On November 3, the city of Zarkent in Kazakhstan, adjacent to China's Xinjiang Ili Military Region, suddenly erupted in an indigenous protest against the shortage of food supplies after the onset of winter, demanding more food distribution!

Of course, this request was naturally vetoed by the local Kazakh autonomous government, and the Russian Central Asian Army troops stationed there sat on the wall in this dispute between the local government and the people, and the reason is very simple, after all, the local aborigines are mainly Kazakhs, and the Russian army stationed is also a Kazakh infantry regiment.

In just two days, riots broke out in several cities, including Almaty, east of Lake Balkhash, and the cause of the riots was St. Petersburg, which was paying full attention to the situation in the Balkans due to the control of the war, naturally noticed the situation in the Far East...... You know, the Far East has long since passed the era when empires had the final say.

St. Petersburg immediately telegraphed to the Beijing Consulate that on the same day, Sir Sergei, the Minister of the Russian Empire in China, immediately called on the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Beijing and cautiously inquired about the intentions of the Chinese Government.

Beijing's painless response apparently left Minister Sergei completely confused, and subconsciously, he apparently believed that China must be involved in the unrest in the Kazakh region, however. This kind of speculation obviously can't be put on the table. At least. The current unrest in Kazakhstan shows no trace of Chinese participation at all.

And the St. Petersburg side urged to return the telegram one after another, and Minister Sergei finally had to reply cautiously, he believed that the Chinese side had little to do with the incident! This telegram immediately led St. Petersburg to make an arbitrary decision......

On the 9th, the Siberian Corps was ordered to enter the city of Semiy in northern Kazakhstan, which had been controlled by the rioted aborigines and local Kazakh soldiers, but the local Kazakh organizations that had already accused the local Kazakh army refused to surrender to the army and instead demanded negotiations, and then the army units belonging to the 43rd Division of the Siberian Corps opened fire on the city.

The battle was completely one-sided. In just two hours, the so-called confrontation in the city of Semiy completely collapsed, and more than a dozen people, including Major Dosayev, who was elected head of local self-government by the local aborigines, were arrested and shot on the spot.

Subsequently, two divisions of the Siberian Legion, loyal to the Tsar, followed the railway line south, and although they were met with constant confrontation, these local forces of natives, retired soldiers, and police were clearly unable to resist the well-armed regular Siberian army, and the speed with which the unrest throughout Kazakhstan had subsided was somewhat reassuring to St. Petersburg, at least until 15 November.

But. The news of the riots in Kazakhstan on the 16th detonated the situation in the entire Russian Empire like a bomb. It seems that because of the dissatisfaction with the wartime material control and the delay in economic recovery, a workers' strike and popular demonstrations have taken place across the country!

The troops of the two divisions of the Siberian Corps, which had just entered Kazakhstan for a week, also encountered great trouble in the advance of the southern cities, which had been calmed down, and various protests and even armed attacks were frequent, and what was even more outrageous was that in the area of the Thal Diku near the Balkhash Lake area, there were large-scale armed men numbering more than several hundred people, and a Russian detachment that led into this area was annihilated.

When the 43rd Division of the Siberian Corps mobilized the cavalry regiment to rush to the Tal basement, there was no trace of the other party, which was close to the river and the mountains, and the terrain was complicated, so even the highly mobile Cossack cavalry could not enter the mountains to fight.

And on the same night, on the Gobi Desert near the Ili border, a group of Cossacks in shabby military uniforms received 30 pack horses carrying goods from a dozen other Cossacks, and then took advantage of the darkness to cross the border again!

Two days later, the railway station of the Tal basement was attacked by unknown militants, and a train transporting military supplies that arrived that day was set on fire, and the fire also triggered a chain explosion of ammunition on the train......

The next day, the military, who were preoccupied with the attack on the Tal basement train station, received news from the north of Lake Balkhash that the railroad tracks passing through the area had been tragically damaged, and that two railway bridges had been destroyed with explosives and that the nearby railroad tracks had been thrown into a ravine!

On the 20th, news came from the Caucasus that a local political organization had launched an armed occupation, and some railway lines in Siberia were also seized by local armed men, and materials were snatched from the trains......

On the same day, a small group of Russian border guards stationed on the Ili River unexpectedly discovered that a group of ethnic Kazakhs were traveling down the Ili River into the Kanlinno Mountains by boat.

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Even the shrewd young prime minister was somewhat surprised when the news of the unrest in Kazakhstan, which sparked protests and even military clashes across Eastern Europe, Poland, the Caucasus and Siberia, was relayed to Prime Minister Zhou Ruidong by the Guò Intelligence Department......

Although Zhou Ruidong does not often care about this matter, he also knows what the intelligence department is doing, mainly through a large number of Kazakhs living in Xinjiang to liaise with the local aborigines of Kazakhstan and plot for the independence of the local political power.

However, these are naturally part of the national trap in the black zone, and despite various assessments carried out by the Intelligence Department, some Kazakh informants have been infiltrating the area for a long time. And successfully established some basic organizations. But will it succeed? What kind of blow can the Russians finally be able to inflict? Let's be honest. Born in the military, he is not too optimistic, iron and blood are the essence of the national machine!

