The team set off from Nanjing in mid-March, and by May Chen Ming had already stood on the wall of Jiayuguan.

"There is Qilian in the south, Montenegro in the north, the pass is majestic, it is really the majesty of the world."

Standing on the Jiayuguan Tower, Chen Ming looked at the vast Gobi Desert and sighed at the magical time of the ancients. In this place where water is more precious than gold, Jiayuguan has wells in the city and springs in the mountains, so there is no shortage of water. The location is so crucial, it is really a gift from God.

At this time, he did not know that the war situation in the northeast had developed again, and at this time, he did not know that the war situation in the northwest had undergone new changes.

Chen Ming is simply sighing at the magic of heaven and earth.

Therefore, although he rushed to Jiayuguan, it seems that he is very close to the front line, and he is useless to the front line.

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Novokhabarovsk, not far from the Sino-Russian border in the northeast, is the frontier of the Starov Mountains, a stretch of mountains that stretches nearly 2,000 miles from east to west.

Ten years ago, it was a small and inconspicuous village, a foothold for Russian hunters, with no more than a dozen households and a population of less than 100 people.

But now it is a crucial point in Russia's littoral defense system, a new fortress-like city, connecting the Primorsky region [Sea of Okhotsk] with the Transbaikal region [eastern part of Lake Bay]. The Russians deliberately named the city after the special name 'Yerofe Pavlovich Khabarov'.

- More than a hundred years ago, Yerofe Pavlovich Khabarov was the successor of Boyarkov. The second leader of the Russian colonial army to invade the Heilongjiang River valley in China.

Originally a nouveau riche was a wealthy businessman, but later served a prison sentence due to bankruptcy, so he asked Franzbekov, the governor of Yakutsk, to raise his own team to go on an expedition to Heilongjiang. In 1649, he formed an armed force of 150 people to invade five villages and towns in the Heilongjiang River valley of China from the Lena River and the Oreokma River. In July of the following year, it forcibly occupied Yaksa on the north bank of the upper reaches and wantonly plundered and killed the local Daur, Solon, and Fiyaka inhabitants along the riverbank. Later, he was besieged by the Qing border guards, abandoned the city and fled, but because of his meritorious service in invading China, he was named a service nobleman by the Tsar.

The Russians originally planned to name Boli after this man, with the intention of not hiding the red fruit. As a result, the defeat in the last war left the Russians empty, and now they are using it in new cities, and they also have undisguised intentions.

Novokhabarovsk is a point that must be pulled out on the way of the offensive of the North-Eastern border guards.

The Russians and the remnants of the Qing Dynasty had a garrison of 3,000 men. The troops of the Northeast Frontier Army were a full 13,000 people. Structurally, it is also a mixed brigade.

As the name suggests, the meaning of 'mixed brigade' is that all branches of the armed forces are mixed together, generally speaking, the strength of the army is more than 10,000 people, up to 15,000 people, and in addition to infantry and artillery, there must also be cavalry. And when it comes to the European battlefield, not to mention that it can be compared to a division, the military-level structure of some countries is only a little higher than this number.

The commander-in-chief of this mixed brigade is Deng Yun. Six years ago, he was transferred from the Marine Corps of the Marine Division to the Northeast Military Region, and three years ago he was successfully promoted to general.

It's a brutal battle.

Now that rockets are commonplace, any army that wants to attack a fortress must be prepared to be bloodied and corpses piled up.

Like the Battle of Kimbun on the Russian-Turkish battlefield, this fortress at the mouth of the Dnieper River was the first large-scale Russian-Turkish battle in the Russo-Turkish War.

At the moment when the Second Sino-Russian War began, the Ottoman fleet also launched an attack on the Russian frigates anchored near Kimborn, and the Russian fleet and fortress artillery returned fire, and the Sixth Russian-Turkish War was first started from the sea.

A small force of the Ottoman Army, supported by the fleet, attempted to land at Kimborn, but was routed by the Russian army and the landing attempt failed. After the Ottomans received reinforcements from the fortress of Ochakov, they attacked the fortress of Kimbuen again. After many battles, the Ottoman army was severely damaged by the Russian Suvorov regiment, and the participating troops were almost completely annihilated. The total number of troops lost a small number of people!

The defeat in the Battle of Kimbuen disrupted the strategic plans of the Ottoman Empire and bought time for the Russian army to gather the main forces to launch an offensive. But at the same time, it also illustrates the brutality of today's offensive warfare.

