Chapter 1296: The Power of Heavy Artillery
After the emergence of Yang Yuanzhao, China's history has undergone a huge turning point, not only did it not continue to be chaotic and unbearable, and missed the greatest development opportunity, but it made great progress in the turbulent times. The current China, is not the next generation, only 9.6 million square kilometers of land China, the target is on the bright side of the territory has been 11 million square kilometers, this is because Mongolia has not been divided, as for the control of Southeast Asia, more than 3 million square kilometers of land, and the future may be taken Siberia, this is the pattern of the world's largest country, and only on the Eurasian continent, it is possible to create such a huge territory.
The early part of the 20th century was probably the most chaotic era in the world, not only the First and Second World Wars, but also skirmishes and wars, in short, 50 years, it seems that most of the time was spent at war, and this was also the last legitimate opportunity to obtain land.
The future of China, the future of the yellow race, needs a huge almost unlimited territory as support, but if the territory is huge, there will be more problems in all aspects, and this huge piece of land will be included in the scope of comprehensive jurisdiction, which can not be solved by one or two empty words, the emergence of radio, so that the connection between each other is close, the popularization of wired telephones, and the smooth flow of government decrees, these are all ways to control the huge empire, of course, transportation is also very necessary, roads and railways, As much as possible, the difficulty of communicating with each other has been reduced, and even now, under the premise that the living conditions of the Chinese people are improving day by day, more and more people are asking whether they can increase the convenience of transportation.
For example. It still takes several days to get from Guangzhou in China to Harbin in the south. In the future, after taking Siberia and Southeast Asia. This issue is probably even more important. With the approval of Yang Yuanzhao and after more in-depth research by scientists, civil aviation has entered the field of vision, using air transport to quickly transport people, at first it was an airship, and later it was replaced by a large passenger aircraft, and China is unique in the field of aircraft. Even the development of the four-engine heavy aircraft, in the field of turboprops, there is also a very deep development, these are among the passenger aircraft, necessary things, and then increase comfort and sealing performance, a practical passenger aircraft will come out.
Actually, such a passenger plane, the time spent. Far less than military aircraft, at first it was just a simple modification, and later it was specially independent to form a production line of passenger aircraft, and it was put into use. Among the military airports in various places, a special part has been set aside for civilian airports. It's just that because of the secrecy, it's only in a special field now. Or it can only be used by high-level people, but when the ban on airplanes is lifted. In the future, it will definitely pass through the whole country.
The emergence of civil aviation, only to solve a small number of high-end areas of travel fast problem, the largest travel is still in the field of railways, the railway bureau also put forward the concept of passenger dedication, with a dedicated railway, improve the speed of passenger transport, in the shortest time, between the two places, which is huge, depth than later China is almost doubled, the future may be more China, very critical.
China's territory is too huge, in the past, the distance from Mohe to Zengmu Dark Sand was 49 degrees, with a total distance of 5,500 kilometers, but after occupying the entire South China Sea and Siberia, from the northernmost Arctic Ocean, to Southeast Asia near the equator, this is almost the entire northern hemisphere, and if it continues to the south in the future, this span will be larger, and the difference between the north and south dimensions may exceed 90 degrees, or even 100 degrees, converted, It is at least more than 11,000 kilometers, and possibly even more, and the width of the east and west has also greatly increased, and the distance of more than 10,000 yuan, without a faster connection method, will inevitably make the city far away from the core area fall apart.
Yang Yuanzhao's purpose is to create a huge strategic depth for the future of China, a huge territory that can be used for ******** development without considering any territorial issues, not to lay the foundation and let them fall apart. The problem of huge land control, even if it is Yang Yuanzhao here, there is no complete solution, the future of China, there may not be only one political center, there will be two, or three Kyoto, the regional economic center will be even more, China is not as short of people as Russia, the future of Siberia, Russia, there are almost very few people there, once China is controlled, it is unlikely to get hundreds of millions of past, but tens of millions of dollars are still possible.
The commander made a decision as quickly as possible, except for the 1 million people who had their own tasks, the others were dispersed into various units, with divisions as units, scattered into the huge Siberia, like a roll of land to search for the population, once again from Eastern Siberia, to Western Siberia and Central Siberia, a large number of people were captured by the Chinese troops, and in the Far East the situation is now the present, almost all the troops and prime laborers who can be gathered have been hit to the line of Yekaterinburg and Chita, Not to mention that it was impossible to resist in the face of ordinary armed personnel, let alone the Chinese field army, which was armed to the teeth, almost fell like an autumn wind sweeping away leaves.
