Dominate the Country

There are still many things in this world that people cannot understand. With Martin's pitiful information sources, many things seem so strange in his eyes, and the truth is always shrouded in a thick fog of doubt.

However, the facts are in front of us. The support of the three Kazakhs for China is unimaginable. They do not behave like a vassal force of China, but have been incorporated into China and called a member of China.

"The Chinese must have promised benefits, you see." Durmaz turned over the newspaper on the table, pointed to a piece of news and said to Martin: "Not only the Kazakhs are working hard, the Mongols are also working very hard."

"Now another 20,000 Mongolian cavalry have arrived in Tannu Uriankhai. They should launch a sweep in the western area from the Yenisei River Basin to Lake Baikal. The Chinese government has not even given them a formal number. I heard that in addition to a reward of 100 yuan, each person needs to provide their own horses, clothes, food, and weapons."

This treatment is almost the same as Russia's frequent conscription of the Torghut cavalry in the past, exchanging the 100 yuan for food for the soldiers and fodder for the horses. But the Torghut tribe complained about the conscription at the time, and these things have been published in the newspapers; but now the Mongols are extremely enthusiastic about "joining the army."

Durmaz certainly has not been to Tannu Uriankhai, but he has seen groups of Mongolian cavalry whistling past in Yili. These Mongolians had warm smiles on their faces, but the news from the Chinese mainland was that the Mongolian steppes and Qinghai regions were being removed from the banners and set up as counties.

Durmaz firmly believed that the Chen Emperor must have made some promises to the Mongolians, otherwise the Mongolians would be crazy if they were still working so hard for the Chen Emperor. By the same token, the Kazakhs also received such promises.

"Relax, my friend. We are just journalists, not historians who pursue the truth in everything. Our job is to write news releases that are eye-catching." Whether it is Durmaz or Martin, there is really no need to make everything clear. In that case, it is better to go directly to the Chinese after the war.

On such a wonderful afternoon, basking in the bright sun, not tasting coffee, enjoying the sunshine, but lying on the table and writing and drawing non-stop, the British really don't know how to enjoy life.

Although Durmaz was not satisfied with Yili and came to Yili reluctantly, he had to admit that the sun in Yili was much better than Shanghai and his hometown Sweden.

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While a Swedish reporter was enjoying the sunshine with a cup of coffee, Chen Ming led the guards and tens of thousands of Mongolian cavalrymen to advance quickly towards Lake Balkhash.

Of course he was riding a horse.

Coming from the Central Plains to the Northwest, Chen Ming felt that the fat on the inside of his thighs had lost weight again. And leading thousands of soldiers and horses, most of the soldiers in the team rode horses or rode heavy carriages, galloping on the vast grassland, waving their hands to make love, and the feeling of thousands of horses and troops galloping freely was really a refreshing feeling that could not be matched by the march of large groups of infantry.

In the previous life, Chinese men, people of Chen Ming's age, all had a soldier dream in their hearts. The fantasy of leading thousands of troops and horses to gallop took root when they were still children. Because when they were young, there were too many war movies and TV series. This dream may be deeply buried in their hearts when they grow up, but it will never be completely forgotten. Although there are only a few people who really join the army because of the soldier dream, and the picture of "thousands of troops galloping" is also very inconsistent with the scenes of modern wars in the 21st century, the innocent dream of childhood is a dream.

Chen Ming is in a very happy mood now.

He wants to reach Lake Balkhash and continue westward, all the way across the Ural River.

Leading large groups of cavalry and sweeping thousands of miles across the enemy's territory, it feels really great.

However, this is destined to be Chen Ming's extravagant wish. It is impossible for him to really lead his troops to the Ural. Because this war is not only in the northwest battlefield, but also in the northeast.

While he is in the northwest, his eyes are always paying attention to the progress of the war in the northeast.

In the northwest, they have the deep-buried chess piece of Torghut. But what about the north of Heilongjiang? There are no Chen Han's pawns among the important figures of the Eight Banners remnants. Everything there depends on hard fighting. The strategy of the Russian-Qing coalition is very clear, that is, defense, relying on the thousands of miles of mountains that intersect vertically and horizontally - Yablunov Mountain [southwest to northeast], Stanov Mountain [east-west, Greater Khingan Range], Zhugzhuer Mountain [again southwest to northeast], the three mountain ranges just form a tight natural cover. The Russian-Qing coalition only needs to stay in the valley area where the three mountains meet, or a large gap, and defend it strictly, which can cause great trouble to Chen Han's attacking forces.

