After annihilating a reorganized Russian division in Tobolsk that was trying to sneak into the back line of the supply line, the First Army of the Chinese Army immediately broke through Tobolsk.

A Russian gendarmes blew up the bridge over the Irtysh River and shelled the river, causing the river to flood down in the late ice period, although it blocked the flood of Chinese attacks, but the residents of Tobolsk who failed to cross the river and the retreating soldiers fell into great chaos, and more than 20,000 Russians, including heavy soldiers, were stranded in Tobolsk, most of them surrendered, and the stubborn resistance was quickly annihilated.

The Russian Danube Corps began to build fortifications on the opposite bank, preparing to use the natural hazards and steam ships of the Irtysh River and the lower Ob River to block the Chinese attack.

Alexander ordered all his troops to hold on to the defense, not to advance lightly, and to build fortifications with the Irtysh River as a barrier.

The intelligence of the Chinese is extremely accurate, as if they will be ambushed every time they take the initiative to attack, and even if they defend, at the end of each battle, the casualties of the defender are higher than that of the attacker, and the Chinese infantry sea is terrifying in terms of numbers and combat capabilities.

At present, we can only rely on the natural dangers of the Irtysh River and the Ob River to fight a war of attrition with the Chinese, and with the long supply lines of the Chinese, there will always be a day when the strength is exhausted, after all, whether it is the construction of the railway or the construction of its supply industrial base in Kizil, it cannot be completed in a short time.

…… Jingshi Donghai Park covers an area of 210 acres in the east of the new urban area and west of the north end of the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal, including nearly 80 acres of water surface.

The park has beautiful scenery of lakes and mountains, and you can see the majestic and magnificent Buddha relics pagoda in the park from afar.

Lighting the Buddha Relic Tower, the tower is more than 50 meters high, the brick and wood structure, the dense eaves are solid, there are more than 2,000 copper bells on the eight-sided octagonal thirteen-storey tower, the breeze blows pleasantly to the ear, the ancients had the hymn of "a branch of the tower shadow recognizes Tongzhou".

On the lawn and flower bed of the park, on the bamboo chair, Ye Zhao closed his eyes comfortably and leaned on the wooden chair, listening to the music of "Alpine Flowing Water" on the cable broadcast, he hadn't come out for a long, long time, and he was really refreshed when he breathed the air outside.

"Master, are you going to Russia?" Beside him is Misaki's delicate voice.

Ye Zhao squinted his eyes and basked in the sun, and said, "Yes, go to the overseer and go around." ”

Alexander II, like the Tenth Russo-Turkish War, drove the entire court in person, and he always had to join in the fun and make a good story.

If it weren't for his assassination, Russia would have been on a path to another success, and populist groups such as the Narodya Narodnaya d'Ulva (Narodnaya Narodnaya Na

At the same time as Alexander's assassination, a document on his desk had just been signed approving the further decentralization of power to the Duma, and his assassination completely interrupted the process of political reform in Russia.

Alexander III, who succeeded to the throne, completely abandoned his father's path of reform, avenged his father by using horrific and bloody means against the revolutionaries, and even more intensified his [***] rule. This also deprived Russia of its best opportunity to catch up with Western countries.

The current declaration of war with Russia is also aimed at ending the reform process of the Russians or dealing a heavy blow to Russia when it is weaker, after all, because of his butterfly effect, Alexander III may not have been assassinated so coincidentally.

Glanced sideways at Misaki, the delicate black uniform yellow checkered skirt student uniform, thin over-the-knee white cotton socks, shiny little black leather shoes, Misaki's head also shook up, the small body developed the drum where the drum should be, the place where the warp should be warped, the curve is soft and cute, slender and lovely.

Come to think of it, Misaki is fourteen years old this year, and fifteen in today's terms.

"Master, are you going in a car?" Misaki asked curiously.

Just came to the park, Ye Zhao and Misaki came by car, a car with a black metal body, only the roof is still canvas, of course, if you sit in it and walk on a road in bad condition, it will be bumpy, and the car that Ye Zhao has sat in before is not the same.

