Chapter 160: Discussion of War

"This is an all-out declaration of war!" Li Jieqi stood up, waved his hand and shouted, "When we intercepted and inspected the ship, we sent a fleet to attack us and caused heavy losses!" โ€

"That's right! This is a declaration of war, and now we and the Medeno are already at war! Xiao Mingwei nodded and said affirmatively, while turning to Yang Minghuan, who was holding his forehead in the shape of his hand, "We must react to the Maidno people, otherwise it will be a fear of war, especially for the psychology of the soldiers below us. For more up-to-date chapters, visit: ะจะฉะฉ.(7)(9)XS.ัะžะœ. โ€

"This thing hasn't been 'exposed' yet, has it?" Xiao Jing was a little nervous, this matter was simply unprecedented for him - this was a declaration that he was at war with another force in this time and space, "Can you hide it first?" โ€

"I can't hide it." Tang Xunliang replied very simply, "First of all, the destroyer is the first ship to come back, and the gunwales of the ship's deck are full of broken 'holes' and bloodstains, and because of the need to treat the wounded, the Dongfang Port General Hospital dispatched all the ambulances, and at the same time requisitioned many social vehicles to transport the wounded from the military port, and swaggered through the city from the military port to the general hospital, there is no way to hide it." โ€

"And there is no need to hide this matter at all, this is already a declaration of war, shouldn't we fight?" Yuan Zhenli said and stood up, "We have the best weapons, airplanes and airships, and at the same time, we have the most combat-effective troops on the ground, what are we afraid of?" โ€

Xiao Jing shook his head helplessly, "Can this matter be delayed?" I think it's important for the Executive Committee to discuss it. โ€

"What else is there to discuss?" "Do you still have to make a strong protest to the people of Medeno?" "Protests are useful, and what are we doing with armaments?" "That is, we are all in the new world, and we are going to continue the protests of the old world?" Several chiefs of the general staff and the commander-in-chief in front of him shouted almost at the same time.

"Please be quiet," Yang Minghuan beckoned a little weakly, but it had no effect on the officers in front of him, Li Jieqi waved his hand at him and said, "I am a glorious Chinese ** person, I have contributed to the national defense of the motherland with the most precious youth 'spring' in my life, why do we soldiers exist?" In order to show their worth on the battlefield, not to be a weight on the negotiating table of politicians. โ€

"It doesn't matter if it's a weight!" Tang Xunliang said on the side, "The war arose because we could not get enough benefits at the negotiating table, and the people of Maidno have not even talked to us now, and they have begun to attack us as they want, and make us stumbling ......in all aspects."

"That's right!" Xiao Minh Wei followed up and said, "At the beginning, through Annan, we took back the port of Champa, which was close to us, and even did not hesitate to support the rebels to overthrow Nguyen Phuc Yuan. Then we sent troops to Jiezhen, and let more than 100,000 troops on the south bank of Jiezhen attack us, if we didn't be able to block it, I'm afraid we would have bulldozed these 'bastards'. โ€

"That's it!" "That's right! You have to give them some 'color' to see, otherwise they will really pinch us as soft persimmons. โ€

"This is an absolute act of war!" Xiao Mingwei said again, "Do you remember the battle for the defense of Dongfang Port after we landed? Six large warships and several thousand men came to attack us, and we only regarded this operation as a mistake in the support of the Eastern Fleet of the Medenor in support of the Nanban military operation, and did not escalate into a state of war. But our concessions didn't stop the Medenor people from doing bad things behind their backs. โ€

"Not to mention this kind of thing behind the scenes, in the current world, even in the old world, it is not uncommon!" Yang Minghuan hurriedly said, "Now we are dependent on the maritime transportation of the Maidno people, and if a state of war is fully declared, the external resource channels of our entire Dongfang Port will be completely cut off. โ€

"The interruption is not unusual," Gu Fulin said, taking out a report and handing it to Yang Minghuan, "I have already submitted this report to the Joint Staff Council last month, and the Maidno people have no intention of giving up their monopoly, they have established one or more blockade belts in several major waterways sixty kilometers away from us, and no ships belonging to the Maidnor people or against the will of Maidnor will will be allowed to enter the waters of the Oriental Port." They have cut us off from this world long ago. โ€

