After the six-sided fight. For both the country and the country, the situation has both advantages and disadvantages

As the country's top leader, Pei Chengyi is very aware of the urgency of the war situation and the importance of choosing a correct strategic direction. On the afternoon of March 3, after meeting with the ambassadors of the member countries of the intensive group to China. Pei Chengyi handed over the work of presiding over the dinner to Yongyuwang, and he rushed to the General Staff Headquarters to attend a military meeting presided over by Yuan Chenhao. What can make Pei Chengyi leave dozens of allied envoys behind will only be the most important military meeting.

On the way to the General Staff, Pei Chengyi received a call from Jiao Kuishan that the plenary congress had approved the "War Mobilization Order" submitted by the Yuan Government. The Yuan was officially granted the power of war, that is, the Yuan could mobilize state resources, requisition social wealth, and conscript national citizens in accordance with a number of war-related laws and regulations, such as the War Mobilization Law and the War Status Law, to achieve final victory by all necessary means.

This news did not make Pei Chengyi excited, because it was only a matter of time.

Objectively speaking, regardless of the support of "warmakers" like Lin Muxun, after the war with the United States, the plenary congress will grant the right to war. Bringing the republic to a state of war. More importantly, it is not only the Republic that has entered a state of war concentration, but also the United States on the other side of the ocean. As early as the afternoon of the 2nd, that is, the early morning of the 3rd Eastern Time, the United States Congress made the same decision, authorizing the President of the United States to carry out wartime mobilization.

From the standpoint of the military commander, Pei Chengyi will not be overly concerned about wartime authorization.

It is precisely because of this that he handed over such an important matter to Jiao Kuishan to deal with, and did not go to the plenary congress in person.

For Pei Chengyi. What really needs to be concerned is to keep an eye on the changes on the battlefield. Although Pei Chengyi never doubted Yuan Chenhao's ability, he did not express any concern about the chief of the General Staff. But almost everyone knows it. Pei Chengyi is most worried about Yuan Chenhao. The problem is not in personal ability, to be precise, it is precisely because Yuan Chenhao has military talent no less than Pei Chengyi. Therefore, the two have different views on many military issues, especially on strategic decision-making. And no one can convince anyone.

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This is also the main reason why Pei Chengyi rushed to the General Staff in a hurry.

After meeting the chief of the General Staff, Pei Chengyi first inquired about the situation on the battlefield on the mainland.

Because the landing on the Kamchatka Peninsula was Pei Chengyi's decision, and the scale was not large, only a marine brigade was invested, so there were still only two main directions in the mainland battlefield, one was Central Asia and the other was the Far East.

Although the Republican Marines landed on the Kamchatka Peninsula and captured Petropavlovsk. Many believed that the republic would focus on the Far East, occupying major towns including Vlažvostok, as soon as possible, and opening ground access to the Qinchatka Peninsula. What's more, by the afternoon of the 3rd. That is, when the war is about to enter the seventh day. In the northeastern part of the Republic, the ground and other units have been increased to the number of combat units, two of which are the main combat units, with a total strength close to the old 10,000, and two combat units have been formed in Shenyang, Changchun, and Harbin, and a large amount of war materials have been hoarded in Qiqihar and other places. However, judging from the overall battlefield situation, there is no reason for the Republic to attack the Far East first, let alone open up ground communication lines for several small towns on the Kamchatka Peninsula with a population of less than 10,000.

As already mentioned, the main purpose of the Republic's troops to occupy the Qinchaka Peninsula had nothing to do with the attack on Russia.

No doubt. Central Asia remains the main theater of battle.

There is only one main reason why the Central Asian theater did not attract attention, that is, before that, there were no fierce battles. Although the Russian Army made a move first, the 4th Airborne Brigade was the first to reach Astana. However, the 1st Infantry Division of the Kazakh Army took advantage of the easy-to-defend and difficult-to-attack urban terrain to delay the offensive of the Russian army, and the 9th Combat Unit advanced surprisingly quickly. The Russian army's 1st Airborne Brigade abandoned the assault on Astana. Advance to the northwest at Kokshetaau, hoping to gain a foothold and block the passage of the 9th Combat Unit to the north and west.

