Seeing that everyone was jealous of the upcoming Soviet Russian army, Rokossovsky explained flatly, "Don't worry, they are not invincible gods of war, nor are they legendary undead legions...... They are also people, living people! I have had the privilege of communicating with their officers, and if you don't object, I'll tell you my impression of them! After a slight pause, seeing that there was no objection, Rokossovsky recalled, "Compared with the tactics of the Soviet Russian army in the Far East, the Soviet Russian troops of the Volga Military District are more difficult to deal with, and their tactics have been developed from the experience of gradually mastering the close coordination of the use of various arms." Their opponents have always been the strong armies of Europe, so they are also strictly executed according to the dogma of the military academy, which is much stronger than the Far Eastern Army adapted from the guerrillas.

They enshrined in the first field doctrine of the Russian army, approved by the All-Russian Central Executive Committee in December 1918, that "the offensive is the main mode of battle". The tactics of the army as a whole are characterized by initiative, initiative and mobility. Using the experience of the First World War, they found that due to the long front and the limited number of troops on both sides, the tactical density was not large in the early stages of the war, but gradually increased in the course of the war. For example, at the beginning of the Civil War, the division's offensive area was 50 kilometers wide in the main assault direction, and by the autumn of 1919 the division's offensive zone had shrunk to 25 to 30 kilometers, and in 1920 it had been reduced to 7 to 15 kilometers. The battle formations of detachments, units, and corps are 1-2 echelons, and there are reserves. Infantry actions during the offensive were supported by machine-gun and artillery fire, and cavalry was used to develop results. Tactical mobility is emphasized in offensive combat, and this aspect is mainly expressed as a flank attack that encircles or detours the enemy. Moreover, they also concluded that the end of the battle is often pursuit, because pursuit is the main combat method of total annihilation of the enemy. Of course, in the civil war, they also gained experience in forced river crossings and night battles from the march. Therefore, when we fight them, we must prevent night battles.

In addition, adhering to the experience of the First World War in Europe, their defensive warfare was also clear-sighted, and they did not defend rigidly, but believed that the purpose of defending was to hold the defensive ground, gain time, and prepare the conditions for the transition to the offensive. The defense was characterized by the absence of a continuous frontage, the mobility of the troops and a high degree of initiative. The division's defensive area was more than 50 kilometers wide. The battle formation at the time of defense consisted of several operational sectors and reserves. The depth of the defense depends on the depth of the tactical reserves. When the Russian army established a positional defense, they used the experience of the First World War, for example, in the defense of the Kakhovka landing field, where the Soviet army for the first time made extensive use of various weapons, such as mines, and mortar artillery platoons and artillery batteries of various calibers specially allocated to fight the enemy's trenches. ”

"I ...... I would like to ask, what is the defense of the Kakhovka landing field? And what kind of mortar is ......," a young White Russian cavalry general asked, rubbing his fingers and looking strange. Seeing that everyone was staring at him, he looked even more cramped. This man was the son of a baron, and he was one of the first seventeen White Russian nobles to follow Zhao Yun, but he didn't catch up with the First World War, let alone go to the noble military academy in Moscow to study.

Seeing that nearly half of the generals in the garrison headquarters surrounded the sand table had this kind of look, Rokossovsky explained with a smile, "The Perekop Infantry Division was formed in August 1919 on the Eastern Ural Front and was called the 51st Infantry Division. On December 13, 1920, it was renamed the 51st Moscow Infantry Division. During the years of the Civil War, under the command of Blyukher, in the battle to crush the White Guards of Admiral Kolchak, in the battle of Perekop-Jongar in the defensive battle of the Kakhovka landing field, in August-October 1920 in the storming of the area fortified by the White Guards of Wrangel on the Isthmus of Perekop in the Crimea. As for Baron Wrangel, the lieutenant general of the Russian infantry who is now receiving help from the Japanese in the Far East, I don't think I need to introduce him again! As for this defensive battle, it is worth paying attention to the ability of the Soviet Russian army to raid at night, and at this point, I think our army still needs to learn more. ”

"Not bad!" Looking at Rokossovsky with kindness and nodded, it is rare that this general has not been proud after winning the three important cities of Liankesu Russia, Zhao Yun continued, "Don't be proud like a Gallic rooster just because you have won several battles in a month, our enemy is still very strong, otherwise I don't need to spend time to rectify you!" ”