"We have also reported this," Li Yuan slapped and said, "or when our Dongfeng was traveling to and from the Oriental Port of Hong Kong with cargo and troops, it encountered interception fleets of Medenor more than once during the voyage, and they even fired directly at those intercepted fleets and sank them. โ€

"Yes, we are a commercial country, but it is not without a bottom line." Li Jieqi hurriedly said, "Free trade is based on the state of freedom and equality between the two sides, if one party forces the other party to accept its own 'trade' terms through deception or use of war acts, then it is not free trade!" In the past, the Medenor people used these indiscriminate means to obtain benefits from our 'trade', which was already a serious 'spirit' of free trade, and now they are directly using force to attack our military force, what is the difference between this and the Opium War waged by the British in order to flood the Chinese with opium? โ€

"That's it! Down with the Medenor invaders! "I resolutely don't want to be the sick man of East Asia!" The conference room was filled with slogans for a while, which made Yang Minghuan's mind full of paste. Whether he is or Xiao Jing, even if there are more than 500 veterans in the entire Senate, none of them are 'sex' with experience in governing the country, and young people are the main force. He looked at the veterans of the military department in the conference room, who were in their twenties and thirties, and the young Zhuang faction in the entire joint staff committee was the mainstay. This group of young Zhuang factions who were not afraid of tigers in newborn calves had been watching the war every day before they had an obvious 'fight' with Medenor, and they were playing war games on the map every day, and he even went to watch the naval war games held by the navy several times.

"Executive Committee Member Yang, you are the leader, and we respect your opinion." Someone spoke slowly, and the person next to him hurriedly looked over, and it turned out to be He Yue, who had not spoken much. "Declaring war is a very serious matter," He Yue stood up as he spoke, his waist straight, and he saluted the officers and attendees before saying. "We are soldiers! Now it is the defender of the Senate, so we have to think not only about when to go to war with whom, but what purpose of the war to achieve, in other words, what to fight for. โ€

His words were not fast or loud, but everyone in the room was silent. Xiao Mingwei's heart was sober up like an initiation at this moment, and He Yue was still there and continued, "Why are we starting a war? Everyone here is no longer an ordinary soldier, let alone a small flag on the sand table of the General Staff! We are now the 'baton' of command of the military forces of the entire Senate, and where we say we want to fight, the troops of the Senate will advance to wherever we go, and now we are the ones standing on the sand table of the General Staff! We need to be responsible for the little flags that will be 'planted'! โ€

"The last time the people who clamored for war and went to war directly bypassed the decision-making hierarchy to go to war on their own, we have already seen the consequences." He Yue's words were loud, but they confused several elders present, "Who?" "Who goes to war on their own? So awesome? Someone next to him immediately corrected him, "It's about the 'chaotic' behavior of the Japanese Shaozhuang faction in World War II." โ€

"That's right! I'm talking about the Japanese! He Yue agreed with the correcting person and continued, "Whether it is the 918, 77 or 813 incident, the Japanese are a group of officers who are no taller than Shaozuo are blindly tossing, and the Japanese military department hastily launched the war without 'figuring' the entire so-called Great East Asia Holy War, where it needs to be fought, where it is fighting, and what the purpose of the war is, and it can be said that it has done its best to open up the provocative mode, such as the invasion of China, the Norwegian 'threshold' incident, the sneak attack on Pearl Harbor, and the Pacific War...... In the end, they provoked the whole world, and in the end? They planted two mushrooms and became the only country in the Old World that had ever eaten mushrooms. โ€

"Well said," Xiao Mingwei stood up and applauded, "I was carried away by the war behavior of the Medeno people at first, and now I am reminded of these things when I am said by Lao Heyi. He said and waved his hands to the military veterans present, "We are now more than just representing ourselves!" We represent the strength of a country's armed forces, and now we should consider the issue in terms of the status of the entire country and the army, rather than just in terms of our own face and cognition. โ€

Saying that, Xiao Mingwei walked up to the rostrum and spread out a map on the blackboard, "This is our map!" Check it out, everyone! To the north is the Wu Dynasty, and we have always wanted to have a good relationship with the Wu Dynasty, but the northbound detachment to the Wu Dynasty was attacked halfway and suffered heavy losses, and now it is still staying in Hubei waiting for the rescue of the Air Force airship. โ€

"The airship belongs to our navy!" Tang Xunliang hurriedly corrected, but was immediately robbed by He Rolling Long, "Everything that can fly is managed by the Air Force!" "Then you will return all the personnel transferred from the Navy!"

