.Chapter 92 Reward of the Raid

Even Mu Haoyang couldn't believe that he could have such a good result in the first battle of the New Year. After receiving the battle report from the front, Mu Haoyang asked the staff to call the Army Command. After confirming that the battle report was correct, he believed that Qi Kaiwei's strategic adventure was successful.

Of course, strictly speaking, this is not a strategic level adventure, at most a battle level adventure.

The reason is very simple. Even if the battle between Belovo and Anzero Suzhinsk is defeated, China's overall strategic security will not be threatened, but it will only make the road to victory more tortuous.

In fact, at the beginning, Mu Haoyang firmly opposed Qi Kaiwei's combat plan.

You know, in his opinion, this is a plan with an adventure-like taste, a plan that even an adventurous commander like Mu Haoyang is a little scared.

At that time, Mu Haoyang felt that there were too many problems with this plan.

First, the air raids before the attack were prepared for only two hours, or simply not, that is, the ground attack was launched before seizing air supremacy. You should know that in any previous war, ground war began after seizing air supremacy, and it would never be before this.

Secondly, Qi Kaiwei planned to start with airborne operations, and let the airborne troops go to the battlefield without seizing air supremacy. This made Mu Haoyang feel incredible, because it means that not only the landing airborne troops are likely to be surrounded and annihilated by the Russian army, but they may not even have a chance to land.

Third, Qi Kaiwei put the bet on Siberia, not the Far East. This means that the airborne troops fighting deep behind enemy lines must fight alone. Although Mu Haoyang is not an army commander, as the former Marine Commander, he is very clear about the situation of fighting alone.

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In short, Mu Haoyang was able to find a thousand reasons to oppose Qi Kaiwei's combat plan at that time, and he was indeed putting pressure on Qi Kaiwei.

The problem is that Qi Kaiwei is also a very personal person.

Interestingly, when Mu Haoyang firmly opposed it, Qi Kaiwei did not refute it, but insisted that the army's combat plan must be decided by him.

It was not until mid-December that Qi Kaiwei revealed the details when the plan was delivered to Huang Hanlin and asked Yuan for approval.

In order to realize this combat plan that Mu Haoyang felt could not be achieved, Qi Kaiwei only mentioned one thing, that is, before the attack began, the main force of the Russian army would be yin* to the Far East.

Of course, this comment will definitely not satisfy Mu Haoyang.

The reason is very simple. The main force of the Russian army was originally in the Far East.

The problem is that this comment has already made Huang Hanlin feel satisfied enough. The result is that while Mu Haoyang still objected, Huang Hanlin still approved the army's combat plan.

Fortunately, the subsequent events made Mu Haoyang gradually understand Qi Kaiwei's intentions.

For example, after he proposed to increase his troops in the Middle East, Qi Kaiwei agreed without thinking and transferred back the 27th Army and the 38th Army that had been deployed in the Northwest region. For example, after Huang Hanlin said that he had to declare war on Russia, Qi Kaiwei allowed all three armies in the Northeast region to be combat readiness, two of them were deployed forward, and reconnaissance planes were dispatched to move around the border line many times.

However, these still made Mu Haoyang feel a little worried.

It was not until December 29 that a piece of intelligence sent by Li Mingyang completely dispelled Mu Haoyang's doubts, and as the Chief of General Staff, he signed Qi Kaiwei's combat plan.

This information is: Russian troops will invade Iran in the early morning of January 1.

You know, Qi Kaiwei's plan sets the attack time on the morning of January 1st.

In terms of time, it was several hours later than the Russian invasion of Iran. In this way, when the Chinese army launched an attack, the Russian army had already entered Iran, so the Russian command system must have been focused on the Iranian battlefield and had little understanding of the situation in the rear. Moreover, the Russian army's deployment was also aimed at Iran.

Combined with Qi Kaiwei's previous deployment, the conditions for carrying out the raid have basically matured.

Although risks still exist, such as a short-term early air strike, which will inevitably make ground combat difficult, compared with the high rewards brought by the raid, this risk is nothing. In a sense, Qi Kaiwei's plan is aimed at huge strategic rewards.

It is not a tactical reward, not a battle reward, but a strategic reward.

It can be said that this battle is a typical example of using tactical means to obtain strategic rewards.

The most significant strategic reward is to be able to cut off Russia in half, put half of Russia's territory, 40% of its resources and 30% of its population under the team's indirect attack, and have no defense capabilities. Hidden behind this, at least the local security of northern China has no worries.

The reason is very simple. Belovo and Anzero Suzhinsk guard three crucial railway lines.

