In the General Staff Headquarters, Cai Ye and Jiang Baili looked at the military map together, war is the catalyst, this sentence is not wrong at all, many things must go through the war to be able to get promoted, technology, weapons, and even combat methods.

The arrival of Yang Yuanzhao made the northwest have a level of land warfare far beyond the world, perfect trenches, the use of light and heavy machine guns, the combination of various artillery and mortars, these land warfare developed in the late stage of World War I, and even after World War I, made the land combat strength of the northwest quite strong, but in naval warfare, especially in the landing operations related to the army, the northwest is almost a blank.

Yang Yuanzhao also had a choice, taking some examples of later battles as utopian and letting the army conduct research, but the northwest did not participate in any landing battles and naval battles, and even in the heart of Jiang Baili, the principal of the military academy, there was not a trace of such a shadow, and the progress was very slow, and the only thing he knew was the bombing of the air force.

This Qingdao operation, lightly defeated the Japanese Combined Fleet and part of the elite army, it was a great victory in the northwest, not to mention these, for the landing operation some perceptions, said that the gains were huge, many army generals, including Jiang Baili, also saw some landing knowledge, and had never considered before, in the landing operation, once the army was transported by guò ships, it was vulnerable, maybe a few submarines, can send several divisions of troops to the sea.

When the army is attacked, it will suffer huge damage, but it will be compared to the loss at sea. It's just a small thing, the sea is vast, and the human race is in the condition of progress in strength. The invention of ships, the seas that could be crossed, the march and the battle, and the great geographical discovery became a landmark in the history of the world.

But the sea, after all, is a natural chasm. When a ship carrying people suffers some kind of damage, the whole ship is in danger. It was almost the end of total annihilation. In the absence of manipulation of sea supremacy, rash transportation is simply suicide. It is this kind of cognition that makes Jiang Baili gain a lot. This time bring the staff officers. There is a topic that has nothing to do with the Battle of Qingdao, that is, how to choose the appropriate method to cross a certain width of the strait or sea under various circumstances, that is, about the sea-crossing operation and the landing operation, which has become the key to their research.

This team of only 30 people is the elite cultivated by Jiang Baili, and they have all been strictly trained. And from the many students, stand out. It is the most valued cadet of Jiang Baili, and because of his ability, he has been valued by the commanders of the major army corps, and as long as they complete the necessary training and practice, they can assume a regimental or even brigade-level position, and in one fell swoop, they will stand in the ranks of senior officers from the current graduates.

However, they all refused, except for the students in the Northwest Military Academy, who were under the brake of Jiang Baili, to conduct some research on new tactics, and this time they happened to come over and follow this research.

Yang Yuanzhao also attached great importance to landing operations and naval operations of the army, because it was possible to use them immediately, and if most of Japan's forces were held back on the Qingdao side, the northwest could start to expand its influence in two aspects, on the one hand, in the northeast, the South Manchurian region, and the Russian-controlled region, it would bear the brunt of the resumption of the country's territory and expand the influence of the northwest. On the other hand, Taiwan, which has been away from the embrace of the mainland for 20 years and has suffered much from the oppression of the Japanese, is also one of the most important targets.

As early as a few years ago, the Northwest was making a plan, and at that time it was very optimistic, collecting enough ships, it could cross the Taiwan Strait and attack, such a battle plan, in Yang Yuanzhao's view, was simply a joke, the sea-crossing operation was so light, in case there was a naval attack, this question was raised, but Jiang Baili and others explained it with reasonable attrition, as long as there are enough landing ships and a large number of infantry to land up, some necessary losses are acceptable.

At that time, Yang Yuanzhao felt that there was a problem with this, but he could not explain it clearly, and now, facts have proved that in the absence of sufficient sea forces, forcibly crossing the strait is a kind of gambling and death, and if you do not seriously consider it, when you liberate Taiwan, the width of the Taiwan Strait of several dozen nautical miles will be a nightmare for any army, and this loss is far greater than they imagined.

30 staff officers are still making future battle plans, and Cai Ye and others have to focus on Qingdao itself, this battle is a battle related to the future fate of the northwest, compared with the war against Russia a few years ago, they have more cards in their hands, the war against Russia, is a sudden encounter, from the northwest of the gods to the sky, to solve the independence of Mongolia, to the Russian intervention, of which there are only a few days, and the northwest at that time, there are only a few divisions, compared with Russia is too little.

