Chapter 2189

This person who has served as a soldier and eaten military rations has a different understanding of defense fortifications than ordinary people. Dai Yingfan wants to transform Daijiazhuang into an armed fortress similar to Sanya Victory Fort to resist possible attacks by opponents.

Naturally, it is difficult for this strategy to win the approval of the salt merchant community.

Regardless of whether it is considered in terms of public image or project consumption, transforming the manor where they live into a large fortress for the purpose of stationing troops for war is obviously a very cost-effective solution for the salt merchants, not to mention that they have to wait for a long time.

Living in it. The salt merchants have lived a pampered life for a long time, how can they stand the military control state in this fortress.

What Huizhou salt merchants need is a solution to their competitors, rather than just retreating at home and passively defending. If such a fortress is really built on the bank of the canal, wouldn't it be a disguised show of weakness to the opponent? This is not the case for the salt merchants.

within the acceptable range.

Moreover, for such a large-scale project, I am afraid that the local government in Yangzhou will not turn a blind eye to it. If they get the opportunity, they may accuse Daijiazhuang of "secretly hiding ordnance" and "secretly amassing private soldiers." When the time comes,

Even if Dai Yingfan still holds a military position, it would be difficult to justify the unconventional measures they took in Daijiazhuang.

Therefore, although Dai Yingfan tried hard to implement his plan, due to various objective reasons, Daijiazhuang's peripheral defense line was stopped after only building two watchtowers. He could only settle for the second best and build some passers-by outside the village.

Although the protective capabilities of carefully disguised fortifications will be greatly reduced compared to his original plan, they are still better than nothing at all.

Yuan Tao has also been in the military, so he can better understand Dai Yingfan's mentality. He thought that if he were in Dai Yingfan's position, he might have similar thoughts. After all, they had not been able to quickly achieve success in a short period of time.

If you want to improve the combat effectiveness of your militia, you can only focus on defensive measures if you want to protect yourself.

Yuan Tao looked up at the shooting position on the wall again, and couldn't help but praise: "Actually, Boss Dai was quite thoughtful in designing this mechanism. If there are similar mechanism houses like this around Daijiazhuang, then I don't think there is any need to worry about it."

The family will come. If they do come, they can try to keep them all here."

Dai Yingfan said: "Shopkeeper Yuan is overly praised, but things may not be as optimistic as you think..."

Due to repeated defeats in the past year, the militiamen under the Huizhou salt merchants have long been demoralized and do not even have the courage to fight with their opponents. If not, Dai Yingfan may not have to adopt such a conservative response strategy.

.If the opponent really comes to attack one day, it would be good to be able to defend the village and repel it. As for the strategy mentioned by Yuan Tao, Dai Yingfan believes that it is difficult to achieve the ideal effect with the current level of preparations. If he is not careful, even

This relatively weak line of defense may be breached by the opponent.

Yuan Tao couldn't help but sigh a little after hearing Dai Yingfan's explanation. A clever woman can't make a meal without rice. No matter how powerful the commander is, there is no way to win the battle if there is no one under his command. Dai Yingfan will definitely not dare to take care of the old and young in Daijiazhuang.

If we take too aggressive measures, we can only maintain the status quo and wait for Haihan to intervene before making any plans.

Dai Yingfan continued: "Those who have some skills and are willing to work hard for the family are basically selected this time and are going to be sent to Zhoushan for training. The defense in the next period of time really depends on Shopkeeper Yuan's hard work.

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Yuan Tao had no way of verifying whether Dai Yingfan's words were true or false at the moment, but he felt that the Dai family would not put all their treasures on Jindun. If something went wrong, wouldn't it mean that the life and death of his family would be all in his hands?

It was in the hands of outsiders. But what kind of back-up the Dai family had left, it was inconvenient for him to break the casserole and ask.

During the rest of the morning, Dai Yingfan took Yuan Tao to check various places in Zhuangzi. After Yuan Tao visited several places, he realized that Daijiazhuang was not as undefended as it seemed on the surface. In fact, every road leading in and out of Zhuangzi was

Near the intersection, there are defense points disguised as ordinary houses.

And according to Dai Yingda, they have set up several early warning posts in the farmhouses near the village and on the other side of the canal. In this way, if the opponent launches a river-crossing operation from Yangzhou City, there is a high chance that they will be observed by these early warning posts, so that they can attack in advance.

