CSKA was certainly one of the most aggressive armies in the world at the beginning of the 20th century.

After the end of World War I, under the tremendous pressure of the approaching Sino-Soviet War, the Central Army fully absorbed various innovations, new equipment, and new tactics in the European theater, and further promoted the second revolution in the tactical thinking of the World Army.

The Imperial Centre Army began to turn to mechanization, especially in the investigation and absorption of the logistics supply of the American army in World War I, as well as the use of tank tactics by Britain and France in the First World War stage, including the innovation of the British and Russian air force reading power organization, the Imperial Army created four tank brigades at the end of 1918, and by the end of 1919, the 11 most elite integrated divisions of the Imperial Army have set up tank regiments and mechanized baggage brigades, and the three artillery brigades directly under the central government have also entered the stage of mechanized traction during this period.

This was a special stage, the empire still had the largest steppe and Mongolian horse herds in the world, and the empire's ability to draw military horses was much higher than that of other army powers, and when the emperor arrived in Novosibirsk, the Northern Staff had deployed about three million military horses throughout the country to maintain the main transportation of supplies.

Napoleon said: Once China is awakened, the whole world will be shaken.

The reason is very simple, that is, China's war mobilization capacity is too astonishing and huge, and this will be fully demonstrated in this upcoming Sino-Soviet war.

For the newly formed Russian Red Army, fighting the Central Army of the Chinese Empire at this time was the most unwise choice, but they had no choice.

This is destined to be a fateful showdown, and this is destined to be only the beginning, just like the Battle of Yaxa, this upcoming war is only the prelude to the history of blood and tears of the two peoples of China and Russia.

When Qi established the Xia Dynasty in the Yellow River Valley, and when the Novgorod prince Oleg established the principality of Kievan Rus, the two peoples at the distant poles of the world did not seem to have imagined that one day a fierce battle would start in Siberia, but this was destined to be inevitable.

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After arriving in the city of Novonikolaevsk, Song Biao drove to the Northern Command, where he met Jiang Yanxing, deputy commander-in-chief of the front, Cai Yi, chief of staff, Fu Liangzuo, deputy chief of staff, Zhang Xiaohuai, deputy commander-in-chief of the front, Wu Luzhen, commander of the front-line tank unit, Shan Qipeng, commander of the front-line artillery unit, Wang Tingzhen, commander of the front-line cavalry unit, and Xu Fangqian, commander of the front-line air force of the Northern Staff Department, who was transferred to the air force to serve as the front-line air force commander of the Northern Staff.

In Han Linchun's words, almost all of the people in this northern staff department occupy the main seats in Huguang.

Yes, it is true, and this is thanks to Zhang Zhidong's meritorious achievements in actively preparing for the establishment of the Wubei Primary School and the assignment of students to study abroad during his tenure as the governor of Huguang.

During World War I, with the return of a large number of Russian advisers to their home countries to participate in World War I, there were very few Russian advisers in the Imperial Army, and now there are almost none.

The military education system composed of the Central Military Academy, the Far Eastern Army Academy, and the country's eight army schools has given the empire military talents that can rival the European and American powers.

In addition to Jiang Yanxing, Cai Yi, Fu Liangzuo, Zhang Xiaohuai, Shan Qipeng, Wang Tingzhen, and Xu Fangqian, Zhang Yahu, Zhang Hongkui, Xu Baoying, and Jiang Zhengyuan, commanders and chiefs of staff of the two major group armies of the Northern Command, were also present.

Song Biao did not transfer Chen Wu over, but put Liu Gengyun, Chen Wu, Xiao Kaigui and Jiang Zhaojian and others in charge of the Central Asia Command.

Like the Soviet Russian Red Army, the Imperial CSKA Army was also known for its young generals, whether it was in the Sino-Chinese Xinhai War and the First World War, or in the Sino-Soviet War, which was about to start a century of new grievances.

Song Biao shook hands with them one by one and thanked them for their continuous efforts in the previous year.

After arriving at the headquarters, Song Biao, as the emperor and the supreme commander of the national defense military, held a brief regular military meeting to count the new situation of the empire's preparations for war in the latest stage, and at the same time analyze the current dynamics and preparations of the Soviet Russian Red Army, but Song Biao did not have anything more to continue to tell everyone present that in the past year, the Central Military Department and the Northern Command have made every effort to complete all the pre-war preparations as much as possible.

