readx; In the General Staff Building on the east side of the Nanjing Presidential Palace, Chen Jingyun unceremoniously sat in the position that originally belonged to Ma Cheng, chief of the General Staff, while Ma Cheng was standing on one side, and directly opposite the two was Major General Zhao Zhike, director of the Operations Department, and Lieutenant General Song Junpeng, the new deputy chief of operations of the General Staff. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

Needless to say, Ma Cheng, chief of the General Staff, is one of the several major generals, and among the two deputy chiefs of operations of the General Staff, although the executive deputy chief is also a lieutenant general, he does not manage operational affairs, but does more administrative work, so he is not considered a high authority, while the deputy chief of operations is to cooperate with the chief of staff in planning operational strategy, so this position is extremely important. Not to mention the Operations Division, the first division of the various departments under the General Staff is a position that all major generals want to sit in, and serving as the director of the Operations Department basically means that they can continue to rise.

"According to the reconnaissance intelligence of the air force on the Omsk side, the Soviet army has gathered more than 800,000 troops in the Omsk region alone, and there is also a partial division in the north of Omsk, with a number of at least 100,000 people. In addition, the Soviet army in the southern region of Omsk, that is, in the Karaganda area west of Xinjiang Province, also had abnormal movements, with at least 50,000 Soviet troops, most of whom were cavalry units. Major General Zhao Zhike was explaining to Chen Jingyun the latest situation on the Russian side: "Since yesterday morning, the border cavalry units of our army in Karaganda have engaged in a small-scale exchange of fire with the Soviet army, and by yesterday afternoon, the Russian Defense Forces in the northern area of Omsk were also attacked by a small scale from the Soviet army, and in the early hours of this morning, the Soviet army officially tore up the temporary armistice treaty and launched a large-scale offensive in the direction of Omsk!" ”

"And the current deployment of the Russian Defense Forces is that Omsk contains the 1st Army, the 5th Army, the 6th Army, the 7th Army and the 2nd Cavalry Army of the Russian Defense Forces, about 400,000. In the northern part of Omsk to the Tara region, there is the Third Army of the Russian Defense Forces, as well as the 7th Cavalry Division. The total strength is about 100,000 people. On the line from southern Omsk to Baprodar is the Second Army, the Fourth Army, and the First Cavalry Army of the Russian Defense Forces, with a total strength of about 130,000 troops. In addition, there was the 8th Army in the rear of Omsk, and the 9th Army in Novosibirsk. The above is the current deployment of the main forces of the Russian Defense Forces! ”

The strength of the Russian Defense Forces is not much, only one million people at the peak, after the signing of the temporary armistice agreement last year, the Russian Defense Forces also had time to carry out the reorganization of the establishment and the regularization of equipment, because of the factor of joint operations with Chinese troops, plus the Russian Republic itself does not have enough industrial capacity, most of the ordnance needs to be purchased from China, so considering the generalization of logistics, it has abandoned the use of Russian standard caliber, but fully converted to Chinese caliber, That is, 6.8 mm for rifles and 75 mm, 105 mm, 155 mm for artillery. However, the 122 mm howitzer developed in the pre-Russian era has not been revoked because of its outstanding surname and a large number of stocks, plus the terrain in Novosibirsk and Central Asia in Russia is good, which does not affect the mobile use of 122 mm, so the Chinese troops in Russia do not have to deliberately pursue the light surname of artillery as well as the troops in the domestic region, so they are also equipped with a lot of 122mm howitzers, not only the Russian Defense Forces are equipped, but even the Chinese troops in Russia are also equipped with a lot of 122mm howitzers in batches.

In terms of establishment, it also adopted a small division of three regiments, which was different from the one division and two brigades commonly used by the great powers in those years, and reorganized as many as 50 divisions, of which the number of cavalry was as large as eight divisions, most of which were recruited from the Cossack tribes in the areas controlled by Soviet Russia, and the total strength of these cavalry, infantry, and artillery and other arms was about 800,000 people. This is already the limit for a Russian republic with a population of only 10 million exports, which basically adopts a system of universal military service, in which all men have to serve in order to maintain a force of this size.

It is very difficult to block the millions of troops of the Soviet Army with the 800,000 troops of the Russian Defense Forces, and it is necessary to have a large number of Chinese troops to assist in the defense, which is also the reason why the number of Chinese troops in Russia has always exceeded 200,000, because the Chinese troops in Russia do not serve as the main combat missions on the front line, for example, in the direction of Omsk, China's Seventh Army is stationed in Karachinsk, and the Sixth Army is in Novosibirsk and Lake Belga. The Chinese troops stationed in Russia have replaced the Russian Defense Forces in maintaining internal security and peace.

