Although it was decided to make a comprehensive enemy with East China, Jebtsundamba VIII and other high-level Mongolian leaders also knew that with Mongolia's strength, it could not be an opponent of East China, so if they wanted to fight against East China, they still had to ask Russia for help. Although Russia has just lost to East China ** and was beaten to pay reparations, but for Mongolia Bi Jing has been accumulating power for many years, and still believes that Russia is a powerful country, and losing to East China ** is just a matter of victory or defeat, and I believe that Russia will have a way to deal with East China**, and it will not sit idly by and watch Mongolia care.

After receiving the Mongolian request for rescue, Russia was overjoyed, because after the war in the Far East, Russia lost the vast area of the Ussuri River basin and the Amur River basin, and the sea outlet was all lost, although now Russia still has the Outer Khingan Mountains and Kamchatka region in the Far East, but the strategic places in the Far East are almost all occupied by East China, and the remaining places are probably difficult to preserve, so now Russia urgently needs to find a new equivalent in the Far East to balance the strategic advantages formed by the victory in the Far East War.

To change the strategic disadvantage, it is either through force or weakening the enemy's strength, or occupying strategic points; or simply giving up some of the areas in which the disadvantage is located, recovering the strength and waiting for the opportunity, or introducing foreign aid to strengthen one's own strength or contain the other side. But now Russia is simply not able to directly confront East China in the Far East, so force is an impossible option, and no one can afford to give up this historical responsibility in the Far East, and the result is that foreign aid can only be introduced. It's just that foreign aid is not easy to find, Britain and France are too far away, and I am afraid that they will not support Russia to continue to exert force in the Far East, Japan has also been greatly injured by East China, and now it is trying to improve relations with East China, and it cannot be counted on, and only Mongolia can help.

Although Mongolia's own strength is not strong, it is better than nothing, better than nothing, and Mongolia's territory is vast, and the space for strategic and tactical maneuver is huge, and the Mongolian army is dominated by cavalry and has strong mobility, so as long as it is used properly and Russia is behind it, it is completely possible to maneuver with East China, so as to reverse Russia's strategic passive situation in the Far East.

Of course, there are also many people in Russia who oppose and support Mongolia, believing that Russia is not ready for a full-scale confrontation with East China in the Far East, so supporting Mongolia and East China will only worsen relations with East China and cause Russia to lose more in the Far East. But this opinion was ignored by Russia.

So Russia immediately gave Mongolia a positive response, on the one hand, it took the initiative to give Mongolia 3,000 rifles, expressing Russia's support for Mongolia, and at the same time decided to send instructors to help Mongolia train the army, formulate battle plans, etc., and Mongolia bought 15,000 rifles and 50 artillery pieces from Russia in one go, after all, it is not enough to rely on the weapons sent by Russia, and Mongolia also needs to pay a little blood by itself, of course, the Mongolian high-level still has money, and the Qing court also supports a lot of funds, so Mongolia can afford this money。

After taking control of eastern Mongolia, Huadong ** also sent a large number of intelligence personnel to Mongolia to grasp the information of Mongolia, so it also immediately reported to Hua**.

After receiving the news, East China ** also immediately started a discussion, believing that the original plan of only launching a limited attack on Mongolia has been difficult to achieve the original expected goal, because Mongolia intends to be a comprehensive enemy with East China**, and there is Russia behind the back, such a blow is not enough to create enough deterrent force for the Mongolian high-level, maybe it can temporarily make the Mongolian high-level somewhat restrained, but when East China ** launches an attack on the Qing court, Mongolia is likely to have a big action, and then it will inevitably contain East China** Therefore, the best way is to expand the scale of this offensive, preferably with Kulen as the target, and completely deal with the potential threat of Mongolia in one fell swoop.

However, this proposal has also met with many objections, because the expansion of the scale of the war means more investment, which is also contrary to the resolution formulated by East China after the end of the war in the Far East to control the scale of the war before attacking the Qing court, and to invest in one army without affecting economic operation.

Although the strength of Mongolia is not strong, but the territory is vast, and the mobility of the Mongolian cavalry is strong, it is not difficult to win one or two battles, but if you want to fully control Mongolia, you must send at least two armies, and in addition to prevent Russia from taking the opportunity to attack, you also need to invest two more armies to garrison the Sino-Russian border, and the four armies of the Northeast Military Region must be mobilized, so the materials required must also be a huge number, although now East China ** The social life has been fully restored, and there are special funds for reparations, but the war is bound to affect the economic operation of East China, and even the war against the Qing court, so now is not the best time to use troops against Mongolia, it is better to temporarily focus on defense, with the strength of East China, there is basically no problem in holding the existing Mongolian region. Other places follow how Mongolia and Russia make trouble, even if Mongolia really declares independence with the support of Russia, and after East China unifies the whole country, it can still be recaptured.

