Chapter 452

  In the establishment of the African Expeditionary Force, the division directly governs the divisional battalion, the engineer battalion, the cavalry battalion and the artillery battalion, as well as the heavy regiment, and governs 4 infantry regiments with a total number of just over 10,000.

Compared with the Queensland Army Division, this organization adds an infantry regiment, strengthens the cavalry battalion, strengthens the engineer battalion, and reduces the artillery regiment. The main firepower of the artillery battalion is six 95mm field infantry artillery and 60mm. There are 18 field infantry artillery pieces, totaling 24 artillery pieces.

  This is mainly due to the fact that Africa has fewer formidable targets, weak city defenses, sturdy city walls and fort facilities are relatively rare, and poor logistics supply base, thus reducing the artillery staff.

  The artillery is a type of service that places great emphasis on logistics. An artillery battalion’s ammunition can be fired in tens of minutes, but hundreds of freight carriages are required for transportation. This is a nightmare in Africa, where transportation is extremely underdeveloped.

  The cavalry battalion uses not Australian quarter horses, but Arabian horses from West Asia. These horses are tall, able to endure the hot desert environment, strong sprinting ability, and are very good riding horses.

The smuggling tentacles of the merchants in Xi'an Town are very developed, and they have extended to West Asia, Persia, Iraq, Syria, Saudi Arabia and Yemen. They exchanged mature industrial products from Queensland for gold, silver, jade, lapis lazuli, agate, saffron, women and horses, etc. As long as they are specialties of West Asia, there are almost no materials that are easy to realize.

  Among the Arabian horses that were smuggled and trafficked back, ordinary war horses were used to refit to the African expeditionary team stationed in Xi'an Town to improve the efficiency of patrols and achieve a wider range of vigilance.

   Better Arabian war horses were stocked up and sold to cavalry battalions that came empty-handed. After more than three months of running-in training, the cavalry battalions were able to attack.

The best Arabian horses of pure bloodlines are carefully fed and then brought back to Australia by ocean freighters to improve the local horses of Australia and improve the horses of dragoon divisions and tiger cavalry divisions. A small number of Arabian horses of top bloodlines remain pure Lineage, used in the high-end market.

Rough calculations, there are tens of thousands of Arabian horses that have entered Xi'an in the past year or so. After the cavalry battalion and the local African expeditionary team changed their outfits, some Arabian horses flowed into the British and French troops stationed in the Suez Canal, which was extremely popular. Popular products.

The Arabian horses purchased from the British and French through regular channels are obviously not comparable in price to smuggled horses. Many officers and cavalry are willing to buy a cheap and good-quality spare horse for themselves. Arabian horses from Xi'an are the best. s Choice.

The total number of British and French troops stationed in the Suez River region exceeds 100,000. This is a market with extremely strong consumption power. It not only consumes a large number of Arabian horses and women from Xi’an town, but also consumes the entire ship of Australian materials, including high-quality wheat flour. Australian sausage, toffee, canned fish and meat, smoked ham and frozen meat are popular because of their rich variety, high quality and low price.

  Since the development of phosphate mines, the Australian food additive industry has sprung up, extending the storage shelf life of Australian high-quality agricultural and sideline products, greatly improving the taste and quality, and gradually becoming the leading export product.

  Early January 1886

  Xian Town, a luxury mansion

"Brother Shuan Zhu, Brother Yu wish you a victory here and return with praise." Lei Xiaopeng has a darker complexion than two years ago, and his body is obviously blessed. He raised the wine glass in his hand with a red face, and said with emotion; "More than two years ago, we came here with ambition and prepared to do a lot of work, but we didn't expect it, ha ha ha...good luck!"

   "Thank you, brother Xiaopeng."

  Li Shuanzhu didn't say much, he toasted and drank cleanly, flipping his hands to reveal the bottom of the cup.

  Recently, the order of the peak came down. All the officers and soldiers of the original African Expeditionary Force were reorganized into the Xi'an Town Garrison. Nearly half of the more than 1,800 troops were abolished.

  According to the adjusted plan;

The garrison area is stationed in East Fort and West Fort each with two companies, two companies in Greater Hanish Island, two companies in Xi'an Town, and one company in Mogadishu. A total of 7 companies are retained, each of which has been streamlined. The company has about a hundred people, and the abolished troops are incorporated into the reserve militia battalion under the unified command of the garrison chief.

  Xi’an Town Garrison is a regiment-level unit. The commander, Lei Xiaopeng, was awarded the Guardian Knight of the Earl for merit and was awarded the Silver Oak Leaf Knight and Iron Cross, which was awarded by Brigadier General Mo Rufeng, the commander of the African Expeditionary Force.

The   Silver Oak Leaf Knight Iron Cross is a very high honor. Li Shuanzhu once also won one, so far no more than 9 have been awarded.

This Medal of Honor rewards Lei Xiaopeng for his brilliant achievements in exploring Africa. Although there is nothing remarkable in his record, he has shined with dazzling light on the construction of Xi'an Town, and this bird will not shit. The construction of the Jibuti Oasis has become an important town in the Horn of Africa. The business is prosperous and the trade is prosperous. Professional civil affairs officials are embarrassed. I have to say that it is indeed a big skill.

  You, an army officer, didn’t do his own job of opening up the territory, but came to grab a job with us. What do you mean?

