Three days later, Li Nievich looked at the two telegrams he had just received with pale face, and his eyes kept twitching.

One is from St. Petersburg. His Majesty Nicholas II fiercely denounced the incompetence of the Far East Legion and ordered Li Nevich to produce satisfactory results within a month, otherwise he would be removed from office and investigated.

"I hope you will get me away from this damn place now, and that's the case, I may not have to suffer so much."

Commander-in-Chief Li Nevich muttered very disrespectfully, and opened the news that came with the telegram, and finally understood why the Tsar was so angry.

A report from China reads: "After bloody battles, my brave Northern Army Corps successfully annihilated a Russian cavalry unit that invaded our country at around 4:00 yesterday afternoon. The leader, Major General Orlov, was awarded the heads, and the rest were fully encircled and suppressed. We repeatedly declare that China is a peace-loving country and is not willing to have disputes with friendly neighbors. But we must not tolerate any form of invasion."

Li Nevich did not continue to read, and he could supplement the second half of the article with his eyes closed. He was still the same old accent. While conquering the city on the battlefield and trying to kill him, he called for peace and asked the other party to calm down. This is really a model of a slutty face.

However, it is enough to have the previous section. The annihilation of the Orov cavalry legion means the bankruptcy of the entire south attack plan. A total of 24 cavalry companies were annihilated within three or four days. Such terrible consequences can only show that the Chinese were prepared for it. The so-called empty defense of Mongolia is simply a trap created deliberately!

The cavalry troops were annihilated, so what about the other troops? Are they facing the same danger?

Li Nevich picked up the second telegram, which made him reluctant to make up his mind.

After several days of hard fighting, the First Siberian Army finally successfully broke through the tenacious resistance of the defenders in front of them and opened a passage across Chaktu and entered the Mongolian Plateau.

But the price is very heavy. The entire First Army was more than half broken! It was attacked with countless artillery fire for three consecutive days, resulting in heavy casualties from each unit, and the worst was not even able to form effective command.

What is particularly fatal is that the fighting will of the First Army was completely defeated. The remaining soldiers and officers had no intention of fighting. Faced with a smooth passage, they could not muster up the courage to continue to break through.

Li Nievich himself could not make up his mind. The entire Chikto defense line was opened on the surface, but the key position - Massage City, the mountain defense line on both wings and the artillery position behind it. It still exists intact.

Although the defenders did not show the intention of taking the initiative to counterattack, the deadly artillery bombardment before also weakened rapidly, as if it had exhausted the shells. But who knows whether this is another fatal trap?

The previous Orov Cavalry Legion successfully passed, but was wiped out by closing the door and beating the dog.

The First Army continued to follow up. Is it the same result again?

A good strategic plan has become a gambling that cannot be grasped at all. This extremely headache-inducing change is really disappointing to think about it.

Li Nievich put down the telegram, returned to the map table and stared at the distribution of the enemy and us. After pondering for a long time, he finally made a decision with gritted teeth: "Order the First Army to continue to restrain the enemy in front of him, and the Second Army will take over the First Army to fight south. In any case, we must win."

Yes, it's such a seemingly humble and pitiful target.

Li Nevich no longer imagines any earth-shaking military achievements and can win a victory. Even if it is just a small victory, it will be worth it to give the defeated Russian army a little glory, even if it makes some sacrifices.

It has to be said that the successor commander-in-chief is quite strategic. He knows that the victory or defeat of the Far East is related to the achievements of Tsarist Russia in the struggle of European powers. Once people see that they are completely weak and incompetent, not only will the so-called great strategy of the Balkans be unable to be played, but they may also be counterattacked by others.

Once both ends are not pleased, attacking from both sides will turn into blocking from both sides. That will be a tragic situation!

In the southeast battlefield of Lake Baikal, with the update of combat commands from the Far East Military Region Command, the second wave of Siberian Second Army transported by the lake railway began to mobilize. General Smirnov, the commander of the army, temporarily became the commander-in-chief of the southward army, and included the remnants of the First Army into the combat system.

Smirnov did not rush to launch an attack. He went to the front line in person for a walk. After seeing the battlefield with his own eyes, he finally understood why the First Army fought so hard and miserable.

The entire Chikto defense line was very damaged. The combat space, which was not very wide, was cut into three sections by carefully constructed multiple defense lines. Each section had extremely limited front width. From the Russian army, it would only launch a regiment and suffocate it, and even more would be squeezed into a pile. It was just cheap to have a powerful artillery strike in China.

