"Is there any new news from the 1st Division in Vladivostok?"

Fan Yize tapped lightly on the table, comparing the actions and plans of the three corps, and what he was most concerned about was the actions of the first division.

The Red Guard Army had three corps and four divisional units separate from the three corps.

Among them, the first division was the earliest combat unit to be established, and it also followed Fan Yize to fight in the Dutch East Indies.

The soldiers of the 1st Division, each of them are the elite of the elite, and many of them are not inferior to the professional special forces.

But with the strength of an infantry division, without machine guns and artillery, it was not a small pressure to face the Japanese Third Army outside Vladivostok.

Although the Third Army paid a heavy price in the process of attacking Vladivostok, it was also replenished several times, and now it still maintains more than 30,000 combat troops.

Without artillery support, if you want to block the attack of the Japanese Third Army, you will have to pay a lot of price.

At present, there is no news from the First Fleet, and Fan Yize will inevitably be worried.

The First Fleet, as a fleet supporting the 1st Division, did not participate in the attack on the Japanese Combined Fleet, and although there was only one battleship in the fleet, and the combined number of cruisers and destroyers was less than ten, it carried a large number of supply ships.

These ships not only carried all the heavy weapons of the 1st Division, but also transported the equipment and soldiers of a full artillery division.

The Vladivostok garrison, consisting of the 1st Division and the Artillery Division, with the support of the 1st Fleet, would make it much easier to hold Vladivostok.

However, if the First Fleet does not provide fire support in time, or does not successfully send the heavy equipment and artillery division of the First Division to Vladivostok, the situation will still get out of control after the occupation of Vladivostok.

In order to secretly infiltrate North Korea and then reach the vicinity of Vladivostok, the 1st Division did not even carry a single machine gun, and only half of the rifles were carried, and the rest were carrying pistols and other small arms, and the ammunition was not very sufficient.

Such firepower is not suitable for defense, but more suitable for guerrilla warfare.

Once the Japanese go crazy, the situation will be very dangerous, after all, Vladivostok at this time has lost most of its fortresses, only bare trenches, and there is no machine gun fire defense, and the Japanese Third Army has hundreds of machine guns.

In contrast, in fact, the situation of the First Division is not optimistic, but Fan Yize also believes in Xu Yanwu's judgment of the situation and overall command ability, so Fan Yize has never interfered in the actions of the First Division.

"The latest news has just come that the First Fleet has arrived in the Amur Gulf and is ready to support the 1st Division at any time. However, due to the large number of torpedoes laid by the Russians, the fleet could not safely enter the port of Vladivostok, and the heavy equipment of the 1st Division could not be delivered to the inside of the fortress in time, and it is expected that it will take 12 hours at the earliest to complete the preliminary mine clearance work. The housekeeper reported to Fan Yize.

"Let the First Fleet not be in a hurry, the work of clearing mines must be careful." Fan Yize thought about it and said.

The steward immediately sent this instruction to the First Fleet.

With the support of the First Fleet's naval guns, the situation in Vladivostok will not get out of control, as long as it holds out until all the mines are cleared and the equipment lands, the defense will become simple.

And the Russian mines that are all over the entrance to the bay and the periphery of the port are naturally not in a hurry to clear them, and it is not surprising that the dangers of the mines are enough to injure the dreadnought first-class battleship and sink the cruiser.

What's more, if the ship transports equipment and soldiers is not clean, causing the ship to sink, it is not enough to hurry.

When the fleet arrives, it doesn't matter if it's slow, it's important to do a good job of safety.

After all, such examples, in the history of war, abound.

As long as the 1st Division can hold Vladivostok, it will be very strong to support the 3rd Army's military operations in Korea, and it can even delay more troops.

Moreover, the Red Guard Corps has the ability to attack Japanese forces in Korea from the rear, and at the same time, it also allows combat supplies to quickly reach Siberia.

Fan Yize does not want to face the Russian army in the future, and he can only choose to send supplies from North Korea to the Siberian battlefield, which will greatly delay the operational efficiency of the troops.

As long as Vladivostok is controlled, with the railroad built here by Russia, a large amount of supplies can be continuously ashore and transported to the Siberian plain.

And this is also the reason why Japan could not attack the area north of Shuangchengzi, the supply line was stretched too long, and in Siberia, where the cold winter time was particularly long, a battle might even take half a year to prepare, and then because of the weather, it was postponed for a few months and then started again, and as a result, a year had passed.

There are no chrono portals in this place, and the transportation of supplies needs to be carried from Sasebo or Nagasaki, or from Busan, by land and sea, to Vladivostok, and then through the port railway in Vladivostok, to support the Red Guard Corps to operate in the farther part of Siberia.

Therefore, controlling the strategic fortress of Vladivostok is very crucial, and whether Japan or Russia controls the fortress and then fights for it, it is bound to pay a heavy price in casualties.

However, the Russians will not react immediately, but are very likely to gather troops while making a way to watch the excitement as Fan Yize chose before, first let the Red Police Corps and the Japanese fight almost the same, and gather troops to recover Vladivostok.

After all, if the Russian Army wants to assemble in the Far East, it will take a long time to prepare, coupled with the chaos of logistics, so even if Russia wants to do something, it will not be able to achieve it in a short time.

On the other hand, Fan Yize did not put Russia in the position of the main opponent, and in a short period of time, the main opponent of the Red Guard Corps will only be Japan.

By the time the Russians thought that their large army had almost been assembled, I am afraid that by that time, the Red Guard Corps had already wiped out the Japanese troops in Korea and Siberia.

Without the Combined Fleet, the Japanese Army was fighting far away from its homeland and could not receive any domestic support at all.

And the most important point is that from now on, all of Japan's imports and exports to the outside world will be locked up.

The Second Fleet and the Third Fleet will surround Japan like an iron barrel and prohibit all supplies from entering Japan.

Therefore, Fan Yize is also willing to give the Russians time, so that the Red Police Corps can free their hands and concentrate on attacking Japan.

However, in the final analysis, whether it is a strategic concept or a strategic foresight, the final victory or defeat must be based on strength, otherwise the Red Guard Corps will have to face Japan and Russia at the same time.