The sun never sets in America

Chapter 402 Southern War: Yuan Qing’s Strategy
What is war? War is the most primitive and barbaric "negotiation" used when both parties cannot resolve disputes through other means.

Chen Hecheng, a professor at the Han Army Military Academy, said something in a strategy class at the end of February of the 23rd year of Longwu.

"Stab!!"

The bayonet was pulled out with blood marks, and several bloody arrows fell on the young soldier's face. Even the helmet on his head was a little red.

"Damn, he's a poor guy again!!"

"Grass……"

The soldier squatted on the ground and groped for the pocket of the foreigner in green military uniform in front of him. After groping for a long time, he took out an envelope.

Opening the letter, there was a paragraph in English that he could understand slightly:
"Dear, I have been in Little Rock for nearly two months now. The winter here is warmer than in my hometown, but it makes me feel what loneliness is!!"

"Thank God, I'm still alive. The offensive of those Han people is much lower than before. They didn't even send out infantry, they just used artillery..."

"Are the children at home okay? Tell Robben that his father is buying him the latest toys. When work is over, the toys will appear in front of him..."

This is not just for weapons, the fundamental reason is to count the number of people. After all, in a battlefield filled with shells, who can guarantee how many people have died.

Of course, the premise of all this is that they are all non-standard weapons, and all standard weapons must be handed over.

Because it belonged to a general, the gun was entirely silver and colored with silver, so it was also called a "silver pistol" or even a "general's gun."

You said one hundred dead, he said two hundred, but in the end it was found out that it was actually one hundred and two, which could easily lead to a strategic misjudgment of the enemy's army.

It can even be said that he is a little stingy.

Hu Fengyun touched a few more "baggage", and finally got a pocket watch that was blown to pieces. If the shell was not made of silver, Hu Fengyun would have to curse and then withdraw it.

“What is this thing??”

"Is mom okay? She has mental illness and needs to take some medicine prescribed by Dr. Lant. Don't forget..."

"Humph……"

The pistols currently used by the US military are similar to the shell guns of later generations. They look similar to the "Ruger", but their actual performance is much worse than the Ruger.

Hu Fengyun pretended to cover up all these things, as if he really didn't care, but from the way he saw the other people returning home with a full load, it could be seen that he was not as open-minded as he thought.

Of course, he won't tell the fact that he doesn't have a girlfriend.

Hu Fengyun held a bottle in his hand. It seemed that the material was good, but he just couldn't figure out what it was.

In the end, he could only throw it into his pocket. Anyway, those things in his hands would have to be sold by the pound.

"Forget it, you will be poor if you are poor, I am not afraid!!"

A Unicorn military vehicle driving on the road suddenly had an accident and got stuck in the mud.

In the end, this letter was not thrown away after all, but was carried on the body. After all, this thing can be regarded as a "war souvenir".

"I am just a poor person!!"

Throughout the battlefield, things like this to collect trophies are not uncommon, and are even commonplace for many Han soldiers.

Looking at the name below and the "love", Hu Fengyun just wanted to say:

"Love you Jenny Yallant."

There are even jokes about being caught committing suicide by jamming a bullet.

“Alas, all the hard work was in vain and I didn’t get anything out of it!!”

Therefore, in such a situation, weapons that are more difficult to destroy than flesh and blood become clear evidence for identifying the number of people.

Even though this article has been criticized by many people, saying it is inaccurate.

.........

After all, the Han army had stipulated very early on that all seized items, except large sums of gold and other precious metals, other famous watches and guns, were the personal belongings of the soldiers.

If this kind of pistol belongs to a high-ranking officer, such as a major or above, it will be very collectible. If it belongs to an ordinary lieutenant, it can only be exchanged for a few dozen yuan, or even less.

"How hypocritical!!"

"I am such an unlucky person..."

In addition, throughout the war, the most valuable items were the guns worn by generals. These guns were different from the shell guns used by ordinary officers, but were similar to the "Browning" pistols used by the Han army.

