dognovel Chapter 152: 3 major operational objectives, moving the base north
Chapter 152: 3 major operational objectives, moving the base north
Operation Begonia Leaf has three major goals, and these three goals are also very targeted.
Only when these three goals are achieved can the Begonia leaves be truly unified.
The first target is Mengyuan Province.
Mengyuan Province is located in the northern part of the ancient country, and its main terrain is grassland, Gobi and desert.
Although this land nominally belongs to the ancient country, it is actually controlled by the Russian Empire, and they have always wanted to make Mengyuan Province independent from the ancient country.
Moreover, to the north of the Mongolian Plain is the core area of the East Siberia region of Tsarist Russia, namely Irkutsk Oblast.
The capital, Irkutsk, is the largest industrial city in Siberia and a transportation hub for the Far East Railway.
In Mengyuan Province, there is a railway branch line connected to the Far East Railway.
Therefore, the importance of taking over Mengyuan Province is highlighted.
This route will be under the responsibility of the Second Army of the First Corps.
The second target was the city of Irkutsk itself.
Taking this place would be equivalent to cutting off the connection between the entire East and West Siberia region and the mainland of Tsarist Russia, and it would become an isolated and helpless place.
The entire Far Eastern Front will also become an isolated force.
What's more, the Lake Baikal region has been the territory of an ancient country since ancient times and is part of the Begonia leaves.
This route is under the responsibility of the Fifth Army of the First Corps.
The third target is the major towns in East Siberia, including Khabarovsk and Vladislavl.
This is also where the main force of the Far Eastern Front is located.
This objective was the responsibility of the First Army, First Corps.
The target this time is huge, and the First Legion alone cannot handle it.
So Jiang Hua drew the Fourth Army from the Second Corps as a reserve force.
At the same time, the Second Army was expanded by adding two more mechanized infantry divisions.
The two expanded mechanized infantry divisions are the 22nd Mechanized Infantry Division and the 23rd Mechanized Infantry Division.
In this way, the Second Army had the 3rd Motorized Infantry Division, the 4th Motorized Infantry Division and two mechanized infantry divisions, a total of four divisions, with a total strength of more than 70,000 troops.
The combined strength of these four armies, plus 5-8 second-line garrison divisions, is almost the same as that of the Russian Empire's Far Eastern Front.
This also shows Jiang Hua's determination to take over these places.
Once the battle plan was finalized, orders were issued to the various legions one after another.
All of a sudden, the entire Renaissance Army's hundreds of thousands of troops began to mobilize quickly.
It is naturally impossible to hide such a large-scale transfer from the eyes of others.
All forces, including Tsarist Russia, were very surprised.
The Fuxing Army has already recaptured Songjiang and Heilongjiang provinces, so why is it necessary to mobilize large numbers of troops to the north?
Shouldn't we be moving south now to prepare to deal with the Southern Alliance?
Especially the Southern Alliance, they were very confused about the actions of the Renaissance Army.
After the Restoration Army recovered two provinces and drove out Tsarist Russia, they all determined that they would be the next target of the Restoration Army.
Because as long as the Southern Alliance is eliminated, no one in the entire ancient country will be able to stop the Renaissance Army from unifying the entire ancient country.
So they were ready for war.
The army was mobilized to the four provinces of Huaijiang, Anqing, Jiangnan and Nanyue.
"Could it be that the Restoration Army is trying to make a feint to the east and attack in the west? They're preparing to engage in a battle with Tsarist Russia on the border, letting their guard down before launching a surprise attack?"
Both Wu Zhichang and Lu Jianzhang agreed with Gu Ziqi's speculation.
Because only this can explain why the Qing Fuxing Army did this.
“No matter what the Renaissance Army does, we just need to increase our vigilance and continue to strengthen our long river defense line.
This line of defense is a natural barrier. Only by relying on this line of defense can we stop the aggressive Renaissance Army."
At this time, even Gu Ziqi and Lu Jianzhang did not propose to take the initiative to attack the Fuxing Army.
Northern Xinjiang, Fuso, and Tsarist Russia were all beaten by the Restoration Army. Aren’t they asking for a beating if they come to them now?
Instead, it gave the Renaissance Army an opportunity to deal with them.
Therefore, the entire Southern Alliance is now very restrained and has been strengthening the Changhe defense line.
They deployed hundreds of thousands of troops on this line of defense, and almost all of their main forces were concentrated on this line of defense.
Jiang Hua also noticed the actions of the Southern Alliance, but did not take it very seriously.
The long river defense line that they had painstakingly built seemed as fragile as paper to him and could be easily broken through.
The main focus now is on dealing with the Tsarist Russian Far Eastern Front.
For this battle, Jiang Hua made an important decision.
That is to move the branch base northward and place it near Shenzhou.
Shenzhou is the transportation hub of the three northern provinces.
By setting up a sub-base here, various weapons, combat supplies, food, additional personnel, etc. can be continuously delivered to the front-line troops via railways.
Instead of sending it from the main base to Jinchuan by road and then to the north.
The sub-base moved north, while the main base remained unchanged.
Although it is also possible to move south to the Shangjing area.
But there are too many people and too many eyes here, even though there are crack generators that can conceal the base buildings.
But the endless supply of supplies cannot be hidden.
It’s not a big deal if something happens at the branch base.
If something happens to the main base, it will be the end.
