The pace of the war is gradually advancing, and the northwest is quietly preparing, not only to counterattack, but also to bite back. The Russian side was also not idle, the army gathered, adjusted, and prepared for the big battle that was written down. Zhao Zhihang's reconnaissance squadron, in 12 days, carried out more than 300 aerial reconnaissance sorties in Chita, Novosibirsk and other core stronghold cities, and obtained a large amount of valuable intelligence, the basic situation of the Russian army has been almost touched, and even the combat effectiveness of these armies has been almost estimated, most of them have just been recruited, and even after only ten days of military training, they have become an army with Russian characteristics, such an army has no combat effectiveness in the eyes of the northwest.

In this way, after entering the Far East, the army maintained very little training, that is, two or three divisions, and the rest had to be passed, and the discipline of the army was extremely poor, and even during a reconnaissance, there was a bombing of the camp, which at that time almost affected an area of one square kilometer, and tens of thousands of people were affected.

This bombing camp has also been recorded in history, in the Asian chapter of the First World War, it is recorded that the tsar urgently formed an army of 2.5 million in order to destroy China, and together with the million army in the Far East, 6 groups were formed, which looked fierce and powerful, but in fact, they were a group of peasants who had just put down their hoes and picked up guns, most of them were illiterate, illiterate, no, or rarely had military training, such troops, with light weapons as the main body, Only a small number of elite units had machine guns and artillery.

It is the detailed intelligence that keeps China from being intimidated by Russia's million-strong army, as a continental country. The Army is important, starting with the creation of the Army. took the German Army as an example, and added Yang Yuanzhao's more forward-looking things. China's huge industrial manufacturing capacity is enough to support a million troops for high-intensity training, and 400 million people, and give enough space for soldiers to choose. With the Russian army, it is completely different.

On September 11, 1914, Russia completed its preparations, and the Russian ambassador to Baotou personally submitted a declaration of war to the Chinese government, under the pretext of of course, a border dispute. The old story of 1911 is recalled, and it is very serious.

China, which was founded in August, was declared war by a great power in September and replaced by another country. Maybe it will collapse, at least there will be a panic, but the Northwest has long been prepared for this. After accepting the declaration of war, it also declared war on Russia. The two countries entered a state of war.

The news came out, in addition to knowing Britain, France and the United States. Other countries are in an uproar, especially South America, which may be the only country that has not been involved in the war.

The European war drew the world's major powers into the war, and the entry of the United States and the joining of the British Commonwealth further expanded the war, and the pure land was probably only Africa and South America. At the beginning of the 20th century, Africa was still in a colonial state, except for a few countries, almost no countries were established, they were all colonies of Britain, France and Germany, and they did not have any right to speak, and there was no war because their position was not important.

When Britain, France, the United States and Russia tacitly agreed not to publicize this war, newspapers in Brazil, Argentina, Chile and other countries began to pay attention to this matter, but their focus was not on the war itself, but on whether the Northwest would stop because of the war.

Under the forward-looking vision of Yang Yuanzhao, the manufacturing in the northwest has become recognized by the world, the name of the world factory, and the crown in the northwest again and again, Britain, France and the United States may have to take into account their own industries, and will not open the country, let the products of the northwest impact, but the countries of South America are all exporters of raw materials, guano, saltpeter, timber and grain, these are the world's main circulation products, especially after the outbreak of World War I, the price surged, and they harvested a lot of income. Of course, I want better products, there is nothing better than made in China, good quality and low price, and there are not so many requirements.

The South American argument quickly attracted the attention of China, for the comments of South America, China is angry and funny, the huge China, even in a state of war, has the spare capacity to produce enough industrial products, before it was just worried that there would be no market, no orders, and now people have taken the initiative to ask for it, of course, to be satisfied.

The two sides only responded to each other in the field of diplomacy, and then, the business delegation came to visit, and at the time of the war, the Northwest and South American countries also signed a trade agreement of 23 million US dollars, which can be regarded as a strange story.

After Russia declared war on China on September 11, it began a military operation, and the 5th Route Army rushed out of their respective assembly areas like an arrow from the string, rushing towards China's national border, according to their marching speed, at most a week, it will arrive at the border between China and Russia.

