Chapter 1418

Benefit Distribution

Chapter 1418 Benefit Distribution
Although Haihan claims to be invincible, it is still only a small country with a total population of only a few hundred thousand, and the total strength of the army is still very limited.The Ministry of National Defense has already taken up a large number of troops to guard the colonies scattered all over the Far East, and it is actually quite difficult for Haihan to assemble heavy troops across regions to fight a big battle.And according to past operational experience, it is undoubtedly a shortcut to solve this problem to let the Confederate Army join the operation.

It is undoubtedly the Annan Army who first obtained the status of the Army of the Association and had the earliest in-depth military cooperation with Haihan.It was with the help of Haihan that the Annan Kingdom ended the civil war between the North and the South. Later, Haihan supported the establishment of a new army equipped with guns and a navy that completely copied the Haihan model.As Haihan's earliest military ally, Annan's army will send people to participate in the military exercises organized by the Haihan Ministry of Defense in the Beibu Gulf every year.In the subsequent military operations of Haihan in the South China Sea, Annan also dispatched troops to coordinate actions, and he did not shy away from tying his own interests with Haihan.

After that, another powerful cooperating army came from Daming. Haihan spent countless efforts and resources to support the Xu Group in Fujian. prosperous profits.In the previous battles to destroy the Shibazhi and clean up the Dutch and Spanish colonial armed forces, Fujian has sent troops to cooperate with Haihan's actions, and has also given a lot of convenience to Haihan's actions on the southeast coast.

To this day, the relationship between the Fujian military and Haihan is still very close, and the military cooperation between the two sides is also advancing as always. Even in the process of Haihan establishing strongholds in Zhejiang and Shandong, Fujian is actually shipping and networking. Other areas have given explicit or implicit support.

As for the pirate armed forces who have surrendered to the Haihans along the coast of Zhejiang, they are not qualified to fight side by side with the Haihans.

Although the Phi Dao Ming Army, which is isolated overseas, has limited strength, it is also a front-line force that has fought with Hou Jin for many years.After the training and transformation of Haihan, the combat effectiveness of this army has been enhanced to a certain extent. Although its strength is not comparable to that of the Fujian navy under Xu Xinsu's command, which was piled up with real gold and silver, it is better than those who fought against the Houjin Army. Experience, to assist the Haihan Army on the Liaodong battlefield, it is basically competent.

Phi Island will send more than 2000 people to join the battle, and the command is still in Haihan's hands. Such a move is enough to show the sincerity of their cooperation, and Morgan is also very satisfied with this.However, there are still many details that need to be discussed with Shen Zhixiang to resettle these Ming soldiers in Lushun.

Based on the current situation of Phi Island, the consumption of food, grass and ammunition during the battle in Liaodong could not be expected from the Ming army. Most of the needs could only be supplied by Haihan.The specific operational arrangements also require a relatively complete connection between the command systems of the two sides.Although in the past year, the two sides have also jointly sent troops to sweep the coast of the Liaodong Peninsula several times, but the scale and objectives of this operation are very different from the previous operations, so the preparations before the war are very different. will also be more complicated.

After a brief discussion, Shen Zhixiang plucked up his courage and said, "I still have something to do at the end, and I hope you can give me some words."

Morgan nodded, indicating that he could speak.Shen Zhixiang said: "The adults must also know that the land on Phi Island is barren, and it is impossible to grow food, and it is difficult to support the life of the army and the people on the island. Although the Changshan Islands can grow food, the places are too scattered and management is inconvenient. Therefore, the governor wants to ask, If we can counter-attack Liaodong this year and drive away the golden thieves, can we set aside a piece of land in Liaodong and let the soldiers and civilians from Phi Island move back to settle down?"

Although Morgan is considered a senior general in the Haihan Army, his expertise is in the field of combat, and his sensitivity to politics and the overall situation is not so professional.He understood Shen Zhixiang's question, but he did not immediately come to a conclusion on how to respond.

The cooperation matters negotiated by Haihan and Phi Dao are mainly for Haihan to provide military and food assistance, while Phi Dao acts as an immigration exporter and a strategic ally.However, regarding the redistribution of the occupied areas, since there was no clear time to attack Liaodong before, the two sides have not conducted in-depth discussions on this issue, nor have they reached any written agreement.

