Chapter 361: The Old Tsar's Last Battle

When Hu Zhen was looking at the sand table map at the General Staff Headquarters, Lu Guanying had already led the main force of the Jiangdong Division to rush across the Jieya River and attack the depth of the area controlled by the Oros army.

Since the Battle of Yasak in the Qing Dynasty for more than 200 years, where did the army of the yellow race dare to use such an offensive posture to attack the depth of the Hubei army's position?

How could the Hubei army not expect that the Huaxia army, dressed in peasant miscellaneous costumes, would take such a bold action, and it was caught off guard for a while, and its positions were abandoned one after another, and it was defeated by the Jiangdong Division.

Gribsky was furious and ordered more than 20,000 Cossack cavalry to roll and kill the Jiangdong Division.

However, these dense cavalry teams with sabers in their hands charged were just a piece of cake for the powerful firepower of the heavy machine guns, mortars, and recoilless guns of the Huaxia Army.

More than 20,000 cavalrymen were bled by the dense firepower of the 10,000 Jiangdong Division infantry, and finally the corpses were strewn all over the field, with more than half of the casualties, and they were never able to break through the field positions of the Jiangdong Division.

Just when the Oros army did not know how to face the sudden appearance of the yellow army, Lu Guanying commanded the Jiangdong Division to attack and rush eastward, breaking through a big hole in the position of the Oros army.

As they rushed to the east, the Chinese army ran into Oros settlements and villages, and all of them were set on fire.

Amplify the burning of other people's villages, the Chinese soldiers from the south still don't feel anything, they just regard it as a kind of combat action on the battlefield, but the soldiers from Jiangdong 64 Tun feel very relieved, two hundred years, only the Oros people rushed into the villages of the Chinese people and set fire to them, and only today there are Chinese people to burn the villages of the Oros!

Faced with this situation, which had not been seen in two hundred years, the angry Gribsky hurriedly mobilized troops to plug the gap, and the Jiangdong Division, taking advantage of the cover of the night, suddenly turned around and rushed north.

Under the leadership of local soldiers who were familiar with the terrain, the Jiangdong Division marched rapidly to the upper reaches of the Jieya River, and at the relatively shallow position of the river, the entire Jiangdong Division walked through the west bank of the Jieya River and returned to the north of Jiangdong 64 Tun.

Before the Hubei army could react, the Jiangdong Division once again turned around and rushed southward, rushing back to the defensive positions that had been constructed.

When the main force of the Jiangdong Division attacked, Lu Guanying ordered the soldiers of a battalion of the Huaxia Army, with more than 2,000 local young volunteers, to race against time to build a defensive position system.

This is a standard civil engineering defensive position system urgently constructed in accordance with the Chinese military drill code, and hundreds of open bunkers and small batteries have been constructed, crisscrossing dense as spider webs of communication ditches and trenches, and in front of the position are also equipped with anti-infantry pressure and pulling mines.

The Oros army, which was anxious to retaliate, saw that the Jiangdong Division had retreated to the triangle between the Jieya River and the Heilongjiang River, and did not think much about it, so they crashed into it.

Who knows, this is once again colliding into the firepower net laid by the Huaxia Army.

This time, the Hubei army still crashed into corpses all over the field and blood flowed like a river.

The Jiangdong Division, on the other hand, had already received strong support from all units of the Huaxia Army under the command of Liang Kunri, and it had sufficient weapons and ammunition, and it hid in a solid field position, pouring firepower on the Hubei army, and fought happily.

In just five days of positional defense, the Jiangdong Division suffered less than 1,000 casualties, but in exchange for more than 20,000 casualties of the Hubei army, plus the number of Hubei troops annihilated by the Jiangdong Division in the mobile warfare, the casualties of the Hubei army have reached 30,000.

In addition to the previous battle of the Jieya River crossing, the Jiangdong Division of more than 13,000 people destroyed more than 40,000 enemies

This is a very staggering number of enemy annihilation, which is a figure that neither Lu Guanying nor Liang Kunri himself dares to believe, let alone the generals of the Hubei army.

The Hubei army has always believed that at least 70,000 regular troops of the Huaxia Army were ambushed in the delta of the Jieya River and the Heilongjiang River, otherwise it would be impossible to have such powerful firepower.

After all, paper can't contain the fire, and Gorodeikov and Gribsky, in order to evade responsibility, have been hiding from Moscow, but with such large casualties, Moscow finally knows the truth.

The regent Tsar Crown Prince jumped up in anger, could not eat a piece of bread in a day, and shouted: "Gorodikov and Gribsky, two fools, must immediately kill all the yellow-skinned monkeys in the Jiangdong region, and if they can't do it, they will go to the gallows and forget it themselves......"

