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"This Dong Wei ......"

The battle report in the northwest soon arrived in Chen Ming's hands, and seeing Dong Wei's choice, Chen Ming thought with his toes that he could also know the current predicament of the three cavalry divisions after the beginning of the 'bravery'.

But Chen Ming wouldn't worry too much about their survival, the condition of the three cavalry divisions with the most war horses was declining, but the Russians didn't have such a good appetite to eat them.

Of course, this will also affect the fighting in the coming winter.

The war in the northwest Chen Ming has been completely handed over to Wei Baocheng and them, relying on Chen Han's strong national strength, there is no reason to fail in the battle in the northwest.

Chen Ming must now focus on internal affairs that he is not interested in, because the next wave of great feudal states has entered the charter, which is not far from the first day of the Lunar New Year. Once the energy contained in this kind of thing bursts out, it will have a great effect on the economy of the whole country.

As far as Chen Ming knows, the price of Chen Han's textiles has increased by 6.5 percentage points year-on-year this year, and the prices of agricultural tools and ironware have also rebounded slightly.

Of course, no matter how high the increase in these categories is, it can't compare to ships, and the long-distance merchant ships that can cross the ocean, the bosses of the dry shipyards can make a fortune this year.

There is grain and livestock in the Americas, and the prices of these things have only fluctuated in a small range, not because of Chen Hanxungui, who was about to go to the Americas to establish a country, but because of the Japanese.

The Japanese are also preparing to sail to the African island of Madagascar.

They planned to send 0 people as the first vanguard to land on the Falklands, of which 2,000 were guard soldiers, and the rest were settlers. The original subsistence materials – grain, farming tools, iron tools, and livestock – were all provided by Chen Han's colony in South Africa.

All the Japanese need to do is to transport the people to the Falklands as they are!

But this is not easy to do, because Japan simply does not have such experience. They sent 'security' to India to the Americas, and they were all on Chen Han's ship. But now? Chen Han's transportation company, Chen Han's domestic voyage merchant ships, have all been swallowed by Chen Han's ministers. And for the sake of the future, the Japanese also had to form their own ocean-going fleet.

But it's so hard.

The formation of an ocean-going fleet is not just a matter of ships, but also of manpower.

Sail hybrid long-sailing merchant ships have already appeared, but the latter's order has been scheduled for three years, and Japan will not be able to get it at all. Therefore, the ships of Japan's long-distance fleet could only be old-style sailboats, which were more expensive than those with hybrid sails. And the security is worse.

Chen Ming also did not want to see the first wave of Japanese immigrants feeding fish in the vast ocean, so he had to pay enough attention to it.

There is also a small episode, that is, the news of Chen Han No. 2 Gold Company's discovery of gold deposits in the Rand Basin seems to have leaked. However, Chen Ming believes that the British should not know what huge interests lie beneath the surface of the Rand Basin.

In fact, after the discovery of gold veins in the Rand Basin, prospecting teams announced new gold discoveries almost every three to five days, and a remote corner of South Africa has quickly become the focus of attention of the Chen Han Minerals Department.

According to estimates by the Ministry of Minerals, at least 3,000 tonnes of gold are hidden in South Africa's Rand Basin. That's a great asset!

But Chen Ming was dismissive of this estimate, because he knew that on the eve of his crossing, the Rand gold mine had produced 35,000 tons of gold after more than 130 years of development, and the proven reserves were still as high as 18,000 tons, still accounting for 52% of the world's total gold reserves. In the second half of the 20th century, the mine produced between tons of gold all year round, accounting for half of the world's gold production, and was truly the world's largest gold mine. The ore contains gold in a high grade rarely seen in the world, with mining still maintaining 7-20 g/t, with an average of 10 g/t.

Therefore, Chen Ming was dismissive of the estimation of the Ministry of Minerals, and he was also very concerned about the leakage of news.

He believed that the British would not come to the door now, and London would not be so mindless, but in the next hundred years, this land would definitely become a focal point of the contradiction between China and Britain - the contradiction between East and West.

When everything here is exposed, the Rand Basin will attract the attention of people all over the world like a piece of fat that flows with oil, and attract the coveted salivation of hyenas all over the world. South Africa will also become a node for Chen Han to stop the Europeans from moving eastward.

From Russia to the Ottomans, to Egypt and Central and Southern Africa, this 'straight line', together with the vast Atlantic Ocean, forms a vast and impregnable prison.

One Suez Canal, one South Africa, these are the two nodes of Chen Han in Africa. When the British interests in India were overthrown by the Indians, Chen Ming had to put the Europeans in this huge prison completely.

Of course, this strategy may not be seen by Chen Ming. This is the course he has designed for Chen Han's future.

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The Guriev Fortress, a fortress with a very long history, stood at the mouth of the Ural River a hundred and sixty years ago. And the transition from a wooden fortress to a stone fortress was quickly completed.

In the original time and space of Russia, the strategic importance of the castle gradually diminished over time, and in 1810, the castle was demolished, and the city around the original castle spontaneously formed a commercial population.

But in this day and age, it is still an extremely important fortress. The Russians not only did not remove the stones, but greatly expanded and rebuilt them.

