Travel through the Qing Dynasty and become emperor

The icy biting cold, no matter in any period, had caused Napoleon to bury hundreds of thousands of troops and never recover from it, and finally died on a desolate island.Every winter, the biting cold wind blows layers of snow on the ground, and Moscow is once again covered with a layer of silver. The country of ice and snow, like a vast expanse of white, is flying in the cold wind, making people breathless. , I can't open my eyes when I eat, and there is always a thin layer of snow coat on the thick sheepskin jacket.

Zhang Zuolin was wearing a bearskin hat, standing on a hill, using binoculars to look at the city of Moscow in the icy fog, surrounded by a large group of senior generals and guards, and the sound of artillery from the Kashila position in the distance came from time to time.

"Commander, the main defensive position in Moscow is now Kashira. Our army has attacked three times in a row, and the damage is very heavy. It seems that this position is a tough one." Sun Lichen, the newly appointed commander of the 21st Division, said anxiously.

Zhang Zuolin spat fiercely: "Damn, I have a scar! What the hell is tough? When I was suppressing bandits in Mongolia, I fought a lot with Big Nose. They also carried a meat ball on their shoulders. When the gunshot fired, he Mom was so scared that she peed her pants, it’s nothing special." He took a few puffs of dry smoke, his sharp eyes flickered in the smoke, and suddenly said: "Order Zhang Zongchang's forward troops to retreat!"

Sun Liechen thought he heard it wrong, so he couldn't help but said, "What?"

"Big Nose's fortifications are very solid. Our army keeps charging, and it can only cause more and more damage... Mom, Scar, we can't do this uneconomical business. We don't use the cannons, we just rely on The soldiers are going to fill the bomb crater, if this continues, I will have to explain everything to my men and horses before they enter Moscow." Zhang Zuolin shouted loudly, as he always said.

After a while, the artillery commander Zou Zuohua ran to the hill and said, "Zou Zuohua is here to meet the commander in chief."

Zhang Zuolin was very fond of Zou Zuohua, who was a major in the artillery department. He patted Zou Zuohua on the shoulder and said, "My boy, are the cannons ready?"

"Report to Commander, 34 field artillery pieces, 150 mortars, and [-] howitzers are all ready, waiting for Commander's orders at any time." Zou Zuohua replied very simply and loudly.

"Okay! Damn, scarred, like a soldier leading an army. The big nose is most afraid of our night attack tactics. I will give him one today. I order that at 7 o'clock tonight, your cannons will be on time for Kashira's position Open fire. Where's Tang Yulin?" Zhang Zuolin turned around and searched among a large group of followers, and a burly black-faced man came out. "Tang Yulin is here, what orders does the Marshal have!"

"I ordered that after Zou Zuohua's shelling is over, lead your 23rd Division from both wings to the rear of the enemy's position. As long as our side launches a charge, you will outflank it. Do you understand?"

"Yes!"

St. Petersburg Hermitage.The worst news comes one after the other at the same time.The German Mediterranean Fleet sailed into the Black Sea. Facing the powerful German tanks, it is still unknown whether the weak Black Sea Fleet can withstand it.

Of course, the worst news came from the Far East. All the armies sent by Russia were repelled or wiped out one by one. Nicholas II was very angry. Could it be that these wastes were being manipulated by yellow-skinned monkeys? ?Unable to bear it any longer, Nicholas I stood up from his seat, pointed at the Russian map that occupied the entire wall and shouted: "These shameless people have entered the territory of the Russian Empire. Defend the dignity of the empire!" Pointing to the Mediterranean Sea quickly with his fingers, he shouted angrily: "Also here, in order to prevent others from getting involved in the Mediterranean Sea, the despicable Germans actually stepped in at the most critical moment of the Empire. We cannot bear this kind of threat.”

He said to a minister sitting on the right, "When will the French loan arrive?" Russian Tsar Nicholas II asked his finance minister Witte.

"Your Majesty, regarding the loan to France, the French asked that the Russian army completely withdraw from the Balkans before agreeing to it." Witte replied.

"This treacherous Frenchman took advantage of the fire at this juncture to rob. Even if there is no payment, Russia can wipe out all the invading enemies." Sergey Ivanov, chief of staff of the army, said fiercely.

Witte secretly wiped away the saliva sprayed on his face by Ivanov, and said to the Tsar while Ivanov was panting: "Dear Your Majesty the Tsar. I think we should avoid conflict with Britain. The Chinese have entered We have entered the territory of our country. In the Far East, we do not have too many troops to defend. The most urgent task is to retreat from the Ottomans first and concentrate on dealing with the Chinese."

