In Isfahan, the capital of Persia, Lu Chenyang, commander of the First Army, heard a report from his subordinates.
After the 25th Army landed in southern Persia, it lasted more than half a month of clearing out the rebels in southern Persia.
Wu Ming, commander of the 25th Army, led the elite of the 25th Army to Isfahan to join forces with the First Army.
Lu Chenyang immediately went out of the city with Chief of Staff He Guangzhi to welcome the arrival of the 25th Army.
The sign of the two armies joining forces will mean the complete end of the Persian campaign.
The imperial court will make post-war arrangements for the two armies, and the officers and soldiers of both armies will receive rewards based on their merits.
Lu Chenyang directly led the most elite chariot regiment of the First Army to ten miles outside the city to welcome the arrival of the 25th Army.
Wu Ming looked at his subordinates who looked a little tired. The 25th Army was fighting for progress.
They maintained extremely high intensity and defeated the Persians whose morale had collapsed in a short period of time.
Wu Ming was very worried. The 25th Army performed well, but their opponents were too weak.
Compared with the First Army, they couldn't even win a battle.
The first army will receive very generous rewards from the court, and it is difficult for the twenty-fifth army to receive very good rewards.
This battle was completely different from what he expected. It couldn't even be considered an anticlimactic battle, it could only be described as having no beginning or end.
In his heart, he still didn't believe in the results achieved by the First Army.
Their 25th Army attack had given up resistance, their morale was completely lost, and even the enemies had internal strife.
It took the 25th Army half a month to completely wipe out the enemy.
The First Army dealt with the high-morale Persian army, and it took them less than ten days to capture the Persian capital.
Wu Ming believed that there was only one possibility, and that was that the Persian army was too weak.
These Persian armies along the coast are not the best, and the decayed Persian army in the north is completely unviable.
While he was thinking about it, he heard a deafening roar.
Wu Ming looked into the distance in the direction of the sound.
He saw armored chariots charging towards them, and the gun barrels on the chariots looked very ferocious.
Wu Ming opened his mouth in shock. From this moment on, he completely understood why Persia was defeated so quickly.
He recalled the strange looks in their eyes from the Persian captives.
Wu Ming had previously thought that the Persian prisoners were shocked by the strength of the 25th Army.
Only now did he understand that these prisoners were shocked that the 25th Army was not worthy of its name. They did not expect that the Chinese Army was not as strong as the legend said.
They thought they could still give it a try, but they chose to surrender and regretted it extremely.
Wu Ming saw the chariot stop more than 300 meters away from them.
He had heard of chariots before, but just from hearing about them, he could not imagine the power of chariots.
The collective charge of the chariots gave people such a strong sense of oppression that not even the 25th Army, let alone the Persian army, could stop them.
He turned around and looked at the performance of the elite soldiers of the 25th Army.
Some soldiers had a slight sweat on their foreheads, and their fingers holding the barrels of their guns turned white.
The armor on the tank cannot be penetrated by the gun in your hand.
To deal with this kind of weapon, in addition to tanks, cannons can only be used to blast from a long distance.
Once the chariot is brought close to the military formation, the current methods cannot resist it at all.
Wu Ming saw Lu Chenyang getting out of a car behind the chariot.
He immediately rode forward, looked at the chariots and cars, and said with envy: "I just learned from the telegram that the First Army has completed its mechanization transformation.
I didn’t even know what mechanization was before, but now that I see the appearance of the First Army, I realize how powerful mechanization is.”
When Lu Chenyang heard the praise from his colleagues, a proud smile appeared on his face involuntarily.
He was not modest at all, and said excitedly: "I never thought that the chariot was so powerful.
The feeling of the chariot's tracks running over the enemy is so refreshing.
I believe that no army can stop the chariot attack now.
Chariots charge forward, and cars carrying infantry can keep up.
The combination of chariots and infantry can solve any obstacle on the battlefield."
Wu Ming subconsciously wanted to refute, but he found that he couldn't refute Lu Chenyang's words at all.
He could only say with a sour tone and envy: "I wonder when our 25th Army will be able to complete the mechanization transformation.
I hope there are enough silver coins in the empire's treasury, otherwise we will become stepmothers again."
Wu Ming just complained helplessly. The Imperial Royal Army is divided into Type A Army and Type B Army.
The first army is the Type A Army, and the treatment in the army has always been very good.
The 25th Army is a type of army that was recently established. In addition to every soldier being equipped with a firearm, the number of artillery in the entire army is far inferior to that of the Type A Army.
