1498 Huge city

"Well done!" Ye Qiu, who had been monitoring the Gulf Fleet on the western shore of Amur Bay and covering the left flank of the battlefield, patted his thigh and applauded. Pen Fun Pavilion wWw. biquge。 info

On the high ground, they can easily see the situation of the entire battlefield, although they can only feel the movement of the battle line of fire from a distance, but from the movement of the line of fire, the volunteers have occupied the initiative on the battlefield at this moment.

"You see, the bright band of light just now is composed of the fire of the Russian defenders on the wall, and the band of light that continues to press upwards on the opposite side is the ...... of the First Division."

"The gunfire of the counterattack, the light of the torches, and the light from the explosion of the cannonballs, when viewed from a distance, form a bright band, and how obvious it is compared to the darkness around it......

"The bright belt that had just moved suddenly stopped, which means that the attack of the first division has been frustrated, and my palms were sweaty at that time, I really thought that Chu Zhao and they would collapse, after all, these Rakshasa ghosts are not so easy to deal with......"

"Fortunately, they survived, Chu Zhao must have suffered heavy losses this time, and half of this battle is gone!"

Ye Qiu was right, the first division grabbed the most brutal first battle, and naturally got the largest casualty rate, in the whole battle, the first division more than 11,000 people, directly killed 3,000 and a half, seriously injured resulting in a total of more than 1,500 retired soldiers, the battle damage rate reached 50%, and the remaining half of the soldiers were almost all wounded.

This battle directly disabled three battalions, even to the point that it was impossible to re-organize, for example, a regiment and three battalions, from the battalion commander to the company commander, all the senior officers were killed, so that people later wanted to restore the formation of the three battalions and could not find officers.

Originally, the military headquarters of the Volunteer Army wanted to transfer senior officers from other units to reorganize the basic command structure of the three battalions, but it could not directly promote the battalion commanders from among the remaining platoon commanders and squad leaders of the three battalions! After all, the Chinese army is a professional army, and officers at and above the company level must receive training from military academies.

However, this proposal was strongly opposed by Xiang Shaolong, and at this time, as a man in the rivers and lakes, the plot of absolute worship of heroes in his heart began to trouble.

"Three battalions, from now on the name blood camp...... If you want to rebuild the third battalion, the first battalion commander and officers at all levels after the reconstruction, you have to choose from the surviving brothers, and adjust from other units, what's going on?"

"But general! The establishment of 500 people in the third battalion is now only 180 people, and there is not a single senior officer left, all of them are at the level of platoon commander and squad leader...... How can this be rebuilt!"

The staff almost said the sentence of abolishing the establishment, but he didn't dare, he knew that if he dared to propose the revocation of the establishment of the third battalion, he would definitely be hacked to death by the wounded soldiers when he went out.

Long Ye had tears in his eyes, "One hundred and eight is one hundred and eighteen, pick the clever ones for me from the inside, I will escort them to the military academy, even if the reconstruction is slow, the military soul of the blood camp must be retained, and their bones cannot be replaced!"

It took three years for the final reconstruction of the blood battalion, and as Xiang Shaolong said, 180 people stuck to the formation of a battalion in three years, waiting for the officers they had trained themselves to take place.

It is precisely because of this persistence that the military spirit of the Blood Battalion has not been dispersed for a hundred years, and in the Far East, the Blood Battalion of the First Division is the most effective unit in the long term, and this unit is very individual, absolutely does not accept defensive tasks, and will always only attack, attack, and attack again.

The blood camp is just a microcosm of the first division, everything is as Xiang Shaolong said, the soul of the army is the death of the dead, through a large number of casualties, through the most brutal war, the past will naturally have its own army character, this character is the soul of the army.

As long as an army survives the first and most difficult battle it fights from the very beginning, then the war will give the army a personality, and this personality will be passed down from generation to generation in the blood of the army.

"The 1st Division has finally survived! There have been gains and losses, and although they have suffered heavy casualties, they have gained the glory of a strong army, and this glory will surely accompany them for etern......ity."

Ye Qiu was very emotional, and Tian Erdan, who was beside him, said enviously, "It's enjoyable! they're cool, I don't know if we have a chance to fight, depending on their advancing speed, maybe they won't have to wait until tomorrow morning to end the battle......"

"Where is it so simple!" Ye Qiu shook his head, "Don't think that if the first line of defense is broken, we will be smooth sailing, followed by brutal street battles, chaotic battles, melee battles between the enemy and me, and the most testing moment has just begun!"

Ye Qiu was right, from his vantage point, the entire peninsula and the two bays in Vladivostok could be seen at a glance.

In this era, you can say that Vladivostok was a military fortress, because all the people living here were soldiers, real Russian civilians and immigrants had not yet migrated on a large scale, and all economic activities here were for the military.

Behind a wooden wall in the far north are scattered fortresses, warehouses, horse farms, barracks, training grounds, docks...... Each building can be used as a separate defensive fortress, and it is possible to shoot enemy bullets behind almost every window.

From this point of view, Vladivostok is a huge military fortress. But after all, this peninsula was prepared by the Tsarist Russians to build it into the most prosperous city in the Far East.

In advance of the city's design, places were reserved for various civil facilities, such as churches, hospitals, schools, residential areas, factory areas, mills and even farms.

Just because there are no immigrants now doesn't mean that there won't be immigrants in the future, so from the very beginning of the urban planning, it is necessary to set aside those places, and even some areas have already begun to be expanded.

In the Tsar's mind, the city should have at least 100,000 people in the next ten years, which is already the limit of what the city can accommodate in the cold Far East.

Because of this, Vladivostok Fortress has a very significant urban character, the peninsula surrounded by the sea on three sides, and even a few isolated islands on the sea can also be used as urban construction land, only the north is connected to the mainland, that is, the area that has just suffered the most casualties.

After breaking through the first wall, the form of war immediately changed from positional warfare to urban street fighting, and the volunteer soldiers who rushed up suddenly found that there was an open space behind the wall.

The huge battlefield of nearly sixty square kilometers was presented in front of everyone at once, not to mention the 40,000 volunteers fighting here, even if there were 40,000 more, this empty and huge city could be accommodated.

"Damn, I didn't expect it to be quite big in the back! Look, these grandsons are still farming! There are crops over there!"

"Don't be stupid, speed up the pursuit, and drive these Rakshasa ghosts into the sea!"