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In addition to preparing to strengthen the Fifth Division of the Dingbei Army transferred back from Weihaiwei to the east of the Lena River, Lin Daxin is also preparing to draw two new divisions from the 36th to the 40th Division of the Dingbei Army, which will soon be formed, to the east of the Lena River. The number of troops has reached 185,000, which is not much less than the 310,000 troops of the Siberian Third Front deployed by Russia west of the Lena River, but with the weapons and equipment of the Dingbei Army, which completely defeated the Russian army, the prospects for the offensive to be launched next spring are still very optimistic.

At present, the various units of the Dingbei Army in Mongolia have also received news from the Russian Xibo ≠±, ↗anshub↓a. Leah Theater of Operations that three front armies have been formed, and in the city of Darkhan in Outer Mongolia, the Dingbei Army has three integrated divisions of the third, seventh and eighth divisions, and three B divisions of the 21st, 22nd and 23rd divisions, with a total of 165,000 troops in six divisions.

The 3rd and 7th Divisions, which were wounded in the bloody battle of Maiseong, have been replenished to full strength with the Northeast Militia Reserve.

Behind Darkhan City, Kulun, there are two B divisions, the 19th and 20th divisions, as well as a part of the cavalry division of the Dingbei Army, as a reserve for Darkhan City.

The cavalry division of the Dingbei Army is no longer the earliest 8,000 men, and the entire cavalry division has accepted a large number of Mongolian cavalry captured during the pacification of Mongolia, and it has become inflated. Lin Daxin's policy in Mongolia. The policies of the four northeastern provinces were basically copied, and the people of Mongolia were treated equally. In addition, Lin Daxin swept away the power of the Mongolian nobles, and there was no oppression of the Mongolian nobles. The life of the Mongolian people has instantly improved several grades, and with the implementation of Lin Daxin's policy in Mongolia, it is foreseeable that the life of the Mongolian people will get better and better, which makes the Mongolian people accept Lin Daxin's rule from their hearts.

The expansion of the cavalry division was ordered by Lin Daxin personally, and the main source of the expansion was the main source of troops. Just select from the captured Mongolian cavalry, these Mongolian cavalry have been riding horses since childhood, and their riding skills are very good, even better than the cavalry of the cavalry division of the Dingbei Army, and their riding skills are even better, as long as they are absorbed into the cavalry division, after systematic training, and then equipped with sophisticated weapons, Lin Daxin will immediately have a strong cavalry force.

Although Lin Daxin already has a tank armored unit. But the cavalry is still very useful in the next few decades, so after Lin Daxin got Mongolia. It is planned to use the famous Mongolian cavalry to increase the strength of the cavalry of the Dingbei Army.

Sure enough, in less than half a year, Wu Yuning, the commander of the cavalry division, reported to Lin Daxin. The cavalry division has become a cavalry unit with 50,000 elite cavalry, of which more than 40,000 are selected from the Mongolian cavalry. The armament was the same as that of the previous cavalry divisions, and each cavalryman was equipped with 2 horses. The cavalry officers were equipped with Type 96 pistols, Type 96 submachine guns and sabers, and the cavalry soldiers were equipped with Type 96 rifles and sabers, and some lighter 60mm mortars were also provided to the cavalry.

The cavalry division had 30,000 cavalry in the first section of Kulen, which was personally led by Wu Yuning, the commander of the cavalry division. In addition, there were 10,000 cavalry in other parts of Outer Mongolia, and the remaining 10,000 cavalry divisions were distributed in Inner Mongolia.

In addition, the armored division of the Dingbei Army is currently in Mongolia, and the steel division of the Dingbei Army is assembled in Manchuria, Inner Mongolia, which is prepared by Lin Daxin in order to counterattack the Russian army, and the armored division will not participate in the defense of Darkhan City, but will only stay in Manchuria, waiting for the Russian army to show its flaws and give the Russian army a fatal blow.

The armored division was the original 100 T1 heavy tanks, 6 were destroyed outside Dongning, and 4 were lost during the attack on the mountain fortifications outside Vladivostok, so that now the armored division only has 90 T1 heavy tanks left, and the light Black Wolf tank has also lost a lot in several battles, and the armored vehicles have not lost much because they have been following the tanks, but 2 have failed, the engines cannot catch fire, and the engines need to be replaced.

However, the arsenal added a batch of tanks and armored vehicles to the armored division, including the heavy Panther tank newly manufactured by the arsenal, which increased the number of tanks and armored vehicles in the armored division a lot, and the personnel also increased accordingly.

The division currently has 90 T1 heavy tanks, 100 heavy Panther tanks, 300 Black Wolf tanks and 400 Z1 armored vehicles, as well as 700 fuel and ammunition supply vehicles with a strength of 2.5 men.

Lin Daxin had ordered the arsenal to increase the production of tanks and armored vehicles, and prepared for the preparation of a second armored division in 1899.

After careful calculation, the strength of the Dingbei Army in the entire Mongolian region is not small, with 3 A integrated divisions, 5 B divisions, 1 cavalry division and 1 armored division, and the strength has reached 280,000 people, but it is still a big step behind the Russian army.

