Alexander I did not agree to withdraw his troops from Istanbul, he was still hesitating in his heart, although the bombing campaign of the Tang Dynasty caused huge losses to Russia, but the exit of the Mediterranean Sea that had been dreamed of for hundreds of years was at hand, and if Russia gave up, I don't know when it would be able to count on it. www.biquge.info He can only hope that Datang itself is not fully prepared for war and will not launch a full-scale attack on Russia.

If there were only air strikes, Alexander I believed that Russia would hold out.

But Alexander I did not think clearly who his opponents were. Even Europeans generally believe that Bai Nan, the president of the Tang Dynasty, is the most outstanding strategic master of the times, creating a brilliant genius of the Tang Dynasty, and even some European media believe that he is a miracle person who can beat a series of heroes such as Alexander the Great, Caesar, and Genghis Khan throughout the ages.

Bai Nan didn't want to start a war with rashly and waste Datang's military spending and energy, but he would not casually choose to appease Russia because he didn't want to go to war. Russia's move this time is essentially a provocation to the international order led by the Tang Dynasty, or the objective dissatisfaction of Westerners with Easterners. European countries are also secretly applauding, wishing that Russia would consume the Tang Dynasty.

Therefore, Datang can't let it, Russia must fight back fiercely, not only to let the Russians know that Datang is not capable of provoking, and they can't do it in the Bosphorus, but also to let those countries in Europe increase their memory.

Datang directly launched a landing operation in Turkey, and the Russian army also had too many troops there. The strategy adopted by the Tang Army was to constantly weaken and fatigue the Russian army with air strikes, while advancing in other directions to completely oppress Russia.

The Tang army chose to march at the same time on both routes, directly dealing a heavy blow to Tsarist Russia.

On the one hand, the Tang Army in Europe dispatched two infantry divisions from Estonia to attack St. Petersburg, the former capital of Russia. To this day, St. Petersburg is still the central city of Tsarist Russia, home to a large number of nobles and an important industrial city in Russia. In the past, it was a heavily guarded place, after all, the Tang Dynasty occupied Estonia, and the threat was very real and urgent. However, Alexander I made a desperate move this time, misjudged the reaction of the Tang Dynasty, and mobilized the whole country to launch a new Russian-Turkish war, making the number of defenders in St. Petersburg less than 20,000, and most of them were troops with little combat effectiveness.

The so-called infantry divisions of the Tang Army were actually real mechanized infantry, and tanks and armored vehicles were pushed all the way forward. Advancing from Narva, Estonia to St. Petersburg, all the way were flat plains, almost no danger to defend, but the Russian army built some fortifications along the way to prevent the invasion of the Don army, and prepared to use the river as a line of defense.

But Datang has complete air superiority, bombers directly drop bombs, not to mention the power of Datang's artillery should not be underestimated, the Russian army with the old concept of these fortifications, simply under the attack of the Tang army.

As for those rivers, the Russian army is not aware of the existence of the so-called mechanized bridges in the Tang Army, not to mention that it is close to the Baltic Sea, and the Datang gunboats can reach it in sections with some pontoon bridges, so the Russian army is impossible to rely on permanent fortifications and rivers to stop the footsteps of the Datang mechanized infantry without air supremacy and firepower superiority.

The advance of the Don army was very impressive, and from Narva, it was already under the city of St. Petersburg in less than a day and night. The Russian army also organized several resistances during this period, all of which were broken by the Don army. The defense line of the Russian army was easily torn apart by the armored troops of the Tang army, and after the breakthrough, the Tang army calmly ate part by part of the Russian army.

However, after the arrival of the Don Army in St. Petersburg, it did not rashly launch an offensive against St. Petersburg. Just arranged the artillery and began to shell St. Petersburg, but the intensity was not large, and the attack was on the top.

On the other hand, the Tang Dynasty sent troops from Central Asia and exerted force from east to west. After the Tang Dynasty unified China, the northwest was actively attached, and the Tang army quickly garrisoned the troops and stabilized the local situation. Like many remote areas, Datang is also focusing on economic development projects.

During this period, Russia was constantly harassing the Kazakh khanates in Central Asia and annexing many tribes. The Kazakh Khanate was divided into three parts, large, medium and small, and after the fall of the Dzungar Khanate, it was once attached to the Qing Empire. After being threatened by Russia, the Kazakh Khanate chose to ask the Tang Dynasty for asylum, and of course some were hesitant. After all, Datang adopts a relatively direct management model, and the northwest region directly establishes a government for governance, and the local people have no way to maintain the existing mode of management.

This time, Russia itself was looking for death, Bai Nan directly ordered the garrison in the northwest to move westward, and the Tang army attacked from the northern foot of the Tianshan Mountains, passing through Lake Balkhash, which was welcomed by the local herdsmen, and the Tang army engaged the Russian army here for the first time a week later. The strength of the Russian army was quite limited, in fact, only a few hundred, and the Tang army used three divisions to fight at once, which frightened the Russian army into surrendering after a hasty resistance.

In Central Asia, the Russian army is limited by its logistical capabilities, and the difference between it and the Tang Army is very large. Although Datang also lacked logistical support conditions such as railways and highways here, Datang grazed tens of thousands of war horses in the Tianshan Mountains. A considerable part of it is a good breed from North America. Of course, mechanized troops also participated in the battle, and tried to choose routes that were easy to walk, and continued to advance after establishing camps.

The Russian army does not have any reliable forces in this direction at all, and it may be enough to use hundreds or thousands of people against the Kazakhs, and the main battle here is the bandit-like Cossacks. The Cossacks did not dare to come over to find trouble when they saw the Tang people, the Tang army was dozens of times that of them, and the Tang army also had a large number of military aircraft to help in the war, and the Cossacks were repeatedly strafed by machine guns by fighters that swooped down from the sky, and suffered heavy losses.

In this way, the Don army advanced all the way until more than 10,000 people surrounded Yekaterinburg, the largest city in Russia east of the Caucasus Mountains.

It's the biggest, but it's a small town, plus some fortresses that don't work at all. The Tang army still used the air force to blow up the fortress, and the army swarmed to occupy it.

At this point, the Europeans were stunned to find that Russia had no conditions to play a hard-necked game with Datang. Moscow was bombed into a sea of fire, St. Petersburg was in danger, and Siberia, which had been pioneered for centuries, had completely fallen into the hands of the Tang people. (To be continued.) )