Chapter 78: The Plan Can't Keep Up With Changes
After Tobors campaigned to annihilate a reorganized division in Russia that intended to sneak into the back road to attack the supply line, the First Army of the Chinese Army immediately broke through Toborske
A Russian military police destroyed the Ertzis River Bridge and also shelled the river surface, causing the river water that gradually appeared in the late ice period to swarm down. Although it blocked the Chinese attack, the residents of Toborsk who failed to cross the river and the retreating soldiers were in chaos. More than 20,000 Russians, including baggage troops, were stranded in Toborsk. Most of them surrendered and the ones who fought stubbornly were quickly annihilated.
The Russian Danube Corps began to build fortifications on the other side, preparing to use the natural dangers and steamships of the Ertzis River and the lower Ob River to block the attacks of the Chinese.
Alexander ordered all departments to stabilize their defense and not to advance lightly, and used the Ertzis River as a barrier to build defensive fortifications.
The Chinese people's intelligence is extremely accurate, as if every time they take the initiative to go out, they will be caught. Even if they defend, the casualties of the defensive side will be higher than those of the offensive side. The Chinese infantry sea is terrifying in terms of numbers and combat capabilities.
Nowadays, we can only rely on the natural dangers of the Ertzis River and Ob River to fight attrition with the Chinese. With the long supply line of the Chinese, we will always have a day of exhaustion. After all, whether it is to build a railway or build its supply industrial base in Kizil, it cannot be completed in a short time.
Jingshi Donghai Park is located east of Xincheng District and west of the northern end of the Grand Canal. It covers an area of 210 mu, of which the water surface is nearly 80 mu.
The park has lakes and mountains and beautiful scenery. You can see the majestic and magnificent Lantern Buddha Relic Tower in the park from afar.
The Relic of Lantern Buddha is more than 50 meters high, with brick and wood structure, dense eaves, and a total of more than 2,000 copper bells on the thirteen-story tower on the eight-sided octagonal thirteen-story tower. The breeze blows sorrowful that the ears are pleasant. The ancients once had a hymn poem that "the shadow of the branch tower recognizes Tongzhou..."
In the park lawn flower beds, the rich lady walking on bamboo chairs, everyone will hold a small handbag, and there are not many trends in the Republic of China period.
Like purses, the main task of handbags is to use money. The amount of money such as silver paper, copper plates and other currencies in the handbags can be roughly seen that the owner of the handbag belongs to young ladies, concubines or young grandmas, wives-level figures, and fashionable women at the level of wife. In order to show that they are mature and heavy, there are mostly bulky copper plates and banknotes in the bag, and there is basically nothing else. In contrast, the handbags of the concubines, ladies and young milk have much richer handbags. In addition to the necessary makeup rouge, mirrors, combs and other items, there will also be powder paper (information), letter paper (information), children's dough (information), etc. Regardless of the handbags, just carrying a small and exquisite handbag on the road, it can make the ten women feel much better if they are walking on the road.
Ye Zhao smiled and said, "Maybe he will drive the car." He heard that some merchants had already driven the car to Novosibirsk, and some merchants also transported gasoline to sell in Kizil and Asikan.
There are not many countries that use gasoline in large quantities today, so they have not yet been listed as military-controlled goods. Otherwise, when it comes to war, they want to buy and sell gasoline freely, especially when they are abroad, it will never be so convenient.
Ye Zhao stood up and smiled and said, "Let's go and see you for a bag." He thought to see what beautiful handbags there were and buy one for each of his ladies.
Meiwai said yes with excitement.
While Tobolsk was captured, fierce battles broke out in Omsk and Alexandersk at the same time. Even an army of the Chinese Western Front Corps headed north from Turkestan and fought fiercely with the Russian Orenburg Military Region Corps in the Aral Sea.
The most tragic war, or the focus of the Chinese attack on Zi, was on Alexandersk, and Haric's Western Front Legion and the Russians fought a tragic showdown between Alexandersk and Tianjiz Lake.
The Alexander Sk can be said to be a truly even showdown. The trenches built by the Russians of more than 200 kilometers offset the Chinese's firepower advantage to a certain extent.
The cumulative force of the two sides invested more than 600,000. After more than a month of fierce fighting, the Chinese people narrowly occupied Alexandersk.
Although he won the Battle of Alexandersk, the strong resistance of the Russians made the Western Front Army continue to advance northward and attack Omsk and Petropavlovsk in a strategic intention to completely destroy the main force of the Russian army.
