The sniper team achieved good results, so that Yuan Tiande was very happy, not only trained the sniper, but also can hit the enemy fiercely, although the overall number of enemies killed is not much, but the tragic situation of the dead scared the enemy out of the bunker, this is a great success. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

Since the enemy was afraid, he could not let them obediently hide in the bunker and enjoy the blessings, so Lieutenant General Yuan Tiande ordered the officers and men of the first line of defense to move forward and continue to advance.

There are three ways to advance, the first way is to occupy the hills where the enemy has not established a permanent position, and build a fortress on top of it as a fire support point, and shoot or bombard the enemy, hoping to expand the results of the battle; The second method was to keep the defense line in the plains digging zigzag trenches forward, gradually closing the distance to the enemy; The third method is to constantly send small forces to attack the enemy, and the artillery will bombard the exposed fortresses, batteries, etc., and if there are strong fortresses that the artillery units cannot overcome, they will let the airships support.

Lieutenant General Yuan Tiande adopted a three-pronged approach to constantly strike at the enemy and accumulate small victories into big victories.

The line of defense that is gradually moving forward has put a lot of psychological pressure on the Russian troops stationed there, and at this pace, it will not take long to break through their defense line; When the airship bombed, the huge power made the officers and soldiers stationed almost collapse, and then they realized that the Xia Empire's bombing was so powerful, no wonder they defeated so many countries and forces in the world and occupied so many territories; In the impression of the officers and soldiers on the front line, the Russian army will definitely not be able to hold Vladivostok, and defeat is inevitable.

The bad news coming from various places made the commander of the Russian Far Eastern Military District, General Pavel Lianniankampf, feel very bad.

By the end of August, the Xia Empire had achieved extraordinary results with decisive superiority.

First of all, on the Western Front, after the Xia Empire occupied Irkutsk, it established a blocking position to block Siberian reinforcements and completely isolate the Far Eastern Military District; Then it took Ulan-Ude, and gradually advanced eastward, having reached Shylock and Gorny, only a hundred miles from Chita, and it only took one charge from the opponent to enter Chita; The 110,000 reinforcements sent from the Lelang Peninsula had already been assembled in Novokrudchininsky and occupied the town of Aleksandrovka west of the river, where a headquarters was established and served as a material reserve center, and the forward troops were already approaching the town of Atamanovka, only a step away from Chita; The enemy, who occupied Hailanpao, also sent troops to Chita, and in the first 10 days had reached Yerofeei-Pavlovich, half of the distance of the journey.

Due to the sudden attack of the enemy, the Russian army was taken by surprise, and they did not destroy the railway line when they fled, so that the cavalry division captured a lot of train locomotives and carriages, which facilitated the transportation of troops; The distance from Yerofeiyi-Pavlovich to Chita was not so fast, the enemy had enough time to evacuate, drove all the locomotives and carriages away, destroyed the infrastructure of the station, and many of the railroad tracks were removed, but the damage was not very serious, the bridges, etc., were not damaged, and they hoped to fight back later.

The Hailan bubble on the middle line was completely burned, which made the senior commanders of the Russian army very frightened, but fortunately, this news was tightly sealed, and the middle and low-level officers and soldiers did not know about it, so it did not let the influence expand.

The situation on the eastern front was the worst, Vladivostok and Boli were besieged by water, and Shuangchengzi became a flooded country, the officers and soldiers were soaked in water, and when the weather was cold, they would definitely not be able to hold on, so they could only surrender; Except for these three places, Sakhalin Island and coastal and coastal towns were all occupied by the Xia Empire.

When the news was reported to the Tsar, Nicholas II was shocked, the attack of the Xia Empire was too fierce, and in just a few days, the Far Eastern Military District had been defeated, and there was no way to fight back, it was only a matter of time before it was divided and surrounded, and it was only a matter of time before it was completely annihilated.

Immediately after calming down, the Chief of the General Staff and the Minister of War were summoned for consultations.

The tsar asked: "What is the situation in Central Asia?" ”

The Chief of the General Staff, Yakov Grigorievich Zhilinsky, reported: "Your Majesty, the Central Asian theater is very quiet, they only occupy Iran and the area south of the Caucasus Mountains, confront each other in front of the Iron Gate Pass and the Mashhad Pass fortress, and do not attack, and the enemy's western theater of operations does not attack. ”

This information calmed the tsar's heart a little, and he asked: "The situation in the Far Eastern Military District is erosive, how should the empire respond?" ”

Zhilinsky said: "Your Majesty, according to intelligence, there are 13 regular armies in the enemy's northern theater of operations, of which the two armies occupying Irkutsk and Ulan-Ude are Siberian armies, which shows that they are also determined to win the Siberian region; Just these 13 armies have 1.3 million people, plus a large number of mercenaries and garrisons, the Xia Empire's strength in the northern theater alone far exceeds the regular army of the empire, and the empire is powerless to resist; Intelligence also showed that the enemy's Qin Kingdom, the South Asian Theater, and the Western Xinjiang Special Region did not increase their troops, which shows that their targets were the Far East of the empire and the Siberian region; I propose that Siberia shrink its front, relocate civilians home, and accelerate the construction of the Ural line. ”

War Minister Vladimir Alexandrovich Sukhomlinov supported: "Your Majesty, I support this proposal, the Siberian region is flat, there is no danger to defend, and a head-on confrontation is not the opponent of the Xia Empire, and the establishment of the Ural defense line is prepared." ”

The tsar was not satisfied with the answers of the two men and asked: "I asked what to do with the Far Eastern Military District?" ”

The Chief of the General Staff said stubbornly: "Your Majesty, at present, we can only negotiate with the Xia Empire and cede the area east of Lake Baikal to them, hoping to keep the existing army, and with the current state of the Empire, we must preserve our strength for the winter counteroffensive." ”

The tsar was very angry: "There is no precedent for the empire to surrender without a fight, those lands were acquired by the empire after hundreds of years of hard work, how can you give it up casually, you are treason." ”

Frightened, the Chief of General Staff and the Minister of War hurriedly begged for mercy: "Your Majesty, the Xia Empire has deployed nearly two million troops there, and the Empire is not an opponent. ”

"The empire also has more than two million troops, are you afraid? Send reinforcements quickly, and take back the Far East for me when winter comes. ”

The Minister of War was frightened by the Tsar's decision, and hurriedly said: "Your Majesty, no, if all the troops go to Siberia, if the troops of the Xia Empire's Western Xinjiang Special Region and the South Asian Theater and the Qin Kingdom suddenly use their forces to occupy the Ural region and surround Siberia, it will be a monstrous disaster for the empire." ”

The Chief of the General Staff was also frightened, and hurriedly said: "Your Majesty, the roots of the empire are in Europe, and the Germans are also ready to move, if all the troops are sent to Siberia, it will be a matter of sacrifice, and if the territory of Europe is lost, how can the empire gain a foothold?" As long as the European part is not lost, there will be a moment for the empire to rise and counterattack. ”

The tsar was very conflicted, knowing that the two were right, but he was very reluctant to lose the territory of the Far Eastern Military District, which was the work of several generations of the empire. He closed his eyes in pain and waved them away.

The Chief of the General Staff and the Minister of War knew that they had escaped, and it was not the best time to persuade the Tsar for the time being, but it was better for His Majesty to think quietly for a while, and if the Tsar could figure it out, it would be the joy of the Empire.