Li Jiazhuang, War Department.

"The foreign army was transferred to Luoyang?" Ma Heng asked the communications staff officer.

"Yes, sir, these are all information collected from Guanzhong, and Dong Zhuo has already mobilized his troops. It is estimated that they will bring 6,000 troops, and about twelve battalions will be moved. However, considering that their logistics units can quickly become firearms soldiers for a certain battle under certain organizational conditions, the total number of this force may reach about 12,000 people, but their logistics affairs are not easy to do. A lieutenant colonel staff officer estimated.

Ma Heng looked at the information in his hand. The intelligence comes from a multi-regional aggregate, but the intelligence services make some conclusions.

Dong Zhuo's transfer was expected, which was very normal for them. However, the transfer of soldiers and horses in Julu County was unexpected by Ma Heng.

The Dingyuan division that retreated from Bingzhou had only more than 8,000 people, and their troops suffered large losses and low morale, but they were more than enough for the direction of the Beijing division.

"According to the calculation of the reinforcement of 20,000 troops, we need to attack Luoyang, and make a detailed plan." Ma Heng said this after reading the telegram. Increased the number of troops defending Luoyang. For the Republican Army, it made it more difficult for them to attack.

Ma Heng still thinks about the problem according to the offensive method of the comparison of forces, and the impact on diplomacy and other aspects is not within the scope of their consideration, after all, for them, such things, as long as they simply consider military issues.

Inside the War Department.

"Luoyang has increased its troops, and there are about 8,000 people in Bingzhou, and its military strength is still not to be underestimated. As for Dong Zhuo, our intelligence officers believe that it is more cost-effective to dispatch more than 6,000 troops, and about 12 battalions. Jia Xu said.

"Well, but it still hasn't had a big impact on us. The situation has not changed completely. Shang Wu said.

"What I'm worried about is that Jingshi Luoyang is making such a move. In addition, the mobilization of foreign personnel to fight may cause even greater confusion. Jia Xu said. This is when more imagination is compelled.

"Well, I'm afraid there will be such a thing, but Jingshi Luoyang's actions have not changed much, and it is still not appropriate for us to move. I've read the military report. I believe that at present, we should strengthen the training of special operations and replenish personnel, and if necessary, send these personnel to Luoyang, the capital through commercial and diplomatic means, so as to strengthen the armed forces of the intelligence personnel there, and our intelligence personnel are still too thin. Intelligence alone is not enough to make a complete and significant improvement in our situation, we need more space. Shang Wu said.

Shang Wu already had a plan to send a large number of special operations forces to Luoyang, and although their main military force was beyond the reach of the whip, it did not prevent their military forces from being sent to Luoyang.

The characteristics of special operations are extremely flexible, and they are of great help in gathering intelligence, destroying and covering major targets behind enemy lines, and Shang Wu believes that this move will strengthen the combat capability of intelligence personnel. After all, they had only had the ability to gather intelligence before, and this ability had always been seriously insufficient for them.

"The next step of the special operation is to enter the Beijing division Luoyang, in addition to ensuring our commercial value, the most important thing is that we can have the ability to control the Beijing division Luoyang in key places and prevent the Beijing division Luoyang from having a big New Year's greeting. It's some shadows that we ambushed in advance. Shang Wu said.

"Well, but I think of something, that is, Dong Zhuo, they want to leave some logistics things to us. At the same time, they are increasing their purchases of our vehicles. It seems that they have the intention of further expanding the situation. Jia Xu said.

"We'll do the logistics?" Shangwu asked.

"Yes. This is Dong Zhuo's plan. After all, if they do it according to their needs, the time it takes will be very large. Jia Xu said.

"That's good news." Shang Wu said.

Because a large amount of logistics and transportation work will stimulate the development of the transportation industry of the Republican Army, and if necessary, even stimulate the industrial development of the Republican Army, because a large number of orders for logistics and materials will strongly stimulate the production of the Republican Army. That's certainly a good thing.

"I'm worried, though." Jia Xu didn't finish speaking, Jia Xu's worries were always endless. Everyone knows that there will be such an outcome. But Jia Xu's worries are always at the forefront.

