Yang Ke's reinforcements were naturally faster than domestic orders, and as soon as Song Ronggui's "letter of request for help" arrived, he immediately dispatched troops from Kazakhstan to support.

Moreover, the number of troops transferred this time was very staggering, almost all of the troops he left in the second line of defense for rotation were sent to the Siberian direction, and it took time to transfer troops, these troops went to the Siberian direction one by one, to replace the vacancies left here by the Northern Army, to maintain the lines of communication and suppress the rebel forces.

Yang Ke's mood is not easier than Song Ronggui, he now has to continue to maintain the Kazakh defense line, and on the other hand, he has to make an active offensive move, contain the main force of the Russian army, the strength is already stretched, and also send a large number of veterans with combat experience to the direction of Siberia, he has to use the second-line troops in his hand to attack.

But none of this is a problem, and if necessary, he will retreat into the Kazakh hill defenses, where a million men will be enough to hold it. In other words, he can send up to two million people to Song Ronggui. It is believed that once he has mastered the two routes of conquest to the west and the north, Song Ronggui, who has a total of 4 million troops, will be able to maintain the ability to attack from Siberia to western Russia.

As for the domestic reinforcements, far water cannot quench the thirst of the near, and in addition, there are many new recruits, and the help for the offensive is limited. What Song Ronggui lacks now is not a shield to defend the city, but a sharp knife for assault. Therefore, what he sent to Siberia has always been the main force in his hands, not the second-line village soldiers.

Yang Ke intersected and waited for the news of Song Ronggui, the news of the lone army that attacked Orenburg. Once successful, the immortal merit will be in hand, even if it fails, and the country does not agree to the rescue, before refusing the rescue order, Song Ronggui can also send the main force to attack Orenburg in the name of rescue, whether or not to take Orenburg is the key to the success or failure of this battle, and even this war.

After ten days of anxious waiting, the news finally came, the performance of the lone army no one expected, they succeeded half, but also failed half, they failed to capture Orenburg, but crossed the Ural River, completed the plan to destroy the enemy's logistics supplies, they captured the station set up by the Chinese railway company here in the past opposite Orenburg, as well as the material area around the railway station.

Now they are relying on the railway station and surrounding buildings, with the help of the heavy weapons of the British and Russian coalition forces specially left, forming a temporary position to hold on and wait for reinforcements.

Their performance gave Song Ronggui and Yang Ke more confidence to rescue, running thousands of miles, destroying the enemy's grain and grass, and then being besieged, they should rescue them in a reasonable way.

There is no need to wait for domestic orders, Yanke's reinforcements are constantly being sent, the main force is constantly drawn from the front line, and the second-line troops are transferred from the rear, and the combat effectiveness is getting weaker and weaker, and it is becoming more and more unable to maintain the pressure on the Russian army. But now he must continue to put pressure on the Russian army, so that the lone army can hold out longer, until the main force arrives.

After holding out for half a month, Zhou Lang received information from the front line, before he received some battle reports from Song Ronggui, he felt a little surprised, Song Ronggui suddenly turned the direction of the attack and invaded the Russian Ural region, Zhou Lang did not understand Song Ronggui's intentions at first. Because the main decisive battle was in the Kazakh region, Song Ronggui's Northern Army was only used as a flank, and the initial purpose of the operation was to occupy the Siberian region, but because they found the right way to clear the area, they had the ability to attack westward all the time, otherwise just to deal with the resistance of the Russians in the Siberian region and occupy and control this large hostile territory was enough to drag down his forces.

After defeating Tyumen, he went to fight Kurgan, if Song Ronggui was to the west, then he should attack Yekaterinburg, Zhou Lang's understanding at this time was similar to that of the Russian officers, and they all thought that Song Ronggui was planning to join the western army of the Kazakh side through Kurgan.

But after the defeat of Kurgan, Song Ronggui suddenly went to the mountainous fortress of Chelyabinsk and fought with the Russians for a while, this time Zhou Lang was completely incomprehensible, in the era of no railway, he could not see the strategic significance of Chelyabinsk, due to the emergence of the Kazakh railway, it has lost the transportation significance of connecting the Russian hinterland and Central Asia. The purpose of Chelyabinsk's existence is to serve as a passage into and out of Siberia, but in this war, Siberia is obviously a secondary battlefield, and even the Russians know that they are defenseless, and basically give up fighting with China in Siberia.

So when Song Ronggui began to attack Chelyabinsk, Zhou Lang couldn't understand it at all, did Song Ronggui plan to use himself all the way deep into the Russian hinterland? Zhou Lang even wondered if it was a situation where the two front-line soldiers were fighting for merit. Because according to the normal strategy, Song Ronggui should go south from Kurgan and attack the Turgai Plateau with Yanke's army. But Song Ronggui not only did not cooperate with the main frontal force, but continued to advance westward, as if he regarded himself as the main direction of attack.

