"Despicable! Shameless! No morality! It's simply a shame for human beings!"

Commander-in-Chief Li Nevich was angry! All the senior officers who knew about this situation also made fierce criticisms, gritting their teeth and criticizing the Chinese people for their unruly tactics.

In the early 2nd century, countries were still in power with aristocrats. No matter how cruel the war was, senior officers generally needed special care due to their pedigree and origin. Many of the middle and lower-level officers were also from small nobles or rich people, and were important targets for redemption after the war ended. At the same time, they were also a necessary supplement to the national aristocratic system.

Now, the Chinese are so cruel that they focus on killing and injuring in battles, which not only leads to a sharp decline in combat effectiveness of the entire army, but also challenges the universal values ​​recognized by the whole world!

Li Nievich was not only angry, but also afraid! He didn't know how to describe the despicableness of this tactic for a while, but he was very clear about its destructiveness! If it was a brave army, it would quickly lose its combat effectiveness in a short period of time - the officer would take the lead in rushing forward.

But if it is a cowardly and poorly literate army, once the officers suffer excessive casualties, the rest will inevitably be turtles. Will you expect the soldiers to rush forward stupidly?

Of course it is impossible. Just look at the two armies in the battlefield ahead and you will know that they have lost confidence and want to cheer up, but they don’t know how long it will take.

Countermeasures, you must come up with countermeasures as soon as possible!

Commander-in-Chief Li Nevich anxiously thought about countermeasures after conveying his protest through the British.

But time does not wait for anyone, and the situation on the battlefield changes several times overnight. The deadline given by His Majesty the Tsar is getting closer and closer. It is difficult to explain his strength and his inch of land.

Gritting his teeth, Li Nevich sent another army to completely replace the collapsed First Army, and then repeatedly reminded the commanders to be careful not to fall into the annoying tactical trick. Then, he began to think about whether to make appropriate adjustments to the entire battle plan.

It is not a big problem to adjust the direction and strategy of the offensive during the war. However, whether it is appropriate and whether it can bring positive effects is quite contemplated.

British observers have no good insight into this - their own army is a slag, with a total of less than 200,000 people. They have never thought about how to play such large-scale corps battles. The mere Baikal battlefield is equivalent to pulling out the entire British army to gamble, and they can't afford it.

Friends are not reliable, so they can only find a way for themselves.

Commander-in-Chief Li Nevich could not come up with any other ideas except to continue to increase his troops. However, this tactic of adding fuel to the other party's thoughts!

As the saying goes, things can only be done.

After two consecutive hits, the Russians still unswervingly touched the stone with eggs, which also determined that they would sink deeper in this bottomless war slumber. The overly slow battlefield sensing ability and very poor decision-making level of upper and lower levels doomed them to go away on the wrong path and never look back.

Whenever the person who makes mistakes will pay the price for it.

When the Russian army's southward combat plan changed from sneak attacks to strong attacks, their strategic intentions were actually completely exposed. After defeating three consecutive group attacks, China also began to make appropriate and proactive changes.

There is no way. If you pretend to be indifferent, it will be too obvious. It will not only treat the enemy as a fool, but also easily develop bad habits.

The General Command made a decision to suspend rotation operations on the southern line and temporarily increase the newly transported troops to the defensive positions to ensure that the entire defense line is foolproof. At the same time, the eastern line, which has been on the defensive moment and has been continuously operating its troops in secret, suddenly moved, with Wu Peifu's 31st Division as the main force, after the Third Army fully defeated Daxingan Mountain, launched a fierce attack on the frontal enemy of Ulan-Ude!

Xu Shuzheng's 311th Regiment was still at the forefront of the position. When the battle started, he led his troops to step on the smoke of gunpowder after the explosion of his own artillery fire and rushed towards the Russian army, which was seriously slackening. After a fierce battle, he made a substantial breakthrough, like a sharp knife piercing into the central war zone where the Russian army's heavy troops were hoarded.

Such a fierce trick not only scared Wu Peifu, but also commander Feng Guozhang was shocked by him! I thought to myself, is this guy Xiao Xu a bit too much? Although our army has excellent equipment and excellent quality, we can't make breakthroughs without hesitation, right? You are not afraid of disrupting the entire combat plan.

