Abatu Gaii is just a small town, with a population of only a few hundred, because of the proximity to the Chinese Empire, and the fact that Russia itself is a little sluggish in the development of this area, so this town is full of Chinese flavor. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info

It can even be said that apart from the smell of Russian in the houses and people, you will never see anything about Russia in this town anymore.

In order to make life easier, the residents of this area often went to the border to trade with the merchants of the Chinese Empire, and although they lived in a very tight situation, they could barely get by.

But in recent years, the situation has changed dramatically, first Russia suffered setbacks in the Far East, for several years failed to get new benefits, and these people have less and less silver in their hands, although there are still some rubles in their hands, but the Chinese do not recognize rubles, and even if they receive rubles, they have no place to spend them.

What's even worse is that since last year, the town has increased the garrison of one company to a battalion, which has also changed the nature of the population of this town for the first time, and there are more than 100 soldiers than ordinary people.

And those soldiers are even more insatiable, they are not only to plunder the resources of the Chinese Empire, after being strongly counterattacked by the Chinese Empire, these people actually extend their tentacles to them, their own residents.

Although the arrival of the army can stimulate local consumption to a certain extent. But this place is so remote, if it weren't for the proximity to the border, they can even guarantee that the people of this town will probably never see anyone other than this town in their lifetime.

At present, the total population of Tsarist Russia is about 170 million, which is slightly more than one-third of the total Chinese population, but the total population of Tsarist Russia in the Far East is only a few hundred thousand, and the remaining population is all in the central and western regions.

In other words, there are only a few hundred thousand people living on a land equivalent to half the size of China, and you can imagine the extent of the population density.

And the most densely populated place in the Far East is near the border areas of China, so this battle is actually very easy to fight, as long as the Russian cities or towns in the border areas are taken, the battle has basically been fought 70 percent.

Abatu Gaii is close to Manchuria and Garut, and Manchuria is a well-known area because of the railway that links Russia to Russia, the Eastern Railway.

As early as 1891, when Russia decided to build the Trans-Siberian Railway, at one of its stations, a branch line extending to China in order to directly trade with the densely populated provinces of Chinese mainland.

In 1895, without the consent of the Qing government, Tsarist Russia privately sent people into China to investigate, after the First Sino-Japanese War, Tsarist Russia took advantage of the Qing government could not come up with so much money, so it took the opportunity to sign the "Sino-Russian Four Percent Loan Contract" to provide loans, in order to control China. Later, Russia and France established the Russian-French Daosheng Bank, which was controlled by Russia, and stipulated that the bank had the privileges of building railways, opening mines, setting up factories, and collecting taxes in China.

In 1901, the west line of the China Eastern Railway was completed, and a station was officially set up in Manzhouli, which was named Manzhouli Station because it was the first station to enter Northeast China from Russia.

Through this railway, the Russians plundered a lot of supplies in the northeast, but with the establishment of the Chinese Empire and the strength of the Royal Army, all the railways in the territory of the Chinese Empire have been recovered.

As for the Russians taking the contract to negotiate, please, the Chinese Empire will not recognize it, if you want to negotiate, you can go to the Qing government to negotiate.

The Russians also attempted to enter China through Manchuria, and in fact, on the surface, they deployed a lot of troops near the Heilongjiang River, but most of them were only on paper.

Of the 300,000 Russian troops, more than 150,000 are deployed here. Therefore, if the Chinese Empire has been delayed for three years, why hasn't Russia delayed for three years?

As soon as the situation on the battlefield is not in favor of the Russians, then the Russians can directly mobilize troops from Europe to the Far East, and this time will take less than a month.

Although the Trans-Siberian Railway has not yet been fully completed, the Irkutsk-Khabarovsk railway has long been completed, and it is with this railway that the Russians have hoarded a large amount of supplies in the Far East in just three years.

And why did the Japanese rush to provoke the war in February 1904? It is because the Japanese saw the threat of the Trans-Siberian Railway to the Japanese, so they had to provoke a war before the opening of the railway, and it was best to completely end the war before the Russians finished rushing to complete the work, so as to take advantage of as much as possible, so that the Russians could not react for a while.

But the Chinese Empire missed this best time, of course, when the British raised this matter with Wang Sirui, it was too late, at that time, the Trans-Siberian Railway had basically been completed and opened to traffic, and only a small part was still under construction.

