Gou Shanquan, chief of staff of Fujian, slept soundly last night.
He hadn't slept so soundly in a long time.
Don't worry about the constant sound of gunfire and artillery, and don't worry that the Rock Fortress may be captured by enemy generals at any time.
He didn't sleep completely at ease for a long time, and slept until dawn.
He was awakened by the incessant beating of war drums outside.
Chief of Staff Gou Shanquan immediately sat up, knowing that he had missed the moment for the Imperial Army to go on an expedition.
He simply washed his face, put on his official uniform and walked out of the tent.
When he came to the front line, he only saw the infantry of the Imperial Royal Army riding in cars and heading to the European Allied Forces camp.
The car they were riding in now was different from the car he saw yesterday.
These cars have neither armor nor weapons, they are simply transportation vehicles.
However, these transportation vehicles, whose speed and carrying capacity far exceed those of mules and horses, will have a huge impact on the march of the army.
Places that previously took dozens of days to reach now only take one or two days to reach.
Chief of Staff Gou Shanquan knows how much impact this change will have on both the enemy and ourselves.
He saw Liang Feng, the supervisor of the Imperial Army.
He was riding in a car with a bucket, followed by a row of large trucks with twelve wheels.
The imperial supervisors are usually talented people who understand military affairs.
In peacetime, they are not only responsible for supervising the top brass of the military, they are also responsible for the military's chores and logistics.
Such supervisors have a high reputation among soldiers.
Unlike most of the Fujian Army, this position is just for decoration.
The king of Fujian, Zhang Yuliang, would never betray him because the generals were all his good brothers.
Don't be suspicious of those you employ, and don't use those who are suspicious. There is no need to send someone to supervise the generals.
It was precisely because of the idea of Zhang Yuliang, the king of Fujian, that the weirdo Xiaoyongjun appeared.
If the Fujian country could really form a tightrope, it might not suffer such a tragic defeat and would have to ask the suzerain for help.
Chief of Staff Gou Shanquan waved at the vehicle where Liang Feng was.
When he saw the car, he immediately broke away from the group and drove towards his direction.
Liang Feng opened the car window and asked curiously: "You are Chief of Staff Gou, what can I do for you?"
Chief of Staff Gou Shanquan said politely: "Marquis Liang, your army is not familiar with the place here.
Do you need a guide? I can send some staff who are familiar with the terrain to help your army avoid some risks caused by the terrain."
Liang Feng heard Chief of Staff Gou Shanquan offer to help them.
He replied with a smile: "Thank you, Chief of Staff Gou, for your help. Our army also found some guides before.
But our army is extremely happy to have staff officers who know how to fight as our guides."
After Gou Shanquan heard Liang Feng's promise, he immediately sent guards to notify the staff and select staff who understood the local situation to assist the Imperial Royal Army in combat.
He is the chief of staff of Fujian and has many staff officers under his command.
Let these staff officers experience the powerful strength of the Imperial Royal Army. Even if they learn a few superficial things, it will serve them well throughout their lives.
His staff officers have produced a lot of talents, and his position as chief of staff will be more stable.
Chief of Staff Gou Shanquan then asked: "Marquis Liang, can I follow you?
I was blocked in the Rock Fortress by the European Allied Forces for more than three months, and the hatred towards them in my heart has been unable to be channeled.
It is one of my long-cherished wishes to see the Allied forces in Europe defeated."
When Liang Feng heard this request, he smiled slightly and politely agreed: "If you don't mind it, Chief of Staff Gou, then you can sit in my car."
One of the important purposes of the Imperial Royal Army's intervention in European operations was to frighten the vassal states.
Many people want to believe what they really see.
Showing the power of the Imperial Royal Army to Fujian officials is also one of their purposes.
When Chief of Staff Gou Shanquan heard that Supervisor Liang Feng had agreed so happily, he immediately thanked him and got into the car to observe the situation on the battlefield.
As the car drove forward, Gou Shanquan saw that the Imperial Army was not just equipped with weapons and equipment.
The Imperial Royal Army is organized into regiments and has a signal corps unit. They carry radios on their backs and can communicate with their superiors and friendly forces at any time.
Even if the chariot group is several miles away, Liang Feng can keep track of the chariot group's movements at any time.
Chief of Staff Gou Shanquan saw a new telegram sent, stating that the ammunition stored by the self-propelled artillery regiment was in urgent need.
Liang Feng glanced at the telegram and put it aside.
Chief of Staff Gou Shanquan scanned the telegram. It contained the location of the self-propelled artillery regiment and the number of shells needed.
The position coordinates they used were originally used by the Imperial Navy for positioning on the ocean.
