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Alexander. Vasilyevich. Originally a cavalry officer, Admiral Samsolov was considered 'resourceful' and 'energetic' for his outstanding performance in the Russo-Japanese War. Stimulated by the timid and courageless commander-in-chief of the Far Eastern Army in the Russo-Japanese War, Kuropatkin, the Tsar and the top brass of the Imperial Army believed that there must be a "courageous" commander-in-chief in this war against China. After the Russo-Japanese War, Samsolov was considered a high-ranking Russian officer with excellent ability, and he was originally appointed commander of the 2nd Army in World War I, and then committed suicide in the Battle of Tannenberg at the beginning of the war, but now he became commander-in-chief of the Far Eastern Army, in a vain attempt to wash away the shame of Russia's defeat in the Russo-Japanese War.

No. 33, Xidazhi Street, Nangang District, Harbin is the headquarters of the Tsarist Russian Trans-Amur Military Region, which was originally burned down due to fire in 06, and has now been rebuilt. The earlier style of combining Chinese and Western styles was completely changed to a pure Russian style, with clear water brick walls, brick lines, window foreheads, window sills, waist lines and even wall corners, all of which are plastered and decorated, and the unique Russian zigzag honeycomb and concave and convex corner piers under the eaves have an indescribable cold-blooded harshness under the sun.

In the headquarters, General Samsolov threw aside the plan drawn up by the chief of staff to wait for the decisive battle between China and Japan to be decided before the decisive battle, only looked at the generals present, and said firmly: "Last time we returned from Mukden. This time we must enter Mukden before the Japanese break through the Chinese lines, and we regain the glory lost by the Russian Army in Manchuria. It is also necessary to open up more land for His Majesty. He asked Lieutenant General Dmitriev, commander-in-chief of the Amur Military District and the Eastern Railway Convoy: "Dmitriev, can we trust your intelligence?" ”

"Of course." Lieutenant General Dmitriev nodded calmly: "The Chinese army is deployed south of Buyeo, ninety versts south of Harbin. They had about six divisions, about 80,000 men, and the trenches were dug very deep, and it seemed that they wanted to stop us there. ”

When they heard that there were only six divisions to deal with, they couldn't help but laugh heartily, even without the six divisions of Siberia, seven divisions of the Amur Military District would be enough to crush them. Admiral Samsolov did not smile at all, and he looked at the emperor's relative, Lieutenant General Horvat, the director of the Eastern Railway Administration, "Mr. Director." Railroad workers aren't going to strike again, are they? ”

"Nope! My people are already staring at them, the Chinese in the city, and the students of Harbin University have gone south, and the situation is better than previously thought. Lieutenant General Horvath smiled and said that the Russo-Japanese War and the subsequent workers' strikes had made him a wolf, and that he would not allow another strike to go on this war against China.

"Well, gentlemen, I order the Far Eastern Army to speed up. Occupy Mukden! Admiral Samsolov stood up and said, then he turned to look at the large portrait of Nicholas II hanging above his head and shouted: "Your Majesty the Emperor, Your Majesty the Empress, the Russian Empire, Ula!" ”

The commander-in-chief took the lead in shouting Ulla, and everyone present had to get up. Shouted Ulla together. However, the commander of the Second Army Corps of the Far Eastern Army, Lieutenant General Lian Nian Kamf, had a contemptuous smile on his face when he shouted Ulla, as a cavalry general who had been fighting Samsolov with bricks in Mukden ten years ago, he thought that all those people in the High Appraisal Committee could be pulled and shot. It is a tragedy for Russia that a mediocre man like Samsolov, who could not effectively command even one corps, should now command two corps.

Time and space changed with the rise of China. Admiral Samsolov, who should have died in Tannenberg because of poor command, was now in high spirits, and the next day he ignored the dissuasion of the chief of staff. The command was ordered to move out of Harbin and onto the train, which, according to him, was to advance to Mukden with the troops.

