However, after halting the offensive last August, the armpit men resumed their offensive again at the end of March, this time changing their tactics.

After capturing all the two counties of Guanglin and Guangmi, the armpit army held the front and concentrated heavy troops from the east and west coasts of the peninsula to the south.

The crux of the reason for this lies in the fact that the inland water network north of the Changsun Peninsula is crisscrossed, the rainforests are dense, and the temperature near the equator is extremely hot, so after the capture of the rainforests, the local area is hot and humid, and the miasma is pressing, and the rainy weather and backward road facilities seriously restrict the supply of arms and the rapid advance.

At the same time, the most sinister place is that after the main army of Changsun lost its strength last year, it followed the advice of the advisers of the Xian army and retreated into the jungle to resist, while the coastal advance of the armpit army could force the inland Changsun army to either retreat south, or face the risk of being cut off from behind, and fall into the jungle to sit and wait for death.

On April 19, Sima Hall of the Palace of the Emperor of Chenling:

"It is reported that armpit cavalry has appeared on the east coast of Changsun, and the advance speed is extremely fast, and the vanguard has reached the border area between Boyang County and Guangzhong County."

Zhao Huan said, stretching out his hand to point to the location of Boyang County, Bai Liyan said at this time:

"Most of their cavalry were brought from the mainland, and the horses of the eldest grandson were not enough to carry their weight, and these horses should be comparable to those of the Jinxuedi people, and with their weight, they should not be fast in their daily march, but they are not suitable for tropical warfare."

"Having said that, the cavalry still maneuvered faster than the infantry troops, and there may be other intentions for such a long drive."

Bai Liyan nodded to confirm Zhao Huan's guess, and then said:

"Yes, there should be other intentions. Otherwise, it wouldn't have been so long, and now that the plague is in the ascendant, I wonder if this cavalry is just a test and it should continue to go deeper. ”

At this time, Lu Gao said:

"Si Nong means that they may follow the tactics of our army in the hinterland of Jinxuedi?"

"It is impossible to imitate, where do they know this. Due to the epidemic of plague and the large number of casualties, this cavalry knew that the horses were not suitable for tropical warfare, but they still had to force their way south, probably with only one purpose, to go south to investigate and explore the way. If the localities suffer heavy casualties due to illness and lose the strength to fight back, I think they will definitely send all their cavalry to forcibly occupy the key points in the hinterland of the south and cut off the north-south passage of the Changsun army.

At the same time, it made a detour from the east and west coasts, thus forcing the Changsun army, which was encircled north of the peninsula, to go south, and the Changsun army to the south to the north. Even if the Changsun army trapped in the north continues to move, it will cause more than half of the Changsun to lose more than half of the country, so this is a quick move.

If it were us human beings, we would definitely not dare to risk such a lonely army to go one or two thousand miles deep, but the casualties of the armpit people are far fewer than ours, so they dare to do so. In other words, we can't do that. ”

"But didn't Master Si Nong do the same back then?"

Lu Gao was quite proud, recalling the southern expedition back then, he still remembered it vividly. At this time, Bailiyan said:

"Yes, back then, our army was good at water warfare and water maneuvering, and our army played to its strengths and avoided its weaknesses, so it was able to turn things around in a dangerous situation, and it was a battle against the water, and it was a battle without a fight. Now that the armpit people have more advantages, they are absolutely sure that they will do so. ”

As he spoke, the phone rang, and after the first counselor picked up the phone for interrogation, he immediately turned to Bailiyan:

"Lord Si Nong, a call from Liang Guo."

"Who's."

Bai Liyan asked, and the counselor said:

"The head of Yuke Xiao."

"Shhh...... Quick, get in. ”

"No!"

Bai Liyan left the map table and came to the telephone to answer the phone, and Xiao Gongyi on the other end hurriedly said:

"Is it the Marquis of Yongxing?"

"It's exactly here, when does Master Xiao command."

"There is a great trend of increasing the number of armpit ships in the coastal waters, and I think that the armpit people have made a big move to go ashore."

"Most of the coastal areas of Liangguo have been laid with mines, and there are even more mines at the mouth of the inland river, and if they want to land, they must first occupy the beachhead where they can land. If he really has the intention of landing, I think that there should be other means that we have not yet noticed, and Master Xiao must have people carefully monitor and report to me from time to time. ”

"I see. Moreover, How is the Xianguo plague now? ”

"The counties are connected to Changsun by land, but the Liang State can use the river as a barrier to block the inflow of refugees, and the situation in the Xian State is still very grim and not optimistic."

