Chapter 589: The World Shakes
Hundreds of thousands of troops collided fiercely, and the battle was extremely fierce, the curtain has come to an end, and the front has fallen into a calm state, the Russian army is powerless to attack, and has lost a large number of elites, even if there are more than 500,000 people left in the Russian army, but they dare not attack casually, and even have to guard against the northwest attack.
As for the Northwest Army, it had no intention of attacking, as early as before Cai Yi led the army to Mongolia, Yang Yuanzhao repeatedly told him not to cross the dividing line between China and Russia, even if this land was once China, not that Yang Yuanzhao did not want to take back these, the reason is that the Northwest does not have this strength, and how much ability does polar bear Russia contain, just look at the future World War, although Russia fought very poorly in World War I, but also beat Austria-Hungary, a once powerful empire, all over the ground. Stronger than Germany, it is not as strong as a bamboo to break through the whole territory, and although the northwest now has a little strength, it is not enough to shake Russia.
Besides, Russia has the world's largest strategic depth, the greedy polar bear, it took several centuries, gradually expanding eastward, and finally from thousands of miles apart, to a border with China, more than 20 million square kilometers of land, so that he has the world's largest strategic depth, the European part is already very terrible, the Asian part is even more terrible, the northwest temporarily does not have the ability to occupy the territory, rashly entered the Russian chassis, Russia is not used for anything else, directly one backwards, Most of the problems can be solved, and the northwest, which relies on logistics and supply, is fundamentally in a dilemma.
There are some things that you can understand at a glance, not to mention Cai Yi, who has excellent strategic vision, after he came to the northwest. This policy is strictly implemented, even if the opponent reveals many weak links. The opportunity to cut off the Trans-Siberian Railway was not seized at all, and the two sides were separated by hundreds of kilometers. A state of truce has been formed, but the influence of this war is far from stopping.
About a few days later, some Russian media, plus some European media, began to report on the battle, which was quite informative, and there were even some simple battlefield shì introductions, of course. This time, the Northwest did not directly break out the battle report, but it was Brusinov who broke it first.
On the day of the defeat and retreat, Brusinov directly sent a telegram pleading, describing in detail the entire course of the battle, in which the training, military equipment, and large-scale transfer and logistics capabilities in the northwest were clearly written. Of course, before that, he contacted some major media outlets through the guò network to break the news. The battle was covered.
This is the first high-ranking general of the Russian army to analyze the entire military strength of the northwest, especially this battle. Almost every detail was written, transferred from their large scope. To the advance of the elite division, every qiē is invulnerable. But it happened to run into the northwest, and finally fell short, and in 4 days, it became a watershed, and it was such a step away from victory, but the result was ice and fire.
In the middle of this battle, the Northwest Army did not hide its number, and the combat effectiveness of the First Army was also in a hard-fought battle, which proved from the side that the Northwest had a strong construction capacity in the barren and backward areas, and was able to turn Mongolia's 1.5 million square kilometers of desert into a road, at least a fast-paced means of transportation.
That is to say, the two sides are no longer standing on the same level, the northwest has a great upper hand in the war, the labor expedition, the logistics supply is difficult, but it falls on Russia, even if the Russian army can take Mongolia, the huge Mongolia will become a burden for the Russian army, more than 1,000 kilometers of logistics counties, facing a small group of troops in the northwest, full of loopholes.
Brusinov also specifically mentioned the small jeep, which in his opinion is a small car that can be used off-road, in an environment like the steppe, it is not much stronger than the combat effectiveness of the cavalry troops, in this case, let alone 700,000, even 1.7 million, may not be able to please.
This is a fact, and it is also Brusinov's only chance to save himself, Nicholas II, after receiving such a telegram, first of all, he was furious, a small projectile land, an army of nearly a million, not only did not produce the slightest result, but until now he has not broken through any of the big cities of Mongolia, occupying a desert-like place, the previous commander committed suicide and died after losing his troops, this one still wants to do this, is it difficult to get through the test?
Compared with Samsolov, Brusinov's letter is more straightforward, in anger, Nicholas II was ready to directly order, executing Brussinov, but did not expect that at the same time he received the telegram, major European newspapers also reported on this battle, on it, there are even comments from British and French military experts, on the one hand, affirming that Brusinov's command should be decent, there is no big problem, but compared to him, the other party's command This combat effectiveness is on a higher level, This is also the root cause of his defeat.
