In the wilderness of Beizhou, Hebei, smoke and dust billowed straight up as the army advanced, while drums and trumpets roared loudly. Sitting on the special command platform and following the march of the brigade, I was also looking at the mighty and majestic military appearance with satisfaction. With just one winter's rest, Huai Town has almost recovered about 70% of its combat strength. This is the obvious benefit brought by the political foundation of primary industrialization. With sufficient production capacity, transportation capacity and population mobilization base, as long as appropriate planning and plans are made, we can expect continuous results step by step. From the turn of summer and autumn last year to the spring of next year, it was enough for most of Huai Town's production capacity to complete the transformation of full mobilization and continuous combat readiness. Next is the issue of staff recruitment. However, as the biggest advantage of modern firearms troops, it is estimated that the personnel training cycle is much shorter than that of cold weapons, and the threshold and scope of soldier selection are also much lower and broader. Theoretically speaking, in the mode of firearms warfare, as long as a person with sound limbs is proficient in the operation process of a firearm, and has the courage to pull the trigger on the enemy, it is enough; the rest is more queues and coordination. Traditional tactical training. Under the rule of the seventeen prefectures in Huaibei, many have preliminary organization and collective concepts, and have initially realized industrialization and a multi-level progressive reserve system. Based on the potential number of hundreds of thousands of troops, the rest is the running-in of weapons and tactics. , it only takes about one to three months to complete the most basic needs. The next step is to recruit experienced veterans, non-commissioned officers and officers from the main battle units who have experienced hundreds of battles to build the structure of the new unit, and then fill it with these fresh soldiers; a series of new units that have begun to have combat effectiveness are thus Taken shape. Although they have to go through the test of facing the enemy on the battlefield and being tempered by the flames of war before they can be considered a qualified army; but before many main battle units and second-line defense units are exhausted, they will only serve as the main force. The reserve service sequence of the source of supplementary troops, as well as secondary roles such as serving as battlefield auxiliary troops, guarding rear supply lines, suppressing local resistance, eliminating remnants of enemies and bandits, and maintaining public security. It can be said that the construction model of the firearms force itself has greatly reduced the threshold and scope of soldier selection, giving the Huai Army a larger and more efficient mobilization base than any traditional army. Therefore, if it is necessary to be more extreme, even the elderly, young people, and women who live in villages, farms, and mines can be recruited into the army at the expense of sacrificing part of their production capacity and suspending work; Although, due to the innate limitations of physical fitness, They are not suitable for long-distance marching and mobility needs, but as temporary emergency troop supplements, they can still undertake some defensive tasks such as building forts and defending cities. This will allow more young and middle-aged people to be liberated and mobilized from the rear-maintenance sequence, and put into more necessary frontal battlefields and offensive sequences. Of course, if it reaches this point, it also means that Huai Town has reached a critical moment of life and death, or a critical juncture at the end of its rope, and it does not matter the amount of production capacity or loss. This spring offensive launched from Hebei is aimed at Hedong Road, which has become the rear area and important support of the Western Army, with the current basic purpose of cutting off one wing, and then depending on the circumstances and opportunities to extend the next strategic goal. Therefore, in the first few winter months when most of the troops were fully replenished and finally set off and mobilized, a corresponding large amount of preparations and supplies were made along with the establishment of grain institutes named post stations along the way in Hebei. and grain depots, and also under the cover of restoring the transportation of local livelihood supplies, they were successively gathered and laid out on the main march routes and directions. Of course, if the Western Army also launches an offensive in the direction of Hebei, it means that they will be surprised and continue to be beaten to death. Because the most important thing in the preparations in these months is to use the slack season to intensify military production and expand the scale of supporting industries, so as to make up for and reserve the gaps in firearms, equipment and ammunition for the newly expanded troops. got up. In this way, even those newly formed military orders with a large proportion of new recruits are not without the power to fight in the face of the passive defense of the Western Army relying on city