The recent situation Zhao Yun saw in his eyes that the White Russian Army formed by the Baron Army in the Far East of Belarus was actually a group of "turtles" who had never seen anything of the world and were immersed in the joy of victory and the crazy progress of their strength, and their military literacy was similar to that of the Beiyang Army of the same era, but compared with the Japanese army and the European armies that participated in World War I, it was too far behind. Fortunately, their battle realization is very different from the Beiyang Army, in China, defeat means being reorganized, re-changing the head of the warlord to continue to mess around, and in the civil war in Russia, that is, exile, captivity, or direct shooting, so the fighting consciousness of the White Russian Army is much higher than that of the Beiyang Army. In addition, in terms of generals, Rokossovsky, the officers who switched to the camp from the Soviet Russian army, have seen the world, and they are very clear about the military strength west of the Ural Mountains, so compared with the baronial officers in the Far East, Rokossovsky is more in awe and cautious about the Soviet Russian army sent by Europe, and Rokossovsky is very nervous about the abnormal reaction to the attack of a large number of European-level Soviet and Russian troops, so he will boast about the unparalleled combat power of the Soviet Russian army in Europe. It is for fear that this group of white Russian troops who do not know the height of the sky and the thickness of the sky will be proud and complacent.

In fact, before this, Zhao Yun did not expect that Rokossovsky's Western Expeditionary Army could develop to the current scale, so it could only be simply divided according to 10,000 troops and 1,000 troops before. But now because the Soviet Russian surrendered troops, captured soldiers, and the White Russian army are all mixed together, it is very cumbersome to manage.

In the face of the immediate difficulties, Zhao Yun decided to reorganize according to the corps and corps, and use the numerical advantage to counter the combat power of the Soviet Russian European army. Of course, this is also a decision made by Zhao Yun after asking many people. Zhao Yun, who graduated from a non-military academy, could not figure out the difference between the corps and the corps before this. Giving too many titles such as Shubutai and Timur to the corps and legions are all the products of Zhao Yun's assumptions. After Rokossovsky's explanation, Zhao Yun learned that the corps is a collective name for armies and divisions. At present, in the Soviet Russian army, the army is a campaign tactical corps, and the division is a basic tactical corps. As soon as he talked about the Corps, Zhao Yun thought of the Production and Construction Corps, and later generations heard a report in the news, a corps has more than one million people, under the jurisdiction of ten agricultural construction divisions, and a construction engineer (referred to as construction engineers), and what is even more distinctive is that a division does not need to follow the conventional three-three system, four-four system, it can be under the jurisdiction of many regiments, and in the same way, a regiment can also be under the jurisdiction of many companies, for example, one of the eleventh regiments, which is divided into thirty-nine companies, and each company is divided into four platoons, Although it looks a lot like a regimental unit, the number is comparable to that of an integrated division. Each company has a company commander, a platoon commander, and of course a regimental commander. Although the name is so called a regiment, it is not an ordinary regimental unit. It is a special group with a special constitution and a special area. A corps has more than one million people, and if you calculate it, each division will have more than 100,000 people, and each regiment will have an average of 10,000 people, which is already the number of integrated divisions of the regular army of Soviet Russia. At present, compared with the combat power of the White Russian army, except for a few elite teams of the White Russian army and the teams surrendered by Soviet Russia, which can be converted by a 1:1 calculation, the rest have to use 5-10 times the strength to contend with. Therefore, according to the principle of maximization, Zhao Yuncai acquiesced in such an "unbelievable" establishment and stored in the system.

The Legion, on the other hand, is an important military force of a country, ordered to defend its security and its interests in the world. A legion is a complex organization that is able to sustain long-term operations away from home. Legions are usually large armies made up of different specialties. Because of the considerable combat power of these constituents, the country's leadership is very concerned about their integration and strength. In the military language of the Soviet Russian army, the campaign corps is the group army, and the strategic campaign corps is the front army.

Judging from the current situation, it is obvious that they have not yet reached the level of the corps synthesized by various services, and at most they can become corps. One consists of three infantry divisions, a cavalry brigade with two regiments, a baggage brigade with seven regiments, and a heavyweight artillery brigade with 1,300 guns.

The XPCC is now organized, but there is still a problem that is difficult to solve. The predecessor of the Rokossovsky Corps was basically the scale formed by driving the people of the city, and even after the three big cities were replenished and replaced, there were still nearly 30% of the women in the army, who either served as men, or were responsible for medical aid, or helped manage horses and baggage, and even Rokossovsky also arranged two separate female barracks for them to guard the warehouse, which was regarded as the special ** of the Rokossovsky Corps! This thorny problem, at least for a month, Zhao Yun has no way to change, only to wait for the teams of Xijiang and Tangnu Ulianghai, which are closest to Novosibirsk, to come and replace them.

