Because no matter how strong the combat effectiveness of the Chinese expeditionary force is, if it wants to completely annihilate a large corps of more than 100,000 people, it will definitely need a considerable number of troops as a foundation, otherwise the terrain in that area is open, and even if the Russian army can't defeat it, it will not be difficult to escape. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info How many people there are in the Chinese Expeditionary Force, the Russian army command is still not very clear, but even if the troops that wiped out the Western Route Army are all in it, it is only a hundred thousand regular troops, since there are only so many people in total, and the troops in the east cannot be less, it can only be that the Chinese cavalry in the west is actually not much......

As the headquarters of a major army country, there are still many capable people in it, and their speculation can be said to be eight or nine inseparable from ten, and the unit of the Chinese Expeditionary Force going west is indeed just a bluff, and the main force (eight cavalry brigades) has always remained on the western front and has not moved. As for why the Russian army has not seen it, it is because the Cossack cavalry was beaten to the ground by the reconnaissance cavalry of the Chinese expeditionary force (inferior weapons, inferior tactics, inferior training, inferior morale, inferior horses, it is strange that they can fight. There is no way to get close to the reconnaissance, so you can only wait for it to be far away from it and judge according to the traces left behind, and the suspicious army seized this point, and brought the collected horses on the road, and tens of thousands of Kazakh cavalry who came to vote also followed them, just looking at the movement, it was several times larger than the east, and after the Russian scout cavalry reported this information, they naturally misled their superiors......

After the hundreds of thousands of Russian troops in the north were annihilated, the south side was suddenly frightened and retracted, and desperately sent a report to the headquarters for help, no way, the strength of the Russian army in the north is much stronger than them, since the main force of the Chinese expeditionary force can easily annihilate the former, it is naturally not difficult to destroy them.

However, Tsar Nicholas II was now out of anger, he felt that the Chinese expeditionary force was simply playing him like a monkey, and the angry Nicholas II completely lost his mind, and he only allowed the Central Asian Military Region to transfer the strength of the two armies to the east, and asked the two military regions to concentrate their efforts on eliminating the suspicious army that dared to play tricks on him. In this way, the Russian Central Asian Front, which had only 200,000 troops after receiving reinforcements, could only desperately repair the fortifications on the eastern route, because they knew very well from top to bottom how strong the enemy's combat effectiveness was, and only by relying on the fortifications could they hold on to the western front and send troops to help after the battle was resolved.

But in the end, they were busy in vain, because the main force of the Chinese expeditionary force did not attack south, but turned around and went north, and at the cost of throwing behind a large amount of baggage (Note 1) and exhausting tens of thousands of war horses, they ran faster than the Russian army imagined, and attacked the transportation hub Omsk before the Russian army replenished its strength, and completely captured it in less than a day with more than 3,000 casualties, thus completely cutting off the Trans-Siberian Railway!

Although the main force of the expeditionary force in the process of taking Omsk also eliminated tens of thousands of Russian troops, the impact of cutting off the Trans-Siberian Railway was too great, which meant that the hundreds of thousands of Russian troops east of Omsk were all cut off from supplies, and it was only a matter of time before they were destroyed. It can be said that as long as the main force of the expeditionary force can hold Omsk for three months, then the vast land east of the city will no longer be owned by Tsarist Russia, and then even if the Russian army still wants to counterattack, it can only fight from west to east along the Trans-Siberian Railway, and the disadvantage of the extremely long front of the Chinese army will be fundamentally reversed.

More importantly, with the support of the steel artery of the Trans-Siberian Railway, the Chinese Expeditionary Force will no longer be able to maintain a scale of less than 100,000 people on the front line as it is now, and as many people as the Russian army can dispatch, how many people can be sent in the country, the Russian army's military superiority will be gone, and with the obvious huge gap in the combat effectiveness of the two sides, where can Tsarist Russia still have the slightest hope of winning this war?

Tsar Nicholas II, no matter how incompetent, after all, had received a formal military education and was able to realize the seriousness of the problem, and after learning of the fall of Omsk, he immediately ordered the main forces of the Siberian Front, which had been assembled to encircle and annihilate the suspected troops of the expeditionary force, to immediately suspend the original mission and return to Omsk to recapture this strategic place. Tsar Nicholas II also knew that there was a big gap in the combat effectiveness of the Russian and Chinese armies, and he did not have the certainty of recapturing Omsk by relying on the Siberian Front alone, so he also transferred a total of more than 300,000 Russian troops from the Urals and Kazan to the Siberian Military District, so that its available troops exceeded 700,000.

As for the suspicious army that His Majesty the Tsar hated to the bone, it was all handed over to the Central Asian Front, although the strength was reduced by half, but they were originally prepared to deal with the main force of the Chinese expeditionary force, even if only half was left, it should be more than enough to deal with the Chinese, at least Tsar Nicholas II thought so. But he didn't know that the commander of the suspicious Chinese army actually laughed when he heard the signal corps' account of the intercepted Russian telegram (Note 2......

"The above didn't want Lao Tzu to take too much credit, so they sent our brigade out as a suspicious soldier, but now the great merit has been sent to the door by itself! Looking at it now, the plan made by Lao Tzu may still have a chance to be finally completed in his own hands! The young man, who did not look amazing, and was even a little hunchbacked, took the translated telegram in his hand and read it again to confirm that it was correct, and his heart swelled with pride......

Note 1: In fact, it was not really dropped, but it was just that the baggage troops were sent by water, using the large buoyancy rafts that had been prepared long ago to load a large number of supplies down the Irtysh River, and not long after the expeditionary force took Omsk, these rafts also arrived at the dock in the city, just to unload. This strategy made full use of the natural geographical advantage of the Irtysh River that slowed down after it left the old border of China (otherwise the raft would not be able to go), and the favorable conditions that the Russian army was frightened and the enemy army could not be seen along the river, greatly reducing the losses of the surprise attack and ensuring that the expeditionary force could have enough supplies to resist the Russian army's crazy counterattack, and wrote a strong stroke in the world's military history......

Note 2: Historically, until the First World War, the Russian army's telegrams were still clear, and there was no sense of secrecy, and now it is naturally even more so, and the reason why the Chinese Expeditionary Force was able to play the Russian army around is directly related to its ability to accurately understand the movements of the Russian army. (To be continued.) )