Of course, it seems that the plan for the northern front planned by the Intelligence Department has achieved more results than expected, and some of the information coming out of Russia has already caused other unexpected problems in Russia due to the turmoil in Kazakhstan. It's just that at the moment it seems that Nicholas II is still relatively stable in his hands on power and army, but this is enough to contain the Russians' plans to immediately increase the number of troops in the Balkans.

On the 21st, the Chinese government once again announced that in consideration of the unstable situation of its Central Asian neighbors, China will launch a month-long border military exercise to ensure peace and stability on the Chinese border......

This also immediately attracted the attention of the Russian Empire, and the two sides now each stationed more than 2 corps on the line from Novosibirsk to Abakan, and the forces of both sides are basically equal, and the total strength is more than 1 million, but. The shadow of the engagement with the Chinese army, which has always hung over the Siberian Corps. The great rout more than a decade ago, as well as the result of years of minor friction with the Chinese army, made the Russian army extremely cautious.

This directly led the command of the Siberian Corps to make a compromise decision to begin to shrink the troops stationed in Semiy to Abakan, and the Russians were wary of possible offensive measures against the Chinese army......

As a result, a week later, the sudden snowstorm in the north quickly put the whole of Siberia into a state of complete inability to fight, and the armies on both sides immediately quickly withdrew to the fortresses on the border, preparing to fight against the worst season in the north, but the Siberian army, which was completely dragged, could no longer send more troops to the south to support the harsh situation in the Kazakhstan region.

On November 29, China and Britain again held urgent consultations on the situation in Europe, and the Russian Empire had gradually turned its numerical superiority on the Eastern Front into a military superiority in the past 20 days, although the Austro-Hungarian War Department's well-established command system finally completed the nationwide mobilization for the war in early November, and on November 10 sent the reinforced Dankel First Army to the Eastern Front.

However, the Russian Fourth and Fifth Armies, with nearly 600,000 troops, still managed to break through the Austro-Hungarian Daveznitsa River defense line, and although the Third Army under the command of General Brudman had a chance to breathe, the cunning old opponent, Grand Duke Salza of the Russian Fourth Army, successfully broke through the Daviznitsa River from the flank, and overnight the Russian Fourth Army alone deployed twice the strength of the Austrian Brudman Corps on the flank.

The Austro-Hungarian Third Army suffered its second major defeat that began more than half a month ago, and the four divisions of the Third Army that had been deployed in front of it almost immediately fell into a state of collapse after being attacked by the Cossack cavalry flanks, and the battlefield liaison mechanism completely lost its effectiveness under the strong attack of more than four times the strength of the Russians, which led to the panicked retreat of the entire Austro-Hungarian Third Army on November 18.

The corps of the Grand Duke Conrad on the periphery of the Lemberg line was also stunned by the escape of the Third Corps, and from the 20th, the remnants of the Third Corps flocked from all directions, and the entire corps lost 30,000 men north of the Daveznica River, and the remaining 200,000 troops poured into the Austrian line like a tide.

Farther away, the Russian Imperial Cossack cavalry pursued the soldiers of the Third Army who had fled into the defensive line like frightened birds, and even at night when they heard of the "Cossack cavalry" there would be a riot to bomb the camp...... This also confused Archduke Condra, who had gathered the Third Legion, and after careful consideration, he ordered General Brudman to withdraw his troops backwards and reorganize.

Fortunately, General Dankel's First Army, which had just been reinforced, filled the gap in the Lemberg line in time, and because of the concern about the superiority of the Russian army, and at the same time, the German plan to contain the Russians from the flank was obviously uninformed, and the Grand Duke of Condra ordered Offenberg, who was deeply involved in the battle of Komarw, to withdraw about 1 corps on the right flank and move closer to his left flank.

The news reached the German General Staff, and Cai Ye, who was participating in the formulation of the tactics of the Panzer Corps, immediately sent a telegram to China, based on the detailed battle situation obtained by the German General Staff, he determined that the Russian offensive based on the Eastern Front would fall into a short-term stalemate, and he wanted his German colleagues to build a temporary weak Austro-Hungarian Empire, and after effective resistance on the Lemberg Line, he continued to retreat to the fortress of Pumiger, 20 kilometers behind the defense line, to build fortifications for defense.

The telegram was delivered to Qin Kai on December 1, and now Qin Kai, who only wears the two official hats of the chairman of the Baath Party and the chairman of the China Science and Technology Development Committee, has actually planned for the grand strategy for a long time, and since his rise from Mawei, he has relied on a comprehensive transcendence in technology and military concepts, but when it comes to this purely national war strategy, there is no need for him to do it himself!

In later generations, he may have a "great strategist" on his name, but Qin Kai has a more perfect plan, and the telegram and judgment sent back by Cai Ye from Germany fully reveal the military quality of this general from Nanyang Command College...... Pumilel Fortress...... This place of death, known as the Scarlet Fortress in history, looks like a similar scene is playing out! (To be continued......)