Hu Zhen asked He Pingxiong, commander of the First Tank Division: "Our armored tank division has been formed for a long time, what experience do you have in training operations?" ”

He Pingxiong was an old man who had been following the Huaxia Army since Qingyan Village, and he was deeply valued by Hu Zhen, otherwise he would not have been sent to serve as the commander of the first chariot division of the Huaxia Army, and when he heard the emperor ask himself, he immediately replied:

"Your Majesty, the First Tank Division now has three tank regiments, three mechanical infantry regiments based on armored car transports, strong mobility, after the first large-scale operation in Liaodong, in recent times it has been conducting large-intensity training day and night, and found that there are some shortcomings, that is, if the tank 75 mm caliber artillery is not powerful enough in the battle, if it can be replaced with 90 mm caliber tank guns, then the power will be even stronger, Now it is proposed to equip a 120-mm caliber field artillery regiment with armored vehicles as carriers to compensate for the lack of artillery power of the tank division! ”

Hu Zhen was stunned for a moment, and he couldn't imagine that he had fiddled with this tank gun, which had reached the level of the early stage of World War II in another time and space, was completely the most powerful land weapon in the world in this time and space, but this guy in front of him was not enough.

Seeing that Hu Zhen was thoughtful, Su Wenqing, chief of the General Staff, suggested: "Your Majesty, several mobile artillery units for coastal defense have been transferred from Tanggu and Lushun today, and it is suggested that an artillery regiment be immediately assigned to the command of the chariot division. ”

"Okay, I'll agree to equip you with a motor artillery regiment for this combat mission!" Hu Zhen woke up from his contemplation and agreed with Su Wenzhen's suggestion, and finally said dissatisfiedly:

"However, please keep in mind that the mission of your tank division must bear in mind that the most important thing in the mission of the armored tank unit is to give full play to the advantage of rapid mobility to cut the enemy, outflank the enemy, and annihilate the enemy.

Hearing that the emperor was a little dissatisfied, He Pingxiong immediately put his legs together and saluted Hu Zhen with a little trepidation: "Yes, the ministry remembers the emperor's teachings!" ”

Hu Zhen waved his hand, signaling him not to worry, and said: "This armored combat vehicle unit has not been built for a long time, it lacks experience, and the combat methods and tactics are still being explored, and it is inevitable that some deviations will occur. ”

Su Wenzhen has already taken countermeasures to this in the General Staff: "The chariot division will not be in the capital to fight, but to give full play to the advantages of mobility, take the Huailai, and block the rear road of the Hubei army!" ”

"Cut off the enemy's rear?"

"That's right, the area between Huailai and Xuanhua is exactly about a hundred kilometers away from the capital, which is within the combat radius of the chariot division.

"Then there are still many Hubei troops in Zhangjiakou and Zhangbei north of Huailai, what should I do? You can't let them go! ”

"This is handed over to the troops of the Northern Theater of Operations! According to tonight's statistics, more than 100,000 troops have arrived from all over the Northern Theater, including five infantry divisions and the Sixth Cavalry Division, and the Seventh Cavalry Division and three infantry divisions will arrive tomorrow, so that the Northern Theater will have more than 170,000 troops, which is enough to cut off the road for the Hubei army to flee north to the grassland in the Zhangbei area! ”

Hu Zhen: "The combat experience of the 6th and 7th Cavalry Divisions may be insufficient, and the 4th Cavalry Division will also be transferred to Zhangjiakou after replenishing enough ammunition, after all, once the Hubei army reaches the grassland, it is difficult for the infantry to catch up, and the chariot division will also be transferred to the north of the Zhangjiakou Great Wall after completing the combat mission between Huailai and Xuanhua, to carry out the task of pursuing the enemy, I mean that since the 730,000 Hubei troops are here, they should not go back." If the Hubei army is gone, wouldn't it be that this Chinese empire is something they can come and go whenever they want! ”

When the General Staff of the Chinese Empire was deploying troops to prepare for a big war, the generals of the Hubei Army in the headquarters of the Baikal Front of the Hubei Army also stayed up all night.

An officer reported: "Your Excellency, Commander, I don't know what happened today, the attacks and harassment of the Huaxia Army on the path of our army's advance have been greatly reduced!" ”

Chief of Staff Brodaevsky smelled an ominous smell from here and immediately suggested: "Your Excellency, Commander, this may be a precursor to the enemy's preparation for a big battle, our baggage and food supplies are very weak, and it will be very dangerous once the enemy cuts off the back route, I suggest that our army should not continue to outflank the capital, and the troops from the Great Wall of the Steppe here should not continue to advance, and should choose the place to set up a position to hold on!" ”

The Hubei army attacked the capital of the Chinese Empire, in fact, it completely abandoned the back road, and only planned to replenish food supplies by plundering the Chinese residents, but there was no replenishment of ammunition at all, and the bullets in the hands of the Cossack soldiers were one less shot.

But so far, the Hubei army has not obtained much food in the houses along the road, and seeing that the army is about to run out of food, let the Eight Banners Army charge and die, in fact, it means to reduce personnel and reduce food expenses, and what is even worse is that the ammunition in the hands of the Hubei army is now difficult to fight a large-intensity battle, and if the capital of the Chinese Empire is not captured, the consequences will be unimaginable.

No wonder Brodaevsky was scared.

"No, we still have to continue to attack, in order to defeat the emerging Chinese Empire, we have been preparing for so long, even the entire Far Eastern Front has been sacrificed, and all the horses that can be collected in the whole of Siberia have been collected here, and we have walked thousands of kilometers, how can we say that we will stop if we stop?"

At this time, Nicholas was willing to stop, and all suggestions to stop the offensive were immediately rejected by him, but because it was his important chief of staff who made a cautious suggestion, he would still consider the way back:

"We must send strong troops to defend all the important passes from the grassland to the capital, and all the cities and towns that have not been captured must be captured and controlled by our army, so as to ensure our rear road."

In fact, Grand Duke Nicholas was also nervous in his heart, but now that he had hit under the walls of the capital of the Chinese Empire, how could he be willing to give up and retreat in disgrace, even if he himself was willing to order the army to retreat, but after returning to Moscow, I am afraid that the tsar and the entire imperial bureaucracy would not let him go, and it would be strange if he was not put on the gallows and hanged. Therefore, he was determined to continue to fight until he conquered the capital of the Huaxia Empire and forced the Huaxia Empire to sign an agreement on land cession and compensation.

Most of the generals of the Hubei army under the command of Nicholas were even more simple, and they saw from the battle that the weapons and equipment of the Huaxia army were miscellaneous, including advanced infantry automatic, flintlock firearms, arquebuses, and many militiamen used broadswords, spears, wooden sticks, kitchen knives, and their combat effectiveness could only fight guerrilla attacks and harass their own cavalry troops, so they judged that the entire Huaxia army could not compete with their own Cossack cavalry, so most of them were willing to continue to attack the capital.

As for some stubborn resistance near the capital, the generals of the Hubei army believe that after all, this is the capital of the Chinese Empire, and the defenders will definitely defend it desperately, which shows from another point of view that it is very beneficial to capture the capital of the Chinese Empire.

In this mentality of the Hubei army, another night passed, not knowing that the death of their hundreds of thousands of troops was approaching. (To be continued.) )