To be honest, Xu Shuzheng really doesn't care much. He is so proud that he disagrees with the fact that he has the advantageous power but defends and counterattacks. In his opinion, training on war is simply a waste of time. When fighting, there are people who are immortal? No matter what new troops are, as long as they are devoted to the fierce battle for a while, they will naturally mature.

What? The battlefield is too narrow and cannot release too many troops? That's simple, isn't it just to expand the battlefield. We have the initiative in the battlefield and expand the formation set up by the Russians seven or eight times, forcing the Russian army to release all hundreds of thousands of troops. We will have a fierce battle. At that time, tens of thousands of cannons will be fired together, and all the courage, quality, and blood temperament will be trained.

He thought so in his heart and did the same.

Under his combat thinking, the 311th Regiment rushed forward like a madman in the ice and snow. With the complete weapons and equipment in his hand, it completely ignored the defense line built by the Russians and the breakthrough was so fast that it scared the Russians!

In the past six months, the Russians have not only played guest roles such as fishermen, loggers and hunters, but they have not stopped building their own fortifications.

The entire set of trenches, barbed wire mesh, and machine gun fortification systems learned from the Chinese are well constructed.

Especially in winter, when the north wind blows heavily, the position knows that it is just hard, and the shells hitting down are almost the same as falling on concrete ground. How many percentage points will the defense ability rise sharply!

The Russians themselves estimated that even if they pulled out the cannons, it would be very difficult to break through such a defense line. In addition, the forests between the two sides were almost cut down, so it would not be so easy to attack on the open ground!

But they still underestimated the ability of the Chinese army!

When the overwhelming artillery shells exploded, the Russian troops on the front position of Ulan-Ude suddenly discovered that their previous confidence was nothing more than self-righteousness.

The Third Army's attack was suddenly fired with the roar of train cannons as the horn.

The four train cannons that drove from the Amur battlefield quietly arrived at Chita long before the war started, and kept waiting for the opportunity silently. After the attack order was issued, two 35mm/45l cannons first made a shocking roar! More than 300 kilograms of shells pulled the train through a cave-like rumbling sound. A terrible landscape was created from the sky, and it smashed into the Russian position like a meteorite!

The explosion was earth-shaking, shocking the heads of the Russian Army who had never seen the world were blank! Not to mention organizing effective battles, there was no collective mental breakdown. It was all because they were born with thick nerves and strong resistance!

The 35mm giant cannon has a slow bombardment speed and a small number of shells. Even if each one is powerful enough, the killing effect obtained is still not enough to completely destroy the Russian army's resistance.

Don't forget. Here are four train cannons.

When the mm and 152mm naval guns fired together, the shells suddenly fell from the sky with a density of ten times. Under the terrible kinetic energy, all fortifications became like tofu. As long as they were hit, they could basically not escape.

So the soldiers on both sides stared at each other. On the battlefield centered on the hinterland of the Ulan-Ude Russian troops stationed, huge columns of fireworks continued to rise rapidly. Especially when the 335kg high-explosive bomb exploded, the sand and dust that soared into the air was hundreds of meters, as if a village was bombed flat. Of course, it was not that exaggerated, but the effect from a distance was so scary!

This also led to the time when Xu Shuzheng's 311th Regiment was too smooth, and the morale of the Russian army was really blown away by heavy artillery.

In addition to train guns, the heavy artillery equipped by the Third Army, the divisions and their own artillery gathered together hundreds of doors. Even if the front and back were deployed at a staggered level, it still covered the front tens of kilometers wide. Layer layers of explosions were pushed from the front to the back, and even the logistics base on the west bank of the Selenge River was not spared.

The battlefield dominated by cannons, the existence of infantry became very pitiful and humble.

The Russian army fully realized what it means to be unable to fight. Faced with the massive breakthrough of the Xu Shuzheng regiment and the 31st Division, the guard forces of one army were easily defeated. Except for some of them trapped beasts in Ulan-Ude, most of them collapsed in scattered and messed up.

The 31st Division occupied Ulan Ude at an extremely slight cost, completely cutting off the retreat of the Russian army that broke through sideways. The group of remaining soldiers were blocked in the snow and ice, either surrendered or frozen to death.

