In fact, the Far Eastern Army was full of fools like Pajerov, and even within the 17th Army, where Lieutenant General Andrei was located, was filled with a large number of inactive officers. They reached the position of officers through bribery, pulling connections, etc., and did not have much military cultivation, but they were extremely proficient in comparison, aristocratic lifestyle, and playing with women. When the battle began, the positions of those officers became the key to the outcome of the war, and the role of those middle and senior officers was very important in terms of how much Andrei's orders could be understood, how much they were carried out, and how effective the junior officers and soldiers were.

Unfortunately, these people were concentrating on sending electricity to St. Petersburg, looking for contacts in the country, trying to get orders from the War Office to transfer themselves back to the country. Before the war began, everyone thought that it would be an easy battle, and after the British Navy defeated the Chinese Navy, the Army only had to go south to receive the wealth of the Chinese Army, so a large number of related households fought for the officer quota of the Far Eastern Army. Now after the comparison, it will make people feel sarcastic, but no matter how sarcastic it is, it can only be expressed by secretly venting, Andrei can't even be angry with a major officer, because he has an uncle in charge of army logistics, a cousin of the Guards officer who is very favored in the Winter Palace, and those people are not something that his own little army commander can provoke.

The most speechless thing is that the Far Eastern Army was already short of logistics, and the Russian army only got about one-fifth of the materials hoarded in Tianjin. Pajerov distributed all the supplies to the armies, and then they were not under Andrei's control. In the entire 17th Army, except for himself, the commander, all the middle and high-ranking officers were involved in the activities of selling arms and materials, and the proportion of the income due to each person was also marked according to the size of the position and the strength of the network.

As for the objects of trafficking, there are local arms dealers, big landlords and big businessmen in the north, and the final flow can also be easily ascertained, such as horse bandits and Beiyang troops in various places. Andrei is not unaware of this. But it could not be stopped, the entire Russian army was in such a state of affairs, Nicholas II could not control it. Finally, when the men below gave André 100,000 pounds sterling and begged him to agree to sell the artillery of the XVII Army, a furious André drove away the shameless men, and then he was threatened with death in the evening. In the end, he reluctantly agreed to become a member of the arms and materials sales army.

The only reason why such an army can keep Russia a deterrent is that the obedient gray cattle, serfs, bankrupt craftsmen, and urban poor, who form the basis of the Russian army. The Russian soldier was a better expendable for war than the precious, elite German soldier, and the grey cattle were as strong and durable as the Acre 47 (read "Acre" by a must).

The 100,000 gray cattle were also the reason why Lü Hua could not despise the Russian army, and the Russian officers represented by Pajerov were the source of Lü Hua's confidence in achieving the goal of the campaign. Pajerov's order to Lieutenant General Andrei was that the 17th Army seize the fighters and strike from the breakthrough of the battle line, without worrying about the intrigues of the Chinese army, because the 15th and 30th armies on both flanks would firmly guard the flanks of the 17th Army.

The flanks of the 15th and 30th armies were not even ultra-thin. Andrei hoped for "thickening", but Lieutenant General Zaitsev of the 15th Army and Lieutenant General Vanov of the 30th Army obviously wanted to use the 17th Army as a touchstone, and they hesitated after more than 30 kilometers on both flanks, and the ghost knew if they could rush over in time when the Chinese army surrounded the 17th Army, and Andrei felt that the possibility was less than 1 percent.

There is nowhere to solve the depression, and Andrei can only order the 17th Army to carefully go deep from the breakthrough point, but the officers under his command are babbling and chasing me, and Andrei's military orders cannot restrain these arrogant officers at all. After ten kilometers of the battle line, the Cossack cavalry reported that they had not found any trace of the Chinese army. Andrei, who was in good order, reported the news to Pajerov, who was overjoyed when he thought that the Chinese army had retreated. Zaitsev and Vanov, who were equally happy, hurriedly led the remaining forces of the army group to rush to the gap.

After penetrating about 10 kilometers behind the Chinese line, Andrei ordered a defensive ring to be built on the spot and waited for the arrival of the follow-up troops, despite the opposition of the officers. Thinking that this was Andrei's way of preventing himself from making meritorious contributions, the officers gave Andrei a look of face one by one, and the commander of the 21st Division, Major General Mikhail, simply led the troops to continue to advance.

At ten o'clock in the morning, the news that came back from the Cossack cavalry, who had reconnoitred on both flanks, confirmed Andrei's suspicions. The Chinese defense line more than ten kilometers away on both flanks did not move at all, and there was a defensive line in an arc in front of them. Judging from the map, his troops have entered the salient of the Chinese army in three directions, like a greedy wild boar burrowing into the pocket of a hunter.

