1890 King of Southeast Asia

"Have you preserved the tape?" Liu Ming took a large glass of water and drank it. He had been talking for so long and his mouth was dry.

"It has been preserved. The plate is on the way to the old archives." Secretary Wang nodded and took the cup.

"Pay attention to the phone. Call me if you have anything. I'm going to sleep." Liu Ming nodded. Secretary Wang said that it meant that everything had been arranged.

When he and Rothschild were discussing, there was no one around them. Although Wang Linhai objected, the objection was invalid. He could only let Rothschild pass after multiple body searches.

Liu Ming deliberately set up an "open environment" to let Rothschild have no worries. Only when the two were present, some things that would not be said normally would be said.

However, Rothschild, who grew up in the old times, certainly didn't know that the chair he sat on was equipped with a microphone for recording.

The whole conversation between him and Liu Ming was recorded by Liu Ming.

Liu Ming certainly would not use this method to threaten Rothschild, that would be too much of a loss of points, and this recording would be stored in the archives.

However, since the original archives were built according to the size of Nanhua, they were not enough to meet the needs of the Huaxia Empire. The new archives have been put into use and are preparing to move the archives.

In this process, it is normal to lose some archives.

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Time flies, and as Balfour prepared, on the last day of July 1917, British Foreign Secretary Balfour published an article of statement.

This article acknowledged that the King of England and his government supported the return of Jews to their homeland (without explicitly saying Palestine) and the establishment of a Jewish national home there, and expressed Britain's willingness to do its utmost to achieve this goal.

Although at the end of the declaration, Balfour emphasized that the Jews who should return should not interfere with the lives of non-Jews and affect their rights, this is obviously just a little whitewashing and has no effect.

It can be seen from the text that when mentioning the Jewish National Home, both the British king and the government did their best, but when mentioning other people, they just said a few dry words, without mentioning how to do it, what to do if they made mistakes, etc.

After Balfour's words were made public, it caused a lot of trouble for the Huaxia Empire, not only in terms of international reputation, but also in real trouble on the battlefield.

In August, the Arabs who had been gradually appeased by the Ma family gradually learned about this matter, and because of the lack of information, the versions they got gradually became outrageous.

For example, the Huaxia people sold Jerusalem to the Jews, and the Huaxia people wanted to help the Jews clean up the Muslims, etc.

Some Arabs who were more familiar with Huaxia just asked around, and some Arabs and Turks who were not so familiar, especially those in the newly occupied areas, directly formed guerrillas to attack the strongholds of the Huaxia Empire army.

Although these guerrillas without weapons and money were very fragile, they also really involved a lot of troops. Zheng Lei had to withdraw several field infantry divisions to the rear to maintain stability.

In this way, the offensive on the front line could not be carried out at all.

In early September, the General Staff of the Huaxia Empire officially issued an order to stop the attack on Ain Tab...

Besides, what's more...

The train was slowly moving on the railway. This railway, which was laid because of Liu Ming's existence, became the focus of competition between the Huaxia Empire and Austria in this war.

(The Iraqi section was laid by the Huaxia Empire, and the Turkish section was laid by Germany.)

"Get off the train, everyone get off the train!"

"Take all the things down and put them in the freight yard. Remember to pull up the rainproof cloth."

"We need tools..."

The train drove into Hatay, a small town northeast of Ain Tab. This is a small station. After passing this station, you can enter the city two or three kilometers ahead.

Standing at the train station, Huang Zhengfang can see the ancient fortress on the distant mountain. Although he can't see the situation clearly, he can guarantee that there must be someone in that fortress, and he is even staring at them.

"Such an important position, why is there no one stationed? Looking at these complete civil engineering works, the Ottomans should be prepared to hold on here."

"The railway and the train station have not been destroyed, why?" Zheng Shangqing walked to Huang Zhengfang with a look of horror on his face.

Next to the Hatay Railway Station, you can see two lines of defense about 500 meters apart, and the train station has also been reinforced. In just a moment, Zheng Shangqing saw several shooting positions.

If the Ottomans can deploy a few hundred people here, even with heavy firepower support, the Chinese Empire will have to pay a casualty ratio of 1 to 5 to 1 to 7 to take it.

As the war intensified and the Chinese entered Turkey, the Ottomans' ability to withstand casualties was rapidly increasing.

When facing the 3rd Army, the Chinese Empire could easily achieve a casualty ratio of 1 to dozens or even higher, because the Ottomans did not resist at all. Often, the command system collapsed after a round of artillery fire, and then they staged a mass escape.

During the Battle of Birecik, the Ottomans had been resisting randomly. The morale would be significantly affected only when the total casualties reached 20% to 30%, and would collapse only when the casualties reached more.

Moreover, the Ottomans frequently launched offensives.

For soldiers, attacking requires more courage than defending.

So, Zheng Shangqing was very surprised to see that this solid position was abandoned by the Ottomans for no reason, and the facilities of the railway station were relatively intact - although there were no facilities in the first place.

