I want to be emperor

Chapter 508 Login
Late September is still late autumn, even if it takes another ten days and a half months, it will only be early winter, and the weather has not yet reached the time of heavy snowfall. It will not cause too much damage to the crossing and landing and subsequent attacks on Jinzhou and Fuzhou. influences.

And when the Dongyao people reacted and began to mobilize a large number of troops to counterattack the Liaodong Peninsula, trying to drive the Chu army's landing troops into the sea, there was a high probability that the first snow would begin.

But now is the Little Ice Age. For high-latitude regions like the Northeast, even early winter will be very cold, and the snow will be very heavy.

The cold winter season can effectively delay the time for the enemy to assemble a large-scale force to counterattack the Liaodong Peninsula, reduce the defensive pressure of the Seventh Army, and allow the Seventh Army more time to build fortifications.

More importantly, the mobilization of troops and logistical supplies of the Eastern Captives in the cold winter season will be very troublesome, but it will not affect the logistical supplies of the landing troops of the Great Chu Empire.

Because the logistical supply of the landing force is directly supplied by sea, and at the same time, according to the scheduled plan, the Seventh Army will not fight far from the port, so the overall supply difficulty will be very small.

With this increase and decrease, the Seventh Army that landed on the Liaodong Peninsula will be able to gain a firm foothold on the Liaodong Peninsula.

And after the Seventh Army has gained a firm foothold in the Liaodong Peninsula, the Dongyao people may not be able to sleep peacefully...

If you don’t want to wait until after the beginning of spring, when the tens of thousands of Chu’s Seventh Army go directly to Shenyang, then the Dongyao people must take advantage of the winter to continue mobilizing the army, not to mention driving the Chu army into the sea, at least Defend the northern area of ​​the Liaodong Peninsula and block the Chu army in the central and southern area of ​​the Liaodong Peninsula.

And this requires a lot of troops, thirty to forty thousand will not work, no matter what, it will take fifty to sixty thousand or even more.

Otherwise, it would not be able to withstand the fierce offensive of the Seventh Army.

After all, the Seventh Army has two new first-class divisions and one second-class division supplemented with reserve forces and equipment. In addition, it will also be equipped with a number of independent artillery, cavalry and other troops. The total strength is estimated to reach 5.

And that's not even counting the [-]nd Marine Regiment.

In order to resist the follow-up attack of more than 5 Chu troops, the Dongbang people conservatively estimated that they would have to mobilize the same number of troops. If they want to be safer, they will need at least [-] to [-] troops.

After all, the Chu army is famous for its sharp guns, and it's not that the Dongyao people don't know it.

Then what is even more interesting is that the total force of the Dongyao people is limited. When they dispatched so many troops to the Liaodong Peninsula, the corresponding force in other directions will inevitably decrease.

In this way, after the spring of next year, when the Chu army launches a general offensive in the Liaoxi Corridor, and launches a feint attack on the Jizhen and Xuanda front lines, the mobilization of troops from the Eastern Abductees will fall into an extremely passive and embarrassing situation.

As for the temporary general mobilization, the old and the weak are also organized to fight, that is too underestimating the Chu army.

If the Dongyao people dared to directly pull out these old and weak people who have not undergone strict training to fight, the Chu army would dare to directly attack ten people with one enemy, and a division could attack 10 people on the opposite side!
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After the negotiation between the army and the navy, Bai Yangrong continued to lead the Seventh Army to carry out adaptive training while the scheduled crossing and landing time was more than a month away.

On the one hand, the problem of seasickness must be resolved, which determines whether the troops can have combat effectiveness after landing, and it cannot be treated sloppily at all.

On the other hand, it began to conduct advance exercises and arrangements for specific landings and scheduled follow-up siege operations against Jinzhou Wei, Jinzhou Zhongzuo, Fuzhou and other places.

Especially the early landing operations, which involved hundreds of ships and more than 5 people, how to transport personnel and equipment, especially a large number of artillery and ammunition, ashore in the shortest time, all these are is a very complex issue.

For this reason, the personnel of the army and navy held meetings almost every day, and gradually finalized many detailed plans amidst many debates.

For example, finalizing the transportation and landing plan for the artillery, the artillery is hundreds of kilograms at every turn, even if it is a two-and-a-half-jin field artillery, let alone a large number of five-jin and nine-jin field artillery.

Even if the ammunition is not counted for a nine-pound field gun, it would cost more than a ton. It is impossible to directly land on the beach by ordinary methods, and a wharf is required, and hoisting equipment is best.

But in the proposed landing site, not to mention hoisting equipment, there are not even many suitable docks... So how to get off the ship quickly with artillery and other heavy materials has become a problem.

In the end, the navy proposed a solution, which was to bring some specially modified small ships, and use these ships to build a floating pier at the landing site, just like building a pontoon bridge, to solve the problem of lack of docks at the landing site.

For hoisting the equipment directly, the parts are manufactured first, and the parts and engineers are brought directly when landing, and assembled directly on the spot after landing.

With the floating dock and simple hoisting equipment, at least the disembarkation of the artillery and ammunition in the early stage can be regarded as a solution.

As for the follow-up transportation, naturally they cannot rely solely on these floating docks and hoisting equipment. After capturing the local port, they will directly send engineers to build fixed docks and hoisting facilities to pave roads and so on.