Of course, with the Rokossovsky Corps as a template, Zhao Yun's troops in the north and south of the Yangtze River also began a new formation, and Wu Peifu, who had grown to more than 200,000 people south of the Yangtze River, was reorganized into the Wu Peifu Corps, which had two infantry divisions, a baggage brigade with two regiments, and a Yangtze River Fleet that could not even make up half a regiment. And Sun Chuanfang, who occupies Jiangxi and Fujian, and half of Guangdong, can only be a division commander, and his subordinates can't even get together a compiler, and they don't dare to sit on an equal footing with Wu Peifu, so he doesn't have the slightest complaint about this. Zhu Xi, who has been sitting in Jiangsu, finally got together one and a half divisions in terms of numbers after annexing the Hui Army in Anhui and Zhejiang in Zhejiang, plus the Southern Navy stationed in Shanghai, so he also received the position of division commander, and after continuing to work hard to recruit full soldiers, he could be promoted to Zhu Xi's corps. North of the Yangtze River, the Mongolian cavalry of the Chechen Khan pulled all the suitable Mongols and Manchus from Shaanxi, Gansu, Jin, Inner and Outer Mongolia into the team, and did not get together a division, so they could only pull the Han people into the team, and barely enough to get together a division, but fortunately it was a cavalry division, so that the "three kings" had some confidence in Wu Peifu south of the Yangtze River. As for Zhu Xi and Sun Chuanfang, they were dealt with by the other two "kings" of the "three kings" in the north; Wang Chengbin, the "Manchu general," collected Feng Yu's troops in Henan, and recruited troops in Shandong, and only then did he make up enough for one and a half divisions, and Wang Huaiqing, the "toilet general," nominally commanded the troops of Yan Laoxi, who had already entered Beijing, plus the border guards scattered in the three eastern provinces after the First Zhifeng War, and the northern navy stationed at Dagukou also made up one and a half divisions. However, this division is mainly used to defend against mutations in the three eastern provinces, so don't expect to mobilize them at all. As far away as the western Xinjiang, Yang Zengxin, who was already attached to the Jixian County Government, had also scraped together enough for the establishment of a division. Of course, this has something to do with the fierce customs of the people here, and it is also related, in terms of troops, the number of people in the north and south is about the same, and each has its own defense area, and it has its own object to defend, so Zhao Yun can't be transferred. In the face of the elite transferred from Europe by Soviet Russia, Zhao Yun still transferred four regiments from the relatively stable situation in Western Xinjiang, which had just been reorganized, plus the baggage team, a team of nearly 50,000 people, in the form of civilian armed forces, to reinforce the Rokossovsky Corps, and a Han regiment led by Shubutai, a Mongolian cavalry regiment, a White Russian infantry regiment, and his headquarters of 20,000 camp cavalry After going around in Outer Mongolia, the task was completed, and the Soviet Russian forces in the Tangnu Ulianghai were basically driven out. After leaving one regiment to continue sweeping the tail, it also moved closer to the city of Novosibirsk as fast as possible. After these 100,000 young men joined the Rokossovsky Corps, the proportion of female soldiers in this corps was finally able to fall below 10%. Among them, the 40,000 soldiers and horses of Timur and Shubutai will become the main combat force against the elite of Soviet Russia.

According to Zhao Yun's establishment, Neiman's 80,000 troops placed on the eastern defense line by the White Russians could only be organized into an infantry division that was not fully staffed. However, it was Zhao Yun's arrangement that caused the "own people" in the Soviet Far East Army to change the military description of White Russia in the telegram to Moscow, "On the west side of our department, there is only one infantry division that is not fully staffed." This vague description made the Soviet Russian top brass believe that White Russia had spent all its energy on the way to the west, and Rokossovsky's Western Expeditionary Army was already the full strength of White Russia.

"As for what kind of mortar is it?!" Regardless of the plan in Zhao Yun's mind, Rokossovsky continued to answer the young White Russian cavalry general, now in the White Russian army, I want him to manage thousands of people like this, but people with extremely low military knowledge abound, all because of Soviet Russia, otherwise these White Russian nobles with good roots would have been mixed in the army a long time ago.

"The mortar is a kind of artillery that is loaded from the muzzle and mainly fired in a curved manner, it has a short barrel and a short range, but it is light and flexible, and can shoot at targets behind shelters, which is most suitable for trench warfare and street fighting." It was not called a mortar before, but a "thunder cannon", which was invented by our artillery captain Leonid Nikolayevich Gobiato, during the Russo-Japanese War in 1904. At that time, our army occupied the fortress of Arthur Pass, and the Japanese dug trenches and approached only a few dozen meters from the position of our army, and it was difficult for our army to kill and injure the Japanese troops with ordinary artillery and machine guns. So Nikolayevich tried to convert an old 47mm naval mortar gun on a gun carriage with wheels and fire a long-tail shell at a large elevation angle, which turned out to be effective in killing and wounding the Japanese troops in the trenches and repelling many Japanese attacks. In the First World War, due to the development of trench warfare, European countries began to attach importance to the role of mortars, and on the basis of "lightning artillery", a variety of special mortars were developed. The most famous is the British inventor Sir Winfred Stokes invented the Stokes trench mortar in 1915, in fact, our army also used a similar function of artillery when conquering Krasnoyarsk, it is our army's universal "iron core wooden shell cannon", although this old-fashioned weapon is a mortar cannon, but it can shoot solid bullets and delayed flowering shells, and it can be regarded as a great force when attacking the city and street fighting.