"I don't know either, just follow the order." Huang Zhengfang shrugged strangely, and then ran to direct the transportation of supplies.

Seeing this, Zheng Shangqing also went to arrange defenses.

"Brigade Commander, the transportation mission has been completed, what should we do next?" As the sky gradually darkened, Zheng Shangqing brought the lunch box to Huang Zhengfang.

"Stay alert and wait until dawn." Huang Zhengfang was stunned for a moment, then looked down at the lunch box and said.

"Yes." Zheng Shangqing knew that this mission was very mysterious, but he didn't expect that it couldn't be revealed at this time. In this case, he didn't ask any more questions.

This time, a train of food, 50 carriages, and 2,500 tons of food were transported. Zheng Shangqing saw clearly that they were all flour and potatoes, and there were no side dishes.

This made him feel a little strange. Why was there food following the car? Why was there only staple food, no other side dishes, not even oil.

This is the frontier, not a logistics base. There is only staple food among so many foods, which does not look like a supply base.

"Does the higher-ups want to use this as a logistics base? This is too close! The Ottoman artillery can be aimed directly, so it shouldn't be." Zheng Shangqing thought of the most reasonable explanation he could think of, and then immediately abandoned it.

Shaking his head, he went to inspect the defense arrangement of the direct battalion. This time, the 10th Mixed Brigade did not dispatch two infantry regiments and one artillery regiment, but mobilized personnel from the direct battalion and logistics department of the brigade.

After Zheng Shangqing checked the defense arrangement of the direct battalion, he returned to the railway station, which was the temporary command post.

"Take turns to rest. I will sleep in the first half of the night and you will sleep in the second half of the night. Call me at 12 o'clock." Huang Zhengfang said immediately when he saw him coming back.

Zheng Shangqing felt that everything was strange today. It was normal to take turns to rest, but who would sleep in the first half of the night would usually discuss it. Huang Zhengfang was rarely so direct.

"Okay." Zheng Shangqing didn't understand, but nodded, guessing that it had something to do with what Huang Zhengfang said about waiting until dawn.

…………No words all night.

"Wake up, wake up."

With Huang Zhengfang's wake-up service, Zheng Shangqing finally woke up and shook his head. After seeing Huang Zhengfang's tired face, Zheng Shangqing was shocked.

"Brigade commander, what did you do last night?" Zheng Shangqing looked at the tired Huang Zhengfang curiously.

"I was worried about the front line, so I inspected the defense. The direct battalion did a good job and there were no mistakes." Huang Zhengfang lit a cigarette and nodded seriously.

Zheng Shangqing was shocked again. To be able to say that there were no mistakes, he must have carefully checked the position, and it might be more than once.

"Okay, let's assemble Team 5." Huang Zhengfang took a deep puff of cigarette to boost his spirits.

"Yes!" Hearing that it was business, Zheng Shangqing immediately came to his senses and ran out to assemble Team 5.

Ten minutes later, as the direct battalion also assembled, Huang Zhengfang looked at the time, 6:30 in the morning.

"Everyone, pack up your equipment and get ready to set off before 7 o'clock." Huang Zhengfang shouted.

"Report, who will stay to guard?" Zheng Shangqing didn't ask what they were going to do, he believed that Huang Zhengfang would tell him what he should know.

"Someone will come, our people will withdraw." Huang Zhengfang said firmly.

Ding0 Clang, several direct troops of the 10th Mixed Brigade prepared breakfast and packed their bags within half an hour.

"Get on the train!"

With Huang Zhengfang's order, everyone boarded the train again, and with the sound of Kuang Qie Kuang Qie, the train left the Hatai Railway Station.

Zheng Shangqing1 was confused, looking at the gradually moving away town of Hatai, and even suspected that Huang Zhengfang had betrayed, or someone was reselling military supplies?

But Huang Zhengfang was the commander of the independent mixed brigade, and a candidate for senior officers favored by many bigwigs. Who could let him resell military supplies? Commander Zheng? With that status, why take the risk of being beheaded?

And it was only 2,500 tons of food, which was not much, but it was only this much money. How much would it be if it doubled?

If you have the guts, you might as well scrape the land in the occupied area. If you find out, you will be scolded at most, and you will gain more.

"Don't think too much, this is all the meaning of the top. The General Staff ordered it, and the theater command asked us to do it."

"You can guess the specific situation tomorrow, and then you can ask the theater command for confirmation." Huang Zhengfang saw Zheng Shangqing's doubts and patted him on the shoulder.

"Listen!" Huang Zhengfang turned around and shouted to the soldiers.

"Spread the message to other cars. This mission is top secret. You are not allowed to disclose it to anyone. You are not allowed to discuss it privately. During the mission, everyone must supervise each other and not disclose it."

"Did you hear it clearly?"

"I heard it clearly!"

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