In the prisoner of war camps in the northeast, 300,000 Russian prisoners of war were held. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info

Among them, only 200,000 were directly captured in the battle, and the remaining 100,000 were all brought by themselves.

Since last September, Yang Chao's airship unit has blown up all railway bridges leading to Chita, and the line of communication from western Russia to Chita has been cut off.

During the half-year freeze period, they could not get the slightest supplement, and as a result, in the cold winter, a large number of Russian troops died of hunger and hunger. Even the most ferocious, barbaric, and most loyal Cossacks to the tsar could not go out of the city to collect food in the face of heavy snowfall, and 200,000 shivering Russian troops hid in the bombed city of Chita like hell.

The escape appeared very bizarrely, first a prisoner held in Manchuria, took advantage of the unpreparedness of the guards to sneak away, ran to Chita, but a few days later, he took the initiative to run back with more than a dozen comrades.

The reason why he ran away was because he wanted to be free, and the reason why he came back and dared to be a prisoner was because he wanted to live.

In order to propagate the needs of the war, Yang Chao fed and drank these people and then released them back, and as a result, they brought more prisoners twenty days later.

After that, throughout the winter, groups of Russian soldiers came to surrender every three or five days, and when it was the coldest time, there was even a surrender of the entire company.

Under these circumstances, the May offensive was almost a military walk, freezing and starving to death, and with the fact that they got lost in the wind and snow, and went to the countryside to collect food, and were killed, the defenders of Chita were reduced to only 30,000 refugees-like soldiers who were starving and starving.

As a result, Chita, which was only about 400 kilometers away from Manchuria, was captured in the reconnaissance attack of the vanguard of less than 50,000 men sent by Wu Peifu.

At the same time, the Japanese also launched a spring offensive, and the Japanese began to attack upstream along the Heilongjiang River, which was an attack rather than a sweep, because the Heilongjiang was on the Russian side, and there was hardly a decent city except for Boli and Hailanpao, and all the Japanese had to do was to sweep villages and towns, and in less than a month, the Japanese army had attacked the Shilka River valley and was about to join the Chinese army in Chita.

"I don't know why the Russians still refuse to compromise, do they have to wait until the Chinese and Japanese come to Moscow?"

The French foreign minister angrily complained to Stolypin.

"Are you French people so impatient? I remember that you French also reached Moscow, so what? ”

Stolypin said unhurriedly.

But the look was not very good, he did not expect that the Chinese would peacefully resolve an uprising that spread throughout the country in just a few months, and that Yuan Shikai had encircled all other forces through negotiations, and even let the Russians spend a lot of money and a lot of weapons to support the artillery brother to automatically ask for the incorporation of the rebel army.

What Stolypin didn't know was that Brother Cannon had never mastered the army from beginning to end, and the rebel army was basically in the hands of local governors and organizations such as the Revival Society.

Seeing that Stolypin mentioned Napoleon the Great's attack on Moscow, French Foreign Minister Delcasse had no reason to be annoyed.

But still patiently persuaded: "No one can fight from Siberia to Moscow." But it is no less difficult to fight from Moscow to Siberia! Russia will lose the territory of the East forever. ”

Stolypin sneered: "Do you think that if we accept negotiations now, the Eastern Territories will be recovered?" ”

Delcasse sighed, "At least Belgasi should be able to keep it." Don't you think that the territory of Russia is too big? If it shrinks a little and gives up some unnecessary fur land, will Russia become more compact and stronger? ”

Stolypin snorted: "It's like the French betraying Louisiana? ”

The French sold the Great Plains of the Central United States to the United States for 80 million francs, and it was only then that the United States was created today, which is a fertile land of 2.6 million square kilometers.

"Didn't the Russians sell Alaska too. ”

Alaska, Louisiana, Delcasse is a little embarrassed to say.

He then changed his words: "China's new president has been stating that they only want to reclaim the northeastern territories occupied by Russia in the last century, and they have no ambitions for the vast territory of Russian Siberia." ”

Stolypin said: "Do you really believe what the Chinese say?" Can you really give up the land seized with weapons as a politician? ”

Delcasse also felt that it was impossible, no one was so satisfied, but the Chinese really couldn't say, the Sino-French war Chinese basically won, the French cabinet at that time collapsed, but China still gave up Vietnam to France, and the Chinese did not seem to have learned the habit of Westerners to plunder territory from war.

Delcasse said: "What if the Chinese are serious? ”

Stolypin said: "And there are the Japanese." ”

This is a big head, the Japanese ambition is much more than the peaceful Chinese, every battle will put forward territorial claims, if this time does not satisfy the Japanese, it seems that it is really difficult to let this old difficult ally get out of the east.

