The Soviet army marched faster than expected, because Kolchak was in the camp step by step, and the tactics of fortifying the wall and clearing the field were not as successful as expected, the Soviet army was not stupid, they certainly did not expect to rely on 30,000 trucks to ensure the march of 2 million troops, and if they wanted to destroy the Russian Empire rooted in the belly of Soviet Russia as quickly as possible, they must completely eliminate the tsarist regime before the Chinese are ready to intervene, and then prepare for the Chinese attack. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info

Then they have only one choice, that is, they must ensure the smooth operation of the Trans-Siberian Railway, 30,000 trucks can only ensure a minimum consumption of ammunition, but to ensure sufficient logistics and even transport personnel, then they must rely on the railway.

Therefore, if one side wants to destroy the railway when retreating, one side must do everything possible to keep the railway, and the Kolchak group is retreating while preparing to blow up the railway bridge, while the Soviet Russian forward is in hot pursuit, regardless of the casualties, it wants to bite the retreating troops of Kolchak, and dispatches a large number of cavalry to continuously charge, so that the other side has no time to destroy the railway bridge.

With this tactic, Soviet Russia retained more than eighty percent of the railway bridges, and then repaired the remaining railway bridges, which greatly ensured the transportation of the Trans-Siberian Railway.

In this case, in January they reached Omsk, where after a great battle of 100,000 men, Denikin's army retreated again, and after 10,000 losses, apparently the closer they approached the heart of Siberia, the greater the pressure on the Russian Empire, because the Russians did not follow their plan, so they had to expend their forces in a war that they did not want to start earlier.

However, this battle was not meaningless, at least more than 30,000 Soviet Russian troops were eliminated, and the Soviet army was delayed for half a month, and it was not until mid-January that the Soviet army set out from Omsk again.

At this time, the Kolchak group had no way to retreat, because their planned preset position was between Omsk and Novosibirsk, and the Russians had already captured Omsk, and their strategic space was already very narrow.

The city of Omsk itself does not have much natural resources, and the most valuable resource at present is peat in the northern swamps, and the dissolved soil in the South Seas needs to be fattened and improved by a lot of humus, so it is not a city rich in resources.

However, due to historical reasons, Omsk formed a city relatively early, and the terrain was relatively flat, and when the Trans-Siberian Railway was built, it became a transportation hub, and trains from the west of Russia to the east had to be dispatched here, so a certain mechanical repair foundation and infrastructure conditions were formed here.

After the Soviet Russia occupied Omsk, the reason why it was pressed for time to launch an attack in the ice and snow, but still stayed here for half a month, was that it planned to use the infrastructure and maintenance equipment here to keep the railway open. Then enough supplies were mobilized, and apparently they also understood that the closer they got to Irkutsk, the closer the date of the decisive battle they would face, and the more carefully they had to prepare.

The power of the five-year industrial plan was now very evident, and the skilled workers from the Kharkov Locomotive Plant and the Moscow Railway Administration, one after the other, finally met the deadline and built all the sabotaged railway lines from the Urals to Omsk.

Think about the scene of enthusiastic railway workers who never sleep, repairing trains and repairing bridges all night long, and they do not lose to the fighting spirit of the front line, their progress always follows the progress of the battle, almost one kilometer before the Soviet army, they follow up one kilometer, the Soviet army occupies a railway bridge, they repair a railway bridge, of course, many bridges are only emergency measures, can only allow wartime traffic, and cannot be used as normal transportation, But this progress is also extremely terrifying, and if Soviet Russia does not complete a five-year plan, it is impossible to have such technological reserves.

When the train was opened, it was natural to continuously transport logistical materials to supplement the consumption of the front line, which was the greatest guarantee for the rapid advance of Soviet Russia, and it was also the biggest reason why Kolchak made a mistake in their plan.

In particular, the fall of Omsk and the train to Omsk by Soviet Russia really pushed the Kolchak group into a desperate situation, so there was a situation in which Soviet Russia's personnel and material resources were continuously transferred from Europe to Omsk, while the Kolchak group desperately transferred personnel and materials to Novosibirsk, which was connected to the Omsk railway.

Novosibirsk, like Omsk, is the transportation hub of the West Siberian region, and the railway line from Omsk to Novosibirsk is the highest railway section in Siberia, with a train load of up to 3,000 tons and 100 pairs of trains per day.

This means that the Kolchak group has no capital to throw away Novosibirsk, because the traffic diversion capacity here in Novosibirsk is even more terrifying than Omsk, which is connected to Tomsk, the iron ore distribution center to the north, and the infrastructure and various equipment here are very superior, and it is the largest hub in the Siberian region.

Therefore, having lost the preset positions in Omsk, the Kolchak group immediately decided to make a desperate gamble and fight a decisive battle with Soviet Russia in Novosibirsk, 600 kilometers from Omsk.

Kolchak put in a desperate effort of 500,000 troops, of which 200,000 were female soldiers composed of working women such as rural strong women and urban maids, and as for aristocratic women with higher cultural quality, most of them also entered medical units, which was a real desperate gamble.

