Chapter 264: Preparatory Plan
For the People's Army, it is not difficult to defeat the Ming Army, and the most important thing is when the war will end, in other words, how much territory the People's Army will have to expand before this war will stop.
I don't know how many people in the area ruled by the People's Army hope that the People's Army can settle the country in one battle, and there are some people within the People's Army who think so, but the top leaders of the People's Army, including Fang Nan, Zhou Lei, and Hu Zhuang, all understand that it is okay to destroy the Ming Dynasty in World War I, but it will be two arduous tasks to govern the world and resist external enemies.
For example, the Tatars in the north of the Ming Dynasty, in the eyes of Emperor Wanli and a group of ministers, the threat of the Tatars is even more than the People's Army, the People's Army is here, the Ming Court firmly believes that the People's Army will be able to be exterminated soon, but the Tatars who are active in the northern steppes come and go without a trace, I don't know when they will give the Ming Court, the Ming Court sent a large army, but they can't catch up.
In the face of the Tatars, the Ming court could only take a defensive position most of the time, and could not take the initiative to attack, let alone destroy the Tatars.
If the KPA destroyed the Ming court, the Tatars would become the direct enemies of the KPA, and in order to resist the Tatars, the KPA would have to garrison a large number of troops at the border passes.
The total number of troops of the People's Army has exceeded 360,000, and the world is so large that on the one hand, it is necessary to station heavy troops in the coastal areas to guard against attacks by the Japanese and the fleets of Western countries, and on the other hand, it is necessary to station a certain number of troops in various parts of the country, especially the Tusi in the southwest region, and finally it is necessary to station heavy troops at the border passes to guard against the Tatars.
In this way, the 360,000 people's army will not be able to use it, and the people's army must have at least 700,000 troops to stabilize the situation after occupying the land of China.
At present, it is impossible for the People's Army in Guangdong alone to expand its army to 700,000, and after occupying the world, the People's Army will not be able to expand its army to 700,000 quickly, unless a large number of troops are accepted by the Ming Army, but there will be too many hidden dangers in this.
The military factor is only one aspect, and the land of China is so great that even if the number of officials of the People's Army exceeds the normal value by two or three times, it will not be able to manage the whole world.
In this case, the top level of the People's Army was unwilling to destroy the Ming Court in the first war, first eat a bite of the Ming Dynasty, and then save for a few years, and finally destroy the Ming Court.
Therefore, in the meeting, the top leaders of the People's Army set the first plan, after the start of the war, the People's Army defeated the Ming army, and then took Guangxi, Huguang, Jiangxi, and Fujian, and then signed an armistice agreement with the Ming court after occupying these four places.
Guangxi, Huguang, Jiangxi, and Fujian are all bordering areas ruled by the People's Army, and they are also the four areas that the People's Army is most familiar with.
There is no problem at all in occupying Guangxi, Huguang, Jiangxi, and Fujian with the strength of the People's Army, and the number of officials trained can almost meet the needs of governing the four regions.
It can be said that the reoccupation of Guangxi, Huguang, Jiangxi, and Fujian is the best choice for the People's Army, but in many cases the plan cannot keep up with the rapid changes, and the people in the conference room then prepare two preparatory plans.
The first plan was to occupy all the areas south of the Yangtze River, and the second plan was to destroy the Ming court and unify the world.
Of course, the meeting only made a brief plan, and after the meeting, the various departments of the People's Army had to make a detailed plan, such as a certain unit of the People's Army to occupy a certain area, and a certain government official to take up a certain official post in a certain place to establish a new People's Army government.
The more detailed the plan is, the more detailed it is, the less likely it is to be chaotic in the next war.
In the conference room, the protagonist is the army, more precisely, the three main battle group armies of the army, Zhou Yi and Li Hanrong, who participated in the meeting, are not even as good as supporting roles, listen honestly, and there is no need to speak, there is almost no chance for the navy to play in the next war.
Compared with the People's Army, which has a total strength of more than 300,000 troops, the total strength of the People's Navy is only more than 20,000 people, and the more than 20,000 people are mainly naval coastal defense units, and the remaining small part are the "real" navy that controls warships and fights.
The strength of the Daming Naval Division is not generally strong, the navy of Western countries came from afar to start a war with the Daming Naval Division, and it will definitely not be the opponent of the Daming Naval Division, and now the Daming coastal Japanese raids are decreasing, on the one hand, the Ming Dynasty began to pay attention to coastal defense, on the other hand, the strength of the Daming Naval Division has increased rapidly, and General Qi is one of the important reasons for the growth of the strength of the Daming Naval Division.
From the war between the People's Army and the Ming Court, the Ming Court has never mobilized the Navy Division to attack the People's Army, whether it is the Navy Division or the Navy, it is a battle on the water, and the Navy Division can attack an island with few garrison troops, but if you want to attack the land and engage the enemy with a larger number of people, it is very difficult, and it is impossible for the Ming Navy Division to drive the warship to the land.
Song Yingchang, Mei Yousong, and even the current commander of the Ming army, Li Chengliang, did not have the idea of sending sailors to attack the KPA from the direction of the sea, and they were more accustomed to fighting with large armies on land.
However, the People's Army did not care whether the Ming court would send a naval division to attack, and had been stationing naval coastal defense units in the coastal areas to guard against the attack of the Ming naval division.
Nowadays, the People's Army has built more tiger head guns, and the naval coastal defense units can also equip some of them, and the Ming Army's naval divisions will attack the land, and the coastal defense units of the People's Navy will also be able to repel them.
As for sending the few warships of the People's Navy to the Ming Army's naval division, forget it, the difference in strength between the two is huge, and the naval warship is looking for death when it encounters the Ming naval division.
Now is not the time for the development of the People's Navy, Fang Nan is waiting for the appearance of the B-type steam engine that can be widely used, and when the time comes, steam-powered warships, or even ironclad ships, will be manufactured, and the People's Navy will crisscross the sea.
At present, the People's Navy is equipped with a small number of warships, mainly for training, and cannot wait for the appearance of steam-powered warships in the future, but there is no one in the People's Navy to drive warships.
About one-tenth of the graduating students who enter the army will be sent to the navy, and they will be the backbone of the people's navy in the future, and they will become strong together with the people's navy.
In the next war, the navy could not fight, and everyone in the conference room could only honestly listen to the army's performance, thinking of the scene of the navy crisscrossing the sea that Fang Nan had described.
Fang Nan once said that the land of China is very large but also very small, the population is increasing, and it will not take many years for the land of China to be able to feed so many people, and there is still a vast land on the other side of the sea, and the army cannot go down to the sea, only the navy can bring it back vertically and horizontally, and go to the vast land opposite to expand the territory.
Fang Nan's words are the belief that the navy upholds, or many people would have applied to return to the army a long time ago.