The city of Sui'an (now Tongliao), located on the Horqin grassland, is to some extent a symbol of the northeast infiltrating the grassland - the city was born because of the railway, the city that prospered because of the railway was centered on the station, and the grassland trade was prosperous. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 With the opening of the Shenyang-Kulun railway, towns and cities have sprung up along the railway, and none of those towns are centered on the station and are mainly engaged in grassland trade.

Because of the commercial nature of the Shenzhou-Kukou Railway, and the purchase of annexed land along the line by the railway company, these markets along the line were different from any other Chinese city, and to some extent the "merchant autonomous cities" along the line were neither under the control of the Mongol princes and nobles, nor were they under the jurisdiction of the northeast.

As the first stop into the grassland, Sui'an, not so much a city, is more of a large trading post, winter to spring, with the end of winter, when the Mongolian herdsmen have sheared the wool of sheep, wool merchants as in previous years to transport tens of thousands of tons of high-quality wool to Sui'an, but they unexpectedly get a notice - there is no wagon.

When will there be wagons?

The answer is unknown, although the station replied that there was no wagon, but whether it was a wool merchant or a herdsman, they all saw that on the only meter-gauge railway in China, the locomotive roared and dragged the carriage to the northwest, heading towards Kulun, **** night and night, never stopped.

Wu Peifu couldn't sleep. The whistling of the wind outside the carriage entered the carriage through the gap in the compartment panels, and through the small window above the bunks, you could see the green grassland like a cloud-like sheep.

After ten years of promotion under the leadership of the Northeast Governor's Office, the Mongolian steppe has become the pasture of Northeast China, providing more than 100,000 tons of wool to Northeast China every year. And in the process. Mongolia is becoming more and more connected with the Northeast. Similarly, the lives of Mongolian herders, who were once very poor, are improving, although the Mongol princes have profited more in the process. But the close economic ties brought the Mongol princes closer to the Northeast than to the Manchus.

Economy, in many cases, economic conquest, even far more than the conquest of guns, when the merchants of the Northeast sent sheep to the Mongols even had excellent pasture. It seems to be helping Mongolian herders, but it is a disguised conquest, unlike the commercial exploitation of the Jin merchants, the Northeast has turned Mongolia into the cows of the Northeast, on the one hand, it provides the wool that the wool industry urgently needs for the northeast, and on the other hand, it is a dumping ground for goods in the northeast.

Of course, for Wu Peifu, who is a soldier, he didn't know that the raw materials of the sheep tweed military uniform on his body came from this grassland, and the soldiers didn't know either. Their boots, belts, and leather for their carryings also come from here. All they knew was a little, they were ordered to go north!

The locomotive roared and spewed smoke, dragging stuffy tank cars across the prairie. In the dimness of the rumbling carriage, in the screams of the wheels grinding against the snow and ice, in the soldiers there was a whirring and snoring sound, and for them there seemed to be nothing in the carriage except sleep.

But Wu Peifu, as the brigade commander, did not sleep, his eyes just stared into the distance. Gaze at the grassland.

When the train arrived in Sui'an and everyone boarded the narrow-gauge train of the Shenku Railway Company, the soldiers, who had some unknown reasons, figured it out: now they were going to urgently transfer their division to the north, not to the ******** area as they had initially speculated.

It's the real North!

At this moment, Wu Peifu also knew, knew the plan of the staff - they would cross the flank of the Russian army, attack from Mongolia, and penetrate directly into the rear of the Russian army, although now the newspapers are shouting to attack Chita, but in fact, Wu Peifu knows very well that the army's offensive is blocked by the Russians at the Shilka River.

Millions of Chinese and Russian troops are facing off in the complex mountainous terrain of the Shilka River, and now they are attacking from the flank and rear of the Russian army.

If successful, it will be the largest encirclement battle in human history!

More than half a million Russian troops are trapped in the encirclement.

It's only a dozen hours away!

Thinking that he was about to participate in this battle, Wu Peifu, who had just been promoted to the commander of the 103rd Infantry Brigade, felt a strong sense of excitement rise out again, and silently pondered against the prairie.

