When Zhang Wei attacked the city of Irkutsk, troops from other places also launched attacks on the Russian Empire. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

The war was divided into the Eastern Front and the Western Front, and the Eastern Front was dominated by the strength of the Northern Theater, and Zhang Wei's role was only to isolate Russia's Far Eastern Military District and undertake the task of blocking reinforcements, and then the Northern Theater slowly wiped out its army.

As an independent military unit, the Northern Theater expanded its armed forces into 11 armies in this military reorganization, with a total of 1.1 million regular troops. The High Command is directly under the jurisdiction of the 1st, 2nd and 3rd Armies; The Lelang Special Zone has the jurisdiction of the 4th Army stationed in Pyongyang and the 5th Army stationed in Chongjin; The Ezo Provincial Military Region has jurisdiction over the 6th Army stationed on South Sakhalin Island, and the 7th Army stationed on Ezo Island; The Xinzhou Provincial Military Region has jurisdiction over the 8th Army and the 9th Army; The Taiwan Provincial Military Region is under the jurisdiction of the 10th Army and the 11th Army.

The Far Eastern Military District has a total of 300,000 regular troops, divided into 6 corps of 50,000 men each, stationed in Ulan-Ude, Chita, Blagoveshchensk (Chinese called Hailanpao), Khabarovsk (Chinese called Boli), Nikolsk-Ussurisky (now called Ussuriysk, Chinese name Shuangchengzi) and Vladivostok (Chinese name Vladivostok); In addition, two Cossack cavalry corps were stationed in various places.

According to Zhang Wei's instructions, Xiao Xuguang strengthened the use of mercenaries and garrisons in this war, especially the garrisons, and must give them the opportunity to go to the battlefield.

According to Admiral Xiao Xuguang's plan, the fleet led by Zhang Hailong, commander of the Northern Fleet, blockaded Peter the Great Bay and strictly forbade the Russian Far East Fleet stationed in Vladivostok to break through.

The army was divided into five main armies and attacked at the same time: the 6th Army was responsible for capturing the entire island of Sakhalin; Xia Yu, chief of staff of the Ezo Provincial Military Region, with the cooperation of the navy, led the troops from Heilongjiang to the river, occupied the towns along the Heilongjiang River, and reached Boli; Wang Dajun, chief of staff of the Taiwan Provincial Military Region, led five brigades of Japanese mercenaries, three cavalry divisions, and one garrison army to Shuangchengzi in the Suifenhe military exercise, preparing to encircle and annihilate the enemy troops stationed in Shuangchengzi and cut off the external connection of the Vladivostok garrison; Lieutenant General Ge Zhennan, chief of staff of the Xinzhou Provincial Military Region, led six brigades of Japanese mercenaries, three cavalry divisions, and one garrison army to cross the Heilongjiang River and occupy Hailanpao. Yuan Tiande, the governor of the Lelang Special Region, led the Japanese mercenaries of the 5th Army and 5 brigades across the Tumen River to Vladivostok.

Due to the relatively small deployment of troops in the vicinity of the Central Asian Military District and the Caucasus Military District, and the presence of Iran as a buffer, the Russian Empire's forces in these two places were relatively weak, with 50,000 and 150,000 troops deployed in the two military regions respectively.

According to the Russians' idea, the Caucasian Military District controls the Iron Gate Pass, and even if Iran is lost as a barrier and there is an army stationed there, it will be difficult for the Xia Empire to break through their steep fortress even if it sends a few armies.

The officers and men of the Central Asian Theater are very confident in the current defense, they guard the Mashhad Pass, block the enemy's offensive in the south, but in the face of the strength of the Western Xinjiang Special Region, because the Central Asian Theater is far away from the Xia Empire, but the logistical burden is a heavy burden, it is difficult to hold out for a long time, so the war will not be very fierce; They were prepared to focus on defense, and sent cavalry to deal with them to drag down the troops of the Xia Empire's Western Xinjiang Special Region; More importantly, the Central Asian theater was very close to the Cossack cavalry's lair, and in the event of a war, they could quickly provide support.

The Caucasian Military District was the weakest, except for the chief of staff of the Military District, Nikolai Nikolayevich Yudenich, who was worried, the others were full of confidence in the war that was going to take place, knowing that Cossack cavalry reinforcements would arrive in a day, and the Xia Empire, no matter how strong, would not conquer the Tiemenguan fortress in a day; They apparently forgot about the chaos of the Russian chain of command and the thinking of the top bureaucracy, as well as the procrastination and incompetence of doing things.

The Western Front was composed of the forces of the Western Xinjiang Special Administrative Region, the South Asian Theater and the Qin Kingdom, and was divided into four major armies: the Southern Xinjiang Special Region undertook two attacks, and the two armies attacked the Russian Central Asian Military Region from the Ili River Valley and Kashgar respectively; The South Asian Theater sent an army to occupy eastern Iran and the Mashhad Pass first, and then entered the Central Asian Military Region according to the situation to cooperate with the Southern Xinjiang Special Administrative Region, and the army of the Qin Kingdom first occupied western Iran and then entered the Caucasian Military District of the Russian Empire.

On the Western Front, there were 4 infantry corps with a total of 400,000 men, as well as 2 cavalry corps and 80,000 mercenaries.

The Xia Empire dispatched a very large number of troops this time, and the combat effectiveness of the troops has been greatly improved after the reorganization, in Zhang Wei's words, the eagle catching the rabbit is still struggling to spread, he doesn't want to go out of the division, that will seriously hit the morale of the troops.

Moreover, according to the plan formulated by Zhang Wei and the General Staff, the main purpose of the war against Russia is to destroy its living forces, followed by the occupation of territory, and the third is to capture a large number of unmarried girls, and the ultimate goal is to attract the Germans to launch a war against Russia.

In the early stage of the war, a powerful army was dispatched to eliminate Russian forces in the Far East, Central Asia, and the Caucasus, and then Russia was attracted to send more reinforcements to eliminate them one by one.

As long as most of the regular army of the Russian Empire is wiped out, the Germans will definitely come out to pick up the bargain, and it is likely to detonate a major war in Europe in advance, which is a phenomenon that Zhang Wei and Lu Weimin very much want to see.

As soon as Germany entered the war against Russia, Zhang Wei would order the troops to stop at the Ural Mountains, the Ural River and the Caucasus Mountains, which means that the purpose of the Xia Empire was only to occupy the territory of the Russian Empire in Asia, which was also the agreement negotiated with the Germans.

As long as the Xia Empire did not enter Europe, the European countries would not be alarmed, and the Germans would support the Xia Empire in occupying the territories of the Russian Empire in Asia and weakening the Russian Empire.

Now the Xia Empire has dispatched superior forces, and the combat effectiveness of the troops after reorganization is the first in the world, the morale of the troops is high, and they are full of confidence in the war; And the few generals who participated in the war this time, except for General Xiao Xuguang, who participated in the war against Japan, none of the others commanded a large-scale war, and they all hoped that the Russians would not be too weak, otherwise it would be too disappointing.

In the early morning of August 22, several large armies were dispatched at the same time to quickly launch an attack on the Russian Empire.

On the morning of the 22nd, news of the war spread all over the world.

At a time when all countries generally considered it unsuitable to start a war, the Xia Empire actually launched an attack on Russia, are the people of the Xia Empire stupid?