Dominate the Country

The team set out from Nanjing in mid-to-late March, and in May Chen Ming had already stood on the wall of Jiayuguan.

"There are Qilian in the south and Heishan in the north. The pass is majestic and it is really the most powerful pass in the world."

Standing on the top floor of Jiayuguan, Chen Ming looked at the vast Gobi Desert and sighed at the magical time of the ancients. In this place where water is more precious than gold, Jiayuguan has wells in the city and springs in the mountains, so there is no shortage of water. The location is so critical, it is really a gift from God.

At this time, he didn't know that the war situation in the northeast had developed in a new way, and he didn't know that the war situation in the northwest had changed in a new way.

Chen Ming was simply sighing at the magic of heaven and earth.

Therefore, although he rushed to Jiayuguan, it seemed that he was very close to the front line, but it was still useless for the front line.

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Novokhabarovsk, not far from the Sino-Russian border of the outer northeast, is at the forefront of the Stanovoy Mountains-a long mountain range with a length of nearly 2,000 miles from east to west.

Ten years ago, this was just an inconspicuous small village, just a stopover for Russian hunters, with only more than ten households and a population of less than 100 people.

But now it is a crucial point in Russia's coastal defense system, a brand-new fortress-style city, connecting the traffic and exchanges between the coastal area [Sea of ​​Okhotsk] and the Trans-Baikal area [East of Lake Baikal]. The Russians deliberately named this city with the special name "Yerofey Pavlovich Khabarov".

-- More than a hundred years ago, Yerofey Pavlovich Khabarov was the second Russian colonial army leader to invade China's Heilongjiang River Basin after Boyarkov.

He was originally a wealthy businessman who was sentenced to bankruptcy. He asked the Governor of Yakutsk, Franzbekov, to raise a team to go to Heilongjiang. In 1649 AD, he formed an armed team of 150 people and invaded five villages and towns in China's Heilongjiang River Basin from the Lena River and the Oryokma River. In July of the following year, they occupied Yaksa on the north bank of the upper reaches and plundered and killed local Daur, Solon, Feiyaka and other ethnic residents along the river bank. Later, they were besieged by the Qing border guards and abandoned the fortress and fled, but because of their meritorious service in the invasion of China, they were named a serving noble by the Tsar.

The Russians originally planned to name Boli after this person, and their intention was open and undisguised. As a result, the failure of the last war made the Russians empty-handed, and now they are using it on the new city, which also reveals their undisguised intentions.

New Khabarovsk is a point that must be removed during the attack of the Northeast Frontier Defense Army.

The Russians and the remnants of the Qing Dynasty have a total of 3,000 garrisons here. The Northeast Frontier Defense Army dispatched a full 13,000 troops. It is also a mixed brigade in terms of organization.

The 'mixed brigade' is a kind of organization that Chen Han has only started to use in recent years. As the name suggests, the meaning of 'mixed' is that various arms are mixed together. Generally speaking, the number of troops is more than 10,000, and the maximum can reach 15,000. In addition to infantry and artillery, there must be cavalry. And if it is pulled to the European battlefield, let alone a division, the military-level organization of some countries is only a little higher than this number.

The commander-in-chief of this mixed brigade is Deng Yun. He was transferred from the Marine Corps to the Northeast Military Region six years ago, and was successfully promoted to general three years ago. The level of the mixed brigade is equivalent to that of a division-level unit.

This is a brutal battle.

Now that rockets are popular, any unit that wants to attack a fortress must be prepared for rivers of blood and mountains of corpses.

Just like the Battle of Kimboon on the Russian-Turkish battlefield, this fortress at the mouth of the Dnieper River was the first large-scale Russian-Turkish battle in this Russian-Turkish war.

At the moment when the Second Sino-Russian War broke out, the Ottoman fleet also attacked the Russian frigate anchored near Kimbuun. The Russian fleet and fortress artillery fought back, and the Sixth Russo-Turkish War first started at sea.

A small group of Ottoman army, with the support of the fleet, attempted to land in Kimbuun, but was defeated by the Russian army and failed to land. After the Ottomans received reinforcements from the Ochakov Fortress, they attacked the Kimbuun Fortress again. After many battles, the Ottoman army was severely hit by the Russian Suvorov Corps, and the participating troops were almost wiped out. The total force loss was less than 10,000 people!

The defeat in the Battle of Kimbuun disrupted the strategic plan of the Ottoman Empire and bought time for the Russian army to gather its main force to launch an attack. But it also illustrates the cruelty of today's offensive war.

