Chapter 266 It's a massacre from beginning to end (first update)

April 24, 1902.

Hu Chuyuan quietly returned to Yanjing Yingtai. Although the vast majority of people wishfully attributed the credit of the whole northwest front to him, he was not willing to accept it.

He returned to Yanjing Yingtai almost silently and continued in his Prime Minister's Office to make final preparations for the upcoming counterattack of the Northeast Front.

For Li Kaiye and Yang Zongli, Hu Chuyuan has always leveled two bowls of water. Yang Zongli has as many mechanized troops as Li Kaiye has. In detail, Duan Qirui is the most bitter guy.

On the northeast front, he deployed four mechanized divisions, namely Zhili 20th Division, 21st Division, Qingxu 15th Division and 16th Division. Hu Weizhong served as a second lieutenant in the 21st Division.

Now, the combat power of the mechanized Corps is very obvious. The whole Russian-French coalition is like a group of birds in the northeast. The French president has step down again. The new president is Paul Perier, a leftist Republican. This is his second time to be the president of France.

As soon as Paul Perier came to power, he personally contacted Chen Peishan, the Chinese Minister to the United Kingdom, trying to resume peace talks between the two sides, and hoped that the Chinese political axe would re-send the ambassador to France. If China was willing to make peace talks, he would send French Foreign Minister Farieth Peina to Yanjing.

Even the Russians, who have always been arrogant, are already panicked and looking for a way to negotiate.

peace talks, peace talks.

This is the most unified voice within the Allied Countries.

fart.

This is Hu Chuyuan's answer to them.

At this time, the Chinese army and the Allies are in two epoch-making differences. As long as the French are given four or five years, they can imitate the mechanized troops of the Chinese army and establish a new armaments system.

At that time, although there will be a certain gap between the two sides in terms of quality and quantity, in essence, the disparity in power will be greatly reduced.

Such a good time should not be missed.

The French are nothing. After all, they are too far apart. Hu Chuyuan's real target is Russia and Japan.

May 5th.

Hu Chuyuan issued an order to counterattack both the Northeast battlefield and the Korean battlefield in Yanjing Yingtai. The army's main attack battlefield was still in the northeast. The Korean battlefield was that the army and the navy exerted forces at the same time. The navy's task was to do everything possible to cut off the retreat route of the Japanese army.

In the vast land of the northeast, once the mechanized corps begins to counterattack, its power is more terrible than that in the northwest battlefield. The wide northeast plain between Shenyang, Changchun and Harbin is the natural stage of large-scale blitzkrieg.

The Russian army could not resist at all. After a large-scale retreat, nearly one million troops fled back to Vladivostok, and the rest fled the Greater Khingan Mountains and returned to the Manchuria area.

Yang Zongli's choice is to go directly north, attack Manchuria, keep the Far East Railway, advance to Chita and Ulan-Ude areas, and join the Second Northwest Army to keep the entire Far East Railway.

Subsequently, two mechanized divisions of the Qingxu Corps, under the cover of more than 600 armored vehicles, recaptured Mudanula and advanced to the Xingkai Lake area. The Russian-French allied forces could only use the advantage of the mountains to closely guard in the Shuangchengzi area.

At this time, the Allied Far East Combined Fleet did not dare to move at all, allowing the Chinese Beiyang Fleet and the Pacific Fleet to seize the Five Islands and Tsushima Islands, and cut off the retreat route of the Japanese army.

In the Korean Strait, the navies of the two countries fought a large-scale... submarine war.

Yes.

This is a very strange thing.

Considering that it is more difficult to forcibly advance in the Shuangchengzi area, Yang Zongli sent a mechanized division of the Zhili Corps to the Korean battlefield to help Duan Qirui tear up the defense line of the Japanese army and recapture Seoul.

During this period, the Japanese army found a way to deal with the TZB-2 infantry cannon armored vehicles - a 47mm machine gun and a shoulder-mounted 35mm grenade launcher.

The problem is that the Japanese troops in North Korea lack these weapons, and there are basically no weapons at home. Now, even if they are produced, they cannot be sent to the Korean battlefield.

Under such circumstances, the Jianghuai Corps and the Zhili Corps are still only a unilateral massacre of the Japanese army.

The Japanese army's defense front is constantly torn. Even if it can destroy some armored vehicles, the Japanese army has suffered heavy casualties. The seemingly simple TZB-2 infantry cannon armored vehicle is just a closed tractor equipped with a 25mm machine gun. It is such a simple combination on the battlefield. The destructive effect produced by it is extremely amazing.

In many cases, four or five TZB-2 armored vehicles can easily defeat the Japanese army of a company, destroy the dead and sweep everything.

TZA-1 heavy armored vehicles are even more insoluble for the Japanese army. The number of them deployed in the Korean battlefield is not large, but only a few can destroy the strongest defensive positions of the Japanese army, or even directly rush to the front of the bunker.

Slaughter.

is slaughter.

It's a massacre from beginning to end.

On June 17, the 23rd Division of the Fujian-Zhejiang Corps, equipped with hundreds of armored vehicles, attacked Zhibuzhi Port on Kyushu Island. After successful landing, with the support of the 22nd and 19th divisions, it attacked Kirishima Mountain all the way.

