Travel through the Qing Dynasty and become emperor

Chapter 291 Full Outbreak
On the last day of December 1895, when the New Year's bell was about to ring, the Sino-Russian all-out war kicked off.In the two countries with the largest territories in the world, a male lion and an elephant began to bite crazily. The hatred has already planted seeds in the hearts of the soldiers of these two countries.

The Russian army on the central battlefield took the lead in launching the offensive, and went south from the two northwestern routes almost at the same time. At six o'clock in the morning, when it was almost still a little light in the hazy night, two Russian artillery regiments launched an attack on Zhang Yu's forward position. Violent shelling, until 10 minutes later, no one expected that the old man had concealed so much artillery fire. The routine airship inspection report during the day showed that the enemy's artillery on the front line was only about one battalion, so these Either the artillery was transported overnight from Irkutsk, the logistics distribution center in the rear, or the concealment work was done well.In any case, the Central Army was indeed stunned at the beginning.

A regiment at the forefront, after having survived the artillery attack for half an hour, faced the charging large group of Russian cavalry, and began to retreat while fighting (when the line of defense was already under the enemy's artillery coverage, It is an act of looking for death) Although the enemy does not have an airship, the detection work is also not weak.At least the artillery found the position of the line of defense accurately at the first time.The number of casualties of our army exceeded 200. After withdrawing [-] kilometers to the south, we joined the two regiments from the south in the Mundzvik Valley in the south and established a new line of defense.

On the other hand, the Russian army on the western front was more cautious. The small-scale testing of a few groups of seven or eight people was obviously trying to find out the firepower deployment of the Chinese defense line.

On the Eastern Front, the Eastern Expeditionary Army led by Zhang Zuolin was in full swing. The temporarily scattered Russian army was no match for the Eastern Expeditionary Army. Instead, after a series of small-scale failures, they handed over their weapons and equipment to the Chinese for nothing.After a brief adjustment, the Eastern Expeditionary Army began to march toward the Russian central zone on a large scale.

Guan Xuqing immediately ordered the Ninth Corps, No.15 Corps, and No. [-] Corps ambushing on the eastern border to immediately march northward, divide into several strategic formations, and occupy major cities in Eastern Siberia.

Before the arrival of the front battle report, the telegram room first received a telegram from the British. The British almost gave up all the politeness and expressed the situation in the simplest terms and words: The Baltic Fleet filed an application with the British Empire today, They want to stop at the military port in northern Australia for supplies and maintenance, but the British answer is that it takes time to consider.

Guan Xuqing smiled. He didn't make any reply to the British telegram, but he already knew what to do.The Russian Admiralty must have been stunned by the fiasco of Vladivostok, and even let the Baltic Fleet go halfway around the world to attack southern China. Such behavior can only be described with an idiom: moths to the flame.

It can be seen from this telegram that Russia has been abandoned by the Allied ally, Britain, and even his series of reckless actions are being abandoned by the whole world.Although the British know that China is very close to its mortal enemy Germany, China has never made it clear in the world that it is on the side of the Axis powers. This ambiguous attitude makes Britain have hope for this eastern power.

The British Empire is making a trade-off. In their future layout, Russia's role is and only to contain the needs of Germany.Apart from this little good, there is nothing worth mentioning about this barbaric country, which has been the enemy of the British Empire for a long time.

Now, with the rise of a new power in the Far East, the British Empire has surpassed Russia, which is also at the beginning of industrialization, in the evaluation form of the British Empire. If the Russians fail in this war, they may completely withdraw from the ranks of the top countries in the world. ranks.How much role this country will have at that time, this account does not need to be calculated for too long.If the power of this country cannot be used for the purposes and uses that the British Empire needs, then destruction may be the best direction.

Of course, in this dispute between the Russians and China, it is not that the British did not think of helping Russia to suppress China, and tried to use diplomatic pressure to make the Chinese bow their heads to Russia a little bit, but considering that the Chinese emperor had already made positive It is inconvenient for the British to make more demands, and no matter how the Chinese win, they will not pose a threat to the core interests of the British Empire. Perhaps what they want is to restore the glory of their ancestors. As for The Asian interests of the British Empire, under the rule of an increasingly enlightened China and a bureaucratic class with experience in the UK, this country will not deviate too far from the course of the British Empire.Although the Germans are desperately trying to win over this country with great potential, there are good reasons to believe that the Germans just hope to use such a country to accomplish their goal of containing the Russians.

Therefore, on the eve of the Sino-Russian land war, Britain made an important decision, that is, to stand on China's side in the Sino-Russian conflict.Notifying the Chinese side of the whereabouts of the Russian fleet is the first manifestation of this decision.In view of the fact that the difference in military strength between the two sides is not very huge, Britain did not devote too much energy to this war. After all, its army was being overwhelmed by German tanks. At the same time, the British still had one important thing to do. Do, it is in the diamond producing area at the southern tip of Africa, they are preparing to set off a war of revenge in Buer.

The world is so unstable, one crisis after another is gradually dragging this planet into the abyss of total war, every crisis is solved no matter through war or peace, it is the pot of total war that is about to boil in the end Add a fire under the soup pot.Except war.This earth has no other way.

Just like the front line of Novosibirsk, the Russians had the upper hand for a while. Although the artillery fire and cavalry group charge opened a big hole in the forefront of the Chinese defense line, a regiment that immediately occupied it had not had time to count the results. The Chinese in the south immediately Revenge artillery fire covered this densely populated place.After leaving nearly half a regiment of casualties, the Russians retreated back to their original position in desperation, leaving the position that had been bombed to pieces. The two sides resumed their confrontation again, but the Chinese front seemed to be facing The south has taken it in, and the center of the front lines of both sides is the dangerous area covered by artillery fire.

The stalemate did not last long.Half an hour later, on the oblique defense line from east to west, all the key points of the Chinese defense were impacted by the Russian army to varying degrees, and they were all in the same pattern. Although the cavalry assault after the artillery fire was not large in scale, the largest was the regiment level However, after one morning, the total number of troops invested in the offensive has reached more than 700 people, and there are eleven key defense points along the entire line. During the morning's defensive battle, almost all casualties were caused by artillery fire.The total casualties reached more than 3000 people. Fortunately, the Maxim machine guns on the defense line played a huge role. When facing the cavalry group charge, dozens of Maxim machine guns on the entire front harvested more than [-] lives like harvesters. , This also makes the pre-built line of defense in the face of a charge, except for Novosibirsk, which has no convenient location, and because of the customs clearance for many years.In addition to the loss of any secret place in front of the Russians, none of the other ten points showed signs of defeat.

(End of this chapter)