Chapter 329: It's about to break out

After arriving in the area of ​​Fancheng, Jiang Baili did not hurriedly lead the Expeditionary Force to fight, but instead let the Expeditionary Force temporarily rest and recuperate to adapt to the climate and environment of Armenia.

After all, it spans thousands of miles. In fact, in the current expeditionary army, many officers and soldiers vomit or feel physically discomfort due to the discomfort. Yudenridge also understands this quite well, after all, he is also a soldier.

What's more, although the Russian army's current situation in Armenia is not good, it is not difficult, and it is not too urgent to be impatient for the Chinese Expeditionary Force. Moreover, according to the news from Moscow, Nicholas II's uncle, Grand Duke Nikola, would be demoted to the commander-in-chief of the Caucasus Front in about a month. (It turned out to be the commander-in-chief of the Russian army, but now it has become the commander-in-chief of a front army. It is indeed demoted. Legend has it that his contempt for the demon monk Gregory Rasputin was the main reason for his demotion.)

Therefore, it is better to wait until Nikola arrives for the use of the Chinese Expeditionary Force.

Jiang Baili himself took this time to resettle the expeditionary army, and at the same time took Zhang Shaozeng and Meng Enyuan, who were accompanying the army, to the front line of Fancheng to inspect the situation here on the spot. After all, the officials in the past had never participated in wars between European countries, and were really unfamiliar with the war here. If they were unrealistic, they would probably suffer a great loss after going to the battlefield.

But after arriving at the battlefield of Fancheng, Jiang Baili and others suddenly discovered...

"It turns out that the war in Europe is nothing..."

Looking at the fight in front of him, Zhang Shaozeng licked his tongue and said.

When he heard Zhang Shaozeng's words, others such as Meng Enyuan and others nodded.

Before coming, because of the past fear of Europe, although the National Defense Forces had defeated the Japanese expeditionary force, they still did not dare to underestimate the European army. Especially the information sent back from the East-West battlefield, the battle of millions, the bombardment of thousands of artillery and the casualties of tens of thousands of people every day...

This intelligence made Zhang Shaozeng and others, who had never been to the European battlefield, have fantasized about it, and also made them wonder whether they could adapt to the European battlefield.

But now I see...

"It's true that's just that..."

Although the Russians and Turks are fighting fiercely on the Armenian battlefield, the Turks and Russians have only more than 300,000 troops in the Caucasus, and when they were on the Shandong battlefield, China and Japan also had more than 200,000 troops.

Moreover, in the Shandong battlefield, because the National Defense Force attaches importance to artillery, there were at least nearly a thousand artillery pieces arranged in Shandong. Although most of them were 75mm caliber mountain cannons and field cannons, the number alone was more than the entire artillery of the Russian and Turkish armies in the entire Caucasus battlefield.

So it was natural that everything on the Caucasus battlefield was nothing in the eyes of Zhang Shaozeng, Meng Enyuan and others. What's more, the Turks could not compare with the Japanese in any case. They even defeated the Japanese, let alone the Turks...

However, compared to Zhang Shaozeng, Meng Enyuan and others, Jiang Baili was much more cautious. After all, this opportunity was too important to him...

Although Jiang Baili was very cautious, Zhang Shaozeng, Meng Enyuan and others were a little dissatisfied.

After many years of joining the army, Zhang Shaozeng and Meng Enyuan are now on the rank of lieutenant general, and they were both commanders of each army at home. This time, everyone brought only one division to Armenia, just to prepare for future troops increase.

Although it is not clear what the battlefields on the Eastern and Western fronts are, since Armenia is not as terrible as imagined, Zhang Shaozeng and others naturally feel much more relaxed.

Even Jiang Baili was still cautious because of the matter, but he still relaxed his expression.

All this naturally fell into the eyes of Yudenridge and others, but the Russian generals beside Yudenridge didn't say anything, just thinking about waiting on the battlefield before talking. But I never thought that although it was not comparable to the two battlefields on the Eastern and Western fronts, the Shandong battlefield was definitely bigger than those from Armenia in terms of the scene...

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Although everything here in Armenia disappointed Zhang Shaozeng and others, Zhang Shaozeng and others did not relax because of this when preparing for the pre-war period. After all, fighting is not a house, it is a matter of killing people.

Therefore, just now, Jiang Baili and others have begun to arrange some restorative training for the officers and soldiers of the Expeditionary Force to adapt to the Armenian environment as quickly as possible. After all, the situation of war is in progress because of the local environment and the local conditions are not adapted to. Such reasons are really easy for people to laugh out loud.