On the border between Liang and Changsun, there was a river that extended from east to west, and the refugees of Changsun could only enter the northern part of Seo-gun and Gyeonggi County, and could not go south on a large scale, so the spread of the plague was not serious. Xianguo shares a large land border with Changsun, and it is inevitable that it will become the hardest hit area. The defense of the country is no exception, the border stretches for thousands of miles, and it is not very guardable, and hundreds of thousands of guards cannot prevent refugees from crossing the border.

Hanging up Xiao Gongyiyi's phone, Lu Gao asked:

"What's the matter with Master Xiao?"

Bai Liyan walked to the map table, pointed to the sea north of Liang and said:

"Recently, the armpit fleet in the coastal waters of Faliang State has increased its troops on a large scale, and the head of Xiao is worried that the armpit people will carry out a large-scale landing."

"But Liang Guo has obtained 1.2 million mines and 7,600 mines in two years, which should be enough to be placed in the coastal areas.

"Yes, but the more impossible it is, the more likely it is. General Lu, don't forget, they're not human. ”

If the Changsun Peninsula is a huge salient of the Central Plains extending northward to Chidao, then the Xian State and the Liang State are the left and right shoulders of this salient, and the landing of occupying any of the shoulders can completely cut off the connection between the Changsun Peninsula and the inland, and even divide the Central Plains into two from north to south, and the battle line will be longer.

Second, the Xian State has a fortress and a shore defense artillery, while the Liang State does not, although it is now building a fortress in the interior and building a fortress day and night, but at best it is only a remedy.

Third, the technical path of the axillary man is very different from that of humans, and it is impossible to think about the nightcurtain man simply in terms of human combat mode.

Fourth, Xiao Gongyi had in his hands an experimental No. 3 airboat that he bought in August last year, with a lift of 50 stones, which could hold seven or eight people, some equipment, food, and oil, and floated at an altitude of more than 1,400 meters for dozens of days, looking at the sea with a 100-fold long astronomical telescope.

Therefore, the offshore sea in Xiao Gongyi's mouth is at least 400 miles away, and this point is not clear to the armpit people, so the armpit people gathered more than 400 miles away or even farther away does not mean that they are the attention of the Liang State, it may also be west of the hinterland of the Liang State, or it may be the Yan State and the Qi State.

However, there is a big problem in fighting Yan and Qiguo, that is, the coastline is too long, and the supply and troop transportation, as well as communications, will become problems.

Although the armpit people occupied the northern part of the Changsun Peninsula, the sea channel to Yan was still far away, and Yan did not have a large port, in fact, with the current technical conditions, it was impossible to have it, because Liang did not allow him to develop a large commercial port, in order not to rob Liang of his job.

With the current technical conditions, the best option for landing is to capture a large port, and then to seize the beach. The vast majority of the princes of the Central Plains are still in the agricultural civilization, and the transition period with bronze and iron tools, so the technical level basically determines that it is impossible to have the marine docks required for industrialization, but the commercial and economic structure of the maritime trade and coastal vassal states determines that some will still be built, taking advantage of the terrain and coastal convenience, suitable for the Central Plains ship docks.

Therefore, it restricts the choice of terrain for landing under industrial conditions.

At the same time, large-scale thermal weapons operations, especially cross-sea expeditions, require large ports, and if there are no large ports, there must also be deep-water near-shore, which will be used for the land for the construction of wharves after occupation and for the construction of ports under occupation, so it is also determined that the coastal locations that the axillary eye can focus on attacking are limited.

On the other hand, the paddle wooden landing ship without the internal combustion engine was very ineffective, and it was impossible for large ships to get close to the shore, because there were shoals and reefs, so only small boats could be used.

And the dinghy loading capacity is limited, and the dinghy that a large ship can carry is also limited. Therefore, it is impossible to gather tens of thousands of troops within three to five days by forcibly seizing the beach, and it is still less convenient to transfer army artillery and munitions supplies

After thinking about it, Bailiyan felt more and more that the armpit people were planning a larger-scale combat operation, and it was an unexpected large-scale combat operation. But he really couldn't think of how the armpit people could carry out a rapid beach-rushing landing at sea.

The next day, he went to Yongxing to coordinate production scheduling, as the Minister of Finance and Minister of Industry, he also personally went to the enterprise to supervise and dispatch production, and it must be said that there are few senior cadres like him in history.

Although wartime production occupied a considerable amount of industrial resources, it also brought considerable benefits, a large number of military-to-civilian products were able to become a new source of funds for enterprises after the expansion of industrial production capacity, and the capital and wealthy class brought by the war and industrial monopoly became the first to enjoy the beneficiaries of the military-to-civilian conversion.

