The topography of the port of Murmansk is not very good, but the number of ships and tonnage of the moored ships do not meet the requirements of the Cossack Empire Navy, so the Cossack Empire has long set its sights on the Northern Subcontinent, only because of the long distance, and there are large areas of desert in the Northern Subcontinent that are not easy to transform, and now I heard that it has become an oasis and the territory of the enemy, Alexander III naturally has some ideas.

At the end of 892 in the Taiyuan calendar, the northern part of the Eastern Continent began to freeze, especially the thick snow in the Cossack Empire had been frozen with a layer of hard ice shell, which provided a certain convenience to the Cossack Empire without any road conditions in the Eastern Continent.

Due to the freezing weather, the difficulty of the roads, and the deliberate concealment of the Cossack Empire, Zhao Quan's intelligence bureau was unable to detect their large-scale transport operation in time. For one winter, the Cossack army was secretly transporting, not only sending 300,000 soldiers to the Kuli region, but also sending all the weapons, ammunition and supplies used by these troops, and they prepared enough food to feed 300,000 soldiers for a year.

On March 18, 893 A.D., the Cossack Empire suddenly announced that it would not recognize the sovereignty of the Chinese Territory over the Northern Subcontinent, but would include the Northern Subcontinent in the territory of the Cossack Empire, and at the same time announced that the Cossack Empire would send troops to recover its own territory.

Ten days later, Fang Xiaoyu, who had received the letter from the Cossack Empire, immediately issued a notice warning the Cossack Empire not to try to invade the Chinese Territory, and reminded them that if they did any drastic actions, they would be dealt the most violent blow by the Chinese Empire.

The Cossack Empire, which had long been prepared for war, ignored Fang Xiaoyu's warnings, and on April 7, the Cossack Empire went to war without declaring war, and 300,000 troops set out from the Kuli region and began to attack and advance towards Chita Province, the Far Eastern County of the Chinese Territory.

The Cossack Empire and the Northern Subcontinent were separated by the Great Hengduan Mountains, but there was a gap of more than 100 kilometers in the Chita region, where the terrain was flat, but there were some small hills, which were very suitable for large corps operations, so the commander of the Cossack Imperial Army, General Romanov, decided to use this as a breakthrough to attack the territory of China.

The troops stationed in the Chita area were Xue Boling's Sixth Division of the Defense Army, and he only had more than 15,000 people in his hands, but he was full of confidence in the face of the 300,000 Cossack troops who rushed up. "Division commander, there are so many enemies, how can we fight?" This is Liu Qun, the deputy division commander transferred from the Iron and Blood Army, asking questions.

Xue Boling smiled: "Now we have a convenient railway, I think the young master's army can reach it in five days, and now what we have to do is to delay the Cossack army for five days." ”

Gao Lin, the chief of staff on the side, suggested: "Then I will immediately lead people to strengthen the city defenses and dig blockade ditches and trenches. ”

Xue Boling shook his head and said: "Even if the young master mobilizes all the strength in his hands, there will only be 100,000 troops at most, if we can't weaken the Cossack army as much as possible before the young master arrives, even if the main force arrives, it will be a war of attrition, if you want this kind of war of attrition, the Cossack Empire with millions of troops can afford to fight, but we can't afford to fight, don't forget that there is still a Japanese country waiting to take revenge on us." ”

Liu Qun and Xue Boling have been working together for a long time, and they are still very convinced of this wise division commander, and he asked, "Then what should we do?" Xue Boling said with a smile: "Give up defending the city, we will attack and fight them in the field." ”

Listening to Xue Boling's words, Liu Qun on the side exclaimed: "Take the initiative? Just because more than 10,000 of us still take the initiative to attack, what is the difference between that and looking for death? Xue Boling said with a smile: "A large number of people is not necessarily easy to use, the so-called victory or defeat is a matter of one mind, it all depends on the commander's scheduling, and after a long time, you will know the way, you go and call all the commanders above the company level in the division to a meeting, I want to arrange the battle plan." ”

The Sixth Division has a very large establishment, with one hundred and two company commanders alone, and this is not counting the number of logistics troops, and the entire conference hall is packed with commanders at all levels above the battalion commander.

Xue Boling saw that everyone had arrived, stood up and said, "Comrades-in-arms, I have news to announce here that the Cossack Empire has brazenly invaded our Chinese territory in disregard of international justice. Now the situation is that the Cossack army of 300,000 is coming to us, we have only 15,000 people, and everyone says what should we do? ”

"Beat them back." "Destroy them." The crowd at the meeting was full of enthusiasm, and the commanders and fighters at all levels did not flinch in the slightest because of the strength of the enemy troops, and expressed their determination one after another.

