"Cloudburst bombs? Didn't the news that has just been sent back from the front line say that the Russian army began to partially withdraw from the east bank of the Yenisei River? Isn't this bomb said to be more effective against enclosed spaces? Could it be that I am mistaken? Zheng Haitao asked with a frown.

Zhao Ziguang smiled after hearing this, and said, "You kid is okay, you didn't return all the things taught by the captain." Yes, cloudburst shells are not used against these retreating enemies, but they should be very effective against the Russians in bunkers. ”

"You mean to deal with the Russian troops in the defense line on the east bank of the Yenisei River?" Xiang Long asked.

Zhao Ziguang said with a little smugness: "In fact, it can also be used to blow up Krasnoyarx, anyway, it is a new weapon, if you don't test it, how do you know how powerful it is?" ”

Zheng Haitao touched his chin, nodded, and then asked: "The Russian army has begun to evacuate in small parts, and it is not prepared to leave many troops on the east bank of the Yenisei River, is there any way for your air force to deal with these troops crossing the river?" ”

This question made Zhao Ziguang ponder for a while, and then said: "Yes, yes!" Now it seems that the mere blowing up of the pontoon bridge will not stop the movement of Russian troops on both sides of the Yenisei River. In fact, in addition to the cloud burst bomb, the latest equipment of our air force is also a cluster bomb, also known as a sub-mother bomb. Simply put, a magazine with a bunch of small bombs can carry out large-scale and large-scale destruction of ground targets from the air. Among them, small bombs are also called bullets, and in general, they can be replaced according to their function. At present, our Air Force is equipped with two types of bullets, one is anti-personnel bullets and the other is dispersed mines. ”

"Grandma's, Zhao Ziguang, how long do you plan to keep the good things of your Air Force, if you don't ask, you don't plan to say it, right?" Xiang Long patted Zhao Ziguang's shoulder viciously, hurting him so much that he grinned.

Zhao Ziguang rubbed his shoulders and said with a slight grievance: "Your army is a dog biting Lu Dongbin, and you don't know the hearts of good people!" I can say the ugly thing in the front, although our air force has cluster bombs, and this thing is extremely powerful, but there are also a lot of troubles afterwards. ”

"What do you mean? What are the drawbacks of cluster bombs? "Zheng Haitao is the commander-in-chief of the battle line, and he is very concerned about the various properties of weapons. Weapons like cluster bombs, how well they are performed, and how they are used, are likely to determine the success or failure of a war.

"There is only one drawback, and that is that the bullets do not explode completely."

Xiang Long and Zheng Haitao obviously didn't understand what this meant, and the two glanced at each other, a little dazed.

Zhao Ziguan continued: "At present, according to the results of the inspection and test of the General Armament Department, the explosion ratio of the bullet cannot be 100 percent! ”

"How much is that?"

"It's about 60 to 70 percent, and the remaining unexploded bullets will be left on the battlefield, which is very dangerous."

Xiang Long and Zheng Haitao fell silent, both of them understanding the risks. If it's a minefield, even if it's dangerous, at least the sappers can check it out. But in an unexploded ordnance area, everything is unknown, and the risk factor is much higher than in a minefield.

"In the future, we must take the land on both sides of the Yenisei River, and if there are too many unexploded ordnance left on the battlefield on the east bank, it is likely to limit our operations, and it is more likely that we will suffer accidental casualties. That's why I'm reluctant to recommend cluster bombs to you. Zhao Ziguang looked at the two people in front of him and said in a low voice. Of course, now the battlefield commander of the Western Front is Lao Zheng you, how to decide, it's up to you to say a word. ”

The battle of Krasnoyarks in East Osnoyarks entered the fifth day, and the northeast once again launched artillery bombardment on the positions of the Russian army on the east bank, and then tentatively launched an attack on the positions of the Russian army, and found that the Russian counterattack was still fierce, so it did not carry out a strong attack.

After receiving the battle report, Dragomilov ordered the Eastern Front army to speed up the retreat, and at the same time let the remaining army begin to gradually shrink the front, so as to prevent the northeast from taking advantage of the gap left by the retreat of the Russian division to divide and encircle the remaining division. Because of the lessons learned from the first day, Dragomilov strengthened his air defense deployment, and deployed most of the limited anti-aircraft machine guns in his hands on the east and west banks of the Yenisei River pontoon, in case the Northeast Air Force discovered it and bombed the pontoon bridge again.

The anti-aircraft weapons of this era are very simple, and the Russian army now uses an improved version of the Hatch Chase machine gun produced in France, although the range is not bad, but the power of the spherical bullet is limited. The bigger problem is that when the Hatch Chase machine guns fire into the air, they cannot change the firing angle in time, which severely limits their anti-aircraft defense capabilities. The only solution could only be to arrange large anti-aircraft positions to compensate for the angular deficiencies in numbers.

The problem is that the Russian army itself imports a limited number of Hatch Chase machine guns from France, even if France provides another batch of aid, but after being shipped from Europe to Russia, it is impossible to send all the Hatch Chase machine guns to the Far Eastern front. In order to balance the balance of power between the major military districts, and because the understanding of the power of the Northeast Air Force was still at the level of a few years ago, Tsar Alexander III allocated nearly half of the Hatch Kaiss machine guns to other military districts. And in this way, the Russian army in the Far East, which is already lacking in air defense firepower, is even worse.

As the saying goes, if you are not in his position, you can't seek politics, and it was not until he sat in the position of governor-general of the Far East that Dragomilov deeply understood Skobelev's helplessness at the beginning. The empire had lost half of its territory, but St. Petersburg was still intriguing with the aristocracy. However, Dragomilov thought about it, and it seemed that he was not in a position to complain about others. Although he was able to sit in this seat today, although he had a fair reason to think that Skobelev had lost the tenacity and courage necessary to be a glorious soldier of the empire, he was always not above board in his means, and everyone thought that he was playing right and wrong behind his back. After Skobelev's denigration, the tsar did not even give him a chance to defend himself. Dragomilov also understood that this was a deliberate act by the Tsar in order to sow discord between himself and War Minister Milyugin. However, His Majesty the Tsar in St. Petersburg seemed to have forgotten about it, and in fact, Dragomilov himself did not realize what kind of terrible monster Skobylev had stopped on the front line of Krasnoyarks in recent years.

No wonder Milyugin didn't react much, but when he left the capital St. Petersburg, he accompanied His Majesty the Tsar with a smile and said goodbye to him. It turned out that he knew better than anyone what kind of position the Governor of the Far East was, and he was really scheming, worthy of being in the post of Minister of the Imperial Army, and he had been a figure for more than 20 years!