Hulun Bell steppe as a geographical term, four months ago was not known to most Chinese, but now with the end of the war in Vladivostok, with the main force of the Northeast Army transferred west to the Hulun Bell steppe, coupled with Russia's continuous deployment of troops to the Trans-Baikal region, in April 1901, this thousand-year-old wasteland has become a well-known area for the world, almost the whole world is paying attention to Russia's Trans-Baikal, paying attention to the Hulun Bell steppe, Keep an eye out for the upcoming battle here. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

Since the outbreak of the war, the Russian troops stationed near the desolate border line have found that the Chinese army on the opposite side did not attack as they imagined, at least not directly attacking Chita, but after advancing for dozens of kilometers, they stopped continuing to advance and began to build defensive positions with the help of forests and slopes.

A two-month-long standoff began, with the Chinese and Russian armies building a line of confrontation on each other's defensive lines. However, the confrontation does not mean that they have not done anything, in fact, in the past two months, the Chinese and Russian armies have been constantly deploying troops to prepare for the next battle.

In February, the Russian army was 14,000 and the Northeast Army was 52,000.

In March, the Russian army was 175,000 and the Northeast Army was 221,000.

On April 1, the Russian army was 402,000 and the Northeast Army was 386,000.

After two months of troop deployment, the Russian army finally won the advantage on the battlefield, of course, their advantage was only the advantage in troops, and nearly a million Chinese and Russian troops faced off on the Hulun Bell steppe. It has attracted the attention of the whole world. Time. Military observers from Britain, the United States, Germany, France, Italy, and other countries entered the headquarters of China and Russia one after another, so as not to miss the "largest battle since Napoleon."

When the newspapers of various countries publish various reports every day to report on this grand battle, although the battle has not yet broken out, it has attracted the attention of the whole world, and it seems that everyone is convinced that the victory or defeat of this battle is very likely to change the course of world history like the "Battle of Sedan".

Perhaps it is precisely because of this that China and Russia did not take the initiative to attack, but mobilized as many troops and technical equipment as possible. to gain an advantage on the battlefield. For the past two months, aside from tentative attacks, both sides have been careful not to attack.

In the midst of this caution, the war fell into an unprecedented stalemate, with the Northeast Army on the front line not receiving an order to attack, and the Russian army blindly and passively defending. But both the Russian army and the Northeast Army are constantly increasing their forces in this stalemate.

But the stalemate is still a stalemate, at least until each side breaks the stalemate. It is also in this stalemate on the battlefield that the topography of the Hulun Bell grassland has changed. All sorts of defensive duties are changing the landscape of the steppe.

Influenced by Tang Haoran, to a certain extent. The Northeast Army may be the most advanced army in this era, or he Haoran is not a soldier. However, his love for military affairs did enable him to guide the construction of the Northeast Army, and he was ahead of other countries in the ideology of army building.

It is also under his advocacy that the Northeast Army has rich experience in civil engineering, which is also one of the five major infantry skills of the Northeast Army. It occupies a large proportion of daily training, and through the emphasis of training non-commissioned officers, every soldier understands that earthwork is their most important thing to save their lives on the battlefield, so soldiers are happy to put their greatest energy into this kind of self-preservation training.

In the past few years, the Russian pressure has caused the command of the Northeast Army to also attach great importance to the earthwork industry, which has led to the transformation of the entire steppe into a groundwork training ground during the Hulun Bell standoff. Turned the confrontation into a dirtwork lesson.

On the Hulun Bell steppe, 100,000 troops are here. A variety of complex defense systems were constructed, such as sawtooth trenches and communication trenches. Well-concealed machine-gun positions, support artillery positions, civil-constructed command posts, barracks, field kitchens, and more.

In just two months, the defense line of the Northeast Army, which was confronted by Hulun Bell, practiced the trench system in the tactical textbook one by one, and it almost reached the point of impeccable.

The battlefield is the classroom, and it is true that those complex defense systems protect the soldiers to the greatest extent, so that they can live safely in the trenches like a vacation.

