In Yang Yuanzhao's heart, he didn't realize that at this time, the northwest was in such a state in the hearts of most Chinese people, but he still had a hurdle to pass in order to really stand on the historical list.

Even if you don't have the attitude of all-out war with Russia, 210,000 Russian troops and 18 divisions are still a hurdle that must be passed.

In the Baotou base camp, the largest room is a strategic research war room, made of actual proportions, accurate measurements, using a part of the special tools to draw a map of Mongolia, it seems so accurate, every trail, mountains, rivers and lakes, etc., these are accurately displayed on the map, such a map, the war room is the largest, the others, each regiment or above senior officers, there is a relatively small one, enough for them in the territory of Mongolia, will not get lost.

Yang Yuanzhao was frowning there, on the map, different flags, representing teams with different combat effectiveness, the red flags, were at the regimental level, and now there are only three close to the buying and selling city, a few behind, and the laggard is a little far behind.

It has been 3 days since the battle of the 1st Regiment to liberate Kulen, and the 1st Regiment has temporarily been stationed after maintaining the stability of Kulen, and the 234th Regiment, which itself belongs to the second wave of forces, did not come directly to Kulen, but directly rerouted 30 kilometers west of Kulen to Kyakhta, the largest city on the Sino-Russian border.

Starting from the west exit, Kyakhta is the farthest city that Shanxi merchants can walk to, let's just say his distance, Kyakhta is about 350 kilometers away from Kulun. But if you add the 1,700 kilometers from Baotou to Kulun, plus more than 600 kilometers from Taiyuan to Baotou, the distance of 5,000 miles is enough to make everyone look sideways.

For hundreds of years, he has been a Shanxi person who can't go on. I chose to go to Kyakhta to do business, and in the vast Gobi steppe, I don't know how many bones of Shanxi people were buried, from Zhangjiakou to Wude, to Kulun, and then to Kyakhta. It was the famous Zhangku Highway in later generations, and even the main body of the Russian extension, and for hundreds of years, countless caravans and cars stepped on it. A simple dirt road was formed, which was also the main access road for the caravan.

Later, it should be the appearance of Baotou, especially with Sanhe soil to build a simple one, because it is not a special road, just use a small amount of cement and stones and the like, the road condition environment is not good, when the convoy of the brigade marches up. It's a little better than a dirt road, or a grassland without a road. But it can't be called Baotou in the sense of good.

The car with a large load capacity and high speed, which is not specifically aimed at off-road here, only traveled 80 kilometers on the first day, which is the same as before. A 550-kilometer leap was completed in 10 hours, or. 10 hours from Baotou to Wude 1200 kilometers, which is completely incomparable. The convenience of transportation makes motor vehicles faster and faster, and the distance and even space are no longer obstacles and curses, but the traffic environment has become the biggest constraint.

The reason why it stopped after 80 kilometers was not because it was dark, but because when it stopped, there were at least five hours before it got dark, and the reason why it stopped was that 50 of the 500 cars broke down at once.

The main way of marching of the Northwest Army was motor vehicles, although it was said that it was possible to walk on foot, but in the battle 2,000 kilometers away from Baotou, the speed and time could not be guaranteed at all.

The car loaded with 3 regiments, one-tenth of the breakdown, not only slowed down the speed, but also reduced the transport capacity a lot, the speed of travel from this day, greatly reduced, carrying enough maintenance personnel, in the maintenance personnel overnight efforts, repaired 38 vehicles, the remaining 12, had to be placed here.

The next day's march was even less, 60 kilometers, and even on the original basis, there were more broken cars today, reaching 110, a decrease of one-fifth, so that several regiment commanders found out that the problem was wrong, and directly telegraphed to the First Division and the First Army, and by the way, it was also reported to Baotou.

The complexity of the environment and road conditions, so that the base camp is optimistic about this battle, greatly reduced, the reason why Baotou can calmly look at the Russian army, is because of the huge advantage in firepower, according to what they know, the Russian army from the mainland, as well as the Russian army from the Far East, their configuration is not too high, they are all before the First World War, very ordinary, the equipment methods of the European army, and even the equipment of the Russian army, compared with Britain and Germany, is a little worse, in terms of the number of machine guns, A division of Baotou is 12 times higher than a Russian division, the number of artillery is 4 times, and the number of personnel is more than 2 times.

