Chapter 411 of the New History of China in the First Wu Dynasty Strategic Layout
Xu Jie agreed with Yang Yonglin's judgment, and even Xu Jie was sure that Makanov would use decoy tactics to offset the disadvantages of his fleet. The reason is simple, Makanov's fleet does not have a speed advantage and cannot use mobility to fight guerrillas, the quality of the warships of the Beiyang fleet is very high, and it is difficult to suffer serious losses in an engagement of the same scale, plus the Beiyang will not value the losses of the Japanese army. So Makanov's only chance is to use the ambush to create a local advantage, and only then will they have a chance to inflict a heavy blow on the Beiyang naval division.
But in the face of this tactic, Xu Jie did not have the certainty of victory, the avant-garde of the Russian fleet must be very elite, so elite that even if Beiyang used the three most powerful king-type cruises, it would be difficult to achieve much advantage. If the two armored patrol fleets were combined at the same time, the main fleet would be too thin, and Lin Yongsheng's lightly armed patrol formation would not be suitable for participating in the decisive battle. How to redistribute the fleet will become a very important issue. And for this question, Xu Jie has no answer. But without an answer, the plan must not be put off...... Yuan Shikai's troops behaved unexpectedly in Beiyang, and now Yuan Shikai's army has begun to gain the upper hand, and Rong Lu is still not optimistic even if Beiyang intends to provide weapons with waterproof, the main force of the Russian cavalry has entered Inner Mongolia, they are waiting, once the supplies are in place, they will attack Zhili. So Xu Jie's layout must start ..........
Soon, after the coordination between Xu Jie and the army bosses. The Beiyang Northeast Armed Guards have finally begun to act! A whole division of troops left the front line and moved south, and the torrent of supplies that originally flowed to the front line began to slow down, and some of the supplies began to concentrate in the direction of Zhili. The tense situation along the Heilongjiang River was also eased with the withdrawal of troops from the Beiyang side.
This is just the beginning. Then half a brigade of cavalry plus other auxiliary forces began to move in the direction of Inner Mongolia. The front was directed at the flank of the Russian cavalry group. There was a hint of dΓ©tente on the entire northeastern front. In the eyes of outsiders, Beiyang has put the focus on Guannai Zhili. And this situation will naturally fall into the eyes of some Russian spies. Immediately, this information appeared on the desk of the Russian high-level.
In the beginning. The Russian Far Eastern Military District did not believe its eyes, and the Beiyang Armed Guards in the northeast actually showed weakness when they were full of good cards. This is not normal! But over time, they believed, because a telegram came from the Siberian Military District of Russia! Claiming that their flank forces had made contact with the westward advance of the Beiyang forces, and that the Russian cavalry group in Inner Mongolia had also found itself in the northeast with Beiyang cavalry of varying sizes. All this indicates. Beiyang chose to protect Zhili first, and then slowly figure it out!. β¦γ
Just after the northeast side relieved the Russians, the situation in Japan made the Russians shudder a little! Large quantities of weapons and ammunition were sent to Japan by British transport ships. The Japanese Army, which received strong support, launched an attack on the Russian fortress. The siege artillery combined with the tactics of the sea of people played a huge role! The Russian troops on the front line of the island of Honshu were mired in huge attrition, if it were not for the trench system and words that the Russians had laid out a few years earlier. The Russians are afraid that they will have to retreat again. Hokkaido's troops have been transferred quite a bit, and now the entire Hokkaido field force has dropped to an extremely low number, except for the fortress garrison. And this revived the uprising that had not been completely extinguished in the first place!
The situation in Japan as a whole is in danger of getting out of control, and this is something that Tsar Nicholas II will never tolerate! Jokes, come out to rob, how can Russia, which is considered a loss if it robs less, tolerate the incident of stealing chickens and rice?! What the? Has the situation in the Northeast eased? The Beiyang Armed Guards have already transferred part of their main forces to Zhili? The entire Heilongjiang front line Beiyang is on the defensive? Then what are you waiting for, immediately support the Russian army in Japan, don't you know that the Ivan in Japan is about to be beaten by the Japanese dwarfs and can't find the north? β¦β¦β¦β¦γ
The Tsar's orders could not be questioned, all the more so that the Russian ministers believed that His Majesty's words were indeed justified and that the army could not be left idle. The army is like a fire squad. If there's danger there, go there. Especially when the fire in Japan is about to get out of control! So at the urging of the Tsar's telegram, in Chapter 412, the Beiyang Fleet began to cruise along the coast of the Russian occupation zone, and minesweeping and clearing were carried out at the same time. and destroyed the turrets and defenses of several ports. This move made it impossible for the Russians to determine exactly where the other side might land!
Faced with this, the Russian governors in the occupied territories of Japan, Alecek and Makanov, unanimously sent a letter to Tsar Nicholas II, demanding that more troops be sent to Japan from the mainland, and that the Russian diaspora in the Far East should also be armed...... These people can't do anything else, at least they can be used to maintain law and order, of course, it's okay to go to the battlefield when necessary, anyway, the tsar doesn't care about human life but land!
In the face of the urgency of the Japanese situation, the tsar naturally agreed to the request of the two, and at least five regiments were withdrawn from the fortress areas of Heilongjiang and Vladivostok and transferred to Japan, so that the strength of eight regiments had already been transferred from the mainland to Japan. In addition, a large number of conscripts and armed civilians accompanied the army to Japan for the construction of fortifications and transportation. These recruits and civilians are not military troops, but they are potential soldiers and logisticians. The transfer of these manpower also seriously weakened the combat effectiveness of the Russian Far Eastern Military District! β¦γ
The movement of the Russians was not uninspiring. Under the supervision of the officers, the soldiers loaded weapons and supplies onto the transport ship to Japan day and night, and then a large number of Russian troops boarded the already seriously overloaded transport ship to Japan, waiting in the cabin with extremely poor light transmission and ventilation! This is true of the military, and even more so of the large number of Russian civilians. Under the threat of bayonets and rifles, Russian civilians were driven out of their homes and assembled in the port with food and clothing, and then the Russian side would issue them weapons or tools, and after a short mobilization, they would go to Japan to participate in a war that had nothing to do with them.
But compared to the movement of the Russians, the Beiyang and Japanese actions were clearly one step faster, and on July 6, 1899, under the cover of the Beiyang and Waiyang naval divisions. The Japanese Army, under the command of Akiyama Yoshiko, finally set foot on the land of Hachinohe again, and looked at the Russian fortresses and fortresses that had been destroyed by the Beiyang Fleet, and Akiyama Yoshiko nodded with satisfaction. Immediately, he commanded the troops to start attacking in two directions, one to outflank the Russian front-line troops from behind, and the other to begin to act recklessly in the rear of the Russian army!
And after getting this news, Makanov couldn't wait any longer, after all the Russian warships cruising in the Sea of Japan were transferred back, Makanov, who had been cornered, was like a male wolf surrounded by hunters at this time, staring closely at the opponent's every move with blood-red eyes, so as to give the opponent a fatal blow at the right time, at least, to make the opponent temporarily retreat and win a respite for himself!. β¦γ
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