In the explosion of artillery shells, Xu Mingyi crawled in a black crater, holding a telescope and carefully observing the movements of the Russian army opposite. Today's winds were so strong that the observation balloon could not be lifted into the air, so everything had to be done with telescopes.

Xu Mingyi is Chen Bo's old subordinate, one of the small leaders of the swordsmen who joined Liu Xian with Chen Bo in Feng County, and has also sat in the position of brigade commander all the way to the present. He was not tall, a little thin, and the two days of hard fighting, the smoke of gunpowder on his face, made him dark and thin, but his eyes were still a little sharp.

Xu Mingyi is now on the front line. His headquarters was no more than two miles from the most advanced positions, and he was often in the second-line positions, which were closer to the first line than the headquarters.

The dust from the cannonballs hit him on his face, but Xu Mingyi didn't care. In the binoculars, he had already seen a large group of Russian troops attacking the front-line positions. On the right flank of his department, there were about 2,000 or so Russian troops nailing to those broken trenches, no matter how the Wehrmacht used grenades, mortars, and artillery to bomb and bomb, they were just holding on there. The follow-up Russian troops are still gradually penetrating the fire blockade of the Qin army, reinforcing troops towards that area. It can be seen that the offensive of the Russian army has paid off!

At the same time, there are two other positions, and the Russian army has also made a breakthrough. And on the vast majority of the battlefield fronts where the stalemate continues, the firepower of both sides is still firing like a burst, and it seems that there are plenty of shells on both sides to squander.

Cai Wensong, deputy commander of the 1st Battalion of the 29th Brigade, was carried down by several medical soldiers at this time, and this 27-year-old young officer also participated in the last Sino-Russian War, when he was in the Northeast Military Region. Tough style. Resolutely implement the order, and the evaluation of him by the upper and lower people is - an iron man who can fight tough battles. But now. The iron man was already incomplete. He was swept away by Russian artillery fire, and his left calf was missing. Wrapped in gauze all over my body, I don't know if I can live!

"Wen Song, Wen Song, can you still hear it?" Xu Mingyi values Cai Wensong very much. These are the top young officers of the 29th Brigade, all of whom are not yet 28 years old.

Cai Wensong was dying, and there was still a breath of air. The sharp pain kept him awake. "Brigade, it's miserable, it's really miserable. A whole battalion, half of which was gone in just two days. Traveler. Let's leave a seed for our battalion! ”

Xu Mingyi was embarrassed by Cai Wensong's words. Leave a seed for a battalion, he can do it. But who left a seed for the 29th Brigade?

The decisive battle has been carried out on the third day. The overall arrangement of the National Defense Force, Xu Mingyi was confused. I only know that Liu Xian holds at least 80,000 troops and puts them in his back hand, and I don't know what to do. All the preparations for the artillery have been completed, and eight 203mm cannons have been pulled to Tacheng with great difficulty, all of which are deployed in place, although the specific location is there, Xu Mingyi does not know. But he could see it. Liu Xian is in the next big game of chess. It is very likely that his own emperor Lao Tzu is planning the artillery arrangement of the Russian army. But he really doesn't know what kind of strategic deployment it is.

The 29th Brigade was in charge of the front of the battlefield seven or eight miles wide for two days. There were heavy casualties, but not a single reinforcement. Again, there was no news of a polemic replacement. Xu Mingyi is very bottomless in his heart. Although he will unswervingly carry out Liu Xian's orders.

"It's not just your battalion, it's the whole line." Next to the 29th Brigade was the 7th Brigade of the 4th Division. In two days and two nights, the Russians repelled more than thirty charges. It's almost out of combat!

The position on the right flank was broken through not because the 7th Brigade suffered too many casualties. Was the Russian army taking the opportunity to penetrate the junction of the 7th and the 29th Brigade.

There was also the 17th Brigade in the center of the front, and the Russians attacked more often than the 7th Brigade every hour. In the battle of that tragic yo, the battalion commander killed two of them.

Xu Mingyi still wanted to say something, there were already overwhelming shouts and the sound of shells whistling and exploding on the battlefield, and under the guidance of a tricolor flag, at least one regiment of Russian troops braved the artillery fire of the Wehrmacht's counterattack!

This group of gray animals is indeed as obedient and capable as animals.

In the past two days, the Russians have repeatedly fought fierce battles with the Wehrmacht on the front line, completely filling up the positions with human lives, and while inflicting heavy casualties on the Wehrmacht, they themselves are also suffering casualties. Often, entire infantry companies and infantry battalions of entire formations are completely crushed or even wiped out. But new troops are still coming up!

In the rear, St. Petersburg had again mobilized seven full-strength divisions to advance towards Central Asia.

The logistical transportation of the Russian Empire could not supply the small 400,000 troops concentrated in Central Asia to start a war. But who let the Russian army have suffered many casualties since the start of the war, which provides a place for new recruits. And most importantly, Mikhail . Grand Duke Nikolayevich genuinely felt that the troops in his hands were not enough.

More than 200,000 troops of the Russian army are distributed in four battlefields, the Pamir Plateau [Green Ridge], the Ili River Basin, the Zaisangbo area, and the Alahu area where the main forces gather.

