803 Armed train fighting cavalry
In the absence of any objection, Lin Fei accepted Vikaria as Concubine Wei, and Lin Fei had another blonde and blue-eyed concubine in his harem, and this concubine had a model body, which made Lin Fei taste a lot of fun, especially when she was taller than Lin Fei, but she had to surrender to Lin Fei, which made Lin Fei secretly happy.
During the first Nanyang World War, Lin Fei promised to help Russia build this railway in order to form an alliance with Russia, so that compared with Lin Fei's era, the Siberian Railway was completed faster, and now, Lin Fei can finally use this railway to march to the wider hinterland of Siberia.
Lin Fei planned to start the next war after a short break, at this time, the Chinese industry was driven by military production, whether it was mineral mining or machinery manufacturing, or even light industry and textiles, the army's orders were very large, so that the army needed to fight often in order to promote economic development.
Because of the war launched by Lin Fei, the war sites were all outside the Huaxia Empire, and the factories, mines and farmland of the Huaxia Empire would not be damaged at all, on the contrary, after laying the land, more factories, mines and farmland would be obtained, so the Huaxia Empire became richer and richer in the war, which was similar to the United States in the late World War II of Lin Fei's era.
Of course, there needs to be a proper reason for starting a war, otherwise people will be accused of being reckless and losing the support of the people.
Lin Fei's next target was the Mongol Empire.
After Lin Fei took the Outer Northeast, the important nodes of the Trans-Siberian Railway were in the hands of Lin Fei, Lin Fei could go west along the Siberian Railway, and Russia built the Ulaanbaatar branch line from Nerchensk in order to control Mongolia, and the railway directly reached Ulaanbaatar, the capital of the Mongol Empire.
As long as Lin Fei lays down Nerchensk, he can march all the way to Mongolia along the railway and capture Ulaanbaatar.
The name Nerchensk will be unfamiliar to many people, but if you change the name, everyone will be familiar with it, that is, "Nebuchu", the "Treaty of Nebuchu" signed between the Qing court and Russia here, and when it comes to the "Treaty of Nebuchu", Lin Fei's anger will not be in one place.
During Lin Fei's time, the Chinese generally regarded the Treaty of Nebuchu as a treaty of equality, while Russian historians believed that the Treaty of Aihun and the Treaty of Beijing, which forcibly occupied more than 1.5 million square kilometers of China's land, were equal treaties.
In his own era, Lin Fei had nothing to do with the Russians, but in this era, everything was different, Lin Fei could not only recover the Outer Northeast, but also unscrupulously encroach on Russian land.
The Mongol Empire has been independent for two years, and Lin Fei can't sit idly by anymore, otherwise what face does Lin Fei have to call himself Emperor Fei?
It was December 1902, and it was very cold in the Outer Northeast and Mongolia, which was not conducive to the army's combat, so Lin Fei decided to accumulate strength this winter and wait until the spring of the following year to attack the Mongol Empire.
The move to accumulate strength included large-scale storage of military rations, weapons and ammunition, and the dispatch of railway maintenance teams to repair the railway from Hailanpao to Nerchensk.
Before repairing the railway, Lin Fei sent a diplomatic note to Isinlovsky, saying that the Chinese Empire was about to repair the Trans-Siberian Railway, and hoped that the Russian side would not harass him.
Lin Fei is actually threatening Russia by doing this, telling Russia that I am going to repair the railway, you don't intervene, if you are disobedient, I will definitely make you uncomfortable.
Of course, the Russians knew Lin Fei's thoughts, and they couldn't be indifferent, watching the people of the Chinese Empire build the railway, so they thought of sending troops to obstruct the railway maintenance team of the Chinese Empire.
However, most of the Russian troops in Siberia were concentrated in the outer northeast, and there were not many Russian troops in Nerchensk at this time, and the Russians could not mobilize their troops, so they found the emperor of the Mongol Empire, Zhebuzundamba.
The Russians told Zhebuzundamba that Lin Fei was repairing the railway, and after repairing the railway, he would definitely come to recover Mongolia, which frightened Zhebuzundamba into ashes and hurriedly asked the Russians for help.
The Russians gave Zhebuzun Danba an idea, and immediately sent Mongolian cavalry to defeat the railway maintenance team of the Chinese Empire, as long as the railway maintenance team was defeated, Lin Fei would not attack Mongolia.
Zhebuzundamba hurriedly agreed, sent Mongol cavalry, and sabotaged along the railway line.
When the Mongolian cavalry is maneuvering, most of them bring more than ten days of rations, the rations of the Mongolian cavalry are extremely simple, horse meat, sausages, yes, the Mongolian cavalry will use horse meat to make sausages in the era of Genghis Khan, with these simple rations, the Mongolian cavalry can maneuver to fight in extremely distant areas, and Genghis Khan's army was able to fight all the way to Europe, which is one of the important reasons.
