On June 15, the Predator Cavalry Army, under the leadership of Ma Qi and Ma Lin brothers, killed the Chechen Khan, captured more than 10 Chechen princes, princes, Beylers and more than 5,000 Chechen Khan knights, and the Chechen Khan was destroyed.

On June 16, the main force of the Second Front Army defeated the Sanyin Noyan Department to the west, captured the Sanyin Noyan Banner, captured the Sanyin Noyan Banner, and captured dozens of people such as the Prince of Sanyin Noyan, the Fuguo Gong, Beile, and Taiji, and the Sanyin Noyan Department perished.

At 9 a.m. on June 20, after an hour-long shelling of 18 howitzers, 36 cannons, 72 heavy mortars, and 108 medium mortars, the Dragon and Tiger Army on the east bank of the Kur River, under the cover of heavy machine guns, began to launch a campaign to cross the river.

At this time, more than 200 cannons of the Dragon and Tiger Army were still roaring, the defensive positions of the Yuan army on the west bank of the Kur River had already been destroyed, and the 100,000 Yuan army had suffered more than 30,000 casualties.

When the vanguard of the Dragon and Tiger Army's river crossing was armed with light machine guns and submachine guns and stepped on the land on the west bank of the Kur River, this battle of crossing the river followed.

Scramble!

Position scramble!

Fierce battle for position!

The troops crossing the river of the Dragon and Tiger Army, divided into two routes, and each other was horned, and soon gained a foothold on the west bank of the Kur River, and between the two river-crossing troops reached the east bank of the Kur River, and began to build pontoon bridges under the cover of the troops that had already crossed the river.

Since the day of its establishment, the Dragon and Tiger Army has experienced an unknown number of river crossing battles, including several forced crossings of the Yellow River, the Huai River, the Yangtze River, the Daling River, and the Liao River...... How rich is the experience of crossing the river?

A small inland Kur River could not resist the pace of the Dragon and Tiger Army, and in less than two hours, the pontoon bridge was built, and the main force rushed over the pontoon bridge like a torrent.

Under such circumstances, the troops were scattered, and the defensive position was seriously damaged by artillery fire, the Yuan army could not resist at all, even if the commanders of the 100,000 Yuan army were Duan Qirui and Feng Guozhang, who were known as the 'Three Heroes of the Yuan Army', it was inevitable that they would fail in the end.

After the loss of the forward position, Duan Qirui and Feng Guozhang decisively chose to retreat.

In the end, Duan Qirui and Feng Guozhang left 10,000 Yuan troops to block the Dragon and Tiger Army in the city of Kurkha Lawusu, and decisively withdrew the remaining 50,000 Yuan troops from Kurkha Lawusu and retreated westward, preparing to block the Dragon and Tiger Army with the last line of defense to Ili - the Tianshan Defense Line.

The battle in the city of Kurkha Lawusu continued, and the resistance of the Yuan army was surprisingly stubborn, and the battle lasted from morning to evening, and it was not until before dark that the Dragon and Tiger army annihilated most of the 10,000 Yuan troops and completely occupied Kurkha Lawusu.

At this time, the retreating troops of the Yuan army were already dozens of miles away, and after a day of fighting, the soldiers of the Dragon and Tiger Army were already exhausted, although Xu Jian had led the follow-up troops to arrive at Kurkha Lawusu, so that Kurkha Lawusu had gathered a full 200,000 Dragon and Tiger Army, but he did not immediately order the pursuit.

Conquering a city and occupying a place is the core strategic policy planned by Wang Jundao for this battle in the northwest!

The territory of Xinjiang Province is vast, and it is necessary to first occupy strategic places, and then take the strategic places as the center to control the surrounding important towns, and then gradually encroach on the entire Xinjiang Province.

Therefore, after defeating Kurkha Lawusu, Xu Jian resolutely ordered the complete occupation and consolidation of the surrounding areas.

However, the South Road army led by Xiang Zilong and Xu Zhengrong did not encounter such a big resistance as the North Road army, and there were not many garrisons in important cities along the way, the big ones were less than 1,000, and the small ones were even less than 100,000, which was not enough for more than 100,000 Dragon and Tiger troops.

