Chapter 50 range team

At first there were 1,000 members of the ranger, and later the total number reached 20,000.They were divided into five cohorts of four thousand men.The task of the backbone of the ranger is to "supervise" local officers who participated in the "bandit suppression" campaign.Their soldiers carry pistols, grenades and special portable walkie-talkies.They disguised their activities in the countryside, carried out surprise attacks on "submarine bandits", killed or hunted down underground Communists and destroyed their party organizations.At the same time, the backbones of the Einsatzgruppen also assisted the local government to build up self-defense forces, so that normal administrative work could be carried out, and the common people could return to their hometowns to resume normal life.

The Einsatzgruppen quickly became notorious among progressives who accused its armed cadres of brutally torturing and killing civilians, yet the Einsatzgruppen was highly appreciated by Chiang Kai-shek and the Kuomintang for cultivating anti-communist awareness among peasants and mobilizing rural forces to resist the Jiangxi Soviet Red Army .More spies were trained and sent to work in Henan, Hubei, Anhui, Jiangxi, Fujian and Zhejiang.And Kang Ze and his entourage themselves formed a force to carry out special missions to control parts of southern and southwestern China, even disregarding the warlords who ruled Guizhou and Sichuan.Kang Ze's Rangers conducted counter-insurgency activities in Communist-controlled rural areas and were aided by KMT political training programs largely led by another Blue Shirts figure, He Zhonghan. In 1932, when Kang Ze was training the backbone of secret agents, He Zhonghan, who formalized the term "bandit suppression", was appointed as the director of the "Bandit Suppression Headquarters" and "Bandit Suppression Propaganda Division" and Director of "Nanchang Administrative Training Department".In the winter of the following year, the Fuxing Society was established, and He Zhonghan's Propaganda Office became the Political Training Office of the National "Bandit Suppression" Army.In June of the following year, he was sent to be in charge of the "bandit suppression" command task of Henan, Hubei, and Anhui headquarters in Hankou.

The backbone of the "Bandit Suppression" Headquarters in Hankou came from the "Training Class for Cadres of the Henan, Hubei, Anhui and Jiangxi Regiments", which was established in 1933 under the leadership of members of the Lixing Society. One-sixth of the 1,700 cadets came from the Central Military Academy, while the rest came from county security forces and regional self-defense organizations in the four provinces.They all undergo six months of training in intelligence work, military knowledge, field techniques, politics and Communist affairs.Then they returned to their original unit and coordinated the anti-Communist and anti-Red Army "bandit suppression" campaign under the command of the Kuomintang headquarters in Nanchang and Hankou.

In the Hankou headquarters, He Zhonghan was mainly responsible for the anti-communist propaganda of the Kuomintang: he opened a movie theater and also ran a stubbornly anti-communist magazine "Sweeping".At that time, there were a series of other institutions in the capital that were interested in political training, so He Zhonghan decided to make himself the master of the entire "political training system" and regard propaganda work as his special trading ticket.