The Russians and French defended Twin Cities and Vladivostok can be said to be impregnable.

This starts from the topography of Vladivostok, Vladivostok is surrounded by mountains on three sides, one side is surrounded by the sea, the northernmost exit is Shuangchengzi, Shuangchengzi is high mountains on three sides, behind is Vladivostok mountainous area, only the northwest side has two narrow exits.

The average height of the mountains in the Vladivostok region is more than 500 meters, and the mountains stretch for tens of kilometers.

With the entire Far East largely lost, the Russians held on to Vladivostok and did not intend to make any concessions.

The Russians also wanted peace talks, but their terms were not to cede an inch of land and not to pay a penny in compensation.

Dream!

Not only Hu Chuyuan was angry, but there was no one in the whole of China who was not angry, and in the past few hundred years, the Russians had continuously oppressed the Qing Dynasty, carved a large amount of land from China, and a few months ago vowed to occupy the entire northeast.

In fact, the Russians saw the Northeast as their inherent territory from the very beginning.

This kind of person...... At least in the hearts of Hu Chuyuan and the commanders at all levels of the [***] team, the Russians are not even as good as brutes.

To this end, under the condition that Hu Chuyuan agreed to give all support, Yang Zongli devised an unexpected tactical plan, and under the guidance of a "mountain passer" (the leader who was responsible for leading the team to the mountain road and transporting the goods on the horseback team), Yang Zongli found another road to Vladivostok.

On the northeast side of the twin cities, on the south side of the town that the Russians call Ivanovka, there is indeed a ravine road that leads directly to Lake Yamaguchi, and after passing Lake Yamaguchi, in front of the Vladivostok area.

In the old forests of the northeast, there are many such ravine roads, there are mountain cracks and ravines between the mountains and the mountains, and many families live in the ravines, so many place names are called so-and-so ditches.

Because there are too many ravines and too chaotic, inexperienced people can't get out of it, it's like getting into a labyrinth of nature.

For that fellow, the ravine road he knew was the magic weapon for the survival of the whole village, and he had lived on this secret mountain road all his life, and his ancestors had relied on knowing this road for several lifetimes, and trafficked things to Vladivostok to make money to support their families through this road.

Yang Zongli personally followed the villagers to take a trip, even in July, there is still a lot of snow in the ravine, the road is very difficult to walk, but there are definitely conditions for transformation, the ravine is very wide, it can be clearly confirmed that this was a big river before.

Lake Yamaguchi is a historical vestige of this great river.

The section of about twenty miles in the middle is more troublesome, a little narrow, and it is all pebbles the size of a millstone, and it is impossible for armored vehicles to pass.

However, as long as you cross this stretch of road, the rest will be easy.

On the fork, there is a place called "three forks" more than ten miles away from Yamaguchi Lake, and the fellow pointed out another road to Yang Zongli, which leads directly to Shuangchengzi.

This road is like a tree, constantly branching off, coming from Shuangchengzi, the gods will get lost, you can walk through the three forks, then there is only one road, just keep going west.

To be honest, Yang Zongli likes to fight this kind of war.

He is good at winding around corners and navigating mazes.

Others thought that he was organizing a big battle in Mudan Ula (Mudanjiang City), but he took a few young officers and a group of mountain passers around the mountain nest to familiarize himself with the terrain of this area.

Yang Zongli's plan is very simple, it is the trick that Han Xin has made - Ming Xiu plank road and secretly cross Chen Cang.

It's just that he openly sent infantry divisions to attack Shuangchengzi on a large scale, secretly built roads at the three-way crossing, used an armored division to forcibly raid Vladivostok, and then used an infantry division to storm the back of Shuangchengzi, and attacked from three directions.

The key to this tactic is how to build the road.

Yang Zongli's method is also simple, requisition 100,000 migrant workers to rush to repair, and then send two engineering regiments to repair a gravel road, and then modify the TZB-2 armored car, remove all unnecessary body and steel plates, reduce weight, and then use the horse team to transport small cannons and supplies.

A large number of horse teams.

In line with his battle plan, the navy had to force its way across the Korean Strait and assemble on a large scale at Wonsan to prepare for a strong attack on the Allied Far Eastern Fleet in Vladivostok.

The key is to make a large-scale landing operation posture and force the Russian-French forces to shift their attention to the sea.

Such a bold tactical plan, once successful, will be the swan song of the war in the Far East.

How could Hu Chuyuan not support it?

Yes, military spending is not enough, and it is necessary to support it if it is not enough.

Taking advantage of the resumption of the boom in Shanghai's stock market, Hu Chuyuan pledged a portion of the shares held by the government to Bank of America and Wells Fargo in exchange for a war loan of 1.25 billion yuan.

Coupled with the remaining 630 million yuan of war debts in his hand, Hu Chuyuan clenched the 1.88 billion yuan and decided to fight to the death with the Russians.

Money...... The more the merrier.

…… With the signing of a new battle plan by Hu Chuyuan, in the Far East, a large-scale operational preparations began to move, on a scale large enough to scare the entire Entente.

