As the Battle of Srekenston came to an end, the Russian army had to retreat to the Nibchu Fortress again due to heavy damage.

At the same time, the Chinese Imperial Army, which won the victory, returned to its original defensive position.

Feng Guozhang, the commander of the First War Zone, saw the huge power of sniper tactics, so he seconded the Eighth Mountain Battle Camp Wildcat Commando from the Royal Guard Hunter Special Forces, and cooperated with the Fifth Mountain Battle Camp Snow Wolf Commando to continue to wait for an opportunity to eliminate the Russian army's living forces around the Nebchu Fortress and to hit the morale of the Russian army.

While the snipers were attacking the Russian army's vital forces, the Snow Wolf Commando and the Wildcat Commando raided the Siberian Railway, which was supplying the Nibchu Fortress from the direction of Xerox. They buried high-explosive explosives on the railway, used remote control devices to detonate the explosives, and then destroyed the passing Russian trains, then killed the Russian train guards, plundered or destroyed the military supplies on the train.

The losses caused to the Russian army far exceed the losses caused by the sniping of the commando outside the commando. The Russian army also has hundreds of thousands of troops in the Nebchu Fortress, and the daily supplies consume huge amounts. The Nebchu Fortress has a military fortress without any economic support and can only rely on the supplies transported from Europe.

After the Chinese Imperial Army attacked the Siberian Railway, Paul Nev, commander of the Nebchu Fortress, had to send guards to protect the railway trunk along the way and send railway engineers to repair the destroyed railway.

Obviously, this is the result that the Chinese Empire snipers were expecting. They were waiting in the nearby woods and snow, waiting to kill the Russian road guards and railway soldiers one by one.

As a result, the Russian army suffered more and more losses, and Paulonev was so angry that he scolded the Chinese Empire for being shameless all day long. He would use such shameless treatment and dare not fight with the Russian army upright, and he was not a hero.

Zhang Qulin was born in a small town called Baishan at the foot of Changbai Mountain. He joined the Chinese Empire's army when the Sino-Russian War broke out in November 1901. During the "Winter War" between the Chinese Empire and the Tsarist Russian Empire

He began his career as a sniper.

In the harsh environment of minus 3050 degrees Celsius, he wore a full-white mi color outfit and sniped Russian soldiers and officers with his teammates. In the early battles of the Srekensk Battle, a total of 105 Russian soldiers were confirmed to be killed. There were also unofficial statistics that pointed out that his results were 182, second only to the personal record of the captain of the Snow Wolf Commando Shen Haifeng, and ranked second in the team. As a recruit, Zhang Qulin was promoted from a second-class soldier to a second-level lieutenant within one month, and his class was upgraded to five levels, breaking the record of the promotion of military personnel in the Chinese Empire.

Zhang Qulin's ability to shoot is due to the experience he gained from his childhood hunting with his grandfather in the mountains. He is often still near the entrance of wild wolves, cats and bears. Sometimes he lies for several days until he uses a dirt gun to hunt wild animals.

Under this training situation, Zhang Qulin became a well-known hunter. Because of this, he was recruited as a special force by the Snow Wolf Commando less than three days after joining the army, specializing in long-distance sniper missions.

After professional sniping training from the special forces, Zhang Qulin's personal combat power rose sharply, and soon made his mark in the Snow Wolf Commando, and he grew up at an astonishing speed every day.

Some people say that he will soon be able to surpass their captain Chen Haifeng, which is indeed the case.

In the 237 Highland Defense Battle, in addition to using sniper guns to kill more than 200 enemies, he also used submachine guns to kill more than 300 Russian soldiers, so his number of enemies was increased to 715.

At this time, Chen Haifeng, the captain of the Snow Wolf Commando, focused more on organizing and commanding the entire Snow Wolf Commando, so he killed more enemies than Zhang Qulin.

From the end of March to mid-April of Guanghua, the Chinese Empire Snow Wolf Commando and the Wildcat Commando were nightmares for the Russian army. They hang snowboards and wore snow-white windbreakers. When the heavy snow blocked all roads, they could quietly come and go. The Russian soldiers struggling in the snow and mud became the living targets of the Chinese Empire snipers.

