September 20th.

Mongolia, 240 kilometers southeast of Kulun.

The endless Gobi Desert.

The Russian army finally encountered strong resistance.

The Zhongzhang team, which was fighting and retreating along the way, built a long line of defense here at some point. The hard Gobi Desert was dug out of field fortifications. Although there were insufficient logs to reinforce the trenches, the Chinese still stubbornly transported a lot of wood through railways and roads, and barely built a trench defense line.

The terrifying roar of the Chinese heavy artillery group resounded through the sky again, bringing the Russian veterans who had experienced the hard battle in Balesumpur back to that terrifying nightmare. On the front line that stretched for more than 100 kilometers, the Chinese team once again built a strong defense, and everything seemed to be back to Balesumpur.

With the railway line as the central axis, in the middle, the Central Team had the most dense firepower and the strongest position. The Russian army mobilized superior forces and launched several powerful attacks in the central government, but they were all failed. General Kropatkin also felt the tricky. Previously, he had reported the combat plan for the central government's breakthrough to the Tsar and approved it. Now that the breakthrough is not strong, and the Chinese's firepower seems to be concentrated in the central government, he has to start thinking about starting a new job.

He has no way out.

The situation has developed to this point, and facing such a favorable situation, if he is stooping and hesitating, the villains surrounding the Tsar will slander him, slander him, and replace him.

He can only move forward.

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It was not only the tenacious Chinese team that brought suffering to the Russian army, but also the intensive firepower they launched.

This is the Gobi Desert. And it is midsummer.

On the Eastern Front, with the Kruren River and some tributaries, the Russian army can also replenish nearby, but on the Western Front, which is the right wing of the Russian army's main attack, Samsonov's Second Army and Kampf's cavalry cluster were simply crazy.

Here, in later Mongolian Republic, it was called the Central Gobi Province.

Looking into the distance, the Gobi Desert or the Gobi Desert.

Since occupying Kulun, the Russian army has also considered the issue of transporting water across the Gobi Desert.

The Russian army used soldiers and soldiers to dig a series of huge water purification pools at the junction of the Orhun River and the railway line next to Kulun, built cement, one deeper than the other, and used precipitation and filtration to purify the river water. The water pump continuously pumped up the river water. The water here flowed to the deepest pool through layers of filtering. People filled wine barrels and gasoline barrels, put them on tank carriages, and added alum. The tank carriages used to transport Baku oil on the Russian railway line were also brought over to fill water.

But despite this, Samsonov and Kampf were almost tortured by thirst.

The water consumed by the war horses every day by the cavalry of Kampf in the Gobi Desert is amazing, but the water in the salt lake in the Gobi Desert cannot be drunk, which greatly limits his mobility. As for Samsonov's troops, the water grabbing has had many conflicts with the Kampf's troops in the New Year, which makes the two people who were already disliked to see each other even more.

The most intense time, because Samsonov's troops intercepted the drinking water transported to Kampf, the soldiers yelled, "People are always more expensive than horses." As a result, Kampf's cavalry rode horses and waved wooden sticks to grab the water, and a serious fight broke out. Finally, the two big bosses of the army faced each other. There was a disagreement. Samsonov, who was irritated, slapped Liannian Kampf twice. Kampf was also very angry. The two people fought each other directly, and finally they were separated. They were all cursed with bruises and swollen.

All of this was seen by German Army Lieutenant Colonel Hoffman, who served as observer of Samsonov's army. Of course, Hoffman did not know that in another Russo-Japanese War in time and space, it was he who witnessed the two generals who were unhooked at Shenyang Station, thus making full use of the gap between the two armies led by these two in the Battle of Lake Mazuri, put forward a bold plan, and carried out a model of inside mobile warfare with left and right shots, creating the "Hindenburg Miracle".

Faced with such a dilemma, the Russian army had only one way: defeat the Chinese army in front of us as quickly as possible, and continue to advance southward and pass through the Gobi area.

Another important reason is that the Chinese army does not seem to be short of water.

Yes, the Chinese army did not lack water. This is not only the water purifiers installed by the large number of carriages for the troops that the Chinese army has equipped, but also the fact that the preset positions of the Chinese army have been carefully selected. Although it is a Gobi, due to the existence of rivers and underground rivers, the groundwater resources in this place are actually not scarce. As early as three months ago, the Chinese army had already dug wells and built water storage cellars here in the name of geological exploration. Thanks to the development of oil drilling technology and the leap of metallurgical technology, on this Gobi well, a glance, was spread out in the ground.