For this reason, the military has already contacted the Ministry of Industry to carry out various engineering matters.

The landing work on the Liaodong Peninsula prepared by the Great Chu Empire was detailed and thorough, with all aspects considered.

Even the daily drinking water problem of the landing troops was thought of. In addition to the water in the canteens carried by the soldiers, a number of ships were specially arranged to accompany the landing with fresh water boiled and stored in a sealed way, so that the landing troops would not need to go ashore. Couldn't find drinking water and died of thirst...

Then we need to arrange manpower to prepare dry food in advance, because the troops at the initial stage of landing will be very busy, especially the first batch of troops who land, they need to land at the first time, and then launch an attack on the enemy to expand the depth at the first time, In the continuous combat operations, it is estimated that there is not enough time to bury the pot for cooking. In order to avoid any accidents, the landing soldiers need to carry dry food with them.

And considering that when landing, soldiers will wade ashore, because the food and gunpowder carried by the soldiers need to be waterproofed.

This waterproof measure alone involved the experience of many people, and the Ministry of Industry sent engineers to assist, and even established a grain processing plant in Weihai to meet the military food demand during the landing operation.

In addition to these messy things such as landing procedures and material transportation, the troops of the landing force, especially the No.20 Third Division, need to conduct tactical adaptive training to ensure the smooth landing operations.

At the same time, many tactical alternatives have been made, such as how to change the landing site in time and choose a second backup landing site when suddenly a large number of enemy troops are found in the scheduled landing site, especially when there are a large number of enemy artillery.

Another example is how to respond when the first batch of landing troops are unable to expand the beachhead area after being violently counterattacked by the enemy's outpost troops after landing.

Although Bai Yangrong knew that the possibility of these tactical alternatives he made was not even [-]%, but in war, no matter how small the possibility was, he had to take it into consideration and make a plan to deal with it.

It won't be too tiring to write a few plans. It's much better than actually going to the battlefield and being at a loss when encountering an accident, which leads to the failure of the battle and heavy casualties.

Besides, he doesn't need to do such a thing as an alternative battle plan...he has a lot of staff below him.

This is what their job is for. You don’t want them to come up with all kinds of messy tactical plans. Do you let them sit in the office every day doing nothing, or simply go to the beach and say that spring flowers are blooming facing the sea...

Various tactics and logistics and many other preparatory tasks were implemented one after another, and time passed day by day.

On September [-]th, the Weihai base welcomed a very special official, Wu Ruizhi, a bachelor of the Hanlin Academy and one of the deputy directors of the secretariat.

This person was ordered to inspect and condolences to the army and navy officers and soldiers in the Weihai base.

That is to say, imperial envoys in the traditional sense!

After Wu Ruizhi arrived here, in the front yard of the building in the Weihai base, he read the condolence decree to Xia Qiuyang, Bai Yangrong and dozens of generals of the army and navy!

In the imperial decree, Emperor Luo Zhixue asked them to display their initiative and enthusiasm in the battle on the Liaodong Peninsula, fight bravely, fight for the empire, and fight for the people of the world. I am waiting for your success.

After Xia Qiuyang received the order on behalf of the army and navy officers and soldiers here, the reception ceremony was considered to be over.

Wu Ruizhi, who was not talking and smiling before, also took the initiative to come forward and greet General Xia Qiuyang.

Just now Wu Ruizhi was not representing himself, but the emperor. When he read out the imperial edict, not to mention Xia Qiuyang had to kneel in front of him, even Xu Zhixian had to kneel to receive the edict.

But after receiving the order, Wu Ruizhi became himself.

As for Wu Ruizhi, although he did well in the Imperial Academy, he was not a high-ranking official after all, and he couldn't compare with an admiral, so it was natural to be more polite.

But at least he was an imperial envoy, so Xia Qiuyang naturally had to give him enough respect. For the next three days, Xia Qiuyang personally accompanied the imperial envoy to inspect and condolences to many ministries of the army and navy.

He inspected the navy's fleet, and asked him to inspect the warships in the port.

I also watched a landing exercise organized by the army. It is not estimated that it is mainly an exercise of landing operations.

Wu Ruizhi is also someone who doesn't know much about military affairs... Look at what kind of knowledge can be seen from these, he is very clear about the direct mission, this time he came here to be a mascot, let the soldiers here know that His Majesty knows them, values ​​them, and Looking forward to their victory.

Therefore, when he did not go to a place for inspection, he would inevitably talk to the middle-level and even grass-roots soldier representatives, and make a temporary speech to let them know His Majesty's concern.

On the fourth day, Wu Ruizhi, who had finished his inspection and condolences, went directly to the south by boat and returned to Jinling City.

A few days later, Admiral Bai Yangrong, the commander of the Beiyang Fleet, ordered the entire army to make final preparations, and sent a squadron to sea to investigate and blockade coastal ports in the Liaodong Peninsula to provide cover for the subsequent formal sea-crossing and landing operations.

On September [-], according to a large number of experienced farmers, fishermen, and veteran sailors in the navy who have rich experience in weather changes, it has been judged that the next five or six days will be calm and suitable for going to sea.

In the afternoon of the same day, Admiral Bai Yangrong, who was the commander-in-chief of the previous sea-crossing and landing operations and the highest rank in this army-navy joint operation, officially ordered the full implementation of the landing operations on the Liaodong Peninsula.

(End of this chapter)