When Song Ronggui sent cavalry to reconnoiter Orenburg's battle report, Zhou Lang immediately understood that Song Ronggui's series of actions were clearly like a swordsman, sending out all the interference, and then breaking through the enemy army and stabbing out a fatal sword, all the previous preparations seemed to be paving the way for the cavalry to be able to assault Orenburg.

At this time, Zhou Lang still had no way to judge what was happening on the front line, he didn't know that this was simply an idea of Yang Ke, and Song Ronggui was more like a knife operator.

However, this did not prevent Zhou Lang from judging the strategic significance of this assault, and even if the enemy's logistics supply base was not destroyed, Zhou Lang could see the strategic significance of capturing Orenburg. He immediately issued an order for Song Ronggui to look for the possibility of capturing Orenburg. Zhou Lang didn't know about his order at this time, it was completely superfluous, and his generals had already done it.

Due to Song Ronggui's military actions, Zhou Lang's attention was attracted, so that he paid less attention to the Kazakh front during this time, otherwise he could easily notice that the reinforcements sent by Yang Ke to Siberia turned out to be the main force. You will find a tacit understanding between the two commanders.

For a long time after that, Zhou Lang was paying attention to Song Ronggui. He soon received the news that the lone army had destroyed Orenburg's material supplies, which made Zhou Lang's already unwavering mentality excited, and he immediately ran to the war room, carefully studied the map, and found that there was no other way than to rescue this lone soldier with all his might.

Before his order reached Song Ronggui, Song Ronggui's second battle report arrived, indicating that his rescue force had captured Orenburg, and he asked if he should try his best to hold on, stating the meaning and risks of holding on.

Orenburg was captured!

Zhou Lang and all the staff officers of the staff department were a little incredulous, which meant that more than 2 million Anglo-Russian troops were now trapped in the area of the Tulgai Plateau and the Ural River, and the Tulgai Plateau had become the Changping of the Russians!

What does this mean?

During the period of victory, in the battle of Changping between Qin and Zhao, the Qin general Bai Qi strategized and trapped the 450,000 Zhao troops led by Zhao Kuo, the general of Zhao State, in the Dan River valley. At that time, the population of Qin was 5 million, and the population of Zhao was 3 million, which meant that almost all the young and strong men of Qin and Zhao were on the battlefield. At that time, the practice of King Zhaoxiang of Qin was to recruit all minor men under the age of 15 in Hanoi County and personally lead them to Changping. However, Zhao was unable to send reinforcements, and finally Bai Qi slaughtered the 450,000 Zhao soldiers, and Zhao was in a state of collapse from then on, and all the capital of Zhao Wuling's king Hu Fu was exhausted.

Zhou Lang did not hesitate to suspend the increase of troops to the Indian battlefield and send all the reinforcements that could be used to the front line. All the officers and soldiers on leave immediately returned to the army, and Zhou Lang decided to lead all the reservists who could be mobilized to march in person.

Now there are still two million troops available in the country, all of which are sent in the direction of Siberia. Enter Kyakhta by rail and then head to Europe by water. All means of transport must be given priority to military use, and domestic reserves of food, weapons and ammunition must be sent to the Siberian battlefield on a priority basis.

This is the last big war, a great war, there is no ancient, there is no chance of coming, there is no chance of coming, there has never been a battle to encircle and annihilate two million enemy troops on the battlefield of World War II, China is now in the pre-industrial era, launching a campaign in the post-World War II era, which is indeed a bit too much to bully Russia, the empire of serfdom.

Zhou Lang chose to fight in person, not to fight for merit, but to make it more convenient for direct command, he must go to the front line in person and give the first feedback on the ever-changing battlefield. Now the armies of the west and the north are actually inseparable, and they both have to serve the capture of Orenburg, and it is too inconvenient to coordinate the two armies from Nanjing.

In order not to let his personal conquest overshadow the light of the front-line officers, Zhou Lang decided not to go directly to the front line, but to sit in Altai, and dispatch in this combined area of the rear of the western and northern armies.

Zhou Lang knew the difficulty of this big detour, and the biggest difficulty was to ensure the line of communication. Employing people, not caring about the consumption on the road, can indeed guarantee a waterway communication line from Siberia to Orenburg, but the speed is too slow. It takes several months to enter Siberia by rail from Mongolia, then across the waters of the Yenisei and Ob rivers into the Urals, and finally to Orenburg. Previously, only two million troops could be maintained in the Siberian direction, because slow transportation could not support their rapid advance, so this direction was used as an auxiliary direction.

The Kazakh region is the main direction of attack because there are railways to the interior. Therefore, it was necessary to shorten the distance of railway and river intermodal transportation, so Zhou Lang's first order after arriving in Altay was to ask Yanke to suspend the senseless offensive on the Turkai Plateau and concentrate his forces to open up the connection between the Irtysh River and the Tobol River. In this way, it was possible to bypass Siberia and transport directly by rail to the upper reaches of the Irtysh, from where supplies and troops could be detoured back to Orenburg, and the distance could be reduced by a small half.