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Text Chapter 1,237 The Desperate Grand Duke Nicholas

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    In the Siberian Plain at the end of May, the weather is sunny and there is little precipitation.  However, in the Siberian Plain, spring and summer are very short-lived, and after a few months, the cold winter will enter again.  Moreover, winter is very long, almost more than half a year!

    Millions of troops from China and Russia are still fighting on the Siberian plains. The Russian army relied on the cities on the border that were almost built into fortresses to resist the Chinese army's attack in the early stages of the war.  However, as the Chinese army gradually occupied these cities and eliminated the Russian army entrenched in these cities, the Russian army has gradually shown its decline and is not far from complete defeat!

    After more than half a month of hard fighting, the 11th Army of the Chinese Army has captured Orsk. Of the more than 200,000 Russian troops deployed in Orsk, only tens of thousands of them escaped, and the rest were either in the city.  They were wiped out by the Chinese army during the offensive, or they had surrendered to the Chinese army.  Moreover, of the tens of thousands of people who retreated from Orsk, not many were able to escape back to Yekaterinburg alive.  They will be chased by the cavalry of the five tribes of Central Asia.  When these Russian troops retreated from Orsk, they had almost no heavy weapons.  In a field battle, how could they be the opponents of the cavalry?

    In addition, the Russian army advancing eastward from the Urals and Orenburg was also blocked at the foot of the Ural Mountains by two infantry divisions of the 11th Army Group and several other infantry divisions, unable to advance.  When these Russian troops learned that Orsk had been occupied by the Chinese army and that the Russian troops had suffered heavy losses, including Lieutenant General Yakov, who was killed in the battle, they did not continue to fight, but broke away from contact with the Chinese army.  , and instead retreated to the European part of Russia.  These Russian troops are not fools. They know that once the Chinese army transfers troops from Orsk, they will not be able to leave even if they want to!

    This group of troops, mainly composed of the 11th Group Army of the Chinese Army, also suffered heavy losses in order to capture Orsk.  Several infantry divisions under the 11th Army took turns attacking the Russian army and suffered heavy losses.  The Chinese army alone suffered more than 30,000 casualties, and the Japanese mercenaries who cooperated with the 11th Group Army suffered losses of more than 70,000 people!  It can be seen how tragic this battle was.  Although the Russian army's equipment is backward, they still have to take advantage of it on their home ground, fighting in a city that has almost been built into a fortress.  As the attacking party, if the Chinese army wants to defeat the Russian army, it will have to pay a huge price!  Fortunately, although the price is high, it is not unbearable!  With Japanese mercenaries as cannon fodder, blocking the front and most dangerous places, the losses of the Chinese army have been relatively reduced.  Otherwise, if there were no Japanese mercenaries, the losses of the Chinese army would have to be at least doubled if they wanted to capture Orsk!

    As early as three days before the 11th Army captured Orsk, the army led by the 5th Army of the Chinese Army had already captured Petrobanovsk. Now the army is attacking Kurgan, cooperating with the 4th Army.  Group army operations.  The two armies, plus the attached infantry divisions and mercenary units, have a total strength of more than one million, and there is almost no problem in taking the Kurgan.

    By May 24, the Chinese army had captured Kurgan, and almost all the Russian troops guarding it were annihilated. Except for a small number of Russian troops who surrendered, the remaining Russian troops were killed or wounded in the war.  .

    Almost at the same time, the 10th Army also captured Magnitogorsk, and the 3rd Army also captured Ishim.  Among the six important border cities of the Russian army, only Chelyabinsk is still struggling to support itself.  However, the Russian army in Chelyabinsk has already suffered heavy losses under the attack of hundreds of thousands of troops led by the Chinese Army's 4th Group Army. It is even more difficult to support itself when several other cities have been lost.  , it is only a matter of time before it is conquered!

    Astana, in the frontline headquarters of the Chinese Army, the supreme commander and Chief of General Staff Marshal Cai Yun is reading the battle reports sent back from the frontline!  The battle started on March 30, and now, it¡¯s only one week to one month away!  The strategic goals of the Chinese army have almost been completed. The more than 1.2 million elite troops deployed by the Russian army on the border have either been annihilated or are about to be annihilated.  Now it seems that the Chinese army's victory in this war is already a certainty!

    "When can we take Chelyabinsk?" Marshal Cai Yun asked.

    "Marshal, the commander of the 1st Group Army, General Chen Wenjun, called. Within two days, they will definitely take Chelyabinsk!" A staff officer reported to Marshal Cai Yun!  Obviously, seeing that other armies had already won, General Chen Wenjun, commander of the 1st Group Army, also began to convene.  The various group armies of the Chinese Army are not much different in strength, and the generals of each group army are also competing. No one feels that he is inferior to others.  Of course, regarding the competition between various group armies, whether it is the imperial emperor Wang Yuze or the military ministers??We are all happy to hear about this.  Of course, the premise is that this competition must be healthy competition.

