Due to the tacit understanding between the two, as soon as Yang Ke received the battle report, he sent reinforcements in the direction of Siberia, and the troops could not be many, nor did they need to have more, but they were all soldiers. At the same time, he wrote a war report, "sending reinforcements to the Northern Army of the Eighth Army".

Song Ronggui waited for half a month to wait for this unit, and the other party traveled all the way, but fortunately most of the time they could take a boat, and it was down the river at a very fast speed.

When he saw this reinforcement, Song Ronggui knew how much his colleague Yang Ke attached importance to this detour, the Chinese army's combat corps has always been the elite of the elite, military salary, training, weapons and equipment are all first-class, and one-third of the soldiers in the army are veterans who participated in the Crimean War ten years ago, and most of the officers are officers from ten years ago.

However, the number is very small, there are only 13 such war armies in the whole of China, and in this war, 10 war armies were sent to Kazakhstan, and Song Ronggui only had 3 war armies under his command, but Yang Ke sent 8 of the 10 war armies under his command as reinforcements. Yanke himself kept only the 1st and 2nd armies, and the 3rd to 10th armies were all sent in the direction of Siberia.

Song Ronggui understood that Yang Ke had gambled on everything, and he, as a conspirator, had no way out, so he could only go on hard.

Therefore, he did not dare to keep it, and he sent all three of his army troops to attack from Tobolsk and storm Tyumen.

This time there is no time to worry about casualties, all battles must be fought around one core, and that is "fast"!

Song Ronggui transferred more than half of the heavy artillery of the Northern Army, more than 2,000 new Karen heavy guns, and old siege artillery. The Cullen Cannon is a mortar cannon with a large caliber and a short barrel, which is specially designed to fire explosive shells, has a limited range, but can be fired in a curved manner, and is very effective for killing and injuring soldiers hiding in bunkers.

One suppressed the Russian infantry with explosive shells, while heavy artillery constantly bombarded the Russian fortress.

The outlying fortresses of the Russian army were uprooted in three days, and then the final onslaught was launched on the city of Tyumen. There is no city that cannot be captured regardless of casualties. With the almost destruction of the fortress structure, the Russian army, which suffered a large number of casualties, finally chose to retreat. The Chinese army suffered more than 1,000 casualties, the largest casualties in a single battle. If he didn't complete the roundabout task in the end, a few more battles with such casualties would be enough to make Song Ronggui bear the notoriety of exchanging the lives of soldiers for military merits for himself in this life, and his military career would come to an end.

After the capture of Tyumen, Song Ronggui did not have time to rest, and while a large number of auxiliaries were mobilized from the rear to maintain the line of communication, the main force had already moved south along the Tobol River, and it was necessary to capture Kurgan as quickly as possible. Moreover, Song Ronggui seized the military report, and he did not dare to send it out until he captured Kurgan, and sent it together with the war report of Kurgan, and after receiving it at home, he should have occupied Chelyabinsk and sent a "reconnaissance unit" to Orenburg.

Because Kurgan is connected to the main force of the Russian army in the area of the Tulgai Plateau through the Tobol River, attacking here will inevitably face the rescue of the main force of the Russian army, if Song Ronggui's army fights independently, there is almost no possibility of capturing here, but Yang Ke will definitely do his best to cooperate with him according to the agreement at this time.

Yanke's approach was to launch a full-scale attack on the Anglo-Russian coalition forces, mainly the Russian positions, from the front, so that the Russian army could not draw a large number of troops to reinforce Kurgan.

The Ishim River, which originates in the Kazakh hills, flows westward from the Kazakh hills and turns north on the edge of the Turkige Plateau.

The pressure on the Russians was very great, and the Chinese army launched a non-stop onslaught, leaving the Russians at a loss and not understanding the direction of the Chinese's main attack, and before the situation became clear, they could only passively respond to the all-round battle, and the troops were a little nervous for a while.

The news of Kurgan's request for help is far behind the frontal offensive in the direction of Kazakh in China, because Yanke launched a fierce attack on the frontal Russian army while sending reinforcements in the direction of Siberia, and the military explanation is to attract the main force of the Russian army and reduce the pressure in the Siberian direction, and he has Song Ronggui's letter of request for help in his hand, these actions are reasonable. In fact, the two of them are also thieves, and they have planned this shocking and roundabout strategy without authorization, and they are always worried that they will be held accountable, in fact, if they submit this plan directly to the Ministry of War, the possibility of the emperor supporting them is very high.

Even if the front line is tight, Russia quickly sent a large number of reinforcements after receiving the request for help from the Kurgan region, because that direction is relatively important, not only a passage to the north, the key is that the Chinese now occupy Tobolsk downstream, if their due north army attacks south from here, it is equivalent to attacking the Russian army from the Kazakh direction from the front.

