On April 24, the Hongyanfu Railway Station in Anxi Province was blocked by the Royal Army.
A large number of curious people stood outside the train station and watched the scene inside the blockade.
The commander of the First Army, Lu Chenyang, was wearing a large combat uniform and a steel helmet, holding an unextinguished cigarette in his mouth.
He was looking at the soldiers of the First Army who were coming off the train.
After Emperor Su He inspected the First Army, he approved the empire's battle plan against Persia.
The First Army will be a sharp knife, tearing apart Persia's defenses and occupying Persia's main oil producing areas.
Lu Chenyang later learned about the blitzkrieg strategy, and he was shocked.
Blitzkrieg is a combat method completely created for the First Army.
Now, except for the First Army, no other army in the empire dares to go deep alone and march more than a hundred miles a day.
The border of Hongyan Mansion is not even a hundred miles away from where the Persian army is stationed.
He Guangzhi, the chief of staff of the First Army, walked to Lu Chenyang and said worriedly: "Old Lu, if we don't disperse the people watching now, the news of our arrival may be leaked."
Lu Chenyang waved his hand and said: "Our first army has more than 40,000 generals, plus the number of baggage, the scale is too large, and there is no way to hide it from the fine work in the city.
Persia will definitely get the news that the empire has increased its troops in Hongyan Mansion.
But you are the coach of Persia, can you predict that we will reach the front line in just one day?"
He Guangzhi thought about it, shook his head and said: "If I were the coach of Persia, I really can't imagine that an army can carry heavy weapons and travel hundreds of miles a day.
Even the light cavalry can't do this."
Lu Chenyang threw the finished cigarette aside and said, "Of course, it's not like we don't use any means for the city's fine work.
The Xuanwu Guards were responsible for counter-espionage in the city, and the spies were hidden in Persia. They had to avoid being hunted by the Xuanwu Guards and send the news back.
This will take at least two or three days, and the weather conditions are now sufficient for us to launch a blitzkrieg.
In two or three days, the First Army should launch an attack like the Persian army. Whether they can convey the message is no longer important."
He Guangzhi nodded and agreed with Lu Chenyang's statement.
He and Lu Chenyang inspected the status of the First Army.
Except for the veterans who served as officers, the soldiers were all strong young men in their twenties.
When they are in the carriage, they will also move their muscles and bones through exercises and other methods.
Lu Chenyang said in a relaxed tone: "Our soldiers only need to rest for a day to adjust their condition.
At the same time, let the engineers repair the chariots and cars, and we can launch an attack on Persia tomorrow."
He Guangzhi frowned and said: "The time given by the General Staff is too tight.
I heard that during this period, no signs of rainfall were observed in the surrounding areas.
There has been no rain in the area for more than half a month, and the land is very dry, which is conducive to the march of the army.
Not just a blitzkrieg, we will control Persia later and try not to catch up with the continuous rainy season.
The General Staff is afraid that it will be delayed until the rainy season and the roads will become muddy.
When the rainy season really comes, whether we are marching or the army controls the place, we will have to pay more."
Lu Chenyang said with emotion: "I prayed on the train that it would never rain.
After all, we are not fighting locally. We can defeat Persia in a short time and control the local area conveniently.
Once the war drags on and the local tribes in Persia connect with each other and contact the Ottoman Empire, our First Army will be very passive.
If the First Army wants to gain the ability to win praise from both the government and the public, it must perform its blitzkrieg perfectly.
Once you fall into a traditional offensive battle, just bring in a friendly force.
For our First Army, if the performance is not outstanding, this opportunity will be completely wasted."
Lu Chenyang and He Guangzhi talked about the subsequent actions of the First Army while walking.
They quickly left the train station and came to the temporary camp of the First Army.
The soldiers at the grassroots level will have a good meal here, have a good sleep, and launch an attack on the enemy tomorrow.
They, the senior leaders of the First Army, had no extra time to rest and had to hold a military meeting overnight to confirm the plan for tomorrow's action.
How does the General Staff attack the First Army?
It has given recommendations, but how exactly should the First Army fight?
It still depends on Lu Chenyang and others to make a decision based on the situation on the battlefield.
They were waiting for their subordinates to start a meeting and looked at the sand table that had been set up in the conference room.
He Guangzhi said excitedly: "According to the information provided by the Military Intelligence Bureau, in order to defend the border, Persia withdrew its troops to the mountains.
The hilly area outside the mountain is used as a buffer zone, with only some sentries and no garrison.
Persia did not have the ability to produce cement, so they could only smuggle a small amount of cement produced by the empire and hollow out the mountain.