Although Foreign Minister Witte's words were a bit lacking in confidence, in this room full of soldiers, as soon as his words fell, people around shouted.The speaker was Budakojevich, Commander of the Moscow Guards.Facing Budakojevich, whose mouth was constantly opening and closing, Werther felt the light rain in the air, and he regretted sitting opposite Budakojevich.Hey, who let me choose the wrong position.Werther could only feel unlucky and touched his wet cheeks, thinking that the Chinese army had already arrived at the city of Moscow. If you have the ability, you should go to the front line to kill.But Werther didn't speak, because the other Russian generals all spit on him.

However, there are also people who understand in the army. Marshal Kurobatkin stood up and said: "Please be quiet, everyone, and listen to me. Now I think that our army's numerical advantage is the most common winning factor in strategy and tactics. Now our army does not have the advantage in weapons and personnel, so the attack on the Chinese in the Far East resulted in failure. But the Chinese also have disadvantages. They are not used to the Russian climate. As long as the last line of defense does not collapse, the cold air in Siberia will definitely It will bring them down, and that's how Napoleon, who was once mighty, fell."

The always taciturn general stood up and said to Nicholas II: "Your Majesty, please allow me to go to the front. I will use my life to maintain the honor of the empire, fight for the great tsar, and sweep the heretics into the world forever." hell."

Nicholas II stood up imposingly.The field marshals, generals and ministers in the house all looked at the tsar intently, quietly waiting for His Majesty's will.

Nicholas II looked around for a week with gloomy eyes, the air in the room became frozen, and suddenly the Tsar said: "Now, I order."

At the end of the sentence, all the generals, including the Minister of Finance and Foreign Affairs, stood up in unison.

Immediately afterwards, the tsar's imposing voice sounded in the terribly quiet conference hall: "Marshal Kurobatkin is the commander-in-chief of the southern, northern, and central lines of the empire. All the garrisons on the defensive lines belong to Kurobatkin. Field Marshal Batykin is in command."

After the meeting, Marshal Kurobatkin held the information provided by the Military Intelligence in his hand and meditated. Sitting in the chariot with a burning charcoal stove, Marshal Kurobatkin still felt cold, but the coldness of his body could not compare with the coldness in his heart. Chill, he doesn't understand why the strength of the Chinese army has improved so quickly?Could it be that the empire has begun to regress?The supply of the Empire and the third-line war is very large. What makes Russia most uncomfortable now is that China has sent a large number of troops to Moscow. He is worried whether the tragedy of Napoleon will be repeated on the Chinese.

Marshal Kurobatkin looked at the information in his hand about the entire Central Asia and Far East theater. There are only about 50 Russians in the entire region. How can such a strength compete with the Chinese.However, he is also fortunate that the great Alexander II was able to win a piece of the sea from the Chinese last time.

He raised his eyes and looked at the opposite chief of staff and asked, "What do you think?"

"It's hard to say now, but since the Chinese can march in the cold winter, I believe their casualties must be relatively large."

Marshal Kurobatkin thought of something, and said thoughtfully: "Now we should launch an offensive with the army, put the main battlefield on the Irtysh River to paralyze the main force of the Chinese, let them attack Kazakhstan and Siberia, and then let our Let the Cossack cavalry attack the enemy's logistics supplies to their heart's content, this is learned from the Chinese. Haha"

As he said, after that meeting, he concentrated his large forces in Omsk, and it was very difficult to gather Russian troops in the cold season, but this did not affect the Russian army's march to Omsk, although Most of these 50 people were newly recruited housewives to form an army. When the weapons were not in place, Marshal Kurobatkin ordered the personnel to assemble in Omsk first.

However, when the Russian troops were assembled three months later, the Chinese army also completed the occupation of major cities in Central Asia and Siberia.

At the same time, the impoverished Nicholas II called on all Russians to oppose China's invasion, and issued an incentive policy, rewarding 50 rubles for killing a Chinese soldier, and 500 rubles for killing a Chinese officer.The reward for killing a Chinese general is 10000 rubles, while the reward for killing the Qing commander is 50 rubles.At the same time, you can get any wealth and a piece of land from the enemy you kill.It is quite tempting for those peasants who lost their land. Those civilians put down their work and joined the Russian army, and some went directly to Siberia to hunt and kill the Chinese army.

Soaring Front: The First World War Chapter 3 and [-] The Attack and Defense of Moscow

Zhang Zuolin was wrapped in a cotton coat and staring at the map in a daze, when Feng Linge came in and said softly, "Marshal, what's wrong with you?".

