As the world war progressed, the Russian Empire continued to build up troops on the Siberian battlefield, which was already beyond the scale of ordinary battles. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

Tsarist Russia was a fighting nation, and only they invaded other countries and devoured the territory of other countries, and did not allow other countries to swallow up the territory of the Tsarist Empire.

The Russian Empire invaded China during the Second Yapian War, but was defeated by the Chinese Empire and lost a large part of the Far East, which became a disgrace to the Russian Empire and the Romanzhov family.

The territories lost during the reign of Alexander III, which he dreamed of recapturing, did not fulfill his wishes until his death.

As a result, Alexander III went into the coffin, and the hatred continued to the next Tsar Nicholas II, and with the unwilling death of his father, this hatred became unforgivable, and became the reason why Nicholas II had to confront the Chinese Empire.

The Tsarist Russian Empire did not take much advantage of the war with Germany on the Western Front, and fought with Austria-Hungary and the Ottoman Empire, which took a slight advantage, but did not take advantage of the war with the Chinese Empire in the Caspian Sea, but suffered heavy losses, with tens of thousands of casualties.

Roosevelt sent a secret telegram to Nicholas II, willing to provide military assistance to Tsarist Russia, hoping that the Imperial Army of Tsarist Russia could contain the Chinese Empire and delay the time for the Chinese Empire to take full revenge on the United States.

On the one hand, there was an enmity with the Chinese Empire, and on the other hand, the Americans gave money and supplies, so Nicholas II was moved, and immediately mobilized a large army to attack the Chinese Empire.

Previously, the Russian Empire had hit a wall on the battlefield in the Western Regions, so Nicholas II chose to start a war in the Siberian region, where the endless Siberian steppes and the Mongolian desert were easy to deploy and suitable for the general army to fight.

Nicholas II wanted to eat a fat man in one bite, directly defeat the Chinese Empire, and achieve world hegemony, directly ignoring the fact that Tsarist Russia was far inferior to the Chinese Empire.

Northern Capital, Uriya Sutai, Li Palace.

Knowing that Nicholas II personally supervised the war and mobilized more than a million troops to deploy in Siberia, Li Weiguo also lost his temper and wanted to face to face with Nicholas II, so he personally arrived in the northern capital of Uriya Sutai to boost the morale of the officers and soldiers of the Chinese Empire.

Li Weiguo drove his own expedition to the Mongolian steppe, mobilized the 38 towns under the jurisdiction of the Central Theater, the Northern Theater, and the Northeast Theater, with a total strength of more than 800,000 troops, and threw them into the Siberian battlefield to prepare for a showdown with the Tsarist Empire.

Although the Tsarist Empire was poor and backward, and its industrial strength was also at the bottom of the great powers, the military strength of the Tsarist Empire was still very strong, which was reflected in the huge scale of the army.

This time, Nicholas II personally supervised the battle, and the Russian army dispatched 117 infantry divisions with a total strength of 1.42 million troops, carrying 5,820 artillery pieces and 822 heavy machine guns.

Being able to mobilize more than one million troops in such a short period of time, this alone is worth Li Weiguo's personal expedition.

Although Li Weiguo only led more than 800,000 troops this time, they were all standing armies of the Chinese Empire, and the soldiers were well-trained and well-equipped. There were 6,400 artillery pieces, 2,400 heavy machine guns, 800 combat vehicles, and 48 reconnaissance planes.

The Chinese Imperial Shence Army was elite, but its number was less than that of the Tsarist Imperial Army, so this time in the early and middle stages of the Battle of Siberia, Li Weiguo made a defensive plan and carried out a comprehensive counterattack in the later stage of the battle.

Therefore, the artillery of the Shence Army was mainly 75 mm infantry guns and 155 mm heavy howitzers, and the combat vehicles were only retained as mobile forces in the early stage, and they would support wherever the battle was fierce or the strength was tight.

On the contrary, although there were more than 5,800 artillery pieces of the Russian Imperial Army, they were mainly attacking, and siege artillery accounted for about half.

This is because the Shence Army of the Chinese Empire is mainly defensive, and the strong fortifications have forced the Tsarist Russian army to increase the number of siege guns.

As a result, the number of field artillery pieces of the Tsarist Russian army was less than 3,000, and once the offensive was frustrated, it would have to engage in fierce battles with the Chinese Imperial Army in the field.

However, Nicholas II and his staff did not find out about this, their intelligence system in the Chinese Empire was weak, and they did not know how many artillery pieces Li Weiguo brought this time.

