They are like hibernating animals in winter, waiting for a new season to come.
It is already the eighth month of the Chinese calendar, and the dry season of the subcontinent will begin in just over a month.
When the weather is dry and angry, it is the season for fighting.
What competes in the rainy season is the willpower of both parties.
Of course, there are also battlefield medical capabilities.
In Volta City, the Army's field hospital was also filled with soldiers suffering from various diseases.
The strange thing is that only soldiers from the Yin Army can be seen here, not a single soldier from the Servant Army.
Is it true that the servants of the British army who are stumped by these are made of iron? A Sanbai who grew up drinking the water of the Ganges is immune to poison?
Of course not, it's just because the field hospital of the Ying Army can't even accommodate its own people.
Where is there room to treat those servant armies?
Moreover, even if the proud soldiers of the Yin army were sick, they were not willing to be hospitalized in the same hospital as the servant army.
All people, regardless of race, have their own souls. Each person, as an independent individual, has his or her own thoughts.
The Yin army treated these servants like this, how could these people not complain?
During this period of the rainy season, deserters continued to appear among the servant army.
Due to the muddy roads, it was difficult to capture these deserters.
If the deserters could not be caught, there was no way to deter the remaining people, so more people who wanted to escape appeared among the remaining servants.
Some people even fled to the areas occupied by the Holy Army.
In a British army field hospital, a soldier named Dennis Cotterell was chatting with Frank Hinton lying next to him.
Both men fell ill with dysentery, a common plague in tropical areas.
"Frank, do you think I will die? If I die, please go to my hometown of Oban, Scotland, and tell my family that I love them." Dennis, who was pale, said with a vibrato.
His body was shaking uncontrollably. On his pale face, his livid lips kept trembling.
There was a hanging bottle hanging above his head, and the medicine was being delivered to his veins through a rubber tube.
This method of treatment was passed down from the Renaissance Army.
During the Crimean War, the Renaissance Army used this method to treat coalition soldiers.
"Dennis, you won't die. The doctor has given you special medicine now. Did you see the Chinese on the medicine? This is a special medicine they produced. It will definitely work." Frank suffered from the same disease, but
Not as serious as Dennis.
As Frank spoke, he couldn't help but mock those big shots in his heart.
They were fighting against the Renaissance Army, but they still used other people's medicine and other people's methods of saving people.
In fact, after the war began, the trade exchanges between the Renaissance Army and Dayang had been interrupted.
The medicines used in the Yinjun field hospital were either stockpiled before the war or purchased at high prices from other countries.
"Frank, we all received treatment from the Baath Army on the Crimean battlefield, and now we have the plague again. Is this God's punishment for us? Because we are fighting against our saviors." Maybe it's because we feel that we are really dead.
No more, Daniel continued.
"Who knows, but the Renaissance Army supports the rebels here. India is the crown jewel of the Queen, and we are protecting the Queen's dignity." Frank explained.
"Fuck the Queen's dignity, we Scots have never benefited from the Indian colonies." Daniel cursed under his breath.
I don't know if he was worried about others hearing or if he didn't have the energy to speak loudly.
"Daniel, stop talking, be careful of those military police throwing you out." Frank is also a Scotsman. He can understand what Daniel is saying, but he knows that he cannot say such words.
If he were a soldier of the Renaissance Army, they would definitely not be able to tell the difference between Scots and English. In their eyes, these people were all rebels.
But in fact, they themselves knew very well that the Scots and the English were different.
"Okay, Frank, I was impulsive. Maybe I felt that if I didn't say these words, I would never be able to say them out." Daniel said.
"I told you that you won't die. At least we can lie in the hospital now without having to get moldy and smelly in that damn trench. We also don't have to worry about being shot in the head by the opponent's sniper at any time." Frank changed the subject.
"Frank, are you talking about the headshot shooter of the Renaissance Army?"
"Yes, this guy has appeared again now. His marksmanship is secondary. The key is that this guy always creates some things to confuse our troops. We have to deal with this situation, and you can't figure them out.
Is it a real attack or a fake attack?"
