep will be driven and two sheep will be released.
I stayed here for almost a day and it was confirmed that the rebels' route of action was to return to the transport ship first, and the large-scale alert here was meaningless.
When Zhao Li sent Lei Yao and the others away, he was still a little embarrassed: "I'm really sorry, I'm just going to waste this time, and I didn't get any spoils." The reason for saying this is that the recruits directly equipped all the weapons left by the Black Dragon Society and the rebels as training guns. On the contrary, the LTTE, when they came, they did not get anything except for one hard work.
"You're welcome." Lei Yao said very politely: "It's not a waste of running away. At least our people have witnessed the demise of the Black Dragon Society. They all firmly believe that only we, the largest drug dealer, will be much better in the future. What's more, there are those things Mr. Kang promised. It's a shame that we were just running errands, and the benefits were in vain."
Zhao Li didn't know what kind of mentality he had with these drug traffickers. On the one hand, he was grateful to them for coming to rescue them, but on the other hand, he was a little resistant to their way of survival. However, since legal drug trafficking is allowed in this place, Zhao Li had no reason to accuse them of: "Yeah. You are the only one in the future, so don't be too arrogant." Before leaving, Zhao Li actually said this sentence to Lei Yao by chance.
Lei Yao was a little surprised when he heard this, but he also showed a thoughtful look. After a while, a smile appeared on his face, and he stretched out his hand and shook Zhao Li heavily: "Thank you for your advice. I will tell us the head of the country. If there is such a thing in the future, just speak."
After seeing off the people from the LTTE, Zhao Li really started to be busy with the new recruits. When gathering all the soldiers from the original base and announcing this order, surprisingly, the soldiers did not cheer happily because they wanted to be promoted. They just stared at Zhao Li with that eager gaze, as if they were still waiting for his order.
"Incomplete statistics, there are more than 5,000 people, that is, each of you is responsible for the training and command of about 60 soldiers." Zhao Li gave each person an indicator: "So, take out the skills you learned under the training of Instructor Sanders, and train these recruits as soon as possible into brave soldiers who abide by discipline, obey orders and fight!"
"You will not have formal officer orders and military rank promotion orders for the time being, but I promise, there will be all these." After everyone understood what they were going to do, Zhao Li ended the gathering with this sentence.
Although the rebels left, no one was sure if they would make a comeback. This was the worst, so a group of people had to be left here. The recruits from other places were taken back to the James Mining Area, and only he had such a large place to allow so many people to train underground.
What surprised Zhao Li was that after roughly grouping all the recruits and leading them to their new captain, the first thing these recruits did was not to rush to the mining area as soon as possible to start training, but to carry the bodies of all the sacrificed soldiers under their captain and return to the original military camp.
The barracks were destroyed by the first round of air strikes by the rebels, but the cemetery next to them was very complete and not attacked. The bodies of the comrades who died were cleaned up and dressed in neat clothes. They were buried grandly when more than 5,000 new recruits were sent to each other. Before the training began, these foresight soldiers had experienced a vivid education of military honor.
James was also in trouble this time. All the more than 5,000 young and middle-aged people in his mining area joined the army, which made his production difficult. According to his intention, since it was bait, he would not have to worry too much about production for the time being, but he was dissuaded by Kang Hongyuan.
The more normal production here is, the more it can indicate that there is no major change here. Whether it is the upper and the rebels, I guess they don’t want the mining area to stop production. As a last resort, James can only start recruiting new workers. At the same time, in order to provide Zhao Li with a series of activities such as training and accommodation for so many people, James had to double the recruitment of personnel. While starting the construction, he also provided logistics services for Zhao Li and the others.
More importantly, in order to prevent the losses caused by the possible attack of the rebels, James had to build another major construction and build the warehouse underground. In this way, even if he was attacked, a certain amount of inventory of goods could be guaranteed.
The airdrop materials agreed to by General Lucas finally arrived after the fifth day. What surprised Zhao Li was that the above might have considered that the small warships here had been damaged by the rebels, so they specially dispatched two medium-sized assault ships and two small transport ships. Fortunately, the mining area is large. It only needs to level the land to provide these warships with rise and fall, which does not hinder their normal training. Instead, it makes James's logistics service personnel exhausted.
With these warships, Zhao Li's pressure was greatly reduced. At least there was no need to put too many people in the pass over there. Just a few people responsible for monitoring, and the large army could arrive in a warship at any time within an hour. At the same time, Li Mengdie and others who were monitoring the rebel movements could also quickly complete the task and then take it back.
The general seemed to have invested a lot of money this time. In addition to weapons and ammunition, among the airdrop materials, there are more other daily necessities. Not to mention two thousand people, even twice as many as possible, it can support a long period of time.