There is no doubt that the Kokshetau is a must for both sides. Because from Astana to Petropavlovsk, the capital of North Kazakhstan, which has the same name as the Russian capital of Kamba, and to the west to the capital of Kostanay and Kostanay, these two places have to be passed through the main advance positions of the army in the Siberian region. Judging by this action of the 1st Airborne Brigade, the Russian army is not blindly sending troops to Kazakhstan, in addition to striving to capture Astana, it is also ready for strategic contraction. That is, by controlling the northern regions of Kazakhstan, the front will be controlled outside the territory to prevent the fire of war from burning to the mainland prematurely.

The question is, does the 4th Airborne Brigade have this strength?

Leaving aside for the moment the combat effectiveness of the old airborne brigade and the ninth combat unit, the strength of the troops is not comparable. To know. The 9th Combat Unit left only the Artillery Brigade behind, the Combat Brigade and the Support Brigade had already entered Kazakhstan, and even if it was only the Combat Brigade that rushed to the front, it was much more numerous than the 4th Airborne Brigade. What's more. The combat effectiveness of the 9th combat unit clearly surpassed that of the 1st Airborne Brigade.

On the last day of the year, the 1st Airborne Brigade stopped its journey north in Shuchinsk, about a kilometer away from Kokshetau. This stop meant that the brigade never had a chance to arrive again. The combat brigade of the Be-9 combat unit, which had captured Kok's front by a low-altitude assault, did not turn back to pack up the 1st Congo Airborne Brigade, but moved north to take control of Petropavlovsk with a faster degree, and on the first day of the new year occupied Kostanay, closing the northern gates of Kazakhstan. Because of the combat brigade plus the assault, the heavy task of annihilating the 1st Airborne Brigade was given to the support brigade that followed.

It was not the commander of the ninth combat unit who underestimated the enemy. But the combat effectiveness of the 1st Airborne Brigade is really not very good.

More importantly, the sweep of the northern regions of Kazakhstan is certainly more important than the annihilation of a Russian airborne brigade. From another point of view, if the combat brigade of the 9th combat unit stands still for an airborne brigade, so that the Russian army and the rebels in Kazakhstan have enough time to adjust their deployment, I am afraid that the most happy will be the commander of the Russian army.

In fact, the 4th Airborne Brigade did not hold out for long either. Because there is no hope of breaking through, and there is no way to talk about assistance. So the most elite airborne brigade of the Russian army held out in Shuchinsk for less than an hour, on the afternoon of the 2nd of the year. That is, when the Ninth Combat Unit's War Cattle Brigade marched to Aktobe, it surrendered to the Republican ** team outside the city, and about the Red enough Russian officers and soldiers became the first batch of prisoners in this war, and the First Heart Airborne Brigade also became the first Russian brigade-level combat unit to surrender in formation in this war.

The first 3 days of the New Year. The 9th combat unit advanced by leaps and bounds, focusing on sweeping the northern regions of Kazakhstan where pro-Russian forces were deeply rooted, and advanced the front to the capital of Aktobe Aktobe Oblast on the afternoon of the 3rd, and is expected to reach the east bank of the Ural River on the afternoon of the 4th, occupying the capital of Atyrau Atyrau Oblast and the capital of Ural West Kazakhstan. Because in the month, day and night. 3 Russian divisions entered the area on the northern shore of the Caspian Sea, west of the Ural River. On the 2nd, two more divisions were added. The strength of the Russian troops stationed in the area west of the Ural River was too high, plus about 10,000 Kazakh rebels and nearly 10,000 temporarily conscripted bandits, and the enemy troops on the other side of the river were nearly 10,000, so the 9th combat unit would not cross the Ural until reinforcements arrived.

Attacking at the same time as the ninth combat unit, there was also the first combat unit.

