There is no doubt that Nanhua did not initiate the war. After Argentina refused to apologize for its invasion, the company regretfully declared that this was a tragedy.
"Since they have chosen war, this will be the only option!"
Facing the invasion, Nanhua was forced to fight.
All officers and soldiers who were originally on vacation have their vacation canceled.
That afternoon, thousands of telegrams were sent from the military headquarters, and then postmen on bicycles delivered urgent telegrams to the hands of the officers and soldiers who were on vacation.
No matter who they are, no matter their rank, the orders they receive are very simple.
"Sir, the military command department sent an urgent telegram that all personnel on leave will cancel their leave and are ordered to report to the army within 24 (48, 72...) hours, otherwise they will be punished as deserters."
The officers and soldiers who received the telegram often had their brows furrowed and their faces full of confusion.
"What big thing happened?"
They have never encountered this kind of situation before. All personnel's vacations are cancelled, and they must return to the army immediately to report, otherwise they will be deserters.
deserter!
capital offense!
Saying goodbye to his wife, Sun Haitao came to the train station. The train station was crowded with people, and everyone was talking about one thing - war!
"The Argentines are invading us!"
"They want to take away our land and our factories..."
When people are talking, when they see soldiers approaching, they will often give way to them, and some will encourage them.
"Master Jun, when you get to the front line, take care of those foreign devils!"
"Master Jun must win!"
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In the face of people's expectations, Sun Haitao looked a little nervous. In fact, he was not the only one who was like this, and most of the others were like that too.
"Sir, which unit is he from?"
In the waiting room, a sergeant approached him and asked.
"Are you from the 20th Regiment?"
"Ah, what a coincidence, I am from the 19th Regiment, Sergeant Wang Wenming."
Wang Wenming said with a grin.
"Our troops are not far away. They are all training on the grassland. It just so happens that we are all the way over..."
Sun Haitao looked at the officers and soldiers in the waiting room. There were at least more than a hundred people. They were all officers and soldiers who were rushing back to the army. Few of them looked relaxed.
war!
It came a bit too suddenly, so sudden that they, who were enjoying the peace, were even a little uncomfortable with it.
The train arrived in the evening. Usually people at the station would get on the train quietly, but now because the carriages were limited, even though they had waited for a long time, they were stopped when they wanted to board the train.
"Everyone, listen up, this is a train bound for the front line. Only soldiers can board the train. All passengers on the train will get off at once..."
On the first day of the war, people's usual living habits suddenly changed a lot. The exhausted passengers on the train were kicked off the train. Faced with this situation, they could only shout angrily and loudly,
There was no other way. People waiting for the train at the station could only complain loudly, which immediately caused crowding and chaos in the station.
The passengers in the station were shouting something and waving tickets in their hands. Although they all knew it was useless, they still tried to board the train. When they tried to board the carriage, the train actually dropped the carriage.
Several freight cars that had been filled with various military supplies were replaced.
Sun Haitao, Wang Wenming and other soldiers finally squeezed into an ordinary truck compartment stuffed with supplies. There were not many empty seats in the compartment, but this was the only way for them to go to the front line and return to the army.
The car started moving.
Ten minutes later, a dissatisfied voice was heard in the dark carriage:
"What's wrong? I won't say it's crowded, but why don't you light a lamp?"
As soon as he finished speaking, someone booed him, and someone laughed unhappily.
"We are also lighting a lamp. This is a military train. If the carriages are filled with gunpowder or something, all of us will go up to heaven with this lamp! This is not an ordinary train!"
"How do you think this happened... I'm still at home discussing with my wife, and I'm going to the beach in the next few days..."
Someone else muttered in the darkness:
"We haven't gone here yet, but they fell over there, and they started fighting. You said those foreign devils... They are so crazy, they have to fight while we are on vacation. They are looking for death. But
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The sound of wheels drowned out people's voices.
Standing near the sliding door, Sun Haitao leaned against a pile of wooden boxes. The words clearly written on the boxes were just canned meat. Despite this, he still did not dare to smoke. He was feeling a little uncomfortable holding it in and was thinking about it.
When he was about to smoke, Wang Wenming took out a cigarette from the window. Just as he was about to smoke, Sun Haitao said:
"Don't smoke, there are supplies here."
"I've taken a look. It's a can or something. There's nothing that can nod. Just put it by the window and smoke one. It'll be fine."
Wang Wenming grinned.
"I'm addicted to cigarettes and feel uncomfortable. Let's do it one by one..."
Someone on the side also said angrily,
"What the hell are they doing? Just mobilize when you mobilize. Look, there's not even a car prepared for us. We can only sit in such a car and don't even dare to smoke a cigarette... It's really
Nonsense...it seems like there is no plan, what the heck, the military command department is a bunch of fools..."
The army is mobilizing!
Although for the people in the carriage, they will definitely complain. After all, everything seems to be hasty now, and it seems that Nanhua is simply fighting an unprepared war.
But in fact, what they didn't know was that all of this was done deliberately by Zhu Xianhai. This deliberateness was not to cover up anything, but to discover problems.
For Zhu Xianhai, who was accustomed to cross-era mobilization in the 20th century, he wanted to know how long it would take to complete mobilization in Nanhua in the 1860s. This kind of mobilization involved all aspects of mobilization, from local to military. Only
Only through a mobilization without careful preparation can all problems be fully exposed. When the problems are exposed, a targeted mobilization plan can be designed, so that we can be fully prepared for the next mobilization.
Of course, the reason why Zhu Xianhai regarded this mobilization as an exercise was, to put it bluntly, out of arrogance and disdain for Argentina's strength. After nearly ten years of development, Nanhua's current strength has far exceeded that of Argentina.
, not just in terms of population, which is nearly three times that of Argentina. What is the biggest gap between the two sides?
Of course it's industry.
Compared with South China, Argentina is just an agricultural country mainly engaged in animal husbandry. Let alone weapons and ammunition, this country needs to import even the most basic cotton cloth from abroad.
This is also a common problem in South American countries. They may have been independent for many years, but they have hardly invested much energy in industry.
It seems that for countries such as Argentina, there is no need to consider these issues at all. There is nothing, just buy it directly from abroad. Of course, this has a lot to do with their turbulent situation. Without a stable political situation, it is impossible to develop an industrial economy.
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It was their backwardness that gave Zhu Xianhai enough confidence to treat this war as a mobilization exercise!