"The Manchester regiment's position in the past two days was to treat the opponent's attack as a trap. As a result, they did not respond in time and lost the position." Frank's condition was mild and he often went to other patients to chat, so he was very well-informed.
.He knows everything that happened on the battlefield recently.
"Alas, I don't know when this battle will end. The navy has been defeated. I don't know if it can still protect our way home." Daniel asked worriedly.
"Daniel, we have to believe in the navy. I heard that the navy still has some ships. Anyway, the Port of Mumbai is in our hands now. I believe that the country will send a new fleet here soon. I believe that the Queen will not send us a few ships.
A hundred thousand troops were left alone in India."
"I hope so!" Daniel was still relatively pessimistic.
The supplies for the frontline troops are quite sufficient now.
Regarding the retreat at sea, most of the soldiers are relatively reassured. The record of the Great Navy is there, although many armies cannot understand the navy's arrogant attitude.
However, we have to admit that Da Ying's navy has created brilliant achievements.
Only the top brass of the Army knew that they were now using their last reserves.
After several months of confrontation, the subcontinental coalition did not give them any chance to breathe.
Almost all armies are left without repairs.
Originally, the commander of the Yin Army planned to let some of the forcibly recruited servants go back to resume production.
However, due to the tense situation on the battlefield, this plan was not realized.
The commander cannot rule out that the coalition forces will launch a decisive battle during the rainy season.
Although the continuous heavy rain weather made it difficult for the offensive side, it also increased the difficulty of defense.
The weather was fair for both parties.
In fact, the redeployment of troops to restore production may fail faster.
To put everyone on the front line is to commit suicide slowly. The current army is basically sitting on nothing.
In Bombay and Gujarat, which are still under the control of the Japanese army, almost all the young men and women have been transferred to the army. Only some old, weak, women and children are left behind, and they can only maintain the lowest level of production activities.
After a while, even if there is no food shortage, supplies such as weapons, ammunition and medicines that must be transported from the mainland will definitely be used up.
The top brass of the subcontinental army were actually already worried.
They knew the Navy wouldn't be able to replenish it quickly.
The Great White Fleet that arrived in the Indian Ocean this time was almost all the force that the Japanese army could send.
After all, building warships is not like a hen laying eggs.
Even if the Great Empire has a strong shipbuilding capability, this cycle will not be short.
But none of these things should be known to the officers and soldiers at the bottom.
Return to New Capital.
The Summer Palace was originally the place where the royal family spent their summer vacation.
Therefore, summer is the most enjoyable time to live here.
However, now that there is air conditioning, Dong Shuheng no longer cares about this.
"Wenxuan, it's been a month since our airship troops arrived in the subcontinent. What is Liu Pengfei doing?" Today, watching a few children playing with balloons by the pool in the summer palace, Dong Shuheng suddenly remembered the airship troops he sent out.
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When the airship force was established, many people opposed it.
Mainly due to the maintenance cost of airships and the high cost of establishing transfer stations in various places.
The military felt that instead of doing this, it would be better to invest money in artillery.
The cost of an airship is enough to build an artillery battalion.
But everyone also knows that Dong Shuheng likes to innovate in the military.
Fortunately, most of the innovations he has made have been successful.
That's why everyone can tolerate him throwing money at him.
"President, Commander Liu reports to the military headquarters every once in a while. They have been conducting adaptive training recently."
"The war zone's plan is to wait until the dry season before launching an attack. Commander Liu is prepared to obey the war zone's arrangements."
"However, they did encounter some problems during their long-distance transfer this time. They have all been reported to the research institute. Commander Liu said that they will definitely perform extraordinary feats on the battlefield in the subcontinent. They will definitely live up to your expectations."
Jiang Yuqin said.
"I hope, otherwise Zuo Jigao will say that I have wasted people and money. You can go back and tell the laboratory to build a cargo airship as soon as possible. We are not building airships just for fighting. The ultimate goal is to benefit the people."
Dong Shuheng often tells researchers at those research institutes that any technological innovation, no matter what purpose it was originally created for, will ultimately improve people's lives and promote social progress.
