About the battle of Kazakhstan, which was lost more than half a month ago, there was a heated discussion at the operational meeting.

Most officials, including the army, suggested that the Kazakh region should be fully supported, and where more reinforcements and supplies should be tilted to help the Kazakh side stabilize the war situation.

Zhou Lang objected.

He asked the Army three questions: "Did you blow up the railroad during the retreat?" ”

The railway is an important asset, the construction of the railway cost a lot, the railway company for the issue of blowing up the railway, carried out active lobbying, but Zhou Lang's attitude is very resolute, once the retreat must blow up the railway, even if you do not bomb, when the Russians are repelled in the future, the Russians will also bomb, the possibility of keeping the railway is reduced, then it can only be used by the enemy, it is not a pity to blow up, the loss of the winner will always be paid by the loser.

The chief of staff of the army replied: "The rails and bridges were destroyed according to the plan, it was easy for the Russians to restore the rails, it was not so easy to restore the bridges." Even if the proposed bridge were to be built, it would take months. ”

Zhou Lang asked again: "Your battle report said that the Kazakh township soldiers were the first to collapse, causing the entire defense line to be broken through, and finally causing the defeat of the battle. Did the Kazakh township soldiers defect? ”

The Army replied: "Not a defection. They were scattered by concentrated Russian artillery fire on the front, and collapsed after being torn open by the cavalry. ”

Zhou Lang asked again: "Has the main force of our army withdrawn?" ”

The army replied: "Of the 100,000 main forces, 80,000 have completely withdrawn from the battlefield, and then 8,000 have returned scattered, and 12,000 are missing. ”

The answers to these questions are clear to Zhou Lang from the battle report, and now he asks them just to tell the officials the basis for their own judgment.

Based on these answers, Zhou Lang analyzed to everyone: "Since the railway has been bombed, the logistics supply of the Russians is as difficult as ours, or even worse than ours. Within a few months, we will have the upper hand in terms of reinforcements and material mobilization. The Kazakh villagers were defeated, not defected, and this was not a battle of Hengrus, it was just an ordinary encounter. The losses of our soldiers were minimal, and most of the villagers escaped. The loss of troops is not large, it is no problem to defend the Kazakh hilly defense line, and even if you can't hold it, you can retreat to the Tianshan Mountains. The follow-up troops have been moving to the front line as planned, and I don't see any need to change the plan so as not to cause confusion. ”

Zhou Lang described a defeat of 200,000 people as a losing encounter, obviously deliberately reducing the impact of the defeat. His worries about the wartime cabinet were no longer conceited and lax, but began to worry that they were not confident.

These people are not mediocre people who have been able to climb to the high positions they are today, but none of them have experienced a major war, and their country is too stable compared to the situation in which war is the norm in Western countries. Most of them are civilian officials, and it is understandable that they will inevitably misrespond to a war of this magnitude.

Not only officials, but the whole nation is like this. The atmosphere of peace in the world cannot temper a tenacious nation, and a mature national mentality must be tempered through repeated successes and failures. China has a long history, and there have been many ups and downs in history, and in terms of general aspects, culture, and ideology, Chinese is mature, but when it comes to individuals, it is not very mature, because a whole generation has not experienced this kind of tempering of blood and fire.

Zhou Lang believes that as long as everyone has passed the initial pain and begun to adapt to the torment of war, it will be the time for this nation to show different qualities from other nations, and then people will know how strong the Chinese have honed from their long historical suffering.

Therefore, Zhou Lang insisted that the plan be carried out according to the established strategy, and those plans have already begun to be implemented, and the transfer of millions of people is huge, and the chaos caused by the change of the order may not be able to make up.

The established strategy was to carry out an all-out attack on Britain and Russia, and to concentrate on naval warfare against Britain, and so far, large-scale naval battles had not yet begun, and the speed of battleships was always a hard flaw, which could not be compared with railways. Everyone is more concerned about the land and more about the military movement of Russia.

In the established strategy against Russia, it is also an all-out attack. The border areas bordering Russia are all in the direction of the Chinese army's strikes. There are two main ones, one for the west and one for the north.

The western front is the Kazakh region, and the plan is to transfer 3 million troops to this area, from Central Asia directly into the hinterland of Russia, and the favorable condition is that China has a railway to the Kazakh steppe, which is convenient for military mobilization. At the same time, the agricultural production of Ili and Kazakhstan can meet the most important grain and grass supply, and if only personnel and arms need to be transported, the maximum degree of support is around 3 million troops.

The northern front is Siberia, attacking from the Mongolian steppe, planning to use two million troops to sweep west of the Russian Ural Mountains, using two million troops, which is a reference to the results of the Napoleonic Wars, when China used a total of two million troops, and as a result, it was able to suppress the Russian counterattack in the Russian hinterland, and now it is enough to fully occupy the east of the Ural Mountains with 2 million troops.

In the plan, Kazakhstan is the main assault direction, which is easier to get closer to the Russian core, the Siberian direction, but the auxiliary direction, it is very likely that the war in the Siberian direction has not ended, and the Kazakh army has already arrived in Moscow to end the war.

Now that Kazakhstan has lost in the early stage, officials hope to intercept part of the main army used for the Siberian operation to support the Kazakh defense line, and the first 100,000 soldiers are already attacking Russian Siberian cities, and it is not realistic to transfer them.

Therefore, Zhou Lang chose to insist that the previous strategy had fully considered various unfavorable factors, and according to various comparisons, to ensure that the victory over Russia could be guaranteed, then there was no need to change.

Zhou Lang's attitude of being light-hearted gradually stabilized the tension in the cabinet, but at the same time, the psychology of the new generation of young officials began to change, before they were full of vigor and self-confidence, but now they found that they were not as strong as they imagined, they began to have a sense of dependence on Zhou Lang, an old guy who had experienced all kinds of ups and downs, and from Zhou Lang, they felt a kind of steadfastness.

However, the emperor, who played the role of the anchor of the sea, then began to hand over the decision to the cabinet, let the cabinet members discuss and make decisions collectively, and finally handed it over to him for ruling, and rarely objected. The emperor wants them to mature as soon as possible more than they do, and this war is a whetstone that will turn them into real gold in the most extreme way.

At this time, everyone did not know that when the local region suffered defeats, the Americas region was under the control of the crown prince, but there were successive victories, but the news of the lag had not yet reached China.