Under strong pressure from the top rulers of the Oros Empire, Gorodeikov and Gribsky had no choice but to take a risk.

However, in the triangle where the Jieya River and the Heilongjiang River converge, the deployment of troops is limited after all, and from the east is the Jieya River, and the Hubei army cannot deploy cavalry, and the infantry must cross the Jieya River to attack the position of the Jiangdong Division.

To the west is the Heilongjiang River, which is the territory of the Chinese Empire, although Gorodeikov and Gribsky are arrogant, they still have a little scruple about really annoying the Chinese Empire, and they do not dare to cross the Heilongjiang River for the time being, and defend the Jiangdong Division from the west, so they can only concentrate their forces in the north, and take advantage of the advantage of having more troops and more generals, and gradually press south.

However, with this method of attack, the pressure on the Jiangdong Division was greatly reduced, and it was only necessary to set aside a small part of the troops to monitor the Hubei army in the east, and hold the north with the main force, so that the position could be firmly held.

Gribsky personally rushed to the front to direct the offensive.

First of all, the cavalry of the Hubei army launched a charge, but they were all repelled by the blazing fire of the Jiangdong Division.

The Hubei army brought in hundreds of heavy artillery pieces to bombard the positions of the Jiangdong Division, and countless solid artillery shells and flowering howitzer shells smashed on them, and the violent explosions raised smoke and dust soaring into the sky.

The shelling lasted for half an hour, and after it stopped, I used a telescope to observe, and I saw that the defensive position of the Jiangdong Division was in ruins, and there was no trace of a single person.

However, when the Hubei army launched an attack, countless red-hot bullets emerged from the ruins to form a dense network of fire, enveloping all the charging Hubei troops inside.

Pieces of Hubei troops were like pieces of paper in a strong wind, swept down and blown over by the powerful firepower of the Jiangdong Division, and after the strong wind, they were like a livestock slaughterhouse, with rivers of blood and flesh and bones everywhere.

Several charges in succession, in addition to the loss of a large number of Oros youth's good youthful lives, the Jiangdong Division's position still stood there without moving, and the Hubei army still gained nothing.

At this point, everyone from the generals to the soldiers of the Hubei army knew that whether it was from the perspective of weapons or combat experience, it was impossible for the local indigenous people to be holding on to the delta of the Jieya River and the Heilongjiang River, but definitely a well-trained army.

You can't fight with such a powerful army.

Gribsky, the governor of the Amur military administration, who was about to go crazy, commanded the Hubei army to continue the onslaught, and at the same time sent a telegram to Gorodikov in Vladivostok.

If the incident at the 64th Tun in Jiangdong had not been dealt with, Gorodaikov knew that even if he did not have to worry about his life, the position of the governor would definitely not be there, so he could not sit still, and he would personally take a boat around the mouth of the Heilongjiang River and then transfer to the front line of the Jieya River to command the battle.

Along the way, Gorodeikov and his staff team scratched their heads around the sand table map without sleep, and came up with a plan:

First, the Hubei army on the battlefield of the Jieya River should not slack off in the slightest, attack the enemy's position day and night, and put tremendous pressure on the enemy without stopping, and must crush the enemy in front of them.

Second, the 150,000-strong army standing by near Xingkai Lake immediately divided into two routes, one by transport boats, from the north by water, and all the way north by land, rushed to the battlefield of the Jieya River, participated in the battle of the Jieya River, and expelled all the Chinese from the territory controlled by the Oros.

Third, after the reinforcements are in place, send interspersed troops to cross the Heilongjiang River and defend the enemy in the Jiangdong area from the flank and rear until they are completely destroyed.

Fourth, immediately report to the Moscow Tsar, demanding to expand the offensive against the Chinese Empire, and even declare war on the Chinese Empire, attacking the Chinese Empire in many ways and places, and coercing the Chinese Empire to cede land and pay reparations.

Gorodaikov's plan was sent to the Hubei troops in the Far East at a telegraph station halfway through the waterway, and also to Moscow, and the intelligence officers of the Chinese Empire intercepted the telegram and quickly deciphered it.

Many units of the Hubei army and Moscow have not yet translated this telegram, and the General Staff of the Chinese Empire and the Northeast Theater of Operations have already known the full content of Gorodikov's telegram.

When Liang Kunri saw this telegram, he immediately slapped the table and laughed: "Lao Maozi can't help it, this battle is finally getting bigger and bigger!" ”

"Commander-in-chief, can our Jiangdong Division hold up, after all, this is just Gorodikov's suggestion, will the tsar in Moscow take his proposal for an all-out war?" Peng Xinghan, chief of staff of the Northeast Theater, believes that it is better to be cautious.

