Valley Emperor

Maybe it was because he was bitten by a snake for ten years and was afraid of the rope. At that time, 3,000 soldiers of the Fourth Infantry Division of the Army entered Burma, and in the end, only 1,000 people fled back in embarrassment, which left a deep impression on the Army.

You must know that few of the people killed or injured in the 4th Infantry Division were killed or injured because of the fighting. In fact, after the troops of the 4th Infantry Division entered Myanmar, they never fought with any enemy at all.

The more than 2,000 people who died in action were all non-combat attrition!

This battle almost made the Imperial Army fear the tropical rain forests of Burma and Annan in the follow-up.

In the past so many years, the empire has expanded in multiple directions at the same time, and even went to the islands of the South China Sea for colonization, but it has not expanded to the peninsulas such as Annam and Burma.

This is really disgusting from this broken place on the peninsula.

If it is not really necessary, and if it is fully prepared, the Imperial Army will definitely not easily step into this quagmire again.

However, Li Xuan is more concerned about the Guangning Coal Mine, which the businessmen are very much looking forward to!

The time is not yet ripe to send troops to the south on a large scale.

But only sometimes, if you want something, you don't necessarily have to make a large-scale invasion. You can also use other methods.

When the army moves south on a large scale, it is easy to fall into a quagmire, but there are other ways to use it. For example, use the navy to land directly along the coastline of Annan, and then directly kill Thanglong, the capital of the Annan and Northern Dynasties, to attack Huanglong, and then force The local princes signed a contract under the city, and they only needed to get the Quang Ninh Coal Mine and the surrounding areas.

It doesn't even have to be in the name of ceding the land, it just needs to get the mining rights and the right to protect the garrison. Now the empire is not interested in large-scale immigration to Annan, all the empire needs is coal.

And coal is useless for those natives, and it is too troublesome to use it as firewood. The empire can get Quang Ninh coal without large-scale invasion.

Therefore, it is not necessary to use an army of tens of thousands of people to climb that quagmire.

After Li Xuan had this idea, he told the army and navy to pay more attention to the direction of Annan and find a chance to get Guangning.

In this regard, the Army is not interested in it. Does the Army have any special needs for coal? At least in the opinion of the Army generals, there is not much demand at this time and a half.

Moreover, the task of the Army today is also very important. It is necessary to guard the Hetao and Fengzhouchuan areas, strengthen the defense of the northwest region, and prepare for the northeast battle, which means that it is difficult for the army to devote a lot of energy to the south. .

Therefore, apart from promising that the army would deploy at least one main division and two reserve divisions in the border area, and cooperate with them in the war at an appropriate time, they did not make any great promises.

On the contrary, the Navy is more active!

Because the Navy has received news, the research and development of the high-pressure steam engine at the Royal Institute of Technology has entered the final stage of tackling key problems. In the next few years, it is expected to get a test machine, and then it will be officially mass-produced. At that time, the Navy's warships can be equipped with these steam engines.

As for the coal used in steam engines, the higher the quality, the better. If it is high-quality anthracite, it will be even better.

At the same time, he also said that in the entire East Asia region, only high-quality anthracite coal has been found in Quang Ninh.

In order for future steam warships to use the highest-quality anthracite coal, the navy does not need to be instructed, and has long been determined to obtain Quang Ninh Coal Mine.

The navy has this intention, and coupled with the vigorous promotion of the business community, sending troops to Annan is almost a foregone conclusion.

For this reason, several large enterprises, especially the Southern Coal Company directly under the Ministry of State-Owned Enterprises, have approached the navy to offer some help.

As long as the navy is willing to send troops, the Southern Coal Company is willing to sponsor 30,000 yuan of various materials to the navy for use as logistical materials for operations.

The Navy naturally knows why the Southern Coal Company is so urgent, because this Southern Coal Company has long been eyeing the Quang Ninh Coal Mine, and has already carried out small-scale development in the Quang Ninh Coal Mine.

The Southern Coal Company and the Northern Coal Company are currently the two largest coal companies in the empire. The two sides have conducted fierce competition around the coal market. The Southern Coal Company relies on the Jiangxi Pingxiang Coal Mine and other messy coal mines. It is difficult to compete with the Northern Coal Company, which owns the Tangshan coal mine and some Shanxi coal mines.

What's more, the Southern Coal Company has also received news that the top officials of the empire are already preparing to hand over the coal resources in the northeast region to the Northern Coal Company for mining.

Although it is said that both the Southern Coal Company and the Northern Coal Company are state-owned enterprises wholly-owned by the Ministry of State-owned Enterprises, even if they are state-owned enterprises, they are also commercial companies, and there is fierce competition with each other.

Last year, in order to seize the private coal market in the Jiangnan region with Shanghai as the core, the Northern Coal Company cut the price of honeycomb coal, which directly reduced the price to 50% off, forcing the Southern Coal Company to cut prices to follow suit.

In the end, apart from letting the people in the Jiangnan region enjoy a wave of cheap coal, both sides suffered a lot. In the end, under the interview of the Ministry of State-owned Enterprises, the two sides canceled the price war.

