1890 King of Southeast Asia

"Captain, that thing... I have asked someone to burn it, but after all, this thing is their custom. The meaning of the General Staff is to respect their customs..." Li Yan gently pushed open the door and said to Hou Dehui.

"I know, I have reported this matter to the headquarters, and I will be fully responsible for this matter. Before the headquarters gives orders, I am still the commander of the third regiment. I order the thorough implementation of the plan to change customs." Hou Dehui sat on a chair, frowning and reading a book.

The book was found by King Abu Ghaida. The book cover is the skin of some animal. The paper is yellowed. It can be seen that it is a thing with a long history. Every time Hou Dehui turns the page, he restrains his strength.

"It has a long history, but it always reveals a sense of barbarism." Hou Dehui shook his head, put down the book and stood up.

Only after standing up could Li Yan see his face clearly.

Hou Dehui's eyes were full of bloodshot, and dark circles "grew" on his face like smoky makeup. Coupled with his cold face, it was a standard face that scared a child to tears.

"Commander Zheng has sent a message, rejecting our request to stay any longer, and ordering our regiment to head north to Kulun as quickly as possible, annihilate the rebels, and eliminate Bokdoggen." The chief of staff also came in at this time.

"Order, the first battalion immediately takes over the temple, finds evidence of the crime, imposes severe punishment, completes all the review work before tonight, and moves out early tomorrow morning, with the target of Kulun." Hou Dehui was silent for a long time, and finally gritted his teeth and said.

"No need, Commander Zheng said that the policy of changing customs has been accepted by the higher-ups, Commander Zheng will step down in the near future, and General Wang Xu will take over the command." The chief of staff sighed.

Hou Dehui's order is almost the same as disobeying orders. Once it is spread out, the only way waiting for him is to accept the review and retire early.

Any country, any army, no matter how strong it is, cannot accept officers disobeying orders, regardless of whether the order is correct or not.

Because sometimes, orders that seem extremely outrageous and excessive to soldiers may be intentional.

For example, frontal containment of attacks, troops that are left behind during retreat, and so on.

Whether the result of disobeying orders is good or bad, it cannot change the fact of disobeying orders.

If it is not dealt with severely, will others also disobey orders in the future on the grounds that "this is a wrong order"?

A merciful person cannot command an army, because a merciful heart is likely to miss opportunities for war, and it is easier to lose the dignity of the commander, so that the soldiers will "take it for granted" when facing orders.

"General Wang Xu's move proves that the headquarters is very determined, and this matter, in its essence, is caused by religion. This kind of barbaric and backward concept must be changed from the root." Li Yan said on the side when he saw Hou Dehui was somewhat moved.

Wang Xu is one of the four kings of the army. His fighting style is radical and he likes to take risks, but this is not what he is most famous for. What he is most famous for is his ruthlessness.

Ten years ago, Nanhua obtained the Luzon Islands, which recorded millions of local people, and the unrecorded tribal population is no less than one million.

Wang Xu served in various positions in the Luzon Islands for six years. The local population was only about two million, most of whom were women and children, and all the children received closed-door Chinese education.

Wang Xu also served as governor and commander of the Construction Corps in Arabia and Mesopotamia. He went there when the locals were more active. When he left, the locals were more obedient.

"Order, pack up and set off at 2 pm. We have stayed in Ulanqab League long enough. Ask the headquarters for air transport teams to drop supplies. Our regiment will travel day and night to Kulun." Hou Dehui thought about it again and again and nodded.

In fact, he was convinced when he heard that Wang Xu was coming, but he changed his words as soon as he said it, and he had to pretend.

The reason why he became like this and attacked the temple was from the leather drum seized a few days ago: the Lama instrument-Ajie drum.

The ordinary musical instrument made of sheep skin as the drumhead and wood as the drum body is called Damaru.

When practicing Tantric Buddhism, the advanced version of the Dharmaraj is used when practicing the dual-body method, that is, when the two days are off.

The Dharmaraj is a double-sided drum. After becoming a Tantric instrument, the material changed from wood to skulls. The left side is made of a male skull of about sixteen years old, and the right side is made of a female skull of about twelve years old.

The drumhead is made of cow and sheep skin, and also made of the skin of a holy girl. The latter is the real Ajie drum.

The drumstick is made of human bones.

According to Tantric legend, such a drum can communicate with the gods.

Before being made into a drum, in order to maintain holiness, the girl's tongue will be cut off and her ears will be pierced.