The Western Front Legion, which had more than 100,000 casualties and consumed a large amount of supplies, had to build fortifications in Alexandersk to guard against the Russians' strategic counterattack.
It can be said that the Chinese won the battle of Alexandersk and pulled out the Alexander defense line that the Russians Lai Huai was proud of on the Western Front, but from a strategic perspective, it can be said that this was the first failure of the squadron.
Of course, whether the Russians or Chinese, or the world theory, they are reporting another victory achieved by the Chinese. In Russia, pessimism is rising, and people have shown up in several big cities, believing that the Tsar and the entire ruling group should bear the responsibility for the failure of the war. Only the Russian Command knew that this arduous battle had interrupted the Chinese's further strategic deployment.
Because the Battle of Alexandersk failed to achieve its strategic goals, Ye Zhao returned to the capital after inspecting the Western Front.
In the telegram sent to the matchmaker, Ye Zhao said: "Now we have entered the strategic stalemate stage for the time being..."
It can be said that the smooth progress of the war has exceeded Ye Zhao's expectations. In Ye Zhao's initial conception, he hoped to use the Yenisei River as the boundary, but now he has occupied the densely populated areas of Russia in the lower reaches of the Ob River, which is also very suitable for immigrants to live.
On the eastern front, the entire Ertise River and the lower reaches of the Ob River where the Ertise River flows into, are now bounded by the entire Ertise River. The Russians began to build fortifications based on river natural dangers to defend against the Chinese attack.
The Western Front destroyed Alexandersk's Russian defense line. Although it failed to achieve the strategic goal of completely eliminating the main force of the Russian army, after conquering Alexandersk, the Chinese soldiers could threaten the core areas of the Russians' hinterland.
It was just that the long supply line made the Chinese fail to engage in a blitzkrieg, and they might become the last of their strength and retreat step by step with the Russian counterattack.
Now the Eastern Front Matchmakers have the power to launch the Omsk Battle, but even if they win, the Russians will do the same and build fortifications west of the Ertise River. The Chinese have nowhere to recruit ships and can only wait until the ice period in November. During this period, Russia can take the opportunity to replenish soldiers and supplies. The railway supply line directly to the front line will make Omsk, which is far from the supply line, a hot potato in the hands of the Chinese.
Attacking Russia from the East can only make steady progress. When the Japanese attacked China, they relied on the rear base that they had been operating in the Northeast for many years.
China is the same today, accelerating the railway construction process, connecting China's railways with the Russian railway network, and consolidating the southeastern plain of Western Siberia in the upper reaches of the Ob River as a springboard and supply line for the war with Russia, so that it can be invincible.
If the Russians proposed a coronation bounded by the Yenisei River, Ye Zhao would not agree to anything. Of course, the Russians would not be able to sign a treaty to cede such a vast land now, after all, the Russians were not really defeated.
There is no doubt that the Russians will continue to differentiate in the strategic stalemate stage.
Moreover, the Turkish Ottoman Empire, the Caucasus and Poland in western Russia and other nations that intend to be independent are all bargaining chips that the Chinese can use.
Sitting on the train back to the capital, Ye Zhao was thinking about this question.
The Beijing Foreign Ministry has released the news of hope of peace talks with the Russians, and has also given the Russians a wrong message, that is, the Chinese people have not much appetite.
Russian diplomats from various cities in China have been expelled. This message was conveyed through the Russian consulate in Hong Kong. Of course, it was flatly rejected by the Russians.
Ye Zhao returned to the capital in mid-May. According to news from Spain, Queen Isabel has set off and is expected to arrive in Guangzhou in early September.
Negotiations with the Portuguese continue, the Spanish intervened in the adjustment, and initially conceived that businessmen from China, Spain and the Netherlands invested in the construction of the Maputo port.
Spain and the Netherlands, which had colonies in the South China Sea, experienced the pain of losing many colonial privileges in the early stages, but gradually benefited from China's rise. Merchants from both countries and British and French merchants together obtained the right to trade Chinese tea with the West, and received a lot of care from the Chinese, gradually upgraded to a friendly trading partner of the Southeast Group. Even North Korea, which the British could not enter, and some Dutch merchants in the trade circles such as Japan also obtained the right to access. As for the Spanish, it was after Queen Isabel regained the dominance of Spain, and gradually their relations with China heated up. Of course, it was also an indisputable fact that the Luzon area was gradually dominated by the Chinese.
