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On February 15, 1869, the cold winter in Northern Europe is very difficult to fathom, although it is already the middle of February, but still people can not feel a trace of warmth, Zheng Zhipeng, who is in command in the core command tower of the Gozów Fortress, looks at the roaring fire in the fireplace, but the whole body is like being in an ice cellar, saying that it is the so-called command tower, in fact, in addition to covering the three meters thick reinforced concrete permanent fortifications, the remaining six floors are all underneath, and the cold winter makes the underground atmosphere more humid and cold, The greatest wish of the officers and men in the fortifications is to bask in the sun from the shooting port, but unfortunately there are too many cloudy days than sunny days, and the heating facilities are very insufficient. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo

However, at this time, the political trainers at all levels of the various units played a huge role, they went deep into the troops to visit the officers and soldiers, in this cold winter this is the only thing that warms everyone's hearts, with the retreat of the German army and the Austro-Hungarian army on the left and right flanks, the fortress of Gozów has become an island in the stormy waves!

Russian Marshal Duravievsky has launched several large-scale tentative attacks on the Gozów fortress, and the Russian artillery fire failed to destroy the enemy fortifications they expected, and they were bombed to pieces by the field fortifications that Zheng Zhipeng had previously excavated, and these fortifications did not send troops to garrison at all!

In order to rescue more than 8,000 trapped officers and soldiers, Marshal of the Russian Army Duravievsky launched several attacks in the next two days, as a result, the attacking troops were attacked head-on by the heavy artillery group of the Gozuw fortress, and the Russian army fired 30,000 shells in six hours, still unable to effectively suppress the opponent's firepower. The attacking Russian infantry and cavalry units were all exposed to the enemy's machine-gun fire, and even more feared was the accurate artillery fire of the Gozów fortress.

The Russian soldiers fell to the ground like autumn wheat in waves, and the blood that flowed out quickly condensed in the cold air.

The hiss of bullets breaking through the air in the roaring explosions had numbed the Russian officers and soldiers, who were more afraid of the shelling that would leave them with a high chance of leaving their bones behind.

With the end of the so-called tentative offensive, Russian Marshal Duravievsky weakly put down the telescope in his hand, at this moment he seemed to be more than ten years old, Russian Marshal Duravievsky is also a veteran general who has been in battle for a long time, but it is the first time he has seen such a defensive system and fortifications and firepower as Gozów Fortress, especially when there are more than 200,000 Qing people stationed inside, oh no! Should it be called Chinese now?

Duravievsky looked down on the Qing people from the bottom of his heart, but Chekov's ability was clear to him, the Russian army's second labor expedition suffered a fiasco, so even if Duravievsky looked down on the Qing people, he became very cautious, the Gozów Fortress was built after many years of hard work, especially the Germans in it was a large-scale expansion and reconstruction, and the Germans still built the Gozów Fortress into Berlin's overseas fortress line, However, the Germans were able to build the Gozów Fortress, a huge fortress complex that could garrison hundreds of thousands of troops, but there were not enough troops to garrison it.

But how could the Chinese Empire quickly organize an army of more than 200,000 men with workers trained in Germany, and this army seemed to be relatively combative? It is difficult for Duravievsky to imagine that an armed force of more than 200,000 people could be formed from 300,000 workers in just two months?

In the face of such a force that appeared almost out of thin air, Duravievsky was so troubled these days that he didn't even know the name of the commander of this volunteer unit of the Chinese Empire in the Gozów fortress? With the experience of the Crimean War, Duravievsky estimated that it would take at least two to three years for the Russian army to gnaw at the cost of at least half a million people, and of course, Duravievsky knew that his forecast was very optimistic.

Could it be that the so-called workers of the Chinese Empire were all soldiers? If faced with a country with a large population base and a large army of all its people, how could the great Russian Empire win the war in Siberia and even in the Far East?

After more than 20 days of anticipation, at the end of March, when the cold had subsided, Duraviewski finally looked forward to Nicholas I, who was furious that the 600,000-strong army commanded by Duravievsky would not attack the fortress of Gozów or attack the territory of Germany.

Duravievsky could only calmly explain to this ambitious and talented Majesty: "Your Majesty, there are at least more than 200,000 troops of the Chinese Empire stationed in the Gozów Fortress, and before that, our Chinese Imperial Corps stationed in the Gozów Fortress did not have any information, only that they may be industrial workers of the Chinese Empire who came to Germany to study, and we have carried out several tentative attacks on the Gozów Fortress, and 20,000 officers and soldiers under Major General Mogotev were killed, and we dragged on for three whole days with corpses alone. ”

Nicholas I looked at the field marshal he personally appointed in amazement, he couldn't even believe that the Russian army marshal Duravievsky could say such a disheartening thing, the elite of the Russian Empire could not beat a group of workers covered in oil sludge?

