In fact, although he never admitted it, Tsar Nicholas II was not ignorant of his country's foreign powers, and his investment of more than 500,000 troops on the Western Front at once illustrates this. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 infoYou must know that according to the estimates of the Russian intelligence department, due to logistical difficulties, China can only maintain two divisions of troops north of the Tien Shan Mountains for a long time, which means that the Russian side is actually ready to attack with ten times the number of troops. But what they didn't expect was that China would be able to have more than 100,000 people participate in the war, and the more than 500,000 Russian troops will suddenly be tragic......

"There is no railway, it is all transported by horse-drawn carriages, and it can support such a huge army?" The Russians could hardly believe it in any case, but facts speak louder than words, and they had to believe it, and in the end they could only attribute it to China's extremely high administrative and logistical efficiency and very little corruption and waste. However, although these two reasons do exist, Li Hui's real reliance on solving the logistics problem of the garrison in Shanbei Province is his system, and the more inconvenient the area, the more the advantages of direct supply of the system can be highlighted, not to mention that the three cavalry divisions are all elite troops, and it is worth spending a lot of precious hard currency on this......

Because the difference in terrain is obvious, as early as during the First Sino-Japanese War, Li Hui guessed that if a war broke out between China and Russia in the future, the focus would definitely be on the Western Front, so he began to plan as early as after defeating the British, and decided to send three cavalry divisions to take charge of this direction, and then on this basis, send "clones" to deploy those strategic materials, such as ammunition, that will be needed in large quantities after the war and the local area cannot be self-sufficient.

Although after the outbreak of the Sino-American war, the "doppelganger" went to North America, but the reserve of ammunition in Shanbei Province is already quite amazing, enough for three cavalry divisions to use it at the highest intensity for a whole year! In addition, considering the rapid loss of horses during the war, Li Hui also purchased 100,000 heavenly horses and 20,000 Chinese heavy horses from the system to be grazed in pastures at the northern foot of the Tianshan Mountains.

And those materials with a relatively short shelf life, such as food, can be solved locally (the results of the military cantonment in the northwest region have been outstanding in recent years), so Li Hui does not have to waste money on this. It is worth mentioning that Dihua also built the third large-scale food factory in China, the purpose of which is to make better use of the rich agricultural and animal husbandry resources in the north and south of the Tianshan Mountains, to serve the three cavalry divisions, among which beef jerky, instant noodles, compressed biscuits and other easy-to-carry products have been highly praised by Li Hui, in the upcoming counteroffensive, it is precisely because of these extremely light special foods and Li Hui's personal development of micronutrient supplement tablets (eat two tablets per week [1 tablet of fat-soluble nutrients, 1 tablet of water-soluble nutrients. It can ensure the human body's need for vitamins and minerals that are particularly lacking in field dry food, because dietary fiber cannot be supplemented by this, and it will certainly not be able to completely replace vegetables, fruits and coarse grains, but it can make people not eat a little vegetable and fruit coarse grains within half a year and will not get sick, which is enough to make a qualitative leap in the army's expeditionary ability. Only three Chinese cavalry divisions can pour out of the nest!

That's right, it's not rude to come and go, since Tsarist Russia has come to the door, with Li Hui's temper of eating soft and not hard, how can he not return the color? And after destroying a large number of the living forces of the Russian army in the counterattack on the inner line, and then counterattacking across the national border, there is no doubt that the resistance will be much smaller than before. Therefore, without waiting for the Russian army to react, the three Chinese cavalry divisions that had just won a brilliant victory immediately went west to the national border, bypassed the Zaisan Lake from the south, and drove straight into the Kazakh steppe!

The Kazakh steppe is dominated by hilly terrain, so it is also called the Kazakh hills geographically, but the slope of these hills is not too large, and those hills in China are completely different, and the carriage may be a little troublesome, but the cavalry can gallop freely in most areas of the steppe. This also means that if it is a pure cavalry force, the enemy will have no way to predict their route and attack target, and even if a million troops are deployed on the grassland, it will be difficult to intercept the three Chinese cavalry divisions that are united in one force......

The young man had already thought of this when he was planning this expedition, so before this expedition, the three cavalry divisions replaced all the field guns that had made great contributions in the battle of Dzungaria with the 75mm mountain guns that had been prepared in the arsenal long ago (the barrels of the 105mm mountain guns were too heavy for the Pegasus to move. Then the Chinese heavy horses, which were too large to walk on rugged mountain roads and had some trouble crossing rivers, were also left behind, and the expeditionary force's ability to pass through the terrain increased dramatically.

It is important to know that the ability of the Pegasus to walk the mountain road is extremely strong, and the carrying capacity is not weaker than that of the authentic pack horse (but it cannot be compared with the donkey and mule), and the mountain artillery can be disassembled and transported, that is to say, this army has been free to choose the marching route on the Kazakh steppe, and when it is safe to take the main road, they can assemble the carriage and let the horse run the horse to speed up the speed and save physical strength, when there is a strong enemy on the road, if they do not want to attack, they can easily dismantle the carriage and turn it into a pack horse. After that, you can either attack the enemy's flank or stay away......

Due to the unexpected fiasco of the previous offensive, the strength of the Russian army in Central Asia was suddenly a little tight, and the Chinese Expeditionary Force did not look at the lack of people, but with the amazing performance of almost completely annihilating more than 500,000 Russian troops before, it had great deterrent power, and no Russian army dared to fight with them in the field. In the case of only daring to defend the position and not daring to move, even if the Russian army has millions of people, it is completely unable to intercept the Chinese expeditionary force in the open Kazakh steppe.

Well, even if you hold your position, it's still useless, although the number of artillery in the Chinese cavalry division is not as large as that of the mountain division, but compared to the Russian army, it is still much more. If you count the firepower of mortars, light machine guns and submachine guns, with the quality of the Russian army, even if there are twice as many defenders, there must be permanent fortifications to hold on to the hope of withstanding. However, the theater of the Tsarist government still thought that the situation on the Western Front was superior, and it was impossible to think of building a strong defense line on this side to resist the Chinese troops, well, even if it did, it could not afford to build a strong defense line that met the requirements on the sparsely populated, impoverished and backward Kazakh steppes far from the core area of Russia, and it would have to take off a layer of skin if it was done by the Soviet Union thirty years later...... (To be continued.) )