"Touch, touch, the top of the eldest sister's head, a green silk is dyed like ink, as if the dark clouds cover the sky......"

Sitting in the trench with a depth of two meters plus the chest wall, listening to the rough and sultry tune coming from not far away, Zhang Zuolin showed a smile on his face, if it is in the city, this kind of obscene words and obscene songs are not allowed to be sung publicly, but here, there are not so many rules, even Zhang Zuolin, who was born as a policeman, can't care about anything else at this time, sometimes he can't help but hum a couple of sentences.

In this army, all kinds of obscene words and minor tunes will always be sung by everyone. Even a piece of obscene lyrics and a minor key has more than a dozen ways to sing.

In the so-called Northeast, there are not actually many Northeasterners. Shandong people, Zhili people, Jiangsu people, Anhui people. There are even Hubei, Jiangxi, Hunan, Guangdong, Sichuan, Henan, etc., it can be said that 32 million northeasterners are from all provinces of the country.

In this unit, Zhang Zuolin could get in touch with most of his comrades-in-arms in the provinces, and listened to them sing all kinds of hometown tunes, talking about sons, all kinds of new and strange things.

As a policeman, Zhang Zuolin, after four months of service, has adapted to life in the army, although in his heart he will still miss the days in Shenyang, of course, what he really misses is on the street, others see his head car in awe, sometimes he even dreams of the sound of military boots stepping on the stone road, in the city, that sound can make civilians feel at ease, but now he is wearing soft-soled boots.

"Officer Zhang, what do you want! But listening to the six sons singing that sour song, I think about the girls in Shenyang City! ”

A comrade-in-arms next to Zhang Zuolin who spoke with a Shandong accent. He asked lazily as he sat on his steel helmet with half-squinted eyes and a rifle in his arms.

"Lose your uncle!"

Zhang Zuolin didn't even think about it, and replied directly in a foul language. Then those eyes narrowed. The corners of his lips lifted slightly, and he said proudly.

"Shenyang's girls, that's a water spirit, you countrymen, not me, you have never seen the market, so a water spirit woman, if you see it. Make sure you're stunned......"

The soldier who sat on the steel helmet with a lazy appearance did not respond to Zhang Zuolin, but sang ****** with a lazy smile on his face.

"What are the girls in Shenyang? I don't know, but I've heard that Russian girls, it's ****** round breasts,"

"Still a blonde ......"

The days of confrontation on the front line are boring and boring, and these young people from the northern and southern provinces of the motherland with different goals will always use all possible ways to sing sour songs and hum **** is the way to kill time between men.

Of course, more often than not, they will be lustful here, imagining those blonde and blue-eyed women in the territory of the enemy country, for them. This seems to be a way to relieve loneliness and boredom, which is also a common topic among men just now.

"Follow me. When we get to Russia? When the time comes, I'll have to find a Russian! Open the meat! ”

"Not really! This foreign meat must be opened! ”

"Open, open, open, open you big-headed ghost! Be careful, let the gendarmerie open your head! ”

The comrade-in-arms who spoke Jiangxi dialect mentioned the gendarmerie, and suddenly everyone became dumb, some things can be said, if you really do it, it will be a violation of military law.

"Damn, what's wrong with Lao Tzu when the time comes? One is willing to fight and the other is willing to suffer, and it is not that they do not give money. That's it, what can the gendarmerie do when it comes! ”

Zhang Zuolin snorted and said scoldingly.

"I still don't believe that the grandsons of the gendarmerie will not be allowed to prostitute at that time?"

"Did you often do this when you were in Shenyang?"

"Hey, don't say it, it's not necessarily, in the pass, the official prostitute kiln sister, that's a matter of course......"

"it!"

With a horizontal eye, he scolded, and Zhang Zuolin turned into a kick at his comrades-in-arms.

"You turtle grandson, what are you yelling about, when the fight starts, you see how Lao Tzu cleans you up......"

