Chapter 894 Descending latitude to strike at the front line of the Ural Mountains.Snowflakes are flying, horses' hooves are rolling, and the earth is shaking violently, making it impossible to stand.The horns continued, and tens of thousands of Russian Cossack cavalry roared.They did not launch a direct attack, but around the Ming defense line, using the speed advantage of the cavalry to test back and forth, looking for the loopholes in the Ming defense line.On the 340-mile defensive line from Fort Ufa to Fort Oni (the predecessor of Orsk), the troops were divided into several units and repeatedly tested.On the 340-mile-long defensive line, the Ming army garrisoned 16 regiments, and the average defensive width of each regiment was more than 20 miles, which can be said to be very thin.However, the problem is that this defense line, which can be said to be extremely rudimentary, makes the Tsarist army like a dog biting a hedgehog, and has no way to go down, this defense line adopts the configuration of trenches, barbed wire and trenches, with a depth of seven trenches and eight barbed wire, and a depth of about three kilometers.The 150,000 Tsarist Russian troops tried repeatedly, and what they hoped most was that the Ming Dynasty would quickly increase its troops, and it was best to concentrate the second- and third-line troops on the first line, so that they could fight a thousand-mile blitzkrieg.It's a pity that the ideal is very full, the reality is too backbone, the decisive battle in the Siberian Plain is the ideal battlefield of Tsarist Russia, this European war, Tsarist Russia and the Ottoman Empire belong to the same anti-Catholic alliance, but Tsarist Russia did not directly enter the European war, they and the Ottoman Empire, nominally supported, in fact did not participate in the war.In fact, Tsarist Russia had always wanted to annex the Balkans, which is now the Serbian province of the Ottoman Empire.In the history of the world, the Balkans have always been a powder keg.It is because Serbia, an iron-headed doll, has always been green in the areas annexed by the Ottoman Empire, but the Serbs have always insisted on not greening and have always insisted on fighting, and their struggle was actually supported by Tsarist Russia.Of course, the Ottoman Empire, which was in full swing, was not unaware of Tsarist Russia's intentions, but deployed heavy troops in the Balkans.It wasn't until October last year that the Ming North Africa, located in Egypt, once again fought with the Ottoman Empire, which gave Tsarist Russia an opportunity.At this time, Tsarist Russia was in the first tsar of the Romanov dynasty, Mikhail Fedorovich Romanov, if you have to compare Mikhail with the emperors in Chinese history, he is most similar to Sima Rui, the emperor of the Jin Yuan Dynasty in the Eastern Jin Dynasty, he is the son of Fedor Romanov, the head of the Romanov family in the previous dynasty, Archbishop Fedor Romanov, and the grandnephew of Anastasia Romanov, the empress of Ivan IV.Although Mikhail is a tsar, his every move is constrained by the church and court etiquette, coupled with his weak personality, he can be said to be subservient to his mother, he is actually a mascot like Sima Rui, and the actual power is in the hands of the great nobles.Over the years, Tsarist Russia has been expanding, on the Western Front, and Poland fought hard, at first the Tsarist Russian army has been overwhelming, and soon conquered several cities, to the city of Smolensk, but the Russian army in the city of Smolensk for a long time, heavy casualties, and finally ran out of food, had to return in vain.At this time, Tsarist Russia mobilized a large number of troops from the western and southern fronts, preparing to take advantage of the Ming Dynasty's self-care and launch an attack on the Ming Dynasty.It can be said that there is no problem strategically, after all, the Ottoman Empire is not a small country, the Ming army successively captured the Egyptian province of Damascus, and the Ottoman Empire in order to cover up its incompetence, declared to the outside world that the Ming used two or three hundred thousand troops.In fact, in these years, Tsarist Russia and the Ming did not have direct trade contacts, and the intelligence of the Ming was very poor, and their ruling minister, Duke Elston, believed that the strength of the Ming Dynasty was like that, and the Mongols were not their opponents, so they could achieve results on the Eastern Front to boost his prestige.In particular, the Ming Dynasty has not increased its troops on the Eastern Front, which makes the Duke of Elston more convinced that the Ming Dynasty is a defensive void on the Eastern Front, and the Ming Dynasty is actually on the Eastern Front, which does not mean that there are no follow-up troops, and the Anbei Governor's Mansion has three main divisions and eighteen brigades with a total of one hundred and eight regiments, with a total strength of nearly 200,000 people.Although the area under its jurisdiction is more than 4 million square kilometers, if you want to support the Ural line, you should be able to transfer 30,000 to 50,000 people over, but Daming did not transfer, but was testing a theory.The territory of the Ming empire is too large, and the army is not able to expand, after all, the imperial court has carried a heavy burden, in this case, the Ming General Staff put forward the theory of mobile defense.It is to use the rapid maneuver of the Ming Dynasty railway to achieve mobile defense, and behind the defense line of the Ural line three kilometers deep, there