fortresses and defensive fortresses. The enemy forces and fronts that Huai Town faces now are mainly divided into four major sections by the natural mountains and rivers from the Central Plains to Jiangbei and the geographical advantages; The northernmost one is undoubtedly the Taihang Mountains and the Yanshan Mountains in Hebei. Taihang Sixing Valley Road is adjacent to Hedong Road. This is also a natural danger. After the initial attack, it has advanced into the mountainous area, becoming the springboard and base for the next military operation. The second one is from Baiya, Huaizhou, Hebei on the north bank of the Yellow River.?, to the Dayang Bridge in Dujidao, Henan, there is a dozens of miles long defense line along the (Yellow) River. In addition to the Hangu Pass Corridor guarded by Bai Ya City, with the support of naval gunboats patrolling along the river, only a few ferry crossings and bridges along the river were actually guarded. Furthermore, in the western part of the Nanyang Basin, which has become a gathering place for the Western Army, the intermittent fortress defense line built between the Tongbai Mountains and the Funiu Mountains, along Fangcheng to Biyang, is also where Huai Town is now located. This is where the battle between various departments of the Western Army is fiercest and the military pressure is greatest. Although due to various reasons, there has never been a decisive large-scale battle in this direction, various large and small trials and harassing conflicts, tug-of-wars and infiltration wars are ongoing all day long; especially Throughout the past winter, small groups of troops from the Western Army continued to enter the border area between Huainan and Henan due to the dangerous terrain and narrow terrain. Although most of them were dealt with by the local garrison and armed civilian villages, some were also given to the local garrison. soldiers and civilians, causing a lot of trouble and a lot of losses. The last is the water defense line along the Huainan River facing the Daliangjiang East Road in the Southern Dynasty. It is also the calmest place among all the war zones today. Manager Ning, who was stationed in Jiangning Mansion and had an overview of the situation, even privately expressed his willingness to use the power of Huai Town to reduce the military pressure on the upper reaches and pay a corresponding price for this. Therefore, do not underestimate the recovered 70% strength, which represents the main force sequence that can be fully equipped with at least four. If I lower my standards again, I can at least double that number. Among them, in addition to one with its back to the Huai River, which can be boarded by vehicles and ships at any time, and maneuver along the canal water system, there are three other main battle orders that will be the main force of this attack; and there are two or three more in Hebei. The newly formed garrison troops were ready to open up the situation and then move into Hedong Road to suppress the situation. ????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????? After all, as the Western Army, a powerful and unexpected factor, entered the Central Plains in a large scale, Huai Town, which had been building momentum for many years, also reached a certain natural trend of "sailing against the current, failing to advance or retreat". The wave of the times driven by this and the multi-party struggle The confrontation is waxing and waning. It is very likely that if you don¡¯t persist to the end in this three-thirds competition, you won¡¯t be able to see the final winner. Therefore, Hedong Road, where the Western Army is relatively weak, will become the first springboard and sacrifice for our camp to strike first and become stronger, and to move towards a sweeping victory in the future. . . . . . . . . . . . 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 emotions; behind him was a scarred and exhausted army, and they also issued some kind of words similar to the aftermath of the disaster. Or the sound of relief. You know, in order to break out from the heavy encirclement of the Western Army that surrounded the retreat, it has exhausted the energy and energy of many of them, and there are also many comrades who have fought in most of the world, because He lost strength on the way or was injured or sick, and his life or death was unknown, and he fell behind the pursuing enemy. However, the Qingqi team that entered the communication first found that everyone inside had escaped, and the city was dilapidated 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 dealt a heavy blow to the exhausted army that had been fighting for several times. The very night it stopped, the first small group of troops fled. By. And when a large ship sailed over from the other side the next day, it also sent another formal order for Wang Duanchen to put down his troops and immediately lead a small number of personal followers to rush south to Lingnei to take up his post. At this moment after the news spread, the Hanyang Military City was filled with howls and cries. And when Wang Duanchen, who abandoned his subordinates for the second time and was ordered to cross the river, stepped onto the soil on the other side with tears streaming down his face, his mottled gray hair had turned gray.