Finally, after the long winter, the command of the Tsarist Russian Empire immediately launched a spring counterattack plan.

In the past five months, the Tsarist Russian Empire was not prepared for the early war, so since the war started, it has been in a passive state of being beaten. Not to mention the land of more than 3 million square kilometers of the seven states in the Far East, the strong fortress Vladivostok and Boli fell one after another. After several large-scale battles, nearly 600,000 troops were lost, and hundreds of millions of dollars in material resources were used to provide the enemy with a crushing defeat.

The war entered its sixth month. Although spring came very late in the north, the warmer weather allowed the Russian army to expand its scope of activities and launch a spring counterattack plan.

At this time, the Tsarist Russian Empire had opened up the Baikal section of the Siberian Railway. After emergency preparations in winter, the previously lost materials were replenished, and subsequent supplies were not a problem.

The Command of the Tsarist Russian Empire mobilized 1.5 million troops to assemble in the ancient plateau areas of Central Siberia and the foreign countries, pointing at the Far East Chinese Imperial Army, full of murderous aura.

The plan for the spring counterattack war of the Russian Command was formulated by Chief of Staff Ivan Gillinsky. Its core is: to concentrate strong forces on the northern line, enter the Khabarovsk border region through the Upper Yangsk Mountains of Sakha Prefecture, encircle the Chinese Imperial Army from the flanks, and defeat the Chinese Imperial Army in the Far East quickly and quickly defeat the Chinese Imperial Army and recover Vladivostok and the seven Far East states. Then, he rushed south, crossed the Heilongjiang and Ussuri River, and cooperated with the navy that had been transferred from afar to attack the Chinese Imperial land.

Originally, Russian Army Minister Sukhomlinov was preparing to attack Neigu first, and used Méng Gu as bargaining chips to exchange the seven Far East states with the Chinese Empire. However, most of the Russian military had no fantasies about fighting with the Chinese Empire for a long time, hoping to recover the seven Far East states and end the war quickly, because Russia's finances had been emptied and it would not last long.

In this way, the Tsarist Russian Empire gave up its plan to fight decisively in the country, and turned to the Far Eastern Krai.

After Plan 1 was formulated, Ivangilinsky used only 9 divisions of troops to be placed in the Kulun and Ulyasutai areas of the southern line, mainly Cossack cavalry regiments, and went forward to monitor the movements of the Fourth War Zone of the Chinese Empire in the ancient direction. On the northern line, seven main armies were concentrated, with a total of 78 divisions, and 1.3 million troops were divided into the left and right wings with model support as the axis. Two right wing armies, a total of 23 divisions, a total of 380,000 people, guarding the Nibchu Fortress and dispatching to the two important towns of Tengda and Skovorodino.

The attack was strategically aimed at opening up the Siberian Railway and the major transportation route to Amur Prefecture. The five left-wing armies had a total of 55 divisions, totaling 920,000 people. They bypassed the Outer Xing'an Mountains and crossed the Lena River, crossed the Jugjur Mountains, recaptured the Khabarovsk Krai and then headed south along the plains from the rear of the Outer Xing'an Mountains to attack Tengda and Skovorodino. After taking the two places, the transportation line was opened. The two armies then attacked the Boli Fortress and Vladivostok respectively, and recovered the Amur Prefecture and the Coastal Krai.

Since the winter offensive, the Imperial Chinese Army has achieved brilliant results. The General Staff and the First War Zone Command believe that they will be subject to crazy revenge by the Russian army. When the military strategy is crazy, when retreating to avoid its edge, consume its sharpness, and then counterattack, it will hit the target with one blow.

Starting from the establishment of the Imperial Chinese Army, from the Qingcao Yongping to the Queshan Military Exercise, the Imperial Chinese Army is good at fighting defensive counterattacks and playing a pig and eating a tiger.

Therefore, among the seven combat plans formulated by the General Staff, the No. 3 combat plan, which is mainly defensive counterattack war, was finally passed the argument and began to be implemented.

