[257] Attack from three sides

At present, the Shenyang Theater has five group armies, namely the 3rd, 4th, 5th, 31st, and 32nd Group Armies, and the scale of troops is tied for second place with the Lanzhou Theater and the Jinan Theater, and second only to the Beijing Theater, which has six group armies.

Because there is no brigade establishment, compared with the current size of the Russian army of nearly 50,000 people per army, the group army of the Huaxia Republic can only be called a division-level army.

Relying on the assistance and guidance of the 21st century, the establishment of the domestic group armies has begun to become more complex, and all group armies have split the 82 mortar battalions directly under the divisions of the army into three artillery companies and delegated them to each regiment, so that each regiment has nine 82 guns for flexible use.

After the mortar battalions were split and decentralized, in order to strengthen the divisional firepower, all armies across the country successively established divisional Type 66 152mm howitzer battalions, and each battalion was equipped with 12 second-hand Type 66 152mm howitzers.

In addition, in order to strengthen the firepower of direct fire attack, a recoilless artillery company was added to the first-level establishment of each group of corps, equipped with 9 Type 82 80mm recoilless guns or 9 Type 78 82mm recoilless guns.

Due to the limitations of comprehensive national strength, the Republic in 1881 could not afford to play with armored divisions or armored brigades for the time being, and in order to realize the transition to armored regiments equipped with infantry battalions and self-propelled artillery battalions as soon as possible, some military regions were ordered to form tank battalions.

The Republic also leads the world in the development of the Air Force, but it is rudimentary in terms of aircraft types, and adopts the same Chujiao VI imported from the 21st century.

With a range of only 650 kilometers, the beginner training is very simple to learn and get started in the 21st century flying sports club, and it only takes 15 days or 40 hours to complete the pilot training, and the maintenance and repair price is very low. In the 21st century, it is popular among the world's aviation sports enthusiasts, and has never had an aviation accident for many years, and has an outstanding reputation among aviation friends around the world.

The republic in 1881 adopted the first six teachings, mainly taking into account three factors, first of all, there was no pressure of air combat, and the young air force, at the beginning of its establishment, was mainly used for military reconnaissance. With a flight time of about four hours and a flight radius of more than 300 kilometers, the Chujiao-6 is fully capable of meeting the needs of the former enemy's reconnaissance and artillery firing.

Secondly, in order to make the transition and gradually establish the Air Force, the first six is a flight trainer aircraft, which can train a large number of pilots.

The final purpose was to establish an aviation industry, starting from the sixth year of the first education, and gradually forming the Chinese Republic's own aircraft manufacturing capacity.

At present, the Shenyang Military Region has only two tank battalions, which are secret units directly under the jurisdiction of the Military Region, which are flexibly deployed in wartime to cooperate with the group army.

After receiving the order for war, a tank battalion of the Shenyang Military Region set out from Harbin City with a total of 43 Type 62 light tanks, crossed the Mudanjiang River on a flatbed ferry, and arrived at Suifenhe, where they were engaged in pre-war rest and maintenance.

In the 21st century, the castrated version of the Type 62 tank, with a total combat weight of only 20 tons, was equipped with an 85mm tank gun, and the Type 62 was a lighter version of the Type 59 tank, weighing only half of the Type 59, which was very suitable for the 1881 with average road traffic levels.

For this era when tanks have not yet been born, the Type 62 light tank is a god-like existence for the army of any country. 45mm turret armor, 35mm front armor, 25mm side armor, enough to go on a rampage for at least twenty years.

On the morning of 5 April, the 4th Group Army of the Shenyang Theater stationed in Harbin, with the 1st Tank Battalion, the Zhouqiao Regiment, three tractor-oriented transport regiments, and a large number of mule-horse logistics baggage militias, rushed along the Suifenhe border dirt road, crossed the humiliating land cutting border, and fiercely pounced on the Russian border fortress Polanich, 20 kilometers away.

Along the road from Suifenhe to Vladivostok, Russia has three fortresses, garrisons of about 8,000 people, 17 artillery positions, more than 300 fortress guns of various calibers, more than 400 infantry guns, breech guns, and some breech guns.

Although with the strength of the Chinese Republic, Russia is also constantly strengthening the size and equipment level of the Far East garrison, because for a long time, the Russian elite are in Europe, and the Far East has always been the last foothold to eliminate weapons, so that until 1881, the garrison in Vladivostok barely reached 30,000 people, about two divisions, and the artillery was not sophisticated. But compared to the garrison of less than eight thousand in five or six thousand years, this is already an extremely large-scale expansion.

While the Fourth Army was moving in the direction of Vladivostok, the 5th Army stationed in Jiamusi also marched from the border assembly area towards Boli, or Khabarovsk as the Russians called it.

The target of the 31st Army in Suihua was Hailan Pao, or Blagoveshchensk as it was known in the Russian population.

The target of the 32nd Army stationed in Hulun #Bell was Chita, southeast of Lake Belga, the westernmost and final target in the Shenyang theater.

Not only was the Shenyang Theater in action, but the Beijing Theater was connected to the Guò Beijing-Kulun Railway, and the 29th and 30th Group Armies were transferred to Kulen, which was later called Ulaanbaatar.

Together with the original 7th Army in Ulaanbaatar, the three armies in the Mongolian region rushed out, relying on the continuous supply of the North Kurt Railway, towards Verkhniy Uginsk (later Ulan-Ude) and Irkutsk, known as the heart of Siberia.

According to the plan, once the Siberian town of Irkutsk, which is garrisoned by an entire army of 50,000 Russian troops, the next target of the Beijing Military District will be Krasnoyarsk, which is the relay station of the Trans-Siberian Railway currently under construction, and the Russians have used it as a bridgehead to build an munitions plant and a locomotive repair plant here.

Thanks to the convenience of the Lanzhou-Urumqi railway, and the completion of the two special railway lines from Urumqi to Ili and from Urumqi to Kashgar, the five group armies of the Lanzhou Theater have already gathered in Urumqi and have now advanced to Ili and Kashgar, which are located at the outposts of the war.

Their target was the Russian-ruled region of Central Asia, which was originally the territory of the Dzungar Mongols in the Qing Dynasty, although there were many rebellions in history, but it has been part of Chinese territory since the Han and Tang dynasties, and after Kangxi put down the Dzungar rebellion, Central Asia once again submitted to the Qing Dynasty until 1876, when the Kokand Khanate in the region fell under the Russian invasion and China lost the region.

During this time and space, due to Yao Fan's revolution, Russia still swept through Central Asia smoothly, and further eyed the Ili region. The goal of the Lanzhou Theater was to seize Almaty, Bishkek, Tashkent, Dushanbe, and Samarkand, and to completely control Central Asia.

Once this strategic objective is achieved, Russia will have to retreat 2,000 kilometers north and return to Yekaterinburg, where more than 30 years of penetration and aggression in Central Asia will come to naught.