If it weren't for the order of the Dragon and Tiger Army, the army would have gathered together and marched along the north of the Tarim River and the southern foot of the Tianshan Mountains until it occupied the southern part of Xinjiang Province and reached the Pamir Plateau.

The reason why Wang Jundao gave such an order was completely because he was worried about the great desert south of the Tarim River, which was a place where people could not see blood, and if he was not careful, not to mention a team of hundreds of people, even a team of tens of thousands of people could be buried by the desert storm in an instant, so he would rather be slow and occupy Xinjiang Province steadily, rather than threaten the lives of thousands of people, or even tens of thousands of soldiers, and quickly occupy Xinjiang Province.

Now the army of the South Road has reached the Asuk region, occupied the city of Asuk, and will soon be able to reach the Kashgar region.

On the Mongolian Plateau, the main force of the First Front Army at this time had already destroyed the main force of 10,000 cavalry of the Zasaktu Khan in the banner of Zasaktu Khan, and then captured Uriya Sutai, eliminated more than 20,000 Mongolian cavalry, captured more than 20,000 people, occupied the Uriya Sutai General's Palace, and killed Uriya Sutai General Lian Shun.

At this point, there were no major hostile forces on the Mongolian Plateau, and all that remained was to wipe out small resistance forces, steppe bandits, and horse bandits.

Wang Jundao immediately ordered Yang Poyu, led by Yue Fengxian 30,000 cavalry, 20,000 infantry, a total of 50,000 troops, crossed the Kobdo area, and marched to Tarbahatai in the north of Xinjiang Province, Murong Ke led 30,000 cavalry and 10,000 infantry to clear all the resistance forces in the Zasaktu Khan and Kobdo area, Yang Polu personally led more than 100,000 troops, sat in Uriya Sutai, and confronted more than 100,000 Russian troops entrenched in the Tangnu Ulianghai area in the northwest of the Mongolian Plateau.

On June 30, Yue Feng led an army of 50,000 men across the Kobdo area and into the north of Xinjiang Province.

At this time, the Northern Route Army of the First Front Army, under the leadership of Xu Jian, once again broke through the second line of defense organized by Yuan's army in the Turghut area of the western Tianshan Mountains.

The Second Front Army's southern route army has also completely occupied the Kashgar region, and sent 20,000 troops to march to the Khotan region southeast of Kashgar, and this route army will extend the southern part of Xinjiang Province and march east to the north of the Kunlun Mountains until it reaches Dunhuang City, Gansu Province, and reopen the strategic route in southern Xinjiang.

On July 5, more than 50,000 people of the North Route Army of the Second Front Army, under the leadership of Kangding Bei, went north to join the 50,000 army led by Murong Ke of the First Front Army at Tarbagatai, formed a 100,000-strong army, directly crossed the Sino-Russian border, entered Russian territory, and marched to the eastern area of Lake Balkhash.

At this time, Russia had only one division of more than 10,000 men in the area east of Lake Balkhash, and the reinforcements from Western Siberia and Eastern Europe had not yet arrived at Lake Balkhash.

Xu Jian led an army of 130,000 troops south from the snowless Tianshan Mountains in the southern part of Sailimu Lake, and appeared directly in Gongchen City west of Ili to confront Yuan's army in the Huocheng area.

After the two major battles of the Kur River and the Western Turkut, Yuan Shikai's Yuan army lost more than 100,000 soldiers, and the remaining troops were less than 100,000.

On July 10, the Dragon and Tiger Army 130,000 and the Yuan Army 80,000 started a big battle in Huocheng, which lasted for two days and one night, and in the end, the Yuan Army suffered more than 50,000 casualties, and the Dragon and Tiger Army also suffered more than 80,000 casualties with advanced weapons.

On July 12, Yuan's army withdrew to Ili, and with the 20,000 people in Ili City, Yuan's army only had 50,000 left, while the Dragon and Tiger Army still had 120,000 elite soldiers, which was more than twice as large as Yuan's army.

On July 13, under the command of Xu Jian, the 120,000 Dragon and Tiger Army that surrounded Ili launched a general attack on Ili.

