readx; Large-scale military meetings were once again held in the huge conference room of the General Staff Headquarters in Nanjing, China, and since China's attack on the Russian Republic, large-scale high-level military meetings have been frequently held in Nanjing, China, and today is no exception. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

"In the direction of Astana, the Second Army and the 32nd Division of our Fifth Army are still maintaining an offensive against the Russian army, and it is absolutely impossible for the Russian army to reinforce Barnaul from the direction of Astana and Omsk!" Chen Yi said on the huge map of Siberia.

"Although our troops here are not many, they are enough to contain the Russian army in this area, so as to reduce the pressure on our army in Barnaul!"

"It's just that although the Astana side is only a secondary front, it is not a matter for the Second Army and the 32nd Division to be pinned down there at one time, and Astana must be taken as soon as possible, so that this force can form pressure on Omsk!" Hu Zeyun next to him said: "I think, is it better to reinforce some troops in the direction of Astana, so that they can completely take Astana?" ”

As soon as Hu Zeyun's words fell, Xu Lishan next to him spoke: "What Brother Hu said is inappropriate, the reason why our army has not taken Astana for a long time is not that our Fifth Army cannot take it, with the huge strength of our Fifth Army, if we had directly reinforced the strength of an army earlier, this Astana would have been taken long ago, but what about after taking Astana?" ”

"If our army takes Astana, the follow-up Russian army will inevitably retreat to the northern region of Kazakhstan along the railway line, and finally retreat to Petropavlovska along the Trans-Siberian Railway, and our army is not sufficient in the direction of Astana, even if it can capture Astana, but it is only to defeat the Russian army, and it is impossible to achieve the purpose of large-scale annihilation of the living forces of the Russian army, and after the battle line crosses Astana, it is equivalent to our army once again extending the supply line of hundreds of kilometers, Now the transportation and supply of our army in Central Asia and Siberia is already very reluctant, and if the supply line is further extended, it will inevitably affect the logistics supply of the Barnaul region! ”

Xu Lishan continued: "Moreover, now our strategic center of gravity is the direction of Barnaul, here and Novosibirsk have gathered at least 400,000 troops of the Russian army, accounting for at least a quarter of the strength of the Russian Defense Forces, if we can encircle and annihilate this Russian army in the battle of Barnaul, this battle has already been won!" In this case, wouldn't it be abandoning the Astana direction to reinforce the reserves of the Fifth Army? ”

Hu Zeyun heard Xu Lishan unceremoniously refute his opinion, and there was no politeness in his words, which made Hu Zeyun feel a little resentful, but he also knew that although the two of them were both army generals, his status was still far from being comparable to Xu Lishan, although the two were close in age, but this Xu Lishan was unscrupulous in the military circles and belonged to his predecessors, so although he was unhappy Xu Lishan swept his face, Hu Zeyun did not show his face, Rather, it's about explaining your own suggestions.

"It is precisely because of the importance of the Barnaul direction that now when the Fifth Army officially needs more forces, if it can take Astana, it can not only reduce the pressure in the Barnaul direction from the side, but also coerce Omsk and cut off the Russian army's connection to the Ural Mountains, and even encircle the Russian army in this area from the side, striving to annihilate the Russian army to a greater extent!"

At this time, Chen Yi next to him also spoke: "On the Astana side, I still think it's better to slow down first, now a few divisions over there are enough to contain the Russian army, and there are a lot of Russian troops in Astana, if you want to take this place, you must at least reinforce more than three divisions, so that the reserves of the Fifth Army will be slightly insufficient!" ”

"Alas, speaking of which, there are still not enough troops, now the strength of the Fifth Army is only 400,000, and they need to face the Russian troops in Astana and Barnaul at the same time, the number of Russian troops in front of them has exceeded 600,000, and it is still very difficult to achieve encirclement and combat with inferior forces!" Xu Lishan sighed.

"Now when will the Sixth Army reinforced from the northwest region arrive, and the dozen or so divisions trained in China are almost complete, you can see if you can reinforce the Fifth Army!"