Even if the Russian army near the city of Maimai and Haktu left the 25 armies of the Siberian Second Front with 780,000 people and the 5 armies of the Siberian Third Front with 150,000 troops, there were still more than 300,000 troops left, and the commander of the Siberian theater of operations, Kuropatkin, formed the First Siberian Front.

And the existing strength of the First Siberian Front Army also exceeds the strength of the Dingbei Army in the entire Mongolian region, and the newly formed troops of Russia and Europe are still coming over in a steady stream to enhance the strength of the First Siberian Front.

As the center of the decisive battle in Outer Mongolia, after receiving Lin Daxin's telegram, several division commanders of the Dingbei Army in Darkhan City gathered at the division headquarters of the Third Division to discuss the current situation of the war. And Ni Fan, the commander of the third division, was the temporary commander of the defense of the entire city of Darkhan.

After reading the telegram sent by Lin Daxin about the establishment of the three front armies in the Russian Siberian Theater, Ni Fan couldn't help but sigh and said: "The Russian Army deserves to be called the European steamroller, these three front armies, plus the Russian army in other important towns in Siberia, the current strength of the entire Siberian Theater has exceeded 1.8 million, and the Russian Siberian First Front Army that we are about to face in the city of buying and selling and buying and selling and Haktu City has transferred nearly a million troops, and there are still more than 300,000 troops. There are more than all the Dingbei armies in our entire Mongolian region combined, and Russia and Europe will continue to send troops to strengthen the strength of this Siberian First Front, and after the spring of next year, we will face a bigger battle than the bloody battle of buying and selling cities! ”

Hu Desheng, the commander of the 7th Division, who experienced the bloody battle of Maimaicheng with the 3rd Division, said: "The fortifications we are building in and around Darkhan City are very different from the fortifications in Maimaicheng City, and the strength is not one or two points, or there are more than 1 million Russian troops in Maimaicheng and Haktu City, and I also believe that with our 6 divisions, we will be able to firmly hold Darkhan City!" ”

The mountains around Darkhan City are one after another, and the Dingbei Army with sufficient time has used these mountains to build a large number of fortifications, and these fortifications are similar to the mountain fortifications outside the inner city of Svobod, each hill is covered with a series of criss-crossing trenches and a large number of light and dark bunkers built with reinforced concrete, and below are a series of tunnels, connecting the fortifications of the entire mountain, you must know that the senior officers of the Dingbei Army are all taught by a master.

However, although the mountains around Darkhan City are not as dangerous as those in the inner city of Svobod, after the careful construction of the Dingbei Army, dozens of mountain fortifications connected together are absolutely impregnable, which gave Hu Desheng, the commander of the Seventh Division, the confidence to resist the million-strong army of the Russian army.

And behind the city of Darkhan is the endless steppe of Outer Mongolia, almost no danger to defend, if the city of Darkhan is lost, the Russian army can advance to Mongolia from many directions at will, and then launch an attack on the northeast region close to Mongolia, that is definitely a situation that the entire Dingbei army does not want to see.

Therefore, the situation of defending Darkhan City was different from that of Trading, at that time, the front outside Trading, Trading, and Trading, was lost in many places, so the 3rd and 7th Divisions, which suffered great losses, chose to retreat, abandoned Trading, and retreated to Darkhan City to continue to hold on.

However, if there is a situation of buying and selling the city in Darkhan, the defenders of Darkhan must not retreat, and can only defend Darkhan, otherwise there will be a flat river behind Darkhan, and there will be no suitable place to stop the Russian army.

Lin Daxin also gave death orders to several divisions of Darkhan City, and at any cost, Darkhan City must be held, and the Russian army must not be allowed to cross the city by half a step. So much so that several divisions of Darkhan not only built a large number of mountain fortifications outside the city, but also built the entire city of Darkhan into a large fortress, which was different from the large fortress that Svobod Inner City built into the whole city. If the fortifications outside the city and the fortifications inside the city are lost, the remaining strength of the Dingbei army will retreat to the tunnels below the city and continue to insist on fighting.

Wang Peng, the commander of the Eighth Division, said with confidence: "Although our strength is inferior to the Russian army, our weapons and equipment are absolutely completely explosive, plus the fortifications we built, as well as the cavalry of the 2 infantry divisions and 30,000 cavalry divisions in Kulen, as well as the airship troops arranged by the principal in Kulen, even the first Russian Siberian Front army that attacked us has a million troops, and don't think about taking Darkhan City lightly." ”

Fan Wubo, commander of the 21st Division, Gao Deli, commander of the 22nd Division, and Liu Zhe, commander of the 23rd Division, also expressed their determination to defend the city of Darkhan. (The novel will have more fresh content on the official WeChat platform, and there will also be a 100% lottery gift for everyone!) Open WeChat now, click on the "+" sign in the upper right corner to "add friends", search for the official account "qdread" and follow, hurry up! (To be continued......)