The fighting that broke out in Islamabad and Dhaka in India was also of great concern to the Ministry of Defense of the Chinese Empire, and the difficulties faced by the Fifth Field Army and the Sixth Field Army were also very well known to Minister of Defense Wu Peifu.

Because it is necessary to transport troops and war materials to the city of Ufa in the Russian battlefield as soon as possible, after all, the Russian battlefield is the main battlefield, and the Ministry of Defense has transferred most of the air force airships and transport planes assigned to the Fifth Field Army and the Sixth Field Army to the Russian battlefield, making it not easy for the supply of war materials in the Indian battlefield to be transported to the hands of the two field armies.

In addition, the border line from the Chinese Empire and India, the road to Islamabad and Dhaka was seriously damaged by the British army, and it was very difficult to walk, so the troops could only advance lightly, and it was basically impossible to transport war materials to the hands of the two field armies by road.

The British troops in Islamabad and Dhaka have concentrated 850,000 and 950,000 troops respectively, and the Royal Army of the Chinese Empire has just expanded 5 Guards and 10 field armies some time ago, and there is no problem in sending some additional reinforcements to the 2 field armies that have entered India, but now there are problems with the logistics and supply of the 2 field armies, let alone sending additional reinforcements.

According to these circumstances, Wu Peifu originally decided to postpone the continuation of the offensive against India and focus the attack of the Royal Army of the Chinese Empire on the more important Russian battlefield, but Wang Peng, commander of the Fifth Field Army, and Duan Qirui, commander of the Sixth Field Army, sent a telegram to the Ministry of National Defense, hoping to launch an attack on Islamabad and Dhaka by relying only on their two field armies. The combat effectiveness is comparable to the main field army of the elite Imperial Chinese Army, which is simply a world of difference.

Wu Peifu considered the opinions of the front-line troops and also believed that the combat effectiveness of the British army was very weak. It was agreed that the two field armies would fight first, and a week after the start of the battle, although the British in Islamabad and Dhaka suffered extremely heavy losses, most of the territory of these two cities was still controlled by the British army.

The losses of the Fifth Field Army and the Sixth Field Army that were besieging the city were very large, and there was also a shortage of ammunition, so Wu Peifu had no choice but to give an order. Stop the siege of 2 field armies.

In the Qianqing Palace in the Forbidden City in Beijing, Wu Peifu said to Lin Daxin, the emperor of the Chinese Empire, with a wry smile: "Your Majesty, Islamabad and Dhaka in India have not been captured, and the minister has ordered the Fifth Field Army and the Sixth Field Army to stop continuing to attack the two cities, and the Minister has asked the Fifth Field Army and the Sixth Field Army to start retreating to the territory of our Chinese Empire and suspend the attack on India. ”

Lin Daxin frowned and said, "What about the casualties of the Fifth Field Army and the Sixth Field Army?" ”

Wu Peifu sighed and said: "The total casualties of the two field armies are currently more than 100,000, and the number of dead has reached 65,000, and the ammunition consumption of the two field armies is about the same, and the ammunition transported by the air force cannot keep up with the consumption. In addition, the British army continued to increase troops to Islamabad and Dhaka, and the minister had to order the two field armies to return to the country to recuperate. ”

Although with the strength of two field armies, they launched an attack on Islamabad, where 850,000 British troops were gathered, and Dhaka, where 950,000 British troops were gathered, and the two army commanders, Wang Peng and Duan Qirui, tried their best to win it. However, Wu Peifu, as the minister of national defense, also agreed. He, Wu Peifu, is not the kind of person who doesn't dare to carry it himself when something happens, but pushes it on his subordinates.

Lin Daxin waved his hand and said: "In battle, how can there be immortals, this time in Islamabad and Dhaka, although our Fifth Field Army and Sixth Field Army suffered 100,000 casualties. But according to the intelligence of the Military Intelligence Agency, the British losses in the two cities were even greater, nearly 1 million, so if you don't take Islamabad and Dhaka, you can't count it as a defeat, Ziyu, you don't have to mind. Wait until we have won a decisive victory in the Russian theater and cleaned up the combined forces of the Entente and the Central Powers, and then turn back to India against the British! ”

