Chapter 5: The Problem of the Road
After receiving a few more cities without firing a single shot, Zhebei thought for a moment and asked Subutai beside him, "We have advanced two hundred kilometers from the border of the Chinese Empire, right?" ā
"Yes! No resistance at all, no suspense! Commander-in-Chief, are we dividing our forces again? It's a little faster to occupy territory like this? Subutai asked Jebel. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ļ½ļ½ļ½Uļ½Eć ļ½ļ½ļ½ļ½
"Hmmm! I also feel that 50,000 people per team is a bit of a waste, so divide the troops! Jebel nodded.
"Commander-in-chief, how many teams is our 100,000 expeditionary force divided into? How many people per team is appropriate? ā
"If you divide it into ten teams with 10,000 people each, I think it's still a bit wasteful, why don't you divide it into 20 teams with 5,000 people each?" Instead of deciding directly, Tebube asked Subutai to expect him to have any better advice!
"Each team has 2,500 people, we will take out 90,000 people to divide it into 36 teams, and the remaining 10,000 people will stay at the headquarters as a reserve, so that where there is danger, these 10,000 people can be used!" Subutai said after a moment of silence.
"Hmm!" Jebe nodded, picked up the satellite phone, and began to issue combat orders, and at the same time called the Ministry of Administration to send someone to take over the new territory.
The land expeditionary force obeyed Jebe's orders and quickly divided its troops, each team of about 2,500 men and horses, and at the same time, in order to ensure mutual assistance, each team was only about 50 kilometers apart.
The team became smaller and the number of people became smaller, and the mountain bandits that had been hidden around them gradually appeared, and most of the mountain bandits did not dare to move when they saw the land expeditionary force with a neat movement and a sufficient number of 2,500 people, and fled in despair!
Not long after, after the Army Expeditionary Force had taken over the entire territory of the Gil Dynasty, Jebe contacted his subordinate officers to hold a remote meeting, and the Army Expeditionary Force was faced with the problem of attacking Europe or Africa.
After the meeting, it was decided that the Army Expeditionary Force would be divided into two groups, each group of 50,000 people, each group would be divided into 10,000 at the headquarters to respond in the center, and the remaining 40,000 people would still be divided into 16 teams of 2,500 people!
Among them, 50,000 people were led by Jebeqin and set out for Europe, and the other 50,000 were led by Subutai to attack Africa! In the end, Jebe used a satellite phone to report his decision to the General Staff, and Temujin, who received the call, approved Jebe's proposal on the spot.
"Order the troops to march towards Europe!"
The convoy quickly turned around, and half of the Army Expeditionary Force swooped down towards Africa, the other half towards Europe.
Jebe led 50,000 people, didn't walk for long, found that there was no road in front of him that could pass through cars, checked it with satellites, and still didn't find a road that could allow cars to pass, and Jebel, who did not give up, sent a team of scouts to reconnoiter around the road.
"Report!"
"Please!" The voice of a scout came from the phone, and Jebe immediately picked up the phone.
"Commander-in-chief, there are mountain roads within a radius of ten miles ahead, and cars can't pass through at all, even if sappers are sent to repair the roads, they can't let cars pass in a short time!"
"Got it, you guys should come back first!"
"Yes!"
"The captains have come to the headquarters for a meeting!" Jebel picked up the microphone and said.
"Yes!"
In about half a day, some officers who arrived in off-road vehicles appeared around Jebel one after another!
After waiting for nearly two hours again, seeing that all the generals of the European Expeditionary Force had arrived, Jebe immediately said, "Prepare for a meeting!" ā
The well-trained and disciplined officers have done a good job one after another!
"Now there is a problem in front of us, that is, there will be no cars on the road in the future, what do you think should be done?" Jebel asked.
"Commander-in-chief, since we can't use the car, let's abandon the car and walk! Even if we all walk, we will conquer the whole of Europe! Tang Yongan, the captain of the first team, said.
"Commander-in-chief, I propose to send sappers to start building roads, only if cars can pass smoothly, can we ensure the logistical supply of our tens of thousands of soldiers! If all the people walked, the logistics would not be able to keep up at all, and the soldiers of the expedition would face the danger of not being able to keep up with weapons and ammunition, and lacking food and medicine! Li Yonghe, the captain of the second team, suggested.
"I agree with the proposal of the captain of the second team, only after the road is built, after ensuring the smooth flow of our logistics and supply, can we compete for hegemony in Europe, if the logistics are not smooth and the battle line is too long, we will face the danger of running out of ammunition and food, and the lives of the soldiers will not be guaranteed at that time!" The captain of the third team then said.
"It's a good suggestion to be steady, but if we start marching again after the sappers have finished the road, I wonder if you're going to spend ten, thirty, or a hundred years on the march in Europe?" Ge Donglin, the captain of the fourth team, obviously did not agree to wait for the sappers to repair the road before marching.
"Do you have any good advice Ge Donglin?" Li Yonghe, the captain of the second team, retorted.
"We can't feed the war with war, abandon unnecessary materials, only carry some daily necessities, weapons and ammunition, advance first, and feed the war with war, and at the same time send sappers to immediately build roads in the rear, so as not to delay the speed of our capture of territory, and to ensure logistical supplies!" Ge Donglin spoke his mind.
"Do you have any better suggestions?" Zhebei agreed with Ge Donglin's suggestion, but he still wanted to find a better point of view.
"I agree with the captain of the four teams, but we should adjust the position of each team, for example, to reduce the lateral distance and reduce the number of teams that can enter at the same time!"
"For example, the original 16 teams covered 800 kilometers horizontally to advance, but now they are 400 kilometers horizontally or 300 kilometers horizontally, and the redundant teams stay in the occupied city, waiting for the Ministry of Government Affairs to come and take over, and then move forward!"
"At the same time, we should adopt the operational policy of fighting steadily and steadily, step by step, and try to solve the problem of food and other resources in the occupied areas to reduce logistical pressure!" Tang Yongan continued.
"Very well, do you have anything else you need to add?" After Tang Yongan finished speaking, Zhebei first expressed his agreement with his proposal, and then asked the rest of the officers present again.
"Commander-in-chief, can you ask the boss to buy some helicopters, even if there are no helicopters, it is good to have airships, with either of these two things, our marching speed and logistics transportation can be guaranteed!" Li Yonghe said to Zhebei.
"I'll ask the boss about this later, and see if he can solve it?" Jebel nodded, and continued to ask the others if there was anything else to say.
After the meeting, it was decided that some of the people would abandon the carts and march on foot, leaving some people to hold on, and the rest would work with the sappers to start building the road.
Jebe took out his satellite phone and called Wu Dong, told him about the difficulties of the land expeditionary force, and asked him to prepare some helicopters and airships.
It took nearly a month for Wu Dong to purchase a full 200 transport helicopters and 500 airships in modern times, and used the teleportation function of the space-time spirit bead to send them to the army Jebe and Subutai respectively, and another 50 helicopters were allocated to the navy led by Hu Fei.
But the troops who got the airships and helicopters were dumbfounded, they couldn't fly the planes, and finally had to contact the headquarters of the Chinese Empire to send pilots to fly the helicopters and airships!
PS: I took the time to revise the first ten chapters, and suddenly found that there were so many typos, eh! Unsightly! It's the New Year, everyone is very busy, I hope everyone will take more red envelopes during the New Year, and by the way, give the turtle a little bit, just a little bit!