On January 20, 958, Prince Heishanbao suddenly arrived in Hanzhou for a visit. At the same time, a secret agreement signed between the Principality of Montenegro and the Hanzhou Autonomous Government was exposed.
The Hanzhou Autonomous Government approved that the Black Mountain 2nd Mechanical Division and the 3rd Guards Division under the Northern Military District Headquarters of the Grifenni Kingdom were stationed in Hanzhou.
At the same time, the Hanzhou National Guard was reorganized into the Hanzhou Division and became one of the military sequence units of the Kingdom's Northern Military Region.
As usual, the agreements were approved by parliament by a narrow margin. At the same time, two of the five provinces in the south of the Yangtze River were not affiliated with the three provinces of the Principality of Montenegro. After the New Year, they held a referendum to change their flags and announced their integration into the Principality of Montenegro.
People in these provinces, seeing the rapid changes in the lives of the Montenegrins and even the people of the original Jiangning Province, have the Montenegrin dream and yearn for a free and wealthy land.
Of course, the Ministry of Special Work has been vigorously publicizing in these provinces in recent years, saying that the Montenegro Special Economic Zone is very wealthy.
Not to mention, Lu Ming has been operating the Montenegro Special Zone for seven or eight years and has extremely rich resources, which are simply not comparable to other areas in the principality.
But the Montenegrin dream is naturally full of temptation after publicity. Among the five provinces in the south of the Yangtze River, only Gangwon Province on the southeastern coast is alone outside the Black Mountain system. Four years ago, a political strongman named Wang Minsheng emerged, who took over the military and political power of Gangwon. It has ports along the coast, developed trade, and Bypassing the multilateral system of the Principality of Montenegro and the Eastern Alliance, it has signed many agreements with members of the Eastern Alliance such as the Donghai Region and Laonna State, and vigorously developed this bilateral relationship to resist the penetration of the Montenegrin system in the Northern Territory. and oppression.
In addition to the changes that occurred in the five provinces of Hanzhou and Jiangnan. In Shengjing, the Montenegrin Treaty Organization, namely the Principality of Montenegro, Longbei Autonomous Province, Longbei Democratic Province, Bac Ninh Military Government, Northern Xinjiang Autonomous Province, and Anshan Autonomous State, signed a new Collective Security Treaty 》, formed the coalition headquarters.
According to the new agreement, the Longbei Autonomous Province, the Longbei Democratic Province, the Beining Military Government, and the Northern Xinjiang Autonomous Province will each dispatch two elite divisions, and the Anshan Autonomous Prefecture will dispatch a brigade, plus four divisions from the Principality of Montenegro. Form a Northern Territory peacekeeping force, which will be under the unified command of the coalition headquarters for training, deployment, etc.
Needless to say, the coalition headquarters is under the direct command of Prince Montenegro. The coalition forces are said to be gathering for exercises in the desert area in western Sancai Province.
Sancai Province is the central region, and further west is the desert area and boundless desert. Generally speaking, it is a missing piece of the imperial map. From a geographical point of view, one can reach the city-states of the Western Regions by going straight south from the deserts and even desert areas in the west of the three provinces of Sancai.
But its roads are extremely difficult to navigate. Not to mention the deserts further west, let’s talk about the eastern areas, desert plateaus, hills and rivers. Until now, there has been no passage that can go south on a large scale. There were small private trade roads in the past, but from the northern regions to the Han Dynasty After the establishment of the railway network from the prefecture to the Western Regions, no one left this small trade route. After all, the small carriage and horse trade routes that gradually formed in ancient times could be used to smuggle to take huge risks, and if one was lucky, it was possible to get rich.
But it is far less fast than railway lines and can transport large amounts of goods. It is also extremely dangerous. Now that the coalition forces are training in this area, they don't know what the Prince of Montenegro wants.
...The first sequence headquarters of Nicolo City. In the conference room, the military meeting held by General Dönitz was to discuss a series of impacts brought by the Principality of Montenegro's garrison in Hanzhou.
