Early the next morning, Lin Daxin returned to the Governor's Mansion from Liu Xiumei's residence, and soon after Wang Yan rushed to the Governor's Mansion and came to Lin Daxin's office-

Lin Daxin looked at Wang Yan and said with a relaxed smile on his face: "Cousin, sit, I'll toss you over early in the morning!" ”

Wang Yan was not as relaxed as Lin Daxin, his face was solemn, the news of Russia's declaration of war had spread all over Shenyang City overnight. After Wang Yan sat down, he asked, "Daxin, I didn't expect the Russians to really declare war, what are your plans?" ”

Lin Daxin smiled when he saw his cousin's appearance and said, "Cousin, didn't we have long expected that there would be a war with Russia?" Now that Russia's Trans-Siberian Railway has not been opened to traffic, we still have some advantage in fighting! ”

Wang Yan smiled bitterly and said, "Daxin! Although we expected that there would be a war with Russia, but if it really started, I was still a little frightened, that is Russia, a powerful country in Europe! Russia is different from Italy, which we defeated, Italy can only send a naval expedition against us, while Russia can attack our northeastern hinterland at will from the long border! ”

Lin Daxin said indifferently: "It's okay, our Dingbei Army's hundreds of thousands of troops are not given for nothing!" ”

Then Lin Daxin took a map and opened it, and said to Wang Yan: "Cousin, come and look at the map!" ”

Wang Yan got up and leaned over to look at the map, Lin Daxin pointed at the map with the index finger of his right hand and said: "I have given the various departments of the Northern Army a strategy to defend Outer Mongolia and attack the Far East, in the Outer Mongolia region, close to the Russians' Europe. It was more convenient for them to send reinforcements from Europe, so I was ready to take a defensive position in Outer Mongolia at the beginning of the war, and I had already ordered the 3rd, 7th, and 8th Divisions in Outer Mongolia. The cities of Maimai and Darkhan relied on the terrain to build strong fortifications, waiting for the Russian army of Siberia to take the initiative to attack. In the Russian Far East, which is far away from Europe, I decided to concentrate my forces to solve the Russian Far East first, and the most important thing is to unite the Dingbei Army and the Northeast Navy to take the most important Russian naval base in Asia, Vladivostok. At present, several divisions of our Dingbei Army are already on the Heilongjiang border and ready to launch an attack on several important border towns in the Russian Far East at any time. ”

Wang Yan looked at the map and asked, "If the Russian army in Siberia." Why not attack from the front line of the city of Buying and Selling and Darkhan? ”

Lin Daxin explained: "The entire Siberian region of Russia and the border of Outer Mongolia are only along the line between the city of Maimai and the city of Darkhan, and then to Kulen. It is suitable for the march of the army, and there are many mountains and rivers in other places, and the Russian army has now gathered the army in the city of Haktu opposite the city of Maimai, and the Russian army is attacking Outer Mongolia. Will definitely choose this route. As long as the Dingbei Army of Outer Mongolia can block the Russian army in Siberia on the line between the city of Mai and the city of Darkhan. When we settle the Russian army in the Far East, Outer Mongolia or the Russian Siberian region near Outer Mongolia will be the battlefield of the final decisive battle between us and Russia! ”

Wang Yan took a breath, listened to Lin Daxin's arrangement, and said with a slightly relaxed expression: "Since you have formulated a strategy, I am relieved, I believe that the officers and men of the Dingbei Army and the Northeast Navy will not disappoint the 50 million fathers and villagers in the Northeast." But Daxin, be careful in everything! Russia is a European power after all. That's right, Daxin. Are you looking for me today? ”

Lin Daxin said: "I invited you here this time to discuss the issue of supplying the front line. Other than that. Cousin, do we have enough truck drivers? In order to prepare for the war, I had already transported 5,000 trucks from modern time and space and sealed them in the zài warehouse. Our troops in Outer Mongolia must have a large number of trucks to transport the supplies and ammunition they need. The troops in Heilongjiang are okay and have stockpiled a large amount of supplies and ammunition on the border. ”

Wang Yan said confidently: "Don't worry, Daxin, our Northeast now has sufficient supplies, and we will definitely be able to ensure the consumption of the front line." In addition, we have trained a large number of drivers in Northeast China in recent years, and I can easily dispatch tens of thousands of drivers, 2 per truck, to deliver supplies to the front line day and night. ”

Lin Daxin nodded with satisfaction and said, "With my cousin in charge of logistics in the back, I'm relieved." In addition, in order to deal with the large number of Russian army, I decided to expand the 20 garrison brigades in the four northeastern provinces into 20 B divisions, each with 20,000 people. ”

Although Lin Daxin thinks that even with the strength of the current Dingbei Army, it should be enough to defeat Russia, but isn't everything just in case? In order to nip in the bud, it is necessary to have more troops.

