Chapter 451: Strike While the Iron Is Hot

As a result, after receiving the order to retreat urgently, the largest cavalry group after the industrial revolution of mankind soon fell into serious confusion, and the Chinese Second Army seized the opportunity to attack with all its might, and the Russian cavalry front created by General Brusilov quickly collapsed. www.biquge.info Although it is more convenient for the cavalry to escape than the infantry, the Russian army's war horses are inferior to their enemies, both in terms of speed and endurance, which is too fatal when escaping.

In addition, after the Chinese First Cavalry Army in the north learned that it had begun to flee, Bai Lang, who had always regarded the enemy's strategic cavalry cluster as a thorn in his eye and a thorn in his flesh, also decisively sent the most complete cavalry division under his command to help, and the commander of the division was worthy of Bai Lang from the Seventh Brigade.

Although the cavalry is cavalry after all, and the disparity in strength is quite large, even this did not completely annihilate the Russian cavalry front, but the number of dead, missing and captured combined exceeded 270,000, and the number of people who were fully equipped was less than 400,000 (the cavalry front had two army groups, that is, six cavalry corps, and General Brusilov originally wanted to organize three army groups, but the Russian government was really unable to do it.) It's definitely a nerve-wracking. As for the current tsarist government, even if they abandoned Central Asia and transferred back all the Cossacks there, it would be at least two years before the cavalry front was restored, and Admiral Brusilov's idea had just been put into practice before it suffered a heavy defeat......

The only pity is that the Tsarist Ural Front, which already has a lot of experience, ran too fast, and by the time the Chinese army wanted to kill them after defeating the Caucasian Front, this often defeated division had already retreated to Yekaterinburg, and the pursuers had nothing to gain except for catching a few Russian troops who had fallen behind and the baggage that they had abandoned......

However, the total number of permanent attrition of the two armies of the Caucasian Front and the Cavalry Front alone is no less than one million, and although the total number of casualties of the Chinese army has also set a new historical record, reaching more than 170,000 people, the permanent attrition of them is only more than 30,000, and the losses of the two cavalry armies as the core force are not large, which is undoubtedly another brilliant victory!

After receiving the good news sent back by the Xianbeilian Military Region, Li Hui, the head of the Chinese Republic and the giant son of Momen, finally completely relieved his heart, although the exchange was closer than the previous year, but the progress of the Russian army was simply insignificant compared with the US army, it seems that his decision to move the center of gravity back to Asia after controlling the Rocky Mountain natural danger is correct, but after all, Tsarist Russia has a large number of people, and the loss of one million troops is not enough to make it succumb, and the comrades of the Xianbeilian Military Region still need to strike while the iron is hot and annihilate more Russian troops.

They were already doing this without an order from Li Hui, and after retaking Kurgan without much difficulty, the two Chinese cavalry corps did not stop and continued to attack westward, engaging in a fierce battle with the Kazan Front, which General Brusilov had intended as a strategic reserve. Although the Russian army had as many as three or four times the superiority in strength, it was shaken by the crushing defeat of the friendly army, and the Chinese cavalry army greatly exceeded the firepower, tactics and personnel quality, and as a result, it did not take much effort to defeat the main force of the Kazan Front, and due to the overwhelming speed advantage of the cavalry, the Russian army only escaped a small part, and more than 300,000 people became prisoners of war of the two major cavalry armies.

Having destroyed the main forces of the Kazan Front, the 1st Cavalry Army took advantage of the victory to capture the strategically important Chelyabinsk, and the Ural Mountains were already at hand!

If Bai Lang had reined in his troops at this time, then the so-called "Battle of West Siberia" in the Western media would have ended here, but Bai Lang adhered to his usual style of advocating continuous attacks and long-distance attacks, and did not hesitate to lead the troops of the two cavalry corps across the Ural Mountains, "Last time Lao Tzu just scared and scared you, this time it's going to be real!" ”

Previously, Bai Lang led the 7th Cavalry Brigade through the Central Asian steppes and approached the Ural River just to act as a suspicious soldier, and it was impossible for that point of men and horses to really pose a substantial threat to the European part of Russia, not to mention that he was only familiar with the situation in Central Asia and Siberia, and he would be blind when he hit Europe. But now the situation is different, sitting on two large cavalry armies in hand, in terms of combat effectiveness is not under the main front army of Tsarist Russia, considering the low morale of the Russian army after successive defeats, coupled with the mobility advantage of the whole cavalry unit, there is nothing to be afraid of. Moreover, in the winter, more than a dozen members of the Russian Bolshevik Party were sent as guides, including even Chinese, which also gave Bai Lang a greater grasp of his plan, and the record of brushing his head could not satisfy him, and Bai Lang had greater ambitions in his heart......

However, Bai Lang still knew that he took the overall situation into account, and the first thing the two cavalry armies did after crossing the Ural Mountains was to cooperate with friendly forces, and as soon as these hundreds of thousands of people went north, the Tsarist Russian Ural Front in Yekaterinburg suddenly panicked, and they chose to abandon the city and flee westward for fear that the back roads and supplies would be cut off. But after the pursuit of China's First Field Army, there was the interception of the First Cavalry Army in front, and the Second Cavalry Army threatened the flank in the south, so they could only flee north into the uninhabited primeval forest, although in summer even if it was a subarctic zone, it would not freeze to death, and the coniferous forests in the subarctic zone did not have many insects, snakes and epidemics like the tropical rainforest, but such a large army, how to solve the problem of food?

Among the more than 600,000 people of the Ural Front of Tsarist Russia, except for 40,000 or 50,000 killed in battle and more than 100,000 captured, almost all the rest of the men and horses fled into the primeval forest in the north, but not even 150,000 people came out alive in the end......

The casualties of the Chinese army were fewer than in previous battles, and the First Cavalry Corps, which was intercepted head-on, was slightly larger, but the total number of attritions was less than 10,000, and many of them were sick......

The casualties of the First Cavalry Army did not affect Bai Lang's determination to advance into the hinterland of Tsarist Russia and make trouble in the Heavenly Palace, but too many shortages would have a lot of impact after all, so he simply drew personnel and equipment supplies from the Second Cavalry Army to make up for the shortage for the First Cavalry Army, so the First Cavalry Army was full again......