Chief Bit's analysis was recognized by General Dönitz. Chief Bit said, whether it is the Principality of Montenegro advocating for reconciliation between the north and the south in Japan to establish a coalition government and the establishment of the Japanese Central Defense Force; or it finally begins to fully control the five provinces in the south of the Yangtze River; or it integrates the servant armies of its vassal warlords in the northern region; and then there is the garrison. Hanzhou.
All these have only one intention, which is to seriously prepare for a possible war in the Western Region, and to have a life-and-death contest with our kingdom in the Western Region.
After Lu Ming finished speaking, the conference room immediately became buzzing, and many people shook their heads in disapproval.
Today's meeting was attended by hundreds of military officers. In the enlarged meeting held by Dönitz, the leaders of each major district branch and even the heads of the branch's main agencies were also in place.
Major generals like Lu Ming were seated on both sides of the long table in the center of the conference room. Behind the long tables on both sides of the wall and rows of long tables on the west side were many colonel officers and even major-level officers. Naturally, they were branch officers. Someone comes.
"That's impossible!" Someone sneered from afar behind several rows of tables. Lu Ming looked around and noticed that it was his old acquaintance Hengdeli, but he was sitting too far away and was very inconspicuous.
Looking at Lu Ming's eyes, he was full of jealousy. With the protection of the old General Hendry, Hendry was not implicated after the tragedy in the White Tower, but he did not receive a promotion.
Still in the New Fornia branch, he is the intelligence director of the New Fornia branch, and still has the rank of lieutenant colonel. At this time, Hendry's face was full of sarcasm,
"Fighting us in the Western Regions? Even Hanzhou is still thousands of kilometers away from here. We will blow up the railway lines and they will fly over to fight?" Lu Ming smiled: "The garrison in Hanzhou is mainly for us. The northern border of the kingdom brings pressure. But when it comes to flying, it is not necessarily impossible for the Montenegrins to fly over to fight. The Montenegrins used paratroopers a lot in the battle for the unification of the northern region." Hendry paused, then sneered: "How many people can the paratroopers transport at one time? Can they transport heavy equipment? How do you compare the warlords in the northern region with the army of my kingdom?" Lu Ming wanted to say something, but Dönitz waved his hand and looked at Hendry dissatisfied.
"In this meeting, although I want everyone to speak freely, they must also use their brains." Even though he had a close relationship with the old Hendry, he was the one who promoted Hendry to lieutenant colonel when he was the major.
But in meetings of this level, Hendry Jr. has repeatedly contradicted his best assistant, making Dönitz suddenly hate him.
As soon as Deniz spoke, the conference room immediately became extremely quiet.
"Prince of Blackshan Castle, if you underestimate him a little bit, then our prospects in the Western Region may not be bright! Now when we look back and analyze every step of his footsteps, you will be surprised! When Prince Blackshan Castle was in the Northern Territory, he was just He started his journey to conquer the Northern Territory with perhaps 10,000 or 20,000 men. How many years had it been before? Those Northern Territory warlords were once giants in front of him, but who would have thought that he would use paratroopers? Use bombers? These military technologies The leap, so to speak, all comes from the Prince of Black Mountain Castle.”
"He has lofty goals and a firm will! He may even have the support of unknown plutocrats and technical forces!" Deniz paused.
"So, who can say that he suddenly took out a secret weapon from his pocket and the Montenegrin army appeared in the Western Region?"
"We are in the Western Region. Once we launch a war to attack the West Black Mountain Fort, we must be prepared to start a war with the main force of the Montenegro Principality here. If we do not have this awareness and start a war rashly, we are likely to fail!" The generals were all silent. .
Lu Ming felt a shiver in his heart, but he didn't expect that he had such a high opinion of himself, but this was not good news.
Deniz glanced at Lu Ming, his eyes encouraging, and his tone softened,
"Colonel Bit analyzed it very well and said what I wanted to say. No matter how much we overestimate the Montenegrins and the Prince of Montenegro, it is very necessary for our intelligence department. The most fearful thing is to have a little contempt for him. And underestimate, whether it is his personal enemy or the enemy of the country he leads, those who underestimate him have tasted a painful price. We must remember this!" All the officers sat upright and listened to his lecture.
In Lu Ming's heart, he didn't know what it felt like.