Wang Yan nodded and said: "We have millions of militiamen in the four northeastern provinces, plus the graduates of the Shenyang Army Academy, it is more than enough to expand the 20 garrison brigades into a division B. In terms of materials, I will let a special person be responsible for the deployment, so as not to delay the expansion of the B division. Daxin, is 20 divisions enough? The number of Russian troops is nearly 2 million, and this is not counting the army that the Russians may expand after the war, and the Russian reserve of millions is not an ornament. ”

Lin Daxin thought about it for a while and said, "Let's expand these 20 divisions first!" In addition, we can set up some garrison regiments or garrison battalions based on militia organizations in various localities, and if the war is tight, we can expand these garrison units into regular troops. ”

Lin Daxin expanded these garrison brigades into Division B, and another consideration was to occupy Russian land after defeating the Russians. Lin Daxin has a big appetite, and he is ready to at least double his territory, you must know that Lin Daxin's current territory is plus Inner Mongolia and Outer Mongolia, as well as the four northeastern provinces and the Philippines, nearly 4 million square kilometers of land.

Compared with the integrated division of the A division in the Dingbei Army, the personnel and equipment of the B division are much less.

1 B division has 3 infantry brigades of 5,000 men, 1 heavy artillery regiment equipped with 30 105-mm howitzers, 30 tractors and 30 artillery transporters, 1 guard regiment, 1 engineer regiment, 1 logistics support regiment, 1 communications battalion and 1 field hospital.

The infantry brigade of Division B is still in accordance with the previous garrison brigade establishment, but the individual weapons have been replaced with the standard equipment of the Dingbei Army's Type 96.

The B Infantry Brigade has 2 infantry regiments. and an artillery regiment with 20 75-mm field guns and 20 75-mm mountain guns, 1 guard battalion, 1 engineer battalion. 1 logistics support battalion, 1 communications company, 1 medical company.

The B infantry regiment is similar to the A infantry regiment, but it lacks one regimental artillery battalion.

After talking about the expansion of the B Division, Lin Daxin's face suddenly became gloomy and said, "Cousin, who do you think did the killing of the Russian minister this time?" ”

Wang Yan pondered for a moment and said, "This time we fought with Russia, and the Japanese were the happiest. Do you think it could have been done by the Japanese? ”

Lin Daxin also said: "I also suspect that the Japanese did it, but the murderer did it too cleanly, and now the Military Intelligence Bureau has not found any clues." Grandma's. When we think about it, we will fight to the death with the Russians, and let the Japanese watch with schadenfreude from the side, and wait for us and the Russians to lose. The Japanese could pop out. Take advantage of the fisherman. ”

Wang Yan persuaded and said: "Daxin, now we are fighting with the Russians endlessly, don't say that there is no evidence, that is, there is evidence to prove that the Russian minister was killed by Japan, the Russians should beat us or fight us the same, the Russians are not just because of a mere minister, they started a war, they have long been eyeing us." As for the Japanese. We'll clean them up later! ”

Russian Minister of War Kuropatkin, after Tsar Nicholas II decided to attack the Northeast and Mongolia. Together with the reinforcements from the Siberian region, they came to Irkutsk, an important town in Siberia.

Kuropatkin will be in charge of the commander of the Siberian Theater of Operations, which Russia has now had 350,000 troops, 12 corps, 31 infantry divisions, 2 heavy artillery divisions, and 4 cavalry divisions. A corps of the Russian army generally has only 3 divisions, each infantry division has only 2 infantry brigades and 1 artillery regiment equipped with dozens of 75-mm field guns, and the entire infantry division is only about 10,000 people. The higher-numbered corps would have 1 more heavy artillery division, while the Russian cavalry corps generally had 2 Cossack cavalry divisions.

The Russian Siberian Front is currently concentrated in Irkutsk, Ulan-Ude, Chita, and Haktu, which are important Siberian towns near Outer Mongolia.

In the Russian Far East, the Russian Far East Theater was formed by the Far East Governor Alekseev, who was the uncle of the Russian Tsar Nicholas II, had a lot of power in the court, had served in the navy for a long time, and was sent to the Russian Far East three years ago as the Governor-General of the Far East.

