Alekseyev, the governor of the Far East, put the telegram he had received from Boli on his desk, and said to Willistov with a dejected expression: "It is really unbelievable that the five armies of the Second Front in the Far East, with more than 100,000 troops, were completely wiped out in a few days, and even the commander Resekolov was captured. Although I also knew that the Dingbei Army of the Qing Dynasty was a new army different from other armies of the Qing Dynasty, I never expected its combat effectiveness to be so strong, you must know that the Second Front Army of the Far East faced only 2 divisions of the Dingbei Army! ”

Willistov said: "Your Excellency the Governor, the strength of one division of the Dingbei Army is more than the strength of one army of our Russian Army, and I have personally experienced the strong combat effectiveness of the Dingbei Army, which not only far surpasses our Russian army in firepower, but also is equipped with a lot of new weapons, tanks and armored vehicles, not to mention the tanks and armored vehicles, which are completely superior to the tanks and armored vehicles made in our Russia." The machine guns equipped by the Dingbei Army are very light in weight, and they can be held by one person to charge, and they can completely suppress our position. The Dingbei Army also prepared a small bomb that could be thrown, which could be thrown dozens of meters away by a single person, and its power was not inferior to that of a small-caliber artillery shell. The Dingbei Army also has a lightweight, high-rate-of-fire, ballistic-curved artillery that can drive shells into our trenches. The rifles equipped by the Dingbei Army can shoot continuously, which is more advanced than the latest Mosin Nagant M1891 rifle equipped by our Russia! Plus the soldiers of the Dingbei Army are definitely well-trained elite soldiers, oh! God, where is the army that the decadent and backward Qing Dynasty can build, I suspect that it is the German Army, which is known as the first army. The same number of troops may not be able to defeat this Dingbei army! ”

Alekseev frowned at this time, if he had known that the combat effectiveness of the Dingbei Army was so rebellious, he would have said that he would have prevented His Majesty the Tsar from launching this war, but now everything is over, the war has broken out, and the entire Far Eastern theater of operations is already at a disadvantage.

Alekseev got up from the chair behind his desk, walked over to the map hanging on the wall of his office, and carefully looked at the map of the Far East under his jurisdiction.

At this time, the Russian captain Pagiritaov, who delivered the telegram, did not leave the governor's office, and Alekseev first said to the captain Pagiritov: "Young man. Brew me and Admiral Willistov two cups of coffee! ”

Captain Pagilitov nodded and said, "Willing to serve His Excellency the Governor and Admiral Willistov!" ”

And then this Russian captain Pagiritav. In the office, I found coffee beans, a hand-cranked coffee bean grinder, and a small pot for making coffee. Immediately helped the governor-general Alekseev and Willistov 2 people. Grind coffee beans. Ready to make coffee for 2 people.

Alekseev looked at the map on the wall. Turning his head to Willistov, who also walked to the map, he said: "We didn't know enough about the Dingbei Army before the war, and we didn't even understand that the Dingbei Army was equipped with so many new weapons, and this is an army that is not inferior to the German Army in terms of combat effectiveness and equipment. It is understandable that we suffered such a disadvantage at the beginning of the war! ”

Willistov looked at the map and said: "Your Excellency the Governor, what about the city of Amur and Svobodne now?" The defenders of those two cities only have one army each, and if the Dingbei Army mobilizes forces to attack two cities, I am afraid it will be ......"

Governor Alekseev also looked at the map on the wall and said: "There is no way, now the Second Far Eastern Front has been completely annihilated, and the entire Far Eastern theater of operations, except for our Vladivostok, there are only the strength of their two armies." I just drew troops from Vladivostok, and I can't reach it, Vladivostok is too far away from 2 cities, and it is not realistic for their 2 armies to retreat to Vladivostok now, now they can only let the 21st Army in Amur City and the 24th Army in Svobod hold 2 cities first, I will immediately ask His Majesty the Tsar Xià for reinforcements to support our Far Eastern theater, and I will give orders to the 2 army commanders stationed in 2 cities, if the battle situation is unfavorable, they can be allowed to choose to retreat to the Siberian region to the east. ”

Willistov frowned and said: "Now the Siberian theater close to Outer Mongolia is also at war, attacking the Dingbei Army in Outer Mongolia, and there are still enough troops left in the European region, Your Majesty Tsar Xià doesn't know how many more troops can be sent to our Far Eastern theater?" ”

Governor Alekseev swept away the frustrated look he had just received from the Second Front Army in the Far East, and said excitedly: "Willistov, I have two good news for you, St. Petersburg has sent me a secret telegram, first of all, His Majesty the Tsar has approved the order of the imperial wartime mobilization, our Russian Army will be expanded by 2 million, even if the Dingbei Army is an army that is not inferior to the German Army in terms of combat effectiveness and equipment, then our Russian army of 2 million will directly sweep down the Dingbei Army and occupy the entire Mongolia and Northeast China, In the face of absolute quantity, no matter how advanced the equipment of the Dingbei Army is, no matter how elite the training of the soldiers is, it will not be able to withstand the crushing of our European road rollers! ”

Pagiritaov, who was grinding coffee, trembled when he heard Governor Alekseev's words, and then continued to grind coffee as if nothing had happened, pricking up his ears while grinding coffee and continuing to listen to the conversation between the two people in the office.

