"Deputy Marshal Qiqi, the coalition forces of the Russian principality in Kiev have begun to attack Sizhao City three days ago, and the headquarters of the city immediately launched a counterattack, and the city fortifications are currently fiercely contested, but the ice wall built by our army to assist the Slavs has been blown up by the Slavs, and the defenders in the city retreated to the city for defense." The information from Xuan Yingwei made Gao Siji frown, because in the previous command and his deduction, the difficulty of this battle was relatively small, so Gao Siji did not follow one of the two armies to set off, but sat on the bank of the Volga River to take care of the transportation of logistics materials, and in the past few days, he has also been inspecting the terrain on both sides of the Volga River to see where the terrain is suitable, preparing to build a city here, completely control this big river, and control this land. But at this time, he frowned, and after pondering for a while, he said to himself: "It seems that although Wujie has grown a lot in Datang in recent years, his courage has been consumed a lot. There is such a commander in command of the army of the Ques, although it is more than enough, but it is not enterprising. ”

"Immediately summon the Seventh Corps of the Northern Route Army, and let Us'er speed up the sweep of the northern Slavic tribes, and at the same time, you, Xuanyingwei, should immediately spread rumors in the Northland, and convey the matter of the Seventh Corps to the surrounding areas of Sizhao City as soon as possible." Gauss returned to the camp after letting the guards behind him quickly send a message, although the northern route army was a long distance, but in Gauss's arrangement, their marching speed was full force, 50,000 cavalry swept the old nest of the Slavic tribes that only left the old, weak, sick and disabled at this time, once the old nest of the various departments was eliminated, then the offensive of the front line Sizhao City would also collapse. At this time, the timing of the appearance of Wu Huan's Sixth Corps needs to be carefully considered. The Sixth Corps was more distant from Sizhao City, and it encountered fewer enemies during the period, but if Wu Huan appeared on the battlefield too early, he would not be able to achieve the previous goal of Gaussji, resulting in the Tiance Army having to participate in the battle of Sizhao City, which was not in line with the ultimate purpose of this Western Expeditionary Army.

However, when Gao Siji was thinking about this matter, in fact, Wu Huan and Qin Kong, who led the troops, were also thinking about this matter, there were a total of four tribes on the southern front, two large and two small, and the two small ones had been exterminated by the Sixth Corps, and most of the troops were captured by the logistics troops who came later and then escorted back to the rear, turning into prisoners of war and sending them to Shule and other places in a steady stream. However, there are still a lot of troops in the rear of the two tribes in front of them, and it is not a big problem to defeat them, but in this way, it is impossible to avoid that the news will leak and be transmitted to Sizhao City. According to the calculation of the itinerary, the Seventh Corps will not have time to create a big storm on the northern front at this time, and because of the distance factor, even if Xuan Yingwei spreads rumors from it, he is afraid that it will not be effective in a short time, and the Slavs on the front line of Sizhao City are not disorganized, so Us'er will not be able to lead his troops to intercept and kill these people who have withdrawn from the battlefield halfway. In other words, the Southern Front Corps had to wait until the Seventh Corps led a counterattack before it could show up.

"I don't think we should postpone the attack on these two tribes, and let them send people to Sizhao City on their own, so that the morale of the army on the southern front will be in chaos, maybe the Slavs of the northern front can think about whether their nests will be attacked by our army." Wu Huan's words made Qin Kong shake his head and said: "It may be a bit difficult for you to let them think for themselves, these barbarians are different from us, they basically don't think about too complicated plans and strategies, but they are very advocating force and like to rush forward in a swarm." Therefore, I dare to say that once we show our traces on the southern front, then according to the character of these people, the northern front will not move, but the Slavs on the southern front will directly return to fight our army, so that we will be directly overturned by the task of the northern front corps. And our army is too close to Sizhao City, and if we want to fight them, we must move the battle line forward, so as to clash with the Russians in Kyiv in advance. In this way, the plan of the deputy commander will not be realized, and the two armies will not be able to fight crazy on the battlefield, and they will not be able to control the complete annihilation of the Russians in Kiev, so wouldn't it give the Yaks the opportunity to expand to the west bank of the Dnieper River in vain? "Qin Kong didn't say a word, once the Russians in Kiev are defeated, then the Great Qin side will inevitably calculate this account on the head of the Tang Dynasty, so as to adjust their own deployment, so that the General Staff's strategic plan for the northwest will also be completely overthrown, which is absolutely not allowed for the Western Expeditionary Army.