Fortunately, Grand Duke Nikolai took precautions and established a large-scale arsenal in Irkutsk, with the investment of oil wealth and the support of Chinese technology, the technical capacity and production capacity of the Ilchak arsenal are considerable, plus the inventory produced over the years, it was able to support the Kolchak group to arm 1 million people, not only to achieve a rifle per person, but also to equip a considerable number of artillery.

The strength of Soviet Russia is also quite strong, in the first five-year plan, they built more than 1,500 large industrial enterprises, and mainly heavy industry, most of which have the ability to produce weapons, but their equipment level is relatively poor, not that the production capacity is not enough, but the distance is too far, and it is a frozen winter, relying on snow plows to clear the road, only the train can pass, to maintain the daily supply of 2 million troops, is indeed a very huge project.

If it was the Germans' railway management ability, they might be able to make the greatest use of the capacity of the Siberian Railway, but the Soviet Union and Russia had strong technical ability and strong fighting spirit, but lacked fine management ability, and in the case of not being able to give full play to the capacity of the Trans-Siberian Railway, they could do one rifle per person, which was already much stronger than the Tsar in those years, and there was a serious shortage of heavy equipment such as artillery.

So when the war started in mid-January, the Kolchak group was actually dominant, they killed and wounded a large number of Soviet and Russian troops in the first ten days, and the combat tactics of the Soviet and Russian troops were slightly improved compared with before, no longer blindly charging in groups, but using a large number of tanks to cover.

The Kirov plant in Soviet Russia has just begun mass production this year, they are based on the British Vickers tank improved design of the T26 tank, the advantage of this tank is that it is fast, the disadvantage is that the defense is weak, under the blow of the superior artillery of the Kolchak regiment, it did not play a role at all, and was destroyed one by one on the way forward, but the infantry who followed the tank attack was under the dual effect of fanatical combat enthusiasm and harsh military law, and charged forward desperately.

As a result, a squad, a company, a battalion, and even a regiment of soldiers fell on the way to the charge.

Ten days of fierce fighting, Kolchak exterminated 100,000 Soviet troops, an average of 10,000 a day, and their own losses were only more than 5,000 people, at this time the Soviet army retreated, not because the loss of personnel was too great, but because the loss of equipment was too great, their 1,000 tanks, more than 300 were destroyed, which directly alarmed the highest level.

Stalin, furious, ordered a third of the front-line commanders to be shot, removed the commander-in-chief Budyonny, and replaced Tukhachevsky, then chief of staff of the Soviet army, as the commander-in-chief of the front.

The Soviets retreated to Omsk, the forward starting point, where they assembled on standby, replenished personnel and supplies, and waited for the young Tukhachevsky to replace Budyonny, and the political commissars to clean up the military appearance and discipline and officers.

By the time Tukhachevsky arrived in Omsk, it was already early February.

During this time, the Kolchak group rejoiced at their first victory, but did not expect them to face a truly formidable opponent.

Budyonny came from a poor peasant family, graduated from the Tsar's cavalry school, and was a veteran of the Russo-Japanese War to World War I.

Tukhachevsky and Budyonny are just two extremes, he was born in the old aristocracy of Tsarist Russia, and his family was in a middle-class situation, but he still made it easier for Tukhachevsky to receive an education in the military academy, Tukhachevsky was relatively young, and he knew that after the outbreak of World War I, he began his first actual battle.

However, the young Tukhachevsky was awarded six times for his bravery in battle, but he was captured by the Germans during the battle, and after escaping with all his ingenuity, he became a company commander, and soon the October Revolution broke out, and he joined the Soviet Union under the persuasion of his friends.

With a formal military school education and rich combat experience, Tukhachevsky quickly stood out from the crowd in the Soviet army, which had a serious shortage of qualified officers, and was appreciated by Vladimir.

After that, Tukhachevsky rose to prominence, and his main merit was the massacre of peasants who refused to hand over their rations, and the real merit was the defeat of Denikin's main army, but there was also a great defeat, and he was defeated by the Polish army under the city of Warsaw, and fled for thousands of miles.

The record can be described as mixed, but this person has a set of military theories, he once found in the battle with the Poles, the Soviet Russian imitation of 20 tank charge, actually scared off tens of thousands of Polish troops, so that he became interested in the tank for the first time.

In his subsequent research, he developed the theory of tank use and the theory of large-depth operations, which was highly respected by later generations of Soviet marshals such as Zhukov and Hua Shuvsky.

But his theory has not yet been tested in actual combat in his hands, and his replacement of Budyonny this time is the best opportunity to test his theory.

His opponent, the Kolchak group, won the first battle, but their combat methods did not change revolutionarily, and they still had the machine-gun trench barbed wire mode in World War I, with superior artillery defense.

When Tukhachevsky arrived in Omsk to actively rectify military discipline and reorganize the organizational relations of the Soviet army, the Kolchak group did not take the opportunity to counterattack, but continued to strengthen the defense of Novosibirsk, repairing trenches and reinforcing permanent fortifications, trying to build Novosibirsk into a superfortress that will never fall.

In March, Tukhachevsky straightened out the discipline of the army, redrew the battle plan, mobilized enough war materials, and then he launched a new offensive.

The real decisive battle has just begun. (To be continued.) )