Valley Emperor

When Bi Zhian's troops went to the northwest front by train together with the other troops of the 31st Division.

The war machine of the Tang Dynasty is also running again!

Although for so many years, the Tang Empire has basically fought every year. The bigger wars include the Indian Ocean battle with the Portuguese. In addition, the garrison in the northwest will also fight the Tatars every year, and then in various overseas territories. , the local garrison is also frequently fighting with the local indigenous people.

Especially in the Indian region, in order to completely colonize India, the Datang Empire has frequently fought with the local indigenous people in recent years.

However, the above-mentioned wars, even including the Indian Ocean War that year, did not actually bring the Tang Empire into a state of mobilization, not even the lowest level of mobilization.

The Tang Empire had a perfect mobilization system, and general mobilization was the highest level of mobilization system. Once mobilized, it meant that the entire empire would serve the war.

Just like the unification war that year, everyone and materials are all serving for the war.

In addition, there is second-class mobilization, which is to deal with large-scale wars, including the large-scale recall of veterans, the full operation of the arsenal, and the adjustment of some ordinary industries to produce military supplies and supplement the shortage of the arsenal.

A series of measures such as mobilization and certain material control are carried out in most areas.

But this situation has never happened before, including the current Northwest War, which requires less than second-class mobilization.

Finally, there is the third-level mobilization. This is the mobilization order currently implemented by the empire. The third-level mobilization is mainly for mobilization within the military, and then it requires cooperation from some arsenals and cooperation from the theater.

However, for many regions and industries of the empire, in fact, they still do not feel the breath of war. At most, they read the news of war from newspapers.

To put it simply, the war at this time is still a matter of the military and some defense industries, and has nothing to do with ordinary people!

Don't look at the fact that many people like Bi Zhi'an have been running for war in recent months, but they are only limited to the military and middle and senior civilians. For others, the war is still very far away.

However, even if it was a third-class mobilization, the empire still started to launch a war machine!

The huge Datang Empire launched a war machine, even if it was only a local war for the Datang Empire, it only used third-class mobilization, and it basically had no effect on ordinary people.

But the strength that burst out is still incomparably powerful!

The major factories, especially the arsenals of the three major arms companies and related factories, started to run at full speed a few months ago, and they received numerous urgent orders from the military.

Some ordinary companies have also received many orders from the military!

Factories all over the country produce a large amount of military supplies every day, which are then concentrated to multiple transportation hubs by ships and trains, and finally to the northwest front line.

This also led to a large number of military trains every day, full of military supplies from all over the country to the northwest front line, not only the military supplies, but also other reinforcements.

This also shows how important the opening of the Northwest Railway is to the war in the Northwest!

A northwest railway is enough for the Tang Empire to maintain at least 200,000 or more troops in the northwest region for high-intensity continuous operations. If it is to hoard materials for a period of time and then fight again, this number can be doubled. times.

Railroads are so important that the Empire pays more attention to the Northwest Railroad, especially the Northwest Railroad's extension plans!

It is said that the Railway Corporation also specially dispatched a large number of professionals and mechanical equipment to the northwest to build the extension line.

After the army marches westward, they will continue to build an extension line from Jiayuguan to the west as soon as possible.

It is said that in order to build the railway faster, the Railway Corporation has specially designed a simple military railway. Although the quality is lower and the design index is lower, it can greatly speed up the construction of the railway. They proposed, If necessary, the railway can be extended from Jiayuguan to Hami within half a year, and built to Turpan within a year.

Of course, in order to pursue speed, this kind of military railway can only be used in an emergency, and the maintenance cost will be relatively high. If you want to operate these railways as ordinary railways in the future, you will need to carry out corresponding transformations.

But the military is not interested in any commercial railway. In the eyes of the military, even the entire Northwest Railway is a railway, let alone the extension of the subsequent Northwest Railway.

To this end, the Empire has already allocated a special fund to the Railway Corporation for the construction of a simple extension of the Northwest Railway. The requirements are not high, as long as the material resources can be transported continuously.

In addition to preparing for troops, combat weapons, and transportation, the empire also began to carry out certain publicity propaganda.

In the Tang Dynasty Daily, since April, it has focused on the situation in the Western Regions and even Central Asia. Tatar oppression or something.

Then he began to brag about the brilliance of the Great Tang Wang Shi, giving people the impression that as long as the Tang Wang Shi sent troops to the Western Regions, he could easily win the Western Regions and even Central Asia.