Drinking the sweet groundwater after being filtered by the water purifier, some rural replenishing soldiers were still muttering, "This well is so deep, and the water is also cool, is it not the water from the underworld?" But seeing that each of the comrades had nothing to do, they also started drinking with the courage.

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Irkutsk, Tsar's Palace.

Tsar Nicholas II stood in front of the map on the wall with his hands behind his back, watching the young officers update their enemy and me logos on it, and his face was excited: "General Kropatkin is worthy of being a genius of the Russian Army. Since our army has confused Huang Monkey with the middle-face offensive, and asked them to place their main force on the central front based on the railway line, our army can now move its troops to the right wing, use the flank to deflect the Huang Monkey's left wing, roll it back to the center, force them to the Kruren River to the west, and annihilate them all. This is a genius plan, right, General?"

Admiral Alekseyev next to him bowed slightly: "Your Majesty, this is the wedge-shaped tactic of Emperor Frederick. In modern warfare, it is a very genius and creative idea to achieve a breakthrough and make a sweep through such a profound and roundabout way."

"You are right, my general." Nicholas II smiled slightly, "Actually, there is another name for this tactic, which I think is very appropriate."

"Oh? Please speak with your Majesty."

"Right hook fist." Nicholas II said, "This was mentioned to me by my uncle, Grand Duke Nikolaevich, and it was proposed by the Chinese staff under his command. He said that this tactic was used by the Chinese during the Sino-French war. In the process of advancing south, he used frontal troops to restrain the main force of the enemy, concentrated superior forces on the right to defeat the enemy first, squeeze them to the coastline of Annan. The French suffered a great loss from this tactic."

"Use the tactics they are good at, and use them in turn, a wonderful idea, right?" Nicholas II asked with a smile.

"Your Majesty is wise." Admiral Alekseev said sincerely.

"Your Majesty, I have a small suggestion." At this time, a voice came from the side.

The Tsar turned his head and saw another Alexeyev: Major General of the Army of Mikhail Vasilyevich Alexeyev, who was the director of the Third Bureau of the Russian Army of the Military Resources Department who was responsible for the supply of military supplies in the far East and West Siberia.

"Oh? Mikhail Vasilyevich, please accept your opinion." The Tsar had a good impression of this war zone steward. It was rare to manage the military transport of each unit in an orderly manner. This is a talent.

"Your Majesty, General Kropatkin's plan is good. He will draw two infantry divisions from the first and third armies to the right wing. Lieutenant General Samsonov's second army uses the front front as the hilt, and uses the closed guillotine form to reverse the right wing. General Kampf's cavalry cluster is responsible for its outer flank protection. On the map, this is almost a perfect plan." Mikhail Vasilyevich Alekseev said, "However, if the Chinese troops in the central government take the opportunity to turn defense into offense, once they break through our defense line, occupy the railway line and attack our rear military supplies and heavy artillery positions northward, and divide and drive our army away from the railway supply line?"

The Tsar was obviously stunned, looking at the map, his eyes flashing.

Admiral Alexeyev next to him showed mocking: "Mikhail Vasilyevich, you look down on Huang Monkey, under the great Russian Army. Under His Majesty's wise command, the Chinese troops in the Mongolian direction have been defeated. Their situation is dangerous in the east. Now, in front of the Japanese, the numbers of four divisions of the original Northern Front Army have appeared, but these divisions have obviously suffered heavy losses and limited combat power. The Japanese have begun their general attack on Lushun today. How much power does the Chinese have to invest in the Mongolian direction?"

"The battlefield is always covered with a fog." Major General Alexeyev said, "Old General, we cannot place everything on the information we have collected. What I have raised is a possibility, and you cannot deny the existence of this possibility."

"What do you think?" Alekseyev was obviously impatient with the fact that this small official in charge of military supplies dared to contradict him. "Mikhail Vasilyevich, our army failed in several central breakthroughs. The Chinese obviously concentrated their main forces and firepower in the center. It is wise to carry out flanking attacks at this time. What is the problem?"

"If a flanking strike is necessary, I suggest increasing the strength of the central government." Major General Alexeyev said, "From Kulun to the war zone, our army has three infantry divisions, one cavalry division is responsible for maintaining the safety of the traffic line. In addition, Kulun has more than 40,000 reserve infantry, and mobilize these troops to leave a small number of troops to defend Kulun. The remaining troops can move to the north of the war zone and Kulun, and gather and standby. Once there is a problem ahead, trains can be used to support it nearby. In terms of Kulun, there is enough protection force in the east, and then a mobilized division will be transferred from Ulan Uund. In addition, considering the importance of this battle, I suggest that three divisions will be temporarily mobilized from the western region to strengthen the direction of Ulan Uund and the Buying and Shop City to ensure the transportation line."