Now everything of the Renaissance Army is built in the high-rise buildings constructed at the Red Alert base.
If something happens to the Red Alert base, the entire Renaissance Army will collapse.
This is also one of the reasons why Jiang Hua has always focused on developing industry.
When the ancient country has its own defense industry, even if something happens to the base, the impact will not be great.
The branch base moved north quietly, and it took more than two days to move from Qidong Province to Shuixi City in the eastern part of Shenzhou.
Here is the famous Shuixi Iron Mine of the ancient country, which is also one of the four major iron ore belts of the ancient country, with iron ore reserves of more than 30 billion tons.
Now that the branch base has left Qidong, the buildings here can no longer be used.
These base buildings can only be reactivated if the sub-base returns here.
The base does this to prevent him from getting stuck in a bug.
If the sub-base can still be used after leaving the building.
That branch base is like a laying hen, which can lay eggs all over the world.
While the Renaissance Army was preparing for war, the Russian Far Eastern Front was also not idle.
General Ivanovich, commander of the Far Eastern Front, did not know the purpose of the Renaissance Army's mobilization of troops to the border area.
But he must be on guard.
What's more, he wants revenge.
He issued a military order in front of the Tsar.
If he fails to take revenge and take over the northern part of the Great Wall, his tenure as commander of the Far Eastern Front will be over.
In order to deal with the Restoration Army, General Ivanovich asked Xizhou for more than 300,000 reinforcements.
Among them was a tank army.
When this batch of reinforcements arrives, the entire Far Eastern Front will have more than 600,000 troops.
This is also the capital for his counterattack this time.
At the same time, in order to guard against the air force of the Renaissance Army.
Ivanovich also requested an entire air force group army from Xizhou, totaling 13 aviation divisions.
The arrival of this air force group army will also greatly strengthen the air power of the Far Eastern Front.
By that time, the sky will no longer be controlled by the Restoration Army’s Air Force.
In addition to the air force, he also specifically strengthened the troops' field air defense, key point air defense and anti-tank capabilities.
More than 800 37mm anti-tank guns and 76mm cannons were dispatched from Xizhou to provide reinforcements.
The strength of the entire Far Eastern Front will undergo a complete transformation.
Otherwise, General Ivanovich would not have the confidence to issue this military order.
This also demonstrates the strength of Tsarist Russia, a traditional industrial power.
It cannot be compared with a newly emerging second-rate industrial country like Fuso.
"Commissioner, we have successfully deciphered some of the telegrams from the Russian Far Eastern Front. I'm afraid you'd like to take a look at them yourself."
Half a month after the Battle of the Northern Frontier ended, the Fuxing Army was still accumulating strength.
But the intelligence department is not idle.
We have been trying to decipher the encrypted telegrams of the Far Eastern Front.
Their efforts soon yielded tremendous results.
It was worth it that Jiang Hua invested so much manpower and financial support in the General Intelligence Bureau.
Seeing Ling Liang's serious expression, Jiang Hua also realized that the contents of these deciphered telegrams were not simple. After taking them, he immediately started to read them.
The more he read, the more serious his expression became.
Although these deciphered telegrams are not comprehensive, it can be seen from these scattered contents that Tsarist Russia is also massively strengthening the strength of the Far Eastern Front.
This will definitely cause a huge obstacle to Operation Begonia Leaf.
"It's already July, and we have to end this war before the Siberian cold snap arrives.
Three months... no, to be exact, it's less than two and a half months.
We must find a way to destroy the Far Eastern Railway and prevent them from transporting personnel, weapons, and supplies to East Siberia."
Ling Liang nodded in agreement and said, "That's what I meant. We should target the important railway bridges on the Far East Railway and destroy them.
However, the railway network in East Siberia is also important for our next actions.
So I'm going to take action on the railways in Central Siberia."
Ling Liang then found a map of the Siberian region and pointed his finger at Krasnoyarsk.
This is the capital of the Krasnoyarsk Krai. It is also the intersection of the Yenisei River and the Far Eastern Railway, and is one of the important node cities.
If the railway bridge over the Yenisei River is destroyed, the Far Eastern Railway will be paralyzed for at least one month.
Plus, this place is too far away from the Far East.
By the time they repair the railway bridge and resume traffic, the war in the Far East will have been won.
"Do you have a specific battle plan?"
Jiang Hua knew Ling Liang's character very well, and she thought three steps ahead.
Since she said so, it means that she already has a specific battle plan.
"Send out the Ghost Special Forces, secretly airdrop and lurk in Krasnoyarsk, and use explosives to blow up the supporting columns of the railway bridge, completely destroying the railway bridge."
In fact, Ling Liang had previously considered sending out strategic bombers for bombing, which would save time and effort.
But the Air Force conducted an assessment and found that it simply would not work and was extremely risky.
Not to mention that this place is more than 2,000 kilometers away from the ancient country.
With the accuracy of today's bombers, it is almost impossible to completely destroy the railway bridge.
You should know that ordinary aerial bombs, such as those weighing 500 kilograms or even one ton, may not be able to destroy a railway bridge.
Even if they blew up the railway bridge, as long as the load-bearing columns were not damaged, Tsarist Russia could repair it quickly.
After that, they will deploy a large number of anti-aircraft weapons here, which will instead alert the enemy.
Therefore, sending out the Ghost Special Forces to blow up the bridge is the best option.