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Chapter 534 Actively prepare for battle
"To rob the Siberian plain with all your strength?" Chen Xiaode was taken aback at this moment, his eyes bulged out, as if he couldn't believe it.

In the past three years, the Siberian Pioneering Group has indeed fought several battles with the Cossacks of Tsarist Russia, robbed them of several strongholds, occupied the eastern part of the Siberian Frontier Group, and established a stronghold in the central part.But further west, the number of Cossacks and Tsarist Russian farmers increased.In view of the fact that the supply line was too long and it was not easy to start a war, the Siberian land reclamation group led by He Yi and Chen Xiaode did not continue to advance westward, but instead focused on exploring the already controlled areas. After all, the Siberian Plain was too big.

"Yes, this is an order from the capital. I can recognize the military master's handwriting, and it is irreversible." Mrs. Yang said.

Mrs. Yang, who is not very literate, was very impressed by Chu Yun's brush calligraphy with claws and teeth...

"But the Siberian Plain is too vast, and our pioneer regiment can only fight with more than 1000 soldiers. It's not that we haven't considered expansion, but the military salary is limited, and the front line is too long. The more soldiers we have The more logistics troops there are, the consumption will be too great!" Chen Xiaode showed a bitter face.

The barren geographical environment of the Siberian Plain determines that only elite troops can be taken, and it is difficult to deploy large-scale troops during the period.Just like the pioneer regiment of the Kyushu Army, Tsarist Russia could only send a small number of Cossack cavalry to open up the wilderness eastward.

"The military master has already considered this reason. The main force of this battle across thousands of miles is the Seventh Corps from Jiayu Pass. They will join forces with the two cavalry regiments of Monan Mongolia and Mobei Mongolia to carry out a thousand-mile raid. Pioneer regiment The goal is for the three corps to jointly enter the Western Regions after the beginning of spring, and after attracting the troops of Tsarist Russia to the Western Regions, the Pioneer Regiment will take the opportunity to seize the Tsarist Russian strongholds on the southern line in the north and open up the supply line from Liaodong to the West." Mrs. Yang said.

"If the road from Liaodong to the west is opened, won't our cavalry and supplies be able to come and go freely? This is indeed a good opportunity to completely control Siberia. It's just that our pioneering regiment has more than a thousand people going deep alone, and I am afraid that we will encounter the main force of Tsarist Russia. attack." Chen Xiaode asked, "How can the First Corps help us?"

"We will select more than a thousand cold-resistant soldiers from the First Corps to temporarily join the Pioneering Corps, and our First Corps will assist in logistical supplies. In this way, we can concentrate as much as possible without increasing military pay. More troops will go west." Mrs. Yang said.

"Will the First Corps be in short supply because of this? Liaodong and Liaonan are the most important areas of our Kyushu Army, so nothing can go wrong." Chen Xiaode said.

"Don't worry, there will be nothing wrong. The only country that can pose a threat to us is Koryo in the east, and it is our ally. Besides, even if their army dares to attack us in Liaodong, we have an ordnance factory. You can arm tens of thousands of people at the first time, why are you afraid of them?" Mrs. Yang said indifferently, "What you should be more worried about is to strengthen training this winter and build the Pioneering Regiment into an army strong enough to fight against the Tsarist Russian army on the battlefield. "

"Yes!" Chen Xiaode saw that both Chu Yun, the military leader, and Mrs. Yang, the commander of the First Corps, supported the Pioneering Corps. What else could he say, he could only conquer the central and western parts of Siberia and fulfill the military leader's long-cherished wish up.

"It's a pity that the military lord has strictly ordered me not to be among the thousands of people supporting your pioneering regiment, which means that I will miss the large-scale battle in the spring of next year. Sometimes when I become the so-called regiment commander, my hands are tied. The middle and lower officers, big or small, are stimulating." Mrs. Yang saw that Chen Xiaode was more cautious, and wished she could replace Chen Xiaode and fight all the way to the west.

"Corps Commander, you said it lightly. Even if 3000 people set foot on the Western Expedition, they are not fully sure to reach the West. I heard that the Western countries have hundreds of thousands of troops. If we piss them off..." Chen Xiaode said.

"Everything can be done with [-]% certainty. Let's see what this is first?"

Mrs. Yang handed over a blueprint attached to Chu Yun's letter to Chen Xiaode.Chen Xiaode took the drawing curiously, and after a closer look, his expression changed dramatically: "This thing... we can say that we are [-]% sure."

The Pioneering Regiment has nearly a thousand people stationed in the already controlled stronghold of the Siberian Plain, while the soldiers at the headquarters are only a few hundred, and most of them are logistics personnel.The First Corps sent more than a thousand people, and formed a new army of 2000 people with hundreds of people from the Pioneering Regiment Headquarters.This elite force, which will be used to completely conquer the Siberian plains in the future, will undergo rigorous training throughout the winter, and then advance to the Siberian plains in the spring to join the defenders stationed in the stronghold.

Tsarist Russia's invasion of the Zhungeer tribe completely alarmed the Kyushu Army in the north, and the Seventh Corps in Xi'an City urgently mobilized for combat readiness training.Several infantry regiments stationed in Xiangyang, Taiyuan, and Chengdu dispatched a small number of reinforcements to Xi'an City to join the Seventh Corps to alleviate the problem of the Seventh Corps' lack of troops.And the Second Artillery Corps sent an elite artillery brigade to Xi'an City.

At the same time, in addition to the two main forces of the Seventh Corps and the Siberian Pioneering Regiment, Monan Mongolia and Mobei Mongolia were also mobilized.

Mongolian tribes serve the people in peacetime and soldiers in wartime, which may cost even less than ordinary infantry of the Kyushu Army.After reorganization, the Kyushu Army has three major cavalry regiments.One is the Liaodong Dragoon Corps, which is mainly composed of Han Chinese and Jurchens in Liaodong and Liaonan; the other is the Monan Cavalry Corps, which is mainly composed of warriors from Chahar tribe, Ordos tribe, Horqin tribe and other Mongolian tribes; The Northern Cavalry Corps is mainly formed by warriors from the three major tribes in Mobei.

After the Kyushu Army took over the control of the prairie, they uniformly divided the pastures on the prairie, and exchanged salt and grain for war horses and prey, which calmed down the endlessly fighting prairie and indirectly alleviated the problem of food shortage in the cold winter.

In return, the prairie trained soldiers and horses in secret.The commanders of the Mobei and Monan cavalry regiments received orders from the military to raise troops, prepare food and grass, and train soldiers.It's just that they haven't received the exact news about who the target is this time.

A large number of materials were transported to Xi'an City by horse-drawn carts and donkey carts, and then transferred to Liangzhou and Jiayuguan through Xi'an City.

After the arrival of the cold winter, when the Kyushu Army was actively preparing for war, the envoy from Moxi Mongolia to ask for help from the suzerain came to Jiayuguan.

(End of this chapter)