The empire also officially issued special license plates for cars, and at the same time issued driver certificates for driver assessments.

There are five female guards in the royal family who have obtained driver's licenses, and Ye Zhao's driver is one of the female guards, wearing a white uniform, white leather shoes, and white gloves, which is quite like the image of a female driver in the early Republic of China in Ye Zhao's eyes.

Speaking of which, white shoes are popular in the big cities of the empire today, and both men and women are wearing white shoes as a trend, and the white shoes market is selling well.

He hasn't been out for a long time, Ye Zhao feels that he is also "out", obviously the current trend of the empire has entered its own track, and it is no longer something that he can control.

Let's talk about Mrs. Kuo, who takes a leisurely walk in the park, everyone will hold a small handbag, which is probably similar to the trend during the Republic of China.

Like the purse, the main task of the handbag is to hold money, the amount of silver paper, copper plate and other currency in the handbag, you can roughly see that the owner of the handbag belongs to the young lady, the aunt or the young grandmother, the wife-level character, the wife-level fashionable female surname, in order to show its old age, the bag is filled with heavy copper plates and banknotes, and there is basically nothing else; In addition to the necessary items such as rouge, mirrors, combs and other items for makeup, there will also be chalk paper (aunt's wife), letterhead (miss), children's supplies (less milk) and so on. Regardless of what's in the bag, just walking down the road with a small handbag seems to make ladies feel better.

Ye Zhao smiled: "Maybe I'll drive a car." "I heard that some businessmen had already driven their cars to Novosibirsk, and that there were also merchants in Kyzyl and Abakan who had brought gasoline to sell.

Nowadays, there are very few countries that use gasoline in large quantities, and it is not yet included in the military control commodity, otherwise in wartime, it would not be so convenient to buy and sell gasoline freely, especially outside the country.

Ye Zhao stood up and said with a smile: "Let's go, take you to see the bag." "I said I would like to see what beautiful handbags there were, and buy one for each of the ladies.

Misaki said yes with excitement on her face.

…… At the same time as the capture of Tobolsk, fierce battles broke out in Omsk and Aleksandsk at the same time, and even a group army of the Chinese Western Front Corps moved north from Turkestan and engaged in fierce battles with the corps of the Russian Orenburg Military District in the Aral Sea.

The focus of the most tragic battles or Chinese attacks was on Alexandrisk, and Harich's Western Front Corps fought a bitter duel with the Russians in the area from Alexandrislav to Lake Tengiz.

Alexandersk can be said to be a real parity of the word, with the trenches built by the Russians of more than two hundred kilometers to somewhat neutralize the Chinese's firepower superiority.

The two sides invested more than 600,000 troops, and after more than a month of fierce fighting, the Chinese narrowly and dangerously occupied Alexandria.

Although the Battle of Aleksandr was won, the strong resistance of the Russians frustrated the strategic intention of the Western Front Army to continue to advance north and flank the Omsk-Petropavlovsk with the Central Route Army to completely destroy the main Russian army.

With more than 100,000 casualties and a large amount of supplies, the Army Corps of the Western Front had to build fortifications in Alexandsk to defend against the strategic counteroffensive of the Russians.

The Battle of Aleksandsk can be said to be the victory of the Chinese, pulling out the Alexander Line, on which the Russians were proud on the Western Front, but from a strategic point of view, it can be said that this was the first defeat of the Chinese [***] team.

Of course, both the Russians and the Chinese, or world public opinion, were reporting another victory of the Chinese, and in Russia, pessimism was high, and there were popular demonstrations in several large cities, believing that the tsar and the entire ruling group should bear the responsibility for the defeat of the war, and only the Russian high command knew that this arduous campaign interrupted the further strategic deployment of the Chinese.

Because the Battle of Aleksandr failed to achieve the strategic goal, Ye Zhao returned to the capital after inspecting the Western Front.

In the telegram sent to the matchmaker, Ye Zhao said: "Now we have temporarily entered the stage of strategic stalemate"

It can be said that the war has progressed smoothly beyond Ye Zhao's expectations, in Ye Zhao's original conception, but he hoped to use the Yenisei River as the boundary, but now, he has occupied the Russian densely populated area in the lower reaches of the Ob River, which is also very suitable for immigrant life.

