Start Being a Vassal King Today - Chapter 1094

[Chapter 1094 Start the war!]

A gust of wind blew from outside the side hall, scrolling the map on the wall with a “squeak” sound, making the steaming hall feel a bit cooler.

Having made up his mind to start the battle of Tianzhu, Zhao Xu went straight to the telegraph station in the palace, and conveyed the battle order to Zhou Yi, Qin Shan and Guan Tong.

Dasong’s telegraph station did not stop after it reached Yunzhou and Jiaozhou, but continued to extend south.

The road in Jiaozhou went straight into Jiaozhi, and was in charge of the Dasong garrison stationed in the imperial city of Jiaozhi.

This road will also be paved to Nanzhang Kingdom, which is the contemporary Cambodian region.

All the way from Yunzhou enters Nanzhang, and then enters Pyuman.

Like Cochin, these telegraph stations are temporarily controlled by the garrisons of various countries, and are not open to civilians, only for military use.

Therefore, the current telegraph station of Dasong has basically extended to the front line of the war.

In the future, these telegraph stations will continue to extend, laying submarine cables to reach Luzon, Java and other southern countries.

As for Ryukyu, the submarine cable from Haicheng to here has been laid, and it is integrated with Dasong’s telegraph network.

This is the route in the south. Of course, the route in the north is also under construction. Koryo already has a military telegraph station, and the submarine cable from Koryo to Dongying will be completed by the end of the year.

At that time, the transmission of information between Dasong and the vassal states will be smoother.

It also facilitates the communication between Da Song and the vassal states. .

However, with the popularity of the telegraph, it is no longer a secret.

In order to prevent false transmission of the emperor’s order, Zhao Xu specially formulated a set of encrypted codes for himself.

Each time he issued a direct order, a different password was used.

In addition to him, the Department of Defense and the Cabinet also have their own encrypted codes.

Otherwise, once someone falsely transmits an order, it is easy to cause a very serious incident.

After Zhao Xu’s order was issued, the secret telegram first arrived at the telegraph station in Qizhou from Yancheng, and then it was passed down one by one, taking about an hour.

The secret telegram arrived at the telegraph station in Pyuman Yangon City, and the telegraph operator of the army translated the secret telegraph into written orders.

Not long after, two teams of cavalry set off from Yangon and headed all the way to the front line at the border between Pumman and Tianzhu.

Go all the way to the direction of the Straits of Malacca.

Zhou Yi and the admirals are currently stationed in Singapore, on the north shore of Malacca.

Stationed here are Dasong’s most advanced twelve iron ships.

Two days later, the cavalry handed over the order to Qin Shan.

“The emperor has an order to officially launch war on Tianzhu!” After receiving the telegram, Qin Shan just glanced at it and read it aloud.

“Really, fake!” Guan Tong quickly moved over and glanced.

It was true, and he almost jumped for joy.

But concerned about his image as General Zhenwu, he still held back abruptly.

But he couldn’t hide the smile on his face.

“After waiting for so long, I can finally beat up these bastards from the West.” Qin Shan was calm, but couldn’t help being excited.

During this time, although they did not start a full-scale war.

However, the two sides continued to have small frictions on the battlefield.

And taking advantage of the night, the Western-Turkish Allied Forces often sent soldiers to try to cross the battlefield and touch their backs to destroy ammunition depots and granaries.

Naturally, they also took retaliatory actions against the small actions of the Western Turkmenistan Allied Forces.

You come and I go, both sides have casualties.

Although these casualties were small, the soldiers on both sides accumulated a lot of resentment, and they all clamored to fight.

“By the way, do you want to wait for the navy to act together?” Guan Tong thought of something at this time and asked.

Yangon is close to them, but far away from Melaka, the distance is six times that of them.

Emperor Zhao Xu’s order will take at least ten days to get there.

“No need, operations at sea and operations on land are independent. It doesn’t matter if they destroy the Western Turkmenistan Alliance Navy earlier or later.” Qin Shan said.

Originally, it was necessary for the Navy to destroy the Western Turkmen Fleet before they defeated the Western Turkmenistan Allied Forces.

This prevents the allied forces from escaping by sea.

But now, the natives of the West are allied with the Tusman Empire.

In other words, they have a retreat channel on land.

Therefore, they only need to take charge of their respective tasks and eliminate their targets.

“That would be even better, so as not to waste time.” Guan Tong chuckled twice.

Qin Shan nodded, “Let’s all get ready to bombard the opponent’s trench fortifications on time tomorrow morning.” After

a pause, he looked behind him.

There was a huge open field five miles away from him.

Eighteen airships were moored on the open ground.

When he learned that the airship was going to the front line through a telegram, he ordered the soldiers to build this temporary airship parking lot.

Guan Tong noticed Qin Shan’s eyes, and looked behind him, with a smirk on his lips, “This time, let the natives of the West try our new weapons.”

“Of course, the shelling and airship bombing will be carried out at the same time tomorrow. Completely destroy their fortifications, and at that time there will be airships stagnating in the air and providing us with battlefield information.” Qin Shan clenched his fists, full of confidence in the victory of the war.

The two discussed the details of pre-war preparations for a while, and then returned to the army.

The next day, the sky was misty.

The artillery entered the position.

It is different from the most well-equipped central army.

The Azure Dragon Army and the Suzaku Army are still a little poorer.

Each army only had 380 howitzers and 80 rifled guns, for a total of 460 artillery pieces.

Now, the 920 artillery pieces of the two armies are all deployed on the battlefield.

These artillery formed a five-kilometer artillery position on the battlefield, which was equal to the width of the trenches of the Western Turks.

As the white belly of the sky is getting brighter and brighter, the time has come to Maoshi.

At this time, following the order of the artillery general, the nine hundred and twenty artillery roared almost at the same time.

The muzzle fire flickered, gunpowder smoke rose, and shells flew towards the trench positions of the Western Allied Forces.

“Boom boom boom…” In an instant, the shells that landed on the trench exploded into flames.

These flame flowers are all over the battlefield, bright and beautiful, and with the breath of death, shaking the earth.

now.

The West-Turkey Allied Forces were just on the defensive as usual, but none of them entered a state of war.

These days, they have not found any signs of Da Song’s attack.

Therefore, the sudden shelling really stunned them.

Fortunately, they no longer underestimate the Great Song army.

At the first moment of shelling, coalition soldiers hid in deep and narrow trenches.

These trenches were specially constructed to defend against Daesong’s artillery.

The depth of the trench is about two meters, but the width can only accommodate one person.

This can reduce the chance of Da Song army shells falling directly into the trench.

Deep trenches also prevent shrapnel damage.

At the same time, their artillery also entered the fortifications and launched an artillery attack on Da Song’s trench position.

(end of this chapter)