When Milyutin's brigade took the Cossack cavalry down, there were only more than 1,200 cavalry left in the three divisions, but there were no corpses of Manchurian cavalry on the battlefield. Li Qiao and the brigade of the Russian army compared a small down, then wisely chose to run, 7,000 people in the rear to rely on the situation, hard steel more than 200,000 troops are not brave, but stupid, Li Qiao will not do this kind of thing.

"These Mongols have very advanced weapons, and their positions in Tomsk are very strong." The division commanders, who returned from the fiasco, were still very active in reporting the enemy's situation.

"They are not Mongols, they are Manchurians, and they are the regular army of Manchuria!" Although Miryutin was only observing from a distance in the rear, he saw the eight-star holding the sun flag, and he knew what the flag represented.

"Oh God! The Manchurians captured Tomsk! What the hell is going on, and what is the situation in Irkutsk now? Miryutin was a little speechless and asked what it meant to be heavenly.

There is really no one else who can answer Milyutin's question at the moment, except for God. The Far East was so vast that the financially strapped Russians did not have a cable telegraph network here, and now they paid a heavy price for it. Since the beginning of the war, the Russians have been attacked everywhere because of the slow transmission of information, and even after more than a month of the war, there are still many places where news of the war is not known. Just because of the money saved at the beginning, the Russian army is now almost blindfolded and with its ears plugged and fighting a big battle with North Manchuria.

Milyutin had been the Minister of War of Tsarist Russia for many years, and he was not a man of illusions, so he prepared for the worst in everything. But a soldier's judgment of the war situation must be supported by empirical evidence, so no matter what, he must first go to Tomsk to test the water. Whether it was the fall of all east of Tomsk, or whether the Manchurians raided Tomsk and cut off the Russians' lines of communication, Milyutin had to try to make a judgment. Of course, from the bottom of his heart, Milyutin still does not believe that all the east of Mursk has fallen, after all, the British have just sent a large amount of aid here, and Karsakov should be able to support it for a while.

The Russian army changed the shape of the inner line marching army of the long snake formation, with five infantry divisions as the front, surrounded Tomsk from three sides, and began the siege of the Khalbara defense line. The Russian army has backward weapons and tactics, and there are almost no advantages except for the large number of people, but the strength of troops is very important in war. After killing and wounding 30,000 infantrymen, Milyutin gnawed away all the outer defenses of Halbara, which did not suffer many losses, but lost almost all of its outlying positions.

Khabara did not desperately either, because Gohin personally sent a telegram ordering Khabara to retreat to Krasnoyarsk as soon as possible, regardless of the gains and losses of one city or one place. Halbara couldn't bear it in the first place, and when he got the message, he naturally immediately deployed his troops and prepared to retreat. Halbara stayed and fought, but he couldn't get Milyutin's 200,000 army, and if he wanted to escape, Milyutin couldn't keep him. Halbara was all cavalry, and the Russian army failed to encircle Tomsk, so Halbara naturally slipped away with ease, and when the Russian army with heavy casualties sent out pursuers, Halbara fled for almost 200 miles. Although Harbara ran fast, he could only take with him ordnance, ammunition, the wounded, and the corpses of the dead soldiers, and the hundreds of thousands of animals they used as food became the spoils of war for Milyutin.

Milyutin, who had got the cattle, didn't have the heart to be happy, the combat effectiveness of the Manchurian army was too strong, and he couldn't give the Manchurians a chance to lay out the next line of defense, so he immediately waved his army to chase and kill Yeniseisk. However, when he pursued Yeniseisk, the Manchurian army did not deploy defenses in Yeniseisk at all, and all Milyutin got was an empty city. Milyutin, who was in a better mood, chased after Krasnoyarsk again, but this time he was not so lucky. Krasnoyarsk not only has complete fortifications, but Goxinga has personally ordered Jiying to transfer two divisions and an artillery brigade to assist in the defense, and the main force of the Manchurian Army in Krasnoyarsk is as many as more than 80,000 people.

Ilyutin once again began to gnaw at the fortifications in Krasnoyarsk, but this time he suffered a big loss. First of all, the defenders were more numerous and quite tightly guarded. Secondly, the number of machine guns and artillery of the defenders has also increased significantly, especially in the separate artillery brigades, and the lethality of large-caliber artillery is something that Milyutin has never seen. Finally, there are the fortifications of Krasnoyarsk, which are no longer rudimentary civil structures, but more complete concrete fortifications. Although Bozhtu only left a brigade to defend in Krasnoyarsk, Krasnoyarsk was originally an industrial city, and cement and other materials were quite abundant, and the defenders soon made a large number of permanent fortifications of reinforced concrete.

Milyutin fought hard for two days and failed to break through the defense line of the Manchurian Army, but he did not gain nothing, and according to the situation of the Manchurian Army's defense and combat strength, Miliutin had a general judgment of the current situation. Milyutin judged that the Manchurian army should have suddenly sent troops from the northwestern border to capture Mustok, but the material supply was insufficient, the number of defenders was relatively small, and the food still depended on captured and accompanying livestock. Therefore, the Manchurian Army definitely did not solve the Russian army in Irkutsk and other places, but only cut off the communication line of the Russian army with a surprise attack. The Manchurian Army in the Krasnoyarsk region has greatly improved its strength and firepower, indicating that the main force of the Manchurian Army is in the area near Lake Baikal, so when the Russian army attacks, the Manchurian Army can quickly build large-scale fortifications in Krasnoyarsk. The total proportion of the Manchurian Army that appeared in Krasnoyarsk was between 80,000 and 100,000, which was still a certain discrepancy with the total strength of the Manchurian Army reported by Karsakov in the early stage. It shows that the fighting in the Armu River valley and Irkutsk and other places in the east is still not over, and the Manchurian Army can only temporarily draw part of its forces to resist the reinforcements of the Russian army.

Milyutin is really a handsome talent, except for Bozhtu and the others, who are waiting for Gohin in Irkutsk, he guessed almost all of them correctly. But it was the misjudgment of whether Irkutsk had fallen or not that made him make a bad decision. Milyutin was ready to abandon the siege of Krasnoyarsk, because it was not destined to be fought in a short time, and he planned to bypass Krasnoyarsk and take Irkutsk, which was under siege by the Manchurian army.

Although Krasnoyarsk is a traffic point, it is only a road, not a dangerous pass, and there are very wide steppes and wildernesses nearby to march, but because there are no roads, it is not possible to carry a large number of baggage. Milyutin planned to bypass Krasnoyarsk, carry only a small amount of supplies, and go straight to Irkutsk, and fight with the defenders of Irkutsk inside and outside, defeating the Manchurian army besieging Irkutsk. The baggage forces turned back to the north, passing through Kilensk, and then joined the main forces along Lake Baikal and lower Irkutsk.

If Ilyutin really carried out this plan, then he would be very pleasantly surprised to meet the main forces of Bozhtu and Jiying in Irkutsk, and then send the honor of the first general of Manchuria to Bozhtu. It's a pity that the Russian army's communications, which are always weak, finally gave their strength once, and an urgent report was delivered to Milyutin before he embarked on his journey of no return.