The lama doctor who marched with the army may have some status and was able to carry the Ajie drum with him. Before entering the prisoner-of-war camp, when collecting personal items, it was collected and kept as a religious item.

Now, the doctor has "died on the battlefield."

Hou Dehui actually didn't know why he was so impulsive. He had fought in many battles and had seen many mountains of blood and corpses. He could even eat next to rotting and smelly corpses without changing his expression.

But when he got the Ajie drum and knew its origin, a chill spread from his chest and goose bumps appeared all over his body.

Then, he remembered his niece, his sister's first child. At the age of twelve, she was a very lively and cheerful child. Every time he was on vacation, she would be the first to rush to him, shouting "Uncle" while running.

An originally healthy child had her ears pierced and her tongue cut off for some inexplicable religious reasons, on the grounds that hearing the filth of time and speaking vulgar words would destroy her holiness.

How ridiculous.

However, this ridiculousness has lasted for hundreds and thousands of years in Lamaism.

(Some people think that this thing does not exist just for the sake of being black. I have seen the Ajie drum in more than one museum. It may be fake, but there is a collection, so it will not be groundless.)

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"Commander, are you going back?" Huang Zhengfang looked at Zheng Lei reluctantly.

Zheng Lei nodded gently and signed the logistics inventory list brought by Huang Zhengfang.

"Yuan Gongbao is already forcing the palace. The capital has been firmly controlled by us. The war is over. There is not much meaning for me to stay here." Zheng Lei said after filing the file.

Yuan Gongbao has persuaded and gathered all the Han ministers to surrender the city in order to win preferential treatment.

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At the same time, Tai also persuaded some of the nobles, including the corrupt group headed by Prince Qing - they thought that this would preserve their wealth, but they didn't know that his wealth had long been targeted by Jiang Wang.

Just kidding, Prince Qing alone has more than 7.1 million pounds in deposits in British banks. This old fox follows the principle of a cunning rabbit with three burrows, and it is impossible that there are only these.

In contrast, the Ottoman Empire borrowed 30 million pounds from Nanhua, and the cash that could eventually return to the Ottoman Empire was only 9 million, but it paid tariffs and partial control of the Turkish Straits Customs.

Just started, the strongest battleship in the former World War I, equipped with four twin-mounted 381 mm main guns, with a displacement of 33,000 tons and a maximum speed of 25 knots, the Queen Elizabeth-class battleship named after Queen Elizabeth, cost 2.4 million pounds.

Prince Qing's property can build three ships. Even with the wealth of the British Empire, in 1912 when the atmosphere of war was becoming increasingly intense, only five ships were started.

What is a termite? What is Heshen? Heshen can still do things, and the ability of Prince Qing...

"Then, do you know when I can be transferred back?" Huang Zhengfang asked expectantly.

Zheng Lei's hand, which was packing things, paused for a moment when he heard this, and immediately returned to normal, but he did not reply immediately.

Huang Zhengfang knew the ending when he saw this, and he couldn't help feeling a little disappointed.

He hadn't seen his two sisters and nephews for a long time. He heard that his third sister was about to have a boyfriend, and his eldest sister had a niece.

He also thought that when the war was over, he could go back to see, at least not to miss his sister's wedding.

"You are still young, you should exercise more." Zheng Lei said after a long while.

"Next, we will establish a grassland frontier defense headquarters with three armies. I have recommended you to serve as deputy staff officer in one of the armies."

"You are very good. You can be said to be one of the best juniors I have ever seen. However, you are still a little immature in your actions. This is a very good training opportunity."

"Work hard in this position. You can get your brigadier general rank in two years." Zheng Lei thought Huang Zhengfang wanted to retire. Otherwise, why would he emphasize that the war was over?

Their headquarters was extremely irregular. In essence, it was a mercenary headquarters of the revolutionary army established by Nanhua. The wartime colonel on the shoulders of Huang Zhengfang, the chief of staff, was not stable.

It was not a problem of Huang Zhengfang's ability, but a problem of his age. He was twenty years old and not married yet. It would be no good to be promoted too high rashly.

Some things are not simply a problem of ability. If Huang Zhengfang went back, a twenty-year-old colonel would be great for him. Then what?

There were not many positions for him in the mainland. Considering his level and age, the biggest possibility was that he would be sent to the General Staff and wait for ten years before considering the issue of promotion.

