On the first couplet day of the year and month of the dynasty, the strategic bombers of the Republic's Sky Army began to bomb the US military bases on the fourth place of Mali.

Before this, the Sky Army dispatched strategic bombers to bomb US military facilities on the Mariana Islands in accordance with the deployment of the General Staff. In early March, it even used aerospace bombers that were delivered and tested only at the beginning of the year and completed the test. It bombed the US ammunition depot on Rota Island. However, most of these bombings were for harassment, rather than really trying to destroy US military facilities.

In any case, the main task of the Sky Army is to assist the ground troops on the mainland battlefield to march into the Urals and to compete with the US Sky Army for the Heavenly Power. Because the expansion speed of the bomber troops is not much faster than that of the fleet, for example, the training of pilots is much more difficult than that of the fleet officers and soldiers, and the construction cost of strategic bombers is not much cheaper than that of warships in peacetime, the price of strategic bombers is equivalent to that of multi-purpose destroyers. Even during wartime, after deducting the costs related to intellectual property rights, only

Based on materials and labor costs, the cost of strategic bombers is also equivalent to that of anti-submarine frigates. Therefore, in the early stages of the war, the combat capability of the strategic bomber troops of the Sky Army was very limited. It is optimistic that the combat loss rate does not exceed expectations, and the size of the strategic bomber group will not be expected to double until the end of June. It will not be until the end of the first quarter of the year that the Republic's Sky Army is expected to organize a "Thousand-Air Bombing Bombing", which means that before this, the Sky Army must carefully use existing strategic bombers.

Of course, this is also completely consistent with the Republic's war plan.

Not to mention, before the outbreak of the war, the most reserved long-range ammunition for strategic bombers was the long-range ammunition used by strategic bombers. Including the production capacity during the war, even if it fights at a higher intensity, it can consume more than a year for the strategic bomber troops of the Sky Army. The ammunition of other services, such as the land-attack ammunition reserved by the Navy Aviation for fighters, can only be consumed for up to 3 months. This shows that the Republic's Sky Army has long been prepared to make strategic bombers "fight" in the early stages of the war, that is, strategic bombers will never take risks easily. Even if it reduces the attack efficiency, they must keep the combat loss rate within an acceptable range.

This is also a reasonable arrangement. No matter what, with the emergence of new tactics, new weapons, new platforms, strategic bombers are of irreplaceable importance. If the production of bombers cannot be expanded as soon as possible, the losses of bombers must be minimized in the war.

Understanding this point, it is not difficult to understand why the Republican authorities used bombers on the mainland battlefield.

In any case, Russia is a relatively weak enemy compared to the United States. More importantly, on the continental battlefield, the strategic bombers of the Republic's Sky Army can launch missiles thousands of kilometers behind the front line, and are protected by its own defense system and are basically not threatened. On the ocean battlefield, not only is the front line not obvious enough, the Republic's Navy cannot provide comprehensive protection for bombers, and cannot guarantee that the bombers will not be threatened.

In terms of the operation to bomb Mariana Islands before the end of the month, although the scale of several bombing operations was not large, the strategic bombers all used long-range cruise missiles with a range of more than kilometers. The attack operation was not regular, but in bad luck, anything would happen. For example, in Lang and Japan, after launching missiles, the four bombers encountered heavy fighters heading north from the volcanic islands to Honshu Island, Japan for reconnaissance missions. As a result, the Ru bombers were injured. Even if they barely flew to the air base in Japan, they could only be scrapped. Fortunately, the fighter jets that received the US military were returning and did not carry too many air-to-air missiles, otherwise the four bombers and the pilots above would have to be finished.

Of course, in war, we will never give up the purpose of war by reducing losses.

In a sense, postponing the combat operations to attack the Mariana Islands until the end of April is not only difficult for the navy to organize sufficient projection forces before this, but also has a certain relationship with the strategic bomber troops of the Sky Army, or it is related to combat operations on the mainland battlefield.