Zhang Zuolin didn't look back, but still stared at the map: "According to the news from the spies, the main force of the Russian army is deployed on the second-line position in Moscow, and there are only a small number of Russian troops on the first-line position such as Kashila. I really don't know what the hell they are doing. "

Feng Linge scratched his head and said: "Just adopt the original tactics, deploy a night attack tonight, first use artillery to clear the obstacles on the enemy's position, and then let the cavalry and infantry press up, then we will know what's going on. "

Zhang Zuolin said anxiously: "No, no, it's a bit troublesome. Damn it! You see, the enemy didn't strengthen their defensive positions at all, and on the second line, the spies couldn't get in at all. So far, they still can't find out what's going on. , so fucking anxious!"

"But? It's not a solution to waste it like this." Feng Linge said worriedly.

Zhang Zuolin stood up, paced back and forth in the room, and suddenly slapped his forehead hard: "Mom, I have a scar! I used to be a bearded man in Zhaojiamiao, and even the Japanese and officers and soldiers were not afraid. Now I hold the most elite The army is still afraid that Big Nose will fail. It's settled like this, and we will have a big fight with Big Nose tonight!"

3 o'clock in the morning.The morning star had just risen, and the deep blue sky had just revealed a little white.There was deathly silence on Kaheira's position.The Russian Corps of Engineers arrived here quietly yesterday, and is now nervously entering the tunnel.The tunnels here are connected to the defensive positions around Moscow City. The construction started a month ago, and it seems to be coming to an end now.The Russians hope that through this design, the first and second lines of defense will be connected to each other, and they can reinforce each other at critical moments.This is why Zhang Zuolin heard that Kashira's troops suddenly decreased.

Suddenly, there was a huge roar and light from the central position, and a row of dense artillery shells spit out flames and screamed, across the night sky here, and exploded in the Kahila position!

"Call the headquarters! Call the headquarters! We have been shelled by the Chinese, and we have suffered heavy casualties, very serious, please support!" The voices of the communications soldiers were everywhere in the Kashira position.

In the thick gunpowder, Tang Yulin personally led a special team, behind the cavalry's charge team, slowly touched the enemy's position.This is a team of independent combat engineers. The so-called independent combat engineers do not look strange on the surface, and many people even simply regard them as engineers.But what they didn't know was that this was a new attempt by Zhang Zuolin and his generals for positional warfare.

Zhang Zuolin knew that with the continuous development of weapons, the scale and brutality of positional warfare became larger and larger.Therefore, he believed that relying solely on the cavalry and infantry to attack was not effective, so he initiated the establishment of an army dedicated to positional warfare, which was the independent combat engineer team.Although literally explained, this unit is nothing more than a team of soldiers who specialize in laying and digging mines.

But in fact, Zhang Zuolin equipped this army with more than just mines.Their organization is the same as that of ordinary infantry squads, but unlike ordinary equipment, this unit is equipped with hand grenades and cluster explosives in addition to the pistols, rifles, and machine guns that ordinary infantry squads have.It also includes an artillery company, and their artillery organization is also very distinctive. A mortar company equipped with 6 Livins cannons (the so-called mine thrower, which was designed in World War I, can launch grenades, concrete Explosive bombs, gas bombs and incendiary bombs, specially designed to deal with the strong fortifications of trenches), although they look a little ugly, they are still powerful.The 36-type concrete blasting bomb it is equipped with weighs 38 kilograms, and the blasting power can destroy a 4-inch-thick wall in one fell swoop.But the only problem is the weight. A cannon needs several people to serve it, so the tactical movement is very complicated.However, Zhang Zuolin had noticed this, so he specially developed a small wooden cart for transporting the cannon.In short, the reason why Zhang Zuolin dared to use this team in such a big battle was to test the results of his own preparation.After all, after training for such a long time, it is impossible not to experiment.

Tang Yulin, who has experienced many battles, is not at all relieved to lead such a special team for the first time.He is still resentful of yesterday's painful lesson.

This afternoon, an unsuccessful attack by a battalion of the 23th Regiment of the 147rd Division dealt him a heavy blow.At around 6 o'clock this afternoon, under the cover of the division's artillery, they launched a strong attack on Kashira's left position.The infantry attack went smoothly at first.They quickly broke through the outer defensive line of the position, but after breaking into the outer defensive wall of the position, they immediately encountered a lot of trouble.Because all the soybeans were sprinkled on the wide flat ground, after the soldiers rushed there, they lost their balance and slipped to the ground.At this time, the Russian rifles and light and heavy machine guns ambushing in the trenches began to fire.Chuk Chuk... Machine gun bullets swept over like a torrential rain, and the Chinese soldiers fell in a pool of blood row by row.Because they cannot quickly break through the crossfire composed of light and heavy machine guns and rifles.