This is not malicious suppression or seniority, but young people in their twenties are still in the stage of youthful vigor. Colonels can be sent out and serve as divisional and brigade commanders.

In the starting stage, generals in their twenties can still be understood. After all, they need a strong momentum and dare to fight, relying on blood.

However, the Nanhua Army has entered a mature stage. Everything is subject to the entire military system. A steady person is more favored than a daring person.

This is determined by reality. Military affairs are not a joke.

A plan that kills one thousand enemies and loses one hundred but has a success rate of 50% is completely incomparable to a plan with a success rate of 80%, but kills one thousand enemies and loses three hundred.

Radical generals consider how to win beautifully, while the staff considers how to win safely, and the government considers how to be invincible.

"Is the grassland border defense headquarters the headquarters of General Wang Xu? The grassland is vast, sparsely populated, and difficult to travel on the road, and it is difficult to supply. Is it too much to send three armies?" Huang Zhengfang replied subconsciously.

He had been in the General Staff for a long time, and habitually calculated the demand first, and then the consumption.

It is true that the grassland faces the Russian Empire, but the Russian Empire does not have many military forces on the border, two to three divisions, mainly Cossack cavalry, and very few infantry.

The times have changed, and the role of cavalry has been very small. Huang Zhengfang is confident that he can use one regiment to block a Cossack cavalry division.

"The grassland is vast, and the general staff of the three armies thinks it is not enough. If there is no other way, I believe they would like to station hundreds of thousands of troops on the grassland." Zheng Lei smiled.

"And the three armies are not concentrated in the grassland. From the Khorchin tribe to the Western Regions, they are all the deployment range of the grassland border defense army. There are only three armies on the thousands of kilometers long front..."

After Zheng Lei finished speaking, Huang Zhengfang still frowned and looked at the map. The winding path from the upper left side of the autumn-leaf begonia to the middle section of the upper right side is definitely more than 3,000 kilometers.

"Are we going to war with the Russian Empire?" Huang Zhengfang said after a long silence.

"Maybe, I don't know." Zheng Lei shrugged and smiled.

"If we go to war, I think we should send troops from the Western Regions and the three provinces. Transportation will be more convenient, consumption will be much smaller, and the strategic location will be more important."

"Otherwise, it will not be enough to deploy defenses on a border line of more than 3,000 kilometers. If there are too few people, it will not be enough to fully monitor, and if there are too many people, it will not be able to support it at all."

Huang Zhengfang drew on the map.

"The railway to the Western Regions has not been built yet, and you have thought of this." Zheng Lei looked at the arrow drawn by Huang Zhengfang and smiled with relief.

Huang Zhengfang drew an arrow from the northwest corner of the Western Regions on the map, pointing to Yekaterinburg.

This is the first hub of the Russian Empire to the Far East, the most prosperous city in the Asian part of the Russian Empire, and the largest logistics base for the eastward advance.

Starting from the Yili region, the straight-line distance is more than 1,000 kilometers, which is about the same as the distance from Shaanxi to Qingdao.

If you start from the shore of Lake Balkhash, it can be shortened. However, in 1864, the Qing Empire signed the Treaty of the Northwest Boundary with the Russian Empire, and about 440,000 square kilometers of land south of Lake Balkhash were ceded to Tsarist Russia.

Before World War I, the total area of ​​Tsarist Russia was 22.88 million square kilometers. At the same time, the territory of Britain was 34 million square kilometers, and France, also an old colonial empire, was only 10.6 million square kilometers.

The total area of ​​the three is 67.48 million square kilometers, and the total area of ​​the world is 148.9 million square kilometers, including Antarctica.

The three countries accounted for half, which is still the richest and most densely populated part.

This is also the reason why the world war broke out. They occupied too many interests, and the latecomers had strength but could not get "reasonable" interests.

"Your idea is very interesting. You and General Wang will definitely have something in common. I will recommend you to the general to serve in the Western Regions. What do you think?" Zheng Lei really trains Huang Zhengfang as a junior, which is extremely rare.

"I..." Does Huang Zhengfang want to go to the Western Regions? Yes! He has a hunch that the area will not be peaceful in the future, and he will be able to take the lead if he goes there.

However, it is too far from his home. It may not be right to say that it is thousands of miles away, but it is indeed a long journey of tens of thousands of kilometers to go home once.

"If you agree, I will give you a month's vacation and arrange your family. There is no support for taking your family there for the time being. Forget that you are not married yet..." Zheng Lei muttered to himself.

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