Chapter 40: The Commander of the Mongolian Border, Declares War!

  "Selling newspapers, selling newspapers, seven provinces jointly telegraph the Central Government, demanding that the Central Government send troops to Outer Mongolia."

  "Selling newspapers, selling newspapers, Yuan Shikai fears Russia like a tiger, hesitating and refusing to make a statement..."

  "Selling newspapers, selling newspapers, General Jiang calls a rally to express his determination to go to war with Russia and revive the army to fight until the last man."

  When the people saw these newspapers, Jiang Yü's reputation rose again. In comparison, Yuan Shikai, who was slow to make a statement, disappointed the people somewhat.

  Yuan Shikai in Beijing suddenly felt a sense of powerlessness, being played with by Jiang Yu like a drum in the palm of his hand. Facing such a situation where he was forced into a corner by Jiang Yu, how could Yuan Shikai obediently submit to others?

  "Alright, since you want to fight, let's have it your way. If you lose, that's your own problem." Yuan Shikai was resolute and immediately sent out a telegram announcing the dispatch of three divisions of Beiyang troops to support Outer Mongolia. At the same time, he issued an appointment decree naming Jiang Yiwu as "Commander-in-Chief of the Mongolian Border Region", granting him full authority over military operations in the region and command over all government forces there.

  Yuan Shikai's move immediately changed the passive situation, and Jiang also achieved his own goal.

  At least on the surface, all provinces in China are united as one and have the intention of recovering Outer Mongolia. The Russians must also weigh whether it is worth going to war.

  As for the position of Commander-in-Chief of Mongolia, Jiang Yu had not thought of it, but Yuan Shikai's move completely pushed him to the forefront. However, Jiang Yu did not even consider it and accepted the position, then sent a telegram nationwide, setting out immediately to command the provincial armies in resisting Russia.

  Russia saw China's reaction so violent, Britain's mediation also fell into a deadlock.

  War seems to be inevitable.

  After the Russo-Japanese War, Russia urgently needed a victory in an external war to restore its prestige. Jiang Yu completely did not give Russia the face and step it deserved in diplomacy, making Emperor Nicholas II of Russia feel that he had to take action to teach China a lesson, even if it meant sacrificing some benefits from Outer Mongolia.

  As for Jiang Yu, a war is also needed to restore the nation's prestige, otherwise, even a second-rate power like Russia will dare to bully China in the future.

  This is a war triggered by factors such as face and nationalism.

  The British government also thought that the Russians should teach China a lesson, after discussion, the British believed that China was just a clay-footed nation, and it would be easy for Russia to win the war in Outer Mongolia, as long as they quickly ended this war, the strategic focus of the Russians remained on Europe.

  As a colonized country, it should have the humility of a colonized country, not such a tough attitude. If you want to be tough, then you need to be fixed.

  With Britain's tacit consent, Russia also began to concentrate troops along the Outer Mongolian border.

  Jiang Yu immediately issued a mobilization order in Jiangsu, Anhui and Shandong, reorganizing five infantry divisions, and sending the original five infantry divisions to Outer Mongolia. The newly formed five divisions were responsible for defending the territory.

  Jiang Yu naturally cannot put all his troops on the front line, if there are no troops to garrison, what if Yuan Shikai finishes off his old nest?

  However, this possibility is not too high, so Jiang Yu left behind five newly formed infantry divisions and took the Second Division to Outer Mongolia.

  At this time, the Revival Army had gathered twelve divisions in Outer Mongolia, and with two divisions of Zhejiang Army that could be directly commanded, the total number of troops exceeded 200,000.

  Many of these troops were temporarily assembled, and the organization was not yet complete, but the individual soldier quality was not bad. Those militia forces that had been formed earlier, although they were called militia, actually received regular military training, especially in live-fire training. In order to maintain the operation of the military industry, Jiangsu and Sichuan did not stint on bullets for training.

  The ammunition production cost of Huadong Group's ordnance factory is also the lowest in the world, and only Germany has such technology now, and it is also a Jiangsu enterprise.

  The officers are slightly different, but the grassroots officers are barely enough due to the opening of the Huai'an Military Academy. In order to fight this war, Jiang Yu brought all the students from the Huai'an Military Academy into the army.

  This war is more like letting the Revival Army go through a storm, allowing the entire army to grow rapidly in the adversity of the storm.

  In order to defeat the Russian army, the Revival Army made a detailed combat plan and strengthened logistical support, with tens of thousands of trucks mobilized.

  Chariots and planes all start to be dispatched outside Mongolia.

  The Russian side acted faster, with 120,000 troops already marching south from Irkutsk to Mongolia and rushing straight to Kulun. As for the Russians, they still haven't come up with a specific battle plan yet.

  It was not until Russian troops were almost upon Kulm that Nicholas II approved a temporary plan of operations drawn up by the front staff.

  Although the Russians lost the war with Japan in Manchuria, they still considered it a military promenade when facing Chinese troops.

  With a powerful Russian army, it would be easy to take down Kulun and severely punish the Chinese garrison in Kulun.

  Facing the surging Russian Far Eastern First Front Army, both Jiang Yu and the General Staff who had not yet arrived at the front line were very puzzled. Why did the Russians only send one army group over?

  Isn't this takeout?

  "Commander, our subordinates have dispatched reconnaissance planes to conduct repeated reconnaissance and confirmed that only one Russian army group is launching an attack on Kulun." Staff member Tang Hanyuan reported to Jiang Yu.

  "Could it be that the Russians are underestimating us?" Jiang Yu still had some doubts in his heart, but the Russian guys were too careless! The Revival Army had assembled nearly 200,000 troops to enter Outer Mongolia, while the Russian army had only 120,000 men.

