Chapter 147: Insufficient Troops

There is not much oil in the land of China, but there is also a lot of less, and in the land captured by the Suzaku Legion, there is a big oil field - Changqing Oilfield. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

Changqing Oilfield is located in the Shaanxi-Gansu-Ningbo Basin, with a total exploration area of about 370,000 square kilometers and a cumulative proven oil reserve of about 4.5 billion tons, and 22 million tons of oil extracted in Changqing Oilfield in 2012.

Moreover, it is not too difficult to exploit oil in the Changqing Oilfield, and it is expected that in a few months, the Han Kingdom will be able to obtain a stable source of oil, and if the oil is solved, then diesel will soon appear.

One problem is solved, and another follows.

A very serious problem appeared in front of Yan Xueyi's eyes: the Han army was insufficient!

At present, on the battlefield, the four major army corps of the Han army have a total of 130,000 people, the 20 armed police brigades have a total of 70,000 people, the public security police have 50,000 people, and the Beiyang Army has 65,000 rebel troops in nine towns (now incorporated into the Suzaku Legion and the White Tiger Legion), these are the armed forces of the Han Kingdom outside the four borders, with a total of 315,000 people.

315,000 people, this number is too small, you must know that during the reign of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, the Qing army on the land of China was at least 600,000 people, and that was when the Manchu rule had been stabilized.

At present, all the armed forces in Yan Xueyi's hands are combined, including the three second-class divisions that are still being formed, barely reaching 400,000 people, but excluding the relatively weak public security police, there are only about 320,000 left.

With an armed force of 320,000 men, it would be very easy to overthrow the Manchus and unify the country, but it would be somewhat insufficient in the face of a possible multinational coalition.

Before the station, Yan Xueyi had already considered which directions the multinational coalition might attack the land of China from in the future:

To the south of Yunnan, the combined forces of the French and British will exceed 30,000.

In the direction of Saizai, the British army, plus its Indian servants, would also number more than 20,000.

To the northeast, it is said that my army will exceed 50,000.

Great North, the long border between China and Russia, the Russian army can easily mobilize 100,000 troops, with an upper limit of 300,000.

At sea, China has a long coastline, and multinational coalition forces can attack the land of China from any point.

After Yan Xueyi becomes the ruler of the land of China, there may be enemies attacking all around, and this situation is very dangerous.

The Han army is equipped with the most advanced weapons in the world and has tactics that are at least one generation ahead of other countries, which is the advantage of the Han army, and to deal with the enemy in all directions, the Han army needs to be prepared in advance.

According to the enemy's combat effectiveness, the Han army needed to station at least 15,000 men in one main division on the southern border of Yunnan, at least 10,000 people in one second-class division on the Xizang border (due to the terrain problem, there would be very few heavy artillery on both sides), at least 50,000 people in two main divisions and two second-class divisions on the long northern border, 20,000 in two second-class divisions in the northeast Korean direction, and at least 300,000 people on the long coastline.

The disadvantage of the Han army is obvious, that is, there are few people, and the land of China is too big, even if there are armed police and public security police to maintain law and order in various places, the number is still insufficient.

In the face of a possible situation in the future, Yan Xueyi has only one way, that is, to expand the army, just talking about the expansion of the army, in fact, if you want to expand the army, it is very difficult to have a certain combat effectiveness, and there are not many weapons in stock at present, and the three major arsenals are working overtime to manufacture weapons and ammunition.

In desperation, Yan Xueyi turned his target to the rebel army in the 600,000 miscellaneous army of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, most of these rebel troops were militias with weak combat effectiveness, but they were not like other green battalion soldiers, who oppressed the people and still retained a certain simple nature.

100,000 to 150,000 people can be selected from these rebel armies, and they can only be equipped with cold weapons such as broadswords and spears to act as auxiliary police to assist the security police in maintaining law and order, and the pressure on the security police will be greatly reduced, and the remaining armed forces can be mobilized to the provinces with coastlines to prevent future enemy attacks from the sea.

In this arrangement, although there will still be a shortage of troops, it will be enough to deal with the initial situation, and if there is an opportunity, the secret weapon airship will deal a fatal blow to the enemy's fleet.

As for the later stage of the war, it will take a year to two years of terror, and at that time, the troops in Yan Xueyi's hands should be enough to protect the land of China, only the navy is weaker, and the navy still needs time to develop.

……

It's mid-May.

In the northwest direction, Niu Dehou's Qinglong Legion has swept away the resistance forces in the sea and marched to Xinyi, as for how many people the Qinglong Legion killed in the sea, there is no accurate number, only the Qinglong Legion has captured tens of thousands of horses, hundreds of thousands of cattle and sheep, and the pedestrians who enter the sea often do not see a single figure within a hundred miles.

In the south, the 9th Division of the Xuanwu Army had captured most of Quang Sian Province.

In Central China, the 3rd Division of the White Tiger Legion had already captured Hunan Province, and the 6th Division of the White Tiger Legion had also captured most of Helan Province.

In the north, the Vermilion Bird Legion swept through Susu Province and Shaanxi Province, and the first division of the main force of the Vermilion Bird Legion captured most of Shanxi Province and could march to Zhili at any time, but according to the battle plan, the Vermilion Bird Legion gathered most of the cavalry troops as an advance team to attack and occupy Shanhaiguan, so that the Qing court had no way to retreat.

At this time, the Qing court was really going to panic, originally the Qing court was still counting on the British to send troops to help, but only more than half a month has passed, the "short-haired thief" has actually hit the door, Yanjing 700 miles away is the army of "short-haired thief", if the cavalry attack, you can come to Yanjing outside the city in three days.

How the Qing court did not panic.

Originally, the Qing court thought that the "short-haired thieves" were far away from Yanjing, they could sit back and relax, and they could even compete for power and profit.

However, the "short-haired thief" was so close to Yanjing that the Manchu Qing were powerless to resist, and more than half of the Manchu Qing Dynasty was taken away by the "short-haired thief".

As the actual controller of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, the Empress Dowager Cixi, like other Manchu "loyal ministers" at this time, was extremely flustered and did not know what to do.

"Run! Flee back to Shengjing, where it is full of dragons, as long as you flee back to Shengjing, wait for the foreigners to send troops to exterminate the 'short-haired thief', this country is still my Qing Dynasty. This thought appeared in the mind of the Empress Dowager Cixi and took deep roots.

The Empress Dowager Cixi summoned the Manchu ministers such as Prince Yixun, Prince Shiduo of Li, and Prince Yixuan of Qing, and announced to them that the Manchus in Yanjing would leave, and no one cared about those Han ministers.

In the eyes of some Manchu ministers, it was because of the incompetence of the Han ministers that the Qing Dynasty became what it is now, and the Han people deserve to die!

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