The command of the Herat Samurai Army, Fujita and the commanders of all levels of the Samurai Army gathered in the war room. They sat around a huge sand table, one by one, without squinting, and the atmosphere was very depressing.

Today, Li Ming and Qiao Haipeng, two members of the Standing Committee of the Central Military Commission, and Lin Hua, chief of staff of the Central Military Commission, came to Herat at the same time to make final arrangements for the upcoming Persian campaign.

According to the plan, the Persian campaign was launched by the samurai army at the end of March 1643. The North-Western Field Army's attack on the Kazakh Khanate took place at the end of April, a month apart from the two battles.

The main reason is that the terrain in Persia is relatively complex, and the samurai army is an infantry-based force after all, and the speed of attack is relatively low, and it takes a certain amount of time for the samurai army to sweep Persia.

Lin Hua put down the baton, and then said in a deep voice: "The specific deployment of the campaign is like this, I think everyone here is clear." After the campaign is launched, all units must act in accordance with the arrangements made by the group army headquarters, and must not act on their own initiative. ”

After he finished speaking, he nodded at Li Ming, and then sat behind Li Ming.

Li Ming coughed lightly and said with a smile: "We are here today, mainly to express condolences to the commanders and fighters of the Samurai Group Army.

Since its formation, the Death Army unit has been the fist unit of our Far Eastern Army, the sharp knife unit, and has always maintained a fighting style of fighting bravely and attacking fiercely. It is the unit of our Far Eastern Army that has participated in the most battles and killed the most enemies, and is a model for all units of the Far Eastern Army.

I hope that in this Persian campaign, the vast number of officers and men of the Samurai Army will still maintain this brave and tenacious fighting style and strive to make persistent efforts. When the battle is won, I and all the members of the Standing Committee of the Military Commission will personally award medals to you. ”

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Everyone listened to Li Ming's words, and all the generals of the samurai army, including Fujita and Kenji. They all stood up, bowed deeply, and shouted loudly.

Qiao Haipeng also added with a smile: "The Military Commission still has great expectations for the 200,000 soldiers of the Samurai Group Army. But I want to say one thing today, and that is that the desire to attack is too strong for the troops of the Dare Army. Of course, it is good to have a strong desire to fight, but the assault forces of the front, if the attack is too fast, will disrupt the deployment of the army group headquarters.

The Persian Safavid Empire was very militarily strong. They fought years of war with the mighty Ottoman Empire, and in a tug-of-war with each other, the Ottoman Empire was still unable to completely eliminate the Persian state, although Persia was often outstretched. The Safavid Empire's armies, including the heavily armored Iron Cavalry and the famous Red Riding Hoods, were not to be underestimated, and if a lone force encountered a large number of cavalry, it would inevitably fall into a siege. ”

Li Ming also smiled when he heard this: "I remember that during the Indochina Peninsula, a company of the Death Army quickly completed its combat mission, leaving only one squad to garrison. The rest of the personnel penetrated dozens of kilometers into the war zone in one go, and conquered more than 10 villages and towns one after another. Great results have been achieved.

This also reflects the strong combat effectiveness of the Death Army, but I will not only not praise this unit, but also punish him. Is this simply nonsense, the plan for the pre-war deployment has been completely disrupted, and the situation on the battlefield will face the dilemma of collapse. Forget it before, this time the Persian campaign. I don't want anything like that to happen again.

Lao Qiao also said just now that the army of the Persian Safavid Empire cannot be underestimated, as an empire that has been fighting against the Turks all year round, its combat effectiveness is certainly not comparable to that of the nomads on the steppe. Therefore, all units must put away the mentality of despising the opponent and strictly follow the plan formulated before the war. Battles were fought under the unified command of the command of the army group. ”

Fujita stood up expressionlessly and looked gloomily at the generals of the various units of the group army.

"Everyone has heard what the second marshal said. I would like to stress here once that when you go back, you must strictly order the troops to observe battlefield discipline, and the front-line assault units must not be allowed to advance alone; if such a situation occurs again, the responsible persons of the assault units will be punished by military law, and leaders at all levels will also be punished. ”

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After the military meeting of the samurai army, the entire unit was fully operational. Now less than half a month has passed before the general offensive time of the Persian campaign, and the participating units of the samurai army have also started the final war mobilization.

All officers and men of all units of the group army were fully equipped and ready to go, and all weapons, ammunition, and field materials were distributed. The responsible persons of various grass-roots units were discussing tactics every day, and the atmosphere of the big war was very strong.

Although the samurai army was a pure infantry unit, during the Indian campaign, after several indigenous cavalry divisions in the Outer Northeast withdrew to Liaodong, the troops' horses were not transported with the ships. During the Far Eastern Army's attack on India, they also captured a large number of war horses from the Mughal Empire.

In the two years that the samurai army was stationed in India, it had been training its troops in horsemanship with more than 100,000 war horses, so that each division of the 50 th Army had formed a certain number of mounted infantry units, which greatly increased the marching speed of the troops.

The Central Military Commission has not yet equipped the samurai group army with a large number of four-wheeled carriages and gun trucks, and the troops' logistical and transportation forces have also been markedly strengthened, and the firepower density of the grassroots units has also increased by a large margin.

In order to strengthen the intensity of the firepower of the Samurai Group Army, the Military Commission also assigned a powerful artillery unit to the Samurai Group Army, including 105 mm assault guns, 75 mm mountain guns, 70 mm infantry guns, 82 mm mortar guns, 107 mm guns and arrows, and all other artillery pieces equipped by the Far Eastern Army at the brigade level.

In addition, 60-mm mortars were assigned to the battalion and company level. The Samurai Army also had a heavy artillery regiment directly under it, which was drawn from the artillery units directly under the Southern Field Army, and was equipped with fifty-four new 120-mm mortars.

In order to support the Persian campaign, the Admiralty formed the Persian Gulf Fleet, equipped with a large number of sailing ships and steam deck barges, and completely swept away all ships on the sea surface of the Persian Gulf before the war, and landed on the southern coast of Persia with the daring assault force.

The Air Force Department has transferred almost all of the airship units of the Southern Field Army, and more than 100 airships will be in the Persian airspace to provide all-round air support for the samurai army, such as reconnaissance and vigilance, communication relay, battlefield command, and bombing attacks. (To be continued.) )