"So what do you say? Can't we just wait here to strangle those who tell the news? Wu Huan smiled bitterly: "I also know that the key to this battle is the timing of the appearance of my troops, but if I don't listen to you, I will do what you say." ”

"In this way, we will continue to implement the previous tactics, take down these two tribes first, and then I will contact Xuanyingwei to see the progress of the Seventh Corps, if General Wu's progress can reach the expected speed then we will carry out the original plan, if not, we will stop the army and arrest all the scattered troops. I reckon that we should be able to get stuck with the timing of the Northern Route Army. After pondering for a long time, Qin Kong came up with such a plan that could be regarded as making up for it.

After the two discussed and decided, the Sixth Corps immediately began to pull out the camp, and then rushed into the lair of these two tribes five times in a row in five days, completely crushing the two tribes with a total of nearly 100,000 troops, and a large number of Slavs were scattering and fleeing. However, these military operations were all mobilized by Wu Huan, and Qin Kong had successfully contacted Xuan Yingwei on the northern front in these days, and he had also heard the movement on the northern line, and the Wusier side had already reached the northern region of the Dnieper River and was coming up the river.

"It seems that General Wu's speed is not slow." Wu Huan's weather at the end of March made him take off his cotton clothes, and in the past three days, he and the soldiers of the Sixth Corps have not been sleeping at all, but they still can't ensure that all the lost Slavs are captured, but the tens of thousands of prisoners concentrated in the barracks at this time still make Wu Huan sweat with anxiety.

"He's not slow, but yours isn't, at the current pace, you'll need at least three more days to capture the captives, and that's when I've sent secret guards to block the frontline roads. When the logistics troops come here to receive the prisoners, I'm afraid you will not be able to set off until the first day of April, when the Seventh Corps will already be fighting the Slavs who have retreated from Sizhao City, if my estimate is correct. Wu Huan glanced at Wu Huan and shook his head and said, "Are you sure you can reach the vicinity of Sizhao City within two or three days to force back the Russians in Kiev?" ”

"Yes, besides, didn't the deputy marshal also say that let's force back the Russians in Kyiv and don't say that we can't fight?" Wu Huan laughed and said: "We can't let the people of the Zodiac see that we didn't do our best, the Sixth Corps and the Seventh Corps only arrived one way, and how could we have the strength to pursue the Slavs after this battle?" ”

The two men were almost taking prisoners while thinking about when to send troops, and although the northern front of Usr was far away, it was almost always fighting, but it did not have as many twists and turns as the southern front, so after defeating countless Slavic tribes, they reached the north of the Dnieper, and then went up against the river, and began to reverse attack the countless Slavs who gathered along the way. And this series of battles also caused chaos among the entire northern Slavic tribes, and countless scattered tribesmen began to go to Sizhao City to find their own army, which further aggravated the authenticity of the rumors that had appeared on the northern front, and their own nest was raided by the Tiance army. In particular, in order to pursue speed, Wu Si'er did not capture prisoners as full of maps as Wu Huan, so that in the following days, Wu Si'er ignored the big war, and constantly defeated the tribes entrenched in the north of the Dnieper River, and more and more tribal soldiers appeared in Sizhao City, the Slavic army of these northern tribes finally couldn't sit still, and did not take Sizhao City after more than ten days of siege, and their own nest was copied, and these people began to return on their own, Even many of the tribes withdrew without even saying hello to the troops of the Russian principalities in Kiev. The wild and direct attitude made Gauss, who came to Sizhao City, curious even after hearing about it. However, this attitude helped the Tiance army a lot at this time, and Wu Si'er had already received an urgent military message from the secret guard before he even arrived in Sizhao City. The Slavs, who were in a panic for the sake of their homeland, were defeated by the Seventh Corps with the support of the intelligence of the Usr in advance, and the entire northern region of the Dnieper River was bleeding in the following time.

