On January 20, 958, Prince Heishanbao suddenly arrived in Hanzhou for a visit.
At the same time, a secret agreement signed between the Principality of Montenegro and the Hanzhou Autonomous Government was exposed.
With the approval of the Hanzhou Autonomous Government, the Montenegrin Second Mechanized Division and the Third Guards Division under the Northern Military District Command of the Kingdom of Greifanni entered Hanzhou.
At the same time, the Hanzhou National Guard was reorganized into the Hanzhou Division, becoming one of the military sequence units of the Kingdom's Northern Military Region.
As usual, the agreements were approved by parliament by a narrow margin.
At the same time, the five provinces in the south of the Yangtze River were not affiliated with two of the three provinces of the Principality of Montenegro. After the New Year, they held a referendum to change their flags and announced their incorporation into the Principality of Montenegro.
Seeing the rapid changes in the lives of the people of Montenegro and even the people of the former Jiangning Province, the people of these provinces all had the Montenegrin dream, yearning for a free and prosperous place.
Of course, the Ministry of Special Work has been making a lot of propaganda in these provinces in recent years, exaggerating the wealth of the Montenegro Special Region.
Not to mention, Lu Ming has been running the Montenegro Special Zone for seven or eight years, and it has extremely rich resources that are simply incomparable to other regions in the principality.
But the Montenegro dream is naturally full of temptation after being promoted.
Among the five provinces in the south of the Yangtze River today, only Jiangyuan Province, located on the southeastern coast, is isolated from the Montenegro system. Four years ago, a political strongman named Wang Minsheng emerged in Jiangyuan, who led the military and political power of Jiangyuan. There are ports on the coast and developed trade. It has bypassed the multilateral system of the Principality of Montenegro and the Eastern Alliance, and signed many agreements with members of the Eastern Alliance such as the East China Sea Region and the State of Leona, vigorously developing such bilateral relations to resist the infiltration and oppression brought by the Montenegro system in the northern region.
In addition to the changes that took place in Hanzhou and the five provinces of Jiangnan.
In Shengjing, the Montenegro Treaty Organization, namely the six parties of the Montenegro Principality, Longbei Autonomous Province (Ren Zhonglin), Longbei Democratic Province (Sun Gan), Bac Ninh Military Government (Han Renwang), Northern Xinjiang Autonomous Province (Qi Huaide), and Anshan Autonomous State (Miao Baifeng), signed a new "Collective Security Treaty" and formed a joint forces headquarters.
According to the new agreement, the Longbei Autonomous Province (Ren Zhonglin), the Longbei Democratic Province (Sun Gan), the Beining Military Government (Han Renwang), and the Northern Xinjiang Autonomous Province (Qi Huaide) each selected two elite divisions, and the Anshan Autonomous State (Miao Baifeng) selected a brigade. Together with the four divisions of the Black Mountain Principality, they formed the Northern Territory Peacekeeping Force, which was under the unified command of the Allied Forces Headquarters and was subject to training, deployment, etc.
Needless to say, the Allied Forces Headquarters is under the direct command of Prince Montenegro.
The coalition forces are said to be gathering and training in the desert area in the west of Sancai Province.
Sancai Province is the central region, and further west are the desert areas and endless deserts.
Generally speaking, it is a missing piece in the map of the empire. From a geographical point of view, if you go straight south from the desert or even the desert area in the west of the Three Talents and Three Provinces, you can reach the city-state area in the Western Regions.
However, the road is extremely difficult to travel. Not to mention the deserts in the west, even in the eastern region, there are desert plateaus, hills and rivers. There has never been a large-scale passage to the south. There used to be small private trade routes, but after the establishment of the railway network from the Northern Region to Hanzhou and then to the Western Region, no one used these small trade routes anymore. After all, these small trade routes that were slowly formed in ancient times could be used for smuggling with huge risks, and with a bit of luck, one could get rich overnight.
But it is not only far less fast than railways and cannot transport large amounts of cargo, it is also extremely dangerous.
The coalition forces are currently training in the area, and no one knows what Prince Black Mountain Castle intends to do.
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The first sequence headquarters of Nicolo City.
In the conference room, General Dönitz convened a military meeting to discuss the series of impacts brought about by the Montenegrin Principality's garrison in Hanzhou.
