Chapter 498: The General's Chess Game (Second Watch)
Miryutin unfolded his troops and launched a tentative attack on the outer Khing'an Mountains valley in seven routes, and they also found the airship in the sky, but they didn't recognize what it was. Because the distance was too far, Miryutin couldn't judge the exact size of the airship, and thought it was a meteorological hot air balloon blown away by the wind!
The scouts on the airship who used high-powered telescopes reported everything they saw to Goxinga by radio. After receiving the report, Gohinga ordered Bozhtu to retake Tomsk and continue westward, capturing Narem and Kuznesk. At the same time, Ji Ying's Third Army Group and Ji Lezhang'a's Second Cavalry Division were transferred back to the east to prepare for the battle against Milyutin. However, Guo Xing'a did not fortify outside the Xing'an Mountains, and he was ready to put Miliujing into the outer northeast, after all, this side was now the inner line of the Manchurian army, and it was more convenient for him to transfer troops and supplies.
After the train arrived with the Third Army, Goxinga left Yaksa with Jiying and ran to Obo, a small town on the banks of the Udi River. After Miliutin entered the outer northeast, he would definitely not attack Yaksa or Hailanpao in the south, because it was too close to Heilongjiang, and the garrison corps in the rear of the Manchurian army could soon come to support, and if Miliutin's attack did not go well, he would probably be surrounded by the Manchurian army. Therefore, his best way out was to advance eastward along the Jingqili River and the Wudi River in the outer northeast, attack the Second Army Group at Acton from behind, relieve the siege of Temple Street, and receive supplies through the seaport. Then take advantage of the situation to move south along the Ussuri River, attack Jiamusi, Vladivostok and other places, and then directly approach Harbin, or directly to Changchun and Jilin, and attack the weak rear of North Manchuria. Goxinga was able to see through Milyutin's march route, not because of how talented he was, but because the situation was too bad for the Russian army, and Milyutin had almost no way out.
In response to Milyutin's possible route of march, Goxinga copied a classic plan of division and encirclement. According to Goxinga's plan, when the Russian army passes through the valley, Ji Ying should launch a flank attack on the Russian army on the front line of Yaksa, Duochen, and Boheli, and block the way for the Russian army to go south, so as to ensure that the Russian army will not surprise Goxinga and directly attack the hinterland of China from Heilongjiang. After the Russian army advanced eastward to the plain between the Jingqili River and the Udi River, Goxinga prepared to divide and encircle the Russian army on the plain with Jiying's Third Army Group as the main body, supplemented by the first part of the Second Army Group of Actun and the second cavalry division of Jilezhanga, and completely annihilate the reinforcement group of Milyutin.
Mi Liujing was also very cooperative, and after they crossed the Outer Khing'an Mountains, they smoothly entered the plain under the Outer Khing'an Mountains, but as soon as they developed southward, they encountered Ji Ying's resistance. Miryutin was not interested in going south and fighting Ji Ying, even if he won the battle, he would not be able to take advantage of it, the south of Yaksa was a vast mountain, and there was no shortcut to the hinterland of Northern Manchuria. It was not bad to take Hailan Pao, but it was a gathering area for the railway line, and the Manchurian army would soon be able to gather a large army there, and Miryutin was short of supplies and did not want to fight a war of attrition. Therefore, Milyutin turned his head and captured the deserted Urkan if Xing'a wished, and began to advance eastward along the Jingqili River.
Ji Ying's blockade showed that the Manchurian Army had learned the news of the Russian army's southward movement, and of course Milyutin would not be lucky, so he took the road to the east very cautiously. Milyutin divided his army of 200,000 into two to three divisions and one of the Seventh Route Army, and advanced parallel in the direction of Temple Street. Milyutin had to ensure that his troops had enough strategic space, and if they continued to march intensively, they could be surrounded by the Manchurian army at any time, and then forced into a place of death.
The airship updates the movement and deployment of the Russian army to Guoxinga in real time every day, so Miliujing still has to rely on analysis and guessing to lay out, and Guoxinga is in the next game of chess, and everything is truly presented on his sand table. If it is really a chess game, Guo Xing'a will definitely lose, even if it is a Chinese chess game that Mi Liujing does not understand the rules, Guo Xing'a has no possibility of winning, he is a super stinky chess basket who can only watch one move. But the battlefield is different, in this game of general's chess, Goxinga has taken advantage, he has more flags, and at the same time has the ability to break the rules of transportation and communication. Mi Liujing could hardly see anything except his own chess pieces, but Guo Xing'a could even see where Mi Liujing's veteran was.
Against Mi Liujing's seven-way army, Guo Xing'a inserted a total of eight nails. An independent cavalry brigade of the Jiying group, which marched north from Yaksa, occupied the valley of the Great Khingan Mountains, cutting off the rear route of the army of Milyutin. Another separate cavalry brigade moved north of Duo Chen, where Chen's troops were at the bend of the Jingqili River, preparing to attack the Imperial Rear of Milyutin's army in the flank. The Independent Artillery Brigade and two Task Force Infantry Brigades moved to Suchuna at the confluence of the Jingqili River and the Udi River, completely blocking the path of the Russian army to the south of Hailanpao. The 2nd Cavalry Division of Giljanga, moving to the hill city of Udiskoye, outflanked the Russian army from the north.
The Fourth, Seventh, and Eleventh Divisions, because they were mainly infantry and heavy equipment, did not let them move independently, but first transported them by train from Yaksa to the rocky mountains on the east bank of the Udi River. Ranshishan was originally not a town, just a new station for transporting military supplies and soldiers, but because of the frequent movement of the Manchurian Army, this small station developed very quickly, although there was no permanent population, but the facilities were very complete. The three divisions were only temporarily assembled here, and after a short rest, they immediately crossed the Udi River and marched to the plain area between the Outer Xing'an Mountains, the Jingqili River, and the Udi River, quickly interspersing the various armies of the Russian army and cutting off the connection between the Russian troops.
In the end, Goxinga transferred the 6th Division, which had nothing to do near Temple Street, and entered the plain between the Outer Khingan Mountains and the Wudi River. This area, which has just been named Nanling by Goxinga, is the area to be discussed in the Sino-Russian Treaty of Nebuchu, and it is also a corner between the Jingqili River and the Wudi River Plain. After the 6th Division entered here, it was a matter of waiting, and after the 2nd Cavalry Division of Gilzhanga broke through to the Russian army from the north, it immediately launched a coordinated operation from the east to complete the division of the Russian army in the east again.
Goxinga's plan to invest more than 150,000 troops is still a little less than the total strength of the Russian army, but the Manchurian Army has an absolute advantage in troops, equipment, and the battlefield situation, which is enough to make up for the not particularly large gap in troops. Moreover, Guoxinga's style of play, although the choice of terrain is not the same, basically copied General Peng's second battle, and the Americans with advanced equipment were all beaten, and Guoxinga did not believe that the old Maozi with backward equipment could survive.
The commanders of both sides have completed the layout on their own chessboards, and the rest depends on the chess pieces.