Chapter 120: Huo Jiajun's Strategy

"Now that your staff has judged the direction of their attack, I believe you have already had a detailed battle plan, let's talk about it!" Huo Shan continued.

"Yes, young master! We now have two options, one is to take the initiative to attack, and the other is to defend on a mobile basis! Now that the combined fleet of the two countries has just entered the port of Panaji in the Portuguese colony of Goa in the Indian subcontinent, because they need to relieve the fatigue accumulated from the long voyage, they need at least a week to recover the jīng strength of the soldiers, rest their troops, and make further preparations for the next war with us over the East Indies! Therefore, during this period of time, our navy can attack Goa by surprise, and I believe that it will not be too difficult to take this place with the equipment and strength of our army! Moreover, Goa's coastline is straight, there is no obvious harbor protection, and in addition, the coastal defense batteries built by the Portuguese are basically pre-loaded smoothbore batteries of the last century, which are okay for ordinary pirates, and pose no threat to our new warships at all! Therefore, we have great hopes of successfully landing and destroying the combined forces of the Netherlands and Portugal that have come from afar!

After listening to Huo Long's words, Huo Shan directly vetoed this plan in his heart, this plan is too dangerous, because there are many British patrol ships and naval bases in the Indian Ocean, Maldives, Sri Lanka, the Andaman Islands plus the Chagos Archipelago, this long chain of defensive islands, basically blocked all the sea lanes from the eastern part of the Indian Ocean to attack the subcontinent. The Huo Jiajun Navy wants to cross a distance of nearly 2,000 nautical miles and lead at least 20,000 army troops to attack Goa, but I have to say that this plan is really a bit crazy, and the risks are too great, and the troops are very vulnerable to losses, which Huo Shan cannot accept! Moreover, in this era, the Indian subcontinent is the testicle of the British Empire, and anyone who touches it will incur the British to retaliate frantically, and Huo Shan does not want to have a full-scale war with the British Empire when his strength is not strong!

Looking at the look on the young master's face and the move of shaking his head again and again, Huo Long understood that this strategy that seemed to be really crazy was vetoed by the young master! However, he didn't take it to heart, and he didn't agree with this plan of cross-sea expedition in the first place!

"The second strategy we have devised is mobile defense! The Dutch and the Portuguese could not have imagined that we would have powerful and advanced naval warships hidden in our hands, so they will lead all the soldiers and warships of the expeditionary force to directly attack any of our cities or areas on the island of Java that can provide good landing conditions! At this time, our opportunity has come, we can ambush our fleet in the sea off the island of Java, and wait for the time to ambush the escort warships of the two countries! I believe that with the speed of our new destroyers and the power of their guns, there should be no big problem in defeating them!"

"Moreover, we can also capture their 40,000 expeditionary force soldiers completely!" After listening to his words, Huo Shan suddenly said!

In his eyes, these 40,000 soldiers are 40,000 talents! Europe is not like Asia, they do not have the saying that 'good iron does not shoot nails, and good men do not serve as soldiers'; those who serve as soldiers in European countries are often highly educated, because after school education, they have the highest sense of national honor in their hearts, and they are also eager to achieve the goal of getting ahead through the army! Teachers and other people with skills are also the main force to join the army, because they are more for the high salaries in the army!

You must know that at this time in Europe, except for the strong Germans, the implementation of the universal compulsory military service system was not the implementation of the universal compulsory military service system, and the purpose of serving as a soldier was more to make money, and the peasants in Europe rarely joined the army, because they had their own land, guaranteed that they would not go hungry, and they would also make money! In contrast, there were many bankrupt and unemployed workers!

"Huo Long, you notify the staff to adopt this plan!" Huo Shan finally said. Ever since he had benefited from the large number of talents in the last Dutch captivity, he had been thinking about these expeditionary soldiers of the two countries! Now that he had the opportunity to capture them completely, he would certainly not let them go!

Now Huoshan is full of thoughts that with the help of these captive talents, steel mills, shipyards, and rapidly developing heavy industry enterprises have appeared in various provinces and cities in Nanyang, as well as another comprehensive university!

