Episode 30 Leopard vs Bison

Guangwu pondered for a long time, and asked Chongshan:

"What do you mean...... If the United States is to thwart Nanming's arms purchase plan, the focus must be on the president and the federal court? ”

“.”

Guangwu nodded, stood up and paced two steps, and said:

"The court guys shouldn't be a problem. To find out which judge is trying the case, and which superior he is in charge of, and who are the people under him who are assisting him in the trial...... We've got it up and down. This matter has to be done quickly, Nanming must have already dealt with it first, but it seems that the horse's fart was slapped on the horse's leg, and even the state court has not done it. Nanming's failure is our chance. I have made up my mind that this matter must not be lost to Nanming. We are ten times more generous than Nan Ming in this matter, and ten times more beautiful than Nan Ming...... It's the president who gets the hard part. He has already achieved the highest position, there is not even an emperor on his head, he is the largest in the country...... I don't know how much we have to offer to make him ......"

Chongshan was dumbfounded when he heard it, and he didn't dare to refute it for a while, so he had to babble little by little:

"The Emperor...... Your Majesty, as far as the minions know...... If an American judge has no boss, no one can control him...... It seems that even the president can't control ......"

"What? No boss? Hehe! So where did his rulers come from? It doesn't fall from the sky, someone has to do it for him. Whoever gives him an official is his boss? ”

"Your Majesty...... Be...... It was nominated by the president and then approved by the Congress...... However, after becoming a federal judge, he will be a lifelong judge, and no one can remove him except for being arrested for a crime......"

"Oh, then, his official is given by the president, and the president is his boss. Tenure? It's better this way, and he has nothing to fear when he collects money. Chongshan, first arrange for someone to contact the judge and tell him, just say that I said, as long as I help me complete this case, I will give as much as he dares to take. …… The president told him not to worry, I have already prepared my mind and will not make it difficult for him. ”

Chongshan opened his mouth and stammered, and he didn't know how to tell the emperor for a while:

"This ...... This...... Emperor...... He's not ......"

"Huh? What am I not? ”

“…… Phew. ”

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After Chongshan took the order and left, Guangwu stood up again, standing alone in front of the map and pondering.

At present, the main forces of the Qing Army are deployed in the following major areas:

First, the Central Plains Corps, with a strength of 900,000. Among them, 400,000 were the Eight Banners Division and 500,000 Han troops.

This is the closest Qing army corps to the Ming army, formerly known as the original Xuzhou Corps. The original Xuzhou Corps had a permanent strength of 450,000, and the core was on the Xuzhou-Shangqiu line. At present, due to the continuous transfer of troops to the south with the North China railway network day after day, a strong troop belt has been formed on the line of Haizhou-Xuzhou-Shangqiu-Kaifeng. From Haizhou (Lianyungang) on the coast of the Yellow Sea to Kaifeng at the bend of the Yellow River, it has been connected, and the road for the Ming army to enter the North China Plain has been completely blocked. Now the number of troops has reached 900,000, becoming a huge Central Plains Corps. Moreover, with the shuttle transportation of several railways, the strength of the Central Plains Corps is still growing rapidly every day.

The Ming army took off too few planes from the sea aircraft carriers, which had a limited impact on the North China railway system, and the planes that took off from the Ming army's occupied area on the Huai River line could only ensure 300 kilometers of escort bombing, barely extending to the north of Xuzhou. The Central Plains Corps was very strong in strength and in great depth, and heavy artillery and other positions were deployed in places where the threat of Ming aircraft was less.

The threat of the Ming army aircraft is relatively small, which means that although it is still within the radius of the Ming army's escort bombing, the Ming army fighters will not fly here for much fuel, and they cannot stay for long, let alone dare to fight with the Qing army fighters. In other words, there will be no one-sided air supremacy of the Ming army along the Yangtze River and in the Jianghuai region. Guangwu intends to make full use of this and begin to gradually regain air supremacy on this front battlefield.

Guangwu was quite proud that he did not make the mistake at the beginning of the war, and did not let this huge force take the initiative to attack, but made use of their strengths and avoided their weaknesses, allowing them to build a defensive line day and night, and at the same time constantly transferring heavy artillery, tanks, and even train guns into the Central Plains Corps. Now that the Ming army is attacking again, it will inevitably face the superior forces of the 20 Eight Banner Divisions as the backbone without sufficient air supremacy.

However, at the westernmost end of the Central Plains Corps, Kaifeng, was still very close to the area occupied by the Ming army. The Ming army still maintained full air supremacy there, and the bombing radius extended as far north of the Yellow River. However, since it is not the main direction of attack of the Ming army, there should be nothing to worry about. The Kaifeng-Zhengzhou-Luoyang line, where there is the Yellow River in the north and Hangu Pass in the west, there is indeed not much room for the Ming army to attack there.