But it's a pity that the time is limited, from May to October, this is already the limit of what Siberia can fight, after October, for Siberia in the Alpine Dynasty, it means that human beings are forbidden to act, ordinary people have problems with their actions, not to mention large-scale army mobilization, it is almost impossible, and winter is a forbidden area for human activities in Siberia.
All this was carried out under the nose of Yekaterinburg, and the Russian army in Yekaterinburg did not expect that the Chinese army would do this, but they were helpless, under the city of Yekaterinburg, almost two-thirds of the army had left Yekaterinburg, and what remained was a little more than 600,000, at this point, the Russian army still occupied a certain advantage, but a simple siege made the Russian army feel that the Chinese army was strong, and they built a perfect trench and defense line on the periphery of Yekaterinburg, even if they attack with the whole army, they may not be able to please, more than 1 million people, barely holding Yekaterinburg is not bad, can only wait for the return of the army in front, or reinforcements from Europe.
This is the problem of information asymmetry, in the era when radio is not widespread and effectively used, long-distance communication, can only rely on cable telegraph, Russian cable telegraph network, has long been investigated by the Chinese clearly, in the attack on Yekaterinburg, has been completely cut off, they do not know what is happening outside, reinforcements will not be available, Germany has opened the attack plan on eastern Russia, Russia itself has a huge crisis, they must first deal with this crisis, And you can't take care of this side, you can't take care of it at all, and the army that attacked Chita, even the army of the original Russian Far East, can't count on it.
In the direction of Yekaterinburg, the siege was not fought, but in Vladivostok, the general offensive on Vladivostok was about to begin, in July 1915, after a few months, China had searched for the Russians near East Siberia, the circular railway line also spread to the vicinity of Vladivostok, many armored trains were also in place, everything was ready only to the east wind, for China now, what needs to be done is to bombard the defense of Vladivostok with heavy artillery.
The best weapon for siege is heavy artillery, the larger the artillery, even just using ordinary high-explosive shells, without using armor-piercing shells, it has a huge threat to most of the permanent defense, naval guns, itself has taken a completely different path for the army, unless the land defense line, the same as the naval warship is equipped with armored steel, that kind of cost, will make the city defense rise to an unbearable level, which is almost impossible.
At this moment, the Vladivostok defenders didn't know yet, but from the movements of the surrounding Chinese troops, they vaguely felt that a decisive battle might be coming. They guessed the beginning, did not guess the result, they waited for the attack of the Chinese, the first to get on the horse was not the crazy shock infantry, but heavy artillery, more than 300 heavy guns of more than 11 inches, and even more than 20 15-inch heavy guns, so the power of artillery, definitely not ordinary fortifications can resist, it stands to reason that here is far enough from the sea, the main guns of these battleships simply cannot reach, which is why the Russian army was confident in the defense line of Vladivostok before.
But when these main guns, after the train guns were installed, the power was revealed, a permanent fortification with a thickness of 3 meters of reinforced concrete, under the blow of a 15-inch gun, immediately turned into nothingness, not to mention ordinary defense, when the train guns attacked forward little by little, encroaching on the defense line of Vladivostok, the defenders in the city, but could not do anything. Leaving 1.5 million elite forces, the Russian army was originally preparing to fight a defensive war with the Chinese, but the expected attack did not appear at all, and the other side did not plan to fight a strong offensive battle with them at all, but with artillery.
In the army, heavy howitzers, more than 155 mm, are called strategic firepower, more than 200 mm, not ordinary troops can be equipped, or specialized strategic artillery units, or some unique individual units. In the whole world, there are only a handful of army units that can come up with more than 11 inches of heavy artillery, but the Chinese are different, not only the army can use the sea, even if it is artillery, and more than 200 artillery pieces of more than 11 inches have been taken out at once, and these artillery pieces are not capable of manpower for concentrated attacks on Vladivostok, and Russia's most important fortress city in the Far East, even Vladivostok, which has been strengthened, can not. (To be continued.) )