A country's army, and in its own homeland, is not weak in terms of professional skills, even if it sent a million troops to attack Mongolia, it still maintained enough vigilance, and a large number of troops were scattered around Chita. Even if there is a clean-up of special forces and reconnaissance battalions, almost more than ninety percent of the squads have been cleared, but in the huge area, it is impossible to complete all the clearances, no matter how strong the individual combat power of the special forces and reconnaissance forces is, they are not map guns, and they cannot clean up all the Russian troops on the map, although in just one day of contact battles, special forces and reconnaissance units have cleared more than 3,000 Russian squads, but there are still sporadic Russian troops who have escaped Chita.

Since the Russian army fled back to Chita, the actions of the Chinese side were immediately exposed, at least 400,000 Chinese troops came to Chita, which made the defenders of Chita stunned at first, thinking that it was impossible, Chita is at least a few hundred kilometers away from the trading city, plus Brusinov's main force is still in Mongolia, thinking with his toes, the Chinese army is a little difficult to deal with Brusinov, how can it take the initiative to attack.

The thinking of the defenders of the Russian army is still stuck in a few decades ago, but more and more squads have not returned, it is obvious that this is cleared by the large army, if not hundreds of thousands, there are hundreds of thousands, or even more, Chita is in danger.

Chita defender, Russian Lieutenant General Oluyumov really had a headache, if it was replaced before, when Brusinov had not yet set off, he would be very happy with Chita's solid defense. Hundreds of thousands more, no problem. Now Chita is at its weakest, with an army of 150,000. 80% of them were recruits, even newer than the recruits of the Brusinov regiment, and the last 2 divisions to arrive, in addition to the officers, the rest of the living were the peasants who had just put down their farm tools, they were just concentrated, sent to the train with guns, and the time to enter the army would not exceed 1 month, most of which was the time. Still spent on the train, some of the recruits didn't even know how to shoot, even Brusinov was reluctant to take them, leaving them to Chita, there is a fixed defense, you can train soldiers by the way, no one thought that when Brusinov chose to attack Mongolia, when a million troops entered the hinterland of Mongolia. The other party chose to do it, which almost made the Russian army unable to deal with it.

Yan Xishan also knew that in the battle of the Great Army, the success of the sneak attack was only a matter of small probability. It never occurred to him that he could steal Chita, which was almost impossible. After the special forces made contact with the small forces of the opposing side, a large number of troops dispersed. One army went to the west of Chita, and the other to the east of Chita. Their mission was to attack two key points in the east and west, cut off the railway, and hold back the Russian troops who came to reinforce them.

More than 400,000 troops, with a dignified momentum, rushed to Chita, because Chita's surrounding forces are limited, Oluyumov found out late, when the scouts came back at the risk of death, and sent back the news of the Chinese army's attack on Chita, the Chinese army had approached Chita 60 kilometers around, and now it was too late to do anything, he only had time to send a report to the country, and then stubbornly waited for help.

Unfortunately, what Oluyumov didn't know was that his telegram was destined to be released, because before entering the surroundings of Chita, he had already sent special forces to cut off the telegraph line from Chita to the surrounding area.

Yan Xishan is in a good mood, the reason is very simple, his first step of strategic intention to achieve, if you want to conquer Chita, you must first cut off the connection between Chita and the surroundings, at the same time as encountering the Russian army, scouts and special forces have begun to stage the cable telegraph network between Chita and other places, according to the results of the previous reconnaissance, there are only 2 cable telegraph lines in Siberia, all of which follow the Siberian railway line, and by the way, 7 railway bridges within 100 kilometers from Chita have been blown up. The significance of the destruction lies in whether it will help the next strategy, besides, those railway bridges, which are very important for the Trans-Siberian Railway, are also nothing for the Northwest Railway to be built in the future, blowing up the reinforcements that they can block from both sides, creating an opportunity for them to conquer Chita.

The troops of the 2 armies are firmly in those two directions, even if the Russian army comes to attack, it can buy them at least 2 weeks, knowing that Chita's defense is strong, Yan Xishan of course has made sufficient preparations, whether it is heavy artillery or troops, it is sufficient, 2 weeks is enough.

The military command was placed 13 kilometers away from Chita, which is outside the maximum range of Russian artillery, and the front here is the strategic artillery unit of the Mengbei Army, with a range of more than 17 kilometers, so that they can still hit Chita under the premise of being 13 kilometers away from Chita, providing sufficient fire support for the siege troops.

