The commanders and fighters of the Second Cavalry Army have no opinion on this, because this is a very important part of the existence value of the "shadow army", in fact, the main officers of the Second Cavalry Army are actually officers from the First Cavalry Army, for example, the commander of the Second Cavalry Army is actually the deputy commander of the former First Cavalry Army, and unless they are promoted after the war, the Second Cavalry Army will be disbanded and become a "shadow" again, and they will also be transferred back to the First Cavalry Army, so there will be no dissatisfaction with this. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

Although there are also regulations that say that if the shadow troops have achieved a brilliant record that is shocking and superior to its ontology, then the identities of the main body and the shadow can be reversed, but in fact this is almost impossible, after all, the quality of the personnel of the shadow troops is poor, and there is no opportunity to conduct drills as a whole in peacetime, and there is still a clear gap in strength. What's more, if you really have that ability, under normal circumstances, you will be left in the body to get more adequate exercise, and without the guidance of the cow, the shadow can only be a shadow forever......

However, having said that, although the officers and soldiers of the shadow troops are not as good as the main body, they still have a lot of advantages compared with other troops, mainly because the run-in link is omitted, and the combat effectiveness can be formed immediately, and because it is only supplemented, not replaced, the backbone of the First Cavalry Army is still there, and the decline in strength is even smaller. Coupled with the high morale brought by successive victories, the strength of the First Cavalry Army, which has become fully manned again, is not much worse than in the spring, even if it is not comparable to the main front of Tsarist Russia, it has at least the strength to fight, coupled with the incomparable mobility advantage of the whole cavalry force, after the Tsarist Russian cavalry front has been disabled, even if they can't fight, they will not suffer a big loss.

It is precisely because of such a strong strength that Bai Lang dared to swing his army all the way west into the hinterland of Tsarist Russia, and the world regarded him as a peerless brave general, but what was more terrifying about him was actually calm and rational that was covered up by the name of bravery......

Due to the crushing defeat of the three major front armies, there was a terrible troop vacuum in the Ural Military Region of Tsarist Russia, and the First Cavalry Army led by Bai Lang almost encountered a decent interception in the process of crossing the Ural Mountains, and easily hit all the way to Ufa, if it were not for the fast running of the Russian command, a large number of high-ranking Tsarist Russian officers, including Brusilov, would have been captured.

After capturing the empty Ufa without much effort, Bai Lang did not continue to advance westward, but turned south into the flat and open lower Volga plain, such a terrain could give full play to the advantages of cavalry, and it was obviously better to take the southern line to the west than the northern one.

In fact, if it weren't for the emptiness of the Russian army and the collapse of morale, where would it be so easy for the First Cavalry Army to easily cross the Ural Mountains to reach Ufa? It is impossible to have cheap all the time, there should be a lot of garrisons on the Kazan side, if the First Cavalry Army stays in the mountains for a long time and is entangled by the Russian troops who are coming one after another, even Bai Lang will be very big, so it is not surprising that he chose to go south into the terrain conducive to cavalry combat.

After entering the southern plains, the Chinese First Cavalry Army was really like a fish in water, capturing more than a dozen cities in less than a month, almost sweeping away the Russian army in the plains east of the Volga, while Russian generals such as Admiral Brusilov, who fled to Kazan, did not dare to go south to fight with them, and Tsar Nicholas II, who was extremely angry about this, removed the former, but his replacement was not as good as General Brusilov......

The new front-line commander could not withstand the pressure of Tsar Nicholas II and launched a hasty attack, but in fact, all the combat-effective units of the Russian army had been exhausted, and the troops under his command looked a lot, but most of the soldiers had not even completed basic training, and their morale was extremely low, hundreds of thousands of Russian troops ran away more than 20% on the way, and then the 1st Cavalry Army easily routed the enemy who came hard-headed......

In this child's play-like battle, the number of Russian soldiers killed was only 20,000 or 30,000, but more than 200,000 were captured (Note 1), and the number of Russian soldiers who fled before and after was more than that, while the number of deaths in the First Cavalry Army was less than 100......

Even Li Hui lamented that "history is more bizarre than fiction" after clarifying this matter, and thus determined that Russia had fallen into an unprecedented state of weakness, and he even suspected that even the three major fronts on the Western Front that Tsarist Russia had not yet used were already empty shelves (referring to the Japanese Kwantung Army, which was gradually evacuated after the outbreak of the Pacific War).

And Bai Lang, who has experienced all this, naturally sees it more thoroughly, since the Russian army is no longer afraid, he will no longer procrastinate, and let the troops hurry up to cross the Volga River, after all, Hexi can be regarded as the real core of Tsarist Russia. As for the danger of half-crossing? Tsar Nicholas II was horrified to find that he had no troops to send, except for the basic garrisons necessary to maintain his rule in various places, and only the three main fronts in the west were left to defend against Germany, Austria-Hungary and Turkey.

Originally, Tsar Nicholas II thought that he could also let the Central Asian Front, which was still "suppressing bandits" in Central Asia, go north to "encircle Wei and save Zhao" (although Russia does not have this idiom, a similar idea must be able to be thought of.) Now that the main force of the Chinese Xianbeilian army has at least reached the Ural Mountains, and the logistical supply lines are very long, it is a great opportunity to attack its rear. But what Tsar Nicholas II did not expect was that the Chinese Second Cavalry Army, which had parted ways with the First Cavalry Army, had already taken the initiative to move south and burned the war to the Kazakh steppe again......

Note 1: Due to the poor performance and no threat at all, it was inconvenient for the First Cavalry Army to bring prisoners of war behind enemy lines, Bai Lang simply ordered them to be released, and as a result, the Russian army almost all surrendered when it encountered the First Cavalry Army......