The wheels are rolling, the first to arrive in Buyeo is the First Siberian Army, and then the two infantry divisions and cavalry divisions of the Amur Military District, but after more than half a month of preparation, the entire Buyeo City is ten kilometers south of the city is full of trenches, according to the detection of cavalry, the Chinese army's trenches stretch from west to east for more than 20 kilometers, 10 kilometers deep from north to south, and both sides have been winding to the Songhua River; In order to prevent the Russian gunboats from outflanking the rear road, the river surface has been covered with mines. On the main position in the north, the Chinese army's firepower is extremely fierce, and the mortars, grenadiers and machine guns of the troops alone are enough to block all the Russian attacks, and although their field artillery is only 75mm guns, the range and power are not as bad as the Russian artillery, especially under the correction of the airship, the accuracy of the artillery greatly exceeds that of the Russian army.

Admiral Samsolov, who rushed to the front line, saw the huge and bloated airship of the Chinese without a telescope, thinking that that thing was a German product, he was annoyed in his heart, although he and Yang Rui were on the same front during the Russo-Japanese War, and at that time he had a deep affection for this brave Chinese who defended the back road for the Russian army, but this person should never walk with Germany, the enemy of Russia.

After crossing the railway bridge over the Larin River, the train traveled another twenty kilometers, and when it came to the Buyeo railway station, Samsolov saw that the commander of the 1st Army, Misichchenko, was already waiting there. Like the commander-in-chief, General Samsolov, the appraisal of the Higher Appraisal Committee also made the commander of the cavalry corps Misichenko promoted - after the Russo-Japanese War, the Russian army was comprehensively reorganized, no longer taking divisions as the core unit, but still taking the army as the core unit, normally each army will have three divisions, each army has 108 large and small artillery, 64 Makqin machine guns, and a total strength of 48,000 people, which is much larger than the previous army with only two divisions and 24,000 people. Now Misichchenko is in command of the First Army Corps of the Far Eastern Army, with two armies and a total strength of nearly 100,000 troops, while Kamv is in command of the Second Army Corps with similar strength, and the remaining part is more than 22,000 people from the original Trans-Amur Military District, that is, the road escort team, but these people are basically road guards and do not participate in front-line battles.

In the opinion of War Minister Sukhomlinov, it is enough to transfer the existing troops in terms of the Amur military flag and the Irkutsk Military District, and more than 200,000 Russian troops are enough to become the last straw that breaks the camel's back. But this is not the case.

"Your Excellency, the Chinese are much more difficult to deal with than we think." After arriving at the Castle Headquarters. Misichchenko said: "They set up their positions on the north side of the Songhua River, because of the barrier of the Songhua River. It was difficult for my soldiers to attack their flanks in a roundabout, and the cavalry divisions were ineffective; And if you attack head-on...... Although their divisional artillery is less than ours, those small-caliber mortars are enough to suppress the charge of my troops, and their machine guns are also numerous......"

"Where's the map?" General Samsonov said, as soon as he opened his mouth, the staff officer next to him sent the map, according to the map mark, on the nearly 30 versts of the defensive line, the Chinese army was far more than six divisions, he looked up at Missichchenko and said: "What the hell is going on." Where did the Chinese come from? ”

"Your Excellency, I am also curious about this, but it is certain that there are by no means six divisions before us, but twelve divisions or more." Misichchenko smiled helplessly: "Let's not forget Jì, this is China, the king has been here for so many years, and every village has his soldiers." Misichchenko is still used to calling Yang Rui king, not Yang. This magical yellow-skinned monkey is no longer the red-bearded man of a soldier with only one division like before.

"If the Chinese have twelve divisions or more, then wait for the Second Army to come up." Samsonov said helplessly, "Didn't Japan bring them some trouble?" They actually have so many troops here. ”

"Japan only wants to go to Beijing to arrest the Chinese emperor. More than a dozen of their divisions in Lushun were all for landing. Missichko said, as a cavalry general. His battlefield vision is broader than that of the average person.

"Maybe we can make a detour from the flanks to the rear of the Chinese with the help of the Navy." Admiral Samsonov, knowing that twelve divisions could not be solved in a short time, saw the map on the map, ninety versts to the west, on the Songhua River. He thought of another way. "Maybe we can bypass it from here......"

