When the morning star rose in the sky, the hundreds of thousands of Hubei troops who had dreamed of making a fortune overnight last night could not tell whether they were in a dream or in reality at this moment, so they were driven up early by the officers.

The belly of the fish appeared in the sky, and the earth was full of shadows, and there were people and horses everywhere.

The soldiers of the Hubei army tried their best to control the horses not to neigh, but the huge herd of hundreds of thousands of millions of horses could not make a sound, and when a horse in heat neighed, dozens of horses responded with a bee, making a noise.

This was the moment of preparation before the war, and the generals of the Hubei army did not want to be too strict with their subordinates to be completely quiet, so they had to open their eyes and close their eyes to let their subordinates move freely.

The sky gradually brightened, and people's vision became wider and wider, only to see that in the hazy mist, a large number of black and oppressive Hubei soldiers and horses slowly gathered together, among which there were many cannons and heavy machine guns.

"Our strength is so strong, this time the yellow-skinned monkey is dead!"

"Have the yellow-skinned monkeys ever seen cannons and heavy machine guns? Scared will scare them to death! ”

"The yellow-skinned monkey should be so scared this time that even the man in the crotch of his braided pants fell off together, haha!"

Although the Huaxia Army has shown strong firepower in front of some of the Hubei Army, the Hubei Army has a strong sense of superiority over the Chinese yellow race for hundreds of years, which is a strong psychological inertia that is difficult to change, many Hubei troops have not suffered a heavy blow because they have not seen the weapons and equipment of the Huaxia Army with their own eyes, and many people have only seen the weapons and equipment of the Eight Banners Qing Army, thinking that the Huaxia Army is the same as the Eight Banners Army, and it has to charge with a big knife that chops wood.

"Artillery positions ready for shelling!"

With the order of the artillery commander of the Hubei army, all the 500 artillery pieces on the artillery position on the left side of the Hubei army erected their black holes, pointed in the direction of the Huaxia army's position, and began to load shells to prepare for shelling.

In the formation of hundreds of thousands of Hubei troops, only a small number of people were worried, and most of the grassroots officers and soldiers also had some sober-minded people who were a little worried, but in the boundless huge cavalry and artillery arrays on their side, the original little worry about the safety of the Hubei army was immediately thrown out of the clouds.

However, the artillery on which the Hubei army relied on its self-confidence, because it was a long-distance attack, could only carry cavalry guns with a caliber of 75 mm, 57 mm, and 37 mm, and only a small part of them were 107 mm caliber artillery, which was very far from the heavy artillery of the fortress in terms of power.

The soldiers of the Hubei army did not bother with this, anyway, they would be confident when they saw this huge artillery and cavalry formation, and when their superiors told them to charge, they would wave their sabers and slash and kill.

What they didn't know was that there were already countless pairs of eyes staring at their position through various telescopes, waiting for the Hubei army to reveal its full strength.

"Found Lao Maozi's cavalry formation, coordinates XXXX, my mother, today Lao Maozi is all dispatched, the formation is twenty kilometers horizontally, five or six kilometers longitudinally, there are at least two or three hundred thousand Lao Maozi cavalry!"

"The enemy's artillery position was found, coordinates XXXX, due to the fog, the number of artillery pieces could not be observed clearly for the time being, but it occupied at least one square kilometer of the local circle!"

The news from the front quickly reached the operational command room of the General Staff through the radio system.

Su Wenzhen synthesized the information collected from all sides and quickly judged the intention of the Hubei army: "It seems that today, the Baikal side of the Hubei army is going to concentrate on attacking with all its might!" ”

Hu Zhen said: "That is inevitable, the Hubei army has a long distance of two or three thousand kilometers to attack the capital, although each of them can be equipped with two or three horses, but in the absence of railway and mechanized transportation conditions, in any case, the food and ammunition they carry are very limited, it is impossible to support continuous high-intensity combat, and it must be quickly resolved." All right! It's time for our grievances with the Hubei army to come to an end today! That my people will not continue to suffer from the flames of war in their own country! ”

"Your Majesty, this is the artillery strength report compiled by Major General Huang Wenxing of the Artillery Command to the General Staff."

Hu Zhen gave the order to gallop to the capital, and the Huaxia troops in various localities used trains, automobiles, horses, and even marches on foot to assemble in the capital from thousands of miles away, and the number of artillery units was also quite large, and the General Staff designated Major General Huang Wenxing as the commander-in-chief of the artillery to command the artillery operations in a unified manner.

Hu Zhen picked up the report and looked at it, and immediately said happily: "Okay, the artillery we assembled in the capital has 24 305 mm caliber train guns, 98 210 mm caliber heavy artillery, 180 155 mm cannons, 260 120 mm caliber guns, 420 75 mm caliber guns, and 1,300 mortars and infantry guns under the command of the infantry battalion company. ”

When Hu Zhenlian said two "enough", the commander-in-chief of the Hubei army, Grand Duke Nicholas, got up and confirmed to the chief of staff Brodaevsky again: "Chief of staff, has there been any change in the information collected by the various units?" ”

Brodaevsky's eyes were red, he had hardly slept all night, and he led his staff officers to closely monitor the signal corps sent by the troops, and on the basis of the information sent, he depicted on the map the situation of the actions of the troops, and made judgments, and now when he heard the commander questioning him, he immediately replied:

"Report to the commander, since last night, from the intelligence reported by the troops, there is not much abnormality, our main cavalry force and more than 100,000 infantry have all been concentrated in the vicinity of the capital of the Chinese Empire 50 kilometers, last night the infantry and artillery units of our army's rear road have conquered Zhangbei, Xiahuayuan, Huailai, Xuanhua and other thirteen towns, but most of the Chinese people in these towns took advantage of the night to break through and escape, the number of enemies destroyed by our army is still being counted, and now the infantry and artillery are fiercely besieging Zhangjiakou, I don't know what's going on, five or six thousand reinforcements were smuggled in the Zhangjiakou city fortifications last night. ”

In fact, these towns were given up by the Huaxia army on the initiative to avoid casualties in order to avoid casualties, and the artillery of the Hubei army did not have time to build a position, so it was not possible to talk about conquering them at all, but in order to show their merits, the troops of the Hubei army regarded them as their own merits when they reported them.

"Zhangjiakou City has five or six thousand reinforcements? It's not like that anywhere else, right? Nicholas was in no mood to hold the commander of his besieged Zhangjiakou accountable at the moment, and after these thirteen towns were in his own hands, he felt that there was no problem with the back road, and he could rest assured that he could boldly attack the capital.

"No, the defenders of the Huaxia people in other towns are only thinking about how to break out, and they haven't found reinforcements to rescue."

"Well, due to our relatively rapid movements, the strength of the Huaxia people behind our flank is insufficient!" Nicholas, who had always judged the enemy's situation quite accurately, found a reasonable explanation for himself at this time to attack the capital.

Brodaevsky was still very worried: "Maybe the enemy has not gathered enough troops, but I estimate that after today, the situation will change completely, and the Chinese people will not be indifferent to the attack on their imperial capital!" ”

"Just one day today? Our main force of 500,000 people has been assembled here, and today is enough time for us to pry open the walls of the capital! Nicholas also felt that there was some truth in what the chief of staff said, but he had to start attacking.

"I hope so......" Brodaevsky, worried, wanted to say something, but finally decided to shut up.

Nicholas drew his command knife and pointed forward, and resolutely gave the order for the Hubei army to launch a pincer offensive on the capital on the left and right sides at the same time: "Now, I order our cavalry and infantry boys of Great Oros to attack the enemy's position!" (To be continued.) )