The three or five sniper squads of the Chinese Empire can often eliminate all the Russian convoys that marched in small columns without any casualties. The most terrifying situation occurs at night when camping in the wild. When the Russian army was hiding in the dark, they were aimed and shot one by one by the Imperial Chinese army snipers hiding in the dark. The frost and hungry Russian soldiers were indifferent to watching their comrades fall down one by one, because they were completely desperate about being able to survive until dawn.

"Company Commander! Platoon Commander! Save me!"

On the ambush field, Zhang Qulin and his team fired more than a dozen guns, killing more than a dozen Russian soldiers, but only three Russian soldiers were left behind. Their large parts were hit, causing them to collapse in the snow and unable to move.

Zhang Qulin and his sniper team did not choose to kill these three Russian soldiers, but instead used the wailing sound of the three men to stab the other Russian soldiers who were hiding in the trenches and dared not come out.

This is a tactic. Although it is a bit cruel, whenever the Russian soldiers bullied the Chinese people, Zhang Qulin and other special forces snipers hated him.

A heart-wrenching scream finally made a Russian soldier unable to help it. He just got his head shattered by bullets, his brain burst out, leaving only half of his head.

The gunshots then reached the ears of other Russian officers and soldiers.

The Russian officers and soldiers in the trench were extremely panicked and hid below and did not dare to go to the head. The only bonfires were quickly extinguished and were not allowed to be observed by the snipers.

The wailing sounds outside the trench were still shouting, and the company commander finally couldn't help it.

"Come here, let's go forward to save people while the darkness...

A Russian platoon leader, with five or six brave Russian soldiers, quietly climbed out of the trench and crawled towards the location of the wounded soldiers.

On this side, Zhang Qulin was observing the situation in the scope because the Russian army extinguished the torch and there was insufficient light. The vision in the sniper lens was close to the reflection of starlight and snow, but it was not very clear.

Feeling that the Russian army was coming to rescue, Zhang Qulin immediately whistled and fired the order to fire the entire team of flares.

The team members next to him understood and immediately took out their lighting pistols and shot them in the sky above the enemy's position.

Bang!

When the flare was fired, the Yuyu position in front was immediately illuminated. The figures of five or six Russian soldiers who were crawling over were suddenly ignited.

Pa! Pa! Pa! Pa!

After the gunshots, the five or six Russian soldiers were immediately shot and killed by snipers.

The Russian army in the trenches were in an uproar again and immediately shrank its head back.

All night, 35 people were killed in the Russian 193 position, including two second lieutenants and multiple non-commissioned officers. In the case of the 193 position, there were dozens of positions outside the entire Nibchu Fortress. On average, every position was attacked by snipers from the Chinese Empire every night, and the casualties were more than five or six hundred people every day.

The Russian army was in fear both during the day and at night, and the morale of the Russian army was severely hit.

In this one-sided sniper war, nearly a thousand snipers of the Snow Wolf Commando and Wildcat Commando of the Chinese Empire achieved outstanding results. After the end of winter, before Russia officially launched a spring counterattack, more than 20,000 Russian troops died at the guns of the Chinese Empire snipers. More than 900 officers were shot dead. The highest rank was Major General. Not only did they cause huge casualties to Russian officers and soldiers, but they also caused indelible fear to their hearts, and the morale of the Russian army was extremely low.

A sniper is a state pursued by snipers. According to post-war statistics from the winter offensive of the General Staff of the Chinese Empire, an average of 1,000 bullets are required for each Russian soldier to kill.

However, a sniper can kill Russian soldiers on average with only 1.3 rounds.

What a huge difference in number comparison.

The General Staff saw the huge war potential of snipers, so Wang Shizhen specially ran to the imperial emperor Wang Chenhao to suck his fingers. In the end, Wang Chenhao allowed the sniper department tactics of the Imperial Guard Hunter Special Forces to share the training subjects of combat troops in major military regions. Each unit began to set up sniper troops after the war. Basically, each company was assigned a sniper to assist in completing tactical tasks.

During the winter offensive launched by the Chinese Empire, Zhang Qulin was the most powerful sniper in the Chinese Empire. Zhang Qulin was also the holder of the world's highest hunting record of 1,056 people. He was a professional hunter and was very familiar with the geographical environment of the mountains and forests. He wore a white camouflage uniform as white as snow, and walked freely in the wilderness where the road was blocked with heavy snow. He used the first-year sniper rifle of the Chinese Empire, which could snipe important Russian commanders 800 meters away, causing great fear among Russian soldiers and called him "White Death".