Regardless of whether it is recognized or not, the Republic is a greedy land-powered state.

It can be said that Yuan Chenhao's proposition represents to some extent the position of land power in the basic interests of the Republic. Even from a post-event perspective, if land power cannot be guaranteed, even if the Republic wins the Pacific War, and successfully crosses the Pacific Ocean and lands on the North American continent, victory will become meaningless. It is precisely because of this that when Pei Chengyi actively advocates turning the focus to the Pacific Ocean, he did not stop Yuan Chenhao from his offensive actions on the mainland battlefield, and even actively transfers power, leaving Yuan Chenhao full responsibility for the mainland war.

Judging from the military talent alone, Yuan Chenhao is fully capable of becoming the second Pei Chengyi.

In the middle of the year, less than a week after the end of the Naval Battle of Maldives, Yuan Chenhao launched an offensive operation code-named "Turan Storm" on the mainland battlefield. The area between the Caspian Sea and the Tianshan Mountains is also known as the Tulan Lowland. The area is mainly desert, which sounded the clarion call for advancing to the heart of Russia.

Judging from the situation at that time, even Pei Chengyi thought that Yuan Chenhao was too hasty.

You should know that when the combat brigade of the 10th combat unit set out from Costanai, crossed the Kazakhstan-Russia border, marched into Russia, and marched towards Chelyabinsk, the Ninth combat unit was still deploying defenses on the east bank of the lower Ural River, and failed to promptly advance the front to the other side of the Ural City. In other words, there is a very huge loophole in the front line of the northwest Kazakhstan region of Kazakhstan.

What is difficult to understand is that the Russian army did not seize this precious opportunity to counterattack.

Judging from the information collected after the war, the Russian army must have discovered this loophole, and knew that starting from the Urals, it could intersperse the rear of the Ninth combat unit, at least it could surround and annihilate the Ninth combat unit. If enough troops were invested, it could advance eastward, posing a threat to the tenth combat unit heading north, forcing the Republic's Army to give up its plan to attack Chelyabinsk and march towards Yekaterin Arbor. However, the Russian commander must consider another possibility, that is, this is a flaw deliberately left by the Republic's Army. The purpose is to let the Russian army in the Urals take the initiative to launch a counterattack. Then attack the Urals and obtain a bridgehead on the west bank of the Urals.

There is no doubt that this concern made the Russian commander decide to

This is not difficult to understand. No matter what, the Russian intelligence system should know that the Chief of Staff of the Republic has gone to the front line, and it was Yuan Chenhao, who commanded the Republic's army to fight, rather than an unknown general.

Or, if someone else had been in command at that time, the Russian army might have fought. More importantly, when the tenth combat unit entered Russia, at least three combat units had been deployed in the rear, including the fourth combat unit. Another thing that no one can ignore is that the tenth combat unit that was in front and the ninth combat unit, its combat effectiveness should not be underestimated, and it can even be said to be invincible. Considering the offensive tactics that the Republican army is best at, that is, using the airlift power of the Qiangfu, occupying the strategic areas behind the enemy with low altitude assault, cutting out the enemy that advances forward, and then concentrating the troops and firepower with absolute advantage, and annihilation of the enemies in the encirclement in one fell swoop, the Russian commander must consider the safety of the west bank of the Ural River after launching a counterattack from the Ural.

This is true, many people think that this is a trap set up by Yuan Chenhao and the Russian army was not deceived.

In fact, the Russian army did not take the opportunity to launch a counterattack, which only explained one problem, that is, the Russian army was not clear about the material transportation of the Republic in Central Asia. It should be noted that at that time, the military supplies sent to Central Asia and hoarded within 0 kilometers of the frontline fields were only enough for the tenth combat unit to clear the sky, and to let the ninth combat unit persist in the defensive state. In other words, the tenth combat unit must complete the first round of offensive operations within the sky. It can be seen that if the Russian army had this information at that time, not to mention that it was Yuan Chenhao who was commanding the battle, even Pei Chengyi would not be able to stop the Russian army. This also shows that Yuan Chenhao did dare to take risks, and he took risks after fully grasping the enemy's mentality.

