Yang Chao did not have time to do research with Wu Liande, and his immediate priority was to deal with the offensive launched by the Russians. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

The Russians did not break through Yang Chao's proof defense, because the tactics of this era had just developed to the eve of an innovation, and everyone seemed to have walked into a dead end, the defensive effect far exceeded the attack effect, and the perfect coordination of machine gun trenches and barbed wire made all the warriors who actively attacked become dead soldiers who have no return, except for turning into dead corpses, there is no result.

As long as the gap between the two sides is not too big, as long as it is not the gap between the Eight-Nation Alliance and the Boxers, there will be no collapse of the war situation, and there can only be a tug-of-war, and in the reinforced concrete position, individual bravery is completely restricted. This can be seen from the fact that even an army like Italy could compete with Austria-Hungary for three years.

In addition to their commendable personal courage, the Russians may not be able to catch up with Yang Chao's soldiers in training.

The backbone of Yang Chao's army was 50,000 children from the Northeast, who stayed in Shandong from 1906 to 1910, and they were all in Shandong for four years, singing "On the Songhua River" every day, homesick every day, and every day in the elite of the Propaganda Department of the Fuqiang Party sent by Yang Chao, all kinds of Russians were brutal and struggling in the propaganda of all kinds of evil in the Northeast, and these people had long hated to run back to the Northeast to kill the Russians.

In addition to spiritual indoctrination, military discipline is more important, four years is enough for these people to master the military skills at the same time, but also to understand all the military discipline, for which they have paid the price of blood, because they were agitated too much, many people secretly escaped, and even groups of three or five agreed to go back to the northeast to kill the Russians, all those who were captured back, were shot as deserters in public, these 50,000 soldiers have long learned to absolutely obey orders, never questioned.

Yang Chao believes that the soldiers trained by Wu Peifu will definitely not be worse than the Russians, and the Russian army is not an army known for its well-trained. They were famous for savage charges, for the Cossack scimitars, for the bayonets of the steam steamrollers.

But now all this, under the isolated defense of machine-gun trench barbed wire and thistle terrestris. It was impossible to exert it at all, and nothing could be achieved except for heavy casualties.

This situation was basically impossible to change in World War II, until the technology of aircraft and tanks matured. The so-called World War I was characterized by machine guns and trenches with barbed wire, and World War II was characterized by aircraft, artillery, tanks, and vehicles, one was mainly defensive tactics, and the other was good at offensive tactics, which was destined to be a world dominated by defense after the emergence of automatic weapons and before the emergence of armored weapons, and all wars were destined to be protracted wars.

What is the protracted struggle is not bravery, what is the art of command, and it is basically completely fought who consumes whom. It is the overall strength of a country, the potential of a country, the endurance of a nation, and the resilience of a people.

And fighting endurance and toughness, Yang Chao is really not afraid, these two things are what the Oriental nation is best at.

The situation is indeed as Yang Chao expected, the Russians really can't find a good way to break through the defense of Harbin, and it is not even as good as the era of Genghis Khan, the cavalry era can not be defeated and bypassed, but it has just entered the modernization. The army's dependence on material supplies has been greatly strengthened, and without adequate supplies, an army can hardly fight, so the Russian army wants to bypass Harbin on a large scale. That's unrealistic.

So the Russians picked up the tactics of the Cold Weapon era again, and their tactics really brought some trouble to Yang Chao, and the Russians sent a large number of Cossacks deep into the hinterland of the northeast, sabotaging railways, looting people, and fighting guerrilla warfare.

Obviously, this kind of guerrilla warfare cannot achieve a decisive victory, and its only effect is sabotage. It was just to open up another tug-of-war battlefield, so that the Cossacks and a large number of bandits and horse thieves recruited by the Beiyang Army were tug-of-war with each other, but Yang Chao was worried about the panic of the people in the northeast, and for a time there was a wave of refugees from Heilongjiang to the south, especially during the plague, which was extremely difficult to control.

At the same time, the destruction of the Cossacks caused the people of the Northeast to hate Russia, and they signed up for the army more enthusiastically.

Now that one million young people in Northeast China have joined the army, almost all the idle young people in Northeast China have picked up guns, and Yang Chao only left 300,000 people in the front to consume with the Russians, and the vast majority of them stayed in the rear, giving them guns, sending officers to train them, allowing them to maintain local law and order, and at the same time fighting with front-line soldiers in rotation every once in a while to achieve the purpose of training soldiers.

There is no need to worry about the situation at the front.

The Russians continued to launch an offensive, but they could not achieve any effect at all, large-scale artillery bombardment could not completely destroy the complete fortifications, and the Russians' artillery was no longer the opponent of the soldiers fed by Yang Chao with shells, and the number and caliber of artillery were not as good as Yang Chao's artillery.

Yang Chao's army has 10,000 cannons, the Russians only have 3,000, Yang Chao has been equipped with 900 new 150 heavy guns made by the Laiwu Arsenal, and the Russians generally use 75 cannons, the maximum caliber is only 105, and the 280 cannons of several soldiers are used to attack the city, but they can't even touch the bricks of Harbin, so far, their artillery fire can only cover the first position, and even Wu Peifu has not broken through a position, how to talk about siege!

With Yang Chao's plan, he will be in this tug of war with the Russians for more than two years, and then Yang Chao will dispatch such a surprise soldier as an airship to fly to the rear of the Russians to sabotage the railway, bomb cities, create panic, and even fly above Moscow for deterrence, and even bomb Moscow and St. Petersburg.