"Don't quarrel about those little things just yet!" Xiao Mingwei pointed at the two of them with some annoyance, "Sit down!" Let's move on to our surroundings. To the south and to the west, the land of South Annam surrounds us, and now we are in a state of war with the puppet Annam regime of the Lรช clan, although they have not come to deal with us, it does not mean that they have all been put on the south mountain. According to the report of our Army Intelligence Bureau, the Lรช puppet regime has formed more than a dozen companies, all of which are equipped with smoothbore guns and spears, and at this moment these newly formed troops have gone to the direction of Jiezhen, preparing to block the offensive from Bei An Nan to the south. โ€

"Yes!" Ren Xuefeng hurriedly stood up, "According to the Annan puppet regime, the Maidno people sent guns, and the Annan army sent people, and formed as many as seventeen squadron-sized musket and spear battalions, such an army has a certain combat effectiveness in battle, and even in front of us, it is still capable of fighting." Now fifteen squadrons of these armies have gone to Jiezhen to plug the leak, and only two squadrons are still in Wenshan Port. โ€

"Two squadrons aren't many." "That's it, it's only two or three hundred people, and they all run with one charge."

"That's not the problem," Ren Xuefeng hurriedly said, "According to the report of the local intelligence officer, a small number of the rebels who escaped from Shabak have already arrived at Wenshan Port, and at the moment the Medenor people are forming two such squadrons at the same time, comparing our training methods with theirs, and then deciding to train new troops in that way." โ€

The people present were quiet again, but He Yue spoke, "In our way?" How? Do you know their training syllabus? โ€

"We haven't 'figured' the syllabus yet, but our intelligence officers have identified several of them, such as bayonet fighting, skirmishers, and long-distance running." Ren Xuefeng paused as he spoke, "According to local intelligence, the price of grain in Wenshan Port has risen by 10 percent in recent days, the price of 'meat' has increased by 30 percent, and the price of fish has increased by 20 percent. Apparently to train for long-distance running, they increased the level of food supply throughout the New Army barracks. โ€

"Given that now that the Medeno people have obtained our own Senate rifles and 1628 rifles, our weapons have been leaked, and according to Comrade Lin Shenhe's opinion, the Mini bullet must have also been lost, so we may have to face a completely new enemy next." Saying that, Ren Xuefeng paused again, "Before the Maidno people got these rifles and copied them, they tested us quite a lot, and even sent the South Bank Army to send us to death to collect our firepower density and strength. During this time, the power of our weapons has not increased qualitatively, and they have increased their combat effectiveness. Now that they are able to make these weapons themselves, their intelligence department will definitely make an assessment that they can suppress us to a certain extent, or even surpass us, before they will wage war against us. โ€

"But we still beat them!" Tang Xunliang said a little unconvinced, "We defeated their entire fleet with just one destroyer!" There's nothing to be afraid of such an enemy, right? โ€

"This is not necessarily," Xiao Mingwei said, "it is also the first time that the Maidno people have encountered our new way of fighting at sea, and it is normal to not adapt to it, and while we see victory, we must also see our own serious shortcomings!" Our four ships did not notice the approach of the entire fleet of the Medenor during the night, and in the morning the enemy even jumped on the morning fog, and if it were not for our machine guns, we would not have been able to return to the boats. โ€

Tang Xunliang nodded and sat there without saying a word. Xiao Mingwei continued, "Our dependence on technology and equipment is too serious, in the past, our fleet only operated within the radar range, never beyond the radar search range, but the radar search range is limited, we will go to the seven continents and four oceans in the future, if we nest in the radar range every day, don't talk about the blue water navy in the future, just stay in the Dongfang Port as a fleet!" โ€

Listening to Xiao Mingwei's words, Tang Xunliang's face turned red and white, although he was not convinced, he didn't know what to say.