are four ring railways along the line, with steam ironclad cars, for mobile defense.The General Staff of the Anbei Governor's Office is using this Tsarist attack to verify this operational theory.In the fifth year of Dingxin, in the year 4637 of the Yellow Emperor, on the twentieth day of the first month of 1640 AD, the Russian army in the direction of Onibao began to launch a key attack.The Tsarist army prepared more than 100 cannons on the front line and launched an intensive artillery bombardment of the Ming positions, and before the Tsarist army shelled, the Ming army immediately abandoned the first trench and let the Tsarist artillery perform.The "Boom ......" shells were beating on the hard ice, and the shells carried huge kinetic energy, destroying a large number of barbed wire, but not more damaged, and the solid shells could only depend on luck and the density of the fire coverage if they wanted to hit the thin barbed wire.The artillery bombardment of the Tsarist Russian army in the direction of Onibao lasted for nearly half a day, and even the staff of the Anbei Governor's Office believed that this was the key breakthrough direction of the Tsarist army, but the problem was that the reconnaissance of the hot air balloon in the air found that the Tsarist army in the direction of Oniburg was only a small part.In the early morning of the 21st day of the first lunar month, a dull explosion sounded on the front line of the Ming army's decisive town on the Ural Defense Line.This was the detonation of the mines, in fact, due to the cold weather, more mines were frozen, and there was no time to explode at all, and the Russian army took advantage of the cover of night and began to launch a surprise attack in the direction of the decisive town.In this raid, the Tsarist army also used their brains, they used hunting dogs and wolves, tied to burning powder packs, and launched an attack on the Ming defense line.This raid achieved unexpected results, in just half an hour, the Ming army lost six of the seven lines of defense, and the 94th Regiment of the Fifth Division, which was responsible for defending the decisive fort, suffered heavy casualties, especially the speed of the hounds and hungry wolves, the machine guns were too late to stop the attack, and many soldiers were either bitten by the hounds or killed by explosives.As the gap in the decisive town was successfully opened by the Tsarist army, as many as 30,000 Russian Cossack cavalry, as if like a tide, poured along the gap.Although the Ming army used superior firearms to desperately block the attack, the problem was that there were holes in the long defense line, and even the reserves could not stop it.At noon on the 21st, through the gap in the decisive town, the Russian army that attacked the territory of the Ming Dynasty exceeded 20,000 horses.The front of the staff of the Anbei Governor's Office asked Qi Yuanbi: "Is it as originally planned to counterattack?"
”"No, it's not enough, your appetite is too small, let the enemy in, hit them so hard that they don't dare to go east for a hundred years!"......
The sound of ghosts crying and howling wolves sounded all over the mountains and fields, and the Russian army was led by cavalry, followed by a large number of infantry, like an avalanche, sweeping overwhelmingly.The soldiers of the Ming defenders of the decisive town desperately shot at the Russian army.The dull sound of "bang......" continued to sound on the front, followed by the crisp sound of broken bones, and the people on the front line of the Tsarist cavalry turned on their backs.But the problem is that in the face of such casualties, the Tsarist army directly chose to ignore it and rush if it did not die.The Tsarist army also had no choice, especially the Cossack cavalry that was dispatched, because of the weather, the Tsarist Russian Empire, which was in a higher dimension, had a lower agricultural harvest, and there were a large number of starvation deaths in the country.In order to survive, in order to survive, you can only invade.This is nothing more than justice and evil, just for the survival of the nation and the country, the fearless Tsarist Russian army soon broke through more than 30 miles in the territory of the Ming Dynasty."
Tell General Qi that the Tsarist army has rushed in with nearly 50,000 people......"
"It's not enough, continue to wait, order the ambush troops, don't be exposed, even if the Tsarist army pees on your head, let me bear with it!"
Qi Yuanbi turned to the radio and ordered: "Support brigade, be sure to ensure that the sixteen ironclad chariots start on time, otherwise you will wait to eat guns!"
”"Report that the advance of the Tsarist Russian army has arrived in Lizhai Town!""
No shooting, no order!"
About 30 miles east of Lizhai Town is a small valley, and on an equipment train in the valley, skilled workers are doing the final checks.Flames rose from the furnace of the steam locomotive, the train driver was staring at the radio station next to him, waiting for orders, and in the carriage of the ironclad train, the soldiers were silently pressing the bullets, this kind of ironclad train had four 37 rapid-fire guns and 12 heavy machine gun crews.In the later generations, it belongs to the old-fashioned ironclad train, and in this time and space, it is undoubtedly an ironclad behemoth.Valley< /span&gt; "Report, according to forward observations, the Tsarist army entered the pocket of more than 100,000 people!"
Qi Yuanbi received the report, and he said without thinking: "Pass my order, the iron beast is out of the cage!"
