Chapter 884: Battle of the Far East - Gold Brick Paving

Xishou's words made Acton's blood boil, but Acton, who has always been cautious and low-key, repeatedly warned himself in his heart not to get carried away. But two days after Acton was stable, Goxinga added another fire to him. Guoxinga sent Chengtai to take over as the commander-in-chief of the Central Army Group in Acton, and Acton was directly promoted to the commander-in-chief of the Northern Xinjiang Theater, and all the four major army groups were under his overall command.

Ji Ying, Mu Shun, Bo Ritu, and Chengtai, although they are also the deputy commanders of the Northern Xinjiang Theater, Acton is still above everyone at once. Chengtai said that Ji Ying, Bo Ritu, and Mu Shunke were all old governors of Acton, but this time they all became his subordinates, and they all had to be transferred according to his orders. Xishou's message is just a private matter, but this appointment has confirmed everything. Acton wasn't just enthusiastic, he was all over the place. Acton, who had taken office as a new officer, immediately convened a meeting of all the senior generals in Surgut to discuss and formulate the next offensive plan. Acton also had an obsession in his heart that he wanted to end the fighting this winter and drive the Russians out of Asia once and for all.

The plan that everyone came up with after discussion was to concentrate their forces to attack to the southwest first and take down the weak Pavlov Corps of the Russian army. Then turn to the northwest and squeeze the Russian Tobolsk Corps and the Guards Corps to the cold zone in the north, forcing the Russian army to retreat west of the Ural Mountains with cold weather and poor infrastructure conditions. This plan is destined to be unsuccessful, because when the Manchurian Army attacks Pavlov's corps, the Russian Tobolsk Corps will inevitably advance eastward to threaten the Manchurian Army's rear, and the Russian rearguard corps will also come forward to support. However, Acton and others are not worried about the movements of the Russian army, the Manchurian Army is now restricted by the weather and cannot attack on a large scale, if the Russian army takes the initiative to attack, it is a good opportunity for the Manchurian Army to fight a decisive battle with the Russian army. No one thought that the main force would lose the decisive battle of the Manchurian Army, even if the Russian army had a strength advantage of nearly twice as much.

However, this plan to squeeze and force the Russian army to fight a decisive battle was rejected by Guo Xinga in only one day after it was reported to Changchun. Gohinga was still in a phobia of winter, and he was worried about all actions related to the large-scale winter march, so as soon as he saw the long march to attack Pavlov's army, Goxinga immediately vetoed the plan of Acton and others. After Tan Shaoguang coordinated many times, Guo Xing'a finally agreed to an offensive plan, but this plan was a bit different.

The new plan is also to squeeze the Russian army, but there is no longer a matter of taking the initiative to attack Pavlov's corps. The Manchurian Army will advance in parallel on the line of Omsk, Surgut, and Mangazedya, with divisions and brigades as units, all the way to the west. Either the Russian army took the initiative to attack the Manchurian Army, or it was squeezed all the way to the west of the Ural Mountains. The general meaning has not changed, but it is much more rigid, and there are many additional conditions, such as the distance between the parts shall not exceed 15 kilometers, the daily advance speed shall not exceed 10 kilometers, and so on.

"This is burning money!" When the order was sent back to Surgut, the generals lamented that Goxinga was too cautious, and Xishou felt a pang of angina.

"What do you mean?" Acton knew that Xishou knew a little bit about Guoxing's inner thoughts, and when he saw that this buddy was in pain, he felt like he asked the reason.

"The spacing and advancing speed of the general's request for each division were obviously precisely calculated, and this distance was about the limit speed of railway laying and train transportation. The general's meaning was that for every step the troops took forward, the railroad had to follow suit. Although it is not followed up with every unit, even if it is only the main center, the length of this railway laying and the density of train departures are extremely terrifying. Let's put it this way! Every step you take is paving the ground with gold bricks! "Xishou knows very well that the cabinet will definitely not pay this money, and they can't afford this money, Guo Xing'a is ready to spend all his private money to fight this battle.

"Gold brick paving?" Everyone was shocked, fighting costs money, everyone knows it, but the gold brick paving is too exaggerated.

"Battleships of the Navy, you all know it! Didn't someone say that the treasure was made of gold? Let me put it this way! Half a month's worth of money for you is enough to build a battleship! The general is smashing the pot and selling iron, and he uses his last personal money to help you! Xishou is in charge of managing Guoxing's small treasury, and now his heart is full of tears.

"The great general's grace is high! He was afraid that our supplies would not be renewed, and something would go wrong! The princes should be cautious in the use of troops, and do not let down the painstaking efforts of the general! Acton couldn't be moved.

The deployment was decided, and the encirclement and suppression of the Cossack cavalry by Bozhtu and Jiying also had results. The 200,000 Cossack cavalry not only failed to fulfill their strategic intention of interspersing and dividing the Manchurian army, but also lost all of themselves, more than 180,000 were annihilated, and the rest of the fish that slipped through the net could only be wild in the no-man's land. After the rear was settled, Acton screened the various divisions, and in addition to the Panzer Army Group, which remained motionless in the direction of Central Asia, a number of troops were transferred from Army Group North and Army Group Mongols to remain in the rear. The main force of 14 divisions and 18 brigades, totaling 450,000 troops, was assembled, and began to slowly advance westward in accordance with the 16-character principle of the staff headquarters to move closer together, strengthen maintenance, advance steadily, and advance step by step.

