After this crazy thought flashed in the mind of Yang Ke, the chief soldier of the Western Expedition, he couldn't extinguish it, he couldn't sleep, he couldn't eat, his mind was filled with the terrain of the battlefield, he was eager to annihilate the Anglo-Russian coalition army, and now the transfer of the Russian army gave him a chance, but this opportunity was very slim, and he knew that no one would support him.

Yang Ke's real name is Yang Ke, a carpenter, to be precise, a shipwright.

Their family originally ran a small shipyard in Huangpu, and later, together with many shipwrights, was coerced to Taiwan by Zhou Lang's army of Huangpu.

He only remembered life in Taiwan for as long as he could remember, studying in a Dutch school as a child, and at the age of twelve he entered the captain's apprenticeship, learning to build Western-style ships. The trajectory of his life was that he should have become a skilled shipwright, or an engineer, and if he had joined the army, he should have been a navy, but by chance he became an army.

He learned very well in the shipyard, because he was an apprentice who was willing to work hard, and at the age of fifteen, he became an apprentice and became a helper in the shipyard, and in a few years he might become a young master and also start taking apprentices.

The trajectory of some people's lives has changed, which is very accidental, but the emergence of this kind of person is an inevitability, and there are always this kind of people among tens of thousands of people. Yanke's enlistment in the army was the product of those damn green years and that burning passion. At the age of fifteen, the shipwright's daughter, who was his childhood sweetheart, married someone else, and after rejecting his father's proposal. The reason is very cheesy, just because the other party climbed to a higher door, the shipyard overseer.

This made Jank a laughing stock in the shipyard, at least in his youthful and vigorous opinion, and he felt that everyone was laughing at him, laughing at their family, laughing at their inadequacy.

In those years, there were frequent wars, and it had nothing to do with their craftsmen, but Yang Ke, who couldn't stay in the shipyard, chose to join the army, and the local recruited village warriors, so he signed up for the army and went to the battlefield with the soldiers of Fengshan County. After the Northern Expedition, the war ended, and the emperor selected officers to study in France, and Yanke was chosen.

He received the education of the Dutch since he was a child, and his foundation was the highest in the entire group of overseas officers, and he was willing to work hard, and in just a few years, he completed his studies at the military academy and graduated from the artillery department with the best grades. Later, he served in the French army, and fought with many European countries with Napoleon's army, including the Russian army.

After returning to China, his officialdom career can be described as a smooth progress, but it is not without twists and turns. But the emperor always supported these officers who studied in France, and when the reforms he carried out in the army were in trouble, he would be transferred to the military academy as a teacher, and when the resentment of the old school subsided, he would immediately enter the army to implement the reforms.

This game between the old and the new lasted for nearly a decade, and finally a new generation of officers who graduated from military schools began to occupy major positions in the army, and the old school was replaced by metabolism and the reform was completed.

Yang Ke's position was finally stabilized and he became the deputy general in charge of the First Army. The deputy general of the war will follow the name of the official position of the Qing Dynasty, and the Qing Dynasty will follow the deputy chief soldier of the Ming Dynasty, and the general army adopts the system of the early Ming Dynasty, not a permanent position, similar to the ancient generalissimo and other positions, which are temporary positions that will be established in wartime, in the context of the Great Zhou Dynasty, the chief military officer is synonymous with the commander of the West.

As a veteran-level adjutant general, during this expedition, he was appointed as the chief military officer of the Western Army, responsible for the military affairs of the Western Army, and the Siberian direction was an independent road, called the Northern Army, and a general military officer was also set up.

The Kazakh terrain was surging over and over again in Yanke's mind, and he couldn't find any flaws in any case, but in the dark he always had a feeling that he could eat the entire Anglo-Russian coalition seriously ill group, and this strong feeling put him in a state of stress before the volcanic eruption, and his low-grade fever did not go away, and the military doctor could not find any problems, and prescribed him a few prescriptions to remove the fire, thinking that it was caused by a false fire.

The terrain occupied by the Anglo-Russian coalition army is a complete geographical plate, the south is a desert area, connected with the great desert, it is impossible to use troops, the British army is deployed along the Turgai River, and it is impossible to detour to the south; The Russians in the north were fortified along the Ishim River, which joins the Irtysh River, and the Russians controlled the entire length of the river to Omsk.

The front of the coalition army can be defended, and the back road is also very smooth, there are three retreat routes to the north, the middle is the Turkai depression, the east of the depression is the Ishim River valley, and the west is the Tobol River valley, the retreat of the large army is impossible to go into the wilderness, so if the Russian army wants to retreat to the north, it must take two river valleys.

Theoretically, blocking the two river valleys would block the way for the Anglo-Russian forces to flee north. In this way, if the Anglo-Russian army wants to retreat, it can only go northwest, cross the Ural Pass, and use the Ural River to break and escape. It is unlikely that the northward entry into the Urals will not be able to support more than two million people, so the best way for the Anglo-Russian forces to retreat is the Urals, as long as they retreat into the Urals, they can use the dense water system between the Ural and the Volga to successfully retreat into the Russian hinterland. That is why, after the Manchu Qing threatened the Volga, the Russian army had to draw forces from the tight front.