Without waiting for Nicholas I to be angry, the respected Prince Enfiglo on the side heard the clue in Duravievsky's words, so Prince Enfiglo said lightly: "Your Majesty, what Marshal Dulavyevsky said probably has a double meaning, the first is that we do not know our enemy, if we rashly attack and suffer heavy losses, it will be us Russia, if we suffer heavy losses in the fortress of Gozów, then we will lose the weight of the last balance with Britain and France, and you are not willing to be subject to Britain and France as you are now, right?" ”

Nicholas I glanced at the Gozów Fortress and nodded slightly, and Prince Enfiglo continued: "The second point, Your Majesty, don't you feel terrible? The total number of students and expatriates in Germany in the Chinese Empire did not exceed 300,000, and excluding more than 30,000 women and the elderly, they mobilized more than 200,000? And the performance of these people in the Gozów fortress is very extraordinary, a month of mobilization, a month of group training! Don't you want to say something in the face of the Chinese Empire, a country where almost all the people are soldiers? ”

Duraviewski gave Prince Enfiglo a grateful look, and Prince Enfiglo smiled back with a knowing smile.

"What? All the soldiers? Nicholas I really did not think of this, and Nicholas I hesitated for a moment and said: "Who can tell Lin Haijiang how many troops he can devote to a decisive battle with us in Siberia and the Far East if he really carries out a general mobilization?" ”

Everyone shook their heads slightly in the face of Nicholas I's inquiry, the Qing Dynasty had just fallen, and the Chinese Empire was a newly emerging empire with naval superiority, and many things in Russia for the Chinese Empire only stayed in the official newspapers of the Chinese Empire, and the Russian Empire was at a loss for the intelligence work of the Chinese Empire, because of the intelligence headquarters of the Chinese Empire and its perfect entry and exit management and comprehensive social security thorough investigation, it was difficult for spies from various countries to carry out activities in the Chinese Empire, let alone develop offline!

In the end, it was Duraviewsky who analyzed it very pertinently: "Your Majesty, based on the number of weapons exported by the Chinese Empire over the years and the number of young and middle-aged people who may receive military training under the various systems of factories, garrisons, and reserve forces in the stable areas of the south, if the total mobilization of the Chinese Empire in this year should be about five million, and if the Chinese Empire conducts their so-called three-level mobilization system in the following year and for two consecutive years, the worst possible surname is that the Chinese Empire is fully capable of arming an army of about 20 million. And these armies are well-equipped and well-trained, and with the navy of the Chinese Empire, this army will sweep across Europe if there is enough logistical support! ”

Duravievsky scared Nicholas I out of a cold sweat, Nicholas I was originally going to mobilize an army of three million, but the young and middle-aged population base of the Russians made his mobilization a utopian, if this war continues endlessly, the Russian Empire can really mobilize its nearly four million troops within three to five years, but compared to the 20 million of the Chinese Empire, it seems to be a drop in the bucket, not to mention that the other party can be described as well-equipped and well-trained, Nicholas I knows very well, Even if he had mobilized such a large number of troops, there would have been absolutely no way for Russia to arm them.

The Russian Empire is an old empire in Europe and the world, so that a newly rising empire can surpass it in a few years? This is the most unacceptable fact of Nicholas I, why does Lin Haijiang want money and money, guns and guns, and warships and warships? And the Russian Empire under its own rule consisted only of poor peasants and inhospitable lands?

Nicholas I, who was already aware of the great crisis he was facing, did not seem to want to face the reality, and in the eyes of Nicholas I, how could the Chinese Empire be strong? Which powerful empire in the history of the world was able to stand up to the whole world? As long as the German Empire and Austria-Hungary were quickly defeated in Europe, then it would be inevitable that the Ottoman Empire would withdraw from the battle, and then jointly attack the Chinese Empire according to the original promise of Empress Victoria and Napoleon III!

Thinking of this, Nicholas I waved his hand very arbitrarily and said: "Tomorrow we will start storming the Gozów Fortress, and I will take the Gozów Fortress in the shortest possible time!" Let the flag of the Russian Empire fly on German soil! ”

(To be continued)