After the formation of a long snake in Acton was opened, the commander-in-chief of the Russian army, Grand Duke Nikolai Nikolayevich the Elder, began to have a headache. In terms of troops, the Russian army is almost four times larger than the Manchurian Army, but the combat effectiveness cannot be considered in this way. The Manchurian Army was the latest type of equipment, the rifles were semi-automatic, the machine guns were universal, the artillery was rapid-fire, and there were a lot of calibers, and there were a large number of tanks and airplanes to cooperate, and Hitler's enemies did not have this equipment. The Russian army is much more miserable, the machine gun is a Gatling provided by the British, and the rifle is a Mosin Nagant, but unfortunately there is not much equipment, most of it is still Schneider. There are 3,000 artillery pieces, but they are all hard-frame guns, and the range, caliber, power, and accuracy are incomparable. There are also more than 100 airships, but unfortunately they don't dare to show their heads at all, and if they leave the ground, they will die. The overall level of firepower, the difference between the Russian army and the Manchurian army is almost a hundred years.

If it was just that the weapons were useless, the old Grand Duke Nikolai Nikolayevich could still rely on the art of command to find out, and the gap in the quality of the soldiers was the real fatal wound. The worst soldier of the Manchurian Army is also a junior high school graduate, and the officer Yishui was born in a military academy, and the quality of individual soldiers and tactical literacy are all very high. The officers of the Russian army are also from military academies, but military academies are not the same as military academies, and the military academies of the Russian army are completely rural military clubs compared to the land universities of the Manchurian Empire. Needless to say, the soldiers of the Russian army are almost all illiterate, and they don't have enough to eat, and their literacy is almost zero. Even if the high-ranking generals of the Manchurian Army are fools, and the old Grand Duke Nikolai Nikolayevich is a rare genius in a century, it will be difficult to find this gap back.

In the face of the advance of the Manchurian Army, the elder Grand Duke Nikolai Nikolayevich could only order the Russian army to constantly retreat, destroy everything that could be destroyed, and use the harsh environment to delay the advance of the Manchurian Army. This move really had some effect, and the Manchurian Army's advance was really slow. But after calculating the average speed of the Manchurian Army and studying its own depth, the old Grand Duke Nikolai Nikolayevich began to have a headache again. At this rate of the Manchurian Army, it would be difficult for the Russian army to defeat them with the God-given weapon of winter, and by the time winter passed, the Manchurian Army could just advance to the foot of the Ural Mountains.

The fools of St. Petersburg always wanted to repeat the Slavs' defeat of Napoleon against the Manchurians, but the old Grand Duke Nikolai Nikolayevich knew that this was a beautiful. Napoleon was far away, and his strategic purpose was only to force Russia to submit, and he never thought of occupying Russian territory. Goxinga was fought from its own borders, and the territory conquered by the Manchurian Empire could also be quickly digested and transformed into its own territory. With the same method used against Napoleon against Goshinga, the Russian Empire could only be turned back into Muscovy again. After all, people are not in a hurry to end the war, they can set up the border line, and then slowly build the occupied area. In order to defeat the Manchurian army, Grand Duke Nikolai Nikolayevich the Elder must find a fighter plane as soon as possible, launch a decisive battle in this cold winter, and use the cold to drag down the Manchurian army's supply lines, so as to inflict heavy losses on the Manchurian army and achieve victory.

Grand Duke Nikolai Nikolayevich the Elder waited bitterly in the hope that there would be a flaw in the front of the Manchurian Army, but this flaw did not appear for a long time. The Manchurian Army strictly carried out the supreme instructions from Changchun, step by step, and there was no omission at all. Some of the roads were smooth, and the troops advancing more quickly, would rather take the time to stop and expel the local white inhabitants than go the extra mile. With the continuous advance of the Manchurian Army, the Russian army retreated more and more, and sat back and watched the loss of the country without firing a shot, further hitting the already low morale of the Russian army. The equipment is backward, the training is insufficient, and the quality is inferior, the Russian army is already a problem, and if the morale is gone, this battle will be completely impossible to fight.

Grand Duke Nikolai Nikolayevich the Elder was anxious, but he could only appease the troops, and then continued to wait silently, if he lost his patience, the Russian army would be completely doomed. After a full month of waiting, the elder Grand Duke Nikolai Nikolayevich finally caught a somewhat reckless guy on the map, and one of the main divisions of the Manchurian Army ventured forward and surpassed his companions by more than twenty kilometers. Grand Duke Nikolai Nikolayevich the Elder immediately convened a high-level military council, and he wanted this daredevil's opportunity to launch a counteroffensive against the Manchurian Army, and even crush the offensive of the Manchurian Army.

Acton also spotted the adventurous guy on the map, and immediately sent a telegram ordering the department to slow down and move closer to the friendly forces. However, this daredevil, although slightly restrained, is still the same as before, and there is still a certain gap between him and his allies, which makes Acton's liver hurt. But Acton gritted his teeth a few times, and only persuaded him to restrain himself, and did not exercise his authority as commander-in-chief.