If the 25th Army had the artillery scale of Army A, they would not need to rely on naval artillery support.
We need to allocate some of the already limited credit to the navy.
Lu Chenyang invited the 25th Army to rest in the city.
Wu Ming was curious about the chariot, but he could not make a request to visit the chariot at this time and could only wait for the opportunity later.
He followed Lu Chenyang and boarded the command car.
Wu Ming looked at everything in the car, including a wireless telegraph machine.
He said in a plaintive tone: "The Governor's Office is too partial, we can wait for the chariot.
We must be equipped with at least a few of these command vehicles.
I'll send a telegram to the Governor's Office soon, but they are too unfavorable."
Wu Ming just complained. He knew that this matter had nothing to do with Lu Chenyang.
He then changed the subject and asked: "Why didn't I see the shadow of the 19th Army? It wasn't our three armies attacking Persia together.
The 19th Army is very close to Persia and should be faster than our 25th Army."
When Lu Chenyang heard this question, he asked in surprise: "Commander Wu Ming, don't you know the situation of the 19th Army?"
Wu Ming said helplessly: "If you want to receive telegrams from far away, you need a very powerful telegraph machine. The power of the hand-operated generator is unstable, and some messages are not fully received.
We need to move frequently during this period. Are there any diesel generators in the army? Steam generators are too large and difficult to carry.
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Our army will not miss the telegrams from the Governor's Office, but many telegrams that are only sent once are missed."
Lu Chenyang pointed to the wooden box next to the telegraph machine in the car, which was connected to the telegraph machine through several copper wires.
"This is a lead-acid battery, a battery that can be recharged repeatedly, the latest research result of the Imperial Academy of Sciences.
We use the telegraph and no longer need to connect a generator to it."
Wu Ming sighed: "It is located in a remote area, and it may take several years for some new things to spread to remote areas of the empire.
Please tell me quickly what happened to the 19th Army?"
Lu Chenyang heard Wu Ming's urging and told him the current situation of the 19th Army.
He finally said in a solemn tone: "His Majesty the Emperor's telegram to Ma Xianglin has now been circulated among the army.
His Majesty the Emperor compared Sima Zhongda to Ma Xianglin. It is self-evident what this means.
Ma Xianglin was so frightened that he immediately fell ill and went to the capital for treatment.
Taking advantage of illness as a deserter is a serious crime.
Ma Xianglin let His Majesty the Emperor vent his anger, and he did not hesitate to posthumously.
Just so that the descendants of the Ma family would not be implicated.
Even so, the descendants of the Ma family have no connection with the military."
Wu Ming asked doubtfully: "Who is Sima Zhongda? It scared Ma Xianglin to react so much."
Lu Chenyang said with an illiterate look: "Sima Yi who annexed Cao Wei as a general."
When Wu Ming heard this name, he immediately understood it.
The book "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" is basically a household name.
As a soldier, I would rather read this kind of book.
When Wu Ming thought of this consequence, his face turned a little pale, and he asked with a trembling voice: "Brother Lu, does he know what the navy has done? They have established a base in the Arabian Peninsula.
The navy does not do this kind of thing according to orders, will it implicate us?"
Lu Chenyang shook his head. He knew that Wu Ming was stimulated by the news and did not react for a while.
"What the Navy does is completely different from that of the 19th Army.
The 19th Army kept silent and handled the matter secretly.
Even without using the main force of the Nineteenth Army, this incident made His Majesty the Emperor furious.
As a general who leads the army, you must not have your own ideas. Doing so will cross the line.
The navy is completely different. Everyone in the navy is clamoring to find a base in the Arabian Peninsula.
The navy discussed this matter through different channels in various occasions such as the imperial meeting, the governor's office, and major newspapers.
Does the whole country know what the Navy is going to do?
There was no order from the Grand Governor's Office because he did not want to cause a rift between the empire and the vassal states.
The Metropolitan Government must have known what the navy would do if it sent the navy to the Arab region.
This is something that the entire empire has tacitly approved of."
When Wu Ming heard Lu Chenyang's explanation, he immediately reacted.
He smiled bitterly and said: "What is trying to figure out what is superior, and what is inferiority and overcoming superiority.
This is one step of heaven and one step of hell.
If your guess is wrong, the consequences will be miserable."
Lu Chenyang shook his head and said: "Measuring these things is actually very simple.
See if the motivation is public-spirited, for the benefit of the empire.
Still out of selfishness and for one's own benefit.
You are doing it for your own benefit, even if it is logical, it will have no effect at all."
