The herdsmen and peasants of Central Asia have already smelled the smell of war.

If nothing else, soon the Northwest Military District will recruit people from among them. Now Chen Han's Wehrmacht is a mule and horse army, and all transportation relies on horse-drawn carriages, which must be controlled by enough coachmen. So what could be more suitable than those of them who live on horseback? As long as you dare to play hard, the opportunity to make money is great.

Although not all of them have made a fortune, there are always two or three out of ten people who have made a profit.

Whether it is a wounded war horse or a surplus of military supplies, such as dry food, canned food, leather boots, fur hats, fur coats, tents, etc., these people can feel the slightest benefit.

And this was the case before the end of the war. As soon as those who had benefited returned to their hometowns and spread the word, it became a rumor that everyone could get rich.

So at this time in Central Asia, many herders and farmers were talking about how to get a job in the Wehrmacht logistics unit. If you want to enter the logistics and baggage system of the Wehrmacht, then every civilian and strong person who is recruited must be guaranteed by someone, and not one person at a time.

Rather, it is divided into three batches and three guarantees. The first batch needs five people to guaranture, just like the children who relied on Xiucai in China back then. Then there is the signature of the local chief executive, and the third is the guarantee of the regional head.

The latter two should be said to be 'responsible'. But nominally, that's also a guarantee. Moreover, these people need to have family relatives, and they are not used for bare poles and singles. In this regard, the Wehrmacht is very careful.

"A militia of 1,000 men must be assembled before the snow comes." The vice-king of the Turgut Khanate, Tselingdelek, looked straight at the Caspian Governor of the Turkut Khanate, Durongzana, so that he could not find the slightest room to hide. "The war had begun, and General Dong's cavalry troops had raided the Russian cavalry east of the Urals, but their baggage was far behind. Now Nanjing wants us to raise not only the people, but also the militia. I'm telling you, if you can't complete the task, you will immediately undress and get out of here. "Tselingdeluck has studied in Chen Han for many years, and he can not only speak fluent Chinese, but also speak in a very Chinese tone.

In the yamen of the Caspian Governor's Palace, Du Rongzhana, who is now the Governor of the Caspian Sea, was trained by Tselingdelek, who was ten years younger than him, to the point that he could not lift his head.

But in the feudal system of the Turgat Khanate, not to mention the vice-king Tserindelek, who was only thirteen years old, his status was higher than that of Durongzana.

After Tzelingdelek had squirted Durongza, the men rode their horses and escorted them quickly towards a Wehrmacht camp on the shores of the Caspian coast. Only the gray-headed Du Rongzana was left behind, and his face was blue and blushing for a while.

"Three thousand people, one thousand militia, to put it lightly!"

The vast province of Caspian had less than 200,000 people, and this was already a densely populated part of the Turghut Khanate. If Durongzana remembers correctly, the number of people who joined the Caspian army was 5,325. In the original resolution, this people could not draw the head of Caspian Province, because Caspian Province is the closest province to the battlefield, and it has a great advantage.

Well, the Turks saw it as a good opportunity to make a fortune.

But now it is suddenly necessary to transfer 3,000 people and 1,000 militiamen, which is more than 9,300 people. Not to mention whether other provincial governments will have opinions, just talk about the population pressure in Caspian Province, how many young people are there in the entire Caspian Province?

There are only 200,000 people in the entire Caspian province.

Durongzana has always believed that after the war broke out completely, the Caspian Province, the westernmost part of the Turkut Khanate, which was the westernmost point of the Mongol Four Khanates, would definitely continue to recruit people. But he didn't expect this transfer to come so quickly.

You must know that this war is a good opportunity for Caspian Province to make a fortune, and the starting place of the war is near the Caspian Sea, as the closest Caspian Province to the battlefield, it will definitely usher in a good opportunity to make war money.

Cattle, horses, sheep, leather, dairy products, etc., produced in Caspian Province, were the first choice for the purchase of the Chen Han National Defense Army. Quite a few orders have already been placed on the Caspian Sea.

Therefore, in the internal resolution of the Turgot Khanate, the people who were quite well paid were not recruited from the territory of the Caspian province. But the situation has changed.

As the governor of the Caspian province, Durongzana must have made up the militia and militia required by the Wehrmacht, but he did not want to disturb the livelihood of the people in the Caspian province because of this. If the 4,000 young people are transferred, half of the young people in the entire Caspian Province will be transferred, and it is really a difficult thing not to disturb the livelihood of the people in the Caspian Province.

"Call Natu Day." Back in his office, Durongzana shouted to his secretary. Thelmingdeluck is called a domineering person, and his wrists are also very tough! Anyway, he's the vice-king. There is no need to win people's hearts, and he does not care about people's face, and the people of the Turghat Khanate are more afraid of him than the Khan King Tsering Namzal.

So when Tzelingdelek gave the order, Du Rongzana didn't dare to squeak at all. I was depressed, and I only dared to show a trace of anger after Celingdelek left!

"My lord, the militia is not really a soldier, and the salary is not high. Even the coachman is inferior. The secretary said on the side, and said in his heart: No one is stupid. Which one would put a more profitable deal and do this?

Du Rongzana's face was even more bitter.

……

China and Russia declared war, and the Great War began. Just when Tselingdelek was pressuring Durong Zhana to gather the people and militia, Dong Wei had already rushed to the northern end of the Caspian Sea with three Wehrmacht cavalry divisions.