This situation made Tang Yulin very depressed.So he called Zhang Kai, Sun Lichen, and Yang Yuting, the chiefs of the combat department.These few people are all well-known advisors under Zhang Zuolin's command. After some research, the four decided to adopt an unprecedented tactic to attack.

6点45分，参与这次进攻的部队已经悄悄的来到了进攻的出发地，距离卡希拉阵地500米处的一块隐蔽空地。然后等待最后总攻的开始。7点整，三发红色信号弹腾空而起。23师的师属山炮和85毫米行营炮向俄军阵地猛烈轰击。顿时原本就被炮弹炸的残破不堪的阵地再次陷入了火海之中。

Ten minutes later, the artillery of the 10rd Brigade of the 27th Division also joined the artillery ensemble.Especially the Li Wensi cannon, with a short barrel and an unusually huge conical projectile stuck in the thick muzzle.The soldier ignited the fuze, and with a loud noise, the cone-shaped shell shot toward the target rapidly with a long tail flame, and then drew a beautiful arc, accurately inserted into the wall of a fortification, But the cannonball didn't explode immediately. After the flame at the tail was slowly extinguished, there was an earth-shattering explosion.Amid the black gunpowder smoke, this strong fortification collapsed, half of the dozen or so Russian soldiers inside were killed, and the rest were shot dead by Chinese cavalry rifles.

The 85mm infantry artillery produced by the Northwest Military Industry Bureau is even more powerful. In order to ensure the accuracy of the hit, the artillerymen pushed the heavy artillery to a place only 1000 meters away from the opponent's position, and then used close-range bombardment tactics to attack the Russians. The shooting holes in the walls were called one by one.Soon, the fortifications arranged on the outer line of Kashira's position were destroyed one by one.

In this way, the powerful fire support lasted for a whole hour.At 8 o'clock, the artillery of the 23rd Division and Zou Zuohua's artillery stopped bombarding.However, before the Russian army on the ground breathed a sigh of relief, there were waves of strange whistling sounds outside.Hearing these roars, the Russian soldiers who were just about to come out had to shrink back again, because they knew that those roars were from the mortars of the Chinese army.Soon, dozens of mortar shells fell to the center of the position.Accompanied by bursts of violent explosions, those fortifications that were not completely destroyed shook under the violent air waves.

"Brothers, go!" Taking advantage of this opportunity, Tang Yulin, who was in charge of the frontal attack, led the special engineering team to start the charge, but unlike before, everyone in this charge carried a thick cotton bag on their backs. quilt.Soon these soldiers rushed to the yard of the spinning mill, but instead of attacking directly, they threw the quilt on their backs on the ground.The thick quilt quickly covered the soybeans all over the ground, while the soldiers behind rushed inside on the path opened by the quilt.Soon, they rushed through the wall that had been bombarded by shells, and stepped into the defensive line of Kashira's position.The battle soon began on the edge of the trenches.However, because the Russian military first built two bunkers near the defense line and added shooting holes and machine gun shooting ports, the resistance was very tenacious.Tang Yulin's army has to pay a high price for every inch of land it seizes.

"Get down! His grandma's!" Tang Yulin stared at the opposite bunker with big eyes, gnashing his teeth in hatred.

Just when the two sides were at a stalemate, there was an earth-shattering loud noise suddenly approaching the east bunker, and the whole earth trembled.Tang Yulin froze for a moment.Soon, intense gunfire and mournful howling came from the bunker.Tang Yulin's spirit was lifted, he knew that his brother army had succeeded.At this time, the people in the opposite bunker did not seem to wake up from the nightmare, and the suppression of firepower was much reduced, so Tang Yulin jumped up, waved the large German mirror in his hand and shouted: "Brothers, our people have already shot from the side. We rushed in, we are not cowards, put on the bayonet, and fight with the little devil! Come with me!"

Inspired by their superiors, the courage and arrogance of those soldiers suddenly rose.They stood up one after another, held their bayonet-mounted rifles, shouted loudly, and rushed towards the enemy's position.Seeing this scene, the defensive Russians were stunned for a moment.At this moment, a soldier rushed to the right side of the bunker at lightning speed, stabbed two grenade fighters through the machine gun, and only heard a loud "boom", and the cement building collapsed in an instant Come down and smash that heroic Chinese soldier and the Russians inside into a pulp.

"Six!" Tang Yulin yelled a few times but got no answer, and there was a gray twilight beyond the dark castle.

The Chinese soldiers with high morale roared and rushed into the enemy's formation, and the hand-to-hand combat began!

Soaring Front: The First World War Chapter 3 Moscow Attack and Defense