The half-truth threat caused laughter in the surrounding hall, no one would, Zhang Zuolin's threat was true, it was just a joke of the brothers, it should not be true. Such a threat, almost every day, will be said, who will take it seriously?

"I said squad leader, you can admit it when you are old, we have more than a dozen brothers, you are the oldest, and no one follows you to learn more, you see, Xiao Hunan, he has never seen a woman yet? Xiaohu ......, you don't want to learn more from the class leader."

"You...... Uncle, go back and learn from your sister! ”

Listening to the obscene laughter of the comrades in the trenches, Zhang Zuolin laughed and scolded, he knew the feelings of these brothers very well in the second service, and he knew that the brothers relied on this way to relieve their inner loneliness, and they also relied on this way to relieve their inner fear, the fear of war.

"Reach out and touch my sister's bottom......"

Zhang Zuolin, who was in a good mood, also sang loudly, and his voice was full of a man's roughness and ease......

Of course, the front line is not forever singing, in fact, when Zhang Zuolin and his comrades-in-arms were messing around in the trenches, in a hidden firing position not far from them, a sniper was holding a sniper rifle to search for the target. Snipers are a unique branch of the Northeast Army, they use rifles equipped with optical scopes, and their rifles are carefully selected, and even the bullets are specially produced high-precision bullets. In warfare, their mission is to snipe those valuable targets, such as enemy commanders and other targets, but in practice, front-line commanders will always assign various tasks to snipers according to different tasks, such as the current free hunt. It's not so much about fighting as it is about transmitting fear.

Although there is no traditional offensive or defensive here, another completely different way of warfare was pioneered by the snipers of the Northeast Army - sniper warfare.

"Found it!"

Looking through the scope at the half-exposed head in the trench, the sniper's lips were lightly raised, and there was a hint of excitement in his eyes.

"Boy! Hide it again next time! ”

Talking to himself, the sniper has already aimed at the enemy, and when he holds the gun, the soldier will feel as if the gun has become a part of himself, and at the moment the rifle lying in his hand is pointed straight at the target more than 300 meters away.

The Russian soldier in the trench can be seen from the quadruple optical sight, his head is half exposed, maybe at this time he is blowing there with his comrades, maybe he is thinking about his hometown, for all this, the sniper does not care, for him, this is just a goal,

The delicate walnut butt was extremely comfortable to the touch, and when the reticle of the scope hit the target, the sniper's right thumb pressed the safety and pushed forward, and in the moment of steady breathing, he pulled the trigger.

"Bang!"

At the moment when the trigger was pulled, the sniper only felt a slap on the shoulder, and at the moment when the violent gunshot rang out in his ears, he could see through the scope that the head was tilted sharply, and at that moment, it seemed that a cloud of blood mist was raised.

An enemy has been killed!

Just when he felt a little relieved in his heart to kill an enemy, he heard a burst of gunfire, it was from the Russian position, and in the scope, he could see a rifle sticking out of the trench, shooting indiscriminately in this direction, this is the revenge of the Russians, aimless.

For him, this is the opportunity he has been waiting for for a long time, just as he continues to search for that fleeting opportunity from the scope, in the trench behind him, his comrades have been holding rifles and firing bullets at the Russian positions, and soon a warning of the ongoing war will begin, in the echo of the comrades-in-arms, the Russian troops who were originally shooting aimlessly began to show their heads, using rifles to shoot at the officers and soldiers of the Northeast Army, trying to kill and injure those enemies.

The sniper who had been lying on the shooting position saw this scene, the sneer on his face became stronger, he had been waiting for such an opportunity to set off a battle, almost the moment he found the target in the scope, he pulled the trigger, and quickly launched a free hunt, just like a hunter, after the prey entered the trap, all that was needed was to kill the prey!

As the snipers happily hunted, the Russians on the other side seemed to realize the danger in the face of constant death, and they immediately retracted into their trenches, and this brief exchange of fire was only a moment, a moment in the spring...... (To be continued.) )