Chapter 400 Little Maoqi is going to the Far East

"The war has started."

Like the cumulonimbus clouds that have accumulated over Europe for a long time, when these three words began to spread along the telephone line among European cities, almost everyone seemed to feel a sulking breath.

It's been too long. It's been eight years since the naval battle against Malaysia that shocked the world in 1895, which is almost a generation, but the hatred between China and Russia has increased unabated. Even in the years after the signing of the agreement, the Xinhua Navy has never allowed the Russian flag to be flown. The warship transited.

After several years of rapid development, now they have finally openly exposed their fangs to the huge polar bear. They are like a group of unknown mad dogs, advancing along the thousands of miles of border to Siberia.

But compared with their opponents, the Russians' reaction was too slow. Even if Kashini learned from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Xinhua two days earlier that he would be invited to a press conference on August 1st, speculating that it would be the day of the declaration of war and sending back an emergency telegram, the madman in St. Petersburg still arrogant. Only for the possibility of Russia declaring war on Xinhua, Xinhua will never take the first shot!

But in fact, only ten minutes after the declaration of war, the shells had roared from the sea. Although the other side's three heavy patrols had not yet broken through the waterway to make up for the mines, and the damage caused by long-range shelling was not very great, because of their successful containment, everyone did not expect that the Xinhua Army would be so quickly When the two marines who suddenly landed from Ternei quickly penetrated parallel to the west, all the people found that a large area of land, including Vladivostok and Shuangchengzi, had lost contact with Boli, the administrative capital of Siberia in the rear.

When an infantry division rushed out of the Ninggu Pagoda almost the same day and crossed the Ussuri River to join the land division, it was equivalent to announcing that nearly 50,000 Russian Eastern Front soldiers stationed in Vladivostok and Shuangchengzi were surrounded!

This is a classic quick interspersed encirclement tactic. The Xinhua Army took advantage of the initiative of declaring war and Russia's arrogantness to surround Vladivostok, which is called the first fortress of the Far East by the Russians, with lightning speed. It only took three days to build a dam between the Ussuri River and the Japanese Sea. It became a perfect cut.

Standing in front of the map and looking at the horizontal line and a few arrows outlined by Ludendorff on the map, Little Mochi's eyes suddenly flashed, as if he thought of something interesting, but it dimmed in an instant and became what had happened just now.

Ludendorff did not notice the changes behind him. As a staff officer, his job was to help the army general outline the lines of each war, and then let the general analyze the gains and losses through these lines as soon as possible.

His writing hand was very steady and fast, which made Little Moqi appreciate it very much, so he asked, "Rudendorf, tell me your opinion. Is the [***] team beyond your expectations?"

"Not yet, Your Excellency the Chief of Staff."

Ludendorff turned his head, looked at the map after saluting, and replied bluntly: " Vladivostok is the most important Far East fortress in Russia. After the last damage to the Pacific Fleet of the Xinhua Navy, it does not mean that its geographical location has declined. In fact, according to our statistics, before the opening of the Siberian Railway, Eighty percent of Russia's transportation in the Far East still needs to be maintained by Vladivostok. Although Russia cannot dispatch its fleet, they have transported hundreds of cannons and tens of thousands of shells there through French shipping companies over the past few years.

I believe that the Chief of General Staff of the Xinhua Army will not be deceived by the tricks of Russia and France, so although he pulled the front very long this time, he still made the first punch against Vladivostok, which is to take advantage of the sea to quickly cut off Vladivostok and the outside world. Contact, and then surround and occupy it.

In fact, I personally think this is very correct, because of the unique conditions and geographical location of Vladivostok. The Russians have deployed a large number of troops there, and the ammunition depots of their Eastern Front troops are also concentrated there. Now that it is cut off, it is equivalent to kicking the Russian Eastern Front troops out of the game!"

"Rudendorff, are you too optimistic? Biedlinger's base camp is in Burley, where there are more than 100,000 troops, but there are only 60,000 Chinese. He can fight with the Vladivostok garrison, break through the blockade and implement anti-encirclement. Little Mochi looked at Ludendorff. Although his words were full of doubt, the smile at the corners of his mouth became stronger and stronger.

"No, I don't think so."

"Why?"