In the Xingkai area and Dongning Zhili Prefecture on the outskirts of Shuangchengzi, Yang Zongli mobilized 14 infantry divisions and two mechanized divisions, as well as more than 400,000 militia organizations, and domestic artillery forces were continuously assembled in the periphery of Shuangchengzi.

In order to strengthen his control over this area, Hu Chuyuan sent a direct letter through the Prime Minister's Office, identifying the southern area of Xingkai Lake as Ussuri Province, and concentrating the strength of the whole country to intensify the construction of railways to connect the newly established Mudanjiang Province, Ussuri Province and Harbin.

Because of the plan to overhaul the railway, the country also transferred 300,000 laborers from the entire northeast and Zhili regions, and hid in this plan, and some laborers were secretly diverted to Sanchakou to build roads there.

The off-road surname of the TZB-2 armored vehicle is good, so the conditions of this road are not too high, but the road must be leveled, especially the large stones and pebbles will be smashed and transformed into a gravel road on the spot, and asphalt will be paved where conditions permit.

On July 15, when 1,420 155mm howitzers and 345 175mm howitzers were gathered outside Shuangchengzi, and the total strength of the army exceeded 770,000, Yang Zongli officially opened the prelude to the bombardment of Shuangchengzi.

At this time, the five Allied powers, Russia, France, Spain, the Netherlands, and Benedict, still had an army establishment of 1.84 million in Vladivostok and Shuangchengzi, and a total naval displacement of 530,000 tons.

The trapped beast is still fighting.

If you really want to storm Vladivostok and Shuangchengzi, it will still be very difficult, because these armies of the Entente countries have no other way to retreat, especially Russia, which insists that peace talks can only be made under the principle of "not ceding an inch of land and not losing a penny", and the garrisons of Vladivostok and Shuangchengzi have become their last sustenance.

In Shuangchengzi, the fortifications of the Russian army have also reached a hopeless level.

Storm...... Not a wise choice.

At this stage, the Northeast can also be regarded as a gathering of tiger generals, because of the lack of sufficient qualifications in China, Yang Zongli may not be able to control everything here, especially people like Feng Guozhang, Wu Peifu, and Wang Shizhen, who were all fought from the Battle of Longchuan more than ten years ago.

However, they still agreed very much with the sideways tactics suddenly proposed by Yang Zongli.

Feng Guozhang was specially responsible for the flank attack and personally supervised the road construction.

Under Hu Chuyuan's secret instruction and everyone's tacit cooperation, Hu Weizhong has been promoted from second lieutenant to captain by relying on military merits, and he was specially promoted to serve as the commander of the second battalion of the 508th Regiment of the 21st Division of Zhili.

Feng Guozhang jumped up and down to persuade others to let Hu Weizhong be the commander of the flank charge, and everyone did not object in the first place, the key was that they were afraid of making mistakes.

Defeated ...... Everyone can still afford it, it's a big deal to let the follow-up troops follow, in case they die, then they can't afford it.

There is no way, Wang Huaiqing, who is really the most suitable for serving as a front-line commander, was secretly transferred to serve as the deputy battalion commander and staff officer of the second battalion of the 508th Regiment, in fact, he asked Wang Huaiqing to accompany the prince to study.

This is a pie falling from the sky, Wang Huaiqing is very happy.

Like most of the people in the Hu family, Hu Weizhong is actually a very realistic person, he did not refuse everyone's kindness, although he wanted to rely on his own ability to win all this.

He knew very well that none of this was important compared to the big things he wanted to do.

The big husband is informal.

Unlike Duan Qirui's situation in North Korea, the Northeast is indeed full of tiger generals, and there are too many people who can really fight.

Wang Shizhen, Feng Guozhang, Wu Peifu, Li Chun, Chen Guangyuan, Zhang Huaizhi, Wang Chengbin...... Except for Wang Shizhen, who is a leopard, the rest have studied in military academies in Germany and the United States for many years.

These people are capable of fighting tough battles.

Wu Peifu and Wang Shizhen stormed Shuangchengzi, Feng Guozhang, Chen Guangyuan, and Wang Huaiqing secretly built roads in Sanchagou, people dragged horses to carry them, barrels of asphalt were transported to the ravine, gunpowder was blown up by cars, and people were hammered and crushed by machines, and a 60-kilometer-long bluestone asphalt road was secretly built in the ravine.

The area of Sanchagouzi is more than 60 kilometers away from the main battlefield Shuangchengzi, and it is a deep mountain and old forest, and the Russians have only set foot in Vladivostok for more than 50 years, and the real large-scale construction is still a matter of more than ten years.

They never dreamed of what Sanchagou was.

The area around Lake Yamaguchi is still a barren area, the Russians did not set foot here, considering that the north is completely mountainous, they did not even send troops to garrison, only some French troops are stationed in Shkotovo, more than 40 kilometers away from Lake Yamaguchi, and the goal of their stationing here is also to hope to evacuate the Far Eastern battlefield as soon as possible.

Feng Guozhang was very bold to directly build the gravel road to Yamaguchi Lake, and continued to send people to secretly build dirt roads, and set up a supply depot in the old ravine on the west side of Yamaguchi Lake, and began to transport supplies on a large scale to prepare for the follow-up attack after the first wave of strong attacks.

