"If someone asks, where is the place where this war is decided?

The Navy will say it's the Le Maire Strait. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 info The army will say that it is Trans-Baikal.

Admittedly, the reason for the naval faction is very simple, the Battle of Le Maire completely shattered Russia's dream of reinforcement of the Far East, shattered the naval dream of an empire, and also laid the cornerstone of a naval power.

As for the army faction, their reasons are also very clear: the protracted "Trans-Baikal Campaign", before the "Bengal Campaign", was the largest battle in human history, at the end of the battle, 573,000 Russian troops, except for less than 20,000 to the north, the other 550,000 Russian troops, were either annihilated or surrendered.

The two victories of the army and navy ended in two days, September 26 and 27, and it can be said that it was these two victories that laid the foundation for China's strong power.

But no scholar should ignore the question of why Russia has not been able to reinforce the Far Eastern Army for months. How did the Siberian Corps succeed in lifting the encirclement of the Northeast Army, and in what direction will history evolve?

This series of questions raises a new question -- who is blocking the Siberian Legion, and who is blocking this possibility? ”

"The Sino-Russian War"

The Uda River is a nameless river in Central Siberia, and it is not even marked on the big map, but Nizhne-Uginsk on the bank of the river is a fairly old city, this small town was founded in 1648, and it can be said that from the day it was founded, it was a fortress and a foundation for the Russian invasion of the Far East.

After 254 years of Russian rule, an army from China has once again arrived. In the Han Dynasty thousands of years ago, their ancestors, the cavalry of the Han Dynasty, once arrived here, and the "tide sea" never stopped the Han cavalry.

Unlike thousands of years ago, when dozens of rangers were ostentatious, more than 200,000 troops from China are gathered here. On the opposite side of them was an extremely large corps, the Siberian Army Group. This force was formed to reinforce the Far Eastern Army after it was encircled in the Trans-Baikal region, and it mobilized almost all of Russia's forces - in the past few months, hundreds of divisions and brigades have been transferred from Europe to this unknown land, and the Chinese who blocked them were less than one-third of their strength.

At midnight, pontoon bridges made up of small boats crossed the Uda River, and tens of thousands of Russian soldiers were reinforcing the front line. In front of them, more and more troops were gathered in the trenches, and while tens of thousands of Russian officers and soldiers reinforced the front, in a nameless fortress on the riverside, vanovsky? Peter? Semenovich, the former Minister of War, was urgently called up by Tsar Mikhail II after the Far Eastern Army was encircled, and was ordered to form the largest army in Russian history, the Siberian Army.

In order to avoid the annihilation of nearly 600,000 Far Eastern troops. In order to rescue that "fool" of Kuropatkin, the generals of St. Peter Paul came from all over Russia. Every unit that could be drawn was transferred to Semenovich, hoping that he would work a miracle, but sometimes it always backfired, and Semenovich failed to save the crisis. On the contrary, before he took office, the Chinese advanced the front nearly two hundred kilometers to the west, and at one point hit hundreds of kilometers west of the Uda River, if it were not for the fact that Semenovich temporarily formed an army group to thwart the Chinese's entry. Now that they had found Tomsk, Semenovich not only blocked their attack, but managed to repel them, forcing them to retreat all the way east to Nizhne-Udinsk.

Of course, this statement appeared in the newspapers of St. Petersburg and in European opinion circles, mainly to show public opinion the reality that the Russians could resist the "invasion" of the Chinese, and yes, almost all Russian newspapers were proclaiming one argument - Chinese invasion of Russia.

Now Russia is engaged in a "war of anti-aggression."

In Russian newspapers, General Semenovich, like Kutuzov, carries the hopes of Russia, and even because of the previous victory, some Russians use "Semenovich" or "Vanovsky" when naming their children to show respect for him, but ...... Semenovich, as a party to the case, was not happy at all.

