Expedition to Europe

In fact, Lanfang's senior officials, including Qin Zhiyuan, currently don't care about the fact that the Japanese occupied part of Sakhalin Island.

So what if they occupied it? The Japanese neither exploited the resources on the island nor carried out large-scale development of Sakhalin. They just immigrated three to five thousand people. These people did not need to worry about them at all. When Lanfang and Japan If war breaks out, these immigrants will move back to their place of origin on their own.

Just like the Dutch who immigrated to the Dutch East Indies, once the Dutch colonial government fell, they could not be kept.

So Chen Kangjian is not in a hurry.

But Chen Kangjian understands, but that does not mean that the middle-level officers also understand. For example, He Feizhou asked: "Commander, why wait five years? We can drive Japan out at any time now, why do we let them in our land?" Grow food?”

Chen Kangjian rolled his eyes and expressed dissatisfaction with He Feizhou's lack of understanding: "Why don't you let them plant? Now these lands are raw land, how much food can be harvested in a year? Let them plant it, and leave it alone after five years." All the wasteland that Little Japan has opened is for us. Besides, even if Little Japan is gone, how can we get so many people to farm the land in Northern Xinjiang?"

Qin Zhiyuan really had no intention of handing Siberia over to the Republic of China, so the name of the place was decided: Northern Xinjiang.

The Siberian region occupied by Lanfang includes the Premorsky District, Khabarovsk Territory, Amur Oblast, Kamchatka Territory, Chukotka Autonomy, the Sakha Republic and Zaibelga Territory in another time and space. part of.

This vast land is now Lanfang's northern territory.

In order to facilitate management, Lanfang divided the northern Xinjiang region into four provinces and one region, namely Transhunggan Mountains Province including Sakhalin Island, Belga Province, Kamchatka Province, and Beihai Province. The last zone is the Vladivostok Special Zone, which includes Vladivostok and Ningbei Port on the Kamchatka Peninsula.

Ningbei Port is also the city of Petropavlovsky. In fact, this is the ice-free port. Vladivostok is only famous because of its hometown plot, but Vladivostok is not a freeze-free port.

These four provinces and one region are currently under military control. Chen Kangjian is the commander of the Northern Expedition Corps and is therefore responsible for the entire northern Xinjiang region.

"Don't mention it anymore. I bring tears of bitterness when I mention this. I was allotted a hundred acres of land in Lanfang, which made my wife so happy that she couldn't sleep for days and nights. But now it's great. The land is now in the wasteland. I can't even finish planting, and now I'm wiping my eyes to the sky again..." Qu Feixiang accidentally tilted the building.

"Hey... if you ask me to just plant an acre and a half of vegetable land for fun, have you really planted all 100 acres of land? Tired your wife to death so that you can please me?" He Feizhou Follow the crooked building.

"You don't need to take care of the family affairs. There is a cooperative, a mutual aid group, and a regiment commander. We can just stand here and take care of it." Chen Kangjian thought openly.

Cooperatives and mutual aid groups are temporary measures introduced by the Lanfang government to solve the labor shortage.

Lanfang allocated 100 acres of land to each family, but due to the limited labor force, these lands could not be cultivated effectively, especially for those military families. The labor force in their families was already in short supply, and the mainstay of the family was serving in the military. For those women and children, let alone 100 acres, 10 acres is enough.

So cooperatives and mutual aid groups came into being.

In order to solve the labor shortage problem, the Lanfang government purchased a large number of cattle from the Republic of China and Annan, and distributed these large animals to military families to solve part of the labor shortage problem.

Soon, ordinary people and these military families formed mutual aid groups. The military families provided large livestock and ordinary people provided manpower, and the farming problem was initially alleviated.

It's just a relief, far from a solution.

If we want to solve it, we can only wait until the large machinery factory in Wanghai Prefecture starts production, and when agricultural machinery enters thousands of households, the problem of labor shortage will be completely solved. By then, let alone 100 acres, it will be easy for 200 acres.

"That's right, wait a minute..." Qu Feixiang could see that the future was bright, so his eyes became slitted.

"The infantry does not need to build fortifications, but the artillery positions must be well protected. If we do not take the initiative to attack now, we must also prevent the Japanese from taking the opportunity to cause trouble. If the little Japanese dare to cross 50° north latitude, then there is no need to be polite to them, just fight back resolutely. "Yes." Chen Kangjian forced the topic back.

"Don't worry, Commander, as long as the Japanese dare to stir up trouble, we men will definitely defeat them in our northern Xinjiang region." He Feizhou was confident.

You should be confident that a division of the Japanese army only has one artillery regiment, and the total number of artillery is only 12. This number is certainly much stronger than that of the Republic of China, but it is not enough compared with Lan Fang, who was once a member of the Foreign Legion.

Lanfang's basic company already includes a machine gun platoon, equipped with three 80mm mortars, and the regiment-level organic gun company is equipped with a 75mm rapid-fire cannon nicknamed "Miss 75". It has lagged behind in large group operations in Europe, but it is still an advanced weapon in the Far East.

If we look at it from an overall perspective, the Japanese navy is passable, but the army is almost like a stepmother. It is precisely because of the lack of heavy weapons that the Japanese army emphasizes the spirit of bushido.

Japan lacks domestic resources, and the little steel it gets from exporting raw silk is almost all used in the manufacture of warships. It would be good if it can ensure the supply of bullets to the army.