In this way, the entire Slavic army besieging Sizhao City was suddenly short of one of the three, which also made the Slavic people in the city breathe a sigh of relief. This half-month siege of the city can be regarded as a pain for the Hujiasi people, the steppe nomads are not good at defending the city at all, even if the aid officers of the Tiance Army guide them hand in hand, and there are also sharp weapons and artillery to defend the city and constantly bombard the siege army. However, the Zombies, who were not naturally good at it, were powerless against the Kiev Russians, who had already learned the entire complete Tessie civilization from the Great Qin. The ice wall was breached in only five days after the battle, and the unprepared Tunis people suffered great losses even if they were restrained by the officers of the Tiance Army and suppressed by Wusuke, and had to retreat to the city for garrison, and thus lost the opportunity to go out of the city at a critical time to join the Tiance army to attack the Slavic army outside the city.

However, when this chaos occurred, Bai Jingyi turned the tide at a critical moment, led some soldiers to break off independently, and killed the Russians in Kiev who caught up with him to a river of blood, and even could not recover on the second day after they got out of danger. Bai Jingyi not only won the respect of the people of the Ques in this battle, but was also directly promoted from the reserve military management to a battalion commander under the name of the Western Expeditionary Army by Gauss Ji after the war, and began to exude his brilliance in the following years, achieving the legend of the other side.

However, after the news on Wu Si'er's side spread quickly throughout the battlefield and accompanied by the news of the secret guards, Wu Huan and Qin Kong, who were waiting for the news, were overjoyed, and immediately led the army out of Sizhao City to start the decisive stage of the battle of Sizhao City. However, it was precisely because of Wu Huan's early arrival that he had enough time to face the situation that he had retreated into the city and was no longer able to go out of the city to fight side by side with the Sixth Corps, and independently completed the attack of the opponent's hundreds of thousands of troops with the strength of a corps.

Wu Huan's arrival made the people of Wujia completely let go of the burden in their hearts, and even Wujie and the king of Wujia were ecstatic when they looked at Wu Huan's army outside the city, and sent envoys to labor the army.

"Qin Kong, what's the situation, why does this kid Wujie plan to let us fight this Kyiv Russian by ourselves?" Wu Huan pouted.

"Isn't that what you wanted?" Qin Kong didn't know what Wu Huan was thinking, so he smiled and said, "In this way, we can justifiably force the Russians in Kiev across the Dnieper River." ”

"Well, you're boring, why do you say such a good thing? But we have worked so hard to fight the Quegasians, shouldn't they send something else if they don't go out of the city themselves? How much can you get for grain, grass, and land? Wu Huan smiled and said: "I'll deal with this war, and you can talk about this blackmailing of the people, anyway, the two of us are better than me, and you are not from the military department." ”

"Do you still need me? We can have a minister sitting in the city, or the minister of foreign affairs. You have been leading troops all year round, so I don't know that the mouth of our colleagues in the Foreign Affairs Department can say that the dead are alive. I see, eighty percent of the ministers of foreign affairs are already calculating the people of the Hungaris. Qin Kong shook his head and said, "Anyway, you don't have a chief of staff, I have studied staff for a while, so I can barely help you." ”

"I'll go, I won't take you if you want to come." The two of them made a fuss while they began to urgently arrange the positions on the front line, after the revolver machine gun was popularized in the Western Expeditionary Army, the infantry already had sufficient means to deal with the cavalry, not to mention that Wu Huan was not on the side of Wu Si'er for a long march, so he also brought a lot of artillery. 50,000 men is enough to deal with the opponent's army of more than 100,000.

As Qin Kong expected, after the people decided not to go out of the city to fight hand in hand with the Tiance army, Wang Shoutian immediately went to the king of the city to protest, saying that it was irresponsible to the allies to let the Tiance army fight the Russians in Kiev independently, and asked the king to give him an explanation.

The rude people of the Tunja were hesitant in the face of Wang Shoutian's questioning, but whether it was the king of the Tunja or the commander of the soldiers and horses, Wujie, was actually helpless, and the defenders in the city suffered nearly half of the casualties in the battle in the past 20 days. Therefore, Wusuke, who knew that he was at a loss, began to send a large amount of money to Wang Shoutian, and constantly sent people out of the city to work the army.

Originally, Wang Shoutian didn't plan to trouble the Quegasians, but at this time, the war outside the city had reached the point where it had to be fought. And both Wu Huan and Qin Kong were ready for a decisive battle.