Out of the cage

Who is the main fault in the New Talas War? If scholars from both sides are allowed to judge, they will blame each other. But there is no doubt that those in power on both sides bear the primary responsibility.

In May of 2198 in Qin Tongli, the relationship between Shenzhou and Saibei Power deteriorated rapidly, expelling foreign affairs personnel from each other, and carrying out mutual withdrawal of businessmen and overseas Chinese.

And both sides have also begun to hoard troops on the border, and war is inevitable.

Kazan Fortress.

General Kukov, with the medal on his chest like a body armor, arrived at his office. He has received full authorization from the Red Palace to deal with the situation in the Far East.

The general and his staff are drawing out the strategy for the region.

On the whole, the distance between the Kazan Fortress and the Western Regions is almost thousands of kilometers, and the two sides are completely within the two theaters.

Kukov here formulates a conflict with China. It seems that there is a sense of Chinese people sitting in Shaanxi and Gansu and discussing the gap in eastern coastal defense.

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In fact, the main strategic direction formulated by the Kremlin is not to collide with China in the central Asian plate.

The decision makers of the Red Palace believed that it was the arrogant invaders who provoked the conflict, and their own side must fight it head-on.

What is the main strategic plan of the red polar bear now?

The first direction is naturally the European continent. To find the mouth of the Mediterranean Sea in the direction of southern Europe, it is necessary to kill chickens for this. The second direction is to contact the Tianzhu Ocean. For this purpose, it is necessary to break through the Persian Plateau.

As for the unrestricted conflict with the Western Regions of China and the Mongolian Plateau, they are also trying their best to avoid it, because if they win the conflict in the center of the Asian plate, what can they get?

There is only the vast Gobi, hot during the day and cold sandy beaches at night. What? Cantaloupe sweet there? Cotton grows well?

Maozi was able to take root in bitterly cold places, circumvent the Arctic Ocean, and establish settlements near the Bering Strait, relying on cold tolerance rather than extraordinary management (farming) ability.

Even if the Red Palace puts all its strategic weight in the conflict with Shenzhou, plus luck, all the generals in Shenzhou are mentally retarded, and they can't even think about connecting to the ice-free port in the Eastern Ocean for more than ten years.

An excellent ice-free port on the northern coastline of East Asia.

Mao Xiong is not yet confident enough to rely on the manpower of digging potatoes in Siberia to push the Mongolian Plateau flat, and then push it to the nine provinces of Liao, and then resist the military forces after the general mobilization of northern China.

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It's just that Mao Xiong has always lacked dexterity in dealing with external issues.

This is the case in the main world. Faced with the departure of the original allies in East Asia, they abruptly deployed millions of troops in the east. The original intention was to force them back to form an alliance. In the end, it turned into a conventional military confrontation, and then a nuclear confrontation. .

In this world, Shenzhou does not have the tenacity of the main world. Facing the increasing military power of the northern part of the Caucasus in the southern part of the Caucasus, the factions sent by the northern part of the plug have the ambition to "drink the horses from the North Sea and build stone monuments". There are very good reasons:

The north has been a threat to China for thousands of years, and any rising power in the north must be defeated at all costs.

These plug factions also explained the necessity of urgent action: now it is even more necessary to take advantage of the fact that the Raksha people's technology has not yet developed, and come to a wave of gank.

In Shenzhou, anyone who disagrees with them is the "cowardly Zhuhe faction", and there are many notorious figures in the "Zhuhe faction" in the history of Shenzhou, the most famous being the prime minister of the Southern Song Dynasty made of iron. Therefore, anyone who disagrees with these factions is a traitor.

Of course, these reasons - Wei Keng's complaints cannot: the northern threat faced by Shenzhou in history is based on the Liaodong area, which is the economic zone of the former Bohai State, as well as several places with lush water and grass in Southern Mongolia and the river areas in the Western Regions, which threaten agriculture. The Central Plains of the era.

But now is the industrial age, competing for hundreds of thousands of millions of productive forces. Maozi is an Eastern European power, and 90% of its population base is concentrated in several big cities such as St. Petersburg and Moscow. There is an irreconcilable geopolitical security crisis with each other.

And Shenzhou's anxiety about selling the generals and generals is like "Baidu sees a doctor". Wei Keng seriously suspects that they were reincarnated from Ah San.

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China is out of control, and General Kukov, who is leading the Eastern strategy at this time, is not a cosmic strategist.

The correct solution in his eyes is: In order to keep the strategy of going south to the Persian plateau unaffected, it is necessary to launch a preventive counterattack against the power of China in the sub-central region.

In another timeline, Wei Keng's younger brother, Wei Qiang commented on him as: "Mao's version of the five-star general MacArthur."