But in fact, the eastern front is the front line for the Tatars to resist the westward advance of the Tang Dynasty. The Tatars have deployed more than 100,000 troops throughout the western regions such as Hami and Turpan, and they also learned from the Tang Dynasty to build castles. In both places, strong fortresses were built as their main strongholds.

If there is a real fight, even the more optimistic Datang army generals believe that winning is certain, but it will take some effort.

It is unlikely that the troops marched west, and then the Tatars surrendered en masse or fled.

However, for public opinion guidance, we must give confidence to the people and appropriately increase the army's influence among the people.

In recent years, a series of wars in Datang were basically dominated by the navy, especially the wars in the Indian Ocean and other overseas territories, which made the navy show a lot of limelight, which made the army very dissatisfied.

The army has always claimed to be the backbone of the empire, and the navy is nothing more than a clown who can only fight pirates and bully the defenseless natives.

However, the army believes that it has been pressing the Tatars, regaining the Hetao, large areas in the northeast, and expanding the empire's territory to the northeast to Qionghai and north to the Arctic Ocean. Whether it is credit or role, the army is much stronger than the navy. !

However, there has been no war for many years, and the army's exposure rate is not enough, and the limelight is not enough, so that when many young heroes apply for military academies, they are limited to choose the sea school instead of the martial arts school.

Among the graduates of the Royal Youth Military Academy last year, six of the top ten graduates chose to apply for the Navy's Marine Academy, which made the army officer in charge of the martial arts school's enrollment half-dead.

In the past, among the top ten graduates, a few from the Army could get seven or eight, leaving at most one or two for the Navy.

But last year, four people were taken away by the Navy for the first time.

This makes many army bosses quite dissatisfied!

This is not a problem of one person or two, but a problem of changes in the overall wind direction.

This time, as the Northwest War is about to start, the army also wants to take the opportunity to increase the prestige of the army, so as to attract more young talents to join the army, instead of going to the navy to be a local turtle, nor to go into politics and intrigue.

Datang Chaobao began to guide public opinion, and other newspapers followed in time!

For a time, even the civilians set off a wave of marching westward, and many more people signed up to join the army, and even many people had the mentality of seeking wealth and wealth and wanting to follow behind the army. Go to the Western Regions to make a fortune, such as digging gold mines or something.

Under such a situation, Ying Yikang also brought his troops to the northwest front line, namely Jiayuguan.

The current Jiayuguan Pass is not just a pass. In fact, the function of the pass is not very big. It is more used as a former stronghold of the Tang Army.

There is no peace here. All the buildings are military facilities, the housing is military camps, and there are a large number of ammunition and food warehouses, which store a large number of military supplies.

After arriving at Jiayuguan, Ying Yikang instructed his deputy to settle the troops, while he himself took the deputy to the headquarters of the 14th Army.

His 30th Infantry Division belonged to the 14th Army, and this time the reinforcements to the northwest were actually not just one division by one division, but the 14th Army directly.

The 14th Army was stationed in the Hebei region in the early years~www.wuxiaspot.com~ Because the situation in the Hebei region was relatively complicated at that time, it not only faced the threat of the Tatars, but also there were a large number of old and young people who were old and young, so the situation It is more complicated, because the early army has always maintained a large number of troops stationed in the Hebei area, guarding against the Tatars, but also suppressing the local survivors.

Later, after the Hetao War and the Northeast War, especially after the Tartars moved westward, Hebei and Shanxi were no longer frontier areas, and the pressure was greatly relieved, so the Fourteenth Army was transferred to Henan, the hinterland of the Central Plains.

Later, during the reform of the military system in the Tang Dynasty, the army was no longer responsible for the theater of a certain area, but was changed to a field army with fixed troops, and the 30th Infantry Division belonged to the army for a long time.

At present, Datang has more than 20 military-level establishments. Basically, the troops under its jurisdiction are relatively fixed. If there are no special circumstances, they will not be easily dismantled.

This time, the reinforcement of the northwest is actually the reinforcement of the 14th Army. The main force under the 14th Army, that is, the 14th Infantry Division, has already arrived first, and his 30th Infantry Division is the first. The two infantry units arriving on the northwest front will be followed by the 32nd Division after a while.

The three infantry divisions under the 14th Army, the 14th Division, as a standing force, is naturally the main force on the front line, and will also undertake the main combat tasks, especially the main combat tasks in the early stage. The other two divisions, in In the early stage, it's a fight.

In this regard, Ying Yikang himself was unwilling, but there was nothing he could do.

This can win the position of the division commander of a second-line army. This is the result of Hao Bainian's personal competition for him. It is impossible to want the position of the main infantry division of the first-line army.

Whether it is military merit or seniority, he is still too far behind!