The Tsar looked at the sharp major general and nodded in appreciation: "You said very well, Mikhail Vasilyevich, I think it can be done. OK, General, send a report to General Kropatkin. I want to see the young men kick the Chinese in the ass."

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Beijing. Xishan Base Camp.

A small, inconspicuous two-story cement building with tight guards around it.

Inside the building, the offices were all traveling through the building, which were full of haggard soldiers and black-eyed soldiers, or sloppy men dressed like soldiers, but they looked very weak in the style of a soldier.

A major with a pale yellow hair and European appearance yawned and came behind a major who was busy at the desk. He spoke in a Beijing accent: "Lu Datou, don't tell me that I didn't sleep last night."

Seeing that the Chinese Imperial Army Major, Jewish naturalized native, graduated from the University of Paris, a disciple of Henry Poincaré, a mathematician specialist specially appointed by the Empire's Supreme Secret Skynet, and a code-breaking genius Chai Xiaowei shrugged his shoulders and sat down next to him.

His mind was a little dizzy.

There was no way, he only slept for less than three hours last night.

How long have I worked like this continuously? One month or two months? I can’t remember it clearly.

The code deciphering department of the Chinese Empire had already begun preparations as early as the time of the town. After occupying Jiangnan in 1880, Zheng Ying sent a large number of international students to Europe, among which mathematics is the key area. Of course, this is not only related to code deciphering, but also to all natural sciences and social sciences analytical tools.

In the 1895th year, the Chinese army used monitoring and deciphering wired telegraphs from the Qing Dynasty and Japan to gain vital intelligence advantages. In 1888, German physicist Hertz discovered electromagnetic waves. Zheng Ying, then Prime Minister of Nanyang, had a professional economic and scientific and technological intelligence collection system in Europe and the United States. After learning about it, he was ashamed of the treasure and immediately hired this person to continue his research with high salaries, sufficient funds, and comfortable living conditions.

Unfortunately, this Hertz died young in 1894, just like in the history of another time and space. However, Meng Ning, the assistant arranged by Zheng Ying, first completed the experiment of the first commercial radio telegraph in 1895. In Beijing, Zheng Ying, who had just become the emperor, witnessed a radio telegraph sending a code in Zhongnanhai, where he was temporarily working: "What is the weather in Xishan?"

Two minutes later, the head of the telegraph machine brushed out long and short wires. The translator copied the telegraph code on the lattice paper of the translator and said loudly: "The weather is clear and the breeze is gentle."

Three years later, the Royal Telegraph Company of the Empire of China had registered patents for wireless telegraphs in major countries in the world and began to sell various models of civilian wireless telegraph machines.

Of course, truly high-performance military and government wireless telegraph machines are left for their own use. Over the years, due to continuous and unremitting efforts and the stimulation of commercial interests, especially the royal industry, the Royal Telegraph Company has always encouraged and even forced competition. Five years later, the Royal Telegraph Company was split, and the three newly established companies were held by different royal industry funds, and social shareholders joined, and they launched a comprehensive competition from technology to application.

Under the competition, the miniaturization and remoteization of telegraph machines in the Chinese Empire have achieved remarkable results. In other countries, radio telegraph machines can only be used for large ships. In military use, it can only be used to the military or even the army level because of its bulkiness and fragility. The radio telegraph machines of the Chinese Empire have been equipped to the division level and are equipped on various medium-sized ships and large airships.

The widely equipped wireless telegraph machine further stimulated the vigorous development of the cryptographic system. Since Zheng Ying and his students attached great importance to this, the Chinese Empire proposed the concept of "Second Space Intelligence" and listed wireless telegraph intelligence collection as a key point alongside physical intelligence collection.

In 1896, based on the original Town** intelligence analysis team, a special radio telegraph deciphering and anti-deciphering department was established under the communication departments of the General Staff of the Army and the General Staff of the Navy. The Ministry of National Defense also established a similar agency, while Emperor Zheng Ying secretly established the highest level of cryptographic deciphering department "Skynet".

For many years, these code-breaking departments have silently collected, sorted, analyzed and deciphered telegram codes from various countries.

