At about 3 o'clock in the afternoon of January 1, 1909, Wu Peifu, Minister of Defense of the Chinese Empire, hurriedly came to the Qianqing Palace in the Forbidden City. ”

"Your Majesty, the telegram sent by Ni Fan said that the Allied and Allied forces in Ufa City took advantage of the snowstorm to launch a large-scale counterattack against our army at 2 o'clock in the afternoon, not only launched an attack on the city we occupied in the city of Ufa, but also launched a fierce attack on the eastern position outside the city occupied by our army from the positions in the south and north controlled by the coalition forces outside Ufa City, and our army and the allied forces are currently engaged in fierce fighting." Wu Peifu said immediately.

Lin Daxin continued to ask urgently: "How long can our army's ammunition and food on the front line of Ufa City hold out?" ”

Wu Peifu said: "The emperor can rest assured, Ni Fan's telegram said that the food is enough for their 13 main forces to eat for 6 days, control the ration, this time can be extended for another 3 days, and the ammunition reserve is also okay, except for the artillery shells are less, other bullets and grenades are enough for their 13 main forces to fight at high intensity for 3 or 4 days, and it is impossible for the 13 armies to fight with the coalition forces at the same time, so the ammunition is relatively sufficient." ”

Lin Daxin was originally in the palace with his four queens and princes and princesses preparing to watch a movie, this movie is a documentary film, the main fleet of the Royal Navy of the Chinese Empire and the joint expeditionary fleet of the Entente and the Allied Powers The decisive battle at sea, the name of the movie is called "Victory Day at Sea".

This movie is almost all the real scenes of the naval battle at that time, and was shot with cameras by more than 20 photographers who participated in the naval battle with the warship, and after post-editing, it became a 120-minute documentary film, of course, military secrets such as aircraft carriers are not presented in this film. The Sea Hawk bomber group that appears in the movie is introduced in the film's narration as a bomber group taking off from a naval base in the Chinese Empire.

Lin Daxin has long brought the technology of sound films to this time and space, and used Shanghai as a base to vigorously develop the film industry of the Chinese Empire, and also built a huge movie city in Pudong, Shanghai. At present, Shanghai Pudong has become the world's largest film production base, and there are more than a dozen films exported abroad every year.

This "Victory Day at Sea" has just completed production, has not yet been screened to the public, today is New Year's Day, although the Chinese in this time and space originally did not have any concept of New Year's Day, the Chinese only celebrate the Spring Festival, but with the implementation of the Gregorian era in the Chinese Empire. The Chinese in this time and space have also begun to celebrate New Year's Day.

Lin Daxin was preparing to take his wife and children to watch a documentary film on New Year's Day about the Royal Navy of the Chinese Empire's victory over the Allied and Allied joint expeditionary fleets, so that his children could feel the strength of the Chinese Empire.

Lin Daxin immediately felt that the situation in Wufa City was a little crisis. Immediately summoned Wu Peifu, the Minister of National Defense, to the palace, and Lin Daxin knew that it had been difficult to deliver war materials to the front line in Ufa City. The most convenient railway can not be used, can only rely on air and road transportation, and now this snowstorm has suddenly arrived, so that the air and road transportation of war materials have all been forced to stop, so that the logistics supply of the 4 guards and 9 field armies of the Royal Army of the Chinese Empire on the front line of Ufa City will definitely be difficult, and now the coalition forces are ignoring the blizzard. Taking the opportunity to launch a counterattack is definitely a rhythm that makes the 13 main forces on the front line of Ufa City even worse.

Now listening to Wu Peifu talk about the reserves of ammunition and food on the front line in Ufa City, Lin Daxin breathed a sigh of relief, with these reserves of ammunition and food, it is no problem to block the counterattack of the coalition forces at least in a short time. As long as the blizzard stops, the fighters and bombers of the Royal Air Force of the Imperial Chinese Air Force can provide air support to the army, and the airships and transport planes of the Air Force can continue to deliver war materials to the army on the front line in Ufa City.