This battle lasted for two whole days, and the two sides waged a fierce battle on the north bank of the Ili River and in the surrounding area of Ili City, until the Dragon and Tiger Army completely surrounded the remnants of more than 10,000 Yuan troops in Ili City, and the battle was initially over.

Xu Jian immediately sent a report to Yanjing, requesting a final attack on Ili and eliminating Yuan Shikai's troops in one fell swoop.

Wang Jundao originally planned to let Yuan Shikai escape westward and let Yuan Shikai take people to run the Hezhong region, but now he changed his mind when he saw the opportunity, because the situation in Hezhong was too complicated, if Yuan Shikai was allowed to mobilize those religious elements and publicize their [***] emotions, it would be a big trouble in Hezhong at that time.

So Wang Jundao gave an order to resolutely eliminate Yuan Shikai!

He knew that after such a long period of war, it was impossible for the Yuan army to reconcile with the Dragon and Tiger Army, so he summoned Duan Qirui, Wang Shizhen, Feng Guozhang and others to discuss the final strategy, and finally decided to fight to the death with the Dragon and Tiger Army in Ili City, even if it was death, it would be a vigorous death.

On July 16, 100,000 Dragon and Tiger troops surrounded Ili City and launched a final general attack on Ili City from all sides.

110,000 to 10,000!

The result can be imagined, in just half a day, Yuan Jun ran out of ammunition and food.

In the end, Yuan Shikai committed suicide, Wang Shizhen committed suicide, Duan Qirui died in battle, Feng Guozhang died in battle, Cao Kun and others died in battle, and the Dragon and Tiger Army completely occupied Ili City!

In the process of Xu Jian's army leading the army to attack Yuan's army, the 100,000 army led by Kangdingbei and Murong Ke also completely swept away the Russian army in the vast area east of Lake Balkhash, and annihilated more than 10,000 Russian troops in total.

During this period, because Yang Polu led more than 100,000 troops stationed in the northern area of Uriya Sutai, the more than 100,000 Russian troops stationed in the Tangnu Ulianghai area did not dare to go to reinforce the area east of Lake Balkhash, until the 100,000 reinforcements from Russia from West Siberia resisted the northern part of Lake Balkhash, and the east of Lake Balkhash had all changed hands.

Russia only has 100,000 troops, and in the face of the 100,000 troops of the Chinese Dragon and Tiger Army, even if the defense is still insufficient, how dare they take the initiative to attack? What's more, after Xu Jian occupied Ili, he left only 10,000 people to guard the Ili region, and he personally led an army of 100,000 to the area south of Lake Balkhash.

The entire 200,000 Chinese Dragon and Tiger Army was concentrated in the Balkhash Lake area, not to mention that Russia only had 100,000 troops in the north of Balkhash Lake, and even if there were 300,000 troops, they did not dare to take the initiative to attack.

At this time, Xiang Zilong had already led an army of 50,000, carrying grain, grass and ammunition and other military supplies, turning over the Pamir Plateau, decisively defeating a Russian infantry brigade entrenched in the Kokand area, and occupying the Kokand area.

Although there are more than 80,000 reinforcements in the reinforced Russian army, the Russian army has no follow-up reinforcements, and the remaining 20,000 people are still insufficient to defend the central river area.

When the news reached the Russian capital, it had already reached Yanjing by wireless telegraph.

Receiving the news that the Dragon and Tiger Army had occupied the eastern and southern parts of Lake Balkhash and the Kokand region, Wang Jundao was so excited that he almost shouted, and Lin Zhengnan and Pang Wei were also so excited that they couldn't speak.

For a while, there was silence in the military hall staff headquarters, Wang Jundao looked at Lin Zhengnan and Pang Wei, whose faces had already turned red from excitement, and asked a sentence that was almost irrelevant to the war: "Do you know what Lake Balkhash was called by me in history?" ”

Lin Zhengnan is proficient in history and blurted out: "Yi sow the sea." ”

Wang Jundao nodded and said lightly: "Yes, it is Yi Bohai!" From now on, there will be no Balkhash Lake in the world, only China's Yibo Sea! (To be continued.) )