  "Judging from various phenomena, it is indeed the case. The Russians still regard the current Chinese army as the Qing dynasty's army. If it were the Qing dynasty's army, this group of Russian troops could defeat 200,000 Qing troops with ease." Jiang Fangzhen nodded in agreement, affirming this analysis.

  "Then we'll eat them up." Jiang Yu directly took a pen and circled the icon representing the Russian Far East First Group Army on the map, saying decisively.

  After a moment of contemplation, Jiang Yu directly ordered: "Order Zhao Zhen's troops to pretend to be defeated and retreat after engaging the enemy, luring the Russian First Army into pursuit, thereby lengthening their supply lines."

  "Order Wang Chenghai to lead the Special Warfare Regiment to cut off the logistics supply of the Russian First Army, and make sure they cannot replenish a single bullet from the rear." Jiang Yu continued to command.

  "Yes."

  "Again order all units to move towards Serwuschy and be prepared at any time to split and annihilate the Russian First Army."

  "Yes."

  Order after order was issued from headquarters, and the Revival Army, this war machine, began to operate at high speed.

  ……

  July's scorching sun, however, under the sky of Outer Mongolia, a solemn and murderous atmosphere was gathering, for war was approaching, and the Mongolians in Khuren could clearly feel it.

  Zhao Zhen repeatedly mobilized Mongolians to build defensive works, but these constructions were built in a disorderly manner, without any rules or regulations.

  On July 21, the Russian Far Eastern First Army approached Kulun and clashed with Chinese defenders.

  As soon as the battle began, the Russian Far Eastern First Army quickly broke through the first trench built by Zhao Rang, and the whole army had to retreat to the second trench.

  But soon the second trench was lost too!

  Zhao Zong immediately ordered the entire army to retreat to Suiyusu, and in the defensive battle, the Chinese army, which had been beaten to a pulp, finally showed some military discipline during the retreat and was able to withdraw in an orderly manner.

  The Russian First Army was like a fly that had smelled rotten meat, buzzing and pursuing closely.

  However, during the pursuit, the Russians suffered a lot of losses because Zhao Zong's Xun Mengjun was formed by the Revival Army and had a large number of automatic firepower. In the process of fighting in the wild, the Russian army was completely no match, and once they got too close, the result would be being shot to death by chaotic gunfire.

  As a result, Russia seemed to have the upper hand, but in reality, its casualties were several times higher than those of the Qing-Mongolian army.

  But the Russians did not care about this, they only saw that the Chinese were fleeing, and the Russians who intended to walk out of the shadow of the Russo-Japanese War with a military victory were too eager to hope for a crushing victory.

  When the Russians were led by Zhao Rang to Selenginsk, Jiang Yu was also gathering troops in Selenginsk. The main force of Fuxing Army began to gather in Selenginsk, and Zhejiang Army also started moving towards Selenginsk.

  But the Hunan, Hubei and Jiangxi provinces' troops, as well as three divisions of the Beiyang Army, upon hearing that the Xiong Mengjun had lost Kulun and was retreating to Siliin Hot, immediately stopped in Chahar and refused to advance, ignoring the orders of General Jiang Yiwu, commander-in-chief of the Mongolian border. Nearly 100,000 allied troops stood by and watched in Chahar.

  There are also scattered troops sent by various provincial warlords, some of which are still on the road, who knows when they will arrive in Outer Mongolia.

  Yuan Shikai received news of the loss of Kulun in Beijing and was again overcome with a severe headache.

  What he hopes for is naturally the more intense the fight, the better, and it's best if both sides suffer heavy losses, with a slight advantage over Russia in the end.

  By then, not only would the little guy's strength be depleted, but also no need to worry about the Russian problem after the war. Even Yuan Shikai could take advantage of the situation to increase his military power and gain a reputation as a national hero like Yue Fei in the hearts of the people.

  If a young man with the surname Jiang did not dare to fight back, wouldn't the Russians still end up riding roughshod over him and force Yuan Shikai to come out and clean up the mess?

  "Damn it, this little brat is a complete scammer!" Yuan Shikai cursed again, wanting to hit him. Now that Kulun has escaped, it's all because of you, you damn well better fight!

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  The first update!

  These days I haven't communicated with classmates for a long time, and some problems really want to vent.

  The original cover was too ugly, right? It directly ruined the taste of the book. Now this cover is very handsome, right? The original cover was made by the art department, but now this cover was made by someone hired by Luoyanhuahua with money, you know what I mean.

  Is there too many brushers or what? The week before last, it started raining on Wednesday and by Sunday, I was almost on the front page. But my score last week was several times better than the week before last! Damn, in the end, I was squeezed out of the top 20 by those brushers, and my mood can only be described as "I'm going to die".

  This week! Monday didn't make it, and the new people list is almost as difficult to get on as the new book list. It's really exaggerated, at one point I was squeezed out of the top 30 by a brush, but with the strong support of my classmates, plus the brush seems to have been harmonized a lot, now I'm about to rush back to the homepage again, just over a thousand points away from blowing up those books in front.

  It's said that Luo Yu, although he used a new pseudonym to start over from scratch, has been in the industry for several years and no longer cares about data. From publishing his book until now, he only voted for himself 22 times when the data was really bad, and didn't ask any of his old book friends or friends for votes. His rise to fame relied solely on the genuine support of his readers.

  But it seems that the facts have proven that the power of the brush is unstoppable.

  Can justice triumph over evil?

  It's all thanks to the support of you guys!

  Finished ranting, Lu Yu's body hadn't recovered yet, but there were still three more updates today. Dare you guys to fight?

  Click on them, collect them, and burst those brushes! We've had enough!

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