Wu Peifu nodded and said: "It seems that we can only wait until the battle on the Russian battlefield is resolved, and we can mobilize a large number of troops and airships and transport planes of the air force to attack the British army in India again." The British were also ruthless enough, in order to block the attack of our Imperial Chinese Army on India, the road leading from Islamabad and Dhaka on the border line was very completely destroyed, and even all the bridges were blown up by the British army, so that we could not use the road to transport war materials to the front line of Islamabad and Dhaka. ”

Lin Daxin sneered and said: "The British themselves know in their hearts the situation of their armies in India, most of them are Indian divisions with weak combat effectiveness, and they know that if they are under normal circumstances, they will not be able to resist the attack of our Royal Army of the Chinese Empire at all, so after they declared war, they have already begun to destroy the roads close to those areas of our Chinese Empire in India, that is, they hope that after the troops of the Royal Army of our Chinese Empire enter India, there will be logistical problems, and now they have got their wish once, and the Russian battlefield is there." The Russians have been sabotaging the railways to stop the pace of our Imperial Army advancing into Europe. ”

Wu Peifu sighed and said: "I hope that there will be no lack of supplies like the Fifth Field Army and the Sixth Field Army in Ufa City, otherwise the troops we are concentrated in Ufa City will be in a much worse situation than the Fifth Field Army and the Sixth Field Army, after all, we have gathered 3 Guards and 6 Field Army in Ufa City, nearly 1.5 million troops, that is, the road in Ufa City is still unblocked, and it is not easy to ensure the logistics of so many troops, and it is affected by the severe cold in Russia now, As well as the terrain of the Ural Mountains, it is not easy for nearly 1.5 million troops to retreat. ”

In fact, Wu Peifu was a little uneasy about the upcoming battle of Ufa City, mainly because of the logistics problem, and now there are 3 guards and 6 field armies gathered near Ufa City, but this is not the final number of the Royal Army of the Chinese Empire to gather a large army in Ufa City.

The huge army gathered by the Entente and the Central Powers in Ufa City also made Wu Peifu a little frightened, and so far, according to the intelligence of the Military Intelligence Agency, the combined forces of the Entente and the Allied Powers have gathered more than 6.5 million troops in Ufa City.

The German Army will gather 1.2 million elite troops around Ufa City, and the French Army will gather 1.11 million troops in Ufa City. The British Army gathered 370,000 troops in Ufa City, and the Italian Army concentrated 360,000 troops in Ufa City,

The Austro-Hungarian Empire gathered 590,000 army troops in Ufa City, and the Ottoman Turkish Empire will concentrate 530,000 army troops in Ufa City, and the army forces of these six countries gathered 4.16 million troops in the area of Ufa City.

As for the Russians who fought at home, there were even more troops gathered in the city of Ufa. It reached 2.4 million, and the Russians continued to mobilize new Russian troops to Ufa to continue to strengthen the forces of the Ufa coalition forces.

Although the guards and field armies of the Imperial Chinese Army were strong in combat effectiveness, their weapons and equipment were stronger than the overall level of the coalition forces, and they were supported by the air support of the Royal Chinese Air Force fighters, it was difficult to win the battle of Ufa City if the disparity in strength was too great, so they could only gather more troops of the Royal Chinese Army in the area of Ufa City, so that the pressure on logistics would be greater.

Now the Chinese Empire uses airships and transport aircraft of the Air Force. As well as trucks and wagons, the transport of war materials and part of the army to the city of Ufa is not too efficient, airships and transport planes are okay and can be transported normally, but trucks and carriages have to cross the Ural Mountains, and the road is very difficult.

Moreover, war materials had to be delivered from the city of Novosibirsk to the city of Ufa. The railway from the city of Novosibirsk to the city of Ufa was retreated by the Russian army and the coalition forces. It was completely destroyed, and the Chinese Empire did not want to use these railways in a short time.

There are also most of the troops of the Royal Army of the Chinese Empire, which rely on two legs to walk to the area of Ufa City, and even new reinforcements need to go from Novosibirsk City to Ufa City, such a long road is not so easy to walk. What's more, it's winter now, otherwise the Chinese Empire wouldn't have gathered just 3 guards and 6 field armies in Ufa City for so long.

According to the plan of the Ministry of Defense, 4 Guards and 9 Field Corps will eventually be concentrated in Ufa City, which means that there are still 1 Guards Army and 3 Field Army that have not yet arrived in Ufa City.