Now the Russian-Qing coalition has given up Chita and Nerchinsk, and the main forces and farm population have all withdrawn behind the mountains. Their number is far less than that of the Northwest, but it does not mean that it is easier to fight than the Northwest.

The victory report from Novokhabarovsk has not yet reached Chen Ming. The Russian-Qing coalition forces there only have 3,000 people in total, and the 13,000-man offensive force of the National Defense Army outside the fortress has lost nearly 3,000 people.

Deng Yun looked at Novokhabarovsk, which was brightly lit in the night, with a gleam of hatred in his eyes.

He has been delayed outside the fortress for several months, and the number of soldiers he lost is comparable to that of the defenders in the entire fortress. Now the rockets in the fortress have finally been almost used up.

It is not that the Russians cannot make gunpowder in East and West Siberia. Sulfur mines are still available in Kamchatka, and they can also smuggle sulfur from Japan at a high price, but it is quite difficult to obtain it on a large scale. Moreover, saltpeter is one of the raw materials for gunpowder.

There is a reason why the Russians in East and West Siberia buy gunpowder from China. There is a lack of raw materials for mass production of gunpowder here.

Then, as a city where the Russian army is stationed, Novokhabarovsk, when their rockets have no follow-up production and sources, can only rely on inventory to fight against the Wehrmacht. The final result can only be that there are few left.

In the middle of the night, the sky in the south seemed to suddenly shake, and there was a flash on the horizon. The roar of explosions and artillery sounds reached everyone's ears at the first time.

"Be careful to hide!"

A Russian captain shouted at the top of his voice. But the people still stayed in the tunnel, not even looking at the anti-artillery hole. In fact, the anti-artillery holes on this battlefield are very useless and dangerous.

Many times, rockets were continuously poured towards the positions, and the explosion did not kill many people, but it collapsed the anti-artillery holes. The people inside were not killed by the bombs, but they would be buried alive by the soil, and the casualties increased instead of decreasing.

So, not only the captain was unwilling to enter the anti-artillery hole, but many Russian soldiers were also unwilling to enter the anti-artillery hole. They just squatted in the tunnel with their heads in their arms.

This is the method that came from China. To deal with rockets, you can't lie on the ground. That would be a quick death. The dead can't see any injuries on the outside, but black blood can flow out of their nostrils, eyes, and ears. So when the rocket explodes, it is necessary to reduce the contact area between the body and the surface to prevent resonance-resonance, don't ask the Russian soldiers what resonance is. They didn't need to know that the ground's ability to transmit shock waves was stronger than the air. They only needed to know that the most convenient posture to defend against rockets was to squat at the bottom of the tunnel with their heads in their hands.

A few seconds later, they heard the "whoosh" sound coming from the air, and then the ground shook violently, the air was torn apart by a powerful force, and a deafening explosion came from the left side of the captain's position with a scorching air wave.

The Chinese fire suppression began again.

Since the rockets in the fortress gradually dried up, the positions where the Chinese launched rockets have been getting closer and closer, and the casualties in the fortress have become greater and greater. In the past few days, the Chinese artillery positions have moved forward, with the muzzles facing the fortress gates directly, and even entering and exiting the fortress has become difficult.

The communication time inside and outside the city has changed from being smooth all day to being blocked during the day, and you have to be careful at night.

The transportation of troops, ammunition, rations, and drinking water, and the connection between the inside and outside of the fortress are still very close, all of which have been moved from the original daytime to the night. .

Moreover, New Khabarovsk is not Khabarovsk [Boli City], nor is it Barnaul. There is no large moat outside it, because the only few rivers on the southern foot of the surrounding Stanovoy Mountains have nothing to do with this fortress. There is indeed a small stream next to the fortress, which is one of the water sources of the fortress, but this small stream is not only very small, but also seasonal. Now it has been cut off by the Chinese.

After the passage of the fortress gate was restricted, the drinking water for the defenders in the tunnels of the fortress's extended positions and the fortress was limited.

"Boom! Boom!"

"Boom! Boom!"

In the sound of artillery and explosions, everyone in the trench huddled up.

This is not the first time they have experienced Chinese bombing. The soldiers were also nervous when they first experienced rocket bombing, including David. At that time, he felt that the pungent smell of gunpowder after the rocket explosion made him breathless.

But now, everything is a small case.

Under the stimulation of the smoke, some Russian soldiers in the trenches also began to cough, but there were only a few of them. Many people knew to find a clean piece of cloth to cover their noses at this time.

Earlier, there were also cowardly phenomena of Russian soldiers going crazy or throwing away their weapons!

But now there is no such phenomenon. Soldiers who dare to go crazy have long died, and soldiers who dare to throw away their weapons have either been executed or beaten.

