Valley Emperor

After the quarrel between the army and the navy in Bomu Prefecture lasted for five days, the two sides finally came up with a plan that was not satisfactory to each other, but was barely acceptable.

The general plan is there, and then the detailed operational plan is made, and then the action is started.

According to the operational plan, the Army will dispatch about 30,000 troops this time, including the 18th Infantry Division, a combat readiness division, with a total of 18,000 troops. The 136th Infantry Regiment, the 46th Division's Cavalry Battalion, the 462nd Artillery Battalion, and the 461st Carriage Battalion consist of the 46th Provisional Brigade, with about 6,000 people.

Then there is a local Pomu Prefecture reserve regiment of about 2,000 people, and four militia battalions totaling 2,000 people.

In this regard, the troops dispatched by the army, among which the main combat force, are naturally the 18th Infantry Division, the 46th Temporary Brigade, the Pomu Prefecture Reserve Regiment and the four militia battalions, mainly responsible for maintaining the logistics supply line.

In other words, only the 18th Infantry Division was actually fighting, and the remaining 12,000 people were all prepared to maintain the supply line.

Among them, the 46th Temporary Brigade is mainly responsible for the logistics transportation and transportation after leaving Bomu Prefecture. At that time, the military will recruit a large number of indigenous young people to transport materials on the spot, and the 46th Temporary Brigade will act as a material escort.

The Pomu Prefecture Reserve Regiment and four militia battalions are responsible for the transportation of materials for a period of about tens of kilometers from the port to the port and leave Pomu Prefecture, and take care of the house. The reason why Pomu State needs to use militia and reservists to transport supplies, when it is used by civilians, there is no way to do it. In this poor place overseas, the population of the empire is sparse, and there is no place to recruit young men to transport supplies.

At the same time, there are no indigenous people in the empire-controlled area, so naturally there is no such thing as capturing indigenous young men as their husbands.

Indigenization is no joke, but in the actual control area of ​​the empire, there will be no indigenous existence.

The empire is already paranoid about localization, and even they would rather not dig the gold and silver mines in the control area, or simply hire the people of the empire to dig at a high price, and they are not allowed to capture the natives from outside to mine.

Regardless of the reason or the reason, the empire does not allow natives to appear in the empire's control area, not even native slaves.

On the territory of the empire, only people from the Tang Dynasty could live, and no natives were absolutely not allowed to enter it, not even slaves.

After all, even if it is a slave, it is impossible to maintain slavery forever. It is impossible to count the abolition of slavery in a few decades or a hundred years. Then, when the people of the Tang Dynasty see that there are indigenous people everywhere, they should not be dumbfounded!

Therefore, Li Xuan formulated a very strict localization policy from the very beginning.

As long as there are overseas territories with indigenous peoples, local officials should not expect to be promoted, and will strictly prohibit the inflow of any industrial equipment.

Many people actually suggest that in overseas territories, indigenous people can actually mine and build roads, especially corporate capitalists who have been trying to promote this for many years for the sake of profit.

However, imperial officials are firmly opposed, especially local officials in overseas territories are resolutely not allowed, because this will hinder their localization strategy, and localization is an important indicator to measure the performance of officials in overseas territories.

Therefore, although Datang controls a lot of overseas territories, and there are many minerals in these territories, but in fact, they have successfully developed very well. Generally, they are high-value gold mines. Other common minerals are generally not mined. They would rather Imported from indigenous hands, and they are not willing to invest in digging by themselves.

Indigenous people can't use it, and the cost of hiring people from China is too high, which finally caused this embarrassing situation.

However, Li Xuan still firmly implemented this localization strategy, and even positioned localization as a national policy: Datang land only raises Datang people!

This situation is reflected in overseas military operations. The army cannot use indigenous young men as civilians in the empire-controlled areas, and the number of immigrants is small, and the few young men who can be recruited are basically incorporated into the militia.

So just do it yourself.

However, after leaving the actual control area of ​​the empire, the military's material transportation will be much more convenient, directly recruiting the indigenous young men to serve as civilian husbands, and those indigenous young men who stutter casually will be happy to help the Tang army transport materials.

This has to be said to be a very strange thing.

It is difficult for the army to carry out land transportation in its own control area, but it is often more convenient after it is outside its own control area.

Therefore, more often, when fighting inland, the Datang Army generally fights along the river, because it can rely on the inland river to transport supplies.

But this has to involve the navy side.

Compared with the army's 30,000 people, the navy's participation in the war is much smaller. The 13th Marine Regiment occupies the largest number. This regiment is equipped with small-caliber naval guns directly removed from the battleship and supporting gunners. A naval artillery battalion numbered about 5,000 men.