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Although nominally, the first combat unit belongs to the reserve force, it can also be seen from the fan number that the fan number of the main combat unit is all Chinese numbers. The numbers of the reserve combat units are all Arabic numerals, but in terms of combat effectiveness, the first combat unit is not much worse than the ninth combat unit. According to the training standards of the Army of the Republic, the daily training of the first combat unit is exactly the same as that of the ninth combat unit. There is only one reason why the Seventh combat unit is inferior to the ninth combat unit. That is, peacetime discontent. Even so. The impact on combat effectiveness is minimal. The reason is simple: half of the non-reserve troops undergo three months of intensive training every year, and the other months are spent in the other. On average, there is a week of training time every month, so the training time is about a month throughout the year, and the standing army also has family leave and other holidays, and the annual training time is about a month. Not much more than the extraordinary reserve force.

In short, the combat effectiveness of the first battle bull unit is not bad.

Of course, in actual combat application, commanders will still have a difference in severity, and generally will not let reserve combat units take on the task of attacking fortified positions.

It was for this reason that the task of the first combat unit was to sweep the area south of Lake Balgos and the Aral Sea.

Although the area of the South Kazakhstan region is only about the usual size of the whole country. But the Saresu, Chu and Syr Darya rivers, as well as the Tien Shan Mountains and the Pamirs to the south, are among the richest and most populous regions of Kazakhstan. Fortunately, the region is adjacent to the republic. and Kyrgyzstan, which has close ties with the republic, so the population of the region is widespread

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Affected by this, the advance of the first combat unit was very fast, and even the first pill combat unit was passed at once.

On the last day of the year, the vanguard of the first combat unit reached the mouth of the Syr Darya River and moved north to take control of the town of Aralsk, a transportation hub. Under normal circumstances, the Fighting Unit of the Ninth Fighting Unit should follow the railway line north to the City of October, where it would join the Ninth Combat Unit, and then march west with the Ninth Combat Unit, and after occupying the Makat transport junction northeast of Atyrau, part ways with the Ninth Combat Unit, turn south, and attack Aktau, the capital of the Mangystau region on the eastern shore of the Caspian Sea.

Apparently, the O combat unit did not do this.

After the capture of Aralsk, the 1st Combat Unit advanced along the road line on the northern shore of the Aral Sea to Kurand, south of the Great Balsuki Desert, and then used dozens of vertical take-off and landing transports. In the night will fight the brigade blade. A number of officers and men and all their heavy equipment were sent to Beineu, which was many kilometers away, and in one fell swoop they occupied the transportation hub east of Aktau, and prepared for the march to Aktau.

Because it is not the main combat unit, the support brigade has only one aviation battalion, and the vertical take-off and landing transport aircraft equipped with it are only one-third of the main combat unit. The problem of transporting combat troops is not a big one, but it is almost impossible to ensure that combat units are fighting in full force, especially when the logistical support line is thousands of kilometers over. It's even more unsustainable. So in the first 3 days of 8 years. The first combat unit did not march to Aktau, but went to Alarsk and transported hundreds of high-altitude hovercraft Xi. Nasal boats. In the Aral Sea, a sizable "fleet was formed, relying on a fleet of the Father." "Supplies delivered to Aralsk by rail line can be quickly delivered to Kurand, on the northwestern shore of the Aral Sea. It was then sent to Beineu by vertical take-off and landing transport planes, and finally transported by train to the front line, thus ensuring the logistics of the attacking troops on the front line.

According to the calculations drawn up by the General Staff, the Commanders of the Interior were to occupy Aktau by daybreak at the latest, and take control of the largest port city on the eastern shore of the Caspian Sea. If the 9th Combat Unit is able to successfully occupy Atyrau and open the railway line of communication. The Army of the Republic would be able to cross the Caspian Sea in two ways. Attack on the Russian region of the Inner Caucasus.