The customized luxury sedan requested by Jiang Yu is nearing completion, a total of three, according to its requirements to make the surface of the gold, the interior uses leather seats, sponge lining, using a six-cylinder diesel engine, the top speed of 170 miles per hour.

Yongxing Vehicle Plant is currently under the construction of the third phase of the project, and the supporting chemical, rubber, oilfield, oil and gas chemical projects are in full swing.

More than half of the development progress of the heavy-duty truck based on the deflagration six-cylinder engine is completed, and the prototype will also be rolled off the assembly line after the completion of the third phase of construction, but what worries Bai Liyan is that he seems to be a little lost now.

Twenty years ago, he was still working hard for the road to industrialization, twenty years later, cars are running all over the ground, machine tools are built everywhere, guns and cannons are commonplace, his life's long-cherished wish seems to have been realized at this time, continue to move forward, in the short term to think of a qualitative leap is not easy.

The educated group is still limited, the number of high-quality scientific research resources is scarce, and the focus is on investment in army technology, civilian industry, medical research and education; in the short term or for a long period of time, we can only continue to expand and pile up the existing basic achievements and commodity production capacity, and the development of other fields such as radio, microelectronics, nuclear physics, network communications, large ships, aerospace and so on is seriously lagging behind, and it still needs the accumulation and iterative development of technology, talents, and time.

In other words, the field of conventional applied science in Xianguo has developed rapidly [Note 1], and the gap between other fields and the 50s of the 20th century is at least 50 years, and there is no real high-end forward-looking technology.

Of course, it is largely related to Bailiyan's own cognition and knowledge, he is not omnipotent, what he can do is to transform his strengths and knowledge into application technology as much as possible, so he is not good at it is impossible to do, even if he is proficient in high-end technology, but there is no basic application technology research and industrial base scale, talent scale, high-end technology is also empty talk.

Note: Landing operations have an absolute relationship with technical equipment, science and technology, tactical theories, and cognitive concepts, and landing operations at any period must be a possible choice under the technical conditions at that time, and it is impossible to realize a mode of operation other than the technical conditions.

As a cross-sea expedition, the larger the number of troops transported, the larger the scale of logistical supplies required, and the more astonishing the volume of transportation required.

At the same time, the more modern the operation, the higher the hardware facilities required, such as ports, deep-water ports, roads, railways, cranes, and so on.

Therefore, under the technical conditions of a specific period, the landing modes and technical equipment that can be selected are extremely limited.

Before the advent of the internal combustion engine, large ships were restricted by draft and foreshore reefs, and landing operations in non-dock port terrain were all landings from large ships to small boats, and then rowed to the shore in small boats in batches.

Even if there is no problem of munitions in the landing operations in the era of cold weapons, the basic food and animal power still need to be solved, and of course, it is okay to make do with it and transport it by small boat. But the amount of supplies required for large-scale thermal weapons operations is very impossible.

[Note 1] Generally speaking, applied science refers to the relevant technologies required for life, work and social activities, corresponding to different levels of technology in different eras, and the corresponding levels of applied science are different.

For example, in the post-Stone Age, pottery appeared, which was used to solve the containers needed for water storage, eating, storage, and boiling, and bronze tripods, bronze pots, etc., appeared in the Bronze Age, but usually the bowls for eating, the containers for water, are still pottery or wood, because pottery can meet all the requirements of daily life, which is the adaptability of application technology.

Entering the Iron Age, the pot for cooking rice and stir-frying at home has changed from pottery and bronze to iron pot, and the container for eating and storing at the same time has changed from wood, pottery, and bronze to porcelain.

In modern times, various stainless steel and space plastics are replacing a large number of traditional edible containers, which is also the popularization of application technology brought about by the technological progress of the times.

Therefore, the application of technology can largely solve and meet the necessary functions of production and life, and is in line with the current technology and industrial capabilities.

The above is the civilian application technology, and the connotation of the defense application technology is roughly the same.

For example, the manufacture of guns, the industrial processing capacity of the early nineteenth century, can make modern guns, whether it is artillery or automatic rifles, can be manufactured.

However, in modern times, electricity is used, CNC machine tools are used, automation is used, and accurate detection is used. At the beginning of the nineteenth century, only steam-powered, non-variable speed machine tools, hand-cranked carriages, and ordinary measuring tools could be used, but it is undeniable that the final processing purpose can be achieved, and the difference lies in the technical cost and technical value required.

Therefore, the application technology is the highest industrial technology at present, to achieve the production of industrial products required for civil and national defense, and to meet the use value.

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