The facts are very clear that this was a premeditated ambush by the Chinese army. You must leave this salient as soon as possible, or you will be besieged! It's a pity that two factors made it impossible for Andrei to retreat, one was that the 21st Division had already received the enemy, and Mikhail was stuck like an insect on a spider's web after crashing into the Chinese defense line and couldn't get out. It is infuriating that the news of the 21st Division's engagement with the enemy was not the first to be known, and the commander of the 22nd Division, Major General Sergei, who was friendly with Mikhail, decided to support Mikhail on his own, and it can be seen from here that Lieutenant General Andrei had no control over the 17th Army.

Another factor was even more fatal, the three radios owned by the 17th Army were sold to the Beiyang Army for two, and the remaining one was unable to work at this critical moment due to the dereliction of duty of the signal corps. Andrei could only send cavalry to the rear to contact the radical Pajerov, hoping that they would not recklessly break into this ambush circle, coincidentally the three messenger cavalry were found by two returning reconnaissance planes on the way back, in order to practice the ability to strafe the ground, and in order to vent the dissatisfaction of not being able to meet the battle, the two planes tilted more than 300 machine gun rounds on the three cavalry.

The Russian army obediently acted according to Lu Hua's arrangement, and seeing that the Russian army was about to enter the encirclement, the troops on both flanks also walked out of their positions near Qian'an and Changli and encircled in the central direction. The armored forces of the First Army, as the main attacking force, moved to the rear of the Russian army, preparing to launch a chrysanthemum offensive from the rear flank of the Russian army.

However, before the Chinese attack was ready, the Chinese defense troops around the encirclement had to withstand the test of the Russian army, and the third regiment and the first regiment of the 1st Mountain Brigade were charged by the Russian army with a cluster of more than 30,000 people. Lao Maozi's momentum after launching an attack was not much worse than that of the Japanese devils, and he had a strong will to fight, or the old Maozi soldiers who were born as serfs were very numb and had a strong obedience to military orders.

Although the strength of the army is only more than 5,000 people, the position is as stable as Mount Tai, and what reassures all the soldiers of the mountain brigade is the countless artillery support, the artillery of the two regiments themselves, plus the artillery support of the First Army, more than 700 guns of large and small calibers are aimed at the Russian army's assembly area and attack route. With the support of reconnaissance planes, the artillery bombarded one after another, and not a single area within 10 kilometers of the encirclement was safe, and it was all within the striking range of the large-caliber artillery of the Chinese army.

Pajerov was dumbfounded, Zaitsev and Vanov were also dumbfounded, they didn't know what to do, it was still bright before, how could they become surrounded in the blink of an eye?

"Lieutenant General Andrei, I order you to open the frontal breakthrough within an hour, and in one less second I will send you to a military court!" Pajerov looked at Andrei, who seemed to be laughing at him, and was indignant, did he laugh at himself for not listening to him in the first place? Is this look a mockery of one's low IQ?

Andrei didn't want to hide his heart anymore, he laughed for a while, and said slowly and methodically under the incomprehensible gaze of Pajerov and others: "You stupid pigs, have you wasted so many excellent soldiers in vain, and all you learn in the military academy is a woman's breasts?" Look at the map, you illiterate, the group army has all entered the ambush circle of the Chinese army, there are Chinese defensive positions in front of them, and there are thousands of artillery pieces aimed at us and they have squandered shells and bullets. What do we have, artillery, shells, and even guns turned into silver and gold to be sent back to your mistresses by you moths! All I can use is the flesh and blood of those ordinary soldiers, but this is not a war in the age of cold weapons, but a collision of steel and gunpowder, and soldiers who lose their weapons and ammunition are not even as good as bandits! ”

An honest man who suddenly bursts out and calms everyone down, honest people seem to be born to be bullied, but sometimes they can burst out with surprising power. (There is an honest bus driver in the author's hometown, who was scolded by a private car driver and drove the bus to crush the other party and the car into powder.) You can't be too arrogant! ）

Andrei was happy, but then he was imprisoned, and Andrei's every word was directed at the sore spot of Pajerov and others, although it could not be refuted, but how could he let Andrei's scolding go?

Having lost the only high-ranking officer, the command of the Russian army became more and more chaotic and disorderly, and Pajerov first ordered the Far Eastern Army to attack the Chinese defense line in three directions, north, south, and south, and after being frustrated, ordered to hit a point to attack the frontal Chinese defense. The Russian army, which suffered heavy casualties and was moved back and forth by ignorant officers, naturally caused chaos, coupled with the fact that the baggage troops loaded with logistics materials were concentrated by the Chinese air force, and there were still a large number of vulture-like reconnaissance planes in the sky that swooped and strafed when they found an opportunity, and the chaos of the Russian army was even more serious.

It was in this state that the armored units of the First Army of the Chinese Army, with the cooperation of the infantry, launched an attack from the rear, with the First Armored Division as the forerunner, and the sharp arrows easily cut through the Russian army, like a dinner knife cutting through soft cheese, and within an hour the First Armored Division divided the Russian army within a radius of 10 kilometers into two. (To be continued.) )