Volcanic archipelago, Liuhuang Island.

As usual, Major General Li Zhong came to the garrison headquarters before dawn, and after making some inquiries, he took several senior staff officers to inspect the construction of the defensive position.

For months, every day.

Not to mention the officers and soldiers below, even the staff officers of the garrison headquarters are a little unbearable.

Everyone dared to be angry, because Li Zhong was not only the commander of the garrison, but also from the army base camp, which meant that there were people on it. Not to mention the officers and soldiers on the island, even in the Eastern Imperial Capital of the Sayi Imperial Kingdom, few people are willing to provoke Li Zhong.

Three months ago, before coming to Liuhuangdao to garrison, Li Zhong had a premonition that it was not so good.

To say, it was this bad premonition that made Li Zhong feel that he had to strengthen the defense deployment of Liuhuang Island, and as a result, he was not sent over.

Volunteered to come to Liuhuangdao as the commander of the garrison?

Li Zhong is not so highly conscious.

However, who would be stupid enough to come to an outlying island thousands of kilometers away from the mainland to suffer and suffer?

When proposing to strengthen the defense deployment of Liuhuang Island, Li Zhong did not think of coming here to serve as the commander in person.

Li Zhong has such worries, which are related to his experience.

Twelve years ago, he served as an army attache at the embassy of the Sagi Imperial State in the Liangxia Empire, and he worked for four years until eight years ago.

In these four years, Li Zhong not only went to the Qing University of the Liangxia Empire to study and obtain an honorary doctorate, but also often participated in the international friendship meetings held by the Liangxia military and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and got to know many army generals, including Lian Xusheng, and also knew naval generals like Bai Zhizhan and Liu Xiangzhen. It's just that he is the army attache of the Imperial Kingdom of Narrows, and there are not many opportunities to deal with the navy.

After returning to the Imperial Kingdom of Sasino, he wrote a report specifically for this purpose.

It should be said that among the narrow army, he is one of the few generals who has an in-depth and comprehensive understanding of the Liangxia army and navy.

In the years that followed, Li remained at the army headquarters, mainly involved in the development of war plans and coordinating with the navy.

Li Zhong always believed that after the outbreak of the war, the Liangxia Empire would encircle and blockade the Narrowly Empire as soon as possible.

According to his speculation, after achieving an initial victory, that is, gaining superiority at sea, the Liangxia navy would seize control of the Sadou Islands in the north and south, and control the passage into the Guia Ocean in the west; Next, they will attack the volcanic islands and capture Liuhuang Island; Then, using Liuhuang Island as a base, it implemented a strategic blockade of the Sayi Imperial State; Cut off the route from the Imperial Kingdom to Austria and the Newland Federation, so that the Imperial Kingdom could not receive assistance from allies.

As early as a few years ago, Li Zhong proposed to give the Northern Malaysia Islands to the Nuland Federation, in exchange for allowing the Nuland Federation to establish a military base on the northernmost island of the archipelago, preferably a port, or at worst an airport, to cover Liuhuangdao.

Unfortunately, this suggestion was rejected after it was proposed.

In addition, Li Zhong was also implicated because of this, and he is only a major general in the army so far.

Almost all of the officers of the Army Academy who graduated in the same year as him became lieutenant generals.

Li Zhong has always believed that as long as there is a war with the Liangxia Empire, then Liuhuang Island will bear the brunt of the attack, and the defense of the place must be strengthened.

It is also a pity that his advice was never heeded.

There is nothing surprising about this.

The North and South Sadou Islands have become a demilitarized zone, which only nominally belongs to the Liang Xia Empire, and the Watcher Strait is still very easy to be blocked in the war, so in the past few years, the entire Narrow Yi Imperial State has felt that no matter how powerful the Liang Xia Empire is, it will not be able to cross the North and South Sadou Islands and directly attack Liuhuang Island.

Hit the North and South Bean Islands first?

According to the judgment before the war, it will take several months, and it will have to seize the control of the sea immediately after the war.

For a few months, do you still need to worry about the defense deployment of Liuhuangdao?

As a result, when Li Zhong put forward the last proposal to strengthen the defense of Liuhuang Island, those guys in the base camp who had long been impatient with him sent him very simply and appointed him as the commander of the garrison, personally responsible for the defense of Liuhuang Island, to be precise, the volcanic archipelago.

Of course, the only thing worth defending is Liuhuang Island.

Geographically, Liuhuang Island is more like an outlying island in the volcanic archipelago, hundreds of kilometers away from the dozens of islands in the north of the archipelago.

In addition, there are no large islands near Liuhuang Island.

It is also this unique geographical location that gives this island formed by submarine volcanic eruptions, and the crater is still active to this day, and it is also named after the intermittent eruption of brownish magma, especially like a flowing egg yolk, which has unparalleled strategic value.

In this vicinity, there is no island that can replace Liuhuang Island.

To put it more bluntly, Liuhuang Island is a springboard between the Northern Malaysia Islands and the mainland of Saoyi.

From a military point of view, whether it is an attack on the narrow mainland or a strategic blockade, the island needs to be used as a foothold.

Geographically, the islands to the south are too close to Guanjima, and the islands to the north are too close to the Sagi mainland.

It can be seen that even if you lose those islands in the north, you must defend Liuhuang Island.

Conversely, the Imperial Navy had no choice but to storm Liuhuangdao.

On the day of the outbreak of the war, Li Zhong wrote a suicide note and sent someone to send it back.

The trend of the battle after this almost perfectly confirmed Li Zhong's initial fears, and the Liang Xia navy not only seized the strategic initiative in one fell swoop, but also defeated the permanent fleet with a thunderous force and swept away the Sadou Islands in the north and south. What Li Zhong didn't expect was that the Liang Xia Army actually launched a blitzkrieg on the Ice Storm Peninsula and swept the entire peninsula within twenty days, and the front-line commander was Lian Xusheng, whom he knew.

As early as more than 10 years ago, Li Zhong proposed to the base camp of the Narrow Army to develop armored units.

It's a pity that, like the other suggestions he made, they didn't get the attention of the base camp at all, and they were caricatured as cowards who were afraid of death.

This cannot be blamed on the base camp either, because the Narrow-Sized Imperial State simply did not have the capital to develop armored forces.

Steel production is insufficient.

After the Navy has spent most of its steel production capacity, the Narrow Army can ensure a normal supply of ammunition, and it would be good to purchase some heavy artillery.

Build tanks and tanks?

No kidding, even the steel used to build aircraft carriers and battleships is refined from scrap products recovered from abroad.

The Imperial Kingdom of the Narrows is an island country with scarce resources, lacking not only steel, but almost all resources, so the Narrowish Army cannot be as extravagant as the Liangxia Army. The Narrow Army has always advocated and carried forward the brave spirit of fighting bayonets, and fundamentally speaking, it is also saving ammunition.

Guns and ammunition are enough, unless it is a last resort, who wants to fight with the enemy with bayonets?

If there is any good news, it is that the Liangxia navy has suffered huge losses, and it has to concentrate on supporting the army, and there is no way to march into the west and east for the time being.

However, Li Zhong felt that this situation would not last long.

Yesterday, General Niu Man, who was guarding Puzhou, had already surrendered to the Liangxia Army with hundreds of thousands of officers and soldiers.

This means that it won't be long before the Liang Xia Navy will be able to free up its hands and launch an attack in the Guia Ocean, and it will inevitably attack Liuhuang Island first.

So, is it too late to strengthen the deployment of defenses?

Or, will three months of hard work be worthwhile?

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