Chapter 67: Thunderous

The grasslands and hills, thousands of horses galloping, with cylindrical curly hats and black cloaks, the ocean was galloping, and the earth seemed to be trembling.

Among the cavalry team, there was a big man with a thick yellow beard, whose name was Dinantal and the commander of the Third Regiment of the Cossack Ural Corps. At this time, the land where he galloped was the territory of the Chinese, called the Donu Ulianghai.

In August, the sky was like fire, and Di Nian Tali felt even more intense. He dyed the blade red with the blood of the Chinese to massacre citizens of this powerful Eastern country, which was more exciting than the inferior races of the Caucasus.

The target of the Cavalry Regiment is Kizil more than a hundred miles ahead, and it is also a military commercial stronghold for the Chinese in the Tanuwulianghai area.

The Chinese seem to have a paranoid love for the resources on the border. According to the Russian upper class analysis, it is very likely that the vast land in the Central Plains is actually scarce, which can explain the behavior of often using great efforts to mine the border. For example, Kizil is so far away from the Chinese capital, but the Chinese have to mine the coal here and use a lot of manpower to build the highway from Kizil to Ulyasutai. The railway construction has started a year ago, and it is said that it can be completed in the year.

The first railway in the *** area has long been built between Ulya Sutai and Dihua.

Sometimes Ye Zhao also thought that his railway trunk construction was similar to the goal proposed by Yuan Shikai when he was founded. However, Yuan Shikai had just founded the country and experienced warlord melee, and his goal could only be a mirror and water moon.

Dientali didn't understand these things. He only knew that his mission was to kill all the Chinese Donu Ulianghai people he saw, that is, the Tuva people in the mouths of the Russians, so as not to leak the news. Behind him, more than 200,000 Russian teams had been continuously departing.

The Siberian railway city Abakan, the closest to Kizil, is only a few hundred miles away, and it only needs to cross some mountains and rivers.

***The war zone is the main battlefield chosen by Mi Liujing in the battle against China.

The Western Front battlefield, which had gathered more than 300,000 troops in the Alexandersk area, will take a defensive position in the early stages of the war, and more than 80 kilometers of trenches have been built to resist the attacks launched by the Chinese infantry sea. According to intelligence, China has gathered more than 300,000 to 400,000 troops on the front line of the Bakkash Lake in Tianhu City.

The immigrant cities and troops on the easternmost Western Siberian coastline could only be abandoned and became victims of this war.

But as long as the central *** war zone can achieve its strategic intentions, a slight sacrifice is nothing.

A surprise attack on Kizil and use the wide highway from Kizil to Ulyasutai as a transportation line to conquer Ulyasutai. If you are lucky and can capture several locomotives, you may be able to attack Dihua like lightning. The Chinese emperor and his headquarters, senior officials in the army are all in Dihua City. If the Chinese emperor is captured, then the war will achieve a miraculous victory.

Of course, Mi Liujing would not think he had such good luck. His strategic intention was that when the Chinese attacked from the Western Front first, the Russian central army attacked Dihua from Ulya Sutai. If Dihua could be conquered, it would be equivalent to cutting off the supply line of the Chinese team. The hundreds of thousands of Chinese troops on the Western Front would collapse without fighting.

The lowest goal of the Central Army's strategic intention is to use Ulya Sutai as a springboard to threaten the heartland of the Central Plains and find better fighter jets in the chaos of the Chinese.

Ten days ago, the Sino-Russian army, which had constant friction in East Kazakhstan, finally broke out in a large-scale conflict. Russia immediately declared war on China. As expected, the Chinese Western Front troops immediately invaded Russia and began to march towards Alexandersk. If the battlefield in the central area is advanced at the fastest speed, the war will be smooth and luck, and it will not be difficult to achieve the highest strategic goal. Even the Chinese Western Expedition Army did not have time to rescue when conquering Dihua.

According to intelligence, in Ulyasutai, the Chinese had only two armies and some sporadic border troops, with about 100,000 people, which was normal. From the western front to Barkesh Lake to Turkestan, the Chinese gathered more than 400,000 troops. Obviously, they were very confident in the defense of the hinterland and did not think that the Russians would launch an attack on the middle road of the deserted mountains. Even if the Russians attacked Outer Mongolia and rely on their excellent transport capabilities, they could quickly organize a large number of troops to give a head-on blow to the Russian army that was alone and deeply involved.

However, Mi Liujing proposed to Alexander II to attack the Chinese area with heavy troops on the central line, assembled 232 infantry battalions, 191 cavalry battalions and 715 artillery elites, and gave the Chinese a fatal punch in the *** prairie.

A pro-Russian prince of Ulyasutai has long agreed that as long as the Russians help him become the Khan of the Zasaktu Khan tribe, he will fully support the Russians' military operations.

