The World Online - Chapter 1440

[Chapter 1350 Railway Soldiers]

Ouyang Shuo just had a meeting with the cabinet in a hurry to set the general framework of the Western Asia Protectorate. The rest of the complicated matters would naturally be taken care of by the cabinet, and he had no time to take care of them.

Just after meeting with the cabinet, Ouyang Shuo was in the Privy Council again, presiding over the relevant military adjustments.

Nor is it an easy task.

Similar to the South Asia theater, according to the early plan, the West Asia theater will be stationed in the Western Xinjiang Protectorate, which has been revoked, and transferred to the West Asia Protectorate to be responsible for the security of West Asia.

The newly established Western Asia Protectorate, bordering the Caesar Dynasty in the north and the Romanov Dynasty in the northeast, is the forefront of Daxia’s attack or defense on the European continent.

In terms of strategic location, it is really extraordinary.

In addition, the internal situation in the West Asia Capital Protectorate is complicated, and there are many unstable factors. The West Asia theater must not be able to survive with only two army groups.

In order to strengthen the deterrence of the Western Asia Protectorate, Ouyang Shuo decided to reorganize a regular army from the four major armies in South Asia, named it the Central Asian Army, and was mainly responsible for guarding the Central Asian region.

Lin Yi, head of the Fifth Army Corps of the City Guards, was promoted to the commander of the Central Asian Army.

The defense of the three provinces of Xijiang was handed over to the Xijiang Construction Corps and the Xikang Construction Corps.

For the one million Persian army, Ouyang Shuo also had a plan to deal with it. First, 400,000 troops were abolished, demobilized, invested in local construction, and provided young and middle-aged labor for various industries.

This is also to buy people’s hearts.

Not everyone wants to join the army, especially in this troubled world, as long as they go to the battlefield, no one can guarantee that they can survive the hellish battlefield.

Apart from the elite troops, the willingness of ordinary soldiers to retire is still very high.

Ouyang Shuo’s actions can be regarded as conforming to public opinion.

Besides, the Persian army’s combat power is limited, and if it is really reorganized into a regular army, it will weaken the level of the Great Xia army.

To put it bluntly, I just don’t like it.

The remaining 600,000 people will all be transferred to railway soldiers, responsible for the construction of the railway network in the empire.

One of the remaining three major South Asian armies will also be selected and transferred to the Railway Corps.

The newly established arms of this empire reached a huge scale of 850,000 people in one fell swoop.

If the empire wants to realize its dominion over the Western Asia and Africa, the land, the core point is to build a railway across the Asian and African continents as the lifeline of the empire’s transportation.

It is conceivable how arduous and magnificent a project this will be.

Once completed, it will surely shine in the annals of history.

Ouyang Shuo even said at a military and political meeting: “In the industrial age, the responsibility and honor of railway construction is no less than that of going to the battlefield. This is a battle without gunpowder, but also with death.”

To build a railway, you have to shed your head, sprinkle your blood, weather the wind and rain, overcome thorns and thorns, open roads across mountains, build bridges when encountering water, and be ready to shed blood and sacrifice at any time.

It can be described as majestic.

Its achievements are no less than winning an all-out war.

It is most suitable for such a difficult task to be entrusted to the railway soldiers with military background.

In comparison, 850,000 railway soldiers are not many at all. If there is an opportunity in the future, Ouyang Shuo plans to continue to expand the scale of the railway soldiers.

Only in this way can this great event be accomplished in the shortest possible time.

In addition to the Asian-African Railway, the railway network in the center of the empire and the protected areas must also be continuously expanded, eventually forming a complex railway network covering major cities.

Railway construction will set off a wave of climax in the next few years.

For this reason, with the approval of Ouyang Shuo, the Privy Council will set up a railway corps headquarters in the capital, and the first railway corps commander will be promoted from Hong Ying, the regiment commander of the 2nd Army Corps of the Huben Army.

Red Eagle’s alien status makes it easier to command this special unit.