The Entente and the Central Powers were going to play their lives in the city of Ufa and the Chinese Empire. But Wu Peifu was not willing to play with the coalition forces in Ufa City, after all, in Ufa City, the time and place were favorable, and almost none of them stood on the side of the Chinese Empire.

Lin Daxin asked Wu Peifu: "What is the strength of the coalition army in Ufa City now?" And what about the strength of the countries? ”

Wu Peifu replied: "According to the intelligence of the Military Intelligence Agency, the combined forces of the Entente and the Central Powers have gathered more than 6.5 million troops in Ufa City, including 1.2 million German Army, 1.11 million French Army, 370,000 British Army, 360,000 Italian Army, 590,000 Austro-Hungarian Army, and 530,000 Army of the Ottoman Turkish Empire. ”

Lin Daxin sighed and said: "We have just gathered 3 guards and 6 field armies in Ufa City, even if we add 1 guard army and 3 field armies, it is only just over 2 million, if it is not for absolute air superiority, I am not ready to fight this battle." ”

The forces gathered by the Chinese Empire in Ufa were far worse than those of the Allied and Allied forces, but in the vicinity of Chelyabinsk, the Chinese Empire's army had built a large number of temporary airfields, and there were already more than 700 improved Yellow Sparrow fighters and more than 600 improved Blue Eagle bombers, stationed at these temporary airfields, ready to fly over the Ural Mountains to provide air support to the attacking forces on the ground when the army launched an attack on Ufa.

Wu Peifu said at this time: "Your Majesty, there is not very good news, you don't know yet. ”

Lin Daxin frowned when he heard the bad news, the Fifth Field Army and the Sixth Field Army failed to attack Islamabad and Dhaka, and retreated from India, Wu Peifu did not say that it was bad news, I don't know what the bad news is in Wu Peifu's mouth now.

Lin Daxin opened his mouth and asked, "What's wrong?" ”

Wu Peifu said: "The Military Intelligence Bureau has just sent the latest information, Britain, France and Germany, the three countries, after integrating the aircraft manufacturing technology and air defense weapon technology of their countries, although there is no breakthrough in the aircraft, but the weapons experts of their three countries have developed new anti-aircraft guns and anti-aircraft machine guns, as well as anti-aircraft shells and anti-aircraft machine gun bullets, and the range of these air defense weapons has been provided very large. There is a very big threat to the improved Yellow Bird fighters and improved Blue Eagle bombers of our Imperial Chinese Air Force, which still refers to the fighters of our Imperial Chinese Air Force, when they are close to the maximum flight altitude. ”

Wu Peifu's words made Lin Daxin's brows furrow deeper, this is definitely very, very bad news, the reason why the Royal Army of the Chinese Empire has been able to win more with less many times in this war, eliminating millions of Allied and Allied forces, the most important thing is that the Royal Air Force of the Chinese Empire has absolute air superiority.

Now that the Entente and the Central Powers have come up with new anti-aircraft weapons, the threat to the fighters of the Royal Air Force of the Chinese Empire has increased dozens of times at once.

Lin Daxin said in a deep voice: "In this way, the range of air defense weapons developed by Britain, France and Germany can reach 7 or 8 kilometers. ”

The maximum flight altitude of the improved Yellow Sparrow fighter is 7,500 meters, and the maximum flight altitude of the improved Blue Eagle bomber is a little higher, reaching 8,500 meters.

Wu Peifu nodded with a wry smile and said: "According to the intelligence of the Military Intelligence Bureau, Britain, France and Germany have just designed a new type of anti-aircraft gun with a caliber of 57 mm, with a range of 9,000 meters. In addition, Britain, France, and Germany have also developed an anti-aircraft machine gun with a caliber of 12.9 mm, which can also reach 5,000 meters and has a very fast rate of fire, so that our fighters can attack the ground and the anti-aircraft machine guns of the allied forces can be used to greatly increase the threat to fighters. ”

Lin Daxin touched his chin and said: "This is really the worst news I have heard in the recent period, it seems that we have to attack Ufa City as soon as possible, otherwise when Britain, France and Germany deploy a large number of new air defense weapons in Ufa City, the losses of our Royal Air Force of the Chinese Empire will definitely increase a lot." ”

The anti-aircraft weapons of Britain, France and Germany have just been designed, and it will take a lot of time to produce them in large quantities, and if the army of the Chinese Empire can launch an attack on Ufa City as soon as possible, it will not be too many if there are new air defense weapons in Ufa City. (To be continued.) )