”As the radio command was given, sixteen armored trains scattered along the circular railway began to whistle as the trains moved.Qi Yuanbi finally breathed a sigh of relief.The theory of this kind of mobile defense is in the verification stage, and who does not know how effective it will be, if this theory cannot be successful, the second set of plans can only be adopted, and the Tsarist Russian army will be beaten back according to the traditional method of fighting.The sound of "clang, clang, clang......" slowly came along the railway, and the Cossack cavalrymen, who were eating dry food and drinking wine, suddenly looked into the distance in unison.Although they successfully broke into the hinterland of the Ming Dynasty, in fact did not achieve any effective results, the towns of the Ming Dynasty have strong walls, and their cavalry has no way to attack the city, and they have worked very hard along the way, so they can only occasionally scatter in the surrounding granges to rummage through boxes and cabinets, looking for the materials left by the people."
What the hell is that?"
In fact, the Cossacks had never seen a steam train, let alone them, unless some people who often came to the Ming Dynasty in Liaodong or the capital could see a steam locomotive train.The steam train emitted black smoke, as if like an ancient beast, and while roaring, it rushed towards the Cossack cavalry.While the Cossack cavalry was in a daze, the armored train slowly slowed down and passed through the oblique spurs of the Cossack cavalry.The heavy machine guns on the armored train of "Da ......" fired first at the Cossack cavalry, and the heavy machine guns of 12.7 mm caliber fired bullets at the Cossack cavalry who were in a daze at a rate of fire of 600 rounds per minute.In the caliber heavy machine gun bullet hit the human body will not appear a blood hole, but a large blood hole at the mouth of the bowl, hit the arm, directly cut off the arm, hit the thigh, and the thigh directly separated from the body."
Knock knock!"
Three-seven-millimeter rapid-fire guns were also firing shells at the Russian army."
Spread out and run!"
No matter how well trained the Cossack cavalry was, it was of little use, because armored trains whizzed by, leaving a trail of flesh and blood.Just when the Cossack cavalry was in shock, another armored train roared in the direction of their right rear.Heavy machine gun fire, rapid-fire gun fire.In just a few minutes, more than a thousand people were killed and wounded in this Cossack cavalry."
Run!"
The surviving Cossack cavalry hurriedly mounted their horses and fled in the direction from which they came.As a result, another sharp shelling sounded behind them.This circular railway adopts a double-parallel spiral layout.Sixteen armored trains roared towards the formation of the Tsarist army again and again, and each time it set off a mist of blood in the formation of the Tsarist army."
Help me, I don't want to die......"
"Don't leave my ......"
"Damn the hell again, stop them!"
The order of the Russian military officer, which made some Tsarist soldiers cry without tears, how to deal with armored trains?
It's not complicated to promise, blow up the rails with explosives, or bombard them with artillery?
You must know that the armored train at this time had only a layer of steel plates about twenty mm thick, and solid shells were enough to easily penetrate it.But the problem is that the hit rate of smoothbore guns is too poor, and they rely on random fate to hit fixed targets, let alone moving targets?
Sixteen armored trains, almost every five minutes, appeared in the formation of the Tsarist army, driving the Russian army into the encirclement.With the ring of strafing and shelling, there were fewer and fewer Tsarist troops in the encirclement.You must know that sixteen armored trains, with sixteen rapid-fire guns of three or seven millimeters, plus one hundred and ninety-two heavy machine guns, the density of firepower can be replenished by one's own brain.It's not that no one has ever thought of running away in the opposite direction, the point is that these two circular railways are like egg pancakes, with eight armored trains fighting from the inside out, and eight armored trains fighting from the outside in.As a result, within a radius of fifty kilometers, it is the strike range of armored trains, and even the fastest cavalry cannot run for more than ten or twenty miles in just five or six minutes."
Stop fighting, let's surrender!"
In fact, surrender is useless, the current Ming army can't hear it at all, and even if they hear it, it's useless, because they can't understand it.This is no longer a fight, but a one-sided slaughter.From the beginning of the appearance of armored trains, the casualties of the Tsarist Russian army rose in a straight line, and soon those Tsarist Russian troops learned to behave, they crawled on the ground and loaded ostriches.The soldiers of the Tsarist army who were standing were soon strafed by armored trains, like peeled onions, and were wiped out layer by layer and slaughtered......
Soon the snowfield turned a bright red, and it is not an exaggeration to say that it was a river of blood."
General, the results of the giant beast out of the cage have come out!""
How?""
In just half an hour, at least 20,000 Russian troops were killed and wounded!""
What?"
Qi Yuanbi was a little incredulous.He hurriedly took the report.At this time, his hanging heart finally put it into his stomach.Mobile Defense Succeeded!
This means that the Ming Dynasty will be able to defend a large area with a small number of troops in the future.The battle continued, and the Tsarist troops were quickly shot and killed every minute.At this time, the Russian army had completely collapsed, and they frantically yelled at the ironclad train: "Bastards, you see clearly, we surrendered, surrendered ......"