Nan Ming Sun Never Sets

Chapter 555 Touchstone

His Majesty the Emperor stayed in Bangladesh and wanted to personally command a war to completely take down the entire South Asian subcontinent. After the news was sent back to the capital, it immediately caused a major earthquake in the Legislative Yuan.

Not only the cabinet and the Ministry of War are like ants on a hot pot, moving and working everywhere to determine the situation, other ministries are not much better, such as the Ministry of Transportation to coordinate the deployment of transport capacity, such as the Ministry of Trade to balance the war to the Indian Ocean effects of trade, etc.

Especially for General Hou Xiaoqun, who was newly appointed Minister of the Ministry of War, the pressure was even greater.Originally, there were still people in the army who were older than him and had more military exploits than him, but none of them were suitable for the position of minister of the Ministry of War, so Hou Xiaoqun was appointed minister of the most important ministry of Ming Dynasty.

Originally, the whole was not in full swing preparing for the mobilization work of the next European war. As a result, His Majesty the Emperor Guangfu intervened, notified the Ministry of War, and quickly sent a domestic army group over, and then even the newly separated Bengal sent a message of consolation. Si's vassal army will also increase from 10 troops to 50 troops in one go.

All this is not very scientific, so that everyone is at a loss.

"Well, I never said that I would fight India. I obviously considered the issue of troop projection in Europe, but it turned out that I sent so many people to India first." Hou Xiaoqun sighed, and most of the people sitting in the lounge They were all old generals who fought with His Majesty the Emperor during the Restoration War. Many of them were in their 20s at that time, and now they are 50 or [-] years old, which is the golden age of a general.

Shang Zhonghe, the titan of Bai Mingxiu next to the Tietie station, laughed and said, "Whatever those many people are doing, Your Majesty has an order. It is the duty of the army to charge forward, and if you want to come to Meng and Burma to separate the family, you have already done it." It is considered to further integrate the subcontinent into our Ming Dynasty's strategic territory."

Gao Ning, who had already grown a beard, also expressed his opinion: "Although the European war is imminent, it may take a while for my Ming Dynasty to go deep into it. After all, my Ming Dynasty has not organized a large-scale campaign for many years. Your Majesty may also wish to use India as a touchstone for my Ming army, try something, check for gaps and make up for omissions, and it will be more convenient to use it in Europe later."

Hou Xiaoqun also got some ideas, "By watching the increase in organization and mobilization by the Bangladesh Propaganda Department, can we see the increase in mobilization on our local side? But in terms of time, I am afraid that India has just closed it, and Europe will have to do it again." beated."

Shang Zhonghe was very happy: "It's better to be like this. After resting for so many years, I feel that Daming raised me as a martial artist, old Shang, for nothing. Now it can be regarded as useful."

Gao Ning turned to Su Shuhuan again and asked, "Su Shuai, what do you think?"

Su Shuhuan had a high status in the Ming army. After all, during the Restoration War, Su Shuhuan led the army to fight north and south, regaining nearly half of the land of Ming, and then pushed the border of Ming all the way to the Volga River Basin. Call him a good name.Of course, Huo Qubing's achievements are far inferior to Su Shuhuan's.

In the entire military system of Ming Dynasty, the general is the end of the military rank, and there is an honorary rank above it, that is, marshal.Before and after the Ming Dynasty, only two marshals were appointed, one was Jin Wang Li Dingguo, and the other was Su Shuhuan.Even King Ying Zheng Chenggong did not have the title of marshal. Of course, he is considered to have claimed a country by himself, so there is no need to give him any more honors.

Su Shuhuan has not been dormant for the past 20 years, but has been closely involved in the construction of the Ming Dynasty's army.He assisted in the formation of the major armies, and was constantly exploring the way of joint operations of the military and arms. He also built three actual combat exercise bases in Daming.

Su Shuhuan has been serving as the Chief of Staff of the General Staff Headquarters since then. Although the outside world's perception of the army is declining, Su Shuhuan has continued to make contributions to the Ming Army.

"It's a trivial matter to break the Indian states. It is natural to win, but what your Majesty wants to see is not as simple as winning. Your Majesty hopes to see that after so many years, our Ministry of War and the Ming Army are still very reliable and capable of organizing and dispatching." Superb. Selecting a group army to go to India may be a matter of slapping our heads, but it is really successful, and the complexity is clear to everyone. We have not dispatched troops of this scale for many years in Ming Dynasty. Furthermore, another One thing is that Bangladesh will expand its army five times this time. Although from my point of view, it is completely unnecessary, but since His Majesty has done this, there must be a deep meaning in it, and it may also be a part of our Daming system. This is a kind of test. If Bangladesh can do it, the mainland can do it naturally, and when we face a more serious crisis, we will be relatively calm in dealing with it.”

Hou Xiaoqun praised: "As expected of Su Shuai, he thinks more thoroughly than us."

Su Shuhuan said: "This time we are fighting, we have to pull over and go to the battlefield immediately. Moreover, the strength of our enemies, such as the Mughals, Maratha, and Mysore Indian states, is also different from what it was many years ago. I have seen the Jin Yiwei fight against the Mughals." Er's elite assessment believes that if our vassal army fights them one-on-one on the frontal battlefield, the chance of winning is [-]-[-]. Therefore, as soon as our Ming army pulls over, we will fight, and it may be a tough battle. The preparation must be complete, and My suggestion is, don’t organize a group army temporarily, but use a fully organized group army with complete combat capabilities to fight this battle.”

Su Shuhuan said to Gao Ning again: "General Gao, I know that you and your team are working on a similar plan, and it took three years to carry out multiple operations and verifications. Now is the time when your plan will shine. Good time."

Gao Ning nodded: "Gao Ning will definitely live up to expectations."

In fact, the overall work flow was established in the early days of the Liberation War.Bai Mingxiu is a person who is particularly keen on planning and execution, so he must break apart the different aspects and multiple processes of a matter, and then plan in place.When there is a day when the plan needs to be implemented, I will arrange the tasks that have been done in advance one by one and let different people do it.

For the project of large-scale overseas force projection, Daming set up a complete process plan, including how to recruit ships, which strategic reserves of military rations and ammunition to use, and the key steps and responsible persons in each link. Clearly.

Gao Ning did this at the beginning, just waiting for it to come in handy today, and he is also full of strong personal interest in the upcoming subcontinental war.

He needs a stage to show his ambition.

(End of this chapter)