Chapter 397 Remember that sentence
It is called this sea.
Dong Dahai stood on the deck of the submarine, looking at the starry sky above his head, and greedily breathing the breath that only belonged here. After being sent to cooperate with Yonglun's guys across the Indian Ocean, after three years of dormation, he finally came back in time with the Second Squadron of the Nighthawk!
After three years of development, Yonglun finally built a small town there and controlled a small iron mine. Although the resources there were only a drop in the first place for the emperor, it represented the Chinese who officially landed on the mainland and made a foothold.
When to enable that landing point?
Dong Dahai doesn't know, and the Special Warfare Command doesn't know either. Probably only the emperor and the General Staff know. This is not his concern. What he cares about is that he hopes to come back in time to participate in this war. As the most mysterious and the latest headquarters of the Xinhua Army, the special war headquarters changed from Night Eagle. I don't want to leave the most elite soldiers outside to watch the battle.
Across the Indian Ocean and arriving in Hokkaido, the long road exhausted the soldiers, but time can no longer wait. Although there is still some time before the war predicted by the general eagle, the war has begun for the nighthawks.
"S sir, we will be there in 20 minutes." -
After the huge Mongolian region was re-divided into three provinces, the White City, located in the fertile Horqin Grassland of Eastern Mongolia, has never felt so busy.
Baicheng is located at the junction of Jilin and Dongmeng. It is not only the transit station of the Changchun-Mohe Railway, but also the construction of the railway from Eastern Mongolia to Kulun, the capital of Central Mongolia Province. Perhaps in a few more years, the whole Mongolia will undergo earth-shaking changes because of the railway, but time has not allowed the new Chinese. Bury your head.
This small city, which used to be calm, is now extremely busy. A column of troops keeps arriving, and a large number of soldiers and cars gathered here from all over the country. It seems to have become a huge military camp.
The soldiers crowded with each other and looked at the small city, and then walked into the temporary barracks under the command of the ordermen. The gendarmes wore white armbands and their eyes were indifferent.
Located in the center of the barracks, three tall wooden towers were erected, and the radio antenna on the tower pierced the sky. Even the tower had many other antennas, as if a grinning hedgehog straightened up.
Under the tower is the front-line headquarters of this battle, and the sandbags and machine guns outside the headquarters add a little tension to this rush.
Entering the headquarters, the first thing I heard was the endless sound of telegrams. The radio waves shuttled back and forth. After dozens of forwarding stations along the way and the forwarding of patrol airships in the sky, all kinds of information from the frontier gathered here and took away countless orders.
Standing in the center of the command hall, Zhao Long took a deep breath. As the deputy chief of staff and the commander-in-chief of the army, he now has another position, the commander of the eastern front war zone.
Since he came out of Canada and landed in Chile, he has always been the most determined force around Li Mo. He has never participated in government discussions, nor is he as dazzling as Chen Ping. He is not even familiar to the outside world, but he really controls hundreds of thousands of troops in this country, more than half of the front-line generals in the army. Almost all of them are his people. He is the most firm support force of the royal family. Without him, it is hard to say whether Li Mo can sit firmly in this world.
He holds a lot of power, but he is low-key and extremely inconspicuous, which is even ignored, but only those at the core know that he is Li Mo's real arm!
In order to maintain a strong maritime force, the army has been continuously suppressed over the years. Even if the country is now unified and has the world's largest military source, it has not been expanded crazily.
Maintaining an army that is lean and powerful, with weapons and combat ideas ahead of all countries is the most important thing in the army over the years. He knows very well why Li Mo did this, because when the country's finances are tight, and even the royal family is struggling because of investment in education and the northwest, he keeps a large number of people at the same time. Many armies and powerful navies are unrealistic, but he has never complained, nor has he asked Li Mo to report, trying to do his own things well.
This time, he has 350,000 troops, but the enemy is likely to eventually exceed 600,000! Although 200,000 reservists have begun to carry out closed training in various places, he has never thought of sending those soldiers who have just returned to school to shoot to the front line, because that is irresponsible to the soldiers!
He knows, the emperor knows, and all the officers of the main force also know!
Some people have complained about why they don't wait for a few years to start the war, but everyone seems to have forgotten that Nicholas II is unwilling to wait. Geopolitics makes it impossible for Xinhua and Russia to live in peace. It's not a joke to tolerate two tigers, and Russia has exhausted its last patience in retaliation for its failure nine years ago. Heart, if the Russians use the Siberian Railway to send the army far away, they may not face 600,000, but 1 million, or even 2 million!
So this is a battle that must be fought!
"Report Commander, the Chief of General Staff has arrived, and the heads of each division have gathered in the conference room."
"Let's go." Zhao Long nodded, grabbed the first black star given to him by Li Mo when he was finalized, and walked firmly to the conference room next to him.
The conference room is actually a huge tent. Outside the rows of stools, there is not even a table. Only the huge map hanging on the front, marked with red and blue lines and arrows, can see the tense atmosphere here.
