Power and Empire Chapter 1845: The first winter offensive of the Empire (3)
The Gangfei Empire has never felt this crisis, even in the fiasco war with the Falcon Empire, it has not been so nervous,
At the pre-conference meeting held in advance, the seven-year-old little emperor announced the battle plan of Focordir with a serious face, and proposed to use the four directly affiliated legions as the main force to mobilize 300,000 yuan in the Focordir area. Military strength, a decisive battle with the 200,000 troops of Istanbul that broke into the empire,
" Only by repelling the Istanbul can the empire have a chance to rejuvenate. Otherwise, everything is empty talk. "The seven-year-old emperor showed a shocking feeling with his immature face,
" Your Majesty’s proposal is very wise. If we continue to be weak, the people of the empire will question the incompetence of the soldiers!" Secretary of Military Affairs Andyar expressed support for this combat plan. With him taking the lead, the military’s attitude will change. Although the commanders of the four directly under the army were a little unwilling, they also expressed their willingness to execute the order. Since it is the order of the emperor, we will follow it! "
" So, let’s set the time in mid-October! "Andia sighed in relief, his eyes swept across the faces of every attendee with deep meaning, it seems that because of this battle decision, many originally hesitated. At last there was a trace of ease on Andya’s face, Rubin Sack, did you see that? This is the richest legacy you have left to the empire. Regardless of your status and position, you are just a whole. , When a race faces the crisis of survival and death, differences and frictions will appear insignificant,
And the battle plan you left for the little emperor as a preparatory battle plan is undoubtedly the best display platform for the little emperor’s status. It doesn’t need much command ability, it just needs to be the order of the battle. The promulgator, no matter how much the emperor can play in this battle, whether it is victory or defeat, the whole Gang Fei will look at the young emperor with admiration and will no longer treat him as a child. It is an emperor’s expression of true respect, because in the face of the country’s difficulties, this little emperor embodies the responsibility of an emperor,
" In order to get effective support for frontal battles, I believe that in view of this situation, it is imperative to organize the garrisons of the eastern provinces into the eastern army with a unified command structure. The Military Affairs Office put forward a proposal that the newly formed army includes all provinces The garrison, the border guards transferred back from the southwest, and part of the four directly affiliated corps!"
After reaching the intention to consolidate forces in the Focordier area, Andia took the opportunity to throw out a variant of the long-thinking diversion bill, in this proposal. He cleverly concealed the flaws in the original diversion bill, that is, the resistance from the directly affiliated corps. In fact, as long as the Eastern Army is established, it is actually equivalent to splitting the original four directly affiliated corps into two parts. Small, invisibly, the Eastern Army Corps will become a powerful army of the Congolese and Fei Empires, but the complexity of the internal factions destined that this largest military group will not go in the opposite direction of the emperor.
The venue was silent. Some whispers were shaking in the air. "It's not that no one can't see the real intention of this proposal, but more people. It is looking at the new army regiment of the Eastern Army Corps, a group that unites the garrison of one-half of the provinces of the Empire. Each part of the four direct legions, this is a much larger legion. Although it is a large integration, for many officers and generals who feel undervalued or feel that their future is bleak, it is undoubtedly exciting, because of this. It means that they can jump out of the big dyeing vat of Kyoto and find a place in the relatively loose new army.
After looking at each other for a few moments, the chiefs of the four major legions of interest chose to be silent. They are all waiting. Their eyes are on the throne of the chief of the eastern legion. No matter how big the position of the four major legions, Unless they choose to rebel, this will be the case for the rest of their lives, but the Eastern Army is different. If the Istanis are finally defeated in the war, the possibility of jumping to the Imperial Marshal in one fell swoop is very high. For a soldier, that is his peak!
