It was the 430,000 Cossack cavalry and 300,000 infantry of the Oros Baikal Front that caused great danger to the capital of the Chinese Empire.

This was a strategic conspiracy of the Oros Empire against the Chinese Empire, and the Far Eastern Front of the Hubei Army launched an offensive in the coastal areas of the Far East, attracting a considerable part of the forces of the Chinese Army there, and sending troops from the Baikal Front to support the Third Army of the Far East, assuming a posture of full support for the Far Eastern Front.

The commander of this large-scale strategic sneak attack was none other than the commander of the Baikal Front, Grand Duke Nikolai Nikolayevich Romanov Nikolas, who is now 38 years old, an outstanding general in the military circles of Oros, and the commander-in-chief of the Oros army in World War I in another time and space.

Immediately after receiving his appointment as commander of the Baikal Front, he flew by airship over the Ural Mountains and the Siberian wilderness to the Baikal Front's garrison.

When the Hubei army and the Huaxia army were fighting in the coastal areas of the Far East in the east, the direction of Siberia and Baikal was quiet, which was extremely strange.

Hu Zhen and the general staff of the Huaxia Army were still very vigilant at first, but after the Huaxia Army eliminated the Pacific Fleet and conquered Vladivostok, most of the elite of the Huaxia Army were transferred to the Northeast Theater to participate in the encirclement and annihilation of the Hubei Army and the Japanese Army, and the vicinity of the capital became empty.

Hu Zhen personally believed that the Huaxia Army had already mastered the control of information, and all the cable telegraphs in Oros had no secrets to the Huaxia Army, and they relied too much on the intelligence obtained from the wireless telegraph line, and relaxed the monitoring of the Hubei army in the direction of Siberia, resulting in the Hubei army's movement towards the capital and not being detected in time.

The Hubei army and the Huaxia army fought step by step, almost being pressed and beaten by the Huaxia army, and the top leaders in Moscow pinned their hopes on this strategic sneak attack, hoping to turn the tables in one fell swoop and force the Chinese Empire, which had been established less than one year ago, to kneel down and admit defeat and pay reparations.

Under these circumstances, the Oros implemented strict secrecy measures, and did not mention the Baikal Front's surprise attack on the capital on the wireless telegraph line, but Grand Duke Nicholas secretly mobilized 430,000 Cossack cavalry and 300,000 infantry from Siberia and Oros Europe, and forcibly collected 1.5 million war horses from various Siberian tribes, which realized that each cavalry was equipped with three horses, and even the infantry was equipped with a substitute horse, which made the Oros army have extremely high mobility.

730,000 Hubei troops were assembled in the area south of Lake Baikal.

When everything was ready, Nicholas commanded an army of 700,000 troops to march from south Baikal by day and night in the direction of the capital.

It was a large-scale sneak attack like no other in history, and Nicholas prepared for it.

Nicholas had his army march at a speed of sixty kilometers per night, slaughtering all the Mongol tribes found along the way, men, women, and children, without letting a single one go, and the grain, forage, and livestock of these tribes became a supplement to the Hubei army.

The distance from Lake Baikal to the capital of the Chinese Empire was about 1,600 kilometers, and the Hubei army walked for 15 nights, walked more than 800 kilometers, and entered a place not far north of the Great Wall, where it had already reached the densely populated area of the Chinese Empire.

Nicholas ordered to move forward no longer in concealment, but during the day, and the cavalry of the Eurian army, with an average of three horses per man, moved with one horse every hour of advance, and the action was very rapid, reaching a speed of one hundred and twenty kilometers forward in a day.

The only thing that Nicholas was dissatisfied with was that the infantry could only be equipped with one horse per person, and the movement lagged far behind the cavalry, so that the distance between the infantry and the cavalry was widened by almost two days.

The Huaxia Army has no troops here, only a few troops responsible for guarding, and most of these troops are adapted from the former Qing army, the quality of the soldiers is uneven, and the combat effectiveness is very poor, so they can only barely play some role as sentinels.

What is even worse is that these alert units have not had time to be equipped with wired telegraphs or wireless telegraphs, and can only transmit information and intelligence to the outside world through fast horses and signal troops.

Therefore, when the Hubei army suddenly appeared, although these under-armed Huaxia army troops bravely resisted and sent out signal corps to report the situation, the Hubei cavalry was outnumbered and blocked all the roads, and finally failed one by one.

The Hubei army was divided into multiple routes, and whenever they arrived at a place, whenever they encountered resistance, they immediately divided their troops to attack, while the main force passed by the main road without stopping and continued to advance in the direction of the capital.

In less than four or five days, hundreds of thousands of cavalry of the Hubei army rushed to Zhangbei County, which was only 200 kilometers away from the capital in a straight line.

At this time, the Northern Theater and General Staff of the Huaxia Army received accurate information on the actions of the Hubei cavalry, but the capital was already under the spearhead of the direct attack of the Hubei army.

"In any case, the Hubei army must be blocked in the area north of Zhangjiakou!" When Cui Jinfeng, commander-in-chief of the Northern Theater, heard this astonishing news, he immediately put it forward: "The headquarters of the Northern Theater immediately moved forward to Zhangjiakou and blocked the advance of the Hubei army there!" ”

"The Hubei army is prepared, the cavalry is moving very quickly, I'm afraid we will be too late to rush to Zhangjiakou! Even if we get there, we won't have enough troops! Zhao Xiaolu, chief of staff of the Northern Theater, shook his head, he knew very well that most of the elites in the Northern Theater had been transferred to the Northeast Theater.

But Cui Jinfeng was very firm: "No, I must rush to Zhangjiakou quickly, and the Northern Theater Command will hand it over to you to coordinate now, and I must try to rush to the front line later." ”

Zhao Xiaolu was taken aback: "You are the commander-in-chief of the Northern Theater of Operations, how can you leave your post easily?" ”

"My current position should be on the front line in Zhangjiakou!" Cui Jinfeng was determined to take the lead in taking an airship to Zhangjiakou and command the local troops to block the Hubei army.

Hu Zhen, the great emperor of the Chinese Empire, was in Vladivostok at this time, and he was also surprised to receive the news that the Hubei army was approaching the capital, he did not expect that the Hubei army would dare to take such a bold and proactive strategic action, which was completely different from the Oros in another time and space in the Russo-Japanese War in which the Oros were passively beaten everywhere.

After looking at the map for a while, Hu Zhen asked Zheng Dingbang, deputy chief of staff: "Riding the ship of the Fourth Division back to the Northern Theater, and now you have arrived at that position?" ”

Zheng Dingbang: "The transport fleet will contact the General Staff every three hours, and the contact telegram an hour ago shows that the fleet of the 4th Cavalry Division will take another day to reach Tanggu Port. ”

"One day! Immediately send a telegram to the transport fleet, do not be afraid of the mechanical wear and tear of the ships, and send the 4th Cavalry Division to Tanggu at maximum speed! Also, in addition to the 4th Cavalry Division, what other troops can we immediately rush to support the Northern Theater of Operations? (To be continued.) )