At the same time, in the Kashak region in the west of Xinjiang Province, due to the shortage of Russian defense forces, the main forces are concentrated within a radius of hundreds of miles from Omsk, so the vast Kazakh region in the south can only be dealt with by Chinese troops, but the Soviet army does not have any main forces in this direction, and there are only a few divisions on the left and right, so China only deploys an infantry division and a reading cavalry regiment in Karaganda.

Generally speaking, although the Chinese troops stationed in Russia have a lot of troops, the main force in the fight against the Soviet Union is still the Russian Defense Forces, and the Chinese troops stationed in Russia are more responsible for the secondary front and the task of maintaining stability in the rear.

Based on this situation, the Soviet army basically engaged the Russian Defense Forces in the large-scale offensive launched in Omsk in the early hours of this morning, and the Chinese troops stationed in Russia only engaged in a small-scale exchange of fire with the Soviet troops in the Karaganda area.

However, although the main battle does not seem to have anything to do with the Chinese troops stationed in Russia, this war is actually fought between Soviet Russia and China.

Fundamentally, the Sino-Russian Mutual Defense Treaty signed by China and Russia in 1921 has clearly determined that if either side is attacked, then the other side will provide assistance, including force, which is a military alliance treaty to put it bluntly. The Russian Republic needs China as an ally to fight against the Soviet Army, and the fundamental purpose of China's support for the Russian Republic is naturally not to protect the Russian people in the Far East or that the Chinese are disgusted with the Social Workers' Party, but there is only one real reason, that is, China needs a divided Russia, just like the Xinhai period said that "I wanted a divided China, the fundamental purpose is not much different."

In terms of China's surrounding environment, the first threat is definitely Russia, which has thousands of miles of border with China, and even the second threat can only be regarded as the second threat, a unified Russia across the Eurasian continent, whether it is imperial Russia or Soviet Russia, is a huge threat to European countries, and it is also a huge threat to China in the East. Even when they were ready to fight, they abandoned the northeast and north, and retreated to the Yellow River and even the south of the Yangtze River, one can imagine how great a unified Russia, especially a socialist Russia, is a huge threat to China.

As for the book, at most it is the second threat, if China is still the same as in history warlord melee for decades, then it is enough to become a threat to China's destruction, but because of the appearance of Chen Jingyun, China's warlord melee has been over after a few years, although the reunified China is still far from real industrialization, but through the development of more than ten years, it can be regarded as the establishment of a preliminary national defense industry. Although the living standards of the Chinese people at this stage have not actually improved much, they are much stronger than in the pre-Qing era in terms of pure military strength, and the army is no longer much worse than the so-called "Ben."

Speaking of which, it is said that the development model of this and China is very similar, and even the current situation is very similar, that is a country that belongs to the beginning of industry, and the focus of industry is mostly concentrated in the defense industry, and the attention to the ordinary people's livelihood industry in the two countries is actually not much, and the level of tanks and military trucks used in China has not fallen behind the powers at all, and even in the field of aircraft, it is still slightly ahead of the powers. However, in terms of civilian use, taking the United States as an example, cars have become a household consumer product that has entered the middle class on a large scale, but in China, cars are still the toys of the rich, not to mention the civilian class, even those wealthy businessmen are mostly unable to afford or reluctant to buy cars. Not to mention expensive industrial products such as automobiles, even the most common primary industrial products such as soap, ordinary low-income families or rural areas cannot afford to use them.

Although the example is somewhat single, but this is enough to show that China's industry is not sound, is one-sided, since the Tongzhi years of the pre-Qing Dynasty to Guangxu, Xuantong and then Chen Jingyun unified China in these years, China's industrial development has always focused on the national defense industry, the development of ordinary people's livelihood industry is really limited, and historically, this situation will continue until the eighties.

In any case, it is a fact that China has already established a preliminary defense industry, and with a preliminary defense industry, it is not too difficult to maintain an army of millions of people after adopting the compulsory military system, with China's huge population base.

In this case, it is said that "Ben is actually not a cause for concern, as long as China is not in the situation of the late Qing Dynasty and the Republic of China in the past few decades, and has a unified political axe that can be said to be reasonable, and has an army that can barely fight, then in fact, the threat of Ben is very limited, even the Beiyang political axe before the 20s can dispel Ben's ambition of large-scale invasion of China, and only the control of the bald head in the Nanjing National Political Axe is too poor, and it divides the huge China into pieces, otherwise it is said." Ben has the courage to invade China in an all-out way.