Japan began to face another cruel reality. Even if the armored vehicle division did not attack by force, if it was stationed on the spot, it could not be defeated by manpower.

Ye Boqi, who is responsible for directing the landing operation, is a master of landing battle and is extremely proficient. His strategy is to defend the front with a larger 175mm howitzer position, hide the armored vehicle division in the artillery coverage, and give an advance attack on the Japanese army's mountain artillery units.

It is difficult for his artillery to advance, but there is no need to advance. His task is to hold on to a wide ferry and wait for a larger army to continue to complete the landing.

Of course, larger landing troops will come sooner or later.

As long as the Jianghuai Corps and the Qingxu Corps complete the cleaning of the Korean battlefield.

Yingtai.

Sitting in the office, Hu Chuyuan calmly looked at the latest military newspaper compiled by the Army Intelligence Department. During this period, the [***] team was ushering in an unprecedented victory.

The Northeast Corps has occupied the entire Heilongjiang River Basin all the way north, and is continuing to advance towards the Outer Xing'an Mountains as planned.

The Russian-French allied forces curled up in this small area from the twin cities to Vladivostok. More than 1.4 million troops could not find a way out. In the northwest battlefield, the First Army in the northwest had occupied Dushanbe and Tashkent and began to expel all the Russian troops in Central Asia.

Now, Hu Chuyuan just wants to solve this problem quickly.

As for France and Russia, peace talks are now available.

As soon as he saw half of the new military newspaper, Sun Zongyuan came in to report, and Foreign Minister Ouyang Geng also came in.

Seeing them, General Hu Chuyuan closed the report and asked Ouyang Geng, "How's the situation?"

Ouyang Geng smiled silently, sat on the chair opposite the desk, and replied, "The French side is willing to agree to the conditions we put forward, but the Russians are unwilling to... They said that only on the premise of not ceding the land will the Tsar consider peace talks."

"Oh?"

Hu Chuyuan expressed his suspicion indifferently, and then said, "Then first reach an agreement with the French and let them withdraw from the war first."

Ouyang Geng said: "The French are also unwilling to fully agree. They have some disputes about the compensation of 140 million pounds for military expenses and the agreement to cede the three colonies of Guinea, Congo and French Somalia. According to my judgment, there is no big problem with Guinea and French Somalia. France can accept 100 million pounds of military compensation, while Congo is too big, and France is unwilling to cede it anyway.

Hu Chuyuan thought silently for a moment and said, "Then force France to accept 140 million pounds of military compensation. We can not want Congo. However, the French colonies must be open to China and allow China to invest and do business in French colonies and overseas provinces, as a condition for France to agree to this clause. France You can also obtain the right to invest and do business in Chinese colonies and overseas provinces. The two sides are the most beneficial to each other.

Ouyang Geng nodded, but put forward some of his own suggestions and said, "That place in Guinea... Do we have to? I always feel that that place is not very meaningful."

Hu Chuyuan replied more and more indifferently, "We need to keep an overseas province on both coasts in the east and west of Africa."

His voice is very plain, like gossip, but no one can question it.

No one dares to question his decision.

This is China now.

"Yes!"

Ouyang Geng agreed cautiously, thinking about the new negotiation in his heart.

Hu Chuyuan suddenly mentioned another thing and added to Ouyang Geng: "The main thing is to let France recognize that the northern region is China's territory... In addition, we can promote the reading of the Kazakh Khanate, provided that the Balkhash region, and from the Kinsk region, the Irtysh River returns to China's territory to the west. As for the current colonial system, you can contact Zhang Lingpu and others to re-establish a loose Asian Cooperation Organization. Do you understand what I mean?

Ouyang Geng thought for a moment and said, "I see."

Hu Chuyuan nodded slightly and said nothing more.

Ouyang Geng is the foreign minister. The issues he should be responsible for are not only simple diplomatic negotiations, but also the jurisdiction of colonies, overseas provinces and protectorates.

After Hu Chuyuan ordered these things to be clear, Ouyang Geng left the Prime Minister's Office and returned to the Prime Minister's Office to prepare for a new round of negotiations with France.

Ouyang Geng left, but Sun Zongyuan did not leave. He silently submitted a battle report to Hu Chuyuan. The person who drew up the battle plan was Yang Zong Li.

Hu Chuyuan looked at it carefully and felt more and more interested. He must admit that even if Yang Zong Li was not a tactical genius, he was much more powerful than an ordinary general.

No one can deny this.

Compared with people like Einstein and Nikola Tesla, Yang Zongli, Li Kaiye and Duan Qirui may not be real geniuses, but they are still different from ordinary people.

Especially in terms of self-confidence, they are very inflated and dare to make decisions beyond the imagination of normal people.

Hu Chuyuan admired Yang Zong Li's extremely bold battle plan. He didn't even need to think much about signing his name and approving the battle plan.

When returning the report to Sun Zongyuan, Hu Chuyuan emphasized, "Let the Army Department and the Navy Department fully support him!"

Sun Zongyuan seemed to have expected it for a long time.

Yes, a battle beyond the imagination of the Russians is coming.

(to be continued)