Five years ago, the Great Purge caused some Ministry of Defense and military leaders to defect to Russia, taking away all the scams and half of the Chinese Empire's code deciphering, which immediately caused panic and attention from Russia, Japan and other countries. Russia has always been absent from mathematical geniuses, and Japan is not a weak person in mathematics. Soon, they also improved their own cryptographic system, especially establishing a preliminary cryptographic hierarchy system, separating diplomatic cryptography from army and naval cryptography, and utilizing different levels of cryptography internally according to the importance of the message. After the war started, they immediately changed the password to prevent the previous cryptography from being deciphered, which affected the leak of military operations.

But all this still cannot stump the Chinese Empire's code-breaking genius.

Cryptographic analysis is fundamentally a probability analysis system. Using frequency analysis to decrypt telegrams is the most common and classical method of analysis. The cryptographic system of the Chinese Empire is based on the most common alphabetical text-English. The encryption concept has now developed to the level of algorithm-key-ciphertext and secondary encryption.

The Russian cipher does not use English, but is a Russian-based telegram, which is a Cyrillic letter and grammatical code. In order to decipher the Russian cipher, the Chinese Empire had not only sent a group of specialists to study mathematics and Russian at Russian universities, but also directly hired some naturalized Eastern European Jewish mathematical geniuses.

Originally, we had a clue to deciphering the Russian password before the war, but once the war started, both Russia and Japan replaced new passwords. Although the previous work could not be said to be wasted, it was inevitable that it would take some more effort.

Since it is a probability analysis, it is necessary to accumulate necessary telegrams. The war has been going on for four months. In recent times, due to strategic and tactical disputes in Russia, the command of Nikolaevich in Vladivostok, the command of Kropatkin in Mongolia, the Tsar Palace in Irkutsk and the Russian government in St. Petersburg frequently exchanged telegrams, and the accumulated materials have finally begun to gradually lead to qualitative changes.

These geniuses of password deciphering have vaguely realized that they are gradually approaching that turning point! The Russian password, nicknamed "Big Ivan", is getting closer and closer to lifting the veil.

Everyone has already fought at this time.

Chai Xiaowei took the assistant and handed it to the tray, sucking the millet porridge, stunned, not knowing what was spinning in his mind.

Suddenly, he seemed to be struck by a lightning bolt and shouted like a devil: "One Hundred Thirty Six, One Hundred Forty Two, Two Hundred and Fifty Seven..."

He reported a series of numbers and shouted with joy: "Come on it! Get these messages for me!"

The big-headed young man next to him seemed to turn a deaf ear and was still burying his head.

Half an hour later.

Chai Xiaowei was stunned for a long time as if he was struck by lightning. He watched it several times, then began to pack up the straw paper without saying a word, got up and prepared to leave.

"What are you doing?" the young man next to him raised his head and asked softly.

"What are you doing? You can't believe it even if I say it." Chai Xiaowei smiled calmly and said word by word, "I, Chai Xiaowei, will be recorded in history! Because I... broke the solution-Da Yi Wan!"

A well-written telegram was unfolded in front of Chai Xiaowei's eyes, and the big-headed young man said calmly: "You said this? I seem to translate it a little faster than you. The first telegram was deciphered first."

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Two days later.

Front Commander Kropatkin looked at the senior officers in the headquarters majestic and said loudly: "Generals! I want to congratulate you, you have grabbed the tails of the Chinese! Now, their last little resistance will be about to turn into dust under the powerful power of Russia!"

Everyone stood up and proudly accepted the commander's review.

"The great Majesty Nicholas II has approved our right hook plan." Kropatkin said in a deep voice, "The code name of this action is 'Storm'. I hope you, like a storm that destroys everything, will destroy this residual power of the Chinese people in the wind and clouds! Yellow Russia will be born in our hands! The whole Russia will be proud of your heroism!"

Samsonov's face clearly showed pride and excitement.

"Recently, some troops have insufficient water supply." Kropatkin's eyes swept over Samsonov and looked at Kampf again. "It's very simple to solve this problem. The Chinese have water, and they have water behind them! Go around from their left wing and cooperate with the frontal offensive to destroy them!"

Kampf looked at Samsonov: "Last time, we also deviated from the right wing of the Chinese on the left wing, but because the infantry was lagging behind, the brave Cossack was beaten by the Chinese. This time, I hope the infantry will not drag their backs."

Samsonov snorted: "It seems that you were alone in that time. If our army had not been on steady steps, the Chinese would have turned the situation around. In the end, the Chinese would have relied on the battle of the Second Army?"

Kropatkin looked at the two men and said with some displeasure: "Two generals, the problem now is how to defeat the Chinese. For other things, after you finish this battle, I will accompany you to take care of it slowly. If you lose this time, you will wait to go to the military court!"

The two of them glared at each other and both stood attentively and saluted.
Chapter completed!