"Despicable! Shameless! There is no morality! It's a shame on humanity! ”

Commander-in-Chief Linievich is out of rage! All the high-ranking officers who knew about this situation also lashed out one after another, gritting their teeth and criticizing the Chinese for such unruly tactics.

At the beginning of the 20th century, the nobility was still in power, and no matter how cruel the wars were, high-ranking officers generally needed special care because of their bloodline and origin. Many of those middle- and lower-ranking officers were also from shabby small aristocrats or wealthy people, and they were important targets for redemption after the end of the war. At the same time, they are also a necessary complement to the national aristocratic system.

Now, the fact that the Chinese are so brutal in focusing on killing and wounding in battle is not only causing a plummeting combat effectiveness of the entire army, but also challenging the universal values recognized by the whole world!

Rinjevich is not only angry, but also afraid! He didn't know how to describe the despicability of this tactic for a while, but he knew very well how destructive it was! If it is a brave army, it will lose its combat effectiveness quickly in a short time - and the officers will take the lead in rushing forward.

But if it is a cowardly and poorly educated army, once the officers suffer excessive casualties, the rest will inevitably be shrunken turtles, and when the time comes, do you expect the soldiers to rush forward stupidly?

Of course not. If you look at the two armies on the battlefield ahead, you can see that they have lost confidence and want to cheer up, and they don't know how long it will take.

Countermeasures, we must come up with countermeasures as soon as possible!

Commander-in-Chief Linievich anxiously pondered a countermeasure after conveying his protest through the British.

But time waits for no one, and the situation on the battlefield changes several times overnight. The deadlines given by His Majesty the Tsar are getting closer. His side has not done an inch of strength, and he has not taken an inch of land. It's hard to explain.

Grit your teeth. Lynevich sent another corps to replace the collapsed First Army once again, and then repeatedly told the commanders to be careful not to fall for the tricks of that nasty tactic. He then began to wonder if he could make appropriate adjustments to the entire campaign plan.

Adjusting the direction and strategy of the offensive during the war is not much of a problem, but whether it is appropriate and whether it can bring about positive results is quite difficult to consider.

The British observers didn't have a good idea of this - their own army was a mess. There were not 200,000 people in total, and they had never thought about how to play such a large-scale corps battle. The South Baikal battlefield is equivalent to pulling the entire British mainland army out to gamble, and they can't afford to play.

Friends can't be relied on, so they can only figure out their own way.

Commander-in-Chief Linievich could not think of anything other than to continue to increase his troops. And this kind of refueling tactic is right in the hands of the other party!

As the saying goes, it's not more than three.

After hitting two walls in succession, the Russians are still unswerving in touching eggs against stones, which also determines that they will sink deeper into this bottomless quagmire of war. Overly sluggish battlefield sensing. The very poor level of decision-making at the upper and lower levels doomed them to never look back on the wrong path.

Whenever. Whoever makes a mistake will pay the price.

When the Russian army's southward battle plan changed from a sneak attack to a strong attack, their strategic intentions were actually completely exposed. After defeating three group attacks in succession, the Chinese side also began to make appropriate proactive changes.

There is no way, if you pretend to be indifferent, it is too obvious, not only will you treat the enemy like a fool, but you will also be prone to develop bad problems.

The General Headquarters made a decision to suspend rotational operations on the southern front and temporarily thicken the newly transported troops into defensive positions to ensure that the entire line of defense was foolproof. At the same time, the Eastern Front, which had been on the defensive and constantly secretly operated its troops, suddenly moved, with Wu Peifu's 31st Division as the main force, after the Third Army had pressed through Daxinganshan with all its might, and launched a fierce attack on the frontal enemy forces of Ulan-Ude!

Xu Shuzheng's 311 Regiment still stuck to the forefront of the position, and when the battle began, he led his troops to step on the smoke of gunpowder after the explosion of his own artillery fire, and quickly pounced on the Russian army, which was seriously lax in defense, and made a substantial breakthrough after a fierce battle, like a sharp knife fiercely pierced into the central theater of the Russian army's heavy accumulation.