In the military headquarters, in front of Yan Xishan is a high-precision template, reconnaissance troops, air forces, including other means, the Chita is displayed almost in a certain proportion on the template, so that it is convenient to give orders and prepare for the attack on Chita.

One by one the passages were cut off, a line of blockade, built with the efforts of the army, for both sides, he sent 2 armies to block, the choice is some high ground, according to the previous estimate, before the attack on Chita, they have at least 3 days to build a position, 3 days, for the Chinese army that is good at defense, can build a large defensive position, relying on this and reinforced artillery fire, at least can withstand 5 times their own enemy.

With the establishment of the northwest, an army has at least 70,000 people, five times that is, 350,000 people, at this moment, the entire border between Russia and China is one, and at this time, it is almost impossible to mobilize 700,000 people to forcibly attack and reinforce Chita.

There is no trivial matter in the army, and every aspect must be taken into account in order to be invincible, so after the command headquarters was set, Yan Xishan issued a series of orders, and with the help of excellent radio command, he grasped the situation within tens of thousands of square kilometers around it.

"All combat units are already in place!" At this moment, it is already night, after nightfall, except for a small number of troops, with the help of night vision devices, continue to stare at Chita, to prevent the Russian dogs from jumping off the wall in a hurry, and carry out suicide attacks outward, the rest are resting, tomorrow is the time to attack Chita, we must ensure that there is a good state, but other soldiers can sleep, but Yan Xishan, as the commander-in-chief, can't, 15 days, or taking into account the speed of the Russian army on both wings, every minute can not be delayed, Even if they are quite confident in the Northwest Army's ability to attack fortified positions, they still dare not be sure before the battle, and only by making more preparations and making the pre-war attack strategy more refined will it help the development of the war situation.

"It's all in place, and tomorrow will take a tentative attack!" Wang Ruoyi, chief of staff of the Northern Mongolian Military Region, said calmly that he had information on the location of all the troops in his hands, as well as the hole cards of the entire Northern Mongolian Military Region, and he was quite confident in the operation.

A military city like Chita, and in the state of war between the two countries, similar to stealing the city in the romance, it is unlikely to appear, and the Russian army will not be so stupid, the reconnaissance team arranged on the periphery has discovered the situation of the Chinese army, and it is impossible for them to casually let strangers into the city, in fact, in the morning, the entire city gate has been martial law, no one is allowed to enter or leave, Wang Ruoyi is slightly disappointed in his heart, but not strong, this plan is successful, or not, I didn't plan to conquer Chita so easily.

Wang Ruoyi cleaned up his mood and began to briefly introduce the current situation, mainly on the Chita side, with the help of Germany, as well as the intelligence network in the northwest itself, it cannot be said that he knows the defenders around Chita well, at least the basic situation is known, so as to avoid the aimless attack. After the introduction, he calmly expressed his opinion: "According to the information we have, the Russian army in Chita, except for the Ninth Division, is a newly formed unit, and even Brusinov did not take them to Mongolia, and their combat effectiveness can come first, I think we can regard this as a key point." ”

Almost at the same time as Wang Ruoyi's words fell, Luo Yongfu, the other deputy chief of staff, put forward a different view, and said: "In siege warfare, there is a certain relationship between the strength of the combat effectiveness of the troops, the stronger the troops, the stronger the combat effectiveness of the defense, but this is not absolute, the entire defense line of Chita, I believe everyone knows very well, it can be said that it is a three-dimensional war, and no one can have the idea of underestimating the enemy!" ”

Speaking of this, everyone in the entire command frowned, that's right, Chita is Russia after many years of operation, and the whole is all made of stone, counting history, this started more than 200 years ago, after a hundred years, continuous repairs, and most importantly, it has undergone the test of severe winter, if it is a tofu slag project, it will have long been under the temperature of minus 40 degrees per year, and it has become slag.

Such a city built purely of stone, glued with all kinds of glutinous rice juice, or other things, and then experienced a bitter cold, it is definitely not much less than reinforced concrete, and heavy artillery poses little threat to them, unless heavy artillery of more than 350 mm is used, and special armor-piercing shells are also needed. Heavy artillery with a caliber of more than 350 mm, although it is not the most powerful and strongest artillery fire in the northwest at present, but it is also above a certain level, such artillery is used to attack a city, a city of more than a dozen square kilometers, and the whole is built of stone, God knows how many barrels to be broken, this is the Northwest Army has never experienced a strong city, the battle to conquer Chita, not only the key to determining the future situation of the entire Siberia, but also the key to testing the ability of the northwest to attack the fortification. (To be continued.) )