Fortunately, the ones who went to Europe with Jiang Baili this time were all very strong young men, so although this place is thousands of miles away from the northeast of my hometown, in just one month, these young men have become alive again. Some of them rely on their knowledge of Russian, and have even fought with nearby Russian soldiers, and even ran to the kiln near Fancheng...

Jiang Baili and others had no choice but to do this.

After all, the military rules of the National Defense Forces only explicitly prohibit rape and looting, but they do not prohibit such matters.

What's more, even officers in the army are almost all strong young men. They are at the age of "like a wolf or a tiger". They can't help but not encounter women who are also "like a wolf or a tiger".

Furthermore, war will make people's spirit extremely depressed. If there is no way to vent, it will probably cause some big trouble. Moreover, Jiang Baili and the others cannot learn from the Russian army or the Turkish army, and allow their soldiers to harm the local people. Although these people are all foreigners, they will not feel sorry for the disaster. However, when the troops return to China after the war, wouldn't this habit be ruined? Moreover, there is also great pressure on domestic public opinion.

So in the end, Jiang Baili and the others could only let themselves go and turn a blind eye...

(Armenia does not believe in Islam. During the Armenian massacre, Turkish soldiers searched Armenian villages and told Armenian women that they would be exempt from being expelled if they married a Muslim man and converted to Islam. Of course, tens of thousands of Armenian women were forced to embark on the road of migration, and thousands of Armenian women died of hunger, water shortage and infectious diseases along the way.)

After more than a month of refining and restoring training, the officers and soldiers of the Expeditionary Force have returned to their original strength. At this time, Nikola Nikolaevich, who had been demoted to the "Commander-in-Chief of the Caucasus Front", finally arrived in Armenia.

Nikola Nikolaevich is an alien in Russia, which has completely decayed. He has extremely strong abilities. If he hadn't been there on the Eastern Front battlefield, the war would have failed even worse.

Therefore, after arriving in Armenia, Grand Duke Nicholas did not interfere randomly, but instead asked Yudenridge to continue to be responsible for the battlefield command, and he actively participated in the formulation of the plan.

Of course, as the commander-in-chief of the Caucasus Front, Grand Duke Nicholas also visited the Chinese Expeditionary Force's garrison. Although the Chinese Expeditionary Force and the Caucasus Front are on par and do not accept Nikola's jurisdiction, Nicholas is planning an attack, which requires the cooperation of the Expeditionary Force. Therefore, Nicholas must understand whether the Expeditionary Force's strength is as Judenridge said.

The results of the investigation made Nikolai very satisfied. In Nikolai's opinion, the expeditionary forces of these three infantry divisions were very well equipped and of quality, which was comparable to the most excellent infantry divisions of the Russian army. Especially in terms of heavy firepower, although the expeditionary forces did not bring artillery brigades or artillery divisions this time, the largest caliber of the artillery regiment was only 120mm cannons, but the 216 artillery artillery of each caliber of the three artillery regiments were also very strong on the battlefield of the Caucasus.

"It seems that we can have great expectations for the Chinese..."

When leaving the Expeditionary Force's headquarters, Nicholas thought so in his heart.

But while thinking this, Nicholas also had great worries in his heart.

Nikolai came down from the Eastern Front battlefield, so he was very familiar with the situation on the Eastern Front battlefield. On the Eastern Front battlefield, the Russian army was simply defeated by the German-Austrian coalition forces. The lack of poor command, weapons, ammunition and supply combined together caused the failure of the Russian army. In particular, the German army's actions were organized and brilliant. The excellent staff made amazing efforts and implemented short and intensive artillery preparations to create conditions for the attack. In only a very short time, the troops could be mobilized to the predetermined positions at night, and the German army's operations were often achieved suddenness, causing the Russian army to suffer frequent failures.

If it weren't for the low-quality combat operations of the Austro-Hungarian team, coupled with the low professional level of the Austro-Hungarian team and the friction between the top commands of the two armies, and the Austro-Hungarian team, and the extremely dissatisfied with the German arrogance and arrogance, the Russian army would probably suffer greater losses on the Eastern Front battlefield.

Despite this, the Russian army still lost two million people on the Eastern Front battlefield, of which one million were captured. In comparison, the German and Austrian coalition lost only less than one million.

Although Russia has always been famous for its "European steam rollers" and millions of gray animals are even more famous throughout the European continent. However, for Russia, the losses of two million people are still unbearable. After all, this is not only a loss of personnel, but also a loss of equipment. This is particularly important to Russia, especially in the Dardanelles, where the blood transfusion line between Britain and France has been closed by the Allies, which is even more deadly.