And now, not only does the northwest have 1.93 million, the regular army of 7 group armies, but also nearly one million reserves, the production and construction corps, the railway construction corps, and even the agricultural reclamation corps, all rely on the military system, and even the busiest among them, on average, each member has 14 days of formal militarized training every year, as long as the game needs, they can be reorganized into the second line, or quasi-first-line troops in a short period of time, compared to other countries, it is much better to directly recruit ordinary people, these three troops combined, However, at the level of tens of millions, it accounts for more than half of the population of the entire northwest.

In addition to manpower and troops, there are also aircraft that will not be mobilized for the time being if it is not necessary, in addition to these killer cards, there is also the airship, the airship in the northwest has basically been eliminated, but for this station, even urgently mobilized, this part is the use of the airship unit produced for Germany, this part of the temporary formation, only 24 Jumbo class airship troops, will become an important force in this battle, the Japanese Navy strike, are 30 tons of carrying capacity, and the use of large aerial bombs of more than 500 pounds.

However, for fixed targets on land, airships with sighting devices can achieve a very high hit rate, but the battleship is a moving, moving target, especially irregular evasion of movement, the hit rate will be greatly reduced, itself, the northwest plan, ready to wait for the Japanese Navy to escort the landing force to land, to carry out an attack, at that time in order to ensure safety, the battleship will be relatively concentrated, the speed will not be the fastest, when the airship suddenly attack, will have an effect.

It's a pity that such an opportunity is the same as the fort, there is only one time, and when this time passes, the next step, the other party will not approach lightly, and it will not be easy to deal with.

If there is no Taiwan strategy, the northwest may choose to attack, after all, among this half of the warships, the owner of Japan's last combat power, two installations, this is the latest warship, for the future battle to liberate Taiwan, the threat is too great, really according to the method prepared by Jiang Baili before the sea battle, just these two installations, can kill a large number of landing fleets, the northwest can not bear the losses of such a senseless bloody battle for the time being, if they can't be solved, I'm afraid that under some circumstances, Yang Yuanzhao preferred to attack after the battleships of Qingdao Shipyard were completely commissioned and had sufficient sea supremacy. Such an attack on Taiwan may drag on for a year, or even a year and a half.

Half of the Japanese navy was spared, waiting for a better opportunity, anyway, these navy would never dare to approach the shore, and when they sent the Japanese divisions and regiments, they would stay far away, and there would not be much danger, because of the appearance of coastal defense artillery before, they did not dare to venture into the coastal waters.

In the command room, Cai Ye and Jiang Baili were still nervously discussing how to determine the next defense plan, because there were many cards in the hand and many choices, and it was very important to minimize losses and increase the results, which was what Cai Ye and others considered.

The arrival of the three corps in Shandong together was already established, and as early as when they learned that Japan had carried out a general mobilization, they had already sent the order to transfer troops to the northwest, and they would come as quickly as possible, so they were not worried. For the two commanders and the numerous staff officers, the most important thing is to rationally allocate their positions, reduce internal friction among each other, and increase combat effectiveness.

The Northwest not only investigated the situation in Shandong very early, but also spread all over Shandong, and the team that was doing the final propaganda and hard work also became their new number collectors. Perfect intelligence became the basis for their judgment, first of all, the war zone, after careful consideration, divided into two, one is the nearest new city from Tianjin, here must be the key to send troops to guard.

If Japan wants to move quickly, the railway is bound to be considered, because it is within the national border, the northwest has spent a lot of effort to build the railway, light yì does not want to destroy, it is easy to destroy, it is difficult to rebuild, these railway nodes are the key, because of the problem of sovereignty and historical legacy, these cities, the northwest has the right to garrison, you can increase this garrison right on a certain distance, with the help of the defense of the city, to strike at Japan.

In addition, it is also necessary to take into account that Japan will land directly in the Bohai Bay near Shandong, which is probably an almost inevitable choice for Japan in the absence of rail transportation, and it can also be seen from here whether they will continue to send merchant ships or even frigates to support Japan to land on the Shandong Peninsula across the Bohai Bay, this is a question, but when the situation on the Japanese front is not good, this is the inevitable choice of Britain and France.

The two plans have been basically established, which can be regarded as a general direction, and next, more work needs to be done, and the staff officers will begin to work intensively, and will determine how many soldiers need to be in each time period, every city, and every region, and not only prepare first-hand plans, but also second, third, and fourth, and improve the pre-war preparations, which is the basis for the invincibility of the Northwest War, and these, under the efforts of the staff officers, are slowly taking shape. (To be continued......)