Two days after Russia declared war on China, on September 13, Japan's troops arrived and Japan was also in Korea, attacking and marching. The Scheer fleet is next to it, and Japan does not dare to cross the sea and directly attack the Chinese mainland, which is to find death, relying on the support of North Korea and Britain and the United States, they can still support a million-level battle. The Japanese army quietly entered Korea, and then quickly moved north, and their target was the Yalu River, the border line, which was the only dangerous place in the north to defend.

Japan's side, in the general staff, has never been a problem, if Japan chooses to fight across the sea, the northwest may be worried, because it is impossible to prevent it, the entire Bohai Sea coast and the Yellow Sea coast, and even to the East China Sea, will become the scope of the Japanese attack, but the Yalu River, here we have to talk about the terrain of Korea, the south is relatively flat, the north is mountainous, after the reunification of China, the Yalu River, itself is the focus of defense, in a short period of time, built a large number of permanent fortifications, not only to guard against Japan, but also to guard against Russia, because that was also one of the directions of the army offensive in Vladivostok.

Russia was the first to declare war, but the Russian army, after the declaration of war, only moved in place, from the assembly site, to the Mongolian and Russian border, it takes a certain amount of time, at least 7 days, this one involves the three countries, the final total number of troops mobilized is as high as 7 million war, the first shot was actually fired by Japan, in Japan and Russia agreed to finish, in secret preparation, from the Korean forces mobilized a part of the army, for the attack on the Yalu River, the first two divisions of more than 40,000 people, on the day of the declaration of war, began to attack the Yalu River.

It's a pity that the northwest has long been prepared, and the defense line of the Yalu River can only be regarded as a partial division, but it must resist more than 500,000 troops in the direction of Vladivostok in Japan and Russia.

After recovering the northeast, in addition to building the front of the Mongolian and Russian handover in the north, the other front in the northwest is the front of the Yalu River.

Along the Yalu River, a total of 12 forts were built, plus some fortifications relying on the mountains, which were enough to accommodate 12 of them to be stationed, and 2 divisions and regiments collided with them, which was simply looking for death.

On this side of the Yalu River, on the surface, there is only a small checkpoint, and a company of troops is stationed, and the other positions are hidden, and the Japanese take it for granted that the northwest is negligent in guarding against it, and at the same time declaring war, it is carrying out a sneak attack, wanting to occupy the defense line of the Yalu River in one fell swoop, and connect with the Russian army in Vladivostok, and then the entire northeast of China will be in no danger to defend, let them gallop.

Fighting in the northwest, it has always been the first firepower preparation, the Japanese army of the two divisions and regiments crashed into the Yalu River defense line without a head, the company on the bright side, not even contact, retreated on the spot, the Japanese two legs, simply could not run four wheels, but were introduced into the core of the defense line, among the 12 batteries, at least 4 batteries carried out a round of 2 base artillery preparation, and then there was no then, the garrison was left to clean the battlefield, 280 mm guns, 52 times the caliber, such a cannon, On land, if you go down with one shot, it will be empty, and you will concentrate on 2 bases, not to mention 2 divisions, even if it is 20 divisions, I am afraid that there is not much left.

The first appearance of the Japanese army, it tried out the defensive strength of the Yalu River, and then was ready to drive straight into the Japanese army, stopped, the opposite side is obviously an iron wall, if you do not cross the Yalu River, you will not be able to threaten Northeast China at all, they have no possibility of picking up cheap to break through the battle line, they can only build positions on the spot, waiting for reinforcements.

2 divisions as a touchstone, tested the strength of the Yalu River defense line, the North Korean side calmed down, but in other places, it is in full swing, because of the distance, the Xinjiang side is closer, Xinjiang 4 divisions and Russia's 9 divisions exchanged fire, Russia did not go straight to the position in Xinjiang, but bypassed the heavily guarded position, attacked the flank, but was intercepted by the mobile forces of Xinjiang, and the double fire started an encounter, and there is no result yet, but the Xinjiang Army has occupied a little advantage.

Guns were ringing in the northeast, Mongolia, and Xinjiang, and after entering the second half of September, the entire northern Xinjiang and thousands of square kilometers of the national border were filled with gunfire, and chaos was made, and the war finally broke out in an all-round way. (To be continued.) )