"Maybe." "But the detection report says that there are mines in the river." And there are also Chinese stationed in Songyuan, the number of which is not yet known, and their positions are arranged on the other side of the river, so we have no way of determining how many of them there are. I think the best thing to do is to break through their defenses from the front, and when the Second Army arrives, we can concentrate our forces and completely crush them! ”

Misichchenko is still concerned with victory, but for Colonel-General Samsonov, who is in the position of commander-in-chief of the Far Eastern Army, in addition to victory, he is also concerned about time. According to the experience of the Russo-Japanese War, the detour and counter-detour of the flank are the most consuming of troops, and the twelve divisions in front of us are estimated to be the last force that China can come up with.

General Samsonov considered that the strength of the Baath Army was insufficient, but for the Northeast Theater, unless the Russian army doubled its personnel, the Northeast Theater, which already had 55 divisions, would not be at a disadvantage in terms of troops, but if Russia wanted to increase its strength in the Far East again, it would have to draw troops from the south or the west. However, even in the south, which is relatively close, it takes more than 40 days to transport troops, while in the west it takes even longer, and it takes more than 70 days on the road alone, plus the mobilization before the start of the march, the rest after arrival, and the distribution of materials and ammunition, and the time from the time Petersburg gives the order to transfer troops to the time when the troops enter the battlefield for combat takes no less than three months.

Because of this, the State Defense Committee, at several urgings of the Tsar, decided to use only the forces of the Far East to deal a blow to China, and not to draw troops from other places. After all, the current strength of the Far East is basically the same as the field strength at the beginning of the Russo-Japanese War, and the Chinese army is fighting on two fronts, but if this does not lead to victory, then the honor of the Russian Army ......

Admiral Samsolov was silent for a while, his eyes were not so much looking at the map, but staring at the map, Missichko saw the muscles on his face twitching, and suddenly said lightly: "Actually, there is another way," he pointed to the east of the Songhua River and said: "We can first occupy Yushu in the east, and then go south along the Songhua River, a hundred kilometers south is Jilin, where there is a railway to Changchun......"

Lieutenant General Misichchenko was still a little unaccustomed to speaking the new term Kuanchengzi, but when he mentioned Jilin, Samsolov stretched out his hand to stop him, and said: "But there is no railway from here to Jili, although there is a river, but ...... I think we marched at the same pace as a tortoise. And the strange thing is that the rear could not recruit enough Chinese laborers. The Commander-in-Chief shook his head vigorously. The Japanese would soon land in Zhili, before they could capture the Chinese emperor. Or before they break through the defenses of China's southern front, we must occupy Mukden, which is an order given to me by His Majesty the Emperor! Sue your soldiers, attack immediately, never stop attacking, the Chinese don't have so many soldiers to stop us! ”

"Yes! General Samsolov! Samsolov's voice became louder and louder, and when he heard that this was an order from His Majesty the Emperor, Lieutenant General Misichchenko immediately stood up and shouted: "Your Majesty the Emperor! ”

"Let's get started. I want to hear the artillery from the front, you know, I want to hear the artillery! Admiral Samsolov shouted.

"Yes, General. As you wish. Missichchenko shouted. After answering here, he went to the chief of staff angrily, and after a reprimand, the sound of artillery on the front line finally came.

Russian artillery shells smashed on the trenches of the front line, and the muddy ground full of tender grass was stirred up by the explosion, and dust splashed in the smoke of gunpowder. One crater after another protruded through the binoculars, but Lieutenant General Pei Shoutong had no intention of paying attention to the front line, he was not here to observe the battle.

After a brief glance at the front line, he looked at Lieutenant General Li Liezu, the acting commander of the 6th Group Army, who was still gloomy next to him—although Li Liezu was not from a regular military academy. But he fought the most battles among the generals, and he was also smart, so he never got promoted. The only flaw is that his official position has the word 'dai' in front of it, so he is ridiculed as the 'dai' chief. After the founding of the People's Republic of China, he sat in the position of army commander and just removed the word "generation" not long after. This army has expanded to a group army again, so there is a word 'dai' in front of his official position. Fortunately, among the commanders of the group army, except for three people, the others were all deputies in front of their official posts.

