Ruili in history was once occupied by the Japanese, and the local people of all ethnic groups were brutally massacred by the Japanese. This time, Gao Jiu planned to change this period of history, and he must firmly defend Ruili.

That morning, Gao Jiu found Director Ma of Ruili's establishment bureau and asked him to mobilize local people to build fortifications in the northeastern area of ​​Ruili.

Director Ma agreed fully, and he was happy to do this.

In the past, recruiting civil servants was a very troublesome thing, and the people were unwilling to recruit civil servants. Because the government recruiting civil servants for free, and even those who eat must carry their own food. In this case, everyone naturally did not want to, and as a result, they complained and scolded.

Now it is different from Gao Jiu's official business. Gao Jiu is rich, and the people who come to build fortifications are the same as working as temporary workers. If you have money, you can also make money and take care of food for free. Director Ma opened his mouth, not only the local Han people were very active, but the people of ethnic minorities were also very happy.

Director Ma mobilized thousands of people in a very short period of time, and this person has accounted for more than half of the local labor force.

In order to be able to stick to Ruili for a long time, Gao Jiu asked his father, the King of Yunnan, for reinforcements through Long Yingyuan.

Since Gao Jiu came to Yunnan, whether it was the Yunnan-Burma Highway or the Yunnan-Vietnam Railway, Gao Jiu brought a large amount of income to the King of Yunnan. The companies that Gao Jiu opened in Ruili also paid a lot of taxes, which made the King of Yunnan very happy.

The King of Yunnan had heard of Gao Jiu's military strength before. Through Gao Jiu's battle with the French in Vietnam and the British in Myanmar, he was also recognized by the King of Yunnan. Hearing that Gao Jiu wanted to defend Ruili, the King of Yunnan was of course eager to do so. So he sent a strengthening regiment to unify Gao Jiu's command.

The leader of the strengthening regiment is Sun Kun, a native of Yunnan. He is a smart little man. He has admired Gao Jiu for a long time and was particularly happy to hear that he could work with Gao Jiu.

The officers and soldiers of the strengthening regiment have also heard of Gao Jiu's Daming, and are looking forward to meeting the legendary hero.

After the officers and soldiers of the strengthening regiment arrived in Ruili, they immediately felt a different atmosphere.

Gao Jiu held a banquet to entertain the officers and soldiers of the entire regiment of the strengthening regiment and announced on the spot that starting from this month, in addition to everyone's original military pay, each ordinary soldier will be given two oceans of wartime subsidies each month. The officers will be given different amounts of oceans according to different levels. Just this one caused the officers and soldiers of the strengthening regiment to cheer.

Then, Gao Jiu added two mountain cannons, 12 mortars, 50 light machine guns, 100 submachine guns, a large number of ammunition and other materials to the strengthening regiment, greatly enhancing the firepower of the strengthening regiment and improving their combat effectiveness.

Sun Kun, the leader of the Strengthening Corps, was very happy and expressed his firm obedience to Gao Jiu's command. Gao Jiu asked him to lead the troops to help the people build defensive fortifications.

During the construction of the fortifications, Gao Jiu also raised their food standards, with at least two meals a day with meat, two dishes and one soup at noon, three dishes and one soup at night, and enough rice. Meals once a week and you can drink.

The soldiers were so happy that they wanted to follow Gao Jiu to fight every day, and they were all full of energy.

Today, the Construction Workers Self-Defense Force has 1,200 people, with three brigades, one artillery squadron, one machine gun squadron, and one baggage squadron. It has 24 various artillery pieces, 50 rocket launchers, 100 various machine guns, 1,200 rifles and pistols. It has strong firepower and has passed the test of war and has become a powerful armed force. It is just called the Construction Workers Self-Defense Force.

The reason why Gao Jiu did this was to show his attitude to all forces: he had no political ambitions and did not want to build an army. Please do not worry about all forces and would not threaten their interests.

Takawa serves as the captain of the Self-Defense Force, leading the troops to strengthen training every day and is ready to join the battle at any time.

Guo Hengming led a squadron and stayed in the old street where the Kokang Autonomous Committee was located. Those who stayed in Ruili included the Taohuashan Special Forces, Wang Zhankui's squadron, Zheng Sanpao's squadron and Li Chengwu's squadron, a total of 540 people. With such strong strength in Ruili, everyone was looking forward to the Japanese army coming to die quickly.

On that day, when Wang Zhankui came back from surveying the terrain, he saw a neatly arranged team at the door of the trading company.