Even now, Semenovich still has a sad face, because everyone is constantly asking him when he will be able to overcome the Chinese defense line and relieve the plight of the Far Eastern Army, but he knows very well that the Chinese defense line cannot be lifted overnight.

"Hopefully, there will be a breakthrough this time!"

Semenovich silently thought in his heart that this was an offensive that had been brewing for several months, and unlike any previous offensive, this offensive, in his opinion, if successful, the Chinese army blocking him would inevitably lose its combat effectiveness completely, and could no longer block his offensive layer by layer as in the past.

In preparation for this attack, in order to break through the Chinese defense line of barbed wire, mines and trenches, Russia had placed orders with France, Germany and domestic arsenals since four months ago - more than a million shells had arrived here from Europe, and 786,000 officers and men of the Siberian Army were also ready for battle.

Not only that, in order to tear apart the defense line of the Chinese, at the strong request of Semenovich and under the direct intervention of the tsar, a large number of 10-inch and 12-inch fortress guns and even larger caliber guns were brought from many naval fortresses in the Gulf of Finland, the Baltic Sea and the Black Sea.

And this is also doomed to a result - the 3rd Corps of the Northeast Army in Nizhny Udinsk will suffer the most tragic shelling in history! The unprecedented artillery bombardment, which began five days ago, smashed tens of thousands of shells on the defense line of the Northeast Army by the artillery of the coastal defense fortress.

It is undeniable that countless artillery shells whizzed and smashed on the positions of the Northeast Army, and everywhere there were sand and gravels flying, trees flying sideways, and gunpowder smoke covering the sky and the sun, and they were constantly shelling. In total, more than 700,000 shells fell on the positions of the Northeast Army, of which 20% were heavy shells of more than 8 inches. At the height of the shelling, an average of 2,000 rounds were dropped per minute.

Before the start of the shelling, there may have been suspicions that Semenovvich was insane, but now, after witnessing such shelling. , almost everyone believed Semenovich's judgment - to use such artillery fire to hit the positions of the Chinese army, thereby opening the way for the infantry to attack, even if the fight was wasteful, so that the Chinese would not have a chance to survive.

To be honest, it was indeed very wasteful, and even the Russian officers and soldiers on the front line thought that this shelling had completely destroyed all the shells produced by France, Germany and Russia in the past four months, and even emptied the old shells that had been accumulated for many years by the Russian naval fortifications. In a way, the Russian Admiralty should be grateful to Semenovich for helping them to consume a large number of old shells.

On the night of 23 September, the final phase of the four-day shelling reached its climax, when two or three thousand shells fell on the positions of the Northeast Army every minute - those in the barbed wire fence were completely distorted, and many trenches were razed to the ground, so that military observers and journalists from Germany and France were borne. They were all stunned by the destructive power of human beings.

"General Semenovich, a new era has begun!"

When military observers and journalists reported similar language to their home countries and newspapers to describe this new way of warfare. The campaign has finally reached its most critical moment. Amid the rumbling of artillery, the Russian soldiers who had been waiting in the trenches for days stood on the escalators and looked out, at this time, they no longer needed to think about the threat of Chinese snipers, in their opinion, now. There may not even be a single living creature in sight on the Chinese army's position, even a poor insect could die in such an artillery bombardment.

And every soldier who looked over was stunned by the scene in front of them, and they were as surprised by what they saw as if they had seen the end of the world, and even stood up desperately. Standing on the edge of the trench, first some daring, and finally thousands of Russian soldiers who had been preparing to go on the offensive climbed out of their trenches.

Then, standing on the edge of the trench, people watched with admiration the wonders of the history of the war, and the flashes of shell explosions on the Chinese positions were as many as stars, and they were united with the stars in the night sky.

In particular, when those air-burst shrapnel exploded, they were as dazzling as the fireworks in the festival, and the night scene was so beautiful. Many of the Russian soldiers were newly drafted recruits, who had just completed their training and were redeployed to the front line, and who had little combat experience. The training was also insufficient, but these young people were naïve and optimistic, believing that as long as they broke out of the trenches and attacked, they could reach the northeast in one go.

