Siberia is much larger than Russia's lands west of the Ural Mountains and the Ural River, and the size of the region is comparable to that of all of China today, except that it is too inhospitable. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 info If Russia has a lot of strength, Siberia is at most a point! Again, it's because of the economy, not the military!

And if the Russians' power in the area east of Lake Baikal is only 'one', then their power in the area west of Lake Baikal is three or four. In the area east of Lake Baikal, it is difficult for the Russians to assemble an army of more than 1,000 people, but in Noyarsk, Kuznetsk, and so on west of Lake Baikal, it is still very difficult to assemble an armed force of 1,000 people, but it is already within the 'red line' that can be completed.

Purely in terms of population, these places are no less large agglomerations than Irkutsk.

Therefore, Chen Kaishan's target of war is not just one Irkutsk, but the entire Russian Siberia. His combat mission was not simply to destroy Irkutsk, but to encircle the point and send reinforcements, knocking out all the mobile forces of the Russians in Eastern Siberia.

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At night, the roar of cannons is playing. The artillery of the Fuhan army bombarded Irkutsk unhurriedly. The gunners didn't know where their shells would go, but they would have to hit Irkutsk anyway.

The attack of the Fu Han army has always been very patient and not violent. The previous battle under the city was just a few small highs and tides. More often, the Fuhan army slowly destroyed the Russian fortifications with artillery fire, and then used superior forces to force the Russian guards to retreat.

Although they only have 12 guns, these 12 guns have a longer range than Russian artillery, and they also have relatively sufficient ammunition. Moreover, the Russians' shells are all old-fashioned solid shells, as long as the artillery positions are well prepared, and the earthen bags and willow rattan frames are piled around the artillery positions, there will rarely be artillery damaged in the counter-bombardment. At least until now, the Russians have not fired a shot that is extremely accurate, just hitting the gun carriage or the barrel of the Han army.

In addition to flowering shells, there are also many solid shells fired by the Fu Han army. In particular, today's shelling of Irkutsk, the solid bullet was burned to the ground and turned into a hot bomb and an arson bomb. And the buildings of Irkutsk, whether residential or whatever, are almost entirely made of wood......

If it weren't for the Russians' precautions, today's bombardment would have been enough to inflict a big loss on Irkutsk, and it was not impossible for the entire city to be reduced to ashes in flames and winds. Although the Russians in the city have already been overwhelmed.

Chen Kaishan stands on the shore of Lake Baikal. Lake Baikal at night is like a deep old man, sleeping quietly in the evening breeze. The waves of the water beat in waves, like the breathing of an old man, hitting the stones on the shore with a gurgling sound.

At the foot of Chen Kaishan is a simple wharf, after the Fu Han army arrived in Irkutsk, they began to build this small port, not for anything else, just to monitor the Russians from the waterway, and the other is to catch fish, if you can catch a little fish, you can save a little supplies, right?

The vast sky and the vast lake are connected to a line, and whenever the sun rises and the night falls, Chen Kaishan will stand at the water's edge and look at the place where the water and the sky meet. It will calm his mind.

Because he has done everything he can do, the rear transport teams are constantly transporting everything to the 1st Cavalry Brigade, and everything is being transported to the 1st Cavalry Brigade at any cost. No one would have thought that they would get a convoy, a convoy of three, four, or five hundred carts, and that in the end they would not be able to deliver even a hundred carts of supplies to the 1st Cavalry Brigade.

Because more carts are loaded with grain and bean feed, horses can't just eat grass and travel thousands of miles. In that case, even the most durable Mongolian horse will be doomed.

Among the so-called hundreds of carts, most of them are loaded with food for transporting troops and fine materials for horses, and even directly waterwheels, after deducting some consumption on the way to and from the road, how much carrying capacity can be left for the cavalry brigade?

Chen Han has now 'obtained' the support of most of Inner Mongolia, but how many Mongolians are there? How big is the vast Mongolian steppe, and there are only two regiment-level transport teams here. In addition to the 5th Regiment in Suiyuan, there was only the 2nd Regiment stationed in Chengde. Several of the other transport units are battalion-level formations.

That's because it's too expensive.

After a flick back and forth, people can still hold on, but horses can't. If you don't raise a good one, it's definitely a waste. So the number of horses in reserve for a transport regiment is unimaginable to outsiders. That is, the quality of these horses does not need to be too strict.