" Lord Andy’s proposal is very good, but the Eastern Legion is responsible for the arduous task of restraining the progress of the Istanbul. This requires that the head of the Eastern Legion must be a very good and capable general. In the current empire Major General, I don’t know who the lord is going to send to the Eastern Army." The new Eighth Army Commander, Marquis Yerdo, asked nervously. He is not a Commander from Kyoto, so he is most worried that he will be excluded from the selection. Outside
"I think this position can be decided after the Battle of Foucault!"
Andia smiled slightly, and he threw the most powerful blow, the meaning of which was very obvious. Who can perform the most prominently in the Battle of Focordi? Who is the commander of the Eastern Army? There was an inhalation sound from the venue immediately, not only the eyes of the commanders of the four directly under the army, but also the generals of other troops also cheered up, everyone seemed confident,
"What about the Kyoto side?" Someone asked in a low voice, "The commanders of the four direct legions are transferred to the front line, and the generals also go to the front line. What about the Imperial Guards on the Kyoto side? The Imperial Guards guard Shinkyo. The same is a great responsibility. If this position falls into the hands of some hidden ambitions, the trouble will be great!" Andiya showed white teeth. "Don't worry about this. The candidate I mentioned is definitely loyal and reliable. Yes. I suggest that His Majesty the Emperor personally assume the position of commanding the Guards."
everyone was shocked.
The seven-year-old emperor opened his eyes wide and looked at Andia in disbelief. After all, he was only seven years old. Even if someone was pointing at him, he couldn’t react to this situation for a while, waiting for everyone’s gaze. When he gathered on him, he realized that it was not an illusion.
Before he could say anything, the commander of the Eleventh Army of the Empire, Marquis Thomas, who was directly under the command of the four legions, had already exclaimed, "Master Andia's suggestion is very good! I agree!"
Yes, give Kyoto to His Majesty the Emperor, no one has any opinion. "The generals all agreed,
Only the leader of the New Fifth Army, the Marquis Leo, argued unfamiliarly, "Your Majesty the Emperor is talented and intelligent, but he has no military experience. Is it too presumptuous to control the Guards?" Andya unceremoniously said He pointed back and said, "Your Majesty the emperor has become a demeanor of the master, everyone has seen it, it is because of no experience that you need to learn more!"
walked out of the conference hall, and Andya was at the back of the crowd, because it involved the competition of the Eastern Army Commander, or had begun to regard others as competitors,
After the meeting, the generals almost all walked down the steps in a hurry. There was no such thing as ten minutes of chatting along the way as before. Andya stopped after walking down the last step and was on the steps. before. He turned and looked at the towering palace hall on the steps, his eyes deep and somewhat distracted. When the supreme authority was peeped, many unexpected things would appear at that time, and some ugly dregs would surface. Some local officials will take refuge in the enemy, some generals with heavy arms will become self-respecting warlords, some will conspire, some will betray, some will surrender, and some will run away. War has always been a freak. No matter how ugly things can be produced in it, it may be even more mad. Virtue is shattered, laws are trampled on, subverted inferiority and subversion, social order disappears, and a new chaotic world is about to come. advent.
"How can people protect themselves during the chaos and chaos? The noble title of the emperor can't help you. The countless treasures left by the previous emperor can't help you, and the name of heir is even more useless and can protect the king's power. Yes, only the army! Hold the military power tightly. Always stay with the army, that is the safest. The commanders of the four directly under the army leave Beijing, and the control of the Imperial Guards belongs to the emperor, which once made people feel uneasy. The breath. It has been swept away like leaves in the wind, but why, I still feel uneasy!
October. The first snowfall in northern Obaro, the string of war between the Falcon Empire and the Gaul Empire has entered a quiet period, and the advancing Falcon Army is already at the end of a strong crossbow. The arrival of the cold winter makes the Gaul side even more convinced of this. , In fact, Hu Keqili received the fat man’s order to suspend the attack,
The land under the winter snowfall is silvery white, and the cold wind from the north seems to freeze everything. In the room with the red fireplace, the fat man sold the first batch of high prices to the 300,000 yuan of the Central and Bian Empire. I signed my name on the Jin Iron Mine Rough Stone Agreement, put down the pen, looked at the peeing white falling outside the window, a little dazed, time was shining, and I knew it was my fourth year in Europa.
