Chapter 625: Southward Plan

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"Commander, I heard you were looking for me?"

Chief of Staff Wu Bin, who received the news, just arrived at the office and saw Gu Chengyuan standing in front of an enlarged night province traffic map with his hands behind his back.

Hearing the voice of the Chief of Staff, Gu Chengyuan showed joy on his face and immediately greeted:

"The Chief of Staff is here? Come quickly, come and help me with the staff!"

Night province traffic map?

When Chief of Staff Wu Bin approached and saw the map hanging in the office clearly, and then thought about the fact that the chief had just inspected the airport, he immediately understood the purpose of the chief calling him over this time.

"Commander, are you planning to go south?"

Gu Chengyuan and Wu Bin had talked about the issue of going south many times during their casual chats, and they knew the main purpose of converting civil airliners into military transport aircraft.

"Yes, although our current strategic focus is in the north, we cannot ignore the south!"

"If we don't occupy the land of power, someone else will."

"Rather than letting the southern forces grow wildly and increase the difficulty of our subsequent recovery, it is better to take action earlier!"

"It's just a few troops. Even if we can't take down the local survivors, it's a good thing to show our presence and intimidate them."

Hearing this, Chief of Staff Wu Bin nodded in agreement, but he did not rush to express his opinion.

Because he knew very well that he was only a deputy, and the general direction of the issues still had to be controlled by the leader and he could not overstep the line.

"Commander, you should have some ideas, right?" Chief of Staff Wu Bin asked in a measured tone.

"I now have a preliminary idea. Isn't it just asking you, Chief of Staff, to help me find out the shortcomings and fill them in?"

Speaking of this, Gu Chengyuan couldn't help but show a hint of excitement on his face:

"I plan to use the province's airports as fulcrums and air routes as chains to create a huge force control network!"

"This is how we control all the key cities and regions in the province!"

"All airports in the province?" Upon hearing this, Chief of Staff Wu Bin immediately started thinking.

There are 11 airports in the province, excluding the two in Chongyi City, there are only 9 in total?

Calculated this way, it doesn’t seem like much.

What's more, wherever an airport can be built, the conditions are very favorable, whether in terms of population size, economic scale, or transportation location.

Therefore, there is no problem in mindlessly controlling the airport. Even if there are two or three airports of little value, it will not waste much manpower.

As long as the general direction is correct, Chief of Staff Wu Bin believes that as long as the leader is happy, that's enough.

"Commander, I fully agree with your idea!" Wu Bin gave his affirmation immediately.

"Do you have any idea about the selection of garrison troops? If not, I do have some ideas."

Hearing Wu Bin's idea, Gu Chengyuan immediately made an expression as if he was willing to hear more details.

"Chief of Staff, you say!"

"My suggestion is to directly draw from the current four Yezhou infantry brigades! Our existing combined brigades have been integrated with great difficulty. If they are disbanded, it will easily affect their combat effectiveness."

"For things like garrisoning troops, especially within the province, I don't think the task force needs to have too strong combat capabilities. Sending the Yezhou Infantry Brigade is just right!"

"Even if a situation occurs that the infantry brigade cannot handle, it won't be too late to mobilize the brigades to go there. If things really don't work, we still have short-range tactical missiles!"

"What do you think, Chief?"

Chief of Staff Wu Bin, as always, holds a contemptuous attitude towards the military strength of the survivors in Ye Province.

In Ye Province, unless you are lucky enough to open a secret armory, the upper limit of your armed forces is at most the level of the internal security forces.

However, it is more likely that it is police equipment combined with homemade weapons, which is of bandit-level quality and the maximum noise it can cause will not be higher than that of firecrackers.

After all, to say that the Yezhou Infantry Brigade is a second-rate combat unit depends on who it is compared with. Compared with a combined brigade that has completed information integration, it is naturally second-rate, but if compared with ordinary civilian armed forces, it is definitely a regular army.

After he finished speaking, Gu Chengyuan fell into deep thought.

Based on the analysis of the current situation, it is indeed most appropriate to send a second-level combat unit as a garrison. Its combat effectiveness is just right, which can form suppression without causing excessive combat effectiveness.

Moreover, if we count the days, the 4 newly recruited soldiers and a total of 8 training brigades will soon be reorganized and sent to the front line in Yucheng.

Withdrawing one or two infantry brigades at this time will not affect the combat effectiveness of the Zhanjiang Military Sub-district at all.

Thinking of this, Gu Chengyuan immediately agreed to Chief of Staff Wu Bin's troop deployment plan.

"Then let's follow your idea, Chief of Staff. When choosing the garrison troops, we should select the Yezhou Infantry Brigade, which already has actual combat experience!"

"By the way, Chief, I heard that you just set up a light combined brigade?" Chief of Staff Wu Bin asked as if he suddenly remembered.

"That's right"

As Wu Bin was a general of the system, Gu Chengyuan naturally had nothing to hide from him.

"You haven't made any plans for it yet, have you?"

"what do you mean?"

Having said this, Chief of Staff Wu Bin suddenly raised his hand and lightly pointed towards Xinyi City, the capital of the Southwest Prefecture of Ye Province, and then said:

"How about deploying the light combined forces brigade here?"

Gu Chengyuan looked at Xinyi City, located at the southernmost tip of the Ye Province map, and was slightly stunned.

Chief of Staff Wu Bin continued, "Commander, you also said that if we don't occupy the vacant space of power, others will."

"Southwest Province is the southern gate of our Ye Province, and it is adjacent to Yun Province and Gui Province. As far as I know, the military strength of these two places before the end of the world was not weak!"

"In order to prevent anyone from sneaking in, it's better to send someone to close the door first!"

"Moreover, the southward movement plan you mentioned to me last time also includes the southern countries, which also requires passing through these two provinces."

"As for whose road to borrow, or whether to borrow or occupy, we can wait until the situation is clear before we decide."

"But no matter what, a combat-capable force must be deployed at this South Gate!"

"This way, whether we're attacking or defending, we can do it with ease."

Listening to Chief of Staff Wu Bin's clear and organized analysis, Gu Chengyuan unconsciously felt a sense of sudden enlightenment. Even his own strategic thinking seemed to have been broadened a lot, and he nodded repeatedly as he listened.

"Okay, it just so happens that we have almost opened up the main transportation line from the night market to the prime minister's gathering place."

"It's less than 300 kilometers from the Prime Minister's gathering place to Xinyi City. We can deploy them by road, and we can also open up the subsequent material transportation routes!"

Thinking of this, Gu Chengyuan immediately ordered Captain Zhou Guihong, the staff officer standing beside him:

"Gui Hong!"

"To!"

"I will issue an order to the provincial military district headquarters, ordering the 1st Light Combined Brigade to set out early tomorrow morning and head to Xinyi City, the capital of Southwest Province!"

"After the troops arrive and take control of Xinyi Airport, they will be stationed there and await further orders!"

"Yes!"

After taking a look at Zhou Guihong's departing back, Gu Chengyuan retracted his gaze and continued to speak to Chief of Staff Wu Bin:

"As for the remaining airports, we will occupy them according to the ratio of stationing one infantry battalion per airport!"

"That makes it exactly one infantry brigade!"