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Volume Two Beijing Story Chapter 205 The Arrow is on the String

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    At 8 o'clock on February 28, 1918, the entire line of the Chinese Army crossed the Suifenhe border between China and Russia. In addition to the fighter SE5 of a squadron that dropped leaflets, the leader was the Zhang Zhijiang Brigade of the 17th Division of the Model Army!  As a veteran of the participating armies, Zhang Zhijiang's brigade was transferred from Wang Geng's Third Brigade of the First Division to the newly formed 17th Division, designated as the 49th Brigade of the 17th Division.

    In addition to the 1st Division stationed at Nanyuan Base Camp, which was the earliest in the participating armies, the 16th Mixed Brigade of the 2nd Division had the most established base. The original Zhang Zhijiang Brigade of the 6th Brigade of the 2nd Division had the most combat effectiveness in the entire army.  At least one of the top five in the brigade!  Seeing that old brothers Shi Jingting, Li Mingzhong, and Zhang Shusheng were promoted from brigade commander positions to commanders of reorganized divisions with 30,000 troops.

    The 35-year-old martial arts master Zhang Zhijiang has a burning fire in his heart. He has become the oldest brigade commander in the army and the most disappointed brigade commander. He thinks that he was the battalion commander of the 16th mixed brigade cavalry battalion and the second regiment.  With a long background, he was one of the three great kings under Mr. Feng. He had been working with Wang Geng for almost a year. Even Han Fuqu, the original battalion auxiliary, became a division commander, and he was still a brigade commander!

    A quarrel controls a quarrel, an envy controls an envy. Zhang Zhijiang dare not have any dissatisfaction with those behind the war supervision. Zhili is the most important base camp of the participating armies. The Second Division is stationed in Baoding and Langfang. In the words of division commander Jiang Hongyu, it is the Royal Forest Army.  Looking after the backyard for the soldiers participating in the war!  Not an ordinary person can afford it!

    ???????????????????????????????????????????????????????? and the first brigade in the participating armies to be stationed alone in the Machang as a mixed brigade to take on its own role, gold will always shine!  No, the supervisor has transferred your brigade to the Northeast to lead the battle. What an honor is this?  Zhang Zuoxiang is the division commander and the commander-in-chief of the former enemy, but don't you have to fight the battle with a few brigade commanders?  Good job!  I have a sense of proportion. After this battle, your brigade will definitely expand into a division. There will be no problem in getting a Vladivostok garrison or something!

    Before Zhang Zhijiang¡¯s brigade departed from Zhili for the Northern Diversion, Jiang Hongyu, commander of the Second Division, patted the old man on the shoulder to cheer him up!

    Although Jiang Dengxuan¡¯s brigade was an elite unit led by Zhang Shusheng, the former commander of the Third Brigade of the First Division, after all, Jiang Dengxuan had just joined the army not long ago, so how could he defeat Zhang Zhijiang?  Zhang Zuoxiang even ruled by doing nothing. As the former commander-in-chief of the enemy, he was also the master of coordination. The combat plans were all drawn up by the Nanyuan Participating Army Staff Headquarters. The three brigades were also the most elite direct troops of the Participating Army. Lao Maozi  All the troops in the Far East combined do not have as many people as I reorganized the 17th Division, not to mention the firepower of aircraft, artillery, machine guns and so on!

    The preliminary intelligence work was also well prepared. The Japanese were responsible for the naval attack on Vladivostok. Their mechanized troops advanced from west to east along the Middle East Road and the Siberian Railway line to Shuangchengzi, and then went down to where the autumn wind swept the fallen leaves.  When I got off K and arrived at Vladivostok, the sky was full of reconnaissance and fire support aircraft. What I was afraid of was not that I wouldn't win the battle, but that I was afraid that I would run too fast and not be able to win the fight!

    Although my elder brother Zhang Zuolin repeatedly warned me not to underestimate the enemy before setting off, Zhang Zuoxiang, the former enemy commander-in-chief, was still in a very relaxed mood. This battle was an arrangement made by Zhang Zuoxiang, who participated in the war and supervised the execution!  Zhang Zuoxiang was filled with gratitude to Wang Geng, the commander-in-chief!

    If you don¡¯t win this battle, you will really die in front of Zhang Zuolin and Wang Geng!  As for which brigade will take the lead, there is no need to consider it. How long have Jiang Dengxuan and Han Linchun joined the army?  Zhang Zhijiang must be the pioneer!  If I didn't even have this kind of wink, then all these years of wandering around in the world would have been in vain!  Zhang Zhijiang is only one year younger than him. To put it bluntly, if Wang Geng hadn't taken care of the Feng clan, Zhang Zhijiang would definitely have been the commander of the 17th division!

    As the pioneer of the entire army, Zhang Zhijiang, commander of the 49th Brigade of the 17th Division, has three infantry regiments and an artillery regiment, an armored reconnaissance battalion, an engineering battalion, and a supply battalion; the artillery regiment has two 75mm caliber three  Eight-type field artillery battalion and a 75mm caliber Type 41 mountain gun. Each battalion has three companies of six manufactured artillery pieces. The brigade artillery regiment has up to 54 artillery pieces, which is equivalent to one division of the previous Beiyang Army. This does not include each infantry regiment.  Each has a 6-gun artillery battery, with 2 75mm field guns and 4 75mountain guns. The three regiments have 18 artillery pieces. The number of artillery pieces in the entire brigade is as high as 72!

