"Lao Cao! If you are, how the fuck is this fight. Ao Canghai looked at the endless trenches and barbed wire in front of him, and scratched his head helplessly.

"I don't have a better way than to use tanks. When I heard that my nephew and Zu Kuan had used tanks in Tashkent, the two tank regiments forced Lobzang Tenzin to retreat into Tashkent and did not dare to move. Cao Wenzhao can also be regarded as a fierce warrior on the battlefield, and he shook his head when he put down the binoculars.

In front of them was a battlefield of confrontation between the two armies, with the French and Prussian armies building trenches on their side. And the trenches on the side of the Russian army are much stronger, and in some places they are even reinforced concrete fortifications.

Even in the face of the bombardment of large-caliber artillery, as long as it is not a direct hit, there will be no problems.

There was a distance of about five kilometers between the two armies, and the distance of five kilometers after the rain was like a muddy pond.

The remains of many corpses can be seen in the muddy pond, and the smell of corpses permeates the entire battlefield.

The coalition soldiers at their feet were scooping water from inside the trenches. The Russians on the opposite side are doing the same!

It has to be said that trench warfare is a nightmare for soldiers and generals on both sides.

Just a month earlier, when the Allied soldiers had advanced to Minsk, they ran headlong into the line that the Russians had been preparing for half a year.

The head-buttling was bloody, and the number of coalition casualties reached 50,000 in one day. And that's not counting the wounded, and according to the backward level of medical treatment of the coalition forces, there should be 30,000 or 40,000 dead among the wounded.

Ao Canghai and Cao Bianjiao came to the battlefield of the confrontation between the two armies as an observer. They were followed by a large number of officers of the Ming Army.

Daming has stopped fighting in these years, but Daming wants to know how the world is fighting now.

I don't know if I don't see it, and I'm shocked when I see it.

In the past, before the Ming War, saturation artillery bombardment would be carried out on the enemy. But now it seems that the saturation shelling of the Ming army at that time was nothing at all.

At that time, the Ming army was organized at most, equivalent to a salvo of twenty arsenal ships with multiple rocket launchers.

But now, people are organizing 100 rocket launchers at every turn in the main attack area. And all the heavy rockets were fired, and the Russian positions on the opposite side of the battlefield were ploughed alive by artillery fire.

The coalition forces were no better, so much so that if they wanted to reach the front line, they had to walk two or three kilometers of tunnels.

The soil on the position, just grab a handful of it, and there will be several pieces of shrapnel. The land can sink to the knees with one foot.

Similarly, Ao Canghai and Cao Bianjiao felt that the same was true of the Russian positions opposite.

When European armies also entered the era of barbed wire with artillery and machine guns, it became a pure war of attrition to win the war.

This is the common feeling of the two field army commanders of the Ming Dynasty!

Just like Cao Bianjiao said, if you want to shake such a position, it will not work without tanks.

"I didn't expect that these yellow-haired ghosts can't do anything else, but they learn very quickly when fighting. I remember back then, it would have been nice to have an arquebus. It's only been 20 years, and it's come to this point.

Fortunately, our first division was already equipped with tanks, although there was only one company of nine tanks. Lao Cao, how much equipment do you have there? ”

"Ao Ye! Don't fool me, there are only five tanks, and they are still training tanks for training.

Both the year before and last year's production were given to two tank regiments. However, we are better than Yuan Chonghuan, and I heard that they only have three of them for training.

The Fourth Division simply didn't have one, and when they encountered such a battlefield, they could only fight trench warfare like these yellow-haired people. Cao Wenzhao reluctantly raised the binoculars again, now he is understanding the battlefield.

If this continues, they will face such a battlefield sooner or later. It seems that the whole world has been equipped with machine guns and cannons overnight, and victories like the one before may never be found again.

"The equipment of the yellow-haired ghost is good, and it is not due to Wu Sangui's little bastard. Stealing from our Daming, and looking for a doctor from Oxbridge to study.

What a pity! The kid didn't know where he had gone, some said he died in Mumbai, others said he had escaped. Anyway, now there is no one alive or dead, and if I find him, I will definitely skin and dismantle him. ”

Seeing such a battlefield, Ao Canghai hated itchy.

If Wu Sangui had not appeared, the West would never have achieved firearms so quickly.