At this time, Nicholas knew very well that in order to save the fate of the Eastern Front battlefield, it was not impossible for the Tsar, who was his nephew Nicholas II to transfer part of the forces of the Caucasus Army to the Eastern Front.

Of course, this is nothing. After all, compared with the Eastern Front battlefield, the Caucasus battlefield is only a secondary area. But the problem is that according to the agreement between the Allies and China, the number of troops sent by the Chinese Expeditionary Force to the Caucasus will be no less than 300,000, and at most it may even reach 500,000.

At that time, who should listen to whom on the battlefield of the Caucasus?

You should know that although the status of the Russians and the Expeditionary Force is theoretically equal, in fact, Russia is the dominant due to various reasons in national strength, geography and military strength. After all, the side with fewer troops always suffers some losses in this regard. But if the number of expeditionary forces exceeds Russia, or even much higher than that of the Caucasus Front, then the status of both sides may be reversed.

Moreover, Nikola was also very clear about the ambitions of the Russians for Chinese territory. For the Russians, Xinjiang, Mongolia and Northeast were all what the Russians wanted. Even the Russians wanted more territory, and Nikola was quite clear about this, because Nikola was also a part of it.

Nicholas even understood that when the European War ended, it was time for Russia to turn its attention to the Far East again.

But just now, Nikola discovered at the Expeditionary Force's garrison that the three infantry divisions sent by the Expeditionary Force were not inferior to the Russian team in terms of equipment and quality. Especially in terms of organizational capabilities, they were even higher than the Russian team that had been completely corrupted.

What's more, Russia has just experienced a crushing defeat on the battlefield on the Eastern Front. Now many armies on the Eastern Front are just established and mobilized, and the level of originally low average quality has dropped a lot.

If the original Russian army's elite on the Eastern Front were higher than the Caucasian Army, which was on the inferior battlefield in terms of quality, then the average level of the Caucasian Army is now higher than that of the troops on the Eastern Front.

In this situation, the difference between the two is more obvious.

So if the average level of the Chinese team is the same as that of the three infantry divisions of the Expeditionary Force, then Nikola not only needs to worry about whether the Russian army's erosion of Chinese territory after the war will interfere, but also needs to worry about whether China will seize the territory of Russia's Siberian region.

"Let's see how good the Chinese team is in actual combat. If the actual level of the Chinese team is really as you think, then you must send a telegram to His Majesty the Tsar..."

Thinking of this, Nicholas returned to the command of the Caucasus Front with his entourage.

In fact, this was Nicholas' concern. Because it was China's first time to send troops abroad to fight, in order to make the first artillery of the Expeditionary Force fire, Yan Guang and the Ministry of National Defense specially dispatched an expeditionary force composed of three A-type infantry divisions.

For example, Zhang Shaozeng, Meng Enyuan and others were all commanders of the army and took a division to the Caucasus. Moreover, in China, there were only 33 Armoured infantry divisions like the Expeditionary Force in the organization of the National Defense Force. After removing these three infantry divisions, only 30 Armoured infantry divisions were left.

As for the B-type infantry divisions, there are a total of 66, and there are 99 infantry divisions in total, plus 11 cavalry divisions and 11 artillery divisions. The entire National Welfare Army has 121 cavalry, infantry and artillery divisions. Of course, the cavalry divisions and artillery divisions do not need to be divided into A and B.

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Jiang Baili didn't know what Nikola was thinking, or he didn't care what Nikola was thinking at all. He only cared about one thing at the moment, that is, to prepare for the war.

Because when he just came to the expeditionary army's garrison, Nikola had already discussed with Chiang Baili that in January next year, he would launch a general attack on the Turkish army in front of him.

However, before that, there were still a few battles to fight, because according to Russian intelligence, the Turkish army had once again assembled a large army to regain the city of Fan occupied by the Russian army. Originally, Nikola was preparing to give up Fancheng before coming, after all, Nikola did not need to fight against the Turks with precious troops. However, after seeing the strength of the Expeditionary Force, Nikola felt that it might not be impossible to defend Fancheng. Since this is the case, before launching the general attack, the first thing to do is to defend Fancheng. In this defensive battle, the Expeditionary Force will also fight as the combat power of the coalition forces.

As the first battle of the Expeditionary Force in the Caucasus, Chiang Baili had to be cautious.

For this reason, after Nicholas left the expeditionary army's garrison, Jiang Baili even summoned Zhang Shaozeng and others to discuss the details of the battle.

