Now when the People's Army needs to expand its scale, the Military Commission has also issued an order to require all troops to attract as many people as possible to join the People's Army when performing their missions.

Of course, the People's Army did not refuse everyone. Indiscriminately, everyone recruited the People's Army. Of course, they had to strictly screen and check the people's army. Therefore, the main targets of the People's Army's recruitment were ordinary people, farmers and other middle and lower-class people.

The members of the Boxer Rebellion were a bit special. Although there were indeed many rogues and rogues in the later period of the Boxer Rebellion, overall, the Boxer Rebellion was mainly composed of poor peasants, handicraftsmen, urban poor, small vendors and transport workers. Moreover, the members of the Boxer Rebellion could do a few moves. In addition, most of them participated in the siege of churches, which were even confronted with officers and soldiers, and had some practical experience. Although this experience was actually the experience of fighting in groups, these experiences were also useful to the People's Army, which was somewhat stronger than ordinary people, and was conducive to their rapid becoming qualified soldiers.

However, the various behaviors of the Boxer Rebellion were indeed too extreme and extreme. Because the Boxer Rebellion expressed its strong anti-external sentiment in a very foolish and superstitious way, and was blindly xenophobic. These were obviously the People's Army, to be precise, which time travelers could not accept. Although the ultimate goal of the time travelers was to drive all foreign invaders out of China, take back all lost land, concessions and cancel all unequal treaties, it did not mean that the time travelers would adopt a policy of closing the country and not contacting and communicating with foreign countries at all. After all, the time travelers all knew that people knew that the trend of globalization was inevitable. Therefore, as long as it was on the basis of equality, the time travelers would adopt a more open policy to better integrate into the world, and would never be conservative.

Then, for the members of the Boxer Rebellion, they must be re-educated, allowing them to accept the concept of time travelers, and completely abandon the previous Boxer Rebellion's superstition, narrow-mindedness and conservative ideas, in order to absorb them into the People's Army.

After Jiang Haidong, Yang Jie, Zhang Shuo and Liu Zonghai left, the People's Army quickly cleared the battlefield and took the collected spoils and retreated to Hualou Peak. At this time, the second team also arrived in the Laoshan area. The two sides met under Hualou Peak and re-established the camp.

Luo Yue immediately told commander Zhu Yaping in detail about the process of this battle and the casualties of both sides. Because the People's Army has just formed an army, every battle is an important and valuable experience, and it must be promoted to the entire army, and carefully studied the battle to improve the combat effectiveness of the entire army as soon as possible.

After listening to Luo Yue’s speech, Zhu Yaping was very satisfied with the result of this battle and said, “Captain Luo, you fought very well in this battle. They won the battle and trained the team. They also showed us the gap with the strongest army of this era. It can be said that we have gained a lot."

Luo Yue said: "Commander, there are too many places to summarize this battle. Overall, the quality of our army is quite different from that of the German army. Moreover, the German army has set up positions here, which means that the German army's strength is more than the more than 600 people we have collected, because there are about 150 German troops here, and they are obviously fully prepared in Qingdao, so we should not fight head-on with the German army."

Zhu Yaping nodded and said, "Battery Commander Luo, you are right. This time we attacked Qingdao, we are advancing on both sides of sea and land, not just our army. Now that we have arrived at the outer area of ​​Qingdao, we should immediately notify Weihaiwei, let the navy go and carry out sea and land attacks. What we need to do now is to find out the strength and deployment of the De Army, not only to provide convenience for us, but also to the navy's offensive."

Luo Yue said: "We have captured more than 20 German soldiers this time. We can interrogate them, and maybe we can understand the German troops and the deployment situation."

Zhu Yaping smiled and said, "This is a solution. In addition, I will also dispatch drones to conduct detailed reconnaissance in Qingdao. This two-pronged approach should be used to clarify the strength and deployment of the De Army. The matter of interrogating the captives will be left to you."

Luo Yue said: "Well, this is good, I'll make arrangements right away."

Zhu Yaping then said: "Bathman Commander Luo, Laoshan is still too far from the central area of ​​Qingdao. The large army can be stationed here, but I want to set up a frontier position in Laoyaling as the frontier base for our next step in attacking Qingdao. This task will be handed over to your battalion. What do you think?"

Laoyaling is a continuation of the mountains in the southwest of Laoshan. It is generally located in the northeast of Licang District, Qingdao City in the old time and space, about 10 kilometers away from Hualou Peak, and only more than 20 kilometers away from Qingdao Bay. Therefore, if the People's Army establishes a frontier position in Laoyaling, it will directly threaten the Qingdao area. After the artillery battalion arrives, it will arrange 105mm large-caliber artillery on Laoyaling, and even directly bombard the fortress of Bismarck Mountain.