Lin Daxin sat back on the throne of the main hall, and then said to Wu Peifu: "Send a telegram to Ni Fan, telling him that he must survive this blizzard, and then continue to attack the coalition forces in Ufa City after the blizzard, and only need to withstand the counterattack of the coalition forces during the blizzard, by the way, Ziyu, how about the plan to continue to increase troops to the front line of Ufa City?" ”

Wu Peifu replied: "The Ministry of Defense has dispatched the Seventh Guards, the Eighth Guards, the Sixteenth Field Army and the Seventeenth Field Army to prepare to rush to the front line of Ufa City, but Your Majesty, you also know that when the railway in Russia was retreated by the coalition forces, it was very completely damaged, and it is winter again, and we have no way to repair it at all, so now these four main armies are still in Andong Province, and they have not yet entered the Russian Siberian region we occupy." ”

Wu Peifu then sighed and continued: "The coalition army on the front line of Ufa City has gathered 6 or 7 million troops, and we must increase the number of troops attacking Ufa City, but the transportation problems in Ufa City have made the front-line troops face a difficult situation in supply, and now the 13 main forces are in Ufa City, and the pressure on logistics is already very, very great, if the Seventh Guards, the Eighth Guards, the Sixteenth Field Army and the Seventeenth Field Army are sent up, the food and ammunition on the front line may not be enough." ”

Lin Daxin touched his chin, the transportation problem has indeed become the most important problem on the Russian battlefield, the strength of the coalition army has gathered 6 or 7 million, Lin Daxin is not worried, the Chinese Imperial Army with absolute air superiority, not to mention one enemy ten, but one enemy five is absolutely no problem, and now there are 4 guards and 9 field armies on the front line of Ufa City, if the logistics supply can keep up and defeat the 6 or 7 million coalition troops to occupy Ufa City, Lin Daxin thinks there is no problem.

However, as soon as there is a logistical problem now, the situation is not good, and the reason why the combat effectiveness of the Royal Army of the Chinese Empire is strong is because of the strong firepower. Without powerful firepower, the combat effectiveness of the Imperial Chinese Army immediately had to drop several times, and the fighters of the Royal Air Force of the Imperial Chinese Air Force could not provide air support to the army during the blizzard, and now it will be a very severe test for the front-line army units.

Even after the blizzard stopped, the situation faced by the 13 main forces on the front line of Ufa City was also very bad. The food and ammunition reserves must have been consumed in large quantities during the blizzard, relying on the air and road to transport war materials, and could not make up for the consumption of the day, Lin Daxin did not want his army to fight to the death with the coalition forces in the case of insufficient ammunition and food, in that case, the 13 main forces might all be exhausted.

Lin Daxin was silent for a moment and then said: "Let the troops on the front line of Ufa City survive this blizzard first, maybe the smooth progress of the battle in front of us is too light for the enemy, the Fifth Field Army and the Sixth Field Army in India have withdrawn to the country, and now the front line of Ufa City has also encountered very great difficulties." I think it can be slowed down, the war will not end in a moment and a half, it is better to repair the railway all the way to the Ural Mountains, and then we will continue to launch an offensive against the European region of Russia, after the snowstorm stops, see the situation, if it doesn't work, let the troops on the front line retreat first, and wait until we have completely solved the problem of logistics and supply. It's not too late to relaunch the offensive. ”

Considering the actual situation in Ufa City, Lin Daxin has already had the idea of retreating. Ufa City did not occupy this time, and next time you can send troops to attack, if you run out of troops, it will be unbearable for the Chinese Empire, and there are 13 main forces of the Royal Army of the Chinese Empire in Ufa City, you must know that the main force of the entire Royal Army of the Chinese Empire is only 8 Guards and 20 field armies. There are only 28 in total, and now there are smaller than half of them concentrated on the front line of Ufa City, and Lin Daxin and the Chinese Empire will definitely not be able to lose 13 main forces at once.