When Willistov heard Governor Aleksayev say that Russia would expand its army by 2 million, he was also very excited and said: "That's great, 2 million troops are enough to push the Northeast and Mongolia!" Your Excellency the Governor, what is one more piece of good news? ”

Governor Alekseev then said with a smile on his face: "We in Russia have formed an alliance with France to jointly contain the Germans who are desperate for military force!" Moreover, France has agreed to send the main force of the French Navy, together with the main warships of our European Baltic Fleet and the Black Sea Fleet, to Asia, to join our Pacific Fleet, and completely eliminate the Northeast Navy under Lin Daxin! Ha ha! ”

Pagiritov, who was grinding coffee, had a gleam in his eyes, and his hand movements did not stop, he put the ground coffee in a small pot for making coffee, poured water, and boiled it on a stove.

Willistov sighed with a relaxed expression at this time and said, "This is really the best news I've heard in this time!" In this way, the victory of our war against the four northeastern provinces and Mongolia will definitely belong to Russia! ”

Governor Alekseev said: "Now we just need to hold the Vladivostok fortress and wait for army reinforcements and the Russian and French navies to come to Asia, so the defense of the Vladivostok fortress must be foolproof, Willistov, I appoint you as the commander of the city defense of the Vladivostok fortress, and the 200,000 Vladivostok defenders are at your disposal, and Vladivostok must be defended." ”

Willistov nodded and said: "I will do my best and will not live up to the trust of His Excellency the Governor, but although the fortifications in the mountains outside Vladivostok are extremely strong, even the huge cannons with a caliber of more than 300 mm may not be able to destroy these fortifications that are 1 or 2 meters below the surface of the mountain, but the tanks of the Dingbei Army are very powerful, even if the artillery of our mountain fortifications can destroy some, the rest of the tanks of the Dingbei Army will cover the infantry of the Dingbei Army approaching our mountain fortifications." If the soldiers of the Dingbei Army threw bombs at the firing ports of our mountain fortifications with explosives, no matter how strong our mountain fortifications were, it would be useless! ”

Willistov is worthy of being an excellent commander of the Russian army, he just came to Vladivostok, and when he hurriedly passed by the mountain fortifications outside, he discovered that the Dingbei army might attack the mountain fortifications threatened.

But Governor Alekseev smiled indifferently at the moment, he was full of confidence in the Vladivostok fortress that he personally led to build.

When Lin Daxin occupied the four northeastern provinces, Alekseev was already the governor of the Russian Far East. Alekseev had a strict sense of distress, and he saw that Lin Daxin's power was developing rapidly, and he was worried that Lin Daxin's development would threaten the security of the Far East, so Alekseev decided to build his old nest Vladivostok fortress more strongly.

It just so happened that Russia was going all out to build the Trans-Siberian Railway, forcibly conscripting hundreds of thousands of Siberian Asian national strongmen, and Alekseev asked for 50,000 Asian national strongmen and began to build the Vladivostok fortress according to his idea.

Vladivostok is surrounded by mountains on the outskirts of Vladivostok facing the land, and although these mountains are not high, they are all stone mountains, with only a layer of soil that is not too thick on top, and all solid stones below.

Alekseev used explosives and manual labor to dig out the fortifications inside the mountain within 1 or 2 meters below the surface of the mountain, and in the fortifications inside the mountain, many artillery pieces and Makqin heavy machine guns were placed. Permanent cement fortifications and pillboxes were built on top of these hills, as well as artillery and Maxim heavy machine guns, making such a stone mountain a small fortress almost armed to the teeth.

And such a small fortress, can also be called a mountain fortress, in the periphery of Vladivostok, a total of 36, a larger mountain fortress, a mountain fortress has more than 20 guns, a smaller mountain fortress also has about 10 guns, these guns are as large as 240 mm heavy guns, as small as a caliber of only 37 mm rapid-fire guns, plus each mountain fortress is equipped with 10 to 20 Makqin heavy machine guns, each mountain fortress is like a turtle shell full of long thorns.

Moreover, the mountain fortifications built by Alekseev in Vladivostok were considered in all aspects, even in the Qing-Japanese War, the tanks that appeared were also taken into account by Alekseev, and the bottom of these mountains were built into steep slopes, not to mention that it was not easy for tanks to drive up, and it was difficult for people to climb up. (To be continued......) R527