The only problem at this stage is that the total size of the army of more than 4 million people is too large, so that the military spending situation of the empire is difficult to curb the continuous deterioration, the military service system and front-line subsidy system adopted by the empire, and the problem of the per capita income level of the empire make the imperial expenditure much lower than that of Britain and France, but compared with the Soviet Red Army opposite, it can really be regarded as a cost.

There is a special inevitability in history, and at the same time that Song Biao arrived in the city of Novonikolaevsk, the chairman of the Supreme Military Commission of Soviet Russia, Lev. As the supreme commander of the Red Army, Bronstein also called a special train arrived in Omsk, newly occupied by the Russian Red Army.

"Lev. Blomstein's nickname is the legendary Trotsky, who was the early leader of Soviet Russia and the founder of the Soviet Red Army, who was expelled and assassinated because of his failure to compete for power with Stalin.

Lev. Blomstein was a very stern man when the legendary Beo. Vladimir. When Emperor Song stood in the city of Novonikolaevsk and looked at Omsk, he also looked at the Novosibirsk region in Omsk.

Lev. Blomstein had been thinking about the goals of the Imperial Chinese Army on the other side, and he tried to analyze the problem in terms of class theory, and finally came up with an answer that would make all comrades feel hopeless, that is, the Chinese Empire was trying to destroy the Soviet revolution.

Lenin wanted to continue to solve the problem by means of peace talks, preferring to make greater concessions, but also to concentrate first on eliminating the White Army and opposition forces in the country and ensuring the results of the Soviet revolution. Blomstein fiercely criticized this idea, believing that it was necessary to go through a bloody battle to make the semi-feudal and semi-capitalist backward Chinese empire realize that the proletarian revolution had vigorous vitality and could not be destroyed by military force.

Before arriving in Omsk, Lev. One of the greatest overhaul of the Red Army was the establishment of the political commissar system, which led the military struggle with the politically correct surname.

Intelligence is a very important job.

A few days later, Song Biao got Lev. The news that Blomstein had arrived in Omsk also made Song Biao feel a little uneasy, and he admired this great and determined revolutionary mentor, although the great leader of the Red Army often had affairs with other women, and was one of the main formulators of the anti-marriage policy and the women's sharing policy, but it could not hide his military acumen and natural talent.

The influence of the political commissar system created by this leader was so far-reaching that Song Biao implemented a similar system of instructors in the Imperial Defense Force, the Patrol Army, and the Police Department.

The top military commander of the Soviet Red Army on the Eastern Front was later more famous Mikhail Brown. Frunze, with the approval of the CPSU, Frunze chose to invite General Brusilov to serve as a military adviser to the Red Army on the Eastern Front, and General Brusilov agreed, both of which were more annoying news for Song Biao.

After arriving in Novonikolaevsk, Song Biao lived in an Orthodox apartment complex between the east bank of the Ob River and the North Ridge, where there was a whole cement fortress under the ground, where the Northern Command was located, and Song Biao lived in such underground fortresses, only occasionally going out to relax in the surrounding farmland and woods.

Before the arrival of the cold wave in November, both China and the Soviet Union sent peasants out on a large scale to rush out to harvest grain, and Soviet Russia had already implemented a planned supply system of materials, which could barely meet military needs when the output of industry and agriculture was only equal to 1/7 and 1/3 of Russia's 1913 production.

The empire, on the other hand, had a long-term battle plan from the very beginning, and could always save money in such a large-scale military expenditure, and could not abandon the more than 3 million hectares of buckwheat and rye reclaimed in the surrounding area just because the Russian Red Army had already reached Omsk.

The economy is always the worst part of a war, and no military commander wants to think about it, but has to face its brutality, so neither China nor the Soviet Union has any plans to delay it for a long time.

Let's fight a decisive battle, just around the corner.

In order to prepare for this war, Soviet Russia expanded the total strength of the Red Army to 5.5 million, and about 2.1 million troops were concentrated on the Eastern Front. Frunze commanded, while in Novosibirsk, the total strength of CSKA remained at 1.7 million, and the two sides also had fierce confrontations in the Eastern European theater.

