Chapter 123: Brunov's Dilemma
Regarding the so-called "Northern Expedition" of the Manchurian Empire to Mukdencheng, the Chinese Empire issued a direct statement in the government, saying that the puppet regime was a paper tiger and vulnerable to attack, and the empire would not let them jump for long. The people of the empire did not take Manchukuo seriously in the first place, such a puppet government was not worth mentioning at all, and it was also a government that had only strengthened a few hundred thousand people, and everything depended on the Japanese, believing that the empire would soon eradicate it. In fact, a discerning person can see at a glance that the empire has an attitude towards Manchukuo, there are many people of insight among the people, and the intention of the government is not difficult to guess, so there is another theory circulating among the people, that is, the empire deliberately put these in Manchukuo, and then solved the hidden dangers in one fell swoop, but the newspapers did not dare to publish this kind of news, and they waited to eat the board without sufficient evidence!
Just when the Manchukuo army set off, the newly recruited recruits of the National Defense Forces of the Chinese Empire were trained for a few months, and some of them were more than a month, and more than 200,000 recruits and more than 50,000 veterans rushed all the way from the recruit training camp in Jinzhou to Mukden.
Xu Yuan and a group of recruits were sitting on the train to Fengtian City at this time, and the soldiers next to them were chatting nervously, but Xu Yuan was not nervous, but was very excited, he could finally take revenge, how could he not be excited. Xu Yuan successfully joined the army, and he rushed to the battlefield after training in the recruit training camp in Jinzhou for a month, which was very unexpected, but also had his special points.
According to the standards of the Wehrmacht, no one could go to the battlefield after three months of training, which was a new policy implemented after the establishment of the Empire. The reason why Xu Yuan was able to break was because of his outstanding ability and was reported by the instructors of the new army, and Xu Yuan has always asked to go to war as much as possible, and the person in charge of training recruits quickly replied after reporting, making an exception to allow recruits to be trained for less than three months but their results are very outstanding, and those who have reached the level of training recruits for three months can make an exception to go to the battlefield, but each must be reported by an instructor, and then it is assessed, and finally it can be allowed after reporting by the military department. This is all specially established for those soldiers who were unwilling to participate in the war during the retirement of the Beiyang Army or the warlords in various places during the Unification War, because these people have already received relatively systematic training and do not need to stay for three months.
After receiving Xu Yuan's news, the military department immediately asked people to investigate, and it turned out that Xu Yuan was the younger brother of Xu Qiang of the Northeast Army, and it was also learned that Xu Yuan could not enter the Imperial Military Academy because he missed the time for the physical examination. Xu Yuan was a soldier in Xu Qiang's army in Zhang Zuolin, and whenever he was free, he would go to Xu Qiang's army and let Xu Qiang train him, so he didn't know much more than these recruits.
Looking at the regressive scene outside the train window, Xu Yuan suppressed the excitement in his heart and began to worry about his brother Xu Qiang, since the war with the Japanese army, Xu Qiang has not sent him any more letters, and he also hid Xu Qiang to join the army, let alone know the news of Xu Qiang, I don't know how his brother is now, will he have been sacrificed?
Just as he was thinking, his company commander came in with a newspaper and shouted loudly: "Good news! The Northeast Army set up an ambush for the Japanese army near Dunhua, annihilated more than 30,000 Japanese troops, captured more than 20,000 prisoners, and temporarily solved the crisis in the capital of Jilin Province. ”
"Company commander, we can't read, you can read it!" Several soldiers coaxed.
"Listen, learn more from Xu Yuan in the future, this is a top student of the Imperial Academy, I will let him teach you to read and write in the future." Ahem, on October 28, the first year of the empire, the Northeast Army, under the commander Zhang Zuoxiang and Xu Qiang, was decisively abandoned by the Japanese army to attack today's position, showing the enemy to lead the enemy deep with weakness, carry out an ambush, annihilate the Japanese army that followed in one fell swoop, inflict heavy losses on the Japanese army, and achieved heavy gains, temporarily solving the crisis in the capital of Jilin Province......"
Xu Yuan suddenly stood up and grabbed the newspaper and read it, the company commander just wanted to lose his temper when he saw the newspaper being robbed, and scolded when he saw Xu Qiang: "Why are you in such a hurry, I'll just show you after reading it, and then you can read it!" Hey, no, that Xu Qiang is the brother you said? ”
"How is it possible, my brother is just a small soldier, he may have the same name and surname, this is the division commander!" Xu Yuan couldn't believe it, just if he had the same name and surname, even he wouldn't make a noise, otherwise it would be difficult to integrate into these comrades-in-arms.
The other soldiers also felt that it was impossible, they knew that Xu Yuan's brother was a small soldier in the Northeast Army, but they would not think that he would become a division commander so soon, and they just sighed and coaxed a little, and Xu Yuan continued to read as the company commander just now.