Gao Jiu, Wang Zhankui and others could not help but laugh after seeing the situation ahead.

The team was full of female soldiers, with more than 30 people. They were all wearing female soldiers' costumes of the National Army, and had health soldiers logos on their arms, and they all looked heroic.

A young female officer leading the team in front was wearing a very well-tailored military uniform, with a belt around her waist, a pistol, and a high chest.

When she saw Gao Jiu, she saluted him in a decent manner. The posture of the salutation was quite standard, but her soft wrist was bent playfully, showing the softness and cuteness of a woman.

She is Long Guobi, and she said with a crisp voice: "Report to the commander-in-chief, the field service team of the trading company reports to you."

Gao Jiu returned the military salute to her seriously and said, "Stop."

Long Guobi turned around and shouted to the female soldiers: "Stop, now please ask Commander Gao to give you a lecture."

In Ruili, the Taohuashan Guerrillas and the Yunnan Army Strengthening Corps established a joint command center, with Gao Jiu as the commander-in-chief.

Long Guobi was unwilling to be idle, so he picked 36 people from the female students recruited by Gao Jiu to form a women's field service team, mainly for medical services. Since these female students did not have uniform clothes, Long Guobi got a group of uniforms of female soldiers from his father, but there was no military rank sign on it.

At the beginning, Gao Jiu disagreed with the female soldiers participating in the war, so Long Guobi went to find Long Yingyuan and forced him to plead with Gao Jiu. Otherwise, he would have to look good. Long Yingyuan had no choice but to come to Gao Jiu and say good things for his baby sister. Gao Jiu agreed to Long Guobi's request and set up a battlefield women's service team.

However, he did not agree to them going to the front line to participate in the rescue, but just asked them to stay in Ruili's hospital for medical services.

Gao Jiu came to the team, saluted the female soldiers, and said with a smile: "Hello, classmates!"

The female soldiers were all young students of the age of a flower. When they saw their idols they had admired for a long time, their faces were red with excitement. They shouted in a pleasant and neat voice: "Good Commander-in-Chief."

Gao Jiu delivered a passionate speech, affirming their patriotism and encouraging them to grow and make progress in work and study. If they encounter any difficulties in life, they can report to the captain Long Guobi, and the trading company can help them solve them.

After Gao Jiu finished his speech, he saluted the female soldiers. He was about to turn around and leave when a round-faced female soldier shouted: "Report to the commander-in-chief, we have a request."

Gao Jiu asked curiously: "What's the matter? Tell me."

The round-faced female soldier said: "Report to the commander-in-chief, we ask the commander-in-chief to take a photo with us."

Gao Jiu smiled and said, "Okay! Come here."

The female soldiers cheered and surrounded Gao Jiu. Long Guobi naturally could not suffer any losses. She squeezed in, stood close to Gao Jiu, and stood beside Gao Jiu.

Wang Zhankui learned photography two years ago. Later, no matter where he went, he liked to take pictures. Now his photography skills are quite good. He came to the front and took several photos of everyone, saying that after washing, he would give everyone a copy.

After taking the photo, Gao Jiu was about to leave, and someone said again: "Commander-in-Chief."

Gao Jiu saw that he was a very handsome little girl who called him. Her face turned red and she looked at Gao Jiu a little timidly. Seeing Gao Jiu's gaze coming, she lowered her head shyly, and then plucked up the courage to look at Gao Jiu.

Gao Jiu asked, "Is there anything you have to do?"

Although the little girls were chattering one by one just now, it was because they were numerous and powerful. But now this little girl is going to talk to Gao Jiu alone, she is very shy and becomes timid.

Gao Jiu encouraged her and said, "If you have anything, just say it."

The little girl took out a diary from her pocket and said timidly: "Commander-in-chief, please sign me."

"And I."

"And I."

The little girls took out their diary and asked Gao Jiu to sign them.

Long Guobi didn't expect that the team members under her would hide such a trick, which caught her off guard. However, she didn't care about this because she had the opportunity to meet Gao Jiu and ask for an autograph, which was easy.

Looking at the expectant gazes of the little girls, Gao Jiu would definitely not disappoint them, so he picked up his pen and signed them on the title page of the diary.

Suddenly, a little female soldier started crying. It turned out that she had prepared her diary in advance, but when she gathered, she was so anxious that she forgot to bring it. Seeing that everyone had obtained the signature of the commander-in-chief, she was angry with herself and felt wronged, and couldn't help but cry.