However, the naval forces do not participate in deep inland operations. They are responsible for some indigenous ports along the coast and control some ports on both sides of the inland river.

In addition to the marine forces, there are two fleets participating in the war, the 43rd Squadron and the 37th Gunboat Brigade.

However, the 43rd Squadron is only responsible for blocking the coastal waters of the theater, providing coastal artillery support, assisting in the occupation of coastal ports, and is also responsible for the coastal transportation and **** tasks of the theater, and will not enter the inland river for combat.

It was the thirty-seventh gunboat battalion that entered the inland river to fight.

The brigade has a long history. Its predecessor was the first overseas inland river fleet of the Datang Navy and a brigade under the Gehezhou Gunboat Squadron. Later, the Datang Navy split the Gehe Gunboat Squadron to follow the example of domestic The inland river gunboat troop was reformed, and finally the Ruo ** fleet was established.

The 37th Gunboat Brigade belonged to one of them. Then all the officers and soldiers of the brigade were transferred to Bomu Prefecture to be responsible for the inland operations of Bomu Prefecture. It is said to be a Bomu Prefecture, but in fact they are responsible for the It is an inland combat mission in the entire northwestern region of India.

So even though they are only a brigade, their commander is just a brigadier general, but they have a lot of gunboats under their jurisdiction, including six offshore patrol ships and seventeen inland gunboats.

In this battle, the brigade will dispatch most of the inland river gunboats to participate in the battle, and go up the river along several rivers to support the army's operations and maintain the inland river transportation supply line.

The army and navy will dispatch a total of about 40,000 troops to participate in this joint operation. Half of them are responsible for logistical affairs, and only about 20,000 people will participate in front-line operations.

It can also be seen from this that the impact of Datang's service of rifled weapons, especially the rear-mounted rifled guns, is that the pressure on logistics has increased sharply.

Just to maintain the 18th Artillery Regiment, which is equipped with a total of fifty-four rear-loaded rifled guns, will continue to operate, requiring thousands of people to transport supplies at the same time, and it will become more serious as the front is stretched.

That is to say, now that there is an inland river fleet that can transport materials, it will be even more troublesome if it only relies on traditional manpower to carry it.

The troops for the joint operation have been assembled, and the battle plan has been determined. The one in charge of this operation is Lieutenant General Shao Xingfan, the new commander of the Indian First Army.

Because at present, including the 18th Division, all temporarily belong to the military establishment.

As for General Nie Kebao, he is the supervisor of Indian military affairs, and he is in charge of the military affairs of the entire India, Myanmar and other directions.

On April 18, when the vanguard of the 18th Infantry Division began to march inland, it was also officially announced that the Second Indian Expeditionary Campaign had begun.

Three days later, the vanguard of the 18th Infantry Division, the division's cavalry regiment, was the first to engage in a battle with the local indigenous forces. As a result, there was no accident. The cavalry regiment lost one person and injured twelve people. They defeated the indigenous army of about 2,000 people in front of them, killed and wounded more than 300 enemy troops, and captured more than 500 people.

And the person killed by the cavalry regiment actually fell down on his own horse, and then hit the stone with his unlucky head!

One of the 12 injured was his own sprained foot~www.wuxiaspot.com~ Therefore, strictly speaking, their casualties in this battle were actually only 11 injured, 2 seriously and 9 lightly.

But even so, it still made the head of the cavalry regiment quite unhappy. These natives were so lawless and dared to hurt his cavalry, and they must be taught a lesson, so he followed him with the cavalry and killed the thousand who escaped. Many indigenous armies also wiped out most of them.

The first battle was a good start, and the follow-up actions of the 18th Infantry Division were smoother.

Two days later, the division's fifty-two regiment came to an aboriginal city. Judging from the scale of the city, there should be tens of thousands of people living in it.

However, its city defense fortifications, in the eyes of the soldiers of the 18th Infantry Division, are completely behind the times. Their city defense fortifications basically have no professional artillery defense fortifications, that is, they rely on the tall city wall to block the enemy's infantry charge. .

The Datang Army has a lot of experience in overcoming such backward traditional city defenses. During the Unification War, it did not know how many similar city defenses it had conquered, and it had also fought many during the subsequent expansion.

So after they came to this city, which the military called 'City No. 6', they didn't rush to launch an infantry attack directly.

The soldiers of the Tang Dynasty are very valuable, but they will not charge directly and foolishly. They have city walls anyway, and defensive infantry can still be used.

They waited for a long time, and after waiting for an artillery battalion, they were ready to attack.

After the artillery battalion's artillery was ready, the eighteen seventy-five howitzers it was equipped with started shelling.

Amidst the rumbling of cannons, a live teaching on how to fight a modern offensive and defensive battle was staged for the local indigenous people!

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