In order to deal with the situation in China's homeland, the Datang National Security Committee made a decision to transfer troops from several theaters in North America to the Far East theater to help in the war. Pen ~ Fun ~ Pavilion www.biquge.info This is actually a plan that Bai Nan has made before, and the problems that the revolutionary party is facing now are actually facing the same as Datang. People may be relatively receptive to cooperating with Datang, but the lack of manpower is still a major problem. The current military strength of the Tang Dynasty can control a certain area, but it is obviously unable to fully control the entire homeland of China, and the Tang Dynasty does not intend to use appeasement and compromise to support any local agents, so it is inevitable to use all its resources to control the whole territory.

The Qing state had more than 400 prefectures, prefectures, and 1,358 counties, and in a special period, Datang must be able to ensure control over every region. After the implementation of various policies, you can't just rely on the original Qing government officials, that is obviously an act of looking for death, you must focus on the Tang Dynasty National Revolution, have a set of teams from the Tang Dynasty, maintain the political style of the Tang Dynasty, and cooperate with the original local political forces in order to carry it out.

To give an inappropriate example, during the Sino-Japanese War, Japan had a population of 80 million to 90 million and a Chinese population of 40,000.

The population of Datang is a relatively difficult number to count, because there are too many areas under its jurisdiction and the ethnic composition is too complex, such as Persia, Tianfang, Carthage and other places that have not been around for a long time, Datang only has a rough estimate of the local non-Chinese population, and it is uncertain how much. However, the actual total population figure is of little significance, and the part that can be fully utilized is relatively small. Therefore, Datang has always paid more attention to the number of the local population in North America. At present, the population of Datang in North America (excluding the District of Mexico) is 32 million, which is not as good as that of Japan. Of course, the strength of the Tang Dynasty is stronger than that of the Japanese Empire in the other side, and at the same time, it is a Chinese country, and there is no so-called invasion and suppression problem in the homeland of China, and the more headache is the problem of governance.

Bai Nan's attitude is very clear, that is, even if the Qing army is absorbed at this stage and obeys the orders of the Tang Huaxia Provisional Management Committee, it is basically impossible to completely trust. It's not that I'm worried that they'll betray or anything, but I'm mainly worried that this group of people will be too successful to get into trouble with Datang.

Theoretically, the 150,000 troops of the Yamato Corps under the jurisdiction of the Ministry of National Defense can also be mobilized, but this is only theoretical, and the country obviously does not want military forces other than the Chinese to enter, even if this force is highly obedient, and even from some angles it can be regarded as a "revolutionary force."

There are basically no defense problems in the Tang Dynasty, so even a large proportion of troops are sent to the homeland of China. As a result, the Ministry of National Defense withdrew three brigades from the West Coast Theater, two brigades from the East China Sea Theater, one brigade from the Central Theater, and two brigades from the Central Theater, for a total of eight brigades and other accompanying units, with a total strength of 70,000 troops.

Although a lot of money was spent and military spending was too much, because the defense pressure in Europe, South Asia, and the Middle East was still relatively large, and most of the troops were newly organized, it was not suitable to be transferred over.

Not only was the army mobilized in large numbers, but the navy also sent fleets to the Far East as an auxiliary force. In the early nineties, Datang began to verify and explore the use of aircraft carriers, spending a lot of money, and even paying the price of the lives of explorers, but slowly the aircraft carrier formation began to mature. With the Texas-class aircraft carriers built by Datang beginning to gradually enter service, aircraft carriers have a stronger strike range and fleet cooperative combat capabilities, and are ready to replace the status of battleships in the Datang Navy.

The two aircraft carriers before the Texas class are the 20,000-ton Pengzhou-class and the 35,000-ton BC-class, both of which have formed combat effectiveness and were previously organized in the home fleet. This time, in view of the situation in China's homeland, the Navy transferred these three aircraft carriers to the Far East, while the home fleet continued to be responsible for the training of the new Texas-class aircraft carriers, which had not been in service for a long time.

Among them, the second ship of the Pengzhou class, the Tengzhou, and the only one of the British Columbia-class ships were immediately anchored and set off after receiving the order, and the Pengzhou aircraft carrier has been in service for many years, and it is in the maintenance cycle, so it will take a month to go after the equipment overhaul and maintenance.

On the one hand, the Tang army dispatched troops, and the Tang army in the Far Eastern Theater did not rest at this time, Chang Bin hated the revolutionary party that did not know the height of the sky, and after the previous negotiations broke down, the Tang side chose to immediately march into the army and eliminate the puppet Chinese Federation as soon as possible.

The Far Eastern Theater moved quickly, and the troops of the 4th Brigade of the 14th Division of the Army stationed in East China, carried by the naval landing fleet, attacked Fuzhou controlled by the revolutionary party by sea. There are seven ace troops in the whole army of Datang, and the Fourth Brigade is one of them. Although it has not been a long time since it has participated in actual combat, its combat power should not be underestimated.

But in fact, the Fourth Brigade has worked hard to show its talents, and there are always people who do not give them face.

The Navy was involved as an important part of the operation. The Pacific Fleet has not had many opportunities to perform at home, unlike the N4 (Atlantic Fleet) that has fought a lot of naval battles over the years. Some people joke that the Pacific Fleet can almost be incorporated into the army, and it will be renamed the army surface artillery unit, and there is no need to spend military funds to build any large ships, and it will be complete to build gunboats suitable for coastal and river operations. After the chaos first appeared, there was no operational need in the northern seas, mainly in the south, and even along the coast, there was only one in Fujian, and the rest of the country was on the Yangtze River. originally thought that he could fight with the sailors of the former Qing army, but the main base of the Nanyang Sailors was in Mawei, Fujian, at least it could be regarded as an active activity. It's a pity that the first thing the Qing army sailors did after learning that Jiaqing had died and that the Qing court was collapsing was to send a telegram to Shanghai, asking the Tang Navy colleagues to "take over the guidance".

I can really feel sorry for the Navy for a second.

The navy, which accepted its fate as the army's transport detachment and surface artillery unit, reluctantly went to Fuzhou, with a total of five battleships, three cruisers, and two frigates, and the capital ships were not moved. A total of two rounds of artillery were fired, totaling about 70 shells, but before the Fourth Brigade could begin its landing, the "revolutionary army" guarding Fuzhou bombed the camp. (To be continued.) )