Chapter 206 The Legion Garrisoned in Yadong

Is this the subcontinent that the teacher is talking about? Everywhere there are forests and plains, large areas of vegetation cover that are diametrically opposed to the plateaus, and it is very impressive.

The elite corps, which crossed countless mountains and rivers and crossed swampy meadows from Lanzhou through the Qinghai-Tibet line in Qinghai, finally arrived at Yadong Pass during the Mid-Autumn Festival in 1953 without losing more than half of its personnel. Looking at his skin and face destroyed by the wind and sun, Comrade Xinyu's rarest treasure, who was appointed as the commander of the Imperial Tubo Autonomous Region Military Region, brought 2,000 recruits and 6,000 Tibetan horses to this Tibetan valley that is known as the closest to Tianzhu Buddha Country, and the supreme commander Wang Baichuan sighed.

From the shadows of the endless barren alpine grasslands and snow-capped peaks to this verdant forest valley in all four seasons, nature changes dramatically. The prescient self bought enough yaks and slaves in the Tibetan royal city, that is, Lhasa, otherwise it would never have been possible to build a camp and cultivate terraced fields in this valley.

From the 4,600-meter-high Duoqing Lake, the road to this valley at an altitude of 3,000 meters is the most touching journey. At that time, countless Tianzhu monks and merchants entered the plateau through this valley, but basically no Tubo people came down. The symptoms of oxygen intoxication make the eagles of the plateau helpless.

Although it is difficult and barren, it is inaccessible. However, it is a land with abundant water and grass enough to feed more than 20,000 people. Doqing Lake produces 1,000 tonnes of fish, and the meadows and forests of the southern valley can be reclaimed for barley and other crops. In addition, once the strategic position of the transportation artery is developed, a steady stream of commercial tax revenue is enough to support a large number of purchases to Lhasa.

Coming to this important place under the slogan of national defense and strategic layout is actually to accumulate merit and capital for oneself. Because he was young, he didn't catch up with the battle to destroy the summer, and he still lacked qualifications, so he had to find another way to come to this bitter cold place where birds don't and suffer. As a result, he was directly promoted from the commander of the Xining garrison, who had little oil and water, to the high position of commander of the national defense forces of the entire autonomous region. They can participate in the road engineering and maintenance work of Tibet's commercial activities and local infrastructure projects in the hinterland, and share in the taxes and trade dividends paid by many local leaders to the autonomous region. All of a sudden, he made a 'huge sum' of 300,000 yuan.

Attracted by the massive amount of medicinal materials and products in Tibetan areas, he opened up a simple dirt road from Xining to Lhasa (mainly by building a few bridges).

In the report, he boasted about the strategic position of the Tibetan area, which attracted the attention of the traversal public, and naturally allocated more resources to build a strong armed and economic force sufficient to influence the Tibetan area.

With the close cooperation of many local leaders (all of whom were of the Junjie ethnic group who knew the times), many slave owners and chiefs who were extremely angry but resisted the imperial taxes were publicly executed, and large quantities of salt, liquor, cloth, metal products, and weapons flowed into Tibet on a larger scale to exchange gold, silver, precious stones (agate, opal, beeswax stone, turstone, peridot, carnelian, etc.) and medicinal materials (mainly safflower and matsutake mushrooms) produced in Tibet.

Half a year later, after the establishment of the Yadong port, a large number of merchants from Nepal and the Baltic Kingdom came to this port at an altitude of 3,000 meters to trade the products of the Tibetan area, and a steady stream of grain, oil, slaves and textiles were exchanged for the products of the empire (including the products of the Tibetan area). Most of the low-altitude traders withdrew after trading at this high-altitude port, and the unbearable altitude sickness such as lack of oxygen was difficult for even people living in areas like Nepal to fully adapt.

Wang Baichuan couldn't figure out whether the teachers wanted to come here for war or business.

He almost forgot his own work, and almost did the work of urban management and tax police every day.

Although the cavalry armed to the teeth is very combative, there are only simple patrols and anti-smuggling work every day, which really makes people not have to cheer up. Until he accepted a directive. This order was to expand the armament of the war, and soon after the crossing of the people decided to annex the Kamar Wisp in northeastern India by force.

Of the various states of the subcontinent, the only one that could have a direct land border with the empire was Gama Wisp, which is next to the low Rakhine Mountains. Dali has been taken over by the empire for a long time, and the various ethnic minority tribes of the white barbarians and barbarians have basically been naturalized. Dali, where trade routes are basically accessible, is indeed difficult to build a road through the northeastern section of the Rakhine Mountains to an altitude of 3,500 meters. But from the northwest, due south, and due east, it is easy to attack this closed and unvigilant country.

Naturally, the largest number of troops is the Southern Marine Corps and the colonial army, which are the most powerful in logistics and transportation, the strongest combat effectiveness is naturally the cavalry-based Yadong Army, and the largest important surname belongs to the engineering brigade in the east.

The empire expected to build a trunk line across the Hengduan Mountains, and from the old capital of Dali, Yang Tho Baba, to the capital of Bagan, Bagan was modified to Tispur in the southwest of Gamo, so it was natural to send the most capable engineering team to open the way.

This involves the strategy of the real subcontinent, and naturally we should attach great importance to it. Although the military power of this country is not worth mentioning, it is not a weak chicken who casually gives people experience. This ancient country was not conquered by the subcontinent overlord King Jieyue at the height of the Tang Dynasty's Jieyue Empire, and it is not a completely defenseless tribal alliance now.

