Ten minutes after the Chinese Empire declared war on Russia, that is, at 8 a.m. Beijing time on August 15, 1908, the Imperial Chinese Army, which was waiting on the Sino-Russian border, launched a surprise attack on the Russian army in Russia.

The first was the fighter jets and bombers of the Imperial Chinese Air Force, which bombed various military points near the Russian border, including Russian forward fortifications, artillery positions, reserve warehouses, and airfields of the Russian Air Force.

The large-scale offensive launched by the Chinese Empire was almost equivalent to an undeclared war, and the Russians were not prepared at all, and the losses inflicted on the Russians by the Royal Air Force of the Chinese Empire were very staggering shortly after the war began.

Although the fighters equipped by the Russian Air Force are comparable to those fighters of the Royal Air Force of the Chinese Empire, there is a world of difference in performance, but if these Russian fighters are allowed to fly into the sky, there will still be a great threat to the attacking forces of the Royal Army of the Chinese Empire, so the safest way is to destroy these fighters of the Russian Air Force directly on the ground, and the fighters of the Chinese Empire do the same.

In fact, the pilots of the Royal Air Force fighters of the Imperial Chinese Empire, deep down, very much wanted to have an air battle with the Russian fighters, so that they could add some marks to their fighters to shoot down enemy planes, but they also understood what they needed to do most now.

Immediately afterwards, the artillery units of the Royal Army of the Chinese Empire began to bombard various military points of the Russian army with large-caliber artillery, giving the Russian army a taste of what is called a saturation strike.

As for the various military points of the Russian army, basically it is not a secret to the army of the Chinese Empire. It has been almost reconnoitred, marked on the military map issued by the Ministry of Defense. The Air Force and artillery only need to follow the markings on the military map to attack.

In order to reduce the casualties of the attacking troops, the air force and artillery put the first blow at the target. The artillery positions set as the Russian army also made many artillery positions on the Russian border line suffer a devastating blow at the first time, and they could not provide fire support for the Russian defense troops in the subsequent battles, making the attack units of the Imperial Chinese Army much easier, and it was also one of the most important reasons why the units of the Imperial Chinese Army on the border line could quickly defeat most of the troops stationed on the Russian border.

In the city of Novosibirsk, an important city in Russia. The Royal Air Force of the Chinese Empire concentrated more than 100 fighters on the battlefield of Novosibirsk City alone, including 72 improved Yellow Sparrow fighters and 36 improved Blue Eagle bombers, and the Royal Army of the Chinese Imperial Army also concentrated most of the troops of the Third Guards in New Asia City, opposite Novosibirsk City, and 180 heavy Black Panther tanks, 360 light Black Wolf tanks and 360 Z2 armored vehicles of the entire Third Guards Army came to New Asia City.

In addition, there are more than 40,000 infantry divisions of the Andong Provincial Garrison Army in New Asia City, and counting the troops of the Third Guards Army, the Royal Army of the Chinese Empire will put in 200,000 attack troops in Novosibirsk City alone.

This is not a fuss by the Ministry of Defense of the Chinese Empire, the city of Novosibirsk was originally the meeting point of the Ob River and the Trans-Siberian Railway. However, in that war, part of the city east of the Ob River in Novosibirsk was occupied by the Dingbei Army, and the Russian army blew up the railway bridge connecting the Trans-Siberian Railway on the Ob River, and has been deploying heavy troops in the city of Novosibirsk west of the Ob River. Prevent the Chinese Empire from seizing Novosibirsk and use the Trans-Siberian Railway to advance rapidly into the deep hinterland of Russia. According to intelligence, at present, the city of Novosibirsk and the periphery of the city, the Russian army has deployed 2 army groups. 600,000 troops, and an airfield for the Russian Air Force. Almost 30 fighters and bombers.

If the Chinese Empire could capture the city of Novosibirsk, it would be able to use it as a stronghold. Use the Trans-Siberian Railway, west of the city of Novosibirsk, to quickly advance into the heart of Russia. The Russians also knew the importance of the city of Novosibirsk, so they placed 600,000 heavy troops of 2 army groups.

However, even the Russians had such a heavy army in Novosibirsk City, and after the Chinese Empire launched an attack, they were also beaten a little blindfolded all of a sudden.

The Royal Air Force of the Chinese Empire, which was in charge of the city of Novosibirsk, destroyed the airfield of the Russian Air Force at the first time, and nearly 30 Russian fighters were blown up on the ground without any chance to take off.