And if this battle does not tell the story, then the Russian army that counterattacked next is a clear example. After the formation of the main forces of the Russian army was completed, the forces of the Black Sea Fleet were also strengthened. Together with the Austrian army, which had declared war on the Ottoman Empire, the Russians planned to capture the Ottoman fortress of Ochakov, which was located on the Black Sea, just as the fortress of Kimburn was a bridgehead for the Russians to the south, and the fortress of Ochakov was also a bridgehead for the Ottoman Empire to the north.

Potemkin crossed the Bug River with a full 50,000 men and besieged the Ochakov fortress by land, and the Austrian army also rushed 30,000 men, and at the same time attacked it by sea with a fleet and besieged it for a long time.

The offensive and defensive battles of Ochakov also began with naval battles.

As a result, within a month, the Russian-Austrian army launched four attacks on the fortress, all of which were blown up by rockets fired by the Ottomans, and the losses were as high as more than 14,000 people, and their own losses were less than a fraction of that of the Russian-Austrian coalition army. It ended with the retreat of the coalition forces.

There are nearly 20,000 Ottoman troops in the Ochakov Fortress, while the Novokhabarovsk in front of them is only 3,000 people, and its logistical supply must not be as good as the Ochakov Fortress, which is the focus of the Ottoman Empire. But that doesn't mean the Wehrmacht can easily nibble on it.

"Boom, boom, boom......"

It was the Russian rockets that were launched, and countless rockets streaked across the sky, like meteors falling from the sky, digging the Chen Han Defense Army little by little to the trenches in front of the fortress and completely submerging them in a sea of fire.

In the eyes of Huang Jie, the governor of the Northeast Military Region, and his entourage, who personally arrived at the front-line battlefield, this was the indiscriminate profligacy of the Russian-Qing coalition army on the opposite side that did not care about the loss at all, and thus reflected a problem - they were fully prepared for the war.

And according to the tactics of the Russians, it is really difficult for the Wehrmacht to touch under the walls of the Novokhabarovsk fortress. Even at night, it is impossible to maintain the suddenness of the battle and catch the enemy off guard.

However, according to the statement given by the Metropolitan Governor's Office, the scale of this Sino-Russian war is much larger than the last one, and a war of this scale is more about the overall strength of the country, the real national strength!

The two armies will fight one battle after another, and there will be no suddenness to speak of. The battle lines between the two sides are cohesive, and any large-scale military operation that is carried out without adequate preparation is simply the murder of soldiers.

A large amount of ammunition and material reserves - gathering, the strategic intention can not be concealed. It is impossible to talk about what kind of surprise attack you want to carry out.

After the initial battle, the build-up of troops, the concentration of artillery, and the movement of materials on both sides will be carried out more and more blatantly.

At most, some means of concealing the truth and revealing the false in terms of the size of the army may not be of much significance.

The soldiers on both sides will suffer high battle losses, which will make people palpitate.

Huang Jie was a little dissatisfied with the instructions issued by the Metropolitan Governor's Office, but now that he saw this scene under the city of Novokhabarovsk, Huang Jie shut up.

There's still room for scheming in a battle like this. The two sides are like 'warriors' standing face to face, you punch and I go back with a stab, whoever has more blood will have the last laugh.

It's a soldier's life to consume ammunition.

Even the platoon shooting mode, which was very despised by Chen Han's generals at the beginning, is much stronger than today's battle.

With the beginning of the Novokhabarovsk offensive, thousands of wagons continued to transport large quantities of material to the front line from the run-in along the roads built over the years. Clothing, ammunition, food, medicine, guns and equipment. The amount added together is a remarkable number in this era.

Over the past few years, the Northwest and Northeast Military Regions have been actively preparing for war. Especially since the second half of last year, the Northeast Military Region has gone all out to deal with the war that is about to begin. The amount of war material that can be gathered by the strength of a country is unimaginable to ordinary people. With the hard work of the engineering troops, the headquarters at all levels, the classified reserve warehouses, hospitals, and the transportation network were quickly completed, and all kinds of materials were stored in several cities on the south bank of the Heilongjiang River, and Mohe was one of them.

This war was the first major battle that Chen Han had to face after his rise, and compared with the original war in the Middle East and North America, the second war against Russia was paid much attention by Chen Ming. The latter is a fighting nation in the end, and the soldiers' will to fight is very different from that of World War I and World War II, and the social contradictions in Tsarist Russia are far less acute than they were decades later. This meant that the Russian army and soldiers were more supportive of the tsarist government. Therefore, Chen Ming should not be careless at all.

This is just that this kind of mobilization now gives Chen Ming a strange sense of déjà vu, and everything he experienced before and after the war is like a war practice lesson in the primary industrial era.

However, in Chen Ming's eyes, today's China is far from the initial industrialization.

It's just that such experience will be summed up in detail and conscientiously by them and become the basis for the new military reform, especially the logistics part.