"Logically speaking, the strength of our army is not small, but there are too many places where troops need to be used, and in order to confuse the Russian Republic before the war, we did not dare to deploy a large number of troops to the front line. Chen Yi said: "Fortunately, the Far East and the Baikal side are better, although the strength of the Seventh Army and the Eighth Army is not much, but the strength of the Russian army in front of it is not strong, and the operation is smooth!" ”

"Now the Sixth Army is almost there, and when they arrive, they will be able to effectively reinforce the Fifth Army!" General Xie Yan also said: "Several new divisions that were trained in Xinjiang Province are about to arrive in Siberia, and with them and the Sixth Army, we will have more than one million field troops in Central Asia and Siberia, and maintaining the logistics supply of such a large force is almost the limit of the Northwest Railway!" ”

Speaking of which, China's troops are quite a lot, and on the surface it seems that the number of divisions and brigades is already close to 150, but now the Chinese army is actually still in a period of large-scale mobilization, and the goal of the total mobilization is 10 million troops, which has now expanded to more than 7 million, but most of these troops have just been mobilized, and the newly mobilized and newly formed units are still being trained all over the country, and those who really participate in the operation are only those standing forces.

In addition, it should be noted that although the Chinese Army currently has a scale of more than 7 million, this number is counting all kinds of logistics support personnel, and as a modern mechanized unit, the proportion of logistics support personnel in the Chinese Army far exceeds that of front-line combat personnel.

The Eighth Army in the Far East has more than 200,000 troops, the Seventh Army in the Baikal direction has more than 300,000 troops, the Fourth Army in Central Asia currently has more than 200,000, and the Fifth Army in the Siberian direction has about 400,000 troops, adding up to 1.1 million. If we add in the more than 300,000 troops of the Sixth Army, which is being reinforced in the northwest region to Siberia and Central Asia, then the Chinese army has invested as many as 1.5 million troops in the war against Russia.

You must know that these troops are all standing forces in the past, the essence of the Chinese Army, don't look at the 1.5 million troops only occupy a small part of the Chinese Army, but in fact they have occupied nearly half of the essence of the Chinese Army.

In addition to the 1.5 million elite troops, there are also a number of new divisions in all directions, which will not be the main offensive task, but will serve as a garrison in the rear, such as guarding the railway line, clearing out the remnants of the Russian army, etc., all kinds of troops are added, and the total number of troops invested by the Chinese Army in the war against Russia exceeds 2 million.

At the same time, there was an air force of nearly 200,000 people and more than 5,000 aircraft of various types participating in the war.

Although the forces invested by China's army and air force to fight against Russia only occupy a part of China's overall military strength, this is to some extent the limit of China's military strength, for two reasons, the first is that although the Chinese army is huge, there are many places that need to be deployed. Both Tibetan provinces also deployed a large number of troops to deter the British from India.

To put it simply, China is a big business, and there are so many places that need to be garrisoned that it is not easy to be able to deploy more than 2 million troops to fight against Russia. If the Chinese Army wants to have sufficient troops, it will have to wait at least until early 1942, when a large number of newly formed units have completed training and equipped with a large number of new weapons and equipment, so as to reduce the pressure on China's heavy reliance on pre-war standing forces.

In addition to the slight shortage of standing troops, a more important reason is that China does not say that it can invest as many troops as it wants in Central Asia and Siberia, which is limited by the capacity of the Northwest Railway.

The Northwest Railway was originally built as a national defense and combat readiness project, and the place where it was built was to provide logistics transportation for the troops deployed in Central Asia and Siberia by China, and the transportation capacity of the Northwest Railway is equivalent to that of the Siberian Railway, and maintaining a logistics supply of about 1.5 million troops is already the limit, and this is still talking about ordinary troops, if it is those mechanized troops with a large number of heavy equipment and a large number of supplies consumed, then this number has to be further reduced, and it is already very reluctant to maintain a million-scale army.

The capacity of the Northwest Railway also limits the number of troops that China can invest in Central Asia and Siberia, and it is precisely because of the limited number of troops that the Chinese Army has sent almost all of the standing elite troops.

"Of the millions of troops, there are almost 300,000 troops in the direction of Central Asia, and 700,000 troops in the Siberian direction are the sky!" Xu Lishan said: "And the strength of the Russian army in front of us is not less than ours, if you want to win the general battle, the only way to gather the main force is to defeat the enemy army at one time, and you can't divide the troops unless you have to!" ”