"How much strength does our Jiangdong Division still have?"

"Lu Guanying did a good job, annihilated 40,000 Hubei troops, the Jiangdong Division suffered no more than 5,000 casualties, we still master the waterway of the Heilongjiang River, and began to provide supplies and personnel replenishment to them at night, and now the gap of these 5,000 casualties has been filled, I am worried that the Hubei army will soon send enough forces to cut off our supply channel, so that the Jiangdong Division will be in danger!"

"Tonight, we will add three reinforced regiments of 10,000 troops to the Jiangdong Division, and continue to be commanded by Lu Guanying, who is familiar with the situation, if Lao Maozi fights like this, we will continue to consume it like this, if Lao Maozi wants to start a full-scale war, hehe, then their hundreds of thousands of troops will be in big trouble......"

"When it comes to wars between countries, with Lao Maozi's national strength, their tsar also has to weigh it, and it is estimated that it will not be able to start a full-scale war so soon!"

Peng Xinghan was right, Tsar Nicholas II, the regent of Oros, still had a lot of hesitation about whether to start a full-scale war with the Chinese Empire.

Nicholas II first received the "letter of state" from the Empress Dowager Cixi, and he was enthusiastic for a while, trying to take advantage of the early establishment of the Chinese Empire and trying to seek the territory north of the Yellow River, but soon found that Oros was not ready for a full-scale war, so he began to hesitate.

However, if this local battle is fought like this, if the war is not expanded, Oros may not be able to recover the cost.

The opinions of the ministers on this point also varied, and they were mainly divided into the war reprieves and the war rush factions.

Finance Minister Werther, the representative of the Slow War faction, believed that before the Trans-Siberian Railway was repaired, it was not appropriate to launch a full-scale war against the Chinese Empire in the Far East, otherwise the Hubei army would be defeated by logistics, and what we had to do now was to repair the Trans-Siberian Railway first, and then find fighters to defeat the Chinese Empire in the future.

War Minister Alexei Nikolayevich Kuropatkin advocated seizing the golden opportunity to defeat the Chinese Empire in one fell swoop and completely lay the foundation of Yellow Oros.

What can I do? Is it better to delay the war or to fight it urgently?

Nicholas II, who had been full of ambition, was in a dilemma.

He wanted to meet the initiator, the Empress Dowager Cixi, but although the old woman of the Qing court was now under the control of the Oros army and had penetrated deep into the railway train in the territory of Oros, she was still in the long journey east of the Ural Mountains, and she would not see this old woman for a while.

Thinking about it, Nicholas II felt that it was useless to see this yellow-skinned old woman, she had even lost her own country, could she still help herself come up with any way to defeat the Chinese Empire?

Nicholas II thought about it and felt that this old witch was unlucky, so he no longer planned to meet her, but if she said that there was any power in Huaxia that could reach herself, let's talk about it.

Finally, Nicholas II went to see his son Alexander III, who was seriously ill.

In the palace, after listening to Nicholas II talk about the affairs of the Far Eastern Chinese Empire, Alexander III, who was on the sickbed, coughed a few times, and actually spurted out a few traces of blood.

Nicholas II hurriedly stepped forward to help, but was blocked by Alexander III, who was a man of infinite strength, he once went out, the train overturned, and he personally supported the entire train carriage, so that the queen and children escaped, and since then he has fallen ill and has not been able to heal.

At this moment, the former strong Alexander III was supported by the crown prince to sit up, but his tone was straightforward: "Then we will start an all-out war with the Chinese Empire!" ”

Nicholas II: "But our Trans-Siberian Railway has not yet been built, the logistics supply baggage cannot be increased, and it is inconvenient to send reinforcements to the Far East, and if we do not fight well, we are in danger of losing Far Eastern Siberia!" ”

"Do you think that after the Chinese Empire has overcome the difficulties at the beginning of the founding of the country, with the Chinese Emperor Hu Zhen's practice and character of using the Pacific Ocean as an inland lake, he will not covet our Siberia?

Perhaps, he does not intend to recognize the Aihui Treaty at all now! At the first opportunity, he will definitely challenge us to recover hundreds of thousands of square kilometers of territory in the Amur River basin, and even the vast Siberia, he will say that this is not Oros!

And, more importantly, will we have such an opportunity in the future? ”

Although the old Tsar Alexander III was out of breath when he spoke, his words made the crown prince Nicholas II tremble: The Huaxia Empire will definitely start a war with the Oros Empire, rather than delay the war, it is better to start a war now while the Chinese Empire is not ready!

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