My Apprenticeship to Uncle Jiu: I Was a Warlord in the Republic of China

However, when it comes to the many mountains and dense forests, Jiang Li feels very emotional.

Firstly, this time he could find enough minerals to develop industry.

Secondly, coal and oil resources are extremely scarce, which has always been a major flaw, so much so that he still relies on imports to survive.

Fortunately, due to the establishment of various factories, the types of goods he can produce have greatly increased.

By selling Han Yong's fleet, which had expanded more than ten times, he could not only make up for the funds for purchasing industrial equipment, but also have some surplus to purchase industrial raw materials and fuel.

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Without further ado, let's focus our attention on Jiang Li. At this moment, he is in the military camp, discussing the next combat action with a group of officers of all ranks.

This is not because he wants to expand again, but because his development in the past three years has been too fast and too steady, making the surrounding forces very wary.

So they decided to unite and besiege Jiang Li. Even if they could not take him down in one fell swoop, they had to suppress his development, otherwise they would become Jiang Li's next target of annexation.

"Jiang Youchi just explained the situation clearly. This time the enemy is coming with great force. They have combined into three groups to attack, totaling 210,000 troops, while we only have seven divisions with less than 80,000 troops."

"Tell me how to fight!"

Although everyone present at this time had fought for several years, they did not have any better solutions. After all, the enemy was coming and they had to keep the enemy out.

They must not allow the enemy to invade and destroy the industrial achievements of recent years, so most of them advocate border defense.

Once you hold on and launch a counterattack, you can take over some territory. At most, we can make some suggestions on how to defend, but in general it is still a defensive counterattack.

However, there are also a few who advocate organizing an elite force while defending, finding a relatively weak enemy, going around behind or to the side of the enemy, and then suddenly attacking and quickly defeating the enemy while the two sides are fighting fiercely.

Afterwards, he mobilized troops to defeat the other two enemy forces, and then took the opportunity to counterattack and seize a large piece of territory.

But Jiang Li didn't think so. Although this could defeat the enemy, it would be impossible to annihilate them completely. Once they went back to rest for a while, they would definitely be able to recover most of their strength.

At that time, they will go against me again. If I can't kill these guys in one wave, I will definitely be in trouble in the future.

So he stood up and said what he thought, "As the old saying goes, it is better to break one finger than to hurt ten fingers."

"Instead of trying to defeat all three groups of troops, it is better to kill one group of troops and completely solve the problem!"

Everyone felt that what he said made sense, so they started to discuss how to cut off that finger.

Finally, after discussion by everyone, they decided to target the leader Yang Ximin. After all, this guy was the first to start this matter, and he had the largest territory and the strongest power, so killing him would bring the greatest benefits.

After a long discussion, they finally decided on a plan, which was that the other two routes would use relatively small numbers of troops to stalemate the enemy with the help of fortifications.

Send another troop, transport them to Yang Ximin's flank on Han Yong's merchant ship, suddenly attack during the fierce battle, defeat him, and then quickly occupy his territory, making it impossible for him to turn over.

After discussing the battle plan, Jiang Li quickly assigned combat tasks. All of a sudden the entire Anmin Army was mobilized, with tens of thousands of troops heading to their designated battlefields.

Those who were repairing fortifications were repairing fortifications, and those who were transporting ammunition were transporting ammunition. They were all busy and happy.

As for why, the enemy is about to attack, and Jiang Li still has time to deploy these.

That was naturally because he had been vigorously developing underground organizations in recent years, and those warlords had discussed the attack routes and the approximate deployment of the troops.

The next day, the intelligence personnel sent it back via telegraph, which gave Jiang Li two or three days to prepare.

And it was precisely because of this that when these warlords arrived at the edge of the territory controlled by Jiang Li, they were shocked to see that the enemy's fortifications had already been fully built.

But after they discussed it, they decided to attack.

There was nothing they could do about it. If they didn't attack now, this Jiang guy would definitely retaliate, and they thought they would be unable to stop him with their own strength.

So they had no choice. Even if they had to attack by force, they had to fight. At worst, they could use their three times numerical advantage to pile up human lives to kill him.

And this is indeed the case, because the Anmin Army selected the favorable terrain in advance and built solid fortifications.

This meant that in most cases the enemy had to attack the Anmin Army from above. However, in the face of the Anmin Army's powerful firepower, even if they had a three-fold numerical advantage, they could not attack at all.

For a time, the three armies suffered heavy casualties and had no choice but to fight a protracted war with the Anmin Army, and this battle lasted for half a month.

Since Jiang Li was on the defensive, the casualties were much smaller. Moreover, because all the roads were highways and there were a large number of trucks for transportation, the supply of food and ammunition was much faster than that of the enemy.

The Allied forces were not so comfortable, because it was a long expedition. Not only was it difficult to transport supplies and the food was extremely poor, but the wounded could not be treated well.

Therefore, the morale of the coalition forces dropped rapidly. Most of the time, they hid behind cover and believed in shooting, fighting in a Buddhist way. They quickly used up the bullets on their bodies and returned to the camp to wait for the distribution of bullets.

As a result of the soldiers' actions, the coalition forces' ammunition was consumed very quickly, although these warlords had a lot of stocks and their own arsenals to produce bullets.

But they could not survive this situation. The most important thing was the poor transportation. Even if there were bullets, it was difficult to deliver them to the soldiers.

So several warlords chose to distribute bullets to the soldiers so that they could all participate in the battle, rather than half of them fighting while the other half just watched.

In fact, they had roughly calculated the bullet consumption rate of the Security Army a few days ago, because they had no idea how to save.

So they believed that as long as they fought for a while longer, they would be able to use up the ammunition reserves of the Anmin Army, and then it would be much easier to attack.

But they had no idea of ​​the horror of industrialization. Although Jiang Li was still far from completing the industrial revolution, even with the current achievements, he no longer had to worry about the problem of consumption.

What's more, he had already contacted Jiang Youzhong, and his division of more than 10,000 people had been transported in batches to Yang Ximin's flank on Han Yong's merchant ships.

As long as Jiang Li gave the order to attack, he could immediately lead his troops to charge out and defeat him.

Jiang Li looked at the situation on the battlefield and knew that the enemy's morale had been almost exhausted, so he gave Jiang Youzhong the order to attack.

Afterwards, he calculated the time and dispatched an artillery brigade to launch a saturation attack on Yang Ximin's army half an hour before Jiang Youzhong came into contact with the enemy.

It is hoped that their fighting spirit can be further weakened, creating some conditions for Jiang Youzhong's surprise attack.