The eastern front, which is now bounded by the entire Irtysh River and the lower reaches of the Ob River, where the Irtysh River flows, began to rely on the river to build fortifications to defend against Chinese attacks.

The Western Front, which destroyed the Russian defense line in Alexandriak, although it failed to achieve the strategic goal of completely eliminating the main forces of the Russian army, after conquering Alexandersk, the Chinese troops could threaten the core area of the Russian hinterland.

It's just that the long supply lines make it possible for the Chinese, if they fail in a blitzkrieg, to the end of a strong crossbow, and retreat under the counterattack of the Russians.

Now the Eastern Front Red Lady Department has the strength to launch the Battle of Omsk, but even if it is victorious, the Russians will do the same and build fortifications west of the Irtysh River, and the Chinese will have nowhere to recruit ships, but can only wait until the freezing period in November, during which time Russia can take the opportunity to replenish troops and supplies, and its railway supply line directly to the front line will make Omsk, which is far from the supply line, a hot potato in the hands of the Chinese.

Attacking Russia from the east can only be done steadily, and in those years, he said that he had relied on the rear bases that had been operating in the northeast for many years.

China is also in the same position today by speeding up the construction of railways, linking the Chinese railways with the Russian railway network, and consolidating the southeastern plain of Western Siberia in the upper reaches of the Ob River as a springboard and supply line for the war with Russia.

If the Russians put forward the condition of using the Yenisei River as the boundary, Ye Zhao said that he would not agree to anything, of course, the Russians would not be able to sign a treaty to cede such a vast land now, after all, the Russians were not really defeated.

There is no doubt that the strategic stalemate phase will continue to divide the Russians and create turmoil in Russian society.

Moreover, the Turkish Ottoman Empire, as well as the western Caucasus and Poland in Russia, are all bargaining chips that the Chinese can use.

Sitting on the train back to the capital, Ye Zhao kept thinking about this question.

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Yanjing has already released rumors of hope for peace with the Russians, and has also sent the Russians a wrong message that the appetite of the Chinese is not very large.

Russian diplomats in various Chinese cities have been expelled, and this message was conveyed through the Russian consulate in Hong Kong, which, of course, was categorically rejected by the Russians.

Ye Zhao returned to the capital in mid-May, and news from Spain that Queen Isabel had set off and was expected to arrive in Guangzhou in early September.

Negotiations with the Portuguese continued, and the Spanish intervened to mediate, and the initial idea was that Chinese, Spanish, and Dutch merchants would invest in the construction of the port of Maputo.

Spain and the Netherlands, which have colonies in the South Seas, experienced the pain of losing many colonial privileges in the early days, but gradually benefited from the rise of China, and the merchants of the two countries, together with British and French merchants, obtained the right to trade Chinese tea with the West, and received a lot of care from the Chinese, and gradually upgraded to friendly trading partners of the Southeast Group, and even the British could not enter the North Korea, Yuben and other trade circles, and some Dutch merchants also obtained the right to enter. As for the Spaniards, it was Queen Isabel who gradually warmed up relations with China after she regained control of Spain, and of course, it became an indisputable fact that the Luzon area was gradually dominated by Chinese.

…… To Ye Zhao's surprise, his strategic stalemate concept obviously could not catch up with the change of the situation, perhaps because the casualty ratio of the Battle of Alexandria was close to 1:1, which made the Russians think that the [***] team in the middle of the line was not enough, and the [***] team in each line stopped the offensive posture, making them think that the Chinese were already at the end of the crossbow, and the logistics supply must be insufficient, plus the Russian top must also know that the longer the time, the smoother the supply line of the Chinese, plus because of the war with China, Russia issued paper money in a big way, The economy was in turmoil, and the Russian High Command, under the impetus of Count Brin, adopted a dangerous war plan.

That is, to concentrate superior forces, counterattack the Chinese, and annihilate the Chinese Western Front Corps, which had not established itself firmly in Alexandersk.

