There were battles in the north of Mongolia, the northeast of the northeast, the border of Xinjiang, all three places, of course, on a small scale, Russia learned the lessons of the First World War in 1911 and will no longer look down on China, China has formed regular military forces, they fight according to the normal war, reconnaissance, step by step.

At the beginning, the gunfire broke out among the scouts and small units, the huge territory, the special forces in the northwest have only three divisions, only one division is really transferred to the front, and it is still in northern Mongolia, and the remaining troops in Xinjiang and the northeast can only rely on the reconnaissance units of the division or the military family.

After all, among the 2.5 million troops, they can stand out, and those in charge of reconnaissance work are either the best among the huge troops, or, they are simply veterans, and the training in the northwest is hard, and the military quality is quite high, but there is a relatively big flaw, that is, most of the troops have no experience, and strict training and sophisticated equipment can strengthen the combat effectiveness of the army, but some experience must be exchanged for blood.

People are injured or killed every day, although the number of the other side is higher, but this is also the largest casualty in the history of the Northwest, unlike in 1911, it was an encounter, the Northwest was very clear about the defense, but this time, the Russian army did not have a major goal, several large armies on the Sino-Russian border line kept trying, stopping and stopping, and the shots were all loose troops, and none of the main forces appeared.

This will require patience on both sides, and the Chinese army is well aware that in this Sino-Russian war. The battle is the most important and the most intense. I'm afraid it's the Mongolian steppe, on the one hand, because of the industrial transfer of Baotou here. On the other hand, Russia has amassed the largest number of troops near Chita.

However, after the start of the war, Brusinov did not attack the positions of the trading city, and in 1911, the northwest was only a temporary position, relying only on underground fortifications, which made the Russian army want to die. An army of nearly a million people has no way to break through the defense line in the northwest, and after tasting this taste, after a few years, it will become an impregnable wall when they come to the trading city, and the fool will go back to touch that defense line.

Since there is no way to buy and sell the city, then from the buying and selling city to Chita, on the defense line of hundreds of miles, he must find a breakthrough. The reconnaissance force, composed of tens of thousands of elite veterans, is widely distributed between Chita and the trading city, like a mercury pool, looking for weak links. I really found him, 180 kilometers west of Chita, it was a desert with no people. The investigators went 70 kilometers deep and there were not many people. There are also not many defensive troops.

The tsar was waiting for news of the victory, and Brusinov did not have much time to waste. Now that it has been found, then follow this offensive, in Brusinov's view, positional warfare, the Northwest is the first to be the best, relying on the position, even above the German army, but in the movement warfare, the Northwest does not have much performance, it seems that the Northwest movement war is poor.

This is also the relationship between the northwest and the lack of performance in this regard, the soldiers are also dangerous, and there are always all kinds of accidents when leading troops to fight, and positional warfare is a combat method that maximizes one's own strength and weakens the possible mobility to the minimum, so the limited number of wars in the northwest are almost all positional warfare, but is the movement war in the northwest really not good? In fact, movement warfare is also a key point of training in the northwest, whether it is light machine guns, mortars, or even individual weapons, they can all be used in movement warfare, especially mortars and light machine guns, which are sharp weapons in sports warfare.

However, now this, the northwest is not needed, the reason is very simple, the movement war does not need infantry, in the future, the infantry will play more of the role of flanks, standing and positional warfare, and when the real encounter is a battle, it still depends on the armored force of motorized steps.

It is precisely because of the strengthening of the armored force, Yan Xishan is near Chita, a trap is arranged, it cannot be said to be a trap, if there is no armored force as a backing, it is really a loophole here, 60 kilometers wide, the length is in the area of 150 kilometers, there is no army defense, once the opponent concentrates the troops, the key breakthrough, the entire defense line in northern Mongolia will collapse, as long as it breaks through this area, it is the most elite area of Mongolia, although it will not face Kulen, but there are 2 steelmaking centers and a copper smelter in, The value is high.

Armored forces, in this era, no one has noticed that now the war in Europe has broken out, because Germany has been strengthened in the northwest, and defeated the Anglo-French coalition army like a bamboo, that is, after the capture of Paris, in Bordeaux only encountered positional warfare, Britain and France did not choose to build tanks because the positional warfare and trench warfare were too tragic, in order to crack the trench.

It is equivalent to saying that Britain and France, which have the strongest technical capabilities of the Entente, have not started the research of tanks, let alone Russia, which has worse technology, they do not realize this at all.

