Chapter 108: Responding Positively

After receiving this urgent telegram from Zheng Zhiwei, the first reaction of Wang Kunjun, Zhang Weixin and other committee members was that God was joking with the crossing team and the Beiping Army. Last year, the Northern Han Dynasty was successfully extinguished, and Chai Rong, who saw that he had nothing to gain and was overjoyed, swallowed his anger and returned to Kaifeng with the Hou Zhou army, and he couldn't afford to fall ill, and the illness became more and more serious. The traversers unanimously agreed that the time was running out for this Chai Tianzi, who had never been very healthy, and that it was time to actively prepare for the great changes in the Zhou court after Chai Rong's death. So, after some discussion, everyone formulated the "Jianye No. 1 Action Jihua" and began to take action to implement this Jihua.

As a result, only two months later, news came from Kaifengcheng, saying that Chai Rong was in a good mood because of the healing method, or because Lin Xiaoyu gave birth to a dragon son, so that his physical condition had greatly improved, and there were even signs of recovery. As a result, the "Jianye No. 1 Operation Jihua" formulated by the crossing team before seemed a bit hasty and radical. As a result, the crossing team had to quickly adjust the jihua and various deployments, on the one hand, suspend the "Jianye No. 1 operation jihua", and put their main energy on continuing to improve the military industry, agriculture, commerce and other undertakings in Beiping, so as to restart the implementation of the jihua when the opportunity is ripe in the future, and lay a better foundation for the further development of the crossing team. On the other hand, in order to reduce the jealousy of the imperial court, especially Chai Rong, Zhao Kuangyin, and others, against the Beiping Army, and to confuse and mislead the judgment of the DPRK and China on the movements of the Beiping Army, the committee also made a decision to downsize and disband the number of regiment-level units with low combat effectiveness of the "Security Army" after consulting with the Military Department. Since the first month of this year, six regiments have been reorganized and disbanded, and tens of thousands of soldiers have been reduced.

Who would have thought that it had only been four months, and Chai Rong, who had already been well and began to govern the court, was hit by a huge mental blow because of the death of Empress Fu, and his physical condition deteriorated sharply, even worse than at the end of last year, and it had reached the point where the medicine was useless and he was waiting for death. Although, it cannot be completely ruled out that Chai Rong will turn the corner like last time. But judging from the news from Lin Xiaoyu and the Imperial Doctor's Office in the palace, Chai Rong is far more seriously ill this time than last year, and unless there is a miracle, it is almost impossible to have the "willows and flowers" situation like last year. And this also means that Jihua, who has only been adjusted for three months on the side of the crossing team, is facing a situation where it needs to be adjusted again.

Fortunately, the traversers know very well the truth that "jihua can't catch up with changes", and they have a very strong ability to adapt when encountering various emergencies and accidents. Moreover, although it was decided to suspend the implementation of the "Jianye No. 1 Operation Jihua", thanks to the concept that the crossing brothers, especially several members of the committee, have always emphasized preparedness, steady and steady, and always emphasized leaving a back hand and room for themselves, the crossing team did not completely relax and bet on Chai Rong to live for another ten or eight years, and his side still had enough time to prepare. We have not relaxed our efforts in other areas.

Therefore, after the decision to suspend the implementation of the "Jianye No. 1 Operation Jihua" was made, what really slowed down by this decision was mainly the expansion of the army and the further infiltration of the various factions above the court of the Later Zhou Dynasty, and there was no slack in other aspects such as stepping up the construction of the "Taiyuan production base", strengthening the production and storage of weapons, ammunition and military baggage, strengthening the exploration and understanding of the geography and customs of the mountains and rivers in the area under the jurisdiction of the Later Zhou Dynasty, strengthening grain production and reserves, and expanding the scale of commerce. In addition, even if Chai Rong dies now, Zhang Yongde, Zhao Kuangyin and other Hou Zhou ministers who have the ability and intention to do some "things" will also need a certain amount of time to prepare and test, until they are fully prepared and the time is ripe, they will suddenly attack and seek to usurp the throne. Therefore, although the situation changes quickly, the traversers are not yet overwhelmed by it. Thus, half an hour after receiving Zheng Zhiwei's telegram, the committee, which had undergone urgent consultations, notified all the members of the enlarged meeting of the committee in Beiping City, and informed the members of the enlarged meeting of the committee who were in the field of the relevant news by telegram and an urgent courier of 800 miles -- along with the briefing, and the notice of the enlarged meeting of the committee to be held in the "Liangyuan" eight days later.