"Empty copper..."

And searching for corpses is not a good idea. After all, most corpses are rarely intact as long as they have been shelled. Some even have only one leg left. At this time, if you say that this leg is a person, someone has to believe it! !

Among them, watches are the easiest to get rid of. You can send them home or find a second-hand watch store to sell them, but the price is not guaranteed.

Hu Fengyun recalled what his father said to him when he was a child, saying that the reason why he was named Fengyun was so that he could carve out a path in society in the future and change the so-called "poor man's fate" calculated by the old Taoist priest in the village.

But it is indeed the best statistical method so far.

In addition to standard weapons, there are two things that are most favored by soldiers, one is the officer's gun, and the other is the watch and pocket watch.

This kind of silver pistol is the most valuable in the entire second-hand trading market. A second lieutenant once seized a brigadier general's gun and sold it directly for 800 yuan. In this era when gold was used as the currency unit, it was no less valuable than that of later generations. Tens of thousands of dollars, or even more.

"Squeak!"

The officer's gun is more valuable than a watch, but the most difficult thing to identify.

"My dear, if I am still alive, let's have another baby, a daughter, so that Robben will also have a playmate..."

"Hey, come and help me push, help me..."

The driver was an officer with the rank of lieutenant. He pulled people over to push the cart for him on the marching road.

"Hard, hard..."

"One two three, one two three!!"

Listening to the shouts coming from the car, as well as the gasps and the sound of the motor transmission around him, Hu Fengyun was a little distracted and wanted to look at the thing called "car" he was pushing.

It is said that this thing is called a unicorn, it is a foreign name, and the battalion commander said that in the future, when the production capacity is increased and new troop carriers are released, they will no longer have to walk and can take a car directly to Washington.

Although he didn't understand what "production capacity" was and what a "troop carrier" was, he knew what Washington was. After all, that thing was the Army's long-standing propaganda slogan.

What about breaking into Washington and capturing Lincoln alive?

Hanging the Chinese flag on the roof of the White House is a worthwhile trip in life.

This of course includes some "colorful jokes" similar to those of the Lincoln family.

Generally speaking, these words are just words of encouragement. They basically tell the soldiers not to be discouraged. As long as they hit Washington, they will have everything.

Putting aside the "jokes" in his mind, Hu Fengyun carefully looked at this car with four wheels and an iron shell.

According to his estimation, this car has a body of at least six meters long and a width of two and a half meters. It is still semi-open. There are a lot of sealed supplies inside. Hu Fengyun guessed it immediately. There are canned fruits inside.

Thinking of this, the evil thoughts in Hu Fengyun's mind immediately came out.

"Use your strength, everyone, if you use more strength, the car will come out."

The lieutenant driver kept pressing the accelerator and the wheels kept spinning. In the end, he still couldn't drive, and he always felt that he had failed.

At this time, Hu Fengyun, who was still "working hard" and had no contribution at all, suddenly said:
"Sir, I guess there are too many things in the car. Just move some of them down!!"

The lieutenant who had been pressing the accelerator in the car for a long time without any response might also have thought that the problem was with the stuff, so he immediately came out and organized people to move the boxes.

Because they were all wooden boxes, they were quite heavy, so I had no choice but to delay them for a while.

During this period of time, Hu Fengyun, as the "king" of the 27th Division's warehouse, had pried open the wooden box and taken away at least five boxes of cans in just ten minutes.

The words Penglai on these cans made Hu Fengyun very excited. He was just about to fish out some more, but at this time, there was a "rumbling" sound and the car came out of the mud.

In the end, he still didn't get the sixth box of cans that he had been longing for, and could only watch the car behind him go away in the dark night.

When everyone started to return to the team, only Hu Fengyun was looking at the five mango cans with the Penglai logo in his arms.

“It really takes no effort at all!!”

Hu Fengyun sighed, and then ran back to the marching team.

..."I don't agree with the risky approach of letting Youzhou go directly!!"