After the discussion of the Executive Yuan, it is believed that the possibility of Russia directly sending troops is not large, after all, Russia's vitality has not yet recovered, and various social contradictions are only temporarily eased, but they have not been eliminated, and in fact Russia cannot afford to fight this war, so as long as East China is prepared to take precautions on the border, it is completely possible to deter Russia's military adventures, but only to prevent at the border, the resources consumed are not large, and East China is acceptable. Of course, if Russia insists on fighting another war, East China will not be able to take into account the determination to control the war, and can only accompany it to the end.

However, in the case that Russia does not participate in the war, East China should still control the scale of the war, so the Executive Yuan asked the Military Commission to draw up a plan, which can only use the strength of one army to achieve the goal of completely solving the potential threat of Mongolia in one fell swoop.

Therefore, the General Staff of the Military Commission immediately launched a study, and when consulting the relevant information, it found a plan put forward by Ouyang Longxing, commander of the 8th Field Army and the 19th Division of the Northeast Military Region, that is, to use Chifeng as a base to attack Kulen, and to use the strength of one division plus some auxiliary troops as a frontal offensive force, responsible for attracting the attention of the Kulen side, containing the main force of the Mongolian army, and sending a small number of elite troops, mainly cavalry, to assault Kulen, and strive to capture or kill the Mongolian high-level in one fell swoop, and force a part of the Mongolian high-level to surrender, and then issue a command in the name of Kulen to control the entire Mongolian region。 Even if some of the Mongolian high-level leaders are allowed to run away and start anew in other places, after the loss of Kulen, the Mongolian high-level will lose their own foundation and will not be able to make much waves.

In this way, even if East China cannot fully control the entire Mongolian region in a short period of time, it can remove the threat of Mongolia and gradually carry out social reforms in Mongolia, fully liberate the vast number of Mongolian herdsmen, and finally achieve the goal of controlling the entire Mongolian region.

This plan has a strong applicability, so the General Staff decided to revise it on the basis of this plan, and will use the latest military technology breakthrough in East China - tank combat vehicles.

During the Far East War, although East China once carried out a comprehensive social distribution system, the research and development of armored vehicles was not delayed, and a total of 18 prototypes were manufactured, after many tests and improvements, and finally in May 1908, East China was finally developed and formed in East China The first main battle tank, in September of that year, passed the tests of the Military Commission, was named the ZTZ08 light main battle tank, referred to as the Type 08 tank, and ordered 200 units at one time, and planned to form a tank regiment.

The Type 08 tank has a total length of 4.85 meters, a width of 2.25 meters, and a height of 2.45 meters, which is slightly shorter than the length of an 11-seater van, but the height and width are larger, the total weight is 16.5 tons, the crew is 4 people, namely the commander, the driver, the gunner, and the machine gunner, and the power is a 120 horsepower diesel engine, the maximum speed is 30 kilometers per hour, and the maximum range is 285 kilometers.

The armor is made of homogeneous steel plates, the thickness is, the turret is 60 mm, the front is 50 mm, the sides are 35 mm, and the rear is 25 mm, and the frontal armor can protect against all guns up to 50 mm caliber from 150 meters, 60 mm guns from 400 meters, and 75 mm guns from 700 meters. Of course, this is in this era, when small and medium-caliber artillery in various countries is generally not equipped with armor-piercing warheads.

It is equipped with a 60 mm 18 x radial main gun with 50 rounds, a 12.7 mm roof machine gun with 800 rounds of ammunition in two magazines, and a 7.62 mm front machine gun with 1,500 rounds in three magazines.

The first type of tank developed in East China is positioned as a light tank, mainly due to the lack of engine technology in this era, and can only choose to manufacture light tanks, but on the whole, the parameters of the Type 08 tank are placed in the light tanks of the 2 war period, in addition to the lack of engine technology, which makes the speed slower, other such as armor and weapons are considerable, much stronger than Japan's small bean ding, and the M3 Stuart of the United States is basically on the same level. And considering that this is currently the only type of main battle tank in the world, there is basically no opponent, so the light tank, for East China, is completely sufficient.

Compared with the First World War, the British-made Mark I tank, although it is much worse in tonnage, but the firepower is roughly the same, and the defense is far better, after all, the defense of the Mark I tank is only a layer of 6 mm steel plate, and in terms of hull structure, flexibility, sustainable combat capability, etc., the Type 08 tank is completely victorious, after all, East China has enough design experience.