After thinking about it, Gao Jiu walked up to her, and signed his name with a pen on the collar of her white shirt.

The other little female soldiers all cast envious eyes at her.

The little girl was so excited that she smiled and suddenly felt a little sad again. She said, "I want to save this dress, but I only have two clothes in total. After washing that dress, there will be no replacement."

Gao Jiu smiled and said, "This is easy. Girls love to clean. I will ask everyone to send you two clothes and more underwear. You can ask your captain if you have any requirements, and I will try my best to satisfy you."

The little female soldiers cheered, and their faces bloomed, like a sea of ​​flowers, making the male soldiers dizzy.

Especially those special forces members, most of them have not solved their personal problems yet. Looking at these little female soldiers like flowers, they are full of expectations.

The pace of war is approaching.

Not long after, news came that the 28th Japanese Brigade had arrived at Lishui Town, 52 kilometers away from Ruili.

That morning, the vanguard of the 28th Brigade of the Japanese Army sent a team of cavalry scouts to search and advance towards Ruili.

At 15 kilometers away from Ruili, they were attacked by cold guns, five people were killed on the spot, and the rest escaped.

These Japanese scouts were very responsible and did not return to the original troops. After getting out of danger, they waited for pedestrians to pass by on the road. They intercepted many pedestrians and asked about Ruili's situation.

After they had some information, they returned to their base and reported to their superiors.

After hearing the report, Tatsuyama, the leader of the 28th Japanese Brigade, said in surprise: "Are you sure Gao Jiu is in Ruili?"

The scouts gave a positive answer.

The commander of the Tachiyama Brigade immediately sent a telegram to report to the division and regiment headquarters.

The division headquarters quickly replied the telegram, asking the 28th Japanese Brigade to stand by on site, without orders, and no further advance.

The Taohuashan Special Forces led by Liang Shihu were led by the team to attack the Japanese scouts. They also sent people to report to Gao Jiu.

Gao Jiu immediately convened an operational meeting, and the meeting decided that the Yunnan Army Strengthening Regiment would rely on fortifications to carry out frontal defense. Wang Zhankui and Li Chengwu two special combat squadrons carried out maneuver defense on the left and right wings, and Zheng Sanpao's special combat squadron was the reserve team.

"Gao Jiu is in Ruili."

This is a very important information. The commander of Tatsuyama Brigade reported to the commander of the 15th Division, the commander of the 15th Division reported to the Fifth Army of the Japanese Army, and the Fifth Army of the Japanese Army reported to the Southern Expeditionary Army.

The commander of the Southern Expeditionary Army, chief of staff, deputy chief of staff, commander of the Fifth Army, chief of the Special High School Section, commander of the Eighth Air Force and other relevant personnel held an emergency meeting.

The commander of the Southern Expeditionary Army said: "Class Chief Watanabe, please introduce the relevant situation of Gao Jiu in Ruili."

The head of the Special High School Section, Yuichi Watanabe, pushed his glasses on his nose and said, "Commander, Gao Jiu must be in Ruili. The local people in Ruili support Gao Jiu very much, and our spies cannot enter that area.

We only know that Gao Jiu had a trading company there, and his specific strength was unknown. However, based on his activities in recent times, we can make a rough judgment on his strength.

Gao Jiu fought against the French in Vietnam and the British in Myanmar. The troops led by him all set out from Ruili, and the special forces under his command should have no less than 500 troops.

The trading company he belongs to has a construction company under which the construction workers also received military training, and the number of people should be no less than 1,000.

According to personnel reports, there is also a part of the Yunnan Army in Ruili, with about one regiment.”

After listening to the report of the director of the Special High School, everyone was silent.

The total force of the enemy in Ruili was only a few thousand. If it were other troops, the Japanese army would be sure to defeat it or even completely eliminate it if it was a unit.

However, there is Gao Jiu, who is an existence that cannot be accused of.

The commander of the Southern Expeditionary Army, the Chief of Staff and others were well-known to the name Gao Jiu. However, they had never dealt with Gao Jiu directly and were a little confused, so they held the meeting.

The commander asked, "What advice do you have?"

The Chief of Staff said: "The plan to send troops to attack Yunnan has been formulated. Capturing Ruili and cutting off the Yunnan-Burma Highway are an important part of this combat plan. I suggest that the feasibility of capturing Ruili will be discussed first."

The commander nodded and asked, "Qingchuan Jun, are your Fifth Army confident of winning the victory of Ruili?"
Chapter completed!