According to the agreement between the Reich and Poland, around April next year, Poland will attack Soviet Russia with the cooperation of the Imperial Expeditionary Force.

Soviet Russia is more familiar with this information, so it prefers to fight a decisive battle with the Imperial Army on the Eastern Front before the arrival of winter, defeat the Imperial Army, and recover the Novosibirsk region.

If Soviet Russia fails to do this, it will not be able to control Central Asia and unite with the revolutionary forces in Central Asia.

Compared with the two years of abundant preparation of the empire, the Russian Red Army could only adopt a more aggressive way, transferring supplies from the country on a large scale, and using a large number of military supplies captured from the Kolchak White Army on the spot, including tanks and aircraft, but the Russian Red Army lacked qualified aircraft and tank drivers, and many tanks could only be placed along the train line to serve as mobile batteries.

War is on the verge of breaking out, perhaps after the massive wheat harvest on both sides.

The city of Novonikolaevsk also began to get cold in November, with the coldest time at night around minus 9 degrees Celsius, and the coldest time in February, when the extreme low temperature can reach minus 30 degrees Celsius, usually around minus 20 degrees Celsius, and the average daytime temperature is minus 10 degrees.

Because of the cold weather and the freezing of the soil in a large area, it was difficult for the Soviet Russian Red Army to build trenches and fortifications on a large scale.

The situation was more unfavorable for the Russian Red Army, but they had a numerical advantage, so they could think more about attacking, but it depended on Mikhail. Frunze and Alexey. General Brusilov's joint decision-making too.

The weather was very cold, and Song Biao, accompanied by Han Chunlin, a first-class chamberlain, walked on the path between the mountains and forests, scattered not far from the headquarters, wearing a very thick fine woolen military coat and a pair of black deerskin military boots that had not been worn for a long time.

The cold wind before the arrival of the cold wave is already chilling, and you can see the hoarfrost falling in one breath, this feeling is similar to that of the three eastern provinces in winter, and there is nothing surprising to people like Song Biao and Han Chunlin who are used to living in the Northeast.

Song Biao's feeling is very good, basically as long as he can adapt to the weather in the northeast, there is nothing here that cannot be adapted, the land is as fertile, and the vast and boundless millions of hectares of land are endless fields.

He had always been suspicious of this place, and always felt that even if he forcibly seized it with Russia in the Entente, he might not be able to stay in the empire forever, but now, he has changed his mind.

The mountains in the distance are covered with a layer of snow, and the leaves of the birch trees have all fallen, leaving only the bare trunks to continue to stand in the mountains and forests, no matter how you look at it, there is not much difference from the three eastern provinces.

Song Biao thought to himself that perhaps it was precisely because of this that Russia was obsessed with the three eastern provinces and the Far East.

Now is actually a good time, as long as it is really forcibly occupied, the means can be completely and permanently, the problem is only to beware of the counterattack offensive that Soviet Russia cannot give up for decades to come.

Although he had stronger military strength, Song Biao was not completely sure in his heart, because the opponent was Soviet Russia, and he knew too well how much military potential such a country had, especially when they were just established, and the pace of mobilization and ideological unity would make all enemy troops feel incomprehensible.

Since last year, Song Biao has repeatedly emphasized the importance of ideological education and ethnic education, in fact, he has always attached great importance to these two points, but in the past year, he has been firmly ...... Or he continued to emphasize it very uneasily, but he couldn't see what the final effect was.

In order to ensure the soldiers' will to fight, the Central Military Department and the empire have been repeatedly carrying out anti-Soviet propaganda, preaching and exaggerating the crisis of national existence, spreading Sino-Russian hatred, in the traditional Marxist principle, there is always too much one-sided interpretation of "economy" as capitalism, in fact, the economic factors that determine the war are usually the interests of the state and the nation, whether it is [***], or capitalism, the interests of the state and the nation are always placed above the doctrine, otherwise, Soviet Russia will not become the Soviet emperor.

In order to achieve the effect as simply as possible, the empire was more willing to simply compare this war to the Han-Hungarian War in the 20th century, and the Russians to the Huns, in order to protect the survival rights and interests of the nation, it was necessary to defeat the Russians and drive them out of Asia.

