Germany must be happy to see Russia's center of gravity shift eastward, but after all, Russia has an alliance with France, and it is likely to become Germany's enemy in the future, and if Russia defeats China and becomes stronger, it will not be a good thing for Germany. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo

What the German government is even more worried about is that if Russia really fights side by side with the United States, it will lead to the United States joining the Franco-Russian alliance, which will be a bolt from the blue for Germany. Once the United States joins the Franco-Russian alliance, it will not only greatly increase the strength of this alliance, thus depriving the German-Austrian-Italian Triple Alliance of its superiority in strength, but will also allow Britain to calmly sit on the mountain and watch the tiger fight, and Germany's hope of seizing world hegemony will inevitably become even more minimal.

Therefore, although Germany is more inclined to Russia in the Sino-Russian dispute, on the other hand, the Germans do not want the scale of the war to expand. On the contrary, Britain, which is more biased towards China, is now afraid that the world will not be chaotic, and they hope that China and the United States and Russia will play dog brains, and the larger the scale of the war, the more tragic the process, the better.

As a result, there was a strange situation that made Li Hui's hairs stand on end, Germany, a challenger with a strong militaristic tradition, desperately advocated peace, while the British Empire, which was supposed to actively maintain world order, hid a knife in its smile and desperately fanned the flames to instigate the three countries to fight......

But China's actions were so fast that the jumping up and down of Britain and Germany became a pure clown show, and there was no practical meaning at all, because after just a few days, the whole world understood that China was ready to fight a full-scale war! It is not easy for China, a major country that plays a pivotal role in the world, to make such a determination, but once it is determined, it is not something that other countries can easily influence......

On April 9, 1907, on the same day that the Chinese government declared war on the United States, the younger brothers of the Asian League also declared war on the United States, and only one day later, the Chinese Fifth Mountain Division set out from Cranbrook and swung south along the railway line to Spokane, the most important land transportation hub in the northwest of the United States!

However, relations between the two countries have been bad for so many years, and it is impossible for the Americans to take precautions, not only did they tear down more than a dozen kilometers of railways in the country (but even the roadbed was damaged, and it could not be repaired in a few days). At the same time, a large number of permanent fortifications were built in the mountains on both sides of the railway that were not demolished, so as to block the Chinese army's attack with the help of favorable terrain and strong fortifications, and as long as they could hold out for a few days, the rear could use the railway to bring a large number of reinforcements, so as to turn defense into attack. Therefore, the speed of the advance of the Chinese army became a decisive factor in the success of this campaign.

Since the mountainous areas were not conducive to the deployment of large troops, the headquarters of the Fifth Mountain Division had already decided to use the battalion level as the basic combat unit as early before the war, and the 105mm mountain artillery was also dismantled and distributed to each battalion for attacking fortified positions. Within two days of entering the United States, the Fifth Mountain Division had conquered 238 US strongholds, killed and captured more than 10,000 US troops, and advanced the front nearly 30 kilometers.

After receiving an urgent report from the front, the headquarters of the US Army's Eighth Army in Spokane immediately sent reinforcements, hoping to take advantage of the enemy's dispersal of forces to annihilate a few battalions first, stop the arrogant offensive of the Chinese army, and also make a good start to this war that was destined to be protracted. However, what the US commander did not expect was that his infantry regiment of nearly 4,000 men could completely defeat a battalion of only more than 800 enemy troops......

"Damn, what about the artillery? And what about our artillery? Are they all dead? Just watch us get beaten for nothing? The U.S. infantry hid in the craters left by the enemy's shelling and complained angrily, because the enemy's attack came too suddenly, they didn't even have time to dig trenches, the firepower of 6 120mm mortars and 9 82mm mortars was so powerful, and the Yankees on the march had no cover of fortifications at all, and the formation was still very compact, as a result, hundreds of American soldiers were killed and wounded in just one round of shelling, and the vanguard battalion that was marching in the mountain road was crippled at once, but fortunately, the craters that appeared on the ground could provide concealment and protection, So that the remaining American GIs can hide in it and avoid death. However, what made them angry and puzzled was that their own artillery did not make a counterattack for a long time, and they immediately scolded one after another.

But now the artillery of the regiment is justifying the regiment commander with a bitter face, "It's not that we don't open artillery, it's that we can't open artillery, the enemy is hiding behind the mountain, and our artillery ballistic is straight, and we can't hit it!" ”

"You mean, the enemy has a very curved artillery? In that case, how to fight? The commander of the US regiment is also a knowledgeable man, and he immediately realized the seriousness of the problem; when it comes to the battle at the regimental and battalion level, the importance of artillery has surpassed that of light weapons, and if one side has artillery and the other has no artillery, even if its own strength still has several times the advantage, it will be difficult to win. Based on the American military's tradition of always attaching importance to casualties, this regimental commander decisively gave the order to withdraw troops. As a result, he gritted his teeth, probably to find that the American infantry had left the "position", and the Chinese shelling had begun again, as a result, the vanguard battalion was severely damaged again......

However, no matter how angry he was, the American commander did not change his orders, and the first field battle between China and the United States ended hastily, with 96 American soldiers killed (American standard) and 852 wounded (112 of whom died on the battlefield and 83 died in hospitals). And on the Chinese side, there is not even a single injured one......

Even if the commander of the US Eighth Army knew that he was right to do so, he must be severely punished to set an example, and the US military pays attention to casualties in peacetime, but now it is a full-scale war that is gambling on the fortunes of the country, how can it still care about the life and death of cannon fodder?

So, the regimental commander was immediately shot because he had two battalions of infantry available, but instead of sending them out to take the enemy's artillery positions, he fled, even though it was in fact that it was this decision that prevented more needless casualties...... (To be continued.) )