Li Ming pushed the door and walked into Gao Jianguo's office, and saw that Li Yukun, Qiao Haipeng and several other members of the Standing Committee of the Military Commission were there, so he found a chair and sat down, took a cigarette thrown by Gao Jianguo and lit it.

"Lao Gao, why haven't you quit smoking now?"

Gao Jianguo was anxious when he heard this, and hurriedly said: "By the way, let me tell you, Lao Qiao and I are now in the stage of quitting smoking and drinking, you must not go to Gaomi, or your friends will not have to do it." ”

Qiao Haipeng also said to a few people: "Ask a few adults for a lot, the two of us are now in the stage of being monitored, and we are secretly taking two mouthfuls in the office, if Xiao Heizi finds out, we will have to do an inspection on the board of directors." ”

Li Ming, Li Yukun and the others were all amused when they heard this, these two people are working hard now, Gao Jianguo's medical team is good to say, how to monitor can always find a chance to smoke two, but Qiao Haipeng is miserable, he basically says goodbye to tobacco and alcohol when he goes home, he can't even eat a piece of meat, and his wife is even staring at Hongtian closely.

After chatting for a while, Gao Jianguo went straight to the point.

"The powerful power of the East Field sent a telegram that he was going to organize an operation this year and next year to send troops deep into the Siberian region to sweep away the Maozi there, let's talk about my views."

Li Ming thought for a while and said: "I think it's okay, the troops in the East Field have not had any combat missions in the past two years, and it is better to pull the troops out for exercise than to train at home every day." ”

Others are also more supportive of this plan, after all, the number of Maozi in Siberia is not large, and the combat effectiveness is not high, and there is basically no problem for the troops to sweep the Maozi strongholds in Siberia.

Allowing the troops to experience training in such an extreme environment as Siberia will help the officers and men of the troops grow rapidly and greatly enhance their combat effectiveness.

A telegram was received from the Military Council. Qiang Quansheng quickly summoned the heads of the various units in the eastern field to hold a meeting to study the battle plan for the northward sweep of Siberia.

After several days of discussion and study, a specific plan for this sweeping operation was determined. The main force of this operation was the grassroots troops of the field division and the mountain division in the eastern field.

In addition, most of the airboat units in Higashino will participate in the sweep plan to provide all-round fire support for the ground forces participating in the battle.

Troops are based on company battalions. Interspersed with the areas along the Ob, Yenisei and Lena rivers, then the forward base was set up and the engineering units were organized to assemble the barges of the river steam deck.

The modular components of the river steam deck barge will be airlifted by the airboat unit to the forward base. Because the units participating in the battle are all grass-roots units that advance lightly, and the troops are divided into parts, the airboat units are also responsible for supplying the food, weapons, ammunition, tools, accessories, bedding, and other combat materials needed by the troops.

Each assault detachment has also strengthened a large number of war horses and equipped them with field war horse carrying devices, which carry much more materials than ordinary war horses. And it is very convenient to disassemble and assemble.

The assault units of the field division will also be equipped with some outstanding hunters from the indigenous areas of the northeast as guides to help the assault units of the field division to carry out reconnaissance units.

In fact, against the little Cossacks in Siberia, there was no need to be so agitated. However, Dongye regarded this operation as a long-distance training exercise, so except for the field division and the mountain division, which were responsible for guarding the detachments in various places, the rest of the grassroots troops almost poured out.

Although the various combat logistical support detachments of the field and mountain divisions, most of them did not participate in the operation. But the main forces also had almost 30,000 people. In addition, the airship support detachment composed of dozens of airships made this sweeping operation extremely large-scale.

Because of the harsh climate in Siberia. The officers and men who participated in the war were equipped with rations for extremely cold areas, including thermal underwear, wool socks, woolen scarves, wool hoods, military coats made of raw leather and raw wool, thick leather boots, goggles, eiderdown sleeping bags, felt, frostbite medicine, cold-proof oil, double-layer raw wool gloves, field food in cold areas, and other personal supplies.

In order to adapt to the operation, the weapons equipped with the troops have also been adjusted. The original Type 28 rifle was replaced with a double-barreled hunting gun, and the number of equipment for forty-mm grenade launchers was increased. There were no large-caliber guns, only sixty-mm mortar guns and a small number of seventy-mm infantry guns. And reduced the number of equipment for heavy machine % guns.

The Dongye Command also mobilized a large number of indigenous villages in the Outer Northeast that had moved north, and also went north with the troops, and in the future, they would take root in Siberia and serve as forest guards of the Far East Company, guarding Siberia for the Far East for generations.

All the young and strong people of the indigenous villages in the Outer Northeast who migrated north with the troops. Both will be equipped with a front-loading rifled firecap gun and equipped with an integrated Mitsubishi bayonet. The rest of the equipment is also exactly the same as that of the Far Eastern reserve militia.

Other indigenous people from the Outer Northeast who migrated north, regardless of men, women, and children, were uniformly equipped with steel plate hunting bows, Mitsubishi steel arrows, sharp hunting knives, and daggers.

In addition, the company also provides a variety of cold-proof clothing and cold-proof materials suitable for living in extremely cold areas for the indigenous people of Northeast China who have moved north, and other materials are also supplemented as much as possible.

Immediately after the end of the operational meeting of the Higashino Command, active preparations began. The Northeast Field Army has had relatively few combat missions in recent years, but now that the mission has finally arrived, the officers and men of the field division and the mountain division are all extremely excited, and they have taken action from top to bottom.

The Logistics Department of the Central Military Commission is also actively cooperating, and all kinds of war-ready materials are continuously delivered to various military units through railways and waterways. All departments of the Higashino Command also took action to cooperate with the participating troops in the pre-war preparations.

The indigenous villages in the outer northeast that followed the troops to the north also began to assemble at designated locations. The logistics department of the military commission has already delivered supplies to the place where they are assembled.

The Northeast Field Army moved very quickly, and it took less than a month to complete all kinds of preparations before departure. The various troops began to move north one after another, and many natives from the outer northeast also followed closely behind the main force, advancing northward.

Now that summer is about to begin, there is not much time left for the Northeast Field Army, so all the troops participating in the battle are riding war horses and marching quickly.

Higashino's engineering units had already descended to the banks of the Ob River and the Lena River by airship, and had chosen the location of the base for the troops to advance. Camps, docks and improvised shipyards were built.

The Siberian region is rich in vegetation, sparsely populated, full of primeval forests, and large trees hugging a few people abound. Engineer units cut down logs in the forests near the forward bases, and then processed logs with equipment hoisted by airships.

Due to the urgency of the time, the funaki did not have enough time to deal with it. In order to be in a hurry, it was simply assembled into steam-deck barges.

(To be continued.) )