"Comrade Liezu, Brother Liezu......" Bei Shoutong handed over a cigarette, and then said with a smile, "There is no way for the General Staff Officer, otherwise I wouldn't have come here to tell you this." ”

"It's useless to call anything!" Li Liezu waved his hand and pushed away Pei Shoutong's cigarette, "You better withdraw me." I'm not going to fight this battle! ”

"How can you do it without fighting?" Pei Shoutong pushed the cigarette back again, "There are only these group army commanders in total, if you leave, then who cares about the 6th Group Army?" You can't let those boys who haven't grown their hair even yet. ”

"I still say the same thing, it's okay if you don't send armored divisions, it's okay if you don't send planes, but you must not order me to retreat!" Li Liezu was extremely stubborn, "I'm here to fight, not to retreat!" It has been more than four months since the beginning of the war, and we have been retreating, and the soldiers asked me: 'My lord, when will we not retreat?' My lord, when will we call back? 'I don't know how to say yes, I... I... I'm speechless! The location is your general candidacy, and the blitzkrieg is also what your general staff said, and you also said that you want to give the big nose a good time and annihilate them! Hey...... It's good now, I actually have to retreat, retreat and retreat, and retreat to Mukden...... You! Pei Shoutong, I sue you! Even if the prime minister comes in person, I still say this, if you want to withdraw, you will withdraw me first! ”

Li Liezu was born in the factory team eleven years ago, he was a hunter, and his life can be regarded as the ancestral tomb is smoking, but the more humble he is, the more grateful he is, before he was grateful to Yang Rui, and then after knowing what is the country and what is the nation, he is bent on thinking about the horse leather shroud and dying on the battlefield. In the previous war against Japan, because the plan was formulated early, and all kinds of training and communication were also carried out early, everyone knew that the attack on Japan was to fight in this way, and there was less resistance to retreat.

However, the war against Russia is a backup plan, and all the generals are on the battlefield, so there is no time to hold meetings and communicate, and the most important thing is that the plan of the General Staff has reversed, and it was intended to completely annihilate the Russian army in the plains of the Songhua River and the Lalin River, but within a few days, the plan of the General Staff has become a gradual retreat, and even retreats all the way to Tieling in the north of Mukden. How can this be accepted by Li Liezu, who is dedicated to the country and full of death? Even if he retreats to Changchun, he can't stand it, let alone retreat to Fengtian! He received this order to send a telegram to resign, citing the reason that he would go home to farm. It is useless for the political commissar to persuade him, it is useless for Qi Qingyuan to persuade him, and it is useless for Pei Shou's relatives to explain, anyway, he is determined not to retreat to Fengtian, and it is just one sentence to say that he must be withdrawn first.

In fact, the blitzkrieg plan against Russia is indeed a child's play in the past, however, it is not because the technology can't do it - the tank doesn't need to be detailed, the dive bombing is those wooden planes can also do, it is nothing more than pulling to a certain height and then diving down at a certain angle, but it is difficult for wooden planes to withstand the pull of flattening after diving, and the result of this action is generally that the wings are broken and the fuselage is falling apart, but the ghost is because of the use of vanadium steel as beams and aluminum alloy as wings. As long as it is not an 85-degree or 90-degree dive, the body can still withstand this kind of tension.

The real child's play of the blitzkrieg against Russia is that the encirclement and annihilation of the Russian army will inevitably affect the historical course of Tsarist Russia's participation in World War I. This question was first raised by Xie Jintai. He had actually been thinking about this for a long time. After the Russo-Japanese War, the Russian army was reorganized several times. Now that a lot of morale has been restored, if the Russian army is defeated again, then Russia will face the Austro-Hungarian threat to Serbia, will the tsar still be able to support Serbia? Xie Jintai thinks not.

