Chapter 381: Mud-Footed Giant
On the one hand, this is because the weapons used by the Chinese army are ahead of the world, and Western countries cannot make them, so it is not worth transferring technology for this; On the other hand, because the number of troops that China has put into war so far is not large compared to the size of China's huge standing army, it only needs to let the domestic arsenal work normally, and there is no need to even work extra overtime, and imports are naturally even less necessary. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. biquge。 info
As a matter of fact, China has not yet carried out a general mobilization for war, and its domestic economic construction is still proceeding normally, and it has only begun to use the materials it had accumulated in preparation for war and famine. Even after Tsarist Russia entered the war, Li Hui did not agree to the proposal for general mobilization, which even many important ministers were quite worried about. However, it didn't take long for the good news from the frontier to make the three towns of Wuhan jubilant, and Li Hui's foresight was once again verified......
It may be that the Tsarist government itself knew that there was no chance of victory, and the forces they put into the offensive on the eastern front were very limited, and the total number of troops was only more than 100,000, and as a result, Li Hui's original plan to lure the enemy into the depths was useless, and the Russian troops who scattered their troops and wanted to make a vote in Heilongjiang could not even defeat the "tun" (Note 1) of the Chinese army's tun troops, let alone the Mohe gold mine that they coveted, although Li Hui was actually ready to give up this gold mine, and only left a regiment of regular troops here......
As a result, Li Hui was stunned that only three days after Maozi's Eastern Route Army crossed the river, the number of casualties exceeded 10,000, and their opponents were mainly Chinese militia......
As for the middle route Russian army from Irkutsk, the performance is even more spitting, because the northern part of the Mongolian Plateau is mountainous, the Russian army has learned the lesson of the American army, and is very cautious for fear of being ambushed by the Chinese army, but when the eastern route army is defeated and retreats, the middle route army has not yet fought a battle!
And then? And then there is no more! The Eastern Route Army has retreated, and the Middle Route Army is still a fart? Originally, the task of the Russian army in the middle was only a feint, southern Siberia and the northern part of the Mongolian plateau are all mountainous, and there is no railway to the south, logistics supplies are all transported by mules and horses, and if you die, you can support tens of thousands of troops at the same time to fight the highest intensity, this point of strength is not enough for the Chinese to stuff their teeth, you know, China's railway is built to Kulen, if you fight on the Mongolian steppe, logistics are much more powerful than the Russian army!
The main direction of attack chosen by Tsarist Russia was the Western Front, because this area was far from the core area of China and there was no railway connection (the Lanzhou-Singapore Railway was impossible to complete under the current technical conditions, so there was no railway after leaving the Hexi Corridor). In terms of logistics, the Russian army has a clear advantage, and there is a large flat and open terrain in the Junggar Basin (compared to the mountainous area between the Mongolian Plateau and Siberia), which is conducive to large corps, especially cavalry operations, and can give full play to the strength of the Russian army (the limiting factor is logistics, so the side with strong logistics can naturally invest more troops. And the superiority of the cavalry.
But Tsar Nicholas II did not expect that his more than 500,000 troops were almost wiped out in less than ten days after crossing the border, more than 130,000 people were killed or missing, more than 420,000 people were captured, and the Russian army that escaped alive was less than one-tenth of the total strength, and the world-famous Cossack cavalry also suffered an unprecedented defeat, and even a group of cavalry was easily defeated by a Chinese company. The Cossack cavalry is just the best "rangers" in the world, what are the rangers for? reconnaissance, vigilance, harassment, containment, pursuit...... But it is not suitable for frontal combat......
In the battle of the Junggar Basin, China invested nearly 80,000 people in all three cavalry divisions, 30,000 multilateral defense troops and more than 20,000 local militia to participate in the battle, the total strength was less than one-third of the Russian army, and the total number of casualties was only more than 10,000, of which three cavalry divisions accounted for only half, and not a single soldier was captured. Such a disparity in exchange ratio makes those who worry about the pressure of two-front combat disappear in an instant, the Russian army is so vulnerable, even if millions of troops are overwhelmed, what is there to fear?
Such a statement seems to be a bit unfair to the meritorious soldiers, but even they themselves did not dispute this, because it is true, and those veterans who participated in the Sino-Japanese War even thought that the Russian army was inferior to the Japanese army at that time, let alone the British army in the Otomi War (well, the colonial troops were ignored, talking about the British regular army composed of whites). )......
The most obvious problem shown by the Russian army in this general battle is serious internal friction, because of the personal interests of the generals and the examples of not being able to save themselves, so that the Chinese army can easily break through each one, not to mention the superiority of the total strength of the Russian army, but in actual combat, the Chinese army is always fighting more and less......
And even if you only talk about the hard power of the troops, the Russian army is not strong, their soldiers are actually very brave and obedient, but the problem is that the officers are full of imbeciles and moths......
The former's erroneous command will cost them and their own lives, or even surrender early because they are greedy for life and fear of death; As for the latter, the phenomenon of drinking soldiers' blood is widespread among the Russian army, even with US aid, it will only make those moths more ruthless, and black bread with a hardness comparable to stone cannot guarantee a certain sufficient supply, and soldiers can still be counted on to sell their lives? It would be better to have a tailwind fight or vodka, but the former can't be played, and the latter can't be guaranteed with brown bread, and you can expect to have alcohol available all the time? At most, they had to drink before they charged, and as a result, they died faster under the heavy fire of the Chinese army......
Since similar situations occurred during the Russo-Japanese War and World War I in history, Li Hui had long expected this, and he knew very well that these phenomena were not mainly the problems of individual officers, but the result of the backward political and military system of Tsarist Russia. However, Tsar Nicholas II obviously could not have such courage, and even if he did, it would not be possible to carry it out in the context of being involved in a full-scale war, otherwise he would only die faster, and the clay-footed giant was really just a clay-footed giant......
Note 1: In fact, it is a village (most of the population is between 1000~3000, due to the extremely young age structure, and there are many singles, of which the proportion of young and strong militia is more than one-third. It's just that the buildings are specially designed and planned according to military requirements, and basically all of them are gathered together, not to mention, each building is a solid reinforced concrete structure, and the village is also equipped with heavy machine guns and 82mm mortars, without artillery, it is not easy to attack it. (To be continued.) )