Chapter 585 The era of adventure and foreknowledge is over

Yanjing, Ministry of National Defense.

From time to time, there was a bright laughter in the conference room. No one could feel the tension and anxiety at the beginning of the war. Especially with the arrival of the fortress of Tomsk, it was a foregone conclusion that nearly three million Russian troops were besieged in Western Siberia, and it snowed for the first time there yesterday. In this case, the Russian company The last hope of escape has also disappeared.

Zhang Zuolin took the baton and pointed to the map to make a routine report for Li Mo, Tang Shaoyi and others.

"At present, the northwest has basically stabilized. The 56th Infantry Division arrived in Tomsk yesterday, and the fourth truck fleet arrived with them. The heavy equipment left by the 23rd and 24th infantry divisions has been transported there. In addition, Tomsk reported that they had basically repaired the Russian prisoners. The fortress was remedied, and taking advantage of the recent cold weather, an ice wall about six kilometers long was built at the east and west ends of the fortress.

"At present, the food and materials stored in the fortress basically meet the needs of 100,000 people for wintering. The only thing missing is fuel, but the air second division is using all means to rush to transport, and it is expected to continue to provide 500 tons of gasoline there in ten days."

"What about those Russian prisoners of war? With 100,000 more mouths, isn't there a shortage of food again? Rong Yu interrupted and asked.

"Ha ha, Lao Rong, don't worry. The clever ghost in Yongshan has ordered all Russian prisoners of war to leave the fortress to the east this morning, so there will be no big problem with food." Long Guozhang opened the corners of his mouth, as if Yongshan was a member of his navy.

"This guy, facing east on a snowy day, he can figure it out." Rong Kui was happy and motioned to Zhang Zuolin to continue the introduction.

"The first battle of Western Siberia is now almost at the end. Except for two Russian Cossack cavalry divisions, it is impossible for the rest of the infantry to leave. According to current statistics, in this stage of battle, the Northwest Army killed and captured more than 500,000 troops, and the Second Air Division also destroyed the Russian army. About 30% of the materials and logistics bases, I'm afraid the Russian army will have a hard time in the next severe winter.

"Surrender when it's hard, so that we don't have to do it in the spring and delay things blindly. Are you right?"

"Come on, if you don't talk, no one will think you're dumb!" Chen Ping stared at Long Guozhang and asked, "Let's introduce the gains and losses."

"Yes." Zhang Zuolin nodded and pointed to the fortress of Tomsk and said, "Before the war, we used the method of raiding the Canadian air force bombing, which indeed achieved the expected effect. However, in the face of the street battles in the city and the fortress, the army still had some unnecessary casualties, partly due to the lack of heavy firepower, especially those who decided the surname. Fire support."

"Our army's 60mm mortars, 80mm rearless cannons and 105mm and 152mm towed howitzers are difficult to defend at the fortress level. Considering that we will encounter a large number of such problems in the next operation, we hope to add more heavy artillery, or increase The number of bombers.

"I'm afraid I can't take out a lot of heavy artillery, and even if the equipment department takes them out, logistics and transportation are difficult, but bombers and attack aircraft can rest assured that I can deliver at least 100 bombers and 300 attack aircraft before the Spring Festival, and it won't be enough." Tang Xiao immediately said.

"In addition to heavy firepower delivery, the kind of Russian heavy tanks reported by Tomsk should also attract attention, and according to intelligence, Europe and the United States have recently developed heavy or super-large tank tanks, although this kind of thing is slow and the top is very weak, easy It will be destroyed from the air, but if it can't be supported by the air force for a while, the current M3 cheetah will be very difficult to deal with.

As soon as Zhang Zuolin finished speaking, Li Mo also took a breath. He didn't expect that Mendeleev's perverted thing would really appear, so he immediately looked at Tang Xiao: "How's the M4 Northeast Tiger Tank doing?"

"Your Majesty, you can rest assured that the first batch of 12 vehicles are almost finished testing. We have recently adopted the method of finalized production, so as long as the test is all over, the first batch can be delivered immediately." Recently, Tang Xiao has been full of spring breeze, abundant financial security, and early research and development have entered the harvest period, so recently the military even gave him a nickname, Sending Bodhisattva!

'What is finalized production? Tang Shaoyi asked curiously.

"It's like this." Tang Xiao quickly explained that in order to shorten the time, the equipment was pre-produced. For example, the current Northeast Tiger tank, turret and cannon passed the test in advance, and the engine was also completed, so these parts were pre-produced, and when the chassis was finally finalized, it could be Focus most of the effort to make the chassis, and finally assemble it.

This is a wartime production method and one of the prototypes of standardization, which can greatly save and simplify the process and shorten the equipment time.

"Is there any movement in the United States and Europe recently?" Li Mo changed the topic.

"The British monarch-class battleship entered the dismounting stage with yesterday's landing, which is expected to be delivered by June next year. On the army, the Union is still continuing to increase troops on the Western Front. However, due to the siege of Western Siberia, Russia must strengthen the defense strength of the Ural Mountains, so the pressure from Germany and Austria-Hungary will be in the future. It is much smaller, so that we can continue to transfer troops to stabilize the Western Front. According to our estimates, at least before the end of the year, neither side will be able to break the deadlock.

It is worth noting that Britain and France have once again increased the presence of Persia and several cruisers to the Strait of Hormuz. According to our speculation, this may be a precursor to their upcoming attack on Mesopotamia.

"So, the Second Marine Division will have another hard battle."