"Because of Vladivostok, it's still Vladivostok!" The smile seemed to inspire Rudendorff. He immediately picked up the baton and placed it fiercely in Vladivostok and said, "Because about three-quarters of the weapons and equipment of the Russian Eastern Front Army are stored here, and it is lost here. General Delinger will face a situation without rice. More importantly, Russia after the last war The country has strengthened the defense force of Vladivostok and arranged all the main forces here. Although their army in Buri has 100,000, they are all temporarily recruited troops from Siberia. Not only is the training time short, but more importantly, they lack weapons and ammunition, and many people also hold spears and knives!"

"Your Excellency, do you think these soldiers can defeat 60,000 elite marines and infantry?"

"But they have Vladivostok, and the main army there can completely rush out."

"Yes, but there is a problem, that is, once the army in Vladivostok leaves the cement and fortress, it will face the strong artillery of the Xinhua Army. As far as we know, Li Mo is never stingy in weapons and equipment, and his cabinet and parliament will never delay funding, so each of his infantry divisions has 80 Eight cannons, and at least 300 mortars used at close range, also have 100 machine guns, which has far exceeded the imperial army, and their opponents on the east and middle lines have not exceeded 800, and there are only 100 machine guns.

"So I think that if Bidelinger doesn't want to be sent to prison by their tsar, the best way is to use Vladivostok to stick to it, use it as a meat grinder, constantly consume the Xinhua army, and then take advantage of their weakness to attack from Buri."

"But if he wants to take risks, then the [***] team can in turn use machine guns and cannons to quickly consume the army on the Eastern Front and quickly move towards Bili, which is Bedlinger's dead hole!"

"So when do you think the Chinese will be able to beat Vladivostok?" Xiao Maoqi squinted and asked.

This time, Ludendorff shook his head and seemed to be a little unsent and said, "I don't know, but Vladivostok has a relatively complete level of defense after rebuilding, and another 50,000 people are stationed in it. Maybe it will be a hard battle."

"Well, there is another question. Where do you think the final battle between Russia and China will be?"

The fifty-six-year-old German chief of staff's large-scale jumping thinking made Rudendorff secretly unable to keep up with the rhythm. After looking at the map and thinking about it for a long time, he aimed at a place with a baton.

"Here!"

Looking at the name of the place under the baton, little Moqi nodded with satisfaction: "Ludendorff, I'm going to see His Majesty the Emperor now. You can arrange it immediately and go to the Far East with me tomorrow."

"Go to the Far East? You are going to the Far East!"

Ludendorff looked at Little Mouch in surprise and didn't understand why the most trusted chief of staff of the emperor suddenly proposed to go to the Far East. Did he want to see the war with his own eyes?

Xiao Maoqi didn't explain. He just stood there and slowly let the conscripts tie their clothes. After cleaning up, he turned his head and suddenly asked, "Rudendorff, if you command two armies, can you break through that line of defense?"

"The line of defense, that line of defense?" Ludendorff's thoughts didn't come back at all of a sudden. Looking at Little Moqi's eyes, he suddenly opened his mouth after half a sound, and then shook his head affirmatively: "No."

Little Mourke was more satisfied, because at least the staff officer he was optimistic about did not brag to others. He looked up at the huge map and said, "Ludendorff, didn't you find it? When the world is paying attention to the strength of Li Mo's navy, their army is actually progressing, and they have mastered the true meaning of the army.

"The true meaning of the army?"

"Speed!" -

"Quick!"

Shen Hao rode on the horse and greeted his company to speed up. Although the cavalry had mentioned the fastest speed, it was not enough in Shen Hao's opinion.

This is a competition with speed. In order to quickly occupy the initiative in the initial stage, the headquarters has dispatched almost all the mobile forces that can be used, that is, to compress the opposing forces as much as possible and cut them off before the Russian army reacts.

This time, Shen Hao's task of riding the first division and the second regiment is to be a small but strategically important town in front of him, Nibuchu!

More than 200 years ago, the Qing Dynasty and Russia reached the famous Treaty of Nibchu here, which not only lost the vast area east of Nibchu and west of the Ergun River, but also contributed to Russia's expansion ambition in the Far East. Nibchu was included in Russia's territory.

So from the beginning of making the battle plan, the recovery of Nebuchu has become the biggest dream of every commander. Now this good opportunity is finally in front of the second regiment!