More than 20,000 cavalry galloped across the yellow steppe, and the Russian Cossack cavalry was brutally strangled.

The total number of cavalry divisions of the Russian army is less than 10,000 people, plus the Cossacks of the Volga, Astrakhan and Caucasus, the cavalry strength of the Russian army is only close to 20,000 cavalry, and it is impossible for all of these cavalry to be on the east bank of the Ural River.

Such a powerful cavalry force naturally had a sufficient mobile advantage before the main cavalry force led by Dong Wei arrived at the front line. But now, it will be the Russian army that is unlucky.

Dong Wei led the cavalry very quickly, and after receiving the news of Nanjing's official declaration of war on Russia, Dong Wei led the cavalry straight to the Caspian Sea, leaving his baggage troops far behind.

The advantage of this is, of course, that it can catch a lot of Russian cavalry that could not retreat, reap certain results, and give a fierce counterattack to the rampant activities of the Russian army before; And the downside is that it's a one-shot deal, and after the first battle, the whole team loses the ability to continue fighting. Because their logistical baggage had not kept up, the three cavalry divisions now had to rely on the reserves of military stations in the area east of the Ural River and the dry grass everywhere to fill the stomachs of the men and horses.

Why did the Turgot Khanate recruit the people and militia in the Caspian province so quickly?

That is, in order to deliver military supplies and supplies to the front line as soon as possible.

The Russians were caught off guard by Dong Wei's counterattack at first, but now they have come to their senses. The Chinese's war horses cannot maintain sufficient nutrition, and now both the condition of the war horses and the condition of the cavalry are in an abnormal state. And this is a good opportunity for the Russian army to strike back in a big way.

Even if the soldiers of the Chinese cavalry lacked a few bites to eat, they still had good combat effectiveness; But what about their horses?

A soldier can be a staunch patriot, but can a war horse be patriotic?

The irrationality of the feed and the lack of portions can seriously affect the condition of the horses, and in battle, they will manifest themselves as sprinting slowly.

This would have had a serious impact on the combat effectiveness of the Wehrmacht cavalry.

And winter is coming soon, and the creek is already frozen.

Large quantities of military supplies must be transported from the forward base to the front-line battlefield as soon as possible.

However, the situation in the northwest coincidentally responds to the old Chinese saying: the house leak coincides with overnight rain, and the disaster does not go alone. Winter in the Kazakh steppes came a little earlier this year. It's only in September of the lunar calendar, and the small snowflakes are falling down with a bang, and they are getting bigger and bigger.

This added to the problem of transporting troops. Especially those who are already on the road.

The winter is cold and snowy. The gusts of wind blew away the remnants of snow and swept them on the face, like a knife that cut meat.

The rammed earth pavement was frozen as hard as pig iron, and the snow on the avenue had accumulated more than half a foot thick, and it was no longer possible to see the original pattern. The snow was falling in front of him, and a flaming red military flag was exposed from the wind and snow, and then a group of convoys slowly drove from the east, and the last thing that fluttered in the convoy was a blood-colored red flag.

A battalion of escort troops, with a cavalry team wrapped in them. There were more than 1,000 people in the car, and more than 700 animals were pulling carts.

The rolling of the wheels of the car and the snow is a kind of situation of Chen Han's transport troops. Central Asia is really a bit far from the hinterland of Chenhan, even if Ili has been built in recent years, the straight-line distance from the Caspian Sea is 5,000 miles, and the real distance is more than 6,500 miles.

However, the eastern side of Lake Balkhash and the Fergana Basin, as Chen Han's two 'fortresses' in Central Asia, are actually more than 4,000 miles away from the Caspian Sea, so it is unrealistic to rely entirely on logistics troops to maintain such a long transportation line. Chen Han had to recruit a large number of local natives on the spot.

Of course, Chen Han also set up some reserves in the territory of the Four Mongol Khanates and the Three Kazakh Khanates, in which a large amount of military supplies were stored.

But for the sake of safety, these military supply depots can only be set up far from the Urals, far from the Caspian Sea.

Not to mention the northwestern part of the Aral Sea, it is five or six hundred miles away from the eastern bank of the Ural River.

And don't look at the huge number of military supplies in the reserve depot, once a war starts, the consumption of 200,000 troops can easily drain the last grain of this reserve depot. If we want to maintain an abundant supply of military supplies, we must also look at the salary frontier, we must look at Lake Balkhash and the Ferghana Basin.

In this war, Ili was China's rear - just like Xichuan in later generations, Lake Balkhash and the Ferghana Basin were central China, which could be affected by the war, and the Caspian Sea, the Aral Sea, and the east bank of the Ural River were the eastern coasts, which could be directly hit by the war.

Whether it is the Wehrmacht or the people, they are all unkempt now, their faces are frozen and white, and their lips are cracked. The whole body was stained white with snowflakes.

Even the cavalry no longer ran around the front and back of the ranks to reconnoitre, their rifles were tightly wrapped in cotton sheaths, and their pistols and short knives around their waists were also wrapped in cotton sheaths and linen. In this cold weather, the knives and guns have been exposed for a long time, and the wind and snow have gone, and the work has turned into ice in a moment. In the event of a war, the gun cannot be fired, and the knife cannot be drawn.

And the supplies escorted by this transport team are mainly grain and canned food. The large wooden boxes were covered with seals, and they were neatly stacked on the stocky flatbed trucks.

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