    Each platoon of the infantry regiment is also equipped with two 60mm caliber mortar squads, and each battalion is equipped with eight 81mm caliber battalion mortar platoons!  An infantry squad has an m1917bra squad machine gun, two m1 Garand semi-automatic rifles, one of which is equipped with a scope, and the gun is held by a specially trained sniper in the squad, and 10 m1903 Springfield rifles.

    Each infantry platoon also has an m1917 Browning water-cooled heavy machine gun!  The brigade's armored reconnaissance battalion is equipped with 36 wheeled armored vehicles. The vehicle's firepower is an M1917 water-cooled Browning heavy machine gun, carrying a 10-man infantry squad!

    Don¡¯t underestimate the wheeled armored vehicle that Wang Geng modified from a Ford TT 1-ton multi-purpose vehicle with the characteristics of the participating armies. The 2.9-displacement engine of this vehicle was ranked among the top ten automobile engines in the previous life!  The Ford TT is the first truck model with an extended chassis launched by Ford, and WangThis requires Ford to install the latest steel wheels and wide rubber tires before leaving the factory, and strengthen the suspension. Although it is not four-wheel drive, it still greatly enhances the off-road capability of the car.  When driving in the snow, wear anti-skid chains!

    The cab and front armor of this car are made of 8mm thick thin steel plates, while the rear armor is made of 3mm steel plates!  During an assault, the vehicle-mounted infantry can either shoot outward from the shooting holes on both sides of the carriage, or get off the vehicle and follow the armored vehicle behind to accompany the attack!

    The armored reconnaissance battalion is also equipped with 4 vehicle-mounted 75mm mountain guns. The battalion headquarters also has an 8-gun 81 mortar platoon, and each platoon has a 2-gun 60 mortar squad!

    The Zhang Zhijiang Brigade of the 17th Division, the leading force of the participating armies, was armed to the teeth. At 8:20 on February 28, 1918, with the Armored Reconnaissance Battalion as the forerunner, the entire brigade crossed the Sino-Russian dividing line and officially unveiled the plan to defend the 18th and regain the lost territory.  Battle!

    "Courtesy first, then troops, the king's division" was the main tone set by Wang Geng for the participating armies to dispatch troops this time. That's why there was an offensive of leaflets flying all over the sky at the beginning, and that's why the boys from the reconnaissance battalion lurked in the snow and took out the opponent's most advanced Cossack patrol squad.  post.

    The situation of the Russian garrison in Pogranicny on the opposite side has long been clearly understood. When the 17th Division of the participating army arrived in Suifenhe, the first thing they did was to cast a net for reconnaissance. No one was missed from the air and ground day and night, which is worth noting.  The Suifen River border trade merchants came and went and were clearly aware of various situations at the Russian port on the opposite side.

    A mere Cossack cavalry battalion only had four Maxim wheel machine guns, which were usually mounted on carriages or placed on the battlefield. The participating troops even knew through reconnaissance the specific situation of the defense line on the opposite side that had recently been deployed around the station.  , Battalion Commander Lao Maozi¡¯s headquarters is in the bell tower on the top of the station building. There is also a Maxim on it. A train car parked on the west entrance to the station seems to be a shield. You can see the train being dragged underground in the snow.  The wires extend out and disappear into the station building. Then, the carriage may be filled with electrically explosive explosives!

    While sending the captured Cossack squad leader back to issue an ultimatum, the armored reconnaissance battalion's 1st company headed north and the 2nd company headed south. They had surrounded the town of Pogranicny from both sides of the town from the north and south three kilometers away.  According to the results of low-altitude reconnaissance by dh4 reconnaissance bombers in the north and south directions along the Siberian Railway, no movement of Lao Maozi's aid from Shuangchengzi and Khabarovsk was found within 50 kilometers!

    Shuangchengzi, Vladivostok and Chabarovsk are currently in a state of panic due to the colorful leaflets dropped by Chinese planes!  It's not Wang Geng's style to go to war without declaring it, and it's not impossible to be sneaky. It depends on the specific situation!  But the Chinese people have been looking forward to this moment of bullying the weak for too long. When the conditions are fully met, this time Wang Geng will fight an upright battle to show off the country's prestige!

    The three infantry regiments of Zhang Zhijiang's brigade followed the armored reconnaissance battalion's two companies going north and south. The brigade headquarters and the third infantry regiment stayed behind the armored reconnaissance battalion. If the supervisor hadn't emphasized that the focus of the first battle was to attack upward,  With the city at his base, how could Zhang Zhijiang have time to give the shabby Cossack camp opposite him 20 minutes!  The Russian army didn't lay down their weapons, so they started shelling!

    Xu Changlin, commander of the armored reconnaissance battalion, pinched his watch and looked at the time. Behind him, an artillery position had been lined up two kilometers west of the town. The armored reconnaissance battalion's four 75mm-caliber Type 41 mountain guns and eight Type 81 mortars were already in place.  As long as the 20 minutes are up and there is no movement from the other side, no white chess will rise from the clock tower!  Battalion Commander Xu was ready to directly launch artillery bombardments on the opponent's positions that had been mapped out through reconnaissance, especially the headquarters on the bell tower!

    Wait for the artillery fire to be ready!  Immediately afterwards, 10 wheeled armored vehicles from the battalion headquarters and the first company will launch an attack. The metal storm of 10 water-cooled Brownings must smash the opponent's cavalry battalion into a sieve!  Battalion Commander Xu is planning to use one company to destroy the opponent's battalion!  Didn't the Cossack battalion commander arrange a carriage on the railway?  Destroy it within three shots!
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