A warning message has been sent to Daijiazhuang.

These defense points located in Daijiazhuang will be arranged for Jindun troops to be stationed and guarded together with Dai Yingfan's people. However, Dai Yingfan's elites will have to leave here for Zhoushan. After Jindun is stationed, they will soon take over these defense points.

Command authority within fortifications.

The two of them were busy until noon, then went straight to Dai Yingfan's house and had a simple meal. Both of them had military experience, so they were more practical and didn't care about red tape. After lunch, Dai Yingfan gave the order.

, immediately gathered people and horses at the Shaiguchang south of Zhuangzi and asked Yuan Tao to inspect them.

After taking a short rest, the two set off from Dai Yingfan's house and walked through the village to the meeting point.

When they arrived, more than 200 people, including Dai Chengrong, were already waiting on the grain drying field, and people came here and there.

Yuan Tao has rich experience and naturally knows how to examine the combat effectiveness of a team. He does not look at anything else, but first looks at the queue. If the team cannot even form a uniform formation, it will probably be difficult for them to perform combat missions.

Follow orders and prohibitions. Whether the discipline reflected in this is strict will also affect the actual combat effectiveness to a great extent.

But the situation of this team didn’t look ideal. They lined up, but the queue was crooked, and people were whispering to each other. It seemed that they didn’t take this gathering seriously. Of course, it’s more likely that they usually do the same.

If you are used to being in this state of relaxation, you won't feel much tension.

If this is used as a criterion for judgment, it is obvious that the strength of this team is indeed only at the level of ordinary militia groups. Even compared to the militiamen in rural Haihan, there is still a relatively large gap. As for compared with an armed organization like Golden Shield that specializes in recruiting veterans

Compared to that, it’s not on the same level at all.

When Yuan Tao saw it, he already had a preliminary assessment of the team's situation in his mind, but he didn't show it and waited for Dai Yingfan to complete the team.

After all, Dai Yingfan had been in the military, so he couldn't help but blush when he saw this situation. He hurried back from Yangzhou City today and didn't have time to say hello to his subordinates in advance. As a result, these guys were like this after gathering

Being lazy is simply embarrassing him in front of outsiders.

Dai Yingfan had to spend some time to organize the team, and then explained to Yuan Tao: "These people are not all from Daijiazhuang, there are also people recommended by other families who are going to be sent to Zhoushan for training, so the team is a bit chaotic, which makes Yuan Tao

The shopkeeper is laughing!"

Yuan Tao nodded calmly and said: "It doesn't matter. They will definitely have time to practice the basic skills of lining up when they arrive in Zhoushan, and they will improve quickly."

Yuan Tao said it casually, but in his heart he made up his mind to point this out to Zhoushan in the subsequent report. The intensity of the queue training of this group of people needs to be strengthened. If you have not mastered the basic skills of queuing, then

How can one learn the tactics of using muskets?

Dai Yingfan then asked the selected people to line up in a separate team for Yuan Tao to take a look at. Since the two sides had not reached an agreement on the specific number of people to be sent to Zhoushan for further study, only seventy or eighty people were selected here.

Yuan Tao had already informed them, but Dai Yingfan obviously had no time to make up the number.

Yuan Tao took a general look and found that the people chosen by Dai Yingfan were indeed acceptable. At least their physical condition was not bad. They did not look like walk-in-the-bag characters, which made him feel a little more relaxed.

One of Haihan's concerns was that the Huizhou salt merchants overly considered the distribution of interests among each family when selecting personnel, and placed some young master-like figures among them who were not suitable for military training.

But Dai Yingfan did not make a special introduction to the selected personnel. It seems that among these people, only Dai Chengrong is a genuine young master. However, Yuan Tao believes that if the various salt merchants do not arrange special people to join them, and only those who will be appointed are

Dai Chengrong, the conductor, was a core figure. It was probably Dai Yingda who was able to make such an unusual arrangement because of his own prestige.

After seeing the candidates, Yuan Tao said to Dai Yingfan: "As for the number of candidates, I have discussed it with the young master before. Boss Dai can discuss it with the young master later to make up the number of people as soon as possible and then organize the departure. This matter has become more serious.

The sooner the better, if we delay it too long, the situation may change again."