The artillery positions arranged by the Russian army inside and outside the city of Novosibirsk were also bombed by the aerial bombs of the Royal Air Force of the Chinese Empire and the large-caliber artillery of the Royal Army of the Chinese Empire, and the losses were very heavy, so that when the engineering units of the Royal Army of the Chinese Empire began to erect pontoon bridges on the Ob River, the Russian artillery could not obstruct them well, so they had to order the troops in the Russian fortifications on the beach on the bank of the river to attack the troops of the Chinese Empire laying pontoon bridges.

However, the warplanes and artillery of the Chinese Empire have not stopped bombing and bombarding, just to cover the engineering units to lay pontoon bridges on the Ob River, so that the army's chariots and officers and soldiers can cross the Ob River smoothly through the pontoon bridges. However, the officers and men of the Russian army in the beach fortifications on the river bank relied on the air-raid shelters dug in advance to save their lives under the saturation attack of the Chinese Empire, and few people dared to leave the air-raid shelters and enter the trenches of the fortifications to attack the Chinese Imperial troops who laid pontoon bridges on the Ob River under such artillery fire.

A very small number of Russian officers and men showed very heroic actions and entered the trenches of the fortifications in accordance with the orders of their superiors, but these heroic Russian officers and soldiers were bombarded by intensive artillery fire and bombardment and strafing by the Chinese Imperial fighters in the sky before they could cause any trouble to the Chinese Imperial engineering units laying the pontoon bridges, and the results were self-evident.

In this way, the Chinese Imperial Engineer Corps that laid the pontoon bridge was almost not hindered too much, and successfully used a professional bridge-building boat, and it took only half an hour to lay a steel pontoon bridge of more than 300 meters, and then the tanks and armored vehicles of the armored unit of the Third Guards Army, which had been waiting for a long time, rumbled through the steel pontoon bridge and rushed to the west bank of the Ob River with the coordination of the infantry.

And the steel pontoon bridge, erected near the west bank of the Ob River, has been ravaged several times by aerial bombs and large-caliber shells, when the attacking troops of the 3rd Guards Army passed the pontoon bridge. There was no effective blocking by the Russian army at all, so the tanks, armored vehicles and infantry of the 3rd Guards Army were put together. Ascended to the west bank of the Ob River.

"Sibao, your battalion immediately seized the high ground on both sides of the pontoon bridge. Prevent the Russian army from launching a counterattack! Chen Letou, who had been promoted to a regimental commander of the Third Guards Army, stood next to an armored car and shouted loudly to Guo Sibao, who had become a battalion commander beside him.

Guo Sibao nodded and said: "Don't worry, big brother leper, with our battalion guarding here, the pontoon bridge will definitely not be damaged by the Russian army." ”

Chen Leper looked at his own troops who were constantly passing through the pontoon bridge to the west bank of the Ob River, and said to Guo Sibao: "The task of our regiment is to ensure the safety of the pontoon bridge and let the follow-up troops board the west bank of the Ob River, but at present, the Russian army has been bombed very badly. Coupled with the continuous offensive of the follow-up troops in the direction of Novosibirsk, basically the Russian army can no longer pose a threat to us, but anything can happen on the battlefield, so we must be careful in everything, and there must be no mistakes on the pontoon bridge. ”

Guo Sibao nodded solemnly, and with a wave of his hand, he led the officers and soldiers of the whole battalion, divided into two roads, and rushed towards the high ground on both sides of the pontoon bridge.

Guo Sibao took about half of the officers and soldiers of the battalion and rushed to the high ground on the right side of the pontoon bridge. This high ground was originally built into several trench fortifications by the Russian army, but at this time these trenches have been blown up beyond recognition, and some trenches have been blown flat.

"Surrender! Surrender! After Guo Sibao led people to rush to the high ground, he found that there were dozens of surviving Russian officers and soldiers on the high ground. However, these Russian officers and soldiers had no intention of resisting at all, and a group of people held white flags and did not carry any weapons on their bodies. The two low-ranking officers of the Russian army at the beginning shouted the two words surrender in Chinese.

This group of Russian officers and soldiers was none other than the remnants of the company led by Vitalaevich and Ilyich. As for the rest of their company, they were all hiding in bomb shelters. However, several air-raid shelters in their trench fortifications were directly hit by large-caliber shells or aerial bombs, so that several air-raid shelters were destroyed, and no one in them survived.