Good generals must have such qualities -- bold and careful.

Just when the battle in the Shuangchengzi area was hot, and the Russian army's nearly one million troops were concentrated on the northern front, on August 22, Feng Guozhang personally supervised the 21st and 45th divisions of Zhili, secretly crossed the three-fork ditch, and assembled at Laoshanziling.

It was quiet in the wee hours of the morning.

Deep in the mountains, hundreds of armored vehicles slowly drove out of the mountains, followed by more than 20,000 infantry and more than 600 off-road vehicles, the terrain around Vladivostok is half ravines and half dirt slopes, not suitable for trucks, and can drive in this area are high-powered off-road vehicles, as well as horse teams.

The newly equipped 122mm caliber mortars will be an important long-range firepower for the raid, and the number of installations is very large, some by off-road vehicles, some by horse teams.

The main combat force is 47,000 people, and the militia regiment and horse team that follow behind also have more than 30,000 troops, with a horse team composed of more than 6,000 horses and a large-scale transport team composed of more than 1,000 trucks.

The six divisions of the Qingxu Corps have been gathered and will arrive at noon tomorrow.

The French are still asleep.

Feng Guozhang had already driven his troops to the front of the position, and as soon as he gave the order, the 21st Division of Zhili suddenly launched a lightning offensive, hundreds of TZB-2 armored vehicles took the lead in crossing the sparse fortifications of the French, and the infantry wing followed behind, constantly crossing cover and attacking the French offensive.

Without waiting for the French to react, more than 600 new 122mm mortars began to bombard their hinterland.

The French were completely unprepared, more than 300,000 people rushed to meet the battle, a large number of front-line troops retreated in disarray, the front line pressed the rear line, the troops were piled up together, and the troops who had not had time to withdraw were quickly annihilated.

Wang Huaiqing rushed very fast, led his battalion of more than 20 armored vehicles to break through all the way, and was about to rush into the French camp.

The armored assault battalions on both flanks immediately followed, and the main shock force rushed all the way to the headquarters of the French army.

Before the large force rushed up, the French army was completely defeated, and the main force of the French fleet could not wait for the rescue from Vladivostok, which was more than 40 kilometers away, and the French troops stationed in Skotovo surrendered en masse under the leadership of Lieutenant General Meritopina.

Feng Guozhang really didn't expect the French to be so impatient, he hurriedly sent a wireless telegram to Yang Zongli, asking to continue to lead the team to attack Haipaokou.

The sea bubble is an inner bay, and that area is called the sea bubble mouth, which the Russians renamed Trudovoye and Artem.

Taking here, the Russian army's advantage in the hinterland of Vladivostok will be completely shattered.

Yang Zongli's call back was simple...... Attack!

Yes, as long as a mechanized unit tears a big hole in the back of the enemy's abdomen, how to fight it, then it's not up to them to decide.

Immediately afterwards, Yang Zongli mobilized in advance and sent the three armored divisions to the Haibaokou battlefield in an all-round way, and the Ninth Division of Zhili bypassed the three forks and directly attacked the back of Shuangchengzi, giving the Russian garrison in Shuangchengzi the last blow.

The whole battlefield changed, and the large army began to turn into three forks, and hundreds of thousands of troops completed the transfer of 100 kilometers in three days and nights, and made a detour from the front line of Shuangchengzi to the back.

The Ninth Division rushed all the way to Tuba Ridge, which was less than 20 miles away from Shuangchengzi, and the so-called Tuba Ridge was a horizontal hill that ran from southwest to northeast, six kilometers long, two kilometers wide, and the highest point was 570 meters high.

Because it is shaped like a dam, it is called Earth Dam Ridge.

It was such a small hill that the 27,000 troops of the Ninth Division spread out horizontally and organized fortifications on the spot, and the more than 100,000 Russian troops that were originally used as reserve forces counterattacked for three days and did not take them, but suffered heavy losses.

Yang Zongli would not joke with the Russians, and the Ninth Division he set up here was equipped with light and heavy firepower, and a large number of 122mm caliber mortars, heavy machine guns, light machine guns, and revolving machine guns.

The Russian army attacked for three days, lost more than 70,000 people and did not capture a single hill, and when Yang Zongli and Wu Peifu led the main force of the large army to turn to the battle, the problem faced by the Russian army was not to attack, nor to defend, but to withdraw.

The situation on the battlefield is always changing, and now the rear line has become the front line, and if you want to defend it now, where can you go to defend it?

From Tubaling to Shuangchengzi, this section of the road is only ten kilometers long, and the Russian army has no fortifications at all, nor does it have dangerous terrain enough to withstand a large-scale army offensive.

As long as there are hundreds of armored vehicles in front of the road, the Russian army will not be able to stop even if it pushes five million troops!

Since the Treaty of Nebuchu, Tsarist Russia has bullied China for 213 years, and now it is finally time to pay the blood debt!!

213 years.

What a long time it was.

Now, the Chinese have finally stood up.

Be afraid!

Russia.

(To be continued)