A large number of newly drafted soldiers continued to push to the front, and the Russians launched the Alexander counterattack with more than 300,000 troops.

In just a few months, there was a large-scale battle in Alexandsk in which nearly a million soldiers participated, which was extremely rare in the history of world warfare.

However, the Russians, who intended to encircle and annihilate the Chinese corps in Alexandriask, suffered a lot, and saw the incomparably strong combat effectiveness of the Chinese [***] team in defensive battles.

Although there were only less than 100,000 soldiers stationed in the area around Alexandersk, with the Lanzhou Group Army as the main force, and most of the corps participating in the Battle of Alexandria rested in the rear to replenish their troops, the Russians' intelligence can be said to be extremely accurate, which caught the Chinese by surprise.

Although the central [***] squadrons on the left and right flanks were defeated, the 50,000 officers and men of the Lanzhou Group Army, including logistics personnel, were stunned to turn this position of dozens of square kilometers into a cemetery for the Russians, and the Russians only captured the outermost trench after more than half a month of offensive, and paid a painful price of more than 60,000 casualties.

When the Western Front Corps completed a large-scale encirclement, the Russian rout came so quickly, it can be said that it fell for thousands of miles, and even the corps deployed in the Kokchenov Line did not retreat without a fight, which also exposed Petropavlovsk to the attack of the Chinese, and the Russian Corps in Omsk had to join the ranks of large-scale defeat, because once the Chinese Western Route Army occupied Petropavlovsk, Omsk became the sandwich cookie of the Chinese West Route Army and the Central Route Army.

When the Chinese occupied Alexandria, they had to retreat to Kurgan, Alexander II, and then hurriedly took the train to Yekaterinburg, after all, the safety of the tsar and the entire court came first, and it was necessary to stay away from the front.

However, the Chinese [***] team did not advance westward on a large scale, and the Central Army did not cross the Irtysh River after occupying Omsk, and apparently the Chinese also thought that building a defensive line on the Irtysh River was an excellent choice.

The Western Route Army did not even march into Kokchenov, and the two large-scale battles were extremely depleted in terms of both men and materials, and the troops, including the Lanzhou Group Army, retreated to the rear to rest, and the corps with the Guangzhou Group Army and the Tenth Army as the main force took over the defense of the Alexandrik area.

When the news of Russia's defeat and loss of a large part of its territory reached the country, it was fabricated by people with ulterior motives that the Russian soldiers were bleeding in vain because of Alexander II's stupid decision, and the anger of the Russians finally erupted like a volcano. In Moscow, the Narodnik led an angry crowd into the political apparatus and was bloodily suppressed; The members of the "Freedom and Land" of Kursk occupied the city together with the Russian soldiers and proclaimed the "Russian Republic"; Riots of commoners and even nobles took place in the cities of Kirov, Samara, Tver and others.

The enrage of the Divided Poles rekindled their uprisings, even in Prussian-occupied Polish territory, and there were signs of instability in the areas inhabited by Ukrainians and White Russians.

The Turkish Ottoman Empire began to mobilize troops on the front line, and it was very likely that it would invade Romania, which was supported by Tsarist Russia, and Serbia and other Balkans that had been part of the Ottoman Empire's sphere of influence.

The Chinese high command, on the other hand, held an all-night discussion on whether to overcome difficulties and attack the Russian hinterland or continue to steadily carry out the strategy of the stalemate phase in this situation.

If the attack continues into the Russian hinterland, will it turn the intensified domestic contradictions of the Russians into external contradictions against the Chinese invaders, which will be counterproductive, but will unite the domestic forces of Russia?

Ignoring the changes in Russia and the difficulties facing the Russian political axe today, will the continuation of the original conservative strategy give the Russian tsarist political axe a respite and quell the turmoil?

After discussing for three days, no one could foresee the future, it was difficult to say that there could be a perfect strategy in this situation, and in the end, the big bosses in the army still had to set their eyes on Ye Zhao and wait for the Great Emperor's Holy Judgment to decide.

(To be continued)