They relied on the mountains to form a complex defense line.
The purpose of Persia's doing this was to defend against the empire's attack.
If the First Army wanted to demonstrate its blitzkrieg capabilities, it must first find a way to break through Persia's forward defense line.
When attacking this kind of defense line built on mountains, tanks are completely useless, and traditional infantry must still be relied upon to attack the enemy.
According to the information provided by the Military Intelligence Bureau, Persia has been in frequent contact with the Ottoman Turkish Empire recently.
They probably chose to ally with the Ottoman Turkish Empire in order to deal with the threat of the empire.
Persia and the Ottoman Turkish Empire were always at odds with each other, and both wanted to annex each other's territory.
But when faced with a foreign enemy and being forced to do nothing, people of insight from both countries called on the two countries to unite.
It was precisely because of the emergence of this situation that the imperial court asked the 19th Army to set off from the Caucasus Mountains and make a gesture of attacking the Ottoman Turkish Empire, which involved the experience of the Ottoman Turkish Empire."
Lu Chenyang nodded and said: "To our country, the Ottoman Turkish Empire is just a slightly larger country.
But for our First Army, it is an opponent that needs to be dealt with carefully.
While the train was moving, I convened repeated meetings with the officers, emphasizing that the army should not be careless, but should pay attention to the contrast between local strengths and weaknesses.
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! The empire is indeed strong, but it only targets local battlefields. Our first army may not be the strongest.
Even if they hold advanced weapons, the arrogant soldiers will definitely be defeated."
While they were talking, subordinates arrived in the conference room one after another.
The cooking class also carried prepared braised pork, salted fish stewed with sauerkraut, roasted leg of lamb and other foods.
Lu Chenyang looked at the people entering the conference room one after another, pointed to the food that was served and said: "We don't have time to eat. Let's discuss the arrangements for tomorrow while eating."
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Wei Xiaoyong, leader of the chariot regiment, walked back to the station with a lonely look on his face.
He looked at his expectant subordinates and shouted at the top of his lungs: "The war will start tomorrow, and it's already nine o'clock in the evening. Why don't you go to bed?"
If you don't sleep well and go to the battlefield in a daze, you're just giving death to the enemy.
If one of my soldiers is such a coward, I feel ashamed when I write the death certificate.
Many of you are new recruits, and some of you are proud college students. You usually read news about the empire's invincibility in newspapers, and you feel a sense of pride in your heart.
As a veteran, I will teach you a lesson now: let go of your pride.
On the battlefield, not to mention the firearms equipped by the enemy, even an arrow can kill you."
Someone saw the serious face of the regiment leader, and he shouted: "The regiment leader said so many truths, and it seems that we will attack tomorrow, and our tank regiment will not have anything to do with it.
Otherwise, with the impatience of the group leader, he would have assigned us a task long ago."
Wei Xiaoyong yelled: "Use your pig brains to think about attacking the Persian fortress tomorrow.
Can the small cannon on our tank attack the fortress?
We have to hibernate first, before it is time for the tank regiment to show off.
A chariot costs tens of thousands of silver coins, and the court has invested so much, so the chariot regiment must be reused.
Otherwise, this investment will be wasted, and many people will be held responsible."
Wei Xiaoyong not only comforted him, he also comforted himself.
How he wanted the chariot regiment to shine at the beginning of the war.
The lights in the camp slowly extinguished, leaving only the patrolling soldiers holding carbide lamps and leading military dogs to guard the safety of the camp.
Under the guidance of veterans, most of the new recruits went to sleep excited and wanted to prepare for tomorrow's war with the best possible attitude.
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Lu Chenyang only took a two-hour nap last night. He had been thinking about how to deal with unexpected situations in the battle.
He listened to the sound of car engines and the chants of the soldiers in the camp.
He Guangzhi's eyes were red. He stayed up late for a long time yesterday.
He walked up to Lu Chenyang and said, "Commander, the army is ready and we can set off."
Lu Chenyang looked up at the cloudless sunny sky. He hoped that there would be more sunny days like this.
He waved his hand and said: "Let's go."
The correspondent next to him was wearing earphones to listen for telegrams coming from the telegraph machine.
He used a small telegraph machine newly produced by the empire, which was compact and easy to carry.
The correspondent's assistant was standing by, constantly shaking the hand generator to power the telegraph machine.
The correspondent immediately sent Lu Chenyang's order to the entire army.
Lu Chenyang saw that the correspondent only tapped his fingers and passed his order to the entire army.
He said with emotion: "Now, whether it is giving orders to subordinates or receiving feedback from subordinates.