At this time, in the command center of the Caucasus bunker, the general was pacing in front of the table where the staff gathered, put down the pipe in his hand, picked up a pen casually, and drew a thick red line on the strategic map on the table. And the red line will cut through the positive yellow group representing the Shenzhou Group.

And as he wrote, on the vast land of central Asia,

The Soviet heavy-duty construction vehicles that were emitting black smoke were rolling forward from the East Siberia region. Tens of thousands of tons of steel structure monsters rolled out track tracks as wide as three meters in the jungle.

MiG fighter jets skimmed over the armored front in the sky. Mao Xiong's air force philosophy was to maintain air superiority 400 kilometers in front of the armored shock group. Clear obstacles for the ground cluster.

And above the vast number of tanks, the Kirov-3 airship moved along with it. There were enough bombs in the cabin of this air unit weighing over a thousand tons. brain wave signal transmitter.

The base vehicle drove to the area around 200 kilometers from the front line and quickly deployed. The metal with electromagnetic memory expands rapidly into a huge building just like origami unfolds.

Its huge mechanical arm is stretching around, and the soil blocks on the ground are heated by hot-melt equipment, and they are filled with metal skeletons and composite material cube barriers. , and then insert the steel plate, put the Tesla motor and other equipment into it, install the production line, and soon these cutting-edge tank factories sprang up near the main base.

In the follow-up, the Siberian Railway will transport more materials.

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Talas.

More than a thousand years ago, the Tang Dynasty and the Arab Empire fought a war in this area. Datang was defeated, confirming that he had reached the strategic limit. Continued eastward expansion also reached the limit.

The terrain of this place is in the area southwest of Bashi Lake in the main world.

This is the main world, the lake that was like the moat in the northwest when the territory was in its heyday, and at that time the Ilie Mansion was not on the border of the Rooster. Rather, it is in a central position.

If it is that kind of border, if you have to guard the exits of several mountain passes on Altai, you can firmly control the entire border defense, because no one can cross the mountains and enter the country. The bandits who infiltrated from the outside circled in the Gobi Desert.

This plane of Shenzhou actually completes territory control according to this terrain.

Let's put it this way, starting from Chang'an, directly entering the Western Regions through the corridor of Hetao, at this time it will merge into the Tocharo Basin in the south and the Zhungeer Basin in the north.

Because the atmospheric circulation flows from the Mediterranean Sea and the Caspian Sea, this series of ancient Mediterranean relics will produce relatively abundant precipitation due to the topography of the Altai Mountains, forming large rivers. This is why the northern part of the Western Regions is more prosperous than the southern part (Tamu Basin).

And continue to the west, it is the exit south of the Yibo Sea - Talas. For Chinese people, this is a completely unfamiliar area outside.

In Wei Keng's eyes, the psychological expectation is to clear the control line, but the Chinese warriors in this world see farther when they look at the map.

From continuing to move westward along the ancient Silk Road, there is only a Turan Plain separated from the Persian Plateau further west.

To the south of Turan is the most famous imperial cemetery. The mountainous terrain completely separates this place from South Asia; to the west is the Caspian Sea; to the northeast is the border of Eastern Europeans.

Among other things, Shenzhou always wants to go west here, which is equivalent to sticking a thorn in Maozi's side and back when he went south to the Indian Ocean.

This is also the reason why the Raksha Kingdom on the main plane forced the Qing court to redefine the northwest border in modern times, because the Qing's territory in the Western Regions was so perfect at that time. Keeping the gate, the forces in the area can be attacked or defended.

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And now, it is precisely because of this favorable location for offense and defense that the soldiers from Shenzhou, from Shenjing to the Western Regions, have the heart to provoke frontier provocations!

When the Chinese Vanguard arrived at the Turan Plain, it was September 10th.

Under the photographs of frontier reconnaissance aircraft, the pure steel shells of a large number of rhino tanks are already very clear. For such broken copper and iron - Murong Xi, the general soldier of the Western Regions, dismissed it, thinking that these are broken copper and iron.

Indeed, in the main world, armored units with pure steel shells can now be easily penetrated by one meter of armor-piercing bullets. The high-speed metal flow will penetrate the steel shell like a water knife cutting tofu, and then the high-heat flame will Filled with steel.

However, the strange physical conditions of this plane have led to the emergence of a lot of black technology. Well, as long as it is "deadly enough", you can play.

For example, burn the molten iron to red, strengthen its bond energy strength in the electromagnetic field, let it reach hundreds of times, and then launch (transfer) the state of the molten iron to the shell of the front tank! After such strengthening, the Iron Curtain shatters all kinetic energy projectiles that come into contact with it.

