The 3rd Route Army crossed the Heilongjiang River, attacked the whole of East Siberia, attacked all the way forward, no matter how slow, steady and steady, it would also encounter the Trans-Siberian Railway, once it reached the edge of the Trans-Siberian Railway, the battle began immediately, almost 15 days later, the Central Route Army finally came to a city along the Siberian Railway, and the two regiments of the vanguard entered the periphery of the railway city.

These two regiments in the reconnaissance found that there were only 2,000 defenders, immediately attacked, in the face of the strong attack of the Chinese army, there was no way to resist, the strong attack power of the two regiments, here is undoubtedly displayed, by artillery fire and automatic fire completely suppressed 2,000 Russian troops, after resisting for 2 hours, most of them finally surrendered, and the city along the railway fell.

Then, as if in bloom, several large armies began to march along the railway, one after another railway hub cities were captured, almost connected in the middle of the road, at least 1,200 kilometers of railway lines were controlled by the Chinese army, at this time the Trans-Siberian Railway has almost completely lost its ability, even if the Chinese army did not choose to destroy the railway.

As the battle situation has developed so far, the Russian army has understood that the Chinese army's operational intention is very obvious, which is to fight steadily and steadily, advance step by step, and strive to clear up all the surroundings of Vladivostok before attacking Vladivostok.

Such a step was unexpected by Russia, and it also made Russia very uncomfortable, they themselves thought that China would directly attack Vladivostok, after all, the fleet had already taken the lead, even if it was a battle fleet, his sustained combat ability was not strong. It is impossible to have a month, two months of lockdown. You have to go back for repairs and maintenance, otherwise. Tens of millions of dollars of warships, maybe there will be problems, and they are also prepared for this.

The other side did not play cards according to common sense, and did not rush forward at all, leaving millions of Russian troops near Vladivostok, but their main force, still dozens of kilometers away, did not think of attacking this side at all.

Such actions still make Russia a little depressed. But they didn't dare to act, more than 2 million troops guarded Vladivostok, which was not enough to give them confidence, and the sudden fleet cleared the turrets of Vladivostok in the direction of the sea on the periphery, which had already made Vladivostok's perfect defense appear a weakness, and they took advantage of this time as much as possible to strengthen the defense.

With the gradual deepening of the Chinese army, it even crossed the Trans-Siberian Railway. Continuing to the north, the army of millions is sprinkled on more than a million square kilometers of land, which is really not enough. Even if the Chinese side was careful enough, it still exposed a flaw, a flaw that cannot be called a flaw.

In the vicinity of the Xingkai Lake on the Ussuri River. In the vicinity of Vladivostok, as the field forces turned northward. Prepare to attack Boeli, prepare to take the Trans-Siberian Railway in the entire northeast. One of the most important hubs outside of Vladivostok exposed a flank to the Russian attack.

This can also be regarded as a misjudgment of the staff officers, in the judgment of the staff officers, the Russian army was completely suppressed by the Chinese army, the previous battle of Chita and the weakening of last winter will make Russia lose the courage to charge, but the Russian Far Eastern Military District, which has arrived in poverty, saw this opportunity, or took a risk, and even decided whether this was a trap or not, so he sent a large army.

Near Xingkai Lake, is a rare land of fish and rice in the Far East, the surrounding population is large, even if it is as much as possible to immigrate, it took almost 3 days, which lost the protection of the field army, and the follow-up army still has a week to come, which forms a gap, from the periphery of Vladivostok, to the Xingkai Lake area, up to 50 kilometers, and a part of the railway can be borrowed. The Russian army quickly mobilized 300,000 people, close to 20 divisions, divided into 3 routes, and successively went to the vicinity of Xingkai Lake to attack the three second-line divisions currently in the Xingkai Lake area, striving to eliminate a part of the Chinese army and boost their morale.

The second-line division, like the field division, is the standard of 25,000 people, but there are some unique troops, such as no heavy artillery units, and the arrangement of automatic weapons such as machine guns is also less than half, and there is not even a reconnaissance regiment of the field army, but there is an additional automobile regiment and some logistics supply units.

In terms of overall armament, compared with the main force, it is not a little bit worse, if Russia's actions are fast enough and can not be discovered by the Chinese army, this is a beautiful sneak attack battle, and even the Chinese army will suffer a big loss, and the second-line troops of 3 divisions will be completely annihilated by more than 4 times the Russian army.