As a sharp knife company, Shen Hao knew that he had the opportunity to be the first to reach Nibuchu, so he was even more anxious, even more than the Forbidden City at the beginning.

The comrades-in-arms rolled forward in the sound of horses' hoofs. Everyone has only one dream in their hearts, which is to insert the fluttering double-headed eagle war flag into Nibuchu!

"Drive."

Looking at everyone catching up, Shen Hao immediately raised the rein, but when he was about to pull the horse back to the front of the team, he only heard a few gunshots, and the sharp soldiers who opened the way exchanged fire!

Because the gunfire was very close, almost at the moment he raised the telescope, hundreds of cavalry fluttering in cloaks appeared thousands of meters away.

Cossack!

In the telescope, his pupils suddenly shrank into a little cold star. Although he expected to encounter the enemy. After all, there were more than 200,000 enemy troops on the front, he still didn't expect to meet the Cossack cavalry known as the most elite in Russia in the first battle!

"Cover the enemy!"

It's almost impossible to think about it. Shen Hao had suddenly pulled out the barge gun. The loose formation just now immediately began to gather hedgehog, and rushed to the Cossack cavalry in the distance who obviously did not expect to encounter here.

Discipline and training are always the biggest manifestation of the immaturity of an army. Although the first cavalry division is not as famous as Cossacks, it does not mean that they are weak. On the contrary, after adding a large number of Mongolian cavalry and being infiltrated by the traditional Mongolian horse fighting ideas, the tactics and flexible surnames of the army are much stronger.

With Shen Hao's shout, more than 200 cavalry quickly adjusted the horses. The adjustment method learned from Mongolian comrades made everyone adjust the rhythm in more than a dozen steps and began to charge. The formation also began to change from loose to dense. At the same time, the soldiers also gave up the rifles on their backs one after another, and all chose to shoot short but shoot. Fast, loaded barge guns are used as weapons.

"Kill!"

The horses hissed and rolled their hooves. The soldiers waved the barge gun and hissed at the same time. Only 200 people actually burst out with the same momentum as a huge cavalry sprinted, like a hot torrent rushing to the Cossack cavalry.

And the opponent is worthy of being a well-known elite force in Europe. Knowing that this kind of close encounter requires speed and sprint, they also gave up their rifles and pulled out the cavalry knives that once made countless enemies tremble.

"Fire!"

But this time they obviously miscalculated. When the shouts came out of their opponents one after another, they were not facing the same snowy cavalry knife, but a total of 200 20-shot barge guns.

"Ban Bang."

In a flash, countless bullets penetrated the distance between the two sprint cavalry, and the first dozen Cossack cavalry fell down from the war horse without even reacting.

"Spal away!"

Staring at a Cossack cavalryman who rushed in, after putting the guy down with a few shots in a row, Shen Hao suddenly shouted again, shouting, the parallel sprinting cavalry company suddenly dispersed to the two wings, but unexpectedly changed its formation again in just a few dozen steps, crossing the shoulder with the rushing Cossack cavalry, when the opponent was caught in the middle. In the moment, no one knew how many bullets rushed into the enemy, and even several soldiers threw the already prepared grenades.

In the explosion and the roar of bullets, I only saw those proud Cossack cavalry fall down one by one, and their eyes widened. It seemed that they didn't expect that the opponent ignored the knight's glory and suddenly avoided at the last moment before the duel!

In the rumbling grenade explosion, the spinning shrapnel and steel balls tore up a Cossack cavalry. When Shen Hao avoided a snowy cavalry knife and turned the owner of the horse's head, the number of people and his own small cavalry had fallen nearly half.

"Come again!"

Almost at the same time as Shen Hao shouted, the well-behaved Cossack cavalry began to untie their rifles one after another, but it was too late. The cavalry company that came back used the high rate of fire and large load of the barge gun to constantly knock down the enemy.

When this small scale ended in 20 minutes, only 50 of the 200 former frightening Cossack cavalry fled in a hurry despite their comrades-in-arms.

When blood dripped from the cloak of the corpse and slowly flowed into the desolate land of Siberia, Shen Hao used three short tactical orders to announce that Siberia was no longer the territory of Cossacks

(to be continued)