"If you can wrap these 500,000 Russian troops into dumplings, then ...... then"

The entire carriage fell asleep to the sound of grinding teeth, screams, and the rumble of rolling wheels. Everything was jolting nervously, and the upper bunks were swaying as the train was galloping. Wu Peifu's bunk was close to the small window, and although it was nearly May, the wind on the grassland carried a chill, and only blew him out of heat. He hurriedly buttoned up his open coat and looked enviously at the sleeping chief of staff, Xu Shuzheng.

Unlike Wu Peifu, who was born in the North Korean New Army, but Xu Shuzheng, who is only 22 years old, is a serious "protégé of the Son of Heaven" -- he graduated from the Northeast Army Military Academy, and unlike Wu Peifu's half-year short training and one-year retraining, Xu Shuzheng studied in the two-year infantry department, and even when he graduated, he was still in the top 10 in the whole school, and he only left the governor's palace half a year ago; before that, he had been serving as a military staff officer in the commander's chamber, and two months ago, when the 103rd Infantry Brigade was formed, he was transferred from the chamber to the 103rd Brigade.

Because of this, Wu Peifu has never despised the other party because of his youth. Sometimes, in the face of Xu Shuzheng, Wu Peifu even feels ashamed of himself, just like his sound sleep at this time, he can sleep peacefully in the face of the imminent war. This cannot but be admired.

Thinking of this, he looked at Xiong Yiren, the deputy division commander and also the division instructor, although this "supervisor" from the police force seemed to be sleeping, but Wu Peifu knew that the other party must not be sleeping, and it is estimated that what he was thinking about now must be how to dispatch the gendarmerie battalion to supervise the battle after arriving at the front line, no, it should be said that it is to maintain military discipline.

More or less, Wu Peifu had heard of Xiong Yiren's reputation, and when he was a platoon instructor, he personally shot and killed the platoon commander who tried to order the troops to retreat, and the result was ...... Of the platoon, only two people survived, but they withstood the attack of a battalion of Huai troops.

It can be said that in his eyes, in addition to military orders. Nothing else. Wu Peifu didn't even doubt it. If he resists the soldier's life on the battlefield, Xiong Yiren will definitely shoot without hesitation, and because of this, for many years, there has been no commander willing to cooperate with him.

Don't say anything else when the time comes. We had to find a way to get our hands on those two machine guns in the gendarmerie battalion...... Otherwise, this machine gun was in his hands, and he might not be able to beat many Russians, but he would have collected a lot of brothers. After all, the 103rd Brigade is a newly formed unit,

"No, if the instructor is not functional, in case the brothers are unconscious......"

Wu Peifu muttered in his heart, he had just been promoted to brigade commander, and he also hoped to have an outstanding performance in this battle, after all, he would wait until after the end of the war in the future. Brigade-to-division will be inevitable. As long as it has an outstanding performance in this war, then the 103rd Brigade is likely to be upgraded to a division. At that time, he, the brigade commander, will naturally also be the captain of the rising tide and become the commander of the first division.

Of course, it is more important to become a general!

Now, Wu Peifu is just a colonel in the army, and he just needs to go one step further! One step further is the brigadier general! It's an army general!

Everyone has their own ambitions!

Wu Peifu is like this, the same, Xu Shuzheng, who seems to be sleeping with his eyes closed, is also the same, he has already woken up, but he is covered with a blanket, he did not open his eyes, he closed his eyes, he thought a lot, and even thought about the wife at home, back then, if she hadn't taken out the marriage, I'm afraid he wouldn't even have the opportunity to go to the Northeast to get a military academy, if not, he failed the scientific examination, how could he become the principal's attendant staff officer, and now he is an army major as a staff officer of the 103 Brigade.

"Youzheng, I'm waiting for the good news you brought from the front!"

Again, Xu Shuzheng thought of what the principal expected of him a month ago, when he left the attendant. Thinking of this, his heart couldn't help but feel hot, when he was in the chamber, the headmaster always regarded him and the other attendants as family, in addition to educating them in his work, and even when his son was born, the headmaster and his wife personally sent gifts.

Now is the time to repay the principal!

Xu Shuzheng thought silently, thinking like this in his heart, he clenched his fists and secretly swore an oath, and on the other hand, he thought of Wu Ziyu, who was as taciturn as him,

"After all, I was born in the old guard, so it shouldn't be bad......"