Previously, the First Army suffered a great loss. The attack was too fierce as soon as it came up, and it was blown up by heavy artillery that was hit hard! Later, I finally learned my lesson, reduced the attack force and adjusted the scattered tactics. It turned out that the position opposite Nima had sufficient defensive firepower to resist a division!

It is conceivable to use a regiment of backward equipment infantry to attack the defensive positions of the US soldiers at World War II level.

The so-called battlefield gap is just a passage that China has actively weakened artillery interception and abandoned the previous fortifications.

Similarly, these passages cannot tolerate large troops in. The Russian army must distribute sufficient forces to occupy the trench fortifications and then defend them. Otherwise, once the main force has just poured into the Mongolian Plateau and is once again stuck in his pocket, it will be chilling to think about how miserable it will be.

Smirnov calculated roughly and felt so frustrated.

According to the fierce firepower exposed by the defenders before, he had to leave at least one division here to barely ensure the safety of the rear path. The premise is that the ammunition consumption of China has not been supplemented.

But the Russian army was not optimistic! In order to open this gap, the First Army almost consumed all the prepared ammunition within a few days, and those lines of defense were bombed with cannons. As a result, no corpses of the defenders were found. This shows that the people retreated very calmly, and even if there were casualties, they were taken away.

After thinking about it, I felt unsure, but the situation could not allow him to think too much. The pressure from St. Petersburg was not only for Commander-in-Chief Linevich, but also fell on them, senior officers.

As part of the upper class of Russia, the vested interests of Tsarist Russia have the responsibility and must maintain the dignity and honor of the empire. No matter how incompetent the position and class cannot be changed, everyone has a natural awareness in this regard.

After careful deployment, Smirnov finally launched the second wave of attacks to fight south two weeks later.

But he didn't know. In this short time, the 112th Division of the 11th Army, which was responsible for the defense line, also completed the supply and repair. The other two divisions' forces were successively put in, and they were replenished and replaced in an orderly manner.

As soon as the battle started, the Russian army first launched a fierce siege on the three divided positions, which was very similar to taking them all in one fell swoop and completing the breakthrough of the entire front.

The defenders also seemed to have no idea of ​​the Russians' plans at all, and they constantly increased their troops to defend the defense line. Judging from the fire density and the order of resistance, they seemed not as tenacious and meticulous as before. There were even several times when crazy Russians who almost drank strong alcohol formed a breakthrough.

However, this situation has existed for a short time. After the Russian offensive slowed down, they quickly adjusted. As the battle entered a stalemate stage, the situation turned around, making the Russian army feel heavier and heavier pressure.

The Russian army did not know that this was caused by the 11th Army's rotation on the battlefield.

When the New China Army rose, its achievements were very impressive, which attracted the attention of the world's powers. But more than ten years later, their number steadily increased to millions, and most of the veterans with combat experience became middle-level officers, but the soldiers were all raw melon seeds.

In addition, the enemies that the entire army had fought were either half-baked like the poor Japanese army, or all kinds of bandits who did not even have guns and cannons. There was no opponent that was truly worthy of their full strength.

After the war against Russia was launched, the Northern Frontier Corps succeeded in the raid, and the process was too smooth and did not play much role in training. This was actually not a good thing for the entire army.

So after careful deployment, the Grand Head of State, His Excellency Yang Hao finally decided to use the Lake Baikal War Zone as a battlefield for honing the troops, and use the ever-increasing Russian army as whetstones to effectively forge the army.

This method of drying comes from the two mountains in this world.

At that time, it took five years to make more than 200,000 troops from the seven military regions take turns to fight. Vietnamese monkeys were used as whetstones to temper the reorganized Chinese army, and the effect was very obvious. This is a real practice of using war instead of training.

When he arrived at the B plane, the Grand Head of State naturally followed suit. With the huge generation gap of weapons and equipment, he gradually sent the carefully built army forces over the past ten years to gradually send up the Northern Legion, especially the Northern Legion, because it is responsible for defending the border thousands of miles and is also a key force in land warfare. One day earlier, he will have more confidence in participating in the melee of the great powers.

So, the tragic Russian army unknowingly acted as a very competent "Blue Army", and took out hundreds of thousands of troops and valuable ammunition and medicine to serve as a sparring training for the Chinese Army.

