Just after Yan Xueyi and his party embarked on the road to inspect the heavy industry of the empire, the Suzaku Legion, which entered Russia, finally fought with the Russians. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

What is called sparsely populated, the Asian part of Russia is truly vast and sparsely populated.

The Asian part of Russia occupies three-quarters of the total territory of Russia, but the Asian part accounts for only one-tenth of the total population, and not many Russians like to settle here in the cold Siberian plain, where the Russians usually exile criminals.

Russia's population in Asia is at least, and of course Russia has not sent many troops here, let alone stationed a large army in the tens of thousands of kilometers of Sino-Russian border.

Russia also knew that the war was approaching, so it sent hundreds of thousands of troops from the European region to the Asian region, but the Trans-Siberian Railway had just been built, and the Russian army could only ride a horse or not, and travel from Europe to the distant Asian region.

So when the ten cavalry divisions of the Suzaku Army penetrated deep into Russia, the Russians were basically not found.

Where have all the Russians gone?

The Russians also knew that war was imminent, and that the Russians living close to the Chinese Empire had already moved, either to walled cities or to the further north.

The Suzaku Legion also knew about the situation with the Russians on the opposite side, so the ten cavalry divisions of the Suzaku Legion did not act collectively at all, but separately.

Ten cavalry divisions divided into ten routes and marched in unison towards Russian territory, marching about sixty kilometers a day.

In this Sino-Russian war, the Chinese Empire divided the entire war into four stages:

In the first stage, the Chinese Empire took advantage of the fact that the Russian army had not yet arrived in Asia, and the Chinese Empire sent a large army to take the lead in attacking Russia and quickly eliminate the Russians.

In the second stage, the Russian army arrived in the Asian region, and the army of the Chinese Empire fought a major battle with the Russian army, and the Chinese Empire defeated the Russian army with the mobility of cavalry and the support of the air force.

In the third stage, the Russians knew that they were defeated at the front and continued to send troops to the Asian region, and the troops of the Chinese Empire and the Russian army would start a tug-of-war, and the losses of the Chinese Empire would be much smaller than that of Russia, and in this tug-of-war, Russia would slowly be weakened by this war.

In the fourth stage, the army of the Chinese Empire completely defeated the Russians, occupied the Asian region of Russia, and drove all the Russians back to the European region.

Throughout the four stages of the Sino-Russian War, Russia has always been an old Western power, with strong strength, backed by Britain and France, and it will take more time for the Chinese Empire to defeat Russia, at least more than ten years.

Now it was the first stage of the Sino-Russian War, and the armies of the Chinese Empire were rapidly marching into Russian territory to wipe out all Russians.

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In the border area between China and Russia, there is an important town, called Kyakhta, but Kyakhta has the north and south, in the Manchu Dynasty, the south belongs to the Manchu Qing Dynasty, the north belongs to Russia, South Kyakhta is also known as the city of trading, the two countries trade in this city, around the 50s of the 19th century, the annual transaction volume is more than 10 million US dollars, accounting for 15%-20% of the total import and export value of the Manchu Dynasty, Russia is second only to Britain, is the second largest trading country of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, from 1853, especially after the signing of the Sino-Russian "Tianjin Treaty" in 1858, The volume of transactions has dropped sharply.

However, Severo-Kyakhta is still one of Russia's important cities in Asia, with a long-term population of more than 50,000 and originally had 2,000 defenders, but after the tension between China and Russia, the Russians in Severo-Kyakhta could only take out the old weapons in stockpiles and arm 3,000 Russians, making the North Kyakhta garrison reach 5,000.

The first battle of the Sino-Russian War was about to break out in Severo-Kyakhta, and the 8th Cavalry Division under the command of the Suzaku Army launched an offensive against Severo-Kyakhta.

Cavalry is always not good at attacking cities, and the Chinese Empire did not want cavalry to directly attack a heavily guarded city with strong walls, and when cavalry attacked a city with strong walls, the air force of the Chinese Empire would send airships to support the cavalry.

The distance between South Kyakhta and North Kyakhta was very close, and the Eighth Cavalry Division had already surrounded North Kyakhta in less than ten minutes from South Kyakhta.

The Russians in the city of North Kyakhta were infinitely panicked when they saw that North Kyakhta was dominated by 5,000 cavalry, but they knew that the country south of Russia was no longer the cowardly Manchu Qing that it used to be, but the Chinese Empire that could defeat Britain, France, and Russia.

Just a few months ago, the army of the Chinese Empire defeated the 100,000-strong army of Russia, which shows that the army of the Chinese Empire is very strong.

Although there are now 5,000 armed forces in Severo-Kyakhta, only 2,000 are real soldiers, and the remaining 3,000 can only be regarded as militiamen who have just taken up arms, and the weapons in the hands of those 2,000 regular soldiers are only backward "single-one" rifles and a small number of breech-loading guns.

The 8th Cavalry Division only surrounded the city of Severekhta, and did not launch an attack at the first time, and the 8th Cavalry Division was still waiting for the arrival of the air force bombing airships.

As time passed, seeing that the airship had not yet come, Zhang Zuogu, the commander of the Eighth Cavalry Division, said depressedly: "Why haven't those guys from the Air Force come yet, if they don't come, Lao Tzu will attack directly." ”

Luo Yun, the young deputy division commander, said with a smile: "Brother Zhang, don't worry, let's just take a tour of the mountains and rivers, and wait for the air force to come and blow it up, and it is expected that the Russians in the city will surrender." ”

This Luo Yun is a Mongol, only twenty-five years old, and he is still a nobleman among the Mongols, in the eighth cavalry division, Luo Yun's prestige is even higher than that of the division commander Zhang Zuogu, after all, three-quarters of a cavalry division are Mongols.

Because a large number of Mongols joined the newly established cavalry divisions of the empire, many of the deputy positions in each cavalry division were held by Mongols, and some Mongolian nobles who wanted to obtain meritorious service also joined the cavalry division.

Hearing Luo Yun's words, Zhang Zuogu shook his head helplessly and said: "Brother, I won't directly order an attack on North Kyakhta, although the old Maozi in the city is very weak, but it will also bring us huge casualties, this is not cost-effective, but the air force is really slow." ”

"Division commander, division commander, the airship seems to be coming." A soldier behind Zhang Zuogu shouted.

"Where? Where? Zhang Zuogu hurriedly shouted.

Following the direction pointed by the soldier, Zhang Zuogu picked up the telescope and looked into the sky, and sure enough, he found the figures of two airships.

"Order, let the brothers get ready, and when the airship is blown up, we will rush forward."

"Yes!"