However, the combat effectiveness of the Manchu army, although it was not bad, was much worse than that of the Anglo-Russian coalition army, and it could not pose a substantial threat to the Volga, otherwise the Russians would not have been as simple as transferring troops from the front line, but would have to consider the problem of retreating from the whole front.

Yang Ke even considered whether it was possible to send elite troops to help the Manchus fight through the territory of the Manchus, so as to cut off the connection between the Volga River and the front line, cut off the retreat of the Anglo-Russian coalition army, and complete the encirclement.

But this had to pass through the entire territory of the Manchus, which had to pass through the deserts and deserts of southern Kazakhstan, because the Manchus had no navy at all in the Caspian Sea, the sea control was controlled by Russia, and the reinforcements had to bypass the Caspian Sea, and finally attack head-on from the Caucasus, more than 4,000 kilometers along the way, which was simply unrealistic.

If you take a detour from the area north of Kazakhstan, now the Siberian Northern Army has captured Tobolsk, but the attack on Omsk to the south and the attack on Tyumen to the west have been blocked, and the Russians have stationed heavy troops in Chelyabinsk and Yekaterinburg behind the Tyumen, and the troops in this direction are not enough to achieve results, and the offensive in the direction of Tobolsk has not been carried out this year, and the Northern Army Corps, which is dominated by township soldiers, has put the main direction of operations in Omsk, hoping to capture it, and then join up with the Kazakh Army Corps in the west. Control the entire Irtysh.

Yank needed the Northern Army to cooperate from the flank, move the strategic attack direction to the west, capture Tyumen and Chelyabinsk all the way from Tobolsk to the west, block the Russians' retreat to the Ural region to the north, break through the Ural Mountains from Chelyabinsk, and capture Orenburg, a communication artery on the Ural River, all the way.

Orenburg has always been the outpost of the South Russian steppe to Central Asia, and the ancient nomadic tribes used this as a springboard from the Volga River valley in Europe into Asia, or from the Turkai steppe in Asia as a springboard into Europe through here, and this geography has determined the migration route of nomads for thousands of years.

Now more than two million Anglo-Russian troops are deployed in the Kazakh region, and they have a larger population than any nomadic people, and they have avoided this geographical limitation. The advantage of taking a detour from the north is that there is no need to cross 4,000 kilometers of complex terrain such as deserts, and there is almost a line to march along the way, and there are rivers that can be used along the way, and they are all mature trade routes, and the distance is only 1,400 kilometers, which is not an unimaginable number.

But this is still very exaggerated, the Chinese army has never carried out such a huge strategic detour in history, this is no longer limited to battles, and it is not even an ordinary war should be an action, and European history will never think of this kind of tactic, because such a distance has long spanned countless countries, far beyond the battlefield itself.

China was only during the Mongol Empire, and Guo Baoyu, a Han general under Genghis Khan, offered advice to Genghis Khan to conquer Tubo and Nanzhao in the southwest by detouring to the southwest, and then unifying the Central Plains. Later, the Mongols did carry out this strategic plan, always from Shaanxi, Sichuan, and Yunnan, and outflanked the rear of the Southern Song Dynasty. For this reason, the decades-long Song and Yuan Dynasty battles for Sichuan between the Southern Song Dynasty and Mongolia broke out, and tens of thousands of Mongolian soldiers, multiple generals, and even a Mongolian Great Khan, Möngke Khan, were killed in Sichuan.

However, Guo Baoyu's roundabout strategy is a national-level strategy, a battle for reunification, and is calculated based on the life span of the country, and it can only play a role in decades. What Yang Ke wants to do now is to borrow the strategic detour of the level of annihilation in a war, or even a battle.

Bold and even crazy, but also ambitious, passionate, burning Yang Ke, it is this man's deep pride in his heart, as long as he can do this, his life will be enough, so he must do it, and he must do it!

Yang Ke was determined, he knew that it was impossible to get the support of the civil officials of the imperial court, those people did not care about the life and death of the soldiers, they only thought about the victory or defeat. It's too risky for them to think about.

Therefore, Yang Ke can only seek the support of the soldiers, and he needs the Northern Army to cooperate with him, or to cooperate with the Northern Army.

As long as the strategic detour can be basically completed, the imperial court will have to support it if it does not support it, as long as hundreds of thousands of troops appear in the hinterland of Russia, the Russian army will inevitably desperately encircle and annihilate this lone army, and the imperial court can only allow rescue, and when the time comes, the army will continue to be sent to rescue and strengthen the defensive line, and the encirclement will be established!

So Yang Ke personally rushed to the Kobdo area to contact the general army of the Northern Army, as long as the two could reach a consensus, they could transfer 300,000 elites.