According to Bai Lang's original plan, after destroying the main force of the Tsarist Russian Central Asian Front, he would move his army westward into Turkmenistan and eliminate more than 100,000 people in the last two armies. www.biquge.info Who knew that the old Maozi of the two armies did not wait for Bai Lang's army to kill, and fled to the other side of the Caspian Sea......

But this is also something that cannot be helped, the Tsarist government is now unable to draw troops to support them, and it is unable to resist the hundreds of thousands of troops in the limelight of Bai Lang on its own. Rather than stay and wait to be destroyed, it is better to flee back to Europe and help Russia retain a little more vitality......

How could Tsarist Russia, with such a large territory and a population of more than 150 million, be forced to temporarily abandon Turkmenistan without being able to draw troops? The matter has to start with the surprise attack of the Chinese expeditionary force on Omsk......

After the loss of Omsk, the idea of the Tsarist Russian high command was to prepare to gather more than 700,000 troops first, and then directly crush this enemy with strong combat effectiveness but weak troops and no backup with the momentum of the mountain. However, to his surprise, the Chinese General Staff was not prepared to wait until the Russian army in the north ran out of supplies before launching an attack, but had already sent troops to cross the border on a large scale long before the expeditionary force took Omsk, and the original purpose of the expeditionary force in cutting off the Trans-Siberian Railway was not to run out of ammunition and food for the more than 500,000 Russian troops in the east, but only to shake its will to resist and reduce the possible resistance of the main domestic forces in the counterattack to the north......

In this case, although the casualties of the Chinese side will certainly be much greater than the practice of pushing the Russian army in Siberia into a desperate situation first (but it is still much smaller than a direct attack), but it can greatly save time, the Chinese General Staff is very clear that the terrain around Omsk is open, which is very conducive to the development of large corps, once the Russian army really completes the assembly, the little strength of the expeditionary force, I am afraid it will be difficult to withstand its tidal offensive, and once the Trans-Siberian Railway is reopened, China's strategic posture of once having the upper hand no longer exists.

Sure enough, after the Chinese army launched a full-scale counteroffensive to the north, the Tsarist Russian high command suddenly lost its breath, and even if it knew that there was no certainty of victory, it could only order the 400,000 Russian troops that had just completed the assembly to immediately launch an attack on Omsk, and strive to reopen the Trans-Siberian Railway before the collapse of the Siberian Russian army.

However, in the face of the Chinese expeditionary force that has built complete field fortifications outside the city of Omsk, it is really difficult for the 400,000 Russian troops to gnaw, and after more than ten days of strong attack, the Russian army has suffered more than half of the casualties. If it weren't for the fact that the Chinese expeditionary force was already exhausted at this time (in fact, the proportion of casualties was not as large as that of the enemy, but it was always tired of defense and could not rest well, and most of the commanders and fighters had less than a full day of sleep these days. At this time, you can even launch a counterattack to crush the enemy whose morale has fallen to the bottom.

After suffering such a big loss, the Tsarist Russian high command had a deeper understanding of the strength of the enemy, and at this time, the Chinese army had taken the important towns of Irkutsk and Chita in central Siberia and Vladivostok and Boli in the east, even if the Russian army regained Omsk, it was too late to rescue the remaining hundreds of thousands of Russian remnants in the east.

Even Tsar Nicholas II understood that once the Chinese cleared the Russian army east of Omsk and then built the Trans-Siberian Railway, then they would be able to send hundreds of thousands of troops to Omsk, with the difference in combat effectiveness shown by the two armies in the war so far, unless Tsarist Russia can mobilize more than 2 million troops and organize them efficiently, it is simply impossible to win such a powerful Chinese army in the field, We can only honestly build layers of strong defense lines to resist the Chinese army's counterattack, and strive to drag the war into the cold winter.

Even if it turns from offensive to defensive, Tsarist Russia still needs to have at least three times the strength of the Chinese army to be sure, that is, 1.5 million troops, even if Tsarist Russia has a vast territory and a large number of people, after losing more than one million troops, it is not easy to put together such a huge force in a short period of time, and where is the spare energy to distract from the Asian battlefield?

As soon as the threat of the Russian army was eliminated, the attitudes of all ethnic groups in Central Asia, including the vast majority of the servant army, towards Bai Lang and the 7th Cavalry Brigade soon changed subtly, in addition to the differences in the handling of many specific issues (such as how to deal with Russian immigrants in Central Asia), the upper echelons in Central Asia were also worried that China would become the next Tsarist Russia, In addition, Mohman's atheistic views were difficult for the religious people of Central Asia, especially the upper classes, to agree with.

Of course, there is another problem that cannot be avoided anywhere, that is, the fear that China will also carry out land reform in Central Asia and harm their interests, but the interests are not very good to say, so the first two points are more said.

The people of Central Asia are still very ignorant and ignorant, and local elites such as tribal leaders and Ah Lang can easily influence public opinion, and they dare not use force directly, but they can use public opinion to force Bai Lang to leave.

But what they didn't know was that Bai Lang himself actually wanted to leave, and after discovering that after losing the biggest enemy of Tsarist Russia, even the servant army became ghostly, Bai Lang had the intention of leaving.

After all, the Seventh Cavalry Brigade has too few troops, and if it is a head-on battle, hundreds of thousands of armed herdsmen have nothing to fear, but if there is internal strife, the advantage of heavy weapons will not be brought into play, and if it is not done well, it will really suffer a big loss. Anyway, the superiors have not issued an order to annex Central Asia or turn it into a vassal, the current focus is still to attack Tsarist Russia, Bai Lang feels that he is still taking advantage of the feelings of his comrades, leaving this place of right and wrong as soon as possible, and returning to the big family of the expeditionary force, although there are also people excluded there, but the nature is not the same as here, not to mention that now Bai Lang has been promoted again, he is now the new lieutenant general chief of staff of the Chinese Expeditionary Force, and he will perform his duties after merging with the main force of the expeditionary force, this is a division-level position, I don't think many people dare to make things difficult for him...... (To be continued.) )