Chapter 267 Be afraid, Russia

The deployment of Russians and French in Shuangchengzi and Vladivostok can be said to be solid.

This should start from the terrain of Vladivostok. Vladivostok is surrounded by mountains on three sides, one side is surrounded by the sea, and the northernmost exit is Shuangchengzi. The three sides of Shuangchengzi are high mountains, and behind it is the Vladivostok mountain area. There are only two narrow exits on the northwest side.

The average height of the mountains in Vladivostok is more than 500 meters, and the mountains stretch for dozens of kilometers. The existing armored vehicles surnamed Neng can't overcome it at all.

In the case of the basic collapse of the whole Far East, the Russians stuck to Vladivostok and did not intend to make any concessions.

The Russians also want to make peace talks, but their terms of peace talks are not to cede an inch of land and not to compensate a penny.

Dream!

Not only Hu Chuyuan is angry, but no one in China is not angry. In the past few hundred years, the Russians have constantly oppressed the Qing Dynasty and ceded a large amount of land from China. A few months ago, they vowed to occupy the whole northeast.

In fact, the Russians regarded the Northeast as their inherent territory from the beginning.

This kind of person... At least in the hearts of the commanders at all levels of Hu Chuyuan and the [***] team, the Russians are not even as good as beasts.

To this end, under the condition that Hu Chuyuan agreed to give all support, Yang Zong Li designed an unexpected tactical plan. Under the guidance of a "mountain boss" (the leader who is responsible for leading the team to travel the mountain road and the horse team to transport goods), Yang Zong Li found another road to Vladivostok.

On the northeast side of Shuangchengzi, there is indeed a ravine road leading to the Yamaguchi Lake on the south side of the Russian town called Ivanovka. After passing the Yamaguchi Lake, the front is the Vladivostok region.

In the old forest in the northeast, there are many such ravines. There are cracks and ravines between the mountains and the mountains. Many people live in the ravines, so many places are called so-and-and-so.

Because there are too many ravines and too messy, inexperienced people can't get out, as if they have entered the maze of nature.

For that fellow villager, the ravine road he knew was the magic weapon for the survival of the whole village. He lived on this secret mountain road for his whole life. His ancestors relied on knowing this road for several lifetimes and trafficked things to Vladivostok to make money to support his family.

Yang Zong Li personally followed his fellow villagers. Even in July, there was still a lot of snow in the ravine. The road is very difficult to walk, but there are absolutely conditions for transformation. The ravine is very wide, which can be clearly confirmed that it used to be a big river.

Yamaguchi Lake is the historical traces left by this big river.

There are more than 20 miles in the middle, which is more troublesome and a little narrow, and they are all pebbles the size of grinding discs, and armored vehicles can't pass.

However, as long as you cross this section of the road, it will be easy to do later.

It's on the fork. There is still a place called "Three Forks" more than ten miles away from Yamaguchi Lake. The fellow villagers showed Yang Zongli another way to Shuangchengzi.

This road is like a tree, constantly forking. If you come from the two cities, the immortals will get lost. But if you walk from the fork, there is only one way, just keep walking to the west.

To be honest, Yang Zong Li likes to fight this kind of war.

He is good at winding and mazes.

Other people thought that he was organizing a war in Mudanula (Mudanjiang City), but he took several young officers and a group of mountaingoers to walk around in the mountain nest, familiar with the terrain of this area.

Yang Zongli's plan is very simple, that is, Han Credit's move - Mingxiu Plank Road and Secretly Crossing Chencang.

However, he clearly sent an infantry division to attack Shuangchengzi on a large scale, secretly built roads at the fork of the road, forcibly raided Vladivostok with an armored division, and then attacked the back of Shuangchengzi with an infantry division, and attacked it in three ways.

The key to this tactic is how to build roads.

Yang Zongli's method is also simple. He recruited 100,000 migrant workers for repair, sent two engineering groups to repair a stone road, and then modified the TZB-2 armored vehicle, removed all unnecessary body and steel plates, reduced the weight, and then used the horse team to consign cannons and materials.

A large number of horse teams.

In line with his combat plan, the navy must forcibly cross the Korean Strait and gather on a large scale in Wonsan to prepare for a strong attack on the Far East Fleet of the Allies in Vladivostok.

Attack or not attack is secondary. The key is to make a large-scale landing operation, forcing the Russian and French allied forces to turn their attention to the sea.

Once such a bold tactical plan succeeds, it will be the best song in the Far East War.

How can Hu Chuyuan not support it?

Yes, the military expenses are not enough, and you have to hold on if you don't have enough.

Taking advantage of the resumption of prosperity in the Shanghai stock market, Hu Chuyuan mortgaged part of the shares officially held by Zheng Axe to Bank of America and Wells Fargo in exchange for a war loan of 1.25 billion yuan.

With the remaining 630 million yuan of war bonds in his hand, Hu Chuyuan clenched 1.88 billion yuan and decided to fight with the Russians.

Money... This kind of thing is always more, the better.