But Delcasse decided to give it a try.

The French have not given up their good offices, although they are very disappointed in the fighting power of the Russians, but they have spent so much energy and cost to maintain this ally, it is too uneconomical to abandon it easily, just like a gambler, who has lost most of his family property, it is too difficult for him to leave the table easily, until he loses all his possessions, he will not be reconciled.

It was time for the British to communicate well with Japan, but the British were not so active, and weakening Russia was still one of Britain's grand strategies, unless the Russians could satisfy the appetite of the British Empire first.

"I think Russia should consider rapprochement with the British."

Delcasse diverts the subject. France had been trying to reconcile Britain and Russia, and France had treaty relations with both countries, and if the two countries were reconciled, it was likely that a Triple Entente would be formed against the Triple Alliance of Germany, Austria-Hungary, and Italy.

Stolypin was very simple this time: "I also think that Russia has no conflict of interest with the British Empire, we have lost even the last ice-free port, and I am afraid that there will be no navy in the future." As for India and Afghanistan, I think Russia would be more than happy to divide its sphere of influence with the British Empire. ”

Delcasse was a little surprised, but when he thought about the situation of the Russians, he could understand that he had been beaten again, and Russia's ambitions had faded with his international status and strength, so to speak, the wars in the East again and again, which made the Russians see their weakness.

"But Russia will not give up even an inch of land!"

Stolypin's last tough statement made Delcasse frown again.

"Even if you drain the last drop of blood!"

Stolypin also added.

"Then you can drain it."

Delcasse thought viciously, shook hands politely, and ended the conversation.

And Delcasser's malice was soon realized, and the Chinese airship fleet raided the Russian city of Chelyabinsk in the Urals region, using it as a springboard to resume bombing to the east.

Chelyabinsk is less than 2,000 kilometers from Moscow, and with the capabilities demonstrated by the Chinese airship force in last year's operation, Moscow is already within the bombing range of the Chinese.

Chelyabinsk has always been a small city in history, but it was only the starting point of the Russians to the east, and it was only one of them, but after the construction of the Trans-Siberian Railway, it began to develop here, and became a commercial city for the distribution of materials, but it is still not a big city, and it really developed here in the era of heavy industrialization in the Soviet Union, where a large number of industrial enterprises were built.

Today, the population of this small trading town is only 50,000, and the castle built more than 200 years ago is the core, and there are no facilities such as city walls.

Their castle was destroyed during the bombing last year, and the old and beautiful old castle was destroyed by the cruel airships of the modern era.

And this year, after China relaunched its offensive against the Russian army, more than 200 large airships were airborne here, and there were more than 20,000 people and related equipment on the airships.

Under the continuous supply of materials, various fortifications were soon built, although the scope was not large, but the permanent fortifications built with reinforced concrete and barbed wire, how to look at the Chinese did not look like a shot and left.

This tactic made the whole world in an uproar, and began to analyze the tactics of the Chinese.

At first, they invariably thought that this was an act of madness, that it was an irresponsible war adventure that sent 20,000 soldiers to death, and that the commanders should be pulled out and shot.

But after they found that the Russians mobilized a large number of troops to besiege this place, but they could not attack it, they found that the Chinese chose this place too suitably, and it was a well-thought-out, carefully calculated, and exquisite art of war command.

Because the various data of Chinese airships in the war have been almost analyzed, everyone knows that the maximum range of saturation bombing of Chinese airships is about 2,500 kilometers, and in this range, China's large airships can be fully loaded with bombs for a round trip, since they can be fully loaded with bombs, it means that they can be loaded with other things back and forth.

Western military strategists discovered that in China's Xinjiang region, a small city of Altay is just within this range.

They are right, last winter, Wu Peifu was not idle, and held back all winter looking for the most suitable foothold, looking for a Russian city that could maximize the bombing ability of airships, and Chelyabinsk was finally chosen, because this city is small enough to be occupied, and along the railway, occupying this place can directly cut off the transportation lines of the Russian army, which can be described as killing multiple birds with one stone.

In order to prepare for the capture of Chelyabinsk, Wu Peifu sent airships to reconnoiter this place more than ten times, and each bombardment carried the city with him, trying to destroy the city and cut off the connection between this city and the outside world, so that the Russians could not rush here for reinforcements in the first place.

In China, it took a whole winter to send a large number of materials and personnel to Altay, building Altay into a large rear, storing enough materials for 50,000 people to fight for half a year, and also selected the most elite 50,000 veterans from the army as assaulters.

Under such a careful arrangement, it is not strange for a rough nation like Russia to be recruited, but it is strange if it is not recruited. (To be continued.) )