Yan Xishan commanded a large corps for the first time, and after receiving a report from the General Staff and the army assembled on the front line Chita, he knew that the key to this battle was not actually to capture Chita, but to eliminate the enemy's living forces, if the 1.2 million troops were wiped out, even if Chita was placed there, it would be the fruit of victory, and he would eat it casually. If you don't destroy the other party's living force, the other party's strength still exists, even if it costs a huge price and occupies Chita, you still have to honestly return it, because you can't keep it.

From the very beginning, Yan Xishan's plan was to take advantage of Russia's ignorance of armored forces to set such a trap that seemed unreasonable, but had a great possibility of realization.

After the outbreak of the European War, the northwest paid attention to the improvement of the army, China is a land power, the importance of the army, far more than other arms, especially after the founding of New China, and there are enough government advantages, in a sense, the allocation and quantity of the army, has always been the largest. During this time, in addition to the main increase in motorization, the Northwest replaced the legs of soldiers with motor vehicles, and used armored forces to break through the opponent's defenses.

Due to the existence of Yang Yuanzhao, the engine of the Northwest is the best in the world, and the others are still in the low grade, when the gasoline engine below 50 horsepower is slowly groping, the Northwest has developed into a gasoline engine, high-altitude kerosene, diesel engine, and a series of engines, the maximum power has also reached a shocking 500 horsepower, such an engine, perhaps not as good as the 1500 horsepower large diesel engine in later generations, but it is also much more powerful than other countries in World War I, the so-called tanks of Britain and France in World War I, The power will not exceed 100 horsepower, and the speed on the battlefield is in the single digits, at best, it is a reinforced version of the cold weapon era, relying on thick armor to resist the attack of small arms, and when it moves to the front of the trench, the battle will be won.

That is, the Germans who saw this weapon for the first time could not deal with it, if Yang Yuanzhao really saw it, there are too many ways to solve these tanks, and the protection is not the most important among the elements of the tank, firepower and speed. It is a more important element, no matter how hard the armor is, it is not the armor of the battleship, if it is really installed with the battleship dealer, it will not be able to run, only by combining speed and firepower, can it give full play to the maximum effect of the tank.

Motorization, the use of mechanical power instead of ordinary manpower and horses. There is greater mobility, the use of some armored forces, and it will also enrich the battle. Compared with the most basic armor in 1911, the northwest has developed a series of armor, about 30 tons of medium tanks, about 20 tons of light tanks, tracked heavy armored vehicles, wheeled light armored vehicles for a large number of armored vehicles, at present, can not be popularized, each division has an average of 60 vehicles, including 10 medium, 15 light, 15 tracked armored vehicles and 20 wheeled armored vehicles.

The Northwest has done exercises, under the premise of heavy guarding, the use of these armored vehicles, when attacking the position of the same level of protection in the Northwest, has a huge effect, the artillery can hit, after all, it is a few, even if it is a medium-sized 30-ton thing, the speed through the positional trench is more than 45 kilometers per hour, under such a high speed, it is difficult for the artillery to hit.

However, there is an attack and a defense, and tank trenches have also appeared, at the front of the position, digging a certain number of tank trenches, can effectively prevent the impact of armored forces, armored vehicles are not battleships after all, it is impossible to put all the steel and armor on it, and it is okay to deal with ordinary light weapons and infantry weapons, but it is not good to deal with heavy weapons such as artillery.

Yang Yuanzhao wanted to take out the individual bazooka several times, these things, and later, let it go for the time being, now it has become a system, and the effective armored force is only possessed by the northwest.

Yan Xishan's tactics are actually very simple, to put it bluntly, some are similar to the combat methods of the German blitzkrieg in World War II, which concentrates the impact force and uses it to outflank it, break the connection between the heavy forces and the cluster so far, and then divide and surround the heavy army group, and wait for the follow-up infantry to come up, and the battle will end.

The tactics are very simple, to put it bluntly, it is to bully Russia does not understand armored warfare, now, the intelligence of the front line shows that Russia has been fooled, at least 30 groups of scouts have entered the preset area, at first there were only 2, and then increased one after another, in the unobstructed desert, even if it is a reconnaissance group, it is particularly eye-catching, this area, every day there are reconnaissance aircraft flying at high altitude, almost the whole process of monitoring, information asymmetry, Just when the Russians thought they had seized the flaw in the northwest, they were also sitting firmly on the Diaoyu Tai, and after a large number of Russian troops penetrated deep into this preset area, a feast would begin.

\(To be continued.) )

PS: The first chapter is delivered, and the other chapter will be a little later, and there are a lot of things to do during the New Year, sorry!