Chapter 267: Pre-War Conference
Sometimes time flies, and soon after the new weapons and equipment are issued to the troops, the army has not yet fully mastered the new tactical rules, and the guys in their hands are not very skilled, and the time is almost August 15.
This day was the day when the Edo shogunate agreed that all the major daimyo of Japan would assemble, and some daimyo were more active, leading their troops to the Karatsu Strait two days early.
The sailors of the Black Armor Army were the first to discover the anomaly, and they were originally patrolling the Kabatsu Strait on a regular basis, and the Katsu Strait was as narrow as a small river ditch, and it would be a serious dereliction of duty to no longer see the anomaly of the Japanese on the other side.
Of course, they made a report to the Military Commission and Yang Wenli as soon as possible, so it was good to buy two days for the Black Armor Army to react.
Although it was said that the Japanese must be attacking with a large army, Yang Wenli was not worried, and even the country did not issue any warning information, because the Black Armor Army was confident that the enemy would be rejected from the country.
That is to say, but Yang Wenli has always done his best to do things, and he never dared to be careless, so he immediately convened an emergency pre-war meeting with the commander-in-chief of the army.
The military meeting was different from the court meeting, the venue was chosen in a conference room with strict secrecy, and the soldiers did not need to kneel down to meet the court, he borrowed from the tone of the old Chiang Kai's military meeting.
The officers attending the meeting were all commanders of various units, including Lu Chuanzong, the chief officer of the logistics department, who waited in the conference room early and sat down at the long conference table at different levels.
"His Majesty the King has arrived!" When he arrived at the door of the conference room, Yang Liren sang loudly.
"Smack!" As soon as the officers heard this, they immediately stood up as quickly as a spring, and their voices were neat and loud.
"Sit" Yang Wenli walked straight to the main seat, a national flag and a military flag were crossed, and above the center was the center of his bust velvet portrait, and he raised his hand and said softly.
"Slap" The officers sat down neatly again.
"Ladies and gentlemen, I believe everyone already knows that the Japanese shogunate is finally going to invade our country, which we have long expected, the so-called side of the couch does not allow others to snore, Japan has always been extremely strong, especially after defeating the invasion of the powerful and incomparable Yuan Dynasty, they no longer look at other countries, for hundreds of years, repeatedly invaded the countries of the mainland, including the Ming Dynasty and Korea.
But I can't imagine that it will be almost two years before they organize the armies of the major names to invade our country, will we agree? Yang Wenli's last question was a loud question.
"No!" The armies roared in unison.
"Yes, we will not allow any country, no army, to encroach on an inch of our land.
If they want to fight, we will accompany them to the end! ”
Yang Wenli roared from the bottom of his heart, and when he said this, he also slammed the conference table with his hand, so that all the officers felt his strong fighting spirit.
"Since I said that we cannot allow the Japanese to invade an inch of our land, then we must do what we say, we should take the initiative to attack, and we must not passively wait for them to hit the door, that is an excuse for the weak, the strong are brave and fearless, and there is no need for any reason, if the other side is hostile, we have a reason to attack.
It is also possible to destroy the enemy at sea, and it is also possible to attack the Japanese island of Honshu, but there is one point, we cannot kill Japanese civilians on a large scale, because in the future Japan will also be a state and province of our country, and the Japanese will also be my people.
However, if the Japanese are deeply hostile to our army and take action, no matter who they are, they must be ruthlessly annihilated.
I need people, but I don't need people with two hearts.
All the daimyo who participated in the war, including the Tokugawa shogunate, and the Japanese emperor, who was the equivalent of a puppet, were punished for the crime of starting a military war.
This time it is not for you to occupy Japan, because the current occupation of Japan will do more harm than good to our country, and our current task is to strive to develop basic science and technology, which is more important than occupying more territory.
This is the overall strategic goal that I have given you, and the extent of this is up to you.
Now I command! ”
"Smack!" All the officers immediately stood up again, waiting for Yang Wenli's order.
"Order Yang Rentian to be the commander-in-chief of this campaign, Yang Renyue, Yang Renxuan, Lu Chuanzong, and Yang Yiteng as deputy commanders-in-chief, to assist from the side, and hope that you will cooperate sincerely, overcome difficulties, and bravely stand up for special honors."
"The ministers swear to serve their lives, live up to the grace of the saints, and promise to use me in the first battle, and use me to win!" The officers swore a firm and loud oath to Yang Wenli.
"Good! I'm waiting here for good news. Sit down! Yang Wenli smiled and said a word of auspiciousness, and said with both hands.
"Smack!" Several officers sat down in unison, full of a strong iron-blooded military atmosphere.
"The three National Guard units and the Yang Renhong Royal Guards stayed in the country to prevent accidents." Yang Wenli continued to issue orders.
"Yes!" The four of them immediately stood up and loudly agreed.
"Alright! I only release the overall strategic objectives, and the specific tactics will be discussed by several of your chief and deputy commanders-in-chief, and the meeting will be dismissed! Yang Wenli stood up and said the closing remarks, then announced the adjournment of the meeting, and took the lead to the conference room.
Lu Chuanzong and Yang Yiteng, who were co-opted as deputy commanders-in-chief this time, were the biggest beneficiaries of the previous expansion of the troops.
Yang Wenli decided that the battalion-level troops should have a separate logistics department and a baggage unit, and Lu Chuanzong, the head of the logistics department, would no longer be the head of the logistics department of a certain unit, but would manage the logistics and equipment work of all armies in the country, which was equivalent to the head of China's logistics and equipment department in later generations.
Yang Yiteng, the commander of the naval division, is also in a similar situation, the expansion of the troops, he became the commander of the navy, the military rank of the naval commander is low, at least he has to be on the same level as the chief officer of the army unit, the navy will even become the main force of the Far Eastern Kingdom in the future, and the importance will exceed that of the army.
There is no way, the navy is not something that anyone can be if they want to, he has a strong technical ability, not to mention anything else, ordinary people immediately turn from heroes to bears when they get on the ship, let alone fight.
Both of them were promoted by chance, which can only be blamed on their good luck, and the whole society is also like this, those successful people, in addition to hard work, luck also accounts for a large component.
Without further ado, just a few chief and deputy commanders left the palace and went to the barracks where Yang Rentian was for a meeting.
Don't think that they have any advanced tactics, they have to hold a meeting to be ugly, several officers did not take those little Japan in their eyes at all, and it was a waste of time to hold a meeting, although there must be a lot of small Japanese troops, more than ten or twenty times that of their own, but so what, not counting artillery, each soldier is just a matter of consuming a magazine, and the two sides are not of the same order of magnitude at all.
Yang Rentian only asked Yang Yiteng's navy to be responsible for transporting troops across the strait in the early stage, and of course also responsible for annihilating the Japanese naval divisions blocking the front, and in the later stage, he was mainly responsible for logistics and transportation.
He planned to directly hit Honshu Island and burn the flames of war to the enemy's territory, and the three troops did not set up a formation, but a simple arrow-shaped attack formation, which was simple and rude.
As for Lu Chuanzong, don't say more, he is in charge of logistics and material supply, which is his own job.
All right! A strategic-level combat meeting was finished in three or two sentences, and the entire time was less than two minutes, which can be regarded as setting a record for the shortest campaign meeting in history.