The Russians told Zhebuzundamba that they must attach great importance to the defeat of the Chinese Empire's railway maintenance team, and that if the Chinese Empire was allowed to repair the railway smoothly, it would only take three days for the Chinese army to reach Ulaanbaatar, the capital of Mongolia.
Zhebuzun Danba then sent 5,000 cavalry, threatening to kill all the railway construction teams of the Chinese Empire.
The cavalry moved very fast, and around December 20, the Mongol cavalry met the Chinese Empire's railroad construction team.
Zhebuzundamba took this operation very seriously, and sent a Mongol prince named "Bakhtum" as commander-in-chief, an arrogant and above-the-top fellow, who considered his cavalry invincible and the Chinese Empire's army vulnerable.
Prince Bakhtum received a report from Tanma that he had discovered the railway maintenance team of the Chinese Empire, and hurriedly rode his horse to the top of a nearby hill to watch from a distance.
I saw that the railway was like a giant snake winding in the distance, a large group of people and a few carriages were in the distance, and the crowd was busy, constantly unloading some rails from the carriages and laying them on the road.
Prince Bakhtum laughed heartily, "Sure enough, it's the Huaxia Imperial Railway Maintenance Team, warriors, attack like eagles, and reward fifty cattle and sheep for every head cut off." ”
In Mongolia, where animal husbandry is the core, 50 heads of cattle and sheep each is definitely a lot of wealth, and 5,000 Mongolian cavalry cheered and rushed to the railway maintenance team of the Chinese Empire.
Every Mongol cavalry was very happy, they felt that this battle was too easy, and that a small railway maintenance team, which could have anything difficult to fight, rushed over and quickly cut off their heads, but their own people were more terrible, because they would steal people's heads.
The overwhelming Mongolian cavalry sabred and rushed to the railway maintenance team, only to see the railway maintenance team of the Chinese Empire quickly withdraw into the carriage, and the Mongolian cavalry found that the carriage of the railway maintenance team of the Chinese Empire was not the same as the carriage they were used to.
The Mongolian cavalry is not completely unseen of train carriages, after the opening of the Russian railway, many trains entered Mongolia, and their usual carriages only had a thin layer of iron sheet on the outside, and this carriage actually had a layer of iron armor on the outside.
On the top of the carriage, there were two turret-like things, each with a heavy machine gun sticking out of it, and when the Mongolian cavalry approached, the heavy machine gun suddenly roared, and bullets rained down on the Mongolian cavalry.
It turned out that there were two armed trains that followed the railway maintenance team, and this kind of armed train, which was equipped with a lot of equipment in Lin Fei's era, was to wrap a carriage with armor, plus a locomotive, to provide power, plus weapons, and provide firepower, to deal with these Mongolian cavalry, it was extremely easy.
The Mongol cavalry was caught off guard, and the people in the front were knocked to the ground, and the men shouted and neighed, and the people behind hurriedly retreated.
Prince Bakhtum was shocked when he saw this, he didn't expect that a railway maintenance team in the Chinese Empire would have such combat effectiveness, Prince Bakhtum drew his saber, pointed at the railway maintenance team of the Chinese Empire, and shouted: "Kill me, cut off a head, and reward 100 cattle and sheep!" ”
The Mongolian cavalry shouted again and rushed to several carriages, this time the carriages did not shoot, but retreated along the railway, how could the Mongolian cavalry let go of so many "cattle and sheep", and chased after them.
The speed of the armed train was not fast, so it was easily caught up by the Mongolian cavalry, at this moment, suddenly the top of the armed train opened, and six people got out, each of them had a box in their hands, and the box contained an unknown number of grenades, these six people threw the grenades as fast as they could, the grenades exploded in the crowd, and when the shrapnel flew sideways, the Mongolian cavalry suffered countless casualties.
When the Mongol cavalry saw that there were machine guns and grenades on these strange carriages, they did not dare to continue to approach and fled far away, and Prince Bakhtum was furious when he saw this, and shouted: "Give me a bow and arrow!" ”
The bows of the Mongolian cavalry are all powerful compound bows, the so-called compound bows, that is, the bows are made of a variety of materials, this kind of bow is extremely powerful, and it has a strong lethality at a distance of 400 meters.
The Mongol cavalry took off their compound bows and fired wildly at the carriage, but unfortunately the outside of the carriage was covered with thick iron armor, and the bow and arrows could not penetrate it at all.
The Mongolian cavalry did not give up, and kept chasing the armed train to release arrows, some of the Mongolian cavalry ran out of arrows, and even with superb horsemanship, they bent down on horseback, picked up the arrows that fell on the ground, and continued to release arrows to the armed train.
In a clanging sound, the armed train had already gone far away, and gradually disappeared in the eyes of Prince Bakhtum, who did not go in pursuit, but just waited behind, believing that these Mongol cavalry under his command would bring back the heads of the Chinese Imperial Railway Maintenance Team. (Canghai shared the writing story on the WeChat public platform, please search on WeChat - qietingcanghai, that is, listen to Canghai's pinyin, reply 2 to watch)