Although tactically. The cost of crossing the Caspian Sea is not, for example, the Republic Army having to use strategic airlift forces to deliver hundreds of landing craft to Aktau and Atyrau, or at least one brigade of marines, or a low-altitude assault force of comparable size. More importantly, even if a landing on the western shore of the Caspian Sea is possible and a landing ground is successfully established, if a breakthrough is not made on the northern shore of the Caspian Sea and a railway line to the Inner Caucasus is opened, the ground offensive will still be difficult because of the unsustainable material support. But strategically speaking, as long as the republican ** team can avoid the Russian army on the west bank of the Ural River, to be precise, it will go around to the rear of the Russian Ural Front. The Russian commander-in-chief will have to be careful, and will even take the initiative to retreat from the west bank of the Urals, so as to reduce the difficulty of operations in the direction of the Urals. More importantly, if the republican team can occupy the Inner Caucasus, it will not only complicate the ethnic problem in the Caucasus, but also have an impact on several countries in the Transcaucasia, and shake Georgia, Azerbaijan and Armenia. In fact, as long as Azerbaijan falls to the republic, provide a channel for the republican ** army to march. The Army of the Republic will be able to bypass the southern shore of the Caspian Sea and open a third front in the direction of Transcaucasia, so that the Russian defense line in the Caucasus will be exposed to the enemy. It can even be said that when the time comes. The republic does not need to use a single soldier. It is completely possible to allow Iran, which is very interested in the Caucasus region and the resources of the Caspian Sea, to send troops and force the Russian army to adjust the defensive deployment of the Caucasus. So as to contain hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of Russian troops.

Thus. Only 2 combat units were used. The Army of the Republic won in the Central Asian theater.

In Yuan Chenhao's words, after taking control of Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan and Turkmenistan, which are pro-Russian, will definitely change their minds, or at least announce it. It's about fighting the next battle. Of course. This sentence is a bit general, Yuan Chenhao means. Don't limit your eyes to Kazakhstan. In the case of a good start, it is time to turn a favorable situation into a victory. To put it more directly, it is to take advantage of the favorable opportunity of the Russian army to actively strengthen the defense of the west bank of the Ural River and the Necaucasus region, and move north from the northern regions of Kazakhstan. Capture the Siberian region, fully unfold the right flank offensive front, break the strategic defense line of the Russian army with a right hook, form a strategic posture of flanking and outflanking the region east of the Urals, and finally force the Russian army to fully retreat.

The mother is doubtful, and Ji Chenhao is very ambitious.

In fact, it's also the least costly way to attack.

As the most outstanding military commander of the Republic in the century, Pei Chengyi could not have been unaware of the great value of Yuan Chenhao's proposal. It can be said that if this right hook is successfully carried out, and both Kurgan, Tyumen, Chelyabinsk and Yekaterinburg in the area east of the Ural Mountains are successfully occupied, the Russian army will have no choice but to fully retreat and hold the Ural River defense line centered on Orenburg while relying on the Ural Mountains. If you can attack left and right, you can start another attack at the same time. Trying to cross the Ural River and pose a threat to Orenburg would be able to make the Russian army's "Ural Line." It's nothing. According to Pei Chengyi's rough estimate. If all goes well, it will take only 2 months to advance the front to the eastern bank of the Volga. It will take a maximum of 4 months to reach the city of Moscow. The Continental War lasted for half a year.

Although this is the ideal situation, and most of the time, the ideal is not possible, but even if other factors are taken into account. It would only take a few years at most to capture Moscow, making a continental war a no-brainer. Among them. The key is whether the "Ural Line" can be crossed as quickly as possible, that is, before Russia completes its mobilization for war. You must know that outside the Volga River, which is known as the mother river of Russia, there is no natural danger to stop the advance of the republican ** team in the west of the Ural Mountains and the Ural River. More importantly, the "Ural Line." It is a strategic defense line carefully constructed by Russia, and it is also the key defense line of the Russian army, and in the area west of this, the density of Russian troops is pitifully low.

All in all, as long as the "Ural Line" can be quickly broken, the others are easy to say.

The question is also here, how sure is it that the military strength of the republic, especially when mobilization has not yet been completed at the beginning of the war, has been able to hit the "Ural Line"?

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This is also Pei Chengyi's personal visit to the General Staff. Discuss the main reasons for the military action with Yuan Chenhao.

Arguably. Whether the continental war is a lightning-fast decisive battle or a protracted war that has been tormented depends on whether the Republic Army can overturn the Urals before the Russian army completes its mobilization!