... With Hu Chuyuan signing a new combat plan, in the Far East, a large-scale combat preparation began to move, which was large enough to scare the entire Allies.

In the Xingkai area outside Shuangchengzi and Zhili Prefecture in Dongning, Yang Zongli mobilized 14 infantry divisions and two mechanized divisions, as well as more than 400,000 militia organizations, and the domestic artillery force continued to gather on the periphery of Shuangchengzi.

In order to strengthen the control of this area, Hu Chuyuan, through a direct letter from the Prime Minister's Office, determined that the southern area of Xingkai Lake was Wusuri Prefecture, and concentrated the whole country's efforts to build a railway to connect the newly established Mudanjiang Prefecture, Wusuri Prefecture and Harbin.

Because of the plan to overhaul the railway, 300,000 workers were also transferred from the whole northeast and Zhili areas in China. In this plan, some of the workers were secretly diverted to the fork in the road, where roads were built.

The off-road surname of the TZB-2 armored vehicle can be good, so the conditions of this road are not too high. It is just to level the road, especially to break large stones and pebbles, transform them into stone roads on the spot, and lay asphalt where conditions permit.

On July 15, 1,420 155mm howitzers and 345 175mm howitzers were gathered on the periphery of Shuangchengzi. When the total force of the army exceeded 770,000, Yang Zongli officially opened the prelude to shelling Shuangchengzi.

At this time, the five allied countries of Russia, France, the West, the Netherlands and Japan also had 1.84 million army in Vladivostok and Shuangchengzi, with a total tonnage of 530,000 tons of naval ships.

The trapped beast is still fighting.

It will be very difficult to really attack Vladivostok and the Twin Cities, because these armies of the Allies have no other way out, especially Russia. They insist that they can only negotiate under the principle of "not ceding an inch of land and not losing a penny". The garrison of Vladivostok and the Twin Cities became him. Our last sustenance.

In the two cities, the fortifications of the Russian army have also reached an amazing level.

Strong attack... is not a wise choice.

At this stage, the Northeast can also be regarded as a gathering of tigers. Because of the lack of sufficient qualifications in China, Yang Zongli may not be able to control everything here, especially people like Feng Guozhang, Wu Peifu and Wang Shizhen, who were fought from the Battle of Longchuan more than a decade ago.

However, they still agree with Yang Zong Li's sudden side tactics.

Feng Guozhang is specially responsible for the side attack and personally supervises the road construction.

At Hu Chuyuan's secret instructions and everyone's tacit cooperation, Hu Weizhong has been promoted from second lieutenant to captain by virtue of military merit, and he has been specially promoted to serve as the commander of the second battalion of the 508th Regiment of the 21st Zhili Division.

Feng Guozhang jumped up and down and persuaded others to let Hu Weizhong be the commander of this side attack charge. Everyone did not object at first. The key was that he was afraid of making mistakes.

Defeated... Everyone can still bear it. At worst, let the follow-up troops keep up. In case they are killed, they can't afford it.

There is no way. Wang Huaiqing, who is really the most suitable for the front-line commander, was secretly downmobilized. He served as the deputy battalion commander and staff officer of the second battalion of the 508th Regiment. In fact, he let Wang Huaiqing accompany the prince to study.

This is the pie that fell from the sky. Wang Huaiqing was very happy.

Like the vast majority of people in the Hu family, Hu Weizhong is actually a very realistic person. He did not refuse everyone's kindness, although he wanted to rely on his own ability to win all this.

He knows very well that these are not important compared with the big things he wants to do.

The man is unconventional.

Unlike Duan Qirui's situation in North Korea, the northeast is indeed full of tigers, and there are too many people who can really fight.

Wang Shizhen, Feng Guozhang, Wu Peifu, Li Chun, Chen Guangyuan, Zhang Huaizhi, Wang Chengbin... Except for Wang Shizhen, who is a leopard, the rest have studied in military academies in Germany and the United States for many years.

These people can fight hard.

Wu Peifu and Wang Shizhen attacked in Shuangchengzi. Feng Guozhang, Chen Guangyuan and Wang Huaiqing secretly built the road in the Sancha ditch. People dragged the horse to carry it. A bucket of asphalt was transported to the ravine. The car rolled gunpowder and exploded, and the man hammered the machine. A 60-kilometer-long asphalt road was secretly built in the ravine.

The area of Sanchagouzi is also more than 60 kilometers away from the two cities of the main battlefield. It is a completely deep mountain forest. The Russians have only been involved in Vladivostok for more than 50 years, and the real large-scale construction is still a matter of more than ten years.

They couldn't even dream of where the Sanchagou was.

The area around Yamaguchi Lake is still a deserted area. The Russians did not set foot here. Considering that the north is a mountainous area, they did not even send troops to garrison. Only some French troops are stationed in Shkotovo, which is more than 40 kilometers away from Yamaguchi Lake. Their goal of stationing here is also the fastest. Time to evacuate the Far East battlefield.