The core of Plan 1 is to believe that the true purpose of the Tsarist Russian Imperial Army gathering its main force in the direction of Yakutsk was to capture the strongly defended Tenda and Skovorodino, and to open up the strategic transportation lines between the two places as the top priority. Because if the transportation lines cannot be opened here and the ammunition and material supply are restricted, the Russian army will be unable to launch an offensive against Vladivostok and Boli in the Far East. Therefore, the Imperial Army of China should actively defend here, and use these two places as bait to make another enemy deep and defensive counterattack.

The General Staff of the Chinese Empire plans to 1 take the initiative to make a strategic retreat in the Khabarovsk border region, so as to lead the main force of the Russian army to cross the Jugjur Mountains, enter the plains, and wait for an opportunity to carry out a strategic counterattack, and eliminate the left-wing Russian corps in one fell swoop. The General Staff ordered the First Front Army to set up a third army group to defend Tengda and Skovorodino. The Second Front Army and the Third Front Army, as well as the newly established Fifth Front Army, to establish the First and Second

The army group had a total force of 1.02 million. The main force of the first army group gathered on the line of Jieya Lake and Jieya River behind the Tengda Strategy, and built solid fortifications, various machine gun castles, as well as artillery positions. The second army group left a small group of troops as a blocking force in the Khabarovsk Krai region, while the main force quietly headed north and retreated from the Khabarovsk Krai region. They gathered secretly in Magadan in Kamchatka Prefecture, and supplies were supplied from the sea to the Magadan Port.

The Chinese Imperial Army once again laid a large pocket and waited for the Russian army to get into it. The Russian army was abused for a winter and was very violent, and I wished to destroy the Chinese Imperial Army in one breath.

This irritable mentality has become the unanimous mentality of almost all commanders of the Russian military from top to bottom, so the Imperial Chinese army is not worried that the Russian army will not go into their pockets.

In terms of ancient times, the General Staff of the Chinese Empire did not initially choose the battlefield of the decisive battle in the northern border (Russian Far Eastern Krai), but chose to be in the junction of the foreign and internal borders. Because the Russian army led more than 600,000 troops into the foreign and foreign, the Chinese Empire had to respond.

In April, the Emperor of the Chinese Empire, Chen Hao, had issued an order to appoint the princess of the Shaowuda Korqin League, Borjijit, Shalina as Concubine Li, and the Princess Erut of the Alxa League, Ulan Qiqige as Concubine Zhuang.

In this way, the two largest tribes in the ancient ancient times, the Korqin League and the Alxa League, became royal relatives. The 36 flags in the ancient ancient times led by them once again expressed their loyalty to the emperor of the Chinese Empire, Chen Hao, and formed an ancient cavalry unit with a total force of 350,000.

Such a huge cavalry unit, even if it is not sure of defeating Russia's Cossack Cavalry Regiment, at least it can retain the power of cavalry in the ancient area, allowing the infantry of the Imperial Army to safely advance outward, and eventually rely on infantry to defeat the Russian army and recover the foreign army.

In order to further win over the Korchin tribe and the Alaxan tribe, Wang Chenhao issued several imperial edicts in succession, and promoted Dajihadanbatel (Yi is a hero of strong power) to the commander of the Royal First Cavalry Legion, and promoted Zhuang Concubine's younger brother Gegenhas (Ze is Mingyu) to the commander of the Royal Second Cavalry Legion, Lieutenant General of the Cavalry Legion.

The word "royal" is only for the purpose of winning over. Of course, it was also promoted to officers from other ancient departments as a win over.

The equipment of the Royal First Cavalry Legion and the Second Cavalry Legion was directly distributed by the General Logistics Department, and the equipment was equipped with a total of Browning Type 97 cavalry rifles, swords and various fighting equipment.

As royal relatives, Hardanbatel and Gegenhas also actively stepped up the training of cavalry units and began to expel the invading Russian Cossack cavalry. They fought several battles of all sizes. Although they did not win, they did not make the Russian cavalry get a bargain.

With these 350,000 cavalry units, the strategic situation of the Chinese Imperial Army in Ménggu suddenly reversed, no longer being passively beaten, and sometimes they could also carry out appropriate counterattacks.