Affected by this, when the 10th combat unit attacked Talyabinsk, the first thing he fought was the suburb airport.

It has to be admitted that the assault capability of the tenth combat unit has not only not been reduced because of not fighting in the past years, but also has become more powerful because it has obtained more advanced equipment, especially better vertical take-off and landing transport aircraft.

On the moon and the day, the second day of the attack. The tenth combat unit controlled the airport in Chelyabinsk and repaired the runway to put the airport into use.

As groups of strategic transport planes landed on the airport in Chelyabinsk and delivered hundreds of containers and cargo pallets to the hands of the 10th combat unit, the Russian commander realized that the logistics support forces deployed by the Republic's Army on the front line were very limited, and it was even difficult to support the 10th combat unit's operations.

The problem is that it was too late to react at this time.

Although the Russian army adjusted its deployment within Sun Bushi and completed its offensive preparations within another 2-scratch, the Republic's Army was able to do more within this hour, such as building several field airports along the railway line in northern Kazakhstan, thus bringing the deployment location of the low-altitude attack aircraft troops of the Army Aviation to the front line for hundreds of kilometers.

At night, when the Russian army launched a counterattack against the tenth combat unit that had occupied Chelyabinsk, the first thing they encountered was not the ground combat units of the Republic Army, but the low-altitude attack aircraft above their heads. Then they were subjected to the full artillery fire suppression of the tenth combat unit and the fourth battle unit. The bombing and artillery attack were carried out alternately until dawn on the 6th, when the Russian army had to retreat voluntarily due to excessive casualties, two Russian armored divisions were completely defeated by two infantry divisions, and one armored division and three infantry divisions were severely damaged. The bombardment was no less than 30,000 Russian officers and soldiers killed by the bombing.

Of course, the Russian authorities will never admit that they lost so many troops in one night.

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It is undeniable that after this, the Russian army never launched an organized counterattack against Chelyabinsk. It can even be said that until the defeat of the war, the Russian army avoided the tenth combat unit on the battlefield.

By this time, Yuan Daihao's tactics can be roughly seen.

To put it bluntly, there is no clear tactics, and combat operations are entirely determined by the battlefield situation. You must say tactics. Only one thing is certain, that is, to make full use of the favorable conditions that the enemy cannot accurately obtain intelligence and do not know much about the situation. Concentrate superior firepower to annihilate the enemy's living forces.

After sweeping away the remaining enemies of Chelyabinsk, the tenth combat unit headed north on the moon and led the sun.

On this day, in addition to the vanguard of the fourth combat unit reaching Chelyabinsk and deploying defense in the direction of Magnitogelsk, the third main combat unit, the eighth combat unit, also entered Russia and marched into Kurgan at a speed no slower than the tenth combat unit.

To be fair, the fourth combat unit and the eighth combat unit have little creativity in their actions.

Magnitogelsk is one of the largest cities in the southern Ural Mountains and one of the main cities in the upper reaches of the Ural River. Its strategic location is not below Orenburg and Yekaterin Arbor. From a geographical point of view, Magnitogelsk is also a hub city connecting Orenburg and Yekaterin Arbor. This is true, this is also a key defense area of ​​the Russian army. There are as many as three divisions of the regular army stationed alone. In addition, the emergency mobilization department

Team, the total Russian troops in the area are not strong enough. It can be seen that although Magnitogelsk is not within the list of target targets of the Republic Army, they must be wary of the Russian troops in the area launching a counterattack. As the eighth combat unit participates in the battle and attacks Kurgan according to the plan, they will relieve the danger east of Chelyabinsk. Therefore, letting the fourth combat unit set up defense towards Magnitogelsk is a normal tactical deployment.

Of course, attacking Kurgan was expected by everyone.