If this battle still cannot explain the problem, then the Russian army that counterattacked next is a clear example. After the main force of the Russian army was organized, the strength of the Black Sea Fleet was also strengthened. The Russian army, together with the Austrian army, which had declared war on the Ottoman Empire, planned to capture the Ottoman Fortress of Ochakov, located on the Black Sea. Just as the Kimboun Fortress was the bridgehead of the Russian army to the south, the Ochakov Fortress was also the bridgehead of the Ottoman Empire to the north.

Potemkin led a full 50,000 people across the Bug River and surrounded the Ochakov Fortress from land. The Austrian army also rushed 30,000 people and harassed it at sea with the fleet, besieging it for a long time.

The offensive and defensive battle of Ochakov also started with a naval battle.

As a result, within a month, the Russian and Austrian armies launched four attacks on the fortress, all of which were blown to pieces by rockets fired by the Ottomans, with a loss of more than 14,000 people, and their own losses were less than a fraction of the Russian and Austrian coalition forces. It ended with the retreat of the coalition forces.

There are nearly 20,000 Ottoman troops in the Ochakov Fortress, while the New Khabarovsk in front of them has only 3,000 people, and its logistical supply must not be comparable to the Ochakov Fortress, which is the focus of the Ottoman Empire. But this does not mean that the National Defense Army can easily take it down.

"Boom boom boom..."

The Russians launched rockets again, and countless rockets streaked across the sky, like meteors falling from the sky, completely submerging the trenches that Chen Han's National Defense Army dug little by little in front of the fortress in a sea of ​​fire.

In the eyes of Huang Jie, the governor of the Northeast Military Region who arrived at the front battlefield in person, this is the reckless squandering of the Russian-Qing coalition forces on the opposite side without caring about the loss, which also reflects a problem-they have made sufficient preparations for the war.

According to the Russians' tactics, it is really difficult for the National Defense Army to touch the wall of the New Khabarovsk Fortress. Even at night, it is impossible to maintain the suddenness of the battle and catch the enemy off guard.

However, according to the statement given by the Grand Commander's Office, the scale of the current Sino-Russian war is much larger than the last one. A war of this scale is more about the overall strength of the country, the real national power!

The two armies will fight one battle after another, and there is no surprise. The battle lines between the two sides are all integrated, and before any large-scale military operation, if you don't make full preparations, you will simply murder the soldiers.

A large amount of ammunition and material reserves-assembly, the strategic intention can't be concealed. There is no way to talk about any surprise attack.

After the initial battle, the troops of both sides will be assembled, artillery will be concentrated, and materials will be mobilized, which will be carried out more and more blatantly.

At most, some means of hiding the truth and showing falsehood in the scale of the troops may not have much significance.

The casualties of soldiers on both sides will be so high that it makes people palpitate.

Huang Jie was a little dissatisfied with the instructions issued by the Grand Commander's Office, but now he saw this scene under the city of Novokhabarovsk, Huang Jie shut up.

There is still room for strategy in such a battle. The two sides are like "warriors" standing face to face. You punch me, I hit you back. Whoever has more blood will have the last laugh.

This is using the lives of soldiers to consume ammunition.

Even the volley shooting mode that was despised by Chen Han and his generals at the beginning is much better than the current battle.

With the start of the new Khabarovsk offensive, thousands of carriages have continuously transported a large number of materials to the front line along the roads built over the years. Clothing, ammunition, food, medicine, guns and equipment. The total number is an incredible number in this era.

Over the years, the Northwest and Northeast Military Regions have been actively preparing for war. Especially since the second half of last year, the Northeast Military Region has been going all out to deal with the upcoming war. The amount of war materials that can be gathered by the power of a country is unimaginable for ordinary people. Under the hard work of the engineering corps, command posts at all levels, classified storage warehouses, hospitals and transportation networks were quickly built, and various materials were stored in several cities on the south bank of the Heilongjiang River in different categories, and Mohe was one of them.

This war was the first major war that Chen Han had to face after his rise. Compared with the Central, Western and North American Wars, the second war against Russia was much more important to Chen Ming. After all, the latter is a fighting nation. The fighting will of the soldiers is very different from that of World War I and World War II, and the social contradictions in Tsarist Russia are far less acute than they were decades later. This also means that the Tsarist Russian army and soldiers are more supportive of the Tsarist government. Therefore, Chen Ming should not take it lightly.

However, this kind of mobilization now gives Chen Ming a strange sense of déjà vu. Everything he experienced before and after the war is like a war practice class in the era of primary industrialization.

But in Chen Ming's eyes, China today is still far from reaching preliminary industrialization.

It's just that such experience will be summarized in detail and seriously by them, and become the basis for new military reforms, especially the logistics part.