I believe that in two years, Russia, an impatient nation, will run out of patience, and the country will start to make trouble, and now it has only been a year that there has been a matter of workers, and in two years, it will be time to revolt.

But the plan can't catch up with the changes, Yang Chao is planning to fight a protracted war, a war of attrition, but the Russians don't want to fight this kind of war, more than two years of war in history, unless they are invaded, they almost never win, the Crimean War of 1853 to 1856, the Russians lost, the Russo-Japanese War of 1904 to 1905 The Russians also lost, the world war from 1904 to 1918, they still lost, the reason for the loss, every time it is inseparable from a domestic trouble.

Yang Chao plans to drag the war for more than two years, or even three years, directly to the First World War, but it is a bit contradictory, what if he drags the Russians and the First World War can't be fought?

Yang Chao, who knows, World War I was the first to carry out a general mobilization because of the Russians. The Germans had been allowed to join the war, and if the Russians had restrained themselves and acquiesced in the annexation of Serbia by Austria-Hungary, the First World War would not have been fought.

Now Russia is dragged to the northeast. Obviously, they are incapable of starting a war with the Germans, and if the European war does not break out, this is Yang Chao's biggest loss, and it is an opportunity to challenge the old order. It was a pity that the Germans challenged and let go of the opportunity for other quasi-good powers to pick fruits.

Therefore, Yang Chao still had the idea of ending the war as soon as possible, not wanting to weaken the Russians too much, at this time, the Russians launched a new offensive, they gave up charging from Harbin frontally, and adopted the tactics that Zhang Zhidong and other ministers were most worried about, breaking through from Xinjiang in the northwest and Mongolia in the north.

Needless to say, Mongolia. Across the east and west of China, the border with Russia is 2,000 kilometers long, it is really difficult to fortify, and the terrain in the territory is flat, a horse and a flat river, too suitable for the Cossack cavalry gallop, so after the Russians chose this tactic, even Zhang Zhidong was a little troubled, strengthened the defense around Zhangjiakou, worried that the Russians would rush thousands of miles to Beijing. Zaifeng's group of Eight Banners disciples were completely frightened, and even suggested that Yang Chao be transferred back to Beijing.

"Let Duan Qirui come to me!"

After receiving the offensive of the Russians on the western front of Xinjiang and the central line of Mongolia, Yang Chao immediately sent someone to give Duan Qirui an order.

Duan Qirui was the commander of the East Road during this time, responsible for the defense of Hal to the northeast. In fact, there was no shortage of wars, and the Beiyang Army under his command proved their strength, and there was no problem at all in defensive operations, and a large number of machine guns and artillery supported by Yang Chao were even more powerful.

"See Lord Yang!"

Duan Qirui was full of anger, and his tone was full of respect. He does respect Yang Chao, although Yang Chao looks red and white, and pretends to have a sparse beard on his chin, but no matter how he looks at it, he looks more like a scholar.

But Yang Chao's courage and courage made Duan Qirui admire in his heart, and at the same time there was a mysterious sense of awe, he didn't know where this sense of awe came from, because Yang Chao didn't look like a character who could break out and hurt people at any time, nor was it Yuan Shikai's kind of feeling that he saw you through when he looked at you, Yang Chao was very approachable, and he spoke very kindly, and when he came into contact with people, he had a feeling of being a gentleman like a spring breeze, and you would feel that you were fully respected.

But where does this awe come from? Maybe it's a sense of mystery that Duan Qirui can't explain, Duan Qirui feels that Yang Chao is very mysterious, because Yang Chao does a lot of things that he can't understand at all, but he knows that it is very level, and he knows that under Yang Chao's seemingly young body, there is something called Dacai.

"Lord Duan, come and do it quickly. The official came to you to borrow someone from you. ”

Duan Qirui heard that kind voice again, not Yuan Shikai's deliberate overture, and at the same time let you know that he was favoring you, but the kind of cordial voice that was very calm with each other as friends.

"What the adults say is not borrowed, but the adults have an order to do it."

Yang Chao smiled: "That's right. The Russians have entered the Mongolian steppe, where there is a yellow sand Gobi steppe, and it is impossible to defend at all, so they can only rely on cavalry. But there are no cavalry under this officer, and you have incorporated a lot of horse thieves from the past, and this officer heard that a man named Zhang Zuolin has a good hand, and he is also witty and smart. This official wants to transfer him to Mongolia to take charge of himself, so I will discuss it with you, I don't know if the shadow will affect the defense of your side? ”

Duan Qirui suddenly felt a little aggrieved, Yang Chao respected him so much, and discussed with him so politely, doesn't it mean that he is not 'his own person', if it is Wu Peifu, Duan Qirui believes that Yang Chao must have given the order directly, where will he discuss it with his subordinates.

Duan Qirui suppressed an inexplicable amazement in his heart, and returned: "Zhang Zuolin, the co-commander, is indeed witty, during this period of time, he has made many feats in encircling and suppressing the Russian cavalry in the rear, and has set up ambushes and tricked the Russians many times, and has killed and captured hundreds of enemy soldiers. ”

Zhang Zuolin was born as a bandit in the Northeast, and he never played cards according to the routine in war, although Duan Qirui didn't like it, he had to admit that it was very effective.

Yang Chao laughed and said, "That's good." The official promoted him to be the commander of a town, and let him go to Mongolia to compete with the Russians. ”

In a few words, another hero of the Republic of China made his debut! (To be continued.) )