As the commander-in-chief of the West Coast Theater, Xu Daorun made a series of military deployments, which were basically purely military considerations. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 Most of the officers are like him, who only do military work, and there are very few soldiers like Bai Nan who are deeply involved in politics. Of course, senior officers must understand politics and strategy.

Datang is determined to take revenge on the bombing incident, which is definitely not a simple job, just send tens of thousands of troops to fight, and the killing will be over. The military pre-work mentioned by Xu Daorun earlier, Datang officials have started in full swing. For the Apaches, it is obviously not of much significance to declare war or something, and of course, President Zhao Daling specially instructed the intelligence department to step up the investigation of Apache intelligence. Because many perceptive Tang high-level officials and generals are aware of a problem, that is, something must have happened within the Apaches, and the Tang people are also a little confused about this bombing incident. They could not understand the logic of the Apaches.

The Apache people picked up the train and robbed the property of the Tang Dynasty, but the Tang people did not react violently, but they actually blew up the railway of the Tang Dynasty, and caused the tragedy of the derailment of the passenger train and 263 casualties. This doesn't make sense, and many intelligence analysts can't even speculate because they don't see any benefit to the Apache in doing so.

This is actually a huge misunderstanding.

For the Apaches, Esquat thought it was a very natural thing to show the power of the Apaches, cut off the Tang people's railway lines, fight the Tang people on the plateau, and finally force the Tang people to agree to their demands. And his supporters think so, too.

But in the eyes of the Tang people. The Apache were a group of primitive people who had never even made wheels before. They got some muskets though. But the level of civilization and power is simply too weak. Not only the degree of civilization, but also the number of ethnic groups is very different, the Tang Dynasty is 10 million people, and the Apache people are full of seven tribes, that is, more than 100,000 people, less than a fraction of the Tang Dynasty, such a comparison of strength, so that the Tang people naturally think that the Apache people any action to provoke the Tang Dynasty. It's all like death.

In the final analysis, this is a gap in the perception of one's own strength. The Apache are arguably one of the most ferocious of the Native Americans in North America, and the last Native Americans to surrender to the U.S. government. The Apache were fierce and brave, fearless, and after the Apache made a fortune by pickpocketing trains, they changed to a decent batch of weapons and had more horses from Spain, which made Esquart full of confidence. He did not deny the strength of the Dons, but he believed that the Apache were capable of fighting it. And already in the industrial age. Datang, which can be regarded as the world's number one power, has more than 100,000 troops in the world. Their strong industrial manufacturing capabilities enabled them to manufacture a variety of advanced weapons, including chariots and cannons, which made the Tang people also full of arrogance, believing that no one in the world dared to provoke them.

It is this gap in understanding that makes the Apache choose to seriously provoke the Tang people, and the Tang people cannot fully understand why the Apache people are in hindsight, because it looks like death in their eyes.

In addition to solving the Apache problem, the Tang Army in the West Coast Theater mainly faced the Spaniards in Mexico. After the Spanish conquest of the Aztec Empire in the sixteenth century, they ruled Mexico for two to three hundred years, and Mexico was the most elite and important part of all the Spanish colonies. Spain not only sent tens of thousands of Peninsular soldiers from its homeland (Spaniards from the Iberian Peninsula were called Peninsulars in Mexico, while local whites were called natives), but also recruited local Mexicans to form an army, and the entire Mexican region could be armed with at least 30,000 troops if it were mobilized urgently.

If you invade Mexico, it is obvious that the Mexican plateaus and mountains with complex and steep terrain will be very troublesome for the mechanized troops that Datang has worked hard to build over the years. Moreover, the road conditions in Mexico itself are not good, unlike Datang itself, especially the Jiazhou area already has a road network extending in all directions. These factors limited the movement of mechanized infantry units, and the Don army had to use light infantry and mules and horses as much as possible, as the Qing army had done in the recent Gurkha War.

Naturally, Datang's logistical support capabilities are not bad, although a large number of supplies cannot be transported to Mexico by truck and road, but the Datang Army already has its own air supply capacity. In the summer of 1787, Boeing officially introduced their Boeing 146 transport aircraft, which could carry up to two tons of transport, and in the case of large fleets, could provide the necessary ammunition and other supplies for the ground troops at the front line and above the regimental level. All it takes is for the Army to build an airstrip on the front line to enable these propeller transport planes to take off and land, and to establish a logistics base.

In fact, it is suitable for the southeast theater of Datang to carry out large-scale mechanized clusters, and the eastern part of Mexico is a plain area, and the terrain is suitable for the advancement of mechanized troops, but the 8th and 9th brigades of the army are newly formed, and they have not yet entered the mechanized training. After the formation of the 8th and 9th Brigades, the Annihilation Regiment, three infantry battalions and an artillery battalion were completely split and turned into seeds and scattered in the two brigades, leaving only two infantry battalions as the main combat strength. Therefore, the Annihilation Regiment subordinate to the Eighth Brigade is now in a state of dissatisfaction, and the remaining one mechanized infantry battalion and one mechanized artillery battalion are all being formed, and they basically have no combat effectiveness.

The main task of the march into eastern Mexico still falls on the Datang Foreign Legion, which has been stationed in the Bahamas, composed of Americans, Latinos and blacks, and is also a relatively old unit in the Datang Army, with a brigade of nearly 5,000 troops, directly engaged in the landing operation in eastern Mexico, with its relative advantage in firepower, it is still quite considerable. Of course, such a unit cannot fight a tough battle, so the Ministry of Defense still hopes that the Southeast Theater will send marines and a part of the army to supervise the actions of the foreign legion. (To be continued.) )