Several years of fighting and the sacrifices of countless emperors, the empire has completely established the position of northern hegemony on this main continent, but the war against the Gauls also appears to be seriously lagging behind,
Opposite him sat John Ed, the head of the Northwest District Business Alliance, a grieved Northwest District business crocodile who just swallowed more than 1,000 acres of fertile cotton fields in the Northwest District. He is also a legend, but at this moment, it is a rare seriousness. This guy has staggering decisiveness. As long as he finds an opportunity, he will not hesitate to bet. However, this guy always bets right and sees the stitches. For example, to help the Fei Ruo family, he finalized a large order of 30,000 winter uniforms for the border guards this year.
"Your Majesty, this year's military uniform standards are really hard to reach!" John Ed said with a bitter face. He took the risk of seeing him. It was entirely because this year's winter military uniform procurement competition had just begun, and he discovered a potential. As an important task of the empire in the business alliance, he immediately asked the fat man to report a situation that "this winter's new standard of military uniforms is seriously hitting cotton and linen merchants! Please also your Majesty can readjust it"
"The standard of military uniforms is not determined by you or me, but by the actual situation! The winter comes early this year and will last for three months. For soldiers fighting in the snow, military uniforms protect them from The first combat weapon damaged by the severe cold!" The fat man curled his lips, closed the documents in his hand, and said in a gentle tone, "If it was in previous years, I wouldn't mind giving these savvy guys a bite of food, but not this year, if you think In the previous preparations, I can ask the Mammoth family and Dylans in the northwest to help you digest some!"
"Your Majesty, the younger one is not distressed about his own loss, but distressed that this military uniform standard will make countless cotton and linen merchants sad!"
"Sorrow is everywhere? Isn't it too serious!"
The fat man was slightly taken aback. The main location of the empire was still in the north. Under the severe cold, the land was frozen for thousands of miles, the rivers were blocked by countless rivers, and the inland rivers formed by the empire’s trade lines were completely useless. Severe slowdown. Under normal circumstances, most businessmen choose to rest in winter. Winter is the low tide of imperial commerce. In order to stimulate domestic consumption and promote new growth points, fat people will often order the Ministry of Imperial Affairs and the Ministry of Internal Affairs. , Procurement of various combat preparations and construction of various facilities in the winter to mobilize the nerves of the business people, so that the empire’s business can smoothly pass the cold winter period.
But this year’s requirements for military uniforms are indeed too strict. The military personnel who went to purchase the military said that this year’s military uniforms must be able to fight at minus 20 degrees. The predators such as John Ed, who are in charge of cotton and linen, are also a little bit too much. Propose twenty degrees below zero! No one has heard such a standard. John Ed, who thinks he's very stable, is like a leaf in the autumn wind, tears streaming down his face, and he can’t hold it anymore, because the previous year’s requirement was only to be able to fight at minus ten degrees. It’s not bad this year. This year it has doubled. The padded uniform is Cotton, it’s not something that can increase fever by itself,
John Ed took the risk to meet the fat man himself. Cotton fields are regarded as an industry that is rapidly declining in the Northwest District. With the establishment of the business and trade lines extending in all directions in the Southwest District. Nowadays, colored silk threads have begun to appear in the colors of civilian clothing of the Falcon Empire. In the past, it was a fabric that only nobles could afford to wear. The status of cotton and linen has been increasingly weakened
"It’s not an exaggeration at all! It’s small but I don’t dare to expire at all." John Ed said with a serious face and bitter mouth. "In June of this year, many people have already made use of cheap cotton and linen. I had the opportunity to buy cotton and started to prepare for the winter military uniforms. I ran for three months in a row, bought cotton fields in the northwest region, ruthlessly smashed half of the property and built 30 uniform workshops. It employs more than 1,000 people. There are not a few people, and some have already stocked 30,000 sets of manufactured products. Just like your Majesty must prepare before the war, these cotton and linen merchants are doing the same thing."
