The Russian troops in Vladivostok and Boli were demoralized and ineffective by the snipers of the Xia Empire, and if the Xia Empire launched an attack, their defense line would be broken with one blow, and more importantly, they began to run out of food, which was fatal for them. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

The defenders of Chita were also surrounded by several times the number of enemy troops, and it was impossible to hold out until the heavy snow came in winter, and the enemy would not leave them this opportunity.

Faced with this situation, not only the commander-in-chief of the Russian Far Eastern Military District felt helpless, but even the tsar was also very helpless, just praying for the arrival of winter soon.

The news has been reported to St. Petersburg for so long, and there has been no reply, and the commander-in-chief of the Russian Far Eastern Military District, General Pavel Lianniankamp, is very anxious, according to his ideas, even if winter comes, they will not be able to hold on, and they will be besieged for several months, and the officers and soldiers in the city will collapse with just food and fuel.

By late September, the weather was getting colder, and a quarter of the defenders in the twin cities were sick. The army of the Xia Empire did not attack, so it was consumed, which made the Russian army in the water very uncomfortable, and it was very luxurious to be able to eat a hot meal.

Admiral Pavel Nian Kampf felt that he could not wait for death like this, and that he had to fight back; After careful consideration, they felt that the distance between Shuangchengzi and Vladivostok was very close, only less than 100 kilometers, and it was better to fight once than to let the defenders of Shuangchengzi be trapped to death.

Therefore, he ordered the defenders of Shuangchengzi to break through to the south, and the defenders of the Xia Empire were caught off guard, as long as the encirclement was highlighted, the defenders of Vladivostok could attack to the north, and jointly flank the Xia Empire army north of Vladivostok, as long as they acted quickly, they would definitely be able to achieve good results.

The defenders of Shuangchengzi received the order of the commander, and after careful consideration, they felt that it was feasible, otherwise after the winter came, they would be frozen to death if they were not annihilated by the Xia Empire.

In their impression, the enemy has been besieging the city for so long, it should be slack, and it is a good time to break through.

The commander of the Third Army ordered that the weak and sick should be left behind to block the enemy, and ordered them to surrender to the Xia Imperial army after 2 days; The able-bodied broke through to the south and joined the Vladivostok defenders.

They believed that with a total distance of less than 100 kilometers and a full march at full speed, they would be able to join the Second Army in two days.

Since it had made up its mind, the Third Army began to prepare for a breakthrough, and for the sake of safety, it prepared three days' dry rations for each officer and soldier, left two bases of ammunition for the remaining blocking troops, and took away all the rest, all the mountain artillery, and only one Maxim heavy machine gun for each fortress as a weapon for self-defense.

It's just that what they didn't expect was that the telegrams they exchanged had been deciphered by the technicians of the Xia Empire, and Xiao Xuguang knew their plan of action well, so he ordered the chief of staff of the Yu army to prepare to block the enemy, and as long as they walked out of Shuangchengzi, they would give a devastating blow.

Yu Dajun and Ma Longtan and others have quietly besieged the city for so long, their idle hands are itchy, and those mercenaries and garrison officers and soldiers are worried that they will not be able to obtain battle merits, this enemy dares to break through, just giving them a chance to destroy the enemy; They hid in the city, in order to protect the city and not attack them, and if they dared to go out of the city, they would not be polite to them.

Yu Dajun consulted with Ma Longtan and others, and decided to let the enemy out of the city first, then cut off their retreat, encircle them in the southern plain area of Xingkai Lake, and then deal a devastating blow, so that the defenders of several other cities lost the courage to break through.

Except for the mercenaries of the two cavalry divisions and one brigade stationed abroad, all units rushed to participate in the battle, and this was a good opportunity to gain military success, and no one wanted to miss it.

Ma Longtan, as a veteran officer, had no choice but to express his stance and order the 1st Division of the garrison to stay and continue to surround Shuangchengzi. This made Xie Wendong, commander of the 2nd Division, and Fu Dianchen, commander of the 3rd Division, very happy.