This is the current supply line of the 1st Cavalry Brigade, and this is the cost of Chen Han in this war.

The 5,000-strong military expenses of the 1st Cavalry Brigade are more powerful than a complete integrated division.

Chen Kaishan now has a general understanding of the strength of the Russians in Irkutsk. - the regular army plus the Cossacks plus the militia, less than two thousand people. A number of Russians who had been captured in different places and times gave an account of the problem, and the figures, though varied in many ways, generally fluctuated around the point of two thousand.

But as to how many reinforcements the Russians from the west will come to their aid, many of the captives cannot answer the question at all, or even if they do, they are obviously talking nonsense.

Every captured old hairy man was first beaten with sticks. For those die-hards, Chen Kaishan's approach was to teach the Buryats, so that all the prisoners of war could watch with wide eyes as a majestic Slav turned into a pile of minced meat or a pile of minced meat in the hands of a group of Buryats.

This is a great deterrent for all captured prisoners of war. Don't think that Lao Maozi is just hard and not afraid of death, how many people were captured in World War II, it turns out that they are just as soft in the face of the threat of death.

So far in the battle, the Russians have been killed and wounded and captured by four or five hundred, right? Then there are 1,500 people in Irkutsk. Counting the reinforcements from the east and west, Chen Kaishan's battle was not without pressure at all.

The reason why he seems to be relaxed is simply because the war situation is too favorable for him. The Russians were not weak in number on the whole, but they had to travel thousands of miles for several months to rush back to support Irkutsk. Can this be compared to the Fu Han army waiting for the rabbit?

Moreover, with the opening of the 1st Cavalry Brigade's offensive against Irkutsk, more and more Mongol tribes moved to the southern end of Lake Baikal, and the appearance of these people not only provided a large wave of militia for the 1st Cavalry Brigade, but also added a safety valve to the food security of the 1st Cavalry Brigade.

The vanguard of the cavalry unit placed in the north had already collided with the cavalry of the Turgots department, and Chen Kaishan let out a long breath at the moon in the sky, he didn't know what choice the Turks would make.

Chen Kaishan looked at the sky in the distance, looked at the nearby Baikal lake, and his eyes wandered between the deep lake and the black night. No one bothered him!

In the eyes of outsiders, Chen Kaishan is thinking.

The moonlight shone on the clear waters of Lake Baikal, and only the glitter of silver scales shimmered on it. It was moonlight, starlight, and the firelight of the nearby barracks.

The quiet night is warm, and the road without street lights is natural, if there is no cannon sound......

But Chen Kaishan has decided to buy a piece of land here in the future, build a house, and come to escape the heat in the summer, which is better than Chengde, I don't know how many times. At that time, there was no war, and in this hazy night, people and the night sky and the vast water melted together, and the taste of freedom must have been very enjoyable. Hear the gentle sound of the wind and hear the clatter of waves crashing against the shore......

"There are many people in the army who are not satisfied with my position as the former military governor."

Whether it is the status of the cavalry troops in the Fu Han army, or their contributions to the Fu Han army all the way to the present, not to mention that they are on a par with the infantry, even the sailors can get rid of them. Among the many generals of the Fu Han Army, regardless of their military exploits or qualifications, there are many who surpass Chen Kaishan.

"If I want to secure the position of former military governor, I must have reasonable military exploits. Iron striking also has to be hard. The battle for Baikal is just the beginning. ”

Chen Kaishan's face was full of conviction, although Chen Ming didn't reveal anything to him, some things could not be said and could only be understood. Chen Han's future enemy on land is this Russia, not only the current north, but also the northwest, compared to the northeast war situation needs to have the help of sailors and infantry, which is separated by the entire Mongolian northern battlefield, as well as the more distant Northwest War, it is all a playground for cavalry troops.

Lake Baikal at the moment is the first major dish of the feast. If it is messed up, it will affect not only one Chen Kaishan, but also the entire cavalry system. He really doesn't have the face to stay in the position anymore.

Of course, Chen Kaishan also felt that his appetite was expanding little by little. This was not something he wanted to expand, but Chen Ming threw over piece after piece of fat, which boosted Chen Kaishan's appetite.

If the entire Northern War and the Northwest War were all cavalry as the main combat arms, how many times would the size of the cavalry troops have to be expanded, and how many times would their influence have to be increased?

