However, such cleverness cannot be without a price at all, and the Chinese government's reluctance to form an alliance with Dias because of his unpopularity has certainly maintained China's image of greatness and integrity, but it has also made those governments in similar situations in the world (such governments are the majority) worry about following in Dias's footsteps, and they are determined to turn to the West and dare not have illusions about China. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 Even the authorities of individual Asian Union member states have become suspicious and have begun to be a little half-hearted, but of course these are the words of the future......

But if we look at the longer term, these problems are actually not so serious, the people's war in Mexico has become a model for the world's modern resistance to imperialist aggression, and those colonial and semi-colonial people of insight in the world have come to China to learn this knowledge, laying the groundwork for the later tide of colonial liberation. Of course, that's for later......

For now, the war with the United States and Tsarist Russia has always been the focus of the Chinese government's work, and shortly after the American attack on the Rocky Mountain defense line was frustrated, the Russian army launched a large-scale offensive in Western Siberia. The tsarist government also knew that the more time dragged on, the more difficult it would be to regain the lost territory, and the location of Kurgan at the railway junction made it possible for the Russian army to obtain supplies through two railway trunk lines, and the length of the supply lines was much shorter than the previous year's operation, so it was fully capable of supporting a much larger offensive than before. So as to take advantage of the opportunity that the enemy army has not yet gained a firm foothold, and quickly fight back......

"Mao Zi is really desperate, he actually prepared more than 2 million troops from three fronts, not counting the newly established "Cavalry Front" mobile troops, the total number of troops participating in the battle should be no less than 2.5 million, and it is likely to further increase the number of troops during the campaign, ...... Li Hui was not surprised after reading the information in his hand, because the more troops Mao Zi invested, the greater the possible results of the Chinese army. Who knows how long this battlefield will drag on?

And then again, such a large number of troops seems intimidating, but Li Hui is very suspicious that the Russian high command has the command ability to match it, and if it does not have too many troops, it will often turn into a disaster. In addition, even if there are two railways, even if the distance is greatly shortened, and with so many troops, the pressure on logistics and supply will never be smaller, and once there is a problem in this area, the more troops there are, the worse it will become......

Of course, after all, it is two or three million troops, not two or three million pigs, and if you want to eat, you really have to have a good tooth. Fortunately, Li Hui had expected it as early as last winter, and in addition, the Trans-Siberian Railway had also been completely repaired, and the difficulties in logistical supply had been greatly improved, so he sent the First Field Army of the Chinese Army with a total strength of as many as 300,000 or 400,000 troops and the Second Cavalry Army, which was originally the "shadow" of the First Cavalry Army, to the West Siberian front, and together with the First Cavalry Army and an infantry corps there, a new large military region was formed, the "Xianbeilian Military District", with a total strength of almost 600,000 troops!

Due to the lack of intelligence work, the Russian High Command did not fully understand this, and also underestimated the impact of the level of organization and management on the railway capacity (after the Chinese took over, the capacity of the Trans-Siberian Railway increased by several percent in a short period of time, and the Tsarist side still calculated according to the capacity of their management, which is a big problem). They knew that the Chinese army had increased, but they thought that there were only 400,000 at most. Then, during this time, Admiral Alexei Alekseevich Brusilov, who was deeply favored, formulated the largest offensive plan in the history of mankind, known as the "Brusilov Offensive......

On June 16, 1908, the Caucasus Front of Tsarist Russia, which transferred its main forces to the West Siberian battlefield in winter, concentrated more than 900,000 people, more than 2,800 75mm field guns, and nearly 300 heavy guns, and launched a frantic attack on the defense line set up by China west of Kurgan; At the same time, the main forces of the Tsarist Ural Front, which had replenished the losses of personnel and equipment in winter, also set out from Yekaterinburg and attacked the flank of that line of defense on the northern front, saying that it was in cooperation with the Caucasian Front, but from the point of view of the forces invested, it was not much less than the direction of the main attack, and if the Chinese army shifted the center of gravity of defense to the south, then this road could be transformed into the direction of our main attack at any time!

In war, tactics are the most difficult to keep secret, and the Chinese army had taken advantage of the artillery offensive tactics that were ahead of their time the previous year, but less than a year later, even the Tsarist army, which had always been considered crude, had learned it and used it against their teacher. However, unlike the Chinese army, which relies on excellent infantry and artillery coordination capabilities to complete the tactics, the Russian army implements this tactic completely without caring about the life and death of those "gray cattle", and in just a few days, the Russian army's casualties exceeded 200,000, of which more than one-third were accidentally blown up by their own artillery......

However, it must be admitted that such a crazy style of play has indeed achieved certain results, although the name of the First Field Army sounds very majestic, but unlike the ace troops like the First Cavalry Army, the subordinates are only some ordinary light infantry divisions, and the vast majority of commanders and fighters have not experienced tragic bloody battles, and even some people have not participated in actual battles at all, in the face of the overwhelming artillery fire of the Russian army and the Russian infantry filled with vodka, the decisive assault is not afraid of death, The Chinese army's line of defense west of Kurgan was inevitably torn open with multiple gaps!

For the first time since the outbreak of the war, the Russians had the upper hand, and they even captured more than 1,000 prisoners of war for the first time, and Tsar Nicholas II was overjoyed to receive the good news, immediately issued a decree to reward the meritorious officers, and even promised the commander of the attack, General Brusilov, that he would be promoted to field marshal after the final victory in the battle. However, what Tsar Nicholas II did not notice, or clearly saw but turned a blind eye to, was how much the Russian army paid for this...... (To be continued.) )