As for why the railway was not completely completed until 1916, it should not be misunderstood, the main line of the Trans-Siberian Railway was actually completed a long time ago, but some changes were made to the railway, such as repairing the emergency construction site at that time, and building some branch railways.

By the time all the work was completed, it was already 1916, but now, in 1908, the Trans-Siberian Railway was able to run directly from Moscow to Vladivostok.

Had it not been for the Chinese Empire's forcible repossession of the railway, the Russians would have even entered the country directly from Manchuria, via Harbin, and directly into Vladivostok across the Heilongjiang River, which would have shortened the time by nearly ten hours.

The Chinese Empire was short of oil, so when it was preparing, it was stockpiling supplies to the border areas little by little through the railways in this territory, and of course, the Chinese Empire was not really stupid enough to send only two armies to fight the Russians.

Wang Sirui knows very well in his heart that Russia already has the ability to fight a protracted war, and if it is not done well, this time is likely to become a node in the outbreak of world war.

Of course, as long as the war does not end within two months, then Wang Sirui will not hesitate to drag the whole of Europe into the water. As for the interests and disinterest, it was no longer possible to control it at that time, anyway, the Chinese Empire could not be allowed to fight to the death with the Russians, while others watched the excitement from the sidelines.

If the armored division of the 103rd Division wants to cross the border, it must cross the Ergun River and use the original bridge, which is absolutely not good, even an ordinary pontoon bridge, a tank weighs 12.5 tons, if it goes up, it will directly crush the pontoon bridge.

Fortunately, the engineering unit was equipped with more advanced pontoon equipment, which was said to guarantee the safe passage of about 25 tons, but no one knows how, and no one has seen it anyway.

But this kind of equipment is not easy to build, the 103rd Division is only equipped with a 200-meter-long pontoon bridge, but fortunately, the surface of the Erguna River is not wide, the crossing point they chose is only about 40 meters wide, but the water depth has reached about four meters, the temperature at this time is still relatively low, don't think about armed swimming or something.

At three o'clock in the morning, the heavy pontoon bridge through which the tanks had passed was finally completed, and the two infantry pontoon bridges on both sides had been erected an hour earlier, and thousands of soldiers had already passed through the pontoon bridge, establishing positions on the opposite bank to cover the rapid passage of tanks.

Because of the need to ensure the safety of the tanks and the pontoons, the tanks did not cross the river one by one, but waited for the previous tank to pass safely, and the next tank was on top.

In order to conceal and not expose it early, the tank did not turn on its lights when crossing the river, so it only took half a minute for a tank to pass through the pontoon bridge, which was only about 40 meters, and only 120 tanks could pass in an hour.

It will be at least six o'clock until all the tanks have passed, and if those armored reconnaissance vehicles are added, it is estimated that it will not be until seven o'clock when all the rivers are crossed.

Zhu Kuan leaned half of his body out of the tank, looking at the darkness in front of him, and he didn't know what he was thinking.

After the No. 313 tank successfully crossed the pontoon bridge, Zhu Kuan's crew parked the tank in an open space according to the guidance of the infantry in front, where there was no cover, and it was not far from the other tanks.

This was only a temporary parking lot, and when it was almost dawn, regardless of the situation of the river crossing later, the soldiers who had already stepped into Russian territory would launch the most fierce attack on the enemy.

Many people are even faintly unable to hold back, after all, they are equipped with the most advanced tanks in the world, and the Russians on the other side may not even have seen a tank.

Although in the beginning, the infantry always liked to use tanks as fixed batteries, well, in fact, now they also use tanks as fixed batteries and universal machine guns, and the enemy has no tanks, is it possible that you want to use tanks to crush the enemy?

"Hurry up and rest for a while, there is already a dark post in front, the scouts have just sent news, they have found traces of a large number of army movements behind Abatu Gai, I don't know if it will be so easy to sleep peacefully after tomorrow." The platoon commander looked at Zhu Kuan, who leaned out of the tank turret with half of his body, and said.

They were already on the battlefield, and the battle would begin in a few hours, and by this time, the commander of the unit was less stern and more caring for his soldiers.

For the soldiers, the strictness of training on weekdays is enough, and if the same management method is used against them on the battlefield, even the iron army may not be able to hold on.

"Platoon commander, I'm just thinking about what the effect would be if I wore a full side of the military merit badge." Zhu Kuan responded with a smile.

"Huh! How can there be so many enemies for you to kill? Lao Maozi seems to have less than 100,000 people on his side, which is not enough for our division. ”

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