What surprised Ye Zhao was that his strategic stalemate concept obviously could not keep up with the changes in the situation. Perhaps because the battle with Alexandersk was approaching... the casualties made the Russians think that the squadrons were just a squadron. In addition, the squadrons on each line stopped their offensive posture, which made them think that the Chinese were already at the end of their strength and logistics supply were certainly insufficient. In addition, the Russian top leaders must also know that the longer the Chinese supply line was, the smoother the Chinese supply line. In addition, because of the war with China, Russia issued paper money in a large amount of economic turmoil, under the promotion of Earl of Bryn, the Russian Supreme Command adopted a dangerous war plan.
That is to concentrate superior forces, counterattack the Chinese, and annihilate the Chinese Western Front Corps, which was not yet firmly established in Alexandersk.
A large number of soldiers who had just been recruited were continuously pushed to the front line, and the Russians launched the Alexandersk counterattack to mobilize more than 300,000 troops.
In just a few months, a large-scale battle with nearly one million soldiers participating in repeated battles occurred in Alexandersk, which is extremely rare in the history of world wars.
However, the Russians who intended to encircle and annihilate the Chinese Corps of Alexandersk suffered a lot and saw the extremely powerful combat effectiveness of the squadron in defensive battles.
Although the Alexandersk area has only less than 100,000 soldiers stationed in the main force of the Lanzhou Army, which had just added a large number of new recruits, most of the corps participating in the Battle of Alexandersk were resting and replenishing troops in the rear. The information of the Russians was extremely accurate, and it caught the Chinese off guard.
Although the squadrons of the left and right Hebei Province were defeated, the 50,000 officers and soldiers of the Lanzhou Army, including logistics personnel, turned the position of dozens of square kilometers into a cemetery for the Russians. After more than half a month of offensive, the Russians only seized the outermost trenches, and paid a heavy price of more than the casualties of more than the four people.
When the Western Front Corps completed a large-scale encirclement, the Russians' defeat came so quickly that it could be said that it was a huge spill. Even the corps deployed on the Kokchenov defense line retreated without fighting. This also exposed Petrosiplovsk to the Chinese attack, and the Russian corps in Omsk had to join the ranks of large-scale retreat, because once the Chinese Western Road Corps occupied Petropavlovsk, Omsk became a sandwich cookie for the Chinese Western Road Army and the Central Road Corps.
When the Chinese occupied Alexandersk, Alexander II, who had to retreat to Kurgan, hurriedly took the train to retreat to Yekaterinburg. After all, the security of the Tsar and the entire palace was the first priority, and we must stay away from the frontline war.
However, the squadron did not advance westward on a large scale. The central legion did not cross the Erthis River after occupying Omsk. Obviously, the Chinese also believed that building a defense line based on the Erthis River was an excellent choice.
The Western Army did not even march into Kokchenov. The two large-scale battles were consumed extremely well, both soldiers and materials. The troops, including the Lanzhou Army, retreated back to the rear for rest and rest. The corps, mainly composed of the Guangzhou Army and the 10th Army, took over the defense in the Alexandersk area.
The news of Russia's defeat and losing a large tract of territory spread to the country, and it was fabricated by people with ulterior motives. Because of Alexander II's stupid decision, the Russian soldiers bleed in vain. The anger of the Russians finally erupted like a volcano. In Moscow, the populists led the angry crowd to attack the political institutions and were immediately suppressed by bloody suppression; the members of the "Freedom and Land" of Kursk occupied the city with the Russian soldiers and declared the establishment of the "Russian Republic"; civilians and even nobles riots occurred in cities such as Kirov, Samara, and Tver.
The divided Poles rekindled the rage of the uprising, and even affected the Polish territory occupied by Prussia, and the areas inhabited by Ukrainians and Belarusians also showed signs of instability.
The Turkish Ottoman Empire began to mobilize troops on the front line, and it is very likely to invade Romania, supported by Tsarist Russia, and the Balkans such as Serbia, which originally belonged to the Ottoman Empire.
The Chinese Command held a discussion all night long. Under this situation, should we overcome difficulties and attack the Russian hinterland or continue to stabilize before we can implement the strategy of the stalemate stage.
If we continue to attack the heartland of Russia, will it turn the intensified domestic contradictions of the Russians into foreign contradictions against the Chinese invaders, which will backfire and unite the Russian domestic forces.
Will the changes in Russia and the difficulties faced by the current Russian government and the current conservative strategy give the Russian Tsarist government a respite and quell the turmoil?
After three days of discussion, no one can foresee the future. It is hard to say that they can have a perfect strategy in this situation. In the end, the big bosses in the army still had to turn their attention to Ye Zhao and wait for the ruling of the Great Emperor.
Chapter completed!