After Lin Daxin ordered the attacking troops to stop the attack, his brows were almost wrinkled together, in the face of the turtle-like mountain fortifications of the Russian army outside Vladivostok, he had no good way at present, if he used human lives to fill in, he might have to use hundreds of thousands of people to fill in these mountain fortifications of the Russian army, which Lin Daxin could never accept.

Lin Daxin scratched his head and scratched off a lot of his hair, and he couldn't think of any good way to deal with the mountain fortifications on the periphery of Vladivostok, so he had to temporarily order the seven divisions of the Dingbei Army to surround the periphery fortifications in all directions of the Vladivostok land, build field fortifications outside the range covered by Russian artillery, and prepare for a long-term siege of Vladivostok.

Lin Daxin and several division commanders studied how to capture the outlying fortifications of Vladivostok until the late night of the 17th, but they did not come up with any effective methods, and some people proposed to transport the 305-mm naval guns produced by the Shenyang Arsenal for the Navy to the periphery of Vladivostok and use the 305-mm huge guns to bombard the Russian fortifications inside the mountain. However, Lin Daxin vetoed this construction, not to mention the effect of the bombardment, it is impossible to transport a 305-mm cannon with a cannon base with a barrel of nearly 50 tons to Vladivostok, Lin Daxin bought a truck from modern time and space loaded with 50 tons of heavy objects, and can only barely start, if you count the road conditions from Shenyang to Vladivostok, there is no need to think about it at all.

Some people proposed to adopt the attack method of digging tunnels, digging all the way to the bottom of the Russian army's mountain fortifications, and then planting explosives to blow up all the fortifications in the Russian army's mountain one by one.

However, Lin Daxin thinks that the amount of work is too large. Don't say that you have to use the same astronomical amount of explosives, that is, dig through the tunnels of these 36 mountain fortifications on the outskirts of Vladivostok, Russia, and don't want to complete them in a year and a half. Because the mountain fortifications are all hard rocks, it is better to trap the Russians in Vladivostok for a year and a half!

Although the Russians now have sufficient supplies in Vladivostok, nearly 200,000 Russian army and more than 20,000 naval officers and men of the Russian Pacific Fleet, plus more than 200,000 Russian civilians in Vladivostok, consume huge supplies every day. The Russians in Vladivostok will have nothing to eat, and then they will be able to win without a fight without a fight.

Of course, the premise is that the Dingbei Army and the Northeast Navy can firmly encircle Vladivostok. The large armies from Russia and Europe could not break through the fortifications of the Dingbei Army in Svobod, and the Northeast Navy had to defeat the combined fleet of the French Navy and the Russian Navy and continue to cut off the sea supply lines in Vladivostok.

Lin Daxin saw that Vladivostok was impossible to capture in a short period of time, so he ordered several divisions of the Dingbei Army to build their fortifications firmly. Prevent the surprise attack of the Russian army in Vladivostok. The command of the entire Vladivostok land direction was handed over by Lin Daxin to the commander of the 2nd Division, Wang Hongjun, and Lin Daxin himself left the periphery of Vladivostok early in the morning of September 18 with the officers and men of the 1st Guards Division and embarked on the road back to Shenyang.

At the same time, Lin Daxin considered that the mountain fortifications on the periphery of Vladivostok were all built on steep slopes, and the tanks and armored vehicles of the armored division could not play a big role, so Lin Daxin ordered Zhang Daxiong to lead the armored division to leave the periphery of Vladivostok and pass through from Heilongjiang Province. Go to Outer Mongolia, in the steppes of Outer Mongolia, you can give full play to the power of armored divisions.

And the Dingbei Army on the periphery of Vladivostok. It's not that there are no tanks, 1 armored brigade of the Guards Division equipped with 200 Black Wolf tanks is still on the periphery of Vladivostok, besieging the Russian army.

After Lin Daxin decided to return to Shenyang, he would return to modern time and space to see if he could get some more weapons to enhance the strength of the Dingbei Army and the Northeast Navy. In order to deal with the crisis of Russia's expansion of 2 million troops and the Russian-French alliance to jointly attack its own northeast navy.

And Lin Daxin is ready to return to modern time and space this time. To order a few airships, transport them back to the time and space of the Qing Dynasty, and establish his own air force, Lin Daxin had an idea to use airships to load larger bombs to bombard the outer mountain fortifications of Vladivostok, which should have a good effect.

The development of the air force is inseparable from aircraft, Lin Daxin has long considered buying some engines from modern time and space, and then let his arsenal begin to develop relatively simple two-wing and three-wing propeller aircraft, and Lin Daxin has already explained to the company's general manager Liu Qiang before leaving modern time and space, responsible for purchasing suitable aircraft engines, this time back to modern time and space by the way to transport the aircraft engine back to the Qing Dynasty time and space.

The reason why Lin Daxin is ready to let the arsenal produce relatively backward biplane and triplane aircraft, and it is relatively simple to train pilots, and then let the arsenal produce more advanced monoplane propeller aircraft when he has a certain air force foundation, Lin Daxin's office has long collected the design drawings of various World War I and World War II aircraft found from modern time and space, and even the earliest jet aircraft design drawings.