"Yes, President, I think your requirements can be summarized and discussed at this year's science and technology commendation meeting."
Dong Shuheng has been awarding awards to those who have made outstanding achievements every year since the Renaissance Army was first established.
The amount of this award is not low, and it has been held for eight times so far.
Twenty-four people have received this honor. These people are almost all top figures in various fields.
Among them are Chinese and naturalized Westerners. For example, Schoenbach won this award after developing smokeless gunpowder.
Xu Shou also won this award, but he immediately donated the money.
Xu Shou is not short of money at all now. Not only is he not short of money, he is also very rich.
The Electric Power College, a subsidiary of the Electric Power Research Institute, receives a large subsidy from Xu Shou every year.
In addition, he also set up a fund to specifically support those people who like to invent and create.
In later generations, there were many peasant inventors who were able to build submarines, airplanes, and create inventions just by relying on self-study.
Strictly speaking, Xu Shou is self-taught, so he admires these people very much.
Dong Shuheng nodded in agreement to Jiang Yuqin's proposal. The manuscripts for such formal meetings are usually prepared by the attendant's office.
The more important the speech, the more important it is to prepare it in advance.
Dong Shuheng also wants to participate and put forward some of his own ideas.
The waiter's office should process these ideas and integrate them into the speech script.
Some of the more classic ideas will be condensed into slogans. After the speech, there will be subsequent publicity.
"President, there is new news from Mr. Wei."
"Oh, Wei Yuxiang has started taking action?" Dong Shuheng was curious about how Wei Yuxiang would move the Ladakh region.
"Yes, Mr. Wei gained the support of the local temple, and he used the army to eliminate the heads of six families in one fell swoop."
"Then, the temple came forward to announce that the headmen whose homes had been confiscated were colluding with the heretics and trying to defile the pure land of Buddhism. Master Wei took the opportunity to convene a meeting of the remaining twelve headmen in Leh City and announced that the personal dependence between the serfs and the headmen would be lifted.
The government will provide protection to tenants and workers. The local management rights of the chiefs will be abolished, cities and towns will be established in various places, and officials will be stationed to manage them."
It sounds simple, but Dong Shuheng knows that things can't be that simple.
"What benefits has Wei Yuxiang given to the temple?"
"Master Wei promised to give them a ticket to the Dharma Conference." Jiang Yuqin said.
"Okay, he still wants us to wipe his ass. I don't know how long it will take to explain to other religious leaders." Dong Shuheng said.
"Wenxuan, you must never imitate Wei Yuxiang in the future." Dong Shuheng looked at Jiang Yuqin and said with a smile.
"One more thing, President, the Northwest Army has entered the Peshawar area. The local army is not strong now and will be able to occupy the area soon. Please ask the cabinet for instructions on how to govern the area."
Dong Shuheng has actually been thinking about this issue for many days. India and the Ganges River Basin are the two most elite regions in South Asia.
Dong Shuheng classified the Indus River Basin in the northwest of the Great Desert as part of the Western Regions and did not include it in the subcontinent.
Therefore, the Renaissance Army took this area by itself without bothering the coalition forces. Of course, in the end, it will not be divided with the coalition forces.
In fact, this is the outlet that Dong Shuheng found for the Western Region.
Without this southward outlet to the sea, the development of the Western Region would actually have been restricted.
Dong Shuheng did not want to see an imbalance in development between the Western Region and the Central and Eastern Regions.
Therefore, he wanted to use the narrow strip of the Indus River Basin to connect the Western Region with the Indian Ocean.
Improve the regional conditions in the Western Region and even the entire Central Asia region.
Dong Shuheng felt that if the Western Regions did not develop, the number of local Chinese would not increase.
Not only will there be no growth, but it will also be lost.
Dong Shuheng saw this kind of situation many times in later generations.
As people move to higher places, the population flows from poorer places to richer places. This is a normal rule.
Seeing that Dong Shuheng seemed to be thinking, Jiang Yuqin did not say anything, but waited quietly beside him.