Such a fierce method not only frightened Wu Peifu, but also surprised the army commander Feng Guozhang! The heart said that Xiao Xu, this guy is a little too fierce, although our troops are first-class in equipment and excellent in quality, we can't make such a crazy breakthrough regardless of it, right? You're not afraid to mess up the whole battle plan.

To be honest, Xu Shuzheng really doesn't care much. He is so proud of people, and he is very unimpressed with the fact that he has superior strength but defends and counterattacks. Replacing training with war or something, in his opinion, is simply redundant. Fighting, where are the undead? No matter what new troops, as long as they are engaged in fierce battles for a while, they will naturally mature.

What? The battlefield is too narrow to let go of too many troops? That's simple, isn't it enough to expand the battlefield. Let's grasp the initiative on the battlefield, expand the formation of Mao Zi by seven or eight times for him, and force the Russian army to release all the hundreds of thousands of troops.

That's what he thinks in his heart, and that's what he does.

Under the guidance of his combat ideology, the 311th Regiment rushed forward in the ice and snow like a madman, relying on the complete weapons and equipment in his hands, completely ignoring the defense line that the Russians had worked so hard to build, and breaking through so fast that the Maozi were frightened!

In the past six months or so, Mao Zi has not only been a guest fisherman, lumberjack, hunter and other work, but they have not stopped building fortifications on their own side.

The whole system of trenches, barbed wire, and machine-gun fortress fortifications learned from the Chinese was built in a good way.

Especially in winter, when the north wind blows heavy snow, the position knows how to just harden, and the shells are almost the same as falling on the concrete ground, and the defense capability is how many percentage points in a straight line!

The Russians themselves estimated that even if they pulled out all the artillery, it would be very difficult to break through such a line. In addition, the forests between the two sides are almost cut down, and it is not so easy to attack in the open field!

But they still underestimated the capabilities of the Chinese Army!

When the overwhelming shells exploded. The Russian troops on the frontal positions in Ulan-Ude suddenly spotted. Their previous confidence was nothing more than self-righteousness.

The offensive of the Third Army. It was suddenly sounded with the roar of the train cannon.

The four train guns that drove from the Amur battlefield quietly arrived in Chita long before the battle, and waited silently for the opportunity. After the order to attack was given, the two 305mm/45L cannons were the first to let out an earth-shattering roar! More than 300 kilograms of shells pulled the train through the cave-like rumble, creating a terrible landscape from the sky, and smashing into the Russian positions like meteorites!

The explosion was earth-shattering, and the heads of the Mao Zi Army, who had never seen the world, were blank! Not to mention organizing an effective battle. There is no collective mental breakdown, and it is all because they are born with coarse nerves and strong resistance!

The 305mm cannon bombardment speed is slow, the number of shells is small, even if each one is powerful enough, the lethal effect is still not enough to completely destroy the resistance of the Russian army.

Don't forget, here are four train guns.

When the 203mm and 152mm naval guns fired in unison, the shells suddenly fell from the sky with ten times the density, and under the terrible kinetic energy bombardment, all the fortifications became like tofu scum. As long as it is hit. Basically, there was no escape.

So the fighters on both sides stared wide-eyed, on the battlefield centered on the hinterland where the Russian troops of Ulan-Ude were stationed. There was a huge column of fireworks rising rapidly. In particular, when the 335kg high-explosive bomb exploded, the sand and dust that rose into the air were hundreds of meters, as if a village had been flattened by a bombardment - of course, it was not so exaggerated, but the effect from a distance was really terrifying!

This also led to Xu Shuzheng's 311 regiment's map being too smooth, and the morale of the Russian army was really bombarded by heavy artillery.

In addition to the train guns, the heavy artillery equipped by the Third Army and the artillery of each division and regiment were gathered into hundreds or thousands, and even if they were deployed at staggered levels before and after, they still covered a frontal area tens of kilometers wide. Layers of explosions were pushed from the front to the back, and even the logistics base on the west bank of the Selenga River was not spared.

On the battlefield dominated by artillery, the presence of infantry became very pitiful and humble.

The Russian army fully realized what it means to be powerless to resist, and in the face of the wolf-like Xu Shuzheng regiment and the 31st Division's large-scale breakthrough, the guards of an army were easily defeated.

