Chapter 1108 The War Begins!

A gust of wind blew from outside the side hall, and the map on the wall made a "whistle" sound, making the scorching palace feel a little cooler.

Determined 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 Guantong.

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

The route from Jiaozhou went straight into Jiaozhi, under the control of the Dashong garrison stationed in the imperial city of Jiaozhi.

This road will also be paved to Nanzhang Kingdom, which is the contemporary Cambodia area.

The road from Yunzhou leads to Nanzhang and then to Piaoman.

Like Jiaozhi, these telegraph stations are temporarily controlled by Dasong garrisons from various countries. They are not open to civilians and are only used for military purposes. .

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

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

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

This is the southern line. Of course, the northern line is also under construction. Korea already has a military telegraph station, and the submarine cable from Korea to Japan will be completed by the end of the year.

By then, the information transmission between Dasong and the vassal states will be smoother.

It also facilitated communication between Dasong and its vassal states.

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

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

Each time he gave a direct order, he would use a different code.

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

Otherwise, once someone falsely delivers an order, it may easily cause a very serious incident.

After Zhao Xu's order was issued, the secret telegram from Yancheng first arrived at the telegraph station in Qizhou, and then was passed from telegraph station to telegraph station in about an hour.

The secret telegram arrived at the telegraph station in Yangon City, where military telegraph operators translated the secret telegram into written orders.

Not long after, two teams of cavalry set off from Yangon and headed towards the front line at the junction of Piaoman and Tianzhu.

Heading all the way towards the Malacca Strait.

Zhou Yi and the naval generals are currently stationed in Singapore, on the north coast of Malacca.

Stationed here are Dasong's twelve most advanced 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 loudly.

"Really, fake!" Guan Tong hurriedly came over and took a look.

He almost jumped for joy when he found out it was true.

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

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

"I've been looking forward to it for so long, and finally I can beat these bastards from the West." Even though Qin Shan was calm, he couldn't help but feel excited.

During this period, although they did not go into full-scale war.

However, minor frictions continued between the two sides on the battlefield.

And taking advantage of the darkness, the Western-Turkish Allied Forces often sent soldiers to try to cross the battlefield, reach behind them and destroy ammunition depots and granaries.

They naturally took retaliatory actions against the small actions of the Western-Turkish coalition forces.

You come and go, and both sides suffer casualties.

Although these casualties were small, soldiers on both sides accumulated a lot of resentment and clamored for a fight.

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

Yangon is close to them, but far away from Malacca, the distance is six times longer than theirs.

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-Turkish coalition navy earlier or later." Qin Shan said.

Originally, it was necessary for the navy to destroy the Western-Turkish fleet before they defeated the Western-Turkish coalition.

This could prevent the Western-Turkish coalition forces from escaping by sea.

But now, the Western Turks are colluding with the Tusman Empire.

In other words, they have an escape route on land.

Therefore, they only need to be responsible for their respective tasks and eliminate their targets.

"That would be better. It will save you more time." Guan Tong chuckled twice.

Qin Shan nodded, "Let's all prepare to bombard the opponent's trench fortifications on time at 9 o'clock tomorrow morning."

After a pause, he looked behind him.

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

There are eighteen airships parked on the open ground.

When he learned via telegram that the airship was heading to the front line, he ordered his soldiers to build this temporary airship parking lot.

Guan Tong noticed Qin Shan's eyes and looked behind him, with a wicked smile on his lips, "This time, let the Westerners have a taste of our new weapons."

"Of course, tomorrow the artillery bombardment and airship bombing will be carried out at the same time, completely destroying their fortifications. At that time, there will be airships stationed in the air to provide us with battlefield intelligence." Qin Shan clenched his fist, full of confidence in the victory of the war. .

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

The next day, it was dark.

The artillerymen entered the position.

It is different from the Central Army, which is the most well-equipped.

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

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

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

These artillery pieces formed a five-kilometer artillery position on the battlefield, which was equal to the width of the trench of the Western Turkic Allied Forces.

As the fish belly white in the sky became brighter and brighter, the time came to the hour of Mao.

At this time, with the order of the artillery general, 920 artillery pieces roared almost at the same time.

The muzzle lights flickered, the smoke rose, and shells flew towards the trench position of the Western Turkic Allied Forces.

"Boom boom boom..." In an instant, the shells that fell on the trench position exploded into flames.

These flames were all over the battlefield, bright and beautiful, but with the breath of death, shaking the earth.

At this moment.

The Western Turkic Allied Forces were just on guard as usual, but they did not enter a state of war.

These days, they did not find any signs of attack from Dasong.

So, the sudden bombardment really blew them away.

But fortunately, they no longer underestimated the Dasong army.

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

These trenches were specially built to defend against Dasong's artillery.

The trenches were about two meters deep and wide enough to accommodate only one person.

This would reduce the chances of Dasong's artillery shells falling directly into the trenches.

The deep trenches could also prevent shrapnel from killing.

At the same time, their artillery also entered the fortifications and launched an artillery attack on Dasong's trench positions.

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