There was a sharp flash in John Ed's eyes. The voice stopped, and he said boldly, "Originally, as long as the bidding for military uniforms began, these cotton and linen merchants had tens of thousands of military uniforms in their hands. The price can suppress many newly entered predators, but this year, the Emperor ** The Ministry of Affairs was uncharacteristically. Suddenly, the standard for winter cotton lining in the army armor had reached a perverted level. The standard was changed. The painstaking effort and financial resources invested by these cotton and linen merchants in the early stage was completely overwhelmed, but thought of tens of thousands of sets. The military uniforms that have been made must be disassembled again into messy cotton. The little names these people have accumulated with great difficulty are completely ruined! There will be very few cotton and linen merchants who can survive this winter!"
Hearing John Ed’s words, the fat man stood up and meditated for a while. The winter uniform list was fatal to the merchants. It’s completely possible to prepare a few months in advance as John Ed said. Although the empire’s native troops have just shrunk, the total strength is still 200,000. There are nearly 300,000 front-line combat troops outside, which adds up to 500,000. Such a list has been smashed, and it is already a list of more than 10 million. , Is called "the ladder leading to rich businessmen" by many business people
And the empire spares no effort in protecting soldiers in winter. In order to reduce the attrition of the army caused by the severe cold, winter clothes are made of the finest and best cotton. In this regard, the Imperial Affairs Department has never been stingy, many Cotton merchants have all made a fortune. There have been scandals of using winter uniforms to make shoddy goods. As a result, the entire family of Turunanda, a large merchant responsible for supplying military uniforms, was killed, and all property was confiscated. For the foreword, latecomers still flocked in, it is too tempting to be too confusing,
Every winter, the big cake of the winter cotton clothing of the Emperor ** team is a fierce war for the empire’s cotton and linen merchants.
John Ed started his career because he once climbed the Caesar Sauron line. For several years in a row, he obtained the military uniform list of the Imperial Northern Army at an advantageous price. The assets have rolled to more than one million in a few years. What the leading figure in the cotton and linen industry ~IndoMTL.com~ said is not entirely alarmist!
Fatty plans to fight Gaul Kyoto in the winter. As the empire’s top military secret, it is impossible for Fatty to tell John Ed,
how to do? Lower the standard again? The fat man stared at the map behind him, and he was thinking about it. In the past few years in Obaro, he found that the cold winter in Gaul was lower than that in the empire. If the army is to continue fighting in the winter according to the scheduled plan, it will be minus 20 degrees. It’s completely possible to encounter the extreme cold weather in China, so Fatty has greatly increased the standard of winter uniforms. Indeed, it is still impossible for this era to resist minus 20 degrees.
With a bit of regret, the fat man thought in his heart, if only there was a troop that could adapt to the severe cold!
The fat man was thinking about whether it was the withered Slavs who recruited some recruits, but he finally denied it because the Slavs were already out of soldiers. After the tragic migration, the Slavs were finally placed in the Southwestern District. In the Getu area, according to registration statistics, the number of adult male Slavs is less than 50,000, and it is no longer possible to form a combat army.
Do you just watch this all winter?
Fatty is not reconciled. The Gauls’ ability to recover is still very strong. The foundation of a great empire is there. In a winter, at least 200,000 yuan can be mobilized. The empire has already been in order to get through Rusty. Dalny, the Gaul Kyoto line has been delayed for 10 months. If you can't win Gaul Kyoto in one go, who knows what will happen! (To be continued) If you like this work, you are welcome to vote for recommendations and monthly tickets. Your support is my biggest motivation. )