Feng Guozhang boldly repaired the stone road directly to Yamaguchi Lake, and continued to send people to secretly repair the dirt road, and set up a supply station in the old gully on the west side of Yamaguchi Lake to start a large-scale transportation of materials to prepare for the follow-up attack after the first wave of attacks.

Good generals should have such qualities - bold and careful.

It was a hot fire in the Shuangchengzi area. When nearly a million Russian troops were concentrated on the northern line, on August 22, Feng Guozhang personally supervised the 21st and 45th divisions, secretly crossed the fork of the fork and assembled in the old gully.

It was quiet in the early morning.

In the deep mountains, hundreds of armored vehicles slowly drove out of the mountains and fields, followed by more than 20,000 infantry and more than 600 off-road vehicles. The terrain around Vladivostok is half a ravine and half a slope, which is not suitable for trucks. Those who can drive in this area are high-powered off-road vehicles and horse teams.

The 122mm mortars of the newly equipped troops will become an important long-range firepower in this raid. The number of loading is very large, some are towed by off-road vehicles, and some are towed by the horse team.

The main combat force has 47,000 people, and the militia training and horse troops following behind also have more than 30,000 people, a horse team composed of more than 6,000 horses and a large-scale transport team composed of more than 1,000 trucks.

The six divisions of the Qingxu Corps have gathered here and will arrive at noon tomorrow.

The French are still asleep.

Feng Guozhang has already driven the troops to the front of the position. With an order, the 21st Zhili Division suddenly launched a lightning offensive. Hundreds of TZB-2 armored vehicles took the lead in crossing the sparse fortifications of the French. The infantry wing followed behind, constantly cross-covering and attacking the French offensive.

Before the French could react, more than 600 new 122mm mortars began to bomb their hinterland intensively.

The French were completely unprepared. More than 300,000 people suddenly fought, and a large number of front-line troops retreated in confusion. The front line pressed against the back line. The troops were backlogd together, and the troops who had no time to withdraw had been quickly annihilated.

Wang Huaiqing rushed very fast. He led more than 20 armored vehicles in his battalion to break through all the way. He was about to rush into the French camp. The cannons leaked and swept wildly, and the casualties of the French army were also extremely heavy.

The armored assault battalion with both wings immediately followed, and the main force rushed all the way into the headquarters of the French army.

Before the large troops rushed up, the French army was completely defeated. They couldn't wait for the main force of the French fleet to rescue from Vladivostok more than 40 kilometers away. The French army stationed in Shkotovo surrendered collectively under the leadership of Lieutenant General Meritopina.

Feng Guozhang really didn't expect the French to be so impatient. He hurriedly sent a radio message to Yang Zong Li, asking him to continue to lead the team to attack Haipaokou.

The sea bubble is an inner closed bay, which is called the sea bubble mouth, and the Russians changed the name to Trudovoye and Artem.

Taking this place, the Russian army's advantage in the hinterland of Vladivostok was completely shattered.

Yang Zong Li's callback is very simple... Attack!

Yes, as long as they use mechanized troops to tear a big hole in the back of the enemy's abdomen and fight, it's not up to them.

Immediately after that, Yang Zongli mobilized in advance and sent three armored divisions to the Haipaokou battlefield. The Ninth Division of Zhili bypassed the fork and directly attacked the back of the two cities, giving the last knife to the Russian garrison in the two cities.

The whole battlefield changed, and the large troops began to turn into the fork in the road. Hundreds of thousands of troops completed the transfer of 100 kilometers in three days and nights, and the ghostly took a detour from the front line of the two cities.

The Ninth Division rushed all the way to the Tuba Ridge, which is less than 20 miles away from Shuangchengzi. The so-called Tuba Ridge is a horizontal hill, running from southwest to northeast, six kilometers long, two kilometers wide, and the highest point is 570 meters high.

Because it is shaped like a dam, it is called Tuba Ridge.

It is such a small mountain. The 27,000 troops of the Ninth Division spread out horizontally and organized fortifications on the spot. More than 100,000 Russian troops, which were originally used as a reserve force, counterattacked for three days without taking it, but suffered heavy losses.

Yang Zong Li will not joke with the Russians. The ninth division he set up here is equipped with light and heavy firepower, with a large number of 122mm mortars, heavy machine guns, light machine guns and rotary machine guns.

The Russian army attacked for three days, lost more than 70,000 people and did not seize a hill. When Yang Zong Li and Wu Peifu led the main force of the army to turn to war, the problem faced by the Russian army was not to attack or defend, but to retreat.

The situation on the battlefield is always changing on the eve. Now the back line has become the front line. Now if you want to guard it, where can you defend it?

From Tubaling to Shuangchengzi, this section of the road is only ten kilometers long. The Russian army has no fortifications at all, and there is no dangerous terrain to resist the large-scale offensive of the army.

As long as there are hundreds of armored vehicles opening the way in front, the Russian army can't stop even if it pushes five million troops!

Since the Treaty of Nebuchadniso, Russia has bullied China for 213 years, and now it is finally time to pay for blood!!

213 years.

What a long period at this time.

Now, the Chinese have finally stood up.

Be afraid!

Russia.

(to be continued)