Who doesn't like such a big scene, a big plan?

Song Ronggui, the chief soldier of the Northern Expeditionary Army, is no exception, unlike Yang Ke, his identity background is not so complicated, he is an ordinary clan child, he is from Zhejiang, and he also participated in Zhu Qi's regimental training and fought with the Great Zhou Army.

Zhejiang regimental training was incorporated into the auxiliary army, together to participate in the Northern Expedition, he followed his fellow villagers, along the canal from Jiangnan to Beijing, and then like Yang Ke, was selected to go to France to study military affairs, he did not perform as well as Yang Ke, it took him four years to graduate from the French military academy, he studied cavalry. After that, he participated in many battles as an ordinary soldier in the French army, and then returned home. He did not get involved in the game between the old and new cliques of officers, because he was really an insignificant figure.

In France, he was a small soldier, and after returning home, he was given only one captain, with ten soldiers. He was lucky to avoid the internal game of the officers, basically relying on mixed seniority to rise to the commander of the general brigade, and then in the last war, he really proved his level, with a cavalry brigade in the Crimean battlefield to kill everywhere, especially mobile to avoid the inexperience of the army at the beginning of the British army's discomfort, and later repeatedly made military exploits and captured two British generals. After the war, he was promoted to deputy general and commanded the first army.

His resume was not conspicuous even before this war, and the only advantage was that he was the only senior officer in the war corps who graduated from the cavalry section. And this time the Northern Expeditionary Army, a large part of the troops, all from the Mongolian cavalry in the northern region, will fight in the Siberian wilderness, his military background is more suitable.

From the beginning of the war to the present, the army under his command has fought steadily and steadily, and the main battles have basically been law and order battles, and there is no record of success. Just like a normal war, it relies on absolute superiority and pushes it over. This is like the U.S. military in World War II, with the cultural hegemony of the Americans, made Patton, MacArthur and other generals popular, but when ordinary people recall World War II, it seems that the most impressive thing is the German blitzkrieg, it was Guderian's tank corps attack, and it was Rommel's Afrika Korps.

Since ancient times, there have been no famous generals in powerful countries, which is also a kind of helplessness. During the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, the Qin State was the strongest, and the Qin State won the most battles, but ordinary people can remember who are the famous generals of the Qin State? Basically, if you can know a white one, even if you have good historical knowledge. But if it weren't for Bai Qi's slaughter of 400,000 soldiers in Changping, who would remember Bai Qi's other achievements?

The most famous Chinese military general in history should be Yue Fei, and Yue Fei's greatest luck is also the biggest misfortune, his country is a weak country, so his victory is particularly impressive, and his victory cannot change the fate of his country and himself.

Yang Ke and Song Ronggui are facing such a situation, his country is so strong, so strong that it seems that it is a natural thing to win, the Americans won Iraq, won Afghanistan, and the whole world did not even know that it was the American general who fought this war; Yang Ke and Song Ronggui are basically the same, in fact, the war has been fought to the present situation, China is not at a disadvantage, but the public opinion faced by the two general soldiers, criticism is far more than praise, they are not enough to win, but they are humiliated. In particular, Yang Ke has borne too much harsh criticism, just because the battlefield is still located in China, which is regarded as an unfavorable command.

Now the two generals are facing the greatest temptation to military generals for thousands of years, that is, the merit of destroying the country! Once their strategic vision can be realized, the names of the two will be able to be tied with Bai Qi, who won the Battle of Changping, and Yue Fei, who won the victory of Zhuxian Town, such first-class generals in history, and the significance of their battle is far greater than the victory of Zhuxian Town, which has no strategic significance, and also exceeds the strategic value of the Battle of Changping, the Battle of Changping only completely eliminated the strength of Zhao State that could fight against Qin State to dominate the world, but they won this Kazakh battle, not only can play the purpose of completely destroying the Russian living forces like the Battle of Changping, Russia can be destroyed in a short period of time, because their king is not the king of Qin back then, and their king has made it clear that he wants to destroy Russia, and he will never give Russia a chance to breathe.

After a simple secret discussion between the two, Song Ronggui agreed. The Northern Army would launch a long-distance raid to the west, cutting off the retreat of the Anglo-Russian forces.

However, the combat effectiveness of the Northern Army could not support him to complete this strategic detour alone, and he needed stronger force support. But once Jank sent him reinforcements on a large scale, he couldn't hide it from those conservative civilian officials.

So the two began to discuss in detail a way to help each other without being caught by Wenchen, and even when investigating the military newspaper, they couldn't find a reason. In the early stage, it was impossible for Yang Ke to send reinforcements to Song Junker, and he could only fight independently with the most elite troops in the Northern Army, in order not to startle the snake, so as not to attract the main force of the Russian army to the direction of the Urals, the Northern Army would go south to attack Omsk, making the illusion that it would join forces with the Western Army to control the Irtysh River. The Russian army now controls the Irtysh River, which happens to cut off the connection between the two Chinese corps, so they will try to hold this place.