From this aspect, Baotou is dominant, the only uncertainty is that Baotou's army, after all, has only been established for 3 years, Russia is in the European powers, in a few hundred years of time, gradually fight, the real power of strength, although many countries, such as Britain, France and Germany, do not think much of Russia, the title of polar bear, as well as Britain and Germany, in a certain way, weaken Russia's table, which also confirms Russia's toughness, against such an old power, I don't have much foundation in my heart.

Kulen to Kyakhta, only 350 kilometers, two days, 140 kilometers, it seems to be more than half, but the person who travels a hundred miles is half ninety, not to mention less than half, according to this, I am afraid it will take four or five days to reach Kyakhta.

From the intelligence on the Russian side, it can be determined that it should be enough to arrive, or even a little faster than the Russian army, but next, if Baotou is unable to stabilize this logistics line, this section of 350 kilometers can definitely be called a trench, there is not enough logistics supplies, and the extra artillery fire and Makqin will become a huge pressure on logistics, and even affect the combat effectiveness of the Northwest Army.

"Or, recruit some of the people!" Jiang Baili suddenly said, it was Cai Ye who rushed to the front line, it was his old friend and classmate, he couldn't watch Cai Ye resist the Russian army alone, and it was still under the situation of unstable firepower and logistics, liberating Kulen, including some follow-up operations, at least 5,000 prisoners were captured, these prisoners were all young and middle-aged men, and it was the best choice to use them as people's husbands.

"For the time being, don't be in a hurry!" Yang Yuanzhao naturally has his own ideas, most of the cars in Baotou have been mobilized, as far as logistics are concerned, the strong carrying capacity of the car is enough to support the battle of several divisions, the worst, send some tractors over, the speed of the tractor is a little slower, but the strong adaptability, coupled with huge horsepower, is a huge supplement to the transport capacity, for the complex, not much slope and rocky grassland, crawler tractor, seems to be able to provide better transport capacity.

Jiang Baili frowned, from the military level, the problem he considered was more simple, the key is to ensure logistics, the car has proved that it is not suitable for this grassland environment, why not use the cooperation of horses and manpower, no matter what, now mobilized, from Kulen to Kyakhta, only 350 kilometers, according to the speed of 30 kilometers per day of wheelbarrows and carriages, 10 days is enough, as long as this logistics line is stable, a qiē is promising.

Yang Yuanzhao ignored Jiang Baili, but turned his head to Liu Shu and said, "Brother Zelin, I don't know where the road construction company is now?" ”

Liu Shu was stunned for a moment, and said with some doubts: "The ring line between Baotou and other cities that the road construction company is building has now completed the connection between Mongolia, Shanxi, and Shaanxi!" ”

"Is there anything close to Mongolia?"

Liu Shu is more aware of Yang Yuanzhao, coupled with the understanding of Baotou road construction company, his eyes lit up, Yang Yuanzhao thought, I am afraid it is a cure-all, although the investment is greater, but once and for all, in this war, the road construction machinery, as well as the road construction company transferred to Kulun, take the opportunity to basically repair the road from Kulun to Kyakhta, can not be compared with the high-level, this is wartime, there is not so much time, in the Mongolian desert, build a high-grade highway, but basically make the road a little smoother, Without delaying the formation, it is still possible.

"It should be no problem, I'll inform them that it is estimated that 12 can be transferred to 13 squads!"

Now Baotou road construction company, a big business, the road construction team is the lowest level of units, each team has about 500 skilled workers and about 120 sets of road construction special machinery, can complete the construction of about 320 meters of standard highway in one day!

12 teams, if the overall planning is reasonable, can complete nearly 4 kilometers of road construction in one day, if the standard is lowered, this number can also be doubled, in this way, at most 40 days, or 45 days, you can complete a similar highway, not only the breakdown rate of the car will be greatly reduced, the speed can also be significantly improved, just like the first and second highway in Baotou that year.

Jiang Baili next to him was completely incomprehensible, he didn't expect that under the military emergency, Liu Shu and Yang Yuanzhao still had the leisure to discuss the matter of the highway, yes, 45 days, once and for all, the logistics supply problem between Kulen and Kyakhta was solved, but before, the Russian army was about to come, could it be that the army was too irresponsible to let the army resist the Russian soldiers with burning sticks.

When Jiang Baili finally asked the suppressed question in his heart, Liu Shu couldn't help laughing, and directly Yang Yuanzhao said: "These Yuanzhao have already considered it, for the First Army, he attaches more importance to the First Army than me, and he will not take human lives to stuff it!" ”

Jiang Baili was stunned, he looked at Yang Yuanzhao, he didn't know what to say, what method Yang Yuanzhao had to solve the logistics problem. (To be continued)