So Luo Yue nodded and said, "Yes, our camp guarantees to complete the task."

Zhu Yaping said: "Okay, then don't hesitate and leave the injured soldiers. Your battalion has a rest now and set off after lunch. You can reach Laoya Ridge before dusk and establish a position."

After lunch, Luo Yue was about to lead the team to set off. At this time, Jiang Haidong, Yang Jie, Zhang Shuo and others came here. Not only were the three of them, but also brought eight young people from the same village. It turned out that they wanted to go out and do some big things under the encouragement of the few of them. Jiang Haidong's cousin Liu Zonghai was also among them. Luo Yue brought them to see Zhu Yaping, and he led his troops to drive to Laoyaling.

Zhu Yaping heard Luo Yue talk about their situation and agreed with Luo Yue's handling. Now it's time to use people, so the more people come, the better. Therefore, Zhu Yaping personally met the twelve of them, encouraged them a few words, leaving them all in the military camp, and sent someone to tell them the discipline of the People's Army. The next day, the artillery battalion, the firepower strengthening battalion, also arrived in the Laoshan area. Zhu Yaping divided the twelve of them into two groups and arranged them to the artillery battalion. The firepower strengthening battalion was mainly done by doing some odd jobs, so Jiang Haidong and others stayed in the military camp.

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Lieutenant Colonel Nedewytz led a team of German troops to fight to the death. He broke through the People's Army's array and escaped from the Hualou Peak position. He collected more than 50 soldiers from the defeated German soldiers, including more than 30 injured. He hurried back to Qingdao Bay and reported the battle situation to the German commander Wadesi.

After listening to the report of Lieutenant Colonel Nederwitz, Wadesi was very angry. Before establishing the frontier position of Hualou Peak, he repeatedly told Nadewitz not to defend his position and fight against the enemy, and to withdraw immediately when encountering the enemy. Because although the number of German troops is not large, they are all regular army. They are not naval soldiers drawn from warships. They are elites among the German troops in the island, and are also forces that Wadesi attaches great importance to. In Wadesi's plan, after this army is withdrawn, it will be incorporated into the reserve army, so that he will have enough mobile troops in his hands.

But Needwitz violated his orders and stood firm in fighting against the enemy. Not only did he not defend the position, but he also reduced more than 100 people. Although such losses were not considered a serious injury, they also greatly damaged the morale of the German army. How could Wadesi not anger? Not only did he scold Nedwitz, he also removed Needwitz from his post and let him go to the Saxon to command the naval guns on the beach.

Of course, it is easy to deal with Nedvez, but the current situation is even more difficult. Wadesi can only order all positions to hold on tightly because the overseas Chinese army has arrived in Qingdao.

At dusk, Wadesi received a report and the scouts found that the overseas Chinese army had advanced to Laoyaling to establish a position.

Of course, Wadesi knew where Laoya Ridge was, and he also knew how threat to Qingdao was that the overseas Chinese army established positions in Laoya Ridge. If the overseas Chinese army had heavy artillery and was placed on Laoya Ridge, at least it could hit the fort of Bismarck Mountain. Of course, the heavy artillery of the Bismarck Mountain Fort can also hit the Laoya Ridge, but this requires knowing the detailed location of the enemy and setting up observation posts near Laoya Ridge to provide correction parameters for the artillery. Otherwise, the Laoya Ridge area will be dozens of square kilometers in a radius, so who knows where to hit it?

Wadesi was proficient in military tactics and of course he would not eliminate defense. So he immediately ordered a platoon to attack overnight and rushed to Laoya Ridge to find out the joint position of the enemy's positions. He also used the cover of the night to set up a secret observation post, and then bombarded Laoya Ridge with heavy artillery from the Bismarck Mountain Fort.

However, the enemy obviously expected the German army to have this move, so they set up a large number of sentinels near the position. As a result, the German army leaned into the enemy's positions from three directions, but they were all discovered by the enemy's sentinels. Not only did they fail to get close to the enemy's positions, but more than ten people were killed in the battle and had to give up and retreat.

In fact, the People's Army did not set up so many sentinels, and Bi Jingluo Yue had less than 400 men, so there were so many men. However, the People's Army had unmanned reconnaissance aircraft and a large number of night vision equipment. Therefore, the whereabouts of the German army were completely controlled by the People's Army, and the German army was successfully intercepted.

After dawn, Wadesi received the report and could only do it in disappointment. Fortunately, the enemy did not launch an attack on the German positions. The two sides held each other for a day, but there was no battle, and there was no small conflict, which was very calm.
Chapter completed!