Raised by Yang Rui, and then integrated by him with rich diplomatic knowledge, the European war will be ignited in this way: the first is the death of Archduke Ferdinand of Austria-Hungary, who is the nephew of the Austro-Hungarian Emperor, although he is the heir, but because he married a servant. He was not liked by the emperor or most of the nobility, and he was a dissident who strongly opposed the use of force against Serbia.

If Archduke Ferdinand is killed, Austria-Hungary will definitely take revenge on Serbia, and Russia will definitely protect Serbia, and if Austria-Hungary declares war on Serbia, then Russia will declare war on Austria-Hungary. Once Russia decides to declare war, the army will naturally be mobilized, but once Russia is mobilized. Then the German Schlieffen plan could not be implemented, this plan was originally to quickly defeat France in the blank time of Russian mobilization, and now the Russian army is mobilized, and there are two choices in front of Wilhelm II. Either the Schlieffen plan will be implemented immediately, or it will sit back and wait for Russia and France to strike. With German temperament. It is impossible to sit idly by, so once Russia carries out a general mobilization. Then Germany must declare war, and the rest of the matter is logical. France declared war on Germany and Austria-Hungary, and Britain declared war on Germany and Austria-Hungary.

All in all, after the assassination of Archduke Ferdinand, there were two points to make the outbreak of the Great War, one was that Austria-Hungary declared war on Serbia, and the other was that Russia carried out a general mobilization in the face of Austria-Hungary's declaration of war (after Austria-Hungary suffered a loss in 1871, the mobilization of that country was not a general mobilization), the former, because it was not known what the content of the German-Austrian alliance treaty was, whether Austria-Hungary would dare to declare war on Serbia, it is difficult to be 100% sure; In the latter, Russia wants to carry out a general mobilization, the premise is that the tsar and his ministers who have full confidence in the Russian army believe that Russia can profit from the war, and if the Russian army is completely annihilated by the revival army in the northeast, then it is difficult to determine whether the tsar has the confidence to start a war.

Therefore, under Yang Rui's intervention, the strategy of the General Staff has made new adjustments: the first thing to do is to let the German and Austrian observers see the inferiority of the Russian army in order to determine their confidence in starting a war against Russia, and the second is to let the Russian army continue to win 'victories' and retreat the defensive line to the vicinity of Shenyang step by step, so that the Tsar's confidence can be bursting, and Russia can be complacent and not mobilize the troops to the west and south, and at the same time, after Ferdinand is assassinated, China will begin to sue for peace with Russia in order to shift its attention to the west.

Within a month and a half of Ferdinand's assassination, and within two and a half months of the war in history in Europe, the revival army would retreat step by step, the first month and a half to Changchun, and the next month to Tieling. If other armies, such as the Russian army, retreated step by step, the morale would have collapsed and the whole army would have fled, but the political commissar system of the Baxing Army could make the army calm and complete when it retreated step by step. But what if the big war doesn't break out after two and a half months? When exactly do you have to wait until you don't have to wait? Faced with this question of the General Staff Department, Yang Rui could not be sure.

A butterfly in Beijing will stir up a storm in Europe, but it can also be said that a butterfly in Beijing will cause a storm in Europe to disappear. From the beginning of the crossing, Yang Rui felt that he had rolled up too many storms: Cixi was assassinated, Guangxu was in power, the National Assembly was in session, the Japanese army invaded Liao, and the Russian army went south, all kinds of changes made him more and more uncertain about the future historical trend. In his perception, if he, a butterfly that does not belong to this time and space, wants to survive, he must constantly incite his wings, but the more he instigates his wings, the more difficult it is to survive under historical changes. In the strangulation and anti-strangulation, history began to fall apart, time and space became extremely confused, and he could no longer see what the future would look like. (A good event for pie in the sky, cool mobile phones are waiting for you!) Follow from ~ Dian/Chinese network public account (WeChat add friends - add public account - enter ddxiaoshuo), participate now! Everyone has a prize, now pay attention to ddxiaoshuo WeChat public account! (To be continued......)