It is not difficult to allocate a piece of land to the military and civilians of Phi Island. With the immigrants and troops that Haihan is planning to place in Liaodong, it is impossible to occupy all the area of ​​hundreds of square kilometers. A simple point of view.If the people from Phi Dao move to Liaodong, how big the land will be and where it will be drawn will need to be carefully considered. Moreover, when the two sides live under the same roof, should the military and civilians of Phi Island accept Haihan's proposal? Directly ruling, whether Shen's uncle and nephew can formally pledge allegiance to Haihan, this is also an unavoidable question.

Seeing that Morgan didn't respond for a long time, Shen Zhixiang was secretly anxious, thinking that this high-nosed and deep-eyed Fanren general had something bad about Phi Dao.Before Shen Zhixiang came to Lushun this time, Shen Shikui had given him a face-to-face opportunity, explaining the importance of this move and asking him to obtain this condition from Haihan.Otherwise, when Haihan conquers Jinzhou and gains a firm foothold, the role of Phi Dao will become smaller and smaller, and it is hard to say whether Hai Han is still willing to spend huge sums of money to support Phi Dao.

Phi Dao is far away from the mainland of Daming, which is a deformed existence in itself, and the uncle and nephew of the Shen family are now sandwiched between Daming and Haihan, and the situation is even more delicate.If Haihan is willing to give a piece of land to the military and civilians of Pidao in Liaodong, Shen's uncle and nephew will also regard this as a manifestation of Haihan's friendly attitude. If he wants to bargain with Daming in the future, there will be more ways to retreat.

Seeing that Morgan was silent, Shen Zhixiang had no choice but to break the silence and said, "Sir, if there is any difficulty, you might as well tell the commander."

After Shen Zhixiang said this, Morgan could not continue to pretend to be dead, and he replied in a deep sigh: "You want to have a foothold in Liaodong, this is not a problem, even if you don't take the initiative, we will make corresponding arrangements. Since we are going to send troops in the name of the coalition, then of course we will leave a plot of land for you to garrison after the war..."

When Shen Zhixiang heard this, he was instantly overjoyed. He understood that Haihan's move was actually to act in the name of Daming, so that he could justifiably occupy Liaodong, but this did not conflict with Pidao's plan.He and Shen Shikui knew very well that even if Haihan recaptured Liaodong, the control would not return to Daming.But as long as Morgan opened his mouth, Haihan agreed to this matter, and Phi Dao's goal was achieved.

However, Morgan continued to say: "...but you will be stationed here for a long time, and the specific arrangements have to wait for our Ministry of Defense to plan properly. I can't give you a definite answer right now, but I will give yours. Request to inform the Ministry of Defence for reference."

Shen Zhixiang gave a deep bow and thanked him, "Your Excellency. The last general came here this time, and he prepared a small gift, and I hope you will accept it with a smile." After that, he ordered the soldiers to bring up what they had prepared.

As long as Morgan is relieved, he has already seen the hope of success. As for how Morgan reports to the top, there is still room for struggle, so Shen Zhixiang will not miss this opportunity and quickly present the gift he prepared. .

Shen Zhixiang has dealt with Haihan many times, and he also knows that the senior officials of Haihan are very rich and despise a little gold and silver at all, so he did not delusionally use money to buy Morgan directly, but prepared some special products from North Korea. .Beautiful crystal and gemstone ornaments, two-finger thick Korean ginseng, fenugreek caviar... Although the number is small, it is quite interesting.

Morgan is not someone who is greedy for money and pleasure, but seeing that Shen Zhixiang's gift is indeed interesting, he did not refuse too much, and accepted it after thanking him.Of course, he understood that the other party's gift was not for nothing, and immediately said: "I will speak good words for you on the Ministry of Defense's side, but how to arrange it in the end still depends on what you want."

Shen Zhixiang hurriedly replied: "I will understand at the end, I hope you will pay more attention to this matter, and I will thank you again after the matter is completed!"

In fact, regarding the distribution of benefits after the Spring Offensive, the senior military officials of Haihan have already been discussing the issue.Haihan and Pidao jointly sent troops for a high-sounding reason. The nature of the war can be advertised as "Daming sent troops to recover the lost land in Liaodong", but not as "Haihan invaded Daming and seized Daming territory". Rhythmic wind direction.Therefore, after the war, the local Ming army station and institutions must have, even if it is just an empty shelf, it also represents the symbolic rule of the Ming Dynasty over this area.On this point, the senior officials of the Haihan military have already reached a consensus.