But what is even more interesting is that after the battle between the two sides, the Ministry of State-owned Enterprises established another "Eastern Coal Company" and gave the company the mining rights of several coal mines.

As a result, the three major coal companies directly under the Ministry of State-owned Enterprises competed with each other in the empire. Of course, even if these three coal companies directly under the Ministry of State-owned Enterprises add up, their share of the domestic coal market is at most six. 70%, and the rest were taken away by hundreds of private coal companies, large and small.

Now the Southern Coal Company has set its sights on the Quang Ninh Coal Mine in order to develop, which is why it sponsors the navy to send troops.

The Navy originally wanted to start this coal mine, but now that the Son of Heaven has instructions, it would be better. As for the support of the Southern Coal Company, it doesn't matter. No matter how poor the Navy is, it is impossible to let it go because of the tens of thousands of dollars in sponsorship from commercial companies. The figure to go to war for the merchants.

Unless, they drop hundreds of thousands of taels of silver!

The Navy has a mind, and the Army has also promised to give certain cooperation. Although from the Army's statement, although the Army will deploy three divisions, don't expect the Army to work harder. Will they take the initiative to cross the border? Hard to say across the border.

After all, if this unit moves, it will have to spend countless military expenses, and if it moves south on a large scale, I don't know how much non-combat attrition it will take. If the army is not necessary, it will not easily go south.

Therefore, if we want to send troops to Annan, the main force must be the navy.

It is necessary to fight, but there has not yet been a unified caliber within the navy.

There are many reasons for the controversy.

First of all, the current situation in Annan is more complicated. Today’s Annan is a confrontation between the north and the south. There is the Mo Dynasty in the north and the Li Dynasty in the south. Want to get the support of the empire to destroy the other side, so as to unify Annan.

As for the empire, how can it be interested in caring about the civil strife of the barbarians? The empire thinks that the Nanyang Peninsula will still be taken down in the future. Before the empire takes the Nanyang Peninsula, the more chaotic the peninsula, the better, and there must be no major problems. Power, so for Annan's Southern and Northern Dynasties, the empire recognizes.

Now if the empire wants to Guangning, then it has to fight the Northern Dynasty, which is the Mo Dynasty. This may reduce the strength of the Northern Dynasty too much, and then let the Southern Dynasty go north and finally unify Annan.

And this kind of situation is absolutely unwilling to see the Empire!

The empire needs the Annan region to maintain a state of balance. It cannot allow the Southern Dynasty to unify Annan. At the same time, the empire does not want to go out and fight the Southern Dynasty in person. The imperial army hates fighting in the broken places like the peninsula. The imperial army would rather fight the Tatars on the grasslands. Not willing to fight monkeys in the jungle.

The former is still fighting openly, while the latter is unable to find the enemy, and then he died of an inexplicable illness.

If the Empire is unwilling to end in person, then it cannot weaken the power of the Northern Dynasty too much.

In addition, the navy is also worried that if the navy directly launches a landing and attacks Thanglong, there is no certainty that it will be able to force Thanglong to quickly sign a contract under the city, which may eventually cause the war to persist.

If the war lasts for a long time, then the trouble will be big. In the end, it may cause changes in the Southern Dynasty, and finally lead to the complete end of the army.

Although the army's position now is to cooperate, but the situation has really deteriorated, the Son of Heaven will definitely not remain indifferent, and must have ordered the army to send troops.

At that time, the army will definitely scold the navy for being a group of mentally retarded, and they can capsize the boat by hitting a small native~www.wuxiaspot.com~ In the end, the army will have to come to the rescue.

Let's not say, after the Army personally goes off the court, the naval side will lose a lot of face and interests in this war. More importantly, after the Army goes off the court in person, it is very likely that they will fall into a long-term battle in the follow-up.

Thus destroying the balance of Annan, Southern and Northern Dynasties!

It is not that the Army cannot send troops. If the Army is determined, it can go south to Thang Long in minutes. The crux of the problem now is that the Army does not think this is necessary, especially in the strategy of the Empire and the internal strategy of the Army is to go north. In the case of a westward advance, the Army is unwilling to go south to hit any peninsula.

Unless the Son of Heaven explicitly asked the army to go south, otherwise, don't expect the army's Qiu Ba to take the initiative to go south to Annan.

Fighting Annan is not good for the army, and it will also fall into a quagmire.

But if the situation deteriorates, the army will definitely send troops, and there is no way to do it if you don't want to!

As soon as the army dispatches troops, then there is basically nothing to do with the navy. After the army goes south, it may be necessary to fight the northern dynasty first, then the southern dynasty. Considering the broken places in Annan, I don't know when this battle will be fought. go.

Because there are many restrictions, the high-level officers on the navy side are also quite entangled in how to capture Guangning.

The most important thing is not the question of whether you can beat it, it is not a problem at all!

The problem is that the key is how to fight, which is in the best interests of the empire and the interests of the navy!