General Bit's analysis was recognized by General Dönitz.
Chief Bit said that whether it was the Principality of Montenegro's initiative to reconcile the North and the South in Japan to establish a joint government and set up the Central National Defense Army of Japan; or finally beginning to fully control the five provinces south of the Yangtze River; or reconciling the vassal armies of its vassal warlords in the north; and then there was the stationing of troops in Hanzhou.
All of these things have only one purpose, which is to seriously prepare for the possible war in the Western Regions and to fight a life-and-death battle in the Western Regions with our kingdom.
After Lu Ming finished speaking, the conference room immediately became buzzing, and many people shook their heads in disapproval.
Hundreds of officers participated in today's meeting. It was an enlarged meeting convened by Dönitz, and leaders of various regional branches and even heads of major branch agencies were all present.
On both sides of the long table in the center of the conference room sat important generals like Lu Ming. On the long tables against the walls on both sides and behind the rows of long tables on the west side sat many colonels and even major-level officers, who were naturally people from the branch.
"This is impossible!" Someone sneered from a seat far away behind several rows of tables.
Lu Ming looked over and noticed that it was his old acquaintance Henry, but he was sitting too far away and was inconspicuous.
Looking at Lu Ming, he was filled with jealousy.
With the protection of old General Hendry, Hendry was not implicated after the White Tower Tragedy, but he did not get promoted either.
He is still in the New Fornia branch, serving as the director of intelligence of the New Fornia branch, with the rank of lieutenant colonel.
At this time, Hendry's face was full of sarcasm. "Fighting us in the Western Regions? Even if it's Hanzhou, it's still thousands of kilometers away from here. When the time comes, we will blow up their railway line. Will they fly over to fight?"
Lu Ming smiled and said, "The garrison in Hanzhou is mainly to bring pressure to the northern border of our kingdom. But as for flying, it is not impossible for the Black Mountain people to fly over to fight. The Black Mountain people used a lot of paratroopers in the war of unification of the northern region."
Hendry paused for a moment, then sneered, "How many people can paratroopers transport at a time? Can they transport heavy equipment? Are you comparing those warlords in the Northern Territory with the mighty army of my kingdom?"
Lu Ming wanted to say something, but Denitz waved his hand and looked at Hendry with dissatisfaction, "Although I want everyone to speak freely in this meeting, you also have to use your brains." Even though he had a close relationship with old Hendry, it was he who promoted Hendry from major to lieutenant colonel.
But at meetings of this level, Hendry Jr. had contradicted his most capable assistant many times, causing Dönitz to suddenly feel disgusted with him.
As soon as Dönitz spoke, the conference room fell into complete silence.
"Prince Black Mountain Fort, if you underestimate us even a little bit, then our future in the Western Region may not be bright! Now if we look back and analyze every step he took, you will be very surprised! When Prince Black Mountain Fort was in the Northern Region, he only had 10,000 or 20,000 people, and he started his journey to conquer the Northern Region. It has only been a few years? Those Northern Region warlords were once behemoths in front of him, but who would have thought that he would use paratroopers and bombers? It can be said that these leaps in military technology all came from Prince Black Mountain Fort."
"He has ambitious goals and a strong will! He may even have the support of unknown financial and technical forces!"
Denitz paused, "So, who can say that he didn't suddenly pull out some secret weapon from his pocket, and the Black Mountain army appeared in the Western Regions?"
"Once we launch a war to attack the West Black Mountain Fortress in the Western Region, we must be prepared to fight the main force of the Black Mountain Principality here. If we don't have this awareness and rashly start a war, we will most likely fail!"
The generals were all silent.
Lu Ming's heart trembled. He didn't expect that he had such a high opinion of himself, but this was not good news.
Denitz glanced at Lu Ming with an encouraging look, and his tone softened. "Colonel Bit's analysis was very good, and he said what I wanted to say. No matter how much we overestimate the Montenegrin people and the Prince of Montenegro, they are very necessary for our intelligence department. The most feared thing is to despise and underestimate him a little bit. No matter whether it is his personal enemies or the enemies of the country he leads, those who underestimated him have paid a painful price. We must remember this!"
All the officers sat up straight and listened to his lecture.
Lu Ming didn't know what to feel in his heart.