Based on the overall strategy of not wanting to fight the Sino-Russian War for too long, the frequency of front-line rotation warfare cannot be delayed as long as before. Anyway, there are two railways passing through the entire front line, which makes the battlefield convenient transportation and the rotation of troops easier. Basically, other troops are scattered into various positions in small batches, first replenishing the casualties and fatigue vacancies, and after fighting a few battles, they will continue to add new recruits and replace veterans.

In other words, whenever the Russian army is crippled once, they have to stop and repair it, waiting for reinforcements from the rear to join the gap between the battle, China also takes turns simultaneously.

This causes every time the Russian army attacks, we will always find that the performance of the defenders has a period of panic. That is because the recruits are facing fierce fighting with artillery fire for the first time, and they are inevitably unacceptable. But as long as they gradually calm down, their strict training level will be gradually improved, and the effectiveness of collective combat will soar rapidly.

How could the Russians know this? Not to mention the muddy in the heads of the commanders on the front line, it was the Tsar Nicholas II of St. Petersburg. They saw endless calls for truce from China all day long, and repeatedly, and repeatedly proclaimed the world that "we are peace-loving nations", "we don't want war", "we are good neighbors, can't we sit down and talk about anything? Why do we have to fight?"

Nicholas II vomited blood so much. Damn it was just taking advantage of it! Oh, you Chinese suddenly took over more than one million square kilometers of land, not only did you take over the Far East Railway, the Middle East Railway, and the Vladivostok port that you worked hard to build. Kill our hundreds of thousands of troops, what else would you say about peace and peace talks when you look back? Is there any peace talk in the world that you are unwilling to give in?

Not only Russians, but all countries in the world express very much contempt for the "hypocrisy" of the Chinese.

The British did not say it in public, but also showed a detached attitude of mediating in the center, but complained more than once: "Who said that the Chinese are old-fashioned nations who want to save face? They have no need to be bad at all for us British people! This style of being a good person with a cheap and good manner is simply fucking. Tsk, it's hard to deal with."

The diplomats of the British Empire had a deep understanding of China. In the last fifty years of the Qing Dynasty, the British almost understood the Chinese character. The entire policy on China was based on this.

But I never expected that after just over ten years, I completely changed my appearance, and my hypocrisy and shamelessness were very close to that of the UK!

This cliff is a huge hidden danger, and we have to find a way to solve it!

If the great powers knew about China's training of Russian Russians, they might be shocked!

Smirnov used feint attacks to cover his true intention of breaking through, while the Chinese defenders took turns to fight. The 11th Army quickly completed the rotation, and each unit went up to fight hard, and then gave up the ground for the novice. In general, a new recruit would not be in the position for more than a week.

No matter how they rotate, the strength and equipment of the Chinese army are there. From the quality of the troops to training to thoughts to comprehensive surpassing weapons and ammunition, and relying on a stable defense line to fight, the recruits enter the state very quickly. No matter how panicked, as long as one-third of the veterans are there, they can easily withstand the Russian attack.

The result was that it was only planned to suppress the attack for a few days, but after fighting, the Russians added more and more troops. Before they knew it, the Second Army threw half of it and found nothing!

Smirnov was a little stunned! How could this be done? We were planning to use a military full of more than 20,000 people to break into the Mongolian battlefield and rush around. This guy accidentally consumed half of it. Although it was not so many casualties, he was also trapped on the battlefield and could not move.

It would be fine if this is the case alone, but the wastes from the First Army did not take this opportunity to cheer up and could not be replenished in time. If you break through like this, the danger would be too great!

At first, Smirnov thought that the defeated general of the First Army was destroyed by fierce artillery fire. In fact, he saw the scene of a large-caliber heavy artillery covering bombing with his own eyes, and his legs were trembling!

Later, he suddenly discovered that the reason why the remaining troops of the First Army were unable to recover their combat effectiveness was because they had a serious lack of qualified middle and lower-level officers. In the previous battle, most of the idiots who spent money to make connections through the back door were fucked! Most of the ones that were filled with were illiterate soldiers promoted on the battlefield.

Smirnov was immediately frightened! What is this situation?! He hurried down to investigate the current situation of the Second Army and found that it was very similar to the First Army. As long as the middle and lower-level officers bravely took the lead in charge, they would basically die on the battlefield as soon as possible. After a battle, the loss ratio of officers would be far greater than that of ordinary soldiers.

Even if those officers are not successful, they are always stronger than ordinary soldiers. Now they are unable to command the top and bottom, and the battle is in chaos. Not to mention victory, it is extremely difficult for them to maintain!

Smirnov quickly shared his discovery, and Li Nevich's head exploded! (~^~)
Chapter completed!