On the fields in Beizhou, Hebei, as the smoke and dust rolls upwards, the drums and horns are noisy.

Sitting on the special command platform and following the brigade, I was also looking at this vast and majestic and prosperous military appearance with satisfaction.

With just one winter rest, almost 70% of the combat power was restored in Huaizhen. This is the obvious benefit of the primary industrialization regime.

With sufficient production capacity, capacity and population mobilization base, as long as appropriate plans and plans are made, we can expect the continuous results. From the turn of summer and autumn last year to the beginning of spring next year, it is enough to allow most of Huaizhen's production capacity to complete the transformation of comprehensive mobilization and continuous combat readiness.

Next is the issue of personnel replenishment.

However, the biggest advantage of modern firearms troops is probably that the personnel training cycle is much shorter than cold weapons, and the threshold and scope of military selection are also much lower and wider.

Theoretically speaking, in the firearm war mode, as long as you are a person with sound limbs, who can be proficient in the operation process of the musket and have the courage to pull the trigger against the enemy; the rest are more queues and coordinated traditional tactical training.

Under the rule of the Seventeen Prefectures in Huaibei, many have initial organizational and collective concepts, and have initially realized industrialization and multi-level progressive reserve systems. Based on the hundreds of thousands of potential troops, the rest is the running-in of weapons and tactics, which can be completed in about one to three months.

Next, experienced veterans, non-commissioned officers and officers were drawn from those battle-hardened main combat troops to build a new force, and then filled it with these fresh soldiers; a series of new troops with initial combat effectiveness were thus formed.

Although they still have to go through the test of the enemy and the tempering of war, they can be considered a qualified army; but before many main combat troops and second-line defense and garrison troops are exhausted, they are more of the reserve sequences that supplement the source of the troops as the main force, as well as act as auxiliary troops on the battlefield, guarding the rear supply lines, suppressing local resistance, eliminating the residual enemies and bandits, and maintaining public security.

It can be said that the construction model of the firearms unit itself greatly reduced the threshold and scope of military selection, and gave the Huai Army a larger and more efficient mobilization base than any traditional army.

Therefore, if there is a need, even the elderly, young people and women in the villages and mines can be summoned into the army at the expense of part of the production capacity and shutdown;

Although, due to the inherent limitation of physical fitness, they are not suitable for long-distance marching and mobility, as a supplement to temporary emergency personnel, they can still undertake some defensive garrison tasks such as building a fortification and defending the city. This will allow more young and middle-aged people to be liberated and drawn from the sequence that maintains the rear and devote themselves to the more needed frontal battlefield and offensive sequence.

Of course, if this is coming to this point, it also means that Huaizhen has reached the key to life and death, or at the critical moment of ending the road, and it doesn’t matter how much production capacity or loss.

This spring strategy launched in Hebei is aimed at Hedongdao, which has become the rear of the Western Army and an important supporter. It is currently based on the basic purpose of cutting off one of its wings, and then extending the next strategic goal as appropriate and as possible.

Therefore, in the first few winter months when most of the troops were fully replenished and mobilized, the corresponding large amount of preparations and materials were gathered and laid out in the main routes and directions of the land along Hebei under the name of post stations, and also under the cover of restoring the local transportation of daily necessities.

Of course, if the Western Army also launched an offensive in Hebei, it means that they may be shocked and continue to be touched and bleeding.

Because, the most important thing in the preparations in the past few months is to speed up military production and expand the scale of supporting industries through the slack season, and to make targeted supplements and reserves for the newly expanded troops.

Even if the newly formed army orders with a large proportion of the new recruits, they rely on the city and defense against the passive defensive force of the Western Army, they will not be able to fight.

The enemy and front line that Huaizhen has to face now is mainly divided into four major sections by the natural mountains and rivers from the Central Plains to Jiangbei;

The northernmost point is undoubtedly the Taihang Sixing Valley Road adjacent to Hedong Road, which is separated by the Taihang Mountains and Yanshan Mountains in Hebei. This is also a natural obstacle. After the preliminary strategy, it has been advanced into the mountainous areas and become the springboard for the next military operation and the front-end stronghold.

The second is from Baiya City, Huaizhou, Hebei on the north bank of the Yellow River to Dayang Bridge in Dujidao, Henan Province, a dozens of miles long defense line along the (Yellow) River. In addition to the Hangu Pass Corridor guarded by Baiya City, with the support of naval gunships patrolling along the river, in fact, only a few ferries along the river and Qiaojin are located.

Furthermore, in the western part of the Nanyang Basin, which has become the place where the Western Army gathers, the intermittent Tongbai Mountains and Funiu Mountains are built along the city defense line between Fangcheng and Biyang. It is also the most intense confrontation between Huaizhen and the Western Army departments and the greatest military pressure.

Although there has never been a decisive large-scale battle in this direction for various reasons, various temptations and harassment conflicts, tug-of-wars and infiltration wars are all the time;

Especially in the past winter, a small number of Western Army troops continued to block the terrain and narrowness, and entered the junction between Huainan and Henan. Although most of them were solved by local garrison troops and armed civilians, they also brought considerable trouble and many losses to the local military and civilians.

Finally, the water defense line along the river in Huainan on the East Jiangdong Road of Daliang, Southern Dynasties is also the quietest place among the war zones on all fronts. The Ning Manager who stayed in Jiangning Prefecture to overview the situation even expressed his attitude of using the power of Huai Town to reduce the military pressure on the upstream and paying the corresponding price for this.

Therefore, don't underestimate the recovered 70% of the strength, it represents the order of the main force that can be equipped with at least four full-packages. If I lower the standard again, at least I can double this number.

Among them, except for one who can take a car and ship to maneuver along the canal water system, three main battle orders will be concentrated as the main force of this strategy; and there are two to three newly formed defense and garrison troops in Hebei, who are ready to open the situation at any time and then enter the Hedong Road suppression situation.

It is finally expected that this time, the troops used will reach more than 70,000 troops, and the number of civilians and various labor service in the rear will reach about 100,000.

After all, with the strong unexpected factor of the Western Army entering the Central Plains, Huaizhen, which has been accumulating for many years, has also reached a natural trend of "shiping against the current, not advancing, retreating" in a sense. The wave of times driven by the wave of the times and the confrontation between multiple parties is rising and falling. It is very likely that if you don't persist until the end of this competition of the third-point of the world, you will not be able to see the final winner.

Therefore, the Hedongdao, which has relatively weak power in the Western Army, will become the first springboard and sacrifice for our camp to take the lead and move towards the future victory.

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In Ezhou on the north bank of the upper reaches of the Yangtze River, Wang Duanchen looked at the Hanyang Military City standing on the bank of the river with mixed feelings; behind him was a scarred and exhausted army, which also made some sounds like a survivor of the disaster or a breath of relief.

You should know that in order to break out from the numerous encirclements of the Western Army that surrounded the rear route and break out, many of them have exhausted their energy and spirit. Many of them have also fought for half of the world. Because of their strength loss or injuries or illness, they have fallen behind in the pursuit of the enemy.

However, the Light Cavalry team that had first entered the contact group found that it had escaped, and the city was ruined and the treasury was empty. Even the suspension bridge connecting the old city of Ezhou on the other side had been demolished and cut off.

This inevitably gave this tired army who had been fighting for several times again, and a heavy blow was blowing with his head and face. Just when he stopped, the first group of fugitives appeared.

When a large ship was rowing from the other side the next day, it was sent again to ask Wang Duanchen to let go of his troops and immediately lead a small number of formal orders to go south to the ridge for office.
Chapter completed!