The commander of the first division of the garrison army is Major General Shao Zhaozhong, an old subordinate of Ma Longtan, who followed Ma Longtan as the battalion commander when he was in the Northeast Patrol Battalion, and later after the patrol battalion was absorbed by the Xia Empire, he continued to follow Ma Longtan as the regiment commander. At the beginning, Ma Longtan was promoted to army commander, Zhang Wei gave Ma Longtan the right to recommend the commander of the 1st Division, and Ma Longtan promoted Shao Zhaozhong to the commander of the 1st Division.

When he was in Lu State, Feng Guohua, chief of general staff, did not understand Zhang Wei's intentions, and in order to unify the number of troops and facilitate command, he transferred Wu Junsheng's 5th Division with Fu Dianchen's 3rd Division, so that the 1st Army of the garrison army was under the jurisdiction of the 1st, 2nd, and 3rd divisions.

There will be no concessions between mercenary officers, and the army can only adopt a compromise method, with the four brigade commanders drawing lots and those who are drawn will stay behind.

The geographical location of Shuangchengzi is very special, with the Changbai Mountain Range in the west, the Xihote Mountain Range in the east, the Xingkai Lake Plain in the middle, and the Suifen River flowing from northwest to south. The mountains on both sides were high and densely forested, making it impassable, and the enemy could only break through to the south along the east bank of the Suifen River. According to the terrain, Yu Dajun personally selected a favorable battlefield position.

Yu Dajun decided to let Ma Longtan lead the troops directly under the military headquarters of the First Army of the garrison army and the two divisions of Xie Wendong and Fu Dianchen to establish a blocking position in the front, and the three mercenaries to set up a gap in the rear; The cavalry division is responsible for pinning down the enemy, fighting and fleeing, trying to lead the enemy into the pockets set up in advance, so that they do not retract in advance.

By October 1, the weather was already very cold in the morning and evening, and the officers and men of the Third Army of the Russian Far Eastern Military District were also ready to break through, and on the same day, Foxiao suddenly launched a counterattack, and the 60,000-strong army began to move and advance southward.

The resistance they encountered was very small, and the opposing cavalry was scattered in one rush, which made the Russian officers and soldiers very excited, knowing that in this case they should have broken through earlier, and they would not have to suffer such a long sin.

They didn't have too many suspicions, if the troops were evenly dispersed in such a large city, there would not be too many troops at each node, and it was normal for them to break through the encirclement.

Yu Dajun was cautious and ordered the airship to keep an eye on the route of the enemy's breakthrough troops in the sky, and report by telegram every half hour.

As long as the Russian army encounters resistance, no matter how many men and horses the opponent has, a division responsible for opening the road in front will rush forward, and it will indeed live up to the prestige of the "steam steamroller".

The Russian army successfully broke out of the encirclement, morale was high, the pace of the march was very fast, and by the afternoon of the same day, the march reached more than 30 kilometers, reaching the northern part of the town of Razdolinoye; Several blocks of the cavalry divisions of the Xia Empire did not affect the rapid march of the Russian army.

Admiral Pavel Liannian Kampf was very satisfied with the performance of the 3rd Army, so that tomorrow he could join forces with the 2nd Army to carry out a counter-encirclement of the 5th Army of the Xia Empire, and if he could destroy one of the enemy's armies, or cripple or scatter the enemy's army, the crisis in the Far East would immediately change.

Tsar Nicholas II also paid close attention to the situation in the Far Eastern Military District, and the 3rd Army successfully broke through, which made him very happy, and the army of the Xia Empire was not as strong as imagined, as long as the 3rd Army reached Vladivostok safely and joined forces with the 2nd Army to defeat the enemy's 5th Army, then this dead game in the Far Eastern Theater of Operations would come alive, and they took advantage of the situation to hit the enemy with local superiority and hatred, waiting for the arrival of the winter counteroffensive.