Although this war with the Chinese was difficult to dismember the huge China, defeating China forced it to give up the Western Regions. Siberian territory and acceptance of independence were the ultimate goal of the Russians.

Dienantali did not know the strategic intentions of the Supreme Command. He only knew that the order he received was to kill all the Chinese Tuvas who met them so as not to lose its meaning in this excellent attack.

However, the area around the Tanuwulianghai is vast and sparsely populated. It is said that there are only tens of thousands of Tuva people, most of which live in the Kizil area and its southern region. At least the vanguard regiment of Dinantali only encountered a Tuva tribe with hundreds of people, hundreds, regardless of age, young, women and children, and were immediately killed.

Dienantali waved his hand and shouted a few words, and the galloping cavalry slowly slowed down as they shouted.

After crossing the vast grasslands and deserts, more than a hundred miles ahead was Kizil, which runs through the Yenisei River. According to Prince ***, Kizil was stationed in a border defense regiment of China. Dinantali did not know that the information came from Prince *** of China. He only knew that he had to wait for his companions and assembled more than a dozen cavalry battalions to attack the Chinese, so that a Chinese soldier could not be arrested and escaped.

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When nearly 10,000 Cossack cavalry appeared on the horizon in the Kizil area like wild animals, the Chinese reacted very quickly. Fierce tongues of flames spewed out from the military bunkers, and the fortifications composed of barbed wire and trenches were quickly occupied by infantry. The dense gunshots of light machine guns and rifles quickly rang out from all directions on the ground.

Before the Cossack cavalry launched an attack, the telegram line set up next to the highway to the south was cut off. Therefore, although the first charge was repelled by the Chinese bomb rain, the Cossack cavalry was not discouraged and shouted in circles to prepare for the second charge.

Dientali's eyes turned red, and his cavalry regiment rushed to the front, causing heavy losses. After one charge, hundreds of knights flew with flesh and blood. This unsuccessful charge was obviously caused by despising the Chinese's hasty firepower to launch a dispersed charge from all sides.

So when the commander of the regiment Panwitz summoned the generals to arrange tactics, Dienantal stood stubbornly on the horse and did not pay attention to it.

In the town of Kizil, a huge balloon suddenly took off, and the balloon was pulled by iron chains. In the hanging basket, there were vague small black dots, which should be Chinese scouts.

Di Niantali stayed for a moment, with vast grasslands, forests and rivers, low mountains, standing at high altitudes, looking at thousands of miles, which means that the Chinese people will see every move of their cavalry team.

A cavalry suddenly rushed over and shouted: "The Chinese release the pigeon! The Chinese release the pigeon!"

Di Niantali's heart sank even more.

Panwitz drew his saber and sternly said: "For the glory of Cossack!"

Standing at the moment, the sabers were as bright as the forest, and the black horses at the end were nowhere to be seen. The Cossacks waved their blades and screamed strangely, and their violent aura soared into the sky.

"Aruna, are you afraid?" Chaganbari turned his head and asked his wife. After the fortifications of the barbed wire and trenches, there were hundreds of *** cavalrymen. This was the cavalry battalion of the Kizil Border Defense Regiment, all of which were recruited *** warriors.

The battalion commander Chaganbari and his wife Aruna rode horses on a high ground in the city. Chaganbari was from the Zasaktu Khan tribe, and Aruna was from the Tofut tribe, both from poor people, and Aruna was once a slave to the tribe heads. When the empire began to abolish aristocratic privileges in the Outer Mongolia tribes, exiled some noble bullies, appointed officials to manage the subordinates of various ministries, and implemented the tribe head supervision system, like many poor young people, Chaganbari became the vanguard of the policy of supporting the empire, launched a campaign to elect heads in his tribe, and soon he was recruited to the army and became a glorious imperial cavalry.

A year later, he met Aruna. At that time, the Empire had just built a city in Kizil and moved to the miners. The Torhute tribe, which was commissioned by the former dynasty to rule the Tanuwulianghai area, was still in the stage of a slave society. When rescuing the Torhute slaves, Chaganbari met Aruna. The two soon had a warming relationship and got married three years ago.

Aruna was unwilling to separate from her husband, so she quickly joined the training class of health workers and became an excellent health worker. A few months ago, she was transferred to the health team of the Cavalry Battalion as the squad leader.

They are also famous couples in the border defense regiment. Of course, this was specially approved by the division headquarters. After all, according to the military regulations, under normal circumstances, there should be no direct superior-level and subordinate relationship between husband and wife.

Looking at the Cossack cavalry rolling in the distance, Aruna's eyes were as bright as stars in the sky. She was not afraid. She could meet her husband for two years and come to heaven from a hellish life. Even when facing death now, she was not afraid.