At this moment, the explosions suddenly stopped, and the surroundings suddenly became quiet. Only people's coughs could be heard, occasionally mixed with a few scoldings, and the soldiers began to complain about why they did not fire back.

The captain stood straight, with the telescope on his eyes and looked across. It was just that the horizon in the distance was foggy. I don’t know if it was the smoke of gunpowder or the dust stirred up by the shock wave of the artillery. The vision was very blurry.

The only thing you can see is the faint heads of the Chinese soldiers on the opposite side.

The bombardment of the Wehrmacht did not last long, a total of more than ten minutes. A few miles away from the trench, many gray shadows appeared in the wilderness, moving quickly towards the fortress.

They were the Chinese soldiers covered by the smoke and dust.

They charged in a scattered formation, each of them crouched, holding a rifle with a bayonet, and rushed towards the southern position in a jogging posture, and the speed was gradually increasing.

Obviously, they took advantage of the tail of the bombing to launch the charge.

Although the Wehrmacht began to study the tactic of artillery-infantry coordination early, it was still not very good due to the limitations of the times and science and technology.

"The Chinese are coming!" Someone shouted not far away. There was more than one company led by the captain on the front line.

"Get close! Get close!"

The captain ordered loudly with a cold face. The gunpowder reserves in the New Khabarovsk Fortress were decreasing day by day, and their main forces were also pinned down by the Chinese, especially the latter's marines, which bypassed the Sea of ​​Okhotsk and landed on the Kamchatka Peninsula, directly disrupting the stability of the Russian rear and destroying the Russian army's only source of sulfur.

The preciousness of gunpowder became more and more prominent.

Three hundred meters, two hundred meters, one hundred meters...

The sound of gunfire on the Russian positions became louder, especially the shotguns, which fired fiercely at the Wehrmacht soldiers who were charging.

"Boom, boom..."

"Pah, pah, pah, pah..."

The sound of gunfire rang out densely like frying beans, harvesting the lives of the Wehrmacht soldiers like mowing grass, greedily and coldly extinguishing the flames of life one by one.

One by one, the Wehrmacht soldiers who charged fell down. Some of them were shot in the chest, and some were shot in the head. Different parts of the bullets had the same battlefield fate.

But the Wehrmacht would not fail to fight back. Their rockets once again covered the Russian positions and the fortress walls at a distance of 200 meters from the Russian positions.

The shrapnel tore through the air, and the sharp whistling sound was still in the ears, and the shrapnel had already harvested lives. The rocket exploded, and the hot shrapnel flew in all directions. The air wave was wrapped in soil and gravel and came all over the sky. No sound could be heard in the ears again, and the captain's breathing became more difficult. The entire position was shrouded in smoke and dust.

Deng Yun looked at the flashing red front line, and the whole person was silent. The pressure on his shoulders was great.

The failure to capture the New Khabarovsk Fortress for a long time had affected the progress of the entire war.

In the original plan, Deng Yun's troops would have taken over the New Khabarovsk Fortress within two months. In this way, the National Defense Army could enter the Aldan Plain behind the Greater Khingan Range - the north - from the plains between the Stanovoy Mountains, which the Chinese called the Greater Khingan Range [east-west] and the Zhugzhur Mountains [northeast-southwest] along the Sea of ​​Okhotsk.

The Aldan Plain was not a very good gathering place, but when the Kamchatka Peninsula was beaten to pieces by the Chinese Navy and Marine Corps, the Aldan Plain - the farms in the valley between the mountains and the plateau, became the main source of supply for the Russian army.

What Plenin hoped most now was that the war could be dragged on until late August, when the cold wind and snow would turn the entire Siberia into a white land, and the Chinese would definitely not be able to adapt.

The war could be dragged on in the snow and wind until March or April of the following year. By then, St. Petersburg might send reinforcements, or there might be some other turn of events in the war. Repnin could only pray like this. With only a few bad cards in his hand, he was helpless in the face of the current situation.

Repnin's prayer was also the biggest reason for Deng Yun's failure. The time for the battle to capture the new Khabarovsk Fortress had been extended by him by nearly double, and the war was about to drag into winter. This was terrible!

Deng Yun no longer expected to be rewarded for his meritorious service. Huang Jie would scold him to death if he wrote a letter every three to five days.

Chen Ming was also always concerned about the war situation in East and West Siberia. Now that the situation is like this, the war on the West Siberian Plain has been settled. Even if the three cities have not been taken by the National Defense Army, the West Siberian Army has always been resisting stubbornly, but the war situation is striding towards the key point of victory, which can be seen by everyone.