Chapter 757: Japan (1)
Zheng Tong and Feng Tu knew very well that this time in order for the Far East to help them resist the invasion of Burma, the Ayutthaya Dynasty would have to pay a lot of benefits. The Far East is not the Ming Dynasty, they are not so easy to get along with, do not pay the price, they don't care if you destroy the country or not.
Zhou Cheng thought for a while, and then said with a smile: "The stakes are very high, I can't be the master, I still need to ask the company's senior management for instructions, you are waiting patiently here for a few days now, and I will give you a specific answer later." ”
Zheng Tong and Feng Tu thought that Zhou Cheng was deliberately handling it, and they didn't take it seriously, it seems that this matter should be done. Now it depends on what the Far East asks, but they have no choice, as long as the Far East's demands are not too excessive, they can agree. There's no way, who asked you to provoke others, the Far East didn't take advantage of the situation to kill Ayutthaya, even if it was lucky.
But as long as the Far East helped the Ayutthaya dynasty, with their great strength, they would definitely be able to stop the Burmese invasion. Although they knew that the Far East Company was greedy, and signing this treaty that made the Ayutthaya Dynasty lose power and humiliate the country was only the beginning, and they would definitely not stop there, and they would gain an inch in the future, but as long as the Ayutthaya Dynasty could survive this crisis, it would be worth losing more.
In Busan, North Korea, in the war room of the Korean Theater Command, Gao Jianguo and others are discussing the upcoming Japanese campaign. A communications staff officer walked in, handed Gao Jianguo a piece of information, and then said loudly: "Commander-in-Chief, Zhou Cheng, commander of the Combined Fleet of the Admiralty, sent a telegram. ”
Gao Jianguo took the telegram and looked at it, and immediately laughed.
"That King of Basaitong in Siam really doesn't know what to do, and he dares to lead his troops to Bangkok to show off his might with our Far East Fleet. Ha ha...... was beaten by Zhou Cheng, and they were beaten stupid. Fortunately, even the elite of the western defense of Burma has been scattered, and now they are begging to sign a treaty with us. And they want us to help them fend off the Burmese offensive. ”
Shi Mingfeng's eyes lit up when he heard this, and he said, "This is an opportunity." We don't have the energy to control Indochina now, but we can take advantage of this opportunity to slowly take control of Siam, Chenla and Burma. When we have our hands free in the future, it will be much easier. ”
Gao Jianguo said to Lin Hua next to him: "Find me a map of the Indochina Peninsula." ”
After hearing this, Lin Hua immediately found a huge map with a group of staff officers from the staff department and hung it on the wall of the war room. Gao Jianguo led everyone around the map, pointed to the map and said, "Since King Basaitong of Siam has agreed to sign that treaty with us. Then we could establish a military port on the east bank of the Chao Phraya River in Bangkok and Sattahip in Rayong Province, and we would basically control the Gulf of Thailand. Coupled with the Cam Ranh Bay and several ports on the Malay Peninsula that we controlled before, it can also be said that we have mastered the sea power of the Indochina Peninsula.
Now Siam has put forward additional clauses to the treaty, and since they are so polite, then of course we have to meet their demands. Immediately send a telegram to Zhou Cheng, asking him to agree to the Siamese demands, but we also need to add some additional clauses to the treaty, that is, to lease another military port on the eastern coast of Siam. And the Far East is to have the right to garrison troops in Siam. And to fulfill certain duties, to help Siam resist the Burmese attack when the Burmese invaded Siam. ”
Shi Mingfeng thought for a moment and said, "Then how many troops do we have stationed in Siam?" If Burma does send troops eastward, we must have enough troops to help Siam repel the Burmese attack. ”
Gao Jianguo smiled and said: "There is no need to garrison too many troops, the army has transferred three battalions from overseas brigades to garrison military ports in Bangkok, Sattahip and eastern Siam respectively, responsible for the security and defense of military ports. As long as the Admiralty forms a coastal garrison in the Gulf of Thailand at the Sattahip Naval Port, it is sufficient. The eastern coast was placed under the garrison of the Ceylon Coast Guard. Then, a number of airships were transferred from the Nanyang garrison area and the Ceylon garrison area to form the Indochina Peninsula Airship Brigade at the Sattahip Military Port.
Once Burma invaded Siam. I can let the Indochina Peninsula Airship Brigade dispatch airships to bomb the logistics and command system of the Burmese army, or let the Ceylon garrison and coast guard send troops to land in Burma and give me the scourge of death on the southwest coast of Burma. Lin Hua. You go and send a report to Zhou Cheng and tell him my general intentions, but the specific situation has to be decided by himself. ”
Lin Hua nodded and left the war room to arrange. Gao Jianguo returned to the Japanese sand table in the middle of the room, turned his head to Shi Mingfeng and said, "The next step is Japan." By next spring, we will be sure to solve Japan once and for all. ”
In today's Japan, the battle between the Tokugawa shogunate and the Kyushu coalition led by the Satsuma clan is still in a stalemate, and the two sides have been fighting for several months, and the Satsuma clan can no longer hold on.
After all, the Tokugawa shogunate had been in business for many years, and its strength was far from being comparable to that of Satsuma in the border areas. Now the Satsuma clan was also a little unable to hold on, but they asked the Far East for help several times, but they never received a satisfactory answer.
According to the ninja reports of Satsuma, the Tokugawa shogunate was gathering forces to launch a relatively large counterattack. Therefore, the Satsuma Kyushu coalition army is also nervously arranging to deal with it. Shimazu Tadashi even sent several envoys one after another, trying to get the Far East to directly intervene in the Japanese civil war and help Satsuma defeat the Tokugawa shogunate.
Gao Jianguo pointed to an area on the sand table with a baton, and said to the people around him with a smile: "According to the report of the Japanese intelligence station, the Tokugawa shogunate has mobilized all their reserves, and the current forces have been basically assembled, and I am afraid that a counterattack will be launched in the next few days." Now that the time is basically ripe, we must also be ready for battle, and once the defense line of the Satsuma Kyushu coalition army is broken, it will be the time for us to launch the Japanese campaign. ”
After he finished speaking, he turned his head and said to Lin Hua next to him: "How are the preparations of the participating troops?" ”
Lin Hua nodded and said, "At present, the troops have all been deployed, and the Eastern Army Corps and the Western Army Corps will set out from Pusan, occupy Tsushima Island, and then land in Fukuoka, Kyushu." A detachment of the Southern Corps was to land in Nagasaki, Kyushu, from Jeju Island, and a second detachment was to land in Satsuma from Tanegashima. After the landing of the troops, they will quickly take control of all parts of Kyushu Island.
The navy was to block the Kanmon Strait, the Seto Inland Sea, and the Bungo Waterway, and to meet the Satsuma Kyushu coalition forces along the coast of Honshu to help them establish a defensive line against the Tokugawa shogunate forces. Once we have completely controlled all parts of Kyushu, we will support the Satsuma clan and let them contain the Tokugawa shogunate in Honshu, and the troops will take the opportunity to land on the coast of Shikoku Island and Honshu Island. (To be continued......)
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