Oh... Another important source of steel for Japan was the Republic of China. It was precisely because of the import of iron ore from the Republic of China that the Japanese had the confidence to launch a war against China in the future.

"Don't worry if a fight really breaks out. Just go for it. I have deployed air forces and the 18th Division in Yuding. Aircraft will come to support you in half an hour at most. You just need to hold on for half an hour." Chen Kangjian made thorough arrangements.

Yuding, this is the first city built by Lan Fang on Sakhalin Island. The name "Yuding" originated from the Jiangdong Sixty-four Villages that were massacred by the Russians. The reason why Lan Fang chose the name "Yuding" is to rebuild the "Jiangdong Sixty-four Villages" in the Far East... No, not villages, now it should be "Jiangdong Sixty-four Cities".

Think about it, in the future in the northern Xinjiang region, there will be a lot of names such as: Nianzi City, Huangshan City, Laohu City, Dongshan City, etc., which will remind Lan Fang people all the time of everything that happened on this land.

"Hey, Commander, I don't think it will take half an hour... Tsk tsk, as long as the Japanese dare to launch an attack, I can guarantee that we can wipe out the invading enemy in half an hour." He Feizhou's chest was thumping.

"What if the Japanese are not a brigade, but a division, are you still sure?" Chen Kangjian was dissatisfied.

"A division... It will probably take an hour..." He Feizhou didn't dare to guarantee it this time.

A division of the Japanese army, if in wartime, would have about 18,500 people, including civilians. Not to mention 18,500 people, even if it was 18,500 pigs, 3,000 people would not be able to catch them all in an hour.

"What if the Japanese navy comes to help? Can your 120-caliber artillery withstand the bombardment of the 403mm caliber main guns of the Japanese warships?" Chen Kangjian asked questions continuously.

The regiment-level units of the Lan Fang Northern Expedition Corps were equipped with 120mm caliber artillery, which was unimaginable for the Japanese Army, but for the Japanese Navy, 120mm caliber artillery could not pose much threat.

"If there is a navy... this this..." He Feizhou was dumbfounded.

If there is a navy to help, let alone annihilate the invading enemy in an hour, it would be a good fortune not to be raped.

The original text is in the six # 9 @book/bar!

403mm artillery, that power is not comparable to small and medium caliber artillery. The shells of 403mm caliber artillery fall, and they no longer rely on shrapnel to cause casualties, but rely on impact. As long as they are within the affected range, basically all of them will lose their combat effectiveness after one shot, even if they hide in fortifications, it will not be of much use, unless they dig 40 to 50 meters underground like the Germans.

"I've told you so many times that arrogant soldiers will be defeated, but you just don't learn from your mistakes! You've won a few battles in Europe and here, isn't that a big deal? I tell you, if you keep this kind of thinking, your career as a regiment commander will almost end..." Chen Kangjian instantly turned on the hair dryer mode.

He Feizhou and Qu Feixiang were immediately dejected, not daring to breathe.

In the Lan Fang army, the sense of hierarchy is deeply rooted in the hearts of the people. If it is not so obvious within the Lan Fang government, it is incisively and vividly in the military system.

Qin Zhiyuan deliberately left this situation alone, just to let the military rank system and hierarchy system take root in the hearts of the people. In the army, everyone is equal, which is the real way to die.

At this time, the whole world is not just like Lan Fang, but all armies are like this, even including the Russian Bolsheviks who claim that "everyone is equal".

In fact, relatively speaking, the hierarchy system within the Russian Bolsheviks is more strict and more excessive. The senior officers there simply hold the power of life and death over the soldiers.

Chen Yongfu and Zheng Jing are being tested by the Russian Bolsheviks.

On the banks of the Oka River, the battle had been going on for a day and a night, and the Russians were still launching desperate attacks, without stopping all night.

Boom, boom, boom...

The fierce sound of heavy machine guns rang out. It was not the Bolsheviks who were attacking, but the Bolsheviks were executing those soldiers who retreated in the face of the enemy.

"Damn, these old Russians are really not human..." Chen Yongfu was stunned in the bridgehead.

Near the bridgehead, due to the terrain, the Russians could only send out a company of soldiers to launch an attack each time. In the previous wave of Russian soldiers, only more than a dozen fleeing soldiers escaped, but they never expected that what was waiting for them was not rest, but a cold and hot rain of bullets.

"Everyone listen, if anyone dares to escape in the face of the enemy, these people will be their fate." The Russian officer who had just commanded a massacre shouted murderously while waving his saber.

The Russians were already furious. On the south bank of the Oka River, about 100,000 Bolshevik troops could only retreat from here to the north bank of the Oka River, but a group of soldiers from the Foreign Legion took over the bridge at this time, which was really a waste of money.

"What a waste, it would be great if we could just give us those bullets!" Chen Yongfu sighed.

Before setting off, Chen Yongfu and his men did their best to carry more supplies, just to be able to defend the Oka River for a little longer.

But now it seems that the supplies they carried are far from enough. After only one day and one night of fighting, the bullets are almost exhausted, and there is no sign of reinforcements, which makes Chen Yongfu very upset.

The current defenders are not allowed to fire machine guns unless in the most critical moment, and the soldiers have begun to use the weapons collected from the Russians to minimize the consumption of bullets.

However, it is useless to save money in this matter, and it is still necessary to find a way to break the deadlock.