"Your concern is that they don't have money, their gold and silver are being minted into gold and silver coins, and although they have a buffer for a while, a safe distance, the problem is that our trade occupies the commanding heights and is in a state of income. The other party, on the other hand, has been in a state of output, that is, we have been able to make money to maintain our financial income, which of course requires us to increase our income from the business tax side. As for Guanzhong, their situation is very unoptimistic. They have been in a state of loss, and this kind of problem is fundamentally unsolvable, which is in the long run. In the short term, if Dong Zhuo doesn't continue to borrow money. May not be sustainable. Jia Xu said.

"It looks like we're going to have to lend them money. Otherwise, they simply won't be able to sustain themselves. Shang Wu said. If Dong Zhuo is an ambitious person, he will definitely not be satisfied with this, he will do many, many things out of the ordinary, because only in this way can he do what he should do, in such a situation, if they want to complete such things, they will inevitably have new changes in the development situation.

"It seems that it can only be so, but for the control of future bank risks." Jia Xu said.

"If Dong Zhuo can solve this problem by himself, it is best, I think, we should take a long-term view, for example, Luoyang." Shang Wu said pointedly. Jia Xu thinks that there are some adventures, but there are still things that must be tried.

The Republican Army, the Fifth Factory, and the factories are usually extremely busy, whether it is the workers or the researchers, they are extremely busy, and they seem to have no time to eat.

But the fifth factory is completely different, the factory here feels like there is nothing to do, I don't know how boring it is. Perhaps, only those researchers can be so busy.

The fifth factory is different from any factory, because this factory makes aviation aircraft, that is, airships.

Airships are high-tech products. The speed of production, as well as the quantity, naturally varies. This also directly leads to the fact that the factory does not operate much in a year, and most of the time is idle. This is also the worst part of the factory, because the IRA needs to pay a special expenditure for the fifth factory to maintain it, and the idea of maintaining the factory through orders is simply impossible.

Because airships could not be exported to any one region, only the Republican Army was in the hands of them. And there is only one object of purchase, the Republican Army.

"If this continues, our factory is really bad. We have to learn to feed ourselves. "The supervisor is a veteran in his forties, and people call him Director Li. He is usually very serious, meticulous, and very old-fashioned in his way of doing things. But there has never been a problem with his production line, obviously, it has a lot to do with his own personality, otherwise, it would be impossible for others to do such a thing.

"I know this, but at the moment, we only have one customer, the Republican Army. But there is a new breakthrough. The cable communication company has made some new contributions. They rented the military's airship to lay the cables, and it was very fast, but I don't know if they would have the will to do so, and if they could buy it, it would be a very good idea. The director said helplessly.

There has been a breakthrough in cable communication companies. Because if you use manual erection, the amount of manpower and speed will be greatly limited. Laying cables from land is inefficient. For example, the laying of a cable from Hedong to Bingzhou took more than nine months before and after the Republican Army, and if it were not for the guarantee of the military in the later stage, it might have taken more time to carry it out.

In the mountainous areas north of Shangdang, especially in the new state, Liaozhou control, where the terrain is extremely complex, most of them are mountainous, if the cable is erected, the manpower consumed, and even, artificially will increase the cost of laying.

But it makes a lot of sense to lay cables, in that case, it will strengthen the control of the place, and if this is done, there is only one way, to lay it from the air.

At first, such an idea was very bold and there were many voices of opposition, but compared to the large amount of work, in the end, the military airship was rented to do such a thing, and the original one-month workload, but after using the airship, it was completed in one day. This forced the communications company to turn its attention to the use of airships.

But this is just one example. Because airships are not used by the military in other places, it seems that they are of little use, first, airships do not have a fixed route, which directly determines that air transportation is impossible. The second is that the long-distance transportation of the airship cannot be done, he can only fly within a radius of fifty miles, and the flight distance is too far to do such a thing. Safety cannot be guaranteed.

Thirdly, there is no guarantee in terms of meteorology. The last point is that the transportation volume of airships is relatively small, which determines that in addition to the military value of airships, the development of commercial value is not very significant.