However, as the General Staff shifted its strategic focus to the northern border, the combat mission of the Fourth War Zone in the ancient 4th War Zone was only defense. Therefore, the Fourth War Zone immediately conducted intensive training on the Royal First Cavalry Legion and the Second Cavalry Legion and carried out appropriate reorganization to make them in line with the establishment of the Imperial Chinese Army.

On May 4, 1902, the right-wing Tsarist Russian Imperial Army launched a fierce attack on the front line of Tengda, which was stubbornly resisted by the Chinese Imperial Army. The Russian army had no intention of quickly capturing Tengda, so after a short period of time, they began to stalemate, waiting for the left-wing army to detour.

However, the Russian army sent powerful airship troops to bomb Tenda and Skovorodino.

The day was sunny and suitable for airships to carry out tactical bombing. General Paulonev, the commander of the Russian right wing, immediately ordered the airship troops to be dispatched.

In the early morning of May 8, thirty Russian Zeppelin airships set off from the Nebchu Fortress and arrived at about 70 kilometers away from Tengda at 11:00 am.

At this time, the Russian observers on the flagship airship suddenly found a buzzing sound from the air ahead, and the sound became louder and louder. The Russian soldiers on the airships were lying on the edge of the pod and looked at them.

At around twelve o'clock, an Imperial Chinese Air Force J-C reconnaissance aircraft flew over the left wing of the Russian airship formation. The sudden appearance of the aircraft shocked the Russian airship personnel.

What is this?

The first time I saw a plane, everyone didn't know why, and some even shouted that it was a flying dragon beast.

Only the commander saw clearly from the telescope that the other party was the dragon flag symbol of the Imperial Army.

"It's the enemy!"

With a loud shout, the Russian troops on the airship suddenly panicked, and took out their pistols to shoot at the plane hovering around.

There were two people sitting on the reconnaissance plane, with pilots in front and observers behind recording the number of Russian airships and airship personnel.

The plane cruised at a speed of 35 knots, circled around the Russian airship troops, and then flew away after a few rounds.

The sudden appearance of the plane made the Russian airship troops panic, and the matters they didn't know were always the most terrifying. Commander Lieutenant Colonel Shilov even had a cold sweat on his forehead. If it was the secret weapon of the Imperial Air Force, what should we do?

Bend over and see the earth at a height of thousands of meters. If danger occurs, it falls.

Shilov couldn't help but take a breath of air conditioning, feeling goosebumps all over his body.

At three o'clock in the afternoon, just as the Russian airship was flying above less than fifteen kilometers away from Tengda, six planes that were almost the same as before suddenly appeared opposite.

Shilov couldn't help but hit Han Dian and became worried.

After the Eighth Flight Brigade of the Imperial Chinese Air Force received information from the attack of the Russian airship, the fighter squadron immediately took off. Captain Gao Peng led six J-1 A fighter jets to take off to fight.

In the cockpit of the No. 001 of the aircraft, Gao Peng observed the Russian airship unit through a telescope.

The giants have no defense ability. Just breaking through the airship's airbag is enough to crash the airship. The huge body and slow movement speed of the airship are really a piece of cake for the J-1 fighter, and simple aiming is enough to hit.

Gao Peng made a deep-seated and crossed, attacked and shot together, and had his own shooting gesture. Then he stepped on the accelerator and the fighter climbed upwards.

The other five fighter jets quickly received orders and followed suit to take action.

"attack!"

Gao Peng shouted loudly and stepped on the accelerator again. The fighter plane roared and dived, heading straight for the Russian airship to rush over quickly. The other five planes followed closely and began to dive.

The distance was getting closer and closer. At three or four hundred meters, Gao Peng possessed himself to the direction of the nose, passed the big sight of the heavy machine gun, aimed at the target, and pulled the trigger.

"Tadadadadada!"

The machine gun suddenly opened fire and more than a dozen bullets were fired out.

When the harsh sound of breaking through the air sounded, Shilov's heart suddenly raised his throat. When he saw the fire on the plane flashing, he knew something was wrong.

"Enemy attack!"

Before he finished speaking, the machine gun bullets had already been fired.

