How many mobile troops can Maozi squeeze out from the Eastern European front? "Nonsense.

"A maximum of 20 divisions, however, it is still a question of whether these units, together with the required combat materiel, can Siberia." Su Mengxin blurted out.

"How?"

"According to the report of the agents we sent to sabotage Russian railway traffic, it is better to go with the flow and let the rigid Russian bureaucracy control the Russian railway system than to deliberately sabotage it."

"Oh?" At first glance, Hook didn't believe it.

In the face of the commander's questioning, Su Mengxin did not care, and calmly continued: "Since the beginning of the war, the Russian bureaucracy has become the biggest saboteur of their domestic communications, and corruption and dereliction of duty are things that the Russian bureaucracy is accustomed to. Recent reports from a number of unaffiliated agents confirm that Russia's domestic railway system has fallen into unprecedented chaos, with large quantities of supplies piled up at many stations in the rear, food and ammunition are scarce at the front line, and many ghost trains are drifting back and forth in the railway network with loads of supplies, until the fresh supplies they carry rot and there is no place to unload them. In addition, radical nationalists, revolutionaries, and deserted soldiers and even bandits carried out spontaneous or organized sabotage and looting of the railway system, railway workers everywhere who had been brutally oppressed went on strike, and some of the transport hubs that had been in the limelight during the 1905 Revolution were now again engaged in various activities against the tsarist system and the current war policy...... In short, even if the Russian army can temporarily squeeze out some mobile troops from the Eastern European front, it will not be easy to reach the Siberian front through a messy domestic railway system. ”

"The dog has to jump over the wall when he is in a hurry, and he must not underestimate Maozi's temper. Especially this time, a Brusilov ...... was also sent: "Hooke's words were obviously addressed specifically to his future comrades.

"What do they want to do with so many moves?" Liu Bailiang turned to Su Sanling, the chief of operations.

"I. Defense of Siberia; 2. Defense of Turkestan; 3. Counterattack on Siberia; Fourth, the counteroffensive against Turkestan. ”

"Your judgment?"

"Before more intelligence is gathered, it is impossible to accurately judge, but judging from the situation in the Eastern European battlefield, the Russian army's transfer of troops this time should be a counteroffensive, if the transferred troops are dragged to death on the battlefield against China and cannot return to the Eastern European battlefield in time, as soon as Germany and Austria are relieved, Russia's core area in Eastern Europe will be in danger."

"So it seems that His Majesty the Tsar is playing with us and gambling with us?"

"Exactly."

Liu Bailiang twisted the slightly white stubble. The corners of the mouth reveal a slight hint of the excitement of a feline when it discovers its prey.

"Siberia or Turkestan...... My great Brusilov? ”

"I think the Northwest Front is still too weak now, and Commander Liang has called many times to urge reinforcements." Army Chief of Staff Zhang Yaoqian reminded appropriately.

"You mean to say that Maozi will attack the Northwest Front?"

"It is quite possible that, according to the Intelligence Service, the Russian railway system is now in disarray, so that the distance between the transportation of troops and supplies should be as close as possible, and if there is a mobile force in hand, it is more realistic to choose Turkestan, which is relatively close, than to cross most of Eastern Europe and half of Siberia to rescue the Baikal side, which will sooner or later give up. The Northwestern Front was now divided into two groups, the North and the South. More than 100,000 troops of the 10th Army of the Southern Group went deep alone, and 200,000 troops of the two armies of the Northern Group were also carrying out drilling and penetrating operations without flank cover. Excluding the two divisions responsible for covering the Balkhash side, only two divisions remained in the reserves directly under the control of the Front. It would not be surprising at all if the Russian High Command learned of this and was able to draw up a considerable number of reserves at hand, and wanted to take a gamble, seize one of the groups and eat them, or break them all and completely crush the Northwestern Front, thereby breaking the general balance of our army and disrupting our strategic plan in order to improve the situation of the entire front against China. ”

"According to you. Mao Zi really wants to attack the Northwest Front, will he eat that group first? ”

Zhang Yaoqian thought about it, got up and walked to the map stand, and pulled the sling. Put down a huge combat map of the Northwest Theater of Operations, pick up the whip that is more than half a person long in front of the rack, and point it.

"As far as the line of communication is concerned, Maozi has to deal with our Northwest Front. There are six lines. ”

"The southernmost is transported by the Caspian Sea, ashore from Krasnovodsk, advancing to Ashgabat, Charju and Bukhara, and attacking our 10th Army from the front."

"The second is to use the Don-Volga water transport system, take the Tsarizin-Rau route, pass through the southern shore of the Aral Sea, enter the border of the Khiva and Bukhara Khanate along the Amu Darya River, and press the 10th Army from the flank."

"Again, take the Samara-Orenburg-Ektobe route, go southeast through the northern shore of the Aral Sea, and advance along the Syr Darya River to Shymkent and Tashkent, outflanking the rear route of the 10th Army."

"Then there is the turning east from Aktobe, making a half-circle, taking the Orssk-Astana (that is, the capital of Kazakhstan in another time and space)-Karaganda-Balkhash, advancing to Akdouka, the transportation hub of the front, and at the same time copying the rear roads of our northern and southern groups."

"There is also the turn east from Astana, taking the Kreku-Barnau group."

"The most important thing is to assemble on the inner line through the Chelyabinsk-Kurgan-Omsk-Novosibirsk route, waiting for an opportunity to intercept the main forces of the Northwest Front in the north or the main forces of the Northwest Front advancing westward."

Liu Bailiang frowned: "There are quite a lot of ...... available land options."

"Any route can be used, and if it were up to me, I would use all of them at the same time, true and false, false and real, to conceal my true intentions."

"It is worthy of General Zhang Da who drinks horses and Balkhash......" Su Mengxin exclaimed on the side, this should not be regarded as a sycophant - as a close attendant of the first emperor and one of the current cronies, he has no need or motive to wag his tail at anyone other than the empress.

Zhang Yao glanced at Su Mengxin expressionlessly, and the whip in his hand was heavily tapped in the upper right corner of the map: "However, as far as my personal intuition is concerned, the enemy is most likely to attack the Northern Group of the Northwest Front, specifically, to lure a part or main force of the Northern Group here-around Barnaul, and then gather to encircle and annihilate it with heavy troops." ”

"Intuition...... Barnaul ......"

Liu Bailiang muttered to himself, got up and approached the map shelf, picked up a magnifying glass casually, and lifted his toes to carefully examine the details in the upper right corner of the map.

Half a cigarette, Liu Bailiang put down the magnifying glass and stared at Zhang Yaoqian seriously: "I don't want intuition, I want reason." ”