My Apprenticeship to Uncle Jiu: I Was a Warlord in the Republic of China

Chapter 341 Returning to Qinghe, Liu Huaqiang shows up again



Chapter 341 Returning to Qinghe, Liu Huaqiang shows up again

After dealing with the matter in the Dragon Palace, Jiang Li did not plan to stay here any longer. After all, although the spiritual energy here is rich, it is very beneficial for spiritual practice.

But he is no longer just a monk, but a warlord fighting for world domination, and he has no time to waste here.

If one really wants to meditate and practice, he has to wait until the Japanese are driven out and the world is unified.

Having said that, although he did not plan to stay here for long, he did not leave Hunan immediately. Instead, he returned to the shore and used the military camp as a temporary command post.

We continuously allocate materials and manpower from all over the country to build hospitals and schools, two urgently needed functional buildings, for local people.

In addition, he also conducted field surveys around Dongting Lake, planned the routes of canals and ponds, and tried to utilize all the land around the 800-mile Dongting Lake and transform it into a huge grain-producing area.

Several days passed after everything was arranged. Seeing that things were on the right track, Jiang Li arranged several activities to commemorate Mo Ying.

It was officially canonized as the Dragon King of Dongting Lake. As for Ruiyuan, he was the Turtle Prime Minister of the Dragon Palace of Dongting Lake. The two of them were left alone, so they needed to solve the problem themselves.

Anyway, he has already dismantled the defensive formation of the Dragon Palace, and they can now enter and exit freely.

Now all we need to do is let Prime Minister Turtle, with the help of the spiritual spring in the Dragon Palace and his previous methods of training shrimp soldiers and crab generals, train another team. Then the Dongting Lake Dragon Palace will be worthy of its name.

After making arrangements for Mo Ying and Rui Yuan, Jiang Li left a regiment to garrison nearby, and then set off with his troops.

Ten days passed in a flash, and he returned to Nanxi County safely.

He handed over all the refining materials and the techniques, pills and array plates he had obtained to the Supernatural Bureau for copying, backing up and storage, and then he returned to the Government Affairs Office to deal with the military affairs that had accumulated during this period.

After a month's absence, when he returned to the Government Affairs Office and saw the busy people inside, he suddenly felt strange, "It seems a bit bad for me to be a hands-off boss like this!"

"Or else you can divide some of the military power among them, so that no important military information will be delayed because of my absence!

When this thought came to his mind, Jiang Li quickly shook his head and threw the thought out of his mind, "Forget about the military power. This thing must be in my own hands, otherwise I'm afraid something big will happen in the future!"

"As for the possibility of delaying military intelligence when I'm not around, that's easy. I just need to avoid going out."

After figuring this out, Jiang Li immediately prepared to start dealing with military affairs, but he seemed to suddenly think of something.

He picked up the paper and pen on the desk and began to write a letter. On the envelope was written, "From Lin Jiu, the master of Qingyun Temple!"

It took him more than ten minutes to write the letter, and then he asked someone to deliver it.

Afterwards, he began to deal with the military affairs that he had accumulated over time.

However, once he dealt with it, he discovered that because there was no war in his territory, things during this period were still the same as before, with allocating supplies and weapons and the like.

As for the rest, apart from the capture of some spies and those sent by other warlords to conduct economic warfare using counterfeit banknotes, there were some minor and moderate incidents at the guerrilla command.

It turned out that according to the news reported by the guerrilla headquarters, another 300 guerrilla teams were dispatched, while other guerrilla teams had already established a foothold.

It was during this period that the team was further expanded by continuously attacking bandits and robbers. Several guerrilla forces even requested the dispatch of political commissars.

Help them publicize policies and do ideological work for these soldiers of varying quality to enhance their cohesion and sense of identity.

However, the political commissar's matter was of great importance after all. He was a high-level talent that was more scarce than regimental-level officers. Therefore, the guerrilla command did not interfere, but instead sent the application to Jiang Li.

He looked at these applications and thought that since the guerrillas had grown to this size, it was necessary to send a political commissar. Otherwise, if they stayed outside for too long, they might really become mountain kings.

After thinking this through, Jiang Li immediately began to take stock of the people he was sending this time. After all, if a force was to develop healthily, it would not be enough to rely on just a few officers and a political commissar.

There must also be some grassroots officers, military doctors, cooks, transport personnel, equipment maintenance personnel, military judges, propagandists, communicators, and other professional logistics personnel.

Since they have already started to build a base over there, Jiang Li simply waved his hand and assigned them all.

He also took into account that the guerrillas might need some heavy firepower when attacking strongholds like the mountain stronghold, so he assigned them two heavy machine gunners and two artillerymen.

The specific personnel to be dispatched had been listed, and after checking that nothing was missing, he sent someone to pass on the transfer order.

Actually, there were quite a few guerrillas who requested to be dispatched as political commissars this time, but after he looked at their data and the territories they occupied, he directly rejected most of them and only agreed to the requests of three guerrilla squads.

After all, those teams either had very few people, or occupied remote areas, or were simply making trouble blindly, and did not meet the necessary conditions for establishing a base in his mind.

As for the three teams he agreed to, because of their good geographical locations and the number of people they reported, they just met his expectations.

However, when Jiang Li saw the data of the guerrilla team named Liu Huaqiang, he felt a little dreamy.

Because according to the data they reported, this guerrilla force now had 620 fighters, occupied several mountain strongholds, and gathered thousands of refugees.

They even mentioned in the report that they are currently organizing people to open up new land to ease the logistical pressure on the intelligence station.

Seeing this, he really couldn't hold it anymore. You know, there are three intelligence stations nearby, with more than sixty intelligence personnel.

In order to transport supplies, they opened a special trading company in the local area and hired more than a hundred ordinary local people to transport goods for the shops openly and smuggle large amounts of supplies secretly.

Now they actually said that they wanted to ease the logistical pressure on the intelligence station, which really made him annoyed.

If he had not compared the information reported by the local intelligence station, he would have really suspected that the Liu Huaqiang group was lying about military intelligence in order to obtain supplies.

But what he didn't know was that the Liu Huaqiang group far away in Xiushan County was also scratching their heads over logistics issues.

It turned out to be just as they reported, after they quickly occupied several mountain strongholds, they recruited many bandits who had committed fewer crimes and recruited some new soldiers from the refugees.

At this time, they already had two battalions of troops under their command. If they had some more grassroots officers and were equipped with some heavy machine guns and cannons, they could immediately transform themselves into a regiment.

But even so, in the absence of heavy firepower, they were able to fight back and forth with the third-rate troops of other warlords with only the brand-new light weapons in their hands.


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