The battle on this side of Kiliansk City is in full swing, and the loss of another city cannot affect the battle on this side, because the Russians have been severely damaged here, although the Great Qing Kingdom has also been severely damaged, but they can still replenish from the rear, and the rear replenishment is as endless as the city of Stalingrad back then, as the war progresses, the battle of Kiliansk is becoming more and more difficult, but the rear strength of the Russians is also becoming lacking, and the new Russian soldiers and horses cannot completely conquer the city of Kiliansk.

In November, it was so cold that it was almost impossible to march, and the Russians were huddled in the fortifications fifty miles around the city of Kiliansk, and there was nothing they could do every day except the routine bombardment of artillery.

The same is true of the Qing Dynasty, the transportation of materials in the rear is becoming more and more difficult, but there are material transfer stations every 100 miles, post stations set up every 50 miles, and horse-drawn train stations set up every 25 miles, so that they can still transport personnel and materials from the rear, but because of the cold, this frequency has dropped a lot, and in the past, it could supplement the needs of 2 million people every month, but now it can only supplement the needs of 500,000 people every other month.

Before it was so cold, the Japanese sent an army of about 300,000 people, consisting of Koreans and Japanese soldiers, as well as servant soldiers and civilians, to the city of Kiliansk to support it.

As a result, the defense line that was now full of Goguryeo and Japanese servants, as well as the captive soldiers, has increased some manpower, and the soldiers and horses of the Qing Dynasty, except for the 500,000 people in the city of Kiliansk, the rest of the scattered defense line is only 3,000 or 2,000 supervisors per point, and there were originally 300,000 supervision troops, but now the defense line has been forced to retreat, abandoned, or conquered by the Russians, and now there are less than 80,000 surveillance teams on the defense line outside the city.

80,000 people supervise about 800,000 soldiers, horses and people, and at the same time, 200,000 Han people of the Great Qing State are responsible for supplying these fortifications and trenches and defense lines, and 10,000 cavalry are responsible for protecting them.

Compared to them, the situation on the Russian side is even worse, and the intelligence is more detected, and two million people have been sent there, including the Polish Expeditionary Force, the British Expeditionary Force, the French Expeditionary Force, the Ottoman Expeditionary Force, the Hessian Mercenaries, and the Russian Military Service, the Adventurers, the Expeditionary Force, and the Minfu, all of which have been transferred here, and the Austro-Hungarian Expeditionary Force has gone to East Siberia to find the mildew of the Japanese.

The Japanese 150,000 soldiers and horses who broke into Mid-Siberia were forced to retreat to the Mesoberian border, and the 300,000 men they carried were all captured or killed by the Austro-Hungarian Empire, and the Austro-Hungarian Empire chased them all the way for thousands of miles, and the two sides fought on the border line.

When December came, communication with the Japanese was cut off, because the roads had not yet been built, and although there were settlements, it was suicide to travel in such weather from the settlements to the cities, from the settlements to the settlements, and the temperature had reached more than 20 degrees below zero.

The heavy snow stopped all the fighting, and the Qing Dynasty, which had stored supplies for the winter, retracted most of the soldiers and horses, and the people looked for settlements in the rear to spend the winter, leaving only a dozen or fifty or sixty forward troops to garrison the fortifications or trenches to monitor the enemy.

In January, the snow was so heavy that at first it was only ankle-wetting, but then it was directly below the knees, and even the rear transportation personnel could not move forward.

Every day, there were people who froze to death, at first a few people, a few days later it was a dozen people, and then a few days later, when the heavy snow was heard, it was a little warmer, but the number of people increased, hundreds of people a day, and there were more and more sick and frostbitten people.

In some places, it was already more than 30 degrees below zero to 40 or 50 degrees, and it was a kind of endurance for people to walk 100 meters out of the house, and it took great patience to convey the information to all parts of the defense line, and there were manpower, and the Qing Kingdom took the people into the city, abandoned some distant settlements, and the defense line also retreated for more than 30 miles, shrinking to the periphery of the city.

In February, even the perimeter defense line had to retreat, the temperature was normally minus 40 degrees, even if they stayed in the city where there was no shortage of supplies, people froze to death every day, 1.5 million people, plus the people who came from the rear and did not leave, and the strength of the two brigades of the Chinese Empire, made the city of Kiliansk overcrowded.

The weather was a little better, and the personnel sent out to inspect the defense line found that most of the people in the small strongholds on the periphery had frozen to death or disappeared, and in some remote settlements far from the city, hundreds of people froze to death and starved to death, and most of the people who were missing were there, and a large number of people around the city also froze to death.

In March, 110,000 people froze to death, 10,000 starved to death, and more than 4,000 people went missing.

In addition to these, because of the begging for supplies, because of ethnic contradictions, and because of the contradictions between the arms, the number of people who died in the fights was 15,000, and the number of people who were punished was 3,000.

The number of people who died and the number of people who went missing was 5,000, which means that about 200,000 people died in total throughout the winter.

At this time, the weather was slightly better, and the Russians began to attack, and they took the opportunity to occupy the abandoned defense line around the city, and attacked the defense line of Sayou ten miles around the city, and raided the settlements in the rear, and the Russians came in large numbers, like locusts, and the perimeter of Kiliansk was like boiling hot water, and suddenly it was lively again.

In April, the weather was warmer again, it was only minus 10 degrees Celsius, some roads were able to start marching, and the Russians used a large number of troops to besiege the city of Kiliansk.

The perimeter of the city of Kiliansk was suddenly overcrowded, the Russians completely surrounded the city of Kiliansk with soldiers and horses, and the Qing army in Kiliansk could only rely on the defense line outside the city for ten miles to resist the enemy, and in May, the defense line outside the city was abandoned, because the casualties were too great, the Russians attacked them like crazy, and the people and soldiers and horses who died every day were very distressing.

In just one month, the Qing Kingdom lost 100,000 people and 100,000 cannon fodder, but there were still 1.2 million people and soldiers and horses, and there was no shortage of materials, so they shrank back to the city to defend, waiting for the thaw, and the soldiers and horses and people from the rear would report that the Russians were surrounding the city.

If the Russians don't retreat by then.

(End of chapter)