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Ye Xiannian rubbed his eyebrows, put down the official business in his hand, and pushed open the window next to him, the green and beautiful scenery outside appeared in front of his eyes, which couldn't help but make his tired body and mind enjoy a rare sense of relaxation!

As the commander of the 38th Division, he has been stationed on Luzon Island for more than a year with his troops! In this period of more than a year, he has not only grown his troops to nearly 40,000, but also occupied nearly half of the land on Luzon Island, and he has also used the island's indigenous inhabitants to reclaim nearly 1.5 million hectares of land! And after repelling several attacks organized by the Spaniards, he firmly occupied the land under his feet, and set up the headquarters of his 38th Division in this city originally called Baguio!

"Alas!"

Ye Xiannian sighed heavily, in the past few days, in addition to training the troops all day, he has also assisted Political Commissar Guo Huai in handling more and more government affairs! He can only watch his brother troops gallop across the islands of the South Seas, and the Dutch who have beaten him lose their armor! Constantly expand the occupation of the Huo family's army! This kind of feeling is really not very pleasant for an officer who leads the troops!

"Now even the natives have to fight, and the Spaniards have shrunk back! When will the troops be able to fight in battle?" Ye Xiannian muttered to himself.

"What, read it first, think about war again?" Guo Huai, who had just walked in with a large pile of documents, looked at his old friend who was standing by the window with a melancholy face, and couldn't help but shake his head and ask with a smile.

"Yes, look at how happy Huo Jianguang and Liang Zhanshan are fighting in Nanyang, it's like we have been hiding here for more than a year, and we haven't fought a tough battle! Moreover, the young master doesn't allow us to deal with the remaining troops of the Spaniards! This is really difficult!" Ye Xiannian said a little distressed, and a little helpless.

"Don't worry! When the time comes to liberate Luzon, it will definitely be our 38th Division, rushing to the front!"

"That's all I have left for this comfort now!" Ye Xiannian rubbed his hands and said with a smile.

"Report!" At this moment, a young second lieutenant wearing a straight Huo Jiajun army uniform stood outside the door and shouted loudly!

"Come in!"

"Report, division commander, political commissar! Our radio received a wireless telegram from the General Staff transmitted by the destroyer 'Meng Tian'!"

"General Staff?" Ye Xiannian's eyes lit up, he reached out and snatched the telegram from the second lieutenant's hand, and he couldn't wait to read it!

The content of the telegram was very short, and in less than a minute, he read it all!

"Okay!haha, great!Now I finally got some fighting!" Ye Xiannian smiled happily.

Somewhat curious, he took the telegram in his hand, Guo Huai glanced at it, and saw that it was clearly written: "The 38th Division, starting from January 5, 82, and the 37th Division stationed in Medan will jointly attack the Visayas Islands with the cooperation of the navy, including Mindoro Island, Panai Island, Masbat Island, Marinduk Island and other northern islands, which belong to the combat mission of the 38th Division, and must solve the Spaniards and natives stationed on the islands within three days of receiving this order!" In the event of a Spanish landing force, there is no need to block it, let it enter the island and then concentrate on solving the problem, avoid the blow of naval artillery, and reduce the casualties of the troops! Taiwan General Staff of the Chinese People's Army, Order of January 2, 1882!

Closing the telegram, Guo Huai's mood also became excited, although he is the political commissar of the first division, mainly political work, supplemented by military work, but in his bones he is also a soldier, and if he is a soldier, he will be eager for war!

"Jǐng guard, bring me the first regiment commander Liu Yushan, the second regiment commander Qiu Xinggong, and the third regiment commander Wang Guocheng, and tell them that they will have no combat mission if they are late!" Ye Xiannian commanded loudly and excitedly!

Of course, it was not only the 37th and 38th Divisions stationed in Medan and Luzon that received this order, but in order to prevent the nearby British, French and Spanish troops stationed in the Indochina Peninsula and the Spanish colonies from taking advantage of the opportunity to take advantage of the war between the Huojia Army and the Dutch and Portuguese navies, almost all the Huojia Army troops stationed in the Indochina Peninsula and the Spanish colonies were mobilized!