Warlords: I just made a little fortune, but I didn’t build a country.

Chapter 489 Expeditionary Force Plan

A month and a half passed quietly. This was the first time that Liu An spent the New Year with his family in his fifteen years of military service. In the past, he spent every New Year with other soldiers in the army. Now the army gave him a one and a half month vacation to spend it with his family.

During this month and a half, Liu An brought his whole family to Kyoto for a trip. Jinyuan Town is not too far from Kyoto, only more than a thousand kilometers away, and it only takes a few hours by plane. They spent five days in Kyoto and had a great time.

After that, he took his family out for a week and then went home to prepare for the New Year. This New Year, Liu An invited all his relatives to come. These relatives were very nice to his family and would help out when he was not at home. Now that he had the ability, he should give something back.

For example, if a relative's child couldn't go to a good school for some reason, Liu An would help the relative solve the problem with just one word. Or if there was unfair treatment in the distribution of land, Liu An would also help the relative solve the problem with just one word.

He did not use his position to do anything harmful, he just helped relatives with some small things, which were all reasonable and legal according to the eight rules. After all, serving in the army to defend his country and using his position to help his family to the best of his ability was reasonable and did not constitute a violation of discipline.

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When you are happy, time flies really fast. Liu An will soon be returning to the army. There is only one day left. On this day, the whole Liu family is very quiet and everyone is in a low mood.

"You haven't said it yet?"

On the bed, Liu Mei lay in Liu An's arms and asked, "When you took out the money, I felt something was wrong. Is there any mission in the army?"

"It's not that I'm hiding it on purpose."

Liu An said, "The military has a big mission. I've signed up, but I can't tell you what the mission is."

"Is it dangerous?"

Hearing this, Liu Mei's body tensed up immediately. As a military wife, what she feared most was hearing such words, signing up for a mission. Because signing up meant that the mission was very dangerous.

"It's not dangerous. I'm just answering calls at the headquarters," Liu An told a white lie and changed the subject, "Next year, the army will build a military family community, and we won't have to be separated then."

"Military Family Community?"

Liu Mei was stunned, obviously not understanding what it meant.

"It can be regarded as the army's preferential treatment for people like us," Liu An explained. "As long as we are general officers, the follow-up troops will build a community for us and distribute houses. You and Xiaodong can live in this community, and I will live in this community too. Then our family can live together."

"That's great."

When Liu Mei heard this, she forgot about what happened before. It wasn't that she really forgot about it, but she chose to forget about it, because even if she didn't forget about it, what would it matter?

"Get up, I'll take Xiaodong to school today."

Liu An packed the rest of the day with activities. He first sent his son to school, then went home to cook for his parents. In the evening, he kowtowed three times to his parents, then left home in a special car and arrived at the military headquarters overnight.

A military meeting was being held in the military district at this time to discuss what Liu An’s mission was.

In the conference room of the Eastern Military Region, hundreds of generals were sitting in the hall, and at the top were the Eastern Military Region Commander-in-Chief Guo Dahai, Chief of Staff Shen Lie, and Political Commissar He Zhengpeng.

In addition, the other four major military regions were also holding meetings at the same time and with the same content.

"Let me say this," Guo Dahai said, looking at the many generals below the stage, "I was originally planning to select soldiers and generals, but in the end, Your Majesty said that you volunteered. I am very satisfied with you. No one backed down and did not bring shame to my Eastern Military Region."

"This time, our military intends to form an expeditionary force to conduct long-distance operations against Tsarist Russia. Remember, it is a long-distance operation, which means entering another country to fight. The initial scale is to mobilize 15 group armies, three of which will be from our Eastern Military Region."

"After comprehensive consideration," Guo Dahai continued, "our Eastern Military Region will mobilize the 121,125,128st, 126,129th, and th Army Groups, and the th and th Army Groups will serve as reserve armies."

After the five major military regions reported the organization of their troops to the military headquarters, Qin Lin also obtained detailed information about 15 group armies, all of which were the trump cards of the major military regions with first-class combat capabilities.

"His Majesty."

Deng Wenzhong looked at Qin Lin and said, "I think I should personally serve as the commander-in-chief of this battle. This will be more conducive to the mobilization of troops."

"No."

Qin Lin refused directly, "I have already chosen a commander-in-chief. You and Lao Yang still have to stay in the military headquarters just in case. Besides, it's not just the Russian war. If a war breaks out in the sea or in the southern region, who will coordinate it?"

"Old Deng, His Majesty is right."

Yang Wenbin agreed and said, "Don't fight for the position of commander-in-chief. Let His Majesty decide. For us, it is more appropriate for us to stay in the military headquarters."

"Ah."

Deng Wenzhong nodded and said, "In that case, then we will follow your majesty's arrangements."

After that, Yang Wenbin next to him continued, "After half a year of study, the commander of this unit has mastered the command of modern tactics. In addition, our new equipment is proficient in its use. We still have a great chance of winning this battle."

"I heard," Deng Wenzhong said, "that the Blue Star Alliance has mobilized tens of millions of workers to build fortifications on the border. This is a big move, and our fighter planes have attacked many times, but it's not very useful."

"According to the information obtained by the Intelligence Department," Qin Lin said, "the Alliance Army intends to build a 2300-kilometer defense barrier on the border with Tsarist Russia, with a total of more than 1800 million personnel and a capital investment of 500 billion US dollars, or billion star coins."

"so much?"

Deng Wenzhong swallowed his saliva and asked, "What kind of construction is this that requires hundreds of billions of funds?"

"In fact, if it were normal, it wouldn't cost hundreds of billions of dollars," Qin Lin said with a smile, "The key is that global prices are rising, and only the Great Qin Empire has steel bars and cement. Therefore, the steel bars and cement needed by the alliance army for the 2300 kilometers are almost all imported from the Great Qin Empire, and the cost is naturally very high."

"We can't sell it to them, otherwise once they build it, our troops will be destroyed!!!"

Before Yang Wenbin could finish, Qin Lin interrupted him and said, "Don't worry, this reinforced cement has another material added to it. In the first three to five months, it will be no different from normal reinforced cement. But once the shelf life is over, this reinforced cement will soften, and its hardness will be dozens of times worse than normal reinforced cement."

"I see."

"Hahaha."