But Russian reinforcements are a step late, because Kurgan has always been a large rear before, the Russian garrison here is relatively empty, and in the direction of Kurgan, it is not the main road for domestic material transportation, logistics materials mainly rely on railways, from Russian military supplies, from the Volga rivers and railways first converged in Tsaritsyn, and then transported by rail to Orenburg, where there was already a Kazakh railway built by the Chinese, and the British helped to urgently build several wartime railways during the war, Let the transport from Orenburg to the Turkige plateau be extremely smooth.

Therefore, there was no offensive significance and no transportation value, which gave Kurgan almost no reason to deploy heavy troops, and as a result, it was captured by a surprise attack by the Chinese army.

After the fall of Kurgan, the Russian army judged that the Chinese would definitely use the Tobol River to attack from Kurgan to the Turgai Plateau, and they began to storm here. But the Chinese had a strong will to defend, and constantly sent reinforcements, at first only 100,000, soon to 200,000, and finally to 300,000, the Russians temporarily abandoned the offensive, they chose to hold on to the Turgai plateau, because defense is more economical than attacking. At the same time, some reinforcements continued to be drawn from the rear, which was an unforgivable mistake made by the Russians.

Instead of correctly judging that the Chinese commanders were preparing to attack their rear, they instead drew troops from the rear to reinforce the front, which quickly brought the Russians to the bitter end.

After occupying Kurgan and repelling the Russian counterattack, the Chinese army continued to increase its strength, from 300,000 to 500,000 before it ended, which convinced the Russian army that China intended to use Kurgan as a base to attack the main Russian army in the south. As for the threat of the Chinese army continuing to advance westward, the Russian army did not take it into consideration, but there was also Chelyabinsk on the way west, which was also a fortress that could not be easily captured, and it was located in the Urals, and the Russians could not think of the reason for the Chinese to continue westward. Even if they want to hit Moscow, transportation and other conditions simply do not allow it.

However, after the reinforcements of the Chinese army were in place, they really attacked the Turkige Plateau to the south according to the direction of the Russian army, allowing the Russian army to successfully repel it by relying on favorable terrain, but the other side was stationed in the field, making the illusion of long-term combat, and the main force at this time had actually advanced westward to attack Chelyabinsk.

The battle for Chelyabinsk was fought more hard, more difficult than the capture of Tyumen. The mountainous terrain makes it impossible for both sides to put too many troops, the advantage of troops is not a short-term advantage, and a long-term siege is unrealistic, so it can only be attacked. Artillery cover, infantry pressed up again and again, if this was the era of machine guns, it was almost impossible to capture, but the firepower of the era of smoothbore guns could not withstand this tactic of crowds.

After paying nearly 10,000 sacrifices, Song Ronggui, who personally commanded the battle, knew that his biggest test was coming.

After the battle, he sent all the cavalry that he could use, gathered all the cavalry officers, and told them that he had learned an important information from the prisoners, that the Orenburg defense, the material supply base of the Russian army, was empty, and the Russian army had transferred part of its forces to fight on the Volga River, and some of its troops had been transferred to the front line of Tulgai, and now there were less than 10,000 people stationed, and he thought it was an opportunity to ask the cavalry to do a long-distance assault. The cavalry officers were given a death order to capture Orenburg, burn the Russian army's food and munitions, and continue to hold on, waiting for reinforcements. If it is not possible to capture it, it is necessary to build a defensive base to defend it and continue to wait for reinforcements.

He told these cavalry officers that this battle was a life and death, and if they didn't want to go, they could say it in advance.

No one flinched!

So he sent out all the 30,000 cavalry he had at his disposal, and gave them all the horses, and each man had at least three horses, and consigned enough supplies for them to fight for a month.

These people may not return, or they may complete a miracle in military history, but even if they succeed, it is difficult to say how many people will survive.

After the cavalry set off, Song Ronggui began to write a battle report, and the explanation for sending the cavalry was armed reconnaissance, and the reason was also that the prisoners were interrogated and knew that the enemy's rear was empty, because this reason was true, and some information was indeed asked from the prisoners of Kurgan, and several troops were actually drawn from Orenburg for reinforcements, and they were captured during the counterattack on Kurgan.

After that, Song Ronggui continued to draw reinforcements from the rear to control the front from Tobolsk to Chelyabinsk, and the communication line that needed to be maintained was seven or eight hundred kilometers long, many of which were close to Russian cities, such as Tyumen near Yekaterinburg, and waterways, and Chelyabinsk near Ufa, which were all rear bases of the Russians, stationed a large number of troops. The Kazakh region in the south is where the main force of the Russian army is located on the front line, and defending this line of communication will face the dilemma of attacking on two fronts, and it will be impossible to control it at all if there are fewer troops.

Song Ronggui almost drew up all the troops in his hands, and the Siberian rear was empty, and there was no way to suppress the Russian resistance.

Everything depends on the domestic reaction and the actions of the Kazakh direction Yanke, and Song Ronggui feels like a suspect waiting for a verdict at this time, and his fate is completely decided by someone else.