They set the longitude and latitude of the earth, so that they could determine the position of a ship on the earth through the sextant, the sun, the moon, and the North Star, so that it would not get lost in the sea.
This simple method of location confirmation quickly spread and has now become the standard for positioning.
Liang Feng said with a smile: "These are all arranged by the logistics attache.
If I am responsible for such a small matter, my subordinates will have nothing to do."
Chief of Staff Gou Shanquan was very emotional when he heard this. Everyone in the Imperial Royal Army performs their duties.
He observed the situation outside through the car window. Cannons towed by cars, their muzzles raised high, fired at the European Allied Forces camp in the distance.
After several salvoes, the car continued to drag the cannon forward, finding a suitable place to stop and fire.
When Gou Shanquan saw such an artillery regiment, he was very envious.
This kind of artillery that can chase and hit is a nightmare for any army.
After passing the self-propelled artillery regiment, the trucks transporting supplies basically stopped.
Liang Feng pointed to the battlefield ahead where the sound of gunfire was still ringing.
"The fighting has not stopped yet, we just need to transport supplies to the vicinity of the battlefield.
The weapons and ammunition carried by the army are basically enough to fight a fierce war, and supplies will only be needed unless a stalemate continues."
Chief of Staff Gou Shanquan saw that the former military camp of the European Allied Forces, with about 100,000 people, had been divided and surrounded by the Imperial Royal Army.
Through the telescope, he saw that there was not much smoke in the battlefield farther away.
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! The main force of the European Allied Forces should have withdrawn from the battlefield.
He said regretfully: "If I had known this, I would have sent troops to cooperate with your army. The European Allied Forces ran away too much."
Liang Feng smiled and said: "We are very satisfied to achieve such results.
We only sent 20,000 people to attack a million-strong army and defeated them.
In the history of war, these are miracles that can be written with heavy pen and ink.
This is the major result that an advanced army can achieve by attacking a backward army.
Now 20,000 people surround 100,000 people. This kind of victory is already astonishing.
This unprecedented victory achieved by the First Army deserves to be celebrated for many days."
Chief of Staff Gou Shanquan was also very shocked when he saw the victory achieved by the Imperial Royal Army.
He knew the strength of the European Allied Forces. If he hadn't taken out all the elites of the Fujian Kingdom and used desperate tactics, he could have defended the Rock Fortress.
These European Allied Forces are definitely not old, weak, sick or disabled, they are admirable strong armies.
When the European Allied Forces met the Imperial Royal Army, it was like an egg against a rock, and they couldn't even block a single charge.
Chief of Staff Gou Shanquan has been observing the situation on the battlefield at the edge of the battlefield.
The European Allied forces, who had been surrounded, looked at the gradually shrinking encirclement and the tanks slowly pressing towards them.
Knowing that their defeat was certain, these European Allied forces immediately chose to kneel down and surrender.
Very few people continue to resist when they are desperate.
Chief of Staff Gou Shanquan knew about the first confrontation between the Imperial Army and the European Allied Forces.
The Imperial Royal Army achieved an unquestionable victory.
At noon, there was no sound of gunfire in the European Allied camp.
Chief of Staff Gou Shanquan saw the car's body was full of potholes, and there were dark red blood stains on the car's body and tracks.
Surrounded by Imperial Army soldiers, they walked towards the supply camp.
Wei Xiaoyong, leader of the chariot regiment, saw Liang Feng.
He came out of the chariot, his body was wet, and his uniform was covered with white marks, which were the salts precipitated from the Han River.
When Wei Xiaoyong came out of the chariot, he immediately took the water bottle handed to him and drank heavily.
When the tank is running, the heat brought by the diesel engine cannot be dissipated. The inside of the tank is a big oven.
Every battle is like being baked in the oven.
Liang Feng saw the chariot soldiers who were all wet.
With a gentle smile, he said: "Drink some salt water quickly and go back to the camp to take a good bath.
Don’t get heatstroke, I’ll still depend on you for the rest of the war.”
Wei Xiaoyong asked the rest of the chariot group to go to the camp to rest.
For the condition of the tank, specialized personnel will perform maintenance.
He smiled and said: "This is a great victory. I want to write the battle report first."
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Commander Lu Chenyang stood on the wall of the Rock Fortress, looking at the smoke-filled European Allied Forces camp.
The smoke became thicker and thicker, and the European Allied Army camps could no longer be seen.
Commander Lu Chenyang knew that the resistance from the European Allies was fierce.
The Imperial Royal Army uses smokeless gunpowder, which does not produce a large amount of smoke at all.
Only the weapons of the European Allied Forces will produce a large amount of gunpowder smoke because they use black powder as propellant.
The thicker the smoke, the more intense the resistance of the European Allies.