Queenslanders are very knowledgeable in colonization work and have formed a complete set of high-efficiency construction processes. Hundreds of new towns have been built one after another, and a large number of outstanding civil affairs officials have emerged. It can be said that the stars are shining, no less than the military's dazzling record .

  Even the most outstanding civil affairs officials do not dare to boast that what they do in Xi’an is better than Lei Xiaopeng. This is the most interesting part.

Today, most of the accompany guests around Lei Xiaopeng are dressed in plain clothes, and they are all red and rich. They are the officers who have been disbanded and returned to the fields in this large-scale abolition. Among them are Major Li Yong and Li Yong from the Guards. Captain Mo Zhenxiong, both of them were young officers who entered the Guards at the same time as Li Shuanzhu.

  I only repaid Major Li Yong and Captain Mo Zhenxiong. They were promoted to one level each when they retired. They were the reserve militia army street. The moisture in this was too great, and it was really countless.

The two of them sat on the lower heads in plain clothes. They were obviously fatter than they were more than two years ago. They wore a jade ring on their hands and held a precious gemstone cane carved with a whole rhinoceros horn. They had quickly fallen from the original vigorous young officer. Smuggling merchants made huge wealth.

"Ayong, Zhenxiong, it may be a blessing for you to take off the restraint of this military uniform. Lord Earl is benevolent and generous. For you to wait until you have been reckless and do not go deep, you are thinking about some of the past love." Li Shuanzhu put down. He took the wine glasses in his hand and said to the two with a serious look; "You and I are all friends in the officer training class at the same time. We are all old acquaintances in the army. So here I advise you to be a businessman and be a businessman in compliance with laws and regulations. Don’t be confused with the security area anymore. The Office of Political Affairs and the Office of Audit and Audit is not a joke. I guess your information has long been checked out. If you continue to end up like this, you will not be optimistic. It's just the outspoken advice of an old colleague, I hope you wait and do it yourself."

  These words have the meaning of condescending admonition, so why not tell them to Lei Xiaopeng? The faces of Major Li Yong and Lieutenant Mo Zhenxiong sitting at the bottom began to blush, and they were really ashamed.

  The devil who did not hold the temptation and desire in his heart, after all, paid the wrong way!

"Hey...I heard these words late." Lei Xiaopeng sighed. He was still wearing a lieutenant colonel's uniform, but his position was changed to Chief of the Garrison, from the original field troops to the local military system. , Although he was also a lieutenant colonel like Li Shuanzhu, he lowered his head invisibly.

  Lei Xiaopeng knows in his heart;

The reason why I was able to maintain my military rank position and confer honors for merit is Yu Meng from my father Lei Xiao. This incense affection will be consumed, especially the love of Lord Earl is hard to change. Now it seems to be very big. Mistakes.

"The good medicine is bitter and beneficial to the disease. Brother Yu has been taught. From now on, the guard area will be completely cut off from the smuggling channel. They will take off their military uniforms and become steadfast businessmen. Those who are still in the army should be attracted. As a warning, it is impossible to make mistakes and do a good job as a soldier."

"This statement is great." Li Shuanzhu nodded with approval, turned his head and said to everyone; "As far as I know, the Queensland State Assembly has successively introduced a series of bills to regulate officials and soldiers' duties, corruption and bribery, and the boundaries of business and trade. The use of legal income to invest is permitted by the policy, but the use of power to facilitate personal gains, the use of private money, the private use of public equipment, and the practice of favoritism are all severe punishments. You can calculate how many laws you have violated, and you can no longer be forced to labor for the rest of your life. Once, you must know to be grateful."

  This made everyone's backs sweat and sweat, everyone was blinded by money, and now they suddenly woke up and found that they were already standing on the edge of the abyss, with one foot already empty.

   Really and mysteriously.

If it hadn’t been for the one living in the Red Fort who cared about the love that everyone had been born into for so many years, and had constrained the sword of thunder, most of the people here would either be executed secretly or thrown into the forced labor camp. .

  Lei Xiaopeng left the table with a solemn expression, and everyone followed closely behind.

  They came to the open space in front of the banquet to pay homage to the Eastern Grand Ceremony. They said sincerely and thanked the Lord Earl for temporarily extinguishing the thunderous anger, and lifted up and lightly patted the great grace.

  Li Shuanzhu sat in the seat and watched coldly. He was not a group of officers who made mistakes, so he could look at it from a detached perspective.

  Being a person, you must know how to be grateful. Lei Xiaopeng led the crowd to act like this. It is not useless, and it will definitely be passed into the ears of Lord Earl in some way.

The tentacles of the political situation are far deeper than expected, and the security area is also not good. The military police headquarters is relatively better, at least visible and tangible on the bright side.

  Military bosses can look down upon the ugly deeds of the political affairs department, but they cannot deny the fear in their hearts. That is a secret organization that can reach Tianhe. As long as the mouth is crooked, it may affect the future of the military bosses.

  But this mouth is not arbitrarily crooked. If it is exaggerated or exaggerated, there is no evidence to deliberately discredit a certain military leader, and then a serious backlash against political affairs director Dai Yingcai is absolutely overwhelming.

  In the light of the aspect, it is internal intrusion and mutual attack, and in the more serious aspect, it is self-destruction of the Great Wall, which is suspected of betrayal. This is not related to the catastrophe of the political situation that has grown up entirely on the trust of Lord Earl.

  Master Earl is a wise man, no one dares to take such a risk, and the price is definitely not affordable by the parties involved.

  (End of this chapter)