As a big city east of Chelyabinsk, Kurgan is still the western end of the "Russia-Kazakhstan Railway" leading to Petropavlovsk. In other words, if the Republic Army wants to use the railway line between Kazakhstan and Russia, it will be shocked to occupy Kurgan. In fact, Chelyabinsk is also on another Russian-Kazakh railway, which is also the main reason why the tenth combat unit, Benchey Chelyabinsk. Even if these two objects are not considered, Kurgan is only a thousand kilometers away from Chelyabinsk, and there is a barrier between points. Therefore, from the right wing of the tenth combat unit and assisting the tenth combat unit to march towards Yekaterin Arbor, they must occupy Kurgan. More than 80% of the Russian Siberian Front troops are blocked from the east of Kurgan.

In order to achieve this goal, the eighth combat unit must go north from Kurgan and attack Tyumen.

From a military perspective, if necessary, you have to even use the third main combat unit to attack Omsk in the east of Kurgan, expand the defense depth to 1,000 meters, so as to ensure that the combat operations in the direction of Yekaterin Arbor will not be threatened. In fact, in the combat plan formulated by Yuan Chenhao, preparations have been made for this and a reserve team has been left behind.

Of course, no one will doubt the purpose of the Republic Army's campaign until this time.

Regardless of whether the Russian commander believed it or not, from the advancing actions of the Republic Army, the purpose was to capture the third largest city in Russia, namely, Ekaterin Arbor, Queen Ekaterin Arbor, the very great female tsar in Russian history, and her contribution to Russia was second only to Peter the Great. Therefore, Russia named the third most populous city, and the second most populous one was St. Petersburg named after Peter the Great. The most populous one was naturally the capital Moscow. Although in a military sense, the value of occupying Ekaterin Arbor was not very high. The reason is very simple. Ekaterin Arbor is not a heavy industrial city, and there are not many.

Military industry and high-tech enterprises. This is not a transportation hub center. There are not enough important resources nearby. Even if you can cross the Ural Mountains west, it is not much easier than marching into Moscow from the Volga River Basin to the south. It can be said that Yekaterin Arbor has a large population, a good environment, and is more famous. In fact, it is not an important city that must be occupied. But politically speaking, if the republic authorities try to bring Russia back to its original form, and let this incredible expansion through force in just years, from a landlocked principality to a country with a vast territory in the world restore its original form. You have to make a fuss in Yekaterin Arbor.

Let’s not talk about the impact of Yekaterin Arbor on Russia and Asia. After all, it is too close to the Ou Sakh region and basically belongs to European civilization. It has nothing to do with Eastern civilization. Just from the impact of the city on the Siberian region, the Republic has to get it.

From another perspective, the Russian authorities are definitely unwilling to throw away Yekaterin Arbor.

That's why Russian President Chiliakov not only ordered Yekaterin Arbor to be fully martial law. All male citizens over the age of old and female citizens over the age of couples must take up weapons to fight, or participate in city defense operations, and also issued a death order to defend Yekaterin Arbor at all costs. However, Chiliakov did not have much hope for the Siberian Front, because before that, the Russian army had always believed that

The Republic's Army was going north from Petropavlovsk to attack Musk, so the main forces of the Siberian Front were mostly in Omsk. Only a few troops remained in Yekaterin Arbor, Tyumen and other places to the west. This is why Kiliakov also issued an order to the neighboring Ural Front, that is, when Yekaterin Arbor was attacked, launching a targeted counterattack to restrain the Republic's Army, especially the 10th combat unit.

Judging from this order, Chelyakov was indeed a talented military commander.

Given the situation at that time, if it were someone else, such as Russian Vice President Jodnovic, he would definitely have the Ural Front go to support Yekaterin Arbor.

There is no doubt that this is definitely a foolish move to destroy the Great Wall.

