Great Warlord: The Second Ancestor of the Empire

When Lin Yi heard Fan Shaozeng's words of assurance, he also smiled and pressed his hands.

In fact, even though Fan Shaozeng has a very heavy task and is responsible for opening up the second battlefield, to be honest, his task is relatively easy.

The main reason why I say this is that Siam has not completely turned to the Allies, so there are no Allied troops stationed in Siam.

By the time Fan Shaozeng went to open the second battlefield, Long Xiang's army had already been at war with John's empire.

At that time, Lin Yi would not easily let John's Empire withdraw its troops from the front line. Therefore, there was a high probability that Fan Shaozeng would only encounter resistance from the Siamese army.

There is still a question mark as to how much combat effectiveness the Siamese army has.

Of course, it is not ruled out that after the John Empire and others react, they will mobilize troops from Tianzhu and Malacca to support Siam.

But there will definitely not be many people supporting him.

Even if Fan Shaozeng moves quickly enough, the John Empire may not be able to gather the people to support him until Siam surrenders.

Thinking of this, Lin Yi looked at Fan Shaozeng again.

"Shaozeng, let me ask you something, can you ride a bicycle?" Lin Yi looked at Fan Shaozeng and asked.

"A bicycle?" Fan Shaozeng was a little confused by Lin Yi's sudden words.

He didn't know why he suddenly got involved with bicycles when he was just talking to Lin Yi about the war in Siam.

Moreover, he had heard of this bicycle, but to be honest, he had never ridden it.

Bicycles have actually been around for a long time and are a very convenient means of transportation.

Nowadays, it is very common for ordinary people in the empire to have a bicycle in their homes.

However, what Fan Shaozeng wanted to say was that he couldn't ride this thing.

why?

One is because of his body shape, he is quite fat, which makes him feel very uncomfortable when riding a bicycle.

The second reason was mainly because his previous residence, Dongchuan, was a city built on a mountain.

There is a joke in later generations that you think you are on the first floor, but in fact you are on the tenth floor. This is Dongchuan.

That place is known as the 8D Magic City. Riding a bicycle there is simply asking for trouble.

Therefore, Fan Shaozeng doesn't know how to do it, and not many people in the entire Dongchuan Army do.

"My lord, this subordinate really doesn't know how to do it." Fan Shaozeng shook his head in embarrassment.

"If you don't know how, just learn. I estimate there is still a month before your Dongchuan Army departs. In this month, you must gather at least one division of people to let them learn to ride bicycles."

"Siam is located in plains and hills, where the terrain is flat and the transportation network is developed, making it suitable for high-speed travel."

"The empire currently has insufficient production capacity to equip you with combat vehicles and armored vehicles. Therefore, the only option for you to penetrate behind enemy lines is bicycles."

"At the same time, considering that this division needs to constantly penetrate behind enemy lines and use bicycles, this division will be temporarily reorganized into a light infantry division. There will be no artillery, and they will only be equipped with grenades and mortars that are easy to carry."

"After you return to Yizhou, form this division first. The bicycles will be transported to Yizhou along with the supplies within a week at the latest." Lin Yi looked at Fan Shaozeng and said.

"Yes! Your Majesty, my subordinates will organize soldiers to learn how to ride bicycles as soon as they return." When Fan Shaozeng heard Lin Yi's words, he thought about it and felt that what Lin Yi said made sense, so he immediately stood up and replied.

In Siam, the terrain is flat and the roads are good. It would be a waste not to ride a bicycle.

Someone here may ask, although it cannot be equipped with combat vehicles and armored vehicles, it still cannot be equipped with horses?

As mentioned in the past few days, a war horse is an animal, and it also needs to eat. If you want a war horse to maintain endurance, it also needs to be carefully raised.

Even if you put aside these things and say that you use horses instead, how will you transport them?

The space used to transport a war horse can accommodate at least ten bicycles.

Moreover, if the bicycle is broken, it can still be repaired, but if the horse is injured, how can it be repaired?

Think about why Yamashita Tomofumi, the Bicycle Immortal of the Sakura Kingdom in later generations and the Tigers of Southeast Asia, was ridiculed as the Bicycle Immortal. Why did he choose a bicycle as a tool?

"By the way, this time you have to take the civilian division with you. They have no combat experience. Please pay attention to this matter. If you can take care of it, you should take care of it."

"The casualties of these people are too great, which may make the people think that the empire is using them as cannon fodder, making the already stable situation in Yizhou difficult again."

"However, I'm not saying that you should put the Fanmin in the rear. You also need to let these Fanmin divisions see the blood and let them participate. This will help the empire assimilate the Fanmin."

"You have to control this speed well. You can make your own decisions." Lin Yi suddenly mentioned the issue of the people of Yizhou Island again.

Lin Yi actually didn't know whether he should say this question.

Before the occupation of Sakura Kingdom, the people of Yizhou Island had been living a primitive life of fishing and hunting, and the empire had not managed them well for a long time.

Until the Sakura Nation occupied Yizhou Island and began to oppress these people, either forcing them to accept modern technology, or simply and roughly driving them away.

Later, Lin Yi sent Fan Shaozeng to regain Yizhou, call out those people who had been driven to the Central Mountains by Sakura Kingdom, and began large-scale construction on Yizhou Island.

Now Yizhou Island's factories, schools, towns, and transportation have been built, but these people are still wary of the empire and only trust Fan Shaozeng's Dongchuan Army the most. After all, Fan Shaozeng led his people to conquer Yizhou Island.

Logically speaking, this kind of thing should not be rushed. The empire only needs to take things step by step and make the lives of the people better and better. They will naturally choose to integrate into the empire in the end.

But this time may take a long time, it may take another twenty, thirty, or even fifty years.

Lin Yi wants to speed up this process and then build Yizhou Island into the most important link in the first island chain that protects the empire's inland security.

Lin Yi needed to station a large number of troops on Yizhou Island, but he was afraid of irritating the civilians, so the matter was shelved.

Later, Lin Yi suddenly thought that he could form a civilian division, integrate the soldiers of these divisions into the imperial system, and then let them brainwash their respective tribes.

At the same time, forming a Fanmin division composed entirely of Fanmin can also make the Fanmin feel that they have an armed force in their hands, and thus they will not be so repulsive to the empire.

Therefore, Lin Yi ordered Fan Shaozeng to form a Fanmin division on the spot and train them.

The weapons and equipment are also equipped according to the local garrison divisions in the interior of the empire, and there are all kinds of light and heavy weapons.

As for now, Lin Yi actually doesn't know how much combat power these two civilian divisions have, and he doesn't think he needs to know.

Because, in Lin Yi's heart, the significance of the existence of this civilian division is only symbolic.

In other words, even if these two civilian divisions, like the famous Osaka division of the Sakura Kingdom in later generations, went to the battlefield to play, he still had to send these two divisions.

Just to make the people of Yizhou Island have a sense of participation.

As for the military exploits, let’s forget about it.