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Omsk, Brunov is very uneasy now, his remaining troops are only more than 300,000, tank troops and cavalry can be said to be less than one-third of what they were when they came, the empire can no longer continue to give them more support, the empire has lost nearly a million soldiers here before and after, plus those weapons, ammunition and various materials, the empire can be said to be greatly damaged, and if it continues to fail, the Far East will not be able to save.
"Commander, why don't you take advantage of the lack of strength of the Chinese army to recapture Novosibirsk in one fell swoop, they only have more than 100,000 troops now, and the Chinese army has not reinforced them for so many days, you can't miss the opportunity!" Lieutenant General Ski asked, puzzled. In his opinion, the Chinese army was empty at this time, and it was a good time to attack, if the Chinese army in Novosibirsk was annihilated, this would make them not so passive, and they could also have more time to wait for domestic support.
Brunov shook his head and said: "You don't know the strength of the Chinese army, the high-end firepower of the last attack on them did not lose a lot, even if we annihilate the Chinese army in Novosibirsk, how many will we have left?" If there is any conspiracy among the Chinese army, we will be completely planted here, and I will not act rashly without getting accurate information from the country. "It's not that he doesn't want to attack the Chinese army in Novosibirsk, at this time his army is very demoralized, 500,000 people attacked more than 200,000 people, and half of the troops were killed by others, can you not be afraid?
Lieutenant General Sky is also very troubled, and now his "victory" is still being hyped in the country, where will there be an excuse to continue conscription, even if there is a reason to conscript, not many people are willing to enlist, and materials and the like are even more scarce, the empire has already owed Britain and France a lot of debts for this Far Eastern war, and I don't know if the two countries are willing to continue to lend money and materials to the empire. Another is that the headquarters of the empire is too far away from here in the Far East, and it is very difficult and long to transport soldiers and materials here, while the Chinese Empire does not have these restrictions, and can send more troops here at any time, if it were not for the Japanese army dragging the Chinese Empire in the three eastern provinces of China, they would have failed a long time ago, who knows how many troops the Chinese Empire still has now?
"Now the intelligence officers of the empire in Outer Mongolia have not sent back any information for the past few days, as if they are missing, is something wrong? Could it be that the Chinese army has made any moves? "The Russian intelligence officers in Outer Mongolia would send Brunov some information about the Chinese army every day, and the intelligence officers had cut off contact with him a few days ago, and had to make him think about whether he had been exposed, and then he was killed or hidden.
"It should be that the Huaxia army has some action, why don't you let the airship fleet go to the sky over Outer Mongolia to observe?"
"No, the airship troops of the Huaxia army are watching us, it's too easy to be discovered, and at night send a cavalry to quietly rush to Outer Mongolia to test it, now our intelligence about the Huaxia army is too little, and our every word is under the nose of the Huaxia army, it's really embarrassing!" Brunov was also helpless.
On the other side of the Chinese army in Novosibirsk, Jiang Fangzhen was holding a book and looking at it gracefully, while the adjutant next to him was constantly reporting the latest situation, and Ma Qi, Yan Xishan, and Xu Shuzheng were also sitting on the side.
"All the soldiers who died have been transported back to China, and the empire has decided to build a martyr's cemetery in Outer Mongolia, and construction is already underway, and these soldiers will be buried there." The 'Fortune' plan has come to an end, and some of the soldiers are rushing back here, and all the soldiers will be withdrawn in two days. According to the information of the Imperial Intelligence Department, the Tsarist government did not dare to publish the facts here, could not find a good reason to recruit soldiers, and the supplies were also very scarce. "The adjutant reported honestly.
"Bang!" Jiang Fangzhen slammed the book on the table, "Your Majesty said that you want to set up an imperial martyrs' cemetery in Outer Mongolia?" Nonsense, aren't the heroes and soldiers who opened up the territory for the empire worthy of entering the martyr's cemetery in the imperial capital? Jiang Fangzhen was very angry.
"The final decision of the cemetery has not yet been issued, but the military department proposed to His Majesty and the government to build it, saying that it is to let more descendants remember these warriors who sacrificed for the empire, but His Majesty has not yet made a decision." The adjutant wiped his sweat and said.
"Hmph, let's not talk about this yet, I'll ask like His Majesty. When all the soldiers have returned, launch a final offensive against the Tsarist army in Omsk, and it is time to settle the war with Tsarist Russia! "Winter is coming, and if the war with Tsarist Russia is not resolved, the situation will be very bad, and the northeast will be the next center of gravity of the empire.
That night, a cavalry of the Tsarist army quietly rushed towards Outer Mongolia, and a telegram was sent back to Tsarist Russia!