You should know that it is not Yekaterin Arbor that protects the core area of ​​Russia, that is, Europe, but the Ural Mountains and the Ural River, and the Ural Front that guards this strategic defense line. In any case, Yuan Chenhao is definitely not a short-sighted general, and it is impossible to regard the capture of a large city with a population of one million as its primary purpose, and it is even more impossible to mobilize most of the main forces of the Republic's Army for this purpose. To put it bluntly, the ultimate goal of the "Turan Storm" is to sweep across the Mular Mountains and the Ural River and break into Russia's European region. At least it must break through the Russian Ural Line and force the Russian army to invest more troops in this life-and-death strategic line.

It can be seen from this that the tenth combat unit attacked Yekaterin Arbor was only a means, not an end.

What is a bit confusing is that when the tenth combat unit headed north to attack Yekaterin Arbor. On the day of the moon, Yuan Chenhao sent the third main combat unit, the seventh combat unit that had just completed the assembly in Costana, and also sent the second combat unit that was acting with him to Chelyabinsk to assist the fourth combat unit to transport combat supplies to the front line.

By this time, Yuan Chenhao had only the reserve team in his hands, Ditian combat unit.

Although the sixth combat unit has arrived in Astana and the combat unit is also on its way to Kazakhstan, in the short term, as long as the Russian army persists in Yekaterin Arbor and drags down the tenth combat unit and the seventh combat unit, unless the ninth combat unit nailed to the east bank of the Ural River is used, Yuan Chenhao will have to let several non-main combat units charge forward, and the intensity of the attack of the Republic's Army will inevitably be greatly reduced. Anyone who understands it knows that even if it is not difficult to attack Orenburg or attack Ural after betting on several combat units, the Republic's Army will not be able to continue and can only stop on the Ural defense line to allow the Russian army to strengthen its strategic defense.

It is understandable that this tactic comes from the hands of others. It is a bit unreasonable to come from Yuan Chenhao.

You should know that Yuan Chenhao's appetite is definitely no more than Pei Chengyi. In all the offensive battles commanded by Pei Chengyi, he never aims to capture several cities.

That's why the commander of the Russian Ural Front did not dare to act rashly.

The problem is that under the pressure of the two main combat units, under the weight of anal-enhanced artillery brigade, even if Ekaterin Arbor had conducted a comprehensive mobilization, more than 10,000 armed personnel, including the defenders, and there were about 10,000 quasi-armed personnel who had not received weapons, they could not last long. To put it bluntly, the defensive positions built by the defenders in haste in ordinary ways could not withstand the firepower of the Republic Army, let alone deal with aviation bombs. Even the electric-touching cannon shells of kilograms

, Wanbi, Chen Diaotu. You must know that in passive defense war, if there is no strong enough position to flood Yichuan's firepower strike, even if there are many defensive troops, it will only add casualties and have no other value.

The actual situation is not much different.

According to the statistical report of the Ekaterin Arbor currency government, on the first day of the battle, the bombing and shelling of the Republic Army caused nearly 10,000 casualties and left about 10,000 homeless. Although the Republic Army did not continue to focus on shelling urban areas within the next hour, and even deliberately avoided shelling residential areas, on the third day of the battle, as the Republic Army's ground troops broke through the peripheral defense line and began to focus on the infrastructure in the urban areas, especially various underground facilities. Civilian casualties began to rise again. The reason is that this city with the third largest population in Russia lacks sufficient dedicated civil defense facilities. When it was bombarded and bombed,

Most citizens could only hide in underground facilities such as subways and sewer pipes. Therefore, when these facilities were bombarded with key shelling, civilian casualties would definitely be very huge. The Republic Army had no other choice, because in the battle of Zoriabinsk, the Russian army made full use of the city's underground facilities, causing great trouble to the attacking tenth combat units, and even most of the casualties were caused when competing for underground facilities in the city. Affected by this, in order to reduce combat casualties, the fire support troops of the two combat units were no longer lenient, and the attacking troops were exempted from the trouble of competing with the enemy for underground facilities.

During this period, the eighth combat unit that captured Kurgan also successfully attacked and occupied Tyumen.