Chen Ming also believes that the various war organizations and methods of conducting wars by the two armies in this war will leave a strong mark in the history of future world wars.

Because of the spread of bug weapons such as rockets, the war mode seems to have evolved from more than a hundred years of evolution to the trench warfare mode. Chen Ming himself feels that it is difficult to deal with.

Although he always thought that the era of volley shooting was very funny, considering the difference in time and efficiency between the two sides, this very funny war mode is more suitable for the world's number one giant-Chen Han Empire than the trench warfare in front of him.

If it was the previous battle, Chen Ming would not be worried. Relying on the number of soldiers, quality and superior logistical supplies, Chen Han dared to challenge Europe alone without any problem. But now? Chen Han's national defense army is likely to be bombed in front of the "rocket rain".

This makes Chen Ming feel like he is shooting himself in the foot.

As for the summary of war experience and the next step of military reform, if they want to be sublimated and improved, they may need the tempering of the third Sino-Russian war and the fourth Sino-Russian war. As long as the Russian Empire is willing to accompany them at that time, it can still exist.

In Chen Ming's eyes, this kind of "rocket rain" is just an "undeveloped version" of the heavy artillery bombardment in the previous life. The range of the rocket is too short. Trench warfare is just a poor version of real trench warfare. What kind of trench warfare is trench warfare without machine guns?

But when such a scene falls in the eyes of Huang Jie and others, it means a preview of a new model of war.

Explosions rumbled.

Huang Jie and Zheng Yun stood on the rising hot air balloon, using binoculars to look at the rolling fire on the battlefield outside the city. The National Defense Forces used a team of engineers to dig trenches, advancing in three directions. Now they are blocked by thick smoke and nothing can be seen.

I don’t know what happened to those engineers.

But obviously, the Russian army has more rockets than imagined!

The power of rockets is no less than that of the National Defense Forces.

The exploding fireballs were not lumps, but pieces rising up. The sound they released was earth-shattering, and even the sheets of flames were about to completely engulf the position.

When the smoke dissipated, Huang Jie saw with his own eyes that the low walls on the position were piled with excavated soil. The neat low walls before had now become as jagged as if they had been gnawed by dogs. . The big gaps that were blown up exposed the powerful power of the rockets.

The platoon leader of the engineer platoon climbed up from the bottom of the trench, shook off the dirt from his body, and even though he was still walking a little unsteadily, he rushed to the front, hoping to dig out a living person from under a piece of loose soil.

That's a squad of soldiers.

There was only an engineering shovel thrust diagonally into the floating soil, revealing a broken wooden handle.

The platoon leader went up to hold the engineer shovel and pulled it out with a slight force, like a shovel being pulled out of a pool of mud. But the bright sunshine told him clearly that it was not an illusion. Half of the head of the engineer's shovel is as white as snow and as red as blood. It must be the blood of a comrade. And just as the platoon leader stood still for a short while, the crimson color of blood emerged along the traces left by him when he pulled out the engineering shovel.

There was a fire burning in the platoon leader's heart, but he also felt that there was a mountain in his heart pressing down on him. He wanted to look up to the sky and roar, but he couldn't. He could only cry.

"First platoon leader, cry your whole head off. If you are a man, you should act like a man. Is there anyone who will not die in a war?"

The engineer team officer heard the platoon leader's cry and cursed him, "Stop crying and leave quickly. There will be no survivors in the first class."

This is a rule of thumb.

In the explosion just now, several rockets hit the front of a row of trenches. Not to mention people, turtles couldn't survive anywhere.

Although the explosion of the rocket will release a large part of the force to the sky and the surrounding areas, the force on the ground is also very large. If you can kneel on all fours in a trench two meters deep, as long as the rocket does not explode on the edge of the trench, , soldiers generally do not necessarily die. But if several consecutive rockets hit the same area, then there is no hope that anyone will come out alive.

Rocket bombs don't necessarily kill people, the important thing is that they shock.

"The boss sent a signal for us to withdraw. Don't be sad and leave quickly. I'm sure the old man will fire rockets again."

Before he finished speaking, a sharp and rapid whistle suddenly sounded from the sky.

"His grandma is really fighting!?" The team officer was shocked and hurriedly rolled and hid at the bottom of the tunnel like a rolling barrel.

Although the team officer is quite tall, when he is running for his life, he is more agile than a monkey!

But it was too late for the platoon leader to hide. As soon as he exerted his strength, a large group of fireworks exploded not far away. When the team officer got up again in despair, he saw a long row of bodies torn apart by the air waves falling into the trench...