Before the war, Russia had three strategic railway lines that ran across the country, namely the Siberian Railway, the Novosibirsk Railway and the Northern Railway. The Siberian Railway passed through Belovo, and the Novosibirsk Railway passed through Anzerosuzhensk, and the Northern Railway was connected to the Novosibirsk Railway in Achensk east of Anzerosuzhensk. The railway line leading from Achensk to Tomsk, that is, bypassing Anzerosuzhensk has not been completed. In this way, you only need to control Belovo and Anzerosuzhensk to cut all railway lines to the Far East.

In Russia, these three railway lines have very strategic value.

You should know that there are more than 10,000 kilometers from Moscow to Vladivostok (Vladivostok), and most of the main rivers in Russia flow north and south, so there is no transportation method that can replace railways. In addition, the temperature in recent years has been reduced by more than three degrees compared with before global natural disasters, and the northern routes through the Arctic Ocean are frozen all year round. In other words, without local railways and without the control of the Indian Ocean and the Western Pacific, if Russia wants to send combat troops from Europe to the Far East, it must first cross the Atlantic Ocean, pass through the Panama Canal, and then cross the Pacific Ocean. This transportation line exceeds 30,000 kilometers, and no country can afford it.

Of course, in addition to strategic rewards, there are also severe rewards in battles.

As long as the team gains a foothold in Belovo and Anzero Suzhinsk, the Russian army has to give up Iran and even give up the Far East and concentrate all its forces to attack these two locations. Otherwise, Russia will open its back door to the team while losing the Far East.

Any general can think of the result.

You should know that the team exited these two places and only needed to advance 1,200 kilometers westward to reach the Ural Mountains at the Eurasian boundary.

More than a century ago, it was no longer a myth to push more than a thousand kilometers of large legions.

Now, with the team's assault ability and strategic airlift ability that has begun to show its strength, it is not difficult to advance 1,200 kilometers.

In fact, in the Second Indian Ocean War seven years ago, the team's advancement distance on the Indian Peninsula was nearly 2,000 kilometers, and it only took three months. Even if the Russian army was much stronger than the Indian army back then, it would be considered a wonder if it could hold it for half a year.

As long as the team crossed the Ural Mountains, Russia would not have a favorable terrain that could defend.

According to the information disclosed after the war, not only the Russian authorities were very pessimistic at that time, but also the US authorities were also very pessimistic. Lucas even believed that Russia could not hold on for a year.

Fortunately, this is just the ideal situation.

Due to political constraints, the actual situation is far from so ideal.

For example, Kazakhstan is still a neutral country. Even though it is already a member of the CIS, it has not participated in the war. Therefore, Huang Hanlin firmly refused to allow Qi Kaiwei to send troops to Kazakhstan.

The impact of this is that Belovo and Anzero Suzhinsk are two isolated battlefields.

Even if these two battlefields are combined together, they are a larger isolated battlefield, without a traffic line in the rear, and all supplies have to be transported by air.

You should know that at this time, China's strategic air transport capacity was not very strong, at least not strong enough to support strategic offensive operations in one direction alone. The impact of this is that the combat supply of the two armies has reached the limit of air transport capacity.

In other words, Qi Kaiwei could not use this to attack westward.

What's more serious is that due to the geographical environment, it is impossible for China to open a transportation line in the Altai Mountains that can support the combat of front-line troops.

In this way, Qi Kaiwei still has to focus on the Far East.

Although judging from the situation at that time, Qi Kaiwei did not need to enter Vladivostok (Vladivostok), but only needed to control a railway line in the Far East. The ideal choice was Blagoveshensk (Hailan) on the other side of the Black River, and then advanced north to Svobodne and Sheremtinsk, and then marched west along the railway line, thus avoiding the main areas that the Russian army focused on. However, this is also an extremely long offensive line, because there are more than 3,000 kilometers from Blagoveshensk (Hailan) to Anzerosuzhensk, and there are more than ten large cities with a population of more than one million in the middle, and they have to cross Lake Baikal.

These objective factors indirectly affect the development direction of the mainland war.

Before a diplomatic breakthrough was made, Qi Kaiwei could only focus on the Far East and temporarily put down his attempt to march into the Ural Mountains and sweep away Russia's European region.

Of course, this is not a bad thing.

You should know that the war has only been over two months, and China's mobilization work has not been completed. Even the first phase of the mobilization work is still in progress. The Chinese Army has only a few hundred thousand troops that can fight, and a large number of reserve troops are being trained and have no ability to launch a large-scale strategic offensive. If Iran is the quagmire of Russia, then if it is handled improperly, Russia is the quagmire of China, and the early strategic rewards will become a strategic burden.

It must be admitted that Qi Kaiwei was a little hot-headed at that time. After all, such a severe victory could make anyone happy to get rationality. Fortunately, Mu Haoyang had not yet obtained rationality, and he had the ability to convince Huang Hanlin, so he had the ability to restrain Qi Kaiwei.

Chapter 92 Response of the Raid
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