For them, victory is within reach.

"Oh my God! It's like celebrating a victory for us! ”

At this time, witnessing such a spectacular artillery bombardment, witnessing the dazzling fireworks that continue to explode in the air, these young people shouted excitedly. Victory, victory seems to be within reach!

"Get these bunnies out of here!"

Seeing that his soldiers were all there like a festival, standing on the trench and watching the "salute flowers", Captain Mirinovich shouted at the sergeant next to him angrily, if he said that in this war, he learned something, I am afraid that he must "bury" himself in the trench, otherwise the ubiquitous Chinese snipers will kill everyone!

"Yes, sir!"

Immediately afterwards, the sergeant rushed out of the bunker and shouted loudly in the trench.

"Get down, get down......"

He shouted and pulled. While kicking and beating, it was only a few minutes of work, and this "Polish farmer" from Poland, who had never seen the world, was kicked out of the trench. In the process, the bearded sergeant also stood on the ladder and looked at the Northeast Army position, and when he saw the dazzling fireworks-like shrapnel that exploded in the air, he did not show any appreciation, and his brows furrowed.

"Sir, I saw a lot of shrapnel from the artillery!"

As a veteran, in the past few months, the sergeant has experienced the artillery fire of the Chinese many times, and naturally has his own experience of all kinds of shells, and he knows the role of shrapnel in trench warfare - equal to zero!

"Shrapnel is also a shell!"

Captain Mirinovich muttered in his mouth, how could he not know that the effect of shrapnel in trench warfare is extremely slight? Because the Chinese are hiding in the trenches.

"Hey...... I don't know how to describe them! ”

As an artillery officer-turned-chief general, Wu Dingyuan couldn't help but sigh when he saw the fireworks produced when the grenade shotgun exploded in the air again, although as an enemy, he still couldn't help but sigh for the enemy's actions, although the reality of the Russians mobilizing a large number of coastal defense heavy artillery really made his heart tighten, but now seeing that two-thirds of the shells fired by the Russians were shrapnels, he couldn't help but want to ask Semenovich what he was thinking.

Although starting with the Battle of Waterloo, after the British smashed Napoleon's positions with shrapnels, since then, the armies of various countries have issued grenades for artillery of various calibers, and shrapnel is the best choice against troops in the open field, at least in that era when artillery shells are not powerful enough, and shrapnel has proven their value time and time again.

However, the emergence of high-explosive and explosive ammunition has changed everything, compared with expensive howitzer shotgun, the Northeast Army prefers high-explosive bombs, when the ratio of howitzer shotgun and high-explosive bombs in other countries is usually one to one, in the Northeast Army, the ratio of the two is 30 to 1, or even lower, and the Northeast Army uses high-explosive bombs as the main weapon. Equipped with a delayed fuse, such shells could effectively explode inside the fortifications after penetrating the roof of the offensive's field fortifications. Although these shells are primarily designed to destroy materials, their shock waves have a strong lethal effect on humans at a certain distance, especially in trench warfare, where their power is by no means comparable to those of air-burst shrapnel shells.

"Hey, it seems that the previous worries were a little unnecessary......"

Although the previous intelligence made Wu Dingyuan even dream of worrying about those artillery pieces that were often ten inches or less than twelve inches, but now, he was not worried, after all, heavy artillery was limited, and most of those coastal defense heavy artillery used old-style shells.

However, despite this, such a high-intensity artillery bombardment still bombarded the defensive positions of the Third Corps inside and out, the barbed wire was blown to pieces, most of the superficial simple bunkers no longer existed, the trenches and the communication trenches of the first position were razed to the ground, the observation and communication systems of the Third Corps were destroyed, and some forward artillery batteries lost their combat effectiveness.

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