In the Siberian wilderness, it's already summer, but the weather here doesn't feel warm at all.An army of 500,000 marched together, and the food and grass needed along the way were astonishing, and almost all of Russia's strength was exhausted.This time they did not think of a quick victory, but prepared to fight a protracted war with the Orientals.They also estimated the strength of the Manchurians and the Huaxing army, and decided not to completely defeat them, and vowed not to give up.Because of logistical supply problems, the march of the army was also slow.In March, the army began its crusade to the east, and it was only now July that it had just crossed the Ural Mountains and reached the territory of Asia.And this was only the combat troops crossing the mountains, because the roads had not yet been built on a large scale, and the mountains were all forest paths.If a large amount of material is to be transported across the Ural Mountains, the number of logistical transport personnel alone is on par with that of combat personnel, reaching more than 500,000.Even then, it would have taken months.The tsar also let go this time, wanting to completely defeat the Orientals and get back all the things that were lost.In order to weaken Germany's rising power, Britain had announced its readiness to form an alliance with Russia and France to unconditionally support Russia's 200,000 breech-loading rifles.The Tsar was so happy that he was going to spend a lot of money on it, but when he got so much in vain, he immediately announced that he had agreed to form an alliance with Britain to maintain the existing order in Europe.France does not have such a big pocket, and it has just been beaten by Germany like its grandson, and Paris has been occupied by others.Now we can only shrink our heads and be a man, and for the time being, we will not publicly announce the alliance with Britain and Russia.Their president, Thiers, relied on the strength of Germany to sit on the presidency.When the proletariat of the Paris Commune established power, Thiers, with the help of German Chancellor Bismarck, returned to Paris with more than 500,000 French troops captured by Germany in the Battle of Sedan.In one fell swoop, he wiped out the armed forces of the Paris Commune and established his own ruling power.They do not yet have the strength to turn against Germany, so they do not dare to say anything about Russia.The Queen of England looked at these unproductive Frenchmen, scolded angrily in Buckingham Palace, and even menstruation was a little uncoordinated.This woman who is over 50 years old still maintains a vigorous vitality.In order to maintain the sunset position of the British Empire, she is also ready to go out and fight the Orientals to the end.Britain is all in urgent preparation for war, constantly developing all kinds of new weapons.After all, they had a strong industrial base, and with reference to the real thing, they quickly developed a process for making machine guns and mortars.These two types of army weapons are also being produced in large quantities, and they will be able to be assembled for the whole army this year, completely raising the combat effectiveness of the entire army to a higher level.But the only thing that worried the Queen of England was that the navy's artillery did not make any progress.Because of their steel-making technology, they could not withstand the impact of the shells when they were fired.Steelmaking technology is not something that can be broken through in a day, this is not a weapon, they can buy and study it everywhere, and no one knows how the Orientals refined steel suitable for breech artillery.The Royal Academy of Sciences has been overcoming this difficulty day and night, and the Queen of England has no choice but to be patient, swallow this evil breath, and do not take action against New China for the time being.There must be a war between China and Britain, this is a sentence that Qiao Zhiqing often tells his soldiers, and it is also the last big enemy that New China will face.If Britain is not defeated, it is nothing more than a dream of self-deception if you want the long-term development of peace.Russia was menacing this time, and all 500,000 people were equipped with breech-loading rifles.The 200,000-strong Cossack cavalry marched almost as they intensified their practice of shooting.The breech-loading rifles were also very easy to operate, and by the time the army crossed the Urals, all the Cossack cavalry were already proficient in shooting.But the accuracy is not very high, after all, the accuracy of shooting depends on live firing to pile up.Russia has now set up more than a dozen arsenals dedicated to the production of bullets for this rifle.Although the Russian army is not short of bullets, it is only because the distance is too far and the logistics supply is too inconvenient.Therefore, each person is only equipped with hundreds of rounds of ammunition, and they try to save ammunition when they practice shooting.According to the strategy formulated before the war, the army reached the Yakutia and Transbaikal regions before the onset of winter, forming an encirclement of Manchukuo.As soon as winter dawned, the army launched a formal attack.This strategy is not at all conservative, and Moscow is more than 5,000 kilometers away from these two oblasts.The army can now travel only fifty kilometers a day, rain or shine.It will take at least three months for the Russian army to arrive in these two places, not to mention the logistics troops that transport supplies and supplies.It's almost July, and they've arrived in the two states in October, and it's the middle of winter when they're ready to deploy.Qiao Zhiqing did not give the old Western empires time to catch up, their weapons are constantly being updated, and the arsenal of New China is also running at full capacity, constantly developing and producing new weapons.The new Type 68 artillery developed by the Nanjing Arsenal the year before last has been fully assembled in all major military regions of the Huaxing Army.The artillery was also officially independent and became an independent combat unit.Each army has an artillery division, with a total of more than 10,000 artillery members and more than 1,000 artillery pieces of various types.The year before last, the Huaxing Army recruited more than one million new soldiers, and in addition to filling the vacancies of the first batch of veterans who were discharged, it also stationed them in various states.After the governorship system of the states was determined, Qiao Zhiqing successively reappointed the governors of the eight states and officially stationed troops stationed abroad directly under the Ministry of National Defense.These foreign troops, commanded by the Governor, are no longer subordinate to any military region and are part of the newly added independent military region.The states have also disbanded their own military forces and can only establish public security forces for the purpose of maintaining social stability.At this time, no state dared to go against such a policy.Among them, the most powerful New Huaxia followed this system.The Philippines is a remnant of the Boxer Rebellion, and Indonesia is a remnant of Li Xiucheng, where do they dare to speak out against it.After the military reform in all aspects, the centralization of power of the central government was also greatly strengthened, and Qiao Zhiqing's all-out strength reached its peak for a while.Qiao Zhiqing was not satisfied, what he wanted to establish was a Chinese empire that dominated the world, and at this time it was just to solve the internal problems, and the external colonial movement had just begun.Therefore, he wants to ensure that his weapons are always at the leading level, and after the Chinese Academy of Sciences continues to improve the engine, he will also put an iron armor shell on this heart.With this thing, the Huaxing army will also be invincible on land.The Nanjing Arsenal was ordered to develop and research it, and it has been developed for nearly two or three years now, almost together with the development of the engine.Now that the technology of the engine has been conquered, the appearance of this king of land warfare will be in the winter of this year at the latest.Qiao Zhiqing prepared a good gift for the Russian army, but they didn't know that every time they took a step to the east, they were one meter closer to the Ghost Gate
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