Now that the situation in the Pamir Plateau and the Ili River valley is still in good condition, the situation in the Jaisangpo area has been reversed and greatly deteriorated. The most important is this Alahu area. In the two days of the war, the Russian army lost 30,000 or 40,000 people. He originally had a team of 150,000 or 60,000 people, but now it looks like it is only in the early 100,000s. Mikhail. Nikolayevich is not waiting for reinforcements in his heart, so it is strange!

It was dark that day, and the ferocious momentum of the Russian army went down, and only two attacks were launched in one night, one of which was thunderous and rainy. Compared to the previous two nights, it was really different.

Liu Xian smiled, he knew that the opportunity he was waiting for had come.

After two days and three nights of fighting, it is not so unbelievable to point out the location of the heavy artillery cluster of the Russian army at this time. And then according to the layout of the Russian army's artillery group, to 'hypothetical' the distribution of Russian troops, in this regard, there are dozens of attacks by the Russian army in the past two days and three nights as a reference, which is not so incredible.

So, after dawn tomorrow, the Wehrmacht's great counterattack will be able to begin.

At four o'clock in the morning, Liu Xian convened an operational meeting of all officers above the brigade level, and the head of the German observation group on the Chinese side, the famous Alfred Bush, also attended the meeting. Feng. Schlieffen; The head of the U.S. Observer Mission and the twenty-third principal of the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, John Brown. Parker; The head of the Austro-Hungarian Observer Mission was Franz Brown, who had just taken over as Crown Prince of Austria-Hungary. Archduke Ferdinand; The head of the British Observer Mission was Redfuss, who had suppressed local uprisings in Ireland. Lieutenant General Buhler; The French observer mission seemed to have forgotten about China and appeared only on the Russian side.

These big figures, who have deep influence in their respective countries, watched in amazement as Liu Xian laid out the operational policy of the entire campaign under a 'hypothetical' premise. Yes, he spoke alone, and a group of staff officers marked for him the course of action of the order on the sand table and on the map.

Schlieffen couldn't believe his eyes, he couldn't believe his ears. In his cognition, His Majesty the Emperor of China has always been a famous general with the wisdom to decide wars, and he can't believe that the scene in front of him is real. This made it impossible for him to take the search!

"This is a betrayal of the country, a betrayal of thousands of soldiers who trust you and revere you!" Schlieffen roared angrily at Liu Xian, as the deputy chief of the General Staff of the German General Staff, a military strategist and military theorist, and the formulator of the German Schlieffen plan in the First World War, Schlieffen simply hated Liu Xian's 'sloppiness'!

This is irresponsible for the war. This is irresponsible to the state. This is irresponsible for thousands of lives!

Liu Xian smiled, and with a wave of his hand, the guards invited the excited Shi Lifen to calm down. Everything will soon be known.

None of the present were allowed to leave the command, where they were to wait for the outcome of the decisive battle.

"You are waiting here with peace of mind. It won't be long before I will bring victory and invite you to drink. "Liu Xian wants to use his 'incredible' to completely confirm his unshakable military position.

It's also a deterrent!

It's like Napoleon back then. Leading the way of an era. He himself is a symbol of victory, morale and military spirit.

Liu Xian's status in China is also almost equal to that of Napoleon. Although he has not been on the battlefield in recent years, his reputation has weakened. In the eyes of foreign military circles, this decline is even greater.

But this time, after the decisive battle of Tacheng, the 'unbelievable' at today's combat meeting will turn into an infinitely huge aura, putting Liu Xian on the altar of war in one fell swoop.

Early in the morning, 5:20. The sky hasn't cleared up yet. The Wehrmacht had already finished breakfast and were preparing for battle.

Liu Xian wanted to take advantage of the fact that the sky was still not bright to mobilize his troops to the assault position.

Although the Wehrmacht troops at this moment had changed into camouflage uniforms with black and gray patches on an earthy yellow background, the lookout on the observation balloon could still detect signs if they were more serious and responsible. This is not possible unless all the soldiers stay where they are. It's like asking the Russian army to observe that the lookout on the balloon is not serious and responsible.

Liu Xian personally boarded an observation balloon, and today's battle was a sea of fire and a sea of people.

He first knocked out the heavy artillery clusters of the Russian army with heavy artillery, and then eight 203mm cannons could clean up several small artillery positions of the Russian army by name. The remaining 120/150 heavy artillery can bombard the four weak points of the Russian front with all its strength like the 75 guns and 105 guns.

This is a weak point, all of which look at the strength of the troops, and the actual strength is indeed quite a lot. To be precise, these four points are not weak points, but weak parts. After penetrating this outer layer of hard shell, a breakthrough point is directly cut two miles to the north, which can occupy a communication center between the north and the south of the Russian army; A breakthrough point goes straight to the west, which can knock out a corps-level front-line command of the Russian army; In front of a breakthrough point is a flat avenue, which only needs to kill through the weak layers of the Russian army in the future, and it can cut off the supply road of the Russian army's southern theater; At the last breakthrough point, Liu Xian told the leading generals to cut straight at a 30° angle to the north, so that most of the front-line troops in the Russian army's northern theater could be separated along the junction of the two divisions. On the way, you can also encounter a Russian 75-gun position...... (To be continued......)