The effect will probably only be seen after the start of the war.

In the birch forest, Song Biao seemed to be walking idly, but his brows were tightly locked, he was not worried about Mikhail. Frunze and Trotsky, although both were very clever military strategists, he was worried about Alexei. General Brusilov and Aleksandrovich. General Neznamov, these two know both of them too well with the Northeast Army and him, and are well aware of the operational style and thinking of the Chinese Army, as well as various tactical features.

Judging from the recent aerial reconnaissance and intelligence gathering, the army of the Soviet Russian Red Army on the Eastern Front was very special divided into three group armies, with the First Front and the Second Front being at the front, and the Third Front lagging behind.

Song Biao has been pondering in his heart the intention of this deployment of the Soviet Russian Red Army, there is no doubt that this deployment can effectively prevent the Imperial Army from implementing the tactics of division and encirclement, no matter which part of the Imperial Army is ready to encircle and annihilate, it will usher in 2/3 of the Red Army's military strength at the same time.

Whether it is Song Biao, or Cai Yi, Jiang Yanxing, and Fu Liangzuo, they all lack good countermeasures to this.

Of course, this military deployment of the Soviet Russian Red Army also has a major drawback, that is, it is only suitable for the defensive position, and once the division is waved to attack, the three front armies will inevitably have to distance themselves from each other, otherwise they will not be able to effectively guarantee logistics; if the Red Army advances on all fronts, a large area of blank space will be exposed behind it, and with the characteristics of the Imperial Army, it will be able to seize the fighters and insert them from the flanks.

In response, the Russian Red Army had to pull the two flanks of the front line apart during the offensive to expand its coverage, or advance the Third Front behind it and attack it with the Third Front, with the First and Second Front armies protecting on the flanks.

No matter how the Soviet Russian Red Army adjusted its deployment, as long as there were changes in military strength in the process of advancing, there would be flaws.

It's just that this kind of tactical deployment is still a great improvement compared to the backward methods of the Chinese army during the Sino-Chinese Xinhai War, at least it will not be constantly divided and cannibalized by the imperial army.

Song Biao has been thinking about this problem for the past two days, and he began to conceive a new operational deployment, directly concentrating the main elite to defeat one front army, forcing the Soviet Russian Red Army to change from the mutual echo of the three front armies to the front and one rear of the two front armies.

Defeat the first army, insert it in the middle, encircle and annihilate the front front army, and finally rely on the speed of cavalry to attack the third front army.

This is the best plan that Song Biao has come up with in his recent thinking.

Although there have been great changes in strategic deployment, in the actual combat process, Song Biao only needs to concentrate the only two tank brigades in his hands in one group army, or transfer four tank brigades to form a mechanized group army, as long as the combat intentions of the Soviet Russian Red Army are exposed, he will concentrate a mechanical group army and one of the two group armies on the front line to build a new elite main force, and directly cross the Ob River to defeat one of the front armies.

Song Biao silently thought about some details, especially in ammunition, personnel, firepower, etc., and kept thinking about it repeatedly, and his natural military sense of smell made him always have a bad premonition, that is, the attack of the Soviet Russian Red Army will be very fast, and it is likely to be in the near future.

The main forces of the two sides seem to be 400 kilometers apart, and it may only take half a month for the main forces to fight head-on.

In fact, the Russian Red Army, like the Imperial Centre Army, was guided by speed and onslaught, which was derived from the policy established by Trotsky during the Russian Civil War, and thus had a far-reaching influence.

At this stage, thanks to the help of some Tsarist generals who had served as military advisers in China, Soviet Russia appeared to be more relaxed and calm in this transformation, and also adopted the method of increasing the number of people to make up for the lack of firepower in the case of rapid combat.

Thinking about this clearly, Song Biao resolutely made up his mind, so he returned to the headquarters to hold a temporary regular meeting, adjusted the tactical deployment according to his own ideas, and selected four tank brigades, two integrated infantry divisions, one baggage brigade, and two cavalry divisions as the mechanized Third Group Army, compressing this elite unit in the middle of the two group armies, and cooperating with one group army to surprise the enemy.

(To be continued)