The cavalry units of that time and the cavalry units of today will be completely different. It is the sublimation and qualitative change of the entire arm as a whole.

Although Chen Kaishan knew that this would be a relatively long time, the Fu Han army needed to establish its own cantonment bases in the north and the northwest, and needed military facilities and a large amount of ammunition and material reserves. And then you can fight with the Russians. And before that, the overall situation is still stable first.

The Russians are well aware of the importance of Lake Baikal, so they are determined to fight this battle to the end. I just don't know if St. Petersburg will send reinforcements of the army? The intelligence of the Fu Han army in Europe was still seriously lagging behind. I heard that the emperor is preparing to set up a European office in Europe, which is under the leadership of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs on the surface.

The task is just like the hometown associations and guild halls in the past, in addition to some official responsibilities, such as the birthday of the king of which country, the marriage of the prince and princess, or something, they have to send a generous gift, and it is China's eyes on Europe, staring at the changes in the relations between European countries, and the emergence of some new scientific and technological achievements in Europe. Then there is the people-to-people, which is to maintain, unite and harmonize the relations between the Chinese in Europe, communicate with each other, solve problems for the Chinese in Europe, and safeguard the legitimate rights and interests of the Chinese in European countries.

But secretly, even Europeans would not believe that this so-called office in Europe would not have the infiltration of China's terrible, organized, and powerful intelligence forces.

Chen Kaishan's current reaction to Russia is a smear. If he knew Russia's current attitude toward China and its attitude toward war, he would have a better idea in his heart.

On the eve of dawn, four small dragon bullets ignited the fuses in the two dragon bullet firing positions that had been repaired overnight.

In the flash of sparks, half an hour before dawn, four small dragon bullets crashed into Irkutsk, and the loud roar made Alex Igna wake up from his sleep in an instant. Then he saw a burning flame burning in a well-lit warehouse in the middle of the city.

"Your Excellency, Chinese fired a super-powerful explosive bomb, and it also has a very strong combustion characteristic, and it is too late for Warehouse 17 to be rescued......"

"Why didn't I hear the cannon?"

"It shouldn't have been a cannon fire. According to the officer on the night watch, he and many of his soldiers saw four bright flames suddenly light up in the darkness outside the city. Then there was a rapid scream, and four explosive bombs shot at me like bows and arrows.

Flames erupted from behind them, very fast, and very clear in the darkness! ”

Lao Maozi was not the original Qing soldiers, although they didn't know the specific details after seeing the rockets, the knowledge in their heads could tell them what kind of thing it was.

"This is supposed to be a large explosion with gunpowder as a propulsion."

"The explosion was huge. On the square, less than twenty feet southeast of Ivanov's statue, an explosion opened a huge crater......"

At this moment, on a watchtower erected by the Fu Han army, Chen Kaishan looked at the raging fire burning in Irkutsk, and a comfortable smile hung on the corner of his mouth. If it weren't for the need to use Irkutsk to seduce Russian reinforcements, he would have flattened the entire Irkutsk with rockets.

Kutulik, a Cossack village on the shores of Lake Baikal.

When the cavalry of the Zerberkdorji Territory Urhut arrived, there was not a single Cossack in sight of the village. They either fled further north, or they fled into Irkutsk.

Zeberkdorzi propped his head on his hands, and his whole body was silent in the darkness, and the room was only shone in the dim moonlight through the window. Tsebakdorji prayed to the Buddha he believed in, asking the Buddha to give him guidance.

The Chinese did not encircle themselves when they had absolute superiority, but handed themselves a letter.

This is a letter that will determine the fate of the Turghut tribe.

The Chinese want the Turks as their internal response, and in the future, when they enter the territory of the Russians, they will erupt violently like a volcano that has accumulated strength for many years. Before that, the Turks had to lurk deep in Russia, transmit intelligence to the Fu Han army, and collect all the information that could be collected for the Fu Han army.

The Han people are using the Turks as pawns, and the Han people's reward for the Turks is that in the future, whether they return to Mongolia and Xinjiang, or stay in the lower reaches of the Volga River, or go to Central Asia, they can get the best treatment from Chen Han. There is even hope that they will be able to form an autonomous region......

In the future, Chen Ming hopes to use the Mongols to draw a separation between the Eastern and Western worlds.

Whether it's the heavenly world or the world of one god! (To be continued.) )