The first battle of the Sino-Russian Battle of Siberia took place in the area north of the Tangnu-Ulianghai Sea, southwest of Baihaier Lake and west of the Great Khing'an Mountains on the Sino-Russian border, with an area of 15,000 square kilometers.

As the first battle of the Battle of Siberia, the Tsarist Empire can be said to have the strongest combat effectiveness, with 1.11 million troops of 1.42 million troops deployed into the frontal battlefield, and the remaining troops as reserves.

The main direction of attack of the Russian Imperial Army was the city of Erkou in the southwest of Baihaier Lake, which was the only pass on the Siberian steppe to the Mongolian desert, and the only city on the plain of the Shence Army of the Chinese Empire.

As for the other two directions, Tangnu Wulianghai and Daxing'an Mountains are both lofty mountains, and the Shence Army of the Chinese Empire built fortifications on the hills, which were condescending, and they were easy to defend and difficult to attack.

Previously, when the Russian Imperial Army was fighting in the Bukhara Khanate, a vassal state on the northwest border of the Chinese Empire, the Russian army attacked the mountain fortifications heavily defended by the Shence Army of the Chinese Empire and suffered a great loss.

Therefore, this time, the Tsarist Russian Imperial Army only did not know 200,000 troops in Tangnu Wulianghai and Daxinganling, although it was also an attack, but it was mainly a feint attack and containment, and the main direction of attack was all pressed on Erkou City.

Li Weiguo had expected this for a long time, so of the 800,000 troops brought by Li Weiguo this time, 600,000 were concentrated near Erkou City, and the other 200,000 were stationed on the side of Tangnu Wulianghai and Daxinganling.

Although Li Weiguo guessed that these two places were the direction of the Russian army's feints, he did not dare to be careless.

To the east of Erkou City is Baihaier Lake, and to the west is Tangnu Wulianghai.

In late November, the northern hemisphere has entered a cold winter, and the Siberian region is even colder.

Choosing such a ghost weather to fight, Li Weiguo also had to admire the willfulness of Nicholas II.

If it was placed in ancient times, sending troops in winter would be purely looking for death.

Even in modern times, sending troops to fight in winter is a life of death, and the fiasco of Napoleon's expedition to the Russian Empire is a bloody example.

But Nicholas II did it anyway, probably thinking that he was completely sure that he could capture Erkou before the first heavy snowfall, and then the Russian army could live in warm clay kang houses for the winter.

Erkou town guarded the house, and Li Weiguo drove the expedition in person and arrived here.

Early the next morning, Li Weiguo braved the cold morning in the north and led a group of officials and generals to inspect the defense of Erkou City.

Twenty years ago, Erkou City was still a small border city with only the families of the garrison, and after 20 years of vigorous construction, Erkou City has become a medium-sized city with a population of 200,000.

These populations benefited from a period of peace between China and Russia, when the Russian Empire had not yet joined the Entente camp, so the Sino-Russian trade flourished, which made the border port prosperous.

But now, there is going to be a war here, most of the non-combatants have been evacuated, and the houses have been purchased by the Chinese Imperial government to house the Chinese Imperial Army, logistics warehouses, etc.

In the old days, a large number of buildings were built here, all of which were reinforced concrete structures, and the labels were all special cement and special steel, making the buildings here very strong.

If in the Battle of New York, a single 16-inch shell from a battleship of the Imperial Chinese Navy could blow up a 20-story American building, then it would take at least three shots to do so in Erkou City.

If I had to make a more appropriate comparison, it would be that the buildings in China are all military standards, and the buildings in the United States can only be reduced to tofu scum projects.

In the past 20 years, no one knows why the Chinese Imperial Government has never approved wooden houses for buildings in all cities, and the common people have always thought that this is the rigid rule of Li Weiguo, the emperor of the Chinese Empire, because the city of Shanghai was ordered by Li Weiguo himself to completely replace wooden houses with reinforced concrete houses, and later Li Weiguo became the emperor, this rule was continued, and Shanghai became the template for major cities in the country.

It wasn't until after the outbreak of the World War, after the Battle of New York and the Battle of Erkou City, that people understood what these high-grade reinforced concrete buildings really did.

Sturdy, resistant to beating, during the war can use the building as a wall to block the enemy's bullets, when the fortifications block the enemy's shells, and even after the brutal shelling, the wooden structure of the house has been blown up and burned, but the reinforced concrete structure of the building can also shelter from the wind and rain, so that the soldiers and civilians have a place to sleep.

Who can be so far-sighted, it is none other than Li Weiguo.

Li Weiguo has done a lot of strange things in the past, but now they are being confirmed one after another, and they are all far-sighted measures.