Vitalaevich and Ilyich were prisoners of war in the Dingbei Army for a period of time a few years ago, and they didn't learn anything else, but they learned the correct pronunciation of the two words surrender in Chinese, and it seems that the two of them still had some foresight, and finally used it after a few years.

Subsequently, Vitalaevich and Ilyich, the surviving officers and soldiers of the Russian army, were escorted down the high ground on the right side of the pontoon bridge by Guo Sibao's subordinate soldiers, and were temporarily detained near the pontoon bridge.

Vitalaevich squatted on the ground, put his hands behind his head, looked at the long streams of steel on the pontoon bridge, and the dense soldiers, he couldn't help but let out a sigh of relief, and whispered to Ilyich in the same posture: "Boy, you see that these large numbers of tanks and armored vehicles of the Chinese Imperial Army are not something that we, the pure infantry, can resist by relying on flesh and blood, fortunately we are wise, otherwise we would have escaped the bombardment of fighters and artillery, and we would have lost our lives under the attack of these steel giants." ”

Ilyich whispered with a gloomy face: "I didn't expect that the pontoon bridge of the Chinese Empire was laid right in front of our company's fortifications, and our artillery has not been able to organize an effective counterattack so far, so what can we do as infantry, if we don't want to die, we can only choose to surrender, but seeing such a powerful armored force of the Chinese Empire, coupled with their unscrupulous fighters, our Novosibirsk City doesn't know if it can survive this time, alas-"

Vitalayevich said with a wry smile: "Now let's not think about Novosibirsk City, let's think about ourselves!" This time, he is going to enter the Dingbei Army again...... Oh, no, it should be a prisoner of war camp of the Chinese Empire, counting the first two times, I have been captured by them for the third time, and I am also a regular visitor! ”

Ilyich also smiled bitterly and said: "This is the second time for me, oh God, I am the one who wants to be a general, these two prisoners of war will become a stain on my military career, it is really depressing." ”

Vitalaevich glanced at the four soldiers of the Imperial Chinese Army who were guarding dozens of Russian prisoners around them, and said with a sigh: "It is many, much better to have a stain than to lose a small life." ”

Listening to the deafening sound of gunfire in the direction of Novosibirsk City, Ilyich nodded in agreement, small lives are still the most important, otherwise what will the dead talk about being a general.

Near the city of Novosibirsk, although the Russian fighters were destroyed on the ground before they took off, the large number of anti-aircraft guns equipped by the Russian army still posed a great threat to the warplanes of the Chinese Empire, but do not forget that the Chinese Empire still has suppressive artillery units on this side, and when there are anti-aircraft guns constantly firing at the fighters, they will be bombarded by the large-caliber army artillery of the Chinese Empire.

In this way, the fighters of the Chinese Empire in the air became unscrupulous, especially those improved Yellow Bird fighters, which constantly dived downwards and strafed the Russian positions with machine guns and machine guns.

With heavenly fighters and rear artillery opening the way in front, the 3rd Guards Army, passing through the tank units of the Ob River, began to make continuous assaults in depth in the direction of the city of Novosibirsk.

The city of Novosibirsk west of the Ob River was built on the Ob River, but the attacking forces of the Chinese Empire did not choose to build a pontoon bridge on the section of the Ob River directly opposite the city of Novosibirsk and the city of New Asia.

The attack force of the Royal Army of the Chinese Empire avoided these fortified Russian positions, and chose to build a pontoon bridge on the outskirts of Siberian City, although the Russian defense here is not weak, but it is much stronger than gnawing on a large group of strong small fortresses.

So the attack force of the Royal Army of the Chinese Empire, after easily crossing the Ob River, launched a tidal attack from the outskirts of the city to the direction of Novosibirsk, and the tank troops of the Third Guards Army were even more interspersed with assaults around the city of Novosibirsk, ravaging all the fortifications of the Russian army outside the city of Novosibirsk, plus the cooperation of armored vehicles and infantry, at more than 6 o'clock in the evening of the 15th, all the positions of the Russian army outside the city of Novosibirsk were lost, and the Russian officers and soldiers on the positions outside the city, Some were killed or captured in battle, some fled to the Russian hinterland, and many Russian officers and soldiers fled into the city of Novosibirsk. (To be continued......)

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