Seeing Zhao Long coming in, everyone immediately got up and saluted. After nodding, Zhao Long saluted Chen Ping. As usual, he walked to him silently and sat down, and nodded to Zhang Zuolin.
"Hyo everyone, you're welcome. Let's go straight to the topic."
After years of training, Zhang Zuolin has been used to picking up the baton and standing outside the war. Although he is not leading the troops on the front line, no one dares to underestimate the army coordination staff officer who is already a brigadier general. Even Sun Jiugong, who is already the commander of the Northwest Army in the same year as him, does not dare to boo this partner in the front row.
Under the gaze of everyone, Zhang Zuolin walked to the map and drew a circle with a baton from Kulun to the Kamchatka Peninsula: "This is our goal. It is our territory, and the total area is more than five times that of the southeastern provinces!"
A simple circle aroused the breath of dozens of officers and generals present. Looking at the huge territory, everyone knows what it means!
Even Chen Ping and Zhao Long couldn't help squinting their eyes and secretly talking about Zhang Zuolin's power. With just one sentence and a circle, they mobilized everyone.
"Like the huge territory, it is also very difficult." Zhang Zuolin pointed to the direction of Vladivostok and said, "The population of Siberia is not large, but the region is vast, the winter is long, and the geographical environment is very harsh. In addition, this has always been the most annoying place of exile in Russia, so the folk customs are strong. Everyone must pay more attention to the Russians around us."
"In addition, from the information currently available, the position of Alexeev, the governor of the Russian Far East, has been vacant. The Russian army has now been divided into three arrows. The first is Vladivostok, and the Twin Cities are the main eastern army, with a total of three armies and ten divisions, with a total of 150,000.
The commander is Admiral Bildlinger of the Russian Army. The army is mainly composed of veterans of the former Far East Military Region and local urgently recruited Russian farmers. According to the information we have obtained, due to the lack of maritime protection due to the inability of the expected fleet, he has focused his main energy on defense.
"The middle road is centered on the north side of Berga Lake, which passes through the Siberian Railway. The troops here are also the strongest. They are all new troops from Europe. At present, there are four armies, about 200,000 people, of which 50,000 are elite Cossack cavalry. The commander is the Russian Minister of the Army and the commander-in-chief of the Far East, Kuropat. Jin personally commanded.
"At present, the western army is all concentrated outside Tangnu Ulianghai and Tacheng, Xinjiang Province. There are two armies of 100,000 people. The soldiers are all from the Central Asian and West Asian Military Region troops and local conscripted peasants from near Yekaterinburg. Although the combat effectiveness is not strong, considering that it is the closest to Yekaterinaburg, Russia against Donuou Liang Hai and Xinjiang Province have been coveted for a long time, so it can be expected that the follow-up troops of the Russian army will focus on supporting this place!"
"The current basic combat plan of the emperor and the general staff is to concentrate on eating the eastern and central armies of the Russian army. At the same time, the west is supplemented by defense and interception. While ensuring homeland security, we must strive to consume the enemy's living forces as much as possible, contain the troops transferred from Europe, and cut off their support for the East China. The arm of the department!"
After Zhang Zuolin finished speaking, he lowered the baton in his hand, grabbed a document, and glanced around and suddenly flashed.
"Command."
As he spread out the documents in his hand, only a brush was heard. Dozens of division commanders all stood up, and the atmosphere in the room suddenly froze.
"Continue to appoint Sun Jiugong as the commander of the Northwest Theater Command. The former Second and Fourth Infantry Divisions and the First and Third Cavalry Divisions remain unchanged, and the Fifth, Eighth, Ninth and Tenth Infantry Divisions are added to be responsible for the security of Tangnu Wulianghai and Xinjiang Province!"
"Zhao Long, the commander of the Northeast Theater Command, is under the jurisdiction of the 1st, 3rd, 6th, 7th, 11th, 12th, 13th and 14th Infantry Divisions, the 2nd and 4th Cavalry Divisions, as well as the 1st and 2nd Marine Corps Divisions, responsible for the combat missions of Kulun, Mohe and the northeast."
"The 15th Infantry Division, the 5th Cavalry Division and 10 reserve divisions will serve as the general reserve."
With Zhang Zuolin's order, Zhao Long got up and slowly walked to everyone: "We are sitting here, and it's still quiet outside, but I can tell you that the war has begun!"
"The warm Luzon here is not a comfortable beach, this is the northern Xinjiang! It's Siberia! I hope everyone understands that this is a hard battle, and we must make the hardest preparations!"
"Before leaving, the emperor said to me, this time! We are isolated, and the whole world is isolating us! But he is ready, and he also believes that after victory, the world will look at us with new eyes!"
"Don't expect reinforcements behind you. We are the army, and spitting is a nail! He is born to rush forward with bullets and explosions! If you can't even accept this, it's better to go back to the baby!"
"Remember that sentence."
"The place to step on is the land!" ......
(to be continued)