“Do you know how much damage will be caused if Youzhou is let go??”

"If Youzhou becomes a battlefield, Youzhou's agriculture and economy will suffer heavy losses, and even the local people in Youzhou may be displaced. If you do this, it will be the greatest irresponsibility for them..."

"Whoever does this is a sinner!!"

In the cabinet in Xijing, a meeting on the war situation in the south is being held.

The most controversial one is the Youzhou issue, which is the so-called issue of whether to "pay the price".

This issue has become the focus of almost all parties. Even the neutral navy said that the army's approach was too risky, prone to accidents, and might even lose Longjiang Port.

Once Longjiang Port is lost, the entire Atlantic Fleet will face the crisis of having no home port.

If this is the case, the first one to kill the US military must be the navy.

Because once Longjiang Port is lost, the navy will become rootless. Once a large-scale war breaks out, in the current form, there is basically no possibility of survival.

In addition to the navy, those who reacted the most were the civilian officials, especially those in charge of economy and agriculture, who almost labeled the army as "traitors".

You must know that the entire Youzhou economy can be said to be ranked second in Han Dynasty, and agriculture has surpassed Monan. It can be said that without Youzhou, Han Dynasty's economy will not only be compromised, but also agriculture will decline. crisis.

Although Han's agriculture has always been developed and its population is not large, it is almost impossible to make up for the loss of so much grain and livestock in a short time.

Once something like this happens, it basically means that food prices will rise.

In addition, it is a matter of face, for those civil servants who are accustomed to shouting and talking about vassal countries and are full of contempt for foreign countries.

Once the Yankees are allowed to enter Youzhou, whether they win or not, it will mean their failure and loss of face, and they may even be unable to hold their heads up for the rest of their lives.

In addition, there are relatively few supporters. The supporters have one reason: war is king.

Basically, the goal is to win the war. Unlike the navy, which is prone to conflicts with the army, and the civil servants with different ideas, this group of people belong to the "militant faction" in the cabinet. Their enthusiasm for war even exceeds that of the army and navy. .

"Lu Budang, if our army can use Youzhou as bait to attract the US military in the entire south, once it succeeds, our army will directly flatten the south. By then, it will be able to control several states in the entire south without any effort... "

"But if we fight the Yankees outside Youzhou, there will be a war of attrition."

"I believe you also know about the war of attrition!!"

As the representative of the Right Route Army, Yuan Qing knew very well about Xiao Jiujiu in the hearts of those civil servants. In the final analysis, these people did not want to take responsibility.

I want to push everything out! !

"General Yuan, we know that the hero of the Battle of Oklahoma is also Xiao Zhuge of the right army, but I want to ask you a question."

"That's how you guarantee that this risky war will not get out of control and that we will not lose Youzhou."

"If we follow the current situation, once the U.S. military invades Youzhou, there will be basically no hesitation. The additional troops will then be a terrifying figure."

“Don’t fail to achieve your goal and push yourself to death instead!!”

Jiang Hehu, who was in charge of finance, was the first to stand up and launch a series of questions against Yuan Qing.

Other civil servants around him also echoed, and there was even the voice of the navy among them, which made Yun Qing intuitively feel what "sea and land struggle" is and what "civil and military" is.

"What Jiang Butang just said, Yuan Qing thinks is right, very right!!"

Yuan Qing's words made those present a little dumbfounded. They originally planned to see how Yuan Qing argued with the heroes, but they didn't expect this guy to surrender. Some people even started to look at Yuan Qing a little strangely.

Even Jiang Hehu, who was on the opposite side and was ready to "argue", was a little surprised.

But before he could speak, he heard Yuan Qing follow up: "What Jiang Butang just said, and Yuan Qing admitted, our army has loopholes, and they are not small!!"

"However, what I want to say is that war is not static, and our army is not the kind of Mexican who goes to the battlefield and gets diarrhea."

"I would like to ask, if Youzhou is opened and the US military comes in, will our army be sure to stop them and prevent them from causing greater losses?"