Wu Peifu nodded approvingly and said, "What the emperor said is reasonable, so the minister will go back and make a new plan." If, after the blizzard stops, there is a problem with the ammunition and food of the troops on the front line in Ufa City, we should first let the troops retreat, temporarily abandon the attack on Ufa City, and wait until we have repaired all the railways east of the Ural Mountains before planning the offensive again. Your Majesty, in addition, in Australia and New Zealand, although our Marine Corps has successfully landed, the enemy units in Australia and New Zealand have adopted guerrilla warfare, and we have only two Marine Divisions in Australia, and even more so in New Zealand, there is only one Marine Division. ”

Lin Daxin nodded and said: "Okay, just do as you say, by the way, don't forget to let the Australian and New Zealand troops take away the European immigrants and natives above, these two pieces of territory, I will leave to our Chinese nation for future generations." ”

Wu Peifu said: "The emperor can rest assured, the minister knows what to do, now we have set up many concentration camps in Australia and New Zealand, all European immigrants and local natives, will be sent to the concentration camps, and then the people in the concentration camps will be transported out of Australia and New Zealand by boat, among which the Europeans have taken the initiative to go to the Americas and Europe, and the rest of the natives will be transported to the plantations and mines of the Nanyang provinces." ”

After Wu Peifu left, Lin Daxin did not immediately return to the harem to watch movies with his wife and children, but summoned Wang Yan, the prime minister of the Chinese Empire, into the palace.

After Wang Yan came to the Qianqing Palace, Lin Daxin said to Wang Yan: "Cousin, at present, there is an unfavorable situation in the battle on the front line of Ufa City on the Russian battlefield, because of the impact of the blizzard, the supply of air and road has been temporarily interrupted. ”

When Wang Yan heard this, he understood and said: "The emperor means to repair the railway east of the Ural Mountains in Russia that was destroyed by the coalition army? ”

Lin Daxin nodded and said, "Yes!" Without the transportation of railways, it is simply a disaster for the logistical supply of millions of troops, and I have almost all the airships and transport planes in the whole country to transport war materials for the troops on the front line in Ufa City, which is not enough for the 13 main forces to consume, so the railways damaged by the coalition forces must be repaired, so that after the troops on the front line retreat this time, they will not be limited to the problem of logistical supply when they launch a new offensive. ”

Wang Yan said: "Your Majesty, the Ministry of Railways has surveyed the railway line from the city of Novosibirsk to the Ural Mountains, and has come to the conclusion that the allied forces have destroyed the railway very thoroughly, and even the roadbed has been destroyed, and it is better for us to repair it than to build a new railway, and the spacing of the railroad tracks in Russia is not the same as the spacing of the railroad tracks of our Chinese Empire. Now we are rebuilding the railway from Novosibirsk to the Ural Mountains, and we can also avoid the trouble of changing trains in between. ”

Lin Daxin said without hesitation: "Then do as my cousin said, but the construction of this railway must be fast, and the Royal Army of our Chinese Empire will still count on this railway to continue to attack the hinterland of Russia and Europe!" ”

Wang Yan thought about it for a while and said: "The Ministry of Railways already has a construction plan, that is, to lay the tracks from several points at the same time, if the construction starts after the weather warms up in March this year, it will take half a year to complete the construction at the earliest, and this is still under the condition that we use a lot of manpower." ”

When Lin Daxin heard this, his brows furrowed, for such a long time, when the Royal Army of the Chinese Empire can launch an attack on the hinterland of Russia again, it will not take 8 or 9 months, maybe this war will be over at that time.

However, Lin Daxin also knew that repairing the railway was not an urgent task, and it was already a speed to build such a long railway in about half a year, so he said to Wang Yan: "Then let the Ministry of Railways start to prepare, and when the weather in Siberia gets warmer, start construction immediately, and strive to open this railway to traffic as soon as possible." ”

After a pause, Lin Daxin said: "Cousin, you have time to pay attention to the arsenals and aircraft factories in various places, and let them increase the number of airships and transport planes to be built, I am worried that the railway to be built will not be used in time, and there will be changes on the front line, maybe we need more airships and transport planes to ensure the supply of the front-line troops." ”

Wang Yan nodded and said: "Your Majesty, rest assured, the minister has asked the arsenal and aircraft factory to expand the production scale of airships and transport aircraft, and from next month, the airships and transport planes delivered to the Air Force will be doubled." (To be continued.) )