Chapter 47: A tit-for-tat, continue westward
The ice and snow melt, and all things revived. As the cold winter left, the Wushan Mountains showed vitality again.
The huge Wushan City was also busy at this time. The Second Border Defense Army Corps had already set out one after another, rushed to the central and northern Wushan Mountains to build fortresses, and stationed troops. Half of the First Border Defense Army Corps had also rushed to the southern Wushan Mountains to garrison.
Everything is being carried out according to the plan before the New Year. The First Border Defense Army's First Legion is stationed in the southern part of Wushan and Wushan City, and the Second Border Defense Army's Second Legion is stationed in the central part of Wushan and the northern part of Wushan. The Qin army is preparing to return to Shaanxi to guard the Xingdu Division. In order to shock the countries in the Western Regions, it is also to save the transportation costs of food and grass. After all, Wushan City is too far from the hinterland of the Central Plains, and it is quite expensive to transport food and grass.
Sun Chuanting was in a very good mood at this moment. After fighting outside for so long, he stayed in this terrifyingly cold extreme north for a cold winter. Now he can finally go back. Even though he is already accustomed to military life, he is a little excited.
However, this good mood ended completely with the arrival of a eunuch.
This eunuch is not a notorious bad guy. Cao Huachun is still strict in his control over his men. The eunuchs nowadays are not as arrogant as Wei Zhongxian when he was in power, and they are determined not to do bad things.
This eunuch is not here to supervise the military. Zhu Cijiu is not so incompetent that he needs to rely on eunuchs to govern the country. He will never do such a ridiculous thing as eunuchs supervising the military and eunuchs’ wars.
In fact, this eunuch was just here to pass the imperial edict. He brought the secret edict written by the emperor's emperor. As for the specific content, he didn't know. He didn't dare to point fingers in front of Deputy Marshal Sun Chuanting of the Army. After passing the edict, he ran away. This ghost place is almost summer and it's still so cold that he doesn't want to stay too long.
Sun Chuanting couldn't help but wonder. There were telegrams now. Why did the emperor send eunuchs to personally send an order? Although the train and ship are faster, it will take at least ten days for the capital to arrive here. Why is it so troublesome?
When he opened the secret decree, he understood that it was not that the emperor did not want to send telegrams, but that the telegram could not send so many things.
This is not so much a secret decree as a letter. What the emperor gave was not just one sentence or two, but wrote several pages in a dense manner.
After reading the secret decree, Sun Chuanting couldn't help but sigh. It seemed that he would not think about going back in a short time.
However, he was not depressed because of this. He only thought about going home when he was fine. Now that there was something wrong, he naturally would not think about it anymore. He always puts state affairs first.
The emperor already understood what he meant, that is, to consume people, the longer it consumes, the better, and the greater the momentum, the better. In short, it is necessary to consume the enemy's manpower and material resources as much as possible.
To make the enemy panic and increase troops with all their strength, it seems that the Qin army's strength is not enough. He thought about it and then said loudly: "Come."
The commander's personal guards came in, and Sun Chuanting immediately ordered: "I sent a telegram to Zu Dabi and Hou Gongji, each leading 50,000 troops to Wushan City to obey the orders, and just hand over the defenses of Rem City and Tungus City to his subordinates."
The personal guard left as he ordered. Sun Chuanting thought about it, then took out another map and began to think carefully.
To continue to move westward, we must first consider the traffic issue. Although there is a large gap between the central Wushan and the southern Wushan, the terrain is complex, with water and land intertwined, and it is not suitable for the advancement of the army. If we send troops rashly, we may encounter a sneak attack from the enemy.
The emperor also had a special explanation in his secret decree, to take steady steps, and to advance the railway line slowly. Even if it is not fought in a battle, it doesn’t matter, as long as it can attract the enemy.
How to fight this protracted war? Sun Chuanting is actually quite good at it. It is normal to fight a war for a few years before there are trains and ships. Isn’t this what he originally learned?
As Sun Chuanting passed down one by one, the Ming army, which had already stopped, slowly moved.
First, the First Border Defense Army Corps in the southern part of Wushan. They suddenly became unhonest while guarding the key pass. They frequently sent cavalry into the territory of Tsarist Russia and plundered everywhere, just like the original nomadic tribes smashing grass valleys. This made the people on the southeastern border of Tsarist Russia panic. A large number of civilians moved westward, and the army hid in their own bastions and dared not come out.
Tsarist Russia dared not speak out about this kind of behavior, because the Ming army was too powerful and could not defeat it with their strength. If it weren't for the collective support of the great powers of the anti-Habsburg Alliance, the Ming Empire had "forced" to sign a ceasefire treaty, I'm afraid Tsarist Russia would have been destroyed by the Ming Empire long ago!
This indulgence seemed to encourage the Ming army's arrogance. Immediately afterwards, the Second Border Army Corps became unhonest. They also frequently sent cavalry into Tsarist Russia's territory to plunder everywhere, causing the entire eastern border of Tsarist Russia to be in peace and the civilians were almost running away.
If this is the case alone, Tsarist Russia would have to swallow its anger no matter how angry it was. The Ming army was powerful and they could not do it at all. The allies would not come to support this little thing. What could they do?
However, the Ming army's actions did not stop there. Not long after, the Ming army actually started from Wushan City and headed westward to build a railway!
There were actually not many people who built the railway. Zhu Cijiu transferred 20,000 troops from the Eurasian Railway. The railway materials were built on site. Originally, the Ming Dynasty was planning to build the railway in Wushan City in Rem City. The materials needed had been transported to Rem City one after another and slowly transferred to Wushan City, which did not affect the progress there.
Now Tsarist Russia can't sit still. If the Ming army is asked to build the railway and transport the armored combat vehicles to the air, who can stop it!
Tsarist Russian Prime Minister Rozov was almost scared. The Ming Empire was too domineering. He just sneaked into the garrison on their border, and they snatched the entire Siberia, causing him to almost be removed from office by his political enemies.
Now that the armistice treaty has just been signed, the compensation in the treaty has been paid on time, they have actually started moving west again. Should they be so rogue?
He knew that if he didn't find a way, Tsarist Russia would be destroyed by the Ming Empire. At this moment, there was actually no other way to imagine. He could only ask for help from the allies. The old fox Richelieu would definitely not watch the Ming Empire destroy Tsarist Russia and enter the continent in one fell swoop.
So he quickly sent an envoy to France to ask for help from Richelieu.
At the same time, with a lucky heart, he sent an envoy to Wushan City to protest to the Ming Empire, protesting that they did not abide by the armistice treaty, and to see if they could use this to make the Ming Empire, which has always regarded itself as a great and glorious, retreat.
As a result, the messenger was blasted back by Sun Chuanting very unceremoniously, and the reason was very simple:
As soon as our Ming Empire withdrew, you launched an attack on our allies. You really think that the Ming Empire is easy to bully!
Is this him who bullying whom? Rozov was so heartbroken that he couldn't cry.
Chapter completed!