It was already noon, and the smoke over the European Allied Forces camps slowly dissipated.
Although the situation of the European Allied Forces camps cannot be clearly seen through the telescope, this is indeed good news.
Commander Lu Chenyang will be waiting soon. A telegram from Chen Zhongwen, commander of the First Army.
The Imperial Royal Army fought against the European Allies for the first time and achieved a great victory.
The European Allied forces suffered more than 36,000 casualties and more than 80,000 prisoners.
The European Allies lost one-tenth of their million-strong army.
The Imperial Royal Army suffered only more than 3,000 casualties.
This was achieved despite a huge disparity in military strength.
After the Second Army and the Seventh Army arrive on the battlefield, the Imperial Royal Army can be confident of encircling and annihilating more enemy forces.
Commander Lu Chenyang sent a message to the First Army, asking them to clean the battlefield and hand over the prisoners to the custody of the state of Fujian.
These Fujian troops would hardly give them a chance to go to the battlefield, but there was no problem at all in using them to guard the prisoners.
Commander Lu Chenyang also sent several telegrams to friendly forces and the capital to inform them of the victory.
The war was full of uncertainties, and Emperor Su He and others were full of confidence in the Imperial Army.
But I never 100% think they will win the battle.
By doing this, Commander Lu Chenyang was also giving reassurance to the important ministers of the empire.
Tell them that the Imperial Army is very powerful and that the European Allied Forces are far from their opponents.
As long as they continue to support the Royal Army's operations, their future fiefdom will be secure.
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In Cairo City, Fujian, King Zhang Wan of Fujian was pacing nervously in the palace.
From time to time, he asked Governor Niu Xiuqing whether the Imperial Royal Army could defeat the European Allied Forces.
The King of Fujian Zhang Wan was willing to pay such a price just to protect the territory that his father had worked so hard to conquer.
He was worried about the situation of Panshi Fortress before, but Chief of Staff Gou Shanquan really persisted.
The Rock Fortress has not been lost, which means that the Greek area will belong to Fujian.
But all this requires the Imperial Royal Army to win the battle.
Once the Imperial Army fails, Fujian will definitely not be able to survive alone.
The common people and officials of the country can go to live elsewhere.
If the Fujian royal family went to other places, they would not even be able to become rich and would have to be placed under house arrest and surveillance.
The Grand Governor Niu Xiuqing saw the anxious look of the King of Fujian.
He has said the words of persuasion several times, but he doesn't know how to persuade me.
Now we can only wait for news from the front line to come back.
Only definite results can alleviate King Min's anxiety.
They didn't even eat lunch, and their three pairs of eyes were fixed on the radio, waiting for telegrams from the front line.
They saw the telegraph operator suddenly start recording the contents of the telegram on paper.
The telegraph operators will simply ignore the rest of the telegrams.
Only news from the front line would be carefully recorded by him.
Governor Niu Xiuqing immediately stepped forward to wait. He had not yet waited for the telegraph operator to translate the telegram.
He picked it up, glanced at it and said excitedly: "Your Majesty, good news.
The Imperial Royal Army dispatched troops, and the tank regiment achieved a great victory in the first battle.
More than 100,000 enemies were wiped out, and the European Allied forces fled in panic.
Our crisis in Fujian has been resolved."
When King Zhang Wan of Fujian heard the news of the great victory, he slumped down on his chair and murmured: "Father, my son is worthy of your cultivation and has preserved the inheritance of our ancestors."
King Zhang Wan of Fujian immediately discussed with Governor Niu Xiuqing and Prime Minister Hu Qiwen how they, Fujian, could thank the Imperial Royal Army.
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In the Qianqing Palace in the capital, dim electric lights illuminated the study, where Emperor Su He was teaching Prince Su Shu.
The little eunuch sent an urgent telegram.
After Emperor Su He read it, he smiled lightly and said: "Unexpectedly, the First Army has just come into contact with the European Allied Forces.
Although there was a huge difference in military strength, the European Allies were still defeated miserably.
This situation was anticipated before the war started, and Lu Chenyang was very prudent, and he did not give the European Allies a chance to make a comeback."
Prince Su Shu said excitedly: "Father, if an industrial country fights against an agricultural country, as long as it doesn't make any major strategic mistakes.
With Erchen's understanding of the military, it would be difficult to fail in this situation.
When news of the great victory spreads, many important ministers in the imperial court who pay attention to this war will be very happy."
Prince Su Shu didn't know why his father was happy. In the agricultural countries of Europe, they were only a little stronger than the indigenous people. It was not difficult for the Imperial Royal Army at all.
He was happy that most of these veterans had left.
Without the interference of these founding veterans, he could successfully take over the power of the empire a hundred years after his father.