In fact, basic education in the West has always been very good, especially in chemistry and physics. Although most of the educated people are nobles, they are studying after all.

It's not like Da Ming! Smart people study the Baguwen and the Tao of Confucius and Mencius, and there is a shortage of chemical and physical talents. Li Xiao needs to be trained little by little, until now the professors of Tsinghua University, and many of them are captured British doctors from Oxford.

Fortunately! Now Daming is actively catching up in these aspects, and now there are more and more college students in the capital, and the graduated students no longer stay in school to teach, but more enriched into factories and research institutes.

Despite this, the main force of research on the miniaturization of diesel engines is still those scientists led by Newton.

"Don't talk about Wu Sangui, it's not interesting. Fortunately, our Ming Navy is still invincible, and the main waterways in the world are currently controlled by our Ming Dynasty.

In the past, the marshal said that whoever controls the sea controls trade, and if he controls trade, he controls the world. At the time, I didn't believe it, but now I do.

As long as world trade is still in our hands, then the Ming will have enough resources to do what we want.

When he came out, he heard that he was already thinking about changing the clothes of the first cavalry division of Man Ye. All of them are equipped with tanks and armored vehicles, and in the future, there may not be many horses in Manye's hands. ”

"Haha! Lao Man's this time can be regarded as a shotgun for a gun, but those people under that kid, will they drive tanks? Anyway, the nine tanks in my hand were all thrown for those monkey cubs to be used for training.

In the future, there will be tanks, but those who can drive tanks will be expensive. ”

"What if they got tanks, you say?" Cao Wenzhao suddenly thought of a question, and pointed to the Prussian and French officers who were accompanying not far away.

"Huh!" Ao Canghai sneered and didn't speak.

"Don't believe me?"

"Sooner or later, they'll have it, but we have something better." Ao Canghai winked at Cao Bianjiao.

"Better?" Cao Wenzhao's eyes widened, Ao Ye's path was relatively wild, and he could inquire about any news. This point is much stronger than Cao Wenzhao, who has been in the northwest for a long time.

After all, there are the capital and Liaodong in the defense area of Ao Ye. Those are the two most developed areas in the land of Daming.

"I've heard that the downsizing of diesel engines has been carried out. If you make a high-power one, you can build a machine that flies in the sky. Ao Canghai said mysteriously.

"A machine flying in the sky? Isn't that an airship? "Although the news is closed, Cao Wenzhao still doesn't have a cold about the airship.

The three divisions under his command had no less than 100 airships of various types.

"What is an airship, such a big one flying in the sky. The flight was still slow, and the anti-aircraft guns hit one by one. I'm talking about this thing, which is a machine that flies in the sky and has wings.

I've heard that the speed is not slow, at least not something that anti-aircraft guns can easily hit.

That thing wants to hit a tank, it's all from above. The tank doesn't even have the strength to fight back!

Have you ever found that in order to reduce the weight of the car. The armor on top of the turret is actually very thin, and in some cases even a nine-millimeter machine gun bullet can penetrate it. ”

"I didn't find that, I'll have to take a closer look when I go back."

"This matter is still top secret, and it will take two or three years to figure it out at the earliest. Let's see, there haven't been any big fights lately.

That is, in order to avenge Zu Dashou, he attacked the Mongols in Tashkent. Your nephew has been there for months, to what extent? ”

"What a degree! Hehe, my nephew wrote to him. It was to block the Mongols in the city of Tashkent and wait for them to slowly starve to death. Man Ye was already extremely dissatisfied, and went to the capital by airship to talk to the marshal twice, but he did not get the approval of the marshal.

Anyway, the marshal just wanted to fight bloodlessly and starve those Mongols to death in the city of Tashkent.

The boy also wrote that a plague epidemic had begun in the city of Tashkent, and that it was estimated that it would not be long before all the people died. ”

"It's like this to fight with the commander, it's distressing for one of your soldiers to die, it's best not to die at all. But tell me, how can there be immortals in war?

If you look at other people's generals, they suffered 80,000 or 90,000 casualties a day, and they still commanded thousands of troops and horses if they stayed well one by one.

If our brothers dare to suffer so many casualties in one day, hehe! Resignation is already the best result! ”

Cao Wenzhao listened to Ao Ye's words and nodded, he didn't dare to imagine that if he fought a war with such a casualty figure, Li Xiao would go crazy.