This sudden and drastic change made Li Nevich confused. He couldn't imagine what to do if he wanted to break his head. The news from the front line also made him frightened - the enemy used super-caliber heavy artillery and an astonishing number of various cannons to completely destroy the defenders and positions.

Not only that, information from the British showed that China was already transporting railway paving equipment to the Baikal War Zone. Once they completely occupied the Ulan-Ude position, they would immediately extend the railway along the Selenge River to Lake Baikal.

The Russians could lay rails from the ice ten years ago, and the Chinese with more advanced technology would be easier to do this. Once they quietly build the cross-lake railway and launch an unexpected attack from the north of Irkutsk, the entire Far East Military Region Command may be taken away, and more than 100,000 troops that have entered the southeast battlefield will become turtles in the jar!

Li Nevich was almost scared. He didn't care about any tricks and sent out the two troops left at hand in one go, crossing Lake Baikal in the two directions, and replenishing them in defensive operations. Even though he knew that they might have been sacrificed by cannon fodder on the spot, he was willing to do so.

There is no way. Compared to the slow casualties and consumption of the frontline, it is always better than being taken away by someone.

But in this way, the previous plan to open the Mongolian border and burn the war to the hinterland of China would be completely bankrupt. The living forces of the entire Far East Russian army were forced to concentrate on the narrow battlefield in the lower reaches of the Selenge River, which was several times more narrow.

This is definitely not a good thing, but Li Nievic has no other choice.

When a total of 50,000 troops swarmed into the defense line, the offensive of the Chinese Third Army on the Eastern Front was finally blocked, and the completely occupied Ulan-Ude was stagnant with the Russian army in the snow and ice.

The Russian army rushed over was more miserable. Together with the combined 70,000 to 80,000 troops on the southern battlefield, they had to face the serious shortage of logistics resources allocation. The large number of cold-proof facilities built before were still insufficient to use even if the soldiers were overflowing. The consumption of essential materials such as food was accelerated by twice.

Under this situation, the transportation pressure faced by the two railways across Lake Baikal is conceivable. The trains departing from Irkutsk Station every day are densely packed and cannot be shipped. The materials prepared before were consumed too quickly and the medicines were almost exhausted. Li Nevich was unable to receive additional support from St. Petersburg. He was worried about the consumption statistics day by day and was so worried that he almost ran out of his hair.

If that were the case, perhaps he could still hold on, and the entire Far East battlefield could last until next spring when flowers bloomed, everything would probably get better. The British seemed to have agreed to provide some support to help Russia win the war.

But, after all, this is just their wishful thinking.

The Northern Chinese Legion has been waiting for this day for a long time. When 80% of the Russian troops in the Far East have accumulated, a plan that has been prepared for a long time is immediately implemented!

At the end of January 191, when the Russian military ammunition and drug resources in the Far East were about to run out, the Northern Chinese Army suddenly dispatched fighter planes and launched violent bombing along the railways on the lake and the south bank!

The railway tracks laid on the lake surface are most easily discovered. Attack aircraft that are dived by low-altitude diving are swept in turn with rockets and grenades, and are destroyed in segments and cut off the most easily.

The railways on the south bank pass through the mountains, most of which are hidden on the edges of cliffs where the cave is also steep, and the difficulty of bombing increases exponentially. But on the other hand, as long as a bomb hits and a cave collapses, the damage effect caused by many times is many times higher than that on the ice.

Taking a two-pronged approach, the Russian Far East Military Region Command and the Baikalian battlefield were cut off, and the limited communication link was fatally damaged. It was connected to and transmitted messages close to a very small number of radio stations, but they all became targets for key aerial strikes.

At the same time, the Chinese army on both wings, which had been prepared for a long time, suddenly launched a comprehensive and fierce offensive, launching unprecedented bombardment and crazy attacks on the tens of thousands of Russian troops surrounded by them. Within just a few days, they almost defeated the enemy in front of them!

By early February, the Russian army in the Far East led by Li Nevich was almost completely destroyed again. The Tsarist Russian government intends to make a beautiful counterattack plan with the support of the United Kingdom and completely go bankrupt. (To be continued.)
Chapter completed!