On the third day of the fifth month of the lunar calendar in the eighth year of Xiande, except for Liu Wendong, who had to stay in the "Taiyuan production base" to guide production because of work needs, all the other members of the enlarged committee meeting gathered in the "Liangyuan" conference hall to have a heated discussion on Chai Rong's serious illness and dying, the situation in the Later Zhou court is likely to undergo major changes as a result, and how the crossing team should actively deal with it. Since the situation at this time was similar to that at the end of last year, the brothers had a lively discussion, but the differences between them were very small. Therefore, the consensus reached at the meeting unsurprisingly fell on the decision to re-implement the "Jianye No. 1 Action Jihua" and compete with the Shili of the Later Zhou Dynasty to compete in the Central Plains.

In order to successfully implement the "Jianye No. 1 Operation Jihua", the most important thing is to have a strong armed Liliang that can take into account the three aspects of guarding the base camp, chasing deer in the Central Plains in the south, and defending the Khitan in the north while the fire is looting, and can cope with these three aspects freely. Accordingly, after the end of the expanded session of the Committee, the first department to take action was the Military Department.

After celebrating the Dragon Boat Festival with all his brothers, in order to fulfill the decision made at the meeting to set up the Third Composite Infantry Division of the "Flying Dragon Army" and other independent regiment-level units within three months, and to expand the standing force and reserve force of the "Security Army" to 40 regiments, Wang Kunjun, who has always rarely directly intervened in the affairs of the Military Department, personally went out with Xu Shaoan and Wu Peng to join Zou Zhenyuan, who was in charge of the work of the "Xianglongbao Recruit Training Base," and dealt with the "Flying Dragon Army" and "Security Army," which had already slowed down The work of expanding the armed forces has been greatly adjusted, so that the scale of training for new recruits is even larger than that of last year's peak. Moreover, taking into account the existing stocks of weapons and ammunition and the production capacity of the three production bases, although it is possible to ensure the equipment needs of all the newly formed "Wyvern Army" units after three months, it is not possible to guarantee that all of them will be adequately trained -- after all, it is impossible for new recruits to acquire the "55" rifle today and become proficient and effectively display its performance tomorrow. Therefore, in order to speed up the progress of training, Wang Kunjun even ordered that some weapons and ammunition used as daily reserves be transferred from the active army for the training of recruits of the "Flying Dragon Army," so as to make up for the time gap between the supply of weapons and ammunition at the production base and the actual needs of the recruits' weapons operation and training.

Therefore, from the sixth day of the fifth month of the lunar calendar in the eighth year of Xiande, the "Xianglongbao Recruit Training Base" located at the foot of Baojin Mountain and responsible for the infantry training of the "Feilong Army", the "Leilongbao Artillery Training Base" located in the west of Beiping City, responsible for the artillery training of the "Feilong Army", the "Tenglongbao Cavalry Training Base" located in the northwest of Beiping City, responsible for the cavalry training of the "Feilong Army" and the "Security Army", and the "Raptorsburg Special Forces Selection and Training Base" located in the northeast of Beiping City, responsible for the training of the special forces of the "Feilong Army", located on Xiayunling, responsible for " The "Feilongbao Non-commissioned Officer Training Center," which trains non-commissioned officers and officers of the "Feilong Army" and the "Security Army," the "Panlongbao Security Army Standing Force Training Base," which is located in the west of Liangxiang City and north of "Xianglong Fort," is responsible for the training of the infantry of the "Security Army," and even the "Jiaolongbao Naval Training Base," which is located next to Dagu Port and is responsible for the training of the "Feilong Army" navy and marines, have all entered a state of full mobilization without exception. The atmosphere in all these bases is like the weather after the summer solstice, getting higher and louder, more and more intense, and it has the momentum of igniting the sky of the Beiping Army and even the entire China.