National Army
National Army is The National Army in this narrative context operates as a disciplined yet fragmented military force under imperial or state control, primarily tasked with counterinsurgency, garrison duties, and maintaining order during colonial expansion. Deployed across Hainan Island—particularly in regions like Lingao, where units are undergoing rehabilitation after prolonged guerrilla warfare—they serve as both enforcers of regime authority and a source of local recruitment, leveraging ethnic populations (such as the Li and Miao) to bolster manpower. Their effectiveness is strained by operational fragmentation, low morale from prolonged campaigns, and logistical challenges, though their presence ensures control over strategic assets like Changhua Fort’s naval defenses or the island’s scarce resources (water, timber). The
Context from Novel
"Chapter 897 – The Fourth Infantry Battalion The battalions pulled back from northern Hainan were undergoing rehabilitation training in Lingao. Ten months of counterinsurgency had honed the troops in anti-guerrilla warfare, but the prolonged campaign had taken its toll on military discipline. Scattered operations and garrison duties had eroded organizational cohesion—during much of the fighting, battalions had operated in fragmented platoon-sized elements. The transmigrator officers, whether of t"
"Chapter 992 - Changhua Fort This was Changhua Fort. Since the first circumnavigation of the island, Changhua—as the first independent overseas fortress—had undergone several expansions, growing from an originally crude fortified blockhouse into a small coastal bastion. Beneath the fluttering Morning Star flag, a twenty-four-pounder naval cannon mounted on the bastion commanded Sanjia Harbor, Changhua's maritime gateway. Less than a kilometer outside the bastion, on the coastal wasteland near the"
"Chapter 993 - Miao Village Kong Lingyang's suspicion proved correct. The arrival of Mu Min—who concurrently served as Director of the Li-Miao Affairs Office—and Fang Jinghan was precisely to recruit National Army soldiers from the local Li and Miao population. The Li and Miao population of Hainan Island had long represented untapped manpower for the Senate, a constant frustration for the labor-starved Planning Bureau. However, the Li and Miao people possessed extremely low productivity levels an"
"Chapter 994 - New Recruits The Miao people lived in hardship and, compared to the Li, proved more willing to leave home and eat military rations. During the Ming dynasty, southwestern Miao, Yao, Dong, and other ethnic native troops had been conscripted for combat on multiple occasions. The most famous were Qin Liangyu's White Pole Soldiers—with proper training and command, their combat effectiveness as infantry of this dimension was quite respectable. Wei Aiwen and his colleagues' recruitment ac"
"Chapter 996 - Military Dogs Lingao's water resources were insufficient for the long term, making it unsuitable as a major future industrial and agricultural base. Changhua possessed little arable land, but its freshwater, timber, and industrial mineral resources far exceeded Lingao's. The Changhua River's runoff alone totaled nine hundred million cubic meters, while all of Lingao County managed only seven hundred million. Developable hydropower resources reached forty thousand kilowatts—thirty t"
Appearances
Appears in chapters: 898, 993, 994, 995, 997, 999, 1011, 1012, 1013, 1104, 1109, 1121, 1122, 1228, 1300, 1372, 1467, 1538, 1587, 1588, 1596, 1645, 1718, 1719, 1720, 1722, 1724, 1725, 1728, 1729, 1732, 1734, 1735, 1737, 1738, 1740, 1741, 1745, 1746, 1756, 1759, 1761, 1775, 1776, 1802, 1804, 1806, 1817, 1821, 1822, 1823, 1826, 1830, 1832, 1833, 1834, 1835, 1836, 1848, 1850, 1851, 1867, 1876, 1877, 1880, 1883, 1884, 1886, 1888, 1889, 1890, 1894, 1896, 1898, 1899, 1901, 1902, 1903, 1904, 1906, 1912, 1959, 1962, 1967, 1970, 1986, 1998, 2002, 2003, 2022, 2032, 2033, 2036, 2042, 2052, 2059, 2071, 2072, 2073, 2074, 2075, 2077, 2079, 2086, 2090, 2091, 2099, 2100, 2101, 2128, 2135, 2136, 2144, 2145, 2146, 2147, 2148, 2149, 2150, 2151, 2152, 2153, 2154, 2155, 2156, 2157, 2158, 2159, 2160, 2161, 2162, 2163, 2164, 2165, 2166, 2167, 2168, 2169, 2170, 2171, 2172, 2173, 2174, 2175, 2176, 2177, 2182, 2183, 2184, 2185, 2186, 2187, 2188, 2189, 2190, 2191, 2194, 2197, 2198, 2199, 2200, 2201, 2202, 2204, 2205, 2206, 2210, 2213, 2214, 2215, 2216, 2217, 2219, 2220, 2222, 2223, 2225, 2226, 2228, 2232, 2236, 2237, 2238, 2239, 2242, 2244, 2247, 2249, 2251, 2252, 2254, 2255, 2256, 2259, 2263, 2264, 2268, 2271, 2272, 2275, 2281, 2283, 2285, 2286, 2287, 2289, 2290, 2291, 2293, 2294, 2295, 2296, 2299, 2301, 2303, 2307, 2309, 2310, 2311, 2312, 2314, 2315, 2324, 2328, 2336, 2341, 2342, 2359, 2376, 2377, 2379, 2409, 2415, 2446, 2447, 2448, 2451, 2485, 2496, 2510, 2513, 2519, 2523, 2532, 2557, 2558, 2563, 2566, 2567, 2573, 2579, 2596, 2605, 2606, 2608, 2612, 2613, 2614, 2629, 2640, 2642, 2768, 2792, 2798, 2799, 2800, 2815, 2818, 2834, 2835, 2838, 2839, 2840, 2843, 2844, 2851.