A few days later, when Jiang Baili led Zhang Shaozeng and others to the Caucasus Front Command to hold a joint combat meeting, he directly put forward his own ideas.

"It has been almost two months since our army has arrived in Armenia. It is impossible for the Turkish army on the opposite side to know this..." As he said, Jiang Baili looked at the Russians present at the translation. "And due to the Europeans' some contempt for the Asian army, when our army also went to fight, the Turkish army is likely to find a breakthrough from the direction of our army. In other words, the Turks will likely take the defense line that our army is responsible for as the main target..."

After hearing what was translated, the Russian generals present felt a little embarrassed to the point of being more or less.

However, what Jiang Baili said was right, and he was despised by the yellow people. Although the training level and weapons and equipment of the Chinese Expeditionary Force were all seen in their eyes, they still despised Jiang Baili and his entourage in their hearts.

As for Jiang Baili, although the Russian generals were a little embarrassed, Jiang Baili just continued to say after a moment of pause.

"Since that's the case, I suggest that when the Turkish army is frustrated in front of our defense line, your army will attack from both wings or even encircle..."

Before Jiang Baili could finish his words, a Russian general stood up and said after listening to the translation.

"General Jiang, I am frank, how do you ensure that your troops can defend the line of defense you are responsible for?"

This is also the common voice of the Russian generals present. You should know that the Expeditionary Force has been recuperating, recuperating, and recuperating for more than a month. It has not even participated in a single actual battle. This makes it difficult for the Russian generals on the battlefield to believe in the combat effectiveness of the Expeditionary Force—————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————

Cai E's answer is also very simple.

"It depends on how much trust your army has in our army..."

Jiang Baili's words silenced the Russian generals present. Although they all despise the Chinese team, the two sides are all allies after all, and it is difficult to cause friction between the two sides for no reason.

You know, Russia's situation is not very good now, and now only China can provide support to Russia.

The headquarters was silent. After a while, Nicholas and Yudenridge made the decision.

"Jiang will do it according to what he wants..."

Nikola and Yudenridge would make such a decision just because they were willing to believe everything they saw. Although the Expeditionary Force had not participated in any battle after arriving in the Caucasus, everything they saw at the Expeditionary Force station still made them willing to believe that the Expeditionary Force was a trustworthy force.

Since Nikola and Yudenridge have made the decision, the Russian generals present can only nod and admit it. After all, in the entire Caucasus region, Nikola and Yudenridge have the highest status, especially Nikola. You should know that he is not only the uncle of Tsar Nicholas II, but also the commander-in-chief of the Caucasus Front...

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Since the combat plan had been formulated, Jiang Baili and his party left the headquarters of the Caucasus Front.

In fact, the combat plan this time is very simple. It is to take advantage of the Turks' contempt for the Central ** team, and after causing the Turks to suffer a great loss in front of the defensive position under the expeditionary force, the Russian army launched an attack from both wings. If you are lucky, it might be another battle of Karakilice.

After receiving the combat mission, Jiang Baili personally brought two infantry divisions into the eastern battlefield on the front line of Fancheng, and the remaining infantry division stayed in the rear as a reserve.

At the same time, in the defense line of the left wing of the Expeditionary Force, the Russian army also arranged an infantry division there. In order to see if the Expeditionary Force showed signs of failure, the infantry division would replace it and defend the defense line in the east. This was a decision made by Nikolai and Yudenridge after some Russian generals strongly requested.

Zhang Shaozeng and others were also quite dissatisfied with the distrust of the Russian generals, but there was no way to be dissatisfied. After all, the Russian army in the Caucasus is more than five times the number of expeditionary forces, and it is difficult for the side with a small number to gain an advantage. Moreover, the Expeditionary Force has not yet produced a convincing record so far.

For this reason, the Expeditionary Force held its breath from top to bottom, preparing to let the Russian army see clearly with wide eyes.

However, while the Expeditionary Force was preparing on the defense line, the Turkish army on the opposite side also learned through various channels that the Chinese Expeditionary Force, which had been in Armenia for more than a month, was also involved in the battle this time. Moreover, the Expeditionary Force broke away from the Russian army and was responsible for a line of defense alone.

After obtaining this information, Turkish Army Commander Abdulaklim was naturally extremely excited.

Because in his opinion, he has found an excellent breakthrough.

Although Turkey is a famous "sick man from Europe" in Europe, out of the pride of Europeans, Abdulaklim regarded the expeditionary army as a very easy-to-knit persimmon. At the same time, the Turkish army also changed its main attack direction to the party responsible for the Eastern Front Expeditionary Army.

By this time, the war was about to break out...

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