“I personally think it’s absolutely ok and more than enough!!”

Yuan Qing's bold assurance made the surrounding army colleagues "emotionally delighted".

As for the people in the Navy, they "discussed" in a low voice that the Army was better at bragging than the Navy.

"Oh, you promise, what guarantee do you give??"

Jiang Hehu's eyes were as sharp as lightning.

"I guarantee the millions of soldiers in the army and my own life!!"

Yuan Qing was completely different this time. He was not afraid of looking directly at Jiang Hehu.

"Haha, General Yuan is young and energetic, much more lively than us old people!!"

Hu Junding, who had been silent all this time, came out to smooth things over, giving the two of them a step to go down.

"General Yuan, you just said that the army has the ability to defend Youzhou, so let me ask you, where exactly will it be defended?"

Hu Junding waited until both of them sat down and then asked.

"Big cities, as long as they are big cities, we can defend them!!"

Faced with the prime minister's questioning, Yuan Qing did not hesitate and directly stated everything he had calculated.

"my country's big cities are very similar to the industrial cities on the Great Lakes of the United States, but they are not exactly the same. That is, our country is mainly built on railway lines. Almost all cities are on railway lines. Because of this, the materials and personnel along the lines are The communication is very intensive..."

"In such a big city, our army can mobilize supplies very quickly, and can even mobilize more troops from the rear for later roundabout operations..."

"In this kind of war, there are two main focuses, one is the city and the other is the railway line."

"Railways and cities complement each other. As long as the node cities along the railway are controlled, the entire transportation line will not be interrupted. Our army can calmly mobilize troops, mobilize strategic materials, and even transport nearby people to the rear for temporary shelter... …”

"And our army can also fight a mobile war with the Americans around Youzhou's dense and long railway lines."

"For example, I am in City A, but now City B is in trouble. What should I do? The best way is to mobilize the excess troops of City A through the railway line, so as to achieve the advantage of attacking the few with more troops."

"Furthermore, our army can also use railway lines to cover troop movements, and even switch back and forth between multiple multiple lines, leaving the enemy confused."

Yuan Qing talked a lot about the relationship between railways and big cities.

After a while, some civil servants and the navy who were proud of their achievements took a high look and muttered in their hearts, "Little Zhuge still has two brushes."

“But how do you keep a rail line safe if it’s cut??”

Hu Junding was not that easy to fool, and he directly discovered the biggest loophole, which was the crucial railway line.

"Yes, what the Prime Minister said is true, so I think our army should form a road protection army along the railway line. The number of this army should not be too large, just tens of thousands. It can be mobilized at any time by relying on the railway. When encountering Small groups of enemy infiltration troops can be wiped out directly on the spot. When encountering large incoming troops, they can also deal with them for a period of time until reinforcements arrive..."

Yuan Qing spoke in front of Hu Junding and everyone present, looking very confident.

At this time, Hu Junding asked again: "How can you guarantee that the Americans will do what you say? What if they do the opposite and attack the countryside?"

"Just like we do in the South."

"Ha ha!!"

When Yuan Qing heard this, he laughed out loud, and then replied in a joking tone:

"If they had this ability, they would have won earlier and wouldn't have lost so miserably!!"

"Besides, our army is not a fool. They can do whatever they want. Isn't that just whimsical??"

……

For several days, matters related to Youzhou were discussed repeatedly, and finally Hu Junding made the decision and sent it to Liu Peng.

In the palace, Liu Peng looked at the Youzhou plan drafted by Yuan Qing and reviewed by the cabinet. There was no fluctuation in his eyes, as if he was looking at a very ordinary document.

"Prince, what do you think??"

When the question was posed to Liu Yu, Liu Yu answered directly: "The way to lure a snake out of its hole has been around since ancient times. You can give it a try!!"

Liu Peng nodded after hearing this, and then stamped the jade seal and the handwritten Zhu Zhu.

(End of this chapter)