"Yes." Chen Ping nodded to Tang Shaoyi: "We can't carry out such a long landing war at present, and Britain and France have continuously increased their naval forces in the Indian Ocean. It is impossible to move unless they are killed."

"How long do you have to wait?"

"At the end of the year." Long Guozhang slit his lips: "If you want to fight the Indian Ocean, you must first pull out Singapore and Malacca, but now the navy's main focus is to protect the eight divisions of the army from landing in Australia, and stabilize North Australia and Western Australia first, so we have to wait. In addition, Siam also promised that we will send at least 20,000 troops to assist. It is initially expected to be about January. I'm going to do it at the beginning."

"Hmm." Tang Shaoyi nodded. Although he didn't know anything about the military, he also knew how much supplies a battle needed. This is not to say that it can be fought, so it takes enough time.

"What about Japan and North Korea?"

"The troops of Japan and North Korea are in training. At present, only four divisions are in Vietnam and Colombia. The rest will be temporarily prepared, and some of them will be put into Alaska and the Aleutian Islands after the beginning of next spring." Zhang Zuolin replied.

"Is it too risky to attack the United States and Canada so soon?"

"No." Chen Ping shook his head: "The most important thing for the United States at present is to restore the navy and concentrate on ensuring both Europe and Australia, so even if we lose the Aleutian Islands and Alaska, there is almost no impact on them. Moreover, the United States is far away from there, and we still have difficulties in resupply. They are even more serious, so I don't think so There will be too many heavy troops to enter.

In the west, in the north, in the southeast, Australia, as well as Colombia and Greater Kuwait, the front can be said to have been spread out. Looking at so many lines, not to mention civil servants such as Tang Shaoyi and Li Enfu, even Li Mo's scalp is numb.

Li Mogang just wanted to ask how the U.S. Navy was doing, but the door was suddenly opened. Duan Fei rushed in in in everyone's surprise and shouted breathlessly, "Your Majesty, I just got the news that the 31st Fleet bombarded New York, destroyed the Statue of Liberty, and bombarded Wall Street, basically destroying the Brooklyn Industrial Zone!" "

"Really!"

The news made the conference room explode. Although everyone had vaguely guessed the success or failure in the past few days, they still couldn't believe their ears after suddenly hearing it.

But before everyone was excited for too long, Jiang Tianxiu, who ran in, poured a basin of ice water on everyone: "Your Majesty, I have received a telegram from the 31st Fleet. They are quickly going south to the Caribbean Sea, but."

"But what?"

Li Mo suddenly stood up, and a haze suddenly rose in his heart.

Jiang Tianxiu gritted his teeth and took a few deep breaths before saying, "When the 31st Fleet left New York Harbor, it encountered a cruise ship, but that cruise ship was actually a British attack ship. The fleet was attacked at close range. The eldest prince was injured!"

"What!"

"What the hell is this Li Xiuyan!" The most excited Long Guozhang suddenly patted the table and scolded angrily. Even the most calm Chen Ping's face changed greatly. He suddenly rushed to Jiang Tianxiu and grabbed the telegram and looked at it carefully.

The telegram was finally handed to Li Mo, when he saw the bottom sentence, "I'm fine. Don't take risks for me." After that, the whole person was a little stiff and slowly sat down on the chair.

The noisy conference room just now was silent. Everyone's eyes were focused on the open telegram. After a long time, Li Mo waved his hand: "Yuan Shou, Shaochuan, Mr. Li and Rong Kui, stay."

When there were only four of Xinhua's most important figures left in the conference room, Li Mo raised his head. At this time, everyone found that his face was a little pale. He just wanted to comfort him twice, but he stretched out his hand to stop him.

"Jinger is right."

Li Mo's hand holding the telegram trembled slightly. After taking a few breaths, he pressed it on the table: "I was really too risky before. Now it's not a local war ten years ago. We are facing a war that we have never had before, so I'm wrong!"

This headless and almost talking to himself may be strange in the ears of others, but several people in front of him are very clear that Li Mo's strategy is very risky from beginning to end, especially sending the 31st Fleet into the Atlantic Ocean, which is gambling with the lives of thousands of soldiers. Although there are equipment advantages and great benefits after success, if this radical method continues, sooner or later there will be a big problem.

Although they also had worries and doubts before, they gritted their teeth and agreed to the plan out of trust in Li Mo, and the eldest prince's accidental injury undoubtedly told everyone that if they continued to use this strange adventure, Xinhua would be under the threat of a double-edged sword.

From the indulgent enemy at the beginning of the war, to sending the 31st fleet into the Atlantic Ocean, to the recent two armored regiments to attack a fortress, although every sneak attack was successful, it was too dangerous and too difficult to win every time!

If the British and American fleets did not lack reconnaissance forces, if the 31st Fleet had radar and speed advantages, and if Russia did not understand the air bombers, then all would have lost!

When the technology is gradually exposed to the world, if you want to walk a tightrope, it is not only the enemy that hurts!

In the final analysis, the greater the war, the more you need to be meditified and dignified!

This is a bloody price, which makes Li Mo find that it is a little too late to understand. If it hadn't been for Li Zhen's accidental injury, he would have even thought of taking the risk of sending more troops to Greater Kuwait and even launching an attack on the United States in advance. This news made him wake up like a basin of cold water. If he continues to risk Risk, then it will eventually be a big mistake.

Leaning on the back of the chair, Li Mo seemed to have been drained of all his strength. At this time, he realized that he had never been a strategist or a military strategist. When everything brought by later generations disappeared, what he had to face was unprecedented and did not know the future.

"The era of adventure and foreknowledge is over." Li Mo said something that no one could understand.

(to be continued)