The 31st Division occupied Ulan-Ude at a very slight cost, completely cutting off the retreat of the Russian troops who had broken through on the flank, leaving the remnants of the group of soldiers blocked in the ice and snow, either surrendering or freezing to death.

The sudden change stunned Lynievich beyond his mind to imagine how it would have been done. He was also frightened by the news from the front - the enemy used over-caliber heavy artillery, and a staggering number of various cannons completely overwhelmed the defenders and positions.

Not only that, but intelligence from the British showed that the Chinese were already sending railroad laying equipment to the Baikal theater of operations, and that they would immediately extend the railway along the Selenga River to Lake Baikal as soon as they completely occupied the Ulan-Ude positions.

The Russians were able to lay railroad tracks from the ice a decade ago, and the more technologically advanced Chinese could do this more easily. Once they quietly build a cross-lake railway and launch a surprise attack from the north of Irkutsk, the entire Far Eastern Military District Command may be wiped out, and the more than 100,000 troops that have already entered the southeast battlefield will become turtles in the urn!

Lynevich was almost frightened, and he didn't care about any planning, so he simply sent out the two armies left at hand in one go, crossed Lake Baikal in two directions, and added them to the defensive operation. Even if he knew that they might be sacrificed by cannon fodder on the spot, he would not hesitate to do so.

There's no way, compared to the slow casualty consumption on the front line, it's better than being served in a pot.

But in this way, the previous plan to open the Mongolian border by surprise and burn the flames of war into the heart of China will be completely ruined, and the entire living forces of the Russian army in the Far East will be forced to concentrate in the battlefield of the lower Selenga River, which is several times narrower.

It's definitely not a good thing, but Linievich has no other choice.

When a full 50,000 troops swarmed into the defensive line, the offensive of the Chinese Third Army on the Eastern Front was finally blocked, and it was stagnant in the completely occupied Ulan-Ude, and the Russian army in the ice and snow could not hold on.

The Russian troops who arrived in a hurry were more miserable, together with the 70,000 or 80,000 troops on the battlefield on the southern side, they had to face the problem of seriously insufficient logistics resource allocation, and the large number of cold-proof facilities built before were still insufficient even if there was an overpour of soldiers. The consumption rate of essential materials such as food has been fully accelerated.

In this context, the transport pressure on the two railways across Lake Baikal can be imagined. The trains departing from the Irkutsk station every day were densely packed with departures, the supplies that had been prepared were depleted too quickly, and the medicines were almost exhausted.

If that's all he wants, maybe he can still hold on, and the entire Far Eastern battlefield can last until next spring, and everything will probably get better, right? The British also seemed to have promised to provide some support to help Russia win the war.

It's just that this is just their wishful thinking after all.

The Chinese Northern Legion has been waiting for this day for a long time. When eighty percent of the Russian army in the Far East was piled up, a long-prepared plan was immediately put into action!

At the end of January 1910, when the ammunition and supplies of the Russian army in the Far East were about to run out, the Chinese Northern Army suddenly dispatched fighters and launched a fierce bombardment along the lake and the railway on the south bank!

The railroad tracks laid on the lake are unobstructed, and they are the easiest to spot, and they are swept by low-altitude dive-diving attack planes with rockets and grenades, destroying them in sections and cutting them off most neatly.

The railroad on the south bank runs between mountains, most of which are hidden in caves and steep cliffs, making bombing exponentially more difficult. But conversely, if a bomb hits, a cave collapses, causing many times more damage than on the ice.

With a two-pronged approach, the Russian Far Eastern Military District Command and the South Baikal Battlefield were cut off, the limited communication links were also fatally damaged, and a very small number of radio stations were used to transmit messages back and forth, but they all became the targets of key air strikes.

At the same time, the Chinese army on both flanks, which had been preparing for a long time, suddenly launched an all-round and fierce offensive, launching an unprecedented wanton and indiscriminate bombardment and frenzied attack on the hundreds of thousands of Russian troops surrounded in the middle, and almost crushed the enemy in front of them in just a few days!

By the beginning of February, the Russian army in the Far East, led by Lynevich, had been almost completely annihilated again. The Tsarist government intended to make a beautiful counterattack plan with the support of Britain, and it was completely bankrupt. (To be continued.) )