But after thinking about it for a while, he felt that if he really made such a casualty in one day, he would go crazy first.

Where are these people, still holding binoculars like no one, preparing for the next stage of the attack.

"Shall we still go to the southern route? I heard that the Poles and Austria-Hungary were choked by the Russians at Galich because Poland was about to withdraw from the war because of the heavy casualties. ”

"The Poles are actually more than successful and more defeated, and they just follow the Prussians and the French. I just want to unite with Austria-Hungary to deal with Ukraine.

There are veterans who have fought for a few years, and they are much more difficult to deal with than the recruits here. Touching a nose ash is the proper meaning, and it does not pad yourself.

I've fought the Russians, but they're actually quite tough. If it weren't for the ambush by the marshal, it would still be a lot of trouble to clean them up. ”

"Oh! I really remembered, you were talking about the incident of Sixty-four Tun in Jiangdong, Heilongjiang. I was also angry when I heard the news. It's a pity that I couldn't get out of the battle in Jiangnan at that time. ”

"Those Russian bastards really can't be called people. In fact, this time he instigated the extermination of Russia behind his back, which was also revenge for that incident. ”

"Let's go! There is nothing to see anymore, the intentions of the Russians are obvious. It is to drag out the war until winter, and as soon as winter comes, the Russians will have the upper hand.

After all, people are fighting in their hometowns. ”

"Let's go! Go back, there's nothing to see, it's too fucking smelly. I think in a few days, there will be a plague. ”

For the battlefield filled with the smell of corpses, neither of them had a good feeling. After observing the battlefield situation and having a full understanding of trench warfare, the two brothers re-entered the tunnel and withdrew from the battlefield.

"The two generals have worked hard, is there any way to help us get out of the current predicament." The person in charge of receiving Ao Ye and Cao Wenzhao was a general named Moltke.

This guy has a European mustache and is shiny. To be able to maintain grooming under such conditions, I am afraid that only Prussian officers can do it.

"It's very difficult to make a breakthrough in this position. With machine guns and barbed wire, it's useless even if you have thousands of troops.

I think we can open up another battlefield. ”

Ao Ye and Cao Wenzhao didn't speak, but Sun Zhijie, who represented the Marine Corps, spoke.

Ao Ye and Cao Wenzhao glanced back very dissatisfied, and saw that it was Sun Zhijie who spoke, so they could only glance at each other and did not stop them further.

Their observation mission is here to observe, not to give advice to the coalition forces.

In the eyes of Ao Ye and Cao Wenzhao, the war between the coalition forces and the Russians is purely a dog-eat-dog behavior, and Da Ming just watched from the side. The longer the fight, the more people will die, and the more beneficial it will be to the Ming Dynasty.

If someone else had stood up, they would have been scolded a long time ago. But it was Sun Zhijie who stood up, and they had no choice, after all, Sun Chengzong's face still had to be thoughtful.

"Oh! What can you do, this young general. "Moltke really wanted to hear what Sun Zhijie could do to get out of the current predicament.

"Here! Saint petersburg! Sun Zhijie's hand did not point to the battlefield in Minsk, but to St. Petersburg in the north.

"St. Petersburg?" Moltke looked at this place thousands of miles away from the battlefield suspiciously, and didn't understand why Sun Zhijie pointed the battlefield there.

"That's right! It was St. Petersburg, and I saw that both Prussia and France organized reinforcements. But if we continue to spend on this kind of trench warfare, even if we fight until next year, I am afraid that there will be no result.

So we have to open up new battlefields, compared to Russia. The most dominant thing in the coalition is numbers, so why not give full play to our numerical superiority? ”

"The cities of Koriga are still in the hands of the Russians. If you march into St. Petersburg......" Moltke looked at Sun Zhijie with some embarrassment, there were still a series of Russian fortresses in front of St. Petersburg.

If you want to attack there, it's not much more difficult than hitting Moscow.

"General Moltke, I'm an officer in the Marine Corps. I am most familiar with the landing battle, where we can bypass all the cities along the way and go straight to St. Petersburg by sea.

The main forces of the Russians were drawn to the Riga-Minsk Line. We can go around their backs by surprise, and with the right command, we can definitely succeed in one blow. ”

"Landing ......!" Moltke looked at the map and fell into deep thought.