Because of the terrifying combat effectiveness of the Chinese Empire Snow Wolf Commando, more than 100 snipers who killed more than 100 enemies appeared in the entire team. Since then, they have been called the Death Force in the armies of various countries around the world.

The Wild Cat Commando that arrived later was not as many enemies as the Snow Wolf Commando due to the short time. However, it was also very good at fighting. After the war, it was awarded the title of "Black Hellcat".

The Chinese Empire launched a winter offensive, winning the Battle of Srekensk and the great success of sniping tactics, once again made the Tsarist Russian Empire lose face. For this reason, the Tsarist Russian Command gave General Paul Nev, the commander of the Nebchu Fortress, and urged him to launch a decent offensive to restore the reputation of the Russian army.

Paulonev was very sad. His elite Ninth Army was ruined by Bildorf, and the 18th Army and the 22nd Army were buried with him. This had greatly weakened the defense power of the Nebchu Fortress.

Moreover, Paulonev did not have any fantasies about this war. He knew very well that the combat effectiveness and equipment level of the Chinese Imperial Army, especially under the influence of the Army's equipment victory theory, the Russian army was too far behind the Chinese Imperial Army. Paulonev followed the main policy of defending the Nebchu Fortress, and did not seek merit but no mistakes.

In this case, Paulonev did not take any retaliation measures, but continued to increase the defense capabilities of the Nebchu Fortress.

Since Paulonev knew that the Chinese Imperial Air Force's airships were powerful and had a huge threat from the air, he converted a large number of heavy machine guns and rapid-fire cannons below 37 mm into air defense firepower, and deployed a large number of them at the Nebchu Fortress to prevent Chinese Imperial Airships from coming to attack.

Throughout March, due to the bad weather conditions, only six batches of airships were dispatched to the First War Zone of the Chinese Empire to bomb Nebchu Fortress. During the sixth batch, two airships were shot down by the Russian army. Therefore, Feng Guozhang, commander of the First War Zone, immediately canceled the subsequent air strike plan.

During the previous Far East battle, the Russian army suffered great losses in Vladivostok, Boli and other places, and for this reason, the Russian Command stepped up the task of producing airships.

By the end of March, Russia had a group of airship troops, with a total of 55 airships being organized into the Far East Air Force and being transferred to the Nebchu Fortress first.

The Russians did not adopt the airship technology of the Chinese Empire, but after Russia asked Germany for help, they obtained the German Zeppelin hard airship technology and began to produce large-scale airships. In fact, Russia has the ability to produce airships on a large scale. These airships are basically assembled parts produced by German arsenals and secretly went to Russia through the Siren Company.

After getting these airships, the Russian army was very excited and immediately trained a group of operators, and then drove the airship to the Far East Nibchu Fortress.

The intelligence department of the Chinese Empire, who learned about the Russian military's movements, immediately reported the situation to the General Staff and the Ministry of National Defense. The General Strategy Department was not worried when he learned that a large number of Russian airships reinforced the Nibchu Fortress.

In fact, this is exactly the plan of the Emperor Chen Hao of the Chinese Empire to deliberately mislead other countries to vigorously develop airships.

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The General Staff immediately instructed all the officers and soldiers of the First War Zone to inform them that the General Staff had formulated a response plan 1 so that they did not have to be afraid.

In order to implement the instructions of the General Staff Commander Feng Guozhang to build a flat aircraft runway with a length of 120 meters and a width of 30 meters near the front line and behind. Minister of the Ministry of National Defense Wang Shizhen personally visited the Nanyuan Air Force Base to inspect the training of the Eighth Battalion of the Air Force and the production of new aircraft.

In March 1900, the Chinese Empire had built an air force base in the Nanyuan Military Region. Once the aircraft designed by the Beiyang Science and Technology Flight Laboratory passed the review, it would be produced in industrial production at the Nanyuan Aircraft Manufacturing Plant.

