"Three thousand."

Xu Soul didn't seem to be overwhelmed by Wang Zhi's momentum, and straightened his waist to bargain.

Wang Zhi frowned, squinted his eyes and took a step: "Two thousand five hundred, the thousand-kilometer transportation line from here to Kurgan is all covered by yourself." ”

As soon as he heard that he wanted to "take it all by himself", Xu Soul not only didn't buy it, but in turn opened his mouth: "I can't do it, if I do it like this, I will have 4,000 copies." ”

Wang glared, slapped the table and said fiercely: "Where can I get four thousand for you?" The front army has a total of six or seven thousand, and your first set accounts for three thousand, and one-third of the rest is under repair, and it is only two and a half thousand if it is clean. Xu Soul, I'll only give you this chance, if you can't do it, you will be replaced! ”

Xu Soul lost his temper all of a sudden, and hurriedly nodded and agreed: "I'll do it, two thousand five will be two thousand five, when will you leave?" ”

"I'll give you three days to prepare, march to Omsk from March 5th, I don't care what method you use, take Kurgan for me before March 20th, if you can't do it - come and see you!"

Wang Zhi almost gritted his teeth.

Xu Soul straightened his neck as expected, and responded arrogantly: "I understand, it's not Kurgan, it's my Xu Soul's head, and the officials obey the order!"

"This ...... The trucks were given a set, so we ......."

General Chu Qing, commander of the 4th Group Army, who had always been striving for merit, was a little dissatisfied.

"You all follow behind to build roads, give me the railway to Kurgan by April 15, and attack Yekaterinburg by May 1! Whoever dares not to contribute to the army, when he misses the army, he cares what a general and lieutenant general, go home and eat old rice! ”

Chu Qing paused for a moment, and asked with a question mark on his forehead: "Four group armies, twenty divisions, all go to build roads?" ”

Wang Zhi glanced at the other four group army commanders other than Xu Soul, and patiently explained: "This time, the Russians are ruthless, the walls are clear, the scorched earth is resisting, and now it is covered with ice and snow, where to find food for hundreds of thousands of mules and horses on the way?" Do you have to use valuable trucks to help you transport your feed? Besides, at present, the mules and horses of all divisions and armies are not yet formed, and there are a lot of emaciated, sick and disabled, if they really want to move, most of the artillery baggage must be left behind, how can this be fought? This railway does not need many mules and horses, you can transport a large part of them back to the country to raise fat, this part of the feed capacity will be saved, and it will be changed to transport gasoline, grain, rails, trucks, etc., concentrate on building roads first, and when the railroad is repaired, and spring is open, the mules and horses are fat and full of braids, so that you can move and win. ”

The four of them looked at each other, it seemed that it was difficult to find a strong argument to refute, and after a half-cigarette silence, General Zhao Minhe, commander of the 3rd Army, who had always been cautious and low-key, was unexpectedly the first to speak: "In any case, it is not easy to break through the Russian Omsk defense line with a single set of strength, and even if the goal is forcibly achieved regardless of losses, it will inevitably have an adverse impact on the subsequent advance......

"It is better to first screen some of the mules and horses in the better condition of our four group armies, concentrate on supplying one of the group armies, and cooperate with the first group to take Omsk, and then even if we can't catch up with the first group, we can also be remote support, and at the same time take the responsibility of protecting the line of communication. Doing so may result in the loss of a lot of mules and horses, but it can greatly reduce the burden of a set, so that Commander Xu can advance into Kurgan without distraction. ”

Wang Zhi rubbed the short and hard stubble on his chin and thought about it, and gave a sigh of encouragement, coldly raised his eyes to look directly at Zhao Minhe, and said with half appreciation and half test: "This idea is good, just do as you say, your 3rd Army doesn't need to build roads, give you 3 days to prepare, and act at the same time as a set on March 5 - remember, a truck with a set of trucks doesn't have your share, I won't give you a single car tire here, only those livestock, I will never break my word, but don't come to me for feed or anything, all understand?" ”

Zhao Minhe nodded calmly and said, "That's exactly what Xia Guan meant." ”

Wang Zhi leaned back slightly, and added a sentence firmly: "If you want to make it easy for a set, if I hear Xu Soul give me a small report, saying that you have become a burden to him, you can do it yourself." ”

……

Northern France, Somme front.

Behind the meticulous barrage that stretched for tens of kilometers and slowly advanced deep into the German defense area at a steady rate of 100 meters per minute, millions of Allied soldiers armed with bayonet rifles and carrying various assault equipment on their shoulders, such as light machine guns, 37mm sniper infantry guns, light trench mortars, flamethrowers, and so on, climbed out of the trenches more than one person high along thousands of wooden ladders in an orderly manner amid the sharp whistles one after another. Thousands of officers with whistles and pistols in their mouths led them through rows of loose and distinctly wavering skirmish lines—a narrow area of death in which there was little but waterlogged craters and glue-like mud.

On several of these fronts, ranging from three to five kilometers, tens of thousands of human soldiers also unfolded hundreds of steel chariots in front of them, high-powered internal combustion engine engines rumbled, tracks that extended in an infinite loop clicked and rotated, and armored hulls ranging from several tons to tens of tons were undulating in craters of varying depths, like boats on the sea.

Every third tank is formed into an inverted wedge-shaped squad, and every third squad is formed into an inverted wedge-shaped company, and the two tanks directly under the company are in the middle of the command. Three squadrons were deployed in one line, and two combat vehicles directly under the battalion headquarters were commanded in the center - a total of thirty-five combat vehicles formed a battalion offensive array.

The French army mainly used short, low-profile light combat vehicles, with a single turret mounted on a 37 mm infantry gun or an 8 mm Haqikai machine gun.

The British army mainly used huge over-the-top tracked heavy tanks, some of which were 25-ton "cruisers" with a flat cylindrical turret equipped with a 57-mm naval rapid-fire gun on the roof, and Miwix machine guns mounted on the front and sides of the hull, a few "battle-fighting vehicles" weighing 40 or 50 tons were equipped with a semicircular tortoiseshell-like turret equipped with a 76-mm naval gun on the huge hull, and four small turrets equipped with 7.7-mm Vickers machine guns were mounted in four corners.

On top of the array of heavy tanks that followed the barrage of shrapnel to the German position, a dog-eat-dog frenzied aerial battle had just begun, and the biplanes sprayed with iron crosses and colored concentric circles chased each other, climbing, diving, circling, rolling, changing their attitude and position every minute and every second......

When Nie Wenqing found that his landline was dragging a puff of black smoke to the ground, the enthusiastic Lieutenant Goering just turned his head and smiled at him, and tilted his head...... I'm X, passed out?

The plane streaked a dirty, shaky black line between the sky and the ground, and the nose of the plane pointed to the rolling steel monsters that instantly filled all the vision...... V