In the face of war, there is no if, the vicinity of Xingkai Lake is a gap, but out of precaution against Vladivostok, China has not relaxed its reconnaissance at all, not only the standing reconnaissance of airships, even if it is aircraft reconnaissance, it is also fixed four times a day, and the airships are also upside down, the flight speed is not fast, and they can only reconnoiter in relatively fixed places, but the planes are different, as long as they follow a fixed route, it is easy to search in pieces.

For the Russian army, even if there is a railway as help, even if the 300,000 Russian troops use the strength of milk, it will take 2 days, or even 3 days, for the vanguard to reach the vicinity of Xingkai Lake.

On the first day, Russia's movements were somewhat unexpected, because it was an internal march, and the General Staff could also regard him as an internal movement and did not pay attention to it, but on the second day, the Russian army not only did not take position or stay, but crossed the dense defense line of Vladivostok, jumped out of the periphery, and approached the dozens of kilometers of buffer zone left by both sides.

This buffer zone was originally the last safe zone, the last bottom line left by the previous General Staff, such caution, or at the critical moment to help the General Staff, so as not to make the mistake irreparable, when a large number of Russian troops set foot in this buffer zone, they were immediately discovered by reconnaissance aircraft, which was emphasized before, this message was also unblocked, and was relayed by layers of telegrams and summarized to the General Staff.

The battle in Eastern Siberia is related to the overall situation, and the General Staff has always paid great attention to it, and the abnormal behavior of the Russian army was collectively studied by the General Staff for the first time.

The staff officers who were in charge of arranging tactics found out what the problem was, and their faces immediately turned cold, they didn't think about hiding this matter, but once they hid it, the final result of the war would make them unable to hide it, and when they thought that three divisions might suffer a catastrophe, they immediately passed the news on.

The Northwest has always been smooth sailing, starting from a foothold in Baotou, countless battles have established the name of the Northwest, and also made a faint arrogance in the Northwest begin to appear, which the high-level people found, but did not pay much attention, but did not expect such a big disclosure.

This incident even alarmed Yang Yuanzhao, and the top leaders of the entire northwest military were all concentrated in the war room of the General Staff, worried about the second-line troops of the three divisions thousands of miles away, and if something went wrong, this would probably be the only case of large-scale casualties after China entered the war, which was not good news.

Cai Ye looked at the final report in his hand, and said with a slight anger: "How did the 10-day gap come about, and I was caught by Russia!" ”

After the establishment of the Chinese National Defense Forces, after the implementation of the system of the General Staff, there has not been such a big disclosure, and if it were not for the reconnaissance unit discovering the movements of the Russian army, there would not even be a possibility of remediation.

"It's that our plan is a little radical, and then when it comes to implementation, it's even more radical!" Zhang Xiaohuai did not hide his mistake and took the initiative to propose, at this time Jiang Baili played a round and said: "Okay, the mistake has been made, the other party is almost a day away from our Xingkai Lake, and there is still room for remedy." ”

Zhang Xiaohuai wiped a cold sweat, then took out another report and said: "According to the research of our General Staff, it is not appropriate to mobilize the army all the way back at this time, and the best way is to stick to the spot!" ”

"This is a second-line unit?"

"According to the statistics of our General Staff, even if it is a second-line unit, our second-line troops are strictly trained, carefully selected, and completely trustworthy, as long as a part of the heavy weapons are replenished.

"No one can arrive, how can heavy weapons arrive!" Feng Yuxiang put forward a different opinion, the gap is so it is a gap, that is, because the follow-up troops can't come up, the 10-day gap, since it has been discovered, urge the surrounding troops to get closer, maybe only half, or even less, can arrive, but when I think of the second-line troops of about 70,000 people, to resist the attack of the Russian army of 300,000, even Jiang Baili, who has the strongest confidence in the troops, can't help but worry, with the level of the second-line division, there is a day of preparation time, The time to resist the attack of 300,000 Russian troops is limited to four or five days, but if the Russian army is not afraid of death, it is still very possible to cause two or three percent of the casualties.

Everyone's eyes were on Zhang Xiaohuai, and Zhang Xiaohuai said categorically: "Airdrop!" ”

Airdrop, this is something that others have not thought about, and it is also, after Yang Yuanzhao sealed the plane, few people think about which direction, even now, the restrictions on the plane are gradually lifted, in this attack on Russia, it is possible to use the plane, and it doesn't matter if it is even exposed, but people have formed a fixed mode of thinking, and no one thinks about it.

Some army generals who are not very interested in the air force are about to refute, but those generals at the higher levels did not say anything, but fell into deep thought, the airdrop has never been thought of, but it really can't be realized, in fact, the first battle of Russia in the northwest, the battle of buying and selling cities, is a classic airdrop battle, and now it is just an airdrop into an airplane. (To be continued.) )

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