The focus of the debate was mainly on how to get along with Haihan in the future.On the one hand, Haihan also needs Phi Dao to continue to maintain the identity of the Ming army for a period of time in the future, so as to appease the domestic discussion of Haihan's march into Liaodong in Daming; on the other hand, Haihan also hopes that Shen's uncle and nephew and his troops can Loyalty to Haihan, otherwise thousands of soldiers stationed in Haihan's territory, but at some point under the command of another country, will obviously be a huge security risk.Whether the two sides will continue to maintain their ally, or whether the Phi Dao team will be fully integrated, this is the main issue that the military has not made a conclusion.

Naturally, Morgan would not make up his mind on behalf of the Ministry of Defense, so he could only express Haihan's attitude first, so that Shen Zhixiang would not be in a hurry.It just so happened that Gao Qiaonan had also returned to Fort Lushun from the front line, so Morgan summoned senior officers from the local garrison, together with Shen Zhixiang as a partner, to have a meeting to discuss the current situation and follow-up arrangements.

A few days ago, the repeated ambush organized by Morgan really made Hou Jinjun suffer a big loss. During the period when he was withdrawing to the Golden State Camp to move rescue soldiers, Gao Qiaonan and his team completed the attack on Golden State in just a few days. Reconnaissance of this plain area south of the Isthmus, and related military maps were drawn as a reference for the subsequent spring offensive.

After listening to the description, Shen Zhixiang couldn't help but be shocked. Morgan went to the front line to fight, and he only brought more than ten people by his side, so he dared to go deep into the enemy-occupied area to make waves, and finally set up an ambush and destroyed nearly [-] Jin soldiers. This can't be imitated.With such a fierce general supervising the battle in Liaodong, Shen Zhixiang couldn't help but have a little more confidence in the spring offensive.

At this battle preparation meeting, Shen Zhixiang also listened to General Haihan for the first time to describe the general operational arrangements of the spring offensive.

Morgan stood in front of a map that was seven feet wide and four feet high, holding a stick and explaining the Department of Defense's battle plan to the officers present: "...you should already know that the operational goal of our spring offensive is to cut off from here. Jin control area, drive the enemy to the north of this level."

As he spoke, he used a stick to draw a line at the narrowest point of the Jinzhou Isthmus: "Controlling here, we are equivalent to controlling the area hundreds of miles to the south, Houjin's naval armed forces are negligible, so we do not even We need to worry that they will launch a counterattack or harassment from the sea in the future. And if we want to achieve this combat goal, we must pursue a fast, accurate, and ruthless means! We must strive to win this pass with thunder, and then quickly establish a defense line to prevent future gold. counterattack."

Morgan drew a stick on the east and west coastlines of the Liaodong Peninsula and said: "The Ministry of Defense's combat plan is to carry out a three-pronged approach, attacking the target area from the east and west at sea, and simultaneously conduct amphibious landing operations, and then cooperate with the land army. advance and grab this place."

Shen Zhixiang looked at the map and listened to the explanation. He thought that the tactics of the Haihan people were simple and clear. It would be relatively easy to advance in both directions at sea. After all, there were very few Houjin warships, and they would definitely not be able to stop the offensive of the Haihan fleet. The only thing that can be struggled for a while is probably only the confrontation on land.But with the determination that Haihan showed this time, how many troops did Jinde send to block this opening in order to stop the offensive of the Haihan army?

When Shen Zhixiang was distracted, Morgan had already called the name of the Ming army of Pidao: "...The friendly army of Pidao will attack the front of the enemy's defense line from the middle road together with the special operations battalion."

Shen Zhixiang came back to his senses and quickly responded.Of course, he is no stranger to the special operations battalion. During the military operations after Haihan arrived in Shandong, he could see the special operations battalion from time to time.And Haihan raided Lushun in the winter last year and defeated the Jin defenders, which is also the record of the special operations battalion.It is an honor and a rare opportunity to learn and exercise for the Ming army of Pidao to cooperate with such a Haihan ace army on the battlefield.He glanced at Gao Qiaonan, who was sitting opposite him, and knew that this short Japanese general was very good at fighting. Maybe he should give him a gift later, so as not to use the Phi Island troops as cannon fodder on the battlefield. to use.

(End of this chapter)