The World Online

Chapter 1350 – Railroad Soldier

Ouyang Shuo hurriedly met with the Cabinet to settle the structure of the West Asia Governor-General House. As for the remaining complicated matters, the Cabinet would naturally deal with it; he did not have the time to handle those things.

Next, Ouyang Shuo held the relevant military organizations discussions with the Privy Court.

This was not a simple matter.

Similar to the South Asia warzone, based on the plan, the West Asia warzone’s base would go from the already removed Xijiang Governor-General region to the West Asia Governor-General House region. They would be in charge of the safety of West Asia.

As for the newly established West Asia Governor-General House, its north would be connected to the Caesar Dynasty and northeast with the Romanov Dynasty. It was Great Xia’s frontline for both attacking and defending against Europe.

Its strategic importance was massive.

Furthermore, since the internal situation of the West Asia Governor-General House was really complicated, containing many unstable elements, two legion corps were definitely not enough to handle everything.

To strengthen their authority in the region, Ouyang Shuo decided to form a proper army out of the four South Asia legion corps. It would be known as the Central Asia legion corps, which would defend the Central Asia region.

The City Protection legion corps 5th legion Legion General Lin Yi would be promoted to the position of marshal.

The defensive duties of Xijiang would be left to the Xijiang construction formation and the Xikang construction formation.

Ouyang Shuo also had a plan for the one million Persian troops. He would first disarm 400 thousand of them and throw them into locks construction. They would act as a source of strong labor.

This move would also help to buy the hearts of the people.

Not everyone wanted to join the army, especially in such a day and age. As long as one headed to the battlefield, one’s survival would become uncertain.

Apart from the elite troops, many basic soldiers wished to retire.

Ouyang Shuo’s move was giving the people what they wanted.

Furthermore, the Persia army possessed limited fighting strength, so making them into a proper army would weaken the strength of Great Xia.

Truthfully, they were not good enough.

The 600 thousand would change occupations and become railroad soldiers. They would be in charge of the Empire’s railroad construction. One out of the remaining three South Asia legion corps would also become railroad soldiers.

This newly formed soldier type jumped up to 850 thousand in number right away.

For the Empire to unify West Asia and the Africa Governor-General House, the core requirement would be the construction of a railroad crossing Asia and Africa to act as the traffic lifeline.

Although the project would be arduous, the splendidness it would produce was foreseeable.

It would definitely shine in the history books after its construction.

Ouyang Shuo even mentioned in a military meeting, “In this era of industrialization, the responsibility and honor of railroad construction is no less than on the battlefield. This is one with no smoke but with casualties like war.”

Building a railroad required blood and tears. They would need to go through all sorts of troubles, open mountain paths, and build bridges over water. They had to be prepared for sacrifices at any time.

Consequently, the potential merits were no less than winning an all-out war.

Such an arduous task was best suited for the railroad army that was made up of soldiers.

In comparison, 850 thousand railroad soldiers was not much. In the future, if he had a chance, Ouyang Shuo was prepared to expand its scale.

Only then could he complete this massive feat in the shortest amount of time possible.

Apart from the Asia Africa railroad, railroads from the core of the Empire to other Governor-General Houses needed to be expanded and built. They would create a complex railroad network covering the major cities.

Railroad construction would reach peak after peak in the next few years.

For this, after receiving Ouyang Shuo’s approval, the Privy Court constructed the railroad soldier headquarters in the imperial capital. The 1st railroad commander was Tiger legion corps 2nd Legion General Hong Ying.

Hong Ying’s identity as a player made it easy for her to command this special group of players.

A matter that needed to be mentioned was although there were 850 thousand railroad soldiers, which was a number comparable to a warzone, the headquarter scale was at the Legion General headquarters level.

Naturally, the railroad commander would be on the same level as a marshal.

In the future, once the Empire’s railroad construction came to an end, these railroad soldiers would become railroad construction workers. Hence, their headquarters was only a transitional object.

Of course, during this period of time, its status was still really important. If Hong Ying performed well, her position in the Great Xia Army would not be lower than a marshal’s in the future.

Considering the need for professionals, the iron railroad soldier headquarters would also hire a number of technical professionals from the populace.

All in all, this was a massive and meaningful matter.

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4th month, 28th day.

After receiving the order from the Imperial Court, the 1st and 2nd South Asia legion corps started to gather at the Arab Empire border. They were ready to use actual action to put pressure onto the Arab Empire.

When the Arab King head the news, he had a sleepless night, tossing and turning in his bed.

The Persian Empire was forced to surrender; this was a huge nightmare to the Arab King. The strong Persian Empire only lasted for a month and a half before Great Xia.

If war between them began, how long could the Arab Empire last for?

If Great Xia’s Africa warzone attacked too, they could form an east and west pincer. With just the number of troops involved, the Arab Empire would not be able to last for two months, and it was possible for them to fall much earlier.

He could not win if they fought, but he was not willing to surrender.

He was hesitating, basically counting the days he could live.

The problem was that there was not much time left for him to hesitate.

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Some people hesitated but many did not.

For example, Ottoman King Manstein decisively agreed to returning the 120 thousand House of Tudor troops without putting up any needless struggles.

Currently, they were at a crucial moment in their war against the Romanov Dynasty. Manstein was not willing to make Great Xia their enemy now, so he could only swallow this defeat.

The good that came out of this would be Great Xia promising to not attack the Ottoman Dynasty in exchange for the 120 thousand House of Tudor army.

Of course, this promise was limited to the 10th year of Gaia.

Even then, Manstein still felt that it was worth it.

This was Ouyang Shuo’s reward to Manstein for knowing his place. Anyways, Great Xia did not have any plans to attack Europe’s mainland.

Ouyang Shuo knew that Europe was a hornet’s nest and should not be easily poked.

With its deep foundations, the Europe continent was not something that could be conquered with pure force. When these dynasties were faced with an external threat, they would swiftly huddle together to deal with the outside force.

This was not something that Ouyang Shuo wanted.

As for the House of Tudor, it had swam outside of the Europe system, which gave Great Xia the chance to strike. If not, they would not have gotten what they wished so easily.

Ouyang Shuo clearly recognized this point.

After redeeming them, Great Xia formed the North Europe legion corps from the elites of the 120 thousand House of Tudor troops and the remaining soldiers.

As the name suggests, their main battlefield would be North Europe.

Their main goal would be to attack Iceland and Greenland with help from the Atlantic Squadron.

These islands were the bridge for the Empire to attack the Arctic.

Apart from that, constructing the North Europe legion corps strengthened the power of the House of Tudor Jiedushi.

Even with Great Xia as a shield, Ouyang Shuo did not believe that just the 250 thousand strong West Europe army could save the House of Tudor Province.

Who knows what thoughts the European dynasties would have?

Original Imperial Palace Guards 2nd Legion General Han Qinhu was promoted to marshal. The vacancy he left behind would be filled in by his deputy, Jianqi Leiyin.

At this point, out of the five Legion General spots in the Imperial Palace legion corps, three were players.