Chen Ming also believed that the various ways in which the bilateral armies organized and conducted the wars in this war will leave a strong mark on the history of world wars in the future.

Because of the proliferation of bug weapons such as rockets, the evolution time of more than 100 years that seems to have crossed in an instant has evolved into trench warfare mode. Chen Ming himself found it difficult.

Although he had always felt that the era of platoon shooting was very funny, considering the gap in time and efficiency between the two sides, this very funny war mode was much more suitable than the trench warfare in front of him, the world's number one giant, the Chen Han Empire.

If it was the previous battle, Chen Ming wouldn't be worried. Relying on the number and quality of the soldiers and superior logistical supplies, Chen Han dared to single-handedly challenge Europe, and there was no problem at all. And now? Chen Han's Wehrmacht, however, is likely to be blown up in front of the 'rain of rockets'.

This made Chen Ming feel like he was lifting a stone and shooting himself in the foot.

As for summing up the war experience and the next step of military reform, if we want to sublimate and improve it, we may need to have the tempering of the third Sino-Russian war and the fourth Sino-Russian war. As long as the Russian Empire at that time was willing to accompany it, it could still exist.

In Chen Ming's eyes, this kind of 'rocket rain' is just an 'undeveloped and complete version' of the heavy artillery bombardment of World War I in the previous life, and the range of rockets is too short and too short. Trench warfare is only a poor man's version of real trench warfare, and trench warfare without machine guns is what kind of trench warfare.

But such a scene fell in the eyes of Huang Jie and others, which meant a rehearsal of a new mode of war.

Explosions rumbled.

Huang Jie and Zheng Yun stood on the rising hot air balloon, looking at the tumbling fires on the positions outside the city with binoculars. Wehrmacht sappers were digging trenches in three directions, but now they were covered by the thick smoke of gunpowder, and nothing could be seen.

I don't know what happened to the sappers.

But it is clear that the Russian army has more rockets than imagined!

The power of rockets is no less than that of the Wehrmacht.

The fireballs that exploded were not clusters, but rose up one by one, and the sound released shook the heavens and the earth, and even the flames were about to completely engulf the position.

When the smoke cleared a little, Huang Jie saw with his own eyes that the low walls on the battlefield that had been piled up with excavated soil, and the low walls that had been neatly built before, had now become as uneven as if they had been gnawed by dogs. The big gaps that were blown open one by one were facing the powerful power of the rockets.

The platoon commander of the first platoon of sappers got up from under the trench, patted off the dirt on his body, and walked a little unsteadily, but the man had already rushed to the front, hoping to get a living hole from under the floating soil.

That's a squad of soldiers.

Only a sapper shovel was stuck diagonally into the floating earth, revealing a broken wooden handle.

The platoon commander went up and grabbed the sapper shovel and pulled it out with a slight force, like a shovel pulled out of a puddle of silt. But the bright sunlight clearly told him that it was not an illusion. Half of the head of the sapper shovel is snow-white and blood-red, which is the blood of a comrade-in-arms. And for a short moment when the platoon commander stood still, the crimson of blood had already come up along the traces left by him pulling out the sapper shovel.

The platoon commander had a flame burning in his heart, but he felt that there was a mountain in his heart pressing him to death, and he wanted to look up to the sky and roar, but he couldn't. He could only cry.

"A long line, you cry a head. For big men, you have to look like a man. How can there be immortals in war? ”

The officer of the engineer team heard the cry of the platoon leader and scolded him, "Don't cry, hurry up." There will be no living people in the first class. ”

This is a matter of experience.

In the explosion just now, several rockets hit the front of a row of trenches, not to mention people, the turtle will not survive anywhere.

Although a large part of the force of the rocket explosion will be released to the sky and the surrounding area, the force on the ground is also very large, if you can kneel on all fours in the trench at a depth of two meters, as long as the rocket does not explode on the edge of the trench, the soldier will generally not necessarily die. But if several rockets in a row hit the same area, then no one would have made it out alive.

Rockets don't necessarily kill people, the important thing is that they can shock.

"The hair signal told us to withdraw. Don't be sad and get out of here. I can't guarantee that Lao Maozi will still fire rockets. ”

Before the words fell, a sharp and rapid whistling suddenly sounded in the sky.

"His grandmother's, really fighting!?" The officer was taken aback, and as soon as he rolled over, he hid at the bottom of the pit like a barrel rolling on the ground.

Don't look at the team officer is quite tall, but when he escapes for his life, his skills are even sharper than that of a monkey!

But it was too late for a platoon leader to hide. As soon as he exerted his strength, a large ball of fireworks had burst out not far away, and when the team officer got up again, he happened to see a long row of bodies torn apart by the air wave falling into the trench......