Herat has now become a huge warehouse, with improvised warehouses on both sides of the Hari River outside the city, and various war supplies such as weapons, ammunition, grain, and dry rations are piled up.

All the main forces participating in the battle have all entered the starting position of the battlefield. For a while, the entire front line was filled with a breath of mountain rain that was about to come, and people could feel the cold edge sweeping across their cheeks when they were in it.

At the same time, as the weather gradually warmed, the vast area east of Lake Balkhash in the north, the westward advance corps of the Northwest Field Army of the Far Eastern Army also began intensive pre-war preparations.

After more than a year of preparation, the vast grassland was dotted with the logistics bases of the Far Eastern Army, and all kinds of materials were piled up in temporary warehouses. Tens of thousands of four-wheeled carriages and two-wheeled carriages are gathered in various logistics bases.

Although there was still more than a month before the launch of the general offensive, there was still a tense atmosphere at the various garrisons of the Far Eastern Army on the steppe. The camp was surrounded by military horse farms, tufts of haystacks, countless war horses neighed, and a large number of Mongolian herdsmen in front of the camp were busy waiting.

This time, the Far Eastern Army planned a very huge plan in the north, not only to sweep the Kazakh Khanate, but also to annihilate the Russian elite main force in the area east of the Ural Mountains, and strive to hurt the Russian hairs at one time and make them break their muscles and bones.

The Northwest Field Army, which was originally scheduled to advance west and then move south, will take advantage of the emptiness in Russia to draw out part of its forces and go north to sweep the steppes of South Russia and penetrate deep into Russia.

Because the war situation in the north has changed quite a bit this year, the Central Military Commission mobilized three main cavalry divisions in the outer northeast and a number of indigenous militia brigades in the outer northeast from the eastern field to support the northwest field army. Higashino's support forces were to rush to the area east of the Ural Mountains as the main force of the Far Eastern Army, which annihilated the Russian elite.

The six newly built cavalry divisions of the Northwest Field Army will also be fully engaged in the northern battlefield this year, sweeping the Kazakh steppe with the Western Advance Corps. Experience as many battles as you can, and try to grow in the flames of war.

The Central Military Commission attaches great importance to this operational plan in the north this spring. Before the campaign is launched, the Central Military Commission will mobilize almost all the airboat units in the eastern and western fields to provide all-round air support to the huge northern battlefield.

Except for the airship troops. The CMC also supported many combat and logistical support units of other arms. Among them, artillery units are also the most important, and there are also a large number of four-wheeled carriages with "gun trucks", which are basically assigned to the battalion level, and even some company-level units that carry out special tasks are equipped with one or two vehicles.

Because the area of operation is too vast, the logistical support of the troops is bound to be greatly affected. Therefore, the Military Commission deliberately strengthened the logistical forces of each detachment.

Nearly 10,000 new-type four-wheeled carriages of the newly formed logistics carriage transport brigade of the Logistics Department of the Central Military Commission were put into use on the northern battlefield this spring. In addition, countless nomadic detachments gathered in the outer northwest will also organize young and strong herdsmen to join the campaign with a large number of wagons.

The campaign of the year in the North. It was a magnificent and vast battle, and it was also the first time that the Far Eastern Army broke out of the traditional sphere of influence of the Central Plains in northern China to conquer the vast regions of Central Asia and West Asia.

Although the Mongol Empire created an unprecedented nomadic empire, the traditional Han dynasty had little external expansion except for the Tang Dynasty, and most of them chose to be rich and peaceful.

Far East Company has been developing silently for ten years, and finally laid a solid foundation for the company's outward expansion. With such a strong strength, if you don't want to forge ahead. The Far East Company gang simply crashed to death.

Although conquest is often accompanied by killing, destruction. It can even lead to large-scale massacres, with countless civilians fleeing their homes and living a miserable life of displacement and separation.

But which expansion was carried out in peace, what kind of ceremonial state, the benevolent invincible. What the Son of Heaven has lost his virtue and education. The four Yi invaded and made trouble. What all the countries come to the court, the four Yi are served, the voice is widely used, and the world is blessed.

"The Coming of the Kingdoms" is a grand show, with endless extravagance and astonishing waste. to show the face of the empire's incomparably powerful face. Even the stomachs of the common people in the world are not filled, what's the use of pulling all this.

Educating the barbarians is a joke in itself, and even the people at the bottom of the Central Plains can't learn those who care, and it is not logical to hope that the barbarians from all directions will learn "benevolence, righteousness, propriety, wisdom and faith".

Even if you are civilized, you must conquer first, and use the bayonets of the Far East and the blood of the barbarians to deter the Quartet, so that they are afraid, and they are afraid when they think of Huaxia ****, so that people can come to worship you and kneel and lick you with trembling.

No dynasty dares to say that it will be strong forever, and gentleness and tolerance cannot be exchanged for barbarian awe. From the national mourning of more than 100 years in modern times, it is already very illustrative.

Not to mention being slapped in the face again and again, he also cultivated a group of cheap bones who kneel and lick white skin every day. 5,000 years of culture is nothing in the face of great power.

Zhao Lianhe stood and walked out of Lake Balkhash barefoot with his trouser legs pulled up, carrying a bucket of water in his hand. Although it is already spring, the temperature on the grassland has improved significantly, but the lake water is still freezing cold after a whole winter.

The four war horses tied to the shore are Zhao Lianhe's mounts. Although the army mobilized a large number of Mongolian herdsmen to help the officers and soldiers take care of the war horses, when the training tasks of the officers and soldiers were not heavy, they would generally wait for the horses themselves to enhance their relationship with the war horses.

Zhao Lianhe has been getting along with these four war horses day and night for two or three years, and he has long had a deep relationship, and a certain tacit understanding has been formed between the people and horses. Several war horses saw Zhao Lianhe carrying buckets, and they all happily wagged their tails and snorted.

When Zhao Lianhe walked to their side, they rushed to rub Zhao Lianhe affectionately with their heads, spitting hot breath in their noses, looking very excited.

Zhao Lianhe unloaded the harness and saddle on the war horse, and then took a brush to clean several war horses one by one, making several war horses neigh happily from time to time.

After he finished scrubbing a few horses, he was also busy sweating. Let go of the reins of a few war horses, let a few war horses run happily by the lake, drinking water happily.

Zhao Lianhe found a stone on the shore and sat down, took out a cigarette bag and pot, rubbed some tobacco leaves and lit it, looked at a few war horses on the shore, and smoked a few puffs beautifully.

He hasn't been home for more than two years, and he doesn't know what happened to his mother-in-law and children at home. Although he is not worried about his family's life, he misses his family more and more. Now the war is about to begin, and according to the head of the troops, as soon as the battle is finished, they will return to the Hetao area. (To be continued.) )