On the lunar day, when many people thought that Yuan Chenhao should turn his focus to the Southern Ural region, the army general made a more incomprehensible decision, asking the Ditian combat unit to head north to Kurgan and jointly guard the defense line from Kurgan to Tyumen with the eighth combat unit.

In other words, by this time, Yuan Chenhao used the last reserve team in his hand.

If nothing unexpected happens, he can only use the ninth combat unit before February.

At this point, the Russian authorities had to re-examine the battle. Not to mention the commanders of the Siberian Front and the Ural Front. Even Chelyakov believed that Yuan Chenhao was likely to be attacking the east and west, that is, he used the name of attacking Russia's European region to keep the Ural Front still and gain the opportunity to encircle and annihilate the Siberian Front, laying the foundation for sweeping and occupying the Siberian region.

If this is true, the Russian army's previous actions did not find the right direction.

According to Kiliakov's analysis, when the Ural Front did not rescue Yekaterin Arbor, the main force of the Siberian Front stationed in Omsk would definitely attack westward desperately and attack the Kurgan Ichthium defense line guarded by the Eighth Combat Unit and the Milk Combat Unit. Although the Russian army has several times the strength of the two combat units, plus the mobilized troops, it is even more than twice the force. However, the Russian army has no firepower advantage and no information advantage, so it is difficult to break through the defense line between the Eighth Combat Unit and the Ditian Combat Unit within a few days. If it is dragged until tomorrow, the Sixth Combat Unit and the Ditian Combat Unit arrive, not only will Omsk be lost, but hundreds of thousands of Russian troops blocked to the east of the Kurgan Ichthium Line will have no way to advance and retreat, and will be surrounded and annexed by the Republic Army.

It was more than four years ago that hundreds of thousands of troops were lost at one time.

Although in a military sense, after the attack on Yekaterin Arbor, the value of the Siberian Front was greatly reduced, and it was not even strategic, and it was only a matter of time before it was encircled and annihilated. However, in a political sense, if hundreds of thousands of troops were lost after the war began and the defeat was fully developed, it would definitely have a devastating blow to Russia's military morale. The strategic retreat in the early stage of the Patriotic War will be staged again, and this time Russia does not have Stalingrad, and the bad weather will not have such a huge impact on the offensive forces.

Russia cannot withstand such failure, and Chelyakov will not tolerate such failure.

Affected by this," On the 10th month, the Ural Front began to attack Chelyabinsk and put pressure on the 10th and 7th combat units. The hundreds of thousands of troops of the Siberian Front set out from Omsk regardless of the consequences and embarked on the first and last journey.

It must be admitted that war is cruel and outrageously cruel.

On the night of the month and 10,000, the main force of the Russian Siberian Front had just set out of Omsk, and the vanguard of the Sixth Combat Unit took a vertical take-off and landing transport plane to capture this crucial city and established an airborne field. By dawn the next day, all the troops and all the main combat equipment of the combat unit had arrived. Although there were still about 20,000 Russian troops in Omsk, these temporary units were not the opponents of the elite division of the Republic. The battle in the city ended before the verge, and at this time the main force of the Siberian Front had not yet completed its turn and was still west of Dumuske.

It can be said that the Republic Army's closing move was a little too fast.

Many people believe that if the sixth combat unit sets out four hours late, it is very likely that the two Russian infantry divisions east of Omsk will be locked in the encirclement.

Not to mention whether there is such a possibility, annihilation of 2 more divisions and 2 less divisions will have almost zero impact on the battle situation.

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Of course, the direct consequence of the full-speed assault of the sixth combat unit is that on the 10,000 and 2019, the Army Air Force vertical take-off and landing transport aircraft units were all used in this direction, which had a great impact on the combat operations of the four combat units in the other direction.

Not to mention anything else, starting from the night of thousands of days until the early morning of the sword day, within about an hour, the tenth combat unit and the seventh combat unit did not continue to attack, but instead turned to defense. The reason is also very simple, and the only combat materials must be left to the fourth combat unit and the blade combat unit to ensure that Chelyabinsk will not be lost.
To be continued...