For the past few days, Li Yao had been sleeping in the regimental headquarters. There was nothing he could do about it. The battle in Rong City had made him a little worried. As far as he knew, the firepower of the 9th and 10th divisions of the Sichuan Army was too poor. They could not even gather a few decent heavy machine guns. Moreover, the establishment of the troops was even less than sufficient. For example, Li Yao's Independent Regiment was fully equipped. However, the establishment of the Sichuan Army, due to the lack of military funds, even had three soldiers sharing a Hanyang Road…
" Regiment Commander, urgent message from Rong City!!"
"The 2nd division of the Sichuan Army joined forces with the 1st division and defeated two teams of no-name masters. The crisis in Rong City was resolved. After the war ended, Lin Tianhong gathered the morale of the army and his prestige in Rong City was unstoppable!!”
Admittedly, Li Yao was still a little shocked when he heard the news. He admitted that he had underestimated Lin Tianhong. No wonder he could become the Chief of Staff of the Sichuan Army so quickly. In the past, in Guangyi, Lin Tianhong was a typical genius. However, he was a few years older than Li Yao.
Li Yao frowned. If Lin Tianhong really attacked Guangyi at all costs, what could he do to resist him…
Forget it.
He could not dodge. Even if he really fought, he would bite off a piece of flesh from Lin Tianhong.
"Call Rong City back. Lin Tianhong, Liu Renhou, and any news from Rong City. Send it every five minutes!!”
"Yes, Guild Leader!"
With Guangyi's current industrial level, it was impossible for them to produce a telegram. Therefore, Li Yao bought 200 telegram machines from Germania at the end of last year. The technological level of these things was not high, so the Germanic merchant only gave Li Yao a friendly price. It was equivalent to giving them to Li Yao for nothing.
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Ever since 1675, Maroni successfully used radio to send codes, this long-distance communication method had been greatly improved. The Independent Regiment was now equipped with five telegram machines in each infantry battalion. Rong City, Kun City, Song Jiang, Qianjing, and Yang City also had telegram machines arranged by Guangyi. The regiment headquarters of the Independent Regiment had a communication company with more than 100 people. The telegrams received every day were like snowflakes fluttering.
After the communicator left, Li Yao also washed his face. It seemed that he would not be able to sleep tonight. The small steel factory in the west had already begun construction, with an annual output of 100,000 tons. Guangyi's research and development center would also enter the official operation mode next month. By then, Guangyi's top products, perfume and soap, would definitely become money-making tools. The 75mm mountain cannon of the Shanshan Armament Factory was also undergoing sample experiments. The quality of the steel was still not up to standard, whether it was the processing equipment or not. In terms of manufacturing skills, the Tang Shan Armory was still a distance away.
A week later, at nine in the morning.
The telegrams from Rong City came batch after batch. Li Yao did not dare to slack off at all.
"Regiment commander, the latest telegram from Rong City!”
"Decipher it immediately!"
Five minutes later, after Li Yao finished reading the telegram, he heaved a sigh of relief. It seemed that the many days of hiding had paid off. In the past week, the direction of Rong City had changed greatly. Lin Tianhong had increased taxes and made the big merchants donate money to buy armaments crazily.
"Lin Tianhong actually wants to devour the entire Western Sichuan Province in one go!”
"He's really ambitious…"
"No wonder even Xiong Kewu was killed by him…"
"This kid is really ambitious. The entire Western Sichuan has a population of 55 million, and the size is close to 900,000 square kilometers. The area of Fusang is less than 400,000 square kilometers. If he controls Western Sichuan, he will become an independent kingdom.”
" It's a pity that we have to take things one bite at a time. It's still too rushed. If we concentrate all our forces, it might be possible. We'll split our forces into four groups, with Rong City as the center, and send troops to control the entire Western Sichuan..."
Li Yao's lips suddenly curled up. The only ones that Lin Tianhong could really mobilize were the old troops of the Sichuan Army, the five infantry divisions.
In this era, a regular infantry division was organized according to a division with six regiments. It consisted of four infantry regiments, one artillery regiment, and one cavalry regiment. The number of soldiers ranged from six thousand to eight thousand.
This kind of infantry division was already the cream of the crop.
If it was just an infantry division of the Sichuan Army, even if they had 8,000 soldiers, the independent regiment would have a chance of winning if they were only defending…
One spurt of energy, one second, one decline, three times, one exhaustion!!
If he won the battle, Li Yao could at least buy a few months of breathing time for Guangyi, or even more. Besides, there was more than just Guangyi City in the southwest of Sichuan. By then, the other counties would also need to be stationed.
"Power up immediately. All officers above company commander in the 1st, 2nd, and 3rd battalions will be summoned to the regimental headquarters for a meeting in the afternoon!”
The telegram from the regimental headquarters was quickly sent to the various garrison locations of Guangyi.
In the west, in the area bordering Panhua County, the 3rd Infantry Battalion Commander Wang Rong and Vice Commander Wang Yizhe had been stationed here for close to five months.
The regiment commander had given the infantry battalions the order to train hard, but in the past few months, other than a few drills, they had not fought a single battle.
" Old Wang, should we report the strength of the 3rd Battalion? In the past few months, the original 500 soldiers of the 3rd Battalion have already exceeded 1,000…"
Although the regiment headquarters didn't allow them to expand the army, the people below couldn't sit still.
"Damn it, which one of the 1st and 2nd battalions didn't expand on their own? The regimental headquarters must know that the military expenditure we reported every month, as well as the armaments we brought from the Mount Tang Armory, is not the size of an infantry battalion.”
"Let's talk about it when we reach the regiment headquarters in the afternoon. Besides, we have soldiers. Isn't our independent regiment stronger?？”
For example, the 3rd Infantry Battalion now had 6 Infantry companies. This was already double the size of the army, and this did not include the reserve forces. These few months, the reserve forces had not slacked off. It was unknown if they wanted to join the official army as soon as possible, but they had all trained hard.
"If we don't start a war, I really want to take down Panhua County in one go. A thousand brothers, can't we take down a county?？”
"Old Wang, I heard from those foreigners that there are large amounts of iron ores in the mountains near Panhua County. No wonder they brought the steel factory here. If they were to build an armament factory, our 3rd Battalion would not be able to make a fortune.。”
Wang Yizhe had also heard the news. Those foreigners were really capable. Even the steel factory had begun to be built quickly under their command.
"Inform the company commanders of First Company, Second Company, and Third Company to go to the county town for a meeting in the afternoon!!”
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