Second, the exercise corps, which now has 1 million.

This is a temporary corps, drawn from various elite units in order to carry out the "great exercise of the century."

The exercise corps was located in the north of Zhili, with an original strength of 1.4 million, and was originally 10 Manchurian Eight Banner Divisions, 10 Mongolian Eight Banner Divisions, and 100 Han Army Divisions. Recently, it has been continuously transferred to supplement the Central Plains Corps, and about 400,000 Eight Banner Divisions have been transferred south on a priority basis. The 20 Eight Banner Divisions of the Central Plains Corps are these 20. The remaining Han army has also basically completed the redressing, and is boarding the military train day after day, from the two stations of Baoding and Shijiazhuang, first to the east to Tianjin Station and Cangzhou Station, that is, to the Jinpu Railway, and then along the Jinpu Line to the south, into the Central Plains Corps.

Third, the Beijing-Tianjin Corps, 450,000, mainly the Eight Banners Division and the Praetorian Guard Division.

Those who guard the vicinity of the Jingshi are naturally the elite of the elite. 5 Praetorian Divisions, that is, the traditional Imperial Guard. 14 Manchurian Eight Banner Divisions, that is the most capable army in the entire Qing Empire. There are a total of 24 Manchurian Eight Banner Divisions in the Qing Dynasty, 10 of which participated in the exercise are now in the Central Plains Corps, and the remaining 14 are here.

Fourth, the Northern Corps, 1.2 million, with 22 Mengbaqi divisions (450,000 people) as the backbone, and the remaining 750,000 people are all Han troops.

The garrison area of the Northern Corps was large, mainly stationed outside the Northeast Pass, guarding the Japanese-Qing border (Korea-Qing border) and the Far Eastern part of the Russian-Qing border, including the eastern part of Outer Mongolia. This force is very large, and it is not as large as the Central Plains Corps, which is only temporarily large. The Northern Corps is very large in peacetime. Because the Northern Qing Dynasty has always been wary of Russia in history, there are still many border problems between the two sides. In particular, the Soviet army has also stationed elite divisions in the Far East for a long time, and the Far East border between the two sides is very long, so it occupies the largest number of troops in the Northern Qing Dynasty. As for the Nissin border, it cannot be taken lightly. Guangwu knew very well what the Japanese were, and although they were extremely friendly, they must not be guarded against.

Although the Northern Army has a large number of troops, it has a problem, that is, it is not easy to call. First, we must always be on guard against two strong neighbors, and second, they are too scattered, basically deployed on the long border line, of which only the hundreds of thousands in the east can be quickly transferred south with the help of railways, and the west, especially the eastern part of Outer Mongolia, where there are no railways, the mobilization is very slow. After the winter, the roads are closed by heavy snow, and it is even more impossible to move.

Fifth, the Southern Corps, 950,000, dominated by the Han army.

This is the Qing army's troops stationed on the north side of the Yangtze River defense line in the Nanming Dynasty and in the Jianghuai area, in order to charge into battle and be cannon fodder when the southern invasion occurred. It belongs to the second-rate troops. Now 800,000 have been annihilated by the Ming army, and the remaining 100,000 remnants have fled to the north and incorporated into the Central Plains Corps and the Zhengzhou Corps.

Sixth, the Zhengzhou Corps, 200,000, mainly the Han army.

The Zhengzhou Corps was stationed on the front line of Kaifeng, Zhengzhou and Luoyang. The forces are relatively weak. But the place they had to defend was not large, and they could withdraw from the Zhengzhou Bridge to the north of the Yellow River in the north, and from the Hangu Pass in the west. If you can't hold on, the way back is not a problem, and you won't be completely wiped out again.

There are still more than 3.7 million troops left in the above corps, which is all the first-class and second-rate troops of the Qing Dynasty. It can also be said that the army that can be called a "professional army" in the Qing Dynasty and can barely withstand a war is all here. The remaining two or three million are third-rate, fourth-rate, and fifth-rate troops. Or that you can't be a professional army anymore.

Fifth, the Northwest Corps, about 1 million ~ 1.5 million. It was mainly composed of the Han army and the ethnic divisions, that is, those ethnic minority armed forces who submitted to the Manchu Qing Dynasty.

The Northwest Corps was mainly stationed in the western half of the Soviet-Qingdao border, mainly the western part of Outer Mongolia and the northern and western parts of Xinjiang, mainly to guard against the Central Asian states of the Soviet Union, and by the way to keep an eye on some local half-hearted minority princes. Although this corps is huge, it is also a long-term cantonment corps, and it belongs to the "production and construction corps," and its combat effectiveness cannot be counted on. The management is loose, the composition is complex, the total number is changing at any time, and the central government cannot grasp it at any time. Moreover, not only can we not count on the combat effectiveness, but also because the westernmost railway of the Qing Dynasty was only built to Xining, and there is still a distance of nearly 2,000 kilometers only by road. If you want to transfer troops from the Northwest Corps, you can't expect it for a year and a half without a large number of cars.