What needs to be explained is that although the railway corps has a scale of 850,000 people, which is comparable to a war zone, the specifications of the railway corps headquarters are only the specifications of a group army headquarters.

The commander of the railway corps is naturally on the same level as the commander of the group army.

In the future, after the construction of the imperial railway comes to an end, these railway soldiers will be transferred to railway construction workers.

In other words, the Railway Corps Command is only a transitional product.

Of course, status is still very important during the period of fulfilling its mission.

If Red Eagle does this well, its position in the Great Xia Army will definitely not be lower than the commander level in the future.

Taking into account the professional requirements, the Railway Corps Command will also recruit a group of technical personnel from the civilian population.

All in all, it’s a big deal with a lot of meaning.

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April twenty-eighth.

After receiving the imperial order, the First South Asian Army and the Second Army began to gather towards the border of the Arab Empire, preparing to use practical actions to put pressure on the Arab Empire.

When the Arab king heard the news, he couldn’t sleep all night, tossing and turning.

The forced surrender of the Persian Empire is undoubtedly bad news for the Arab Empire.

As strong as the Persian Empire, it only persisted for a month and a half in front of the Great Xia Bingfeng.

How long can the Arab Empire last if it really wants to go to war?

If the Great Xia African Theater cooperates, it can even attack from east to west. With the army of the Arab Empire, it will definitely not last for two months, or even shorter time.

If you can’t win, you can’t surrender.

The Arab king was very entangled, almost counting the days to live.

The problem is, there is not much time left for him to struggle.

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Some people are entangled, some are not entangled.

For example, King Manstein of the Germanic Dynasty was very decisive. After receiving Daxia’s request to return the 120,000 Gundor Army, he agreed without struggling fearlessly.

Right now is the critical period of the struggle between the Germanic dynasty and the Romanov dynasty. Manstein really didn’t want to, and didn’t dare to have an enmity with Daxia at this time, so he could only obediently admit his cowardice.

The good thing is that after sending away the 120,000 Gundor troops, Manstein exchanged Daxia’s promise not to take the initiative to use force against the Germanic dynasty.

Of course, this commitment is limited to Gaia’s ten years.

Even so, Manstein felt it was worth it.

This is Ouyang Shuo’s reward for Manstein’s understanding, anyway, Great Xia has no plans to attack the mainland of Europe.

Ouyang Shuo knew very well that the European continent was a hornet’s nest, and he couldn’t poke it easily.

The continent of Europe, which has a profound heritage, cannot be conquered by force alone. When these dynasties face external threats, they will quickly unite and unite to the outside world.

That was not what Ouyang Shuo wanted.

As for the Gangduo Dynasty, in fact, it has been drifting outside the European system, which gave Great Xia an opportunity, otherwise it would never have succeeded so easily.

Ouyang Shuo had a clear understanding of this.

The redeemed 120,000 Gangduo Army, together with the remaining soldiers from the previous reorganization of the Western European Army, were eliminated, selected from the best, and reorganized into the Nordic Army.

As the name suggests, the future main battlefield of the Nordic Army is in Northern Europe.

The primary goal is to capture islands in cold regions like Iceland and Greenland with the assistance of the Atlantic Fleet.

These islands will be the bridgehead for the empire to attack the Arctic Ocean in the future.

In addition, the establishment of the Nordic Army also has a realistic appeal to strengthen the military strength of the Gangduo Jiedu Mansion.

Even with the backing of Great Xia, Ouyang Shuo was not confident that only a Western European army of 250,000 people would be able to ensure that Gangduo Province could rest easy.

Who knows what those European dynasties will think.

Han Qinhu, the former commander of the second regiment of the Yulin Army, was promoted to the commander of the Nordic Army.

Han Qinhukong’s position as legion commander was taken over by the deputy commander, Jianqi Leiyin.

So far, among the five commanders of the Habayashi Army, three are aliens.

[End of this Chapter]