She didn't say anything, but just looked ahead resolutely and pulled the gun belt on her body.

"Ula!Ula!" The earth-shaking roar was extremely terrifying. The scene of nearly 10,000 black Cossacks were charging forward.

Around the surroundings, the deafening and dense gunfire sounded like raindrops again, and amid the dark and darkened Cossacks, white fog rose.

"Boom boom boom", cannons and mortar shells exploded one after another in the Cossacks. People neighed and horses screamed, and flesh flew everywhere. They rushed to the front of the Cossack cavalry, and were immediately scattered by light machine gun fire. The cavalry and war horses were knocked into sieves fell one by one. The area with a hundred steps in front of the barbed wire was blood flowing into a river.

When two infantry divisions of the Russian Central Army arrived at the battlefield on the second day, the Cossacks of the 18 battalions were almost one-third lost, and Kizil was still firmly in the hands of the Chinese.

The Russian infantry troops built fortifications and waited for the arrival of artillery. The commander of the war zone, the emperor's brother Mikhail Nikolanavich, had long ordered that if the cavalry raid failed, the vanguard must wait for fire support and then launch a strong attack on the Chinese.

Mikhail Nikolanavic is conservative and likes to play steadily. This is also the reason why Alexander II and Miliujing chose him as the commander of the *** war zone. If he changed his judgment, he would easily become a lonely army and face a head-on attack from the Chinese in the *** war zone.

Three days later, the Russian army arrived in the Kizil area one after another. The conservative Mikhail Nikolanavic even left two divisions of troops to scatter the troops to maintain the supply line that was impossible to encounter attacks.

During these three days, more than 30,000 Russian infantry launched fierce attacks on Kizil, and artillery fire almost flattened the entire town, and the Chinese artillery positions had long been silent. Although they broke through the first line of defense of the Chinese, the hill bunkers built beside the forest in the west quickly formed a second position. In the broken walls destroyed by artillery fire, Chinese soldiers stubbornly resisted the Russian attack.

When Mikhail Nikolanavic listened to the military information report of his generals on the banks of the Yenisei River, he was stunned for a long time. A full-time infantry regiment in China was said to be around four or five thousand, including his armed logistics personnel, but they maintained their extremely tough combat effectiveness without the support of artillery. This was really beyond his expectations.

Although he repeatedly reminded himself not to underestimate the Chinese, the performance of the Chinese team still shocked him.

"My Lord Duke, I propose that my corps take over the action of attacking the Chinese!"

The middle-aged general who spoke at the long table with a cold expression was Mikhail Ivanovic Dragomirov, the commander of the Third Division of the Second Army of the *** War Zone. He was a famous Russian military theorist who denied firepower and advocated eternal bayonets.

The positions held by the Chinese are dangerous and are not suitable for large corps to launch attacks.

Mikhail Nikolanavic nodded slightly and asked the general beside him: "Are you ready to attack Ulyasutai?" He didn't care about the little episode of the Chinese infantry battalion's stubborn resistance. From an overall strategy, no matter how long the Chinese hold on for a long time, they only need to send a small number of troops to siege it, and there will always be a day to surrender. Now the main force of the Central Army arrives in Kizil and rely on the wide road to attack Ulyasutai.

The Chinese should have known that Kizil was attacked, but its intelligence may not be accurate, because when the carrier pigeon was released, they were only the Cossack cavalry who besieged Kizil. The Chinese would not easily judge that they would travel across mountains and rivers to invade Outer Mongolia on a large scale, and even if they learned about it, it would have nothing to do with it.

Nowadays, the Chinese team must have set up an ambush between Kizil and Ulyasutai on the road to emergency rescue, defeated the Chinese rescue team, ate two Chinese armies in Ulyasutai, and then attacked Dihua. This is Mikhail's strategy.

The main force of the Chinese was on the Western Front and was marching towards Alexandersk. It was difficult to defend in a short period of time. Moreover, the spies in Tianhu City had already received the order to destroy China's railway line. It was not very difficult to break out of the desert area from Alishankou to Tianhu City. In East Kazakhstan, a cavalry battalion had been deployed to blow up the Chinese railway.

The loss of railway support will make its Western Front Legion not worth worrying.

It can be foreseeable that when the two armies of China in Ulya Sutai were annihilated, the Chinese team I faced was more of a reserve force with low combat effectiveness. With the support of the magnificent people, it was not a very difficult goal to conquer Dihua, a major northwest town in Dihua, which was not a very difficult goal.

After hearing the Grand Duke's question, Joseph Vladimirovic Gulco, the commander of the Second Legion, said: "After a short rest, we will launch an attack on Ulyasutai."

Mikhail Nikolanavic stood up and looked at the huge military map hanging behind him, holding his chin and meditating silently.
Chapter completed!