Nicholas II's anger came out all at once, what kind of command is correct, and the command is correct will lose the army, and there is also a reason, is this Brusinov think that such media reports will put pressure on him to let him go?
Maybe it's a series of defeats, maybe even Nicholas II feels that there is nothing to be done, even if he is an irascible emperor, but he is still sensible, after all, now the German-Russian friction is intensifying, unless the whole country is mobilized, he will not be able to gather enough troops, since there are foreign military experts who say so, in order to distinguish whether what Brusinov said is true or false, military researchers were found to be responsible for analyzing this battle.
The Russian military academy also has a long history, and it has also given birth to a series of military command talents, and soon, 3 days later, including two marshals, 12 generals and hundreds of colonels reviewed the battle, and most of the conclusions reached are that if the facts are really as Brusinov said, Brusinov's defeat was decided at the very beginning, if he was really wrong, that is, at the beginning, in the face of the two airships in the northwest, he should retain his strength and not be able to go into battle with all his strength, As a result, the northwest occupies absolute air supremacy.
But everyone knows that fighting rabbits still has to use all their strength, not to mention the airship, the other party is coming violently, even if it is the first merit to get, it is impossible not to shoot it all, which so-called air supremacy, only on specific occasions is useful, of course, aside from the unimaginable large-scale production capacity and troop mobilization ability, the resilience and combat effectiveness of the northwest are also extremely powerful, because the final battle process is definitely a hard-fought battle, orders again and again, war reports again and again, Even the process of fighting is beyond scrutiny, it is simply true to the extreme, under such a hard encounter, even if the northwest has the advantage of artillery fire, even if there is the help of airships, but if the Northwest Army does not have combat effectiveness similar to the elite units of the Russian army, it will definitely not be able to hold the defensive line.
What to do, a unit with about 500,000 troops, whose strength is in the first-class troops of the Russian army, and has a strong technical arms, even because of the huge population base, may be expanded by more than 5 times at any time, how many people can defeat them, for a barren Mongolia, 5 times, is 2.5 million troops, even if it is just ordinary equipment, the pressure is too great, unless it is a national mobilization.
The essence of Russia will always be in the European part, this is recognized, Siberia is large enough, six or seven million square kilometers of land, but only provides some basic raw materials, these places are insignificant in Russia, for the sake of 1.5 million square kilometers of desert, fight for the national fortune, this is absolutely unacceptable.
The face of the tsar is important, but the reality is more important, because after this war, the tsar occasionally showed in public that there was a sign of possible general mobilization of the whole army, of course, this is just a casual remark, but it made Britain and France and other countries believe that it is true, itself, the second army went to the Far East, it has already made Britain and France have some complaints, of course, in their opinion, the northwest is unlikely to resist the attack of the Russian army, therefore, only limited attention, and now the newspapers have proved that the 500,000 troops of the Northwest Army, It will not be lower than the combat effectiveness of the front-line troops of Russia, and even above them, how can they be allowed to come nonsense in this case.
Britain and France acted very quickly, first of all, the foreign secretary came directly to Russia to put pressure on the Russian Foreign Ministry, and after the Russian Foreign Ministry did not clearly reflect, it was simply a joint visit by the prime ministers of the two countries, and directly began to intervene nakedly. The cutting-edge Germany is already the first industrial power in Europe, in many fields, it has strong strength, the army is particularly strong, and what makes people tremble even more is the navy, the German high seas fleet led by Wilhelm II is definitely the world's second largest dreadnought and super dreadnought fleet, and the United Kingdom, which claims to be the world's first naval power, is also suffering from Germany's aggressiveness and is overwhelmed.
Since 1911, Britain has begun to prepare for a war against Germany, and many of its reserves and preparations were made more than a year ago.
In just two days, first the foreign minister, then the prime minister, and then some important cabinet ministers, almost went to Russia, and some mainstream media also took the initiative to hide these things, but unfortunately where the great powers are, these are as clear as a mirror, and the northwest also got these news through the channels of Germany, Yang Yuanzhao finally put his heart in his stomach, and the previous judgment was only based on the situation, and now, the dust has settled, and the war in the north is finally coming to an end. (To be continued......) R1292