"Puff puff puff!" The bullet immediately penetrated the hydrogen inside the airbag and began to leak out. Although Zeppelin had strong airbag management and pipe damage measures, the penetration power of the bullet was too strong. One bullet basically penetrated the airbag, and the inside suddenly destroyed more than a dozen small airbags.

"Tadadadadada!"

Gao Peng pulled the trigger again and another row of bullets shot after a short shot.

This time, the bullet rubbed onto the steel frame, and the fire broke and ignited the hydrogen in the airbag.

"Bang! Bang bang!"

The airbags inside Zeppelin exploded one after another, and a bunch of fires rose in an instant. Then a huge explosion. The entire airship instantly disintegrated and the fire broke out and the smoke flew over hundreds of meters.

"Tadadadadada!"

The other five fighter jets following Gao Peng also opened fire, like a pack of wolves rushing into a sheep pen, attacking the Russian airship unscrupulously.

"Bang bang bang bang!" Russian airships were hit one after another, caught fire, and exploded and disintegrated in a few seconds.

The Russian troops on the airship pod were thrown into the air as they swayed violently, doing free fall movements.

They wailed heart-wrenchingly, because they all understood that what awaited them would be one of the cruelest ways of death, and were thrown into meat sauce alive.

Gao Peng led the fighter squadron to intersect back and forth, attacking in one after another, and shot down all thirty airships in less than half an hour.

Although the Russian troops on the airship fired at them, this kind of shooting was almost negligible for fast-flying fighters.

Complete victory! It is a tactical victory and a strategic victory.

After the Imperial Chinese Air Force Fighter Squadron destroyed the Russian airship unit, they immediately returned and hid in the hangar.

The Russian soldiers who were fighting in Tengda were looking forward to their own airships to help the war and let the Chinese Imperial Army taste the taste of being bombed and barbecued.

However, they waited left and right, and finally saw a series of violent explosions in the distance and a bright fire as bright as the sun, their hearts sank into the bottom of the valley.

When the bad news came, the Russian offensive on the front line suddenly weakened and his morale was depressed. Similarly, Paulonev was shocked when he learned that the airship troops he sent were wiped out.

How could it be?

Paulonev didn't understand the thirty airships, and he was reimbursed in the blink of an eye. What was the reason?

Paulonev could not know the reason, because the airship was wiped out and no one came back alive to tell him what kind of terrible things had happened.

Paulonev could not find the reason, but he hoped that the front line could capture Tengda as soon as possible to clean up the great shame brought by the humiliation of the Chinese Imperial Army this winter.

The next day, Paulonev sent out the remaining twenty-five airships again and rushed to the front line.

However, Paulonev soon received a report again, and twenty-five Hi-boats were wiped out again. Witnesses said that the airship had a massive explosion in the air and seemed to be attacked by some birds, but the reason was unknown.

Paulonev completely collapsed, and he was killed in two days. This was a luxury item bought from a huge sum of money and was reimbursed before he could see the results of the battle. This really made him ashamed.

Soon, when the Russian Command learned about this, he would inevitably scold Paulonev. However, the Russian Command was not simple either. They quickly obtained the needed information from the Russian civilians near Tengda, and knew that the Imperial Chinese Air Force had suddenly added a new weapon, but they still don't know what specific weapon it was.

Subsequently, the Russian Command increased its efforts to collect intelligence on the Chinese Empire's army. Only after investing huge manpower, material resources and financial resources could it be that some useful news was found.

"airplane?"

"What's that?"

These two sentences suddenly became a buzzword for people who have read newspapers all over the world.

After the Tengda Air Battle, the news that the Russian airship troops were wiped out spread wildly, which immediately attracted the high attention of military strategists around the world. Why was a powerful airship unit of 55 ships destroyed in the blink of an eye? This is a concern for everyone. What exactly is an aircraft? They only learned through intelligence that it is a type of aircraft. Combined with the information provided by scientific researchers from various countries in this regard, they finally understood that the aircraft was something similar to the water dragonfly aircraft that they had overlooked earlier.

Countries immediately started to study aircraft, but because they were misled by the Chinese Empire, they have been developing airships, so that there were very few aircraft projects in their country. Even if there were private researchers, the aircraft they built could only fly more than ten meters.
Chapter completed!