The arrival of this batch of materials also made Zhao Li feel half relieved. Otherwise, the little materials from the James mining area would be eaten up by tens of thousands of people from these places in a few days.
Zhao Li was very surprised, why did the general put so many supplies? Is it possible to recruit a large number of people here?
While he was puzzled, Zhao Li found that Kang Hongyuan had done something he could not imagine. After Kang Hongyuan enthusiastically recruited Zhao Li for a series of activities, Kang Hongyuan, who returned to Jinwuxing City, actually directly protested to the military, protesting against a series of activities such as the military's violation of the garrison agreement in the Jinwuxing area and forced recruitment to exceed the scale.
Before Zhao Li and Kang Hongyuan could communicate these things, Zhao Li received a message from the general. It seemed that Zhao Li had completed the recruitment mission so quickly this time, and the superiors admired him very much. The general verbally praised him with a smile on his face, and encouraged Zhao Li to continue his efforts and quickly make the new recruits form combat effectiveness.
After receiving this communication, Zhao Li finally understood what Kang Hongyuan meant. Zhao Li himself seemed to be a person who was not willing to show his merits to the above unless he fought for his soldiers. Kang Hongyuan passed this protest action to show his merits to Zhao Li again in the army.
Moreover, it seems that such a method can be appreciated by Zhao Li himself more than Zhao Li's own initiative. A low-level officer who does not care about local laws at all, but the military's orders are from, has a great future for training. Of course, the premise is that he will not be sacrificed.
The training here has just begun, but the rebels have a new trend. After staying patiently for seven or eight days, they suddenly found that a team of more than 200 rebels appeared on the defense line of the pass.
It is a fact that the large rebels' troops left, and the marching speed was very slow, and it seemed that they were dragged down by their wounded people and were unfamiliar with jungle combat. However, the commander of the rebels left two hundred elite troops on the road. Li Mengdie and the others were responsible for tracking the rebels, but they only followed the large forces, but it was difficult to find this team that was ordered to lurk.
According to the judgment of the rebel commander, it is impossible for the government troops to defend such a small barrier for a long time. As long as their people evacuate far enough, the government troops will definitely relax their vigilance and withdraw from the pass. As soon as Zhao Li and the others retreat, this elite team can directly kill a single shot and occupy the military important place of the pass.
There is no error in this inference. Even if Zhao Li did not receive these orders, he would not be able to stay in the pass and would always evacuate. At this time, it was the opportunity for the rebels. As long as they occupied the pass, the large group of people turned around, and the government army could not break through the solid fortifications built by Zhao Li and the others with such a small number of people. This can be considered a cocoon!
Unfortunately, the rebels did not expect that the general would quickly send two medium-sized attack ships to Zhao Li. When the news of an enemy appearing at the pass came back, Zhao Li had just received all the supplies and warships. After receiving the report, he sent two attack ships directly without saying a word.
A team of two hundred people, relying on the solid fortifications at the pass, resisting more than their infantry, is not a big problem. Zhao Li and the others have proved this with victory. However, without large air defense weapons, the ground personnel seemed powerless in the face of such an air strike that could not be counterattacked at all.
The hiding team of the rebels had only time to send a report of air strikes, and the entire pass fortification turned into a sea of fire. Zhao Li, who was personally supervising the battle on the attack ship, was almost frightened by the covered artillery fire. If the rebels had an attack ship coming earlier, then the ones who were struggling in the sea of fire below would probably be Zhao Li and the others.
Afterwards, Zhao Li actually had a very strange idea. It seemed that such a great attack intensity did not cause a bushfire, which was also due to the often rainy climate in the tropical jungle. I wonder if the rebel soldiers would have had an epidemic in this tropical jungle for so long for the first time?
The rebel army seemed to have received the final report from the soldiers who had sneaked into the pass, and finally completely let go of their luck of resurgence, speeded up, and evacuated rapidly. Although the air strikes in the jungle were not very effective, they had to be wary of it. Once Zhao Li used the attack ship to attack air strikes, their situation would be even more difficult.
Zhao Li did not disappoint the rebels. Under Li Mengdie's positioning, the rebels were attacked by attack ships along the way. They suffered heavy casualties. After several consecutive times, the rebel commander had to break up the large group of people and divide them into several small teams, and quickly evacuated.
At this time, the bombing was meaningless. Zhao Li finally brought back Li Mengdie, who was responsible for monitoring the rebels, and the soldiers, with warships. None of the elite soldiers trained by James himself were wasted, and he threw them into the military camp to act as instructors and train the new recruits.
Zhao Li was also waiting for the training in the mining area. Where will the two airdrop regiments that the general mentioned land and how he needs to cooperate with them?
Chapter completed!