In 1900, Beiyang Science and Technology Flight Laboratory successfully developed the Adel 00 aircraft. The shape of the single-propeller biplane is slightly enlarged than the previous 9.8k type to obtain greater lift. The length is 5.86 meters, the height is 2.42 meters, and it has a larger wingspan, reaching 9.22 meters.

The empty weight of the aircraft reaches 182 kg and the maximum weight is 342 kg.

The BT10 four-cylinder gasoline engine newly developed by Beiyang Technology Engine Laboratory has a power of 30 horsepower. The take-off speed is 102 knots, the climb speed is 20 knots, the cruise speed is 35 knots, the maximum speed is 1,200 meters, the range is 100 kilometers, and the range of the secondary fuel tank can reach 140 kilometers.

The Adel 00 aircraft includes several versions. Since Beiyang Weapons have improved the shooting coordinator, Browning specially designed the Browning M99 air-cooled heavy machine gun for airborne weapons, and still uses 7.92mm universal rifle bullets. Because the m99 heavy machine gun is moderate in weight, the weapon can be installed on the plane.

Therefore, the first version of the Adel 00 aircraft is the fighter model, with a1 added on the suffix. The trainer is a two-person two-seater, and the Adel 00a2. Changing the fixed wheel to a float is the Adel 00a3

After two years of rigorous testing, the Type 00 became the first practical model and can be used as a reconnaissance, coaching and combat. Air Force officials were interested in the aircraft for the first time and surpassed the airship.

For this reason, Air Force Minister Xue Pinggui applied for funds from the General Staff to form an Air Force Aircraft Brigade, which is the Eighth Battalion of the Air Force. The General Staff approved Xue Pinggui's request and allocated funds to produce 36 Type 00 aircraft for the Eighth Flight Brigade. Twenty-four were reconnaissance aircraft (eighteen were land reconnaissance aircraft, and the other six were water reconnaissance aircraft), the other six were fighter aircraft and six trainers.

The General Staff has a very weak concept of air combat, and it can be said that there are almost no. The production of six fighter jets was only approved to cater to the strategic policy of the Empire Emperor Wang Chenhao on the sudden attack on the Russian airship forces. If Wang Chenhao had not said in advance, the General Staff would probably not produce or develop fighter jets. They only focus on the aircraft's aerial reconnaissance capabilities.

Wang Chenhao did not intervene in the decision of the General Staff, and he did not recommend mass production of fighter jets. If European and American countries are allowed to discover the purpose and practical effects of fighter jets in advance, it will be unfavorable for the Chinese Empire's future national strategy. The production of six fighter jets is enough to eliminate the Russian airship troops.

However, what made Wang Chenhao unhappy was that the Air Force wanted to name the Adel 00 aircraft the Imperial Air Force Zero aircraft. In response, Wang Chenhao said that he did not like the name Zero aircraft, so the General Staff had to postpone it for one year and change it to the first year Guanghua aircraft of the Imperial Empire. Wang Chenhao felt that something was missing, so he waved his pen and issued an imperial edict, giving the Guanghua aircraft the first year name Scarlet Eagle, code-named J-1 (j1).

As a result, the fighter model was changed to J-1 A, and the trainer aircraft was J-1 B. J-1 C was the Army Aviation version of the Survey aircraft model, and J-1. was the Navy Aviation version of the reconnaissance aircraft model.

As the winter in the northern hemisphere passed, after the end of April, Siberia and the ancient plateau areas in the foreign countries gradually warmed up. The Russian army accumulated countless resentment throughout the winter. The Russian commander ordered the Russian army from all over the country to start preparing for a spring counterattack, and attempted to defeat the Chinese Empire's army in a decisive battle.

On April 28, fifty-five Zeppelin airships were transported to the Nebchu Fortress. General Paulonev was immediately overjoyed and began to actively plan a large-scale counterattack plan.

In his opinion, with these airships, the number is five times higher than that of the Chinese Imperial Army, which is enough to razor the positions and cities controlled by the Chinese Imperial Army to the ground. He seemed to have seen the scene of the Chinese Imperial Army being bombed to pieces and begging for mercy.

At the same time, the airport of the Mohe Airship Base, the First War Zone of the Imperial Army, was also built. The Eighth Flying Brigade of the Imperial Army of Fenghua Air Force secretly entered the base on the night of the 29th.!.
Chapter completed!