[When the Shenzhou camp was bidding for the defense system back then, this technology had bid with the strong electromagnetic deflection technology, but in the end, this technology would cause various unfavorable factors such as overheating the inside of the tank, and may even cause personnel to suffocate. Abandoned, it is obvious that the science of the Soviet Union is more daring. 】

When Murong Xi (General Soldier) determined the enemy's forward position, he immediately ordered his group's armored forces to carry out an assault.

The Qilin main battle tank and the white tiger heavy artillery group began to sprint to meet him following his telegram. But he didn't seem to think that such an action would repeat Talas a thousand years ago.

Because the target he was trying to attack with his main force was just a decoy unit of the Soviet army.

At this time, on Kukov's combat map, it is waiting for the troops to come out of the defensive corridors of the Western Regions of China to stretch forward and cut them off.

Six hours later, when China thought it had controlled the air supremacy on the Turan Plain, a large number of stainless steel warhawks with a speed of Mach 2 appeared on the radar scan of the early warning aircraft from the high altitude in the north. These fighter groups quickly approached and unified. A large number of missiles were released.

In the sky, China's first-generation Phoenix fighter planes inevitably collided with the Soviet air force and were consumed in less than thirty minutes.

At the same time, as the heavy Soviet tanks rolled south, the defense of the northern line of Shenzhou, the four heavy artillery tanks, and the big white tiger cannon quickly turned to fire, but these tanks were not damaged at all in the smoke, and they were still rolling in the smoke. Before him, the dark red light, like the eyes of a ghost in the smoke, was approaching from the horizon.

September 12,

The Battle of New Talas was lost. An entire heavy armored army was attacked by the armor power of the Soviet army several times, and had to flee towards the Kandahar area in the south, and then moved to South Asia.

But this army could retreat, but the Western Regions became extremely empty due to the lack of the Corps. There are various anxious discussions on this in the big and small business news (newspapers).

Those who were originally the main combat faction are now in an uproar.

Before the war, China's science and technology department believed that the armored forces of the Northern Powerhouse, which was backward and had very imperfect information technology, seemed huge, but would collapse at the first touch.

A mind chip was implanted in the helmets of the non-commissioned officers of the Soviet army, which made the command of the grass-roots Sergei strong country company very flexible, and these non-commissioned officers could inherit skills and become versatile.

For example, on the battlefield, after some vehicles lose their combat capability due to some minor problems, these sergeants can guide the conscripts to repair them, then sit in and let the vehicles restart.

September 13, eight o'clock in the morning.

The huge anti-gravity Kirov airship arrives at Zhaowu Fortress.

Two-ton gliding bombs fell from the airship and continued to destroy the defensive front. The defenders of the Zhaowu Fortress could only rely on the construction vehicles of the base, taking advantage of the gaps in the firepower, and constantly piled up barriers to prevent the advance of the Soviet army. .

The situation was very critical, and the defenders in front sent messages to Shenjing three times an hour, seeking support. And the princes in Shenjing have carried out a new round of blame on this matter! The speech officials wrote: This sideline provocation was condoned by some people in the cabinet.

Of course, the big man in the cabinet did not expect that the situation would suddenly deteriorate to such an extent. In his heart: Originally, it was just a small disturbance in the frontier, with the help of the military and state affairs in the Western Regions, to give the businessmen in Guanzhong a blow. But now the military affairs in the Western Regions have collapsed directly, and the entire Western Regions are facing the risk of being poured into the flames of war.

Once this is the case, it will become inevitable to overturn the pavilion!

At this time, the original radical main combat faction in the cabinet is now a little bit hard to get rid of.

It's just that the war can't be ended first due to sympathy, this matter should be brought up by others! For example, those Kanto families who invested too much in the Western Regions. Therefore, under the instruction of the cabinet, the official newspaper of the day was still "The Zhaowu Fortress is indestructible, and the Queen of Heaven blesses our army to win."

But at night, Xu Gen and Xu Ge were woken up by the new news.

The reinforcements from Mobei are rushing to support the Western Regions, and the leader of the team is General Wei Keng, oh, and now he has been temporarily promoted to the deputy general. The newly appointed head of the Ministry of War bypassed the general meeting of the cabinet and signed the order first.

However, Xu Gen didn't say much on this matter, and at this time the newly appointed head of the Ministry of War made him avoid it. After getting off the bed and changing clothes, he seemed to be concerned for the country and said: "I hope this battle can be over soon."

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Thousands of miles away, in the heavy-duty train speeding on the railway, Wei Keng and the officer corps, who were wearing Longyan combat armor, were discussing the time point repeatedly while looking at the map.

When someone speaks of ending wars quickly,

Wei Keng immediately cut off the talk of his own people in this regard: "End the war? Don't think about it after it starts. War can only be actively prepared before the war and do everything possible to avoid it."