The Northern Army can make a fake defeat, under the pretext that its own troops are insufficient, and the Russian army is strong, these can be made, and it is difficult to verify at the time, because it can be completely deduced from the wrong aspect of reconnaissance, or Song Ronggui can explain it as his misjudgment of the enemy's situation. Song Ronggui "judged" that the enemy in Omsk was strong, and if the Russians counterattacked, he ordered a retreat, and at the same time asked for help from home. At the same time, it can even send a letter of help to the Western Army in a "righteous and bright" manner, which is still available on the battlefield.

At this point, it's basically enough. Regardless of whether the country ordered reinforcements from the Western Army or sent reinforcements from the country, Yang Ke had a reason to send reinforcements to Song Ronggui. The two armies were now very close to each other, and the upper reaches of the Irtysh and Ob rivers were controlled by the two armies, which was just a watershed.

Yanke sent reinforcements, and he had the final say on what kind of army to send, he could completely transfer his most elite troops over, not more, 200,000 of the most elite troops, with the elite of the Northern Army, was enough to launch an offensive from Tobolsk to Tyumen. After the capture of Tyumen, in fact, the offensive route from the Yekaterinburg direction to the Ob River was blocked, and Song Ronggui could continue to move south, attack Kurgan and Chelyabinsk, and block the passage of the Russian army to the Urals in the north. The second crucial step of the Great Detour tactic was completed, and the next third step was the most critical, which was to cross the Ural Pass from Chelyabinsk and attack Orenburg.

This step is also the most difficult, because Orenburg is already located in the heart of Russia, and there are a large number of rivers connecting the Russian core behind it, and the Sama River and the Belaya River can easily send the Russian troops in Samara and Ufa over. Moreover, most of this section of the road passes through the Ural mountains, which are blocked by a large number of rivers and mountains, and it is impossible to use too many troops, and the distance is about two-thirds of the distance of this attack, so it is very dangerous. Officers take risks in carrying out such military actions, as they can easily be considered disorderly and investigated.

Therefore, this last stage of the roundabout attack not only requires the use of elite troops to ensure the probability of success, but also makes it very difficult for people to find flaws. The two commanders-in-chief had been preparing for a long time, and decided to send the most elite small number of troops to Orenburg here in the name of reconnaissance to the south, or, if possible, in the name of pursuing the enemy. This lone army does not want them to win, because it is impossible for them to capture Orenburg, the rear route of the Russian army, but this lone army must have the ability to be surrounded in the enemy's hinterland and then defend to the death. After that, the army had an excuse to constantly dispatch troops in the name of rescue, which eventually led to the trend of riding tigers.

At this time, you can report to the imperial court, and tell the civil officials of the imperial court that if you can rescue the lone army in front of you, it may cut off the back road of the Anglo-Russian coalition army, and if you don't rescue, tens of thousands of lone soldiers may all be killed. At this time, Yanke can generously continue to send troops into the northern front and focus on attacking Orenburg, and millions of troops will strengthen and improve the encirclement, which will definitely cut off the retreat of the Anglo-Russian coalition army.

The situation was urgent, the fighters were fleeting, and once the Russians had perfected their rear defenses, the roundabout rush was ineffective. So as soon as Yank left the Altai region, Song Ronggui launched an attack.

He didn't have many troops at his disposal, he had 2 million troops in his hands, but no more than 300,000 on the front line, most of which were used to maintain traffic along the road, and the place he occupied was too large. It's as if Yang Ke nominally has an army of 3 million in his hands, and if all of them are on the front line, then a total of more than 1,000 kilometers, and the actual frontal fortification is only 800 kilometers on the Kazakh hilly defense line, and several people will be piled up in one meter. But in fact, Yanke's troops on the first line of the hilly front line did not exceed 1 million, and the rest were distributed on the second line of Lake Balkhash and the Irtysh River defense line on the right flank, and 1 million troops had to be used as reserves.

Therefore, Song Ronggui's forces to attack the Omsk direction were only 100,000 men, and too many could not guarantee the security of the rear of Tobolsk. 100,000 people could not even get close to Omsk, because the enemy had built several fortresses north of Omsk, the largest of which was in the lower northern region where the Ishim and Irtysh rivers meet, protecting the connection between Omsk and the Kazakh region.

After Song Ronggui attacked for ten days, the scouts found an unknown number of Russian reinforcements upstream, and Song Ronggui immediately "judged" the arrival of Russian rescue troops from the Kazakh region and ordered a retreat to Tobolsk to stand by. At the same time, he began to "make" military reports, indicating to the country that his defensive forces in this direction were weak, and that the Russian army companies in the Kazakh and Irtysh valleys were one and could rescue each other, which was very disadvantageous, and asked for additional reinforcements of 300,000.

At the same time, a letter of help was sent to the Western Army to assist in the battle!