Thinking of Wu Ziyu's background, Xu Shuzheng secretly thought to himself that the oldest person in the Northeast Army was undoubtedly the "Prime Minister's Guard in North Korea" that year. Many division and brigade commanders of the Northeast Army are from the Guards, but not all of them from the Guards will be promoted.

This habit comes more or less from the principal, the principal's character is to say the same, never favoritism in official affairs, and the principal's upright character is also admired by Xu Shuzheng, if it is said that in China, who can be fair, I am afraid that only the principal, and this is also the reason why he chose to stay in the Northeast, because he himself is also this kind of character.

Just when Xu Shuzheng was thinking this, he heard someone on the marching bed on the side get up, it was Xiong Yiren.

"Brigadier, where is this?"

Xiong Yiren, who had just gotten up, let out a long yawn and said loudly. The appearance of his voice is very rough, but who knows what kind of character is behind this roughness?

He stretched, walked on the rickety floor to the door, pushed the heavy and large door open, and looked out at the prairie through the crack in the door. Suddenly, the air conditioning in the carriage was pressing, and a chill rushed into the carriage, and the threatening roar of the locomotive rushed in with the rumbling sound of the wheels.

"Hey, Mongolia is a place where you can see that except for the grass and sand, or the barren mountains, it looks like a bird!"

Xiong Yiren shrugged his shoulders and said. Then he walked over to the little table. There was a hint of drowsiness in his mocking expression, and when he looked at the sleeping man in the carriage, the mockery was even stronger, he had already slept, and the others should not want to sleep peacefully!

He squatted down next to Wu Peifu, rubbed his hands on the stove, then took out the silver cigarette case, suddenly remembered something again, and laughed.

"Brigadier Commander, I'm dreaming of something delicious again. Roast camels, I don't know if there is one in Mongolia. ”

In the whistling of the wind, everyone in the carriage "woke up," and when he saw that everyone had gotten up, Xiong Yiren gave an order to a young combat staff officer, who might have even just graduated from a junior school, and told him to close the door.

"Roast camels, that's from Xinjiang, let's go to Mongolia......"

Xu Shuzheng, who sat up from the bed, wrinkled his nose and sniffed the smell of tobacco in the air, he was a little uncomfortable, he didn't smoke, and even when he was in the attendant's room, he didn't like the smell of smoke - although the principal liked to smoke.

"I heard that there are some Russian troops from Central Asia, when the time comes, let's take a few prisoners and let them make us barbecue meat, no matter what kind of roast beef or roast sheep he is."

"Well, the captives are under the management of the gendarmes, you can pick them up as you want......"

Wu Peifu did not express any opinion, but spread out a map and said.

"Now that we're all awake, let's study it, have you seen the map?"

Wu Peifu unfolded an ordinary business map, which was a map of Mongolia for merchants, or he bought it at the Sui'an railway station, and I don't know how many small traders used this map to break through the steppes.

"If I'm not mistaken, the railway from Kulen to the city of Buying, was only set up in June last year, and when the staff travel class of the military academy came back last winter, I asked, even the roadbed has not been repaired, even if it is rushed now, I think at most it is to repair dozens of kilometers to the north, which has just entered the spring......"

Spit out a cigarette, Xiong Yiren narrowed his eyes, looked at Xu Shuzheng and said:

"Chief of Staff, you came out of the chamberlain's room, you must know something! Aren't all the people in your chamberlain all the staff officers of the great marshal? ”

In the Northeast, only the top fifty graduates of each class can become the staff officers of the marshal, and they spend half of their time studying in the staff department, which makes them have an advantage that is difficult for others to promote, and it is precisely because of this that Xiong Yiren will be a little jealous and jealous of the other party's good luck.

"How about it, how will the logistics of the troops be solved when the time comes?"

The reason why the troops are not making much progress in Trans-Baikal is that every kilometer they advance is one kilometer away from the logistics station.

"I don't know!"

Xu Shuzheng just smiled, his somewhat domineering personality had changed a little in the attendant room, after all, most of the people he came into contact with were high-ranking officials.

"After all, this is top secret, and it is not something I can get access to, but I think that since the General Staff has made such a plan, then there will definitely be no problem in terms of logistics! I think the only question we need to consider now, is, when we get there, how to do our best to fight this battle, do you say that is ...... truth" (to be continued.) )