In the office of the Governor's Palace in Vladivostok, the Governor of the Far East, Alekseyev, was very happy that the Dingbei Army's attack on the outer fortifications of Vladivostok had been frustrated, and said to Willistov, the commander of the defense of Vladivostok: "It is not in vain that we have used so many manpower and material resources and spent several years to build these mountain fortifications, and now the Dingbei Army has no way to take these fortifications!" Hahaha, our Vladivostok fortress is the real first fortress in Asia! ”

Willistov also said happily: "This is also thanks to the wisdom of His Excellency the Governor, as early as a few years ago, when Lin Daxin occupied the northeast, he began to build such a huge fortress project, so that we can now face the hundreds of thousands of troops of the Dingbei Army and rest easy." ”

Alekseev said confidently: "With our fortifications, the Dingbei Army does not want to enter Vladivostok. Our need for reinforcements is no longer urgent, so it gives us enough time in the Siberian theater, and after the Siberian theater has eliminated the Dingbei Army in Outer Mongolia, we can directly divide our troops into two routes, one way through the entire Mongolian region, attack the hinterland of the northeast, and the other along the railway line, march to the Far East, if the main force of the Dingbei Army does not leave the periphery of Vladivostok, we can fight with the reinforcements from the direction of Siberia to destroy the main force of the Dingbei Army besieging Vladivostok. ”

Willistov nodded, if according to the Governor's conception, the final victory must belong to Russia, but he was a little worried in his heart, and he didn't say it when he saw that the Governor was in good spirits today.

There are now nearly 500,000 Russian troops and civilians in the whole of Vladivostok, but Vladivostok has enough food to feed these soldiers and civilians for 10 months.

Willistov begged God in his heart that reinforcements from Siberia would arrive in Vladivostok within 10 months.

On the border of Outer Mongolia on September 18, in the city of Haktu, opposite the city of Maimai, early this morning, the main high-ranking officers of the First Siberian Front of Russia, under the leadership of Commander Ivanov, walked a few miles northwest of Haktu to meet the vast reinforcements from Russia and Europe led by the commander of the theater of operations, Kuropatkin.

Ivanov came to Kuropatkin, who was riding a war horse, and said: "Welcome, Your Excellency Commander, on behalf of all the officers and men of the 1st Siberian Front, I am sincerely glad to have your arrival!" ”

Kuropatkin rode on his horse, nodded and said, "Ivanov, how is the situation in the city of trading now?" ”

Ivanov said with some embarrassment: "We attacked the positions on the outskirts of the city for 5 days, lost nearly 25,000 people, and still did not break through the positions at the forefront of the Dingbei Army, the artillery fire of the Dingbei Army was too fierce, and the artillery of our Siberian First Front Army suffered heavy losses, and there were less than 100 guns left with more than 75 mm. So after the 13th, I ordered the cessation of the attack on the outer positions of the northern army of Maicheng Ding. ”

Kuropatkin frowned and said, "Go back to Haktu City first, and then talk about it." I had to take a shower first, the wind and sand were too big all the way! ”

Ivanov hurriedly said: "I have prepared a resting room for the commander in the city of Haktu, Your Excellency the commander, please!" ”

After Kuropatkin entered the city of Haktu, he came to the room arranged by Ivanov, took a hot bath, and found that the reinforcements he brought were still walking into the temporary camp outside Haktu City, and said to Ivanov beside him with a smile: "This time the commander brought 200,000 troops, these troops are newly formed, but the soldiers are all reservists of the Russian Army, except for slightly inferior weapons, the combat effectiveness will not be weaker than the regular army." ”

Ivanov also found the soldiers brought by the commander Kuropatkin, most of whom were holding single-shot rifles that had been eliminated by the Russian Army, but Ivanov also believed that even the Russian soldiers with single-shot rifles were also the best soldiers in the world, so he said: "With the 200,000 troops of His Excellency the Commander, we will definitely be able to defeat the Dingbei Army of the Buying and Selling City!" ”

Kuropatkin said with a smile: "The 2 million army ordered by His Majesty Tsar to expand this time will be rushed from Europe to our Siberian theater one after another, and these Dingbei troops in Outer Mongolia will be crushed into Siberian wind and sand in front of our powerful Russian army, so that the Siberian wind will blow without a trace." When the newly expanded troops in Europe arrive, I will also form the Second Siberian Front and go to the Far East to rescue Vladivostok! ”

The more than 200,000 troops that Kuropatkin brought to Haktu this time had a total of 7 newly organized Russian regiments, namely the 61st Army to the 67th Army, and the number of the first 60 armies was the 60 standing regiments of the former Russian Army. Russia's current expansion of the army by 2 million is enough for Russia to expand the new number of 70 armies.

Kuropatkin continued: "And this time I brought more than 800 guns with a caliber of more than 75 mm, and the heavy howitzers in them are enough for the establishment of 3 heavy artillery divisions, these guns have just been shipped from Europe, and some of them are supported by France to Russia free of charge, I believe that there are so many artillery pieces, which is enough to suppress the artillery of the Northern Army!" ”

Ivanov asked: "Commander, when will we launch another attack on the city of trading?" ”

Kuropatkin thought about it for a moment and said: "Let the troops rest for 2 days, and on the morning of the 20th, launch an attack, and strive to take the trading city as much as possible!" (To be continued) R580