    "Well! Let the 4th Army, 10th Army and 5th Army march towards Chelyabinsk! Capture Chelyabinsk and prepare to march towards Yekaterinburg!" Marshal Cai Yun said.  Chelyabinsk is one of the important towns in Siberia in Russia and the most important industrial base of the Russian army. It is only two hundred kilometers away from Yekaterinburg and is connected to Yekaterinburg by railways. Although these railways have been damaged a lot, they can only be slightly repaired.  , you can transport logistics supplies.  This is very helpful for attacking Yekaterinburg.

    The Chinese army invested a large number of troops in the Siberian Plains War, which also put huge pressure on logistics!  If the Chinese army had not started to store various strategic materials in Central Asia a few years ago, it would not have been able to support the consumption of millions of troops.  Even so, after nearly a month of fierce fighting, nearly half of these strategic supplies have been consumed.  Therefore, in the battle to attack Yekaterinburg, Marshal Cai Yun only planned to invest mainly the 1st Army, 4th Army, 5th Army, and 10th Army, together with hundreds of thousands of Japanese and North Korean mercenaries.  The remaining troops stayed on the border to prepare for entering Europe after capturing Yekaterinburg!

    Of course, the Chinese army suffered heavy losses in the battle to capture these border cities.  The losses of the Chinese army exceeded 120,000 people, while the Japanese mercenaries paid a price of nearly 300,000 people, and the Korean mercenaries also lost nearly 150,000 people.  It can be seen that in order to conquer these six cities that were almost built into fortresses, the Chinese army paid a high price!  This is a result achieved by the Chinese army with the support of aircraft and tanks. Without these sharp weapons, the Chinese army may have to pay a greater price to capture these cities!  That is truly filling it with human life!  However, this is not what the top brass of the Chinese military want to see.  Although China has a large population and a large number of soldiers, the life of every soldier is precious. Even if one hundred rounds of artillery shells are used to exchange for one enemy person, it is still worth it!

    At this moment, there are only more than 500,000 Russian troops left in Yekaterinburg. The Chinese Army has dispatched 4 army groups and hundreds of thousands of mercenaries, which is enough to annihilate them!  In addition, there are nearly 100,000 cavalrymen from the five Central Asian tribes. After destroying the Russian 7th Cossack Cavalry Corps, the morale of the cavalrymen from the five Central Asian tribes has been greatly boosted. They come and go like the wind, on the Siberian plains.  Burning, killing, looting, almost no reliance on Chinese logistics, it is completely possible to support war with war!

    Therefore, after the border battle entered the later stage, Marshal Cai Yun had ordered the cavalry of the five Central Asian ethnic groups to gather around Yekaterinburg, cutting off the connection between Yekaterinburg and the periphery, denying the Russian army the opportunity to obtain supplies, and at the same time making it impossible for the Russian army to  Get away from here!  The railway going west from Yekaterinburg had been blown up by Chinese Air Force fighter planes before, and was later destroyed by the cavalry of the five Central Asian ethnic groups. It is almost impossible for the Russian army to evacuate Yekaterinburg!

    On May 26, the 1st Group Army of the Chinese Army captured Chelyabinsk and began to prepare to attack Yekaterinburg!

    Yekaterinburg, the last stronghold of the Russian army on the Siberian plains, where all the remaining nearly half a million Russian troops are gathered.  Yekaterinburg was founded in 1723 and named after Empress Catherine I. It is the center of the Ural region of Russia.  However, this place is now under the frontline of the Chinese army, and Russia's rule here is already shaky.

    The commander-in-chief of the Russian army, Grand Duke Nicholas, was less than sixty years old, but less than a month after the war began, the constant blows coming from the front line had already made him seem much older.  At the beginning, he originally thought that several cities on the border of the Russian army could hold on for at least three to four months, and then in Yekaterinburg, they could hold on for a few more months.  In that case, the coldest winter on the Siberian Plain will come. The Chinese will not be able to withstand the winter on the Siberian Plain. They will all freeze to death like Napoleon II who invaded Russia.  At that time, the Russian army will still have a chance to win.  Even if Russia still cannot defeat China, Russia, which has shown great strength, can at least strive for a decent peace.

    However, the news from the front line made Grand Duke Nicholas very desperate. The defense lines that the Russian army had painstakingly built were easily conquered by the Chinese army one by one. It is foreseeable that the Chinese army will arrive in Yekaterinburg before long.  Got it!  (To be continued. Please search Piaotian Literature, the novels will be better and updated faster!)
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