Daming Military Empire

Chapter 602 Equipment Procurement Plan
After a month of repeated drills, the plan for the offensive and defensive battle of the bastion was finally finalized. Lu Xiangsheng combined the new tactics and the situation in Siberia, and organized the generals above the army commander to discuss it.

Soon, a detailed strategic plan for the Siberian Plain was handed over to Zhu Cijiong. According to Lu Xiangsheng's plan, the Ming army will take the entire Siberian Plain in three months after the spring of next year!
Conquering more than a hundred bastions in three months seems a bit of a fantasy. You must know that the entire Siberian Plain covers millions of square kilometers. I can't finish receiving it, why is Lu Xiangsheng so confident?

His self-confidence is well-founded. In his plan, every step is described in detail and based on accurate data, which is not nonsense at all.

First of all, he relied on the terrifying maneuverability of the Ming army. Although the Ming army had not yet penetrated the railway line into the Siberian plains, the navy of the Ming Empire had completely occupied the Yeni River and Ob River basins. Equally astonishing.

Then, in his plan, the Ming army did not attack all the way, but two at the same time, and both Ming armies would attack several bastions at the same time.

He planned that Sun Chuanting would lead an army of 40 to defend the rear, defending the two logistics bases of Tungus City and Rem City, and the two lines of defense of the Western Regions and the main trunk of the Yeni River, while he and Cao Wenzhao would each lead an army of 30. Launch an attack on Siberia from the Yeni River Valley and the Ob River Valley.

These two groups of troops will be transferred by naval warships to six assembly points, and each assembly point will be surrounded by more than ten Tsarist Russian bastions, and the Ming army will use the assembly point as the center to launch a surprise attack on the surrounding bastions.

The two armies are twelve assembly points, and these twelve assembly points are surrounded by all the bastions of Tsarist Russia. With the strength of the Ming army and the help of armored chariots, it is completely possible to attack two to three bastions at the same time. , more than ten bastions, that is, about ten days, plus the transfer time, one assembly point is about half a month, and the two armies have six assembly points, which adds up to three months time.

Zhu Cijiong is quite appreciative of this plan, because he knows that monsters like armored chariots appear on the battlefield unexpectedly, and the enemy is absolutely hard to guard against.

Of course, it does not mean that armored combat vehicles are unsolvable in this era. As I said earlier, a simple trap tactic can make an armored combat vehicle fall into the pit and cannot get out. However, this tactic takes time to summarize and implement Yes, in three months, even if Tsarist Russia can sum up the tactics, it will not have time to implement them. It will not take a few days to dig a hole that allows dozens of armored vehicles to fall.

In Lu Xiangsheng's plan, there is another key point, that is, hot air balloons. He needs a lot of hot air balloons, because hot air balloons can not only mark the impact of shells, but also provide early warning.

It turned out that the reason why Lu Xiangsheng and the others did not dare to advance crazily was because they were afraid of being attacked by the enemy's concentrated superior forces, but after the hot air balloon warning, it was different. As long as a dozen hot air balloons were raised at strategic points around the assembly point, the enemy wanted to attack It was nothing short of a dream.

Lu Xiangsheng also made a list of equipment at the end of the battle plan, because most of the equipment to be used in this battle was not available before and had to be made temporarily. The list includes:
Thirty large Kongming lanterns, that is, hot air balloons;

Large armored fighting vehicles, that is, with artillery, sixty;

Medium armored tanks, that is, with pickaxes, sixty;
120 small armored combat vehicles, that is, light belt armor protection;

Finally, there are [-] Shenwei cannons. The first-class army of the Shenwei cannon is equipped, but the first-class army in Lu Xiangsheng's plan to participate in the attack is only the Tianxiong Army and the Guanning Army, and the other four armies do not have any. The first step in the bastion siege tactics required the use of Shenwei cannons, so he added another [-] cannons.

It is not very difficult for the equipment in this list to be produced in the next few months, but there is a problem, that is, except for the Shenwei cannon, which is produced by the Cannon Factory of the Ministry of Industry, other equipment is Produced by Daming Royal Machinery Group.

This involves the issue of business standardization. Zhu Cijiong doesn't want him to just propose business standardization and immediately ask Daming Royal Machinery Group to produce so much equipment for free. That would be shooting himself in the foot, and it would be detrimental to future economic development. .

This time, he was determined to standardize the operation and establish a good market order. Therefore, under his supervision, the first equipment procurement plan in the history of the Ming Dynasty was released. The purchaser was the Ministry of War of the Ming Dynasty, and the manufacturer was the Royal Machinery Group of the Ming Dynasty. , The content of the purchase is the large Kongming lantern, large armored fighting vehicle, medium armored fighting vehicle and small armored fighting vehicle listed by Lu Xiangsheng on the list.

Of course, such old-fashioned names cannot be used in the procurement plan. Zhu Cijiong specially named these things, namely, hot air balloons, artillery vehicles, mountain vehicles and armored vehicles.

In fact, Lu Xiangsheng has nothing to do with the purchase of military supplies. He is mainly responsible for the front-line battles. As for food, supplies and equipment, he has never worried about it. He has his own military department and even the emperor to prepare for him. Began to prepare for the implementation of the plan.

The focus of this plan lies in the application of two new types of equipment, armored chariots and hot air balloons. The Ming army has never used these things before, so it is natural to organize personnel for training.

According to the configuration of these equipment, an artillery vehicle needs three people to operate, a mountain car needs two people to operate, an armored vehicle also needs two people to operate, and a hot air balloon needs at least five people to operate. The legion must train at least one hundred and thirty five operators. Lu Xiangsheng directly ordered two hundred artillery pieces from the five armies that will participate in the attack, including the Tianxiong Army and the Guan Ning Army, to come to the capital for training.

Then, he organized young generals to start training armored combat vehicle siege tactics. Fortunately, this time he was going to train young generals. He had already brought back more than half of the generals from the Siberian front, so there was no need to transfer them over.

Lu Xiangsheng not only had to consider the issue of personnel training, but also another very important thing, that is, the selection of courses for the Daming Army Military Academy.

Now, he was very busy. During the day, he had to train soldiers with Cao Wenzhao, and at night, he had to choose the tutorials of the Ming Army Military Academy with Sun Chuanting, Sun Yuanhua, Qin Liangyu and others. The whole day was even more tiring than the battlefield.

It is really difficult to choose the tutorials of the Ming Army Military Academy, because it is now in the period of alternating cold weapons and hot weapons, and the Ming army is basically equipped with hot weapons. The original military books basically cannot adapt to modern tactics. How to do it?

This chapter is over, let's see the decomposition in the next chapter.

(End of this chapter)