With the telegraph here, it's very convenient.
This is just a temporary camp. If it were a frontline position, it would be more convenient to set up a temporary phone line.
At that time, the army was very slow to deliver orders. It needed to be delivered by signal troops on horseback, or simple orders were delivered through semaphores.
The main situation in frontline operations still depends on the ability of frontline officers.
It's different now, we can understand the situation on the front line at any time and issue more accurate orders."
While Lu Chenyang was talking, crisp whistles kept coming from the temporary camp.
When the soldiers heard the whistle, they picked up their guns and boarded the personnel carrier with neat steps.
The troop carrier then started up, and with the sound of the diesel engine banging, the troop carrier kicked off puffs of smoke and headed toward the southern border.
Wei Xiaoyong had half of his body exposed from the chariot, and he was instructing the driver of the chariot to adjust its direction.
The destination of the chariot is the open truck in front.
Chariots need to have trucks pull them to the front line.
Zhang Wenliang, commander of the artillery regiment, saw the tank and also took a truck to the front line.
He said with envy: "Your chariot group has caught up with you at a good time.
There were no cars at that time, so we had to drive mules to pull the cannon.
When encountering some uphill roads and the mules cannot go up, the artillerymen have to rely on the artillery to pull the cannon forward.
It's so comfortable now that I don't have to exert any effort when I sit on the truck.
Your chariots would have appeared a few years earlier, and I think you would have to pull the chariots on your own."
When Zhang Xiaoyong heard Zhang Wenliang's ridicule, he shook his head and said: "We can't pull something like a tank that weighs tens of tons.
If cars don't appear, then there are no chariots either.
A combat vehicle is essentially an armored car. Compared with the armed personnel carrier at the front, it only has thicker armor and stronger weapons."
They all know that tanks and artillery are transported to the front line by trucks, which is to keep the tanks and artillery in peak condition.
Chariot troops and artillery are also maintained at their peak condition, so that they can efficiently destroy enemy troops.
Wei Xiaoyong said with envy: "You artillerymen have a chance to perform this time.
The Persian fortress depends entirely on your artillery to solve this problem."
Zhang Wenliang said modestly: "Our artillery can only destroy some superficial fortresses.
The specific situation still depends on the efforts of the frontline infantry brothers."
They were chatting while the tanks and artillery were all loaded onto the truck.
The truck was fired up and set off, following the movement of the large troops.
There are more armed cars protecting these trucks to prevent these precious weapons from being attacked by enemy forces.
The First Army dispatched on a large scale, with thousands of vehicles acting collectively.
This would be an extremely spectacular scene in any province of the empire, let alone the remote Anxi Province of the empire.
Anxi Province is also a newly recovered area of the empire and a border province of the empire.
The people here are all immigrants from the interior, and many of them are retired soldiers.
When these people saw this scene, they knew at a glance that war had come.
Huang Dagui sniffed the car's exhaust, sneezed loudly, rubbed his nose and said, "My prediction is not bad, the empire is going to attack Persia.
In Persia, a remote and remote place, the empire has never expanded in this direction.
How could the empire suddenly want to take action against Persia? Persia has been very honest recently and there is no news of them provoking the empire."
Bai Lian said contemptuously: "Dagui, you have been a soldier for several years in vain and you still behave stupidly.
The only possibility for the imperial court to attack Persia is that Persia has something to tempt the imperial court.
There is nothing in this remote and remote area of Anxi Province.
The imperial court controls this place mainly for national security."
Huang Dagui lamented: "We retired too early, otherwise we would have been able to catch up with the war and we would not have retired as squad leaders."
But Bai Lian shook his head and said: "Daqi, you just said the opposite. The empire's attack on Persia is completely a good thing for us.
You have forgotten our township chief and the patrol chief, what are their identities?
When the empire conquers Persia, it will inevitably send immigrants and officials to stabilize the place. We are so close to Persia. As long as we behave better, it is not difficult to become a minor official."
Huang Dagui said excitedly: "Brother Bai, you are saying that we form a militia to help the army maintain order."
Bai Lian said excitedly: "Dagui, you are very smart at this time.
This is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. If we weren't close to Persia, we wouldn't be able to get this opportunity at all.
This is an opportunity that can only be enjoyed when the ancestral graves are smoking.
With the appeal of the two of us, we mobilized a group of militiamen to help the military.
This is both safe and can earn you a lot of merit."
Huang Dagui was so excited that he immediately took Bai Lian with him, returned to the village to organize a militia, and reported to the governor's Yamen to support the imperial court's expansion of territory.