In the back hall of the town's guard, Li Weiguo was discussing the military situation with the military generals, and Mingyue came to meet him.

"Your Majesty, Li Weijun just sent a call!"

"Presumably it must have been a successful naval sneak attack, and the good news is coming!"

Some generals couldn't help but say, they couldn't wait.

Mingyue shook her head with a straight face, "Lord Li asks Your Majesty for help!" ”

Forehead......

Everyone was petrified.

What's going on with this Nima?

Do we have a meter in our ears and a mishearing?

It's not good news, it's a call for help!

"Lord Li asking for help?"

"Did it not work out?"

"Surrounded by U.S. troops?"

A group of generals were speechless, their faces full of shock and incredulity.

Although Li Weiguo's heart was also tight, he kept calm, and he soon smiled, because he found that Mingyue had a straight face, but there was no murderous aura in his eyes.

But whenever a general loses a battle, there will be a trace of murder in Mingyue's eyes.

Li Weiguo then smiled and said, "Okay, don't scare them!" ”

Seeing that Li Weiguo had debunked himself, Mingyue suddenly smiled and said: "Your Majesty is still wise and martial, and you can see through a little joke of the minister at a glance!" Although Lord Li asked for help, the sneak attack on the United States had been successful, and the request for help was only unplanned! ”

Whew......

A group of generals suddenly breathed a sigh of relief, thinking that they had lost the battle, and they were worried to death, but it turned out that Mingyue deliberately played a cold joke to tease them.

"I'll tell you, Lord Yue, are you deliberately amusing us?"

"Lord Mingyue, you know that you scared us just now, and our livers fluttered!"

At this time, Li Weiguo said with a smile: "Let's read the content of the good news first, let everyone relax and be happy!" ”

"Yes!" Mingyue received the order, so she told the content of the good news.

Li Weijun asked for help in the telegram, so naturally he had to report the success first, and he had to make Li Weiguo and the ministers happy, and then it would be convenient to talk about the matter of asking for help.

Therefore, Li Weijun made a detailed report on the results of this sneak attack on the United States.

"In this battle of revenge, the Imperial Navy fleet successfully attacked the three largest harbor cities in the United States, Mobile, Norfolk and New York, and destroyed 1,022 US warships, including 8 40,000-ton battleships, 8 40,000-ton battlecruisers, 12 20,000-ton heavy cruisers, 24 10,000-ton large armored cruisers, 28 3,000-ton cruisers, more than 130 frigates, more than 270 gunboats, more than 200 submarines, and hundreds of other auxiliary warships. More than 20 large and medium-sized shipyards and more than 500 shipyards were destroyed, and more than 200,000 American shipyard workers were killed or injured. ”

"After the mission was completed, the Imperial Navy continued to shell these three large seaport cities in order to carry out complete destruction so that they could no longer be restored and could no longer build warships for the American Navy."

"At present, the Imperial Marines have occupied the entire city of Mobile, half of New York City, and Norfolk occupies one-fifth, and the U.S. army has begun a large-scale counteroffensive, and our army has fought bravely, but the number of troops is too small to completely control the entire city, and for the purpose of complete destruction, I ask Your Majesty to send reinforcements."

After saying that, everyone was happy, and these generals praised one after another, as if the results achieved by Li Weijun and other naval officers and men were theirs.

Li Weiguo nodded very satisfied, and expected the effect to be very good, especially to kill and injure more than 200,000 shipyard workers, which was not the task that Li Weiguo asked for at the beginning.

"I thought that I would withdraw after a sneak attack, and then choose the location of the landing in the Americas at the right time, but now it seems that Li Weijun wants to use New York, Norfolk and Mobile as landing sites."

Zhang Xiaoliu said at this time: "Your Majesty, the main force of the American Navy no longer exists, after this sneak attack, the capital ships of the American Navy under construction have been destroyed, within a few years, the United States will not have the strength to fight against the Imperial Navy, so the Caribbean Theater and the Panama Battlefield can be temporarily abandoned, and the troops there can be transferred to Li Weijun, if they can gain a foothold in these three largest seaport cities, then the Empire's next plan to attack the United States mainland will be easier to implement, even if it can't, The use of these three cities as the sites of engagement would also be enough to destroy them and deal a heavy blow to the American economy. ”

Li Weiguo nodded, asked the other generals again, and basically agreed with this strategy.

So Li Weiguo waved his pen and issued a holy decree to transfer most of the forces in the Caribbean Theater to the North Atlantic, incorporate them into the battle sequence of the Marine Corps of the Pacific Fleet, and hand them over to Li Weijun with full command. (To be continued.) )