Sixth, other scattered troops.

The remaining 1 million or so troops are garrison divisions, national divisions, and shelf divisions scattered throughout the country. It's basically some militia-level stuff. These are mainly stationed in various places to suppress the common people to make trouble, and it is okay to bully the common people in ordinary times. Fight? That's a rush of material. Shaanxi and Shanxi are stationed in such troops. In Shanxi, even the Taihang Mountain column can ride on their heads and......

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Guangwu thought carefully in his mind. He felt that the situation was quite optimistic. Even if you remove the millions of garbage troops in the back, the more than three million "elites" in the front are enough to deal with Nanming. He analyzed that the troops that Nanming could use to attack would never exceed 1.5 million. Moreover, Nanming does not have much reserve potential yet. And in the Qing Dynasty, even if the more than 3 million are gone, it is not impossible to levy two more 3 million from the people.

Guangwu believes that it is far from this point. Even if the Northern Army Corps and the Beijing-Tianjin Army Corps are not able to transfer south for a while, with the nearly 2 million troops of the Central Plains Army Corps and the Exercise Corps, they can still block the Southern Ming. In the first ten days of the Southern Ming Dynasty, the momentum was like a bamboo, eating 800,000 people in the Qing Dynasty in one go, largely relying on sudden attacks. And now that the Qing Dynasty is prepared, it will not be stupid to be led by the Ming army to fight a sports war.

Moreover, Nanming has now hit hundreds of kilometers. Although the battle line cannot be said to be too long, there is still some distance. It's time to start testing Nanming's logistical supply capabilities. The Southern Ming Dynasty in the Central Plains will be in a bitter battle with the Qing Dynasty. If the logistics are not done well, it is possible to turn victory into defeat, and then be beaten back by the Qing Dynasty.

Take 10,000 steps back and say, even if Nanming really wins the Central Plains War, it will definitely be self-inflicted injuries of 800 and heavy losses. It advanced to Shandong and the Yellow River, and it must not be able to advance. It was also unable to organize another battle to cross the river. Any strategic offensive has a culmination. Even if it is Napoleon, it can only be the end of the crossbow when it arrives in Moscow. And Jinan and the Yellow River are the "Moscow" that Nanming will encounter.

Then, the Qing Dynasty had time to organize an absolutely superior force, push back to the south, regain the lost territory in one go, drive the Ming army back to Jiangnan, and then cross the river to the south.

Such are the benefits of war potential. Strategic depth, superior forces, and reserve resources...... These are all weaknesses of the Southern Ming Dynasty and the strengths of the Qing Dynasty.

…… However, the looming crisis at the moment is that Nanming is very likely to land in Shandong. Heavy troops must be transferred into Shandong.

The Central Plains Corps must not touch it. This is a bulwark against the Ming army, which can only be strengthened, not weakened. However, the existing 900,000 troops are already quite a lot, and the exercise corps in the north will transfer another 300,000 to it, and the remaining 700,000 can be transferred to Shandong. Shandong and the Central Plains are very close to each other, and they are connected by railways, so once there is a tightness, they can reinforce each other.

Guangwu pondered again for a long time, compared it repeatedly, and felt that there was no problem, so he wrote down a decree and ordered to transfer troops into Shandong.

After arranging all this, Guangwu slowly leaned back in his chair, stared at the map on the wall, and once again went through the battle situation in his mind for more than ten days since the start of the war.

He felt confident again. This feeling comes from the strong contrast between the vast territory of the Qing Dynasty and the small Nanming in the south.

It's like two animals wrestling, a leopard weighing one or two hundred pounds on one side and a bison weighing a ton on the other.

The leopard is fierce and agile, constantly changing its direction to attack, and has fangs and claws that allow it to attract blood. But the bison is ten times larger than it, and the skin is rough and the flesh is thick, and it doesn't care if it bleeds or tears some flesh, and the leopard's fangs and claws, no matter how they bite, are only flesh wounds to the bison.

The two have been fighting for a long time, and the bison's physical advantage is reflected. Leopards quickly become physically exhausted and sluggish. And the leopard's Achilles' heel - delicate and fragile, so that whether the bison is stepped on or picked, it can kill it in one stroke.

Why? Quite simply, these two animals are not the same heavyweight. The leopard has fangs, claws and dexterity to challenge the bison, which is the most stupid and reckless thing to do. It will reap its own consequences.

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"Nanming will definitely suffer the consequences."

Guangwu stared at the map, slowly grinned, and smiled.