Chapter 340: Preparations for Facing Oros
The day after Cixi ordered the "letter of state" to be sent to the Oros, Hu Zhen in the capital also received a report from the intelligence department: Cixi had fled to Ili and submitted the "letter of state" to the Oros, but it was not clear what the specific content of the "letter of state" was because the level of intelligence officers was difficult to approach the core of the remnants of the Qing court. @,
Hu Zhen knew what Cixi planned without thinking about it when he heard it: "The phrase 'rather with outsiders than domestic slaves' has always been Cixi's creed, and what good things can this bullshit 'national letter' be like, it is nothing more than a promise to the foreign adults, asking the foreign adults to send troops to China!" ”
Air Force General Du Ligao looked at the map and sighed: "It's a pity that it is difficult for our airships to fly there on a large scale, although the planes are easy to use, it is also difficult to fly to the Xinjiang region without any maintenance facilities and airports on a large scale, and what is even more troublesome is that the number of our planes is far from meeting the needs of a large-scale invasion of Xinjiang!" ”
Su Wenzhen picked up the ruler, measured it on the map, and sighed helplessly: "The railway from Xi'an to Lanzhou has not been repaired yet, and from Lanzhou to Yili, it is more than 2,000 kilometers, even from Lanzhou to Urumqi is 1,600 kilometers!" We can't reach it! ”
Hu Zhen waved his hand and said: "Since Cixi is going to send the 'letter of state' to the Oros, she must know that her whereabouts will be known, she does not dare to stay in Yili anymore, maybe she has now entered the defense area of the Oros army to hide, seeking the protection of the Oros." The most important thing for us now is not to seize Cixi, but how to deal with the military intervention of Oros! ”
Zheng Dingbang of the Navy said: "This old man dares to come, their Siberian railway is far from being repaired, with the current logistics supply, he is not afraid that we will cut off his minions?" ”
Hu Zhen shook his head: "Among the major European powers, Lao Maozi has a particularly deep greed and fascination for land, and has been thinking about obtaining one or several deep-water ports in the Pacific Ocean that have not frozen for many years. ”
Su Wenzhen was very excited: "We are now beyond the reach of Xinjiang, but there is still a strong force in the Mongolian steppe and northeast north of the capital, so let's fight with Lao Maozi here, and the first battle will lay the territorial pattern east of Lake Baikal, and Vladivostok can return to our hands forever!" ”
"In the future, you can't use the name Baikal, this is the place where Suwu shepherded sheep in the Han Dynasty, so it's called Suwu Lake or Beihai!" Hu Zhen didn't seem to react to Su Wenzhen's excitement, but he had a fastidious performance of a place name.
"Yes! It's called Suwu Lake, Lao Maozi dares to come, then we will take back our place! ”
Su Wenzhen was even more excited when he heard this, what Hu Zhen meant by saying this is that he has incorporated this large vast land into the territory of the Huaxia Empire, Su Wenzhen and the Huaxia Army used to fight back and forth in Nanyang, all in some strange places, and they never expanded their territory in a place familiar with their mother culture.
Hu Zhen took a deep breath: "It's not easy to fight with Lao Maozi, they have a lot of soldiers, they can use soldiers as cattle, and the Oros Cossack cavalry can sleep on horseback for days and nights, which is completely different from the colonial aristocracy and Mi Guoyan in the Netherlands and Spain, once we fight with it, the degree of difficulty is far greater than these countries, we must be prepared for huge casualties, and we must be carefully prepared!" ”
Su Wenzhi heard that Hu Zhen attached great importance to Oros, and he didn't dare to slack off, so he immediately came up with the idea that the General Staff had been preparing for a long time:
"We must immediately put into pre-war preparations, and we must do the following things to prepare for war: first, quickly send Ouyang Yu's 100,000-strong army to advance into Xinjiang and the Tangnu Wulianghai area, and join the Taomo and Dong Fuxiang led by the men and horses in this land, purge the remnants of the Qing army loyal to the Qing court, pacify the local people, store food and ammunition, and establish a consolidated position; Second, order the troops trained in Qinghai and Sichuan to immediately advance to Tibet and take Tibet under control as soon as possible. thirdly, to immediately mobilize the population in the vast areas north of the Great Wall, to build roads and railways, to store food and ammunition; Fourth, the issue of Goryeo and the Wa Kingdom should be resolved as soon as possible, so that we can concentrate all our efforts on dealing with the invasion of the Oros army. ”
"The first three items you put forward are fine, but the fourth one is not good, Oros is an external trouble, Goryeo and the Japanese are our henchmen, we must solve this problem once and for all in our generation, East Asia can only be dominated by my Chinese lineage, there can be no other people on the side, and this cannot be left to future generations to continue to have headaches for this matter, but the time is not yet ripe to solve it!"
Hu Zhen did not agree to immediately solve the problem of Goryeo and the Wa Kingdom, and his strategic idea was that the Wa State would drain the blood of Goryeo and then take action to kill the Wa State, and whether the two countries were county or vassal, they would solve the East Asian problem once and for all in this generation.
"Then we have to do something to weaken the hundreds of thousands of Japanese troops on the Goryeo Peninsula, once we engage the Oros army, hundreds of thousands of Japanese troops will put great pressure on us, we need at least more than 300,000 troops to see these five or six hundred thousand, no, if you count the Goryeo natives forcibly conscripted by the Japanese army in the local area, it can reach one million at any time." Su Wenzhen was worried about this, if he was not careful, this would definitely be a matter that would affect the future fortunes of the Chinese Empire.
"I said that the affairs of the Wa Kingdom and Goryeo must be settled once and for all in our generation!"
Hu Zhen remembered the time and space he was in, these two countries had brought endless troubles and troubles to China, and he was determined to grit his teeth and take advantage of this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to consume these two countries.
Zheng Dingbang, who was standing next to him, suddenly came up with a new idea: "Then can we try to send Yuan Shikai out and let him solve the problem of Goryeo?" It would be great if he could solve it together with the Wa Kingdom! ”
Su Wenzhen was inspired:
"That's right, this Yuan Shikai's Tao Mo and Dong Fuxiang who persuaded Xinjiang to surrender this time have made great contributions, and he stayed in the Goryeo Kingdom for several years as a representative of the Qing court ten years ago, and he is very familiar with Goryeo's affairs, and he is the first person to propose the countyization of Goryeo, he should have a good solution to Goryeo!"
"Well, yes, this Yuan Shikai is still capable, your General Staff will arrange for him to come back from Xinjiang to see me immediately, and accept the position of Minister of Goryeo Affairs before going to Goryeo!"
Hu Zhen said in his heart, how can this Yuan Shikai not have the ability to train the Beiyang army in another time and space, and force the Qing Emperor to abdicate, and almost become the emperor, now that he is here, Yuan Shikai does not have this opportunity, so he must make good use of his heroic ability. (To be continued.) )