Wu Ming nodded in agreement: "Brother Lu is right, from this perspective, it is indeed very easy to judge.
After being arrested, it was very powerless to defend myself.”
The two chatted in the car and soon arrived in the city.
Lu Chenyang arranged the location of the 25th Army.
They went to the conference room with the senior officials of the 25th Army to discuss how to write a battle report?
Battle reports involve the distribution of military merits. If there is an error, it is a false report of military merits.
When the army wins a battle, some flaws can be improved, but false reports of military exploits are absolutely not allowed.
What's more, there are personnel from the Military Justice Department accompanying the army to record the achievements of each army and the problems of the generals.
There are people from Xuanwu Guard hiding everywhere.
The difficulty of lying about military information without being exposed is even harder than reaching the sky.
Lu Chenyang and Wu Ming write macro-level battle reports.
Ordinary officers at all levels write battle reports about each army.
After these battle reports were compiled, they were sent to the Governor's Office via telegram.
After Wu Ming finished writing the telegram, he slumped in his chair and complained: "Writing this thing is more tiring than fighting.
Those wimps in the Metropolitan Governor's Office who do not do practical things, and those civil servants who give random advice to the country, always find fault with our generals.
Otherwise, who would write such a troublesome battle report?"
Lu Chenyang had a different opinion, saying: "Battle reports are actually to protect us.
With these battle reports available, we can prove whether we made a mistake in command.
These battle reports are also the best proof of our military merits.
This will neither take the blame for some big shots nor allow some shameless people to take away military glory.
Let’s not talk about the frustrated generals in ancient times, let’s talk about the Ming generals who are not far from us.
The number of times they have been scapegoated and robbed of credit is countless."
Wu Ming snorted and said: "You are a cultural person, and everything you say is right.
Now that the big things are done, I want to go visit the Chariot Group."
Lu Chenyang waved to the staff and asked him to take the people of the 25th Army to visit the chariot regiment.
The tank regiment took a look and found that it had no impact at all, and it could still promote the power of the tank.
He has always looked down upon the eagerness for quick success and instant benefits of the Chief Governor Qi Gangyi and others.
If you want the empire to pay attention to the army, you must have the army bring huge benefits to the empire.
It's useless to just use some small tricks that can't be put on the table.
If tanks can really enter the army, the army's strength will expand rapidly and it can play more roles.
While Lu Chenyang was waiting for the court's reply, he kept writing down the tactics of chariots on the battlefield.
He has realized that the emergence of tanks will definitely change the army's tactics.
If Lu Chenyang can lead this trend, it will help him accumulate qualifications. When the time comes, he will definitely enter the Governor's Palace.
Several days passed in a flash.
It was just dawn, and all the senior officials of the First Army and the Twenty-fifth Army were standing guard next to the telegraph machine.
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A ray of morning light shone into the room, and the telegraph machine next to it sounded, ticking.
With the ticking of the telegraph machine, everyone's breathing became louder, and they all hoped to wait for a good result.
Lu Chenyang watched the signal soldiers approach, already holding multiple copies of the imperial commendation order in his hand.
He received the commendation order and read the contents carefully.
The entire First Army will be credited with first-class merit, and the Chariot Regiment will be credited with one additional first-class merit.
The generals of the First Army who performed outstandingly in this battle all received rewards consistent with their merit.
The imperial court has always been very generous to those who have meritorious service.
Wu Ming looked at the commendation order, but he had mixed feelings.
The entire 25th Army will only be credited with second-class merit. Only generals who have outstanding performance on the battlefield and have reversed the situation of local battles will be credited with first-class merit individually.
The officers of the 25th Army mainly receive silver rewards. Only those who perform well can get the opportunity to be promoted.
He Guangzhi took over the telegram behind the commendation order.
After reading it, he said: "The imperial court ordered our First Army to return to the capital and stand by.
The location of the 25th Army was changed to Persia, allowing the 25th Army to establish a complete militia system in Persia as soon as possible."
Wu Ming had already been prepared for this situation.
The First Army destroyed the main force of Persia, but the First Army was the only mechanized army in the empire and would certainly not stay in the border area of Persia.
The First Army must serve as the most powerful mobile force, ready to support areas of the empire where problems may arise.
When he knew that the 19th Army had not moved south, he basically guessed that the garrison task in Persia would be handed over to the 25th Army.
This is a very easy task for the 25th Army.
Wu Ming was a little reckless, but he would not be so stupid as to give the areas that had been destroyed a chance to recover.