"Boom, boom, boom......" time came to the western month. Chen Han's large army finally arrived, and a large number of Mongol and Kazakh cavalry also arrived on the east bank of the Ural River at the same time.

Almost effortlessly, the Russians were again driven back to the west of the Urals.

The bombardment of the Chen-Han artillery cluster began. More than 300 hexagonal cannons, which took more than 3,000 cattle and horses to reach the banks of the Ural River. And as for the number of livestock that carry shells and gunpowder exclusively for them, it is many times higher than this figure.

Countless shells streaked across the sky, drowning the forward line of the Russian army in a cloud of snow and mist. In the eyes of Meloyarsky, Pokrov and Kirilenko, who had just arrived on the front-line battlefield, the preparations for the shelling of the Chinese defense forces on the opposite side were completely unscrupulous. They were not at all worried that the Russian artillery in the Guriev fortress would be able to give them enough heavy damage.

The Chinese are very confident this time!

They no longer have the means to do in the last war, but they are pressing straight from the front with absolute strength.

However, according to Chen Ming, the scale of the Sino-Russian war this time is much larger than the last time, and such a large-scale war is more about the strength of the two sides, the real strength, rather than playing some small means of 'counterattacking and attacking'.

In the future war, the two sides will fight one after another, and there will be no more good things about the Turks fighting back.

Moreover, the defense line of the Russian army is very strong, and to go on the offensive without adequate preparation before any large-scale military operation is to murder soldiers. As soon as a large amount of ammunition, materials, troops, and artillery are assembled, no strategic intention can be concealed. The only thing that helped them hide the purpose of their operation was the freezing weather and heavy snowfall.

In the future war, the troops on both sides will be assembled, artillery will be concentrated, and material transfers will be carried out more and more blatantly.

Because it is impossible for the Russian army to come out of the fortified castle and fight a field battle with the Chen Han National Defense Army, and the siege war no longer cares whether it is a sneak attack or not.

When the weather is good, the hot air balloon floating high can be clearly seen from a distance of several tens of miles, and at most the troops will carry out some means of concealing the truth and revealing the false on the scale of future battles, which may not be of much significance.

The Russians have invested a lot of money in the defense of the Eastern Front, and each fortress has been in operation for a long time, all of which are very strong permanent fortifications, equipped with a large number of heavy artillery, and if you want to break the position, you must rely on real skills!

Now Chen Wei directly led more than 70,000 people to surround the Guriev fortress, and the number of defenders of the latter was only two Russian divisions, and the total number was only about 10,000. In today's Europe, the strength of an integrated division of Chen Han can be compared to one of their corps, and it is normal for a division of four or five thousand people, and in France, only the divisional units of Napoleon's Guards Corps have 18,000 people.

The Russian army is the same, there are four or five thousand ordinary divisions, and only the Praetorian Guard division in the Guards can reach the scale of 10,000 people.

The Wehrmacht put into the northwest battlefield a total of only more than 500 artillery pieces - all hexagonal guns, including about 700 cannons of the Seven Khanates. Now that Chen Wei has assembled more than 300 cannons in the Guriev fortress, the importance of the city can be seen.

Tens of thousands of horse-drawn wagons continuously transported large quantities of military supplies from the rear to the front line, including clothing, ammunition, food, medicine, guns and equipment. Each of these is an astronomical number.

Over the years, preparations for war in the northwest have been actively underway. The amount of war material that can be gathered by the strength of a country is unimaginable to ordinary people. The headquarters, warehouses, hospitals, and transportation networks of all arms of the front line are being rapidly built under the hard work of engineers + people.

This war was the first war of the industrial age after China's rise. What we have experienced now is the best lesson in the practice of war as a whole. Although it was not Chen Han as a whole, but the Seven Khanates of Central Asia, such experience would also be systematically summarized by the elite of the army and become the basis for the new military reform, especially the logistics part.

The rumbling of artillery and the incessant pounding of hundreds of shells at the Guriev fortress for several hours at a time were the right way to open the war of the future. If the hexagonal gun is replaced with a breech gun, this is a rehearsal of the future war mode.

Wei Baocheng and Chen Wei stood on the high watchtower, looking at the snow and mist rolling along the outer edge of the Russian fortress with binoculars, and the crystal broken snowflakes were scattered in the air, illuminated by the winter sun, as if a piece of silver light shrouded the position, and nothing could be seen.

Wei Baocheng was not sure whether the fortress on that position had been blown down, the only thing he could conclude was that the breastwork on the Russian position had been completely smashed, as if it had never appeared in this world.

This scene is still difficult to imagine for the foreign countries and military personnel of the Grand Alliance - it is now 1812, not 1912 after all. Several officers who had just arrived from Japan, Siam, and Gurkha, as well as many military cadets who had come with them for internships, were trembling slightly with their hands holding binoculars.

Tens of thousands of shells fell on the outer edge of the Russian army for a long time, and the breastwork and concrete fortresses were hit by long hexagonal shells, and the debris flew everywhere.

The breastwork collapsed directly, and the concrete fortress was like the ancient soldiers in heavy armor, bathed in a rain of arrows, they could block one, two, three waves, but they could not stop ten or twenty waves, and the final result was a tragic fall.

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