According to the latest intelligence, the country has 2,000 war elephants, 200,000 nominal mobilization capacity, and the capital Tezpur has a Guards regiment of nearly 3,000 people, and the weapons and equipment are basically up to the level of iron swords and partial armor in the Middle Ages. On a tactical level, the country's assets are enough to support 200,000 men for more than a year. In order to avoid a protracted war, the three-way attack is also to quickly calm down the turmoil in the country, so that the army can have enough strength to implement military control.

Yadong's legion only needed to send 2,000 cavalry to quickly break into the royal city and catch him off guard. The 'armed caravans' of the Baltic Kingdom came here with a large number of supplies and goods to buy off the local forces and the lower classes. The road construction army from Dali Province had almost nothing but supplies and building materials. The meeting place of the Three Route Army was under the city of Tezpur.

The main force of Yadong's army is actually the same as the source of the countless army composition of Wang Xuance that destroyed the country back then. Most of them were Tibetan cavalry and Nepalese mountain people. The Han Chinese were few in number, and almost all of them were officers of the mixed race and Qiang ethnic groups in Xining and other places. After more than a year of organizational study, literacy and running-in, the combat effectiveness of this army has almost reached the peak of the cavalry of this era, and according to the results of the exercises of the border guards on the border with the Baltic Kingdom, it is judged that a cavalry of 30 men can annihilate 2,000 Indian infantry or 200 war elephants without any pressure.

The Yadong cavalry corps, which was equipped with repeater crossbows and Mongolian scimitars with blood grooves, was the pinnacle of the cold weapon era, and there was no pressure at all to destroy dozens of times the number of Indian legions without armor and mobile strength. In addition to arrows and the planned ten-day rations, the Legion carried hundreds of kilograms of the Empire's newest explosives packets and detachable combination projectiles. This siege artifact is far more powerful than those traditional siege machines, and the huge shock effect is enough to destroy the spirit of all enemies in an instant.

In the battle for the destruction of the Chola Kingdom, the power of the dynamite pack was declared to be Shiva's wrath. I believe that many high-ranking officials in India have heard about the power of this extremely powerful weapon in siege warfare. Hundreds of years ago, Wang Xuance was able to beat the Indian countries with 10,000 horses, and now the elite cavalry that has entered the gunpowder age can definitely easily eliminate these stubborn guys.

It is not a matter of insult to the empire, and it is indeed not morals to conquer at will, but the old accounts that have accumulated over the years have been turned out, and the friction between Zeng Jin and the Balo Kingdom that cannot be discussed on a large scale has also been put forward as an excuse. The Polo Kingdom took the initiative to jump out before the three-way army entered the Kama Wisp, and mobilized an army of 4,000 men into the Kamo Wisp, intending to occupy the large fertile plains in the northeast before it could react. Occupy all of the lower reaches of the Brahmaputra River. This gave the empire a good interface to send troops, and the Baltic kingdom was a protectorate of the empire and a member of the military alliance.

The allies must cooperate in their military operations, and the extent of this cooperation is up to the Empire. If you don't want to contribute, you will send a regiment of troops to act as a logistics transporter, and if you actively cooperate, you will press the whole army, leave the armies of the allies behind, and occupy all the important places and strategic and tactical targets yourself, and finally negotiate the division at the post-war spoils distribution conference.

The army of Yadong can absolutely ignore everything with the power that sweeps across the subcontinent, but the order of the empire is to stay in Phuntsolin and wait for the opportunity before the Baltic Kingdom occupies the land between the Tista River and the Manas River, and when the army of the Baltic Kingdom receives blows and heavy defeats, lead the cavalry to go all the way east directly along the mountain road, and directly attack the henchmen of Kamo Wibo without passing through the towns along the river, give up the competition for one city and one place, and take all the royal clansmen. After the 'armed caravan' of the Baltic Kingdom entered the valley plain, they directly began to rebuild after the war.

The Baltic Kingdom will take the initiative to cede Phuntsolin and other Himalayan foothills and empires to rule the river. The empire's borders here would extend to the confluence of the Brahmaputra and Tiesta rivers, and eastward along the southern border of the former Baltic Kingdom and the Gamo-Ghabo state of later Meghalaya to the borders of Dali, Bagan, and Balta in the Rakhine Mountains. In other words, the Polo Kingdom not only had to hand over all the land of Kamobo that it had occupied, but also had to build a piece of land of 20,000 square kilometers to the empire.

Wang Baichuan had two maps in his hand, one was a military map, and the other was an administrative map of the area rebuilt by the empire after the war. The borders of the country are completely defined, from 33°W longitude to 26°N latitude to the Teesta River in the east, along the heart of the Tista River to the confluence of the heart line of the Brahmaputra River, and in the east along the southern foothills of the Shillong Plateau to the Rakhine Mountains.

Although most of the people in this newly opened territory were native, once the three trade routes into the territory were opened, which would soon become the most successful model territory of the empire in the subcontinent.

As the commander-in-chief of this battle, he still put a lot of pressure on himself, and the greatest pressure was not the difficulties in the course of the battle, but the difficulties in post-war construction.

The Yadong Army Corps will be directly transformed into the seeds and officer corps of the political axe army here, and the divided part of the army will also establish a new mobilization system and garrison troops. Before the next rainy season, I have to deal with at least 90% of the turmoil in the plains. The time is too tight and very inexperienced, which makes Wang Baichuan a headache.

This cadet who is good at leading troops and governing the army has to ask his old classmates for help. Who is this rainy old classmate? Please see the next time. (To be continued.) )