Seeing that Rokossovsky finished speaking, Zhao Yun nodded, looked at the maturing general Rokossovsky, and said, "Just now, when it comes to the topic, Rokossovsky, I asked you to sort out the siege experience, how is it organized?" ”

Rokossovsky smiled slightly when he heard this, and said in a somewhat relaxed tone, "There are two main experiences gained by our army in this siege, the first point is that the number of our siege troops is dozens of times that of the enemy, and on the basis of adopting the "north-south attack" and "east-west attack", we should add a feint attack on the third side, and put a main force on the third side, so as to avoid our two sides of the attack, unable to spread the troops smoothly, and also make it difficult for the enemy to judge the direction of the main attack and deal with the breakthrough of our army from all directions. The second point is trench warfare, this time our army was able to break through the city wall, mainly to occupy the trenches outside the city abandoned by the enemy, so that our army paid a large number of casualties in the initial occupation of the city, so that the follow-up troops could quickly approach the city wall, reducing the casualties of the troops when approaching the city wall. Of course, this has a lot to do with the fact that the trenches left by the enemy are incomplete, and there are many traps. If we want to fight a similar fortified city next time, if we have enough time, we must dig a communication trench of more than 10,000 meters under the opponent's city wall, shaped like a spider's web, and advance from the starting point of the attack to the front of the city wall. In addition, the trenches are not dug indiscriminately, and the trenches should be divided into infantry trenches and artillery trenches. The infantry is more than one meter wide and two meters and four deep, and the front is more than 60 meters away from the enemy. Artillery, to be able to four horses in parallel, even to be able to push the artillery down a hundred meters away from the enemy. In the case of a large number of troops, it is required that there are few people on the ground, and this time our army suffered more than 60,000 casualties, and the lack of good trench cover is the biggest reason. If the enemy on the walls can't see people, then they can only fight indiscriminately. Because the number of generals under Zhao Yun's command who previously belonged to Soviet Russia began to increase, and now there are very few generals whose identities are more recognized by both sides except Rokossovsky. The Soviet Russians who took refuge felt that the White Russians were not at ease with them, and they were worried that they would be used as cannon fodder by the White Russians. And the White Russia, because it was chased by the Soviet Russian soldiers for several years, has always been a mouse to see the cat mentality, although now it has fought a few turnaround battles, but even now the one-to-five array, still a little uneasy. That is, Rokossovsky has been leading them to win the battle at the moment, so their dependence on Rokossovsky in their hearts is also deepening day by day, if there is no Rokossovsky at this moment, it is estimated that they do not even have the courage to fight against the Soviet Russian army.

Therefore, Rokossovsky, who is relatively aware of the strength of both sides, has become the best teacher, after all, their White Russian army has not fought with Soviet Russian soldiers in Europe before, and their understanding of Soviet and Russian European armies is relatively weak. "In addition, although the quality of our artillery is not as good as that of the Soviet and Russian armies, it is far superior to them in terms of quantity, but at the moment there are still too few means of barbed wire against the enemy. During the Russo-Japanese War, the Russian Empire used a large number of barbed wire fences in the offensive and defensive battles of the Arthur Fortress, coupled with machine guns, grenades and other weapons, so that the corpses of the Japanese troops attacking the fortress were all over the field. Later, in order to target this tactical method of the Empire, McClintock, an engineer of the British army in India, designed a portable light explosives equipment at the "Bangalore" station, which could effectively clear the barbed wire. Because of its torpedo-like appearance, it was called the "Bangalore torpedo" in Europe. It is made of steel tube-filled explosives and has a conical protective cap mounted on the head of the simplified body, which prevents the blaster from being damaged on rough ground and makes it easier to reach into the barbed wire. At the other end of the simplified version is the fuze chamber where the fuse is installed. After this "Bangalore torpedo" was passed on to China, it was called a "blasting canister". This blasting canister can open up a passage of about 1.8m long and 3m wide in the barbed wire after detonation. If we had this weapon this time, it would have been much quicker to open up the passage. And the European Soviet Russian army likes to arrange trenches and barbed wire in front of their positions, so when they go back this time, each department must carefully search their own jurisdictions to see if there are any blasters left behind by the Soviet Russian army. ”

"Blaster?!" As soon as he heard this thing, Zhao Yun's first reaction was to think of Wang Cheng in "Children of Heroes", holding this thing and dying with the enemy.

This thing is too classic, although later with the continuous development of military technology, the blasting canister was replaced by other related ammunition. However, it was used a lot in the wars before World War II, and it was used to deal with fortifications and enemy armored vehicles and tanks.