At present, the Russian Far Eastern Theater has an army of 550,000 troops, consisting of 18 corps, 48 infantry divisions, 5 heavy artillery divisions, 1 tank armored division, and 4 cavalry divisions.

At the same time at the Russian Vladivostok naval base, the Russian Pacific Fleet was headed by the new commander Stepan? Osibovi? Makarov commanded, and also obeyed the orders of the Governor-General of the Far East, Alekseev.

The Russian Far Eastern Front was now concentrated in Vladivostok, Bore, Amur, Twin and Svobodney, the main Russian cities in the Far East.

The city of Amur was later known as Komsomolsk in Russia.

The two commanders of the theater, Kuropatkin and Aleksayev, telegraphed and decided to launch an attack on Outer Mongolia and Heilongjiang on August 25.

The 150,000 men of the Siberian theater of operations will set out from Haktu and first attack the buying and selling cities of Outer Mongolia.

300,000 people in the Far Eastern Theater will set off from Twin Cities and Boli at the same time, 200,000 will attack Dongning, Heilongjiang, 100,000 will attack Fuyuan, and the only tank and armored division of the Russian army is also in the troops attacking Dongning.

When the Russian army was preparing for a large-scale attack, the Dingbei Army already had three integrated divisions of Class A in Outer Mongolia, namely the third, seventh and eighth divisions.

The three division commanders received a telegram from Lin Daxin, ordering their three divisions to take a defensive position in Outer Mongolia at the beginning of the war. The three division commanders discussed, and Ni Fan led the third division to defend the trading city, relying on the trading city and a large number of fortifications built near it, to resist the Russian army coming from the direction of Siberia.

The other 2 division commanders led the remaining 2 divisions to garrison Darkhan as a backup for the 3rd Division, while continuing to build fortifications in and around Darkhan, and if the city was lost, the 3 divisions would continue to hold out in Darkhan.

The Northeast Military Intelligence Bureau had already arranged intelligence personnel to Vladivostok, Russia, several years ago, and this time the agents of the Military Intelligence Bureau received information that the Russian army would launch an attack on Outer Mongolia and Heilongjiang on 25 August, and immediately sent a telegram to the headquarters of the Military Intelligence Bureau in Shenyang on a secret radio.

Li Kun, director of the Military Intelligence Bureau, received information that the Russian army was about to attack and immediately reported the information to Lin Daxin.

Lin Daxin immediately reported the information to the troops in Outer Mongolia and Heilongjiang by radio.

At this time, Heilongjiang had the fourth, eleventh, twelfth, thirteenth, and fourteenth divisions, as well as the armored divisions that had just arrived, all of which were gathered in important towns on the border between the two countries.

The Dingbei Army was originally preparing to launch an attack from Dongning to the Russian Far East on August 23, but it did not expect that the Russian army would attack Dongning on the 25th, and the 12th Division of Fuyuan, where the Russian army was going to attack, was currently there.

The temporary commander of the Dingbei Army in Dongning City was Jiang Yu, the commander of the Fourth Division, who got Lin Daxin's information about the Russian army's attack, and after thinking about it, he sent a telegram to Lin Daxin, which said that since he had received the news that the Russian army was going to attack, and the Russian army had gathered far more troops than the Dingbei Army in Heilongjiang, Jiang Yujian canceled the plan to attack the Russian Far East on the 23rd, and used the perfect fortifications of Dongning City and Fuyuan City to consume a large number of Russian troops and strive to inflict heavy losses on the Russian Far Eastern Front. Later, in order to seize the Russian Far East, the pressure was relieved. It's better to fight on the defensive than on the strong!

When Dongning and Fuyuan attract the main forces of the Russian army, the 14th Division can set off from Hailanpao to attack the inner city of Svobod, an important Russian Far Eastern town, and nearby areas, cutting off Russia's transportation channels to the Far East.

Lin Daxin is not the kind of person who can't listen to other people's construction and insists on going his own way, after receiving Jiang Yu's telegram, he thought about the map for a while, then nodded, and asked the adjutant of the Governor's Mansion to send a telegram to Jiang Yu, agreeing to most of his plans, but not agreeing to let the 14th Division attack the inner city of Svobod.

If you do not launch an attack on the Far East at the same time and attack the inner city of Svobod, you will not only be resisted by the heavy forces of the Russian army in the inner city of Svobod, but other armies of the Russian army in the Far East may also come to your aid.

If you want to defend it, you will defend it to the end, Lin Daxin agreed to the Dingbei Army in Heilongjiang, and also chose to be on the defensive in the early stage of the war. (To be continued......) R527