freenovelworld Chapter 1405 Strategic Considerations on Vietnam
Chapter 1405 Strategic Considerations on Vietnam
Reorganize the Yue army!
This idea was not a spur-of-the-moment decision by Hu Xiangqian, the commander-in-chief of the Pingxiang forward base.
After all, before the end of the world, the Yue Kingdom was a regional power and a populous country with a total population of nearly 1 million!
Therefore, any action against Vietnam was basically ordered directly by the Central Theater Command headquarters, while Hu Xiangqian, as the commander-in-chief of the forward base, was only responsible for the execution level and had nothing to do with the decision-making.
Therefore, the idea of reorganizing the Yue army actually originated from the Central Plains Military Region Headquarters!
It is worth mentioning here that although Gu Chengyuan has recently become somewhat lax in his control of the overall situation in the war zone due to personal matters, this does not mean that the entire Central Plains War Zone will come to a standstill because of him.
After two years of construction since the apocalypse, the entire Central Plains War Zone has long since established a command and decision-making system that can operate smoothly in times of emergency.
To put it bluntly, even if Gu Chengyuan were suddenly attacked and killed, it would not affect the normal operation of the entire war zone.
The current shift in policy toward Vietnam is the latest result of decisions made by the top leadership of the Central Plains Theater Command.
After comprehensive consideration, the general policy of the Central Plains Theater towards Vietnam was finally formulated, and its main theme can be summarized in eight characters:
"Relocate the army inland, and focus entirely on agriculture!"
Throughout Zhou Bang's thousands of years of history, governing Yue has always been a challenge. In ancient times, the difficulties lay in transportation and productivity, and frequent conflicts usually required high military expenditures to maintain.
Every suppression of a rebellion meant an extremely high military investment. This was manageable during the dynasty's heyday, as even occasional setbacks could be quickly recovered from and would not shake the entire nation.
When a dynasty begins to decline, this situation becomes unsustainable. The empty treasury can hardly support the expenditure of large-scale suppression of rebellions, and the risks involved are even more unbearable for the dynasty. It is easy to be dragged into a vicious cycle of 'failed suppression of rebellions - weakening - more rebellions - failed suppression of rebellions again - even weaker - unable to suppress rebellions - demise'.
Therefore, the Yue state's separation from the ancient Zhou dynasty often occurred during the period of decline at the end of the dynasty.
In modern times, Zhou Bang once defeated the entire northern part of the Yue Kingdom. The reason he ultimately chose to retreat was that he did not expand his territory through conquest.
Besides considerations of the international situation and their own political ideologies, the most important factor is the subsequent governance costs.
During the advance of the troops, the suicide attacks by Vietnamese civilians served as a stark warning to the Zhou Bang government at the time.
Conquering a nation with an awakened national consciousness is virtually impossible!
Even if military coercion succeeds, there will always be resistance and attacks, because once the seeds of hatred are sown, bloodshed will inevitably spread like HIV through blood, infecting and festering generation after generation.
If a stable situation is forcibly maintained, it will inevitably come with massive security and governance costs, costs that even the US and the Soviet Union at their peak could hardly bear.
Even today, a large portion of historians still believe that the successive declines of the two great empires, the United States and the Soviet Union, were directly related to being dragged into endless regional counterinsurgency wars.
The name "Graveyard of Empires" comes from this.
Now, in this apocalyptic world, amidst unprecedented changes in ten thousand or even ten thousand years, the high command of the Central Plains Theater has seen a rare historical window of opportunity.
Extremely rich material resources (powerful military, advanced modern firepower), a completely vacuum-like international situation (no external interference), and most importantly, complete blockage of world information (all regions become grid-like information islands).
The combination of these conditions directly granted the Central Plains Theater Command the power to do whatever it wanted!
With the strength to ignore resistance and the ability to act without regard to international public opinion or moral condemnation, what can possibly stop the advance of the Central Plains Theater?
Did they manage to get stuck in the tracks of the war zone using flesh, blood, and bone sludge?
Therefore, the eight-character policy of "relocating the army inland and focusing on agriculture" was not an unrealistic political fantasy, but a concrete step to be taken!
First, the army will be relocated inland. According to the orders issued by the war zone, the Yue army that has been reorganized will be transferred by rail to Zhou State to participate in the battles to recover major cities and fight for the revival of Zhou State. This is for the common good!
After excluding the military system of Vietnam, the Central Plains Theater plans to establish two core granaries and three strategic agricultural reclamation areas in Vietnam!
Regarding the industrial equipment left over from before the end of the Yue Kingdom, the wisdom of the predecessors was followed: what could be dismantled was dismantled, and what could not be dismantled was destroyed on the spot, in order to help the Yue Kingdom to become a complete and comprehensive agricultural nation!
The dismantled Vietnamese industrial equipment was planned to be transported to border cities between Zhou Bang and Vietnam to establish specialized industrial production zones for agricultural reclamation in Vietnam, producing only agricultural products related to agricultural reclamation and exporting them back into Vietnam.
This move will further transform the Yue Kingdom into an agricultural sub-region of the Central Plains war zone from an industrial perspective.
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In the night province, at the night market, at the Central Plains War Zone headquarters, the door to the commander's office was tightly shut.
Gu Chengyuan sat behind his desk. Although he had changed back into a crisp army general's uniform, he was still surrounded by a faint scent of incense.
Several documents lay spread out on the table, the ink still wet.
Those were the supplementary details on the distribution of compensation for fallen soldiers, the emergency plan for the secondary resettlement of survivors from Gucheng Lake, and the preliminary ideas for the reconstruction of the First Infantry Brigade of Yezhou, which he had reviewed this morning.
Among them, on the unfolded reconstruction plan of the 1st Infantry Brigade of Yezhou, the three characters 'Zhao Jie Company' were written in sharp strokes.
This was the only way he could think of to reward his old classmate, the first deputy division-level general to sacrifice his life since the establishment of the Central Plains War Zone!
He still held the pen in his hand, but his gaze was fixed on something outside the window, unfocused. No one knew what he was thinking, perhaps not even himself.
Suddenly, there was a soft knock on the office door.
Thump, thump, thump.
The three tones are steady and evenly distributed.
"Report!" It was Chief of Staff Wu Bin's voice.
Upon hearing this, Gu Chengyuan's body paused almost imperceptibly. He did not respond immediately, but instead lowered his eyes and took a deep breath.
He took a deep, very deep breath.
It felt like trying to push back something churning inside your chest.
Then, he looked up.
"Enter!"