Xue Boling nodded with satisfaction and said: "Very good, soldiers should have this kind of momentum to face difficulties, but fighting a war requires tactical methods, and only with proper methods can we achieve the most effective victory." After saying that, Xue Boling walked to the map on the wall, pulled off the curtain covering the map, and saw that the military map of the Far East was densely marked with all kinds of arrows, which shocked the officers.

Seeing the expressions of the officers, Xue Boling explained in detail: "If we can't win a war with such a huge disparity in strength by holding the city, we must take the initiative to attack, disperse our troops in the combat area, and form a dense network of strongholds. Only in this way can the enemy be consumed little by little, and the best conditions for the decisive battle after the arrival of the lord's main force can be created, which I call 'attrition warfare'. ”

After listening to Xue Boling's careful explanation, the officers below applauded thunderously. Although they have the determination to fight to the death, they have no confidence in victory, hearing Xue Boling's whimsical tactics, they are all excited, which soldier doesn't want to make meritorious contributions, since they have such a good opportunity, they should do a good job.

Xue Boling explained in detail to the officers the specific implementation methods of the 'method of attrition', and handed over the mission area of each unit to each commander in charge of the task through a sealed document bag.

After the operational tasks of the infantry units were deployed, Xue Boling ordered the artillery and baggage units to stay behind to defend the city, and the other units to disperse in companies, each company equipped with its own weapons, and if it felt that its own troops could physically allow, they could also bring heavy machine guns, but each unit must bring ammunition and supplies that were at least enough for five days.

In addition to explaining the tactics, Xue Boling issued a plan for the company's activity area and combat missions to all company-level cadres, so that they could use it as a reference on the battlefield. After intense preparations, after the troops had eaten the last hot meal that night, the companies set out separately from several city gates, and they quickly disappeared into the vast plains of the northern subcontinent and hurried towards the combat area of their own companies.

The Far East is vast and sparsely populated, and even from the Kuli region, which was close to the Cossack Empire, the nearest city, Chita, was nearly 600 kilometers away. Admiral Romanov marched in the direction of Chita with a large army of great ambition, but as soon as he entered the territory of Chita, he was attacked.

It was not the army of the 6th Division but the goblin militia that launched the attack in the early stages, with 20,000 goblin militia armed with old-fashioned single-shot breech rifles in guerrilla tactics from a distance, and since the desert of the northern subcontinent had completely disappeared, it was already full of green trees and grass, which made it easy for the green-skinned goblins.

The goblins wore green uniforms designed by Fang Xiaoyu, wore grass rings on their heads, and carried rifles camouflaged with twigs and leaves, making it difficult for Cossack soldiers to spot even when they approached. Taking advantage of this advantage, the goblin militia repeatedly succeeded, leaving the Cossack soldiers helpless, they could only expand the search area as much as possible, and slowly advance tremblingly, and in a full day, the Cossack army marched only fifteen kilometers, which made Admiral Romanov very angry.

In the evening, the regular troops of the 6th Division finally arrived, and a larger attack began. Company Commander Wang Qiguang used a telescope to observe the bonfires in the Cossack army camp with a smile on his face. He turned his head to the two soldiers and said: "Xiao Wu, Xiao Zheng, you two have the best marksmanship, try it, look for those places where there is fire, you will definitely find a good target." ”

The two young warriors nodded, found a comparative shooting position, and raised the rifles in their hands flat. Patrols of the Cossack corps often passed by by the lights, and these swaying figures became the best targets for the two warriors, who squinted and aimed in the dim light.

A few gunshots suddenly exploded in the silent night sky, and the Cossack patrols immediately became a mess, and the soldiers looked for cover and shot desperately into the open night around them to hide the boundless fear in their hearts, while the three soldiers were already lying upright on the ground and did not move.

There were many troops like Wang Qiguang's company, some of them fired black guns, some approached the camp to throw grenades, and some simply used mortars to throw out of the camp, making the Cossack army camp a mess, and there was no time for peace.

By the time the Cossack corps sent search teams out of the camp to look for enemy traces, the defenders had already retreated, and as soon as the search team returned to the camp, the raid began again. Some of these troops went in the first half of the night, and some went in the second half of the night, and none of them were on time.

In short, the defenders were rested in turns, but the soldiers of the Cossack army were always frightened by the sound of gunfire and explosions, and every time they heard that someone was attacking the camp, the soldiers always had to gather and prepare for battle, and every time it was a false alarm, but no one dared not prepare for battle, after all, if the other side came to attack the camp once, they would be in danger. Under such countless tosses, most of the Cossack soldiers did not close their eyes all night.

A word to readers:

I recommend Lian Binzi to write "Otherworldly War Auxiliary System", a very good-looking alternative military text.