Dai Yingfan nodded and replied: "Shopkeeper Yuan is right. I will select some more from these people later to gather the number of people. We can set off from Yangzhou the day after tomorrow at the latest. As for the remaining people, we will stay at Dai's house.

Zhuang cooperates with Shopkeeper Yuan to set up defenses."

Yuan Tao nodded, but in his heart he no longer had high expectations for the people left behind in Daijiazhuang. These people might not be unable to improve their military skills through training, but that was not within the scope of his mission.

The personnel training provided by Zhoushan is clearly priced and settled based on headcount and duration. If he trains personnel for salt merchants in Yangzhou, wouldn't it be a disguised attempt to dismantle Zhoushan? Therefore, even if these people have limited personal abilities, Yuan Tao will not

It is planned to provide additional training to these personnel during the period of stationing. At most, it will be to set some simple rules for them to avoid unnecessary problems as much as possible.

Dai Yingfan probably also understood the secret of this, so he never mentioned asking Yuan Tao to train these people for him from beginning to end. It seems that he is also a rough and fine person.

Yuan Tao asked Dai Yingfan for a floor plan of Daijiazhuang, and then returned to the station, preparing to summon his subordinate leaders, assign garrison points to each team, and take over the defense of Daijiazhuang first.

He now didn't know whether the tense state of the Huizhou salt merchants was intentional or was real. If it was the latter, it meant that armed men from the enemy might come knocking on the door at any time. This was no joke.

If Daijiazhuang cannot be successfully protected, Jindun's reputation in the world will be greatly affected. Yuan Tao does not want to be the first big boss in Jindun's overseas branch to resign.

Returning to the station, Yuan Tao saw that the two communications soldiers who had accompanied the team to Yangzhou this time were setting up ladders on the roof to set up the radio antenna. He immediately called for help, lest anything happen to these two men.

Signal soldiers who master the skills of sending and receiving radio messages are a scarce resource in the military, and their value is even comparable to the radio station itself. These signal soldiers are qualified to receive one-year professional training after passing through layers of selection, and then undergo another year.

Only after the internship period can they officially take up their posts. Most of the communication soldiers who are stationed overseas are veterans with more than three years of military service.

It is said to be a signal corps, but in fact this special branch has a small establishment and it is not easy to pass the training, so almost all of them are quickly promoted to lieutenants after taking up the post. Most of them are second lieutenants and lieutenants, and their treatment is also based on the standards of officers, even in

During combat missions, military revolvers will also be issued that can only be used by senior officers.

The two people who were sent to perform the mission with Jindun this time were both second lieutenants, and Yuan Tao was only a second lieutenant when he retired from the army and changed his career. Therefore, he did not dare to neglect these two people at all, and specially stayed in the place where he lived.

A room was set aside for them in the yard for work and accommodation.

Seeing that the radio station was already being built, Yuan Tao canceled the previous arrangement and watched them set up the antenna and complete the debugging of the machine. Then he sent a message to Zhoushan, telling him that he had settled down in Yangzhou. As for more details

Regarding the content, Yuan Tao had to first draft a manuscript to sort out what he saw and heard in Daijiazhuang, and then send it back to Zhoushan for reporting.

Later, Yuan Tao summoned his leaders in the headquarters converted from a hall, described the general situation of Daijiazhuang to them, and assigned garrison tasks to the leaders based on the floor plan provided by Dai Yingfan.

Jin Dun came with more than 100 people this time, leaving some people at the dock to guard the two ships, and more than 120 people including Yuan Tao were left to garrison Daijiazhuang. The defense plan provided by Dai Yingfan

Including the two watchtowers, there are ten overt or covert fortifications on the outside of the village. If Golden Shield's manpower is allocated, it is possible that there will be about ten people at each defense point, and the remaining people will be used as mobile force.

The best combat method of the Haihan Army is not offense, but defense. Many of Jin Dun's people are retired veterans, and they are no strangers to relying on fortifications for vigilance and combat. Now everyone based on the specific environment of Daijiazhuang, put forward another

Got a lot of suggestions for improvements.

For example, add more shooting holes on the side of the camouflage fortifications facing the outside of the village to take advantage of the golden shield's firepower; make roadblocks such as Luzhai to block horses in advance so that the roads in and out of Daijiazhuang can be quickly blocked in case of an emergency; find ways to

Strengthen monitoring of nearby canal banks to gain more buffer time, etc.
Chapter completed!